Chapter 8: Doom or salvation.
Santi fell to the ground with a bullet mark on his chest, it had almost hit his heart but the wound was still mortal.
- "NOOOOOO!" Jonny and Mavis screamed in unison while Dracula was looking down on the hunters, especially Von Drak.
Mavis knelt beside the body with tears on her cheeks.
- "This is our fault; we should never have left the hotel." But something caught her attention; it was a beat, a beat of Santi's heart. "He's still alive ...!" She screamed looking at Jonny.
- "Take him away, I got this..." Dracula said disappearing in a cloud of purple smoke to appear behind one of the hunters so there was no time to react taking a big hit from Drac sending him to hit a wall. He didn´t move, if he was dead or alive it didn´t matter, the case was that he wouldn´t bother anyone anymore. Dracula turned to the other 9 humans that were beginning to prepare their weapons to attack.
Jonny and Mavis took Santi's body inside the hotel. He was placed on a table and a piece of cloth was placed around the wound. Again Jonny and Mavis were smelling the sweet perfume that had caused this, but attacking someone who was dying and who was also a friend was enough to calm their nerves; however it was difficult to ignore their primal instincts.
- "We must go back and help Dad to defend the hotel."
- "No, we will only disturb him, he will have to worry for us and nothing can distract him." Jonny and Mavis approached one of the windows and saw that there were four bodies on the ground but Dracula was badly wounded. The weapons the hunters had used silver so Drac could not regenerate. They were still, and looked like they were talking so they sharpened their ears to hear better.
- "So this is the dreaded Count Dracula, I expected much more from someone like you but you fought with honor so I will give your daughter and her puppet who was once human a quick death."
- "Do not touch my daughter, over my dead body." Now Dracula's eyes were redder than usual and his claws and teeth were twice normal.
- "Should you wish to die." With a wave of his hand 10 hunters appeared from the shadows carrying all kinds of weapons.
Mavis and Jonny watched in horror.
- " I don't care if we disturb him, we can´t leave him to his fate." Jonny looked at her and he knew it was useless but nodded.
In turn they were surprised to see Santi sitting at the table thoughtfully.
- "You really think to go, its suicide." The words were barely able to leave his mouth and the few he did with little force.
- "We know but we will not leave him alone." Jonny said seriously looking at Santi.
- "I'm not saying that, even being vampires you aren´t enough strong."
Jonny and Mavis looked at him for a moment, deep down, they knew he was right.
- "When vampires are in dangerous situations ... we are stronger."
- "And yet look how your father is doing." Santi interrupted and pulled a knife out of his pants making a cut on his hand and blood started coming out. "If you really want to win you must drink my blood it´s the only way to gain your true powers."
In normal cases Jonny and Mavis would refuse but it was an extreme situation and just watching the crimson liquid made them crazy, without even saying a word they came to him and began to suck the blood which didn´t stop springing from his hand. Over time they began to notice Santi's heart begin to slow down quickly so they stopped and walked away.
- "I am not asking you to refrain, only to concentrate your powers to our enemies." That was all he could say before fainting, he was safe but now he just needed to rest.
Mavis and Jonny looked at one another, their eyes were red but in the center the pupils looked like a reptile, their fangs were three times larger and now they had claws. They knew they were ready so they ran to the encounter with Dracula.
Arriving Dracula was lying on the ground motionless with a pool of blood around him, he was still alive but he was very weak, Von Drak was probably laughing at his side. There were still 12 hunters but it would be very difficult to defeat them.
- "Mavis." Dracula had never seen his daughter like this. "What happened?"
There was no answer as Von Drak started talking.
- "So you released the demon that you bear inside ... well that will make combat more interesting."
Jonny was calm, angry but calm as Mavis was ready to attack with hatred filling her face.
- "Get away from my father son of a bitch." Her voice wasn´t the same as Dracula remembered.
- " The only monster here is you, and your father... you aren´t going to survive."
Von Drak pointed his gun at Drac, who could not move. It seemed to be the end.
Ok guys, here's the end of chapter 8, there is only one more chapter for remaining for translation and for now, THANKS for all the readers and specially for Wallaceb who is helping me by beta-reading my chapters and Sondardo for all his reviews, I recommended you to read their latest stories, Monstrous Wedding (Wallaceb) and Devotion (Sondardo). Oh, and another person, COnnORfanBOY1 who is helping me with the sequel of war between worlds.
