Chapter 1495 Blood Temple
I don't own Bleach or any of the powers and gear used in this story.
Draco was back at Noctorna as he and the girls were able to get the place fixed, the group was happy to have it back to normal.
"Well it's back to normal." Mila said.
"Yes, thanks to a little white lie." Draco said.
"Thank you so much Draco." Amber said.
"Hey, would I let you down." He smiles.
Amber smiles at his words. They went inside to check on the state and it was better than before.
Lucille was looking around and she saw Draco. "You did so much."
"Well it's what friends are for. Also i'll be going out with Mila to do some contracts, since there could be something important." He said.
She nodded. "Stay safe."
He and Mila went to the pub and found many request there.
"Well let's take a few and deal with them." Mila said.
"Alright, let's go." Draco said.
He saw one about a church from the other side, but theres one that got his interest, a girl at Abelleth Village was asking for someone to kill her.
"Now that's strange." Mila said.
"Let's go to that village and check." Draco said.
She nodded and they went out, the two headed towards Abelleth Village, once they arrived he looks around for anything.
"The one that sent the request said to meet her in the graveyard." Mila said.
"Well let's go there." Draco goes towards that direction.
They looked around and didn't see anybody.
"No one is here that fits the decription of our client." Mila said.
Draco sees a old woman. "Excuse me, did you see young lady around here?"
"Oh, she was taken to the temple." She said.
"Oh no, we're too late." Mila got surprised.
"We must find more clues." Draco said.
The two went to the Village Elder's Office and they heard a sound. "This is ridiculous!"
A woman with long red hair runs out and bumps into them. She's wearing a brown top and green skirt.
"Oh sorry." She said.
"It's okay. But what's going on?" Mila said.
"I was questioning the elder about this sacrifices, they're barbaric." She said.
"You know our client? She sent a request to kill her. I'm Mila and that's Draco." Mila said.
"Alexa, yes my name is Astoria, I want to save her. Many years the village send a woman to the temple as a sacrifice for a vampire. But they're all being tricked and I know it. You gotta help me save her, the temple is inside the rotten grove." Astoria said.
"Then we'll need to enter that temple, but it could be hard without the key." Draco said.
"Don't worry. I swiped it from the elder." She whispers.
"What?" Mila said but Draco covers her mouth.
"I see, well we'll be there." Draco said.
"Right." Astoria runs off.
"Astoria wait!" He calls out but she went off.
"Why does she have to leave." Mila frowns.
"It's too dangerous. The grove it self as monsters and she's heading into enemy territory. We must go there before she gets herself hurt." He said.
She nodded and they went towards the grove. After arriving they saw it was with fog with some ghouls wandering around.
"This is what I was worried about." Draco said.
"We better hurry." Mila said.
They went forward, some ghouls came but they took them down with a few hamon strikes.
"Even with numbers a good strike of Hamon cane destroy them." Draco slashes one turning it into dust.
"Yeah, good thing I learned a lot." Her whip was covered in hamon as she hits many of the ghouls.
Some came but the Pillar Women passed by destroying some of them back.
"These ghouls are no fun." Londie said.
"But we gotta give them a little breather." Qree said.
"Yup." Ramone said.
The duo arrived at the blood temple and were at the entrance.
"Where is she?" Mila said.
Draco saw the stone tablet that is supposed to open the door on the ground. "The tablet, this is the key."
"But why is it here?" Mila said.
"I'm afraid to know." He said.
Draco takes it and uses it to open the entrance, they went down to a underground lair before arriving to a fancy area.
"So this is the place they sent the girls?" Mila said.
"Using this place to trick with luxury, only for them to suffer." Draco said.
The went to a hallway and saw a pool with a waterfall coming down in one.
"So they take a bath here." She said.
Another one had a different pool with a strange purple liquid, she goes to check but he grabs her shoulder. "Hold it."
"What?" She said.
"I've read about this, that liquid can turn someone into a vampire if they go inside, it's the same getting bitten only faster." He said.
"Is this for a choice?" She got shocked.
"Whatever it is, don't go there." He said.
Someone came from behind and to they're shock it's Astoria and she became a vampire.
"Welcome you two." She said.
"Astoria." Mila said.
"You became a vampire too!" Draco said.
"It's so nice being one, now I can be with Alexa forever." She smiles. "Maybe you two would like to join?"
"Your not in control anymore." Draco said.
"That's right, we won't be turned." Mila said.
She frowns. "Then i'll just have to do it by force."
She charges at them and they avoided her, they attacked with a few strikes, she grunted before Draco strikes her many times sending her back.
"She's still too weak." He said.
"Next time." She vanishes.
"She ran away." Mila said.
"She's still too young in being turned, we must find where they went." He said.
The two went around and he managed to find a torch inside a chest. "This should help."
They heard a click and headed towards a dining room to see a staircase opened.
"They went down, follow her." He said.
They went down and he uses the torch to light up the way, they continued and saw a maze.
"A maze, just great." Mila said.
They went around and looked for where they could be, the first room they found was one with a gate, passed that was many switches with a purple chest.
"Hey that's what I was looking for." Mila goes forward.
"That thing?" he said.
"Yes, theres been these cursed items a guy said. I only managed to find two pieces." She goes to the chest.
"Wait this is a trap!" He goes forward to stop her.
She opens it getting a purple corset, but then the gates closed as gas starts to fill the room.
"Vampiric gas." Draco covers his face with Mila doing the same.
He looks around and he presses two switches closing the gas as the hate opened.
"How did you know that?" She said.
"I saw a clue back up in one of the rooms. You can't take the things without a catch." He said.
"Sorry." She said. "But this corset once belonged to a vampire."
He understood but these things cannot be used by humans. If the only person that found them were other vampires.
"Well let's go back and look for them." He said.
The two went back to the maze and wandered around the place, trying to look for another entrance.
They arrived at room filled with coffins and saw Astoria there with a girl with a white shirt and long brown hair next to her.
"Looks like they came Alexa." Astoria said.
"Yes so good that you came." Alexa said.
"Your the one that hired us then." Draco said.
"Yes, but now I like being a vampire now that Tori is with me." She chuckles.
"Why don't you join us, become one of us." Astoria said.
Mila got surprised. "What?"
"Oh, she reacted, maybe you have fantasies, maybe you'll love your boyfriend even more if he became one too." Alexa said.
Draco narrows his eyes. 'If only they knew.'
"Your kidding me! I won't become one of you!" She said.
"You won't have much of a choice." Alexa said as they got ready.
Draco and Mila were ready to fight, he didn't want to do it, but he had no choice. They attacked them as Astoria fights Mila with Draco fighting Alexa, she was stronger but not by much compared to Astoria.
The two vampires claw at them as they were trying to slash at the warriors, they lunged forward with they're fangs, Mila uses her cross spell hitting them multiple times before Draco swings his leg.
"Overdrive!" he hits them both as they screamed.
"Alexa!" Astoria screams before turning into dust.
"Tori!" Alexa said.
She grunts in pain and Mila looks at her. "It's done."
"Looks like you did what I wanted. I thought if I saw Astoria again and she became a vampire we could be together in life, but this is not living. It's wrong..." Alexa cries.
Draco kneels down and holds her. "You really cared for her."
"Yes, I wanted to stay with her, I actually had planned to marry Astoria, I had a ring ready back home, but now... I'll be with her in dead." She cries before she turned into dust.
The two stared at the scene as there was a silence, Draco eyes were covered in shadow as he saw two lovers being torn appart and die together because of not only the village but also that vampire.
"This ends now." He stands back up.
They went up and arrived at a graveyard that's inside underground but it looks like outside. Mila was confused but they went forward.
They saw a stone tablet and Draco destroys it revealing a hole inside, he jumps down with Mila.
Theres a coffin up a staircase in the room they arrived, it opens a a woman with red hair wearing a red dress came out. Her name is Victoria.
"Oh two more sacrifices have come, and a man. I always wanted one but they always send girls." She said.
"We're not your sacrifices, in fact we're the ones that took care of the other two." Mila said.
"How dare you?! They were mine!" Victoria said.
"They were never yours, this facade of you using them and having the village just send innocent people!" Draco said.
Back at where they entered theres many graves for each of the people that died there.
"I give them protection from the grove, and they give me those women. But i'll have to take you both instead." She gets ready.
Victor uses buffs to make herself stronger and attacks them as the two got hit back, then she moves around and Draco sees her using more buffs.
'So that's her deal, she buffs herself to become stronger.' He thinks.
She sends a swarm of bats attacking them as they grunted.
"Ha! How does it feel, once you join, you'll be able to see more coming." She said.
Draco got mad and he shouts, he transforms becoming Ghost Rider burning the bats.
Mila got shocked and Victoria got scared gasping. "Y...Y-Your..." She points at him.
He looks at her and growls, "You... Guilty!"
Victoria screams and runs away to the hole, Ghost rider takes out his chain and swings it grabbing her as she screams.
"Help me!" She screams.
She turns int stone looking up before he breaks it wrapping his chain around himself, then he summons his bike and rides off with Mila coming out.
"He's going back." She said.
At the village
The elder was at his office. "The nerve of that woman. This is for the good of our village."
He heard a sound and he looks back only for a hand to come out of the window grabbing him, he got dragged out and he saw Ghost Rider staring at him.
He screams in fear seeing him. "What are you?!"
"Look into my eyes! Your soul is stained by the blood of the innocent, feel they're pain." He said.
He screams as he saw all the girls he sent for sacrifices as they suffered there becoming vampires and others dying, his soul was destroyed before he got dropped down.
Many came and they saw Ghost Rider scaring them, he looks. "Listen well. Your so called Guardian is dead, if I hear you do this again, I will come back!"
They all nodded and understood, if he can kill the guardian that means he's power, he rides off on his bike as they saw a demon that day.
He changes back near as Mila came up to him. "Your the Ghost Rider?!"
"Yes, it's something I found, I didn't need to use it, but the anger I felt seeing those two die I couldn't stand it." He said.
She frowns and takes out a key. "This belonged to her."
He looks and takes it, they went to Alexa's house and entered, they saw she was preparing her day and wasn't expecting to die. He saw her diary and it says how she was really wanted to marry Astoria.
He finds two rings and stares at them, he takes them both and goes outside. Mila saw him make two graves outside of the village near the ocean.
Draco gave his respect to the two women, Mila did the same and smiles that he would do it to two strangers they just met, but he's a kind man because of it.
Astoria and Alexa can at least hope they can find happiness in the afterlife, but Draco wants them to live, so maybe he can try the Dragon Balls, just to see if he can do it.
'I hope you can both be happy.' He looks at the two rings in his hand as it represented the two women that died.
Note: Draco got to transform into Ghost Rider again, not because the vampire was powerful but because he was mad, Astoria and Alexa are two he wished he can save.