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Chapter 15- Family issues
Nyssa woke up with a gasp, panting.
"What is it, my daughter?"
She turned to see Damaskinos and realized she was in his study, and he was at the table, reading a book.
Nyssa said in Slavic. "I have shamed you, father." Grasping the ring on her finger she said. "I have dishonored our family line's crest."
She walked to her 'father' and knelt before him, grasping his knees and putting her to his lap. "Blade saved me."
Nyssa then lifted her head up. "He is brave, honorable, all of them are."
Damaskinos told her. "I understand."
Nyssa finally looked into his eyes and asked. "Is he still alive? All of them?"
Blade, Angel, Spike and Faith lay unconscious in the laboratory chamber, then woke up at the same time, with Whistler and Scud standing nearby.
Angel, Spike and Faith had been stripped of their Bloodpack armor now, and the plan had been to double cross them, hence Reinhardt and given them armors that would shock them to unconsciousness.
Blade searched himself as Whistler revealed. "They took them. All our weapons. Even your sword, Blade."
They looked around to see lasers pointed at them by various men as Whistler revealed what he had deduced. "Somebody's been keeping tabs on us from inside."
"Where are we?" Blade asked.
A network of catwalks looked down upon the circular chamber, the center of which was dominated by a massive, steel cask, which was in turn ringed by a safety railing. The operation looked not unlike a small-scale water purification plant, or perhaps a futuristic distillery. Only in this instance, the liquid churning within the cask was human blood.
Whistler told them all. "Some kind of chamber deep in their lair."
Scud added. "They smashed up everything... the workshop, all of it."
Whistler then walked to them and said. "They've been lying to us from day one."
"We can see that", Angel said. "There clearly was a double cross planned."
"Not that, something else", Whistler revealed, piquing their interest now. "The Reaper strain didn't evolve... it was designed."
They looked at Whistler in shock as Blade asked. "What?"
"Designed", Faith muttered before asking. "By whom?"
"And how do you know, Whistles?" Spike inquired.
"Nomak told me. I saw him back in the sewer. He let me live."
"Did he?" They all turned to see Damaskinos standing there with Reinhardt holding a gun and Nyssa with the lawyer standing nearby. "How generous of him. I brought you here to see the fruits of our labor."
"You", Angel pointed at the lawyer. "You're fired."
The lawyer chuckled. "How amazing."
Nomak unveiled various pods from a compartment, holding out a small one, and it was clear he had carried out experiments, and this was DNA.
"For years I've struggled to rid our kind of any hereditary weaknesses. And so, recombining DNA... was simply the next logical step", Damaskinos explained to them all. "Nomak was the first. A failure. But in time, there will be a new pure race, begotten from my own flesh, immune to wood, crosses, holy water and soon, even sunlight."
"Created from science, so these Reapers are more science experiments gone wrong than natural Vampires", Faith realized. "That's why Matt's Hell-Mark didn't work on them."
"He really thought ahead trying to create this", Angel said, speaking for everyone.
"Quite the horrifying specimen", Spike muttered, all three shocked and horrified by this.
"I got a question for you, you lying son of a bitch", Whistler stepped forwards, holding up the ring Nomak had given him. "You want to explain how Nomak got ahold of this ring?"
He tossed the ring to the ground as Nyssa knelt down and picked it up, looking at it in shock, as it was the Damaskinos family line crest, and the ring was just like hers. She held it out to her 'father'.
"I would have thought that was obvious at this point", Damaskinos said as Nyssa had a look of shock and disbelief now. "I gave it to him, of course. A gift from father to son."
Nyssa now looked at Damaskinos in anger, feeling betrayed, as he had turned someone else he had sired, his own 'son', her 'brother', into this monster via experiments.
She stormed off as Faith asked Damaskinos. "Where's Matt?"
Damaskinos chuckled sickeningly. "Mr. Murdock is currently...indisposed."
Faith made to move to him but Angel and Spike held her back as guns were pointed at them all, her included.
"Have no fear, I have no intention to harm one so close to Mephisto. Abaddon and his host are merely resting in the care of some of my warlock associates and Snowman."
Matt barely regained consciousness and realized his hands were raised up by chains. He tried to transform but to his shock, failed, realizing these chains had some magic done on them to prevent him from transforming.
There was a circle of magic around him too.
Some Warlocks were facing the other way, their magic presence giving power to the chains.
Snowman stood guard there, looking in the other direction, arms folded.
Damaskinos walked off with the lawyer as Reinhardt commented. "I thought he'd never leave." With that, he shot Blade on the foot as he groaned and fell down, and the rest tried to make a move but there were lasers aimed at them.
Reinhardt smacked Whistler on the face with the gun, sending him down too.
"The wolf has lain with the sheep long enough", Reinhardt boasted.
The lasers were still pointed at the Slayer, the Daywalker and the Ensouled Vampire.
But Blade wasn't about to let this go. "Reinhardt, you can kiss your ass goodbye." He took out the detonator as Reinhardt reached to the back of his head, and then Blade pressed the detonator.
Nothing happened.
Scud suddenly started laughing and turned to them, finally speaking as he talked to Blade. "I'm sorry, man. B, you're wasting your time, man. The bomb's a dud. It was never supposed to explode. It was just supposed to make you feel in control."
"What the….?" Faith trailed off. "You were with them the whole time."
"Bloody traitor", Spike snarled in anger.
"You thought you had me on a short leash, didn't you, jefe?" Reinhardt reached back and removed the explosive from his head, then sighed in relief. "Much better." He tossed the explosive to Scud.
Reinhardt then started cuffing Whistler as Scud told Blade, Angel, Faith and Spike. "I've always worked for Damaskinos. They needed my help to bring you here to control Nomak. Blade." He gestured to Whistler. "The old fuck, he was always just bait. I mean, look at him. He's your only real weakness, man. You may be fast, you may be strong, and all that other bullshit, but in the end, B... you're just too human!" Scud punched the now cuffed Whistler.
Whistler looked back up at him and snarled. "Well, you little shit."
Scud punched him again, sending him down, then sneered at him. "You think they scoped out my security system? I let them in, asshole! I practically handed them the keys."
He started pacing around as Faith told him. "Pretty brave beating on a cuffed old man, real brave."
Scud glared as Angel asked. "Why the hell are you doing this?"
"You heard 'Cue Ball', right? Pretty soon they're all going to be Daywalkers", Scud explained his reasoning to them. "When that happens, I'd rather be a pet than cattle." He talked to Blade directly. "You got me, B? What do you think about that?"
"Two things... one... I've been onto you since they turned you", Blade revealed as Scud's smug expression turned into a shocked one. "And two... it's not a dud."
Blade took out another detonator and pressed as Scud realized he was now holding the bomb after Reinhardt had taken it out of his head and given it to him.
"Ah, great."
The explosive beeped and exploded in Scud's hand, exploding the traitor into bits as his blood splattered all over the room, some of his bits and blood splattering on Whistler and Reinhardt.
"Bet he didn't see that coming", Faith quipped.
"Let's be honest, none of us did", Spike told her.
"I was just starting to like him", Whistler commented.
"Take them down!" Reinhardt commanded.
Then the guards with the lasers fired, knocking the four down before guards with stun batons arrived, repeatedly tazering them till they were knocked out as Reinhardt dragged Whistler away.
The lawyer stood in a large examining room as Blade was dragged inside by guards, and the Daywalker was put on the bed, as 4 stakes shot out of the ends of the tables, piercing the wrists and ankles as he bled while gritting his teeth, and was trapped this way.
Faith was led to another table in another room but in her case they clamped her wrists and ankles into steel manacles affixed to the table.
Then suddenly she felt someone pouring salt on her and asked. "What the hell?"
"Slayer blood…..is quite the delicacy", the guard said as Faith gritted her teeth, realizing she was being prepared as a delicacy for Damaskinos.
She was weakened due to the tazing but she was slowly regaining some strength, and strained.
Spike was restrained in another room in the same manner as Blade with another scientist in front of him as he asked. "And what's your plan for me, pet?"
"Same thing that happened to Drusilla", the scientist shrugged as Spike glared but was weakened.
Angel was also restrained in another room similarly to Blade and Spike as he asked. "You really think you won't face consequences for doing anything to me?"
"Actually, I do think that", the Warlock in front of him said. "I shall tamper with your mind a little, basically you will go about your day to day business while letting us do whatever we want, and do us a favor when we ask."
Angel realized now what was going to be done to him.
Looking at Blade, the lawyer said. "We're going to harvest your blood, every drop of it. Then bone marrow, organs, everything. We'll find the missing key to creating more Daywalkers."
The lawyer pressed a pad. "Now this might hurt a bit."
"Nice", Reinhardt commented as he held up Blade's sword, where spikes had now protruded from the hilt, the cuffed Whistler on his knees in front of him. "I wonder... how many Vampires he's killed with this thing." He swung the sword a bit.
"Not nearly enough, Fritz", Whistler talked back to him.
"Keep talking, honky-tonk", Reinhardt threw Blade's sword back amongst his other equipment, then took out a gun. "Just makes my sending you to the next world all the sweeter."
"Been there, done that", Whistler shrugged, remembering being dusted, and, unseen to Reinhardt, he was using a hidden lockpick in hos sleeve to open his cuffs. "Do your worst, chickenshit. We'll settle up after."
Matt had one thing on him still, a lockpick, hidden under his arm-blades, and he triggered it, making the lockpick fall into his palm, and he grabbed it, then started trying to pick one manacle.
Outside, guards were stationed, not knowing Nomak had snuck onto the building too.
Nyssa looked at her own and Nomak's rings, hurt, as Damaskinos walked to her, and she turned to him. "What else should I find out? I trusted you... with my men; with my will; with my life." She had tears in her eyes now. "You sent us out there. You sent me to die. Our enemy saved my life twice, and you have used us... your own children whom you turned!"
Damaskinos then grabbed Nyssa by the throat, making her gasp. "Make no mistake, Nyssa, those blood ties of my children I sired mean nothing to me when measured against the ascendancy of our race." He then asked her. "Who do you think God really favors in the web? The spider, or the fly?"
The dazed Blade called out. "Nomak."
"What about him?" The lawyer asked Blade, kneeling close to him.
"He wants revenge... on the people... who created him."
"You may be right", the lawyer agreed before pointing out. "But fortunately for us, he doesn't know this location."
The dazed Blade said. "Now... he does."
Then alarms beeped as the lawyer turned to the monitors in shock.
Nomak ran through a hallway as various guards fired at him but he was unaffected. He tossed one guard to the wall, smashing his head as he died while punching another away. He then disarmed another guard and tossed him and another one many feet into the air as they slammed to the wall and died.
Faith let out a primal roar and pulled, managing to break free of the chains as the guards watched in horror. She lifted one and threw him off before spin kicking another away, then brought another's head down on her knee, taking him out, and drop kicked two more out before running out.
She saw a door and kicked it open, revealing the scientist about to cut into Spike. As he turned, she kicked him hard, and he slammed into the wall before falling down, dead.
Faith then pressed the pad, making the stakes go back down as Spike groaned and staggered up. "Thanks."
"No problem", Faith assured as she supported him out, and they came across another one then.
Faith kicked it open and there the Warlock was about to work on Angel. As he turned, Spike snapped his neck. "Only I mess with my grandsire."
"Sure…." Angel groaned as Faith pressed the pad and the stakes went down, Angel staggering up now.
"Where are Matt and Blade?" Angel asked.
"We'll get them", Faith assured as they walked out.
Reinhardt looked at the monitors as the alarm beeped while Whistler spat out blood.
"What the fuck?"
When he turned, Whistler was standing up, and he kicked Reinhardt's knee, sending him down before punching his face, making him fall, then kicked him before stomping on his back, managing to knock him out.
He then took Blade's sword and equipment, and opening a steel grate, crawled down, shuffling through a narrow conduit.
The lawyer looked at the monitor in horror as Nomak killed a guard and threw him at the camera, with the monitor now showing static.
Then shots came from below, hitting the lawyer as he fell to his knees. Then one more shot and he was dead.
The grate opened, revealing Whistler who had shot the lawyer dead.
He climbed out and pressed the pad, the stakes in the ankles and wrists of Blade retracting.
Whistler then cradled Blade's head. "Come on, kid. Don't you even think about dying on me. Come on... Blade."
Blade's eyes opened, unseeing.
"Blood..."
"Yeah", Whistler nodded.
"Blood."
Matt was still trying to open one manacle with his lockpick.
Nomak had slaughtered all guards and fed on the last one before throwing him down and screeching, his seam parted to reveal the inside of his mouth.
He then closed the seam, his face all bloody.
Damaskinos, Nyssa, and Damaskinos' men were gathered in his study, 2 metal doors sliding shut as they heard Nomak scream.
"FATHER!"
"He'll never enter here", Damaskinos boasted, only for 2 hands to prevent the metal doors from closing as Nomak parted them, snarling with a vicious smirk.
"Father!"
The guards fired as Damaskinos made away, and Nomak managed to completely open the doors with a roar.
Nyssa followed Damaskinos as the ground started rising, about to form an impenetrable wall, but Nomak leapt over it before it could close.
The guards fired and he staggered but the bullets weren't fatal.
Damaskinos walked to the elevator, Nyssa behind him as she heard Nomak's roar.
Nomak charged and slammed two guards' helmeted heads against each other.
Nyssa and Damaskinos were now in the elevator as they saw Nomak marching to them.
He roared and charged just as the elevator closed and he started pounding on the door.
"Father!"
The elevator moved up as Damaskinos and Nyssa didn't say a word.
Nomak looked up, judging where the elevator would end up.
Blade and Whistler were back in the laboratory chamber on the catwalks above the churning cask of purified blood.
Whistler was supporting Blade when Reinhardt loaded his gun downstairs, and fired as Whistler fell down to avoid, and they were right above the cask now.
"Go on, kid. Go!" Whistler urged.
Blade dragged himself along, making it to the end of the catwalk, and tumbled downwards, plummeting into the blood cask below as he disappeared beneath the churning slurry of crimson.
Reinhardt turned around and started walking off when Blade's head arose from the pool of blood, and then he emerged, covered in blood but completely rejuvenated, and walked forwards.
Reinhardt turned around as Blade cracked and twisted his neck and shoulders.
Many guards arrived, lining up near Reinhardt, holding stun batons.
Name of the Game by The Crystal Method plays
Blade cracked his knuckles.
Reinhardt looked to his guards who marched towards the Daywalker, surrounding him.
Blade kicked one guard away, then grabbing him, flipped him down while kicking the next so hard his helmet broke and he fell back. Then he smashed his foot on the helmet of the one he'd flipped down, breaking the helmet and his face and also shattering the glass under him.
Blade was attacked by another but he grabbed his arm and punched his face before kneeing his chest, then disarmed him while kicking another guard away by many feet, then he kneed the one he was holding and flipped him down. Then he saw 2 guards charging him and spin kicked them both away at the same time.
Another one charged Blade but was spin kicked 15 feet into the air before falling below. One grabbed Blade from behind but he grabbed the guard's foot, pulling and making him fall while smacking his chest and as he went down, Blade elbowed his chest, taking him out too.
The next came at Blade but he grabbed his feet and threw him behind him, then pushed his foot back, breaking his helmet and face too.
As one more came, Blade threw him down before grabbing the next in a chokehold, breaking his neck and throwing him down. He then punched the next one on the gut before breaking his neck, then spin kicked another one who was also sent 15 feet into the air before hitting the wall and falling down.
Blade now had his stun baton and used it to take one out, then two more, then three in swift succession. He then stunned another guard coming at him before kicking one guard away and he ended up stunning himself.
Blade stunned another out, then spun another around while stunning him out too, before smacking and stunning another, then ramming his stun baton through the helmet of another, shocking and taking him out as he left the baton.
"Get in there!" Reinhardt yelled.
Blade blocked another guard's strike, then grabbing his neck, slammed his knee on it, breaking it. Another charged but was smacked out, and his follow up met the same fate.
Now one more was left and he charged as Blade grabbed his arm, giving him a suplex before smashing on the ground as the glass broke.
Blade stood back up as Reinhardt put his gun down and took out Blade's own sword, twirling it. "Hmm. Well... like my daddy said before he killed my mom, "You want anything done right, you got to do it yourself.""
Reinhardt was prepared now. "He also said..." He swung the sword at Blade's gut to stab him, but Blade grabbed the flat of the sword with both hands in time, stopping Reinhardt.
Reinhardt struggled but Blade's grip was too strong, and then the Daywalker asked Reinhardt a question as a reminder.
"Can you blush?"
TWHISH!
The sword twisted free from Reinhardt's grasp, spinning upward into the air. Reinhardt stumbled backwards as Blade caught the sword on its way down, swinging it upwards in one fluid motion, slicing Reinhardt's torso in half with his shades, along with a diagonal axis!
Reinhardt sank to his knees as the two halves split apart, turning to ash before they hit floor.
"Hey, kid."
Blade looked up as Whistler tossed him his shades, and he caught them, putting them on, and then he marched out.
Whistler then fired at all the pods in the compartment, shattering them and destroying all of Damaskinos' research.
Damaskinos moved to the glass doors outside of which the helicopter to evacuate him had arrived on the roof, but then steel shutters came down all around, blocking the doors and windows.
Damaskinos turned to see Nyssa's hand on a security pad.
"I reset the security code", Nyssa revealed, pacing around. "We're locked in."
"Are you INSANE?" Damaskinos snapped. "He'll kill us both."
"Yes", Nyssa looked at her family crest. "Isn't it sad that you die not by the hand of your enemy, but by that of your own children whom you sired?"
And then Nomak appeared, marching to Damaskinos.
"Father."
Damaskinos trembled a little and spoke in Slavic. "All that has befallen you- it was a terrible tragedy. An unforgivable mistake, but you've returned to me."
Nomak walked closer till he and Damaskinos were almost nose to nose.
Damaskinos tried to grasp Nomak's face but he recoiled every time till the Overlord assured. "We will find a cure."
Damaskinos stroked Nomak's face and made an offer. "Take your rightful place by my side." The Overlord then embraced his 'son' who embraced him back. "You are, after all, a prince. Together, we will conquer it all."
"If what you say is true, why does your voice tremble so?" Nomak asked Damaskinos, the whole thing now a darker parallel to Blade and his own mother Vanessa when he had to stake her, and he grabbed Damaskinos by the face. "Father."
Nomak then bit Damaskinos' throat and ripped the flesh out as Damaskinos screamed. Nomak hadn't turned him as that required parting his seam and using his full mouth, but Reaper saliva had mixed with Vampire blood, and Reaper saliva inside a Vampire was lethal either way.
Damaskinos spat out blood but it was green now due to Nomak's actions as Nomak told him. "I've spared you my fate. You will die a permanent death, no undeath now."
Damaskinos staggered to Nyssa, coughing more blood as Nomak added. "From this wound, your blood, your unlife will flow."
Damaskinos fell down, green blood gushing out of his throat and mouth.
"Nyssa…"
He reached out to his 'daughter' but she stepped away, then taking off her family crest ring, threw it down as it clattered near Damaskinos.
The body of the Vampire Overlord petrified, becoming brittle like alabaster and cracking.
Damaskinos, Overlord of the Vampire Nation, Sire and 'Father' of Jared Nomak and Nyssa Damaskinos, was ended.
"Finish it off my brother", Nyssa urged Nomak who turned to her. "Let's close the circle."
Nomak marched to Nyssa who lowered her coat, baring her neck.
"You…" Nomak fiddled with Nyssa's hair. "You were his favorite."
Then Nomak's seam parted, revealing the full insides of his mouth as he bit into Nyssa, feeding from her and turning her, and she gasped in pain.
"Nomak!"
Nomak let Nyssa go and looked up to see Blade on the upper level.
"Blade it could end right here", Nomak said as he paced. "What do you think, huh?"
Blade leapt down, flipping, and stabbed Nomak through the side of the chest with his sword, making him scream in pain, then spin kicked him into the wall.
The sword had sunk deep enough to protrude from his back, but Nomak grabbed the hilt, breaking it off, then grabbed the back part of the blade and pulled it out, throwing it down as blood gushed out.
He charged as he and Blade slammed into each other.
Matt managed to undo one manacle at last as Snowman turned to him, but then the door burst open as Faith, Angel and Spike were there.
Faith smacked one's face, sending him away, then drop kicked another, sending him away too, before blocking another's blow and flipping him down, and kicked another charging at her away, before elbowing another out in a spin motion.
Angel blocked one's strike and punched him out, then smacked another away, before spinning to avoid the magic stick of another and elbowed him out too. As another tried to strike, he spin kicked the magic stick out of his hands and grabbing it, used it to stun him out.
Spike head-butted one, breaking his face and knocking him down, then slid and kicked another's feet before spin kicking his hands from the ground, sending him flying off with his magic stick too, and then getting up, he grabbed one's arm and held it forth, the magic stick killing another Warlock.
Blade gave Nomak a right hook, then a left hook, then dodged a punch, an uppercut and another punch before decking Nomak's abdomen and throwing him down but Nomak punched his gut, sending him down too.
They got up, struggling, then Nomak punched Blade's face twice, but he dodged the third and elbowed Nomak back before leaping and elbowing his face twice, then spin kicking him back into the wall.
Nomak then spun as Blade backed, then held out his hand before using his other one to send Blade flying off, and he slammed into some concrete before landing.
Faith spin kicked two out in quick succession, then twisted another's arm, disarming him before punching him out too. She then spun and grabbed another's neck with her feet, taking him out too before running and kicking another away. Another came behind her but she turned, grabbed his hand, then spun in the air while taking him down, her knee to his throat.
Angel backhanded one more away, then elbowed another out before spin kicking another down, then kicked him out too. Then running, he leapt up and drop kicked a guard away.
Spike grabbed one more in a chokehold and snapped his neck, then smacked another away before pushing another off. He then slammed another and elbowed him thrice, taking him out too. He then elbowed another behind him before punching him out, then punched another's gut, making him kneel before elbowing his back, taking him out too.
Faith kicked one more away, then spun another around before pushing him into two more as their magic sticks knocked each other out.
Angel blocked one's blow and punched him out, then threw another off before backhanding another and punching his gut, then throwing him off.
Spike decked one thrice, taking him out before kicking another away, then smacked one's face before disarming him and flipping him away.
Snowman then leapt and kicked Angel on the face, sending him back, then swung at Spike who dodged before being spin kicked back, and then Snowman flipped behind Faith to avoid her strike and kicked her by pushing his foot back, staggering her forwards.
Matt managed to undo his other manacle in that moment.
Snowman swung at Faith as she dodged but he elbowed her back in a spin motion before flipping Spike over his shoulder and spin kicked Angel away.
Matt sliced one Warlock's arm with his arm-blade, making him drop his baton and spin kicked him out before flipping to avoid another's swing and kicking his face, sending him into another as both fell, then he side-stepped to avoid another one's magic stick before elbowing his throat in a spin motion, taking him out as well.
Matt clashed the arm-blade against a magic stick before disarming the Warlock in a spin motion, then spin kicked him out before dodging another magic stick and kicked it out of the Warlock's hand before kicking his face, sending him off too, then grabbing the magic stick, shocked another out.
Matt elbowed another's throat, then sliced another's arm, disarming him before flipping him over his shoulder, and threw another down before kicking him out.
Then Snowman turned to Matt.
Now Blade rolled towards Nomak and tried to kick and strike as Nomak grabbed him from behind. Blade elbowed his face and tried to flip him over but Nomak flipped him over instead. He roared as Blade got back up but was kicked to the elevator doors, breaking them.
Nomak then lifted Blade up and snarled. "It's not over."
Nomak threw him down to the other side, then climbing a wall, leapt at him and elbowed him twice, making him spit out blood, then leapt to smash his head in but Blade rolled away as Nomak's landing smashed the ground instead.
Nomak walked to Blade who was crawling away and grabbed him from behind, lifting him up and applying pressure to break some bones.
They slammed against a wall as Blade reached backwards and tried to gouge out Nomak's eyes. Nomak let go as Blade elbowed him, then struck his throat before flipping him down and twisting his shoulder, dislocating it so hard a bone was now visible while Nomak screamed in pain.
Nomak rolled over Blade, getting over him, and smacked his head before grabbing it, and twisted his dislocated arm, putting the bones back in place, and smacked Blade again, sending him down.
He tried to strike again but Blade slid backwards between Nomak's feet, getting behind him, then got up as Nomak turned and got a spin kick. He dodged the next two spin kicks and grabbed Blade's foot during the third, then spun him around, smashing a pillar before throwing Blade down.
"You want to fight me?" Matt asked Snowman as they circled each other.
Snowman used sign language. "You are a worthy warrior. I will fight you fairly."
He then tossed one of his swords to Matt before doing a bow, and the confused Matt returned the gesture.
Snowman was, at day's end, a warrior first, a Vampire second.
The two then unsheathed their swords before circling each other and then Matt charged, leaping as Snowman blocked his sword strike, and then they clashed swords a few times, with Snowman ducking to avoid a swing, and then blocking the next.
The clashing continued as Snowman dodged another swing before jumping back to avoid another. Matt swung his sword but Snowman side-stepped to avoid it.
They clashed again, now in a deadlock as they struggled before Snowman started pushing Matt back, and Matt planted his feet hard in the ground before both backed off.
Snowman struck again as Matt blocked and they drew blades against each other before Matt swung but Snowman ducked, and then Matt tried to flip kick but he avoided again. Matt tried to stab but Snowman side-stepped, only for the sword to go through his vest, making a hole.
Matt pushed Snowman back a little as Snowman drew his sword against Matt's, and then Matt took the sword out.
They clashed once more before Snowman kicked Matt back, and then he looked down to see Matt had managed to wound him while stabbing his vest.
Snowman then charged as Matt blocked 3 swings, then he struck out as Snowman blocked his swings, and Matt then spun in the air while swinging his sword, only for Snowman to block again.
But Matt put some pressure and Snowman's sword was lowered while his shoulder got a cut.
Matt swung again as Snowman dodged and then he swung at Snowman who used his sword to block again, and then leapt to avoid another swing while leaping behind Matt and striking his back with the sword, making a cut there too.
The two turned to face each other and clashed swords once more as Matt ran up the wall and swung but Snowman blocked while backing off.
The clashing continued before Snowman trapped Matt's sword on the wall and kicked his side thrice before Matt pushed back, and then Snowman did a spin kick, hitting Matt's face and sending him down again.
Matt rolled back up as Snowman charged and Matt blocked his swings, then dodged one, then blocked some more as they were in a deadlock, then Matt elbowed Snowman's face, sending him back.
He then leapt with a swing which Snowman tried to block but was sliced on his chest, being sent back as Matt stood there.
Snowman glared angrily and they clashed again before Snowman backed off and leaping onto the wall, leapt down with a swing which Matt blocked but the force from it sent him back still.
They clashed blades again before Snowman spin kicked Matt down but he also sliced his stomach while falling, making Snowman back off.
Matt got back up and they stood, with Matt pointing his sword outwards as Snowman held his own up, and then they charged, clashing and exchanging positions, as they clashed again.
Snowman ducked to avoid a swing from Matt before they clashed swords again, and Snowman avoided another swing. Matt thrust forwards but Snowman side-stepped while clashing Matt's sword and Matt was sent staggering forwards.
Snowman then charged, swinging for Matt, but Matt turned in time and stabbed the sword through Snowman's chest, before slicing sideways as his chest and arm were both sliced.
Snowman fell to his knees and looked up at Matt who said. "You fight well."
He then swung his sword and Snowman's head was chopped off, and he was dusted.
Angel during this time smashed a Warlock to the ground, breaking all his bones, as Faith kicked another into the wall, killing him, and Spike broke the last one's neck, killing him as well.
"You guys all right?" Matt asked the rest.
"Yeah", Angel nodded.
"What about you mate?" Spike asked him back.
"Good", Matt sighed.
He and Faith then shared a loving kiss before she said. "Blade and Whistler."
"Yeah", Matt nodded as all four ran to help the two out.
Blade during this time crawled and discreetly took a stake out of his pocket when Nomak lifted him up. "After all, it looks like I've finished my father's job."
Nomak's seam opened and the injector tongue popped out. Blade, who had been acting dazed till now, grabbed Nomak's throat, making him shut his seam as Blade head-butted him twice, then turned him over via his shoulder so Blade was on his side, and he then stuck the stake, managing to get the correct angle. As Nomak struggled, Blade stabbed deeper and the stake went through the gap between the bones, striking the vulnerable part of Nomak's heart.
Nomak gasped as Blade pushed him down, then fell down himself.
That was when Matt, Angel, Faith and Spike arrived there, only to now be witness to the end of Nomak.
Blade then sat up, the five of them watching Nomak crawling away to a corner, gasping and panting. "It's strange. It hurts... it hurts no more."
They all realized that as bad as Nomak was, he just wanted the burning pain inside him to end, and to get revenge over his 'father's' betrayal, so they felt a little bad for him.
Nomak then grasped the stake and drove it deeper into his heart, gasping again as his seam opened, blue light shining dimly before getting brighter.
Jared Nomak, the 'son' of Damaskinos sired by him, former Prince of the Vampire Nation, first of the Reapers, burnt away in blue flames and turned into dust.
"There he goes", Spike muttered as Blade got up and shrugged his shoulders, then walked to the bitten Nyssa, cradling her head and stroking her face, a rare case of the Daywalker showing emotion.
"It won't be long. I can already feel it burning inside of me", Nyssa told Blade in a weak voice. "I want to die while I'm still a Vampire." She looked up. "I want to see the sun one last time."
Blade lifted Nyssa up, bridal style, and opened the steel shutter, walking outside as the other four watched.
Whistler then arrived, walking past them and outside to Blade who put Nyssa down.
Nyssa looked up at the sky as the sun rose up, its rays falling down upon the building and her. She then looked back at Blade and stroked his face lovingly as he stroked back.
Nyssa's face then smoked and started burning up as a smile formed on her face, and then she burnt and turned to dust in Blade's arms.
Nyssa Damaskinos, the 'daughter' of Damaskinos sired by him, Princess of the Vampire Nation, was now dusted by sunlight.
With that, the line of Damaskinos was ended.
Whistler watched sadly as Blade stood up, looking at the dust pile that used to be Nyssa, while Matt, Faith, Angel and Spike watched (or heard in Matt's case) from inside.
"Guess she wasn't so bad after all", Faith whispered to the other three.
"Yeah", Angel nodded with a sad sigh. "She had decency, honor and emotions. She could feel anger, pain, betrayal and happiness."
"Hard to come by a soulless Vampire with all those qualities", Spike commented, looking down sadly, as even he wasn't this good without his soul.
"She and Nomak were both victims in Damaskinos' sick game", Matt said, his voice a mix of anger and sadness.
"He got what he deserved", Angel said, looking at Damaskinos' corpse, brittle like alabaster and cracked too.
"This is over", Faith sighed, wincing. "It's over."
Later, night time
Blade, Matt, Faith, Angel, Spike and Whistler gathered at the former base of Blade and Whistler as Blade said to them. "Thanks for the assist."
"We should be thanking you", Spike said as he and Blade shook hands.
"Yeah, this was a mess but at least we lot came out fine", Angel said, shaking hands with both Blade and Whistler, as Spike then shook hands with the latter too.
"Sorry about Scud", Faith told Blade sympathetically.
"Dipshit was a traitor, got what he deserved", Whistler scoffed, hiding the pain in his voice as he and Faith shook hands too. "I like you more than the blonde one, Buffy."
"Thanks", Faith said with a chuckle, deciding to rub it in Buffy's face when they met again, and then she shook hands with Blade. "I'm sorry."
Blade simply nodded, then shared a meaningful handshake with Matt, before turning to Angel. "Look after the kid."
"Always will", Angel said firmly.
Whistler then said to Matt. "Hey kid, next time you see that dead, dumb, son of a bitch," he then gives a mocking smile that while the others could see it, Matt could only just imagine, "tell him I said, "I win, asshole.""
They all laughed at that before finally parting ways at last.
Next day
Angel, Spike, Faith and Matt returned to Wolfram and Hart in Los Angeles after Angel called for a helicopter, and were back as Cordelia kissed Angel. "You all right?"
"I will be", Angel said as they kissed again, then he took Connor from, cooing at him. "Hey little guy, how are you? You missed daddy?"
"Dada", Connor simply said as Angel kissed his forehead.
"See? He did miss daddy", Cordelia quipped.
"Nice to have you guys back", Fred said as she hugged all of them.
"Did lose a big client though", Gunn added jokingly, hugging all four too.
"Considering what he was doing, we would have lost him either way", Faith said with a shrug and chuckle.
"Wesley", Matt called out as Wesley turned to him. "Will you be my other groomsman?"
"Sure", Wesley shrugged as he and Matt shook hands and shared a hug before Wesley proceeded to do it with the rest.
"I guess the whole thing was a mess", Lilah then commented.
"Oh yes, we are staying away from Europe now", Spike said.
"And I agree with him", Angel added, showing how dire it was.
"Let's not book our honeymoon there either", Faith told Matt.
"Oh no, let's really not", Matt agreed. "How about Hawaii?"
"Hell yeah!" Faith said before turning to Angel. "And you're paying for it."
Angel opened his mouth to protest, before sighing and nodding.
"Sweet mother of Shakira! I got a honeymoon to plan!" Lorne then rushed to his office to get to work as the rest chuckled in good humor.
Stick then appeared with Groo as the latter asked. "So, how was it?"
"Don't ask, mate", Spike said.
"Also, Stick", Matt said as Stick turned to him while Angel covered Connor's ears, knowing what was coming. "Whistler told me to tell you- "I win asshole.""
Stick had a look of shock as Angel and Spike snickered, the latter saying. "Knew he'd be speechless, not so tough now, are you?"
"Doesn't look like he is", Angel added with another snicker.
Stick finally grumbled to himself. "Can't believe that dipshit outlived me. What a prick."
With that Matt, Faith, Angel and Spike went off to get showers and then long, restful sleeps.
The threat of the Reapers was over.
And finally, Blade II ends at last, hope all enjoyed it.
Next chapter will be something important, and then we return to Angel Season 5 with everyone's favorite 'Smile Time'.
Scud was later reborn as Darryl Dixon and started hunting Zombies, HA!
Snowman was saved so that Donnie Yen could be used to his fullest potential here. Of course in a real fight Yen would rip apart Cox and even Snipes (who is a great martial artist himself) but in the story the hero as to win.
Thank you to Brainstorm Sorcerer and Marcus S. Lazarus for their help again.
Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter.