Oops, I forgot to upload these chapters these last few weeks, so I'll get up to to date fast now. Sorry to my fanbase.
Chapter 24: Battle Against the Generals
As soon as Sypha created the wall of fire, Trevor withdrew the Morning Star and returned back to her side while Alucard shot past and into the flames. Yvette saw him transform as he went. With a precise movement, Sypha took advantage of the water on the floor and lifted it up into sharp icicle shards. Then she cleared the flames.
Judging from the fact that three of the vampires that then proceeded to charge them were not in anyone's colours, Yvette would guess that they were Dracula's generals. Sypha proceeded to shoot the ice shards at the vampires charging. With how quickly they dropped, and how many of them dropped, Yvette was going to guess that the water under their feet was blessed. That rather would explain why the only barefooted vampire she could see was doing her best to stay off the ground.
The three vampires diverged. The barefooted Indian vampiress came at Yvette. The Prussian vampire ran at Trevor, and the Indian vampire went at Sypha. She noticed, in her peripheral vision, Trevor and Sypha glance at each other before turning to their respective opponents. Moving with all the speed bestowed on her as the Slayer, Yvette shot at her aggressor and slashed.
She stood on the other side of the vampiress and fluffed her hair a moment.
Then the vampiress's head fell from her shoulders, where Yvette had sliced right through.
The tingling in the back of her neck guided Yvette as the other vampiress attacked.
Sypha turned to the Indian vampire as he attacked her. She fired an ice shard at him but he slashed through it. He then attacked her, forcing her to back up as she used the ice shards to defend herself. She threw one at him, after he knocked a previous one to the ground, and he knocked it aside. Flicking her forefingers up, she caused a shard of ice to shoot up from the ground.
He recoiled back from it. Moving her hands, Sypha turned the single shard of ice into a wall, sending it after him like a sharp blade with a mind of its own. He began backflipping to get out of the way. As soon as he was near enough to the wall he leapt up and Sypha almost smirked – even moreso when the fool decided to run over the top of the narrow ice-blade to get to her.
Sypha slapped her hands together and waited. She waited until he got to the middle and then, with a grunt of effort, swung her hands upwards. The ice-blade followed her movements.
The vampire was cut clean in half.
The vampire swung his lance at Trevor.
Trevor dodged and flicked out the end of the Morning Star. But the vampire deflected it and knocked him back with the blunt edge of the lance. Trevor twirled the Morning Star back around his wrist. The vampire slashed at him with the lance, Trevor partially dodged it and partially deflected it with the family weapon. He flicked the Morning Star out twice, but the vampire dodged both times.
So...he decided to try something else.
He deflected yet another attack from the lance and then swung the Morning Star out to its fullest. The vampire tried to deflect it with his lance again, but the Morning Star had been designed to be very flexible. Trevor manouvred the chain. The vampire grunted and ground his teeth as the chain wrapped around him entirely and Trevor pulled it tight.
The end came just about level with the vampire's face and began to glow fire-orange. The vampire's eyes widened. Trevor shot forward and elbowed it into the vampire's mouth before kicking. The vampire went flying backwards, away from Trevor and landing among a group of his own kind before he exploded, taking them with him.
Yvette leapt out of the way and bounded off a stone column to come back at the vampiress. She slashed across the neck with her blade, but the vampiress turned to mist at the last moment. As she waited for her enemy to reform, and killed off the vampire soldiers that attacked her, she noticed Trevor and Sypha finish off their respective vampires while Alucard was fighting a Russian vampire.
As she came to rest in a crouch, Yvette watched the vampiress begin to reform in front of her. But she did not entirely take back her form. Instead, she remained in mist form. Yvette could still make out her facial features though, and she saw her smirk. Then she lifted her hand and began her attack.
Only for her entire form to turn to ice.
Amused, Yvette looked over to see Sypha there. Sypha then spun and slammed a clenched fist into her other palm with a grunt of effort. The frozen vampiress crumbled and shattered in front of both women.
Trevor ran around the back of Sypha. She gave him a boost with yet another ice column, although significantly smaller. Yvette leapt up, both Belmonts heading up to help Alucard with the last vampire in the room. The immortalised Slayer threw her blade like it was a spear. The vampire dodged. But then he had to dodge again as Trevor snapped the Morning Star out at him. But he didn't move in time to dodge Trevor manipulating the chain to wrap around his ankles and he was yanked down when Trevor inevitably fell.
But Trevor used to momentum to throw the vampire into the ground and give himself a far more graceful landing. As the damphir and the Belmonts came down, Sypha rushed forward. Her forefingers were lifted and she took a hold on the vampire general's head. Fire exploded out upon contact and he was burned to ashes. Sypha let him drop and just walked over to join the other.
'Not bad,' Yvette remarked, pulling out another blade.
At that moment, there were roars behind them as the demons emerged from the guts of the castle.
The four of them glared and ran to engage the demons.
Isaac fought of Carmilla's forces as he covered Dracula's back.
As he killed the second vampire though, the body slumped over the balcony. That was when he saw it. There were four strangers running in. Two of them bore the Belmont family crest. Another he quickly realised was Dracula's son, Alucard. The boy looked up at him in shock before shooting his sword at him. Isaac used the vampire he'd just killed as a shield.
The Belmont woman was quite vocal with her own shock. 'A forgemaster?'
Isaac tossed the body aside and rushed after Dracula. He found him tearing the heart out of yet another assailant. Isaac rushed over to him. 'Your son is here.'
Dracula straightened up. 'Alucard has entered the castle?'
'And a woman who stinks of magic. And two hunters. To your study!' The two of them moved into the room in question.
Isaac quickly made himself a barrier for the vampire king. 'Behind me, Dracula! They will not reach you while I live!'
'You would give your mortal life to preserve my immortal one?' Dracula asked.
'To save your genius, your knowledge, and your will – without question.' He looked over his shoulder. 'I am just a forgemaster. Yours is the wisdom of ages.' He turned back to the door.
'You are the greatest of your people, Isaac,' Dracula said. 'You have a soul, I think. Perhaps that is more useful to the world to come, than dusty old books and apparatus. Or perhaps you simply deserve a better fate than to die instead of me.'
'I choose my death,' Isaac declared. 'As I chose my life.'
'Then I regret only that I have taken a choice for you.' And with that, Dracula threw him through the mirror.
Isaac screamed out for his master as the mirror came apart again.
The glass collapsed.
Dracula turned and waited.
This was it. Alucard had now come to try and stop him once and for all. Odd. Two hunters. He'd have thought only one Belmont would have survived. It looked, now, as though he'd been wrong in that. Leon Belmont had come close to killing him but, in the end, even he had never managed it.
Alucard stood at the door, alone. He took a few steps in, his sword out. 'Father.'
'Son.' He made sure his boy could hear his disapproval in his voice.
Alucard's eyes narrowed. 'Your war is over.'
Dracula inclined his head and smirked slightly. 'Because you say so?'
'It ends.' Alucard looked down. 'In the name of my mother.'
Rage rolled in Dracula's gut. 'It endures in the name of your mother.'
Alucard looked back up at him. 'I told you before: I won't let you do it. I grieve with you, but I won't let you commit genocide.'
'You couldn't stop me before.'
At that moment a female Speaker and one of the Belmonts – a man, holding a weapon in each hand – stepped in on either side of his son. Alucard responded.
'I was alone before.'