Young Justice: Doom and Rebirth

by Spaceman

SIOC. I died and was reincarnated. I'm not a Hero. I'm not a Villain. I am a Monster. I woke up in the World of Young Justice as Doomsday. I'm about to destroy Canon and cause Chaos. I'm not Alone. Knowledge is Power, Power is Responsibility, Sharing my Knowledge shall Set Me Free. Made in collaboration with NewMystery356. Updated Bi-Monthly.

40. Chapter 40

Young Justice: Doom & Rebirth]

by Spaceman

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DISCLAIMER

I do not own Young Justice or any of the related characters. The Young Justice series is by Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman and owned by DC Comics. This story is a work of fanfiction and is for entertainment only. I am not making profit from this story. All rights of Young Justice belong to DC Comics. All other characters other an OCs beyond to their respective creators and owners. This is a fanfiction for non-profit entertainment.

Notes:

I write wordy dense stories and explain things as if my readers have never heard of certain media. This is because I want the readers to check out the series connected to the imported characters.

Each chapter is Over 10 K words long and some are Over 20 K words long. This is Chapter 40 (Over 22K), but I'm currently working on the FINAL Chapter (Chapter 46) which is currently Over 62 K. Their will also be a Bonus from Neo.

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Special Note:

NewMystery356 has helped me create this story, but I also bounced ideas and did research for some of his amazing stories. Check out: Another Hero Academia: Out of Time, Giant-Slayer (Volume 1), Giant-Slayer: New World (Volume 2), An Argoan's Arc, Chronicle of Zhu: Book 1 – Air, Chronicle of Zhu: Book 2 – Reconstruction, Young Justice: The Hunter, Vigorous Vitality, and/or The Traveler & The Trooper.

*DOOM*

Chapter 40 – More Monsters & Magic - Part 2

*DOOM*

Doomsday Bunker

[Located Classified]

October 15, 2016

13:10

1POV

"Halloween has come again. Do you want to satisfy your sweet tooth? Do you want Trick-or-Treaters to love your treats? Do you want your kids to stay home for your treats? Cognito has the solution. Cognito Candies. Try our Halloween Treat Bags!"

Halloween is coming up again. A celebration observed in many countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It begins the observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the departed. It was once just another holiday, where kids would go around in costumes getting candy and pranking those who failed to give them candy. The only dangers back then were kids high on sugar, older kids bullying smaller for candy, and crazies messing with treats.

Then came The Halloween Event. The Lord of Chaos Klarion cast a spell that transformed thousands of people into their costumes, which resulted in many people gaining superhuman abilities and/or foreign memories. It also resulted in many deaths and missing people. As a result, Halloween costuming was cancelled in many places, the trick-or-treaters placated with storebought candy and a night of Halloween films and specials. There are still places where people wear costumes those nights, but instead of dressing as what scares people and risk becoming monsters during a transformation, they dress as the people they want to be.

"I'm feeling nostalgic – Let's Watch Simpsons Treehouse of Horror – Top 10 Selection."

"Acknowledged." says the TV.

Cognito is having a Halloween Party for the kids, but even with Cognito's shielding and barriers, they still have a dress code. According to Lois, Jonathan is going to be dressed in a little superman costume, which shouldn't cause too many problems since there has been baby Superman in the multiverse. Damian unfortunately won't be in a mini-Bat-suit, because Bruce has too many issues in too many worlds. Instead, he's going to be a little millionaire (hope he doesn't become Baby Bond).

The costumes of my children – it's so strange thinking that – look like alternate skins from a video game.

Hakudōshi's costume was the hardest since he looks the incarnation of Naraku from Inuyasha and the last thing this world needs is Naraku or his incarnations running around. He finally settled on a Shinto priest outfit for the irony.

Daniya is going to dress in her regular superhero costume – a black body suit with white gloves, white boots, and a hooded white cape. She intends to become a pro-hero like her biological father- Danny Phantom and "aunt" Dani Phantom.

Jackie is going to dress as a femme fatale spy. It strange, but the bodysuit covers more than her regular clothing. The Assassin-class servant has a unique taste in clothing, as she normally dresses in frilly party dresses when not in her Servant form.

Tia is going to dress as ballerina, and I have to say it suits her. When I first saw her, her outfit reminded me of ballerina taking the stage. She has also developed an interest in dancing, and I had Rorschach make her a DDR system.

Altera has decided to go as a traveler. She is dressed in her Heroic Spirit Travelling Outfit which consists of a black sports jacket and skirt with white stripes on the sides, black sneakers, a sun visor cap, and sunglasses. On her adult form, it would make her look like a rich tourist, but on her little girl form it's adorable.

Abby is unique case in that with her black and orange Foreigner clothing, she is always ready for Halloween. She's going to dress in her regular outfit only with her (Stage 2) witch hat and a key-shaped staff. She is going to be an adorable witch.

*Beep*

It's the Party Gamer, which means Rorschach. I answer with a look of annoyance.

"What's up, Rorschach?"

"Are you busy?"

"No. I was just going to watch some Treehouse of Horror. The wives took the kids for today."

"We have a Holiday Quest Line. I can handle them myself, but it's good to have help."

"Let's Go. I've been sitting around this place too much."

[HALLOWEEN SPECIAL QUESTS]

Select One to Begin.

*DOOM*

Quest 1 - [Lost Party]

Alpha Beta Omega Fraternity House

Central City University

October 15, 2016

19:15 (1 hour after Sunset)

1POV

As I walk out of the portal, I can see a lot of chaos. The police arrived and taken defensive positions around the Fraternity House. North American fraternity and sorority housing refers largely to the houses or housing areas in which fraternity and sorority members live and work together. In this case, it's a massive building which is decorated in Halloween decorations.

One of the police officers turns and asks, "Who are you?"

"Ash Grey, Cognito SPB Division." I say holding up my badge, "What's the situation?"

"There are a bunch of crazy people in control of place" says the cop's fat partner.

"A few members of Alpha Beta Omega attempted to cast a Halloween-style 'become your costume' spell.", says the first officer, whose far more professional, "They dressed as their dream job selves, hoping to get all the knowledge they need to easily pass their exams. It worked in a sense, but now we have two high level doctors, a corporate shark, and a lawyer wondering why they are young and back at their old university. "

"That doesn't require a SWAT Team."

"The spell also affected a group of Gamers who were dressed as dangerous fictional characters. Some of them have taken defensive positions, while some have taken hostages." says the professional.

"They aren't intimidated by our guns, so what are you going to do?" sneers the fat cop.

"What's his problem?" I quickly ask the professional police officer.

"His wife became a beauty thanks to Cognito and then divorced him. She found a Cognito Doctor who had a much higher paying job."

"I'm going in."

As I walk into the building, I use my Party Gamer's Analyse to gen information on the fictional characters causing problems.

There is a young woman with neon green eyes with black sclera and neon-green spiky punk hair. She is dressed in a black shirt and pants with black boots. She is also wearing a black coat decorated with green lines. I also notice that her limbs are cybernetic prosthesis colored to match her skin.

[Candela Steelton - Black-market Net Spy – Level 281]

A cybernetically enhanced espionage agent of mega-corporations and governments. She was raised in a government lab to hack high level systems and break the most complex codes, but when the project was shut down, she managed to survive and escape. Her special trait is Soul Link Matrix – the souls of fellow project members boost his mental and processing abilities.

"Candela Steelton."

"How do you know my name?" says the Spy as she deactivates her optical camouflage.

"Ash Grey - Cognito SPB Division."

"I surrender." says the girl sounding terrified.

"Your reason?"

"I managed to hack into the primitive systems of this era, and you got a Triple S Rank Threat Rating. Even the MARS Corporation back in my world didn't rate higher than S-Rank and they supplied weapons to the military. ", says the girl, knowing her place on the totem pole, "I would have escaped this place, but the ones upstairs are causing too much commotion."

"You know this isn't your world?"

"It was 2080 in my world, and we didn't have any flying aliens from dead worlds or masked vigilantes with billionaire bank accounts."

"Can you tell me anything about that other party?"

"They look like something from one of those Fantasy MMORPG. The ones with magic and stuff." says Candela, "What are you going to do to me?"

"I'm sending you to Cognito. They handle all the interdimensional refugees."

"OK." says Candela as a portal opens and she exists.

In truth Candela Steelton was once Candance "Candy" Steel of the Omega Mu sorority. She wanted to show off her costume to her boyfriend, which was based on her online persona. That persona was based on her character from a game called Cyberpunk 2080. When that spell was cast, Candy was overwritten by her character, essentially killed and replaced. The casters can't even be charged with murder, since they themselves have been overwritten by the minds of their successful future counterparts.

I learned this information after she left through the portal, from the Party Gamer.

I casually walk through the magical barriers that block my path. These barriers could probably stop bullets and other projectiles, and they would probably melt mundane police officers. In my case, I could probably run through these barriers even if they were kilometers thick without slowing down.

"Halt!"

The group looks like they jumped out of one of those Fantasy webcomics.

The first is a supernatural beauty with blue eyes and long flowing silver-blonde hair. She's dressed in the dark blue clothing of a mercenary, but it's clear she is a noble. She looks ready to play the part of the cool protagonist or the icy villainess or both. She kind of reminds me of VTuber Amalee in appearance, but she is holding a silver sword instead of the spear she had in her Fairy Tail "Strike Back" video.

She slashes with her now glowing sword, and I pushed back by the silver-blue burst of magic that hits me. I can feel a freezing spell covering me in a layer of super-hard magical ice, but with a little flex the growing layer of ice and the spell itself shatter.

The woman uses a speed technique to get close to me and swings her sword, but I stop the blade with one finger. I'm guessing the blade is magically or spiritually linked to her, because she jumps back in pain when the blade chips against me. Every time the blade releases a magical spark, I can see her flinch.

"Gina!"

[Gina (Princess Angelina Silva di Argent) - Legendary Witch Mercenary – Level 100]

A powerful demon-blooded sorceress who can call on the souls of ancestors per contract with their ancestor. Her mother was Empress of a magocratic empire until the country rebelled against her tyrannical rule. The Emperess rather than lose everything to the rebels cast a forbidden spell that erased the Empire, transferring all knowledge, skills, and power to the princess. To survive, she sealed most of her power and became an Adventurer in a distant country. That was five hundred years ago.

"Be Careful, He's not human. I can sense incalculable amount of death magic!" yells a woman dressed as a Nun. She isn't dressed like a normal Catholic Nun, instead she is dressed in a stylish Fantasy Nun. A black/white swimsuit-tight bodysuit with a gold symbol on the chest, a long-sleeved black coat with long tails, white stockings, and black shoes. She wears a Nun's veil and has blue eyes and long golden hair reaching her shoulders. Her weapons of choice are a blue-and-gold staff with a large Cruciform headpiece and spike at the other end and a dark purple crystal ball.

"Shadow Thorn Bind!"

A blackened shadow extends from the Nun's body and covers the floor of hallway like a expanding oil slick. Black thorny vines then explode from the shadow, wrapping around my body, and binding my movements. If I had soft human skin, I could imagine I would be bleeding from tens of thousands of wounds inflicted by the sharp thorns.

"Shadow Thorn Execution!"

Immense black thorns the size of spears erupt from the blackened surface and attempt to pierce mt body. I'm a little spooked by the ones aiming directly for my eyes, as I have past trauma in the life I had before I became Doomsday. Thankfully, my new body is impossibly durable by even the standards of Rick Sanchez.

The Nun goes slack jaw at her spear-thorns shattering, even the ones that hit my eyeballs.

[Celestyn - Necromancer Cleric – Level 80]

The cleric to the goddess of death, she was an adventurer who specialized in combating undead and evil spirits and finding lost items. Her vast spiritual awareness allows her to communicate with spirits and cleanse souls so they can pass to the afterlife. Her mother was a Saint who gave her life to kill the demon lord and her father was a Necromancer who she carries around in a crystal ball.

I look at the Crystal Ball floating in the air.

[Magnus – Demilich/Demon Sorcerer/Undead – Level 120]

[Phylactery Detected]

The crystal ball explosively shatters due to the [Soul Crusher] skill I acquired killing Dark Zatanna of the Dark League – a skill that instantly destroys any soul jar within a ten-meter range. The only being I put on the exceptions list is Nabu in the Helmet of Fate.

Celestyn collapses to the ground from the magical shockwave and the true death of lich father. The magical surge causes pain to all the adventurers with Celestyn bleeding from her nose, ears, and eyes.

Two are dressed in full Knight armor, but they are opposites.

One Knight is tall, heavily built, and intimidating, clad completely in black armor decorated with blood red markings. Even the red plume looks like it was soaked in blood. He carries a black bardiche (a type of axe polearm) marked with glowing red symbols. He radiates darkness like a dark mist around him, making the air colder.

[Night - Royal Dark Warrior/Berserker- Level 100]

He was the bodyguard of the Imperial Princess assigned by the Emperess. He was an orphan abandoned by his prostitute mother and feared at the orphanage for his overwhelming strength. It's believed his father was a member of a ducal family, but he was never acknowledged. He endured extreme training, both physical and magical, to obtain the power he possesses. When the Emperess cast the Forbidden spell, he was spared by the power of his Princess.

The Other Knight is normal height with a leaner build. He's dressed in polished silver-color armor with gold decoration including eagles and cross symbology. The knight armor also has larger, more decorated Pauldrons (shoulder armor), a white cape, and a white plume on the winged helmet. He carries a sword with a blue-and-gold hilt and sheath. He almost radiates Light

[Alexander The Valiant - Silent Paladin/Warrior– Level 100]

He was once a young knight who was a part of band of heroes that fought the Demon Lord and acted as the guardian of the Saint. After the Demon Lord's defeat, the Hero married the Princess, the Sorceress became a teacher, and the Elven Archer returned to her people. The knight became the Silent Paladin and silently vowed to protect the secret daughter of the Saint.

Night and Alexander rush towards me to protect the others.

Night releases a strike that knocks me back as while I'm tough enough to withstand the magic-enhanced bardiche attack, the floor of the Fraternity House is too low a quality to provide traction. Despite my tactical telekinesis attempting to tether me, the floor breaks and I slide.

Alexander capitalizes on my lack of footing by releasing a shining burst of magic from his shield that hits me like a battering ram. I'm almost sent flying out a window, but I extend my true form's arm spikes and dig into the walls to slow myself down.

Not wanting to slide around anymore, I use my superhuman speed to get close to them before they can react. I then grab both knights and violently smash them into the ground, shattering parts of their armor and sending them through the floor to the basement level. I then must move quickly to avoid falling into the basement myself.

I landed in front of the last two adventurers.

"Do we have any escape scrolls!?"

"None that are working! Either this place is shielded, or we are in another realm!"

The next member of the party looks like he was taken from the cover of a pirate romance novel – the kind where the heroine has her bodice ripped open by the sexy pirate. He's a tall handsome man with blue-green eyes and long wavy black hair covering one eye. He's dressed in a white silk shirt, black pants, and boots, with a fancy-looking navy coat and hat. His weapons of choice being a cutlass sword and old fashion pistols

Next to him is the last member of the party, a very buxom beautiful woman with red eyes, dark skin, and long white hair. She is dressed as a female pirate complete with gold-decorated black coat and tricorn hat. She is also armed with swords and pistols, but I do notice something strange. There is a leather collar around her neck, held together by what looks like a dog tag.

"It's the latter." I say to the two pirates.

"So, who are you?" asks the woman, trying to buy time.

"Ash Grey – The Doomsday. Troubleshooter for the Cognito company. Yourselves?"

"Adrian and Akasha D'Arc of The Lost in Life Party." replies the woman.

[Adrian Marin D'Arc - Swashbuckler/Pirate Hunter/Gambler – Level 80.]

[Akasha D'Arc (Akasha Adarsh) - Buccaneer/Assassin/Slave - Level 40]

Adrian was once the lazy son of a famous merchant, shipping magnate, and gambler, until his father's ship was attacked by pirates. He soon learned the truth, that his father's business rivals, and his own uncle conspired with the pirates. To survive and get his revenge, he became the apprentice of a great adventurer and former navy man. It took seven years, but he killed all those involved except for the daughter of the business rival – Akasha - an evil seductress who tried to capture his heart while conspiring to murder his parents, and now reduced to a slave posing as his adventurer wife.

"So, what is the Cognito Company?"

"Cognito Inc is the most powerful business in this realm. The richest, most powerful, and influential on this planet which is called Earth. They solve the world's problems even if those problems are demonic or supernatural or magical."

"You wouldn't happen to know how we got here, would you?"

"I do. A few years ago, a Lord of Chaos cast a spell that would turn people into their costumes. This was during a Harvest festival called Halloween in which people wear costumes and ask for treats. Many people were affected both physically and mentally."

"That's not good." says Adrian with a wince, "Trickster Gods cursing celebrations is a recipe for disasters."

"Tonight, other people attempting to gain knowledge and skills attempted to replicate the spell and others were unwillingly caught up in it. ", I say looking into the eyes of the pirate hunter.

"We... We aren't who we think we are, are we?" says Adrian with dawning horror.

"Adrian Marino and Akasha D'Arc are two Central City University students. They were invited to a costume party, when members of a University Fraternity cast the spell."

Adrian is wearing a golden loop earring that not only adds to his pirate look but is enchanted so he can tell if someone is being truthful or lying.

"I wouldn't curse my worst human enemies with my memories. I'm also positive the real me would be horrified at an innocent scholar being murdered and forced to wear my flesh after death." says a pale Adrian, "So, can you fix this?"

"Chaos magic is messy. Cognito can help. Cog – Refugee Retrieval."

Portals open and Cognito robots appear to retrieve the adventurers.

*DOOM*

A few kilometers away from the Fraternity House.

Same Time

While the party of magical world fantasy adventurers had formed barriers inside the Frat House, a separate group of more technologically advanced people are attempting to run.

The first is a young woman with black eyes, gray skin, and long flowing black hair. She also has pointed ears and is dressed in white flowing robes with silver decorations, which makes it difficult to run in. Unlike the fantasy world cleric, she is also equipped with technology. She is wearing a silver-and-blue belt, has a visor over eyes, and is carrying a 2 meter long, polished silver-color staff with a glowing tip resembling a Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver.

"Where are we going, Mira!?" asks one of her two companions.

"We can't talk to authorities until we have more information." says Mira.

[Mira Lang - Galactic Priestess - Galactic Church of Hope].

According to her memories, she is a first -rank priestess of the Galactic Church of Hope – a galaxy-spanning religious group with believes in higher beings of order and chaos, a desire to help less fortunate primitive species survive extinction level events, a desire to protect less advance species from being exploited by FTL-capable species, and general desire to nurture and protect the innocent. She has over a thousand years of memories, eight hundred of those years in service to the GCH. The last thing she remembers was escaping a tyrannical empire agent to warn the church.

At Mira's side is another humanoid woman with shoulder-length snow white hair and face covered by featureless black mask. She is dressed in a form-fitting bodysuit that covers everything except her head with numerous straps and plug sockets. She also wears a hooded gray cape.

"Mishiro. Are there any people tracking us?" says Mira to the black-clad woman.

"Negative. Nothing on sensors."

[NTA-346 – Mishiro – Nanotechnological Assassin]

According to her memories, NTA-356 was a former soldier of the Machina Empire. She was a war orphan that was taken for experimentation, infused with nanomachines, and trained as an Assassin. She was originally sent to kill Mira, but Mira managed to escape and awaken a sense of freewill inside the Assassin. The Assassin eventually helped Mira escape when she was captured by the Empire and Mira gave her the name Mishiro. Her last memories were escaping an Empire agent.

The last member of the strange group doesn't look like she is from the same era. She is a beautiful athletic woman with amber eyes, dark skin, and shoulder-length dark red hair tied back. She is dressed in white cotton and brown/cream color leather, like the clothing worn by engineers in Victorian England. She also has protective goggles and numerous tools and gadgets on her belt and rigging. Her weapons of choice are strange as one resembles a old fashion six-shot pistol, while the other is a brass-color harpoon rifle.

"I'm getting a bad feeling." says the third girl.

"Are you always negative, Lily?" says Mira.

[Lily Anne Steam – Steampunk Tinker/Spark]

In a world that deviated from Earth's main history in the nineteenth century, when a strange event unleashed metallic monsters upon the world. The only way humans of that era could survive was living in fortresses and on massive ships in the ocean. The only way to reach each other being trains, ships, and lighter-than-air airships. This woman was a train engineer who developed weaponry to better kill the metallic monsters but was exiled when she was infected. Thankfully, instead of becoming a metallic monster, she merely gained physical enhancements and awoke a new level of scientific and technological genius.

Rorschach decloaks in front of them.

Mishiro activates the nanomachines in her body, causing them to exit her body in a form that resembles mercury. Nanomachines assemble to create her weapons, which includes an advance gun and combat knife. Mishiro fires an armor-piercing round, only for it to splatter against Rorschach's invisible shield. Mishiro creates a blinding flash, then accelerates her movements so she's in knife range in a fraction of a second. In her world, this is a valid strategy as special swords and knives are used to break shields at close range. What she doesn't expect is for her knife to also dissolve and splatter when it hits the barrier.

* Snap! *

Rorschach snaps his fingers, which should be impossible since he's wearing gloves. The shield becomes a visible blue purple before exploding outwards as a pulse of energy. As the energy wave washes over Mishiro, her nanomachine creations dissolve into powder and arcs of electricity crawl across her body. Mishiro's HUD is filled with dozens of red error messages. Her body twitches as if she is having a low-level seizure as she attempts to move.

"Mishiro!" yells Mira in worry as she tries to activate her staff, only for it to spark and release the universal sign of electronic death – blue smoke. Rorschach flicks his wrist and Mira is hit by an unseen attacker. Mira feels bruised and sees pitch black orbs stuck to her body. The orbs expand and she finds herself trapped and stuck to the ground.

Lily's gun is still working releasing a harpoon propelled by an impossible amount of steam pressure. The sharp harpoon composed of an unknown alloy hits Rorschach since his shield is down, but Lily's hope is quickly extinguished. The Harpoon bounces off Rorschach thanks to the mystical protection he gained from bathing in dragon's blood during his world debut.

"Are you girls ready to talk or do you wish to continue the fight?"

*DOOM*

"One down and many more to go." I say to Rorschach.

Rorschach looks at his tablet.

"What are you doing?"

"Scheduling Psychological Exams. Not only do we have to deal with the victims, but also the families of the victims will be devastated at the 'mental death' of their loved ones."

"Any hope for any of them?"

"A couple have Cognito Phoenix Insurance which means we have their memories on record, but I'm unsure if I should intergrade those memories with their current selves or just clone new ones."

There are already people in different countries having debates about the connection between the soul and the mind, and the rights of clones and artificial people. Cognito's absurd level of influence is the only thing holding the world together.

"Next Quest."

*DOOM*

Town Entrance

Arcadia Valley

USA

October 16

After Sunset

1POV

[Arcadia Valley – Population: 10800]

A small car drives into the town of Arcadia Valley. Arcadia is a very common name, with many places called Arcadia in Australia. Greece, Ukraine, and the United States with more than half the states having at least one town called Arcadia.

The car stops at a gas station and the driver exits, revealing him to be an Asian man dressed in a fedora, gloves, and a trench coat. It's appropriate clothing for cold, foggy nights like tonight. The man walks into the gas station and finds a nervous guy attending the cash register.

"What can I do for you?" says the teenager, who looks ready to run or pull a gun from under his desk.

The man walks over to one of the refrigerated display cases and grabs a can of energy drink, before walking over to counter.

"What's making you so nervous?" asks the man, pulling out a card to pay for the drink.

"A lot of people have been disappearing recently. If you don't have a secure place to stay, I suggest you hurry and get out of this town."

"What about the police?"

"They haven't found anything beyond signs some sort of large canine was involved."

"Have you considered calling in heroes?"

"Very funny. Unfortunately, this is real life and there is no such thing as superheroes."

The man in the trench coat raises an eyebrow at that statement. His eyes roam over the magazines and newspapers on display, which lack certain world changing events.

The man in the coat doesn't say a word and exits the building. He gets in his car and continues his drive to town.

After a few minutes, he comes upon the site of an accident. An older model car has ended up in a ditch after sliding off the road and looks badly damaged. He parks his car and gets out to check the scene. He looks at the condition of the road, the large intent in the side of the damaged car, and the trail leading into the woods.

He moves into the woods without making any loud sounds. He hears a scream and follows the sound to the edge of a clearing.

In the clearing is a scene out of a horror film. The victim is young woman with blue eyes and long blonde hair dressed in simple clothing. She is holding her arm, which has sustained a bloody bite wound. The attacker is not human, instead it's a massive, muscular humanoid covered in thick brown fur with black claws, and digitigrade legs. It also has the tail and head of a wolf.

The woman cries out in pain, as her flesh begins to shift under her skin. Her body expands and tears at her clothing which has become too tight. The clothing rips away to reveal her growing muscles and shifting bones. Her nails have blackened, her teeth have sharpened, and new organs are growing. Soft skin is replaced by lush fur, legs become digitigrade, and a tail appears. The last to change is her face, changing from a beautiful blue eyed blonde into a female wolf's head.

The female werewolf is acting submissive to the male, when they both turn at a scent to see the man in the trench coat. They both charge at the man, running on all fours like wolves. The man doesn't react like a mundane human, instead he pulls out a handgun and fires two shots. The two werewolves are startled by the large darts, then they tumble to the ground and lose consciousness.

The man in the trench coat looks down at the two werewolves, then places his fingers at his ear activating a hidden radio. He doesn't say anything, but instead listens in on the encrypted radio chatter.

"ID 8095 has attempted to leave Arcadia Valley with 9589. 8095's vehicle has stopped 3.4 kilometers from the town exit and reports from vehicle indicate damage. Subject L suspected."

"Implants indicate 8095 and 9589 have been infected and sedated. Where units dispatched to capture subjects?"

"Negative. Gas station cameras indicate unknown Asian American subject."

*DOOM*

Arcadia Valley Underground Facility

There was a town before Arcadia Valley, and they were a town of miners. They created extensive mining tunnels under the valley, searching for their precious ore. When those veins ran dry, the town was abandoned. It was only recently did people came to the abandoned town and transformed it into Arcadia Valley. The people that live in the town don't know the truth about their town and they don't know what was also built in the mining tunnels beneath it.

The Underground Facility contains many things. There are many scientists conducting experiments, monitoring subjects, and doing research. There are many masked soldiers guarding subjects and key positions in the facility. Lastly, there are the captured subjects – the werewolves. In many chambers, there are dozens of lycanthropes chained to the wall with explosive shock collars around their necks. In some medical rooms, the furry humanoids undergo vivisection.

Unseen by the scientists, guards, or security cameras, a figure moves through the facility. Even the werewolves with their enhanced senses can't detect the man's scent. He finally reaches the door to the Director's office and types in the access code "111111"

The Director – a tall, lean man with thick glasses and balding grey hair - looks up from his paperwork to see an unknown man in the Trench coat. Before he can react, the man shoots with a dart. He's shocked by the pain and he's about to yell for help, when he loses control of his body. He slumps in his chair like a marionette with its strings cut.

The man walks over to the desk and looks at the Director in the eyes. He waves his hand in front of his own face and to the Director's horror, it shifts to the familiar mask of Rorschach.

"Explain the werewolves." he commands, and the Director feels himself answer. He would have answered out of fear, but it feels like he has no control over his body.

"Every time Cognito made a major advance, the Light was there to reap some of it. We recruited metahumans from China. We recruited techno-organic transformers and later Beetles after Brainiac's attack. We recruited extraterrestrials from the worlds you opened relations with. When the Cyberverse was created, we found Digimon willing to partner with our members." says the Director, "When you contacted the world of Servants – the Fate-Unversed Earth – we attempted to make contracts with Servants and succeeded in a few cases. Some of the Servants had the same values or dreams or they at least aligned."

"Hurry up."

"Berserker Lycaon."

In Greek mythology, Lycaon was a king of Arcadia who, in the most popular version of the myth, tested Zeus' omniscience by serving him the roasted flesh of Lycaon's own son Nyctimus, to see whether Zeus was truly all-knowing. In return for these gruesome deeds, Zeus transformed Lycaon into a wolf and killed his offspring; Nyctimus was restored to life.

In folklore, a werewolf (Old English: werwulf, "man-wolf"), or occasionally lycanthrope (Greek: "wolf-human"), is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or the occasional scratch from another werewolf) with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon. King Lycaon was one of the oldest werewolf stories.

"Lycaon wasn't much of a Hero." Rorschach comments.

"Despite being notorious for his horrific deeds, Lycaon was also remembered as a culture hero: he was believed to have founded the city Lycosura, to have established a cult of Zeus Lycaeus and to have started the tradition of the Lycaean Games, which Pausanias thinks were older than the Panathenaic Games." says the Scientist, sounding a little dazed, "The Panathenaic Games did have some advantages over the Olympic Games, despite being limited in participants, as instead of olive wreaths and ribbons, the winners were given things of actual worth for prizes - money and vases of olive oil."

"I think those Darts need more work. I didn't need that bit of history." says Rorschach to himself, then he returns to the interrogation, "What happened with Lycaon?"

"There was an accident and Lycaon's master was infected with lycanthropy. Once she was infected, Lycaon went out of control. Lycaon and his mate escaped and has been attacking the test town, converting more and more people. There have been eight hundred deaths as well."

"Servants without physical bodies of their own need magic to sustain themselves. Why haven't you killed the Master?"

"We attempted to terminate her, but Berserker Lycaon has a Skill that prevents that. Every time a wolf dies, it's resurrected as a member of Lycaon's pack. If Lycaon is active, all wolves can be resurrected again and again. What is worse is as a werewolf, her mana is connected to The Red. They are being fueled by nature."

Rorschach pauses then stares at The Director causing the man to become nervous. The man would back away if he had control over his nervous system.

*DOOM*

There is a loud monstrous wolf howl.

This is the howl of Berserker Lycaon under the light of the full moon. Around him is his immense pack – the soldiers, scientists, and civilians of Arcadia Valley transformed into lupine forms. The pack contains two forms of werewolves – those that resemble larger-than-normal wolves and those they resemble hybrids of man and wolf. The hybrids range from feral animalistic creatures that only use their claws and fangs to attack, to more intelligent werewolves wielding axes, rifles, and improvised weapons.

Berserker-class Servant Lycaon is different from the others. While the other hybrids have lean muscular builds and are barely over two meters in height, he stands a monstrous three meters with dense muscles. At that height, he's taller than famous Berserkers like Herackles and Asterios (The Minotaur), who stand 253 and 298 cm, respectively. He also has thick, impossibly soft fur that flows in a supernatural wind and glows with the golden light of moon. Unlike the normal eyes of the other werewolves, his eyes are the color of silver reflecting the moon with sclera black as night. As its immense tail whips around it, there is a crackling of lightning.

"So, this where you went, King Lycaon of Arcadia." says Rorschach as he appears from behind a tree. Some of the werewolves immediately attacked him, but their fangs and jaws hit nothing but air. The form of Rorschach shimmers and dissolves into particles, revealing it was a hologram. Dozens of more Rorschach holograms appear on the field and only the dumbest of wolves attack them with the same result as the first lot.

"Arcadia Valley. A fake town that was created to hide a lab filled with fake soldiers and fake scientists. A town filled with fake people with fake memories." says each clone of Rorschach, simultaneously, pulling out a transmitter, "Fakes that wouldn't know about this."

The transmitter device's screen lights up.

[Cadmus Clone Control - N9TT-9G0A-B7FQ-RANC]

[Code: 666 – Shutdown of Project: Arcadia]

[Shutdown of all Clones – Yes/No]

"Brains over Braun." says Rorschach, as the real one clicks the real button.

As one, all the werewolves collapse to the ground unconscious. Even the ones secured in the underground facility lose consciousness, along with every single person In Arcadia Valley other than Rorschach and Lycaon. Over ten thousand people rendered helpless with a click of a button.

Lycaon howls, but none of his wolf pack rise.

"None of them are dead, so you can't revive them."

Lycaon howls in rage, producing red-gold aura before charging at Rorschach, glowing mist trailing from its mouth and fiery glow from its eyes. It slams into an invisible barrier, that knocks him back several meters. As he lands, polished silver orbs the size of baseballs shoot up from the ground around it. Lycaon lets out a howl and repels the spheres with a glowing shockwave, which also breaks the barrier in front of Rorschach. Rorschach does notice the golden glow fades from the fur, leaving it a more silver-white color.

Lycaon howls and charges again, only to slam into a second invisible wall! He's knocked back again, and more silver orbs appear. These ones hover and open to reveal technology inside including lens and barrels. As one the orbs open fire with thin, but brilliant white beams that pierce Lycaon. The massive wolf-man collapses to the ground, the golden glow fading completely and beginning to emit mist and particles of light.

"Spiriton Disruptors. More effect than silver against a Servant Werewolf."

Suddenly, Lycaon gets up and leaps at Rorschach with the last of its power, shattering the second barrier. It fails to taste Rorschach's blood in its final moments, as the Rorschach in front of him proves to be another synthetic illusion. Lycaon also realizes it just swallowed a spinning silver orb.

Inside Berserker-class King Lycaon of Arcadia, the orb continues to spin as it reaches the stomach and splits open. It fires its beam as it spins and Lycaon is sliced in half, from snout to tail.

"Game Over, Fido."

On the ground, the unconscious lycanthropes are still furry, meaning Rorschach still has things to clean up.

*DOOM*

"Warren Griffith."

"Who?" says Rorschach over the communicator.

"Warren Griffith, also known by the codename Wolfpack, is a soldier with werewolf powers and a member of the Creature Commandos combat unit. The government organization Project M gave him his powers so he could fight in World War II. Project M created a bunch of specialized soldiers for psychological warfare."

"Why did you mention him?"

"Maybe you can follow your government links and get in contact with the man. Maybe he can help you with the Pack."

"Let's hope so. I have a town of clones that just found out their memories are fake and a good portion of them now turn into mystical werewolves."

*DOOM*

Zwillinge Medizinische Forschung

(Gemini Medical Research)

Darmstadt, Hesse, Rhine-Main Area

Germany

October 17

After Sunset

1POV

Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse after Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, and Kassel. Darmstadt holds the official title "City of Science" (German: Wissenschaftsstadt) as it is a major center of scientific institutions, universities, and high-technology companies. It's also famous for a hilltop castle in the Odenwald overlooking the city of Darmstadt - a castle that may have been an inspiration for Mary Shelley when she wrote her 1818 Gothic novel – Castle Frankenstein.

Gemini Medical Research was a company that conducted medical research concerning artificial organs and synthetic blood. It was once a very respected place and the doctors and scientists that worked there believed their research would save millions.

Then came a company that was a force of nature - Cognito Inc. Cognito cloning labs can create artificial organs which can be easily implanted with nanomedicine. Since they are constructed with cloned cells there is no need for the patients to take immunosuppressants. Cognito Inc.'s revelation of this new technology caused a major drop in blood and organ donation, as why use anything from another person that could cause complications, when you could just copy what the patient already has? Cognito's cloning technology also led to the collapse of the black-market organ trade, as nobody would pay for a stolen organ when a new organ can be made quicker than a microwave dinner.

Gemini Medical Research quickly lost its support and employees leading to its inevitable shutdown.

"If it was really shutdown, I wouldn't be here." I say, mostly to myself.

I walk into the building, and I will admit the place is spooky. I walk past the waiting area and stop at reception, looking down at the dark hallways. It would look completely abandoned to most people, but I can see what's hidden. Hidden security cameras and infrared alarms. I can also hear the person sneaking up behind me and raising a fire axe to split my skull. The attacker is surprised when the axe fails to penetrate and nearly drops its weapon.

I turn around and grab my attacker by the throat. It's a woman dressed in bandages and an old-style nurse's uniform. Her face is covered by bandages, making her look like a creepy nurse from Silent Hill. She continues to attack me, trying to stab me with scalpels and syringes. With a twist of wrist, her neck snaps and I drop her to the ground like so much garbage. I then spin around and strike the second Creepy Nurse that was behind me in the neck with an audible wet crack.

"How cruel. How merciless. Did Cadmus make you?" says a German voice touched by madness.

"You know about Cadmus?"

"My uncle was a great doctor and researcher. I was going to be just like him. He was the one of the founders of Gemini, who were once the greatest minds in cloning. Then Cadmus came and perverted his work to create living weapons. Anyone who opposed them was eliminated."

Cadmus is The Light's R&D for living weapons and tools. It's not surprising that most of their technology is stolen or reversed engineered from their extraterrestrial allies.

"My uncle opposed Cadmus and their backers, but he was killed in what was called a terrorist bombing. In that same explosion, I was left dying and the only way for my father to save me was to implant me with the organs of my friends." says the voice, appearing on the suddenly turned-on computer screens and the television in the waiting room.

He was once handsome young man with brown eyes, tan skin, and short blonde hair. Stress has made his face gaunt with dark bags under his yellowing eyes. He also has numerous faint scars on his face and neck.

"I lived a miserable life since then. Why did I survive, when none of my friends did? Then, my father was murdered, and I had my answer. My purpose is to stop Cadmus and their perversion of my father's work!"

There is a loud electric hum and I'm hit in the face by lasers. It doesn't cause any damage but damn it's bright. One disadvantage about having superhuman senses is attacks meant to overload a normal person are super-effective. Two large men holding the improvised laser weapons emerge from the shadows while I'm holding my face.

"I won't let any of Cadmus' creations stop me!"

I turn and stare at the two large men, both over two meters in height with builds that are a thick mixture of muscle and fat. They are bald twins with their eyes hidden by dark goggles and their round bodies covered in medical jumpsuits and lead aprons meant to protect against X-Rays and other forms of medical radiation. Their laser weapons used to be some form of medical equipment but were converted and linked to power packs on their backs.

"When did I end up in a horror game?" I say, before I use my Doom Vision. I must admit those black goggles are high quality as they survive undamaged, while very little remains of the twins' faces.

"You got a name, Doc?"

"After all that I have done, I'm not worthy of my father's name. You can call me Doctor Gemini, and welcome to my twisted world of medicine."

"I am Ash Grey – The Doomsday. I'll destroy your world."

Doctor Gemini seems to be obsessed with twins. Twin creepy nurses and twin laser freaks was only the beginning.

*DOOM*

The Crushers were two monstrous humanoids with huge muscles, thick limbs, and armored plates. Each one over 3 meters tall. Each one a couple hundred kilograms of enhanced muscle covering metal reinforced bones and covered by chemical-treated leathery skin, strong wires, and hardened metal plates. The hulking twins were tough enough to ignore anti-tank shells and strong enough to crush normal soldiers into paste with little effort.

They were not very fast, which is why I was able to punch them repeatedly and very quickly with my own monstrous strength. There is a big difference between shell designed to piece a tank's armor and someone who could throw a fully loaded battle tank into another state. In less than a minute, the Crushers were "crushed".

The next set of monsters were the Shockers. Tall lean humanoids dressed as doctors with wires and electromechanical devices connected to their long limbs. I'm guessing they were based on defibrillators – the electroshock machines used to fix problems with the heart, but in this case the Shockers were amped up to permanently stop hearts. They could also fire destructive electrical discharges (like artificial lightning) and destroy electrical and electronic devices.

I'm probably the worst opponent the Shockers could encounter other than a Rock-Type Pokémon. I don't have a heart that can be shocked, a nervous system that can be disrupted, or any internal organs the electricity could be effective on. The Greek God Zeus could use me for target practice and would die of exhaustion before I got remotely warm.

The last set of medical freaks were Sprayers. They were large men in protective yellow uniforms and hoods, carrying high pressure spray guns connected to black tanks of chemicals on their backs. At first, I thought they were just humans in suits, but when I ripped one of their limbs off, I noticed it was soft, slimy, and sickly red purple with putrid yellow-white boils. I can't be affected by that stuff, but the stuff was so gross looking I wanted to go find a washroom to wash my hand, while the twins bleed out.

I then remember I can make fire and incinerate the corrosive disgusting slime.

*DOOM*

After killing wave after wave of monsters, like the protagonist of a video game, I finally reach a hidden lab. I use my Party Gamer Analyse to scan the room and finally spot a hidden safe in the wall. I transform my arm into its more monstrous form and tear off the panel and the vault door.

"Found it!" I say as I tear open a metal case and remove sealed vials. I look at the vials carefully, then swallow them whole. Each vial is annihilated inside me, destroying the virus they contain.

"How!?" yells Doctor Gemini, over the intercom, "How did you find them!?"

"Why do you think I was here? You? Please, I don't have time for trash."

"How did you learn about the virus. I spent years developing the anti-clone virus in absolute secrecy!"

Doctor Gemini's Anti-Clone Virus is a biological weapon designed to wipe out all Cadmus clones in the world by targeting special proteins found in the cells that use artificially accelerated growth. It was supposed to be his ultimate revenge against Cadmus and The Light for "stealing" his research. This extremely virulent and deadly virus would have been harmful to Conner, Matt, the Roy clones, and his friends from Cadmus Beta. It wouldn't have harmed the Imbocans considering how much they mutated, but there was a danger the virus could mutate into something dangerous to mundane humans.

"I still have my Queens to protect me."

"Not for long."

I place my hand on the floor and channel my destructive power. A web of burning red cracks spread across the polished surface. Then there is an explosion.

*DOOM*

Doctor Gemini is a tall, thin elderly man with blue eyes behind glasses, wrinkled skin, and receding white hair. He's dressed in dark clothing with a lab coat, white gloves, and a clear facemask. The photo on a nearby wall shows a younger version of him with his comrades. In that photo, his hair is golden blonde and meticulously combed.

Doctor Gemini is clearly terrified by the intruder, which he hides behind the intercom voice. A terror that only grows when the ceiling collapses and I land in front of him. I knew according to the Party Gamer that Doctor Gemini was in the basement and I got lucky when I destroyed the floor.

I can see his trump cards.

Behind Doctor Gemini are two female humanoids floating in cylindrical tanks of translucent red liquid. Slowly the red liquid is pumped out to reveal his creations.

They are twins standing 215cm (about 7.05 ft) with well-muscled Amazonian bodies with pale skin and short wet golden blonde hair. They are also completely naked except for the sites where the tubes and cables plug into them. With a hiss, the cables and tubing detach and fly away from their bodies. Then the glass of the tubes also cracks and completely shatters. They rise to their full heights and open their eyes to reveal the same sky blue as the doctor.

"Gemini Valkyries" says the old Doctor, "I crafted them using my own blood and DNA of various metahumans. My trump against Cadmus's freaks. Attack!"

The Gemini Valkyries let out sonic screams, much like Black Canary. The focused ultrasonic sound is immensely powerful, so strong that the shockwaves could stop a runaway train. A normal human would be liquified by the attack, but in my case, I'm just having trouble keeping my footing. I have got to learn to stop tanking everything and try dodging, it would make these fights faster.

The Gemini Valkyries, realizing their sonic attacks are insufficient to damage me, fire radiant energy beams from their hands. These beams of radiation cause the air to distort with their heat and the floor becomes soft as warm butter. The plastic, glass, and metal in the equipment around me melt away and fire erupts as the air flows in.

As my boots touch the concrete foundation, I jump forward using my superhuman speed overwhelming the sonic attack's push. As I grab the necks of the two Gemini Valkyries, I can hear their skin hiss from the heat of my own fingers. They are shocked enough to stop their sonic and heat attacks, but also release electrical attacks. It's as if I grabbed a pair of electric eels, only the power and amp is boosted to that of a power line.

The twins look at me with fear when they realize their attacks are doing no damage. I smile, then slam them together hard enough to knock them unconscious.

"I think I'll give them to Doctor Genus. He could use some kickass secretaries."

"No. This can't be!" yells Doctor Gemini, but I have had enough of this video game shit. I fire my Doom Vision and destroy the holographic emitter, causing the 3D image of Doctor Gemini to fade away.

"You got him, Pip?" I asked my nephew over the Party Gamer.

"Doctor Gemini is secure. All remaining samples of the Anti-Clone Virus have been destroyed." says Pip.

*DOOM*

Doctor Gemini was captured by Cognito Inc and transported via portal to a secure base on the Moon. This was to make sure he wasn't carrying a pathogen. After deep scans by Cognito Inc medical robots, it was revealed the man had hidden samples of the Anti-Clone Virus. He also had some non-lethal but incapacitating biological and chemical agents loaded in implants disguised as parts of his organs and inside fake bones. The man was walking bioweapons platform.

Doctor Gemini was upset to learn he was inside a metal bubble on the moon surrounded by airless vacuum. He was even more upset when the Cognito nanomedicine disarmed his hidden cybernetics and removed his payloads to be destroyed.

When Doctor Gemini learned he wasn't the Real Dr. Gerhard Meinhard Immingled (Doctor Gemini being his cape name), but a rogue Cadmus clone, he was left catatonic. He would later be reprogrammed by Doctor Genus into a new biomedical scientist for Cognito Inc. He was also de-aged into a young man who's now enjoying a very active sex life.

The Real Dr. Immingled was an amoral scientist who gladly sold his cloning biotechnology to Cadmus and retired under an assumed name on a tropical island. A man who died two years ago, while banging a pair of prostitutes.

As for the Gemini Valkyries, they were converted. The mental control commands and self-destruct implants loaded with more Anti-Clone virus were removed. The many health problems of the imperfect clone sisters were corrected, and their minds were loaded with information beyond being attack dogs.

Interesting enough, they became close friends with Fran – the female Frankenstein's Monster from Fate-Unversed Earth.

*DOOM*

Kent Household

Metropolis, Delaware, USA

October 19

After Sunset

3POV

Lois shows Clark a photo of Jon giving one of his candies to one of the Servants. Lois says it's adorable.

"Our lives just keep getting stranger." says Clark. "Now we have the magical incarnations of legendary heroes and myths wandering around. And they are on the Christmas List."

"Ash's daughters are all sweethearts despite their... pasts."

"You should have seen Doctor Fate's reaction when Ash introduced them." says Clark wincing at the memory, "I have never seen Nabu freak out and I hope to never see it again."

"A little primordial goddess, a destroyer of civilization, and a collection of wraiths known as history's most famous serial killer. Those girls added to a part-demon part-ghost sorceress daughter and demon king son." says Lois, thinking about her extended family, "All being raised by a walking apocalypse, a pair of alien warrior princesses, a demon goddess of darkness, a half-demon sorceress turned goddess of love, and a pair of shape-shifting psychic chimeras."

"With Rorschach and Doctor Genus serving the crazy uncle roles and the Cog Pro Heroes acting as big brothers and big sisters."

"Imagine when those girls reach dating age. I thought I had problems dating when my father was a paranoid General."

"He has gotten better. At least we don't have to worry about him putting on a Kryptonite Ring and getting cancer."

Only an idiot would wear a radioactive ring just to protect against a flying brick that could just incinerate him with heat vision from a hundred meters out.

As they turn on the television, there is a report of a new Blood Café catering to those with special dietary requirements. Many vampire races and vampiric species have become public in recent years. Some were creatures born of the Halloween Event or similar events. Some were creatures that have always existed, but now they can interact with humans openly now they humanity no longer needs to fear becoming food. Cognito supplies them with synthetic "food" and helps in keeping their instincts in check. Not all of them wanted peace with humanity, but it was either that or facing Cognito's "resources."

"Is that Himiko Toga?" he blinked seeing the quasi-pardoned ex-Villain smiling happily, like any other schoolgirl.

*DOOM*

Castle Blood Moon

Otherworldly Dimension connected to Earth.

Time is Hard to Determine.

3POV

In vampire mythology, vampires were believed to be animated corpses that would rise from their graves to spread disease and feed on the blood of the living. Normal deceased people would be mistaken for vampires due to people not understanding the decomposition of the human body.

In the DC multiverse including Earth-DR-1, most vampires are the descendants of Cain – the elder brother of Abel, firstborn son of Adam and Eve, and the first murderer according to the Abrahamic religion. After killing his brother, he was cursed and wandered until he found the nearly dead Lilith – the first wife of Adam and future Mother of Monsters. He fed on her, and they became the first vampires. They and their "children" were a plague on humanity, until they encountered the demon Etrigan who sealed them away.

The leader of Cainites is Mary, the Queen of Blood. Centuries ago, a man named Andrew Bennett was turned into a vampire by Cain and then turned his lover Mary Stewart into a vampire. Mary became corrupt and under the name Queen of Blood she created the Blood Red Moon organization to expand vampire domination of the world.

The Cainites can be killed by wooden stakes to the heart, decapitation (except for Cain himself), fire, garlic, and holy symbols. Sunlight only greatly weakens their powers, but does not kill them, and they are not affected by water. Stake, sunlight, decapitation, drowning, fire, silver, garlic, holy symbols, and/or running water are weaknesses for most vampire clans. They possess Immortal, enhanced strength, enhanced senses, enhanced speed, unnatural hearing, flight, shapeshifting, and psychic powers. They also reproduce via a bite.

Even before the Halloween Event, there were other types around the world. The Halloween Event triggered by the chaos lord Klarion led to the creation of new vampire species based on fictional works. The day of the dragons led to the awakening of many elemental metahumans, which included vampiric members of The Black and The Red. Cadmus exploration into other dimensions also led to the discovery of new vampiric races.

These new species differ in appearance with some being terrifying monsters to supernaturally beautiful seducers. Some have mouths like sharks, some have only sharp canine teeth, and others don't have fangs. The supernatural powers they possess range, with some having the same powers as the Cainites, others possessing fewer powers, and some possessing strange powers that the Cainites couldn't dream of. Their weaknesses also differ from race to race. In some cases, stakes will kill, sunlight will turn the vampire to ash, and holy symbols burn their demonic flesh. In other cases, stakes annoy them, sunlight does nothing, and holy symbols do nothing. In some cases, sunlight does nothing to them, but pure water can burn them.

There are the Chiropterans from Blood+. In their world, vampires are blood-drinking bat-like creatures. A Queen gives birth to twin daughters, who can create Chevaliers (royal guard) by transfusing blood into others. Those Chevaliers can create lesser vampires by doing the same to other people. What's interesting is the blood of one Queen is toxic to her sister and her sister's legacy, causing them to crystallize and shatter, but at the same time only Chevalier of their sisters can impregnate them. After pregnancy, the Queens lose their blood toxicity.

There are the Cognates from Battle Angel Alita. Type-V mutant is a term that refers to humans who are infected with a retrovirus called the V-virus, giving them vampire-like characteristics. They existed for centuries, only legend to humanity, until the Geo Catastrophe. After the Earth was devastated by asteroid Ixchel, the Cognates were almost wiped out and due to the following events, only Caerula Sanguis remained to watch humanity journey to the stars.

In Castle Blood Moon, the various vampires not aligned with humanity are meeting. It is a magical castle existing between material and immaterial realms, a realm of darkness where the sun's light can never pierce. It's ruled by Mary, the Queen of Blood, who sits at the head of meeting table as the hostess. The beautiful British woman has red eyes, pale skin, and long flowing red hair. Combined with her tight, revealing blood red dress, she lives up to her name as the Queen of Blood.

Sitting close to Mary is a tall Eastern European man with blue eyes, pale skin, long messy black hair, and a thick mustache. He also has pointed ears and sharp teeth. He's dressed in the fancy red-and-gold clothing of fifteenth century Romanian nobility.

The next major vampire is Dracula. Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș) or Vlad Dracula (Romanian: Vlad Drăculea) (1431 – 1476), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476. He is often considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania. He was the medieval Romanian prince whose insatiable thirst for blood inspired the legend of Dracula. He rejected God before his death and rose as a supernatural being.

This universe once had an original version of Dracula, but the vampire lord's latest death was extremely embarrassing. During a trip to Europe, this OG Dracula encountered Superman. While he was able to temporarily dominate the Kryptonian's mind and his fangs and claws were able to pierce Superman's dense nigh-invulnerable skin, he was arrogant enough to drink from the Man of Steel. While vampires of this world are only weakened by sunlight, drinking from a living solar battery reduced OG Dracula to ash.

The new Dracula is also dealing with a conflict between the patriarchal Dracula clan of vampires under his rule and the matriarchal Carmilla clan of female-only vampires under Countess Karnstein. Countess Karnstein has already gone into negotiations with Cognito Inc for synthetic blood and support for non-aggressive Heteromorphic SPBs (monsters), something Dracula won't do, due to his hatred of humans.

The next is Adam Hunter, the current leader of a race of vampires known as Nosferatu and nicknamed the Sawtooth vampires. He's a tall athletic Caucasian man with deathly grey skin, a bald head, darkened and narrowed eyes, and most notably his mouths are filled with razor-sharp teeth, reminding their human prey of sharks. He's dressed in a shirt, pants, and boots with jacket, all the same matte black which contracts against his skin.

This breed is extremely bloodthirsty and revel in feeding and killing with savage glee. They are not the type of vampire that would peacefully co-exist with humans feeding on synthetic blood. They are predatory monsters who despite possessing memories and intelligence of the people they were, have no regard for humans. As a result, they have become a target for extermination by Cognito Inc and the Monster Hunters around the world.

The next is Lilith Alpha, named after the female figure in Mesopotamian and Judaic mythology. She looks like a supernaturally beautiful seductress with huge breasts and curves. A normal looking woman with brown eyes, light skin, and long flowing black hair, dressed in a translucent white robe that does little to hide anything.

The truth is Lilith is the Queen of Alien Lifeforce Vampires. These extraterrestrials in their true forms resemble humanoid bats like the Chiropterans. They possess the ability to manipulate life energy to perform superhuman abilities including draining others to increase their own vitality. If she possessed the colony ship in her memories, she would have already killed a city to supply the dormant ship residents the energy needed to revive. Alone, she has created a race of pseudo-vampires that act as her servants.

She had built herself her own little business empire to live in wealth and luxury, but Cognito and members of The Light are applying pressure and have been destroying her drones.

The next member of the gathering is a vampire of Digital World –Vamdemon, King of the Undead Digimon. He is over six feet tall with gold eyes, pale blue skin, and long blonde hair done in the ponytail. He's dressed in a dark blue uniform with gold decoration and huge bat lapel, leather gloves with skull motif, and a flamboyant black cape with red inline. He's also wearing a face mask with batwings for some reason.

This Digimon is a cruel, cunning monster born of the most destructive computer viruses and malicious code of the Digital world. A monster who has become even stronger with the evolution of the Cyberverse but was forced to flee when it encountered a shining Hero in Iron Patriot – Pip. Multiple times, the Undead Digimon has nearly been destroyed, but has survived and has now escaped to the human world.

The Sixth Vampire Lord is a lean humanoid dressed in dark bandages like a mummy with a blood-red hooded cloak. He is the nameless Blood Demon – a demon born of humanity's connection to blood in culture and religion, enhanced by fear. The Blood Demon's true form is an amorphous blob of blood, but it moves and operates by possessing the bodies of the dead. He's been facing problems recently, most due to an occultist named John Constantine.

The Seventh Vampire Lord is Komarov the Living Vampire. Originally from a post-apocalyptic world ruined by an out-of-control biological weapon, he is one of the mutants that survived the pathogen. The mutation granted superhuman abilities, but also gave them an instinctual blood lust to help spread the new vampire virus. He believes in his race's superiority, which is why he hates Rorschach for turning his followers back into mere mortals.

The Eighth is Vampire Lord is a Dead Apostle Dregan. In the world of Type-Moon, humans can become vampiric beings either by using Magecraft or being turned by another. The one that sits in Blood Moon Castle is a Magi who dedicated his life to his research, to the point he is willing to do anything to continue his research. When his ill body began to fail him, he sought immortality and willing became a monster. Much like the Lifeforce Vampire, he can network his absorption of life energy using his familiars – The Dead. Those created feed part of their energy to those that created them, which can lead to entire cities being consumed by Dead as the Dead Apostle can grow strong in their secure hideout. His plans were disrupted by the Queen of Shadows, who recently became a Goddess of Darkness – Jade Chan.

The Ninth and Final Vampire Lord is Doctor Abella Alverez, also known in recent media as "Lady Bloodsucker", a name she hates! She is a beautiful Spanish woman with amber eyes, dark skin, and long black hair in her human form. She is a "Mad Scientist" whose experiments to exploit The Red resulted in her transforming into a vampiric insect manipulator. She can command blood-sucking mutant insects and the vitality they absorb not only sustains her but strengthens her to supernatural levels. She was in trouble when her swarm was exposed and partially subverted by Pro Hero Weaver (Taylor Hebert). Part of her swarm was also wiped out by the Misfits and the X-Men, most devoured by Toad!

"DOOM!"

The members of the Vampire Council rise at the loud noise and look around the room with alarm and suspicion. They all ask without saying "What is Happening?".

They hear screaming coming from the hallways and the doors burst open to reveal dying demonic vampires. Their pale flesh is horrible horribly, nearly melting off the bones, while smoke trails from their mouths. On a human these burns would be because of a strong acid, but on demonic vampires this is the clear work of holy water.

Other minions such as Vamdemon's Digimon servants also arrive, including his diminutive familiar - Pico Devimon. Pico-Devimon is a child-level small devil resembling a sphere with tattered bat wings, a mask with a skull-like evil symbol, large gold eyes, and large bird feet each ending in three dark red claws.

"Master! Master! The Hunters have come!"

"How many!?" demands Vamdemon.

"There was a squad of soldiers and Cognito's metal man." says Pico Devimon and that is as far as he gets as a rocket shoots out of the hallway and nails the evil little Digimon in the back of the head. The Digimon glitches like a television image before shattering into pixels before it hits the ground.

*DOOM*

The vampire minions of the gathered vampire lords are dying.

Some of the demonic vampires died before the battle even began, because their blood supply was poisoned with holy water. They couldn't even cry out as they were burnt from the inside out. Then, the magically reinforced walls and windows of the fortress exploded, letting a thick toxic fog into the castle. As the fog filled the castle hallways, those vampires vulnerable to holy water began to scream. Screams that don't last long as their lungs dissolved.

Many of the vampires transform into their monstrous bat hybrid forms, trying to "see" through the toxic fog using echolocation and infrared since visibility has dropped to near nothing. They see their enemies, but they have a hard time understanding what their enemies are as most of them don't look human.

What is most confusing is there is a little girl with wings and a tail, dressed as an idol. She is using a spear as a microphone, standing in front of another Castle!?

[Elizabeth Báthory, 4-Star, Lancer]

A child version of the woman who would become the feared Blood Countess - Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed. A woman who would become famous for bathing in the blood of women to retain her youth. In the world of Fate, the Countess didn't understand the concept of good and evil when she was young because nobody would teach her. This child version seeks to be different than the horror she became and make people happy with her music.

"I'm going to let you hear the biggest hit in the Servant world! Time for the finale! Báthory Erzsébet! Laaaaaa!"

Vampires have an extremely acute sense of hearing to the point where most vampires can hear the heartbeat of their human prey or even the rushing of blood in their pulsating veins. Some vampires can "see" the world using vibrations bouncing off surfaces known as echolocation. As monstrous bat-like creatures, those senses are heightened even further to the point they could hear a mouse's footstep anywhere in the castle.

Most Vampires die when they are decapitated, but usually it's done by a mercifully sharp blade. The bat-like monstrous vampires wish they died that way instead of their heads exploding from the song of a part-dragon pop idol.

Those vampires not melted by the acidic Fog of holy water or sent to oblivion by Bathory's Noble Phantasm - [Báthory Erzsébet: Fresh Blood Demoness] are soon being shot to pieces.

*DOOM*

"Artificially blessed colloidal silver rounds. UV-emitting mercury rounds. Nano-Lacquered Hawthorn/Willow wood shotgun slugs. Enhanced Garlic Essense Smoke Bombs. UV-Boosted Plasma Cutter. Anti-Blood Bullets." says a massive figure as he emerges from the swirling Fog.

In many universes, he would resemble his film counterpart played by the legendary actor Boris Karloff with a flattop head, bolds in the neck, and green skin. Earth-DR's version on the other hand resembles the one depicted in "The Modern Prometheus". He's 2.4 meters tall (8') with a muscular body given the perfect proportions of Leonardo di Vinci's Vitruvian Man. He has golden skin, perfect white teeth, and lustrous black hair of a Greek God. He also has a gaunt face with black lips and the glowing eyes of an unearthly horror.

"I have to thank Rorschach for all his goodies."

Frankenstein's Monster is dressed in a black military shirt, camouflage pants, and black military boots with military webbing holding his modern and advanced weaponry and gear to his body.

Frankenstein is the Leader of the Creature Commandos. Originally, they were a team of enhanced soldiers created to inflict psychological damage to the Axis during World War II. They ended up also fighting against the supernatural threats such as Nazi's Thule Society and Dragon King's Occult agents. After the war, they worked for decades protecting the world from monsters that threatened it.

Next to him is an Egyptian mummy dressed in golden Egyptian armor.

"Also send thanks to Goddesses Raven and Jade. They blessed me with spells strong against the undead and the Heroic Spirits that walk among us have made this battle far easier than it would have been."

"Make sure you don't hurt yourself. We can't heal dust piles."

The mummy known as Khalis was a priest who lived in the city of Bubastis in ancient Egypt in the year 2030 B.C. He was a Priest of Anubis – Jackal-headed god of death, mummification, embalming, the afterlife, cemeteries, tombs, and the Underworld - in a city that worshipped Bast – cat goddess of fertility and defender of the King. He used magic to enslave people and forcibly convert Bubastis to Anubis but was stopped by Doctor Fate/Nabu. He was mummified alive as punishment. When he awoke in the 20th century, Doctor Fate cursed him to serve Order until his unnatural life ended.

The third member is a green-scaled amphibious humanoid resembling a Gillman, better known as The Creature from the Black Lagoon. This one is clearly female, as she has a smaller build with feminine features and two huge fat deposits resembling mammalian breasts. She's dressed in an armored wetsuit that wouldn't look out of place in Neon Genesis Evangelion.

"Cognito Medicine can perform miracles, but I don't think that can resurrect four-thousand-year-old piles of sand and dust."

"You've gotten cheeky with your upcoming marriage, Nina. No longer afraid of dying an old maid?" sneers the mummy, which isn't easy with a decayed face covered in bandages.

"According to the texts, you died a virgin."

Dr. Nina Mazursky was one of the scientists that created the Creature Commandos. Her original creations went insane, because that lacked the experience to deal with emotions. Learning from her mistake, she selected adults who would be more compatible (less "I'm a monster" and more "cool monster powers"). She went as far as transforming herself and joining the team as the Medic.

Due to a recent event involving Cadmus, Dr. Mazursky is now in a relationship. She is engaged to marry the leader of the Imbocans - Alex Marsh.

"Can you guys cut down on the drama!" yells the man souring above them. He looks a lot like a red-eyed, gray-skinned bald vampire with huge bat wings, but he's dressed in military uniform modified for his wings. He's also not affected by the UV grenades that he drops to annihilate a squad of hidden vampires below. "You guys always make missions more annoying."

"Always with comments, Vincent." says Frankenstein as he grabs one Vampire Assassin by the head and squeezes. The vampire's supernaturally sharp knife cuts the golden flesh of flesh golem, but the vampire is shocked as if he stabbed a light socket. Frankenstein's wound heals as he squeezes and implodes the vampire's head. Its body then exploded into the cloud of ash and dust.

Vincent Velcro was once a member of the Royal Air Force, but he was found guilty of treason for attacking a superior officer. If you asked him, he would say the disaster of a mission was the superior's fault, but the superior had connections. The government offered him a chance to undergo experimental treatments instead of serving his prison sentence. If you ask him, he will say he regrets not taking prison time. The experiments transformed him into a living vampire.

If you ask him if he's related to the guy that made Velcro, he will say the Inventor George De Mestral named it a portmanteau of the French words - velours ('velvet') and crochet ('hook'). He has no connection to the man and if he did, he wouldn't be spending his time killing monsters for little pay.

There is a loud howl.

"Griffith is done on his side." yells Frankenstein understanding the signal. He then spots the final two members of the Creature Commandos.

Griffithis a very large lycanthrope carrying a very large gun. He's a very tall, muscular humanoid covered in black fur with black claws and the head of a wolf with red eyes. He's also wearing a pair of dark green military pants with many straps and military webbing for ammo.

Warren Griffith was a nationalistic American soldier during World War II who volunteered for a radical science experiment, which awoke his lycanthropic heritage. Originally, he was just a very strong very hairy soldier, but his abilities grew as he aged over the decades. With the emergence of many animal-themed heroes, Griffith has reclaimed a lot of his old social life, Tho he's still uncomfortable dating girls that many decades his junior.

The last member is Myrra, a very beautiful woman with gold eyes, dark skin, and long thin dark green snakes for hair like the Gorgon Medusa. She is currently dressed in a dark military uniform gunning down vampires with her rifle. One vampire attempts a sneak attack, but Myrra merely turns her head and looks at him in the eyes. He's terrified for a moment, which is long enough for her to put a vampire-killer bullet in him.

Dr. Myrra Rhodes was raised in a unique environment. Her father was a soldier that came from a large family of soldiers, while her mother was doctor that came from a large family of doctors and medical researchers. Dr. Rhodes worked as a plastic surgeon doing reconstructive surgery, when exposure to an unknown toxin awoke her transformation. She didn't believe patients would want surgery from a woman with poisonous snakes for hair, so she became a soldier and learned her father's blood was strong.

For a time, her only power was to have snakes for hair, which she then then learned with training, gave her enhanced vibrational and heat sensing abilities. Then, she learned she could manifest the other abilities of the Gorgons including superhuman strength and durability, claws, and ability to generate feathered wings for flight. She still prefers to use guns against her enemies.

"These guys are just drones and they are used to fighting humans, not monsters. It will be different if the Master-Rank shows up."

*DOOM*

Doctor Abella Alverez has already decided to cut her losses and run. Since her body is bound by the science of metahuman abilities, instead of supernatural elements, she can be considered one of the weaker vampire lords. There is also some sort of chemical in the Fog that is killing her swarm. Her swarm are immune to mundane insecticides, but the unknown chemical is very effective.

As she finally exits the acidic fog, she stares at the one who greets her.

Her opponent's uniform has changed from its original spider-silk and chitin with its menacing sharp mandible mask. Cognito Inc based her new armor on the insect-themed Kamen Rider armor, but she still controls a massive spawn of insects.

[Taylor Hebert. Escalating Insect Hero: Weaver]

"Surrender, Doctor Alverez. You are not going to escape Justice and if you're lucky Cognito will just return you to mundane humanity."

"Mundane? Do you really think I could ever be Mundane? I spent years researching The Red, despite being called mad by my fellow scientists. Even when The Red's existence was proven to the world with the rise of the Red metahumans, I still didn't get the respect I had earned." Says the doctor, a faint red aura around her body stimulated by her passionate emotions, " I didn't gain my powers by accident or because I was chosen, I gained these powers with my own two hands!"

"What about the people you killed? Do you have any humanity left?"

"Humanity. That's rich coming from you. I got more information about you after our confrontation. You may call yourself Weaver, but your reality will remember you as Skitter the Warlord and Khepri of the Golden Morning."

"Enough chitchat. I was only stalling long enough to eliminate the remainder of your swarm."

Dr. Alvarez suddenly stabs herself in the neck with an auto-injector loaded with a blood-red liquid. The mad scientist's body seems to swell as her skin turns a dark red purple with bulging veins. Arm stretch and lengthen, claws emerging from her fingertips. Her back bulges and bursts to reveal a mass of iridescent material that expands and hardens into wings. Steaming human skin wetly tears away to reveal dark red chitinous armor that expands and hardens.

Dr. Alvarez is now a two-meter-tall hybrid of humanoid and insect with large black eyes, blood-red exoskeletal armor, large wings, and long limbs ending in sharp claws (include a second set of smaller arms). The armor on her chest still retains the shape of large mammalian breasts much to Taylor's annoyance (In her world, the PRT made her wear impractical exaggerated boob armor) and she still has a mane of hair which has lengthened and looks wilder. Her once beautiful face has changed completely into a horrific bug face with large mandibles and long antenna the length of her hair.

Dr. Alvarez becomes a streak of red light and Weaver is torn to bloody pieces in the blink of an eye.

The two-meter-tall monstrous insect woman stops, perfectly still, and watches as gory fragments turn into clouds of insects. Dr. Alvarez scans the area and sees more insect clones in the Fog.

Suddenly, beetles hidden in the Fog emerge and create glowing circles in the air. They fire beams of energy resembling magical lasers and Dr. Alvarez is forced to dodge with superhuman speed and agility. At first, none of the beams hit her because while resembling lasers they don't move at light speed. Then some of the beams do what's impossible for mundane lasers and curve in midair. This time she receives numerous burns to her exoskeleton and is even pierced in some places.

She lets out a screech impossible for a human and releases a jet of corrosive poison from various parts of her body. The liquid has enough pressure alone to cut steel plates, but the liquid could dissolve flesh and bone with ease. Those liquid jets are stopped by barriers generated by Taylor's magical bugs. Even angrier, Dr. Alvarez swipes her long arm at superspeed, the claws reaching massively hypersonic speeds and generating a blade-like shockwave in the air. The attack is also blocked as the bugs interlink their barriers, but some are killed. The golden glow fading from their bodies as they fall to fog-soaked grounds of Castle Blood Moon.

"Magia." says the woman-turn-monster, her voice distorted and demonic, "I hate magic, but hate losing more."

Lady Bloodsucker brings one of hands to her face, which is holding one of Taylor's golden beetles. The mandibles of insect woman's mouth open wide to reveal very human teeth covered in saliva. She consumes the golden insect with an audible crunching and begins a second transformation.

Lady Bloodsucker's body grows and her dark red armor cracks and bursts off to reveal red-gold armor that expands and hardens. The now two-and-half-meter-tall human insect hybrid also looks buffer with stronger looking armor and more beetle-like features. She turns and raises one of her clawed hands. A magic circle appears in the air, and she fires her own magical attack. The burst of magical energy slams into the real Taylor's shield.

"In this form, I gain the powers and traits of any arthropod I consume or absorb. I never thought I could gain magical power." says Lady Bloodsucker as she is about to attack the real Taylor, when she feels her body locked in place. She can't even speak and can only listen to Weaver.

"My beetles are strong, but their magic comes from me as they are my familiars." says Weaver, "When you consumed one of my bugs, you gave me a link. I can create familiars and I can control them. I can heal them, and I can destroy them. Burst!"

The magical energy inside of Dr. Alavarez suddenly turns on her. The pseudo-nervous system of magical circuits overload creating immense heat. That heat boils the fluids inside the armored body. Immense amounts of heat were also generated from her metamorphosis due to the rapid cellular changes and was stored to prevent her body fluids from boiling off. The destruction of the magical network also releases the stored heat. As a result, steam, fire, and boiling fluids erupt from the openings in her exoskeleton as her flesh disintegrates. Soon only ash and the burnt-out exoskeleton are left to collapse to the ground.

"This is Weaver, the Bug Vampire is Dead!"

*DOOM*

Dregan Balaur was originally the heir to a young family of magi, one that lacked the money and influence of older bloodlines, but at least got more respect than the first-generation magi. His family magic was designed to transfer all their knowledge from generation to generation, not allowing any knowledge to be lost. His family was nearly decimated by a conspiracy of the other families, but he survived and transformed himself into Dead Apostle to ensure his family's legacy would survive.

Every time he fed on someone, he would not only gain the victim's energy, but he would also gain their knowledge and skills. The same was true if his Dead fed on others, transferring the knowledge to him. Even when the world was being annihilated, he survived by feeding on the weakest Servants. As a result, despite being one the youngest and weakest of remaining Dead Apostles, he possesses immense knowledge and skill.

This is the reason he can survive against Jade's Kijin Kahn. Dead Apostles also have regenerative powers which do not simply heal but cause their bodies to turn their time backwards to a point in which they were unharmed; thus, you cannot cause wounds greater than the speed of their recovery. Those are his only advantages, because his opponents have him beat in all other stats. Dregan is strong enough to tear normal humans apart like wet tissue paper and fast enough to be undetectable to the most acute human eye, but the difference between his strength and the Kijin is the same difference between a mere human and himself.

What is insulting is Goddess Jade isn't even in his fight, she just lent out some of her familiars for one of Rorschach's Quests. He's losing to familiars.

Finally, Dregon activates his method of escape. Dead Apostles aren't warriors or conquerors, they are people willing to do anything to survive, even if means becoming more of a monster than even Magi society would allow. Dregon's body bursts transforming into thousands of night creatures, one for every person he has killed. The creatures range from dark predatory birds and bone-gnawing rodents to small blood-sucking insects and worms. They all move with supernatural speed and strength, and even if only one survives Dregon will reform. Much like the far more famous Dead Apostle Ancestor Nrvnqsr Chaos, you either kill all of him or you kill nothing.

Then Dregon is pierced. Every animal from the largest birds and rodents to the smallest bug is pierced and impaled to the ground by shadow-born steel. Some of the creatures are aware enough to see the steel objects are razor-sharp shuriken also known as ninja throwing stars. They were thrown by thousands of Ninja Shadow Kahn. Dregon has learned something that even Rorschach wasn't aware of, the Kijin Kahn (formerly the Kunoichi Kahn) are able to summon additional (lesser) Shadow Kahn like their Mistress.

Dregon has filled the lives of many with horror, mostly in his numerous victims. Now he's filled with his own horror as his stolen knowledge and skills begin to fade. Only seconds pass in the real world, but for Dregon, the fading of his memories takes lifetimes. Even his own personal memories vanish into oblivion, transforming him mentally from a confused adult to a panicking teen to a scared child to terrified infant. The last memory to vanish is baby Dregon's first memory, his only memory of his mother.

The Kijin Kahn don't care, staring down at the ashes under the Shuriken of the vanished Ninja Kahn. The Kijin Kahn then do something no other Shadow Kahn Tribe can do. One of them speaks

"This is Goddess Jade's Kijin, the Dead Apostle Dregon is Dead."

*DOOM*

"I could have done this Quest solo, but I decided to be generous to the Hunters. It's not every day you get to wipe out the heart of evil vampires."

Komarov glares at Rorschach.

"Evil. Words of the weak. The rule of nature is survival of the fittest and strong oppress and exploit the weak. Superior beings have every right to suppress the weak, but the weak call it evil. Morality and laws are just chains invented by the weak to protect themselves from the strong." says Komarov, a hint of a Russian accent, "Even in a war torn down society, I saw the real world and I became strong. Now you are trying to eliminate the strong, so the weak can survive!"

"You talk a lot, Komarov, but your followers are happy to be free of you and your cursed virus." says Rorschach, holding a gun at Komarov, "Your death will also bring them comfort."

Komarov roars in rage and transforms. Komarov is a tall, muscular Eastern European man with red eyes, pale skin, and a wild mane of black hair with a beard. He looked like an ancient barbarian king dressed in the clothing of a Fallout survivor. As he transforms, he becomes taller and more muscular stretching his wasteland clothing. Blood red scales burst from his darkening skin forming a layer of armor. Some of the scales fuse together and grow into sharp spikes on his shoulders and sides of his arms and legs. The sharp scales also form "clawed gauntlets" on his hands and reptilian "mask" on his face. He becomes a streak of superhuman speed as he attacks, but Rorschach casually dodges the attacks. Even when Komarov extends its spikes into long supernaturally sharp blades, Rorschach continues to dodge with casual ease.

Normally, Komarov would not be alone in his attacks. The same virus that mutated him into a vampire not only affects humans, but other forms of mammalian life from rodents to apes. Komarov the Commander has the special ability to take control of other infected creatures and manipulate them with precise control. He would normally have an army of hundreds if not thousands to swarm his targets, which is why is he was so powerful in his original world. Unfortunately, all the heavily armed human drones he came with him to Castle Blood Moon were neutralized by Rorschach before he had even left the meeting chamber.

Suddenly, Komarov collapses to the ground in severe pain. As his body releases steam, the scales begin to move. Blood red liquid drips onto the ground and the detaching scales go with the flow. There is a cracking sound, like crystal breaking, as spikes themselves crack and shatter into fragments. Even the gauntlets and mask shatter to reveal twitching fingers and Komarov's face in agony. His twitching steaming flesh is almost pulsating as the last scales fall from his body, then it shrinks. Soon, Komarov's withered form is nearly swimming in the outfit that we once wore tightly.

Rorschach watches as the vampire's deathly pale skin takes on a more human tone, but also becomes very wrinkled and Komarov's red eyes darken to brown. The living vampire hasn't aged since the war on his world, when he became infected by the virus, but now he resembles the sixty-year-old human ex-soldier he could have been. The only difference being he still has his dark hair and beard, instead of a grey bird nest.

Komarov reaches into his bleeding mouth and pulls out one of his elongated canine teeth, before pathetically crying in despair.

"This is Rorschach, Komarov has been neutralized."

*DOOM*

The Blood Demon knows it's in trouble.

The Blood Demon has existed for thousands of years and was born of humanity's reverence and fear of blood. Blood has always been the key to its power, drawing power from bloody murder and blood-stained battlefields. It never possessed a true body of its own, instead it spread from person to person, possessing their bodies. It could even control multiple people at the same time, creating a bloodthirsty army to refuel its strength.

Then came its first defeat. Ancient Magi cast a spell that banished many of the demons to twisted nether of the Hell and only those that possessed sigils could be summoned. It was trapped because its amorphous existence meant it lacked a sigil. For centuries, it could only send parts of itself into the mortal world during moments of extreme bloodshed, then came the bloodiest war – World War II. It finally managed to escape and possessed the body of a soldier working for the Thule Society. Since then, it has been growing strength, jumping body to body.

Then came its encounter with John Constantine. During an attempt to access one of the Cognito Medical centers and its supply of artificial blood, it encountered John Constantine who was getting a medical check-up and MagiTech cleansing. Constantine detected it in its human meat suit, and it was attacked by both the occultist and the strange machines of the Medical Center. As a last resort, it attempted to possess Constantine, but the occultist somehow tapped into Cognito's cleansing array and purified himself with the Blood Demon inside of him. The Blood Demon barely escaped as a sentient blood stain.

The Blood Demon is currently possessing the last heir of a magi family that specialized in blood magic. Due to prejudice against blood mages and actual crimes committed by the family, they fell into poverty. He was alone because the last heir's power was far inferior to his ancestors. The Blood Demon possessed the man and transformed the body into a vampiric creature. The Blood Demon created its own cult of vampire followers using the knowledge he gained over the centuries and was eventually approached by the Cainite Queen of Blood.

"You done having a flashback?" says Rorschach from the shadows, who fires his gun. The projectiles are powerful and easily pierce the Blood Demon's subdermal blood armor. They also knock him back with their kinetic energy.

The Blood Demon lets out an inhuman howl, its jaw stretching beyond human capacity. The bandages explode off its host body as blades of blood erupt from the deathly pale skin. The dark red blades of crystalized blood extend into ribbons that weave together to form armor. Many sharp blades, spikes, and thorn-like extensions form on the sides. The Blood Demon then forms a ball of blood in its palm, which then lengthens and crystalizes into red metal polearm with numerous blades.

The Blood Demon launches bullets of crystalized blood that have enough power to pierce the stone walls. The Blood Demon launches high pressure jets of blood that slice through steel and stone. The Blood Demon launches corrosive blood that ignites into brilliant flames. The fire is so hot it would reduce most men to charred bone, but Rorschach's holograms are unharmed.

The Blood Demon is then sliced to pieces by Rorschach with a lightsaber. Due to a little temporal manipulation, Rorschach appears to be moving at a speed that far surpasses even the supernatural speed of the Blood Demon. As Rorschach returns to his normal phase in time, the Blood Demon's body parts hit the ground.

"Don't bother faking being dead."

The Blood Demon's pieces release tendrils of blood that connect to each other and pull the parts together. Crystalized blood threads weave the flesh back together as the Blood Demon rises to its feet. The Blood Demon knows it won't escape unless it goes all out and is about to attack again, when something unexpected happens.

The Blood Demon's reattached right arm falls off as the stitches fail. The Blood Demon also notices with horror that no blood is flowing from the wound and the arm itself is making a strange cracking sound. The Blood Demon watches as its arm crystallizes and shatters into dust.

"You left plenty of traces of yourself at the Medical Center, plenty to analyze. The place was set up for hematology research." says Rorschach, sounding smug, "Your form is very reactive to Chiropteran blood coagulant. Which I loaded into my special rounds."

As Rorschach talks, the Blood Demon is screaming in its mind. It's paralyzed as its precious blood crystallizes inside its host body. Its vision fades as its eyes crystallize into useless stones and the only sound it can fear is the horrible sound of crystal breaking like shattering glass. Soon, his consciousness fades as the last drop of blood turns into crystal.

Rorschach waits a moment as the Blood Demon completely crystallizes. It's almost identical to how Chiropteran vampires crystalize when exposed to the blood of their sister-Queen's blood. Ash would compare the Blood Demon to The Schiff – a failed super-soldier project in Blood+ universe.

Rorschach leaves as the crystalized Blood Demon falls apart and shatters into useless dust on the ground. A long bloody history extinguished in less than ten minutes.

*DOOM*

"Night Raid!"

The Digital Lord of the Undead - Vamdemon manipulates a massive cloud of countless Bat familiars to attack his enemy. Pip, the prototype Iron Patriot turned techno-organic son of Rorschach, is flying in the air and creates a barrier to block the surprise attack. The effect is like mosquitoes hitting bug zapper, as each bat is fried by the barrier and bursts into digital particles.

"Surprise attacks usually work better when you don't shout." says Pip, firing off a barrage of micro-missiles. Those micro-missiles detonate like fireworks and clear the dark night of remaining bat clouds in the fog.

"Bloody Stream!"

Vamdemon attacks by using a stream of red energy as a whip, only for Pip to dodge, create a beam saber, and slice through the whip. He continues to slice the whip as he rushes forward and stabs Vamdemon through the chest with his blade.

"Cloud Minion!"

Pip is pushed back by a spiral of dark mist, which also damages his beam saber, but he quickly recovers. He delivers a punch that sends Vamdemon flying and eventually crashing through the wall of Castle Blood Moon.

Vandemon knows he's in trouble as Pip is far stronger and tougher than him. Even attacks that would be effective against HiAndromon have no effect on Pip. Dead Scream unleashes a wave from his cape that paralyzes his foes and Nightmare Wave is a hypnotic attack that amplifies doubts to drive targets mad. Pip as a super-enhanced techno-organic can't be paralyzed and as Rorschach's son, he was no doubts at all about his victory. Blood Punch would also be useless as it's not smart to continuously punch armor harder than Chrome Digizoid. His fists would break long before he could dent Pip's ultra-hard alien armor.

Suddenly, Pip is knocked away by a large enemy slamming into him.

"GranDracmon!"

GrandDracmon, the Vampire King. A fusion monstrosity like something out of Greek mythology, with the lower body of an immense wolf-like beast with metal claws, spikes, and two armored extra heads that resemble sharks. The upper body is like VamDemon only covered in dark red cloth instead of a Gentleman's outfit with batwing chest armor and the heavier mask covering his upper face.

The ultimate-level demon beast Digimon evolved from the adult demon beast Sangloupmon. Perfect-level Vamdemon also evolved from a Sangloupmon. Therefore, the vampiric Digimon look like each other, above the waist.

"You're not looking good, Vamdemon. I entrusted you to handle things and this is what happens."

"I was actually waiting for you to show up."

"So, why shouldn't I use Crystal Revolution to turn you into ice crystals."

Vamdemon pulls out two objects for some sort of storage space. One is a black-and-violet card with white text and a grey/black trim with black text. The text is in DigiCode and Pip can see it reads Barbamon: Greed. The other is a black sphere with dark violet binary covering its surface.

[Code Key of Greed]

A special card containing the Digital Crest of Greed. It has the power to transform a human into a Demon Lord under special circumstances. It can also unlock the evolution of a Demon Lord.

[Digi-core of the Barbamon]

The Digi-core of Barbamon – Great Demon Lord of Greed, Schemer of Gold. Purgatory Level 5. Sealed away by Rorschach during the Genesis of the Cyber-verse. Stolen by Vamdemon.

Barbamon, Great Demon Lord of Greed and known as the Schemer of Gold. The Seven Great Demon Lords are a group of Demon Lord Digimon that represent the Seven Deadly Sins. Lucemon Chaos Mode, Leviamon, Daemon, Belphemon, Barbamon, Beelzamon, and Lilithmon are based on Lucifer, Leviathan, Satan, Belphegor, Barbatos / Mammon, Beelzabub, and Asmodeus / Lilith. They represent Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, and Lust.

The Code Key of Greed glows with a violet light in Vamdemon's hand and as he places it against the Digi-core it's absorbed. The violet binary glows and moves, as the sigil of Barbamon appears. Violet tendrils shoot out of the core and Pip instinctively jumps back several meters and avoids being impaled. GranDracmon is not as lucky as the tendrils pierce his body, then proceed to branch like tree roots through his body.

"Vamdemon, you treacherous..."

"Don't talk nonsense, big brother. Only power matters in Nightmare Soldiers."

GranDracmon and his additional heads roar as they disintegrate into violet-white particles that are absorbed by the tendrils and transferred into the pulsating core. As the tendrils retract, Vamdemon absorbs the rapidly pulsating core into his own body.

Vamdemon is surrounded by a shell of dark violet and black mist, crackling with blood red lightning. The energy is so intense it blows away the thick corrosive fog that fills Castle Blood Moon, revealing a shattered courtyard. The egg-shaped shell crackles with red lightning before becoming a solid violet metal/crystal shell. That shell shatters into violet particles to reveal Vamdemon's newest evolution.

After the dark digital evolution, Vamdemon has become far more menacing. He's taller with longer limbs, white skin, and his golden blonde hair is now knee-length. His clothing is now dark red with black straps and dark silver decorations. On his chest is a bat-themed chest plate and his shoulders have pauldrons marked with evil. He also has spiky metallic gloves and metal boots with batwing spikes. His face is covered by a black mask, and he has six fiery red batwings behind him instead of a cape.

[Barba-Vamdemon, the Demon King of Vampires]

Pip is then punched by Barba-Vamdemon's glowing red fist. It happens so fast that even Pip's optics weren't able to capture the movement and the force of blow is off the sensor scale. There is a rippling shock wave at the point of impact and then Pip is sent tumbling back at supersonic speed. It's also not just force that is propelling him, but a vortex of blood red and violet energy released by the fist. Pip, after smashing through several walls, finally slides to a stop creating a trench in the gravel and dirt.

"I didn't yell out my attack this time, Pip."

Barba-Vamdemon continues his attack, not calling out the names of any of attacks.

Barba-Vamdemon fires fiery violet bats from his wings which streak towards Pip. Pip attempts to stop them with his own missiles, but the bats aren't stop the explosives and slam into Pip before detonating. Pip is undamaged from the explosion, but he is knocked around.

Pip attempts to maneuver, but Barba-Vamdemon points his claws at Pip and spiky pillars of red ice erupt from the ground around Pip. These pillars slow his movements before exploding into showers of deadly freezing ice shards.

Pip fires a brilliant white beam from the unibeam emitter, which burns off one of Barba-Vamdemon's arms as he attempts to dodge, but the vampire doesn't even cry out in pain. He just smirks as his arm regenerates in less than two seconds. As he raises his arm, red lightning comes down from the sky and strikes Pip like Thor's hammer. Barba-Vamdemon laughs in sadistic glee, but then his laugh cuts off and his eyes widen.

"What!?"

Pip is not damaged by the crimson lightning, instead he's now glowing with a powered-up aura. He also doesn't look as damaged as he did a few minutes ago.

"Is that the best you got, blood-sucking virus!?"

Barba-Vamdemon glows a dark bloody red, then raises his clawed hands to the sky. Between his claws lightning cracks and a ball of black flame begins to grow. Pip's sensors indicate all the remaining Digimon, Vamdemon's entire army in Blood Moon Castle are dying, their energies absorbed to help fuel this attack.

"Pandemonium Lost World!"

This time Barba-Vamdemon does call out the name of his attack and Pip's eyes widen at the name. Pandemonium Lost is an attack in which Barbamon unleashes all the Dark Area's evil energies at once as an extremely high-temperature explosion that burns up everything without a trace. Even BelialVamdemon's "Screaming Darkness" attack only releases a tiny fraction of these energies.

As Barba-Vamdemon releases his attack, Pip and everything within a huge spherical radius is trapped inside an inescapable barrier. As the attack detonates inside the force field bubble, the temperature surpasses the surface of the sun or even the temperature of lightning. Even the strongest metals would be instantly vaporized and even Cognito's technology has limits.

As the force field collapses, the heat is released as a shockwave that burns and further damages Blood Moon Castle. Everything within the sphere is gone, reduced to plasma within milliseconds of the attack's explosion. Even a chunk of the castle and the ground is gone, ionized to the last molecule.

There is one exception. Pip floats in what was the center of spherical attack, glowing a soft golden light. He's also holding a golden spear with an ethereal white glow. The spear's handle is marked by numerous golden rings marked the code for "Digital Monster". Most of the rings are pierced by four white spikes to hold them in place. There is one exception which is free of spikes and slowing spinning around the shaft of the spear. The Holy Ringed Spear appears to be the source of Pip's Salvation.

"How!?"

"I've got to remember to thank the Angels."

Barba-Vamdemon releases another barrage of fiery bat familiars, but this time Pip is the one that moves faster than his opponent can track. He appears in front of Barba-Vamdemon with such speed it appears as if he teleported. Pip then Holy Ringed Spear into Barba-Vamdemon's chest, the spear tip easily piercing the Vampire King's chest and bursting out the back. Its emergence causes the wings to fade away and the bat attack to disperse.

Barba-Vamdemon tries to teleport away, but he can't use his attacks or techniques. He also can't regenerate the wound, especially with an object still impaling him. He notices two more rings are now active and watches as a fourth becomes active, the spikes shattering into vanishing motts of light. He then watches as a golden glow spread from the wound and starts turning him into a cold gray stone.

"What is happening to me?"

"Seraphimon and Orphanimon told me about you or at least a version of you. They say you're like a cockroach. You hunted Hikari when she was Eight because you feared her Digimon and when Angewomon killed you, you evolved yourself into VenomVamdemon. When VenomVamdemon was killed by WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, he possessed a poor human and stole the dreams of others to become BelialVamdemon. Even after you were destroyed, you kept trying to come back. "

"What does that have to do with what's happening to me?"

"The Holy Ringed Spear is isolating your data so you can't just mist away. It's going to lock you down, before deleting you. This is your END."

The last of the golden glow passes over the last body part, his left eye, turning it into gray lifeless stone. As the last of the original ripples of light vanishes, the fifth ring becomes active and the entire spear glows. A new golden glow spreads from the piercing spear and soon the entire statue is glowing a faint gold. There is a pause, then the final ring becomes active, and the glow beats several times like a heartbeat, then the golden statue slowly dissolves into gold-white particles leaving nothing behind. The Holy Ringed Spear also dies as the rings vanish and the golden spear turns a lifeless steel grey.

"This is Pip. Vamdemon is Annihilated."

*DOOM*

Lilith Alpha - the Queen of the Alien Life-force Vampires attempted to flee the moment she realized the Hunters were armed with Cognito advanced weaponry. The number one priority in her life has always been survival, but the attackers aren't reliant on myths of other vampires or modern weaponry which has no effect on her.

Her ability to manipulate her own life-force does make her a powerful opponent at close range. Users of Ki in Dragon Ball, Senjutsu users in the World of Highschool D x D, Nen users in the World of Hunter x Hunter, Ripple/Hamon Users in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Energy benders in the world of Avatar, and many others have similar abilities. They can manipulate their life force to reinforce and enhance their bodies and generate supernatural effects. Life-force vampires have the advantage of being able to absorb the life force of others to increase their own.

Lilith's opponent is a recent addition to the Cognito Pro-Heroes.

The hero is a beautiful woman of mixed heritage with blue eyes and long snow-white hair. She is dressed in black, gray, and blue military clothing with traces of copper-orange. She also wears a half-black half-orange mask like her famous father. She's currently armed with the finest Cognito-brand weaponry, not any of Rorschach's fancy ray guns, but solid projectile guns and swords made with space alloy technology.

[Ravager - Rose Wilson – Cog Pro Hero]

Slade Wilson, also known as Deathstroke the Terminator, met Sweet Lili on a search-and-rescue mission a few years after his divorce from Adeline Kane. His mission was to make sure that Lili escaped war-torn Cambodia safely. After a love affair with Wilson during their two-week trek to Thailand, Lili gave birth to a daughter whom she named Rose. Lili decided to keep Rose's birth a secret, believing her daughter would be safe. Unfortunately for Lili, her daughter was born with metagene due to the experiment that her father underwent. Due to a Light operation, Slade became aware of his daughter and her abilities.

Cadmus' unrestricted cloning of her father has complicated her life. There are clones who make great uncles, evil clones that want to corrupt her, and bizarre clones that make her question her future sanity. She has even encountered female clones of her father who look like near identical non-Asian adult versions of her, which she found "disturbing".

Lilith has attempted to escape multiple times using her superhuman speed, but Ravager has always reacted and blocked her path with either her body or explosives. Finally, Lilith transforms into a large monstrous hybrid of man and bat. It produces a deafening sonic scream to disordinate Rose, so Lilith can attack with her superior strength and then drain Rose to recover her depleted reserves. Lilith gets close as Rose reacts in severe pain, but then Rose turns and presses a cylinder against Lilith's chest.

A beam of plasma contained in a force field extends from the handle and pierces Lilith's chest, including the core hidden inside her body. Streams of crimson energy/mist emerge from her body as everything she has stolen is released back into the world. As Rose pulls the plasma beam from Lilith's chest, Lilith begins to revert to her now naked human form, still possessing a hole burst through her torso.

"How?"

"Ear protection. Many of my targets are very loud."

"A Lightsaber!?"

"Cognito can make anything. I loved the films."

"I guess... I should… have... negotiated with... Cog."

With her core pierced, Lilith can't contain her own Life Force let alone the life she has stolen from others. Her skin darkens as her cells die in a cascade effect. As her body blackens, the release of life force becomes stronger and stronger, becoming a red inferno. Then with a final burst of energy, Lilith disintegrates completely.

"This is Ravager, Alien Vamp Lilith is Dead."

*DOOM*

Adam the Sawtooth considered himself an apex predator. He and his minions would slaughter any prey that got in their path, feasting on their blood. They were sharks in human skin, living to cause death and destruction to the mortals. Then knowledge of their existence fell into the hands of those who render strength pointless. Cognito Inc didn't see them as apex predators, as something to fear. Instead, they saw them as a problem to be solved. Cognito Inc always has the solutions.

Adam cries out when a UV Mercury round pierces his arm. He dodged most of the bullets, but the final one managed to hit him and the burning pain is intense. Adam's vampire breed has high body temperatures which causes them to hunt in the colder climates, but sunlight disrupts the functions of their bodies. Cells produce heat out of control, desiccating cells and causing them to appear as ash. Despite no fire being used, Adam's arm soon looks horribly burnt and the burn is slowly spreading beyond his arm.

"Poisoned rounds... Do you... call this... a hunt?" says Adam, struggling through the pain.

Ultraviolet flashbang grenades land on the ground around Adam and detonate. The bursts of UV radiation are enough to give him severe burns on every bit of exposed skin. Combined with the flash and sound overloading his enhanced senses, he's left curled in pain on the ground. He looks up to see with his one remaining eye, a male figure holding a gun. A gun that he points at Adam's head.

"No. I call it an extermination."

The UV-emitting mercury bullet pierces the skull of Saw-Tooth vampire and explodes into its lethal fragments. It's possible the bullet wound alone would be enough to kill the vampire, destroying the brain with its shockwave. The chemical reaction of the UV Mercury is overkill as the destroyed brain superheats and bursts insides the skull.

"This is Slade. Sawtooth is Exterminated."

*DOOM*

In 1436, Vlad II Dracul (father of Vlad III) was ousted from the throne of Wallachia in 1442 by rival factions in league with Hungary, but secured Ottoman support for his return agreeing to pay the Jizya (tax on non-Muslims) to the Sultan and also send his two legitimate sons, Vlad III and Radu, to the Ottoman court, to serve as hostages of his royalty. Vlad III was imprisoned and often whipped and beaten because of his verbal abuse towards his trainers and his stubborn behavior; refusing to convert to or respect Ottoman Islam.

What isn't written in the history books is that time as a political prisoner also gave him a foul mouth in many languages. The vampire Dracula is not only being beaten by the Heroic Spirit he is facing, but also being insulted in every language they learned. The vampire Dracula has been "alive" for 540 years since his mortal death in 1476 but fighting the Heroic Spirit version of yourself is new.

[Lancer, 4-Stars, Vlad II Dracul]

"Vampire filth. That drunken Irish author Stoker used my name for his book and my legend was forever associated with vampires! That fool only used our name because he thought it sounded good and it was tainted by that blasted book." rants the Heroic Spirit as his spear cuts the vampire several times.

Vampire Lord Dracula knows he's in trouble. The Heroic Spirit easily matches him in physical power, but the former Knight of the Dragon hasn't fought like a warrior in centuries. The vampire has become reliant on his immense strength and supernatural abilities, instead of the skills of a warrior he once possessed. Lancer Vlad III on the other hand embodies the feared warrior prince of Wallachia, strengthened by the people of Romania. His psychic powers also have no effect on the Heroic Spirit in Familiar form, with the Lancer being immune to mind effects and his physical body being resistant to psychokinesis.

Vampire Dracula isn't even able to escape his opponent. Even when he attempts to transform into his gaseous form (known as Misty Escape), not only does the strange fog stop him, but Lancer Dracula's spears can still harm him. Transforming into animals would also be useless and would just get him impaled a thousand times.

"You abandoned your humanity. You betrayed everything that made you great." yells Lancer Dracula, as he glows a dark red, "Hell incarnated is the reward for your depravity! Kazikli Bey!"

The Noble Phantasm is a sublimation of the legend about the impaled soldiers shown to Mehmed II.

During his reign, the punishment of impalement for the general masses was not an unusual penalty in the Northern Mediterranean area that included the Balkan Peninsula. Vlad III believed it was the nobles that were bringing ruin to his country with their excessively repeating acts of depravity and corruption. The harsh laws that Vlad III made were to lower the power of corrupt nobles and filled them with the fear of becoming stuck pigs. While many believed he was simply trying to reduce the number of rivals and opponents to his rule, Vlad was shockingly ruthless in his approach to justice, targeting commoners and the upper-class with equal viciousness.

The Noble Phantasm Kazikili Bey summons countless magic spears and polearms of various shapes and sizes from the surrounding terrain.

It's a feared Noble Phantasm. The pain the target receives increases in proportion to their sins of immorality and depravity found in their souls as a fitting "blow of justice" and divine punishment. If the enemy has committed crimes of escape from prison, immorality, or violence, Kazıklı Bey's destructive power increases against them, the enemies being the subjects of his purging.

The legendary brutal warrior Vlad III has marked history with the blood he has spilled. According to records reported to the Vatican, the number of humans that he impaled during his career is said to have reached a hundred thousand people, which does not even include the individuals from enemy nations that were executed. As the vampire Dracula, he's killed just as many and done more harm in far worst ways, corrupting souls with his evil.

Vampire Dracula can't escape the spear that appears in his undead heart. The pain that burns through his body surpasses the most malevolent hellfire, tearing through the vampire lord's existence. Some tiny fragments of Vlad III's humanity lost by vampirism join with the spears to destroy the monster he had become.

Lancer Dracula watches as his vampire counterpart bursts into a cloud of ash. Ashes which also slowly vanish from existence, leaving no remains in the material world. All that remains are the fading spears and polearms of his Noble Phantasm.

"This is Lancer, ~Dracula~ is dead." says Lancer with a bloodthirsty smirk, "This is better than years of therapy."

*DOOM*

Lord Andrew Bennett looks at his former lover Mary, now known as the Queen of Blood. She looks back at him with a far colder look.

"Surrender, Mary. Your army is defeated, and your allies have been destroyed."

"What would you have me do, Andrew? Should I just wait to be exterminated."

"Cognito has the solutions. They have offered to make me human again."

"Give up everything we are now to return to what we were? Giving up immortality is the same as choosing to die, Andrew. The reason I became the Queen of Blood was because I chose myself over the mortals."

"This is no longer a world in which those who prey on humanity can survive! Your plans for conquest are for nothing, totally useless before their science and technology. It wouldn't matter if you had an army of a million strong, Cognito would obliterate them!"

"I refuse to bow to another's rule, so I must take all the power for myself." says Mary as she pulls out a necklace. It's a small teardrop-shaped dark blood red stone on a simple thin gold chain.

"What is...?" says Andrew before he falls to the ground, overcome by fatigue.

"Thousands of years ago, Cain the first murderer found Lilith, a woman also cast from heaven. He drank her blood, and they became the first vampires. Unknown to them, there was a witness. An angel witnessed the event and saw the future they would create. The angel cried a tear of blood and wished that someone would take away their evil." says Mary, as the teardrop stone glows a bright crimson.

Andrew's appearance changes and he gets up as the pain stops. He looks at himself in disbelief.

"I'm Human!"

"When held by the leader of vampire kind, the stone is able to absorb all the power of the bloodline." says Mary, "All of our bloodline, all Cainites, are now human. All that dark power now resides in me!"

"Mary! Please!"

"The power is mine! I will use this power as I..."

Mary's rant is cut off, when something she didn't expect happens. Glowing red veins like burning cracks in her pale flesh appear, spreading across her entire body. Then blood-red energy flows into the teardrop causing Mary to fall to her knees in agony. Andrew tries to get close, but there is an invisible wall of supernatural force.

There is a red flash and nude, human Mary Seward falls to the ground and a vampiric creature stands where she was, the teardrop now embedded in her chest. The creature resembles the Queen of Blood only her hair is longer, her skin is a deathly ash grey marked with glowing red, and her eyes are a menacing red surrounded by black sclera. She also has prominent fangs, sharp claws, and the wings of a bat composed of blood on her back.

"What's happening!?" asks Andrew.

"I... I don't know." says a scared Mary on the ground.

"I know what's happening." says Rorschach emerging from the shadows. The demonic version of Mary hisses and leaps at what she perceives is the greatest threat to her survival. Rorschach merely says, "Hold Maria" and the abomination freezes in place like a statue. "Cognito Inc always has the solutions. One of the reasons is they can predict the actions of their enemies. ", explains Rorschach, pulling out a coat to give to Andrew to give to Mary, "We knew about Mary's plans for an alliance for some time and arranged for her to acquire the 'Angel's Bloody Tear'. "

"It's a fake!?"

"It's a piece of MagiTech developed by Doctor Genus. It drains away the evil power of all Cainite vampires and manifests it in a feral vampiric form." says Rorschach, gesturing to the demonic Mary, "Maria is a construct that will make it easy to dispose of. If you will, Jack."

Ash's daughter and Assassin-Class Servant Jack the Ripper stands within The Mist. Up until this moment, she had generated the acidic supernatural mist that covers Castle Blood Moon. She killed a few lesser vampires without any comrades or enemies noticing. Now it's her time to take the stage.

"The misty city... our hell starts here. It's neither the end nor beginning. It's just a cycle of meaningless dismembering. Maria the Ripper!"

Jack's body is covered in a bloody darkness that makes her fade into the mist. Only her eyes glowing with blood lust and blades glowing with power can be seen, before they also vanish. As the Mist thickens, Jack the Ripper slashes the Vampire Maria repeatedly, before there is an explosion of blood.

The Noble Phantasm of Jack the Ripper is especially lethal for women during a misty night. As the blades manifest in the heart of the target, making all defense pointless. As Vampire Maria collapses to the ground, her body blackens and crumbles to ash. A black ash that also fades away. Even the "Angel's Bloody Tear" crumbling to sublimating dust.

"This is... Andrew." says the now human Andrew Bennett looking at the ashes of his wife's demonic doppelgänger, "Mary... Maria is dead?"

Another couple of patients for Cognito Psych Division.

*DOOM*

Temple of the Eternal Night

Pocket Dimension, Connected to Romania.

Next Day

Midnight

3POV

The Temple of the Eternal Night is a massive gothic structure with its only windows showing the dark night sky and numerous glyphs carved into the dull gray walls. There are many stone statues depicting animals of the night such as bats, rats, owls, ravens, wolves, and cats. There are many human statues, most of them nude, but some dressed as warriors, robed clergy and nobles. There is even a huge statue in the center resembling a massive Western Dragon. In the center of the massive temple is a circular pool with a twenty-meter radius, giving it an area greater than an Olympic swimming pool. It's also filled with blood to an unimaginable depth.

The Temple of Eternal Night is one of many sites considered sacred to vampires, a place that exists between the borders of life of death and connected to the elemental planes of The Red and The Black. Around the world, those people who died and were buried near these sites were transformed into blood drinking corpses. These types of vampires have existed since the dawn of humanity, even before Cain and Lilith spawned the first Cainite vampires.

Vlad III Dracula of this universe was not a Cainite. He was never turned into a vampire by another, instead the many deaths caused by Vlad's actions acted as a blood sacrifice. Over eighty thousand lives supplied the power for the ritual and when Dracula abandoned the Abrahamic God on his death, he was reborn in the site that would become the Temple of Eternal Night.

Three female vampires, each one supernaturally beautiful and dressed only in a hooded robe walk to the edge the pool. One has long black hair as dark as the night, one has long red hair the color of blood, and one has long blonde hair the color of gold.

"It is finally time. The last of the Cainites has fallen and I can feel the sun's curse fading." says the redhead

"I wouldn't have thought this possible a century ago." says the blonde.

"It wasn't possible a century ago. Obtaining the fresh blood of thousands would have been an impossible task, but Cognito has the solutions. Their artificial blood is perfect, not only on a biological level, but on a mystical level." says the brunette with a smirk.

The three vampire women cut their own hands and let the blood drip into the circular pool. As their vampire blood mixes with the vast amount of human blood, a dense fog appears spreading through the temple. As the fog flows over the statues, it supernaturally changes form into beasts and phantasmic people. Finally, a phantasmal dragon dives into the pool.

There is a pillar of crimson light and sound the eclipses thunder of the greatest storms. The gates of hell have opened, and a dark soul has returned to the mortal plane. Blood is dripping from the eyes of the various statues and the air is now freezing cold and smelling of brimstone.

Slowly, a tall, lean muscular person rises from the pool of cold blood. He walks on the surface of the pool like a perverse form of Jesus as the three vampire brides bow before their sire, their Lord. The dark red blood that coats his body is absorbed, revealing pale skin and shoulder-length black hair. He has the strong features of Eastern European nobility and a powerful aura. As he opens his eyes, they glow with a hellish red light, but then fade to blue.

Dracula has returned.

"How long has it been?"

"Two years, my Lord." says the brunette.

"I sense something has changed."

"Andrew Bennett and Mary Stewart have been reduced to mere humans. The Cainites have been wiped out by the forces of Cognito."

"Good."

"Was the Ritual a success, my lord?"

"Yes." says Dracula, flexing his muscles, dark markings resembling tribal tattoos appear on his body, "It wasn't easy to die to someone living, but not of this world. I was lucky enough to encounter the Kryptonian."

"As if our Master would be foolish enough to just drink blood from a superpowered being empowered by the sun." says the blonde, "I'm sure the foolish Cainites laughed at your death, master."

"Now they are gone. Even the Immortal Cain himself and Lilith are no more."

"How!?" asks the redhead. All the brides are surprised, she is just the first to voice it.

"The Black Beast. While I was a spirit feeding on the souls of hell, I witnessed that being. The damned souls were consumed as if by hellfire, the demons were torn to pieces, and even immortals trapped in hell's depths meet their eternal end." says Dracula, a look of fear on his face, "Even the First murderous son of Adam and Eve, and the First Woman born of the dust were destroyed. I will admit that I have never been more terrified in any of my lives."

"Is there is anything we can do to comfort you?" says the redhead with a seductive smile.

Dracula smirks and their robes vanish.

*DOOM*

END OF CHAPTER 40

"It's a strange new world. So, where are your regular partners?"

Batman: "Vacation."

Fun in the Sun.

Young Justice. Static Shock. Gen 13.

"That doesn't look like one of ours." says the Director, looking at the zombie head.

"It's not."

"Nobody else is supposed to be filming."

"We have real zombies. Dad punched its head clean off."

"Shit. Call some Heroes. Also check our insurance."

Chapter 41 – More Monsters & Magic - Part 3

September 2