I tried to put this up last night, but fan fiction decided to deny me. But hey it's up now. Thank you to my reviewers Believer29, Lady Wednesday, and the 4bidden 1. Also I know, it's past friday. Opps!
Atrum felt the darkness inside her rising, and Satan's dark, evil laughter was ringing in her ears. No way was she going to let it end like this. She fought too hard and too long for her chance at freedom, to make her own decisions for once. Now they where stolen once more, she be damned first.
"I am damned," she laughed out loud. The darkness wan not going to win, not tonight, anyway. "No matter what I do I'm damned!"
"I see you have chosen to submit," Satan laughed darkly, thinking she has chosen to subcome to the darkness. Bring ruler of the world was so close, he could almost taste it. "I love it when people make this so much easier."
"You just don't get it," she sighed. Summoning up her powers, she blasted him off her. "I won't let you win! No matter what I do I'm going to die. So I'm going to take you back to hell with me!"
"Stupid witch," he roared, as flames burst from the ground. Angered, no enraged, at her defiance, he called forth his own powers. "No one defies me."
"Oh but I do," she hissed. Standing up, she caste a circle around herself. "Guardians of the North watch tower! Creatures of the Earth! Hear my plea and join me in my fight. Guardians of East watch tower! Creatures of Air! Hear my plea and join me in my fight…"
"Stop it!" Satan roared. Feeling the elemental powers joining her own, he began to panic slightly. A ring of yellow and green swirled around her body, protecting her from attacks. He have to make her submit before she finished her circle. "Do you really think you can defeat me? I am all powerful! Besides the darkness will make it all easier. Join me!"
"Guardians of the South watch tower!" she continued her casting of a sacred circle, uneffected by his words. The darkness had once more been buried within her. Knowing now what she had to do, she finished the circle. "Creatures of fire! Hear my plea and join my fight! And Guardians of the West watch towers! Creatures of Water! Hear my plea and join my fight! The casting is complete and I welcome you to my circle. Bear witness Guardians of the Elements, Protectors of the Earth, and lend me your assistance I beg of you! Give me the courage and power to fight the evil who tried to take over the world!"
"Foolish girl!" he roared as he was backed into a corner. The elements had aligned themselves with her. Power was growing within her, begging to be released, and Satan knew the only escape was to break the circle. Yet he refused, he work so hard to get to this point, his pride blinded him. Her green eyes glowed as she turned to him, the words of the banishing spell coming to her mind.
"I will protect the world from your evil," she said, as she drew a banishing ward in the air with her right index finger. "The power of air banishes you! The power of earth buries you! The power of fire captures you! The power of water purifies you! So mote it be!"
"NO!" he screamed as the ward took hold of him and was imprinted on his chest. She repeated her chant and the ward began to glow yellow, then it faded to green, the red, and lastly a blue color that looked like water. Rasing his power, he tried to break the ward, bu nothing seemed to help. "I will not be defeated so easily!"
"So mote it BE!" Atrum said with so much force the ward began to glow gold. She had done it he was going back to Hell, but Satan still struggled as the ward began to drag him back into the depths of Hell. One last energy surge, and he exploded into a million peices, it was over. Sighing with relief she felt the sharp pain in her stomach. Looking down she saw the black twisted horn sticking out where the spear from so long ago had been. Her fate was sealed like her unborn child so many moons ago. Funny though, hadn't she asked for him to show his horns?
"My blood stains the pure white of the snow," she laughed as she sank to her knees. Feeling the life being drain from her, she held onto what she could. After all she still needed to tell him her choice. Then, like a dream, he was kneeling beside her just as she collapsed. Leaning against him her blood soaked his shirt, and all she could do was stare up into his eyes and then she knew she had to tell him.
"I had chosen," she began, her voice crack as she was weakened by the blood loss.
"Hush Atrum," Van Helsing told her, making her stop her words. "I refuse to let you go."
"The choice has been stolen," she breathed, wlling the strenght to come to her. "I need to tell you one thing, before this is all over."
"What is that?" he asked her. Not wanting to let her go, she gave him a weak smile.
"I chose to stay with you," Atrum said as she leaned up and pressed her lips against his. "If it was still possible I would never leave your side again. I never stopped loving you."
"Atrum," Van Helsing cried, as she started to close her eyes. "I love you. Please don't leave me!"
"Good bye," she whispered as he body went limp and her lungs released the last air that would ever enter them. Grieving over her body the rest was a blur. He had no idea how he returned to the village or why they were being so kind to him this time. Collapsing on a warm bed, he drifted into a restless sleep.
Back with Dracula, he had made a horrifying discovery. Yasmina wasn't happy with the ending results either. They where both humans again, and Dracula was beyond pissed. Satan's power had left him and the Earth, there was nothing him or anyone could do. Bound to Hell once more, Atrum had her victory even in death. Leaving one person behind at the scene, Yasmina and Dracula returned to their castle beyond the woods to discuss how they would free Satan and win back their unnatural life. Stefan walked out of the woods as they left, and toward the clearing.
"This is wrong," Stefan sighed as he went and knelt by a pool of blood Atrum had left. The air and snow had frozen it, and a silent tear slid down his cheek.
"Sentimental now are we," a dark voice laughed behind him.
"You and I both know I never meant for her to die," he said as he touched the red stained snow. Pressing two fingers to his lips then touching the snow again, he said his final good bye. "Now what Hades? What is left now! Atrum is gone, Satan confined to Hell. What is next?"
"Letting the world know evil still exist," he laughed. "Now come, there is much to do before the new millennium comes!"
"That's still almost 200 some years away," Stefan muttered as he followed Hades back down to the under world.
"Never too early to start!" was his dark reply.
Van Helsing found himself in the Grecian home of his old life. Having had this dreams many times since her death he knew she was coming. Green toga and all there she was his Atrum, his Andreana, his love. The specter of his mind lived on, even when she had not.
"Why do you torment me in these dreams," he said to the specter. Giving him a smile that could light up a room, she ran and hugged him. "Please tell me I am not dreaming!"
"But you are dreaming," she replied sadly. "I am nothing more then your longing heart's desire."
"Stay with me," he pleaded. "I don't care if I ever wake, just say you will stay with me."
"Wake up Van Helsing."
I was thinkig of ending my story there, but I have decided to contuine it throught the sequal I had mentioned much ealier, but I am too lazy to make another story thing so it shall contuine in the this one. Expect another up date soon. Always I love my reviews! Till next time.