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Scar pushed through the pieces of rubble in the tunnel. 'There's been a battle between alchemists.' He looked at the hole in the wall. 'That, or the homunculi.'
May ran up to catch up with Scar. 'I can feel them. They're fighting! They're all in one place – there's so much energy being used!' She shivered.
Scar nodded. 'This will get dangerous. I'd advise you leave. You won't gain anything for your people if you die here.' He took off his glasses. 'For myself, I've need to find my path God has given me at the end of this road.'
May crossed her arms impudently 'No way! I'm not leaving till I get a philosophers stone!'
'As you wish.' Scar said. He sighed – this would not be easy.
Alucard grinned, looking at the three homunculi in front of him. 'So, what's your plan? That creature Sloth seems to be up and running, so he must have had a source of souls recently. But you haven't been doing enough damage to me to make that arithmetic work. So, you've decided three against one is the odds you need?'
'Enough talking!' Envy said, running forward with his blade. Alucard leaped up onto the side of the wall, outside of the way of the sword.
'But I still want to have a chat with this new challenge. So you and Wrath spend your time with this, and I'll be with you in a moment.'
From Alucard's body came the casualties of the Iscariot organisation. One of them immediately exploded, throwing up dust clouds and blasting all around back. Alucard ideally saw Wrath and Envy had escaped it mostly unharmed, but were separated from Pride by the horde. 'Excellent,' he growled.
'So you've got a few pretty tricks, I see.' Pride said. Then shadows flashed everywhere around the tunnel, turning into a dark hole of mouths and eyes. 'It's a pleasure to meet another one who might be able to match me.'
Alucard whistled. 'Really? I'm that good, am I?'
Pride replied 'I said you might be able to match me!' Black tendrils shoot out at every angle. Many cut at the ranks of Iscariot, some who died, others who dodged and weaved out of the black sharp edges of nothingness.
Another went for Alucard. He didn't even try to move – as he took it, he was smashed against a wall, and head hanging loosely as it bleed, he brought up his Casull and fired.
Pride blocked the bullets lazily with his tendrils, not even noticing them. 'You're going to need more than that to defeat me. I'm the first and greatest of all the homunculi. Using those weapons like you're some primitive human won't help you!'
'Are you calling this weapon primitive?' Alucard said. 'I doubt you have anything you can match it with!' He opened fire with his Jackal, firing every bullet and letting the case fall to the floor.
A single bullet clipped Pride's face. His head exploded, and Pride glowed red as Pride reformed, apparently bored by the whole experience. He knocked some dust of his shirt as he stood up again. 'Yes, primitive. After all, how it can it compare to this?'
Pride's hand grabbed at Alucard's body from every direction. A great mouth rearing shadow tendril picked up Alucard by his leg. 'You have a philosopher's stone, so I think I'll just eat you now. All those souls you have should be very delicious.' Pride licked his lips.
Hanging upside down, Alucard grinned. 'Pride, you are a monster after my own withered, diseased heart. 'But I think you have forgotten who is the prey, and who is the hunter!' And as he spoke, his body fell away.
Alucard's body split into parts, blood spilling from his head as it fell to the floor. Black clouds spread out, opening eyes all around to stare at Pride. From Alucard's body, there came arms of red and black, horrifying reflections of Pride's own.
The arms began to push out, breaking apart first the thick jaw holding Alucard in place, then began to push down the shadows of Pride from every side, crushing them against the wall as Alucard's own spread there. Pride attacked back, cutting the form with every shadow he could muster. But always there was more to come.
Pride was backed into the side of the tunnel, as Alucard's body partially formed around him, his body now naught but a head and torso perturbing from the mass of arms. And as Alucard held Pride against the wall, and completely surrounded Pride with his darkness form, Pride's shadows disappeared.
'No!' Pride cried out. Alucard halted for a moment.
'You know, I have many names, but one was the Darkness that casts a shadow on darkness itself.' He grinned. 'So now your darkness has been blotted out by me.'
Pride struggled to escape in some way, but Alucard held tightly. 'You talked of how strong you were. You said I might be barely able to match you. And now, here you are, little more than a primitive human yourself.'
Alucard grinned. And then he began to tear Pride apart.
Daw, Envy and Wrath are on a playdate! I hope they have fun.
I'm going to be busy for the next few months, so don't expect an update on this till about June. Just fyi
