The room Adria had entered was a lab, and his forceful entry through the window had knocked down a shelf of chemicals, causing a minor explosion when it came into contact with the flames.
Adria steadied himself. As much as he did not want to admit, he was a little tired and didn't have much strength left in his body because of the important job he was working on before coming. He made his way to the door leading into the corridor. The fire from the other rooms had not reached here, but the smoke had.
This corridor was wide and quite spacious. With its well-designed flowery walls and good lighting, it would have at one time been a nice place to walk through, but at the moment, it gave a very different kind of vibe.
The flowery patterns on the wall now had extra layers of red liquid and claw marks to add to their beauty. A little courtesy of victims struggling and the ungentle but attentive smooch of a vampire's bite.
The bright lighting of the room was now a rough shadow of its former glory. Some barely hanging from the ceiling and flickering from time to time.
The thick foul stench of blood mixed with excrement assaulted his nose so he decided to purge it with a cigarette.
If one only looked at Adria and not the state of the place, It would be very easy to think that he was taking a casual stroll in a park. It was quiet, too quiet.
All that echoed from the now badly designed walls were the hard stomps on the floor from his big military boots. For a place assaulted by an ever-raging bloodsucker, it was just too quiet.
After walking a few distances in and past a few broken-out doors, he stopped. Took a deep whiff of the stick in his mouth and added more smoke from his lungs to the corridor.
"HEY!" Adria screamed into the corridor, "I really don't know how you want to do this, but this whole horror movie stunt you are pulling, is pissing me off. See! I was having an adventurous night till you ruined it. So why don't you come out so I can just whip your ass and make my sad night happier."
He waited for some time but there was no response.
"Should I come and drag your ugly ass out!?" Adria added.
There was still no reply, but he did not advance and just stood there, enjoying his smoke. After a few more seconds, The heavy stomps of slow footsteps sounded from a corner in front of him.
And soon enough his guest appeared. Its arrival was firstly announced from the corner by a very large, Pale to nearly-white muscular palm, well decorated with long and sharp pointy fingers that reminded Adria of the edges of broken glass. It had dried blood stains on it here and there.
The palm dug into the wall, forming deep cracks as it was used as a help to pull out its monstrous frame.
This vampire was twice the size of an average man, with thighs the size of some people's waist. Big, broad upper body like that of an Olympian bodybuilder. It had big red eyes on a rough face that would make many flinch by just seeing it. There was no hair to its head, except an extension of its large spine that extended down its body forming into a long tail that followed behind it. And lastly, it had a wide mouth with pike pointy teeth that simply brought the image of a poorly decorated Christmas tree to Adria's mind.
For a second there, he couldn't help himself but imagine the glorious misery of whoever thought of making out with this beast.
"Finally! There you are. You big white ball of annoyance."
The beast took one heavy step at a time towards Adria and then as it proceeded, it increased its speed dropping on all fours. As soon as it got close enough, it swung its massive palm right for the hunter's head.
Adria leaned backward, dodging the attack.
"Okay! Going right for the kill, are we? Don't worry, two can play at that game," Adria went low in a squat and then jumped high in a flip above the beast.
His hand reached for a small knife hanging by his side. And then unlike what the beast was expecting, the moment he landed behind it, he used the knife on himself. Tearing deeply into his skin all the way from his elbow down to his wrist.
The beast looked at him in surprise as a large amount of blood flowed from the injuries he had inflicted on himself. But unlike expected, the blood that flowed out did not flow to drop on the ground but rather as if on command, it wrapped around his hands like gloves giving out a slight shine like the luster of metal.
This was basically Adria's ability:
BLOOD CRYSTALLIZATION.
"Now! Let's dance!" Adria closed the distance between the both of them, giving a powerful punch directly to the abdomen.
*Boom*
He sent the large beast flying a distance across the room like it was a deflating balloon. But Adria was a distance far from being done. Before the beast even got comfortable in the wall Adria's punch had sent it through. Another punch locating its jaw. Giving its set of unarranged teeth a little redecorating.
Adria punched again, sending the beast through yet another wall. The beast groaned in agony. Its jaw had been shifted and its black blood leaked out of its mouth.
The beast got to its feet and growled at Adria. And then stomping its hands on the ground like an angry gorilla, it rushed once more at him.
Adria readied himself for the next blow but just then, he noticed something he considered important from the corner of his eyes.
However, as his eyes looked back up at the beast, all he saw was an enlarged fist in front of his face.
A very focused punch made a home on his face, sending him through the two holes on the wall he had broken through when he punched the beast earlier.
He crashed hard to the ground.
As expected, the beast also rushed hard at him. It lifted its large hand, spreading its fingers wide. It was going to smack the living smugness out of Adria.
Just then,
"Wait!" Adria screamed.