Missed me?

[... Current location, Phoenix residence, NYC ...]

While Christopher was training, Elizabeth, Celeste, and Isobel were fighting fiercely these past twelve minutes.

Their opponents? Three revived riders of Justice.

The Phoenix mansion had broken windows, and holes in the walls and roof, while a moonlight was falling on it, and the garden turned into a battleground.

The ground that was previously covered with grass was now just dirt and stones while a smell of blood was filling the air around the mansion.

"You are stronger than the last time we fought each other," Elizabeth said as she licked her lips and locked her blood-red eyes on Zanderiel, who sent her body flying toward the trees of the nearby forest.

Her red dress was damaged with a few holes and ripped pieces, adding a seductive image to her already erupting mature beauty.

Zanderiel who was wearing his white priest clothes smiled, "Of course, thanks to that boy! If he wouldn't kill me, I would be locked on the same power level forever."

A bolt of purple lightning fell with a crashing sound next to Zanderiel and when the light from it died, it revealed Etalon, with a few burns on his white priest's clothes.

"Done, it was easier than I thought" he said and Zanderiel turned his head to the left.

A few meters away, on the ground in a purple electric trap was Isobel's unconscious body with a lot of bruises, and her long purple dress had a few black spots from electric attacks that Etalon used on her.

"Same" was heard from behind and when Etalon and Zanderiel looked behind, they saw Azmel walking towards them with a cocky smile, while behind him was unconscious Celeste.

She was tied up and dragged behind him with at least ten thick earth spikes stuck in her beautiful body.

Her long black dress with gold lanes was destroyed too, showing her left juicy tigh that was pierced by one of the spikes.

It was a painful sight.

Zanderiel smiled "Well done my friends, now it's my turn" as he turned.

His eyes fell on Elizabeth who got up from the ground.

Clear rage could be seen in her blood-red eyes when she saw her friends.

She disappeared in a trail of blue energy, while Zanderiel disappeared too as only three purple lines could be seen behind him.

Elizabeth and Zanderiel clashed with each other in the hyper-speed battle as they were exchanging blows at a fast pace.

Zanderiel punched Elizabeth in her stomach and she punched him in the face, he kicked her in her ribs, and she broke his knee.

Well, it was a fierce carnage, but in the end, Zanderiel won and Elizabeth was lying on the ground, defeated, while shocked thoughts were crossing her mind.

'H-How is this possible, it was-' *COUCH* '-a long time since someone crippled my body and mentality like this.'

Zanderiel kneeled in front of her "You know, in the end, everyone is going to be defeated and die. The only difference is time, and you were alive for too long."

He then stood up as a pile of purple light enveloped his body and his injuries were healed.

Pulling out a syringe from a pocket that had a silver liquid in it, he injected the substance into his neck.

"Bring the coffins" he ordered and Etalon lifted his right hand towards the sky as a green lightning bolt flew from it and disappeared when it touched the clouds.

In the next second, the same bolt of green lighting fell next to Elizabeth's body, revealing three silver coffins.

Zanderiel looked at Etalon "Well that's new" to which Etalon replied, "Yeah, I found it while I was fighting with this flaming chick."

Looking back at Elizabeth, Zanderiel's right hand started releasing a silver substance as he pointed the palm of his hand at Elizabeth, letting the liquid come towards her.

"W-What is that?" she asked, completely exhausted and Zanderiel smiled.

"This is my new power. I can control and manipulate any liquid I want. And this liquid? It's Mercury."

Zanderiel suddenly narrowed his eyes and turned.

"Etalon, bring me another syringe. This is not enough."

Etalon disappeared in a bolt of green lightning that fell from the sky and Zanderiel, as he was turning back "Unfortunately, I need to first- fuck" didn't see Elizabeth on the ground anymore, she disappeared.

Turning around again, he saw Azmel flying towards him, so Zanderiel aimed his mercury at Azmel's body and he landed safely on it.

Placing him on the ground, his face was almost hit by Elizabeth, but he managed to dodge.

In the next second, another punch flew toward his chest, but he channeled the mercury in front of him and it stopped Elizabeth's hand, a few centimeters away from his face.

'Fuck!' was all she thought while wanting to pull her hand out of that mercury, but it didn't budge so she cut her off and disappeared again.

Zanderiel smiled widely.

"Thanks for your blood I guess'' he said as he pulled her hand from the mercury "Unfortunately, I need more than this."

But what happened next shocked him, because her hand dissolved into pure blood and randomly flew towards the mansion.

In front of it appeared Elizabeth and the blood formed her hand again.

Elizabeth just stood there with wide eyes which Zanderiel took advantage of and appeared in front of her.

Waking from her stupor, she wanted to quickly block Zanderiel's punch but she was slower than him.

In the next second, her jaw hurt like hell as her body was flying toward the sky.

It was due to that mercury that Zanderiel used to completely cover his right fist, forming a glove with a few spikes on it.

When his fist and Elizabeth's jaw collided, he broke all the spikes he formed on that glow, letting the mercury circulate through Elizabeth's body.

When it reached her brain, it damaged it badly, which made Elizabeth fall unconscious.

When she landed on the ground, every bone in her body was broken which formed a wide smile on Zanderiel's face.

"What happened?" was heard so Zanderiel turned left and saw Azmel walking towards him with a confused face.

"Ignore it" replayed Zanderiel as Etalon appeared in a green bolt of lightning and handed him the syringe, "Here."

Zanderiel took it and injected it into his neck and a few seconds later, he formed more of that mercury.

He pointed his palm at Elizabeth's body again and completely covered her with it.

"Open it" he ordered as Azmel opened one of the coffins, revealing dozens of big, sliver spikes on the bottom wall.

Zanderiel lifted Elizabeth's body and placed her in the coffin, while she was still, fully covered with the mercury.

When she was in and every spike was piercing her body, Zanderiel filled the entire coffin with mercury and Azmel closed her.

The coffin then locked herself with a green magic seal, that appeared on the door.

"Bring the other two here" ordered Zanderiel.

Etalon just lifted his hand towards the air again and repeated the same action, teleporting Isobel next to Zanderiel.

The electric trap then disappeared.

But Azmel outstretched his hands towards the ropes that were holding Celeste and pulled them towards him.

All spikes then disappeared, except for one that was piercing her chest.

The ropes were flying towards Azmel and in a few seconds, Celeste was in front of him, landing painfully on the ground.

Placing his dirty boot on her smooth chest and spitting on her face in disgust because of his hate towards Vampires, he destroyed the last earth spike, and Celeste's unconscious body shook with pain.

When the two Countesses were there, Zanderiel repeated the process.

Enveloping Isobel's and Celeste's bodies in mercury, placing their bodies in the silver coffins, filling the coffins with mercury, and closing the coffins, which locked them with green magic seals.

"Done, now we are finally going to" Zanderiel wanted to say more, but stopped and looked at the mansion.

Seeing three pissed-off girls standing near them at looking at them, he smiled.

"Well, what do we have here? The daughters of three famous countesses, what an honor."

"Shut your filthy mouth, release our mothers and you don't die slowly and painfully," said Rose, and Claudia on her left with Vicki on Rose's right nodded.

Zanderiel, Etalon, and Azmel started laughing like crazy.

"What are you three vampire whores wanna do? Slaping us to death?" replayed Azmel and all three of them started slowly approaching the mansion.

Girls just smiled and stood in the same place.

"Slapping you to death would be just a waste of time. I have better things to do than waste time with an ugly lowlife like you." replayed Vicki.

Azmel, who had the biggest ego in the group felt an invisible arrow piercing his heart.

"What did you say BITCH!"

Claudia smiled too and added, "Well, say it one more time, and you are going to pray for your pathetic life."

Azmel wanted to say something, but Zanderiel touched his shoulder and said, "Come on Azmel, stop it."

"Daughters of the Countesses of Redwilnet. We are just taking your mothers and aunt for a vacation. It's just one experiment, nothing serious, trust me."

All three started laughing as Rose added "Well, that was the best joke I heard in a long time."

"But, I'm giving you one last chance to release our mothers and leave."

Zanderiel narrowed his eyes, "What happens if not."

"Well, you are going to die of course. What, do you think that we just say 'oh okay, bye'?" replayed Claudia.

Zanderiel started thinking for a while and then replayed "Fine."

Etalon and Azmel looked at him like he had grown a second head.

"What? But we need to-" Etalon wanted to protest, but Zanderiel looked at him and lifted his hand in a stopping sign.

Then he looked back at the girls "Fine, we do an exchange. Christopher for the coffins. We take him and you will have your mothers and aunt back."

Vicki smiled and said "Deal!"

Zanderiel smiled too "Really? Then where is he?"

The same second he ended the last question, a bolt of yellow lightning fell on the three coffins and they disappeared.

Zanderiel and the two turned behind and their eyes widened when they didn't see the coffins.

Instead, they saw Christopher, who was wearing his black suit with two gold lines on his chest forming a letter V, and with a wide smile plastered on his face, he asked.

"Hello, missed me?"

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