slayers_desire | Take one week of training, add a dash of slaying

After their first night together at the new training center, April established a new schedule for Rain to maintain. For the next week, she was very insistent on certain things. He woke at 8 a.m., ate a healthy breakfast and then after a half-hour would start stretching exercises. From 9 a.m. to noon, Rain would go through a series of martial practices. One hour with a familiar weapon, one hour with an unfamiliar weapon, and one hour with two weapons.

At noon he was have lunch, and time enough to have a nap. At 2 p.m., he would be directed to the library to study for one hour, then from 3 to 5 p.m., he would return to the training center. He would be run through a multi-dimensional session, with April tracking how well he was doing (so he could break his own records in the future).

After a supper at 5 p.m., April would insist again on a nap, then when he woke at 7 p.m., to stretch before heading to his world. And to his job. The night would be spent protecting his city. Slaying. Of course, when he returned to the training center, by 4 a.m., April would get all the information on his performance. And give him a massage, and sent him to bed.

Some nights they would share a bed. Other nights, if he was too tired, they would take to their separate beds. The nights that they had enough energy to share passion, it was tender and wouldn't extend Rain's energy.

By the end of the week, judging from Rain's scores on the training missions, and his increasing accomplishments in the field, April knew he was ready for something stronger than a mere vampire. And from some investigating, she discovered a low-level demon that was creating troubles for some innocents in Rain's neck of the woods.

So when it came to just before night, this time April brought Rain to a table that had several occult items laying on it. "Okay Rain, tonight you have to deal with a Der Kindestod. The name means "child death" and it feeds off of children by sucking the life out of them. He has been affecting a Children's Hospital nearby your city."

"One of the difficulties is that the Der Kindestod is invisible to all adults and can only be seen by children, madmen and the feverishly ill. His eyeballs extend and latch onto people, leeching their life force." April bit at her bottom lip, looking up at Rain, "For you to fight him, I am going to have to make you sick."

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With the last touch of handing him a bedpan (for any future vomiting) and the papers Harley had created, April opened up the portal into the hospital. "Best of luck, my Slayer."

"Thanks." Rain stepped through into a quiet section of the hospital. His first objective was to find a room with an empty bed. A place to hang the chart so that he could refer the nurses back to a room number if he was stopped and his story would check out. He wandered the halls, looking for a room. His feet felt heavy.

Rain is fortunate, there is an empty bed just down the hall, and it is right by the children's area. It is dark already, with the nurses ensuring their wards are back in their beds. A couple of the kids are obviously nervous, as if scared of the 'Boogey-Man' who will come when they are alone.

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Rain slips into the room and hangs his chart from the end of the bed. He tucks the bedpan under his arm and starts to walk the halls. He peeks into the rooms of some of the children, watching for anything suspicious.

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Some of the children are cornered together, hugging their teddy bears. One of them looks up. "He is not the Boogey Man."

"Hi." Rain says in a soft voice, smiling at them despite being sick. "I'm Rain. Can I come in?"

They nod. "Maybe he will protect us." One suggested.

"He won't see the Boogey Man. No one does." One objected.

Rain came in and sat on the end of the bed with the most children cuddled on it. He was good with kids, he'd had experience.

"That's why I'm here." he whispered. "To protect you from the Boogey Man. I have a really close friend who told me a secret. If you're really sick, even grownups can see him."

"He took Nate yesterday." One girl said, pointing over to a sickly boy who could not move from his bed. "And usually, he goes for the same kid until..."

"Until we do not see them again." Another finished.

"Then I guess Nate is who we pray for tonight huh? You guys hop in your beds, I'll tuck you in. You try to sleep and tomorrow it will be all over. I'll be here all night."

One by one, the kids get in their bed. One hesitates, until Rain is by his side, then climbs in with his teddy bear. "Mistah... don't let him take Nate..."

"Shhh." he tucks the boy in and tucks the teddy under the boys arm. He ruffles his hair, his hand shaking with the sickness. "Don't you worry. I won't. Sweet dreams ok?" He moves to sit in a corner of the room adjacent to the door that could not be seen from the door. He pulls a blanket over himself and waits in the darkness, shivering.

The first hour or so, nothing happened. Then there was a shadow at the door. At first, Rain might think he was seeing things.

But soon the creature entered the hospital room. It gliding across the floor towards the sleeping child named Nate.

Rain got up slowly, carefully. He staggered. He pulled one of the knives from his inner thigh and slowly, quietly stalked the creature. He raised the knife over his head as he got close and then...

"Bleeeaarrrgghhhh." *SPLAT*

Rain vomited uncontrollably all over Der Kinderstaadt. (Spelling?)

So much for stealth.

With the vomit all over it, the Der Kindestod stared at Rain in confusion. He used the chaos of the moment to move towards the child again, moving to scoop it up in his arms.

Rain grabbed at it before it could reach the boy and hooked his arms underneath the arms of the creature, locking his fingers behind its neck and pulling it away from the bed. His bare foot squished in the puddle of vomit and he slipped, tripping backward toward the door, bringing Der Kindestod with him. He tripped at the last second and fell into the hallway, with the creature landing on him with a heavy thud.

The tumble also confused the Der Kindestod. And for a moment, it did not know what to do. Until it looked down at Rain. And relized it was on top of him.

Its eyes start to extend. It was planning to feed on him.

((bed))

Rain was stunned. His head was swimming. He blacked out for a second. He was fighting to stay awake. He reached out and grabbed at the eye stalks.

((Goodnight!))

The grab was successful. The creature cried out in frustration when Rain secured its eye stalks in his grasp. It tried to struggle free... but could not manage.

Take one week of training, add a dash of slaying

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