Pain consumed his body, as he lied flat on the cold hard floor.
Edgar Langford pirate captain of the Deadhawk, a powerful thirty gun brig with concrete armor.
However on this night Edgar found himself in a situation that his ship could not rescue him from. During a powerful storm off the coast of the island of Meirestine, Edgar was thrown overboard, he was forcefully dragged under the raging waves shortly before passing out. When he awoke he was on the coast of Meirestine. He ran for the nearest building which just happened to be Castle Evernight. Little did he know the terror that awaited him behind the dark walls of the castle.
Edgar looked up to see Scarlett the Vampire standing above him. Scarlett, a beautiful young woman, with dark red hair, a black cloak, and heeled boots.
Scarlett looked down on Edgar with pity in her heart.
Oh you poor thing she thought to herself
"Get up you worthless mortal!" Shouted Count Daedun. Edgar, who had just been stabbed by Daedun, was riving on the floor in agony. Blood slowly flowed from his wound.
Beside Count Daedun were his two other vampiresses, Violet and Jade
Violet had long straight black hair, white skin, and light purple lipstick on her lips,
Jade had long curly black hair, white skin, and light green lipstick.
Both the women laughed at Edgar as he suffered on the ground.
Scarlett reached down to grab Edgar, and that's when the count smacked her hand away in vicious fury.
"Don't help him out!" The count yelled
"But Sir, if we let him bleed out, he'll die. If he dies then he won't be able to be our slave." Scarlett pleaded, in an attempt to save Edgar's life.
"I'll allow it, tend to the wounds of this puny life form. Me, Violet, and Jade will be in bed. You're free to join us if you please." Count Daednu said
Scarlett picked up Edgar.
"Ah!" He screamed as she got him up
"Ah, they're so cute when they're hurt." Jade said
"All that delicious blood gone to waste. Such a pity" Violet said
Edgar looked back at the three staring daggers at them. Count Daednu looked right back at him, with a stare that would make even the hardest man shake, behind him Jade and Violet, licked their lips.
Scarlett shuttled Edgar upstairs to his room, once they got to his room at the top of the castle tower, she slipped him down on the bed in the middle of the room. Edgar held his side still in intense pain.
"I don't know how much longer I'm going to last." Edgar said as he looked out of the castle bay window, the window overlooked the Ocean where the Full moon shined down its white light, ricocheting off the waves and lighting up the dark room.
"Hang on I got it." Scarlett said as she looked through the drawer in search of a healing orb.
"I know I had it around here somewhere." She said in frustration.
"Ah here it is." She announced once she finally found it. She ran over to Edgar and pressed the magical green glowing orb on his wound. Within a matter of seconds his wound had ceased to pour blood, and had completed healed, leaving a harmless scar.
"Bless you." Edgar said
Scarlett slapped him across the face
"Don't ever say that to me." She replied
"Sorry." Edgar sighed
Scarlett then sat beside Edgar on the bed. Both enjoying the beautiful view from the window.
"Sometimes I wonder what it's like out there. Out in the world." Scarlett said
"You've never been?" Edgar asked
"I was born in the nearby village to a lady out of wedlock. My father's mother was a witch so she cursed me to be a vampire, while I was still in the womb. My mother dropped me off here, to be raised by the Count, because I couldn't face the sun."
"You've never seen the sun?"
"No, what's it like out there, is it always sunny, like it's always night in this castle?"
"No it's only sunny for a few hours a day. Judge by that clock over there. It's sunset right night in the rest of Oceanlandia."
"Can you tell me about the rest of the world? What was it like? What other types of magic did they have out there?"
"I've been to every island in Oceanlandia, I've met Bloodthirsty pirates, encountered powerful magicians, some benevolent, some malicious, I've come across the most beautiful of women, the ugliest of monsters."
"What about magic?"
"I was always more interested in science than magic. I liked studying corpses, and experimenting with anatomy. Stuff like that."
"So you never used magic?"
"I used magic sometimes, mostly just healing orbs. I was the lone doctor and dentist on pirate island. I mostly used my own methods to heal people. Mostly scurvy, gum disease and STDs."
"STDs?"
"Nevermind."
Edgar sighed
"Howing have I been here?" He asked
"Nearly two months." Scarlett answered
Edgar layed back on the bed looking up at the ceiling.
"Hopefully I die soon, because I can't take it here anymore." He said
He then got up and began to pace around the room.
"There's got to be a way out, there's got to be a way back to Derzy, there's got to be a way back to my patients, there's got to be a way back to my ship, there's got to be a way back to my Ava." He said as the realization hit him that he'd never see his wife again.
Edgar just stared out of the window silently, reminiscing about his wife.
"Was she your wife? This Ava woman?" Scarlett asked
"Yes, yes she was?" Edgar said in a melancholy tone.
And as if it was a sign from the Gods, Edgar saw a ship, far off in the distance just in eyesight.
"I see a ship." He shouted in joy
He went over to the telescope in the corner of the room and dragged it over to the window.
Scarlett didn't fully understand what he was doing, yet she was intrigued so she sat quietly
Edgar put the telescope against the window and then proceeded to look out of it.
Far off riding the waves was a mid sized Fuste, A Fuste was a small ship powered by oars and a sail.
"A Fuste, I'm saved!" Edgar shouted
"Fuste?" Scarlett questioned
"It's a small ship, powered by oars and sails, it's used to keep a low profile." Edgar answered in glee
"Now is my chance. I can get out of here. If only there was a way for me to get its attention." Edgar pondered
"If you go to the roof you can fire the cannon, and alert the ship." Scarlett told him
"Good, now that I have a way out I can finally go through with my escape plan."
"Escape plan."
Edgar reached into his drawer and pulled out a piece of wood that he had sharpened into a stake.
"The first day I arrived I found a piece of wood and sharpened it into this stake. I was planning to kill all of you, but after getting to know you, I no longer plan on killing you."
Edgar takes the stake and begins to walk out of the room.
"Stay here." He said in an attempt to save her. In the two months he had stayed there he had grown close to Scarlett.
"I'm not staying here." She retorted
"Why not, I don't want you to get hurt."
"Why not I can handle myself."
"Because I can take you getting hurt."
"I can't take you getting hurt. You're the mortal one, I'm the one with vampire powers. Let me go with you."
"Go fight with me or?"
"When you leave, you'll leave me here by myself. I relate to you more than I relate to those vampresses in the rooms below."
"You'll die if you come with me."
"Not if I stay out of the sun. Let me go with you."
Edgar just looks at her before nodding his head in agreement.
"Grab a stake." He said
Scarlett grabbed the spare stake Edgar had, and they both trodded out of the room in an attempt to make it to the roof.
"The cannon on the roof isn't loaded. We'll have to get some ammo for it from the armory." Scarlett said.
The duo silently yet swiftly traversed through the dark hallways of the castle. Both closely walked together until they made it to the armory door.
Edgar giggled the knob only to find it was locked.
"Dammit. We don't have time for this. Can you blow it down." Edgar asked
"And risk detection? No." Scarlett answered "I know where the key is. I'll be right back."
Scarlett walked off leaving Edgar all by his lonesome in the hallway.
Edgar turned around with his back to the door, and sighed. Just from the corner of his eye he noticed something moving, someone moving. It was Violet, and she had a hungry look on her face and she slowly walked towards him.
"What are you doing out here?" She asked menacingly
"Nothing." Edgar replied back, as he was sweating bullets
"Come here."
"No."
"I said come here!"
Violet rushed him and Edgar pulled out his stake. Violet easily overpowered him, and began to bit down on his neck,
"Ah!" He screamed
Just then Scarlett came down to see Violet on Edgar.
Before she could do anything, Edgar took his stake and violently jabbed it into Violet's side.
"Ah! You mortal scum!" She shouted.
Edgar then punched her, throwing her to the floor.
"Open the door!" Edgar shouted
"Okay." Scarlett replied
Scarlett opened the door to the armor, but by that time all the commotion had brung out Jade and Count Daednu.
Violet ascended from the ground and said
"She's in cahoots with the mortal. They're trying to escape."
"Foolish girl! You can't survive out in the world. Kill the mortal and punish the girl." The count demanded
Edgar grabbed a bomb and a blunderbuss, while Scarlett grabbed a cannonball
Both of them rushed away as the three vampires took pursuit. The vampires eventually catch them and then the brawl begins. Both Jade and Violet encircle Edgar, while the Count tightly squeezed Scarletts neck, he slams Scarlett against the wall.
Meanwhile Edgar's neck is being punctured by the fangs of the Vampire ladies.
"Please, I just want to get back to my wife." Edgar pleads
"You have a wife?" Jade asked
"Wonder how tasty she'll be?" Violet mocked
Edgar in a last ditch effort to save his life, he dropped the bomb. The bomb then rolled a few feet before exploding. Sending a tiny shockwave knocking everyone to the floor and a tiny red hot shrapnel piercing the bodies of Daednu and the two vampiresses.
Edgar quickly rose to his feet, and immediately drove his stake through Jade's heart.
Blood flows up from Jade's mouth and pours out onto the floor. In a fit of rage Edgar violently kicks Jade in the head several times, Jade doesn't move after those few hard blows to the head, she just keeps the same thousand yard stare.
Edgar knows she's dead by then and immediately grabbed Scarlett and they continued to the roof.
While the Count was a bit older and frail he couldn't get up right away, but Violet could and she was out for revenge.
She wanted to kill both of them now to avenge Jade.
Violet turned to a bat and began to chase them at a high rate of speed.
As they made it to the ladder to the rooftop Violet transformed into her vampire form, she tried to attack Edgar but Scarlett shielded him.
"You little mortal loving harlot! Move out of my way." Violet said
"If you want him you'll have to go through me." Scarlett replied
"Prepare to die then."
Edgar quickly scurried up the ladder and ontl the roof, where he saw a large cannon, he looked out over the side of the castle to see if the ship was still there. Sure enough the little ship was even closer, sailing towards the coast.
Edgar then tried to load the cannon all while ignoring the Blood curdling screaming coming from below.
Gods please don't let that be Scarlett He thought to himself
The wild screaming then went completely silent. As Edgar went to light the wicker he saw Scarlett climb up the ladder. He looked at Scarlett for a little while.
Scarlett was completely covered in blood and she looked straight forward with a thousand yard stare slightly trembling.
Edgar looked at the stake in her blood soaked hand and saw that it was completely covered in blood with an eyeball and socket stuck on the end.
Edgar can clearly see she's traumatised and his heart falls into his stomach as he feels that he's subjected her to this type of violence.
"Don't worry it's almost over." Edgar said in a comforting voice.
Edgar lit the candle wicker just as Count Daednu soared up onto the roof, the wind was powerful enough to blow the wicker out.
"You two!" The count said
The count then swooped down onto Edgar and flew over the edge of the castle dropping him into the treacherous waters below.
Dammit! I was so close! So close to Ava again! Edgar thought to himself as he plummeted toward the water.
Miraculously just before he hit the rocks his body jerked up, and before he knew it he was in a telekinetic bubble.
The bubble then ferried him back up to the roof.
"What was that." He mustered up with the few breathes he could manage.
"I've been learning telekinesis." Scarlett replied.
The count enraged soars down at Scarlett. Scarlett however is too quick for the old vampire and stabs him in the scalp with it. The count goes flying to the ground and skipping like a rock on water smashing into the stone over and over again.
Edgar then ran up and stabbed the Count in the thigh with the stake, Scarlett made her way over there and they both began to viciously and violently stab Daednu all over his frail old body. Steamy hot gooey red blood came flying at of his body like water from a faucet.
The old vampire died with dignity, throwing his Cape over his face to shield himself from some of the blows. Both Edgar and Scarlett's stake simultaneously met dead center in the middle of Daednu's heart. His reign of terror was finally over.
Edgar went and relit the wicker, the cannon fired alerting the ship.
Sometime later the ship docked on the shore where Edgar and Scarlett both met the crew.
"Edgar? Edgar is that you." A feminine voice asked
Edgar turned to see a familiar face in captain Bonnie Smire, a fellow pirate.
"Bonnie, oh thank the Gods Bonnie." Edgar hugged her with tears running down his eyes.
"I can't believe you're alive." Bonnie said
"I can't either and it's all thanks to her." Edgar replied as he pointed to Scarlett
Scarlett just waved at Captain Bonnie
"What is this, your little girlfriend? Doubt Ava would like that." Bonnie said
"Just get us back to Derzy. I'll tell you the whole story on the way back."
The next night Edgar and Scarlett finally arrive on Derzy Beach.
They arrive amongst a crowd of pirates partying, drinking and whoring the usual of what pirates do.
Immediately after jumping off the ship Edgar is swarmed by pirates and prostitutes alike.
"Hey the doctors back!" One shouted
"The toothman is finally back." A pirate with zero teeth said.
Beside him Scarlett whispered
"You're pretty popular here."
Then Edgar's wife Ava came through the crowd and gave him a big bear hug, she could hardly contain her emotions.
"Oh Edgar I thought I'd lost you." She cried "Whose this?" She then asked
"That's Scarlett, she's the reason I'm alive right now."
"Thank you" Ava said to Scarlett
"You're welcome." Scarlett replied
"Well Edgar, Scarlett there's a lot to drink, you two want to come and party the night away." Ava asked
"I'd like nothing more." Edgar replied
While Scarlett nodded her head in his motion.