CHAPTER 9: Evangeline's Fourteen

Evangeline sighed a bit when she recalled what happened. She knew that if Camilla were not to be stopped in time, it'd get even serious. She looked around in her resort, Negi and his 7-pactio partners along with Kotarou, Fei Ku, Kaede, Amar Ma'aruf and Chris Belmont. Either one of them were planning what to do in their next encounter.

"Got any bright ideas?"

"Camilla appears at random. We don't have any clues where she's residing, hiding or resting. She'll appear out of nowhere, I can assure you that." Eva said.

"About what happened to Azman, I felt really terrible."

"I told you all that she'll get this far!" Chris yelled.

"…"

"Now what?"

"Look, Chris, we're clueless. Everyone's here were in the same boat with us. I know that your ancestors fight vampires too, but this time it's different. Camilla is not like Dracula like what I heard from you, coz' she's no load bearing boss. She's a pushover. If there's only way we can trace her…"

Suddenly, there's a knock coming from the door.

"I wonder who it is this time."

Amar opened the door to see his adopted father. Behind him was the newly repaired Chachamaru, carrying a backpack of some kind.

"Dad!"

"Evangeline, I got Chachamaru up and running. Also, I got some package from the Belmont family."

"?" Chris shot up from his thoughts and turned around.

Chachamaru casually walked to the table in Eva's resort and placed the backpack there, taking out some new items. Everyone started to gather at the table.

"What the heck… WOW! New subweapons!" Chris screamed in delight when he saw those items.

On the table sits crystals, a purple, new and honed axe, ash (Bibuti), a book, then there's a glass bottle filled with liquid, (similar to his Acid Vial but now it's more like Acid Cocktail judging by the bottle), some electronic equipments and his favorite, the 6mm softgun model of the Heckler & Koch USP handgun inside a small case. Beside it was a small bottle filled with 6mm pellets.

Fei Ku took the bottle containing the pellets and she opened it. The aroma of garlic then fills the room, forcing Eva to cover her nose with both of her hands.

"Don't worry. It's won't kill you even in a pinch." The vampire hunter assured.

"That's what I'm worried about."

"It'll kill you if I shot you 12 times, because it's just plastic pellets."

The others laughed as Chris said that. At the same time, Amar Ma'aruf picked up a letter beside the electronic equipments.

"Yo Chris, check this out."

"What?"

"It's a letter from your friends."

"What does it say?"

"…I don't read Romanian…"

"Give me that."

Chris took a deep breath before reading the letter.

Dear Chris Belmont.

3 years had passed but we're still on to each other. We had found the 'tracking device' Le Carde had been rambling about, and yeah, we had found out the news about the vampire around your area via the Internet. All of us thought of getting some of your subweapons there, and if you read this, you had got most of the mystical and non-mystical things. See ya soon.

P/S: Make sure you get that vampire a good beating.

Your vampire hunting friends,

Brian Dinesti, Danny LeCarde, Jennifer Belnadez and Justin Morris

(A/N: Brian, 14. still a student, Danny, 18, now an actor, Jennifer, 20, Brian's teacher and a chemist as of being a spell caster. Justin, 15, the most popular guy in school but actually a tech geek.)

"Well?"

"My friends gave me that tracking device. On cue, if you know what I mean."

"Who are your friends then?" Negi asked.

"Brian, still young but can climb on walls and ceilings, Danny, acting like he's the greatest spear-wielder, Jennifer, the oldest and she's a mage… and Justin… probably the nearest example to Amar Ma'aruf."

"…"

Chris turned the letter over. "Oh, there's more here."

Also from Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, Julia-Claudette-Renard, Mrs. Alouette Schneider and her husband David Taylor (From Splatterhouse! XD)

"Okay, we got what we wanted. What's next?"

"Let's go vampire hunting everyone!"

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"Alright, because I had used Amar Ma'aruf as bait and it didn't turn out that well, I need somebody else. Any volunteers?"

Everybody including Amar Ma'aruf backed away a feet in length from the vampire hunter.

"Evangeline…"

"No!" She protested immediately.

"Oh come on. She's after you, after all."

"I said no!"

"Just go for it."

"I SAID NO!"

"YOU"LL GO WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! CAMILLA IS AFTER YOU, NOT EITHER ONE OF US!"

Eva shrunk. Boy, you should see how red both parties' face was. She looked around and saw that everybody's face was pleading 'please'.

"Alright I'll go, but remind me to chomp Chris' head off if everything goes off."

"…"

Like before, Eva was given the ivory dress worn by Amar Ma'aruf before. However, in addition to that, she was given a hat and a charm for that her original scent won't spoil the surprise attack. Setsuna had placed paper talismans around the shrine compounds so that their scent won't spoil the scene as well.

"Now we're rolling."

"What should she do?"

"Apparently, she'll need to walk around aimlessly until Camilla comes up. That though was not a perfect solution on searching."

"…" Again, the others kept quiet.

Flawless victory, I think?

A/N: There it is! Another chapter. Might be much longer than Bloodlines, I think. So then, keep on reading and reviewing! TQ.