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Chapter 10: A Temporary Burial
Morgan was eating a apple as she looked through a mirror that show the battle between Oda and Ace. Oda's hot radiation clashed against Ace's frosty might in several explosions of steam, even with the omnisense of a Narrator it was near impossible to see through.
"Lovely." Morgan stated as she ate her apple. "I was hoping that that glowing sack of bones could have given me some information on how to beat him."
"You don't believe that guy can beat him?" Titania asked cocking brow at her one time pupil suspiciously.
"Beat him now? Maybe, but what happens when he isn't a undead anymore?" Morgan asked shrugging her shoulders.
"You say that like it's a common occurrence for the Undead to suddenly stop being dead where you come." Titania stated looking at Morgan with a smirk, until that is she saw the serious look on her face. "Seriously?"
"There's a whole race of them, they call themselves 'High Vampires.'" Morgan stated as she rubbed her chin. "Not to be confused with the more common 'Lesser Vampire.'"
"Doesn't sound like something native to this world." Titania stated while she scratched her chin.
"A long time ago, there were a pair of demons who lived in Hell's bloody River Styx, called themselves Dracula and Carmilla. Through great perseverance they were able to swim up the waterfall that cut through the nine rings of hell all the way to the top and through that escape. They reclaimed their mortal remains and became undead, so they continuously siphoned the life blood of their victims until they became something alive again. However before they did that the circumstances of how they died came back to bite them, figuratively and literally." Morgan stated while she kept her eyes on the battle between Oda and Ace.
"I'm almost afraid to ask." Titania stated motioning for Morgan to continue.
"HIV if you must know, a disease in the blood, transmitted via bodily fluids. It was changed by the influence of demonic blood, when Carmilla and Dracula bit their victims their saliva mixed with what was left of their victims blood, imbuing them with demonic DNA when the HIV spread throughout the body mutating them into more creatures like themselves, vampires." Morgan explained as she saw the glowing blade of Oda slashing through the steam.
"And Ace is trying to become something similar?" Titania asked her face scrunched in puzzled confusion.
"I don't think he's trying to do anything but hunt me down and kill me right now." Morgan commented letting out a sigh. "So either he's gone completely insane or his brain is still rotten." Morgan let out a sigh while she looked over the situation.
"Why don't you just go over there and dump a ton of violence on him like you'd normally do?" Titania asked cocking a suspicious brow at Morgan.
"You seem to be under the impression that people took Carmilla's and Dracula's rise quietly. Back in those days they were just diseased vermin preying on the sick and elderly, like diseased rodents they were relatively easy to put down, the problem is that when dealing with the undead merely putting someone down is more often then not simply not enough. But conversely after becoming high vampires when Carmilla was killed she stayed dead." Morgan stated as she gave up on trying to use the mirror to spy on Ace.
"So you're just going to let that animal slaughter everyone who gets in his way until he reaches a level of power that's convenient for you?" Titania asked an incredulous look on her face.
"I have no intention of letting that animal do as he pleases: I'm far too spiteful to leave someone I hate in peace and quiet. So while I set up roadblocks to direct him where I want him to go, I'm going to draw out his pain and suffering for as long as possible!" Morgan replied the beginnings of a sinister grin on her face.
"And to think the old man said you would make for a horrible Evil Queen." Titania replied sounding fed up and exhausted.
That evening, Titania's rose bushes mutated into a swarm of fire breathing flower buds and destroyed her gardens.
"Apple I appreciate this but I should probably get back to the school soon." Raven commented dressed in her sweater pajama's and getting her long hair brushed out by Apple who was wearing a night gown.
"Because of the extra students?" Apple asked having been read in on a version of the story of what had been happening in Raven's world.
"I've been reading through the manual for Mom's remodler, hopefully I can use it by the time I get back to the school." Raven stated as she picked up the book that was sitting at her side. "'Remodler?'"
"One of my mother's contraptions, she turned both of the entire dorm buildings into golems, capable of expanding their size and altering their layout as necessary." Raven explained as she deciphered the notes in question.
"Sounds handy." Apple commented nodding sagely.
"It would be. But mom encrypts everything!" Raven stated sounding mighty irritated.
"How bad can it be?" Apple asked smiling sweetly at Raven, to which end Raven handed her a short length of paper with a series of numbers attached. "What's this?"
"That..." Raven stated pointed to a short series of numbers and letters. "Is from my school's library's dewey decimal system. This..." Raven stated lowering her finger down to the second line which had three numbers written. "Is the page number, line number, and word number within that book. The word that points to is used in a vignette cipher to turn all of that into words and that's not even the worst part!"
"I'm almost afraid to ask." Apple stated imagining what could possible be so important that someone would go through this much trouble to hide it.
"It was a recipe for cookies in her senior year's highschool bake Sale!" Raven cried as she plunged her head into the book in front of her.
"Eh?" Apple looked astonished with what Raven had just said. "Does your mother come up with crazy stuff like this for a hobby or something?" Apple asked looking bewildered.
"She certainly does it enough for it to be a hobby." Raven replied sounding rather dark and irritated all of a sudden.
"Come on you've been working too had just go to sleep for now." Apple stated as she took the manual away from Raven and put it into the drawer next to their bed. As Apple said that, a rumble that Raven was familiar with shook the castle.
"Lovely, someone's using the room Travel room again." Saying that, Raven decided to dismiss the issue and plunged her face into her pillow.
For someone who was fighting only using a broken blade that was barely a knife Ace was holding his own pretty well. Whenever Oda struck with his blade Ace would block with his broken sword, the shattered blade seemed to absorb the blows and blast Oda back with the energy absorbed.
"Nice trick, did you learn how to do full counter in Heaven or hell?" Oda asked as he trailed his blade along the ground burning away the vegetation in front of him.
"It. Can. Kill. The. Witch. That's. About. All. That. I. Care. About. It!" Ace by now had discarded the use of ice based armor, against someone who habitually spat out attacks in the range of three hundred degrees Celsius it was a given. This in turn revealed the scaly dragon skin that laid beneath, tanking the heat of Oda's attacks and glowing a bright red.
"I suppose that dragon's really do like the heat. Even one who lives in the cold of Hell's deepest pit." Oda stated as he slammed his blade into Ace again.
"You. Say. That. Like. I. Enjoyed. It!" Ace slammed his weapon into Oda's oversize weapon. "Do. You. Think. That. If. I. Had. A. Pleasant. Time. Down. There. I. Would. Not. Be. So. Angry!?"
Letting out a roar Ace blasted Oda with a bolt of flash freezing air against Oda and a blast of steam went off like a explosion leveling the area. From the steam cloud Ace flew out and over the forest as he made a bee line straight for Riordan's capital. But someone hadn't made Ace suffer enough yet for their tastes. A spear that received a enchantment that made sure it always hit it's target was flung through the air and hit ace through his shoulder and sent him plummeting into the ground. As if seeking to spite Ace further, the spear exploded further wounding Ace and denying him a weapon for use. Also it blew apart his side, but that seemed to be of secondary concern as Ace simply pulled together raw organic material from around the area into his body and made up for the loss.
"Need. To. Beat. That. Fire. Bastard!" The gears whirled in what was left of Ace's brain as he tried to come up with a way of setting a trap for Oda.
The conclusion he reached after examining himself was... somewhat gory to say the least. Looking around he saw a child who had wandered into the woods, if he can dump enough of his undead energies on this area then he could raise a small army to act as a distraction for that guy and move on with his day in relative peace. The child chasing after a ball seemed to notice him and became a little scared of his somewhat demonic form, and soiled herself in terror when she saw the broken blade coming down on her head. As the child curled up in terror, perhaps praying for a miracle, she felt a rush of wind past by her ear, looking up she saw that the creature that was about to kill her was gone, along with everything that was behind him for a significant distance. After turning several trees into toothpicks Ace pulled himself to his feet and quickly started to look around and quickly spotted a purple witches hat hanging on a tree branch.
"RRRAAGGHH!" Ace picked up the hat and tore it apart in his bare hands while half growling and half roaring in rage, in the process he broke the vial inside of it and released the contents of the vial into the air, with explosive results.
"GRR!" The explosion was very small and had no shrapnel, as if it was deliberately designed to annoy rather than injure, behind the branch where that branch where the hat was located was a sign pointing to his right. Taking the not so subtle clue with a snarl, Ace followed the direction of the arrow chopping away at vegetation until he came across another sign: 'You're Getting warmer.' With Ace just getting madder he continued to follow the trail of bed crumbs until he spotted a mountain in the distance, that had several arrows carved into it via fire magic that led directly one cave inside of mountain. Following the second spoon fed clue Ace entered the cave, where a wall have glowing hot words written into it: 'Warmer.' "GRR." Ace was getting annoyed now, traveling through the cave he encountered more words: 'You're red hot!' Officially fed up Ace walked over to a dead end in the cave with a bulls eye carved into the floor and looked up for one final set of words: 'you're on fire!' Suddenly the ground beneath Ace's feet exploded, and nothing like that annoyance that hit him earlier, this was a legitimate explosion that spewed fire and force out of the cave entrance and collapsed a significant portion of the mountain on top of him. Not yet done with Ace, Morgan then activated large scale fire type magic to melt the stone that was on top of Ace's head burying him in the molten hot rock, with his own power over icy cold temperatures rapidly cooling that rock and hardening it over his body.
With that done, Morgan picked up the bag of things that she had prepared for her trip and went back to her mother's castle via mirror portal. To her surprise when she got there she found the castle town overrun by werewolves. For now they were simply making themselves at home in their full wolf forms lounging about and eating things that Morgan had a sinking suspicion that she would end up paying for. Ignoring that matter for the time being Morgan made a bit of a ruckus as she bullied her way through the castle on the way to the throne room.
"You could at the very least treat the servants with respect." Jadis stated face palming as she shook her head.
"I said excuse me." Morgan stated as if that justified treating the people in the castle like road blocks someone had set up to inconvenience her.
"She's right you know." Tom stated standing next to Morgan his arm in a sling that wasn't there that morning.
"You lost the right to run around acting like you own the castle after you moved out." Jadis stated as she moved back into a relaxed position.
"If memory serves the last time I was here was about six month's before I dropped out of Ever After High, after that my place of residence for two years was one of Wonderland's nicer mental institutions. Following that I went to another realm for my high school diploma so you tell me when precisely did I 'move out?'" Morgan asked as a angry twitch developed in her eye. "Was it when I refused to come back and fulfill my familial obligation of babysitting the people who stood by as Ace murdered my brother and then almost murdered me?" As if receiving his que, the Draco-grim that had been following Morgan around climbed out of her shadow and growled menacingly at Jadis.
"Yes." Jadis stated giving an eye roll. "Because they want to deal with someone with a personality like yours."
"I learned from the best. Now should I assume that the werewolves presence here has anything to do with me?" Morgan asked as she returned her mother's eye roll.
"Funny you should mention it: they came out of that little realm travel room that you set up in what was my office. Along with Ramona demanding to know where you were." Jadis let out a sigh as she sucked in air to prepare a verbal rip into her daughter. "She growled something about the dorm rooms needing to be expanded before we fed her a sleeping potion and put her in the same room as Raven, Nevermore and Apple." At the mention of the latter girl Morgan's brows creased in displeasure. "Spare me your paranoid delusions Morgan. The four of you, and all the mutts that followed you home, can go back to your own realm in the morning." Morgan prepared to leave the castle, likely planned on sleeping outside with the ghost that was her dragon. "You could come back you know." Jadis stated prompting her daughter to stop in her tracks. "Despite what you have led yourself to believe, you are missed."
"Did the Hatter tell you the truth about my 'imaginary friend?'" Morgan asked glaring angrily. "Then you know the truth about where my 'cheat like brain' came from. And the price I paid to get it." Saying that, Morgan sucked in and breathed out her anger. "I left my past behind me. I've tried to live a peaceful life where I don't have to maim, murder, cripple or torture anyone." Then that calm turned into a glare, armor piercing and razor sharp. "But as long as my past reserves the right to come back and haunt me and threaten the life that I've built, then I reserve the right to burn my past to the ground."
Oda arrived at Ace's burial place, his body wrapped in a fresh layer of lead. Placing his hand on the ground he could feel the ground vibrating as something was trying very hard to make it's way through the rock towards the surface.
"Looks like I got some time to kill." Saying that the undead Samurai sat down, pulled out his blade, and used a whetstone to begin honing it.
Review Section:
rmarcano321: I believe that Hatred takes third place in the three most destructive forces in the world, right after stupidity and Fear.
ChimaTigon: I'll let you know when I've decided.
Zwei Eis: Pretty much. She certainly doesn't like it. I know the feeling, sometimes I feel like a broken record when I answer them.
DJ: No no, it was definitely his skin, side effect of the whole dragon slayer thing.