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looking for somewhere to hide.
     
    Kaine looked on in disgust as the guards were
being torn to pieces. He knew that he had to save them. It was
clearly obvious that this massacre was meant for the viewing
pleasure of the assembled vampires. In all the time that he had
been there, Rex had only once mentioned saving the planet.
     
    Leaping down, he bolted straight across the
floor towards the big werewolf, who spotted him coming at the last
second. Kaine side stepped it though and grabbed its furry neck.
Then he swung it around and threw it into the rock wall behind
himself.
     
    A sullen look exploded across Rex’s face,
which vanished as a grin emerged instead. This was an unexpected
treat; seeing Kaine fight, he realized that what was going on
before him was actually giving him more pleasure than his original
plan.
     
    Kaine swung himself over the top of the beast
and from behind began punching it at the base of its head. Then he
leant forwards and slipped his hand inside its mouth. In one move,
he took hold of the upper jaw and thrust backwards and snapped its
neck. The sound was like a huge branch breaking in the woods.
     
    When the little girl werewolf saw that her
partner had been slain, she howled and abandoning her attack of the
last two guards, she launched at Kaine.
     
    Leaping in a backwards somersault, Kaine only
narrowly cleared her jaws. The beast then turned and swung her paw,
which missed him by a hairs breadth. Running forwards, he jammed
his razor-sharp fingernails deep into her eyes. She howled, then
fell to the ground and desperately clawed at the wounds. One of the
guards threw Kaine his sword; deftly catching it, he lowered his
body, his weight helping the blow deliver its full effects, the
sword passed straight through her neck.
     
    Watching from above, Rex paused for a moment
as the wild energy inside him slowed to a settle. Then drawing his
arms out wide, he brought them in for a clap. Everyone paused,
hardly believing the old crone looked happy for once in his life,
and he was giving his unheard-of approval.
     
    ‘Fellow vampires, you can see just how
ferocious and full of rage these beasts are,’ Rex announced loudly.
‘It was my idea, rather than to make them totally extinct, to keep
ten. With the planet dying I now see I was clever and wise. This is
the end of our problem; we could release these creatures, and they
will kill most of the human race.’
     
    Rex knew that it wasn’t his idea at all
though, but there was no one to say otherwise. Many years before, a
vampire had told him that mother nature would be dying in the
future, and that he should keep ten werewolves. He was told that if
he did, releasing them against the humans at the time of crisis,
the planet could be saved. If he didn’t listen, there would be
serious consequences, and the Earth would die.
     
    Rex had laughed and although he did keep the
beasts, he had still ordered the informant’s ignominious death. The
vampire’s arms had been ripped off at the sockets, and then his
mouth was filled with holy water. The burning smell that had come
from within made it obvious he was suffering unbelievable pain.
     
    Furious, Kaine shouted up
at Rex, ‘What the hell do you mean, kept a
few ? How many more of these beasts are
there?’
     
    Rex sniggered and said, ‘Oh since we started
breeding them in captivity, we now have forty-eight. There were
fifty, but you just changed that.’ Rex laughed, then added, ‘Oh by
the way, well done down there. Your fighting skills are still
amazing I see. What a stunning show of skill and courage!’
     
    Rex then turned to where a guard of his had
just appeared and gestured for him to come closer. As the guard
then leant across, there was a sudden glint, and the blade of Rex’s
small silver dagger buried itself deep into his head. Rex then
pushed him away and he fell over the edge.
     
    As the body thumped to the ground, Rex asked,
‘Kaine, would you be so kind as to reach down and