She was vastly outnumbered.
It had been a trap, she realized. They had been waiting for her to come here, to find what it was they needed. And now that she was boxed in, they were determined to kil her off for good. She had been setup.
As the crowd charged, Caitlin thought quick. She closed her eyes, and focused on summoning her primal energy.
Her rage. She focused on her new powers, and she knew that she could fight off an army. She knew it.
As the hundreds of vampires charged, Caitlin suddenly charged them. At the last second, right before they col ided, she leapt high into the air, higher than she ever imagined possible, and grabbed hold of a huge, dangling chandelier, fifty feet off the ground. She immediately climbed its chain, scaling it faster than she could have imagined possible, heading straight for the ceiling. From there, she figured she could break her way through one of the huge stained-glass windows, and escape through the roof.
Just as Caitlin was getting close, suddenly, one of those huge ceiling windows shattered.
She looked up, and there before her, looking down, snarling, was one of the most evil looking creatures she had ever seen.
Six more stained-glass windows suddenly shattered, and she saw that there were seven of these creatures—huge, enormous, disfigured vampires. They blocked her access to the roof.
Caitlin was cornered in from both directions. She had no choice but to stand and fight.
She didn’t wait a moment longer. She grabbed hold of the chandelier’s chain, and snapped it off from the ceiling. The huge iron chandelier, twenty feet wide, plummeted straight down to the crowd below, Caitlin plummeting with it.
It landed on dozens of Napoleon’s vampires, crushing them beneath its weight.
Caitlin activated her wings at the last moment before she hit the ground, hovering in the air, and landed softly. On the ground, she then took the enormous candelabra by the end of its chain, and with her Herculean strength, she swung it over her head as a weapon. She swung in larger and larger circles, and as she did, the enormous iron knocked out dozens more of Napoleon’s men. She was a one-woman wrecking machine, and no one could come within fifty feet of her.
But then she heard an unearthly screech, and saw the seven evil creatures plunging down towards her. She took hold of the chandelier and with one last swing, hurled it, aiming right for one of them.
It was a perfect shot, and it took him out, sending him flying backwards and embedding him in a wal .
But that left six more of those things, and before Caitlin could react, one of them came down hard and kicked her, sending her halfway across the church. The creature had strength unlike anything she had ever fought. She smashed against a wal hundreds of feet away, the wind knocked out of her.
Caitlin felt that she could handle Napoleon’s men. But she didn’t possibly see how she could handle six of these things on her own.
Stil , she jumped back to her feet, ready to fight. And just in time. One of them was already in the midst of swinging for her head, and as she ducked, his large fist went right into the wal . Caitlin reached over, grabbed the sword off of his belt and decapitated him.
Sword in hand, Caitlin faced off with another of those things, which was already lunging for her.
She ducked just in time, then swung around and chopped him in half.
But that stil left four of them, and she was just not quick enough to handle al four at once. She felt herself being kicked hard from behind, right in the kidneys, and she went flying through the air, and smashed headfirst into a wal .
She got up, but now her world was blurry, and those things were bearing down on her, along with dozens of Napoleon’s vampires. She needed some time to regain her strength, but there was no time to be had. They were closing in fast, and she just didn’t have more left in her. It was one of the few moments in her life when she felt that it was over. And she resigned herself to her fate.
At just that moment, another huge stained glass window smashed, and another vampire plunged down, aiming right for her.
As he came into focus, she saw who it was.
Her eyes opened wide in shock. It was Caleb.
Caleb dove in just in time, swooping her up in his