Chapter 6
"The ceremony will commence very soon."
"Ooh, this is exciting!! Soon, the world will be ours!!"
Delilah opened her eyes. The room was large and very dim. She was lying on the floor.
But...she couldn't move.
"Marguerite?" she called.
"...Yes?"
"I can't move. Can you?"
"No."
"How about you, Gabriella?"
"...No. What's going on?"
"It's almost time," a voice boomed out. The floor beneath Delilah started to glow. As it did under Marguerite and Gabriella.
Delilah looked at her sisters. They were dressed the same she was. Except Marguerite's dress was forest green and Gabriella's was blood red. The lights beneath them were magik symbols. That's what made them unmovable.
Dracula stood in the center of the room with Shaft. "Will this work?"
"Of course it will. These seals bind them to where they are. And the headsets I created will erase their current thoughts of humans and we'll implant what we think of humans. They'll be what they were."
"You bastard!!!!" screamed Gabriella. "How dare you even think of doing that!!! Release us NOW!!!!!!!"
"That's right!!!" screamed Marguerite. "No father of ours would put us through that!!! Don't you understand we HATE what we were?!?! Why can't you understand the fact that we like who we are now and we want to go home!!!!!"
"It's because I AM your father that I'm putting you through this. You're all my daughters and you will all return to me!!!"
Delilah couldn't stop the tears that escaped her eyes. She was afraid of what she was going to become...
Jeremy, she thought. Where are you?
"Jeremy is giving Alucard a warm welcome in the Royal Chapel," said Shaft. "He'll join us with Alucard pretty soon!!"
Alucard fell to his knees after he climbed the immensely high staircase. He was weary as hell, but he couldn't stop. His sisters needed him, and he was going to save them...
"Not another step, Alucard," said someone. Alucard looked up to see someone in a black cloak with a scythe. Death.
"You look...different," said Alucard.
"How so?" asked Death.
"Well, you have skin..."
Death pushed back his hood. "That's because I'm not the Death you know and loathe. I'm the Count's new Death. And he has told me to fight and defeat you."
Alucard stood. "You look familiar...no matter. You stand in my way. I'm here to rescue my sisters and I shall do so."
Death raised his scythe. "Since you will not give up, I shall defeat you for the sake of the Count!!"
"What is that noise?" said Marguerite.
"It's the sound of your seals," said Shaft. "Only you three can hear it."
"Stop it!!" yelled Gabriella. "Let us go!!!"
"No."
Delilah let the tears spill from her eyes. As they spoke, Jeremy was fighting her brother.
Adrian...Jeremy...I don't want to lose either of you...but in you fight, one of you will die!!!
Alucard dodged a fireball that Death flung at him. He looked so familiar. But Alucard didn't have time to place where he saw Death's face.
Alucard swung his sword, but Death blocked it with his scythe. Death swung his scythe, but Alucard blocked it. For several minutes, they exchanged swings and blocks. Neither was able to strike the other.
Until Alucard saw an opening. He swung his sword, and it struck the scythe. It reeled back and jabbed Death just below his left ribcage.
Blood spilled from his mouth. Alucard jumped backwards away from Death. That was when he realized who it was. And where he saw that face...
Alucard had been seven-years-old. He saw Delilah talking and laughing with a young man.
"Adrian!! This is Jeremy, my best friend," Delilah had told him, all smiles.
"Hi," he said shyly.
"Nice to meet you," Jeremy had said. "Lady Delilah speaks highly of you..."
"I'm not all that good. You're a really nice guy."
"Thanks. Everyone seems to think so."
"That's because you ARE nice," Delilah put in, giggling.
That was the only time he met Jeremy. It had been clear that he and Delilah loved each other deeply...
"...Why did you have to side with my father?" he asked softly. "It wouldn't have led to your demise."
Jeremy pulled out the scythe. Dark blood spill from the wound, a deep gash right under his ribcage. He fell to his knees as he gasped for air.
Alucard stepped around him and walked away. He had lost even more time and his sisters were on the verge of eternal hell. But he couldn't help but feel guilty for bringing down Jeremy. Delilah...I pray that you can forgive me for doing this...
Jeremy tried to go after Alucard, but the pain was too great. He'd never felt anything so painful, and it was getting harder and harder to breathe.
"Jeremy, you've got to pull yourself together!!" said his familiar. "This wound is very deep!! If you-"
"I know, I kno-" he coughed and hacked, blood spilling from his mouth. "He stabbed me...with my own scythe..."
"C'mon, Jeremy, you've got to hang in there!! If you don't..."
Jeremy knew what was to happen. The scythe's blade went right through his intestines. And its curved edge pierced his diaphragm. Though he was immortal, he was cut with a cursed blade. Which meant he had only a few minutes before he died.
The bells clanged. It was midnight.
And time for the ceremony to start.
"Who shall we start with first?" asked Shaft.
"Start with...her," said Dracula.
Delilah felt herself get lifted high into the air.
"NO!!!!!!!" screamed Marguerite.
"Don't you DARE touch her!!!!!!" screamed Gabriella.
"Father, please don't do this to me!!" pleaded Delilah.
Jeremy tried to stand up, but no avail. Though death did not scare him, the only thing he regretted was that he would never see Delilah again...
But do you want to die knowing that she would be miserable? How can anyone be happy being forced into something they don't want to do? You're about to die, so loyalty no longer matters.
"Okay...Co...come forth...."
His demon familiar appeared. "Yes, Jeremy?"
"Help....help me tele....get to Dracula's...."
"...As you wish."
"Get away from me!!!!!" screamed Delilah as Shaft raised the headset.
"Ancient demons, old and new, entrust your power onto this talisman...entrust your strength onto the ancients, which have blessed this day of glory!!" chanted Shaft. He lowered it onto Delilah face. "A glory, which will be the fall of humans and the rise of the underworld!!!"
"Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Delilah as the headset latched itself onto her face.
All she felt was a burning pain throughout her head. It was so painful; she thought she was going to die.
She could hear voices, though they seem so distant...
"STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"DELILAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"The brainwashing process is now taking place..."
Delilah suddenly felt numb. All her memories, everything she learned...it was all being wiped from her mind.
No...NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suddenly, there was a loud thud close by.
"Who the HELL did that?!?!?!?!?!"
"...Get...get away from...from her...now...RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!"
Jeremy.
"Jeremy!!!!" she screamed, but it came out as a whisper.
"Stay still, Delilah!"
She felt a gust of wind over her. The headset fell apart off her face.
Jeremy sighed in relief, and then fell all the way to the floor. His wound had become worse.
"Jeremy!!!" Delilah fought against the seal. She felt it weaken, and then she fell to the floor. But her landing was less painful than Jeremy's.
Jeremy's blood was soaking the floor. Delilah examined his wound. She had never seen such a serious before in her whole life...
"Delilah...I...I'm sorry...so-"
"Save your strength. We'll get you help..."
"No...I deserve...deserve this wound...all I did...was bring you sorrow..."
"That's not true!!! You've always been so kind to me!!!"
"That's...that's very nice to...hear...but I'm dying...I got stabbed with my own...my own scythe..."
"Good riddance," said Dracula. "I was going to get rid of you eventually. Pathetic traitor..."
"You're not gonna die," soothed Delilah.
"I'm...sorry...sorry that I can't...be with you..."
"YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!" screamed Delilah. "I won't let you!!!! You can't just leave me behind!!!!" She raised her wrist and tore it with her teeth. "Drink my blood. You aren't gonna die and you aren't gonna leave me!!"
Jeremy shook his head. "I can't...I don't deserve it..."
"Look, you're not gonna say that!!! You're gonna say, 'Please help me'. I don't want to feel like I'm forcing you into anything!! So say it and mean it!!"
"Delilah..." It was getting harder and harder to breathe. He deserved death...
"Do you think dying is gonna change anything?! All anyone will say of you is, 'He took the easy way out, and didn't face up to all the things he did'. Do you want that? For people to speak ill of you?! If you live, then you can make up for your wrongdoings!! Now, what do you think?!"
Jeremy stared at her, his mind made up. "Alright...I want to live..."
"Good." She put her wrist to his mouth, allowing him to have her blood.
"It's amazing that you broke from my seal," said Shaft. "But all is not over. We can curse you into thinking our ways!!"
"Do so," said Dracula. "I'll be waiting in my main chambers." Then he was gone.
Delilah moved her wrist away and looked at Jeremy. After taking her blood, he had fallen unconscious. She felt relieved when she saw his wound healing.
"Ancient beings, rise from hell! Engage your power onto this curse...a curse so strong, God himself cannot break," Shaft chanted, green energy forming in his palms.
"Leave her be!" yelled Marguerite.
"I'll kill you, you wizard shit!!!!" screamed Gabriella.
The green ball flew at Delilah. She covered Jeremy, knowing she didn't have the strength to move him...
Suddenly, the ball evaporated. She looked up to see Alucard standing in front of her.
"Adrian????" she asked.
"Hello, sister," he responded. "I'm sorry about Jeremy..."
"Oh, no worries. He's fine now..." Her voice trailed off as she felt tears sting her eyes.
Shaft fumed, forming more balls. "You damn half-breed!! Always spoiling my plans!!!!"
Alucard readied his sword. "I'm no different than the other times. I will defeat you again!!"
"Forget a damn fight!!!" yelled Gabriella. "Just kill him so our seals will break, and we can move!!!!"
Shaft formed more green balls. "I guess I'll curse you, too!!" he flung them at Alucard.
Alucard dodged them. "Tetra Spirit!!" several white energy beings flew at Shaft, but only two struck him.
"Do you think THAT hurt?! HA!!!! I'm stronger than I was!!!" He formed a huge green ball and threw it at Alucard, striking him dead-on.
"Adrian!!!" his sisters screamed.
Alucard got back to his feet. "You've gotten better...but it still isn't enough!!!!! Summon Spirit!!!"
A huge white energy flew at Shaft, and hit him. This time, it affected him.
"Soul Steal!!!"
"AHHHH!!!!!!!" screamed Shaft as he felt his power leave him and go to Alucard.
Alucard readied his sword and jumped at Shaft, slicing him across his torso.
Shaft fell to the floor, his life's blood spilling. The seal on Marguerite and Gabriella broke.
But...he was laughing.
"Every time...you always kill...heh..."
"Silence," said Alucard.
"Heh...you kill...and kill...and kill...heh, and you...call US the monsters..."
"Shut up!!" said Gabriella.
"...You fight for justice...yet you kill...so many...if the Count...is your only target...why do you kill all those...around you...?"
"That's enough!!" cried Delilah.
"...You know...why? Because...you love it...you love taking lives...but you want to be 'moral'...so you only kill us demons..."
"That isn't true," said Alucard.
"Oh, yes...it is...you can't deny it...you LOVED every minute...of it...killing all those ghouls and skeletons, and whatnot...you enjoy it..."
"Stop lying!!!" demanded Marguerite.
"...I'll watch you...in hell...and laugh as you kill...because you know...I'm right..." then his body slumped against the floor.
Alucard lowered his head. "...Do you all see me that way?"
"Of course not!!!" said Marguerite. "Don't listen to his lies!!! You're a good person!!!"
"..."
Delilah stood, and then pounced on Alucard. "Adrian!!! I'm so glad to see you!!!! It's been too long!!!!"
"I'm glad all of you are safe," said Alucard. "...But now I must deal with our father..."
"We'll go with you," said Gabriella.
"You can't-"
"Don't try to talk us out of it! We're family and we're gonna see this through together!!"
"...Alright..."
Just then, Jeremy groaned. He opened his eyes. "Am I...dead?"
Delilah pounced on him. "It worked!!! You're alive!!!!"
"Yeah, but now I'm a vampire..."
"If you didn't want to be one, then maybe you should've changed sides sooner," snapped Gabriella.
"..."
"We're gonna confront our father," said Marguerite. "Do you want to come with us?"
"...Fine."
"If you all insist on coming, then don't get in my way," said Alucard. "This is my battle."
"Yeah, we know," said Delilah.
Jeremy stood. "...I guess I'm going to have to get use to being a vampire..."
The demon familiar surfaced. "I told you I'd stick by you...and you definitely look like a vampire."
"Oh gee, thanks."
"Let's get a move-on!" said Gabriella.
"That's a good idea," said Marguerite.
"Let's go," said Alucard.
Whoo, I'm almost at the end. Please bear with me. Only two more chapters to go!
"The ceremony will commence very soon."
"Ooh, this is exciting!! Soon, the world will be ours!!"
Delilah opened her eyes. The room was large and very dim. She was lying on the floor.
But...she couldn't move.
"Marguerite?" she called.
"...Yes?"
"I can't move. Can you?"
"No."
"How about you, Gabriella?"
"...No. What's going on?"
"It's almost time," a voice boomed out. The floor beneath Delilah started to glow. As it did under Marguerite and Gabriella.
Delilah looked at her sisters. They were dressed the same she was. Except Marguerite's dress was forest green and Gabriella's was blood red. The lights beneath them were magik symbols. That's what made them unmovable.
Dracula stood in the center of the room with Shaft. "Will this work?"
"Of course it will. These seals bind them to where they are. And the headsets I created will erase their current thoughts of humans and we'll implant what we think of humans. They'll be what they were."
"You bastard!!!!" screamed Gabriella. "How dare you even think of doing that!!! Release us NOW!!!!!!!"
"That's right!!!" screamed Marguerite. "No father of ours would put us through that!!! Don't you understand we HATE what we were?!?! Why can't you understand the fact that we like who we are now and we want to go home!!!!!"
"It's because I AM your father that I'm putting you through this. You're all my daughters and you will all return to me!!!"
Delilah couldn't stop the tears that escaped her eyes. She was afraid of what she was going to become...
Jeremy, she thought. Where are you?
"Jeremy is giving Alucard a warm welcome in the Royal Chapel," said Shaft. "He'll join us with Alucard pretty soon!!"
Alucard fell to his knees after he climbed the immensely high staircase. He was weary as hell, but he couldn't stop. His sisters needed him, and he was going to save them...
"Not another step, Alucard," said someone. Alucard looked up to see someone in a black cloak with a scythe. Death.
"You look...different," said Alucard.
"How so?" asked Death.
"Well, you have skin..."
Death pushed back his hood. "That's because I'm not the Death you know and loathe. I'm the Count's new Death. And he has told me to fight and defeat you."
Alucard stood. "You look familiar...no matter. You stand in my way. I'm here to rescue my sisters and I shall do so."
Death raised his scythe. "Since you will not give up, I shall defeat you for the sake of the Count!!"
"What is that noise?" said Marguerite.
"It's the sound of your seals," said Shaft. "Only you three can hear it."
"Stop it!!" yelled Gabriella. "Let us go!!!"
"No."
Delilah let the tears spill from her eyes. As they spoke, Jeremy was fighting her brother.
Adrian...Jeremy...I don't want to lose either of you...but in you fight, one of you will die!!!
Alucard dodged a fireball that Death flung at him. He looked so familiar. But Alucard didn't have time to place where he saw Death's face.
Alucard swung his sword, but Death blocked it with his scythe. Death swung his scythe, but Alucard blocked it. For several minutes, they exchanged swings and blocks. Neither was able to strike the other.
Until Alucard saw an opening. He swung his sword, and it struck the scythe. It reeled back and jabbed Death just below his left ribcage.
Blood spilled from his mouth. Alucard jumped backwards away from Death. That was when he realized who it was. And where he saw that face...
Alucard had been seven-years-old. He saw Delilah talking and laughing with a young man.
"Adrian!! This is Jeremy, my best friend," Delilah had told him, all smiles.
"Hi," he said shyly.
"Nice to meet you," Jeremy had said. "Lady Delilah speaks highly of you..."
"I'm not all that good. You're a really nice guy."
"Thanks. Everyone seems to think so."
"That's because you ARE nice," Delilah put in, giggling.
That was the only time he met Jeremy. It had been clear that he and Delilah loved each other deeply...
"...Why did you have to side with my father?" he asked softly. "It wouldn't have led to your demise."
Jeremy pulled out the scythe. Dark blood spill from the wound, a deep gash right under his ribcage. He fell to his knees as he gasped for air.
Alucard stepped around him and walked away. He had lost even more time and his sisters were on the verge of eternal hell. But he couldn't help but feel guilty for bringing down Jeremy. Delilah...I pray that you can forgive me for doing this...
Jeremy tried to go after Alucard, but the pain was too great. He'd never felt anything so painful, and it was getting harder and harder to breathe.
"Jeremy, you've got to pull yourself together!!" said his familiar. "This wound is very deep!! If you-"
"I know, I kno-" he coughed and hacked, blood spilling from his mouth. "He stabbed me...with my own scythe..."
"C'mon, Jeremy, you've got to hang in there!! If you don't..."
Jeremy knew what was to happen. The scythe's blade went right through his intestines. And its curved edge pierced his diaphragm. Though he was immortal, he was cut with a cursed blade. Which meant he had only a few minutes before he died.
The bells clanged. It was midnight.
And time for the ceremony to start.
"Who shall we start with first?" asked Shaft.
"Start with...her," said Dracula.
Delilah felt herself get lifted high into the air.
"NO!!!!!!!" screamed Marguerite.
"Don't you DARE touch her!!!!!!" screamed Gabriella.
"Father, please don't do this to me!!" pleaded Delilah.
Jeremy tried to stand up, but no avail. Though death did not scare him, the only thing he regretted was that he would never see Delilah again...
But do you want to die knowing that she would be miserable? How can anyone be happy being forced into something they don't want to do? You're about to die, so loyalty no longer matters.
"Okay...Co...come forth...."
His demon familiar appeared. "Yes, Jeremy?"
"Help....help me tele....get to Dracula's...."
"...As you wish."
"Get away from me!!!!!" screamed Delilah as Shaft raised the headset.
"Ancient demons, old and new, entrust your power onto this talisman...entrust your strength onto the ancients, which have blessed this day of glory!!" chanted Shaft. He lowered it onto Delilah face. "A glory, which will be the fall of humans and the rise of the underworld!!!"
"Nooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Delilah as the headset latched itself onto her face.
All she felt was a burning pain throughout her head. It was so painful; she thought she was going to die.
She could hear voices, though they seem so distant...
"STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"DELILAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"The brainwashing process is now taking place..."
Delilah suddenly felt numb. All her memories, everything she learned...it was all being wiped from her mind.
No...NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suddenly, there was a loud thud close by.
"Who the HELL did that?!?!?!?!?!"
"...Get...get away from...from her...now...RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!"
Jeremy.
"Jeremy!!!!" she screamed, but it came out as a whisper.
"Stay still, Delilah!"
She felt a gust of wind over her. The headset fell apart off her face.
Jeremy sighed in relief, and then fell all the way to the floor. His wound had become worse.
"Jeremy!!!" Delilah fought against the seal. She felt it weaken, and then she fell to the floor. But her landing was less painful than Jeremy's.
Jeremy's blood was soaking the floor. Delilah examined his wound. She had never seen such a serious before in her whole life...
"Delilah...I...I'm sorry...so-"
"Save your strength. We'll get you help..."
"No...I deserve...deserve this wound...all I did...was bring you sorrow..."
"That's not true!!! You've always been so kind to me!!!"
"That's...that's very nice to...hear...but I'm dying...I got stabbed with my own...my own scythe..."
"Good riddance," said Dracula. "I was going to get rid of you eventually. Pathetic traitor..."
"You're not gonna die," soothed Delilah.
"I'm...sorry...sorry that I can't...be with you..."
"YOU'RE NOT GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!" screamed Delilah. "I won't let you!!!! You can't just leave me behind!!!!" She raised her wrist and tore it with her teeth. "Drink my blood. You aren't gonna die and you aren't gonna leave me!!"
Jeremy shook his head. "I can't...I don't deserve it..."
"Look, you're not gonna say that!!! You're gonna say, 'Please help me'. I don't want to feel like I'm forcing you into anything!! So say it and mean it!!"
"Delilah..." It was getting harder and harder to breathe. He deserved death...
"Do you think dying is gonna change anything?! All anyone will say of you is, 'He took the easy way out, and didn't face up to all the things he did'. Do you want that? For people to speak ill of you?! If you live, then you can make up for your wrongdoings!! Now, what do you think?!"
Jeremy stared at her, his mind made up. "Alright...I want to live..."
"Good." She put her wrist to his mouth, allowing him to have her blood.
"It's amazing that you broke from my seal," said Shaft. "But all is not over. We can curse you into thinking our ways!!"
"Do so," said Dracula. "I'll be waiting in my main chambers." Then he was gone.
Delilah moved her wrist away and looked at Jeremy. After taking her blood, he had fallen unconscious. She felt relieved when she saw his wound healing.
"Ancient beings, rise from hell! Engage your power onto this curse...a curse so strong, God himself cannot break," Shaft chanted, green energy forming in his palms.
"Leave her be!" yelled Marguerite.
"I'll kill you, you wizard shit!!!!" screamed Gabriella.
The green ball flew at Delilah. She covered Jeremy, knowing she didn't have the strength to move him...
Suddenly, the ball evaporated. She looked up to see Alucard standing in front of her.
"Adrian????" she asked.
"Hello, sister," he responded. "I'm sorry about Jeremy..."
"Oh, no worries. He's fine now..." Her voice trailed off as she felt tears sting her eyes.
Shaft fumed, forming more balls. "You damn half-breed!! Always spoiling my plans!!!!"
Alucard readied his sword. "I'm no different than the other times. I will defeat you again!!"
"Forget a damn fight!!!" yelled Gabriella. "Just kill him so our seals will break, and we can move!!!!"
Shaft formed more green balls. "I guess I'll curse you, too!!" he flung them at Alucard.
Alucard dodged them. "Tetra Spirit!!" several white energy beings flew at Shaft, but only two struck him.
"Do you think THAT hurt?! HA!!!! I'm stronger than I was!!!" He formed a huge green ball and threw it at Alucard, striking him dead-on.
"Adrian!!!" his sisters screamed.
Alucard got back to his feet. "You've gotten better...but it still isn't enough!!!!! Summon Spirit!!!"
A huge white energy flew at Shaft, and hit him. This time, it affected him.
"Soul Steal!!!"
"AHHHH!!!!!!!" screamed Shaft as he felt his power leave him and go to Alucard.
Alucard readied his sword and jumped at Shaft, slicing him across his torso.
Shaft fell to the floor, his life's blood spilling. The seal on Marguerite and Gabriella broke.
But...he was laughing.
"Every time...you always kill...heh..."
"Silence," said Alucard.
"Heh...you kill...and kill...and kill...heh, and you...call US the monsters..."
"Shut up!!" said Gabriella.
"...You fight for justice...yet you kill...so many...if the Count...is your only target...why do you kill all those...around you...?"
"That's enough!!" cried Delilah.
"...You know...why? Because...you love it...you love taking lives...but you want to be 'moral'...so you only kill us demons..."
"That isn't true," said Alucard.
"Oh, yes...it is...you can't deny it...you LOVED every minute...of it...killing all those ghouls and skeletons, and whatnot...you enjoy it..."
"Stop lying!!!" demanded Marguerite.
"...I'll watch you...in hell...and laugh as you kill...because you know...I'm right..." then his body slumped against the floor.
Alucard lowered his head. "...Do you all see me that way?"
"Of course not!!!" said Marguerite. "Don't listen to his lies!!! You're a good person!!!"
"..."
Delilah stood, and then pounced on Alucard. "Adrian!!! I'm so glad to see you!!!! It's been too long!!!!"
"I'm glad all of you are safe," said Alucard. "...But now I must deal with our father..."
"We'll go with you," said Gabriella.
"You can't-"
"Don't try to talk us out of it! We're family and we're gonna see this through together!!"
"...Alright..."
Just then, Jeremy groaned. He opened his eyes. "Am I...dead?"
Delilah pounced on him. "It worked!!! You're alive!!!!"
"Yeah, but now I'm a vampire..."
"If you didn't want to be one, then maybe you should've changed sides sooner," snapped Gabriella.
"..."
"We're gonna confront our father," said Marguerite. "Do you want to come with us?"
"...Fine."
"If you all insist on coming, then don't get in my way," said Alucard. "This is my battle."
"Yeah, we know," said Delilah.
Jeremy stood. "...I guess I'm going to have to get use to being a vampire..."
The demon familiar surfaced. "I told you I'd stick by you...and you definitely look like a vampire."
"Oh gee, thanks."
"Let's get a move-on!" said Gabriella.
"That's a good idea," said Marguerite.
"Let's go," said Alucard.
Whoo, I'm almost at the end. Please bear with me. Only two more chapters to go!