Shockwave 9

Skulduggery and Valkyrie took a few seconds to react as the vampires turned on Kia. It didn't matter. Kia was ready. She dodged under the swipe of the first vampire and as she ran past him, she slammed her palm into his chest. He flew back and hit the vampire behind him. They both went down. Kia was sure that the one she hit would not get up again, after all she had felt that familiar feeling of breaking bones under her palm. His ribcage was most likely shattered. The other two ran at her, Kia stepped to the left so that the one of the left was in between her and the other one. She had about two seconds before the other one would get around so she used those two seconds to her advantage. She used her small size to duck down and kick at the vampire's legs. her plan worked batter than she thought it would because he fell down on top of the other who was still fumbling behind him. Kia raised her hand and was about to slam it down in to the vampire's chest, hopefully hard enough to have the shockwave travel through the one on top but the vampire on top seemed to have realized that and slashed and her. Again, only Kia's quick reflexes saved her arm from being chopped off. As it was, she recieved two long gashes across her forearm but she didn't hesitate and took the opening that the vampire created to slam her other hand into his chest with as much power as she could. It turned out that that amount of power was capable of blasting a hole in the middle of the vampire's chest so that her hand actually travelled through and hit the vampire underneath. Kia jumped back in disgust and promptly threw up on the ground. Skulduggery and Valkyrie looked at her.
"Well, now that was surprising," Skulduggery said. The remaining vampire lay at his feet bleeding from the various bullet holes that covered his body. His leg had been severly burned and his arm was wrist twisted at an impossible angle. Kia wiped her mouth and stood up. She staggered, unsteady from her fight.
"Urgh," she said and looked around her. It was just like last time. She'd gotten mad and lost control but this time, the guilt was mixed with a strange pleasure. Revenge was sweet as far as Kia could tell.
"You okay?" Valkyrie asked.
"Yeah, I just need to shower."
"Skulduggery doesn't have a shower in his house. After all, he's a skeleton and he doesn't need a shower."
"Is there anywhere else we can go?"
"We can go to China's."
"Yeah, I'm beginning to regret not having gone there in the first place," Skulduggery said. Kia stepped towards the car.
"Hold up a second," Skulduggery said and he pulled a hankerchief out of his pocket. "You are not getting in my car all bloody like that. At least clean off the vampire blood."
Kia blushed and took the handkerchief. The blood on her left arm had gotten soaked all the way up  to her elbow. She used the handkerchief as well as she could to get it off but wasn't able to get the small traces off. While she worked on her arm, Valkrie pulled some bandages out of the trunk of the car and carelessly wrapped them around her leg and, when Kia was done cleaning around her right arm.
"I'm still not very good at medical stuff but it'll last till we get to China's. Skulduggery can do some real work then."
When they got to China's Kia found that she had gotten really stiff. The more shallow slashes on her leg had begun to heal over but when she stood up to get out of the car, she had to stop a gasp of pain as the scabs ripped apart. Her right arm was still bleeding freely and Kia was starting to get a little lightheaded. On her way up the steps, she almost fell and only Skulduggery's quick arm was able to stop her from stumbling down the stairs. They were met at the top of the stairs by a man in a bowtie. He gestured for them to go straight into the center of the library which spread out in front of them. Skulduggery and Valkyrie deftly mad ethier way thorugh the maze of books till they stood in front of the mots beautiful woman in the world. China looked up and smiled at them and Kia's already weak knees almost gave way.
"Skulduggery could I please ask you not to parade blood-soaked teenagers through my library. It is not good for my business or my carpets."
"Sorry, sorry. Is it okay if she borrows your shower? I don't have one at my house."
"Really? You're leading another person astray? Yes, she can use my shower as long as she doesn't make too much of a mess. What is your name child?"
Kia didn't answer for a full second.
"Kia, m'am."
"Oh, that's a cute name. How did you choose it?"
Kia was confused but whether from bloodloss or the haze that seemed to have settled over her mind when she saw China she wasn't sure. Probably a little bit of both.
"I didn't choose it. My parents did."
"Oh, so that's your given name. Skulduggery you should really teach her about these thing."
"Teach me what?"
"I just picked her up this morning and we went straight to the Sanctuary and then we came back and when we got back we were attacked by vampires. Do you think I had time to tell her about this stuff?"
"What were you doing when you were driving? It takes time to get to Roarhaven."
Skulduggery fell silent.
"Teach me what?" Kia asked.
"The rules of this world," Skulduggery replied.
"Oh, okay. Am I allowed to shower first?"
"Yeah sure. China could you plesae show her where to go?"
"With pleasure," China said.
Kia couldn't help miss the sarcasm.