Bell Oldcity saw the Ariadna, now a wooden puppet, throw a punch at her. She evades the attack by ducking it, then, with her swords, she thrusts the blades into Hatchling's head. Cutting it right off!
'I know that I didn't finish it, and it's difficult to stop it.' She watched the marionette get up without a body and went toward her head to attach it back.
Bell swings both of her weapons at the body to stop it from grabbing her head. It spilled into half, only leaving her legs, which were somehow still moving. The strings controlling the puppet put them back together, making it whole again. Bell tried her best to stop it, but she failed.
"This damn thing is as annoying as ever." She said loudly, 'How do I stop the Zombie puppets again? Why can't I remember? That stance made my Flow drown completely.' Bell was dodging the attacks while thinking of a way to defeat Ariadna. She jumped, swinging both blades at the strings.
"Huh?!" They were tough, making them impossible to cut, so Bell stopped to avoid breaking her weapons. She was annoyed, 'Shit, how could I forget about it being not that easy?'
Bell throws the Heaven and Hell Blades into the air, distracting the wooden marionette to throw a punch. After the impact of fists, Ariadna looked down at Mrs. Oldcity and smacked her head, dropping her to the ground.
Then she stomped on Mike's wife's head, hurting her badly. The wooden puppet detached her hands and threw them onto Bell's body, but she avoided it by spinning the other way because she knew she would be exploded if it touched her, grabbing her blades from the floor.
Bell jumps up, spins toward Ariadna with one sword, attacks its string, and with the other tries to cut the body. However, she blocks Bell's attack, cutting her arm. Her hand jumped toward Old City, punching her chain.
With the given power of the Hell's Unholy Blade, she predicted the attack by jumping away from the fist, and yelled, "Hell Fire!" From her weapon, fire emerged and went toward the strings.
It was dangerous to throw flames into a booze cellar, but luckily, it was not leaking. The strings from the puppet's head distracted it, pulling the fire into its maw, and not letting it go exhausted. After that, with the hand that was still not attached, she slashed the barrels spilling alcohol everywhere.
Bell Oldcity was scared seeing the spillage of the alcohol and the fire being close to them. With small amounts of Flow energy, she turned into light to stop the hand from dropping the torch to engulf the whole building.
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"No, No, No!" Bell was too slow to stop the flames from touching the ground. In mere seconds, fire expands across the room while black smoke rises.
Mike's wife felt the heat and dropped to the ground. She was surrounded by fire, and there was nowhere to escape. A puppet and flames trapped Bell. Unlike humans, the wooden marionette did not feel the heat; it was more prone to catching fire.
A deep voice echoed around the area, "Resistance... Resistance to fire, my child!" The strings that were attached to the puppet became water, forming a strong bubble of protection from fire.
Bell pointed her blades toward the ceiling, "Zombi, you are an annoying bastard!" She swooshed both of her weapons, changing the flames' direction, "Your mindless figure will not kill me!" She said after charging toward it.
Every attack she threw at Ariadna was being blocked or got reattached again, while the heat of the scorching orange waves was burning her. Everything was against Bell. However, she didn't stop, as she wanted to stop the puppet. In her mind, if she failed, she failed the world.
However, the puppet dodged the attack and struck Bell. Her shoulder got dislocated, and she fixed it. She saw that another attack was coming her way, so she quickly blocked the puppet's hand, and with her other blade, she stabbed the wooden body. It stopped moving, which gave Bell time to strike its side with Hell's blade.
Unfortunately for Mrs. Oldcity, the swords were embedded inside Ariadna's body, and she couldn't pull them out.
'Come on, why get out!'
One of the strings turned into ice, slowly freezing the blades and Bell if she keeps holding the handle. But she tried to leave. Nothing happened. Her hands were stuck to the sword handles. She was about to become frozen.
Bang!
From a distance, a loud shotgun noise happened, making a big hole in the puppet's strings and cutting it, saving Bell from becoming popsical. The heat was making her feel pain, and she was feeling so ill that she fell.
Instantly, someone stopped her from hitting her head on the ground.
"Bell, your hero is here to save you!"
The one who saved her was her husband, Mike Oldcity, who also killed the puppet. He was wearing sunglasses and a black jacket with an oak tree shirt. He came to save Bell after defeating the bald twins.
Suddenly, a voice echoed in the room, "Mike? Mike? Why do you always ruin my fun?!"
Mike responded, "Will I was not going to let your mindless ghoul kill my wife!"
"You traitors are lucky that you are not in debt to me! That bastard is pitying you two. If I were the one who sees your two faces right in front of me, I would kill both of you." He was in deep anger.
Mike laughed, "Then stop hiding behind your marionettes and face us, or are you too scared because you remember I beat your ass!"
There was a response, so Mike stood up, carrying Bell, and left the area, finding an exit in the cellar.
"Look, Bell, Zombie is scared and not responding."
Bell looked at Mike's eyes and said, "I am not a little kid, put me down." Mr. Oldcity puts Bell to the ground, and they look for James Ross, Hein Eduard, and the other cops. She was still struggling to walk, so her husband supported her by holding he shoulder.
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On the top floor of the skyscraper, in a casino, Alucard telepathically communicates with Zombie, who is walking back and forth. Many pillars and windows filled the room, which was filled with slot machines and tables of various games. He was biting his nails.
"Stupid green skin, why are you a Dragon Rider when you even failed at defeating them with your puppet. If I knew that you were this bad, I wouldn't allow Ariadna to get that tattoo."
The Blood Dragon's insult made Zombie very angry, "Alucard, you shouldn't be talking when you are a Dragon because of your dad, and please, your Hatchling is weak to die that easily to turn into my slave!"
Alucard laughed, "My dad didn't do shit in my entire life. You are the one who didn't work for your position by using your puppets to do your work for you."
Zombie then said, "If that's so, then I'm not going to help you, Alucard. So, go and die!" He was about to stop his telepathy when he remembered, "Be your best behavior. Healer is coming to your building."
After saying that, the communication stopped.
Alucard got annoyed, 'It was first the intruders, then Aradna got killed and turned, now Healer is coming, fuck!" He cursed in Russian to himself.
'Can this day get any worse?!' Yes, it got worse for the Blood Dragon when Hein Eduard was hiding behind a wall, watching his move, ready to strike.
The blue gentleman was sitting down on the ground, taking out a walkie-talkie from his pocket, "Alpha one, and Alpha two, this is Hein Eduard, and I am in front of Alucard and ready to strike, waiting for everyone to gather to attack together."
A woman's voice responded instead of the cops outside the Blood Tower, "Mr. Investigator, sorry to say, but your friends outside are dead!"
Hein Eduard's face turned red after hearing those words. "WHO ARE YOU TO KILL MY MEN!!! I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN!"
She laughed, "I am so scared, you would never know my name when you hunt me!" She smashed the walkie-talkie, cutting off the communication.
She tapped on four colorful orbs with her pink star fingernail, making them stop circling her head. She said, "My babies go and aid Vicious One!" They dashed inside. Many similar, colorful orbs of various shapes and sizes were swirling around her head. She slowly approached the skyscraper.
"I hope she lied, but my men wouldn't let a stranger answer when they were alive. Fuck, I'm sorry, men!" He slapped his face, "Doesn't matter, I do to my job of arresting this man then found that woman."
"How do I cut him off guard?"
Hein Eduard jumped down toward Alucard and stabbed him in the neck. However, he got blocked after the Dragon countered it with his blood dagger.
Alucard was going to strike toward Eduard's side, but he jumped backward, distancing himself from the enemy.
"I see coming a mile away." Alucard launched himself at the enemy, "Now, react to my speed!" He accelerated quickly, almost reaching the speed of sound; however, the blue gentleman kicked the Dragon's hip. Throwing him back.
"How?!"
Alucard was baffled because others died before they blinked, but Eduard was different. Hein closed his eyes, and time began to slow down.
To be continued.