Rayne

You wake up in a dingy alleyway, stirring from what feels like a hard blow to the head. As your vision becomes clearer, sound slowly filling your ears again, you blink your surroundings into view. The alleyway was dark, filthy and secluded. The stench of old trash cans, grime and a nearby sewage drain wafted into your nostrils, giving you a jolt harsh enough to force your body to attempt sitting up.

A slow scraping sound above you hits your ears, craning your head upwards towards the origin of the noise your eyes struggle to make out a large shape attached to the bricks of the building behind you. Your breath hitches as the mass descends slowly down the chipped bricks before pushing off and landing on the large dirty dumpster next to you with a loud bang. Its body was large and hunched over, the only prominent features you can make out were long pointed ears and piercing glowing white irises nestled in large void-like circles on its face.

“Meat’s... awake” The words rumbled deeply from the creature. A guttural groan escaping its form, accompanied by shallow, almost shrill breaths as its body heaved quickly.

You tried to scramble backwards, your hands and feet making contact with the slick concrete of the alley actively fought against you, your limbs slipping with next to no friction on the ground resulting in you barely moving away from the monstrous mass just a few feet away from you.

“Heh.. heh.. haaahhh...” it groaned out an exasperated mocking laugh as it watched you try to get away, its head tilting like how a clock’s hand turns in clicks.

The intense feeling of dread began to encompass your whole being as you watch it slowly clamber down from the dumpster, the weight of its body causing the metal to creak and shift, before its claws and feet made contact with the ground. “Special... miiiine... mmmmm”

It raised its large appendage towards the night sky, claws open and ready to pierce, puncture and peruse your flesh for all that it’s worth. Before it could swing downwards onto your body, a lighting fast metal chain flew past its head before wrapping around the raised arm tightly, and severing it in two. With a loud screech, it flung backwards onto the ground, writhing.

“Oh come on honey, it can’t hurt that badly can it? I only took a bit off the top” A voice echoed down the alleyway, before being followed by the sound of clinking steps on concrete growing louder by the second. Your eyes darted to the source of the noise, the writhing creature taking a back seat of your attention as you watch what looks like a tall woman with what looked like huge knives on her arms making her way towards you. Before you could react to the situation, the creature flipped over sloppily, and using its only other arm, it pushed itself to its feet and hissed loudly at the woman coming closer.

What happened next felt like a complete blur, as the woman broke out into a short sprint before leaping swiftly onto the creatures body. Wrapping her legs around its waist, her right arm found its neck and she buried her face into its jugular before ripping out a large chunk of tendons, muscle and skin in one quick motion. She then rapidly pulled away from the creature, curling into a gracious backwards flip. Her large blades motioned toward its neck and swiftly cleaved the head in twain. The head, popping up from its body, flew by an accompanying blast of crimson liquid that sprayed around it as it slumped to the floor, before she landed effortlessly onto the ground.

The woman, covered in a few splashes of the creatures blood turns to look at you, the headless body of the creature lying on the cold ground next to her. “So... wanna tell me what a Gorgonic Vampire was doing with you in this shitty alley?”