I Wiill Swear Vengeance on Them All

It had taken me until the end of the day to make it through the labyrinth that was in between me and my destination since I did not have Trent's second talent as a means of quickly breaking through.

When I made it to the end of the cave, I noticed that the sun was starting to set in the world which made it easy to see what was around me because of all the rivers of lava that were flowing around the world with a glowing aura of an orange color that caused all the areas around me to glow with a dark orange color.

Then I noticed that there was a bed that did not have lava flowing over it in between myself and my destination. While I walked to the open bed, I noticed that the bed was filled with corpses from both factions as if this was where the major battleground for the attack force that we had gathered had gone down.

As I started stepping over the fallen corpses, I noticed that there was a set of prints moving away from the battlefield and that behind these footprints, there was a drag trail. This meant someone or something was dragged off the battlefield. I followed the trail because I honestly had an uneasy feeling about it and at the fact that it might possibly be Nova that was being dragged away from the fight.

I followed the trail into a small forest area where the trees looked almost completely dead, and as I made it to the end of the forest, I could see a castle that was hanging from a cliff. The only access way to the castle was an elevator that was in front of me at the base of the cliff.

The main reason why I was surprised about what I had seen was the fact that they did not have any guards watching over the elevator lift which meant that they probably did not expect anyone to make it this far.

As I stepped on the pressure plate for the elevator it began to rise me up and I started to tap the plate impatiently because I did not know what kind of vile things that a vampire could possibly be doing to the love of my life while I was trying to reach her. The thought of that made me want to throw up.

After I made it to the top of the elevator I sprinted into the front door of this castle and did not pay attention to my surroundings because I knew that Nova's life was on the line and because of that I did not have time to look around.

As I rushed throughout the castle, I noticed that all the areas were very dimly lit, which made it very complicated and hard for me to see clearly. Even though I was unable to see very far, I saw one very bright light at the end of the long entry hallway.

It took me a little bit of time to adjust to the sudden shift of bright light when I stepped into the next room. As soon as I was able to see clearly, I saw a massive bed that had one male vampire who was wearing a pair of black pants and did not have a shirt on at all. Around him, I saw a total of six women who were all wearing different colored lingerie, and they were all clinging to him with passionate intent.

After I looked at all the females around him, I noticed that I saw Nova in front of him and I saw two needle-like marks on her neck which meant that he bit her; and the site of that sent me into a rage because that meant that he had violated my wife.

"So, are you the supposed lover of the newest addition to my harem?" the male vampire asked me after he got done licking all over Nova's body.

"Yes, and I will kill you for what you have done to my wife." I said as I angrily stepped forward to close the distance between myself and him.

"If you want your wife back, you were going to have to fight me for it, and you only have a short while before any known cure for vampirism will be unusable." He said to me as he moved Nova back behind him and rose to his feet. "I challenge you toa dual for the right to your love."

"Fine, then I will fight you in a duel for the right to own my wife since I do possess honor unlike all of you filthy undead. You would not know if a wave of Honor hit you directly in the face. " I said to him as I got directly in his face so that he knew that I would do anything, even if that meant crossing certain moral lines to ensure my wife survival because she is my entire world.

The vampire pressed a tile that was under the lamppost to the left of his bed, and a secret door slid open.

"Follow me ladies and watch me show this human how to really fight." he said as he snapped his fingers, and all the females that were on his bed, including Nova, rose to their feet and followed him into the secret passageway.

"Nova, are you there?" I asked her as I grabbed her right wrist since she was the last person in the line going through the secret entrance.

When I grabbed her wrist, I noticed that there was no pulse and that it was almost as cold as ice which meant that she was turning into an undead faster than I thought she could which terrified me at the thought of my wife no longer being among the living.

The passageway was very narrow, but unlike the main areas of the castle, it was well lit up by lanterns that were hanging from the ceiling. When I made it to the end of the hallway, I saw an open room that had a black eight by eight tile stage in the center of it.

"This is going to be the stage that will determine who gets your wife in the end. Also, technically, I have an advantage because you must defeat me within a certain time limit, or it's irreversible, so I hope that you bring your top game to this conflict. " he said to me as he stepped up on the stage and snapped his fingers before pointing at the metal bleachers that were in the area to his right.

The vampire slaves all went over to where he pointed as if these term vampires had no free will of any kind.

"So, what are the rules of this match?" I asked him as I stepped up onto the stage to face him.

The vampire then touched a panel that was on the outside of the area before coming back onto the stage.

After he had gotten on the stage, I saw a barrier generate around the stage; and then I noticed that the barrier was generating waves of both blue and bright yellow energy.

"I have created this barrier for us as the boundary lines while we fight, and the barrier is filled with electrical damage so that it can hurt you as well as solar energy to hurt me." he said to me as he began to stretch his body to prepare himself for the fight at hand.

"Then if that's how you want to do it? I want to go by the three-point system. when one of us hits the barrier three times we lose; and the winner gets to keep that sexy wife of mine. " I said to him proudly as if I knew that I would not lose with steaks that high.

"You seem very confident for a human with a limited amount of time to save the woman you love." he said to me as he took the first swing at me.

I stepped to the right slightly and dodged his punch with ease.

"Come on, if you want to defeat me, you are going to have to do better than that." I said as I punched him square in the stomach with a right uppercut.

He then fell to his knees, but before I was able to hit him again, he rose to his feet and did a spin kick that knocked me into the barrier behind me.

As I encountered that barrier, I felt an electrical shock run through my body and the pain was quite intense but since I was trying to fight honorably, I did not use my healing talent to stop the pain.

"That is one point for me and zero points for you." he said as he began to laugh at me while I tried to regain my footing.

"You are going to have to do better than that to best me." I said to him as I threw a quick flurry of punches at him.

He continued to dodge my punches as if they were in slow motion. Then he pushed at me with a fast right hook whenever I was out of breath, which made me meet the barrier once again.

"That makes it two to zero one more contact with the barrier, and I will be declared the victor. You do not know all the fun things that I will be doing to this wife of yours. After all, she is the most beautiful woman that I have ever added to my harem." he said to me when I rose to my feet and began to feel as if the world was spinning around me due to the intense electrical pain that I had coursing through my entire body.

"I will not allow you to lay a single hand on her, you filthy pure blooded vampire bastard." I said as I rushed at him and did a spin kick that caused me to lose balance, and he punched me quickly after.

I encountered the barrier once again, which meant I had lost, and the thought of what he might do to Nova cause me to fall to the ground and lose all hope.

He then deactivated the barrier and walked over to her, and began to suck on her blood while looking at me with an evil glance.

"I am sorry Nova, I did all that I could to save you." I said to her as I looked down at the ground out of depression.

Then I heard a few of the female vampires screaming terror, which caused me to look up at the area around me.

When I looked up, I saw that almost all the female vampires were turned to piles of ashes except for Nova and one of the female vampires that was behind the male vampire since it always took a whole flurry of solar powered bullets to kill a pure blooded vampire.

"I will shoot you where you stand. If you do not let go of the female that you're in the middle of turning." I heard a male human voice say as I tried to gain awareness of all my surroundings.

"Do you think that you can hurt me?" I heard the vampire ask as he let go of Nova, and she stood completely still as if she was in a trance.

"I know that I can defeat you in a few short seconds." the male human voice said confidently.

"You can try your best; but you are only a measly human." the vampire said as he ran out of my line of sight.

Shortly after, I heard metal meet the vampire and saw his head roll in front of me.

"Now that I have killed your master, I will kill the two of you." the male human said.

I finally gained awareness of my surroundings and stood up on my two feet so that I could see who it was that had saved Nova from being converted; and when I saw it was, I was quite surprised it was the leader of the mercenary group that was assigned to help us destroy that fifth column cell with us.

"Come on, Danny, I expected more out of you. Why did you lose to this measly vampire?" he asked me as he pointed his sword at Nova's neck.

"Please do not kill her she is very important to me. She is my wife." I said out of desperation as I tried to push his sword out of the way.

"How long has it been since the original bite on her neck?" he asked in a concerned tone.

"It has been almost ten minutes, and I was trying to fight him honorably in a duel to see who owned her at the end." I said to him as I hugged her cold body, knowing something bad was about to happen.

"Since it has been clearly over ten minutes, I am going to have to do the one thing that I do not want to do and kill her before she turns you." He said to me with a look of urgency as he looked into my eyes.

"Okay, if you must just get it over with." I said as I kissed her one last time which caused me to remember all the good moments that I had with her as well as the ones that I might have had with her if I had not failed to keep the werewolf from stealing the black mineral on the train in the first place.

The mercenary leader then cut her head off, and her entire body was covered in a yellow light until it became a puff of smoke in my arms.

After I stood up, I became suddenly serious and started to beat up the second female that was standing still and I did not stop until her head was completely obliterated due to the rage that I was feeling towards the undead and what they had done to the love of my life.

"I take this beat up dead corpse as a sign that I from this day forward will swear vengeance on any vampire that I run into while I am alive because of the loss of my wife. I will make them pay for the pain that I am feeling right now, and I do not care if they are pure blood or turned either way they will die by my hand without mercy. " I said as I began to walk away and left the castle heading towards the ship so that I could get back home and deal with my grief.

The mercenary leader followed me all the way to the ship, and he started to conversate with me about what I was going to do for my future.

"Remember Danny, my offer for you to join our group still stands if you want to do that. I am offering you a new lease on life, and you can kill as many vampires as you wish if we get the main objectives done so that we all get paid. " the mercenary leader said to me as we approached the defensive perimeter around our transport ships.