Thursday walked William and Vita through the hallways of the cave.
" Where are we going?" William asked.
" To get you a weapon!" She said, cheerily, she was looking at her Amulet that she retrieved from Lon, and her "Dragon Amulet" both quite fondly.
" Why do you think that Amulet looks different then Icarus'?" William asked.
" Huh? Oh, maybe because it's separated from it's Dragonlord." She shrugged.
" Maybe!" William agreed.
" Where do you think he is?" Vita asked.
" No idea! "
" What do you think happened to his dragon now that he lost his Amulet?" He asked.
" Still no Idea. I just carry it around because there are alot of magical barriers, and this unlocks alot of them. "
" Alot? Are there some that it doesn't unlock?"
" Just the one. The one we're going to! " She said.
" If it can't unlock it, then why are we going to it?"
" Because now that I have my other Amulet, I should be able to break the spell."
" Hm..." William said, running his hand along the cave walls as he walked.
" Do you think there are any monsters in there?"
" I doubt it. Most monsters tend to stay inside the Forest."
" Hmm...Have you ever been outside Darkovia? Or Amityvale, for that matter?"
" No...No one has, people born in Amity-Vale are always too afraid to leave, we might get attacked on the way out. There was one guy, a while back, who escaped, and to our knowledge, is still alive."
" What was his name?"
" No one remembers, it was a while ago."
" But, if it was that long ago, shouldn't he be dead?"
" What? No, it wasn't THAT long ago."
" Wouldn't the people of Amity-Vale remember his name if he was that important?"
" You ask alot of questions" Thursday giggled.
" Well I'm curious. This guy, did he have any powers?" Before she could answer, the cave began to shake, and a stone fell from the ceiling. William pushed Thursday out of the way, and Vita pushed William out of the way, and he maneuvered around to avoid it.
The giant boulder crashed on the cave floor, sending an echoing BANG around.
William coughed, fanning away the dust, and debris. When he could open his eyes, he saw nothing but darkness.
" Hello?!" He called.
'William?' He heard a faint voice call. It was Thursday!
" Thursday! Are you alright?!" He yelled.
" Yeah! Where's Vita?!" She called. William looked around for the warm golden glow, but it was no where to be found.
" I'm over here!" Said another voice. It was indeed Vita's.
" Are you alright?" He called.
" Yeah! I can the exist, do you want me to go get help?" Vita yelled.
" Yes, please!" William said. He could hear the little dragons claws click on the stone floor as he ran out the way they came.
" Let's try to meet up!" Thursday said.
" Okay! I think I can feel my way through the cave! "
" Me too! "
And with that, William was feeling his way through the pitch black darkness of the cave. Without Vita next to him, he felt considerably colder, and more exposed.
" Hello?" He called.
No answer.
" Anyone!" He called. Just his echo calling back.
After a while of walking, something skittered close to his feet, and he recoiled back, against the wall.
" Who's there!?" He yelled.
" Quite down!" Hissed a voice. A very familiar voice.
" You...You're from Amity-Vale! " he said,
" Yes, I'm the one who greeted you when you first arrived. "
" Your name...It's Zorbak, right?" William asked.
" Yes..." A flash of light burst forth, it was a floating ball of fire, and William kept his rising fear under control, images of Princess Scarlet slaughtering his village with fire magic flashed in his mind.
When he regained his composure, he saw what the light revealed. A short man, if you could call him that. He was only about 3 ft tall, dark blue fur, red eyes, Bunny like ears, although several small pieces and a chunk near the top was missing. He had nothing but a tattered gray cloak, and a wooden staff with a small skull on the top. Not possibly human, maybe a Fairy skull.
" What are you? " William asked.
" A Moglin. "
" Moglin? Those are supposed to be happy little creatures. And they don't speak my language." William said.
" What makes you think I'm like most Moglins? And also, what makes you think you're speaking your own language." Zorbak said back.
" Come on, before she finds us."
" Who?"
" That girl you were with."
" Thursday? We need to save her, too!"
" Trust me, this cave wouldn't keep her under control."
" What do you mean?" He asked, walking with him, simply for the comfort of light.
" She's not a normal girl. Did you not see her Amulet."
" Which one?"
" What do you mean which- She has her other amulet?!" Zorbak said, turning around the look at him with rage filled eyes.
" Y-Yes! Vita and I defeated the werewolf who had it!"
" Do you have any Idea what you've done?! Now she has her Dragon Amulet AND her Necro Amulet... " Zorbak said, pinching the bridge of his nose.
" But...She said she found that Amulet on the ground."
" Lies! She killed a Dragonlord for that amulet. That's why the gem is blue, and Cracked! And that Necro Amulet, is indeed hers. All spirits who escape the underworld get one..." He seethed.
" Spirit?" William asked, scared.
" Yes! Thursday is a ghost. Not just any ghost, who had unfinished business and stayed here, no! She passed on, but wasn't quite content with her stay in hell, so she made her way back up. Death gave her a nice pretty necklace to congratulate her. Do you have any idea what she can do now that she has two?"
"..Open that magic barrier, thing?"
" YES! SHE CAN OPEN THAT MAGIC BARRIER THING! DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S IN THERE?!" He yelled at him, William was honestly terrified of the little Moglin. Despite being slightly gruesome in appearance and below knee level, he was waving around fire.
" No..." William stepped back.
" She can get the Dragon..." He breathed heavily.
" The dragon?"
" Of the dragon lord he killed. If a Dragon dies, then it dies, if it's Lord dies, the Dragon falls into a state similar to death, but can be revived if the amulet is brought back.
" Why didn't she bring it back to begin with, then?" William asked.
" Because she wasn't strong enough to break the barrier. Her time in this world was great, but just weak enough to not break through the barrier. Her Necro Amulet sucks in the energy of death around her, so she put it on a Werewolf, designed to protect her when she was alive. "
" By her father?"
" Will get to him later, but yes. She ordered Lon to kill anyone who dared enter the Swamp, but the spell was weakened by her "Death", so he only protected her garden. Although, many people came to pay their respects, and that was all she needed. More came to avenge, more died, eventually, Thursday needed someone to get the amulet back for her, as she had no power without it."
" So she got a Dragon and Dragonlord to do it for her?"
" Exactly. Once she uses the Necro amulet to open the portal, and then the Dragon Amulet to revive the Dragon, she's going to merge with it, becoming a very weak Primus."
" What's a Primus?"
" Tell me boy." Zorbak stopped again to face him.
" Have you ever gotten the feeling that someone was watching you in the dark? When your house is empty, or your back is turned, and your eyes are closed? Ever see something in the corner of your eye, and when you turn to look at it, it isn't there? " Zorbak asked, the creeping feeling along William's spine intensified every sentence.
" Kind of like the feeling i'm getting right now?" he asked.
" Kind of." Zorbak looked around him.
" Come on." He said , and kept walking. William didn't midn the fire too much now, he just didn't want to be in the dark after that.
" Primus are not something you want on your hands, even if they're weak. " he continued.
" Get back here!" Marceline yelled, but the golden wolf had already run off.
" What was that?" Icarus asked.
" A lycan, works for Gerrick." Marceline said, watching the last of the Gold fur disappear into the woods.
" That seems to be a thing. We run into werewolf's who work for Gerrick and Vamps who work for Safira. Isn't there anyone out here who doesn't work for someone?"
" I doubt it." Marceline said, sighing. Somewhere, far, far into the woods, a bell rang. A church bell, deep and low, echoing. Shivers went down Marceline's spine.
" What is it?" He asked.
" Did you not hear that?" Marceline asked.
" hear what? " Icarus asked, looking into the woods.
" Is it some kind of super vampire hearing?" He asked.
" Must b-... You know I'm a vampire?"
" I'm not stupid Marcy!" He stuck a tongue out at her.
" I suppose not. And don't ever, call me that, again." Marceline sighed, looking off into the direction of the bell, thinking.
Something in her head clicked.
" That was the vampire castle!" She gasped.
" Guys!" They heard Ginger call from inside the house.
" Yeah?" They asked, looking at her. She was completely fine now. There were some clothes in the abandoned house that more or less resembled hers, and she was wearing those rather than the burnt, destroyed ones.
" What's wrong with him?" She asked, looking at Shadow, who was touching the glass of the window, looking at the opposite side of the forest that Marceline was.
" The werewolf's probably called him. " Icarus said.
" Why?"
" Well, I think that a battle's about to break out."
" It is. Gerrick and his angels will slay the vampires, and the slayers." Shadow said, almost trance like. Marceline walked over, and looked at the back of his neck. She scratched it, drawing blood, then quickly recoiled, covering her nose.
" Ah!" Shadow put a hand over where she scratched him.
" What was that for?" He asked, looking at her.
" Are you out of your trance?""
What trance?" He asked.
" I suppose he is." Ginger said.
" Alright. We better get moving, I have a feeling that a battle's about the erupt, and we're gonna be in the middle of it."
" Shadow and I will stay." Ginger said.
" What?" Marceline asked, sounding a little more concerned than she would have liked, earning a grin from Icarus.
" Well, I'm fine now! And besides, Dante might be here, you heard him talking about the Slayers. "
" Why should we care about him? he just wanted to be with the slayers, now he is." Marceline said.
" yeah, but he did help us back with the Dunewyrms." Ginger said.
" ...Fine, stay here and get killed for all I care." Marceline said, dismissively.
" Icarus, are you coming?" She asked.
" Yup!" He ran to catch up with Marceline.
" Be careful!" He called back to them as they dissipated into the woods, towards the Vampire castle.
Dante walked outside of the cave that disguised the headquarters for the slayers.
" So, is this like, a full blown attack?"
" Two of five seals have been broken." A slayer said next to him.
" What does that mean?"
" If all five Darkovian seals are broken, the Primus will escape." he continued.
" What's a Primus?"
" Thing that'll plunge the world in darkness if it escapes. No one knows much about it, other than it's evil."
" Hm..." Dante said, looking at his black and white guns.
" We're going to end the feud between Werewolf's and vampires here and now!" Slayer Z said, on a rock, in the front of the small army.
" We use everything in our power to defeat these forces of evil! No laws on the battlefield. To war." That last part she said wasn't a yell, but her voice still projected strongly enough so that all the slayers took to running in a single direction.
Dante ran as well, although, he did have a peculiar feeling about all of this.
Nightbane looked through the two mirrors. One showed Gerrick and the werewolves, the other Safira and the vampires.
" Almost...Everything is almost complete." Nightbane said.
" Soon," Nightbane tossed aside a blanket revealing a glowing symbol, with smaller odd symbols glowing on it.
" You'll soon be free, my Master."