This kinda turned out... uh, well, I like it and don't like it at the same time, since I do want to finish this story for once since my brain really can't take it all these stuff, but I'm making an effort so the chapters come out nice. XD Anyway, thanks for the reviews guys, I appreciate them!
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The shadows covered Acuna entirely. Everything was pitch black, nothing could be seen from the distance. Even when instants ago the living shadows seemed to be a mass of liquid running around, now they were still. There was no sign of movement in them as they stood over the buildings and street like a big black sheet, and the reason was quiet simple actually and it was because Vanargandr was also staying still in the middle of Acuna. Jormungandr watched from his spot on the tower and Hel, who was sitting on the snake's head, also watched from there.
On the southern side of the city, that was still inside the strange barrier, something moved inside the black mess. Something emerge from them and, in little time, a coyboy styled hat could be seen before Dyango's head fully came out. He coughed and spitted what he swallowed of that black mess that tasted like crap, moving his arms around to remove the shadows that were covering him. He took of enough of them to free his upper body and discover the white hair of Dainn. The shapeshifter gasped when the air went inside his lungs from his mouth and nose. Coughing much like Dyango, he raised his gaze.
"...this was totally not the way I pictured my death...", whispered as he threw up more of that black thing.
Both of them had superficial injuries like cuts but nothing too serious, although they bleed a lot to actually damp their clothes a bright red. Dyango's shirt and coat were stained with his own blood and Dainn's cloack too, but being them all black it was hard to see. To Dyango's left there was some movement and Bea's head was seen. She shook it and tried to free herself and, seeing she had a hard time, the young man helped her. As soon as he started to dig around, he smelled her blood and heard a whimper when he reached his bottom half. He finished putting away all the black mess to be able to help her and, when he reached her waist, he noticed a round, hard thing impaling the woman's leg. From the injury, he felt the river of blood coming from.
"Seems you are stuck or something.", murmurred the young man. The rest of the people started to get themselves free once they noticed the shadows were moving at all.
"Watch were you're touching!!", yelled Bea, blushin in embarrassment when she felt the hands of Dyango moving where they shouldn't.
"I'm sorry, but it's hard to see between all this thing.", answered with a naughty smile on his face. "It looks like it didn't piercer your femoral vein so you would not bleed to death..."
"...but?"
"Well, I can't see what's happening but from what I feel, I don't know if I will manage to take this thing off. It's a very delicate place and, if the damage is irreversible...", he sighed and stood up, locking his gaze with Bea's. "We will have to cut it out."
Bea tightened her teeth and both of them heard Dainn snap his tongue.
"It's just a leg, anyway."
"Shut it, Dainn.", growled Dyango to him. "Go help the others in getting away off this... gross black thing."
The albino vampire mumbled incoherently under his breath but stood up and walked past them to help the humans, althoug Lobreta managed to get away pretty well on her own much like the rest of the vampires. They weren't as bad as they though, getting a bunch of cuts like Dyango and Dainn got but upon seeing Bea's state and other humans in similar fashion, Lobreta wondered if that black thing attacked humans more aggressively than vampires. While Dyango said he didn't know that for sure, he said it would be probably seeing how his older brother held a grudge against humans deep within him.
Lobreta and Dyango took off as much as they could of that black mass surrounding Bea, except what it was piercing her leg that ended being comething similar to a huge fang. The woman rested over the barrier and looked down, trying to hold her nauseas at the great injury she had down there. The fang completely ripped her leg appart except for a small piece of flesh and tendons which was the only thing that was holding the leg in place. The blood died her uniform a bright crimson because of it. Lobreta said it could be put it back and reconect all the nerves and veins with a surgery as long as they could get away as soon as posible, but the urgent thing now was to close her injury to stop the bleeding. Bea sighed and let Lobreta cut the remaining flesh and put the leg away, while Dyango used his powers to numb the injury and try to easy some pain to the woman as Lobreta took a needle and some tread from hidden pockets in her clothes and started to work. Since they didn't have bandages to cover it, a vampire acceed to give his torn shirt to replace the bandage and cover the exposed zone. It wasn't the best for her, but it was all they could do. Dyango covered the leg with his coat and left it next to her.
Lastly, everyone manage to come out from the mass thing. The humans, much like Lobreta said, were the ones in worst conditions. Some of them had superficial cuts and other deeper ones, some others had missing limbs like in Bea's case, so Lobreta had to work quickly with her needle before they fainted after a huge blood lose, although luckily no one died, and the Terrennials came out completely unharmed. Toasty was the most shocked upon seeing the fact that they all survived to the attack. Something happened with the Beast, something was wrong, but they were still inside the barrier y it was still a pain to break, so they still had work to do if they wanted to escape.
A few meters away from them, Hoshii's head poped out from the mess. She inhaled deeply a huge puff of hair and quickly started to move around in getting off the mess. She found Gunda and helped him in getting out seeing how the rest of the soldiers did the same. Hoshii's nose was broken and bleeding like her right eye. She had several cuts all over her body that, although superficial, they ache like hell. Dumas and Nish slowly made their appearance. The albino vampire flapped his wings only to whine in pain and noticing one of them was broken much like his nose and one of his horns. He took the attack instead of Dumas who was unharmed because Nish shielded him. Nish stood and used his tail to push away the mess and create a path for them to walk freely both of them. Kay and Ernest were the last ones in being found, and from both Ernest was the one in worst conditions. He lost his left eye and right ear, a few ribs were broken too and minor cuts on his body. Kay got it lucky as he only broke his right arm, which was twisted in a funny angle. Gunda had more scars to add to his collection and his right ear, much like Ernest's one, was missing.
"We survived?", asked in horsed voice Hoshii, standing next to Gunda. The shadows were still surrounding them, but none of them twitched a bit when the people moved around, and it felt like being inside a big pool filled with a paste of flour and water.
"Seems so, but I can't think of a logic reason for it.", said Gunda.
"Obviously something happened with Vanargandr.", intervined Dumas. "Whatever had just happened with him, it stopped the shadow's attack, although we yet have to find a way of getting out of here because if Vanargandr awakes, we will not be so lucky like the first time."
They agreed with him and Gunda said they should look up for the others. He let Ernest hang on his back seeing he was the most injured from all, while Dumas flew up and noticed Dyango's group not so far from them. They moved and they all reunited in a single place and Lobreta started to fix the other's injuries with the left overs of the tread she had. After that, everyone sat down and started to evaluate their possibilities.
They already noticed that even with all that movement, the shadows didn't respond nor it did Vanargandr even when they seemed to be connected to him somehow. Dyango explained it was probably because the Beast was indeed uncouncious. Even so, he managed to communicate with Jormungandr with hisses and whispers that, upon hearing them, the snake uncurled from his spot, got down and slithered in the black mass to meet him, but Dyango couldn't feel in those moments the energy of Vanargandr or his own brother.
"Isn't that a good thing, though?", said Kay to the young man.
"Yes and no. Yes, because that means Vanargandr had been sealed in some sort of manner and no, because if he wakes up and there isn't someone to control it, we will be in deep problems since we woulnd't have our hands over the vessel to be able to control Vanargandr's power.", the man took off his dirty hat and sighed. "If Saba---I mean, Lucian had been absorbed completely by Vanargandr then we don't have much chances in sealing it back again. The Lunar Tribe could make it because they draw on their magic but now that its extinct and their text jelaousy kept on the moon we can't do much about it using our own powers.
"There must be a way, though...", groaned Toasty. Him and the rest of the Terrennials had shrunken to their original forms after the amount of energy they used to sustain the attack although Toasty demanded more from him since he protected Ezra from it. "Hey, didn't Lucian kidnap Aaron time ago?"
"Yeah, what's with him anyway?", said Nish.
"Aaron is Lucian's mate, right?", said as everyone looked at him without understanding. "Aaron could... I don't know, control him or something, the same way he did when Oyan captured both of them."
Alexander nodded.
"Could work, if he is still alive and wants to do it. He might have had a change of heart y refuse to do it but, if he is willing to do it, I seriously doubt he could against someone like Vanargandr.", opined the owl.
"Vanargandr and Lucian not only share a same body, but a same soul and mind.", explained Dyango. "If Aaron could just get a hold of one of them, it would be a bit easier to try and seal Vanargandr, but I'm more concerned on how long he will be able to do so. Aaron is still a human and even having the Dark Matter in his body, it's not his and could end up being manipulated by the Beast instead."
Everyone heard a soft growl in the distance and everyone stood up in a defense mode only to see it was just Jormungandr arriving to their group. The snake stopped a few meters away from them and curled on his body, waiting for Dyango's orders.
"Finding him will be a great challenge. Considering he is Saba---I mean, Lucian's mate it's for sure he used Vanargandr's body to protect him from corrupting from the dark clouds.", he bit his bottom lip. "If that's the case, then we will have approach and dig around Vanargandr's body."
"It's more than known that no one wants or wants to do it.", said Dumas and everyone, surprisingly, agreed with him.
"Well, I can't argue because I don't want to either, but it's something we have to do and remember we're still inside the barrier, which is a great disadvantage. Jormungandr can help us to entretain Vanargandr for a while. Saba---I mean, Lucian firmly stood upon him as his master and lord, and I don't think he will disobey him if my brother orders him to kill us."
"What do you suggest, then?", asked Gunda, worried. "We aren't in our best conditions either. I mean, look at Ernest, he barely can stand."
"I know what you mean. We will need the Terrennial's help in that case... Hey, where's the Luna Terrennial?", asked as he interrupted himself upon not seeing the lilac cat that followed Dumas around.
"Your fucking brother took her.", answered the horned vampire with disdain.
"Hm, that complicates things a bit.", he rubbed his chin, looking at Dumas for a few seconds. "Luna is like a null element and a wildcard for other elements, but it doesn't do damage to vampires, humans or monsters at all. However, being it a wildcard, it amplifies the base elements so mixing Luna with Sol you obtain a more powerful power. The same goes with Dark, although Dark has a tendency to absorb and destroy this energy in some cases. This is why Terrennials can trance with humans and vampires."
"I quiet don't get your logic.", interrupted Nish. "I'm certain I don't held Luna energy in me and I was able to fuse with Ezra. Aren't Terrennials those who choose who they want to fuse with?"
"Not really.", answered Toasty. "Sol and Luna are present in every living thing from this planet, including vampires, although it's nonexistant in them, the presence is still there. It depends on how much it had grown and how strong it is to create an effective trance. Luna element has a unique cuality of purification, even greater than Earth. With a constant exposition to it, a vampire can revert to a human in matter of years. The rest of the elements has their roots in Luna too since from it they are created. Each one has a little bit of Luna inside us, but only Lunar Children can wield and manipulate it at will, much like Solar Children could hold onto Sol and Dark Childre, vampires, can hold onto Dark."
"So that means that any Terrennial can acceed in trance mode with any human.", said Nish and Toasty nodded.
"Though it will depend on how strong is that energy, as I have said. I never done it with anyother human besides Aaron, so I wouldn't know."
"And now that Vanargandr had captured Perrault means it will be impossible for us to beat it with sunlight.", said Dumas and Dyango nodded.
Everyone mumbled angrily but since it was Dyango the one that suggested going to look up for Aaron, he was the one choose to do the task. The Terrennials followed his lead like Jormungandr who started to move as soon as Dyango did. The young man didn't have an exact idea of what to expect once arriving, he didn't want to wake it up so he could keep destroying. The first time he encountered with him it was a hard job but now that they were more linked with each other Dyango asked himself if he could really separate them.
Some cracking noises made them lift his gaze and saw how the bones from the Beast's column moved, creating that particular sound. He turned around and called Jormungandr, jumping over his head and slithering with it on the streets. The Terrennials hold down tight on the man's shoulders, who could saw from the distance the small spams from the body. It seemed that their time was running out. Dyango cheered the snake to go faster, but they were stopped by a creature that came out from the black mess and launched towards the snake. It howled in anger and tried to tackled the snake but Dyango took out from his belt the Gun del Hell he managed to retrieve before he met up with the group of Terrennials and before Vanargandr decided to conceal them inside the barrier. He shot several times against the black mess and it started to fall down, revealin a dirty, blueish fur underneath and soon, the head of the wolf creature that was attacking them. It was a medium size wolf, and barely two people could sit on its back, but it surprised him that the wolf exhale a cold and icy breath and froze hsi surroundings.
"Garmr?", whispered Dyango, shoting still until the black mess finally fell down from the snow ice wolf, wolf whom in past times were one of the two guardians from the Lunar Tribe who now was standing still against Dyango furious, growling and showing his fangs.
It was odd that Lucian managed to summon Vanargandr with an altered physical form when him and Jormungandr couldn't do it in the first place. It seemed that it was Garmr the entire time with a black cloak of Dark Matter to disguise himself as the Destruction Beast. Jormungandr hissed and prepared to attack when a giant ball covered with the same mess approached them at high speed. The snake curled and endured the great hit. The snake then lifted his head and they could see how the ball trembled to get off the mess of it, leaving in plain sight the solid iron body of a golem. Dyango curssed under his breath when the golem roared and crushed with his huge hands the land beneath it. It returned to his ball shape and launched towards Jormungandr again.
Jormungandr hissed in pain when the golem hit him hard with his sturd body. He opened his huge jaws and took it in between them, throwing the giant golem Muspell against the buildings and bringing them down. Garmr howled and launched himself towards the snake and tried to tackled the giant snake, but the result wasn't the same one as the one of Muspell. Instead, he was tangled in a battle with Ezra, who had summoned her Burst mode and had transformed into an artic fox of Garmr's size, her tail had divided in seven other tails and her body turned lean. She jumped and tackled Garmr, throwing him on the floor and bit his neck. Meanwhile, Muspell had recovered from the attack and was about to ram again when an earth column stopped him. Tove had appeared in mid air and, just like Ezra, had summoned his Burst mode, being a same size as the golem. It let him increase his powers near one hundred percent and making him physically strong enough to endure Muspell's attacks.
"Tove!", screamed Alexander. "What are you doing here? How did you manage to get inside?"
"The barrier is only over the ground so I came beneath the ground.", answered the Terrennial. "Virginia manage to contact me with her powers and said you guys needed help.", he oppened his huge claws and blocked Muspell's rolling attack. "Keep going, Ezra and I will take care of them."
"What about Ursula?", asked Nero while Jormungandr uncurled and started moving again.
"She's in a very bad shape. She is getting weaker at sustaining Rymer's soul and body, but she insisted in coming too. Ursula is with Dumas and the others now.", explained Tove. Muspell took him off guard and could lunge towards him, to what the Terrennial answered creating around him an earth prison where he squeezed Muspell with.
They left the fight behind when Jormungandr turned around a corner. Nero now was worried about Urusla's health. If she was having a hard time in keeping Rymer's soul and body alive was because her own soul wasn't in syncro with his, so sooner or later the vampire was going to be consumed by her powers and his sould would be freed the same way it was when Lucian first purified him. It was dangerous for Ursula because it involved not only her physical form, but her powers too. In a vain attemp in keeping the vampire alive, he could absorv her vital energy and it would their lives. Nero had hopes that after sealing Vanargandr again she could retrain her powers if Rymer sacrified himself to prevent the Terrennial from fading away. Dumas was not going to be very happy about it but their relationship died the moment Lucian killed Rymer and it had no case looking back and sympathize with it.
Jormungandr finally arrived to the still body of Vanargandr. Once there, they could hear clearly the snapping sounds of the bones and Dyango shivered upon that. It didn't seem it was concious, though, and any movement came from the Beast either. The snake returned to his previous spot, the bridge that bonded the two towers together, and there he will stay even if Dyango needed his help later.
The young vampire and the Terrennials approached carefully, they touched the body and even climbed but Vanargandr didn't move. Dyango stood still, thinking, and really worried about what could happen. It wasn't normal seeing that his brother was inside and being controled by the Beast. Besides, he didn't know of anyone else capable of wielding the intense power and energy from Vanargandr that wasn't already part of the Lunar Tribe. He would have done it too if Ratatosk didn't pick Sabata over him. However, there he was, paused in time.
"It's so odd.", whispered the young vampire as he walked near one of the hands. "But I can't find a logical explanation to it."
"Could we just take advantage of the situation and simply seal him from once?", asked Alexander.
"Yes, but we don't know if your energy will eventually wake it up, and we don't know either if Aaron's body is still inside or if Vanargandr absorbed him too, the same way it did with Saba---I mean, Lucian. If we do it, then Aaron will be sealed with it without being able to escape unless the spell breaks like the first time it happened."
But in the middle of their speak, the Beast moved. They watched in horror how both hands started to float from the ground and his single eye acquire it's red shine. He opened his mouth and let a fierce roar come out. The bones cracked again and Dyango swalled hard when Vanargandr looked at him. He felt that little they could do about it now. Vanargandr had already awoke from whatever happened with him and, when the Beast recogniced the one in front of him, he opened his mouth and launched towards him. Dyango asked Nero to contact the vampires and the rest of the Terrennials to come and aid him. The black mess disappeared from oen second to another and Dyango and the Terrennials stuck fighting with Vanargandr until the rest came.
As they waited, the could see a faint purple glow come from the inside of the Beast. Alexander's feathers stood straight upon sensing the energy coming from it. Tying to not get so tempted by it, he kept fighting like the other Terrennials and the vampires that slowly appeared from the shadows to help, but the energy was so strong he couldn't help himself. When Vanargandr stood straight to give another attack, the glow from his body was even stronger now and the Terrennial, out of the sudden, summoned his Burst mode transforming into a bigger owl which wing span was even taller than Rymer. He opened his wings and, giving strong flaps, flew towards Vanargandr envolved in a strong, wind barrier that broke and opened a huge hole on the bones before he was lost inside. Even then, the Beast kept fighting like nothing had happened, as if Alexander never had pierced him in the first place.
Toasty started to ask himself why would Alxender do something like that. Did he succum to Vanargandr's powers? Nero mentioned, during the fight, that he felt insecure against the Beast, but everyone thought he was scared as fuck at fighting someone like him. And if it was all Vanargandr's absorbent power? Much like it happened to Lucian years ago, it was impossible to stop the fusion between the Beast and his body, so it shouldn't be so different with other creatures including the Terrennials and, seeing as Lucian's thrist for power was big, this might influence it too. Toasty was no worrying that Vanargandr would absorb the Terrennials to gather their powers and, this way, become even more powerful. He already took Perrault's and Alexander's ones. If he managed to gather the Sun's power, he would be invencible.
Vanargandr growled, standing straight again as he scratched his torso, on the place where his hole was. Everyone could see the same strong and purple light from the hole that Alexander created and, from it, a strong wind breeze came out that made the hole even bigger than before. The Beast roared in anger and started to spin around, watching with rage at the figure that was enveloped in the sacred winds that run across the planet. Vanargandr opened his mouth and shot a dark, red ray towards it but it bounced on the shield of wind it formed around the figure. Upon noticing, the Beast roared again and launched to the figure, only to receive a strong kick that nearly knock him down.
It seemed that Alexander wasn't absorbed by Vanargandr, but came to Aaron's aid. Both of them managed to achieve a superior trance that let the boy acquire to the Wind's power completely, transforming into a Wind Avatar much like Dyango used to do with Otenko to summon the Sun's power on the planet.
The suit he was wearing resembled a lot to the Terrennial's appearence, especially the two-tailed and sleevless coat. It was black with two purple lines running down on the front. Near the neck, there were two yellow buttons. Underneath it, the boy seemed to wear a one piece blue suit since his torso and legs were covered with it but he yet wear a two toned pant that reached his knees. The inner legs were purple while the exterior was black, with a belt the same color as the suit and a yellow medal was around his waist. The boots on his feet were nothing else and nothing more than the legendary Sky Runners, boots that were blessed by Alexander's power for one legendary warrior to use, and were the ones that let the boy fly and float in the air without wings. Each boot had three propellers that were the ones allowing Aaron to fly by shooting a strong wind from them. He could control the strenght and speed of them. These boots had a pair of wings attached at the ankles and were colored with black, yellow, purple and blue. His usual red gloved turned black and over the top, three yellow claws were formed that, when he swing them, it created razor winds that cut through everything. He also wore thinner and purple gloves that went up to his shoulders. Around his neck rested his usual red scarf and, sintead of having green gogles, he now gore a purple and black visor.
"...How?", said Dyango upon seeing how graceful Aaron dogded Vanargandr's attacks.
"Who cares? We have more chances of winning like this!", answered Toasty with a grin.
Aaron swun his right arm seeing as he was holding Perrault on the other. Since she couldn't summon her powers, he took care of her until he managed to find Dumas and give her to him.
The hit that the Beast received made him flinch, but seconds later he opened his mouth and tried to eat the boy of a single bite. Aaron activated his boots and shot upstraight before spinning and coming down to give another kick to Vanargandr, that whined in pain and roared in anger. Taking advantage he was momentally down, the rest of the vampires and Terrennials started to attack where they could easily do more damange, which was the hole that was exposing Vanargandr's interior.
Vanargandr twisted in pain but, at the same time, he laughed before shoting the same dark red light. He made a huge trench on the ground and were the group was scattered around and then he created a second pair of hands that started to move around between his enemies. That would keep them entretained as the Beast turned his attention to Aaron, who was still standing in the air. Vanargandr roared at him and launched, being stopped by Dyango's and Toasty's attack, just to see said attacks twiste and being redirected to the huge hole on his chest. Confused, they attacked again and watched again how the attacks hit his chest instead of his main body. Why would it redirect attacks to his weaker place? He was powerful enough to wield them most of them, why would he let them do that?
Without thinking about it, they kept attacking and seeing how they were redirected. They hoped Vanargandr soon fell down and give up, but it was Dainn's shout that made them stop. The Beats stood and smashed Nish on the ground with one of his hands and hit other vampire with his massive head, and a third hand hit his own chest to open the hole wider. When Vanargandr stood straight, a scream died in Aaron's throat when everyone saw that he was redirecting the attacks to Lucian, who seemed a bit tired and beated up because of them, but was still wide awake.
"He is trying to knock him off.", whispered Dyango to Aaron, who landed next to him. "If he goes unconcious again, Vanargandr will be able to control him better. Now he is awake, both are struggling, although I wonder how he awoke in the first place..."
"I did it using my powers.", said Aaron. Vanargandr growled, yet he stood still in place. As Dyango said, he was now struggling with Lucian's will that was trying to overcome his. "I'm pretty sure he will stay awake for a long while now."
"We have a chance, then.", said smiling the young vampire. "With the Terrennial's help que might end up sealing him, but if we want to save Lucian we will have to come for him first.", added looking at Aaron, who nodded. "We will do the following; you will use your dark ropes and will hold him down while I go inside and try to get Saba---I mean, Lucian out. Toasty, could you gather all Terrennials in a single group?", the sunflowed nodded and floated away.
"We should call for Stoker and Rymer.", suggested Nidhoggr, approaching Dyango. "And the Viscounts too. Even when Terrennials can use their powers they can't reach a more advanced statues without the aid of someone who can canalize their powers, much like Alexander just did with Aaron."
Dyango agreed and let Nidhoggr do his job, which was to keep Vanargandr entretained while the rest get prepared. Toasty talked with Nero so he could contact Ezra and Tove and also to talk with the only two vampires left in the Vambery. Aaron left Perrault with the other Terrennials when they came to his side, he took off his gloves and made small cuts all over his palms. Soon, his blood started to flow and his Dark Matter started to mix with it, moving on their will as they climbed up in the air towards Vanargandr. The Beast, upon noticing, roared angrily and turned his attention to the boy. Nish tried to distract him by freezing up one of the hands and then smashing it to pieces, but Vanargandr seemed to not care as he advanced towards Aaron.
The Terrennials were the ones that managed to distract him by letting their energy flow around the Beast, that soon tried to catch or swallow them but, being so small, he couldn't just grab them. With Vanargandr focused on them, Aaron managed to stretch the ropes long enough to wrap them around the Beast's mouth and close it tightly. Quickly, his hands and body followed and soon, Vanargandr was unable to move around yet his oozes wondered around. They were a big problem since no physical attack could harm them, but Toasty managed to destroy them using his strong sunlight powers. The rest would have to keep them entretained until the job was done.
Ezra, Tove and Ursula appeared next to Toasty and, at the same time Soker and Rymer appeared underneath Dainn's shadow while the Viscoutns did it fomr Dyango's one. Once the were all grouped and sure Vanargandr couldn't move nor attack, explained that with the Terrennial's powers they could create a seal similar to the one the Lunar Tribe used the first time the Beast was sealed although Vanargandr's body would stay at everyone's sight after it, but it wasn't that important now. Canalizing their powers in Perrault, being her the Luna Terrennial, could amplify their energy and create an even more powerful seal than the first one. She said that she didn't have her powers anymore but Dyango said that as long as she was the Terrennial, she could do it regardless of not being able to summon them.
Aaron stood in front of Vanargandr, while the Terrennials floated at the Beats's head height, all of them in a perfect circle, while Perrault stayed on ground a few steps away from Aaron. Rymer stood under Ursula, Stoker under Ezra and Virginia under Tove. Alexander de-fused with the boy and stood next to Tove while Edgar took his place under him. Toasty stood above Aaron and Nero let Dumas help him. Perrault stretched her arms out and opened her wings. From the tips of her fingers, small lilac energy balls, those Aaron saw when he entered Lucian's mind, flew in the air and surrounded the Terrennials, and each of them started to glow in their distinctive color when feeling these energy balls dance around them while they were observed by an angry Vanargandr.
Once set, Dyango went straight to Vanargandr's body and started to climb over the bones and skulls, dodging the random attacks from the oozes that slipped through them. Clumsyly, he made it to the edge of the hole and saw a mass of flesh moving around. He felt a nauseaous feeling in his stomach but tried to ignore it as he climbed up and went to Lucian's side.
"...what are you doing here?", whispered the man almost without strenght to talk. "...go away, there is nothing you can do here..."
"Oh, come one.", laughed the young vampire as he looked down his brother. "You can't give up that easily. It's no the first time you die.", Dyango's hands turned black and from them, large and sharp claws grew that used to cut the flesh around Lucian's body. "You managed to restrain Vanargandr all these years, you deserve some merit. I don't think mum could have done it."
Lucian's mouth twisted in a half smile. When he lifted his head he saw the different colored glows and felt the different types of energy that were surrounding the bony body. He frowned and looked up to Dyango.
"...what are they doing?", he moaned in pain when a rib from the mass of bones pierced through his chest and one of his lungs when his brother tried to move him.
"Don't worry, just hang on until they're finished.", he felt Lucian relax but not for relief, but as a defeat. "Damn it, don't do this now Sabata."
"...it's impossible.", whispered Lucian. "I don't have the moon's power anymore, I don't have its blessing. How are you going to seal such massive beast like Vanargandr without them?"
"If you help me to help you, then you will see it once we manage to get the hell out of here.", answered a bit angry the young man.
Outside, the Terrennials were in syncro already. The vampires under them were using their own powers to transmit them to Perrault. Between her hands there was an energy sphere that was spinning like crazy of a white color, but sometimes it changed its color. Vanargandr fought in his restrains and Aaron tried to get him down each time he did so, being helped by the rest of the vampires that used their Dark Matter to make the ropes thicker and stronger. Finally, the Beast gave up and flopped his head on the ground, watching Aaron with his single eye. Trying a desperately move to get himself free, Vanargandr made a purring noise, softer than a growl. He rubbed gently his snout against the boy, but Aaron flinched and stepped backwards. He tried hard that those things didn't affect him, he already had enough when he brought Lucian's consciousness back and when he was forced to take off the bullet, however, he started to question again up to how much the Beast and Lucian were fused. Aaron felt a hand tightening over his shoulder and, when turned, saw Nish behind him.
"Don't lose your composure.", was his advice. Aaron tightened his hands on the ropes and tried to ignore the second rub Vanargandr gave him.
"If it was that easy…", answered with a faint smile.
The Terrennials were at their maximum power and Perrault managed to create several white rings around the Beast. This tightened around him, cutting and fading the ropes from the boy, but Dyango was still trying to get his brother out of the main body. The flesh kept moving and sticking Lucian to the bones.
"W-Wait…", said Lucian when one of his arms was now free. "Aaron's down there, right?", Dyango nodded. "Good…"
He enveloped his hand with a thick layer of black Dark Matter and stuck it inside his body, moving it around a few seconds until he managed to take out the familiar board sword he used in his hunting. It was active, with the edge of the sword and the eye glowing in a crimson red light, lightly opened. He didn't have much strength in those moments, but managed to lift it and drop it from where he was. The sword fell and made a rather loud and dry noise when it hit ground, where it bounced one time before it stuck on the ground. Aaron jumped at the sudden noise and the rest of the vampires looked at each other while the Beast stood straight to see what had happened. He roared loudly when he saw the sword emitting energy from within and started to struggle and tried to hit the ones surrounding him with his massive head, but the light rings forced him to stand in only one position.
"He is a liar!!", said an angry, dry voice. "He is using you all, he doesn't care if you die by sealing me!!", it growled and Vanarganrd managed to break the ring that was enclosing his mouth as he watched Aaron carefully. "He is not who you think he is. He planned it all, from the beginning…", it took them a while to figure out it was Vanargandr who was doing all the talking. "He planned it the moment he was made prisoner…", the Beast whined when glowing white runes appeared on his body. "I should… I should have known you would use me too. But the temptation of freedom was too strong and you took advantage of it, didn't you? You are one mother fucking bastard. Even I, an Ancestral, was fooled by your games, and now you pretend acquire my powers by emptying my body from its soul?"
Dyango could at last free Lucian's body, which also had the same runes all over his body, the same ones that appeared the night that he returned to Sheridan's mansion after his transformation. The Terrennials were barely seen due to the strong light that was coming out from their bodies, and Perrault was ready to seal Vanargandr, who growled again, but he wasn't really in position to do anything now since it was him, not Lucian, who was vulnerable to his powers, powers that were transferred to the man when he was still inside. Now, Vanargandr was merely a pile of bones with one fading soul and he couldn't prevent it. He felt how Dyango and his brother jumped from his body and landed on the ground and how Lucian, using his powers, circled the sword with them and shatter the sword with them, the little pieces fading in mid air. Vanargandr roared for a last time before he fell down on the ground, completely defeated. The single eye of the Beast turned a dull yellow before it turned to stone like the rest of his bony body. The runes gave an intense glow and the Terrennials did the same. Perrault stretched out her arms and, over Vanargandr, appeared tubular light forms that soon transformed into gigantic crosses. These crosses pierced the Beast's body with strength and twenty of them went through him.
Perrault then fainted after the huge energy she used, and the Terrennials weakened a lot too. Virginia fell on her knees without being able to keep standing, bleeding from her injuries. Edgar was in similar conditions and Rymer and Stoker watched how their own bodies started to rot away. Nero fainted on Dumas' arms since he was still a part of Perrault, he suffered from the same energy lose than her. Nidhoggr and Dainn were the first ones in approaching the sealed body of Vanargandr and tried to open a hole to help the two vampires inside get out.
"Are you alive, at least?", asked Nidhoggr.
"Of course we are. It will take more than just an Ancestral to kill us.", was Dyango's answer that made Dainn smile. "Don't waste your time, I think I can take myself and Sabata out from this.."
"T-Then…", whispered Dumas, eyeing Vanargandr's body. Nero opened his eyes and looked at him. "Is it all over?"
"Yes.", said the cat as he curled on the man's arms. "Everything is over."