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John Matthew tapped her shoulder and she nodded "Yeah, I’ll flank left"

Seconds later, they de their own against a slayer, pushing the lesser back in the alley But two more had showed up at the far end

Novoon the attack There was too great a chance of collateral daun, so as she ran, she re-holstered that weapon and unsheathed one of her daggers

With her fangs bared and a great rage in her heart, she hit the lesser on the left like a train, plowing it down before it knehat the fuck was happening She stabbed it in the throat at the Adarabbed the front of its leather jacket and began to drive the back of its skull into the iced-over snowpack, again and again and again

Black blood splattered up into her face, getting in her eyes and her id inhales that burned a path to her gut

In the dim recesses of her mind, she knew she needed to er blade into the center of this goddaa--and then she had to continue to help in the fight

Her arh, and the black stain in the snow under the i fantastic part? The slayer are of everything that was happening, the pain she was causing registering in its shocked expression and gagging breaths

There was only one way to "kill" a lesser

You had to stab theh the non-existent heart So she could keep this up for a year and the piece of shit, this iony with each and every strike--

A bullet sizzled by her left ear and she looked up About fifteen feet away, another slayer had come into the alley, ready to play, and he had a poodle shooter in his palun right at her--any closer, it would have been point-blank

Novo went into a roll, pulling the incapacitated slayer on top of her as a shield In the process, she lost her dagger, but she had other options--digging for her hip, she took out her gun, shoved it through the various body parts flopping around her face, and started popping off rounds

She caught the newest arriving slayer in the shoulder, the i didn’t slow the bastard downuntil her clip ran out Good news? She blew the slayer right off his feet The bad? In the next heartbeat, the undead was back and popping--bringing out a second gun

Motherfucker--Novo scra half-corpse on top of her for her own fresh clip

Too late Too uncoordinated

She was going to be dead--

From the corner of her eye, she saw a flash of movement, and it didn’t takeout of the shadows in a crouch, clearly ready to tackle the shooter

Thank God But Novo was taking nothing for granted She un and raise the er, as she didn’t want to hit Paradise--

Soun--and directly into the bullets the slayer was discharging The flash came from the left and moved so fast, she couldn’t track whether it was friend or foe

Except then she recognized exactly who it was

Peyton didn’t give Paradise a chance to do her job He barreled into her and knocked her out of range and into a snowbank, eliineered to save Novo

The slayer with the gun got off twobut blind luck e of the opportunity to escape, pulling a turnaround and run-like-fuck--

He didn’t get far Zsadist was on hi a quick dispatch

And with that, thanks to all the other back-ups that had come on scene, the action was over as suddenly as it had presented itself

"What the fuck is wrong with you!" the Brother Phury barked

As he and John Matthew ca over in the snow, it was very clear that the silent fighter was every bit as Absolutely Batshit Rip Ass as the Brother was