Luna Nova Tower, Luna Nova, Wales
After crossing the dense forest of Arcturus, with a good help also from Woodward, besides Diana's shield being an extremely powerful weapon against the cursed tree that was placed by Daryl, the girls are walking towards the tower of Luna Nova where they will have the fight against Elizabeth who is waiting for them at the top of the place, but they will still have an encounter that won't be pleasant for all of them because of the presence of someone that Dracula wanted to send to totally disturb the girls' journey and make everything much more complicated so that they can have a chance to defeat the vampire once and for all.
The eleven girls go walking until where the tower is practically ignoring the creatures around, since they were only one or another that came to attack the group that made a point of staying defending of the monsters attacks as if it was nothing even more because they were only knights with armors and spears that they were already used to defeat, When they arrived at the entrance of the tower the girls went through the door and went up the staircase, but soon they end up facing a not pleasant presence when death itself appeared in the middle of the way to disturb everything.
Death: Ah hahaha! Ah you guys around here, what are you doing here?
Diana: We're here to put an end to all of this, I'm going to defeat Daryl Cavendish once and for all.
Death: I can't allow anyone who opposes you to stay in this castle, so get out of here!
Diana: If need be, we too will have no qualms about ending our own demise!
Death: So you choose the worst fate, well I don't have much to do if not make it impossible for you to try anything.
At that moment the death uses a levitation magic taking the shield from Diana's hands and then makes it disappear together with the death itself, where the girls even try to shoot the creature that ends up just escaping and going away from there, leaving the girls a bit frustrated, especially Diana who knew that this all had her own aunt's finger in it.
Diana: What a cowardly wretch, she knew that the shield had the capacity to cause a lot of damage and that's why she wanted to take it from me.
Hellene: Relax sis, we won't need a shield for that, we'll still manage.
Diana simply nods her head in agreement, and so she goes up the stairs with the other girls, arriving at the top where there was Elizabeth sitting on a table with her legs crossed and her arms leaning down, watching the girls and giving that stare mainly to Cavendish who stared back at her without any fear.
Elizabeth: Mah banquet haes finally arrived
Diana: Your boss was so afraid that I would defeat her that she sent death to take my shield, but don't worry, I still have my weapon, you will still feel the power of my blade.
Elizabeth jumps from the table, starts pushing everything from that tower out trying to throw it off the tower, which this way leaves the whole field of the tower clear, with only the lamps lighting the place, since it had already gotten a little darker outside, Diana takes a few steps back grabbing the Claymore and taking it from the sheath preventing the others from passing, kind of wanting to fight alone.
Akko: Are you crazy Diana? She's a vampire and you're a human now, you're not the same powerful as before!
Diana: If by any chance the situation tightens you can show up to give support, but for now I want to settle this scor alone against this coward, let's see if now she will keep running away from me.
Elizabeth: Tak' a guid keek at wha ye ca' a feartie-cat diana cavendish, fur ye wull regret that decision tae wale tae rammy me in a wey ither than wi' hulp fae yer mukkers, yer noo a pathetic blue-eyed human.
The two face each other, Elizabeth shows a bit of her claws, then opens her arms, runs towards Diana and with a cut Lancaster hits hard the Cavendish's blade, which gives a little tension to the platinum haired girl that feels the vampire's strength and at that time she takes the chance to try to use her shoulder against the white haired girl, but pushing the immortal, she can't walk forward and realizes that she dematerialized, which almost makes the human fall.
Only Diana with her instinct turns with the blade defending herself from the vampire
's claws, which hits the blade of the sword with everything already causing a strange reddish colour around, which gets more intense as Elizabeth hits the Cavendish's sword, trying to defend herself as much as she can, but the Lancaster simply kept moving forward showing that she has a superiority of strength and the blade was getting even more reddish, as if it had a tension accumulated from a bomb about to explode.
Elizabeth: Ye'r juist a wabbit human diana, ah'ament even gaun a' in 'n' ah kin awready tell ye'r trembling 'n' haein a trachle, a pity ah hae tae pat a stoap tae it a'.
At that moment the vampire dematerialized, being the breach the human wanted as she noticed that the sword was well tensed with the constant cuts Elizabeth was hitting with her claws. The Cavendish turns back and at the moment that Lancaster was about to hit a cut was when Diana showed that she came with everything too, revealing the power of the sword when she gave a cut that caught the white-haired girl's waist and went to the ceiling, in a short time it was already remarkable what happened, the ceiling opened, and also half of Elizabeth's body was broken, which made Lancaster fall on the floor broken in two halves, a bit amazed with the potential of that blade.
Akko: Woah! Look at the power of that thing, Diana almost cuts everything around in half, you don't need a shield when you have that.
Diana: I told you not to underestimate me, I'm not that weak after all.
The Cavendish was about to prepare herself to give Elizabeth the final attack, but as she gave the stab the cut half of the vampire starts to float and is trying to defend herself from Diana's attacks, using her claws to hit the human's blade, which was what she wanted the most.
Elizabeth: Ye think juist fur o' a bawherr weapon lik' that ye kin defeat me? a'm aye muckle stronger than ye even though a'm yin hauf.
And the Lancaster had words, starting to counterattack Diana who was defending herself, but soon the Cavendish also used one more time the cut that was a little tense of the blade that was already getting red, but the vampire just dodged and took advantage of the gap to go with the claw with everything on the human that with her free hand held the vampire's fist even if without much strength and was getting more tense.
Elizabeth: Dae ye think this wull haud me? they wabbit human hauns?
Diana: No, but it will.
Showing how smart she is the human uses the claymore's blade, giving a precise cut that pulls the vampire's hand that goes floating back and in this she even throws the creature's hand away preparing for another attack, but even so Elizabeth had a card up her sleeve, Using her own blood she gushed in the direction of Diana's face that was a little trying to avoid being hit by that putting the blade in front of her and was doing this while walking backwards what ended up making her reach Lancaster's legs that were on the floor and taking advantage of that the smart white haired girl throws a kick that throws the platinum haired girl to the top almost hitting the ceiling and it was in this that the vampire takes the opportunity to join the two halves, but in this process of regeneration she didn't expect to find the human coming with everything.
Diana without much hesitation is falling with the sword pointed down, but she is quickly dodged and when she was about to fall on the ground she had a help from Lotte that cushioned the Cavendish's fall using magic and she stood up half panting facing the vampire that was regenerating herself, putting the part under her body back and also her hand.
Elizabeth: Nae ill fur a human, ye'v pure managed tae uise yer limitations weel, bit tis aye nae enough against me.
Diana: That's what we'll see.
The Cavendish clenches her fists and runs towards the vampire that just laughs, dematerializing herself flying towards her, when the two get close was the moment that Diana jumps up having Lotte's help using a glyph to propel her upwards and with that the Lancaster rematerializes herself hitting her with the claw up where the human knew of the attack and stayed with the blade in front to not take the cut and with that behind the creature was where she started to give some attacks.
Elizabeth simply goes just dodging and making little of it, Diana prepared simply throws some vials of holy water from behind which prevents her from being caught in the rear by the vampire who even tried but got burned a little for it, which Cavendish jumps forward turns around and gets her sword catching in Lancaster's claws which goes creating even more tension between the two blades.
Elizabeth: Ye'r bein' helped, bit pity oan ye, ah thought ah wis aff tae coupon ye th' wey ah wis normal, bit fae th' looks o' it ye pure wantae pockle.
Diana: Yes I am getting help, but so what, you ran away from our last two clashes because you knew you were going to be defeated, now you are going to spend the biggest embarrassment of all by being defeated by a human.
Elizabeth: Never!
The Lancaster explodes creating a force field in which Diana uses the blade to protect herself and even gets a little involved with fire, the vampire starts to throw fireballs all the time trying to hit the Cavendish that is going as fast as possible, getting more and more, what makes the blade of the sword start to catch fire, more and more, getting more tense.
Diana ends up releasing at once the power of the sword that she accumulated generating a huge flaming cut that was hitting the surroundings of the tower, marking the wall, leaving even a melted part, starting from there a small fire, besides Elizabeth simply dodging the attack that was given as if it was nothing, showing that she is still very strong, when rematerializing she stands right in front of Diana who takes a dagger from the sheath and almost hits the vampire that dodges back, while a fire was starting.
Diana: Get out of here! It's going to start burning here!
Lotte started to use water spells that helped her to put out the fire that was starting due to the blade being too tense, what was leaving the tower with less danger without needing the girls to leave the place since the blade problem was almost solved.
Elizabeth and Diana continue in that fight between them, with Cavendish advancing against Lancaster with the sword that was dodging, but at the same time it was already accumulating tension, much because the vampire was defending herself from some attacks more complicated to hold, even more because the human knew that it could provoke.
Elizabeth: Ye'r juist this wee sword o' hee haw, ye seem tae ainlie mak' sure wi' th' blade.
Diana: Talk less attack more, or you'll want me to break you in the middle again!
The vampire didn't like the provocation made by the human, she quickly uses a power to transport herself, and when she reappears she opens the cape releasing two huge meteor balls that go towards Cavendish that repels it with the blade of the sword as if it was a tennis ball, one of them goes to the ceiling and escapes to the sky, there the other goes towards Lancaster with everything, which she answers immediately giving a claw to the meteor making it come back with everything.
Diana: If you want to play then let's play!
The human strikes again with the sword putting all the tension accumulated in the meteroro that even begins to emanate a red glow and creating even more speed coming back with everything towards the vampire that strikes back what even makes everything around give an illusion that the place was reddish for a fraction of a second, when she comes back towards Cavendish who still managed to hit back one more time and Lancaster sees no other option but to dodge and she even manages to do that by dematerializing, but the surprise was still to come, when Diana reappears with a smile on her face she almost gives a cut to Elizabeth who dodges back, the girls watched that fight practically stunned at how the tension between the two was getting huge.
Hellene: Even human mana is keeping up and fighting very well, she knows exactly how to strike.
Elizabeth jumps backwards avoiding Diana's attacks, even getting to dematerialize, but when she does that to catch Cavendish from above, she throws a blade that catches the vampire's head and with that she takes the chance to give a cut that catches Lancaster's nails, giving even more tension to the blade, but at this moment it was also a mistake by the human who is hit back by the dagger that she threw, catching her arm and making her look a little left-handed because it caught her right arm.
Elizabeth: Dae ye pure think a'm aff tae let ye win lik' this? a'm stronger than ye think!
With her left hand Diana holds Claymore, that while she was slowly being healed in that arm, she is trying to defend herself from some attacks, but it was already noticeable that it was not the strong hand so much that was taking a few graze cuts by the face and body of the vampire's claws and the blade also hit the claws and did not hold with so much precision, With that the Cavendish releases a little of the tension of the cut and Elizabeth distances herself dematerializing and appears right in front of the human making the blade of the sword hit with the nails of the creature, what the two are very close and staring at each other for that moment but then Lancaster reveals a trick up her sleeve by hitting a fireball that makes the platinum haired vampire walk a few steps dazed by not having time to use the blade.
At that moment was the gap for Elizabeth, who goes for a lunge with her fingernail, but it was also a bit of a bluff by Cavendish who raised the sword on the spot cutting one of the vampire
's wrists and still with the blade accumulating tension.
Elizabeth: What?
The Cavendish was very concentrated with her attacks, breathing deeply with each movement and reading each reaction the vampire was making, practically having a notion that went beyond brute force, putting together the best attacks she could do.
With the other hand Elizabeth was still using more desperate attacks, trying to hit Diana, even using some blood sprays against the human, who was trying to dodge getting a little soaked with that liquid all over her body, but even so she didn't care because her opponent was getting more and more nervous, even sometimes helping to accumulate more tension in the platinum haired woman's sword.
Elizabeth: Die! die! die! ye dry boak!
Lancaster soon fits her wrist back and with both hands she shoots a wave of fire that Cavendish goes protecting herself with the blade and this adds even more tension, but it was a bluff since Elizabeth reappeared behind Diana, hitting a Hellfire right on the human's back that ended up feeling the pain of the meteor's impact and with that she was getting to the other side where Lancaster was waiting to stab with her fingernail and the platinum haired girl had Lotte's help to get out of the meteor and soon ended up making the vampire hit with her claws her own attack that generated an explosion that got to the point of throwing Diana against the wall with the sword well tensioned and the impact was strong enough to disarm her.
Akko: Diana!
The Cavendish gets up from there, but the flames and smoke from the explosion dissipate and reveal an angry Elizabeth, but at the same time when she sees the blade on the ground she has a smile on her face. Diana tries not to be tense, she slowly approaches the object, but the vampire is not stupid at all and goes up the human with everything, hitting her with a knee against the wall where she was thrown and with that Lancaster holds the platinum haired girl by the face and gets a sadistic expression.
Elizabeth: Wi'oot yer wee sword yer hee haw, noo ye wull cop th' power o' mah claws, bit foremaist ah wull gilravage torturing mah foremaist meal o' th' day.
Elizabeth starts punching Diana's stomach with force, she gives some spit that soon end up becoming blood and that until Lancaster releases Cavendish who is kneeling on the floor and with that taking by the human's hair the vampire lifts her and then stabs her nails in one of her shoulders starting this way to be punching the poor human's back that was already spitting blood and all were already with a huge concern.
Elizabeth: Ye'll cop th' real pain, ya bas.
Diana: You're the one who's going to know hell heh
Even getting beaten Cavendish still kept the smile on her face which made her be released on the floor kneeling and that's where Elizabeth was starting to trample on the floor, this with the girls trying by all means not to interfere, but it was evident the fury of Akko, The Japanese girl was trying her best not to interfere, but Akko's fury was evident, so much so that she shoved the girls and ran towards Lancaster trying to advance on her, who soon after seeing Kagari dodged by dematerializing and with that the wounded Diana dragged herself to the sword without trying to show where she was going while the Japanese girl went against the vampire.
Elizabeth: That's protection 'n' loue, yi'll waant tae die neist tae yer beloved? howfur pathetic, yer attacks ur pathetic, ye kin hae multiple cuts, bit yer slow 'n' barely ken howfur tae wield a sword, juist pathetic.
Akko was trying every which way to hit Elizabeth, but the vampire was dodging with great ease, and that was when Diana had even come close to her sword, about to go into action again, already feeling the accumulated tension of the blade due to the Lancaster's attacks.
The Kagari was only bluffing, since when the creature was going to try to counterattack she just calmly stood against the onslaughts, even inventing going into drunk mode, pretending to fall to the ground which was where the vampire was getting confused.
Akko: You are nothing! Soon you will die at my hand little vampire shit.
Elizabeth was starting to get annoyed and she soon changed the intensity of the attack giving a kick to Kagari that made her be thrown with everything to a wall, only in this was the distraction that the Japanese gave Diana to come and from behind she gave a stab and threw all the tension accumulated in the vampire's chest that felt all the power of the blade accumulating there and causing a bigger wound.
Diana: Look behind you too.
Elizabeth then pushes Diana, who was already very weak to the point of falling sitting on the floor and she is trying to reach the blade to try to take it out, but she just keeps walking aimlessly, until she kneels down and evidently the pupils were slowly losing their brightness, which already showed that the vampire was about to die, so much that she was starting to laugh and keep looking at Cavendish.
Elizabeth: Looks lik' that wis it... Ye gubbed me at lest diana cavendish, ye 'n' this mukker o' yers.
Diana: And you think it was worth it to have wasted your whole life for power when in the beginning you had an all noble cause, you could be on our side, we could together help make Luna Nova back to its golden age.
Elizabeth: Howfur stupit, ye think ah haven't tried? a've gaen tae blether tae th' witches afore, offering tae protect, in a' thae years, thay juist dingyed 'n' cried me a freak, thay didnae care aboot me, thay didnae care aboot howfur ah protected this steid, ye...
Diana: We know the world is corrupt, but...
Elizabeth spitting blood: 'n' yit ye wull continue tae bow yer heid tae everything? ah ainlie wanted tae pursue that power fur ah an' a' wanted tae pat an end tae th' stuck up society o' th' witches o' th' council o' magic, thay care wee fur us, thay even think th' hunting haes tae continue... Th' world unfortunately sooks... Ye a' remind me o' whin ah wis younger, stowed oot o' spirit 'n' stowed oot o' th' wull tae chaynge th' world, bit tak' it fae me, tis a boggin' rammy that ye'll juist keep bein' dingyed 'n' fightin' fur eternity, tis a wasted time, fowk ainlie care aboot comfort 'n' power, juist they hings, thay dinnae care if thay donder ower th'... Ithers...
Diana: Those are beautiful last words Elizabeth, I can even empathise with you a little, but you think I don't know that about the world being like this, but not for that reason am I going to turn to power thirst, violence doesn't solve with violence.
Elizabeth: Unfortunately this is howfur th' world wirks, th' masses ur manipulated by fowk in power, thae masses hawp in a false salvation o' thair bides, tae hae a comfort, cop guilty fur everything thay dae o' buzz, unfortunately violence ends up bein' th' best solution against thae fowk, ye cannae solve hings in a peaceful wey whin society itself does nae waant it tae be sae ... Lea th' sword stuck in mah chest, ah wull hulp ye in this, see it as a gift fae me, gie an end tae th' wretched daryl wance 'n' fur a' ...
Elizabeth slowly begins to wither away, her body starts to glow, her skin burns, then her insides, followed by her bones, which all end up going to Diana's blade that begins to emanate a strange glow, while a paper is left with a note from Lancaster that Diana ends up reading to check what it was.
"Now you can go back to doing that dematerialisation you always used to do when you were a vampire, as long as you are wielding that sword you will have that power granted, now finish Daryl off once and for all, you have managed to defeat me, now don't make my death be in vain by dying for her"
Diana: Elizabeth...
Chariot: She was a very brave warrior in the end, I still admire how she was always very independent, she was never subordinated to anyone, she was the one who dictated her own rules, she was very problematic, but now I understand, she was a person with good intentions.
Akko soon ran to Diana, hugging her, checking if her girlfriend was okay, which was kind of complicated since the Cavendish was very injured due to the cuts given by Elizabeth, besides the pain she got from the beating she took in her body during the fight against the vampire, But soon she took a potion to recover from her injuries, gave a hug to her stronger beloved, besides also kissing her, what was a moment of greater relief for them, that were walking until the view of the tower where they were seeing well in front of the castle of Luna Nova, just thinking about how they were going to follow from there.
Diana: Luna Nova... Now is our next stop, I swear I will make this death of Elizabeth not in vain, she proved quite useful with us.
Akko: She almost killed you 3 times and broke you all over, how is that being useful?
Diana: This is impossible to defend, but you will find out that she left a little gift for me, it will be very useful for us to move forward in this castle, especially against Daryl, she looked at everything and knew that the shield is powerful, now she will want to take my sword too, I don't doubt it.
Akko: Anywayyou have to stop being so proud, you don't have to think you can handle everything alone, we are all here helping you, Lotte especially has saved you several times.
Diana: I know, it was bad, really, it was the battle against Elizabeth, I had to show that I could still handle it, look I have to thank you both actually, both you and Lotte, if it wasn't for you I would have died already and then Elizabeth would be able to try something worse against you.
Akko pats Diana on the shoulder and with that the girls start to go down the stairs of the tower, to continue their way towards Luna Nova, so that they can soon solve the issue of defeating Daryl Cavendish once and for all, the vampire who was watching everything and getting even a little shocked due to the power also being present in the sword, not only in the shield, which Bernadette left much more surprised than expected, knowing what could occur.
In the throne room in the castle, there was Daryl sitting on the throne drinking a goblet full of blood and getting a bit angry to see what had happened to Elizabeth, until a scythe appears and spins around revealing that it was death showing its face and with that the Cavendish gets a bit of a sore face.
Death: Mistress, I managed to get the shield and now it is very well guarded so that Diana will only get it if she goes through me, now it is only a matter of time before she is killed by...
Daryl: Elizabeth was killed, she was defeated! The bastards had another weapon that can get in our way! I can't believe it! I knew that damned Bernadette had left not only the shield but the sword too with a surprise!
Death: Oh mistress, now it would be too late for me to capture her weapon, we will have to wait and see what will happen, just in case, now I will go to my post my mistress.
Daryl: What? That's Inadmissible! How can you not have the competence to take a girl's gun? She's just a mere fucking human! It'll be like taking candy from a child! You are death!
Death: They have already seen my presence, if I try to take it again it will end up in a fight against me, so it may end up that she not only takes the sword but also the shield, it costs to put our faith in all the defenses, they won't get that far, together we invoke the most powerful creatures, which Bernadette never had the courage to invoke because she thinks it's too dangerous, they will never get that far, you can be sure.
Daryl: I hope so death, because I don't want to just end up like this, it didn't take me nearly 30 years to have my empire brought down in one day at the hands of those damn humans, I can't believe my nieces would become a problem, two brats that damn Bernadette put out into the world came to be shit! Bastards!
Death: Ah Daryl Cavendish, you had to be more careful, you wanted to lure them here, I'm sorry to say, but that was your biggest mistake and if they succeed, it will be because of this that you will end up being defeated, you should have studied a bit more of the last Draculas that came, especially Vlad Tepes.
Daryl: We won't lose anyway, I'm different from all the Draculas that came, because I'm the most powerful, I'm the smartest, I have a tactic, it won't be simply eleven weak slayers that will finish me off, unlike them I'm immortal and I've thought of every detail to make my plan work, you underestimate me a lot yet death, but when you see me defeating you will see that I'm the only incarnation of Dracula that will work.
Death: That only time will tell, now I am going mistress, I will prepare myself for the fight that is coming.
Death bows before Daryl, then proceeds to disappear from there with the spinning scythe, standing at her post awaiting the presence of the girls who were still descending the stairs of the tower, where the journey inside the castle is just beginning.
Elizabeth Lancaster (1500-1551) Eventually defeated after three encounters with the girls, she had her final clash with Diana Cavendish who struck a blow with the power of her sword that is able to hold the tension of blows that are accumulated to return with an even greater intensity against the enemy, being able to perform fatal cuts, which can be a great weapon in the fight against Daryl Cavendish who will no longer be able to have what to take from the weapons of the girls, since death can only take the shield without knowing the potential also of the sword.
See you, vampire witch...