Like Father, Like Daughter
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Chapter 20: Khaos
Seraph didn't like this man, this Erebus. Every instinct in her told her to run as fast and far as she could.
But she had to stay. She had to stop the fighting somehow.
"Can you stop the fighting?"
Seraph glanced around. Hekapoo was trying to throw off Janna as Star blasted at random, all while Brittney seemed to be trying to take a bite out of her dad.
"Probably," Erebus shrugged, "Like I said, magic is weird. It's like someone broke it or something. Probably should lay off it."
"Stop it now!"
Erebus turned to her as if his unseen eye brow was raised.
He took a step towards her, and Seraph took a step back without realizing it. "Make me," He tasted the words, "You better hurry before someone one gets hurt."
Anxiety bubbled up in her stomach, in the background she heard screams and yells as everyone was trying to tear each other apart. She had to act, she couldn't stop them all, she couldn't hold them all, and she didn't know how to fix things.
"If I have to." Seraph took a step forwards.
Erebus chuckled, "Okay, I think they have a saying on this planet. Bring it on!"
Seraph took a deep breath and flames erupted around her fists.
"That's interesting."
Seraph charged as fast as she could, sending a punch at him. Normally such a punch would have hit, but he dodged just to the side of it. Seraph punched and punched and punched and punched again. Each attack barely missing Erebus.
"You really are young." Erebus taunted, "I'm not really a fighter, but I've been in enough fights and all your punches are so easy to read. You need to learn to hide it a bit better. Like-" He kneed her in the gut, "this."
Seraph tumbled to the ground coughing as she did.
"Maybe that's too hard for you. Okay, let's lower the bar. Get one hit on me. Just one, and I'll undo the spell."
Seraph looked up at the masked man with determination in her eyes. She had to keep going. She had to fight.
She had to win.
Seraph charged at him again, flames wafting around her as she ran. Despite every punch or kick she threw, he narrowly dodged them all. As she fought, Seraph thought back to the stories her parents had told her about the trial. Her father was a lowly human against one of the most powerful beings in the multiverse.
She had a lot of live up to.
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Bad things had hit the fan, and yeah, it was not great. The disguises had failed and they were surrounded by vampires.
Marco raised his arms ready to defend himself and really wished he had any sort of weapon. After all these were vampires, and in all the legends and stories he'd ever heard about people fighting vampires there wasn't many of people winning without a weapon. These were creatures far stronger and faster than he was.
Hekapoo was not in the same state though; she pulled out her scissors and broke them apart into a pair of daggers.
The daggers glowed as they began to heat. Marco smirked knowing the trick that Hekapoo was about to pull. He ducked as red hot dagger cut through one of the vampires. The vampire screeched as it was incinerated in an instant. They're immortal beings but are ridiculously weak to things like fire. Their bodies just fall to dust at its touch.
The dagger kept going and was finally deflected by a sword. The Vampire Knight blocked the blow and rushed forward at Hekapoo. Marco figured out her plan quickly enough, provoke the strongest vampires and give him a chance to escape with the demon.
He got her plan. She was the stronger one and had the best chance of surviving, but he hated the idea of leaving her behind.
"Come at me, Blood Suckers!" Hekapoo taunted them.
As planned, the vampires focused on the powerful forger instead of the lowly human.
Soon she was engulfed by the swarm of vampires, and they were soon shot off by Hekapoo flames. Some burned to dust and other struggled against the flames. Some vampires were weaker to flames than others, and it helped that some of them had undead shields. Those that survived growled as their burns began to heal.
Marco grabbed the dagger Hekapoo had thrown. Hekapoo had made sure that handle transferred the heat to blade so he could wield it. While it was still hot, he used it to slice through the chains that held the demon.
"Okay, it looks like it's time to run."
He gripped the dagger and rushed into the fight to help Hekapoo. He knew Hekapoo would give him an ear full of it later, but he didn't care. He wasn't going to leave without her.
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"You got closer to hitting me that time girl. Although, you might want to hide your intent more." Erebus said amusingly.
Seraph rushed Erebus. Hoping to catch him off guard, but he just dodged just out of her reach.
As she continued to attack, she noticed that every time she rushed him her attacks are getting closer to hitting Erebus. She felt like she would hit him soon.
Suddenly, Erebus grabbed her by her horns and hurled her into a nearby wall, which cracked at the force.
"You are starting to bore me. I had expected you to have hit me by now, so I'm going to liven things up a bit and start attacking a bit."
Seraph moaned at the pain as she forced her mind to think clearly. Obviously, attacking this way is not working. She remembered that the thing that always got her dad through it all was that he was determined and clever. If he didn't have the strength to solve a problem, he'd work out another way to beat it. She collapsed to the ground.
Erebus was faster and stronger than she was and had more experience. If she inherited any of her parents skills, she'd need them now.
"Wait? Did I kill you?" Erebus casually walked towards her. "I hope not, I was just starting to have fun. Ugh! Being bored is the worst."
Erebus looked her over. She was just sort of laying on the floor face down not moving.
"I expected the daughter of Hekapoo to be at least a little-" Erebus stopped as he felt his cape pull him back.
He turned expecting he caught it on something, but he saw a small portal with a hand sticking out grabbing his cape.
"What?"
The hand yanked and pulled him backwards, but he caught himself before slamming into the ground.
The hand vanished as he pulled on his cape. He turned to find Seraph charging at him again pointing her fingers at him.
"Pew! Pew! Pew!" Seraph sounded off as little fire balls shot at her opponent.
"Ooh!" Erebus sunk into the floor as he melted into his shadow laughing "Almost!"
His shadow slid around the floor avoiding the flames.
"Come back here!" Seraph called out.
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"Get out of here!" Hekapoo demanded as Marco forced a vampire away from her.
"Did you really think I'd leave without you."
"A girl could hope!"
The various glass windows shattered as the Hekapoo clones charged in. The clones attacked and charged at the various vampires.
Solusod Corruptor of Souls tried to use this chance to escape, but the vampire lord simply turned to him and said, "Stay."
His body froze in place, as much as he willed his body to move he couldn't. He stayed behind and watched what started to unfold. The room was filled with screams as various vampire began to burn thanks to Hekapoo and her clones.
Hekapoo prime was back to back with Marco as they defended themselves. As a screeching mess of vampires charged at Marco, he grabbed one and used its momentum to divert him into another. As another got close, Marco punched it in the face giving a clone a chance to set it on fire.
"You really should run!" Hekapoo yelled. "You are really outmatched!"
"Get me a weapon then!"
Before Hekapoo could give a witty come back, the room was ripped apart and Marco was tossed away from Hekapoo and any nearby clones.
Standing across the small chasm in the middle of the room was the Vampire Knight. "Did you want a weapon?" He held out the Luxor sword. The Knight smiled his fangs sprouting out.
Yeah, even Marco had to admit he was out matched.
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Seraph was getting the sinking feeling that she was just a plaything for him as Erebus's shadow moved about the floor dodging her attacks.
"Pew!" Seraph fingered gunned at the Shadows. "Pew! Pew!"
"That's adorable!" Erebus taunted. "You make gun noises as you shoot."
"Grrrrr!" Seraph growled as her hands were engulfed in flames.
She punched the ground and flames ripped through the ground splintering off in a spider-web like pattern.
"Ack!" Erebus jumped out of the shadow barely dodging the flames.
Seraph rushed through the flames, her dress wasn't fireproof and started to scorch. She would regret it later but not right now. She needs to stop Erebus.
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Marco rushed at the vampire Knight; it was the only thing he could do that would take the knight by surprise.
Hekapoo and all the others present were surprised by the action. It was an act that almost assured his destruction. The knight might be surprised by this, but that would only last for so long.
The Vampire Knight raised his sword to strike at Marco and cut him to shreds. The crystal sword began to glow as he felt his strength increased.
But the surprises didn't stop there, Marco smiled.
"Ak!" He let out as he something pierce his chest.
One of the Hekapoo clones huffed behind, seeing Marco rushed to his doom she went to save him. This clone managed to rip apart a chair and stab the distracted Knight.
The stab wound tended to be a bigger distraction, so much so that he didn't realize that Marco placed his hands on his head. With one quick and very loud snap, the knight fell to the ground.
"What did you think you were doing?!" The Hekaclone yelled at Marco. "If I hadn't been so close you'd be dead!"
"I only did it because I saw you there. I knew you'd have my back, and you'd save me."
Hekapoo looked at him dumbfounded. She was both flattered that he had so much faith in her and insanely furious at Marco.
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Erebus waved his hand and a wall of shadows raised into the air, and with no time to stop, Seraph crashed right into it.
Erebus mocked, "Nice try, maybe you should try to pay attention to-"
He didn't finish that thought as a sickly looking narwhal struck him and caused him to tumble backwards.
The wall of shadows faded away and Seraph got up.
"What?!" Erebus picked up the narwhal and tossing it towards Seraph. "Did someone just throw a whale at me?"
"It's a Narwhal!" Seraph spat back as she dodged to the left.
"Duh, a narwhal is a type of whale. It's a whale with a horn; it's a unicorn whale."
Erebus jumped back as more narwhals were fired towards him.
Seraph would love to take credit for it, but it was Star's doing. Star was wildly firing at her mother, who had Jackie on her back trying to pull off her horns. Seraph saw this and just moved Erebus towards the general direction of her firing. It was an idea from a story her mom had told her.
"I am not counting that!" Erebus yelled as he danced around the narwhals. "You have to get the hit in!"
Erebus caught one of the narwhals mid air and hurled it back to Star.
Star was knocked aside for the moment.
Seraph raised her fist ready to fight.
Erebus chuckled, "You are determined. I'll give you that."
"Yeah, I got it from my dad."
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"You really should know when to give up."
Marco didn't expect to hear the knight speak or his hand grab their ankles and fling them away.
The knight stumbled up and snapped his head back in place. "I'm immortal, did you think breaking my neck would stop me?"
Marco groaned, "I kinda hoped."
The Knight yanked out the makeshift stake out of his chest. "By the way you missed my heart."
"Good note." Marco got up ready to fight again.
The vampire knight chuckled, "You have spirit, admirable. It won't grant you any mercy."
Marco rushed him. He had to attack now, the sword was on the floor and if he picked it up Marco didn't like his odds. Marco had to keep this as hand to hand fight.
Marco got him unaware and pushed him to the ground. That didn't last as the knight gathered his bearings and hurled Marco off, sending him flying. Marco tumbled backwards crashing into a table that held the refreshments.
Hekapoo and her small army of clones fought the vampire swarms. Flames shot out of the clones incinerating any vampires that dared to get close, soon ash swam through the air. Their numbers began to dwindle; Hekapoo wagered that most of these vampire weren't that powerful to start with and were eager to try and get a glimpse of real power.
Hekapoo paused as she saw Marco fighting and rushed to help him but was quickly pulled back.
Hekapoo tumbled back down as someone dragged her back by her hair.
Hekapoo growled as she looked up, "You ruined my wedding."
Hekapoo found herself staring up at the vampire bride.
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"This I got from my mom!" Seraph charged at full speed with her hand's aflame.
Seraph chopped at Erebus, but he just kept narrowly dodging it.
"Come on! Be better! I fought your mother loads of times! You don't think I would have learned how to keep up with her speed! And let me say you are much slower than her." Seraph's attacks started missing by a much larger margin as Erebus starting getting bored again, "Come on! I sensed you! Be impressive! You are such a let down! How do your parents even stand you!"
"Shut up! Shut up!"
"Well, you certainly don't have your mother's sharp tongue!"
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"Really wearing white?" Hekapoo flipped kicked up delivering a blow to the brides head.
Hekapoo got on her feet and prepared to square off.
She scowled as her eyes started to glow red. The bride charged Hekapoo, and they slammed into each other.
Hekapoo snickered, "You're going to regret that."
Hekapoo felt her nails dig into the vampire's flesh right before her hands caught on fire. The vampire screamed as fire consumed her.
Hekapoo let her go and turned to go help Marco, but then she found she couldn't move as if something grabbed her.
"Did you really think it would be that easy?"
Hekapoo shivered at the distorted voice of the bride. She looked around to find the ashes of the bride gathering and pulling the other ashes in the room together.
Nearby the Vampire Lord and Groom smiled, "She does have talent at necromancy. Such a useful skill, don't you think?"
Solusod Corruptor of Souls ignored him as he looked up to the skylight as the moon moved into place.
The Vampire Knight quickly pinned Marco down having recovered his sword. His free hand tightened around Marco's neck. "Do you have any final words?"
Marco was finding it hard to breathe much less speak.
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Erebus yawned, "Bored, you are boring me." He continued to easily dodge her attacks as if they were nothing, not even giving her the chance to hit him. Then as Seraph got close for another attack, he grabbed her by the neck and slammed her into the ground.
Seraph tried to struggle and push him away but to no avail. Her lungs ached as they begged for air. Her eyes welled as tears started to leak out of her eyes. Her arms felt weak as she tried to pull his hands off him.
Seraph tried to scream out for her mom and dad but couldn't get a word out.
"You know of all the things your mother is, she's never bored me."
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"I can't hear you." The Knight taunted Marco. "You're going to have to speak up-"
Marco smiled as the vampire's grip weakened, "You said heart, right?"
Marco pushed in the stake in a little deeper.
While they rolled on the ground earlier, Marco picked up the makeshift stake Hekapoo had used. He grabbed it right before he got flung away. While the Knight tried to choke him, Marco plunged the stake right into his heart.
With that last bit of force, the vampire huffed as his body collapsed into ash.
"Why are you immortals always so cocky?"
Marco tried to catch his breath as he saw the ash bride lean towards Hekapoo and gather the ash of the fallen around them.
Marco moved to help her but found that the ash swirled around him taking the form of humans.
Surrounding him were the ashen remains of the other vampires. He looked around, and it looked like the clones had been knocked out by the other vampire that attacked or by the Knight's attacks.
The Groom walked closer to the ashen Bride. "Did you really think you could win?"
The ashes dragged Marco closer. Now he and Hekapoo were next to each other as they faced the vampires.
The Groom brushed Hekapoo's bangs aside gently, "Thank you for saving us the trouble of hunting you down."
"You've done little but delay us." He looked Marco in the eyes, "What strange company Hekapoo keeps. Either way you will meet the same fate as her. If I might give you some advice, try not to hold your breath. It makes it an easier death."
"No." Marco spat back. "We're not dying here."
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As Erebus started to crush her neck he offered up this advice, "Don't fight it, it just makes it worse. Just go into that good night."
Seraph struggled to say something.
"Hm?" Erebus grumbled, "Hot!" His hand felt like they were burning.
"NO!" Seraph screamed, flames erupted out of her mouth blasting Erebus off her.
Seraph jolted up coughing as her throat ached and her eyes watered.
Erebus nearby screamed as flames wrapped around his body. All around him those enraptured by his spell stopped and fell to the ground. The green moon returned to his natural creme color.
Seraph got up and looked as Erebus screamed with his whole body covered in flames.
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"Defiant to the end," The groom smirked, "I like that, I might make you into a thrall… No," he spoke calmly, " that sort of act is unbefitting of a Vampire Lord. I will reward such courage with a quick and final death."
Marco rolled his eyes and pushed himself from the floor and at the Vampire Lord with the ashes grip just barely holding him. Marco would not give up.
"If you want to die fighting, then die a warrior's death." He turned to his Queen of Ashes, "Dear, if you would be so kind to provide the challenge."
The Vampire Lord tossed him to the center of the room, the countless ashen corpses circled.
"Marco!" Hekapoo struggled against the Queen of Ashes as she tried to reach Marco.
The Vampire Lord chuckled, "I didn't imagine you'd be so desperate for a lowly human."
The Queen's voice was a scrambled mess of sounds in her ashen form, "Maybe she wishes to die with him. I think it would be awfully rude us to deny her a chance to die with her lover especially on our wedding day."
"Quiet right," The Vampire Lord nodded.
Hekapoo found herself hurled at Marco. He did his best to catch her, but they both met the floor quickly and hard.
"You okay?" The both asked at the same time.
They didn't have to answer as the ashen forms of the fallen vampires circled them. They both jumped and moved back to back. They'd done this many times before and so it became a second nature for them. It was an odd sensation for them to be so used to be in danger but together they felt that they could make it.
The false vampires lunged at the pair, but they had experience. They knew how to cover each other's weaknesses. As the dark specters approached, Marco picked up Hekapoo and spun her around; as each one got closer Hekapoo kicked a hole through them. He put Hekapoo back on the ground, and they turned to look at each other. Without a second thought, they struck, attacking the ash vampires that were hiding in each other's blind spots.
Hekapoo ran around throwing balls of fire disrupting to ash creatures, Marco punching and chopping at any of the attackers that tried to get Hekapoo between attacks.
The pair fought together and protecting each other, though this couldn't last and Hekapoo knew it. Marco was human and he couldn't keep this up forever, he had impressive stamina but that would only last so long. Everyone in the room knew it, the vampires certainly did, they were just playing with the pair before they killed them. Already he was getting winded.
Solusod Corruptor of Souls knew this, he could practically feel the presence of Death lingering to collect their souls. Solusod Corruptor of Souls felt useless, the magic made by the vampire kept him from escaping but he could turn away as to not watch them die. As he turned away he got a glimpse of light and he turned up the glass ceiling to where the moon shone almost in place. Because of the struggle, the vampires had forgotten it for the moment. A thought struck him, and he looked at their souls. Hekapoo's was ancient and passionate, and Marco's was strong and determined. The more the demon looked at them he thought their souls looked strange; they weren't anything like he thought they would be. He was then sure that something was affecting Marco and was surprised to see that it was affecting Hekapoo as well.
He pushed the thought aside, there was something else to do. He was brought here to perform a ritual and maybe that was what he had to do. Using the powers of the moon was difficult, especially if one was to force a connection but there was already something connecting them. If he could just give it a nudge, after all the way they fought was almost like they were dancing. If he could manage it….
Solusod Corruptor of Souls took a deep breath and a pulled out a small puzzle orb from his clothes. He whispered a chant that had been passed in his family for generations.
Marco and Hekapoo took an instant to look at each other, both silently making the same promise to protect the other.
Marco spun Hekapoo around flames dancing around them providing something a barrier from the ashes.
"We need to kill the bride." Marco whispered to Hekapoo, "She's controlling the ashes, moving them like puppets."
"Yeah, I noticed but incinerating her didn't help. She's got power, enough to keep herself together. She's undead so she can hold a lot more power than a mortal body."
"So how do we stop her?"
"Destroy everything about her, I must have missed something in her something she used to keep herself alive." She glanced over at the ash that was the bride, slowly it was healing, "I'd have to get every bit at once."
"And then there is that Vampire Lord."
"A tough customer, we'd probably need to do the same to him too."
Marco smiled at her and turned her to face him. "Make it count."
Marco twirled her away and before she knew it, he was rushing through the flames. Marco wasn't sure why flames didn't touch him, maybe they had and he hadn't felt it because of the adrenaline. He felt lighter and he gave it his all to move. He rushed at the Lord, but the Lord grabbed him in the middle of it, his hand gripping Marco's head.
"What were you planning? You thought rushing me would do it?" The Lord's nail grew and dug into his flesh. "I'll pluck that eye for a keepsake."
As Marco started to scream, Hekapoo ran towards him as fast as she could desperate to save Marco. All the ash coils around her desperate to held her back and realizing it was a difficult task. Hekapoo ran ripping apart tendrils of ash that formed around her.
The bride struggled to hold on to her, flames ripping around Hekapoo.
The Vampire lord growled tossing Marco aside to focus on his concern.
"Marco!"
Hekapoo watched Marco slump on the ground a small puddle of blood forming beneath his head.
The Vampire Lord licked his fingers, "You really do care, don't you? Don't worry you won't be separated for long. Hold her."
The Bride raised her hands and a cloud of ash gathered into a rope binding Hekapoo tightly.
The groom held out his hands as shadows formed in it taking the shape of a knife.
"I'm going to kill you for what you've done." Hekapoo told him.
"How would you do that?"
"With this!" Marco shouted, from where he landed he managed to grab the forgotten Luxor Sword and tossed it. It took a moment for the vampires to realize what he had done, but Hekapoo moved as if this had been rehearsed between them a million times her body acting without thought. The sword went right into her hands before the vampire knew it was too late. The sword was already boosting her abilities.
The crystal sword glowed bright red as Hekapoo's eyes glowed with fire. A great flame erupted from Hekapoo, the power welling within her escaping with her fury.
They didn't even get a chance to scream as white hot flames consumed them.
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Erebus screamed,"Roll! Roll!" And after a moment the flames died down. Seraph couldn't make out what happened, it was like the world was glitching out around him. He stood up with no sign that he was ever on fire. Slowly he turned to Seraph, and as much as she hated to admit it, she didn't have it in her to fight again.
"Okay, that was good. Wasn't expecting that." Erebus huffed, "Well, bye."
"Bye?"
"Yeah, bye. Did I forget something? You got a hit on me, and I broke the spell. I kept my word. " He turned away, "Oh! Tell your mother hello. I'm sure we will be seeing each other real soon."
With that he melted back into the shadows, and the shadows faded away under the moonlight.
Seraph took a breath, "Mom! Dad!"
Seraph ran to the crowds of people laying on the ground all unmoving.
"Mom? Dad?" Seraph found them in a pile with her friends, everyone looking tired and scuffed up.
She fell to her knees exhausted, but relieved that they were okay.
She wanted to cry, they were okay but why did she feel like she'd failed. Tears started to stream from her eyes.
There was a familiar sound of engines and growls, soon Nachos flew down towards her and rushed to her side. The dragoncycle nuzzled Seraph and licked her cheek, licking away the tears.
"Nachos?" Seraph worked up a small smile, "You smell, were you chasing pigeons again?" Seraph clung to the dragon, "I think I need your help getting everyone home."
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"Marco?" Hekapoo was surrounded by soot, she dropped the blackened sword and rushed to Marco.
Marco was just slump to the side now. Hekapoo moved over and saw a large scar over one of his eyes. "Why did you do that?"
"Immortals are so overconfident, I knew he'd worry about you. I just needed a chance to get you the sword-"
"You could have died!"
"If I did nothing, we both would have died."
"You idiot," Hekapoo tried to hold back her tears; she pulled Marco close and just held him.
Nearby Solusod Corruptor of Souls stood and watched the collar around his neck fall off. He looked up to see the moon out of position.
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Marco gasped as his body ached. He felt something warm by his side, "Hekapoo?"
He was in his living room couch Hekapoo slumped next to him.
"Marco-sama yamate..." Hekapoo mumbled barely awake.
"Yamate?" Janna's voice perked up.
"Uh?" Followed Jackie
"Marco?" Star said accidentally smacking Marco's face.
Marco looked around, he and everyone was on the couch.
"You guys awake?" Seraph walked in holding a bowl of cereal.
Hekapoo woke up seeing that she'd been scuffed up bandages all over her.
"Seraph what happened?" Hekapoo jumped and Marco following suit dropping the other girls to the floor.
"Yeah, sorry," Seraph shrunk at the attention putting the bowl on the coffee table, "I had to put these on myself, grandma and abuelo are out at dinner still."
"What happened?" Marco asked horrified to see his daughter like that.
"Things got weird, there was well spell and everyone started fighting."
Star looked at her hands they felt rough and hurt, and she noticed more bruises forming on the others. Star felt sore like she'd been hit with a Narwhal. She remembered feeling angry and something else she couldn't put her finger on.
"I managed to get some of the adults up and helped people get home with my scissors. Nachos helped me get you back here."
The school didn't know what to make of what happened, they were glad no one was seriously hurt. Though Skeeves was upset that any money they made was now going to be used for the new damages they made.
"Some guy named Erebus showed up and started to cause trouble, and I had to fight him to stop it."
"Erebus!" Hekapoo and Marco shouted with fear.
"Erebus?" Janna mused, "That sounds familiar."
Star winced, "That story? He's from that story that parents tell their kids. Behave or Erebus the Lord of the Dark will come crashing down and tear down your world. That he hides in every shadows under your bed waiting for someone to catch his eyes. That if you see the smiling mask it is too late. He's just a story."
"Then why does Hekapoo look even paler." Jackie pointed out.
Both Marco and Hekapoo looked over Seraph.
"Did he do anything to you?" Hekapoo said panic in her voice.
"We fought and he got in a few good shots." Seraph tried to smirk. "I got some in too."
Marco gave her a weak smile. "But are you okay?"
"Yeah."
Hekapoo sighed in relief, "It doesn't look like he put a spell or anything on you." She looked right at Seraph, " If you ever see him again, run, just please run."
Hekapoo hugged Seraph, and Marco joined her.
Seraph wanted to say something but couldn't, she just hugged her parents tightly.
Star looked on confused, why did Hekapoo seem so scared of a story?
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Hekapoo created a portal for Solusod Corruptor of Souls to use to take him home. She bandaged up Marco and told him he'd stay with her until he healed. Though he'd probably have a nasty scar from now on.
"We stopped it, I guess." Marco smiled nudging the bandage a bit.
"Idiot!" Hekapoo scolded, "Don't be so reckless. I won't always be around to save your butt."
"But you were, so I knew I'd be okay."
Hekapoo tried to smile, she didn't even realize that her hand was holding his tightly.
"You are bounded." Solusod Corruptor of Souls told them,
Marco blinked, "Oh! Yeah, I'm mean we've bounded a few times but…"
"Idiot!" Hekapoo growled. "Don't talk about it."
Solusod Corruptor of Souls coughed, "That is not exactly what I meant, but not wrong either. Carry on as you were. What happened tonight had little difference. You are bound together because you chose to be together. Fate might have played a role, but you have to chose in the end. Even the ritual and that moon do not have the power to change things. Influence yes, but your heart and your own choices are often more powerful than that or any power that might choose to act on your behalf."
"Okay" Hekapoo said, neither she nor Marco understood what he was trying to say. He'd been captured and enslaved so if he wanted to philosophize about fate and choice let him.
Solusod Corruptor of Souls smiled, "If you ever need my help feel free to ask. I am indebted to you."
Solusod Corruptor of Souls walked into the portal and back to his home.
Left alone, Hekapoo pulled Marco close, "Come on Muscles, let's go back to my place. I need a nap and you're going to keep me warm."
Marco chuckled, "Yeah, I wouldn't mind it either."
Hekapoo made another portal and with it they stepped back into the forge.
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"Ugh…" Brittney let out. "What?" She found herself waking up in one of the rooms that belong to Diaz family.
It seemed that during the chaos, somehow she and Sabrina and Starfan had an accident together. They fell into the cotton candy machine and now were entirely covered in the sticky substance.
They were stuck together, and Seraph decided she should be the one to get them out of it before sending them home, or at least get someone to help them out.
Brittney cringed as Nachos the dragon licked the candy off her.
"What happened? What am I doing with you losers?"
She was answered with a lick from the dragon, and the confused groaning from Starfan and Sabrina.
Beta note: Your friendly neighborhood beta here wishing you all a happy early Halloween to everyone.
Author's Notes: Stuff! Yes! Things have pretty much got beat up…yeah….. I feel sad now. I have already written the next chapter and my beta is hard at work checking it. It's called the Princess Arc, I'm sure that will be a delightful story arc. I'm sure nothing terrible will happen.
Any leave your comments telling me what you think. If you guys have a lot of good ones I might write something about Seraph during Halloween, or I won't. October is a busy month for me. I do video explaining the supernatural and how to fight it for my room mate for this month. If you want to see them go on youtube and look for dealing with the supernatural. anyway later and happy halloween.