OMG! I'm sooooo sorry for the wait. But here it is at last chapter 6. Hope you all enjoy it.
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Chapter 6
Back at the temple, the remaining clerics were being herded into the main room by the hored of minions. Pushing the head cleric to the front of the group Bruce announces, "We have gathered the survivers as you have instructed, Mistress Riana." as their beautiful Mistress steps out of the shadows.
"Now," she purred "Tell me what this is all about?" The head cleric glared at the vampiress. From the collected group a young cleric steps forward brashly proclaiming, "We will rid the world of all evil. All creatures of darkness will vanish like so much mist in the wind. Man will be able to..." before the youth could finish, his head was riped from his shoulders. Before the body could hit the ground, several of the vampires pulled it aside and started tearing it apart, each one draining their piece. Riana smiled as the clerics paled.
"Does anyone else want to join him?" Riana asked licking the blood from her fingers. When no one answered her, Riana returned her attention to the head cleric. She repeated her question and the head cleric stood in silence for a moment then answered her. As he explained, Riana noticed her jittery pet human, a young man, walking about the room.
"Find anything interesting Daniel?" she asked as he jumped droping the note pad and pen from his hand.
"Nothing our friend over there hasn't told us." he said picking up the items he had droped.
"Alright. But if you should find something of interest, you will let me know won't you."
"Of course, my Lady."
When the head cleric finished his explanation, Riana told Bruce to take the prisoners away.
Deep in thought she paced absently about the room.
"Fasinating." She beckoned to Daniel "Amazing isn't it?" she said.
"Yes... definitely... an incantation that can remove all evil from the world."
"Yes," she said a glint appearing in her eye "But anything that can be made can also be unmade... or twisted."
"Very true." Daniel replied "This entire incantation revolves around a base spell that is its direction." Thinking for a moment he continued "All the other chanting is used to gather and shape power."
"Tell me," she said "can this spell be twisted to our own purposes? Can we change it? Use it?"
"I... I think so." he said losing himself in the excitment of a new puzzle "If the main spell were altered we could completely change the outcome." Getting more and more exited as the possibilities came to him. "I need to study this further!" he said as he ran off to type madly at his laptop.
Riana smiled coldly to herself. For all his jitteryness he was like a man possesed when there was a puzzle to be solved. If there was any way to use this to their advantage Daniel would find it, soon. Leaving the room, Riana came face to face with her other human, a female named Laury.
"What do you want?" the vampiress snaped.
"I wish to let you know that in a couple of nights all will be lost." Laury said and walked away humming to herself. Crazy but amusing. However Laury's predictions had an uncomfortable habit of coming true. That is the only reason she was still alive.
Back at the village, Seras started to calm down. Wiping the bloody tears from her face, Seras looked up at her master and saw that his back was facing her. He was still mad at her and didn't want to talk. Giving him a small bow Seras called to Pip and his men telling them it was time to head back to camp.
"What about Alucard?" Pip asked as they headed out.
"Don't worry about him. Master Alucard will join us when he's ready." Seras said a hit a sadness in her voice. When they arrived Seras told Pip that she was going to rest. Climping in the back of the truck which carried the coffins, Seras sat on her coffin lid and closed her eyes thinking of her master. He had taught her so much and she knew, even if Alucard didn't admited it, that he was pleased with her. He still cursed her humanity, but Seras had promised herself that she would embrace her new life and for some time it seemed like she had succeed. But tonights event had proven her wrong.
Keeping her eyes closed, Seras leaned towards her master's coffin. Her hands glided across the top untill her fingers found the carved out proverb. Lying down on the coffin her fingers absently tracing out each word.
Alucard returned just as the sun started to rise and found Seras asleep on top of his coffin. Sighing he carefuly picked her up and placed her in her own coffin. Staring down at her he gently removed some hairs from her face as a look of affection grew in his eyes. Closing her lid he climbed into his own. Alucard wished his fledgling a good days rest, then fell asleep.
The following evening, Seras awoke to find her master looking down upon her in her casket.
"Have you noticed Police Girl?" he said as she opened her eyes.
Looking about for a moment she was confused until it dawned on her.
"The pulse has stopped!" she exclamed wide eyed.
"Very good. It ended during the fight last night." Alucard stated.
"I'm sure you're now glad we took bearings!" Pip's voice rose from the back of the truck. The vampires both turned to look at him.
"We 'umans are usefull after all." He says over his shoulder as he walks away and joined the Wild Geese in tearing down the camp.
Getting up out of her casket Seras smiles to herself.
'He's quit good at what he does.' Alucard said in her mind as a small grin formed on his face.
Nodding Seras got up. 'I'm going to get that bearing off of him and scout ahead' she said as she disapeared out the back of the truck.
Several hours later at the temple.
"Thats it!" Daniel exclaimed. After working throughout the day, missing sleep and several meals, he had finally found the way to alter the incantation. Daniel, his tired blood shot eyes making him look almost vampiric himself, double checking his calculations, gathered all his aquipment and left his room to find his mistress. On the way Laury caught up to him.
"It won't work, you know." she told him as she skipped beside him. Daniel watched the skipping girl.
"What are you talking about?" he asked ajusting the strap of his computer bag.
"The spell you supposedly altered. It's going to back fire and you'll be the first to go." she said and skiped ahead of him humming once again to herself. Daniel stoped walking and watch horrified as the girl disappeared. What a nutcase, he thought. Why Lady Riana keeps her around is beyond me. Shrugging his shoulders, Daniel continued his search.
He found Riana sitting in what looked like a garden. She was singing softly to herself, but stoped when she heard Daniel approching. She smiled when he joinged her. Once he was comfortable, Daniel started to tell her about all the diffrent things he had discovered. When he finished Daniel sighed half-heartly.
"Why Daniel, what's the matter?" Riana asked.
"This spell needs clerics for it to work. Where are we going to find twenty or so clerics willing to to serve your cause?"
"Leave that to me. You worry about everything else." Riana reashured him. Just as they were about to leave, Laury ran up to them smiling from ear to ear.
"Look, my Lady." Laury said pointing. Riana and Daniel fallowed the direction of Laury's finger. There at the back of the garden was a black panther. Daniel gasped a little, while Laury called to it. Riana however was watching it suspition in her eyes.
"Is there somthing wrong, my Lady?" Daniel asked noticing the look on her face.
"Tell me Daniel what color eyes do panthers have?"
"Yellow why?"
"Because this one has red eyes." Daniel looked carefuly at the animal's face and sure enough red eyes.
"Fasinating." Daniel said. "We should capture it. I'd really like to see how it came to have such special looking eyes." As if understanding him, the panther left in a run. Laury turned to Daneil and punshed him in the arm.
"You meanny!" she cried, "You scared it away."
"It's for the best, Laury. Come, there's much to do." Riana said leaving the gardens.
Riana softly states "Track it." to the darkness behind her. A soft russel is heard in the leave as Jose and Marco disappeared into the night.
Well there you are. I am working on chap. 7 but it might take a while because it's going to have 2 battle scenes and we all know how bad I am at writing battle scenes. (blush) Let me know what you think of this chapter. Later.