Chapter 10:
All things have an end (no it's not the end yet)
An: Okay, I'm really sorry for the lateness of this chapter. But I have a really hard time writing battle scenes. (Some has volunteered to help me now with them) That and I feel really bad when people have to remind me that I haven't updated in 7 months. So this chapter is extra long. From now on check my bio to see the status of the fic as well as upcoming fics.
D and Sym looked between them selves and the dragon. The younger twin then smirked at his brother. The forgotten prince's eyes began to glow an intense black behind his sunglasses, a smirk appeared on his face as the dragon began to sink into the floor until it disappeared completely. D stared at the 'black hole' on the floor.
"I did not know you could do that when you are not in your turn form." D stated.
"Hey it's not like I don't practice my own skills while we're separated. I'm not all fun and games you know. D, you would be surprised at some on the spells I know now." Sym said looking over his glasses at his brother.
D turned his head from his brother to look at the 'black hole'. " Shouldn't it have close by now?"
"Of course it closed! What are you talking ab….." Sym said turning his head to look at the black hole and saw that the dragon was emerging from it. The 'black hole' closed as soon as the dragon fully emerged from the hole.
D jump ahead of his brother his sword drawn, the dampire hunter took aim and slash at the dragon's face. The dragon in turn used it's tail as a whip and whipped the elder hunter into a wall. Sym reached for his daggers at his side but found that they were not there. The younger dampire cursed under his breath, he was going to take a vacation this time. How was he supposed to know that he would be in this mess! He resorted to his usually back up plan. Sym began to change, his feet and hands became paws, and black fur grew over his body, his face elongated in to snot. The younger dampire hunter had become a huge black wolf. Sym then jumped at Haiku, fangs and claws barred, they dug into the flesh of the dragon's face.
Haiku let out a roar and began to claw at the black wolf on his face. Sym growled as the dragon's claws dug into his flesh but still he needed to hold on If only to give his older brother time to wake up. The younger twin then heard his brother's groans as he began to wake. The dragon finally got a hold of the dampire turned wolf and flung him in to the wall. D saw as his brother fly through the air and land on the ground. Sym tried to get up and then collapsed on to the floor. D now turned his eyes on the dragon; he then noticed the metal collar that was rapped around the dragon's neck. The device was clearly controlling the dragon.
That was when D hear it, the cold laughter that was echoing throw the mansion. It had to be the Big R controlling the dragon.
"Kill them Haiku!" Big R's voice rang out through the mansion. "Kill them all."
The hunter then saw a part of the collar glow. Haiku cried out then as the collar fought with him to control his will. D knew what he had to do in that one moment, while the dragon was distracted, the hunter leaped up and slice the control collar in half.
Haiku now free of gangster's control began to turn back into his half dragon form, giving the hunter a half smile of thanks he collapsed on to the floor. The dampire hunter then went over to Andy to see how he was doing, the satyr seem to be fine. D then walked over to his brother, the hunter nudged Sym a bit with his foot. The giant black wolf then turned back into the younger brother, which glared up at his brother before getting up.
Both dampire hunters walked up to Haiku.
"Is he dead?" Sym asked his twin.
D shook his head. "He is just unconscious."
"You sure, it looks dead. Poke it." Sym instructed his brother.
D raised an eyebrow and then shook his head; his twin could be so childish at times. He then began to walk away from Sym and Haiku. D knew that Big R still needed to be taken care of.
Sym looked up from the dragon just in time to see his brother walk away from him. The younger twin smirked for he knew that his brother was going off to face the gangster. " There he goes off to play the hero again." Sym thought to himself. "Now if I was a crazed gangster with a passion for rare magical creatures where would I keep them."
The Forgotten Prince was just about to go see where the misfit vampires were when the huge doors that were in back of him burst open. Turning around quickly he saw that it was his father in full battle gear, just behind him was Emily.
"Dad?" Sym said, as he looked at his father, a look of pure shock on his face. They were suppose to find him not the other way around. "What are you doing here?"
The king of vampires walked over to his son and quickly looked his child over. Trying to see if he was harmed in any way. "Are you ok?" Drac asked.
Sym could now see that Ja and Nus were also with his father and Emily. "I'm fine." Sym told his father.
After making sure that his youngest child was fine he glanced around trying to find his eldest son. "WHERE IS YOUR BROTHER?" Dracula yelled at his son.
" He went to go deal with Big R." Sym told his father meekly. Sym could clearly see that his father was upset about some thing, but what could be the problem? Big R was nothing more then a simple human gangster surely his brother could deal with the problem on his own.
" Big R is not a normal human!" Dracula told Sym.
"What do you mean that he's not a normal human?" Sym asked, now totally confused by what his father was saying.
"In short, he's a living corpse." Dracula told him, a serious look on his face.
"So he's a zombie." The dampire hunter stated.
" No, where a zombie forgets all that he or she once was, a living corpse does not. It retains it individuality. Most importantly simply cutting its head or setting it on fire can kill a zombie. A living corpse can't be killed by ether of these methods." Dracula explain.
"WHAT? Then how can he be killed?" Sym shouted.
" Only Anubis knows how to kill a living corpse .Now which way did your brother go?" Dracula asked.
Sym pointed to the right.
"All right Sym you watch Emily, Janus and the others. Anubis and I will take care of Big R." Dracula turn to make room for Anubis but did not find the incarnation of death and life behind him, in fact he was nowhere to be found. "Where did he go?"
(Elsewhere)
D made no sound as he walked through halls of the gangster's mansion. The dampire reached behind him, his hand on the hilt of his sword. D sensed nothing as he walked through the hallway, which he thought was odd. Everything had a 'feeling', which could be sensed. The only thing that did not have a 'feeling' was the dead. The hunter began to concentrate, for if he could not sense Big R then he could surely hear the gangster's beating heart. As D reach the top main hall way he heard someone's laughter behind him and then a sharp pain in his right leg. D staggered, just then he felt another sharp pain this time in his left leg. The hunter fell to the floor, his legs bleeding from two gun shot wounds. D heard a shotgun being cocked and an empty bullet shell fall to the floor.
" So you're the famous vampire hunter D." Said Big R, as he came form behind the hunter. D watched as the man took out the normal bullets and replaced them with wooden ones." I was expecting someone… shorter." Big R joked.
As the gangster laughed at his own joke, D realized that the man before him, who he thought was human had no heartbeat. The dampire had no trouble in killing something that was not human. So when the gangster was distracted the hunter swung his sword and priced the chest of the unhuman gangster.
Nothing happen. In fact Big R just laughed even more. D was shocked to say the lest! There was Big R standing there, with the dampire's sword stuck deep within the gangster's chest. What shocked the hunter the most was no blood came from the wound the hunter had given the gangster.
"Here let me help you with that." Big R said as he pulled out D's sword.
The hunter tried to reach for his sword but was shot in his sword arm. The hunter clutched his arm with his other hand.
" I don't think so Hunter D. You know it's a real pity really; you and your brother would have made fine additions to my collection. Both of you are far too much trouble to deal with. It would just be easier if you both die." Big R said a cold smile was on his face, as he placed the gun up to D's head.
" It's not his time yet." Came a very clear cold crisp voice.
Big R's eyes grew wide, even though he had never heard the voice before. The gangster knew who it belonged to, the only person it could belong to, death.
D watched as what he could only have guess was Anubis, came out of the shadows. There standing before the hunter and gangster was what appeared to be the grim reaper. The black clocked skeleton turned it's red glowing eyes upon Big R and from what the hunter could tell the incarnation of life and death was not pleased.
"Your time has been up for quite some time." Anubis told him, as he came closer to the gangster.
Big R tried to run but found that he was frozen with fear and could not move a muscle. Anubis reached out with a now skeletal hand and touched the gangster on the shoulder. Big R took on a happy peaceful look before he aged into nothing more then a pile of dust. The incarnation of life and death then turned back into his jackal like form.
"What was that?" D asked.
"What was what?" Anubis asked as he walked over to the fallen dampire.
"That grim reaper form you used just now." D told him.
"Oh that!" Anubis said. " Well that is what Big R imagined what Death looked like."
"But I have never known you to use that form before, I have always seen you as either the way you are now are your human form." D said in mild confusion.
Anubis shook his head. " I can take the form of any 'death' or 'life'. I also have many different human like forms that you have not seen before. Anyway what you saw was what Big R thought death should look like. When I'm by a person who is on the very brink of death or is dead (like in the case of Big R) I just turn into what they think Death is."
D nodded his head in understanding, but he soon realized something. " What about…"
"About the vampires and dampires and other undead creatures?" Anubis said finishing the dampire's question. D nodded his head.
" Since they are between both death and life I do not change for them until they experience their 'true' death." The incarnation of death and life explained to the vampire hunter.
" Your wounds are healed." Anubis then pointed out.
Sure enough D's gunshot wounds were healed, the dampire then got up and dust the gunpowder off his clothing. The two friends then proceeded to walk down the hallway to the two large doors that were at the end. Just then the large doors burst open and both D and Anubis jumped backward so that they did not hit them.
D gripped the handle of his sword and Anubis growled both were ready to fight any of Big R's left over henchmen. As the dust cleared both saw the person who had kicked the doors in.
" Father?"
"Drac?"
There stood the king of vampires, worry clear in his glowing red eyes. " D, are you and Anubis all right?" he said as he rush over to his friend and son.
"I'm all right." Anubis told the king of vampires.
Dracula looked over at his son and saw the dried blood and holes in his clothing. More worry filled his eyes as he thought of his son being hurt.
"Do not worry father the gunshot wounds have already healed." D said trying to calm his father down.
Dracula shook his head trying to clear his head of the thought of his son being shot. "Where's Big R?"
D and Anubis step back to show the king of vampires a small pile of dust.
"What is that?" Dracula asked.
"Big R." Anubis told him.
Dracula turned to Anubis. " Your handy work?"
"Yes." Replied the king friend.
" I'm not cleaning that up." Came a new voice, which all three knew in an instant.
" Sym" D stated.
Sym walked into the room followed by Pet, Charlie, Emily, Andy and Janus. While his father and brother had been busy, the younger dampire hunter had found the misfit vampires and freed them.
Andy rubbed the back of his head. " What I miss?"
" Nothing much just D and Anubis taking care of Big R." Dracula told the satyr.
"Drac?" Andy said looking over at the king of vampires.
"Yes?"
"Nana's going to kill you." The satyr smirked.
"I was afraid of you saying that." Drac said with a sigh.
The king of vampires then looked over to see Pet, Charlie, Janus, and just coming in to the room Haiku. " So what do we do with you three?"
"I'm going to return to my herd with Andy your highness." Charlie said giving a small bow.
"Please don't do that." Dracula said giving the centpire a warm smile.
"Don't worry about me. Now that Big R is gone I'm free." Haiku told them.
"And I will go back to Empress Xie." Pet told them.
"I don't think that a good idea." Ja told him.
" Pet she doesn't care about you in the least!" Nus said.
The weredampire shook his head. "Your wrong! She loves me very much!"
"Pet has she ever told you that she loves you?" D asked.
"Well no but, I'm sure she does." Pet said.
"That may or may not be true but do you think she is capable of love? Look what she did to her own children." Dracula told him.
"They where missing. I'm sure she didn't know where they were." Pet said.
"They were her slaves Pet!" Sym yelled at the weredampire.
"No no she would never do that! Xie is kind woman she rescued me, she…."
"Bread you." Anubis interrupted him. The incarnation of life and death was now back in his gothic human form.
"No! She found me and rescued me."
Anubis shook his head. "I my be death but I am also life. You Pet were bred." Anubis's eyes glowed a soft white then. " Your father was a werewolf from the country of Omki and your mother was a vampriess from the island of Dovik. Both were incredible beautiful. Your father and mother hated each other but money easily solved that problem. They were paid to have you."
"No …" The weredampire choked out.
"What the empress didn't expect was that over time the couple would grow to love each other as well as their child. So when she came to collect her pet they refused, so she killed them."
"Xie always told me that they hated me. That I was a mistake, so they threw me away." Pet sobbed. "Where do I go now, no one will want me."
"We've got no place to go either Pet." Ja told him.
" You could stay with me?" Anubis volunteered.
Dracula spoke up then noticing the looks that Ja, Nus and Pet were giving the incarnation of life and death. "They could stay at Girir. I'm sure that they will take care of you three."
"Come on then, there is nothing left for us here." D told the group before they all walked out of the castle each on their way home.
End chapter 10-
All things have an end (no it's not the end yet)
An: Okay, I'm really sorry for the lateness of this chapter. But I have a really hard time writing battle scenes. (Some has volunteered to help me now with them) That and I feel really bad when people have to remind me that I haven't updated in 7 months. So this chapter is extra long. From now on check my bio to see the status of the fic as well as upcoming fics.
D and Sym looked between them selves and the dragon. The younger twin then smirked at his brother. The forgotten prince's eyes began to glow an intense black behind his sunglasses, a smirk appeared on his face as the dragon began to sink into the floor until it disappeared completely. D stared at the 'black hole' on the floor.
"I did not know you could do that when you are not in your turn form." D stated.
"Hey it's not like I don't practice my own skills while we're separated. I'm not all fun and games you know. D, you would be surprised at some on the spells I know now." Sym said looking over his glasses at his brother.
D turned his head from his brother to look at the 'black hole'. " Shouldn't it have close by now?"
"Of course it closed! What are you talking ab….." Sym said turning his head to look at the black hole and saw that the dragon was emerging from it. The 'black hole' closed as soon as the dragon fully emerged from the hole.
D jump ahead of his brother his sword drawn, the dampire hunter took aim and slash at the dragon's face. The dragon in turn used it's tail as a whip and whipped the elder hunter into a wall. Sym reached for his daggers at his side but found that they were not there. The younger dampire cursed under his breath, he was going to take a vacation this time. How was he supposed to know that he would be in this mess! He resorted to his usually back up plan. Sym began to change, his feet and hands became paws, and black fur grew over his body, his face elongated in to snot. The younger dampire hunter had become a huge black wolf. Sym then jumped at Haiku, fangs and claws barred, they dug into the flesh of the dragon's face.
Haiku let out a roar and began to claw at the black wolf on his face. Sym growled as the dragon's claws dug into his flesh but still he needed to hold on If only to give his older brother time to wake up. The younger twin then heard his brother's groans as he began to wake. The dragon finally got a hold of the dampire turned wolf and flung him in to the wall. D saw as his brother fly through the air and land on the ground. Sym tried to get up and then collapsed on to the floor. D now turned his eyes on the dragon; he then noticed the metal collar that was rapped around the dragon's neck. The device was clearly controlling the dragon.
That was when D hear it, the cold laughter that was echoing throw the mansion. It had to be the Big R controlling the dragon.
"Kill them Haiku!" Big R's voice rang out through the mansion. "Kill them all."
The hunter then saw a part of the collar glow. Haiku cried out then as the collar fought with him to control his will. D knew what he had to do in that one moment, while the dragon was distracted, the hunter leaped up and slice the control collar in half.
Haiku now free of gangster's control began to turn back into his half dragon form, giving the hunter a half smile of thanks he collapsed on to the floor. The dampire hunter then went over to Andy to see how he was doing, the satyr seem to be fine. D then walked over to his brother, the hunter nudged Sym a bit with his foot. The giant black wolf then turned back into the younger brother, which glared up at his brother before getting up.
Both dampire hunters walked up to Haiku.
"Is he dead?" Sym asked his twin.
D shook his head. "He is just unconscious."
"You sure, it looks dead. Poke it." Sym instructed his brother.
D raised an eyebrow and then shook his head; his twin could be so childish at times. He then began to walk away from Sym and Haiku. D knew that Big R still needed to be taken care of.
Sym looked up from the dragon just in time to see his brother walk away from him. The younger twin smirked for he knew that his brother was going off to face the gangster. " There he goes off to play the hero again." Sym thought to himself. "Now if I was a crazed gangster with a passion for rare magical creatures where would I keep them."
The Forgotten Prince was just about to go see where the misfit vampires were when the huge doors that were in back of him burst open. Turning around quickly he saw that it was his father in full battle gear, just behind him was Emily.
"Dad?" Sym said, as he looked at his father, a look of pure shock on his face. They were suppose to find him not the other way around. "What are you doing here?"
The king of vampires walked over to his son and quickly looked his child over. Trying to see if he was harmed in any way. "Are you ok?" Drac asked.
Sym could now see that Ja and Nus were also with his father and Emily. "I'm fine." Sym told his father.
After making sure that his youngest child was fine he glanced around trying to find his eldest son. "WHERE IS YOUR BROTHER?" Dracula yelled at his son.
" He went to go deal with Big R." Sym told his father meekly. Sym could clearly see that his father was upset about some thing, but what could be the problem? Big R was nothing more then a simple human gangster surely his brother could deal with the problem on his own.
" Big R is not a normal human!" Dracula told Sym.
"What do you mean that he's not a normal human?" Sym asked, now totally confused by what his father was saying.
"In short, he's a living corpse." Dracula told him, a serious look on his face.
"So he's a zombie." The dampire hunter stated.
" No, where a zombie forgets all that he or she once was, a living corpse does not. It retains it individuality. Most importantly simply cutting its head or setting it on fire can kill a zombie. A living corpse can't be killed by ether of these methods." Dracula explain.
"WHAT? Then how can he be killed?" Sym shouted.
" Only Anubis knows how to kill a living corpse .Now which way did your brother go?" Dracula asked.
Sym pointed to the right.
"All right Sym you watch Emily, Janus and the others. Anubis and I will take care of Big R." Dracula turn to make room for Anubis but did not find the incarnation of death and life behind him, in fact he was nowhere to be found. "Where did he go?"
(Elsewhere)
D made no sound as he walked through halls of the gangster's mansion. The dampire reached behind him, his hand on the hilt of his sword. D sensed nothing as he walked through the hallway, which he thought was odd. Everything had a 'feeling', which could be sensed. The only thing that did not have a 'feeling' was the dead. The hunter began to concentrate, for if he could not sense Big R then he could surely hear the gangster's beating heart. As D reach the top main hall way he heard someone's laughter behind him and then a sharp pain in his right leg. D staggered, just then he felt another sharp pain this time in his left leg. The hunter fell to the floor, his legs bleeding from two gun shot wounds. D heard a shotgun being cocked and an empty bullet shell fall to the floor.
" So you're the famous vampire hunter D." Said Big R, as he came form behind the hunter. D watched as the man took out the normal bullets and replaced them with wooden ones." I was expecting someone… shorter." Big R joked.
As the gangster laughed at his own joke, D realized that the man before him, who he thought was human had no heartbeat. The dampire had no trouble in killing something that was not human. So when the gangster was distracted the hunter swung his sword and priced the chest of the unhuman gangster.
Nothing happen. In fact Big R just laughed even more. D was shocked to say the lest! There was Big R standing there, with the dampire's sword stuck deep within the gangster's chest. What shocked the hunter the most was no blood came from the wound the hunter had given the gangster.
"Here let me help you with that." Big R said as he pulled out D's sword.
The hunter tried to reach for his sword but was shot in his sword arm. The hunter clutched his arm with his other hand.
" I don't think so Hunter D. You know it's a real pity really; you and your brother would have made fine additions to my collection. Both of you are far too much trouble to deal with. It would just be easier if you both die." Big R said a cold smile was on his face, as he placed the gun up to D's head.
" It's not his time yet." Came a very clear cold crisp voice.
Big R's eyes grew wide, even though he had never heard the voice before. The gangster knew who it belonged to, the only person it could belong to, death.
D watched as what he could only have guess was Anubis, came out of the shadows. There standing before the hunter and gangster was what appeared to be the grim reaper. The black clocked skeleton turned it's red glowing eyes upon Big R and from what the hunter could tell the incarnation of life and death was not pleased.
"Your time has been up for quite some time." Anubis told him, as he came closer to the gangster.
Big R tried to run but found that he was frozen with fear and could not move a muscle. Anubis reached out with a now skeletal hand and touched the gangster on the shoulder. Big R took on a happy peaceful look before he aged into nothing more then a pile of dust. The incarnation of life and death then turned back into his jackal like form.
"What was that?" D asked.
"What was what?" Anubis asked as he walked over to the fallen dampire.
"That grim reaper form you used just now." D told him.
"Oh that!" Anubis said. " Well that is what Big R imagined what Death looked like."
"But I have never known you to use that form before, I have always seen you as either the way you are now are your human form." D said in mild confusion.
Anubis shook his head. " I can take the form of any 'death' or 'life'. I also have many different human like forms that you have not seen before. Anyway what you saw was what Big R thought death should look like. When I'm by a person who is on the very brink of death or is dead (like in the case of Big R) I just turn into what they think Death is."
D nodded his head in understanding, but he soon realized something. " What about…"
"About the vampires and dampires and other undead creatures?" Anubis said finishing the dampire's question. D nodded his head.
" Since they are between both death and life I do not change for them until they experience their 'true' death." The incarnation of death and life explained to the vampire hunter.
" Your wounds are healed." Anubis then pointed out.
Sure enough D's gunshot wounds were healed, the dampire then got up and dust the gunpowder off his clothing. The two friends then proceeded to walk down the hallway to the two large doors that were at the end. Just then the large doors burst open and both D and Anubis jumped backward so that they did not hit them.
D gripped the handle of his sword and Anubis growled both were ready to fight any of Big R's left over henchmen. As the dust cleared both saw the person who had kicked the doors in.
" Father?"
"Drac?"
There stood the king of vampires, worry clear in his glowing red eyes. " D, are you and Anubis all right?" he said as he rush over to his friend and son.
"I'm all right." Anubis told the king of vampires.
Dracula looked over at his son and saw the dried blood and holes in his clothing. More worry filled his eyes as he thought of his son being hurt.
"Do not worry father the gunshot wounds have already healed." D said trying to calm his father down.
Dracula shook his head trying to clear his head of the thought of his son being shot. "Where's Big R?"
D and Anubis step back to show the king of vampires a small pile of dust.
"What is that?" Dracula asked.
"Big R." Anubis told him.
Dracula turned to Anubis. " Your handy work?"
"Yes." Replied the king friend.
" I'm not cleaning that up." Came a new voice, which all three knew in an instant.
" Sym" D stated.
Sym walked into the room followed by Pet, Charlie, Emily, Andy and Janus. While his father and brother had been busy, the younger dampire hunter had found the misfit vampires and freed them.
Andy rubbed the back of his head. " What I miss?"
" Nothing much just D and Anubis taking care of Big R." Dracula told the satyr.
"Drac?" Andy said looking over at the king of vampires.
"Yes?"
"Nana's going to kill you." The satyr smirked.
"I was afraid of you saying that." Drac said with a sigh.
The king of vampires then looked over to see Pet, Charlie, Janus, and just coming in to the room Haiku. " So what do we do with you three?"
"I'm going to return to my herd with Andy your highness." Charlie said giving a small bow.
"Please don't do that." Dracula said giving the centpire a warm smile.
"Don't worry about me. Now that Big R is gone I'm free." Haiku told them.
"And I will go back to Empress Xie." Pet told them.
"I don't think that a good idea." Ja told him.
" Pet she doesn't care about you in the least!" Nus said.
The weredampire shook his head. "Your wrong! She loves me very much!"
"Pet has she ever told you that she loves you?" D asked.
"Well no but, I'm sure she does." Pet said.
"That may or may not be true but do you think she is capable of love? Look what she did to her own children." Dracula told him.
"They where missing. I'm sure she didn't know where they were." Pet said.
"They were her slaves Pet!" Sym yelled at the weredampire.
"No no she would never do that! Xie is kind woman she rescued me, she…."
"Bread you." Anubis interrupted him. The incarnation of life and death was now back in his gothic human form.
"No! She found me and rescued me."
Anubis shook his head. "I my be death but I am also life. You Pet were bred." Anubis's eyes glowed a soft white then. " Your father was a werewolf from the country of Omki and your mother was a vampriess from the island of Dovik. Both were incredible beautiful. Your father and mother hated each other but money easily solved that problem. They were paid to have you."
"No …" The weredampire choked out.
"What the empress didn't expect was that over time the couple would grow to love each other as well as their child. So when she came to collect her pet they refused, so she killed them."
"Xie always told me that they hated me. That I was a mistake, so they threw me away." Pet sobbed. "Where do I go now, no one will want me."
"We've got no place to go either Pet." Ja told him.
" You could stay with me?" Anubis volunteered.
Dracula spoke up then noticing the looks that Ja, Nus and Pet were giving the incarnation of life and death. "They could stay at Girir. I'm sure that they will take care of you three."
"Come on then, there is nothing left for us here." D told the group before they all walked out of the castle each on their way home.
End chapter 10-