Students and the faculty scramble, running towards the escalator. With their eyes bulging in terror and mouths gaping for help. Regardless of where they end up, they only have one thought: to escape. With some tripping over each other or getting pushed by the others in haste. Their fate has already been sealed.
Snatched one by one by numerous long four-finger sharp claws and lifted up in the air by an entity floating like an umbrella. With its maw having two sharp fangs, it bites and sucks up the blood of the victim. Rendering them unconscious before tossing the body to the ground. With blood still splashing, it landed on the floor of the lobby, joining a column of the other victims, including the school guards.
This pack of entities resembles the head and body of a wolf. The wide wings and claws of a bat, and with a glaring eye as red as blood—the Batfang.
"I don't want to die; I don't want to die."
Swish! "Aggh! Get off me! Get off me!" The female student wriggles from the tight claws of the Batfang clutching her.
"Gwarr!" The Batfang's screeching growl at the girl. Splashing its sticky on the woman's face as it moves the woman closer to its gaping maw.
Swoosh! "Gwaah!" In an instant, an orange energy slash split the Batfang's body in half, losing its grip on the girl.
The girl shuts her eyes, her mouth gaping as she screams, echoing across the lobby.
"Aggh!" Ha? Wait, what's going on? Did I die already? Out of curiosity, the girl opened her eyes.
What's this? An arm... an arm of. Her eyes swept across the person carrying her. A woman?
A slender, red-headed woman with blue eyes and pale skin. She rode in a floating silver Stingray made of fluid.
"Y-you're an exorcist, right?" The girl asked, glancing at the red-headed woman clad in an all-white uniform except for the black boots. From a long white trench coat to white a trouser. A sheathed katana was wrapped around her waist.
The red-headed woman simply smiles as she lets the girl stand upon their landing on the third floor. Shen then rode back to the stingray and swiftly floated away.
"By the way, thank...? She already disappeared." The girl's eyes scanned around.
"Haah! Flare Hack!" A wide L-shaped orange energy slash erupted from the blonde man's longsword. Swoosh! "Gwaah!" A deafening cry from several Batfangs after getting hit by the slash resulted in their bodies being ripped. Swish! Another group of Batfangs gets sliced in half.
"Hey! Kelby, what took you so long?" The blonde man asked. His appearance and dress closely resemble the red-headed woman.
"I brought the girl to a much safer place, that's why," the red-headed woman replied. She swings her sword against the Batfang she passed. Who huffs and is soaked with sweat after being surrounded by tiny silver bubbles and getting warmed by steam.
"Safer place? Don't tell me you escorted her to the police station?" The blonde man continued. Swoosh! "Gwaah!"
"Just do your job, Oz, and stop whining like a kid; you're just fighting a weakling Batfang," Kelby said, furrowing her brow.
Swish! "What did you say?" Oz narrowed his gaze at Kelby.
"Here we go again." Kelby rolled her eyes before striking the Batfang next to her.
***
With the sun centering the sky, students and the faculty hurriedly exited the university emergency door. Gasping and covered with sweat, they desperately hail their arms for the buses and taxis passing by.
"Agh!" Dray plunges to the ground after being shoved by none other than Greg, his friend. Who hurriedly joins the scrambling passenger of the already packed bus? "Greg! What the heck?"
"Sorry, but I want to make it here alive," Greg said.
Dray hastily stood, clenching his teeth, watching his friend leave riding in a bus.
Thud! Screech! The bus halted more than a meter away from a towering, terrifying creature standing in the middle of the road. With huge wings capable of enveloping an entire car. Even with the three-fingered sharp claws, a raven-hardened body and muscular physique are evident. A gaping, drooling, huge, wolf-like maw filled with sharp teeth. Bat-like ears, twitching on top of a hairless head. Bulging, bloodshot eyes glared at the passengers.
"Gwaar, where do you think you all are going?" A snarling voice came from the towering mostro.
"D-did that m-mostro mutate? I've never seen anything like that before." The boy next to Greg whispered; his voice was barely made out of his mouth.
Koa and Dr. Hekell had just left the emergency door when they came across the current situation.
"What in the world is going on here? Another mostro had just appeared." Dr. Hekell clenched his teeth. He's staring at the towering mostro who is slowly making its way toward the bus.
What's with this feeling I have right now? Koa pursed his lips, glancing at his right hand. It's the same heaviness I felt way back a few years ago.
Honk! Honk! Honk!
"Is that all you can do, honking?"
"Instead of honking, why not just drive the bus already?"
"Yeah, if you let that mostro get here, we're all going to die."
The angry passengers complained, furrowing their brows, trembling in fear.
"You all shut up! Get out of my bus!" the driver exclaimed, narrowing his gaze at the complaining passengers. "Did you hear me? I said..."
The passengers froze, and their expressions were bewildered.
"I-in front of you!"
"Ha?"
Crash! The lamented glass shatters and gets smashed by the mostro's stabbing claws. Pieces of the shattered glass were sent flying towards the driver.
"Argh... ha? Aggh!" Mostro's large hands tightly gripped the driver's torso as it dragged it out of the bus like a toy.
"You're going to be my first meal." The mostro moved the driver closer to its maw before devouring it in one go. Burp!
Dammit, if only this hadn't happened here at school, I should have been able to do something. Koa clenched his teeth.
"Dude, there's nothing to worry about anymore; we're here," Oz said, patting his hand on Koa's shoulder.
The exorcist. Koa glanced at Oz and the tailing Kelby.
"Thank God, the exorcist has arrived." Dr. Hekkell smiles, beaming with hope.
"I advised you two to stay back here until we take down that mostro" Kelby noted, shifting her gaze at Koa.
"Hey, Kelby, what are you waiting for? Let's go, don't just stand there staring at, hey dude what's your..." Before Oz could even finish his sentence, he was kicked by the flustering Kelby, who quickly dashed toward the mostro.
"Koa, Koa Fuegon is his name," Dr. Hekkell replied, grinning.
Those bastard exorcists. Koa stared at the leaving exorcists.
After rupturing the roof of the bus, the mostro throws away the roof like it was just paper to him. It then plunges its right arm inside the bus, trying to reach the passengers.
"Agggh!" The passengers bulged their eyes and clung to each other in fear.
"Flare Hack!" Oz swings his blade, projecting an L-shaped orange energy slash toward the mostro. Swish! The mostro's right ear fell off the bus, splashing blood on the gaping wound.
"Agggh, I let my guard down to this weakling exorcist." The mostro's groan soared up in the air.
"Don't forget about me, Silver Vapor!" Riding in a huge silver stingray, Kelby summons another stingray, which erupts from her blade and quickly flies up the mostro. Upon getting closer, the stingray opens its mouth. Releasing a bubbly, swirling silver steam around the mostro.
"Sigh, sigh, what's this?" The mostro gasped, sweating heavily.
Watching the mostro getting exhausted, Kelby smirks. "This is my power, the ability to summon steam in the form of a stingray." She sheathed back her blade. "With this, the water inside your body will slowly get evaporated till you die of dehydration."
A taunting smirk suddenly carved on the mostro's ghastly face. "Hahaha, do you think you'll be able to weaken me with that kind of power?" A sticky, damp flesh rapidly regrows from the mostro's gaping wound on the side of its head.
"I've never seen any mostro rapidly regenerate like that," Oz said, raising his brows. "It is a Batking after all,"
"I don't care whether that mostro regenerates faster or not as long as I get to kill it." Kelby charges forward riding in a stingray. Unsheathing her blade before exclaiming a couple of words. "Silver Fever!"
"Hey, Kelby, wait, you haven't mastered that technique yet!" Oz voiced his concern.
A fever of tiny silver stingrays made of liquid arises from the tip of Kelby's blade. They quickly move towards the Batking. But upon contact with the mostro's hardened skin, the stingrays dissipate into nothing.
"Hahaha, what a disappointment. I really have a high hope for that attack." The Batking guffaws at the frowning Kelby. "Now it's my turn to show what I'm capable of."
"What the?" Swish! Bam! In a blink, Kelby was sent flying a few meters away after getting hit by a powerful blow in her torso.
"Kelby!" Oz exclaimed. "You, bastard Batking! Flare Hack!" he raised his blade before projecting a large L-shaped orange energy slash up. Swoosh! Traveling at high speed, the energy slash collides with the mostro's large wings, covering him before bursting. Boom!
"Sigh, sigh, sigh." Did it work? Regardless, I should head towards Kelby now. Oz immediately dashes his way toward the lying Kelby, down the road.
Zzzt! A swirling and arcing of violet bolts of electricity emerges from the palms of the Batking, who remains unscathed despite the explosion. The bolt swiftly plunges in the direction of the running Oz.
"Argggggh!" A roaring agony from Oz as he fell to his knees, quivering from the bolts of electricity cloaking his body.
Landing next to the lying Oz, the Batking seized Oz's neck, lifting him in the air. "What a waste of my time." His three-finger claw tightens, choking Oz. "If you two had let me have my meal, this wouldn't have happened to both of you."
A few meters away from the Batking and Oz's position, Kelby clenched her teeth with blood pouring out of her mouth. Frowning, she stabbed her blade into the ground as she got to her feet.
Hopeless, she pointed her blade at the Batking. "S-silver... aggggh!" she held her hand on her abdomen.
Hearing this, the Batking tossed Oz to the ground like he was a toy. It then casually heads its way toward Kelby's direction, in a scornful expression.