Just the usual stuff before I get into the story.
Kazuka746 – sorry for not adding this in the last posts I've been really busy and your review wasn't there last I checked, as much as I would like to put them on especially Sparda since he actually is Arch Demon material in my opinion they are both canonically dead in the verse which means I can't explain them being there unless I use time travel to bring them in which would be trash in my opinion since using time travel to bring back the dead usually overcomplicates things and devalues the story so I'll have to settle on Dante since he is still kicking.
But to make up for it Kazuka I'll give you Alucard so enjoy!
ShadowDeathSkull – Whenever you reach this point you shall realize just how little Lucy is really involved in this story although I wouldn't have brought in Yukino simply because I don't really like the way the Celestial Spirit combat works dunno why.
Anyway enough of this on with the story!
I do not own Fairy Tail Hiro Mashima does.
The Vampire War
/Draconia – Three Months After Arrival/
Time had not been kind to Natsu and his allies from Alvarez, one week after arriving at the Alvarez camp the Vampires attacked in force and killed off all the regular soldiers that were left taking their blood. The Commanders while strong in their own right slowly began to get whittled down until they were picked off until only a small six man team remained.
This team consisted of Natsu, Eliza, Seilah, Irene, Brandish and Yasmin. It was clear from the start that the Vampires would be hard pressed to take them out if they stuck together and watched each other's backs and that's exactly what happened so much so that Natsu begrudgingly found himself coming to respect the Spriggan and Leichart ladies.
Fighting a menace such as this had helped them all create a bond that surprised Natsu, never in his wildest dreams did he think that he'd end up enjoying Irene Belserion's company however times had long since changed since that war and with it so did Natsu.
Eliza was told by the Gods to remain in Earthland and battle this menace as the Vampire King had power that was far too much for their liking; Eliza agreed and had strengthened her bond with Natsu the only way the two knew how, through battle.
Natsu Eliza and Irene were absolutely ruthless when teaming up on the battlefield utterly crushing the forces that were sent their way and showing them that the so called invaders weren't going down without a fight.
Even though they no longer had a base the six still weren't phased and continued to attack and kill any and every Vampire they came across and over the course of the three months they dubbed the conflict The Vampire War.
It was not a war for territory, wealth or fame but one of necessity, of justice and of survival. Natsu had seen more of the strange creatures be massacred by the Vampires and it angered him greatly to know that there were beings out there that couldn't care less about life and they were so easily able to take the blood of their victims.
Which brings us to the current situation, Natsu stood outside a burning village, the strange creatures had been lined up on the main road and had their heads cut off and mounted on pikes as a warning to others namely them.
Sighing he looked down at the headless childlike creature at his feet, the poor kid never stood a chance.
"Once again there aren't any survivors why do they keep doing this," Irene huffed as she and Eliza emerged from a burning building.
"It clearly has to do with their Blood Magic but to kill countless innocents is simply outrageous," Eliza said gritting her teeth.
"Have Seilah and Yasmin figured out what that other race is yet," Natsu asked as he walked through the fires of the village towards them with the flames dancing around his clothes.
"Not yet most of them are too disfigured or entirely drained of blood to get a closer look at, three months and we always find ourselves too slow to save them," Irene sighed.
"Come on we need to move Brandish told me another regiment is on the way," Natsu said as the two nodded and began running for the hills.
Arriving at the base of the hills Seilah appeared from thin air and informed them that the regiment on the way was larger than the force attacking the town; Natsu sighed as he leant up against a rock and looked at the three.
"So what's the decision do we engage?"
"Seilah what is the enemy force comprised of," Eliza asked as Seilah adopted a thinking pose.
"Brandish said Tiers One through Four were sighted, the assassins fled as soon as they were spotted however don't count them out yet."
"There is an Arch Vampire with them they must really want us gone this time," Yasmin said as she jumped down next to Eliza.
"Great there's no outrunning that one, Yasmin have Brandish pull back to our position here we'll ambush them in the pass," Natsu said as Yasmin nodded and bolted off towards the town.
"I'm surprised the Royal Vampires haven't made a move yet," Irene said as Natsu nodded.
"It's probably because of the three of us that they refuse to send just the Prince in, I still wonder where they keep getting all the forces from this continent was meant to abandoned yet the three of us have a combined kill count of over 800 it just doesn't make sense?"
"Natsu have you asked the Triumvirate about these Vampires since they technically fall under their jurisdiction?"
"I haven't had enough spare time to risk heading back even now we're about to engage another group of these bastards Eliza."
"I suppose so but keep it in mind when we have a reprieve."
Natsu nodded as Brandish and Yasmin returned and the group made their way up the hill and stood in front of a massive gorge which was a one way route.
Natsu was about to explain the plan when he noticed a lone figure standing in the gorge facing him, Natsu's eyes narrowed and he froze once his vision adjusted to the distance.
"Those eyes …"
Everyone except Eliza had no idea what Natsu was talking about but Eliza too was as stiff as a board once she locked onto who Natsu was staring at.
"Natsu do you know about this!"
"No I don't even know who he is, all of you wait here I'll be right back," Natsu said as he walked through a portal and reappeared opposite the man in the gorge who had a sinister smile on his face.
"Alright I know I'm new and all but I still know those eyes when I see them, what is your rank?"
The man grinned as he slid his red full brimmed hat off his head and it vanished into thin air letting his hair blow in the wind, glowing crimson eyes meeting Natsu's own.
"Arch Demon like yourself, you are definitely an interesting one that much is certain."
Natsu was about to say something else when the Devil placed his hand into his long red trench coat and pulled out a handgun and pointed it at him.
"Are you serious?"
"When it comes to them I'm as serious as any other Lord Natsu."
"And what is your name since you know mine so well?"
The man grinned before making a 'move out of the way motion' with his eyes as Natsu's own widened in realization as in a fraction of a second Natsu had moved twenty feet to the left and the man fired the handgun hitting a Vampire Nightwalker in the leg blowing it clean off to Natsu's surprise.
The Vampire hissed in pain as the man fired another shot blowing off its arm followed by two more that destroyed its remaining limbs until it was just a screeching torso, the Vampire began to glow as the man gained a sadistic grin with the glow from his eyes becoming brighter and the glow around the Vampire disappeared altogether shocking it.
"Ah ah there will be no escape for you I have some information I require as does my fellow Arch Demon."
"How did you stop it from combusting," Natsu asked as he walked up to the two.
"Well it wasn't really that hard considering that their power was stolen from me so technically it's my own abilities I just took it back."
"So you're responsible for this?"
"Somewhat, the current King of this sorry lot was one of my servants however he managed to swipe a good portion of my power several hundred years ago, of course I have regained it but it still annoys me so I want it back."
"So what's your name?"
"Ah of course we were a bit preoccupied weren't we," the man said as he shot the Vampire in the stomach whilst giving Natsu a grin. "My name is Alucard the King of Vampires, The Ultimate Vampire, Vlad The Impaler, The Night Walker pick a title for I have many."
"Alucard huh, nice gun."
"Ah you noticed it did you, this is Jackal Mark II as I like to call her the old spirit within became how shall we say … redundant. This gun in its Mark I state was capable of only using certain specific types of ammunition making it quite the pain to use in combat especially the ammo capacity such a bothersome and unnecessary handicap so I made a few personal modifications."
Alucard handed the gun to Natsu who inspected it and was surprised to see a spirit emerge from it looking rather angry.
"If you think I'm just gonna fire for you then you can get fucked you no name loser only Alu gets the privilege of firing greatness such as me!"
"That is Lana the new spirit of my gun she is quite mouthy at times but she means well, Lana I want you to let my colleague fire one shot from you at that approaching army of Vampires please," Alucard said with a grin as Lana looked at him before gaining a smirk.
"Oh I see what you're doing Alu you sly bastard, alright kid you get one shot no need to load her up just pull the trigger and watch the magic happen!"
Natsu shrugged as he walked to the centre of the gorge and raised his right arm up pointing the gun at the approaching Vampire horde as he looked at Alucard who had a savage grin with his eyes glowing bright crimson.
'Well this ought to be interesting,' Natsu said as he pulled the trigger and fired.
Unlike the shots Alucard did Natsu's was on a whole other level as the recoil brought the gun up above his head not that he cared to notice as his jaw was almost hitting the floor. Upon firing the gun the bullet reached the group in seconds and just before it hit the lead Vampire the shell casing exploded and a massive ball of black fire appeared and continued to envelop the Vampires as they broke formation and began fleeing from the rapidly expanding ball of flame.
Alucard was laughing as he took the gun back from Natsu wiping a tear from his eye before tapping Natsu on the shoulder.
"I bet your wondering what happened aren't you?"
"Uh maybe just a little …"
"Well it's quite simple really the Jackal Mark II doesn't use physical ammunition it uses a person's soul, for your attack to do such a thing is quite impressive of course I could do something similar I just needed to hold back so we could get some information from our good friend here isn't that right 'friend'?"
Alucard kicked the somehow still living Vampire onto his back and locked eyes with him freezing him in place, after a few moments the eye contact broke and Alucard shot the Vampire in the head causing his head to explode.
"I have the location of the Royal Vampires isn't that nice."
"Yes it is but we still have work to do," Natsu said as the remaining Vampire force began to get around the black flames that were still burning and begin to rush towards them again.
"Indeed I've seen what this scum has been doing lately and it has gone on long enough," Alucard said no longer sporting an amused expression and now adopting one that simply promised death as he pointed Jackal at the oncoming horde.
"I take it this is a sign you're gonna help out then?"
"The scum used some of my power to escape from my world and fled into yours taking advantage of an entire continent that was rotting unused, this is my mistake by letting this trash fool me which is no easy feat so to say I am not amused by this is an understatement. Indeed I will assist you as I have brought chaos to your world because of my momentary lapse of judgement."
Natsu nodded his head before looking at Jackal and noticed that the gun now had a crimson aura around it, the sheer amount of anger emanating from it was to him plain as day.
"One thing I didn't mention about Jackal is what you did was an unrestrained attack if you train with it like I have for the last few centuries you figure out how to reduce what you put into it, to fire Jackal you must use the energy of your soul which isn't an infinite resource however the amount that can be used can be adjusted. Watch and I'll give you a demonstration," Alucard said as he and Natsu disappeared in a blur and reappeared in the middle of the Vampire horde which were shocked to say the least.
As everything seemed to move in slow motion Alucard brought Jackal up and began to fire rapidly as he spun around getting perfect headshots consequently causing the heads of the Vampires to explode as a result.
"With but a sliver of my soul energy I can easily dispatch of this trash, Soul Shot – 5%!"
As Alucard continued to move in-between the Vampires one of them managed to slip past and try to stab him only for the sword to go right through him as he shot the offender through the throat causing his neck to explode.
"I suppose that is enough from you Jackal I can't use up all my soul energy now, time to do things the old fashioned way."
The Vampires thinking they had the upper hand rushed him only to suddenly find themselves impaled on strange black protrusions with reddish edges, some of them managed to turn back and saw to their shock their own shadows had risen up from the ground and impaled them with the shadows of their own weapons.
"Dark Composition – The Betrayal!"
The Vampires were still alive as the shadows began to overcome them and soon consumed them leaving only the shadow in their place; the shadows turned on the other Vampires and began attacking them as Alucard smirked.
"You fools barely even managed to steal a fraction of the true powers I possess I will show you pathetic creatures what a real Vampire can do, this is the end!"
Walking forward his trench coat started to have flowing darkness emerge from it as it began forming strange tendril like protrusions from it, Alucard himself began to laugh as his fangs began to expand in size and the darkness substance made secondary hands next to his original that were more claw like in nature.
Rushing another group of Vampires he began to ruthlessly tear them apart using either the darkness substance or tearing their throats out with his fangs, his brute strength allowed any punches he landed to send his enemies flying back a considerable distance however he stopped once he noticed the Arch Vampire standing in the back.
Looking over to Natsu he watched as he used his Crash Magic and turned over 20 Vampires into cubes before throwing a ball of flame into a large group of them.
"Where the hell do these things keep coming from!"
"From all different realities, one of the abilities that was stolen from me was my Devils right to walk through the planes I'm sure you know just how easy it would be for them to round up and convert humans using it."
"Yeah not exactly good only makes me want to kill this King even more, gotta say you're pretty ruthless in combat."
"One has to be in order to ensure that the enemy and any potential ones know you always mean business," Alucard replied as Natsu nodded and the two turned their focus to the Arch Vampire who was standing before them.
"He doesn't think he stands a chance against two Devils does he?"
"That depends on how fanatical he is towards the Royal Vampires, no matter he won't be getting out of this alive even if he surrenders."
Natsu and Alucard began walking forward when several Vampire Necromancers began clawing their way up from the ground.
"So that's how they get around," Natsu said to himself as the Necromancers began to smear blood around them forming a large circle.
"Well now this is interesting I wonder what they're up to?"
"Hey you're a Vampire shouldn't you know?"
"Just because I'm a Vampire doesn't mean I invented any of these spells and rituals I don't even use blood like this I just consume it."
"Fat lot of help you are," Natsu said with a smirk as Alucard hit him over the head with Jackal.
The Arch Vampire began shouting orders as the Vampire Necromancers started chanting something in their strange language and the circle began to glow.
"So I think maybe we should get out of the circle," Natsu said as Alucard slowly nodded and seemingly melted into the ground using his strange darkness powers.
Natsu tapped his chest and used the Gravity Seals to escape the large circle just as the ground began to shake, Alucard reformed next to him as he pulled Jackal back out of his coat.
"This isn't going to be pretty whatever it is."
"You know if there were any mages I hated the most it would be the Necromancers," Natsu said through grit teeth as the entire ground within the circle collapsed and a large dead creature began to emerge.
"Well Natsu this is your world what is it?"
"How the hell should I know!"
The creature began to claw its way out of the ground and began to rise to its full height easily being tall enough to stand above the gorge, the creature was missing large chunks of skin revealing its bones in certain places and its right arm was replaced with a strange stick with many rusted knives and spears attached to it.
The creature grit its teeth and opened its eyes which were replaced with lacrima crystals, the creature immediately noticed Natsu and Alucard and let loose a roar that shook the entire gorge.
"Who knew they were hiding a big guy like that," Natsu said to himself as he noticed more Vampires had arrived.
"Ok so maybe the Vampires chances increased a little bit its not that big of a deal really," Alucard said as he pointed Jackal towards the large creature. "I'll have to use more soul energy on this one though it could easily shrug off 5%."
Natsu nodded and began to enter his E.N.D/Dragon Force state as his clothes began to adapt with it, Alucard just raised an eyebrow at the transformation as Natsu sighed.
"I used to ruin lots of good clothing through my transformations so I made sure my Devil ones would adapt to my transformations, oh and since I assume you know my Dragon Force and E.N.D states this is a form I achieved just before I ended up in Tartaros before I … lost control."
"At least it has destructive power which is exactly what we're going to need," Alucard said as the two took off with the creatures' bladed arm coming down on where they were a moment later.
Natsu flew up into the air and was immediately fired upon by many of the Vampires on the ground, frowning he began to weave through the attacks slowly making his way towards them.
Alucard was running up the left side of the gorge dodging a barrage of long range Blood Magic attacks returning fire with 5% shots, his shots were dead on as the Vampires began dropping.
"I really hate these scum they're just like the ones back home," Alucard growled as he launched off the wall to avoid the fist of the giant creature.
Natsu noticing a break in the barrage of magic quickly coated his leg in crimson fire and flew towards the head of the creature with blinding speed; bringing his leg back he kicked the beast in the temple.
Natsu and Alucard heard a loud snap as the creatures head suddenly snapped to the right and it began to fall expanding the size of the crater considerably.
"Damn I snapped its neck," Natsu said in surprise as he landed next to Alucard and rushed a group of Vampires who were coming behind him.
Ducking under a sword strike Natsu punched the Vampire in the gut with his fist coming out of its back as he launched the body at his allies who were either knocked over or forced to jump over it or around it.
Natsu dodged a barrage of Blood Magic as he changed his arm to that of a shield and began rushing towards the Vampires using it to soak up the attacks, jumping into the air he let loose a roar that incinerated a large group of Vampires before coating his hand in crimson fire and belting another three Vampires who tried to challenge him in the air back to the ground causing a small crater to appear.
"Natsu the big ones getting back up!"
"What," Natsu shouted in shock as he saw Alucard dodge the foot of the creature that slid back as the creature began to regain its footing. "I snapped that things neck how the hell is it getting back up!"
"Normally that would work but you are dealing with powerful necromancy the limitations of the living don't apply!"
Natsu grit his teeth and cursed as the creature began to stand up once again, it looked right at Natsu and let loose a powerful roar that shook the ground beneath them. Natsu was about to take flight when suddenly a meteor hit the creature in the head knocking it back down again.
"Why are you just standing there TAKE OFF THE LEGS," Irene shouted as both Natsu and Alucard nodded and began rushing towards the creature with the Vampires hot on their heels.
"This thing won't have a face to speak of after taking a meteor to the face so may as well add legs to the list," Alucard said as he twirled Jackal in his hands before breaking off to the left.
"Damn right it's good to see the others didn't get bogged down by this shit much," Natsu said as he veered off to the right.
As Natsu and Alucard began rushing towards their position Irene began shouting orders to the others with Eliza heading off the Vampires who were in pursuit of the two with a ranged sword attack the created a fissure in the ground.
"Now now we can't have you lot getting in the way although I'll be more than happy to entertain you," she said with a smirk as he eyes flashed crimson for a brief second as she pointed her ebony sword at the small army.
Natsu and Alucard both reached their positions as Irene called down another meteor to keep the creature down, the two began preparing their attacks as Natsu attacked first.
"Devil's Aura: Demonic Flame Dragon Monarchs Destabilizing Calamity Fist!"
Jumping up to the creatures knee Natsu's fist seemingly exploded as black flames with cracks in the air appeared around it as a reddish aura surrounding them, the attack made contact and from the knee down the leg shot off into the gorge wall and continued going for several miles tearing up the land.
"God damn show off, Devil's Aura: Soul Shot – 25%!"
Jackal gained the same reddish aura as Natsu's attack as he fired a single shot that pierced right through the other knee seemingly doing nothing, suddenly the creatures' knee jerked downward and a massive crater formed as the leg flew off into the distance as if some external force pushed it away.
Natsu and Alucard were immediately upon the creature knowing it wasn't done just because it had no legs, Alucard fired another shot at its head as Natsu brought his leg up above his head and came down with a powerful kick causing its skull to collapse in on itself.
The creature stopped moving as Natsu wiped a single bead of sweat he'd accumulated from the attacks as he, Alucard and Irene stood atop the gorge looking down at the corpse.
"So where are Brandish, Yasmin and Seilah?"
"Probably just about done collapsing the entrance to the gorge the Vampires used which means the only ones left we need to worry about are down there, I'll let the introductions wait until after we've killed them all," Irene said as Alucard smirked and nodded with the three making their way down to the small fissure where Eliza could be seen fighting.
As they got closer most of the Vampires were dead as Eliza tore through them, two remained as the War Goddess lived up to her name. The first came at her with a sword strike which she easily parried before elbowing the Vampire in the face sending him sprawling to the ground as she parried the other Vampire without even looking at him. Materializing an ebony knife in her free hand she swiftly turned around and threw it at the one she was parrying as it went through his throat and stopped at his spine, turning around she sliced open the stomach of the other one that had just gotten up before running him through up to the hilt with a smile.
"And that's game," she said as she kicked the Vampire off her sword before wiping it on her comrades clothes. "Ah I see you lot beat the giant one then so tell me how much punishment did it take?"
"Er a lot," Natsu replied as he shook his head.
"Well I suppose that's what we've come to expect from these Necromancers, alright then I suppose introductions are in order for your Devil friend?"
"I take it you are the ever famous Eliza Goddess of War judging by that performance, I'm Alucard of many titles I would give you the list but it's a bit too long for my taste."
"Oh yes I remember you one of the Arch Demon level Devils, so what brings you here?"
"I'm here to fix this mess that is my fault; the Royal Vampire King was actually a servant of mine who managed to catch me off guard. You might think that is either extremely funny or extremely pathetic but the thing you need to know about me is something like that NEVER happens to me at least not in my living memory have I ever been caught off guard. Long story short these Vampires are running around with a portion of my power and I'm taking it back."
"Ah that would explain how they are so strong then, so I take it we can count on your assistance in this matter?"
"Indeed," Alucard said as he materialized his hat and placed it on his head. "For now we should get moving before more of them arrive."
"I agree, Irene did you specify a meeting point for the others to meet us at," Natsu asked as Irene nodded.
"20 miles North – East of here by a small cave, we need to discuss what that abomination they just summoned was I've never seen it's like before."
"It was an amalgamation of flesh and bone fused together through complex Blood Magic rituals, Vampires don't seem to care how many they slaughter in their pursuit of power so the corpses left over from being consumed of their blood are often used as tools in their sick rituals and experiments," Alucard said as the group hopped out of the gorge.
"That sounds like something the Tartaros guild would've done," Natsu said as Alucard nodded.
"Unfortunately it's a trait all who crave power seem to possess, discard basic morals and decency to achieve greater power. In my world Vampires aren't much better than these ones they kill innocents and cause trouble wherever they go."
"No matter which reality you're in good and evil will always be a constant," Eliza said as the group nodded in agreement.
"Alright we'd better head to this cave and make sure the others are ok then we can figure out our next move from there," Natsu said as the small group began running off leaving behind the Arch Vampire who had managed to survive the slaughter.
After an hour the group reached the cave and noticed Yasmin on lookout, she waved to them but soon adopted a frown when she saw Alucard.
"Relax he's on our side," Natsu said as he sat down on a rock. "Did the others make it?"
"Yeah it's my turn for watch, we've been filling in the reports on the Vampires after they summoned that massive thing talk to Seilah if you have anything you wanna add to it."
"Yeah we have plenty to add but it can wait because we have something far more important to look into, after today's defeat they'll be retreating back to wherever they came from right well hopefully we can follow them and it'll lead us to their leaders or a Royal Vampire."
"You think we're ready to fight the Royal ones," Yasmin asked with a sceptical look as Natsu shrugged.
"Eliza and I have been ready since we first arrived and Alucard here could easily drop them too, we are higher beings so it only makes sense to leave the big guys to us."
"Get off your high horse Natsu this isn't a game they could ki-!"
"I know it's not a game Yasmin I've seen firsthand what they are capable of and not one minute since we began fighting have I dared take this lightly, after adapting to the way they fight and the unique way in which they use Blood Magic we finally understand how to at least beat the main forces but these Royal ones are another matter. Eliza and I haven't gotten to fight them to see the way they tick so until we do we can only draw conclusions based on what you three tell us about when you encountered them."
"But Lady Irene even told you one of them destroyed a mountain range as a show of power!"
"So what I can do that too and Eliza could easily cut through one, one thing you don't realize is once you reach a certain level of power it isn't about how much destructive power you have but the way you utilize it. Firing off full power attacks without good reason will only serve to get your own comrades hurt and drain you of precious magic power and stamina; instead you should focus on refining it into abilities and attacks that allow you to defeat your opponent with condensed strikes like this for example."
Natsu raised his fist and coated it with crimson flames as he walked across to the small hill opposite the cave and punched it, a hole burned clean through the hill as Yasmin looked at it in surprise.
"Now you see same power just refined, flashy attacks might be able to cover a large area but they are often weaker and cause more collateral than actual damage to the opponent."
"Says the Crash Mage," Yasmin muttered as Natsu grinned and scratched the back of his head.
"Yeah I suppose you got me there but you know what I mean, now then let's talk about these Royal Vampires I want to see them dead so Alucard can take his powers back and clean this mess up."
"Wait it's this guys fault all this is going on!"
"Look let's just all go into the cave and discuss it I'm not repeating it again," Natsu said as the group walked into the cave with Alucard taking a look at the sky before following behind.
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The Arch Vampire arrived at a fortress made from a strange metal; the Vampire rushed past the gate and made his way towards the central building. As he ran many of the Vampires looked at him curiously before turning back to whatever they were doing.
Arriving in a type of throne room he pushed open the doors and looked at said thrones to see two Vampires sitting in them with their eyes closed, walking slowly towards them the male Vampires eyes slowly opened as he sat up in his chair.
"My Lord I bring news of the barbarians," the Arch Vampire said as the Vampire on the throne adjusted the small crown atop his head.
"Speak I have little time for games, was the ambush a success?"
"I'm afraid not my Lord all our forces save me and a couple dozen others were slaughtered including the Necromancer core, on top of that the Behemoth was also destroyed."
"Hmm I see, was it the pink haired one?"
"He played a big role however there is now another one among them," the Arch Vampire said as he began to fidget nervously.
"You seem unsettled by something, speak who is the newcomer!"
"Well you see my Lord he is like us and bears the power of the Vampire but his eyes are the eyes of the Devil just like the pink haired one, my Lord is he the one who-?"
The Arch Vampire didn't get a chance to finish as the King cleared the distance between the two and was behind the Arch Vampire holding his head which had been torn clean off his shoulders.
"Alucard has come for me at last; I knew this day would come after all these years it was only a matter of when!"
As the King shouted in frustration the female Vampire on the other throne opened her eyes and stood to meet the Kings gaze.
"You forget husband we have prepared countermeasures for his impending arrival," the Queen said as she adjusted her own crown before standing up and walking over to him.
"I never forgot it was simply my mind being uneasy about it, what if it isn't enough?"
"Do you truly underestimate the value of the find you said it yourself a being such as that should be a match for any God or Devil?"
"I-I know what I said but-."
"Come let us put your mind at ease," the Queen said as she led him towards a side door in the throne room and the two went down a spiral staircase leading to what looked like a ruin.
Walking down towards the open ruins the Vampires present bowed to the pair as they walked into the only solid building which was a small church, the two stopped and looked at the lone statue which was in a kneeling position facing them with a long black spear stuck in the ground next to it.
"Can't you just feel the power radiating from it," the Queen asked as the King nodded slowly as he gained more and more confidence.
"Indeed to think a being such as this one still exists is simply unfathomable, a relic of the old times when neither Gods nor Devils reigned. A being who served those who came before to the very end and fought a crusade against the Gods most fearsome creations."
"And it's all ours," the Queen said as the King nodded with a grin.
"Indeed and soon it shall pave the way for our rightful rule over this world, the age of dark is come!"
The King and Queen left the church with the lone statue's eyes being shrouded by a strange black mist for a moment before it faded away.
Hope you all enjoyed and I'll see you in the next one!