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Chapter 11: Eternal Battle
Ravyn and Tarn'se raced through the halls following Eve's directions. The staircase was easy to find. They quickly ascended it and exited on a balcony. From the balcony, they could see the entire complex, and Eve was right; the vampires were losing.
"I see you have tracked me down once more. You two are persisted little pests aren't you?" Nacht said, standing at the edge of the balcony. She did not bother turning around to face them.
"You finally lost you blood-sucking bitch. How does it feel to lose?" Ravyn snarled pulling out a sword and dagger. Tarn'se did not say a word, but pulled out his spear and expanded his wrist blades.
Nacht turned, her silver eyes practically glowing in rage, "I have not lost you petty child; this is merely a scratch against me, nothing more. My power has not been affected nor has my standing. I have hundreds of sanctuaries I can leave to."
Ravyn shook her head and grinned, "Yeah, right. Well, if you are so unaffected by this attack, how did your sister manage to leave without you noticing?"
Nacht seemed confused for a moment, shutting her eyes. They snapped open and she stared at Ravyn in disbelief.
Grinning wider Ravyn continued, "And from what she tells me, this incident is going to cause you a hell of a lot more problems then you expect. She said you might become a, oh what was it? A Fallen Master I think she said. I almost want to let you live, just to see you kicked out by the others and living on rats in the sewers like you should be."
Nacht drew herself up and bared her fangs, "I may fall, child, but you're coming with me." Reaching into the cloak she wore, she pulled out a short sword, smoothly sharp on one side, and wickedly jagged on the opposite. "Your death will be slow and painful; I promise you." With that Nacht leapt straight at Ravyn.
Tarn'se swung his spear in a horizontal swipe at Nacht as she jumped. The vampire disappeared and reappeared behind him as if she hadn't jumped period. Nacht swung her sword at Tarn'se who grabbed her wrist and twisted, breaking her wrist, her hand spasming and dropping the sword. Tarn'se felt the claws of Nacht's free hand bite into the skin of his arm as she grabbed him and threw him through the air. He landed on his shoulder, turning his fall into a roll so he came back up to his feet instantly.
Nacht snapped her wrist back into place, healing it instantly as Ravyn came at her. She struck Ravyn in the chest, launching her into a wall. She quickly reappeared in front of Ravyn, grabbing her neck and slamming her into the wall over and over, Ravyn's head smacking the wall sharply each time. Tarn'se threw a shrunken at Nacht who grabbed it with her free hand and smashed it into the wall, shattering the metal as if it were glass. Tarn'se shrieked a battle cry and ran at Nacht.
"No." The word hissed through his mind like fire and Tarn'se fell to the ground clutching his head. It felt as if something was inside his skull trying to rip its' way out. Relentless pain and agony gripped him, making all thought useless as everything ceased to exist but the pain.
As soon as the pain came it disappeared. Tarn'se was on his back; his joints ached as if he had been fighting for days nonstop. He stood shakily, trying to get the pain that had been in him out of his system. His gaze locked on Nacht, who was fending off a rather battered Ravyn while pulling a dagger out of her chest. Ravyn had managed to hurt her, breaking her concentration in torturing him.
Tarn'se growled in rage. Mind tricks like the ones Nacht pulled were the equivalent of pulling a gun on him; a long range, deadly weapon.
Tarn'se quickly began to activate his plasma caster.
Ravyn swung her sword in well calculated strokes, trying to get past Nacht's iron-defense. Nacht easily blocked each strike with her arm, occasionally getting cut, but healing each wound easily. When Nacht disappeared, Ravyn spun in a circle hoping to hit Nacht. However, Nacht, expecting this had merely disappeared and then reappeared in the same spot. Nacht swiped Ravyn's feet out from under her and then, in one swift move, picked Ravyn up from the ground and threw her into the wall again.
Ravyn nearly passed out when her head hit the brick wall for the hundredth time. She no doubt had at least a minor concussion and she wasn't sure how many more head shots she could take without passing out completely. Due to her continuous transformation into a vampire, most of her minor wounds were healed, but the major ones stayed.
Ravyn stabbed Nacht in the shoulder when she reappeared, but the master vampire took no notice only grabbing her and beginning to squeeze her neck, closing her windpipe. Ravyn coughed and tried to dig the dagger deeper. A loud bang echoed and Nacht's side exploded in a gout of blood and tissue.
Nacht screamed and fell to the ground as Tarn'se ran at her his spear flying like a javelin and hitting her in the chest below her heart. Ravyn wanted the alien pull his arm with the wicked blades attached to his wrist backward preparing for a powerful strike. Nacht swung her arm towards him and pointed on clawed finger at him, using it as a focus for her mind powers. Tarn'se shrieked and fell to his knees. Nacht, with a little struggle, snapped the spear that protruded from her chest and pulled the remaining piece out of her. Nacht pulled Ravyn's dagger out of her shoulder and aimed a throw at Tarn'se.
Ravyn leapt, swinging her sword, and lopping Nacht's hand off. Nacht screamed and kicked Ravyn in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her. Her power over Tarn'se ended, and the alien began to shake his head.
Ravyn moved to stab Nacht with her sword when Nacht pulled her own sword out of nowhere and drove it through Ravyn's thigh. Ravyn yelped and fell, grabbing onto Nacht and pulling her down with her, Ravyn felt her weight land on Nacht's leg. She heard the crisp cracking should that was one of the smaller bones in Nacht's calve breaking; Tibia or Fibia, whichever it was didn't matter. Nacht grunted in pain and swiped again at Ravyn who had snatched away her dagger and was now jabbing it repeatedly into Nacht's stomach. Nacht grabbed her wrist and threw Ravyn away from her.
Ravyn landed roughly and slid across the tiled ground. The pain in her leg was extraordinary. Ravyn moved quickly, trying to get the sword out of her leg. It was no use. Even if she did get the sword out, the jagged side would tear her leg to pieces.
Ravyn watched as Tarn'se dove at Nacht, only to be swatted away by the angry vampire into the wall. Nacht appear in front of him kicking him into a wall where Tarn'se hit roughly and landed on the ground, not moving.
Ravyn knew Nacht's rage fueled her moves, making her more and more dangerous. However, from the looks of a few unhealed wounds Nacht was going to die soon if she didn't feed. The huge blast from Tarn'se's gun had taken a lot out of Nacht. The wound healed, but there was some nasty scar tissue left behind. Vampires didn't scar; another sign Nacht was weakening.
Unfortunately, from the look in Nacht's eyes, Ravyn was next on the menu.
Ravyn dug through her all her hidden pockets, looking for something, anything that may help her. Her hand rested on a lump in her boot. She remembered; there was a spare vial of Ivy's serum there; Nacht must have missed it when she had disarmed Ravyn. Ravyn ripped it out and turned from Nacht, trying to make it look like she was trying to crawl away. Biting the cork with her teeth, Ravyn open the vial and dumped it all over her neck.
Suddenly, she felt Nacht grab her and lift her into the air. The vampire's eyes glowed in anger. So consumed with her rage, the vampire didn't even notice the slightly glowing substance on Ravyn's neck until she bit.
The serum reacted immediately, charring Nacht's mouth. Nacht hissed and pulled away looking at Ravyn with a look of pure hate. An evil light seemed to come from behind Nacht's eyes, as the vampire smiled wickedly. Nacht, still carrying Ravyn, limped over to the edge of the balcony and held Ravyn over the railing. It was a good three story drop to the ground, and a deadly looking one at that. The sword that was still in Ravyn's leg had been like a constant agonizing pounding; at the moment, Ravyn felt nothing but the cool fear that was brought on by the notion of certain death.
"Time to die, little hunter,' Nacht hissed in Ravyn's face, hoisting her higher, preparing to throw her out.
In an explosion of blood, two twin blades burst though Nacht's chest, surrounding her heart. Nacht gasped and dropped Ravyn.
"Time to die, little hunter," Tarn'se mimicked Nacht's words, pulling the vampire back and slamming her into the ground. Nacht looked at him with a look of mixed hate and rage, but mainly denial. Not removing his wrist blades, Tarn'se flipped Nacht onto her back. Nacht's scream of pain mixed with Tarn'se's cry of victory as he ripped out Nacht's spine and attached skull. Grabbing the skull that swung from the bloody spinal column, Tarn'se held the gruesome trophy over his head with a cry of victory. The body of the Master vampire burst into flames, along with the skull and spinal cord. However, Tarn'se's natural resistance to fire protected him from the blue white flames that coated the skull. When the fire died down, a ivory colored skeleton along with a pile of vertebrae lay on the ground and Tarn'se held what looked like a human skull except for two long lethally sharp fangs.
When Ravyn fell, she grabbed onto the small overhang and clung to it by her finger tips. The sword felt like a heavy weight pulling her down to the ground. Ravyn's finger ached from holding on. Ravyn began to scream as her fingers slipped. Just as she felt herself begin to fall a blood-slick hand gripped her arm and pulled her up and over the balcony. Ravyn was set on her feet but her legs buckled and she nearly collapsed, only to be caught for a second time.
Ravyn looked into the masked face of Tarn'se and asked a question, though the answer was obvious, "You won?"
Tarn'se gestured behind him and Ravyn saw the bones of Nacht lying upon the ground, minus her skull. Ravyn quickly spotted that in a mesh bag that hung from Tarn'se's waist. Tarn 'se leaned her up against a wall and pulled her leg out straight.
"You need to get this out of your leg," Tarn'se stated.
Ravyn glared at him, feeling one eye puffy and swollen, most likely turning black and blue, "No shit, Sherlock. Not bad for your third vampire hunt; you should join the guild."
Tarn'se gave that strange clicking noise that sufficed for a laugh as he snapped the hilt off the blade. He would have to pull it out backward if he didn't want the blade to shred her leg. Gripping the blade carefully, Tarn'se pulled it out in one swift move. Ravyn gasped and gritted her teeth, but held the pain in well with the exception of a few tears moving down her cheeks.
The balcony door burst open and Nathan and Ivy burst out, aiming bows at them. Tarn'se leapt to his feet, ready to fend off any attack. Ivy dropped her bow and raced to Ravyn as Nathan scanned the area for any immediate threats. His gaze stopped on the pile of ivory bone and he shouted, "Holy shit! You guys killed her! Awesome!"
Ivy turned, saw the body, then hugged Ravyn fiercely, "You did it! I knew you would!"
Ravyn chuckled dryly, "It wasn't me. It was Tarn'se. He's the one that killed her."
Nathan nudged the bones with his foot tentatively, as if afraid the bones would jump up and attack him, "So cool; dude, can I have your autograph? Hey! Where did he go?"
Ravyn and Ivy looked around. Tarn'se had disappeared.
With a low rumble, Tarn'se pod launched itself back into space. He had left the human hunters there. Ravyn would live, he knew. There was nothing left for him to do there and he was supposed to have left the Earth over an hour ago. Now as he headed back to the main ship, he grinned to himself. This hunt would be quite the story, but before he told it he would have to wait and report to the Elders about the vampires. Tarn'se held up the skull of Nacht in front of him. He ran a finger over the beautiful skull, perfect in every way, probably because of the vampire's amazing ability to heal.
He ran his finger over one of the fangs and winced as it sliced his finger; sharp and deadly even in death. Tarn'se looked at his bleeding finger in annoyance; he had just battled perhaps the strongest being he had ever met and now he cut his finger on a skull; that was rather pathetic.
Pulling out a small med kit made for minor injuries, Tarn'se wiped the blood off his finger and prepared to apply the heal salve. But as he looked at his finger, he could find no trace of the wound. Tarn'se's brows rose in confusion, but he put away the med kit. Whatever that was about, it couldn't be important…
Ravyn sat in the back of Ivy's car as she drove her towards the Ice Guild House. She was bandaged up, but Ivy said she still needed medical attention. Ravyn for once didn't argue; she felt like crap.
Slipping her hand in her pocket, Ravyn pulled out the velvet pouch Eve had given her; she had just remembered it.
Ivy's foot slammed down on the brakes when Ravyn screamed loudly. Ivy spun expecting to see a vampire in the backseat, only to see Ravyn staring in shock at something in her hand. Ivy grabbed Ravyn's wrist and turned it, seeing a small vial with a piece of paper in it.
"What is it?" Ivy asked confused.
Ravyn caught her breath and breathed, "The cure… Eve gave me the God-damned cure!"
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