CHAPTER 32: EXIT
Magus: Hullo. Where are we?
Alucard: Less talk, start running! The entire castle keep broke off the stairs. Alucard double jumped up to it and Lyliara flew there.
Lyliara: Well boys, this my stop, See ya! ^_^ She vanished into thin air. The two started to run down the Clock Tower, forced to fight off swarms of Mecha Zombies 5173 and lower that were there to delay their path. The 7174's havin been intelligent enough to flee. After a bit, they managed to reach the elevator of the outer wall. By accident, they pressed the button for the mid-Level, the prisons. They got out and realized they were at the wrong place. Turning around, they saw their elevator's cord snap, now happy they took a wrong floor... Cursing their luck, they ran across the prisons, leaving their half-zombified victims to their fate.
Voice: Hey! Don't leave me here, Alucard! Alucard stopped dead in his tracks and ran back to see Richter. Not wasting time, he used the Omega Weapon to tear the control Mechanism into pieces, allowing Richter out and the new trio ran for their lives to the hole Alucard had done before, dropping them at the giant clock. They kept running, seeing the ceiling start to dislock itself. Soon enough, they met a dead end.
Magus: Damn! We're stuck...
Alucard: Was that the only way out?
Magus: No, but it's the only one we can reach in our limited time.
Richter: So... We're doomed?
Magus: Afraids... Wait... We have one last hope. Follow me! Magus ran back to the giant clock and leapt down the hole in the floor to the hangar. He dashed in the Ragnarok with the other two in hot pursuit. He went up to the control chamber, closed the cargo bay door and activated the weapon charge system. He made it tilt so that he could fire diagonally And let his machine guns roar. They easily destroyed one ceiling to let them get back to the room of clocks and used his charged cannon situated under the ship to blast them a way out. As soon as they saw fresh air, the beam of holyness destroyed the castle hopefully once and for all. Magus landed at the base of the cursed forest. He went down tot eh cargo bay to find both his passengers quite bruised but otherwise alive. He opened it and stared at the remains of the castle with the other two.
Magus: That was close. We almost didn't make it.
Alucard: I cannot believe we actually were able to defeat technology from around 400 years in the future with just the three of us.
Magus: Now how about we return to our time? Barely in notice, the Wolf lord stood ready to pounce and as soon as Magus moved, it lunged and bit it's teeth deeply in his arm. Magus swore and blasted it to bits with his other arm, contemplating his stump.
Magus: Oops... guess I overdid it a bit... Richter and Alucard drip.
Magus: Oh well, it should grow back overnight, which meand we have to camp here for the night.
Richter: Grow back, like a lizard's tail? You're not human, are you?
Magus: Sometimes I wonder about that myself, as for the growing back, I cast a regeneration spell. They set up a makeshift camp and quickly went to sleep... except Magus. He just stood back and watched the sky.
Magus: So... crossing this castle was instructive, I've met new monsters, made new enemies and friends, but most important is that I feel closer to relief now... Rhys told me that the only way to be free from those other souls is to give them a new body... and somehow i wish to discover a way soon, because I've had more balckouts in that castle than I usually get in two or three years! And to think it's all related to that girl... Cilliana I think it was... all it takes to make me happy is life not some silly girl... why want more, the grass is soft the stars fill the sky, the moon glows in it's full splendor, the... FULL moon... C.R.A.P. He felt a surge cross his mind, deleting all conscious thought or hope of movement. A scream worthy of a man being torn to pieces aliver erupted from his mouth, awaikening the others in a startle, the scream slowly changed into a roar of immense power. He curled into a ball, flating in mid-air and grew a sphere of darkness raond him. The sphere soon shattered into shards on the floor, leaving nothing of Magus, but a dragon toi replace him. It's legs were roughly their size, quite heavily muscled, folding back on themselves and going back torwards the front from the middle. His arms were rather small, but still enormously powerful and only had three fingers each. It's tail was large, bulky, long and powerful. It'S wings were immense, longer than a man each. It's neck was long and supported it's vicious head and crown of spikes ebbed within it's skull. Crowning his neck, back and tail was a line of spikes that grew to large proportins. Overall, it was around three times their size.
Alucard: Strange, this beast from the lesser plains... I think I've seen before...
Dragon: I am Rudra, Demon dragon of destruction. I knew he'd slip eventually... quite impressive though to have avoided this since the war of the monster'S fall... and yet my time is quite limited, so I'll only level a kingdom or two it seems.
Richter: We won't let you!
Rudra: So be it. The Demon familiar, posessing the fastest reaction time attacked first with it's mighty Holy Light Spear and merely got blown away by it's sheer aura. The demon was blown away by the recoil. Richter took that opening to attack with it's whip, but ate a heavy tail hit.
Richter: D...damn, I didn't even see him move it! Alucard also tried his luck and avoided the initial blow by the tail and got seized and thrown torwards the horizon. He was caught by something at the level of his leg.
Xelloss: Well, it seems Rudra's out again, this is not good...
Rudra: Xelloss...
Xelloss: It seems you remember my name, But do you also remember the mission Magus gave me.
Rudra: Oh, be sure of that. You Mazoku never liked us Demon dragons anyway, neither do dragons. Only demons can stand us because of Catoblepas's efforts.
Xelloss: So then, let's get started. The Mazoku priest dissapeared as fast as he'd appeared and reappeared next to Rudra, slamming his staff down hard with Rudra's arm, then trying a vicious kick blocked by the other arm, then Rudra attacked with his tail, but Xelloss jumped above it. Both dissapeared, taking the battle to the level of the astral plane. Alucard got u and headed to help Richter up as well.
Richter: My friend, where do you think they went?
Alucard: I do not know, neither do I want to find out who wins.
Richter: As do I. We'd better leave. As they spoke, both reappeared and Xelloss stumbled back, falling into them and making them fall. They noticed the fact that he was gravely wounded and had lost an arm and a bit of his body close by.
Rudra: Xelloss, you were the closest thing to a worthy foe I'll meet in decades, unfortunately, you ended up in the loser pile with the weaklings.
Vegeta: Humph! Finally someone agrees with me. The Saiyan landed beside the giant dragon and looked at the trio on the ground.
Vegeta: Ha! Grounded by an overgrown lizard. If I were you, I'd crawl back under the rock you came out of and stay there. So he's a giant reptile, if he was hard for you to beat, he's got to be easy to defeat!
Rudra: Enoying curr... can't even sense power levels...
Vegeta: Oh, I sense yours allright and even my weak father could have beaten you with one hand beside his back.
Rudra: *Sigh* Are you going to talk all night?
Vegeta : Oh, I won't even need aminute to beat you, for you see, saiyans can transform if exposed to the rays of a full moon, increasing their power enormously, and now you'll face me at my best! Vegeta stared up and began to transform, is nose and mouth extending into one as his body became covered in furr, but his armor didn't break, but merely grow with his as he became a gorilla as big as King Kong but with more attitude.
Vegeta: So what do you think now, dinosaur? Peeing in you pants yet... oh I forgot, you're too ugly to wear pants.
Rudra: Saiyans sure are stupid. Forgetting that one's power largely shrinks while he'S resting and that one can also mask his power...
Vegeta: Ha! Like a lizard can mask his power. Vegeta threw a rapid punch at the Demon Dragon, but he merely caught it with one hand, used it to lift the monkey in the air and bite off it's tail, the center of his transformation. Without it, he shrunk back to his normal self and got punched a few times before he was discarded in the pile.
Rudra: As weak as the rest, how pathetic this night is becoming.
Vegeta: Grrr......! You'll pay for that!! His entire energy gathered around him, making the Earth shake and distorting the winds to rotate around him.
Vegeta: So, you're fast but can you sustain damage? Eat this! Final Flash! His entire power burst into an arrow of power aimed straight at Rudra. The Dragon's neck merely bent out of the beam's trajectory.
Rudra: You dissapoint me, having such a bad aim for such a desperate move. Why, I've seen old ladies throw more precisely than that. Vegeta merely grinned and jumped. Right in front of Rudra was the beam Vegeta had thrown earlier, returning after crossing the world, hitting the dragon full frontal, leveling a large part of the area where the castle used to be, except for the cursed woods strangely...
Vegeta: Told you he was beatable.
Richter: Actually, you said he was easy to beat.
Vegeta: Shut up!
Rudra: My, that was some mighty dirt moving equipment, was it supposed to do more than tickle?
Vegeta: Ah!... It can't be... what type of demon are you?
Rudra: Actually, I'm a Demon Dragon, not a demon.
Vegeta: We... 're going to die...
Rudra: Enough! He beat his mighty tail to the ground, causing a devastating earthquake that fissured the ground.
Rudra: I will hear no more petty whining from you! Just death awaits you. Before he could do a thing, he heard the hangar door for the Ragnarok open and saw the Hellchoc. The beast looked angry, Rudra looked puzzled. The beast became a blurr and blood suddenly flowed from a small gash on Rudra'S body, then came another, then another and so on. Rudra seemed mighty pissed. He let out a titanous scream to the heavens, and so began the rain of meteors. Each slammed their way deep into the bowels of the earth. The grounded group desperately tried to avoid the deadly attack and managed barely almost every time. The Hellchoc, on the other hand, unable to deal with the fractured terrain was repeatedly hit and rapidly grounded.
Rudra: Oops, got overexcited there... My, I'm surprised the planet's still there... but now, I'll finally kill you all!
Voice: OW! My head!! Once I find out who threw that, he's gonna pay!!
Rudra: Not another one!! Ryu came out of the woods, a big bump on his head. He saw the dragon and froze.
Ryu: A... a dragon! Oh YEAH!! I'll slay it and see if I can't get decent genes off it! Rudra grows a drip. Ryu rapidly morphs into a demon dragon identical to Rudra. He reels his head for a meteor breath, but Rudra had already caught him and snapped the dragon's spine just as fast, forcing Ryu to revert.
Ryu: Grr! He's no normal Demon Dragon... ? ... ...! You! Weren't you with father? Where is he! Alucard points at Rudra and hears Ryu scream in disbelief.
Ryu: He managed to get so strong this fast? And how the hell did he learn how to Ascession? No matter, let's see how he handles Pyre! Ryu was covered in a dome of pure darkness once again. Once it shattered, he was taller than Rudra and the color of the night sky had it not been lit by the moon's gentle glow. Unfortunately, he could barely control himself now. He threw a weak beam at Rudra, blowing off quite a few scales. Rudra was getting angry again. Ryu threw a powerful version of the last attack and strangely, the man they'd met at the church got in the way and took the hit full frontal. He staggered for a second and was back to normal.
Rhys: I... Won't let you hurt him! With one slash, the gigantic Ryu reverted and collapsed unconscious. Rhys then turned to stare at the grounded group.
Lyliara: Party pooper! :( Rhys and the group stare up and see the demon girl just floating there, staring down at them.
Rhys: Demon...
Lyliara: You broke my fun!! :(
Rhys: What's fun about watching people get the smeg beaten out of them?
Lyliara: The thrill of battle of course! :)
Rhys: So you would have people suffer for your enjoyment? She floats beside Alucard and starts to cuddle him
Lyliara: Except Aly-poo here :)
Rudra: Um... I'm still here. Rhys: Technically, only for a minute since dawn is starting to rise...
Rudra: D... damn! The beast called a meteor breath, but luckily, before he completed it, he screamed painfully and was envelopped in shadows that faded to leave Magus behind. Alucard and Richter sigh in relied and faint. Vegeta got up painfully and walked away, cursing. Rhys loaded everyone else in the Ragnarok.
Rhys: Well, I guess it's goodbye... He closed the door and Took the Ragnarok Across the timestream back to Al;ucard and Richter's age to drop them off. He opened the cargo bay door and found Lyliara there.
Lyliara: Gods that ship's slow...
Rhys: ... ... He put the two emn down and took the Ragnarok to Magus' home, the Dragon's Haven. He got out there, leaving Magus, the Hellchoc and Ryu there. He reopened the hangar door and still found Lyliara there.
Rhys: How did you get here?
Lyliara: Followed you...
Rhys: Well, leave now or I'll have to use force.
Lyliara: No need to get angry :( I'm leaving! ... But so are you! :)
Rhys: WHAT? A portal opened and swallowed them both, leaving Magus lying there unconscious...
Magus: Hullo. Where are we?
Alucard: Less talk, start running! The entire castle keep broke off the stairs. Alucard double jumped up to it and Lyliara flew there.
Lyliara: Well boys, this my stop, See ya! ^_^ She vanished into thin air. The two started to run down the Clock Tower, forced to fight off swarms of Mecha Zombies 5173 and lower that were there to delay their path. The 7174's havin been intelligent enough to flee. After a bit, they managed to reach the elevator of the outer wall. By accident, they pressed the button for the mid-Level, the prisons. They got out and realized they were at the wrong place. Turning around, they saw their elevator's cord snap, now happy they took a wrong floor... Cursing their luck, they ran across the prisons, leaving their half-zombified victims to their fate.
Voice: Hey! Don't leave me here, Alucard! Alucard stopped dead in his tracks and ran back to see Richter. Not wasting time, he used the Omega Weapon to tear the control Mechanism into pieces, allowing Richter out and the new trio ran for their lives to the hole Alucard had done before, dropping them at the giant clock. They kept running, seeing the ceiling start to dislock itself. Soon enough, they met a dead end.
Magus: Damn! We're stuck...
Alucard: Was that the only way out?
Magus: No, but it's the only one we can reach in our limited time.
Richter: So... We're doomed?
Magus: Afraids... Wait... We have one last hope. Follow me! Magus ran back to the giant clock and leapt down the hole in the floor to the hangar. He dashed in the Ragnarok with the other two in hot pursuit. He went up to the control chamber, closed the cargo bay door and activated the weapon charge system. He made it tilt so that he could fire diagonally And let his machine guns roar. They easily destroyed one ceiling to let them get back to the room of clocks and used his charged cannon situated under the ship to blast them a way out. As soon as they saw fresh air, the beam of holyness destroyed the castle hopefully once and for all. Magus landed at the base of the cursed forest. He went down tot eh cargo bay to find both his passengers quite bruised but otherwise alive. He opened it and stared at the remains of the castle with the other two.
Magus: That was close. We almost didn't make it.
Alucard: I cannot believe we actually were able to defeat technology from around 400 years in the future with just the three of us.
Magus: Now how about we return to our time? Barely in notice, the Wolf lord stood ready to pounce and as soon as Magus moved, it lunged and bit it's teeth deeply in his arm. Magus swore and blasted it to bits with his other arm, contemplating his stump.
Magus: Oops... guess I overdid it a bit... Richter and Alucard drip.
Magus: Oh well, it should grow back overnight, which meand we have to camp here for the night.
Richter: Grow back, like a lizard's tail? You're not human, are you?
Magus: Sometimes I wonder about that myself, as for the growing back, I cast a regeneration spell. They set up a makeshift camp and quickly went to sleep... except Magus. He just stood back and watched the sky.
Magus: So... crossing this castle was instructive, I've met new monsters, made new enemies and friends, but most important is that I feel closer to relief now... Rhys told me that the only way to be free from those other souls is to give them a new body... and somehow i wish to discover a way soon, because I've had more balckouts in that castle than I usually get in two or three years! And to think it's all related to that girl... Cilliana I think it was... all it takes to make me happy is life not some silly girl... why want more, the grass is soft the stars fill the sky, the moon glows in it's full splendor, the... FULL moon... C.R.A.P. He felt a surge cross his mind, deleting all conscious thought or hope of movement. A scream worthy of a man being torn to pieces aliver erupted from his mouth, awaikening the others in a startle, the scream slowly changed into a roar of immense power. He curled into a ball, flating in mid-air and grew a sphere of darkness raond him. The sphere soon shattered into shards on the floor, leaving nothing of Magus, but a dragon toi replace him. It's legs were roughly their size, quite heavily muscled, folding back on themselves and going back torwards the front from the middle. His arms were rather small, but still enormously powerful and only had three fingers each. It's tail was large, bulky, long and powerful. It'S wings were immense, longer than a man each. It's neck was long and supported it's vicious head and crown of spikes ebbed within it's skull. Crowning his neck, back and tail was a line of spikes that grew to large proportins. Overall, it was around three times their size.
Alucard: Strange, this beast from the lesser plains... I think I've seen before...
Dragon: I am Rudra, Demon dragon of destruction. I knew he'd slip eventually... quite impressive though to have avoided this since the war of the monster'S fall... and yet my time is quite limited, so I'll only level a kingdom or two it seems.
Richter: We won't let you!
Rudra: So be it. The Demon familiar, posessing the fastest reaction time attacked first with it's mighty Holy Light Spear and merely got blown away by it's sheer aura. The demon was blown away by the recoil. Richter took that opening to attack with it's whip, but ate a heavy tail hit.
Richter: D...damn, I didn't even see him move it! Alucard also tried his luck and avoided the initial blow by the tail and got seized and thrown torwards the horizon. He was caught by something at the level of his leg.
Xelloss: Well, it seems Rudra's out again, this is not good...
Rudra: Xelloss...
Xelloss: It seems you remember my name, But do you also remember the mission Magus gave me.
Rudra: Oh, be sure of that. You Mazoku never liked us Demon dragons anyway, neither do dragons. Only demons can stand us because of Catoblepas's efforts.
Xelloss: So then, let's get started. The Mazoku priest dissapeared as fast as he'd appeared and reappeared next to Rudra, slamming his staff down hard with Rudra's arm, then trying a vicious kick blocked by the other arm, then Rudra attacked with his tail, but Xelloss jumped above it. Both dissapeared, taking the battle to the level of the astral plane. Alucard got u and headed to help Richter up as well.
Richter: My friend, where do you think they went?
Alucard: I do not know, neither do I want to find out who wins.
Richter: As do I. We'd better leave. As they spoke, both reappeared and Xelloss stumbled back, falling into them and making them fall. They noticed the fact that he was gravely wounded and had lost an arm and a bit of his body close by.
Rudra: Xelloss, you were the closest thing to a worthy foe I'll meet in decades, unfortunately, you ended up in the loser pile with the weaklings.
Vegeta: Humph! Finally someone agrees with me. The Saiyan landed beside the giant dragon and looked at the trio on the ground.
Vegeta: Ha! Grounded by an overgrown lizard. If I were you, I'd crawl back under the rock you came out of and stay there. So he's a giant reptile, if he was hard for you to beat, he's got to be easy to defeat!
Rudra: Enoying curr... can't even sense power levels...
Vegeta: Oh, I sense yours allright and even my weak father could have beaten you with one hand beside his back.
Rudra: *Sigh* Are you going to talk all night?
Vegeta : Oh, I won't even need aminute to beat you, for you see, saiyans can transform if exposed to the rays of a full moon, increasing their power enormously, and now you'll face me at my best! Vegeta stared up and began to transform, is nose and mouth extending into one as his body became covered in furr, but his armor didn't break, but merely grow with his as he became a gorilla as big as King Kong but with more attitude.
Vegeta: So what do you think now, dinosaur? Peeing in you pants yet... oh I forgot, you're too ugly to wear pants.
Rudra: Saiyans sure are stupid. Forgetting that one's power largely shrinks while he'S resting and that one can also mask his power...
Vegeta: Ha! Like a lizard can mask his power. Vegeta threw a rapid punch at the Demon Dragon, but he merely caught it with one hand, used it to lift the monkey in the air and bite off it's tail, the center of his transformation. Without it, he shrunk back to his normal self and got punched a few times before he was discarded in the pile.
Rudra: As weak as the rest, how pathetic this night is becoming.
Vegeta: Grrr......! You'll pay for that!! His entire energy gathered around him, making the Earth shake and distorting the winds to rotate around him.
Vegeta: So, you're fast but can you sustain damage? Eat this! Final Flash! His entire power burst into an arrow of power aimed straight at Rudra. The Dragon's neck merely bent out of the beam's trajectory.
Rudra: You dissapoint me, having such a bad aim for such a desperate move. Why, I've seen old ladies throw more precisely than that. Vegeta merely grinned and jumped. Right in front of Rudra was the beam Vegeta had thrown earlier, returning after crossing the world, hitting the dragon full frontal, leveling a large part of the area where the castle used to be, except for the cursed woods strangely...
Vegeta: Told you he was beatable.
Richter: Actually, you said he was easy to beat.
Vegeta: Shut up!
Rudra: My, that was some mighty dirt moving equipment, was it supposed to do more than tickle?
Vegeta: Ah!... It can't be... what type of demon are you?
Rudra: Actually, I'm a Demon Dragon, not a demon.
Vegeta: We... 're going to die...
Rudra: Enough! He beat his mighty tail to the ground, causing a devastating earthquake that fissured the ground.
Rudra: I will hear no more petty whining from you! Just death awaits you. Before he could do a thing, he heard the hangar door for the Ragnarok open and saw the Hellchoc. The beast looked angry, Rudra looked puzzled. The beast became a blurr and blood suddenly flowed from a small gash on Rudra'S body, then came another, then another and so on. Rudra seemed mighty pissed. He let out a titanous scream to the heavens, and so began the rain of meteors. Each slammed their way deep into the bowels of the earth. The grounded group desperately tried to avoid the deadly attack and managed barely almost every time. The Hellchoc, on the other hand, unable to deal with the fractured terrain was repeatedly hit and rapidly grounded.
Rudra: Oops, got overexcited there... My, I'm surprised the planet's still there... but now, I'll finally kill you all!
Voice: OW! My head!! Once I find out who threw that, he's gonna pay!!
Rudra: Not another one!! Ryu came out of the woods, a big bump on his head. He saw the dragon and froze.
Ryu: A... a dragon! Oh YEAH!! I'll slay it and see if I can't get decent genes off it! Rudra grows a drip. Ryu rapidly morphs into a demon dragon identical to Rudra. He reels his head for a meteor breath, but Rudra had already caught him and snapped the dragon's spine just as fast, forcing Ryu to revert.
Ryu: Grr! He's no normal Demon Dragon... ? ... ...! You! Weren't you with father? Where is he! Alucard points at Rudra and hears Ryu scream in disbelief.
Ryu: He managed to get so strong this fast? And how the hell did he learn how to Ascession? No matter, let's see how he handles Pyre! Ryu was covered in a dome of pure darkness once again. Once it shattered, he was taller than Rudra and the color of the night sky had it not been lit by the moon's gentle glow. Unfortunately, he could barely control himself now. He threw a weak beam at Rudra, blowing off quite a few scales. Rudra was getting angry again. Ryu threw a powerful version of the last attack and strangely, the man they'd met at the church got in the way and took the hit full frontal. He staggered for a second and was back to normal.
Rhys: I... Won't let you hurt him! With one slash, the gigantic Ryu reverted and collapsed unconscious. Rhys then turned to stare at the grounded group.
Lyliara: Party pooper! :( Rhys and the group stare up and see the demon girl just floating there, staring down at them.
Rhys: Demon...
Lyliara: You broke my fun!! :(
Rhys: What's fun about watching people get the smeg beaten out of them?
Lyliara: The thrill of battle of course! :)
Rhys: So you would have people suffer for your enjoyment? She floats beside Alucard and starts to cuddle him
Lyliara: Except Aly-poo here :)
Rudra: Um... I'm still here. Rhys: Technically, only for a minute since dawn is starting to rise...
Rudra: D... damn! The beast called a meteor breath, but luckily, before he completed it, he screamed painfully and was envelopped in shadows that faded to leave Magus behind. Alucard and Richter sigh in relied and faint. Vegeta got up painfully and walked away, cursing. Rhys loaded everyone else in the Ragnarok.
Rhys: Well, I guess it's goodbye... He closed the door and Took the Ragnarok Across the timestream back to Al;ucard and Richter's age to drop them off. He opened the cargo bay door and found Lyliara there.
Lyliara: Gods that ship's slow...
Rhys: ... ... He put the two emn down and took the Ragnarok to Magus' home, the Dragon's Haven. He got out there, leaving Magus, the Hellchoc and Ryu there. He reopened the hangar door and still found Lyliara there.
Rhys: How did you get here?
Lyliara: Followed you...
Rhys: Well, leave now or I'll have to use force.
Lyliara: No need to get angry :( I'm leaving! ... But so are you! :)
Rhys: WHAT? A portal opened and swallowed them both, leaving Magus lying there unconscious...