The great impaler and his right hand man stepped out of the battlement, after their midnight training.
"Ian," Zander called.
"Yes, my lord" Ian answered.
"Have you eaten today?" Zander suddenly asked.
"No...i don't think so" Ian said, thinking hard, he can't actually recall eating today.
"That shouldn't be. I need you to eat and rest, now" Zander told him.
"My lord, that's not..."
"That's an order" the lord impaler added, he knew just how stubborn his right hand was.
Ian bowed, "Of course" he said and left the turret.
Zander exhaled deeply as he looked up at the dark sky. The twilight was indeed beautiful, he was told that he was born during the day of twilight - so somehow he felt a connection with it, that he couldn't yet explain.
Distant voices cut through his hazy thoughts. He turned towards the direction of the sound. Only to see...wait was that his brothers? Why were they running so fast? And what were they running from, because he couldn't see anything behind them. Zander was aware that this was not a game, because if it was then Ivo would not have been amongst them.
"Run!" he heard Theo yell in a loud voice.
"What?" Zander asked in a whisper, confused.
"Just run" Damien said as he dragged him along. The lord impaler felt the same rush. And as he took a peek behind him, he saw somewhat of a hideous being, that was floating in the air - it was really fast, thereby giving them a hot chase.
"This way" Kal directed, as they all without delay rushed behind a certain defensive structure and hid there.
Kal made a sign, for them not to speak at all, or even make a single sound, and they all obliged - keeping absolutely quiet.
Damien could feel the Malvarik, at the other side of the defensive structure that they hid behind. The death being wasn't moving an inch, because there wasn't a single sound that it could follow.
But suddenly in the quiet night, the brothers heard someone moaning loudly. They looked at each other, before they turned their heads to the direction of the sound.
Just a few paces away, they was a certain god and goddess fucking on the bare grassy ground. Their moans increased and the Malvarik started to walk towards them.
"Go," Kal whispered to his brothers, this was there chance to leave unnoticed. There was nothing they can do for the copulating god and goddess - as a matter of fact they were the perfect distraction. As the Malvarik fed on them, the brothers sneakily left.
They finally arrived at the spot, that Kal wanted - the open and vast field.
"I am not cut out for this nonsense" Ivo said with anger.
"Relax Ivo, no one here is" Raphael pointed out.
"Relax? If that thing comes here again, am going to snap it's head" Ivo said.
Raphael snorted, "You really need to calm down"
Ivo glared at him, "You will do well not to speak back at me, Raphael"
"Or else what?" Raphael asked
"Raf, don't" Theo cautioned. Ivo was trouble...especially this night, that his power is at it's peek.
"We don't have time for this, you two" Kal said eyeing the both of them.
"I have a plan." Kal informed, "The only way the Malvarik can be destroyed, is through the use of fire and blood"
"The glyph of fire and blood?" Zander asked.
"Yes," Kal answered. The glyph of fire and blood is a death symbol usually drawn, and with the combination of fire and blood inside the symbol - it can annihilate any spirit being. But it was only the witchers that knew the symbol, but because Kal has read a lot of books he had an idea of how the symbol is.
"Wait...are you sure you know the symbols?" Raf asked.
"I can try" Kal said.
"Try?" Ivo repeated.
"What other choice do we have" Kal said.
"What will happen if you misplace the symbols?" Theo asked.
"We'll all be dead" he answered.
"Great" Theo sarcastically said.
"But first, Zander I need you to distract it" Kal said. "Buy us some time, anyway you can. But do not die" he added.
"Noted," Zander said with a nod, as he went back to the Malvarik's direction.
"And Ivo, I need you to make a very big fire, more like a blaze"
"Do I look incapable to you?" Ivo asked him
"No, just get ready" Kal said, then he turned to Raphael and Theo.
"I need blood" he told them, "Yours, actually" he added.
"I hate this night" Raphael remarked.
Without wasting much time, Kal immediately started to draw the symbols on the sand ground.
"Are you sure this is it?" Damian asked over his shoulder.
"I have faith" Kal told him, before he turned to Raf and Theo whom have already slit their wrist. They bent they bleeding wrists down at the drawn symbol. Their blood streamed along the lines of the symbols.
"Kal, if this doesn't work -" Raphael's words were cut off when suddenly Zander trashed to a near by brick wall.
"I'm afraid, out time is up" the lord impaler said as the Malvarik started to approach them.
Their blood was already done circling the symbols, so it was now time for the fire.
Ivo took a step in front of the drawn symbol, facing the approaching 'death'.
The Malvarik stepped into the blood glyph, standing face to face with the god of fire.
The Malvarik roared in his face. Ivo smirked and said, "You have bad breath"
The next thing that was seen was a blaze of fire. Inside the fierce fire no one could really tell what was happening, but after some seconds, the fire extinguished into a hurl of smoke, and Malvarik melted into the ground.
The god of fire came out unburnt.
Raphael and Theo were staggering as their stood, they have lost much blood.
"It worked" Theo said. "I feel sick" he added before he and Raphael dropped on the ground.
"They will be fine" Kal said.