Countess Cavendish Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland
The groups are just at the beginning of their journey through the castle, in search of each of the pieces to form the lock and this way progress in the castle, which Elizabeth is just waiting for the ten manage to collect the five fragments to be able to pass the door in the next sector of the castle, even if the path seems long, some of these parts of the castle the route is a little less long, precisely one of these was the trio of Amanda O'Neill, the girls of the long range, passing to the prison of the castle.
They opened the door to the dungeon and from there they could already notice that the corridor was no longer that sophisticated thing, getting even with an ambiance a little more rustic, the beautiful smooth and decorated walls, were giving place to gray bricks in a wall that showed a lot of irregularity and unevenness of each part of those bricks, arriving until another door, which was made of metal, they started to open that door after collecting some sub items and arrive at the first of many corridors, there the ambiance is already very noticeable. The
humid environment, with some drips, the floor with puddles, the creatures that were starting to go up to the girls, but they were already preparing themselves to attack, the more they were just skeletons, easily defeated by Constanze, Jasminka and Amanda, O'Neill was using small explosive arrows that caught the creatures and then exploded, causing an extra effect, the other two used the normal ammunition and could also begin to hear that the people there started to shout to free them.
At this Amanda pulls a lever, freeing a trio from one of those cells.
? : Thank you! I tried to come here to register about Countess Cavendish and ended up stuck along with my girlfriends.
Amanda: We're here to destroy that castle.
? : I wish you good luck, I can help free the other trapped people, my name is Wangari, these two are my girlfriends Kimberly and Joanna, we kind of make a documentation of creatures of the night, but when we got here in this castle, they captured us.
Amanda: This place is too dangerous for mere non-hunters to enter, even us hunters are at high risk. By the way my name is Amanda, the short one is Constanze and the pink haired one is Jasminka, they are my girlfriends too.
After this dialogue, Wangari started releasing the people from the other cells, pulling the levers, on the other hand the trio was hitting the creatures that were going towards the black woman and her girlfriends, they started opening more ways, easily managing to finish with the skeletons in that part, it was even an easy job, without even needing to use the sub item of the cell, but that was until reaching the door to the next room, where a giant skeleton ended up falling and it almost hit the three girls that dodged throwing backwards.
Amanda: At least one more challenge.
Wangari: And here we go with an exciting fight! Amanda, Constanze and Jasminka the three slayers who saved us from prison are going up against the great skeleton Parantrophus who will fare better in this one!
Jasminka quickly shows who had the best of it by firing with the hand cannon and then dismantling the skeleton with a single shot, leaving all the freed people stunned with the power of the shot, including the trio of the first ones who were freed, which Kimberly was writing down everything in a notebook, Joanna was sort of drawing, while Wangari narrated the facts.
Wangari: Woah! and it looks like it was a single shot from Jasminka, that girl has a cannon in her hands, how impressive! Our freedom is being secured in the hands of these three heroines, how amazing!
Amanda: Are you going to narrate everything we do?
Joanna: That's what she was already doing, before we came here, she was narrating the missions piece by piece.
Amanda: That explains why they were captured.
Amanda's trio continues the way after defeating the big skeleton with ease, they move on to the other corridor, this one things were already a little more serious, there were zombies coming out of the ground, some skeletons, At that moment Amanda used the sub-item that was in her hands, which was a diamond that she shot and kept hitting all around that prison, hitting some of the creatures, even leaving her with a smile on her face, since it was starting to fill the room with those same diamonds.
At that same time Wangari with her trio go to that room, she starts to pull the levers releasing more people, some were already dead, others were alive but very weak, what was being a big step for the mission.
Wangari: And now Amanda's trio is easily taking out some more of these creatures of the night, she's amazing! Those weapons of theirs are impressive and that bouncing rock in the room is helping to clear the way! These three even look like they're witches.
Amanda's trio continues on their way, finishing those creatures as if it were nothing through the corridor, but this time the biggest obstacle came at the same time, before they even reached the door, a group of seven skeletons armed with arquebuses appears, they start shooting, the trio takes cover while they shoot, even Wangari and her trio stay hidden, using one of the cells as cover, and some more unwary people will take shots.
Amanda prepares an explosive arrow, leaves the shot ready with the crossbow and aims quickly to hit a skeleton in the middle, Constanze also shoots, Jasminka still prepares the shot, but they end up having to deal with zombies getting close. O'Neill, to defend her girlfriend that was still preparing the shot, shot with a crossbow a zombie that almost caught Antonenko.
Wangari: Woah! armed skeletons that's a big difficulty! But still Amanda's trio is handling these creatures smoothly! These liberators have come prepared with everything.
Jasminka finally managed to arm the hand cannon, there were still four skeletons left with arquebuses, missing, because with only one shot Antonenko managed to finish them off with great ease, and they flew off to all sides, making the trio leave the cover in the cells and start aiming at the creatures that were going at the freed prisoners and also at their own.
Wangari: And bones flew everywhere! How impressive! That weapon of Jasminka's has a power that is mind-blowing!
The three go continuing in the corridor giving cover for Wangari and her trio to free the rest of the cells, some that were jammed and a little rusty, but they didn't have anybody, this way they only continued for another one of those cells and they were doing this for all the corridor, in that Amanda's trio, passes for a staircase, this one that is somewhat subterranean, but already having a little of obstacles.
For there buers began to be spinning by the same, becoming practically the most common thing in those staircases, and also spears that were rising, Wangari went along with the girls giving that dodged the spears and staying behind the trio that was hitting the buers opening the way, So much that it was noticeable that on the floor below, were armor knights who were doing this, the same were easily defeated by the trio with a few shots, arriving this time at the door to the next part of the dungeon, the three even feel that the door was more stuck.
Opening in trio finally gained access to that part of the castle, another corridor, this one with more risk than the previous, this time the skeletons were with spears and swords, besides knights in armor
were part of that part and some flying swords that were going towards them.
Wangari: Witheach dungeon things get harder, will these girls make it through the difficulties?
Amanda shot already at once against a flying sword and could notice that the arrow ended up kind of catching on a shadow, in that she kept shooting against the flying swords that were about spirits, the female silhouette was also quite noticeable besides the screams when they were hit.
The skeletons on the other hand went for the trio of Wangari who were defended by Constanze who went firing her pistol rapidly at each group of them, using an improved version she made herself capable of firing up to seven musket balls.
Jasminka aimed with the cannon right at the knights in armour who were going to throw their axes towards them, but the hand cannon simply finished them off with enormous ease, with it even drilling into a trio who fell with a single shot.
That part of the dungeon was already different, the people trapped were mostly dead, the few alive were ex-hunters that came running when they were freed, some even being very thin.
Wangari: What was that tirambaço? Jasminka with that hand cannon just ran through three knights in armor! Now that's a powerful weapon, we're just witnessing an epic trio of slayers! They are liberating us with a skill never seen before!
It didn't take long and soon came what would get in the way of them passing to the next door, in the bag appeared some Malachi, not only one, but several, 12 of them, that went to attack the girls, which were dodging and preparing to counter attack, the giant and flying monsters were also going to attack the trio of the documenters, they were protected by the O'Neill's trio.
The Malachi didn't give much trouble to be defeated, since the firearms were very efficient leaving them dead, even being twelve, Constanze's shots were more than enough, added to Amanda's arrows, not even Jasminka needed to shoot, she saved the ammunition to be used in the next room.
Wangari: And another corridor of these dungeons has been opened by this wonderful trio! These girls are incredible heroes! We have here a group that has finally brought us freedom after so long!
Amanda opened the door to the fourth corridor of the dungeon, this one already had some knights mounted on two-legged horses with spears, going from one side to the other, besides also the presence of skeletons armed with arquebuses, skeletons with spears, zombies, everything to prevent them from progressing any further in those corridors, Amanda threw a bomb that was in hand, Jasminka fired a shot with the hand cannon towards the knights who fell and went towards some of the armed skeletons, Constanze took the opportunity to shoot the ones that were left alive and that way they could go back to not being in cover.
Wangari: And another corridor full of challenges, really these girls are bumping up against danger and still mocking it, that's impressive, what great heroines.
The riders mounted on horses are a big obstacle, but Amanda and Constanze's shots quickly dismount them and they fall down affecting their allies, which is perfect for O'Neill's trio who manage to open more ways. Wangari and her trio on the other hand open the remaining cells, but when they reach the half of the corridor they end up having to deal with another trouble when a knight armed with a sword comes down there, this one is more massive, wearing a golden armor.
This armor soon gives a move with the cutting sword and on that creates a whole wave through the floor that is dodged by the girls, but catches on a person escaping from the cell and on the spot that cuts the same person in half with ease.
Wangari: That's scary, a giant armor that's carrying this sword with enormous cutting ability! I wonder how these girls will win?
Jasminka is already ready, she fires a cannon shot, but when reaching the armor she ends up hitting a magic barrier of a force field, which even so gave a boost backwards, then Constanze also fires, some shots catch, but only give small holes through the armor.
Amanda tries to shoot arrows, but nothing happens, the arrows are too weak, she then thinks of using the arrows with bombs, Constanze does the same thing, using the small bomb carts, which she winds and goes walking towards the creature.
The creature keeps trying to show how agile it is in giving forward strokes, without noticing that the bomb cart arrived right under it, causing a very strong explosion, just like O'Neill
's explosive arrows. Antonenko takes advantage of the moment and uses the cannon to shoot towards the armor that still comes out a little damaged and alive, but not for long, the cannonball got right in the creature's chest that ended up screaming, being dissolved afterwards.
Wangari: Once again these heroines are saving our skin! What powerful armour! But they didn't give up! They shot one of those and used the strategy, they are really smart and know how to use the attacks, especially Constanze who made those walking bombs, what a wonderful invention!
Amanda: You really have a thing for narrating everything as if it were a sports match haha, I'm not going to complain, now come on, there's one more door, we're getting closer and closer.
Wangari and her group finished opening the rest of the cells in that corridor, a few had people alive, the rest were just bones or lifeless bodies, when they reached the end of the corridor, they opened the door, at that time they noticed that things got a little more serious, when they saw that there were multiple spears coming out of the walls right on the stairs, Amanda took a small step.
When she steps on a brick that comes down, all the lances are activated, and she swallows saliva, at that time Constanze has a great idea, she takes her bombs and takes the explosive part, using them to give the steps forward, they are kind of memorizing where they have to step or not.
They are doing this very delicately, since they can't stop in the middle of the way, even more because the spears can pierce them all.
Given this situation, they even put a mirror on one of these to see the stairs on the other side.
Amanda: Cons you're brilliant my love! I wouldn't have thought of that!
Wangari: Constanze with her mechanical genius, managed to simply nullify the trap by using her guided bombs, a tactic of not exploding, but rather just showing the way where they must go.
The six go through the path traced by Constanze's bomb cart, which has already served to mark where it activated the spears or not, noticing that in the middle of the way there were many bones, since some of these people may have died, when arriving at the last floor of the underground they open the door and find a different room, all circular, with the cells around, looking a lot like an arena.
Amanda: How quickly we get to the end of this place, I wonder where the triangle is? Let's search the cells.
The same ones started to look around, opening the cells and noticing that there was nothing too much, the 15 cells that circulate the place were completely empty only one thing that had and it was a room where it had access in a higher place, only that they were trying to jump and soon they heard a shivering and shivering.
Coming out of the floor a creature wearing a kilt and using a bagpipe, a ghost, accompanied by fireballs with a face. The Ghost Piper together with Wisps, ready to defend that part of the castle, the girls even stopped trying to climb, since it wouldn't give because they were lower, and with that they focused on the creature.
Wangari: It's Ghost Piper, he terrorizes the dungeon, always feeding on our souls, every time he touches it, it's a sign that he wants to feed on someone's souls, these wisps were once the souls of the people who were killed by this curse. But our heroines will find a way to stop this monster.
The three begin to prepare the shots while the ghost starts to play with the bagpipes, at that time the wisps start to go flying towards the girls, Amanda uses her sub item but it's kind of useless in an open field like that, without having much to rebound, she shoots an arrow and with that the wisp crumbles giving a scream that makes the girls cover their ears.
The Ghost piper continued to play with his harmonica, sort of trying to cast some spells that were being deflected by the girls. Constanze finally reload the gun, she starts to shoot, but the bullets go through the creature as if it was nothing, hitting only the wisps that at each kill always had that scream that caused a huge pain in the ears.
Amanda: Weapons won't be efficient, at this point we would need someone with magic or a holy weapon.
Wangari, Joanna and Kimberly started helping the three trying to find something, the O'Neill's trio tried to get rid of the wisps, but it was no use, the screams continued to be annoying, the ghost piper's spells were also getting harder to dodge, the creature kept playing and the more it played, the more wisps started to appear, those that went to the girls.
Amanda: Shit! These things just keep shouting, the worst of it all is that I also have to put up with listening to this bagpipe, seriously I never thought I would lose patience with the Scots so soon.
The girls were thinking of a way, they even stopped attacking, they started to dodge, but the number of wisps only increased which made it more difficult since the ghost piper was getting more advantage, this until Jasminka shoots on the ceiling, making huge pieces of stone fall on the floor, which end up falling on the wisps that scream multiple times, but on the ghost piper itself it shows no effect, since it only passed through and continued playing.
Jasminka: Sorry, I wanted to try something.
Amanda: Now we know this thing is intangible, only Lotte would help now, she would be the expert.
Wangari finds a bagpipe, she starts to play it, the wisps started to be kind of sucked by it, giving a little more time for the girls to breathe, they were focusing on thinking in a way to attack the ghost piper that was focusing in attacking the black girl that continued to reproduce the sound with more intensity.
Amanda: Excellent help Wangari, we'll get some thinking done now.
Amanda lights a bomb and so does Constanze, they both throw it close to the Ghost piper, but at the time it explodes raising the biggest smoke the creature still appears passing through the smoke that raised calmly and it was a very strong explosion, then Kimberly appears with some blue arrows, these the creature notices and starts to go flying towards the girl with the notebook. O'Neill runs as fast as she can grab one of the arrows, put it on the crossbow shooting at the creature that is thrown backwards having the arrow crossed on the body, she takes the other arrows and starts to aim at the ghost, but the ghost crumbles, escaping from the arrow.
Amanda: We're doing it, this thing is going to be defeated now!
The creature appeared right behind Amanda the same one aimed the crossbow up and back, the arrow passed almost grazing by O'Neill, that hit right in the head of the creature, she turns and starts shooting several times, arriving to arrest the creature in the wall, but the same one was still alive, that until Joanna appeared with a box in hands. It
was at that time that the ghost piper started to play with more intensity increasing more size, but at the time Joanna opened the box, kind of the monster started to be sucked, Amanda was using some stronger and more intense arrows, putting more into the box, leaving the ghost with less power.
Wangari helped playing with more intensity the bagpipes, what ended up making the monster to be sealed in that box, finally defeating it, so much that a glow was involving the girls and six vials appeared, the same when touching the vial felt a little more vigorous.
Wangari: And now finally thanks to these three wonderful heroines! Amanda, Jasminka and Constanze! The dungeon has been saved! Finally the Ghost piper has been defeated, the lives of many people can finally get their freedom! This is amazing!
Amanda: Even though you are a bit annoying for narrating everything we do, your help was also very helpful, now let's continue, we have to get the triangle for the door.
The girls go to where was the part near the door and as it didn't have ladder, each one goes, on top of the other, being Amanda the one who goes climbing by last that human ladder, arriving at the highest platform, the same one takes a cut of the waist, firm in a point of that platform.
The same ones go climbing for the rope, arriving one for time the platform, they then open the door, when entering there they find the triangle and also a crossbow which Amanda catches the same and when touching it it disappears and goes altering the own crossbow of O'Neill that when noticing saw some differences, after read a paper written "Now your crossbow can cause damages to intangible spiritual creatures, Then they go to the teleportation chamber, where they end up feeling an energy around themIn
a fraction of a
second they return to the main hall, being practically the first to arrive there, going even with Wangari and the trio of them, which soon make a point of thanking the girls.
Wangari: Seriously thank you all so much for saving us, we will for sure record everything for what you have done for us, we are already more than three months stuck in this place, but you came for the best, now finally we can be free and eat real food and also clean water.
Amanda: We only did what we thought necessary to help, it was what we could do, we are the ones who thank you, your presence made it easier for people to be freed, it was thanks to you that many people are free, but we did not come alone, there are seven more of us who still came to help unravel this castle, we are gathering five fragments to open that door, our mission is to defeat the Countess Cavendish once and for all.
Wangari: Whatever it is, I wish you the best of luck, you are amazing, I can only imagine what your friends must also be able to do, anyway now we are going.
Amanda: As a thank you we will accompany you back and help you get out of here safely.
And in this Amanda and her trio deliver very well, protecting them in any way they can, the path was still quite short, on reaching the outside of the castle again the trio thank the girls for saving their lives and setting them free, with a well given hug from the black girl and her friends.
Wangari: Thank you very much, really, that your friends manage to defeat this curse, I will make a note of it in my book, I will be waiting outside here for your return, I want to know more about your stories and everything else, I hope you also manage to survive the whole castle, I believe in you a lot.
Amanda: There are ten of us, we are powerful, two of us are vampyre hybrids with humans, they are much more powerful and stronger than us, not to mention that the others have a greater variety of attacks, not only three of us who use firearms, two archers, one melee, two swordsmen and one who uses a whip.
Wangari with her hand on her chin: whip? You mean to say that Chariot Belmont is alive? That's amazing! I always thought she was dead, I was on a mission precisely to try to investigate her whereabouts, but we were captured, we got to a place in the castle which is quite different by the way, there was a woman there with a whip, but her hair was blue, Chariot Belmont is a redhead.
Amanda: It's not Chariot Belmont our friend who has the whip, we are for the same reason too and because the two hybrids are daughters of Countess Cavendish, they want to settle the score, but look, creatures of the night are not that reliable, so I'm sure she will end up being killed by her own daughters.
Wangari: So my theory is that this blue haired woman is an identity of Chariot Belmont could be real, after all, maybe she actually converted to the evil side because she got tired of being so persecuted by the church, or because she got tired of being all the time hunting and hunting without being able to live her life, it's kind of stressful I guess.
Amanda: I don't know the motivations of Chariot Belmont, but I am sure that something smells this woman, anyway, goodbye, we will accomplish this mission, the castle will have a long journey ahead of us and we can already see that it is getting late, we spent a long time in there.
Wangari's trio leaves the outskirts of the castle, they go to the city, after being missing for so long, while Amanda's trio goes back to the castle, walking through the corridors full of creatures as if it were nothing, even waving to the people who were escaping from the castle's prison, who were full of smiles when they saw that they had saved them. When they arrive at the main hall, they sit down on a sofa and decide to relax their nerves.
Amanda: Wewere quick, the others haven't arrived yet.
Jasminka: Itstrikes me that that Wangari was all nice to us, she really wasn't afraid to keep narrating our struggles, putting herself forward to face things in the castle.
Amanda: These Scots are weird, I'm glad Wangari played the bagpipes, because honestly I would never risk playing them, all these ghosts are driving me crazy, those things screaming... Ahhhhhh! it gives me a headache, just thinking about it, even now I think I need to drink a beer after that.
Jasminka: I agree with you, when we finish the mission let's have a nice cold beer to rest, think this is just the beginning, we only got a part of the door, we still have to wait for time to pass, the others must be suffering on the way.
Amanda: It's not like we had the best weapon at hand either, we faced a creature that would be easy, easy for Lotte, I imagine in the library Lotte and Sucy will end up having to face a creature that is more firearms oriented, although they have a balanced duo, Sucy has the crossbow.
Jasminka: I just know it's going to be harder to get through that door, you saw how confident that vampire who spoke to us was, she simply made fun of Diana and Hellene, she was still all intimidating, I remember they told us that that vampire almost defeated Diana, imagine what she can do to us.
The same ones kept talking there about this part of the mission and little by little the people were passing by the corridor and decreasing the frequency, showing that the majority was already leaving in the freedom, getting rid of the claws of Countess Cavendish, the time was passing more and more, the people were passing more sporadically, taking a little longer, until there was only one left who passed by there in a few minutes, then the next ones ended up being transported, in this case Lotte and Sucy, which were a little bit panting, but with the triangular plate in hands they managed to complete another part of the castle, which shows it's a matter of time for all of them to get their parts.
Amanda: Look, some more have arrived, they didn't take long at all.
Sucy: You have no idea what the library was like.
Amanda: And you guys have no idea what prison was like, seriously that castle is crazy.
Lotte: You tell us first and we'll tell you later, so it didn't take us long, I thought it was quite fast, there weren't many rooms in the library, we got straight to the point.
Amanda: In the prison there were four corridors, two staircases and a main circular room that had a smaller room where I got an upgrade on my crossbow, now I can shoot spirit creatures and do damage to them.
With this, the five of them began to tell us about their adventure through the corridors of the castle in their respective parts, with great emphasis on the events and improvements in the weapons they achieved, as well as combats with the strongest creature that was present there.
In another step of the journey, the girls are progressing, this time they have 2 of the 5 fragments needed to gain access to the next section of the castle, these two groups by which they crossed the smallest corner of the castle each already managing to cut quite some time by separating into different groups, but of course each path is having its difficulty and its way to explore them, it will only be a matter of time until all five fragments are together and the castle is explored to a next point.
See you, prison witches...