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Chapter 4: The Scroll of Eternal Shadows

Rakshasas was sitting in his throne, drinking from a wine glass that was filled with crimson blood, when suddenly the lid on this Ancient chest that had been sitting in the far corner of the room covered but dust older than time it self burst open causing the chains which bound it shut to shatter into a million pieces. A Black aura rose from the chest and surrounded it. Rakshasas approached the chest with the wine glass still in his hand. His eyes opened wide glistening with delight as a sinister smile spread across his face as he saw what lay with in. What lay inside the chest was something as old as time its self. An ancient scroll pulsed within the chest and glowed a bloody crimson, this was the scroll of Hell. Rakshasas took it out and opened the scroll. Inside only some of the lines where glowing a bloody red:

Porta ut Abyssus ut eram quondam signum ero infractus ut cruor of key est spilled super signum. rutilus luna mos orior oriri ortus quod conicio orbis terrarum in eternus obscurum quod depths of Abyssus vadum spill continuo. Illud ut ago per obscurum of nox noctis coma fio sceptrum of universitas. unus quisnam est key est unus per Virus Cruor. unus ut has pennae of Niger eyes of Cruor , quod parvulus of rex of nox noctis quod a letalis left incommutabilis...

A wicked smile spread across Rakshasas' lips. "Finally it is time."

Blood dripped from her hand as she held the vampires cold dead heart. A wicked smile flashed across Tamika's face as she crushed the vampire's heart and he turned to dust. Blade, Whistler, James, and the other vampire watched in horror as the 'Demon' before them licked the vampire's blood from her hand. There was no emotion on Remya's face except for a small tear that trickled down it as she gazed upon her friend. James on the other hand smiled with the same wicked smile his father has as he watched Tamika savored every drop of the vampire's blood. Her crimson orbs then turned their attention to the others in the room. The female vampire who was fighting with Blade shook with horror as she stared into the glowing crimson orbs.

"It can not be," and no sooner had those words left her mouth, Tamika lunged at the vampire but she was pulled out of the way by James at the last possible second and then they disappeared. Tamika growled in anger and then turned her attention back to the others. As she did her eyes stopped glowing and slowly closed. As she began to fall to the ground her wings retracted back into her back until only two wounds remained where they where.

Blade caught her right before she hit the ground. Remya ran over to her side with Whistler soon to follow.

"What the hell just happened?" Whistler asked with a little tension in his voice.

"Let's get her back to bed." Remya said with a concern filled voice. "Then I will explain all I know."

Without another word Blade picked Tamika up and carried her to a different room and put her in bed. While Blade did that Remya and Whistler began to straighten up the base. An hour passed before Blade rejoined them. He had gone outside a check the perimeter. Once he returned everything was almost back to normal except for the whole in the one wall.

"Now what was 'that'." Blade asked with out even looking at Remya.

"I … I don't want to believe it myself but this could mean the end of everything we know." She said softly as she took a seat on one of the stools next to the work bench.

"What do you mean?" Whistler asked.

Remya closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She opened her eyes and looked at the two men. She spoke in a serious and some what fearful tone. "My father, the vampire Lord Rakshasas, the eldest of all the vampire elders, has the duty of protecting a certain scroll… The Scroll of Eternal Shadows….In which is written many prophecies which could lead to an unimaginable amount of death and destruction. There is one in there though that makes all the rest look like child's play."

"What does this have to do with what just happened?" Whistler interrupted politely.

"Let me finish and you will see." She said softly with a fake smile. Remya was scared. It was forbidden for outsiders to know about the scroll and even though she no longer followed the Vampire Nation she still felt fear when it came to the Scroll. "Like I said there is one that worst then all the rest put together. It is written in a dialect that is older then the world itself. It is know as the Tongue of Hell. Translated it says 'The Gate to Hell that was once sealed will be broken when the blood of the key is spilled over the seal. The red moon will rise and throw the world into eternal darkness and the depths of Hell shall spill forth. Those that live by the darkness of night stall become rules of world. The one who is the key is the one with Poisoned Blood. The one that has wings of Black, eyes of Blood, and the child of the king of the night and a mortal left unchanged.'"

There was complete silence when Remya stopped had finished. Fear filled Whistlers eyes as did Blade's. Then after some more time past Blade finally broke the silence.

"How can you be sure that Tamika is the one the prophecy is speaking about and how do we even know that it is true?"

"I can't…but I know this for sure. She is not like you Blade. I have known her for 20 years now, and she has not aged a day… the thing is she can't remember her past at all. I found her wandering in the deserts of Egypt. Though it was strange."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, what was strange was that around the same time my father had sent teams of workers there to search for something. That's when they found it; deep under the sands of Egypt they found the Gates of Hell." Remya finished and then looked up to the whole in the wall.

"That brother of your will waste no time in telling Rakshasas about what happened here. You better get someplace safe for you. It will be dawn I an hour." Whistler said.

"Don't need to worry about it. I have a lot of sunscreen and it does not look like you get an sun light in here anyway, so I think I will help you out, I am very good with my hands and I can fix Tamika's katana faster then you can anyway." Remya said with a little laugh. Her and Whistler went to work repairing everything that was damaged in the fight. Mean while Blade went up to check on Tamika. She lay on the bed sleeping peacefully. Blade left her room got his katana and his car keys.

"I am going to get some information." He said as he got into the car and ripped out of there.

Remya looked at Whistler with confusion. Whistler just shook his head and they went back to work.

James and the female vampire just made it into the sewers as the sun rose. A smile spread across James face as they walked through the sewer and the security when they where once again in his home. He enter his fathers throne room where Hallana was already waiting there with Rakashasas. James's grew even bigger when he saw what lay on the table in the middle of the room. Though it was not glowing as it was before the lines where still glowing blood red. James knelt down on the ground and lowered his head to the ground.

"Father I am sorry. My team and I have failed to kill Blade and the traitor." James said softly.

"You disappoint me, James. They where the best we had and it should have been easy to destroy Blade and the rest see as how Remya's friend was still poisoned and injured. How did this happen." Lord Rakashasas slammed his fist down hard on the side of his throne causing the wine glass of blood the fall to the ground and shatter. "Now because of you we have lost our best tracker and we will never find the key!"

The smile on James' face grew as he stood up and faced his father. "You are wrong father, because it was the key her self that prevented us from doing the mission. It seems Remya's friend is more then what she appears. Tamika is the key. I saw her with my own eyes, just as the prophecy described. She had wings as black as night and her power was unimaginable."

"How did we not notice this before? We have seen her time after time." Hallana spook for the first time glaring at her brother.

"She is not like it all the time. As I made my escape I saw her turn back to her 'normal' form, and the power she showed was worthy of the vampire blood that is said to flow through her veins. It was then that the scroll came to life was it not." James said smiling at his father.

"Finally the time has come for the true rulers of this world to take there throne. Send word to the other Elders at once." Rakashasas yelled to one of the guards who then bowed and quickly left the room. "Now it is time to rest, for when night comes you my children will be in charge of capturing the key, and I will have to leave for Egypt and make the preparations."

Meanwhile as the sun rose high in the sky Blade raced through the city unknowing of the fate that was in store for them as soon as the sun set and the night took over.

Sorry it took so long to update but hopefully I will have the next chaper up before Christmas.