[... A dayroom in the Phoenix residence ...]
Christopher was sitting on the couch as the entire dayroom was hidden in the darkness.
If you stand in the doorway, you will only see two blood-red reptilian-like eyes watching your every move, two pairs of purple glowing eyes looking around, and a purple glowing mark.
And that's what Anna is seeing right now.
She came down from the second floor a few minutes ago, but when she took a step into the darkness, she heard a dragon roar that ended when she took a step back.
Looking with disbelief, she ran into the second floor again and opened the door to Lorie's bedroom.
She was lying on her bed with a murderous expression.
"Lorie?! Come here, I need to show you something. NOW!" said Anna, waiting for Lorie to stand up and walk with her to the stairs.
When they came in front of the dayroom, they saw only the glowing mark and two pairs of purple glowing eyes with some distance between the pairs while everything was hidden in the pitch black darkness that ended at the doorway like a barrier, protecting everyone inside.
The purple eyes looked at the doorway and then at Christopher as he opened his blood-red reptilian-like eyes and Lorie's body shook with fear.
But suddenly "Darling~ don't scare our maids please," said Rose and, after a few seconds, the darkness that was covering the entire room, slowly started coming back into Christopher's body.
When the darkness disappeared, Lorie and Anna saw Christopher, sitting on the couch, while Rose and Vicki were sitting on each side of the couch and Claudia was sitting on his lap, pressing her back against his chest while he was drinking her blood from the right side of her neck.
On each of the two armrests of the couch was one of Christopher's snake head tentacles and Rose with Vicki were slowly and gently petting them with their fingers as the tentacles were silently watching the maids.
Behind the couch were resting Christopher's two big and black, bat wings that were easily reaching each end of the couch while his left hand which was placed on Rose's juicy thigh, gently squeezing it, had on itself a strangely shaped rune that was glowing purple.
His right hand was placed on Claudia's belly, gently touching it.
All four of them were looking at Lorie and Anna with emotionless faces, waiting for them to speak up while their eyes were still fully black with crimson-red reptilian-like irises.
"L-Lord Salvatore, d-do you still want to go out on your walk?" asked Lorie as he nodded and stopped drinking Claudia's blood which little annoyed her.
He then stood up with Claudia, carrying her like a princess.
Turning around as his tentacles and wings disappeared, he placed her on the couch, between Vicki and Rose.
"Don't be away too long darling~?" said Vicki with her eyes glowing and Christopher smiled.
"Don't worry my beloved wives, I won't" he said, kissed all three of them, and walked away with Lorie like a happy husband.
When they left, Anna finally spoke "Lady Vicki, are you all right? What was that darkness?" but then she saw the changes that started taking place in Vicki's eyes.
Her eyes were like before but only her irises were still in reptilian shape and she was not the only one.
Rose, Claudia, and Christopher have the same shaped irises as well.
Vicki smiled at Anna and answered "Yes, we are and that's our husband's power. He used it because we wanted to be alone. What, something happened?"
Anna shook her head and said "No, nothing" but then Marcus in his red suit appeared, saying "Lady Rose, I met your mother, Countess Elizabeth in front of the destroyed residence of your clan and I let her know that you are here"
Rose smiled and said "Ohhh my mother is coming, thank you Marcus" in an excited tone, later adding "I should change, my dress is a little *Ahm destroyed."
Vicki and Claudia nodded, stood up, and walked with Rose to their bedrooms because their dresses were destroyed as well.
In front of Rose's bedroom, Claudia remembered something, saying "And darling?"
Vicki added "I already have something for him" as they walked to their rooms.
[... The kitchen in the Phoenix residence ...]
Anna and Marcus were sitting around the table while drinking from blood bags and chatting.
"Did you see their eyes too?" asked Anna and Marcus replied "Yes, but I never saw something like that. What happened at the time when I was away?"
Anna then talked about Vicki and Christopher, what happened in the past and the events in the Atlas club.
"And that's it, that's all I know" added Anna while Marcus opened his second blood bag and put his hand on his brow, slowly absorbing everything into his mind.
"I never heard about Lady Vicki and the other heiresses being kidnapped," he said as Anna continued "That's because Countess Isobel said it's a secret."
"What secret?" was suddenly heard from the doorway.
"!!!" Anna and Marcus slowly turned in the direction of the voice with horrified expressions and gulped.
...
In the meantime, Christopher and Lorie were walking and chatting, while they were enjoying the fresh air and the trees and flowers around them.
Stars and the moon in the sky were bright, lighting their way as small fireflies were flying around them.
"I-It's beautiful," said Lorie as her gaze fell on Christopher's face.
He smiled and said, "Don't look at me, but at the beauty around."
As Christopher said that, Lorie's eyes started watching the dark but somewhat beautiful forest.
Suddenly a famous song was heard, so Christopher took out his phone and answered the call "Hello?"
"Hi darling, it's me, Rose. I'm sorry to disturb you, my mother is coming here" heard Christopher as his heartbeat started slowly increasing, and his mind was in chaos.
'It's too soon' he thought but then, he shook his head thinking 'What am I doing, and why I'm so scared? It doesn't matter if it happens now or in a few months. It had to come eventually and... I think I'm ready...'
'Or maybe not?'
"Darling? Are you there?" asked Rose as I said "Yeah honey, I'm here and... I would like to meet your mother" and she said "Okay darling, so please, don't be away too long... I'm starting to get hungry again~" ending with a playful voice as my eyes glowed crimson red for a few seconds when I heard that.
"Okay honey, bye," I said as the call ended and my gaze turned back to 'normal' with only a red-reptilian-like iris.
["Well, we are going to meet your mother-in-law, interesting hehe"] I heard as a weird-looking light in the distance piqued my interest.
'Yes, actually I was afraid when I heard that but now... I feel quite existed.' I said with my inner voice as the light in the distance slowly started coming closer, towards me.
"Master? I don't like this" said Lorie as she prepared herself to fight.
It was well known that in the night, vampires are not the only 'monsters' out...
"What is that?" I asked for myself and after a few seconds, a red Ferrari flew towards me so in the blink of an eye, I picked up Lorie into a princess caress and teleported myself a few meters away as the Ferrari crashed into the nearby trees.
["Ughh, it was just a car"] said Ardelean somewhat disappointed as I changed my vision and looked at it, seeing a black silhouette with a red aura, hearing "MASTEEER!!!" as Lorie jumped from my arms and ran to the crashed car.
I started running after her, hearing ["Ohh shoot! Christopher, that's, that's Elizabeth Báthory. Your mother-in-law"] and then-
*BOOOOOOOM
-as a big light pillar appeared on the nearby field, falling from the sky.
The pressure wave threw me and Lorie a few steps away as the fire that started covering the red Ferrari died from the burst of wind.
After a few seconds, four men came from that light pillar as it disappeared, letting a magic symbol crave on the grass.
"In the name of the God, surrender and leave-" "-Or die with that Crimson beast," said the two in the middle as a sword and flail appeared in their hands and they positioned themselves to fight against me.
"Lorie, take Elizabeth to my wives, and don't stop until you are there you understand" said Christopher, later adding "I'll buy you some time, now run. GO!" as Lorie pulled out and picked up Elizabeth like a princess and started running back, towards the Phoenix mansion.
["Oh fuck, I don't like this Christopher. We should leave, they are too strong for us right now"] said Ardelean in a somewhat nervous tone.
'So what, Elizabeth is now my family, and even when I don't know her, she is Rose's mother and I'm not letting this piece of shit kill her or something.'
'You said it yourself. I will never back off from a challenge' I answered with my inner voice.
["Fine then, what's the plan"] he asked as I replied 'Buy Lorie as much time as we could', hearing ["You know that you are the craziest host I ever had?"]
'Heh, of course, I answered, looking at the four men wearing white priest's uniforms ready to fight as my two beautifully engraved pistols appeared in my hands, adding 'Hmm but let's see how much crazier I can be'
And while Christopher and Ardelean were getting ready to fight, Lorie was running to the Phoenix mansion as fast as she could, suddenly hearing five- *BOOOOOOOOM *BOOOOOOOOM *BOOOOOOOOM *BOOOOOOOOM *BOOOOOOOOM!!!
-loud explosions.
Turning around and looking at the light show a few kilometers away, she thought 'Oh Master', feeling a slight movement on her arms so she looked down and saw Elizabeth moving a little, saying "R-Rose, I-I'm sorry" before she fell unconscious again.
'No stop, I need to trust my master. He's trusting me and buying me time. And I can't let my darling down' thought Lorie as she turned and started running even faster than before, making numerous sonic booms.
After a few minutes, Lorie arrived at the mansion, screaming "HEEEEELP, SOMEONE PLEASE HEEELP!" as she ran to the dayroom and placed Elizabeth on the couch.
Then Marcus with another maid appeared in the dayroom, asking "What happened Lorie? Why are you yelling for help?!" as his gaze fell on the unconscious Elizabeth.
"MOTHER?!" was heard from the doorway as Rose flew to her mother's side, asking "What happened, where's my husband!!!" as Lorie just looked at the ground and said everything that happened.
But, of course, she didn't say about her little stares at Christopher's face and her small monologues about what she wanted to do with him.
"And that's why Lord Christopher is not here. He bought us time, so I could get here," said Lorie with a sad tone.
'Typicall darling...' thought Rose with a worm feeling in her heart.
"WHAT?!" was suddenly heard from the doorway as Vicki, Claudia, and someone else stood there.
On Vicki's right was trembling Claudia, thinking about the worst endings.
The guys who were after Elizabeth were the most dangerous men in the Second Inquisition after all, right after their Pope.
While on Vicki's left stood Countess Isobel Phoenix, Vicki's mother and the head of the Phoenix family.
She was 190cm tall, mature curvy body like Elizabeth but she have a little smaller ass than her, beautiful G-cups hidden under a purple and little tight long dress with an opening on the left side of her thigh, leading down to her foot.
Her eyes were blood red, looking at Elizabeth with little concern.
Vicki slapped Claudia's head, saying "You don't trust our husband?" as a look of disbelief appeared on her face.
"Ahhhh, I know our husband is strong but still, they are the four riders of Justice. Even our parents have problems handling them" answered Claudia as she held her head.
"But that doesn't mean, you should lose your hope that easily. In the fight, a few factors are important and I heard from Anna that he's a little... hmm, extraordinary," said Isobel as her gaze switched between Claudia, Vicki, and Rose.
"SO WHAT? Are you all just going to sit here and wait if he's going to come back or not?!" shouted Isobel as the three sisters looked at her.
They looked at each other and nodded. While Elizabeth was pretty pissed off when she heard about Christopher, Isobel instead, was glad that her daughter found her own darling as she did. And she was not ready to let him lose the fight.
"Anna, take care of Elizabeth," said Isobel as she turned, and walked out, hearing "Mother? Where are you going?"
Turning around, she answered "I want to see my son-in-law in action. And you three are not strong enough to fight even one of the four riders."
"Marcus?" she said, hearing "Yes Countess Isobel" as he walked out of the mansion, and all five of them disappeared, leaving only five clouds of smoke.
Anna, who saw this just said "I'm so jealous of this hateful man!" thinking about what could she do if she could have the same powers as Marcus.
...