With a powerful roar, Lucy charged forward and slammed a fist against Dracula's jaw, punching with enough force to send him flying out of the castle! Spreading her wings, she flew after him, intent on finishing the fight, AND her prey.

Meanwhile, the castle began to collapse even further! Quickly, Cory opened another portal, allowing everyone to get out of the castle and to a safe distance. But then, to his horror, Cory realized a fatal mistake he made.

"Helsing!" He cried. "I forgot Van Helsing!"

He found himself stumbling back, but he was becoming too weak to keep the portal open. But he tried, despite his fatigue.

"N-No…!"

Cory ended up collapsing from exhaustion as the portal ended up closing! More monstrous roars and howls got everyone else's attention. More monsters sensed them. And were coming their way to KILL them…

"Oh shit…" Lisa gasped. "W…We're all gonna die, aren't we?"

"Well…at least we'll die fighting." Mr. Hyde snarled, reloading his pistol.

The team began making their final stand against the monster horde. But Dina and the Darks knew something else…

Stop him, Lucy… Dina mentally pleaded. You're the only one who can do this now…

…

The two creatures of the night continued their aerial duel. Dracula slammed Lucy to the ground, but the Monster Queen flew backwards to avoid a blast of fire. She heaved up a massive rock and chucked it at the Ultimate, slamming him in the face and making Dracula roar!

Lucy dodged a downwards stomp and began flying off, Dracula chasing her all through all of Romania. Jets of flame clashed again and again as the bats continued to battle.

With each transformation, Lucy saw Dracula lose more and more control. She couldn't keep this up forever! Even she had limits against her own ancestor!

But the feral beast was leaving himself more and more open. She broke a few bones to slow him down, yet he easily regenerated.

Eventually, Lucy came to the edge of a cliff. She flew downwards to avoid a diving lunge from the berserk beast, who slid down the cliff after her. Lucy made a sharp left, making her pursuer slam into the cliffside.

At least Lucy didn't have to worry about the sun. It would weaken her. And she needed to be at her full strength. She dodged more fire breaths and claw swipes and countered with blasts of hellfire.

She flew alongside the cliff wall, diving into a small gap before Dracula could snap his jaws shut on her. The gargoyle monster slid to the bottom, clawing and slamming his fists against it as another transformation continued.

"YOU…WILL…KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD!"

He was resisting it. His magic was keeping his sentience intact! Truly he would become a far more formidable foe if he kept it up like that…

"I'VE HEARD ABOUT A LOT OF GODS, COUNT DRACULA. YOU'RE NOT EVEN IN MY TOP TEN." Lucy snarked. "SOON, YOU'RE GONNA BE KNOWN AS COUNT DOWN!"

She lunged out with a powerful kick, Dracula roaring from the sudden strike.

"YOUR ARROGANCE WILL BE YOUR UNDOING, HALF-BREED BASTARD…" The Dark King only snarled.

The battle between alphas continued to rage on, both flying all across Romania. They continued to clash again and again, with another powerful punch from Dracula sending Lucy skidding to the ground, panting for breath and wincing in pain. He was getting stronger by the SECOND now! She'd fail to keep up sooner than she thought.

"YOU HAVE EVER BEEN THE ALLY OF MERE HUMAN MORTALS." Dracula boasted. "HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHO YOU TRULY ARE? I TRIED TO FREE YOU FROM THEIR PATHETIC SHACKLES, THROWING THEM AWAY LIKE I HAVE DONE MINE!"

"I MAY NOT BE ONE…" Lucy stood defiantly. "BUT I'M A LOT MORE HUMAN THAN YOU EVER WILL."

"STILL UTTERING THAT SAME NONSENSE. NO MATTER. HOWEVER, IT SEEMS THAT IT IS FAR TOO LATE FOR YOU TO PUT ASIDE YOUR WEAK HUMAN SIDE AND JOIN ME IN REMAKING THIS WORLD!"

"IN YOUR TWISTED IMAGE?! NEVER! GO BACK FROM WHENCE YOU CAME, AND TROUBLE THE SOUL OF MY TRUE PEOPLE NO MORE!"

Lucy fought with all her rage and power with the intent to kill. It was overwhelming Dracula, but each rapid mutation and transformation began to eliminate that weakness, and soon he tanked each fatal blow and strike like it was nothing!

Lucy felt her healing factor get stressed and pushed to its absolute limits with each strike that was returned tenfold to her original attacks. She ended up staggering back onto a knee, panting heavily before hearing something charge up.

"YOU ARE UNWORTHY TO BE MY HEIR! BEGONE! THIS WORLD WAS NOT MEANT FOR THE LIKES OF YOU!"

With a powerful roar, Dracula blasted forth a dark crimson beam of magical energy from his mouth. With no energy to dodge it, Lucy put up her guard to block as much of it as she could.

And when the wave of energy swallowed her whole, she felt an incredible burning pain all over! Her guard was being completely negated! And it was then that she realized what kind of power Dracula had gained now…

Holy Magic… She thought with horror. He…he has HOLY Magic!

It felt more like DARK Holy Magic, but Holy nevertheless. Her mind panicked, as she recalled how fatal that level of magic was! Dracula truly WAS becoming a god!

Finally, she screamed in pain as her guard was shattered, and she collapsed to the ground once the beam stopped. The pain…the burning pain…it made all the torment of training beforehand seem like mere pricks of a finger.

Lucy found it hard to breathe. She could feel her healing factor kick in, but something was wrong. It…It was taking…longer!

She heard the thunderous steps of the monster coming closer. She felt like a scared little girl all over again.

And then, there was a slight rumble in the ground. Dracula froze, sensing the energy coming forth.

"WHAT IS THIS…?"

A pentagram began to carve its way into the ground below Dracula. At this, the God of Monsters laughed.

"YOU MEAN TO DRAG ME TO HELL? I HAVE BEEN THERE AND ESCAPED. I WILL ONLY RIP THE HANDS THAT TRY TO GRASP AT MY FORM FROM THIS EARTH. THERE IS NO AFTERLIFE THAT CANNOT HOLD ME…"

He eyed the pentagram, ready to fly up to avoid the first hand that was to grab his feet and pull him under.

Instead, a massive fist erupted from the ground and landed a powerful uppercut to Dracula's jaw! The monster roared as he was sent flying back and tumbled to the ground, then got back up again with a savage growl.

The figure pulled itself up. A red demonic figure with horns, a forked tail, hooves, wings, and a fiery trident he called to his side. Lucy instantly recognized who her savior was.

Lucifer Satan. The Nether Lord and the most powerful of demons.