Vol.3 Ch.27: rescuing Valarie part 1

Helena's pov

" So let me get this straight," I say drinking some tea freshly prepared for me by this vampire envoy from the Carmilla clan. They immediately sent her when Helena and I arrived in Romania yesterday afternoon. Elmenhilde Karnstein has doll-like appearance with long wavy light blonde hair, deep red eyes, and a beautiful face similar to that of a Western doll.

" The tepes clan of vampires which your at a cold war with over how you want to live your lives. Have been talking with devils and rogue fallen angels and stray exorcist. They seem to be planning something or discussing something and your worried since the tepes clan has forgone any rules set by the cold war. Attacking indiscriminately and so many so close that you fear the church sending exorcists to wipe you out," I say as she nods drinking her tea with blood in it.

" what you call it 'in a nutshell?' then yes that's exactly what's happening," says Elmenhilde," the elders of the carmilla faction have tried to negotiate but they were not successful, especially when it has escalated even more, ever since last year when you claimed the title master of death."

" Why would that matter," I ask as she looks away before saying," the creatures relating to death such as vampires, dullahans and others all know of you and we fear punishment for not finding or helping you."

" Hmmm. It's fine honestly I have no grudges as I only earned the title recently," I say as Lyra walks in dressed in a nautical theme sailor's coat and trouser dress with high heeled knee length boots. (Emily Kaldwin's outfit from dishonored 2). She walks over with elegance and poise before sitting beside me on the couch. She picks up a cup of tea and drinks it as Elmenhilde looks at her. We continue talking until nightfall and we leave for bran castle. It's not the same as the one that tourists go through, since like most supernatural beings they have their own subspace of reality. Approaching the castle some brush rustle and a large figure comes out, A large werewolf.

' oh great, fan- Fuckin- tastic,' I think as I prepare to fight but stop when the werewolf shifts back into it's human form. A burly man stands there with a wolfish grin. He saunters around us with a swagger that makes me sigh in my mind as Lyra deadpans at him.

" Well well, two beautiful dames here in these dark woods, such a rare sight," he says with a thick accent, " lucky for you I'm a reasonable man along with my pack." As he says that many more werewolves come out of the brush and woods around us. They all shift into their human forms, every one of them male.

" If you become our toys you'll know pleasure beyond your dreams," says the pack leader as he licks his lips. As they approach my shadow spreads out across the ground connecting to theirs as I sigh before saying," I don't believe that will happen, especially since you're dead already." As I finish talking the connected shadows freeze the werewolves in place as they slowly sink into them. They start screaming and some transform but still were slowly eaten by the shadows.

" Nice but you could have left some for me," says Lyra as she pouts. Walking ahead and summoning her sacred gear. A beautiful glass looking bow that has wisps of white fire running on the bow frame and a thin chain of light as the bow string.

" Balance breaker: heaven's rain", says an angelic voice from the bow as Lyra glows and gains a beautiful golden and white calf length cheongsam dress. The golden parts make an armor's outline on the body and are made of golden dragon scales. Her arms and thighs gain guards as a form of protection. Her dragon wings and tail also come out as she goes into her hybrid state.

I sigh as I know she feels left out so I hang back but not before summoning my balance breaker and going into my hybrid form. We both fly up into the sky and notice the flurry of activity around the castle. Fallen angels, devils, high vampires, and stray exorcists moving around the castle keeping gaurd. I look, with my dragon's eyesight, at one of the lit rooms on a tower and see a high vampire talking with two devils. Conjuring a raven straight from my shadows I send it to the castle window to ease drop on the meeting.

" It's a shame that one dhampir escaped but his wounds are to severe so he's of no concern," says the high vampire," we have the other contained in the dungeon."

" Good, the sacred gear in this one is more important than the other," says one devil as the other just nods," don't you agree Creuserey. It's a shame that we couldn't get forbidden Balor but sephiroth Graal is of more value."

" Of course Lord Beelzebub," says the vampire as he drinks a wine glass of blood.

Banishing the shadow raven I relay everything to Lyra who nods and she disappears to the personal world of kyros. She comes back with kyros in tow, he's completely decked out in a new armor of his. A set of Victorian style leather and silver armor (Bloodborne Hunter outfit). He looks at the castle and pulls out a large cleaver type weapon and flicks it open expanding it into a larger cleaver with a saw edge.

" You get the girl out and somewhere safe while I go to work," he says as he grins at the castle.