332 Capturing, The Battle that Happened at the Baclaran Church (1/2)
Day 54 – 11:05 AM – Baclaran Church, Redemptorist Road, Pasay City, Metro Manila
A few minutes before while the fight between Mei and Flam was ongoing, Karlene and Edzel had tense expressions on their faces as they gazed through the windows of the church. They could not see anything but the sounds of gunshots could be heard even outside the settlement.
As someone whose father and mother had ties with the military, Karlene could tell that the fight inside the settlement was rather intense. Just add a bit of explosions in the background and it could be mistaken that there was a war ongoing.
”Is it always like this in the settlements in the city? Back in East Port, many people had guns but there was never anything like this even when the evolved sea creatures came ashore.”
Edzel voiced out. As a country bumpkin, he was never been in a city like this. Everything was new, even the sounds of confrontation between the soldiers and the senator's camp was the first for him.
”Something like this happened before in Port of Real though?” Karlene replied. ”At the time Mark came there, several thousand infected horde coincidentally arrived and it was like war at that time.”
”That happened?”
”It did! I even joined the fight… Well, kind off.”
The two started chatting to at least relieve the tense atmosphere. It was then when the eyes of the two landed on the [Blood Children], the three girls, the fairy and the strange infected at the center of the church that were busy doing things like there was nothing intense happening outside.
Iola, Abbygale and Miracle sat in a circle along with the [Blood Children] playing with building blocks Mark found for them while Aimee and Aephelia looked over the children. This way, the children could relieve their boredom and the toys really took their interest as they tried to build things based on their imagination.
As for Chaflar and the Alpha, both were positioned at the opposite sides of the church. The Alpha infected was on standby while the Dragon was sleeping like nothing mattered at all.
”You girls don't feel worried at all, your mother and father are in there fighting.”
Karlene could not help but ask the three girls. It might not be an appropriate question to children but it did not really enter her childish mind that was too curious at the worst times.
Her question made the three girls look at her with confused expressions. It was Miracle who answered first.
”Papa is strong! He can kill all the bad people there.”
It was followed by Abbygale.
”Mama is also strong and Papa will always protect Mama. Nothing will happen. All the bad guys that fight Mama and Papa will get killed easily.”
On the other hand, Iola only stared at Karlene with a ”don't ask what is obvious” look.
The three girls trust towards their adoptive parents was amusing. Karlene felt envious. Still, three little girls viewing death and killing as everyday thing was rather scary.
The three girls was about to go back to playing when Iola, Aephelia and Aimee suddenly stood in full alert. Suddenly, the atmosphere turned tense that even Edzel and Karlene became on guard. Aimee who held the stone that was supposed to be her child encircled her tentacles around the children wanting to protect them while Aephelia immediately called unto the Alpha. Chaflar who also sensed the danger already stood beside the group in a single gallop. The Dragon's sudden movement shook the whole building a bit.
”Hiding is useless! Come out!”
Aephelia shouted as she stared towards the direction of the door of the church.
There, several figures emerged from the shadows as if they entered through the door despite the fact that the door of the church was left untouched.
”I thought that this will be easy but wrong, huh. Sir Dopp really gave us some unusual tasks.”
One of the hooded figures who had the largest stature among the group spoke. Not everyone came out of the shadows individually but some of them appeared while receiving assistance. This large statured man was one of those which meant that he had not ability to traverse through the shadows.
”Who are you people?”
Karlene shouted as she readied her assault rifle.
As the man turned to Karlene, he was rather surprised.
”Aren't you Karlene Bautista? You're rather popular before. However, we have no business with a human like you and that guy beside you.”
He then panned his eyes at everyone, specifically, at Miracle, the [Blood Children], Aimee, Aephelia, Chaflar, the Alpha and lastly, Aephelia.
”The humans aside, we are here to invite all of you to come with us. But of course, we are not taking no for an answer. I won't ask you all to answer since it's already obvious.” The man waved his hand forwards. ”Take them all.”
With the man's command, the hooded figures that numbered to twenty individuals scattered as they charged forward. The hooded figures had different body statures with seven of them having lean bodies while the others looked like normal people. However, the some of the figures with lean bodies vanished soon after and melded into the shadows while the remaining figures charged forwards.
The enemies appearing and disappearing into the shadows surprised Karlene and Edzel but there was no time to dawdle around. Due to the sudden attack, Karlene and the others had no time to plan a counter attack and as such, they sure will be pushed into a defensive. The ones charging forward might be fine to some extent but the ones that entered the shadows were kind of worrying.
Karlene and Edzel started shooting the enemies. Unfortunately, even though the bullets left holes on the robes of the enemies, the bullets just phased through the bodies of the lean figured enemies. There was not damage at all. As for those who had normal figures, some of the bullets hit their bodies causing them to stagger. However, they still continued to run forwards like they were not injured at all.