THE HUNT II

A REAPER'S OATH

Once the Oath is broken by a Reaper, they will not be reincarnated nor rebirthed. They will die seeing their love one, one last time.

Albert's body on his feet distracted him from the destructive battle that goes on in front of him. Logan holds on to his chest and Albert look up to him. Tears fall from his eyes as he whispered a name.

"Val.."

"Val?"

"I...neve...never told h.... her... how...much.. i needed her"

His final words as his eyes grew dark and his tears turn black and falls down his face crumbling it. Logan held his hand it crumbles with the smallest contact. "How did I get here?" Logan asks himself as everything feels so real. He sees Dracula fly above whilst being chased down by the 2 Reapers.

"Death, how is he, what is happening?"

Something that caught his attention is that Lachlan is screaming, something he does not do when he is fighting. That scream feels powerful and soulful. There is emotion on those screams, sorrowful. Logan tries to help Albert's crumbling body.

"Thank you" He said. He breaks Albert's body down, as he knows he cannot save him anymore. All he can do is just kneel down there.

"Thank you, I ne.... we never got to thanked you..." Logan whispered into Albert's ear as his body crumbles into the earth. He stands up and summons the 'Fangs' and he accumulates Imperium big enough that the 3 fighting in the air feels it pulsating around them. Logan allowed his anger to take over him, and his fear disappears completely. He takes a big deep breath and sprints towards them. He starts transforming into lightning and throws one of his swords towards the vampire.

"Here we are" The 3 Reapers stands before the bridge that connects the 2 small mountains. They can feel such menacing aura coming from the castle, the feeling of dread is familiar to Albert; but not quiet.

"A castle?" Lachlan asked.

"The Dragon's den"

"What to de wo do sir?"

"Vampire hunting"

Death grabbed the quill on Albert's book and turns it into a rifle that he is comfortable with, and at the same time imbued it with Imperium for Albert who does not notice. As soon as he grabbed it he starts to absorb the Imperium and he starts to slowly but surely remember this place, and how to use the given rifle. The imperium that he absorbed made him a bit nauseas but the effect went away. He checks the rifle given to him, and he starts to feel afraid.

"I'm ready" Albert said. He held firmly of the rifle and did not let fear bother him. Within the castle the 2 demons watches them approach. Dracula scoffs in excitement upon seeing such familiar face.

"You will kill one of them?"

"They are already dead anyways, and you?"

"I'll hide in the shadows whilst you do my bidding"

Mammon chuckles and laughs as he slowly descends into the shadow. Dracula threw his blood-filled chalice towards the demon, infuriated. He hears the door kicked open and he looks outside once more as the sun starts to sink.

"The hunt begins"

He appears on top of the stairs and welcomes the 3 to his 'humble abode', Albert aimed at Dracula's ear. He fires a somewhat silent shot and damages the Vampire. He grabbed his bleeding ear and licked the blood off his palm clean. he remains unbothered.

"Welcome back, Albert, I though you missed me"

Albert starts to remember everything from the moment that he can remember anything up to his death, and along with his memory his body starts to regain color. He starts to feel his heartbeat on his chest, he feels the warmth of his breath once more. Unbeknownst to him, his final time. Something he also noticed the person he 'loved' is not there.

"Don't you remember, mission. It was to kill me, but you even died before you properly killed me!"

Dracula's loud cackle echoed through his castle. As it echoes around them Albert feels annoyance and hatred towards this man.

"Its not just love that will bring you back, Reapers are created by hatred as well. Strong emotions, just a-"

Lachlan charges towards the vampire as he mocked the other 2, he slices off his lower jaw. It is enough to aggravate the Vampire as no one has done it for over centuries, he summoned the humanoid bats and attacks Lachlan. The strength of the bats held Lachlan pinned on the ceiling. He reads into Lachlan's mind but it is empty, but he sees the real him cracking into reality once more.

"Oh Death, your creations are really satisfying. Why do they have to be chained down by such Oath?"

"So that they won't turn into something such as yourself"

"hmm, what exactly?"

"A monster"

"Right, oh"

Dracula quickly separates Albert and Death and focuses on the 'turning man'. Albert manages to hold on his own with every attacks that come by his way, he cannot land any hits as he is more focused on keeping his head on his shoulder. His eyes is sticking to all attacks that Dracula throws at him, Death swung his scythe around but Dracula dodges it by turning into a cauldron of bats and flying up to the roofs.

"W-"

Lachlan lands a clean hit on Dracula's left shoulder, Albert jumps as well and stabs Dracula right on his left eye. He grabs Lachlan's head and throws him. Through the walls of the castle and down to the foot of the mountain that the castle stood on. 'You've grown weaker' Dracula mocked Albert and then digs out his heart and blows it away.

"Did I ever say this?"

"....."

"You never defeated me, you the witch and my own child. I never died"

Lachlan jumps higher and faster to reenter the fight and protect the other 2. He lands on the roof. As soon as he gets his footing, he sees Dracula throwing Albert's body away. Upon seeing this he starts to feel what Death is feeling, but instead of the heartbeat and warmth of his breath, he feels excruciating pain from falling off earlier. His whole body starts to hurt but he pushed through it, upon seeing his friend he starts to feel something that he never expected he can feel once more, and emotion. Albert stays in place for the remainder of the battle.

"Shit"

"Well, Lachlan what do you think happened?" A familiar voice kicks into his head and he hears himself speak. *Frazer?* His own voice repeated in his own head. It made him feel safe and supported. As soon as his head gets back Dracula is already grabbing him and carrying him into the air.

"DEATH! AREN'T THIS REAPERS SUPPOSED TO PUT ME DOWN"

"...."

"Why can't they beat me?"

*I Love you, we'll be married soon* A woman's voice spoke to him, it warmed and his heart flutters. He grabs Dracula's arms tightly and he stares down the vampire.

"YOU KNOW, I FUCKING EXCITED I WAS"

"....."

"WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO GET MARRIED!"

Lachlan's Imperium exploded within him and he destroys both of Dracula's hands and it was enough to make the vampire fearful of him. He stretched his arm out for a strong punch but the vampire tried to escape.

"DON'T YOU FUCKING RUN!!"

Lachlan holds his Claymore and imbues it with Imperium, the blade of his sword starts to glow blue and he swings away with a slash of Imperium. Dracula is in shock as to how easy he swings such a massive weapon, so effortless. The wave of imperium hits him directly. Death charges up his scythe and imbues it with his own Imperium, dark flames starts to build up on the blade of his weapon and he throws it towards the vampire. One of the 'fangs' landed directly onto Dracula.

"Val... hello there"

"Hi"

"Their fighting, look"

"They are"

"Thank you, for that night"

With every blink tears fall down his face, he feels fear; to die once more. With his last slow blink he sees a familiar face, 'Logan'. He closes his eyes as he feels his body crumbling deep into the earth, and a gust of wind blows him away and he has died.

Logan punches and grabs Dracula's neck and a lightning strikes behind them loudly, Logan throws the vampire back into his castle and chases after him. The whole interior of the castle turns into twist, turns, and into a maze. Dracula desperately tries to escape from Logan.

"Who might you be?!"

"SHUT UP!"

He uppercuts Dracula and he can feel his skull breaking, Death stabs through his head and pulls it off. His head falls and Lachlan falls through the castle ceiling and stabs the vampire's severed head.

"That hurt?!"

The skin from his face starts to melt, Dracula's body goes up to the highest point of the castle and looks down on them. His head starts to grow right back up, 'Oh Lachlan I have a gift'. A colony of bats swarms in front of them and there Lesley stands, and heavily wounded. Everything starts to come back to him from the day they met up to his death, Lachlan runs towards her in order to grab her and he barely manages to grab her.

"Hey hey"

"Lachlan, no wonder your so familiar"

"Kylie, I'm sorry"

"Thank you, but I'm much more sorry for you"

"Blame Death, Lachlan, he is using the person you love as a 'motivator' in order for you to do your job. Hatred as a way to fuel it, but he kept it because if you are to be angry, you can and will kill him" Dracula screams.

"I know"

"....."

"But, if it means I get to live with my wife once more, Its a life worth living for"

"But Lachy, you broke the Oath, you won't be able to live with her once more, you Reapers are stupid"

"Its fine.. Death?"

"Yes?"

"Did Fraser, solved the case?"

"He did"

"Good"

Lachlan kissed his lover once more, her lips has turned cold because of blood loss. Dracula manages to empathize with him as he also loved someone, he smirked and as he stares at them he feels Logan's glare. 'The traitor' He thought, he jumped down and ignore the 2 as he walked closely to Logan, but his fear was suppressed. Logan smirked as the tall being overshadows him.

"I think Mammon will be happy.. To see a traitor like you, dead"

"Bite me" He mocked the vampire.

"Death, what will you do?"

"Kill you" Logan responded for him.

Death released and onslaught of attack towards the vampire and he manages to land a hit on him and slicing one of his legs off. Dracula grabs Logan and tries to suck his blood dry but Mephistopheles acted by himself and stabbed the vampire himself and stabbing him on the chest. Death tries to grab Logan but Dracula kicks him away and starts to smash the boy's head on the ground.

"YOU FILTHY PIG DARE TO FUCKING TOUCH ME! HOW DARE YOU!"

Logan becomes unresponsive as he sees the ground pushing up and down in front of him, his vision starts to blur and his hearing starts to ring away. He knows he is about to die, with every time his face gets pushed down the ground he sees Mephistopheles. His head is raised once more, 'this will kill you a bit', as Dracula plunges his head down Death slices the vampire in half.

"Are you okay Logan?"

*loud*

"Logan!"

Dracula tries to put his body back together but he cannot, his lower half seems to burn away. Lachlan walks up to him and brandishes his sword right to his fangs, 'does this spark?'. Lachlan drags the tip of his sword on his fang, he stabbed Dracula right through his mouth and dragging the blade horizontally destroying the vampire's face.

"You killed her"

Dracula looks up to Lachlan whose face is slowly crumbling away, like Albert his tears was dense enough to crack his face. He raises his claymore but his arm broke and turned to dust, Death hears the loud sound that the claymore made that fell down on the hard ground.

"You won't be at peace, Reaper"

"We already did, Albert's death will be the reason why you'll lose"

Lachlan looked up and his head starts to crack away as his neck turned into dust. Mammon rises from the back and destroys Lachlan. The presence of the sin was enough to be felt around both worlds, Mammon turns around to Death and walked towards them.

"Hello Father, how have you been?"

"....."

"I'm guessing you still can't kill me"

Mammon grabs his scythe and tries to drop it on his own head, but it won't fall. The scythe stayed in place. Death suddenly grab his neck and starts to squeeze it hard.

"Will...y....ou...ki-kill...your...own child!?"

Death squeezed his neck even harder and he starts to struggle, 'You don't want to start it' Mammon spoke as he struggled with every word that comes out from his mouth. Death smashes the demon down on the ground and behind him Fadil and Seraph appeared.

"Father"

"You deal with him"

Death carried Logan who has just started to heal and he walks away. Mammon slowly gets up and engages his 2 sisters. Logan opens his eyes as he can see Death smiling at him.

"You'll be safe"

"Both of you"

Themis and Merlin appeared in front of them and asked to create a portal back to the school. Mammon raises his right arm and fired 4 flaming chains from his palm, it got passed his sister and it grabs on to Logan, the chains was powerful enough to hurt Death. Mammon pulled hard and drags the boy towards him, and once more he enters his mind.

*Hello*

"Not this time brother"

Mephistopheles appears and kicks him out of Logan's head, Merlin picked Logan up and manages to run away with Themis. Death stayed and takes the 5 of them into the Aether. Mammon stands up and he starts to cuss out both of his sister being weak, he gets angry and notices the encompassing domain above them. Mammon turns around to Dracula but the vampire bested him and tears his heart out.

"KILL IT!"

Seraph tries to grab the heart but Dracula is faster than her, he morphs into several types of animals trying to swallow the heart as a whole. Mammon falls down on the ground and his skin starts to float up in the air, Dracula bore his fangs and devoured the heart whole. Seraph and Death can only look up to him as he devoured the heart with ease, a big gulp came after and everything about him starts to change.

"Is he okay?"

"Themis!"

"Yes, yes he is, he's fine. We need him to get to Eir, he has healed a bit"

Merlin and Themis quickly ran around towards the infirmary and he is put into extreme care.

"What happened to him?"

"Well, his head was almost destroyed to pieces but Death managed to repair a bit of it"

"I can heal him quickly, but he will be unconscious for a while"

"Thank you Eir"

"You're welcome Themis, he'll be in my care don't worry"

Logan is quickly transported to a different chamber, he is put into shallow pond of water and water fairies starts to heal his wounds slowly but surely. Themis walks out of the infirmary and announces the students to stay in their dorms, the sky starts to turn dark and in front of them several lower-demons appeared. People who has made with the devil.

"We're here to take the boy"

"How dare you enter our lands"

"This was also once our home"

The students present in the area attacked the lower-demons not allowing them to get closer to Logan. Students who used the earth and water acted as a strong defense against the demons completely surrounding the building, those who used fire and air acted as a powerful offense along with Invokers who chased after the demons.

"Oh what is that!"

"Its attacking the infirmary"

"Where's Logan and Hans?"

"No idea, we have to go and he-"

"NOT SO FAST, SMALL HUMANS!"

"Shut it fatty"

Harry destroyed the giant lower-demon that tries to stop them. Ava and Sofia separated with Harry and Mila who tries to get rid of the lower-demons descending from a forming cloud.

"ALL STUDENTS! THIS YOUR FIRST MISSION, PROTECT THE WHOLE SCHOOL AND DO NOT ALLOW IT TO CRUMBLE DOWN, WE MUST STOP THE FORMING CYCLONE ABOVE US"

Blood rain starts to pour and the awaken of the other 11 Archdemons is coming upon them. As more legions of demons fall directly upon them they have to take a strong stance, their mentors also came crashing in the battle field and destroying more than the students. They all look up the sky and the legions of demons starts to dwindle as the hours pass by.

Dracula starts to turn into a demon himself, he starts to vomit and his skin starts to burn. His fangs grew longer, 2 pairs of horns starts to sprout out of his temple, one curving and point upwards while the other shorter one grows sideways. He grows massive bat like wings behind him and 3 tails, Fadil fires a couple of arrows at him but the tails parried it.

"This is what a demon feels like"

His nails grew longer and his eyes bled, he cackles loudly in the stormy and with his new found strength he summons more creatures, using the negative emotions of the whole world as his main source of power. 'Can you beat me now?!' He mockingly asked the 2 Archangels to which they replied 'easily'.