Chapter 72: Flaring Their Fangs
*****Previously In Transylvania*****
Vampires were scattering across the dead forest. Between the high beams, sun guns, and holy water balloons, they were all on edge. The yeti were returning fire with their ice blasts and spears.
"Retreat to the castle," Ethan yelled.
Vampires and yeti alike all ran through the dark woods, back to Dracula's pad.
"Frostbite, set up ice barriers to keep them away from the castle," Sarah told the yeti chief leader.
"Ice wall, my comrades," Frostbite ordered.
Half a dozen yeti warriors raised their spears. They simultaneously shot blasts of ice core energy. They hit the ground, ice forming wherever they hit. Raising the beams, the ice continued to build. It rose up into a thick wall of frozen water. The reflective surface made the high beams and sun gun rays bounce off.
"Not sure how long this will last," Frostbite admitted to the three vampires.
"We need to take care of a large number of them at once," Sarah says.
"What about the Dark Void spell," Ethan suggested, remembering that vampires have their own type of magic.
"The vampiric spell that puts its target to sleep and gives them nightmares," Erica raised her eyebrow. "That spell will help us, how?"
"We do it on a wide spread scale, hitting as many agents as possible," Ethan explained.
"We'll need Dracula for a spell of that magnitude," Sarah said.
The three ran into the castle. They found their king on one of the wall bridges connecting two of the towers. They explained their plan to him, and he fully agreed. They quickly set up the ritual, burning black poppies in magic black fire. A ball of black and purple energy formed.
"Dark... VOID," Dracula cast.
Balls of the dispersed spell launched into the forest.
"Nighty night, losers," Erica smirked.
*****Back To The Present*****
The vampires and yeti walked through the forest. The Dark Void spell had definitely worked.
"Vampiric spells might not be of the Isle of Wicca, but they get the job done," Ethan said, stepping over a sleeping agent.
"So, do we drain them or what," Erica asked, her fangs looking ready to bite down.
"I think we need to handle their sun guns, high beams, and their supply of holy water first," Sarah says. "That way, they won't have as much of a fighting chance if they even wake up."
"The spell is meant to keep them asleep for a few hours, a day at most," Ethan explained. "Other than their weapons, we really only have to get them out of Transylvania."
"Oh, is that all," Erica sarcastically said, rolling her eyes. "I thought that it was going to be hard."
"Has anyone very told you that you are a very strange trio of vampires," Frostbite told them.
"You'd be the first," Sarah responded. "But that probably wasn't the first time that anyone has thought that, it were too afraid of Erica to actually say it."
"Then those people have their heads on just right," the blond vampire evilly smirked.
The ghost yeti and vampires all went back into the forest, half of them staying behind to guard the castle. As they walked through the woods, they saw the carnage and destruction that had rained down in the dark forest.
Many of the trees were either broken, missing branches, had fallen over, or just completely up-rooted. Ethan, Sarah, and Erica knew that they were gonna get earfuls from Krinos and Lena after all this. Boulders and rocks had been blasted or crushed into dust. Not to mention the countless bodies of agents across the ground and the dust piles from fallen vampires.
"Anyone else feeling full from all the blood we've had today," Erica slightly complained, holding her stomach.
"You have no idea," Sarah says, also holding her stomach. "It will be months before any of the vampires here can drink again without feeling sick."
"On the bright side, that will save quite a few lives," Ethan said. "And I mean lives that are actually worth saving, it any of these clowns."
He tapped one of the agent bodies with his foot. Vampires may technically be dead and may need to still show respect towards the non-undead dead people, but I think that this is an understandable exception since these agents did try to kill them. Kill them the rest of the way anyway.
"The Elders and Cleaners are gonna have one heck of a mess to cover up when all this is over," Sarah said, looking around.
"As if we don't do enough to make the Cleaners annoyed with us already," Erica snickered.
"I blame Melinda and the rest of the Isle of Wicca," Ethan chuckled. "They are the ones that piss off the Cleaners on an almost monthly basis."
The Cleaners are a duo of magical beings that are sort of like the clean up crew for magical activity that was seen by mortals. It is their job to rid the area of all events that magic has occurred. Like witches vanquishing a demon in view of mortals, humans seeing harpies or sirens in the air, even things like sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. It's to keep magic safe.
The Cleaners usually have to erase or alter memories, move the magical creature, or change the evidence that the mortals have found. In extreme cases, they have to erase people or mystics out of existence. Except that the last time they took a mystic, it happened to be a very important young mage. Especially to a few witches. So the witches did their own 'last resort' option. They went to a busy farmers market and kept exposing their magic to get the mage back. Since the Cleaners couldn't erase the witches without tipping the good-and-evil scales, they returned the mage.
The group walked into a clearing, finally getting to the high beam machine.
"By Hades that thing is big," Ethan gawked.
The machine looked somewhere along the lines of a hybrid of football stadium lights and giant laser beams combined with stage lights. Three poles, connected to a giant generator, each had five spotlight-laser-high beam rays things on the top of them.
"Why do I feel like the sirens are about to come out and preform under the spotlight," another vampire asked, getting a few laughs in response.
"This may take a little bit to tear down," Frostbite said.
But he soon had to change courses. His yeti instincts are a great thing. He quickly thrust out his staff, right through the vampire trio. A circular ice shield immediately formed. A couple of sun gun blasts bounced off of it. All the vampires groaned.
"Guess it really was too much to hope that the Dark Void spell got all of them," Sarah facepalmed.
"A vampire can dream," Erica shook her head.
A few more agents could be seen running around the forest. Wasn't exactly hard. It was a dead forest and the agents were all in bright white uniforms. They blended about as well as a red rose blended into a field of black ones.
"Myself and my warriors shall deal with these ruffians," Frostbite told the trio. "You three, and your fellow creatures of the night, find a way to dismantle this contraption."
The three nodded. Frostbite raised his staff and lead the other yeti to the forest.
"The way he talks," Sarah says.
"I know, makes it sound like he's a hundred years old," Erica snickered.
"About four-hundred, actually," Ethan said. "Tales of yeti have been around for that long. Before the 1800's, they were actually worshipped as gods of the hunt and called 'Glacier Beings."
The girls looked at him weirdly.
"Once a geek, always a geek," Ethan shrugged. "Undead or not."
"Well, , you should know how to shut this thing down," Erica said.
Ethan simply rolled his eyes, going over to the machine. But while their fellow blood suckers tried punching the metal
contraption, he pulled out a panel on the generator. There was a lot of wires, knobs, and buttons.
"If we can find a way to overload the generator, this entire thing will instantly short out," Ethan says, evaluating the
panel.
"I could zip back to the castle and get some water," Sarah suggested. "Water and technology don't mix. Just ask the company that made my phone, before I replaced it. Whoever came up with that thing about putting your wet phone into rice needs to check their facts, cause it doesn't work."
"Maybe some simple rewiring would also work," Ethan says. "Give more power to the more sensitive and less power the stronger areas. Should give this machine the much needed confusion it needs to go 'boom."
"I think I have a better idea," Erica said, stepping forward. "A much faster one, to."
She pushed Ethan aside, and then just straight up started punching the panel. Her two friends gawked at her sudden actions, and yet they knew that it was a total Erica move.
"Well," Ethan shrugged. "That just happened."
The panel then started sparking. Erica had a very self satisfied smile on her face.
"BACK UP," Sarah yelled to the other vampires. "IT'S GONNA BLOW!"
All of the vampires used their methods of immediate movement to escape quickly. The machine all started sparking and having small explosions. As the vampires all got far enough away, the entire thing went up in smoke and flames.
Sarah whistled, seeing how little was left of the high beams.
"Let this be known as the number one reason why I will never make Erica angry," she said.