A.N. So new chapter this time Vampyro... I noticed I didn't include as much heartless as I should so to make up for that I will try to include better fights as well as more fights with the heartless and or ghouls... I hope you enjoy.
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Chapter 10
The group listened to Eva as she told of her first time as a lady in waiting to Amalia, Amalia was the only one not enjoying the story as Eva got to the part of her nickname that everyone had called her due to the incident.
"So for the longest time everyone called her Princess Gobball." Eva finished as Amalia growled. Eva along with the rest of the group laughed, as Amalia crossed her arms in annoyance.
"I should've ordered my father to throw all of you in jail. Then we'd see who'd be laughing." Amalia said as she trudged forward in anger.
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Sora stared ahead of himself taking in the dark atmosphere and appearance of the village that the map had brought them.
"Are you sure we have to go through there?" Amalia asked as she took in the same landscape. In reply Percedal turned towards the map, twisting it this way and showing that he probably didn't really have an idea on how to even read it properly. "Yeah we have to go through there, and the villages name is..uh... Forfut Village."
Sora could care less about the name of the village, he just stared in silence, having a bad feeling about it. "Can't we just go around?" Sora had asked, the only answer he received was the grumbling stomachs of Percedal, Ruel, and Yugo. Sora sighed knowing that with an answer like that there was know way they would go around.
So following behind his friends he walked with his guard up and his eyes open. No one else seemed to notice as they kept walking, but everyone in the village stared forward with a blank gaze, and two children that he had spotted sitting on the root top stared at him and smiled with unnaturally large smiles. Amalia who was walking a little ahead of him must've noticed as well for her pace quickly picked up and Sora once again took in the dark air of the village. Shivers running down his back at the stares and such, even Halloween Town wasn't this creepy.
Ahead of him he saw the group enter an inn, Sora pushing aside his suspicion ran to catch up and found everyone already seated with some type of 'food?' on the table. Sora ran to the table passing a mirror on the way, unaware of the figure watching him through another.
"What is that?" Sora asked as he came up to the table, pulled back a chair and sat down. No body answered as they stared at the full pot of slime before them. In the end they didn't eat anything and they all went to the rooms the had gotten for the night with empty stomachs.
The girls left for their room quickly followed by Ruel, Yugo and Percedal, Sora and his friends remained at the table a while longer to discuss the situation.
The room was completely empty now, all except for the three friends and the inn cook who could be heard working in the kitchen.
"So I don't know about you guys, but ever since we stepped foot into the village I had the feeling of being watched." Sora said as he looked toward the kitchen seeing the cook staring into space. Donald and Goofy nodded.
Yeah and the people her seem kinda... uh..." Goofy paused trying to think of a word to describe the inhabitants of the village. Donald leaned forward and began supplying a list of words Goofy could maybe use.
" Creepy, empty, stupid, lost, screw loose?" Goofy thought about the list, "Well I was thinking they seemed more along the lost and or empty side of your list, then the stupid and or having a few screws loose." Goofy explained the feeling that he had. As Sora was about to add his own opinion a scream sounded from up in the girls room.
Sora and his friends stood quickly, knocking down all of their chairs, and raced up the stairs, not wanting to waste any time. They didn't quite make it to the top as heartless, that appeared to resemble the Wight Knight from Halloween Town, blocked their path.
"Come on we don't have time for this." Sora complained as one of the Heartless lunged at them, the fight was limited to the area of the stairs and soon Sora and his friends were cornered. Sora decided that he would take the Heartless coming form upstairs, Goofy would take the Heartless out as they tried to approach from downstairs, and Donald will aide his friends and help when needed from the middle.
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Sora had defeated one heartless and knocked back another when a third took a swipe at his head, Sora ducked and dodged to the left as the heartless lost its footing due to the attack and tumbled down the stairs landing behind Sora. Goofy was bashing at Heartless from his spot below, but due to the restricted movement he found it difficult to throw his shield to take out more heartless. Donald quickly called out a spell as the heartless that had fallen behind Sora regained its footing on the creaking steps.
The Heartless fell again having been burned by the Fira spell that Donald had cast, before the flames got to large Donald called forth Blizzard and a large chuck of ice burst on contact with the flames, putting the majority of them out. Donald then turned back to the heartless that was now little more then a chard husk, and swung at it with his rod, taking it down for good. From above him Sora yelled out in pain as he was caught off guard by the clawed hands of a heartless, which had almost ripped through the teens arm.
Donald watched as Sora quickly regained his balance as well as his guard and started attacking the heartless again. Upstairs came the sound of another fight, a sign that they needed to finish what they were doing and quick.
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The three friends quickly found themselves backup against a wall as heartless practically pulled themselves from the foundation. Donald grumbled as he swung at the heartless as they neared. From upstairs the fighting had ceased and it had grown quiet but then a scream resounded through the inn, one that could practically wake the dead, which this village seemed to be full of.
"Evaaaa!"
Sora recognized the scream as Amalia's, and soon after her scream the heartless stopped advancing. However even though they stopped advancing however they did not retreat nor did they let up on their attack.
Not wanting to waste time, Sora knocked Heartless to the side, clearing a path for him and his friends. The three of them raced through the gap and to the room that the girls had shared. In the room stood Yugo, Percedal, Ruel, and Amalia, all of them staring out the open window like they've seen a ghost. Sora looked around the room, taking in all the damage.
"So, what happened?" Sora asked as he continued to take in the room turned war zone. The four that were part of the fight and had witnessed what happened turned back to Sora and his friends. The four took in the wounds that the three had, having not wasted time on healing themselves before they made their way to the others.
"What happened to you guys?" Percedal asked, wishing now that he had been apart of their fight as well. Ruel knew where the Iop's mind was so he answered Sora's question.
"Some person came in here, while you three were fighting, and ran off with Eva." Sora and his friends took in this information. "Well let's go get her back then." Sora said as made his way to the door. The rest of the group followed and stuck close as Sora knocked Heartless aside to clear another path.
As they ran through Forfut they weaved their way through the ranks of ghouls and heartless, trying to avoid as much confrontation as possible. Amalia watched as the shape of the count that had attacked them flew and disappeared within the castle in front of them.
"There! That's where we need to go to get Eva back!" Amalia called out to her companions as they continued forward. Behind them ranks of ghouls gave chase, leaving no routes for retreat, not that any of them would turn their back to Eva.
As they neared the palace the ghouls numbers dwindled, giving way for heartless to replace them. Goofy looked over his shoulder and noticed that by now the gates of the castle courtyard were behind them and all that was left following them were the heartless, the ghouls stood rooted to their spots before the gates opening.
"Sora!"Goofy called out to the teen. Sora looked over his shoulder to look at his friend and noticed how many heartless were on the groups tail. Donald turned as well and the three of them stopped, calling forth their weapons. Amalia and the others stopped as well.
"Sora we don't have time to fight these things, we have to get to Eva!" Amalia yelled to the spike haired teen who only shook his head. Donald answered the princess's statement.
"Yeah and that is why the three of us will take the Heartless out and catch up with you when we are done." Amalia looked like she wanted to argue but the advancing heartless and Yugo urge tug at her hand pulled her towards the castle and the stairs that lead to Eva
"Amalia come on, they can handle this." Yugo stated as he continued to lead the princess. With one last Glace to the three Amalia followed behind Yugo as the four made their way to the stairs.
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A few of the heartless had fallen but from what the three saw, they had barely made a dent in the enemy ranks.
"Donald watch Goofy's back, I'm using Valor!" Sora called out to his friends, then he felt the familiar surge of energy which surrounded him in an explosion of red. Sora then stood in the red garments of this world's Valor form and faced the enemy, his two keyblades held at the ready.
Heartless charged from every direction, leaving Sora little room for error. A heartless clawed at him from his right, but he couldn't dodge, so he ducked out of the way and slashed at its legs, ending it with an upward slash as he stood back at his full height. He quickly unleashed a quick series of attacks taking out heartless with every few swings. He could feel Valor Form time running out and knew he had to take out as many heartless as possible.
He turned and blocked an enemies attack, knocking it back just in time to stop another. He continued blocking, dodging, and attacking for awhile, getting hit here and there when he wasn't fast enough or during times when a few attacked at once.
He blocked a final attack when in a flash of white Valor Form was used up and the second keyblades left his hand. The claw that it was holding back, swung, cutting his other arm, the one that hadn't been injured in the fight at the inn, as he twisted to the side, letting the other heartless he had been holding back fall. As Sora was about to take another swing at the heartless with what strength he had left Donald called from behind him.
" Sora let's go!"
Sora turned to Donald as he and Goofy made their way to the steps the others had went up a while ago. He looked back to the still growing horde knowing well that he wouldn't be able to hold them back much longer. Sora turned back and ran to Donald and Goofy, the three of them racing up the stairs.
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The three ran in silence all except for the panting as they ran to catch up to their friends. Donald reached into his pouch that the tailor Drogile had included with his new clothes and dug around for something. His hand touched the smooth glass bottle, and he quickly pulled it out of the pouch, never stopping in his stride. He tossed the bottle back to Sora.
"Here Sora, this should help."
Sora caught the bottle and held the potion in his hand. He quickly uncorked it and drank the entire contents. The think foul tasting liquid quickly working as his injuries quickly mended themselves. The three continued forward and picked up their pace as they heard the sound of their friends fighting getting louder.
As they neared the large doors they brought out their weapons and charged in.
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Eva left out a gasp of pain as whatever Count Vampyro was doing her neared completion. Ruel was no where to be seen, and Amalia, Yugo, and Percedal, we're left trying to figure out how to stop the count and save Eva before it was to late.
Vampyro no longer seemed to notice anyone as he knelt before the marked form of Eva. Amalia had enough, she was going to save Eva. With that thought she summoned her brambles which quickly when to attack Vampyro. The count saw this coming and quickly dispelled of the plants as he landed back on the ground.
"Enough, you will not interfere!" His voice echoed through the room as Yugo and Amalia went to attack him once again. Vampyro refused to be denied his love, especially with her practically whispering sweet nonsense to him from her ring prison.
As the Count attacked at the three again the doors at the end of the room and in ran the three others that he had seen in the inn. He noticed the blade the one held and recalled the words of the sacrier who had visited him.
"So you're the one she spoke of." He stated more then asked as he took in the strange key shaped weapon the boy held. How that thing could do as much damage as the sacrier had told him of he would never understand. However that didn't matter all that mattered was his love's vessel.
Yugo tried to take advantage of Vampyro's distraction And opened two portals, one by his side and the other behind Vampyro's head. Quickly the twelve year old let through but instead of catching the enemy by surprise it was the other way around as Vampyro knocked the boy to the ground Yugo trying to hit him again spun on his shoulders sending kicks to Vampyro, only to be knocked back by his friends.
Sora ran and caught Yugo getting him to his feet, the group stared Vampyro down and prepared for another attack when the count suddenly flew in front of them. He was about to hit Yugo again when from his pocket Az flew out and into the Count's face.
Vampyro's eyes went wide as he tried to hit the small tofu away.
"No, not a to...to...tofuuuu!" The count sneezed and flew back turning into some kind of imp type of bat thing
The group stared at the creature as it tried to fly with its small wings that sat atop it's head. The ring prison of Shadowfang hanging loosely on his leg. It sneezed again and the count was standing tall and glaring at the group. How dare they make a mockery of him? He was the Count Vampyro, shushu guardian of the demon Shadowfang so to be so to be lover. He would not take the ridicule these fools had to give.
He wasn't even aware of Shadowfang's voice as he charged towards those who made a fool of him. Then he was stuck back pedaling, trying to get away as a little too late, he saw the small tofu hurled toward his face by the young boy.
Shadowfang cursed at him as he was once again caught off guard by his allergy. The tofu hit his face and instantly he shifted to the small weak form that his allergy caused him to turn into. He turned to try and fly away but this form had little wings that didn't work for a quick getaway. He was grabbed by the boy with the key shaped weapon and Shadowfang's prison was pulled from his leg.
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Slowly Eva opened her eyes as the remained of the spell wore off. Vampyro had silenced Shadowfang and was now talking to Percedal about the troubles of being a shushu guardian. Sora looked to Ruel who seemed to be back to himself but his form had yet to change back, he still had the long matted hair, as well at the sharp yellowed claws.
"Please let me make this up to you." The count said as everyone was starting to head out. Then almost on cue Yugo stomach growled and the group was able to eat something as this time they weren't served, whatever that bowl of slop was the other night.
A.N. yay! So three fights and a drive form and for all of you whoreview this story I would like to thank you, it is like Christmas day every time I see a new review and it gives me incentive to continue forward with is fanfic. So thanks to those who take the time to review.
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