Chapter Three: The Post-Apocalyptic World
Raziel nodded and chose his two forms and he saw a blinding light surround him and rip two of his other forms away. He saw his Hunter and Reaper form disappear into the fog and he was furious that his two choices would be taken from him. He continued on down the pathway and came across the portal and he entered it and came out on the other side to a ruined city. He saw that it was Tokyo in a post-apocalyptic type city. Fires raged throughout the entire city he watched in horror as a group of humans were starting to be over run by vampires. He leapt from the top of the Tokyo Tower and landed on the nearest vampire impaling him through the chest. He turned to the others and quickly defeated them as well. He turned to the humans and noticed their scared looks.
"I will not harm you, I am the avenging angel come to rid this world of the vampire scourge. Tell me what happened to cause this and who is your leader?" asked Raziel.
"I'm Sam Tsukino, and these are my parents, Travis Tsukino and Andrea Tsukino. How do we know we can trust you? You look similar to a vampire, yet different."
"My name is Raziel, once proud leader of the Razielem Vampires, but I broke my father's law and was forever damned to the body you see before you. I am what is left of a once proud and noble warrior, yet also a murdering bastard. I have pledged my duty to helping only those who would be on the verge of extinction. I am feared by all vampires, because of this blade. If it still retained its physical form then all vampires that recognized it would either worship me or attempt to steal it," explained Raziel.
"Okay, so you were damned to your current form and I think that you were brought here to help redeem your sins. Your here to test the human race right," asked Sam.
Raziel nodded and Sam held his hand out to Raziel, who shook it firmly. He sensed a great power within Sam and decided to investigate it later.
"Now who is your leader, your clothing is not torn or in rags like the other humans. You are obviously apart of this worlds resistance," proclaimed Raziel. "To avoid drawing attention to ourselves I will shift to a form that is less.... conspicuous."
Raziel shifted to his Guardian form and stretched out his wings and banished the Soul Reaver into the spectral realm and summoned the Holy Reaver. He then set about searching for anymore vampires, but saw none. He returned to the area where he rescued Sam and the others, he strode over to Sam and glared down at him.
"My leader is Princess Serenity Moon, she was once known as Sailor Moon. I'll take us there, I just wish that this had never happened. They got my sister and she was never seen from again, I assume they made her into one of them or killed her," said Sam.
Raziel followed Sam as he led him to an under ground passage which Raziel sensed was filled with magic that would attack a vampire, with the elements. They continued on using torches to see until they came to a small cavern. He stopped and moved a piece of metal that was disguised as rock and put his palm onto it and opened his eye wide to a laser that scanned his eye to verify it was him. Afterward he punched in a sequence of numbers and letters, then a medium sized door opened and allowed them through. Raziel had to squeeze threw the doorway in order to get through. When he did though a small band of guards aimed flame throwers at him.
"Surrender creature or be burned alive," said Guard #1.
Raziel surrendered and was put into a cage, where he acted like he died and shifted to the spectral realm and phased through the bars. He then proceeded to find a discreet planar portal, which would give him access into the material realm. He found one after what seemed like hours of searching and shifted realms. He folded his wings against him and quietly and carefully made his way through the halls until he found Sam talking with what seemed like his subordinate.
"Princess Serenity would like to see you Captain Tsukino. She sent no reason as to why, sir," said the messenger.
Sam waved him away and Raziel took the air and followed him carefully, through a series of hallways and finally to a large door, that was guarded by half a dozen large guards. They opened the doors enough that Sam could slip into the room, but not enough for Raziel. He banished the Holy and Soul Reaver into the spectral realm and shifted to his Reaver form and dropped onto half the guards from above and quickly immobilized the other half and switched forms, then swung the doors open and marched into the room.
"What is the meaning of this interruption, guards!" yelled the woman dressed in white silk.
"Don't bother calling them Princess, they won't be of much help. I am not here to harm you or your subjects your highness. I am merely here to give you another debt to someday pay," said Raziel.
"State your name and purpose here creature, then I will consider what to do to you!" snarled the Princess.
"Perhaps a change of appearance might be called for, it is not often I use this form your highness," said Raziel, as he shrunk a little bit and his form became more damaged.
"Raziel! Why have you decided to come now? Pluto told us you refused to come because you were going back to your old ways! Answer me bastard, why have you decided to come now?" demanded Serenity.
"Quite simple, an alternate timeline is where I am from. I accepted to come, but I do not know the outcome of that timeline. This is a test for me, to see whether I am strong enough to save your world from vampires stronger then Kain is. My last brother and surviving members of my clan have joined him and an unknown vampire. Tell me, who in this timeline of your court has become a vampire?" asked Raziel.
"Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and my daughter Serenity Moon a.k.a. Mini Moon, have become vampires, please free their souls and let them rest in peace," said Princess Serenity.
Raziel nodded and quickly switched realms and found a giant hole in the ceiling, he switched forms and flew out through the hole and found that he was in the middle of the city, he noticed a planar portal a block away, off to his right. He quickly made his way to it and noticed he was at the Juuban District High School.
Raziel's Pov
'Figure's I would end up at another school for humans. The last time I was at a school, I was nearly frozen to be studied for life. However on Kain's unexpected diversion, I was able to make my way into Mercury's war room and obliterate her. Now I have to fight Sailor Moon's brat and release her soul to find peace.' I thought.
I quickly made my way to the front of the school and opened the doors, expecting to see vampires, instead I see human in nothing but cloths covering their precious areas sleeping. I made my way through the lot of them and found a stair case, guarded by humans who seemed to be nothing more than in a trance. I had inkling feeling that I was being led into a false sense of security and into a trap of some kind. I decided that I would leave the school and find another place to investigate. As I neared the doors they slammed shut and a voice echoed throughout the building.
Normal Pov
"How foolish you are to believe that I would allow you to leave my domain. All who enter are not allowed to leave. Tell me do you bare a message from my sisters, the master, father, or my mortal mother?" asked the irritated voice.
"None! Tell me foul beast what is your name and who is your father?" bellowed Raziel.
"Ah, one from the early days, lost I see. Very well I am known to all as Darkoona or Mistress Mini Moon by the humans. My father is Turel lord of us all and my master is Raizol of the Raizolem. Who are you stranger?" asked Darkoona a.k.a. Mini Moon.
"I am Raziel, first born of Kain's lieutenants and Turel's older brother! Raizol is a member of my clan the Razielem! Now come out and face me you wench!" roared Raziel.
Mini Moon's image appeared and she was quite annoyed with being called a wench. She saw Raziel and screamed, strangely it didn't wake any of the humans from their trance.
"Was that supposed to bring me down to my knees?" snarled Raziel.
Mini Moon was furious that her banshee song didn't work and noticed his body. It was strange as if it had been thrown into water before it could build an immunity to it and was burned alive and then resurrected in his current form. She fully appeared in the flesh and started to lash out at him with fury, she tore into his flesh, but it was like tearing into living souls as that is exactly what his wounded flesh sounded like to her.
"What are you, your not like any vampire I have ever seen," shrieked Mini Moon.
"I am the Reaver of Souls, a Devourer of Souls, I feed upon souls to survive," said Raziel.
She smirked and then focused her banshee shriek onto his wound and Raziel collapsed to the floor in agony as it felt like his entire body was being torn apart. He quickly switched forms and stood up and opened is wings and materialized the Holy Reaver into a temporary physical form. He gripped the handle and charged her head on with his wings beating to add speed and power to his attack. Mini Moon also charged shrieking her banshee shriek at its maximum pitch. They collided into an awesome display of battle, as Raziel kicked her in the gut multiple times all within at least a minute, then he slashed her face with his claws and finally brought the Holy Reaver down upon her head. He was surprised to see she had blocked it, but now she was temporarily immobile, so he summoned the Soul Reaver into a temporary physical existence and slammed the twin blades together to create the Holy Soul Reaver and he plunged the blade deep into her chest just as she became aware of what was happening again.
"May your soul find eternal peace within the underworld, Princess," said Raziel.
The blade then exploded into its wraith blade form and crackled with energy of the two blades together and blew her body into pieces. Her soul floated their in front of him and he drew it in and sent it to the underworld. The humans awoke from their trance and looked scared as they saw the creature in front of them, but saw it walk to the doors and blast them off there hinges.
The humans all rushed from the building into the oncoming lines of vampire warriors. Raziel remembered Kain's tale of the battle against the Nemesis's army, he charged into battle with the humans and destroyed a hundred humans with a simple blast. Raziel charged forward with the humans and met them with a battle cry so loud the vampires replied with roar of their own.
"ATTACK!" cried Raziel and the vampire general.
The humans and vampires crashed into each other and the battle had begun. The revolution for human freedom from their vampire masters. Raziel had learned much through his journeys and one thing was that humans do not like to be oppressed and even the smallest of numbers could prove to be fatal in battle. Raziel struck again and again with his twin blades and watched as the humans took down the ones he left in a severe wounded state and then he came face to face with the vampire general and they began their clash. The vampire general held one of the twin axes that Kain used as a fledgling and Raziel's rage built up and up until he could barely contain it. Then reinforcements for the vampires arrived and the humans were being driven back.
"NO!" cried Raziel, as images of battles he fought as a human against vampires when he was still a rookie soldier. The vampires had lain a trap and Raziel saw this exact same tactic being used again, this infuriated Raziel and he dropped to the ground and ran at the vampires and started to massacre them like a madman. With every twist and turn another dozen vampires fell to the ground with heads missing, limbs, and even bodies themselves as they imploded on themselves thanks to the twin blades he carried. When he had cleared a straight path through the vampires, he saw that the humans were cheering him on as their avenging angel had come to free the humans and thinking they had passed the avenging angels first test, whether they were willing to fight to regain their freedom and dominance of their planet. Raziel turned very quickly and sliced the head off the vampire general from the reinforcements and soon the battle was over and the humans made their way into areas the vampires couldn't get into.
Raziel perched himself on the top of the school and looked across the city or as much as he could see. The city may be in ruins, but perhaps it was better if they built from scratch and took myths and legends more seriously. Raziel took off towards the east and soon he came across a shipyard that were guarded by what looked like could be Rahabem, but their body's were spiked and they and tails like a fish. Obviously an altered version of the Rahabem, but not a Rahabem vampire at all. Raziel landed and the entrance to the shipyard and noticed that a huge tunnel was constructed that led into the ocean. Raziel raced into the shipyard and the vampires let him pass obviously sleeping and Raziel smirked to himself and ran to the tunnel and down into it, but all too soon it was rumbling. He looked down and saw that which ever scout that controlled the oceans was planning for an invasion of the surface, obviously planning to take total control of the world by flooding it. He switched realms and saw that it was much deeper and wraiths were everywhere, but they seemed to ignore him as he noticed it wasn't wraiths he saw, but human souls trapped within the tunnel itself or in the water outside and didn't make it to the surface in time.
Raziel raced down the tunnel and when he came to the base he found a planar portal and switched back into the material realm. What he saw struck fear into the very being of his soul. There stood Neptune a giant and ten times the size of Rahab and she was fearsome as she looked like a giant sea serpent crossed with a human, but also a vampire.
"By the ancients what have I gotten myself into?" said Raziel to himself.
"Welcome little one, I suppose you are here to stop me?" asked Neptune.
Raziel only nodded as he couldn't possibly stand against her, in either of his forms.
"Yes, my size is incredible, but I don't wish to remain like this. I have all my memories of my human life and I have only recently begun to rage war against my sisters in hopes that they would slay me. But my sister Uranus helps me stay alive, because she wishes for someone other than our master, father, or sisters to slay me and set me free. Tell me who are you, you look somewhat like our master Raizol," said Neptune.
"I am Raziel, first born of Kain's sons and older brother to Turel and sire to Raizol. I am truly the last of the old Razielem and I will free you, and give you eternal peace in the underworld," proclaimed Raziel.
"I thank you Uncle Raziel, now please free me from my confines of this body," exclaimed Neptune.
Raziel drew back the two reavers and struck them into her and started a small explosion which only wounded, her. Then a thought struck Raziel, why would she be down in the dark depths of the ocean. The answer was simple, all vampires that had become immune to water weren't immune to sunlight's touch. He noticed all the mirrors around the chamber and tunnel for the first time and knew that Neptune had planned to clear the sky enough to set the sunlight down the tunnel and the mirrors would reflect it to its brightest point. Raziel may not have been able to control the weather to bring out the sun, but he could create sunlight from the sunlight glyph. He chanted the incantation and summoned up all his power and released it with all his might and it shone brilliantly around the mirrors and reflected through the entire chamber and tunnel incinerating all vampires not immune to sunlight's touch and their souls all rushed for Raziel to find eternal peace. Raziel drew in all the souls and they were sent into the underworld to find eternal peace and then finally Neptune's soul was drawn in and she found eternal peace and a parting gift from her. Raziel recognized the symbol as the one for the water glyph, but saw instead a small fountain which the reavers hummed to be put into. Raziel drew back the Holy Reaver and plunged it into the font and let it absorb the energy until the font stopped glowing and then Raziel noticed it automatically recharged itself and he plunged the Soul Reaver into it and waited, then withdrew it and found that he now had the Holy Water Reaver and the Water Reaver. He rushed to the top of the tunnel and flew off towards the north, where his next task awaited him.