Happy Birthday Brynlee Marie!
@regicidalheart You requested Malk!Maddie and Alice beating up some other vampires, as you were in the mood for Maddie being badass, so here they are taking on some of the Sabbat in the Hallowbrook Hotel! Hope that scratches the itch for you! :)
Alice immediately spun around, just in time to see a Gangrel leap at her, massive claws extended and teeth bared. She promptly blasted him in the head with her shotgun, sending him toppling neck-over-heels before hitting the nearby wall and dissolving into ash. “Thank you!” she called to Madeline as she hastily reloaded.
“No problem!” Maddie yelled back, before rolling out of the way of a speeding vampire – Alice thought he was a Brujah, but she wasn’t one hundred percent sure. The man cursed and managed to skid to a stop before he overshot them too badly – but in the moment where he was readjusting to the world moving at normal speed again, Madeline leapt on him, wrapping her legs around his waist and jabbing a knife in his neck. “I think we’re finally whittling these assholes down!”
“I certainly hope so!” Alice spotted a vampire in fancy sparkly make-up – almost certainly a Toreador then – trying to sneak up on Maddie from behind and shot him in the side, sending him sprawling with a scream. “No, I don’t think you’ll be getting the drop on either of us, thanks...but yes, we’ve certainly taken down more than our fair share of Sabbat at this point!”
“Tell me about it!” Maddie clung to the Brujah like a cowgirl to a bucking bronco as she sawed at his neck, clawing at his face for good measure as he attempted to dislodge her. “They just keep crawling out of the woodwork!”
“I know – though I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised,” Alice said, shouldering the shotgun in favor of the nail bat hanging from her side. The Toreador tried to crawl away, but Alice was faster, and caved in the back of his head with a nasty crunch. “This is a pretty big hotel, and I think the Sabbat have had quite a bit of time to get themselves established here. What with everything else that’s been going on.”
“True.” Maddie finally separated enough of the Brujah’s head from his body that his corpse gave up the ghost, crumbling to dust in her grip. She landed with surprising grace on the floor, giving herself a little shake. “We’ve certainly been dealing with a lot of bullshit, haven’t we?”
“Oh, that we have.” Alice spotted another vampire – this one a woman of unknown clan – trying to creep up on them. “On your right.”
“Thanks.” Madeline spun and glared at the interloper, who froze. “Oh, did we ruin your plan to sneak up on us? Sorry about that – but isn’t it really rather funny?”
The other vampire pulled faces as she tried to resist the sudden compulsion – but the only person Alice knew that was better at Dementation than Madeline was herself. It wasn’t long at all before the woman was bent in half, howling with artificial laughter. Maddie smirked, then jerked her head at Alice’s bat. “Mind if I borrow that?”
“Be my guest,” Alice said, handing it over before pulling her own blade from its sheath at her waist. “I haven’t given my knife a proper airing yet anyway.”
“And we can’t have that.” Maddie cracked the woman across the face, sending her spinning to the ground, then followed up with an overhead blow that would have made the Hobby Horse proud. “Gotta say, though – feels good to be able to let loose properly,” she added with a smirk as the woman dissolved away.
“It is nice to fight someone who you know deserves the worst you can throw at them,” Alice agreed.
Alice turned at the click of claws on glass, and saw Rabbit standing at the far end of the hall, tapping his watch meaningfully. “Though I think we’ve finally cleared out this area,” she added. “Shall we move on and see if we can finally find the manager of this horrible hotel?”
“Of course.” Madeline shot her a cocky grin. “I haven’t smashed open nearly enough Sabbat heads yet.”
Alice grinned back. “Neither have I, Maddie,” she said, jogging over to the waiting Rabbit. “Neither have I.”
