Separation.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: UNEDITED CHAPTER.

Dracula didn't stop there. He continued, and not quite long, heavy rain with thunderstorms followed.

Dracula was controlling the weather with the staff, while the beast was still standing in place, trying hard to break free from Elena's energy that seemed to be sucking out the energy from the giant beast.

The strong wind kept uprooting and slamming various trees at the beast, seeing the weather, and that havoc it was creating dracula placed the staff back in the storage ring.

Then he got serious, manipulating the energy around him. dracula began creating several lightning bolts, directing the lightning attack towards the beast.The weather condition made Dracula's attacks stronger, as the lightning bolts came in contact with the already weakened beast, coupled with the heavy wind and rain pour a massive explosion was heard.

[Booooooooooooom]

Dracula had channelled his attack to the head of the beast.The wind and rain had stopped since dracula wanted to end this crazy battle for good. Although his surroundings were currently covered with fog, dracula could tell the beast was no more.

"Blaze has been activated." dracula rushed forward with great speed. In a matter of seconds, he was standing right in front of the beast, which was lying lifeless on the ground. several holes were visible on the beast head, with black bloods coming out from it. these holes were created as a result of Dracula's attack.

looking around, dracula sighed at the mess they had created. The forest was in a terrible state, all thanks to one beast. he knew he had a limited time before he would lose full control over Elena's body.

if anything, he wasn't supposed to take over her body like he had done,but in the face of death, one would do everything to stay alive. dracula was aware of the consequences elena would face due to how he had used her powers, so right now, he needed to look for the others.

If elena was to go into a vulnerable state with no one around to protect her, who knew what would happen if another beast or undead creatures were to find her in that state.

Considering all of this, dracula sniffed the air severally in an attempt to locate the other vampires by their scent. Once he had gotten the scent he was looking for, he activated the Blaze skill running towards the location of Elena's teammates.

when he arrived at the location, he saw the others , they all had their weapons on hand, prepared to go into battle, the moment an uninvited guest showed up. when they saw elena standing in front of them, they were happy and surprised. they thought she was dead, seeing how fierce the beast was. None of them thought she would survive going head to head with a beast like that.

"Elena." Zareth,Lydia, and Emiera all called out the same time. Seeing them, dracula decided to stop controlling elena. the moment he reversed his absolute control on her, she fell to the ground, her skin was becoming pale, and her body was cold as ice.

Emiera was the first to reach her. When her hands came in contact with elena, she was stunned. Emiera had never seen anything like this, "we need to take her back." she said with a faint voice.

One of the guards made his way towards elena, obviously trying to inspect her situation.after a while, he responded, " Our task is our priority, I'm sorry, but we must continue with our mission. we have already lost three lives, and we've come so far to go back now. losing another vampire life would only serve as a minor sacrifice for the greater good."

Hearing this, every one of them was stunned. they had all decided to embark on this mission because they wanted to help save the life of arwin. Although almost every one of them wanted the rewards the mission would bring, none were prepared to die to save the ward of a Lord.

"If she hadn't lured the beast away, we would all be dead by now. Now you just want to leave her here to die?" Zareth asked with a crimson glow in his eyes. He was angry, and he was ready to fight with the guards if it came to that.

Enough! Lydia voice stopped them all from continuing their arguments, "Arwin is my classmate, so I'm here trying to find a cure for her. I just lost my cousin to that monster, I'm not about to lose a friend of mine in the quest of saving someone else. if you don't want to take her back, fine, then at least give us one of the teleportation devices in your possession so we can take her back ourselves."

After listening to Lydia, the two guards started laughing. "You want to take her back right?, then enjoy the long walk back to Zastlevania, as for the teleporters forget about them."

Lydia wanted to say something, but Zareth placed his hands on her shoulders, stopping her from saying anything. "Fine, we will walk back to Zastlevania." zareth responded.

"I see. If you want to die and turn into food for the undead, then be my guest." After saying this, the lead guard signalled the rest to continue with him.

At this point, two guards and Xen Van were no longer with them,as the beast earlier had eaten them. This had reduced their number from twelve to nine. Elena was out cold, further reducing their number to eight.

when the lead guard had signalled for them to continue moving, he felt only the three who had insisted on taking elena back would stay behind, but to his surprise, Aruh also stayed with elena. turning around with a look of disgust, he said to aruh, "I see you want to die with those fools, tsk tsk, and I thought you got potential, so long loosers." After saying this, the two guards, Sammy and Uti, all left elena and her friends behind as they journey deep into the forest.

"Now what?" Aruh asked. All eyes turned towards zareth, "Why are you all looking at me?" he asked back as he let out a sigh. " You do have a plan, right? how are we getting back to Zastlevania?" Lydia asked.

"I don't know, I...." Zareth was still speaking when they heard a strong vibrating sound coming out from the storage ring elena was wearing. the next moment, a transparent looking crystal that was as big as a baseball phased out from the ring. "Isn't that the crystal Lord Antoine presented elena with during her recognition as the protector of souls?" Emiera pointed out.

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