Ooookay! Here I am! Back again! I am hella excited for these upcoming chapters! It's the final battle! Whoot Whoot! The story is coming to a close! Anyone else excited? I should hope so, and if not then I am not doing my job! Review please and I'll try to be as fast as I can in my updates. Oh and listen to music by Epic Score while reading this. Really helped me write it. Shout out to Epic Score!
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Disclaimer: I do not own anything from Hotel Transylvania. I own my own OCs Viore, Inmoon, Zeyphx, Lorelay, and Isobel. (Applies for all other chapters as well.)
Dracula shrieked in rage and whirled back toward Mavis. He landed behind her in a crouch and flared his wings as a feral snarl made its way past his lips. A sudden fear struck Mavis and Johnny. They turned to see Dracula facing off against an army of the most terrifying creatures they had ever seen.
Their bodies were nothing more than clouds of dark ink, swirling as if trapped in the confines of water. Their teeth resembled Dracula's fearsome fangs but were longer and thicker. Each single tooth had runes and designs naturally set into it. Their bright red eyes held a set of black hourglass pupils. They were the Vours and they were there to retake what was once theirs and torture the ones who ended their reign.
"Get everyone to the shelter!" Dracula roared. "Don't let them anywhere near Mavis! If something happens to her I will petrify you myself!"
"Yes sir." Isobel nodded and swooped down to stand next to Mavis.
There was a great roar as a wall of white flame leaped from the floor in front of Dracula and stretched to the ceiling.
"Don' be an idiot Vlad!" Viore shouted. "Lead the way, I'll cover ya!"
Dracula nodded and ran to catch up with Inmoon, Isobel, and Mavis. His gaze linked with Isobel's and she flew off to assist in the containment of the Vours.
"Everyone follow me!" Dracula shouted to the remainder of the monsters who had been trapped inside.
The crowd did not hesitate to do as he said in the face of the Vours. He took up the head of the group and did his best to shield everyone with tendrils of shadow as he flew over head. Inmoon fought below him, casting protection spells and dispersing the Vours for a few moments. They would only reform in a few minutes but it at least cleared a path for them.
The first fatality hit the group hard. A swarm of Vours descended upon them and in a spray of blood a young Satyr was torn to pieces. Even Dracula's speed could not help and he roared in anger and sent a massive wave of solid shadow hurtling down the hallway to push the Vours back.
Inmoon maintained physical contact with Mavis at all times as she barked orders at Frank, Wayne, Murray, and Griffin. She formed a protective circle around Johnny and his friends in order to shield them from the reach of the Vours. The monsters on the edge of the group suffered greatly and Mavis let out a scream as she saw a swarm overtake her father and tear a wing from his back. Dracula screamed in agony and dropped like a rock to the floor. The Vours caught him and sent him hurdling through a stone wall.
The gap in the stone was enveloped by the same white flame that trailed behind them as Viore stretched his arm out.
"What are you doing?!" She yelled. "My father's still over there!"
"Little lady, yer father c'n take care o himself!" Viore shouted. "Our orders are ta protect ya and everyone here at all costs! Little fire ain't gonna hurt 'im!"
Just as the words left the man's mouth Dracula came hurdling back through the flames. He whipped around in a spray of blood and weaved shadow into Viore's flames to strengthen the wall.
"Mavis!"He called as he turned around and Mavis covered her mouth in horror.
Half of her father's face was missing. There were deep claw marks set into the bone that were slowly knitting back together. His ruptured eye resealed itself and gained vision again. His flesh knitted itself together in long strings that snapped out to join with one another. She watched as the wing on his back regrew, bone first, and flesh spider webbed out to cover it.
"Mavis!" He called again as he swooped through the crowd. "Take Sirith!" He yelled over the chaos as he handed her his sword. "She will protect you!"
Even as she held the massive blade the weight meant nothing in her hands. When she looked up again her father was charging back into a swarm with a ferocious war cry.
All around the group came explosions of fire, water, ice, lightning, earth, metal, and pure shadow as the Pillars struggled to hold the Vours at bay. Johnny heard a scream from behind and turned to see Viore dragging Lorelay a safe distance away as she clutched tightly at her split belly. Viore grabbed her intestines in a sloppy handful and shoved them back into her body. In a few seconds she was healed and had returned to the fray.
Jonathan's friends were absolutely terrified as they ran in the center of the crowd. Gemma did her best to keep narrating the situation but her fear was too great. A Vour broke through and Mavis found herself swinging Sirith before her mind even registered what she was doing. The creature shrieked as the runes of the blade glowed red hot and the Vour dissipated in an instant.
Dracula swooped over the group with an arm that dangled limply at his side. He landed before a stone wall and snapped the shoulder back into place with a wince. He pulled out a stone and shoved his hand into the hole. He bit into his lip before withdrawing his hand and cradling his split wrist to his chest. The wall cracked in half beside them and withdrew to reveal another hidden room. He turned his scarlet eyes back to Mavis as she assisted everyone inside.
"Get inside!" He yelled at her.
There were runes, like the ones on the wall in his lab, decorating the threshold and interior of the room. It was a room specifically designed to keep Vours out.
"Mavis, come on!" Johnny yelled as he ushered his friends through.
She turned her head to her right and saw a flash of inky black and long teeth. She screamed in terror as the Vour closed in.
The impact nearly jarred her teeth from her skull. She hit the floor hard and gasped for breath. She expected to be torn apart but instead she looked up to see her father's pained face as he wrapped his wings around her protectively. Behind them, Isobel and Inmoon sealed the door and the horrid shrieking of the Vours became muffled.
"How many did we lose?" Lorelay asked as she helped Dracula up.
"I don't know." He gasped. "Mavis?" He kneeled down. "Are you alright?"
She nodded as she gasped for breath. She welcomed Johnny's bone crushing hug as he wrapped his arms around her and whispered how much he loved her.
Dracula stood and examined the door with scrutinizing eyes.
"Are we certain they took no one?" He asked.
"Absolutely." Inmoon answered. "They've only been feeding off flesh. They are not yet strong enough to overtake another's will. They can only enter another if they are allowed."
Dracula nodded somberly.
"Drac! Can we get an explanation now?" Frank glared into Dracula's cold scarlet eyes.
"Those things are the Vours." He sighed as he dropped his shoulders. "They live in another realm, dimension if you will. Every year on Sorry Night, the Winter Solstice, our two worlds overlap and it allows them to cross over." He turned his back to Frank. "Their world is one of only cold and darkness. They crave the warmth and life that we here possess. But they are not satisfied in that alone. They love to kill and they will never stop doing it. They are as cold and cruel as their realm. They take over a person's body and trap them in something we call a fearscape. It's basically a land filled with your own worst fears. They feed off of that fear while living the person's life."
"And you've fought them before?"
"Yes."
"While you were human?"
"Yes, and it killed us. The elements bound themselves to us and through their power we were transformed."
"The gate is only open tonight?"
"No." Dracula moaned. "That is why we had to fight them. They changed the rules. It used to be that they could only come through on Sorry Night. Not anymore. Once the way is open it stays open and so we created the gate to seal them in their own realm and contain their bloodlust."
"So what do we do now?"
"I don't know!" Dracula roared. "I don't know." His voice fell to a whisper. "Just let me think."
Before anyone had time to react Zeyphx leaped upon Dracula with a wild scream. He snapped both of the Vampire's wings and severed his tail before leaping onto his chest like an animal and grabbing his throat. Dracula screamed as Zeyphx forced him to the ground and he landed on his, now shattered, wings. Two stalactites flew from his palms and embedded themselves in Dracula's wrists. He howled in pain and Inmoon tackled Zeyphx to the ground.
"We need ye lucid Zeyphx!" Isobel shouted as Inmoon wrestled with the struggling Warlock.
"We are!" He yelled. "Do not release it!" He bellowed as Viore pulled the stalactites out of Dracula's wrists.
"Zeyphx damn it!" Dracula roared. "You cannot do this! Not now!"
"We are lucid. Do not listen to it!"
Inmoon held onto Zeyphx as he made to lung forward again but her look was unsure now.
"Isobel! Get him back here with us." Dracula ordered. "Ground him!"
The Banshee hesitated as well.
"Ground him before his fit gets out of control!"
Lorelay slapped and icy hand on Dracula's face from behind and he shrieked in pain as the ice froze his flesh. The whole room went silent as he fell to the floor clutching his face.
"Well fuck." He laughed and his accent faded.
He dropped his hand to reveal swollen, blackened flesh and he grinned a cruel grin as he stood and called Sirith to his hand. He stared at Mavis with eyes that were not his own and a voice like pure ice.
"We will torture you endlessly tonight little Vampiress. We will violate you in every sense of the word and when I've had my fun," A terrifying grin overtook his face. "I'll let him go so he can see the work his hands have wrought. Then I'll take him again." He laughed.
Inmoon screamed ferociously as she leaped forward only to be impaled upon Sirith even as the sword grew red hot and burned Dracula's hands. The pain didn't even seem to register as smoke rose and instead the Vour within moaned in pleasure. He lifted a foot and kicked her from the sword. He turned to face the other Pillars and grinned before extending a long forked tongue and licking the blood from the blade.
Viore gave a roar that transformed into the proud scream of an eagle as he leaped forward and allowed his wings to give him extra speed. Dracula nimbly dodged Viore's attack and snapped one of his wings back into place as his tail began to grown back. He drew back his head and spit a long stream of venom that struck Lorelay in the eyes and she fell to the ground blinded.
He decapitated Isobel in the single swing and her body crumpled to the ground before dissolving to dust. He turned back around and in a matter of seconds Viore fell to Dracula's blade as well and his body burnt to ash.
"Face us." Zeyphx's voice boomed.
Dracula laughed.
"Do not underestimate our power for you dwell in our domain now." Zeyphx grinned as he smashed his heel into the ground and a pillar of rock shot up and hit Dracula in the chest with a loud crack."You may have the vessel's body but you do not wield the power of his element."
Dracula coughed blood as he stood and faced down Zeyphx. The warlock's robe had come alive and he rose upon the writhing mass of dirt, clay, and metal. Zeyphx threw out a foot, stomped hard and lifted his hands. With his movements the section of earth Dracula stood on separated in a large square and slammed him into the ceiling. A tornado formed and snatched up the dust that Isobel had become. Within the writhing mass of air her body reformed and the cloak fell to cover her naked form. The double bladed scythe formed in her hands again and her jaw dropped in a painful wail as she lunged toward Dracula.
The possessed Vampire was released as the section of earth was retracted. He hit the ground in a daze and barely managed to dodge Isobel's swing. She let out another ghostly shriek as she swung the scythe over her head launching a wind strike forward from the blade. It struck Dracula in the chest with all the force of her weapon itself. He flew back and blood spattered upon the ceiling as his chest split open.
All eyes turned to the pile of ash where Viore fell as the proud scream of an eagle sounded. A great bird, twice the size of an eagle, wreathed in every type of flame with talons of lightning rose from the ashes and launched itself at Dracula. It sunk its talons into his shoulders and Dracula screamed as lightning surged through his body. The Phoenix tore at his face with it's beak as he lifted Dracula into the air and tossed him into the wall.
Inmoon leaped upon the weakened form of the Vampire Lord and drove his head into the wall with a sickening crunch. Zeyphx rose a hand and the stone on the wall crackled as it bound Dracula's limbs to the wall. The Undead King cackled as blood poured passed his lips and he spat in Inmoon's face.
"He loves his precious little girl so much." The Vour laughed. "That he would even take in one of us to stop her from being hurt."
"Release 'im." The Phoenix said from his perch on Isobel's scythe.
"Tell me, Great Eye." Dracula hissed with a sneer. "Can you see the doom that draws close?"
"We see your doom before our very eyes, just as we see you cower before us now. We see the doom of everyone here. We see all." Zeyphx responded and his voice swapped between his and Earth's.
Dracula roared in rage and cursed in an ancient tongue. His hand broke through and grabbed Inmoon's throat. His talons dug into her flesh cruelly and Isobel raised her scythe to sever the limb.
Mavis could take the sight no longer and threw herself forward. Her hands wrapped around her father's bare wrist. There was only a second of eye contact between her and the Vour that had taken her father before she crumpled to the ground, holding his hand and Dracula went limp.
Everyone stared in shock and awe at the young Vampiress as her mind tumbled through darkness and into Dracula's fearscape.
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You're going to see a lot of cliffies in the upcoming chapters. Hope you enjoyed it. If you did please leave a review or PM me. Seriously I'm not getting reviews anymore, am I doing something wrong? Sadface. Anyway, next chapter focuses on traversing Dracula's fearscape.