"Let's go," she says collecting the bag.
The street is controlled chaos. Traffic is at its worst at the moment which is probably why the terrorists decided to perform the theft at this time. Both agents wait helplessly while the terrorists rush into the building.
Julie grows impatient quickly. As soon as the smallest break in traffic opens up she darts into the street. Spencer is on her heels an instant later. Julie manages to pass just ahead of passing cars and receives a blowing horn in the process.
Spencer isn't as lucky. He dodges and jumps, each time barely getting clear of the cars. He is almost hit head on at one point. At another a side view mirror clips his arm.
The sudden and unexpected impact sends a sharp pain from his triceps up into his shoulder. He spins to the ground. He recovers less than a second later and as he begins to rise he sees a car coming straight at him. The driver slams on the brakes and skids to a stop, just inches in front of Spencer's face.
"What the fuck are you doing you bloke?" the driver yells out the window at him.
Spencer gets up using the front end of the car, waves and smiles at the man before dashing the rest of the way to the sidewalk. By the time he reaches the stairs to the building Julie is already at the top headed for the door. She already has her guns and sword strapped to her body and shows no concern as to whether Spencer is with her or not.
He curses under his breath and draws his gun. The action causes the dull ache in his arm to flare but he ignores it. He has taken beatings harder than this and it would take a bit more to keep him from going on. He begins taking the stairs two at a time.
To his surprise, Julie is waiting outside the door. "Took you long enough," she says. Her face is solemn and Spencer isn't sure if the statement is sarcasm or if she is just focused.
"Traffic," he answers quickly.
Julie nods absently, keeping her attention toward the inside of the building. "There are two posted inside. Security guards are dead. The rest must have already taken the elevator."
"I'll take the left," he says.
Julie removes more of the putty she had used the day before and pastes it on the door. "Ready?"
Spencer nods and Julie counts down. "Three...two...mark."
The door explodes inward sending tiny glass fragments in all directions. Julie is first through the door followed closely by Spencer. The two guards are a little slow in response to the highly unexpected attack.
Spencer and Julie feel a shiver go down their spine when they enter and they know right away what they are dealing with. The terrorists are beginning to bring their weapons to bear when the first shot from Julie's gun is fired. The bullet strikes the demon dead center of his head and he falls backward into the wall then to the ground.
The other is a little faster than his partner and manages to send a few rounds at them. Spencer has to move just as he takes a shot and as a result his bullet goes wide and impacts the demon terrorist in the shoulder rather than the head.
The demon spins slightly from the impact. Julie takes the distraction as an opportune moment. She withdraws
Kogarasu Maru
and runs. She leaps onto the side of a column a few feet in front of the demon, leaping over the two dead bodies of the guards. Julie rebounds off the column and comes down just as the demon turns to face her.
Kogarasu Maru
cuts into the demon's head and she slices him completely in half. Both halves fall to the ground in a splatter.
Spencer catches up with Julie as she is making her way to the elevators. Her face and clothing is splattered with black blood but she seems to not take notice of it.
"Thanks," he says once he paces beside her.
"A pleasure," she says with a subtle tone. She seems to have enjoyed killing the demon. In fact with every encounter they have Spencer has noticed she seems to take a lot of pleasure in killing, whether it were demon or human.
"So where do you think?" Julie asks when they reach the elevator. She begins overlooking the floor directory as if studying it.
"Ten to one it's not above ground," Spencer comments.
"You're probably right." Julie pushes the call button and within seconds the light disappears and the doors part.
Both agents are half expecting someone to be in the elevator but it is empty. They step into it. Julie looks at the panel and pushes the button that says B4. "Well, I guess we start at the bottom and work our way up."
The elevator drops fast. When the doors finally open they reveal the group of terrorists busy at their task. The six terrorists turn to glare at the intruding agents. One of them is holding a silver case. Spencer and Julie raise their guns and yell, "Freeze!"
"Kill them," the only female of the group says.
The two handlers of the
Hell Hounds
retreat from the remaining four and unclip the chains. The hounds tear away from their handlers with a deep, low growl.
"I've got the dogs you get the other two," Julie says as she takes off running toward the attackers.
Spencer doesn't worry about arguing, he learned once Julie is set to kill something there is no interrupting. He cuts to the left on a path that will take him around the hounds and to the two waiting terrorists.
Julie meets the first charging hound head on, leaping into the air into a flip at the last moment and unleashing a full clip worth of bullets between both guns into its head. The hound hits the ground and slides giving out a low grunt as its life leaves its body.
Julie lands in a crouch and unleashes the remainder of her clips into the mouth of the next hound as it lunges the last remaining feet at her. The momentum of the beast sends its lifeless body over Julie as she leans back. She jumps up and has
Kogarasu Maru
in her hands by the time her feet touch the ground. She barely has time to take on the next one. Julie brings the blade up horizontally and places her free palm behind it. The
Hell Hound
takes care of the rest.
As the hound's jaw connects with the blade Julie sidesteps and pushes the sword out to decapitate the beast from the jaw up. Its body drops into a slide followed closely behind by the rest of its head.
She spins and drops her sword down and feeling more than anticipating comes around full circle and sends
Kogarasu Maru
home down the final hound's throat. The force of the impact pulls the sword from her grasp and it goes flying past.
The hound comes to a stop and lays limp for a few moments before attempting to get to its feet. Julie calmly walks up to the beast, replacing a clip as she goes. She steps up to the hound and places her foot on its neck and shoots four rounds into the back of its skull then pulls her sword free.
She licks her lips and smiles.
Meanwhile, Spencer races to the side of the two terrorists emptying his clip on them. He can't tell if he has hit either one of them as they scramble for cover. Soon he finds himself in the open and once his gun clicks dry. Both terrorists are up over the counters they are hiding behind and unleash their fury on Spencer.
The bullets scatter across the open space sending Spencer diving behind a column. Concrete blows out the side of the column. A piece nicks Spencer in the cheek and a trickle of blood forms. He hardly takes notice as he slides a new clip in. Once the gun fire takes a brake and he hears the sound of magazines hit the ground he reappears from behind the column.
Both the terrorists are no longer in view, but Spencer already knows where they are. He starts at them in a run and just before he reaches the counter the terrorists come up. Both demons are surprised to see him and Spencer takes that second's distraction and jumps at the closest.
Spencer's shoulder impacts in the other's abdomen. As his momentum carries both back and to the floor, Spencer reaches back and fires. The first four bullets hit the demon in the chest. As he falls back into the counter the remaining three hit his shoulder or miss completely.
The demon Spencer tackled lands hard and loses grip of his gun but recovers enough to kick him up and over. Spencer lands in a similar fashion and his gun falls away from his hand. His training keeps him in control and he manages to pull his boot knife just before the demon lands on top on him.
Spencer reaches up with it in an attempt to bring it across the demon's throat but his wrist is caught just before it hits its mark. He fights against the demon having to grip the knife with his other hand to reinforce his other against the demon's single hand. Slowly, the knife is being turned toward Spencer.
