Chapter 9:
1 rescue down 1 to go
Notes: *** means talking with minds
~~~ Means scene change
### Sign language
I rewrote this thing like 4 times I hope you guys like it. ^_^
Anubis's jackal ears suddenly shot up from his head. The incarnation of life and death felt very uneasy all of a sudden .The source of the feelings were coming from the west as well as the east. He knew that in the west somewhere was his friend, Dracula. Anubis could sense the king of vampire feelings, the feelings of sadness, worry, hate and anger. Anubis blinked his eyes then, he was totally confused. He knew that the king of vampires was a calm man and was not one to get angry or for that matter hate. His jackal ears lay flat on his head as he turned his head towered the east. Even thought Anubis could sense their father he couldn't quite sense his friend's children that easily. So he had to go with his gut and from what he could pick up some thing was very wrong.
Anubis let out a yelp then as he felt someone kick him in his ankle, it was Emily.
Even thought Anubis didn't know sign langue the two found a different way to talk. They talk with their minds.
* What do you want Em?" Anubis said crossing his arms. That kick had really hurt!
*Well! * Emily said taping her foot. She knew that the jackal eared man was using his powers to make sure that everything was all right.
Anubis let out a sigh; his jackal ears suck back into his head. *Look I've known Drac since he was ten. He's a big boy he can take care of him self. *
* Are you sure because the stories I could tell you! * Emily said with a smile on her face. She knew Dracula had done some really stupid things. Like getting beat up by 4 drunken teenage boys and not so much as laid a finger on them.
Anubis smiled at the young woman. * Emily, listen to me for a moment. No matter what
Drac has done even at times where it seems the silliest, stupidest thing you have seen or heard he has always had a cause for doing it. Whether it was to make someone laugh or putting himself in danger, so that others would not get hurt. D o you understand Em? *
*Ya okay, fine. *
*Come on I'll buy you dinner ok? Just remember everything's and everyone is going to be all right. *
~~~~~~
(The sleeping gardens)
Empress Xie 's castle shook as the empress 'guest' let out a howl of frustration. The king of vampires tried his very best to break free from his impressments. Dracula took a small rest as he let his wrists heal. The pain would have been unbearable for almost any one else, but not him. As he relaxed Dracula wanted more then any thing to get out of the clothing he wore now and find his own clothing .He felt like a china doll as he sat there.
"You shouldn't hurt yourself dear husband." Xie said as she came in to the room and walked over to the king.
" Let me make this clear. I am not, nor will I ever be your husband!" Dracula spat at Xie
.
"You say that now, but wait till we are truly married! Our children are going to be beautiful, perfect." She said smiling.
Dracula smirked at Xie. "Are they? IF and this is a big if, let say we did have children would you treat them as you do the children from your last marriage?"
"Oh course not! They were a mistake!" Xie laugh.
Dracula then heard the twin gasp of Xie's sons from their hiding place.
"You have seen them! They are freaks!" Xie told Dracula.
Dracula close his eyes as memories flash through his mind.
"D is precious, even if he is a dampire but that thing on his hand! Can't we have it removed?" Dracula remembered his wife telling him. He knew that his wife loved himself as well as D. She just could not get pass what he or their son were. The woman knew who and what she was marring, knew what there children would be dampires. Yet some how she would block out some of the things that she didn't want to acknowledge, like her husband was a vampire, her eldest son being a dampire or worst of all tuning out the fact that she had another child.
Dracula turned his head away from Xie, the woman disgusted him. How could someone treat their child the way she did? His eyes grew wide then as he realized something.
"Tell me Xie," His voice was low and mysterious. " How do these ropes work?"
Xie felt no harm in telling the king of vampires how the ropes work. She knew that there was no way that he or any vampire for that matter could free themselves from those ropes. "When the ropes detect vampiric powers they tighten and cause the user of those powers great pain."
"I see." He replied, give her a knowing smile.
" So there is no way that -" Xie said then suddenly stopped. Her eyes went wide as she saw that her future 'husband's' eyes were a different color. They were not the warm chocolate brown that looked at her with such hate. Nor were they a glowing scarlet red. The iris had become red, though his eyes did not glow.
Xie took a step back as she watched the king of vampires transformed. She watched as he snapped the enchanted ropes like they were nothing. The ropes didn't seem to affect him now. . His now red eyes never left her steel blue ones.
The king of vampire walked over to the Empress of the Sleeping Gardens. He was taller, at lest 3 more feet were added to his original height. "Let me tell you something I have notice over the many, many, many years of my life." The now transformed Dracula bent his head down so that he could whisper in her ear. The two horn like spikes on his cheek brush up against the cheek of the empress. "Never ever tell your foe your secrets for they will always be used against you." Xie felt the king of vampires smile against her ear. She could hear his breathing it was slow and completely devoid of fear. Xie shivered for the first time in her life she felt complete and total fear. "Oh, your son's are coming with me." Dracula told her before transforming back.
Xie stood there watching Dracula's back as he went to go find her children and his normal clothing. Xie remembered something her mother, the grand witch Wu-li and previous empress once told her. She had never really liked her mother's kind heart very much, but she did listen to her mother's teachings.
"Once along time ago back when our world was not like this and man was young, there were creatures whose name has been lost over time. Huge and powerful they could be kind and gentle or ferocious and cruel. There was something very unusual about them for if they had a child with a human it would be a half-breed and yet not. Some say that the half-breed children had the 'human' form of the non-human parent' which the creatures could turn into. Others say that they could even turn into a smaller true form of their non-human parent. It's highly unlikely though. What was the most unusual about these all ready unusual children were that they were also classified as a new species all together. No one knows how this is possible mind you. I've heard some experts say that werewolves, shadow walkers and even the vampires are descendent from these no name creatures. Some experts went as far as saying that Dracula the king of vampires is a direct descendent of one of those so called creatures. But don't worry I never listen to those crazy egg heads any way I think they made it all up" Xie remembered her mother telling her.
Xie never believed that story, it was just too unbelievable! Someone must have made it up at some time. The empress watched as Dracula now dressed in his former clothing walked out with her sons. The king turn his head back to look at Xie one last time their eyes met brown and steel blue. Each seemed to understand the other, knowing that they would never meet again because if they did someone might not walk away.
(Out side)
"So what are we going to do now?" Nus asked.
"Well I think that you both need a bath." Dracula said looking at the two young princes'.
"That would be wonderful." Ja said with a smile.
"Now I know a place that…" Dracula said but was interrupted by a huge ball of black mist and flame. "Oh no."
The black mist and flame slowly disappeared to reveal Anubis in his truest form. The incarnation of life and death looked like a humanoid jackal. His solid glowing white eyes looked at Dracula as if I if to say I know what you did. Anubis's gothic like clothing had been replaced with a more ancient Egyptian like clothing. Under his right arm was Emily who was looking worse for wear from her trip. After setting her down death and life walked over to the king of vampires.
"You changed didn't you?!" Anubis yelled at his friend.
"I had no choice!" Dracula shouted back.
"You had no choice? YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE!"
"Listen you excuse for a jack rabbit!" Dracula said, growling at the intimidating form before him.
Just then Emily walk over and taped Dracula on his back.
#Emily it's good to see you again. # He said smiling at the young woman.
She slapped Dracula across his face.
"Owww." Was all that Anubis, Ja and Nus could say as they looked on. They were clearly shocked at what the young woman had just done.
#Douglas or should I say DRACULA! You could have told me that you were Dracula! You could have told the whole village! Were your friends! No you just up and leave whit out so much as a simple good bye! # Emily signed.
Dracula looked at Emily in the eye then. In that one moment she knew why her friend was the king of all vampires. He then began to sign. # Do you know what happened to me when I told someone who I really was? #
Emily nodded her head no.
# They not only ran me out of town, they set my house on fire, killed my horse and the two wolves I kept as pets. When I was 10 miles away from that a cursed place, I soon found out that 45 hunters were chasing me. #
# You didn't kill them did you? # Emily signed.
Dracula shook his head. # It is not my way. I have seen enough death for at lest a hundred thousand lives if not more. Besides most of them were scalpers, when they sensed my power they all ran. Most likely they did not tell them whom they were chasing. Did you know there's a very old saying about going after the king of vampires? Your ether dumb or the Vampire Hunter D. #
# I'm sorry Dracula I never knew and everybody was walking around like a zombie because every one was so depressed. # Emily began to cry.
Dracula pulled out a tissue from his pocket and handed it to the young woman. Emily blew her nose. #Please call me Drac.#
Emily nodded her head. # So where are D and Sym? # She signed looking around. Shouldn't the twin hunter be with their father?
#What do you mean? # Drac asked a worried look on his face.
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" Okay so you have some skill." Sym said looking around at Big R's tied up men.
When they had walked in D, Sym and Andy had found the place littered with the gangster 's men. Each had taken 1/3 of the men. D dispatched his share of the men quickly, his brother doing the same with his share. When the twins had turned around they saw that the satyr of their group had dispatched his share with vines coming from what seemed to be the very air.
"You're a nature elemental." D stated.
Nature elementals could control as well call up plants to use offensively and defensively.
"Well let's go!" Andy told the dampire brothers as he walked over to the huge doors at the end of the room.
Just as Andy was about to open the door, a dragon's tail busted through the door sending Andy across the room.
D and Sym both looked at the fallen satyr who was hurt badly but was still breathing. Just then the dampire hunters turned their heads to see that the dragon was in the room with them. It hissed at them. D and Sym ready themselves for the battle.
"Kill them Haiku." Came a male's voice that echoed off the walls.
End chapter 9-
1 rescue down 1 to go
Notes: *** means talking with minds
~~~ Means scene change
### Sign language
I rewrote this thing like 4 times I hope you guys like it. ^_^
Anubis's jackal ears suddenly shot up from his head. The incarnation of life and death felt very uneasy all of a sudden .The source of the feelings were coming from the west as well as the east. He knew that in the west somewhere was his friend, Dracula. Anubis could sense the king of vampire feelings, the feelings of sadness, worry, hate and anger. Anubis blinked his eyes then, he was totally confused. He knew that the king of vampires was a calm man and was not one to get angry or for that matter hate. His jackal ears lay flat on his head as he turned his head towered the east. Even thought Anubis could sense their father he couldn't quite sense his friend's children that easily. So he had to go with his gut and from what he could pick up some thing was very wrong.
Anubis let out a yelp then as he felt someone kick him in his ankle, it was Emily.
Even thought Anubis didn't know sign langue the two found a different way to talk. They talk with their minds.
* What do you want Em?" Anubis said crossing his arms. That kick had really hurt!
*Well! * Emily said taping her foot. She knew that the jackal eared man was using his powers to make sure that everything was all right.
Anubis let out a sigh; his jackal ears suck back into his head. *Look I've known Drac since he was ten. He's a big boy he can take care of him self. *
* Are you sure because the stories I could tell you! * Emily said with a smile on her face. She knew Dracula had done some really stupid things. Like getting beat up by 4 drunken teenage boys and not so much as laid a finger on them.
Anubis smiled at the young woman. * Emily, listen to me for a moment. No matter what
Drac has done even at times where it seems the silliest, stupidest thing you have seen or heard he has always had a cause for doing it. Whether it was to make someone laugh or putting himself in danger, so that others would not get hurt. D o you understand Em? *
*Ya okay, fine. *
*Come on I'll buy you dinner ok? Just remember everything's and everyone is going to be all right. *
~~~~~~
(The sleeping gardens)
Empress Xie 's castle shook as the empress 'guest' let out a howl of frustration. The king of vampires tried his very best to break free from his impressments. Dracula took a small rest as he let his wrists heal. The pain would have been unbearable for almost any one else, but not him. As he relaxed Dracula wanted more then any thing to get out of the clothing he wore now and find his own clothing .He felt like a china doll as he sat there.
"You shouldn't hurt yourself dear husband." Xie said as she came in to the room and walked over to the king.
" Let me make this clear. I am not, nor will I ever be your husband!" Dracula spat at Xie
.
"You say that now, but wait till we are truly married! Our children are going to be beautiful, perfect." She said smiling.
Dracula smirked at Xie. "Are they? IF and this is a big if, let say we did have children would you treat them as you do the children from your last marriage?"
"Oh course not! They were a mistake!" Xie laugh.
Dracula then heard the twin gasp of Xie's sons from their hiding place.
"You have seen them! They are freaks!" Xie told Dracula.
Dracula close his eyes as memories flash through his mind.
"D is precious, even if he is a dampire but that thing on his hand! Can't we have it removed?" Dracula remembered his wife telling him. He knew that his wife loved himself as well as D. She just could not get pass what he or their son were. The woman knew who and what she was marring, knew what there children would be dampires. Yet some how she would block out some of the things that she didn't want to acknowledge, like her husband was a vampire, her eldest son being a dampire or worst of all tuning out the fact that she had another child.
Dracula turned his head away from Xie, the woman disgusted him. How could someone treat their child the way she did? His eyes grew wide then as he realized something.
"Tell me Xie," His voice was low and mysterious. " How do these ropes work?"
Xie felt no harm in telling the king of vampires how the ropes work. She knew that there was no way that he or any vampire for that matter could free themselves from those ropes. "When the ropes detect vampiric powers they tighten and cause the user of those powers great pain."
"I see." He replied, give her a knowing smile.
" So there is no way that -" Xie said then suddenly stopped. Her eyes went wide as she saw that her future 'husband's' eyes were a different color. They were not the warm chocolate brown that looked at her with such hate. Nor were they a glowing scarlet red. The iris had become red, though his eyes did not glow.
Xie took a step back as she watched the king of vampires transformed. She watched as he snapped the enchanted ropes like they were nothing. The ropes didn't seem to affect him now. . His now red eyes never left her steel blue ones.
The king of vampire walked over to the Empress of the Sleeping Gardens. He was taller, at lest 3 more feet were added to his original height. "Let me tell you something I have notice over the many, many, many years of my life." The now transformed Dracula bent his head down so that he could whisper in her ear. The two horn like spikes on his cheek brush up against the cheek of the empress. "Never ever tell your foe your secrets for they will always be used against you." Xie felt the king of vampires smile against her ear. She could hear his breathing it was slow and completely devoid of fear. Xie shivered for the first time in her life she felt complete and total fear. "Oh, your son's are coming with me." Dracula told her before transforming back.
Xie stood there watching Dracula's back as he went to go find her children and his normal clothing. Xie remembered something her mother, the grand witch Wu-li and previous empress once told her. She had never really liked her mother's kind heart very much, but she did listen to her mother's teachings.
"Once along time ago back when our world was not like this and man was young, there were creatures whose name has been lost over time. Huge and powerful they could be kind and gentle or ferocious and cruel. There was something very unusual about them for if they had a child with a human it would be a half-breed and yet not. Some say that the half-breed children had the 'human' form of the non-human parent' which the creatures could turn into. Others say that they could even turn into a smaller true form of their non-human parent. It's highly unlikely though. What was the most unusual about these all ready unusual children were that they were also classified as a new species all together. No one knows how this is possible mind you. I've heard some experts say that werewolves, shadow walkers and even the vampires are descendent from these no name creatures. Some experts went as far as saying that Dracula the king of vampires is a direct descendent of one of those so called creatures. But don't worry I never listen to those crazy egg heads any way I think they made it all up" Xie remembered her mother telling her.
Xie never believed that story, it was just too unbelievable! Someone must have made it up at some time. The empress watched as Dracula now dressed in his former clothing walked out with her sons. The king turn his head back to look at Xie one last time their eyes met brown and steel blue. Each seemed to understand the other, knowing that they would never meet again because if they did someone might not walk away.
(Out side)
"So what are we going to do now?" Nus asked.
"Well I think that you both need a bath." Dracula said looking at the two young princes'.
"That would be wonderful." Ja said with a smile.
"Now I know a place that…" Dracula said but was interrupted by a huge ball of black mist and flame. "Oh no."
The black mist and flame slowly disappeared to reveal Anubis in his truest form. The incarnation of life and death looked like a humanoid jackal. His solid glowing white eyes looked at Dracula as if I if to say I know what you did. Anubis's gothic like clothing had been replaced with a more ancient Egyptian like clothing. Under his right arm was Emily who was looking worse for wear from her trip. After setting her down death and life walked over to the king of vampires.
"You changed didn't you?!" Anubis yelled at his friend.
"I had no choice!" Dracula shouted back.
"You had no choice? YOU ALWAYS HAVE A CHOICE!"
"Listen you excuse for a jack rabbit!" Dracula said, growling at the intimidating form before him.
Just then Emily walk over and taped Dracula on his back.
#Emily it's good to see you again. # He said smiling at the young woman.
She slapped Dracula across his face.
"Owww." Was all that Anubis, Ja and Nus could say as they looked on. They were clearly shocked at what the young woman had just done.
#Douglas or should I say DRACULA! You could have told me that you were Dracula! You could have told the whole village! Were your friends! No you just up and leave whit out so much as a simple good bye! # Emily signed.
Dracula looked at Emily in the eye then. In that one moment she knew why her friend was the king of all vampires. He then began to sign. # Do you know what happened to me when I told someone who I really was? #
Emily nodded her head no.
# They not only ran me out of town, they set my house on fire, killed my horse and the two wolves I kept as pets. When I was 10 miles away from that a cursed place, I soon found out that 45 hunters were chasing me. #
# You didn't kill them did you? # Emily signed.
Dracula shook his head. # It is not my way. I have seen enough death for at lest a hundred thousand lives if not more. Besides most of them were scalpers, when they sensed my power they all ran. Most likely they did not tell them whom they were chasing. Did you know there's a very old saying about going after the king of vampires? Your ether dumb or the Vampire Hunter D. #
# I'm sorry Dracula I never knew and everybody was walking around like a zombie because every one was so depressed. # Emily began to cry.
Dracula pulled out a tissue from his pocket and handed it to the young woman. Emily blew her nose. #Please call me Drac.#
Emily nodded her head. # So where are D and Sym? # She signed looking around. Shouldn't the twin hunter be with their father?
#What do you mean? # Drac asked a worried look on his face.
~~~~~~~
" Okay so you have some skill." Sym said looking around at Big R's tied up men.
When they had walked in D, Sym and Andy had found the place littered with the gangster 's men. Each had taken 1/3 of the men. D dispatched his share of the men quickly, his brother doing the same with his share. When the twins had turned around they saw that the satyr of their group had dispatched his share with vines coming from what seemed to be the very air.
"You're a nature elemental." D stated.
Nature elementals could control as well call up plants to use offensively and defensively.
"Well let's go!" Andy told the dampire brothers as he walked over to the huge doors at the end of the room.
Just as Andy was about to open the door, a dragon's tail busted through the door sending Andy across the room.
D and Sym both looked at the fallen satyr who was hurt badly but was still breathing. Just then the dampire hunters turned their heads to see that the dragon was in the room with them. It hissed at them. D and Sym ready themselves for the battle.
"Kill them Haiku." Came a male's voice that echoed off the walls.
End chapter 9-