Chapter 42 - Widows

After Christopher left the clothes shop, Claudia, Vicki and Rose were pretty sad.

They thought this was going to be their first unofficial date, but Christopher disappointed them a little.

"You think that-" Claudia, who was sitting on a chair, spoke.

"NO!" shouted Vicki, and interrupting her.

"He just went to buy us a present maybe?"

She didn't want to admit or think about Christopher cheating on them, but their yandere minds couldn't stop thinking about that thought.

'Darling, you'd better be not cheating or I'll cut off your balls!' they thought simultaneously but immediately ignored that when an incredible pain filled their hearts.

Sensing this pain in their chests, the feeling of losing someone, the emotions of sudden grief, they looked at each other and screamed with wide eyes, "DARLING!"

"Something must happened!?" Vicki practically screamed; she never thought she would feel this pain in her heart.

The pain of losing someone precious to her, her husband.

When vampires get 'married', their hearts become connected and when this connection is forcefully destroyed, the partner feels incredible pain in his/her heart.

Claudia and Rose, who shared the same expressions and pain as Vicki and knew what it meant, pulled out their phones, opening a GPS tracking app.

Vicki looked at her fellow 'sisters' and realized she wasn't the only one feeling so hurt.

"I found him, he is in a nearby alley. We are going to be there in five minutes."

"..." the girls looked at Rose with visible satisfaction.

"... What?"

"Nothing" the two spoke and started packing their things.

...

[... Báthory residence ...]

Elizabeth was playing with Ivy like any mother would do.

With Christopher's appearance in her life, she somehow began to feel more like a mother and wife than a Countess and general of a big Vampire army.

Sitting on a couch, she was humming a sweet melody with happiness in her eyes.

Everything felt so peaceful for her after yesterday's events.

She felt like she was happily married again like before.

Suddenly, she stood up and walked past Ivy who was playing with dolls on the red carpet.

"Mother, you are beautiful. I think Christopher is going to like your new dress" spoke Ivy.

"Hahahaha, thank you, my dear daughter," replayed Elizabeth and reached towards a chair.

Picking up Christopher's old white suit coat, she sniffed it and hugged it with a loving smile, moving from side to side gently and slowly.

Closing her eyes, she began to daydream about their bright, and happy future when her world suddenly shattered...

Her heart twitched and ached, piercing pain hit her chest, her soul shuddered in grief and her eyes started watering with blood.

"AHhhhhh!" Elizabeth screamed silently, fell to her knees, and clutched her chest after her painful voice escaped from her parted blood-red lips.

"Mom? What happened?" Ivy turned and quickly approached her crying mother.

Elizabeth was breathing heavily, her blood tears wetting the suit coat of her son-in-law as her grip on it tightened.

Wielding her hands, she hid her face in the suit coat while her daughter hugged her crying mother.

Elizabeth knew very well what this pain and feelings meant. After all, she already experienced it one time which brought to her heart even stronger grief, while she was crying silently on the ground of her, now fully frozen mansion...

...

[... Same location and same time, the Garden ...]

Isobel was humming a similar melody to Elizabeth.

Painting a portrait of bloody roses, she felt peaceful too, just like her friend inside.

After yesterday's blood-drinking session, she suddenly returned to her old hobby from her human times this 'morning'.

The slight breeze was playing with her snow-white hair as her hand was moved from side to side, painting the face of her handsome son-in-law enveloped in blood-red roses.

Without a warning, when she was about to put a blood-red color to the last rose on her canvas, a piercing pain like an arrow hit her heart.

The entire portrait collapsed from the stand to the ground, together with the palette, painting the portrait with numerous different colors that started mixing together with her blood and tears.

"A-A-AAAAHHHhhh!" Isobel touched her chest firmly with blood tears falling from her eyes that in a second lost all the happiness.

Breathing heavily, she was on the verge of a mental breakdown when she imagined that something bad happened with the man of her dreams.

But as a wise and experienced woman, she already knows what this feeling means, so she just silently cried in the middle of a burning garden...

...

[... At the same time, the Residence of Clan Dark in Redwilnet, Office room ...]

Celeste was whistling her favorite melody happily in a silent office in her mansion.

Her imagination was running wild the entire 'morning', and she couldn't help, but wonder if Christopher would like the dress she picked for herself for the ball.

Signing the last few documents, she couldn't forget the taste of Christopher's blood sliding down her throat like a life nectar.

His manly touch, his sweet kisses, his tasty lips, his soft skin, she couldn't stop thinking about him.

Signing the last document, she suddenly pierced the pen into the paper, destroying it.

"A-A-AHHHHHhh!" Celeste screamed as a burst of blood tears exploded from her watering eyes.

Claws formed from the nails of her right hand as she scratched the table and after that, her chest.

Crying, she clenched her chest with her right hand, and with the other, she held her mouth while breathing heavily and quickly with wide eyes.

Her blood tears were wetting the documents, mixing with the ink as her bleeding chest raised up and down.

The weather around the mansion was drastic.

Tornados were destroying the mansion's property, while Celeste was silently crying in her office, never thinking that she would feel these feelings ever again...

...

[... Redwilnet streets ...]

One minute later, Rose, Vicki, and Claudia walked from the clothes store and went after their husband's signal as fast as they could.

Passing the busy Vampire citizens with tears in their eyes, they tried their best to not burst into tears.

Arriving at the place where the signal was ending, all they found was a black stain of blood and Christopher's phone with a cracked display.

"… Huh? The signal is ending here," they looked around with blood tears coming from their eyes, and sliding down their cheeks, and it was apparent that the girls understood what might happened there.

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no... NOOO!!!!!!" Vicki started panicking, crying like she lost everything in her life as the temperature around her was constantly growing.

The walls around began to burn and later melt as the ground did the same.

Her body started releasing a strong killing intent and was overflowing with the energy of fire.

Not knowing that she was fully unlocking her bloodline powers, she focused on the memories she had with Christopher until the strongest appeared in her mind.

The memory of her dancing with him in the garden of her now destroyed mansion, located on Earth.

~Memory~

"Darling please, never leave me or the world is going to burn in my flames," said Vicki, and hugged Christopher tighter, placing her head on his left shoulder.

"Don't worry honey I would never leave you. Even though I have known you for only a short period, I have already fallen in love with you, and I know that now, no one can take me away from you."

"But, know one thing. If something happens in the future and... I die, I want you to know that I would still love you. Always and Forever~." said Christopher with a slight smile, placing his right hand on Vicki's head, and caressing her hair.

~End~

Remembering this, tears made from pure lava started falling from her eyes, sliding down her cheeks, but they didn't hurt her.

It was a sad sight but beautiful at the same time.

She suddenly got up and looked up as her power exploded towards the night sky.

"Vicki!" Rose shouted in concern, blood tears flowing from her eyes while she was holding her heart from the piercing pain she still felt.

"AAAHhhh!" Rose clutched her chest a little more as her tears fell on the ground due to the intensifying pain.

"Is he..." Claudia trembled, 'Wh-What is this weird feeling?' she asked herself, losing her mind from the pain.

A crazy smile started forming on Claudia's face as she touched her face covered in her blood tears with both hands, laughing like a maniac.

Her wide and lifeless eyes started glowing gold with the iris of a dragon and Vicki's did the same.

"This can't be true. This just can't BE TRUE!!!!!!" she shouted in pain as another pillar now of Claudia's powers exploded from her body and flew towards the sky, letting it up even more.

Yellow lightning started crackling around, destroying the walls around and connecting to Vicki's fire.

Claudia's eyes started releasing yellow, electric tears made from her power, similar to those Vicki had and they too didn't hurt her.

Suddenly, the color of their bodies started changing as their minds snapped and the girls became uncontrollable.

Claudia's power destroyed all the clothes she had and her body started glowing and looked like it was made from pure yellow lightning.

Her eyes turned black and her hair started defying gravity.

Vicki's body did the same, but it looked like it was made from pure lava that was constantly flowing.

After a second, it started being fully covered with a black material, looking like earth.

Only her lava-like eyes were visible and in the next second, the material cracked.

Between the cracks can be seen the orange lava, from which Vicki's body was made.

"Control yourself, girls! You are destroying everything!" shouted Rose at her two friends as she rose from the ground, holding a cracked phone in her hand while a powerful whirlpool of winds enveloped the girls.

The two powers in the sky were slowly merging together, forming a big, black circle as Claudia slowly walked to Vicki's side, holding her hand.

The two girls looked at Rose and Claudia spoke "WE CAN'T! VICKI PROMISED THAT IF DARLING DISAPPEARED ONE DAY, SHE WOULD DESTROY EVERYTHING! NOW HE'S GONE, SO WE NEED TO HELP HER! COME ROSE AND JOIN US!" Claudia said, her voice came out mixed with the sound of lightning and thunder.

Rose, looking at her hands suddenly saw blue power enveloping her body, trying to slowly transform her into a beast like her sisters.

"..."

...

All vampires on the street looked towards the source of light and started trembling in fear.

Seeing the circle in the sky resembling a black hole, the only question that appeared in their mind was, "What is this?!"

"The powers of vampire Countesses?" asked one of the vamps that stood near a candy shop.

"No you Idiot!" replied a female vampire near them, shaking her head.

"This is a much weaker power than the power of the Countesses. I think this power belongs to their daughters maybe?"

"WHAT THE FUCK! How can a baby vampire have so much power!" shouted another vamp in disbelief.

"Dickhead! They are the daughters of a vampire Countess!" noted another female vampire.

"Of course, they would have so much power, maybe even more in the future!"

The vampires were pretty scared.

Vicki, Claudia, and Rose were considered baby vamps so it was a shock for some of them to see so much power in such a short time, even when they were twenty years old.

The basic vampires who were walking on the streets of this kingdom every day were just 'normal' vamps.

Their bodies didn't contain this kind of power.

When they were turned into vampires, all they gained was regeneration, better strength and speed, and better vision, that's all and if someone new with power like this appeared, he or she would become more, an Elite.

A vampire Count.

The king liked strong people so he would immediately send a letter to the individual, inviting him to the castle for casual 'talk'.

Suddenly, the two pillars of power with the black hole circle disappeared like they never existed and the kingdom was hidden in endless night again.

...

"Are you finally done?" said Rose, as her power disappeared, and she turned her face at her friends who had their dresses destroyed, and eyes still lifeless, while hot breath was escaping from their mouths and hot blood tears were sliding down their cheeks.

"Like I said, I found something." she continued and pointed at Christopher's phone, showing a video the phone recorded before Christopher's death.

It was an app his wives installed so they had proof if he was cheating or not.

It's just a countermeasure...

"Now, dress yourself. We are heading home!" Rose said in an ordering tone and looked at her husband's phone, 'Ahhh, that was a close one!'

She then shifted her gaze towards the sky where a few seconds ago was that circle and thought what was that feeling she had.

She felt like something was behind that circle, ready to destroy everything.

Something powerful that should be never released or it might be the end of everything.

...

[... King's Castle ...]

"That was really interesting," said the king, looking through his window at the disappearing two pillars that came from Claudia's and Vicki's bodies.

'Lightning and fire, house Dark and house Phoenix huh.' he thought and turned his face to the door that suddenly opened.

'I wonder what was that... fear I felt. It was a long time since I feared something-' he wanted to continue with his thoughts but was interrupted by the one and only, "What do you want Lazarus?"

Lazarus came in front of the king and bowed, "My king, I have a proposal for you. I want to become a Vampire Count!"

The king facepalmed, but then laughed like he heard the best joke of the year, "*Pfft, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, wh-what? You? Hahahahahaha, but you don't have any kind of power or potential a Vampire Count should have!"

"And this kind of power was until recently seen only in females, so what kind of power do you have? How can you benefit this kingdom if I made you a Vampire Count?"

Lazarus smiled and aimed his palm at the king.

The guards around immediately started walking towards him with their halberds pointed at his head and heart, but the king raised his hand in a stopping sign, "Stay there."

The guards nodded and Lazarus aimed his palm at the king again, forming a small and white ball of energy and shooting it at him.

A slight smile formed on the king's face, 'You sneaky fox' as he caught the power and crashed it in his hand, destroying it.

'Fuck, I knew this would be too easy if I would kill him with just this. I need to refine it first. But now, with a concept of light in my body, I can definitely kill him in the future!'

'Ahhh, I must thank you, Christopher. Without you, I would be still a nobody hahaha' thought Lazarus and smiled at the king, asking, "So?"

The king raised his eyebrows, "I said YOUR power, not GAINED power. Your house was not born with a strong power and this little light strike? I can easily consume the light concept from you and throw you away like trash." the words came from him with a disappointment.

"You know the difference between your own and gained power?" he asked and Lazarus started trembling while shaking his head.

Everything around started shaking under strong pressure as the king raised his right hand and pointed his index finger at him, shooting four rays of unknown red energy at Lazarus, piercing his knees and shoulders.

The energy looked like red lightning and it would immediately kill a weak individual.

Lazarus fell on the ground, while his arms and legs dropped around him.

"The gained power can be consumed by someone stronger than you, while your power can't. NOW! Leave my castle you worm or I will kill you and your entire clan!"

"... Actually, I should have done it a long time ago like I planned!" he added.

Lazarus was shaking on the ground while his arms and legs were slowly healing, '*Tsk, I forgot why HE is the king!'

When he was finally healed, he got up, bowed, and left as fast as he could.

'What are you preparing yourself for, when you gave your powers to a backstabbing fox like Lazarus' thought the king, while looking from his window again.

There, he saw a memory of an unknown garden where he was in the past, meeting with a beautiful woman, wearing a snow-white dress.

Her silver hair was flying in the slight breeze and her bright blue eyes owned a dangerous and strict glint.

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[... Báthory Mansion ...]

"SO DARLING IS ALIVE?!" Claudia and Vicki shouted in happiness.

After the incident in the alley when they showed their powers to the public, they went home where Rose is now explaining what she found.

Vicki, Rose, Elizabeth, Isobel, Celeste, and Claudia were sitting in the living room of Elizabeth's mansion, while the mothers were drinking red liquid from cups with sad, grieving gazes.

"So you are saying that Christopher died and was forcefully teleported to another dimension?"

"Yes, and I have proof" Rose replied to Celeste's question, showing a video on Christopher's phone and pictures in an ancient book.

The book was black, with a golden spiral that ended with a purple gemstone in the middle.

"Where did you find that book?" Elizabeth narrowed her eyes as a blood tear fell from her eye.

The book was a gift from her old female friend who lives in Europe, she thought as she cleared the tear from her cheek.

"On the attic" Rose casually replayed and continued in explaining to which Elizabeth just nodded.

'I should visit Emily, I haven't seen her for the last couple of decades.'

"We knew that darling is..." Rose suddenly paused and corrected herself with a sad expression.

"...Was a host for the entity called The Darkness and I found out that when a host of this entity or the entity called The Light is killed before he/she can merge with the entity, his/her soul is forcefully teleported to the dimension where the entity is in that moment."

"As we know, for the last thousands of years, the two entities didn't leave or change their destination. The Light is still in her palace that is nowhere to be found, but let's ignore that bitch."

The girls smiled and were delighted when they heard the tone Rose used on the word 'bitch', but decided not to talk about it and let Rose continue.

It would be a waste of time to talk about details like that.

"What we need to know is where is The Darkness. Well, the last time I asked Darling about it, he said that the entity was locked in a prison. A cursed dimension called Styx, like the river from the underworld."

Rose then looked at the group in front of her and showed them the video, "And this is what happened when Darling died."

The girl's eyes lit up with hatred when they heard the word 'died', but after a few deep breaths, they were okay and looked at the video.

The video shows the masked girl, their 'fight', and Christopher's death.

Then, the video ends when the woman 'accidentally' crashes the phone with her foot.

"The last dragon is dead?" Isobel's face twitched when she heard the woman saying that.

Rose nodded "That is interesting too...", and she opened the black book again but on another page.

Then, she started reading the text.

"In the past when the entities fought, they took the shape of dragons. The Light won and The Darkness died, while its soul had still the shape of a dragon."

"That's why Christopher had eyes like that and that's why that bitch said that!"

"But what is more interesting is that The Light cheated."

The girls lifted their eyebrows "What do you mean by that?"

Isobel was the one who asked and Rose answered, "Well, I don't know everything but, there is mentioned an old weapon that was given to the Light entity by an unknown old God. This weapon helped her kill The Darkness and form the prison of light."

"Are you saying that before our universe existed, there were more?" asked Isobel in disbelief.

"Yeah and they still are, I'm almost hundred percent sure. Now, look at this," said Rose and played the video again, a little slower.

The video ended but no one except Rose saw anything weird.

"Look at the sword she holds you chicken heads!" she started getting irritated and played the video again, now even more slower than before.

When the woman said, "The last dragon is dead", Raziel's sword in her hand glowed and released a small purple orb that in the next second disappeared.

All of them opened their eyes wide but only Elizabeth spoke: "That's-"...

"Impossible? Well yeah, I thought that too until I recently married my husband, and everything that shouldn't happen started happening in front of my own eyes!" said Rose with a slight blush, 'He is different hehehe~.'

Then she shook her head to ignore these thoughts for now and continued, assuming her professional pose again.

*Ahm, "We know that when someone is killed with this sword, his soul is consumed by it and the sword becomes stronger."

Suddenly, Isobel shouted, "Bullshit! It can't release a soul. It's just... a one-way road!"

Rose smiled, understanding her frustration.

She feels like that too when she wants to quietly 'study' her husband but every time, she finds a dead end or something that should be impossible yet, it happens.

"But, when you are destined to become a host for one of the most primordial entities and you die by this sword, even that can't stop the entity and you are forcefully pulled out? That's interesting." Elizabeth joined the conversation.

"Yeah, that's what I wanted to say!" Rose pounded in frustration.

She hates it when someone steals her thoughts, even when it comes to her mother!

"But, where is he now?" asked Vicki with teary eyes, visible concern, and sadness in her voice.

Rose sighed and shook her head, "I don't know yet. He can be in the light prison or somewhere else. It's... hard to say for now."

"Well, this is interesting and all, but even when we find him, how are we going to bring him back!!!" Claudia spoke the main question with glowing eyes glued to the woman on the screen of Christopher's phone.

"Yeah," Celeste joined her 'daughter', "How are we going to bring back our husband!"

Vicki, Rose, and Claudia looked at her with lifeless eyes and spoke in unison "What did you say?"

"Nothing..." Celeste shuddered and quickly backed off at which Elizabeth and Isobel just rolled their eyes.

"Coward" spoke Elizabeth, looking at Celeste with pity.

Celeste turned her face at Elizabeth and narrowed her eyes, wanting to say something but was interrupted by Rose who sighed and answered Claudia.

*Sigh, "I don't have an answer for this either, but I'm working on it!"

She answered full of determination.

"Wait, he died right? So that means he is a spirit now or something?" spoke Elizabeth.

"Yeah, but I think he is bound to the place where he is now, so he can't leave it or something like that," Rose explained.

She had no idea what awaited Christopher on his journey or where he was now, but what she knew was that one day, she would bring him back, no matter the cost!

'I will bring you back! We still didn't have our DATE!' her lifeless eyes glowed with desire and revenge.

"Well let's leave this matter aside for later. Now, we are going on a ball, right? So come everybody and dress properly." spoke Elizabeth, trying to lighten the mood, and then shouted "MAIDS!"

Elizabeth's voice was so loud that the entire mansion started trembling and a few windows even cracked while the ground around her froze.

"Huh?" she looked around in shock 'It looks like that his death affected me more than I thought...'

She didn't want to do this kind of damage to her home.

When Rose confirmed her mother's and the other Countesses' thoughts, their reaction was different.

Isobel immediately left with Marcus and came back a few minutes later.

Celeste did the same with Thomas and when the two came back, their expressions were cold and their hair was messy.

They already wore different dresses because their previous ones were destroyed thanks to the power they used and those after that as well.

Their reaction was the same as Claudia's and Vicki's, they exploded but somewhere else.

Marcus and Thomas teleported them to abandoned places where they couldn't hurt anyone, like mountains or, for humans, undiscovered islands.

The only one who knew what might happened there was a maid Lorie who had her radio ON and heard about numerous global catastrophes in Arctida and Antarctica on Earth.

People started preparing for an apocalypse.

The only one who stayed 'calm' was Elizabeth, freezing only her mansion, and it looked like she was not as touched as her friends, but now, everyone knew that even she had feelings for Christopher but didn't want to show them.

'Ahhhh, not my mother too' thought Rose but then she smiled as a thought popped into her mind.

Her cheeks blushed as a crazy smile formed on her face, 'The future is going to be interesting.'

Then, the maids came to the living room and when Rose's gaze fell on Christopher's maid Yua, another thought appeared in her mind.

"Yua, I need your help," she spoke and the maid shuddered.

Rose's glint in her eyes and her smile were just too scary for her.

'Master? Why did you leave without me!' she thought, clearing her blood tears from her cheeks.

After all, she was too connected to Christopher but wasn't as destructive.

...

While Christopher's wives were preparing for a ball, he was pretty much enjoying his fight with the Ogre!

The Ogre was now lying on the ground with only half of his health bar, looking pretty tired.

"It was a long time since I enjoyed a fight like this. I never thought the fight could contain so much fun!" he spoke while drops of sweat were falling from his forehead.

It was worth mentioning that he never sweated in a fight before, because thanks to his vampire-dragon bloodline and darkness powers, he almost every time won.

But now, his only power was the teleport he unlocked and some basic sword skills together with some knowledge from games and movies, that's all.

Ardelean couldn't help him or warn him so much like before, so he was all alone with just his senses on everything.

"AAAAHHHHH!" the Ogre roared as determination started filling his eyes.

"THIS IS NOT FUN FOR ME ANYMORE! I WILL KILL YOU!"

Christopher rolled his eyes and dodged the gold axe that the Ogre threw at him.

"So the waltz is about to end then, is it?" he said and teleported himself in front of the Ogre.

"Spinner Slash," he whispered and jumped into the air.

After a second, the gravitation started pulling him back and that triggered the skill.

His body started spinning in the air, while he held the sword handle with his two hands and pointed it towards his chest.

The blade that was pointing away started slowly coming closer to the Ogre, who started getting up, but he was too tired to dodge it.

Christopher's sword collided with the Ogre's chest and did a lot of damage.

"AAAAAHHH!!!" the Ogre shouted from pain and punched Christopher's face, sending him flying towards the gate like a piece of shit.

Christopher's sword that was still stuck in the Ogre's chest started glowing and pulled itself out which did more damage.

The sword flew towards Christopher, who got up from the ground and picked it up, while the Ogre fell on his knees because of the blood loss, and at the last moment, he pulled out a weird green flask from his belt pocket.

"Cheers," said the Ogre and drank it up.

...