CHAPTER LVI
Her eyes are yellow and possess a look of rage.
Her voice echoes with every word she speaks.
The radio-like device burst into flames at Lucifer's glare.
"Your sacrifice is accepted," Lucifer waves his hand and the neck of his servant breaks.
The satanic witch falls as he walks down the altar.
Dracula glances at his father.
His arduous presence threatens the courageous stand of this assemble.
Lucas cries as he lies beside his brother's corpse.
Elena stares in tears and fear.
Mary wobbles as she tries to get control of her body.
The scene before her eyes tells her that her spell failed to stop Lucifer from coming.
She sees the twins are okay and sighs.
Her eyes widen as she look past Samuel to take in the sight of Byron who stands with blood dripping from his neck.
Byron charges towards Samuel but the sphinx reads the look in Mary's eyes.
He dodges the werewolf and Gabriel puts his hands around Byron's neck.
He snaps it hard and Byron drops to the ground.
Alex and Adrian retreat slowly towards Dracula.
"Justina…" Dracula start, "…you didn't succeed" Lucifer interrupts him.
"You think that making science and magic work for that body was easy?" he complains.
Lucifer ignores him, "Impetum," he orders and his armored guards pull out their swords and charge towards the sphinxes.
Mary says a quick spell and claps her hands together.
A white light flashes for a second and they find themselves standing in the midst of tall trees.
The trees that led them here.
Rachael hides Nightmare as the scenery changes.
"Fuck, I thought that wouldn't end" Elma stands up from the ground.
Her body is bruised and burnt.
Her blond hair is messy and filled with dirt.
"We have to leave this place. I just closed the portal," Mary says.
"But I still came through," Lucifer's voice echoes through their ears.
"You could do better serving me," he says.
"So that you can kill me like you killed your last witch.
Thank you but I prefer to freelance," she says.
He turns to the twins, "Come to me," he commands.
"Fuck no," Gabriel grunts.
"I could kill for a bourbon right now," Samuel says.
The Tremblay's men surround everyone and Lucas points to Lucifer.
"Rachael, Elena. Come here, let us end this hunt," Lucas says.
Elena goes to her uncle's side but Rachael remains reluctant.
"Come," he says, "You are either with us or with them," he says.
"Traitors everywhere," John says.
"This isn't the time to be choosing sides.
If we work together we can do this.
That is the devil for Christ sake," John says.
Lucas bends his head in anger and confusion.
"Kill that demon," he orders his men and they fire their guns at Lucifer.
Lucifer glares at them as none of the bullets come close to him.
He snaps his fingers together and a root breaks through the ground and attacks the men.
Gabriel and Samuel charge towards the devil.
Lucifer stretches his hands forward and the two men fall to their knees.
Blood flows out through their nostrils.
"The ritual may be over, but I can still possess you," Lucifer snarls.
Mary begins to chant a spell and Lucifer feels his new body begin to burn.
The roots bruise and throws the Tremblay's men.
"Retreat!" Lucas shouts to his men.
Elena follows the retreating men but Racheal stays behind.
John tries a sneak attack on Lucifer but he apprehends the vampire.
Lucifer levitates John into the air.
His bones creates a joyful rhythm for Lucifer as they break and he falls to the ground.
He groans in pain.
Gabriel struggles to his feet and he helps his brother stand up.
Lucifer's grip on them weakens as his skin emits smoke.
He shouts and hornets fly out of his mouth.
They attack Mary and break her chant.
He stretches a hand towards the witch and an unseen force throws her against a tree.
In the split second of Lucifer's distraction Gabriel drives his shoulder into Lucifer's belly.
He pins the devil to the ground and punches his face severally.
His fists speak the unspoken words of anger and fear.
Lucifer screams with a voice that threatens to shatter the ear drums of the sphinx.
Gabriel covers his ears and Lucifer pushes him off.
Samuel appears behind Lucifer as he stands up. He stretches his hand as he aims his claws at Lucifer's back.
Lucifer screams as Samuel's claws tear at his borrowed flesh.
A root attacks his torso and throws him to the side.
Gabriel appears with a punch to Lucifer's face and a kick to his ribs.
Lucifer grabs Gabriel's face and the immortal feels a surge of electric current flow through his body and his limbs grow numb.
Samuel grabs Lucifer from behind and restrains him.
"Tear out his heart," Samuel shouts.
Gabriel's claws shoot out of his fingers as he stretches them toward the devil's chest.
Lucifer's eyes shine brightly and Gabriel pauses, he struggles to move his hands with all his strength but strength fails him.
Lucifer screams and a force wipes the sphinxes off his body and throws them away.
Their bones feel the vibrations of the unknown force.
"Your blood will be mine.
Your bones will be mine.
Your body will be mine,".
"Go get your own," her soft voice carries bravery at the tip of her tongue.
Lucifer was occupied with the twins and paid no attention to the human. After all, what can a human do to him, the devil.
He turns to the human but he is not prepared for what she does.
Rachael stabs Nightmare into Lucifer's body and he screams in pain.
She pulls out the dagger and walk backwards in shock.
Excitement moves through her shaky hands as she is flabbergasted by her own actions.
She never thought she would pull it off.
She noticed the twins building momentum but never finishing off their attacks and this circle created a perfect distraction.
Black blood spills from the side of his torso and his skin dries and cracks.
He covers his wound with his hands and staggers; "Nightmare,".
"You must be Frank McQueen's daughter. Only he and his family can wield that dagger as per the deal he made with me," Lucifer grunts.
Rachael is surprised.
Her father made a deal with the devil?
How much did he hide from Rachael and her mother?
"What do you know about my father?" Rachael asks.
"You will join him in hell," Lucifer spits and stretches his hands forward and Rachael shrieks in fear.
She pauses and observes the devil as nothing happens to her.
The twins notice Lucifer's struggle as his abilities falter.
They charge at him, attacking with claws and fists.
The brothers beat Lucifer's weakened body until he can barely walk.
They put him on his knees and hold him up.
Rachael still has Nightmare in her hand and Samuel gestures to her to end Lucifer's stay.
"His soul is in hell and can be saved," Lucifer says as Rachael readies her aim.
"Lies. Do not believe a word he says," Gabriel says to her, "He is the devil," Samuel adds.
"He came to me to make Nightmare answer only to him and his family. For that he is in hell.
Spare me and you shall see him walk this earth again," Lucifer engages her heart with reluctance and she freezes in confusion.
He says he can bring her father back but can he really be trusted?
"Do it," Samuel urges her and she takes in a deep breath.
The devil screams out.
He expresses a deafening voice and a whirlwind of leaves and sand appear between them.
The whirlwind is strong but brief and with its departure comes Lucifer's escape.
The twins and Rachael stare between themselves as they realize what he just did.
John struggles to his feet as his bones heal.
Elma comes out of hiding as the fight comes to an end.
She wobbles on shaky legs.
"I have had enough for one day. Can we just fucking leave?" Elma complains.
"I agree with her," John walks with an aching body.
Samuel looks at his destroyed clothes and begins to walk away from the trees.
The group begins to walk away, "Are we going to go like the devil isn't walking on earth right now?" Mary complains as she follows behind.
"You can go after him if you wish but I think the rest of us will settle for some rest," John answers.
Rachael walks silently as she replays what just happened in her mind.
Lucifer said her father is in hell, so his soul did not make heaven.
He was a good man, wasn't he?
She wonders as more mystery grows around the late patriarch.
"Hunters, vampires, werewolves, witches and the devil. Only in Manhattan folks," Samuel says.
DRACULA'S LAIR.
Alex and Adrian stand with anxiety crawling through their gut. They stand at the door of Dracula's room where they can hear sounds of destruction and anguish.
They can hear their master destroy mirrors and the furniture of his room as he laments.
"Do you think he'll kill us?" Adrian asks, "You are the head of his security, only a miracle will save you," she answers him.
"Fuck," he whispers to himself.
"I don't even know how to talk to him right now," Alex pulls out a little book.
She opens it to reveal the name, Drago Morningstar.
Adrian looks at her, "Isn't that his…" "Shut up Adrian. I will use this," she says.
Adrian turns his head as he picks up on strange footsteps.
He sees Lucifer's armored guards walking towards them.
"I don't think you will need that," he says and the two vampires give way for them.
Dracula is furious with the outcome of the ritual.
Even with all his preparations, his plan were still foiled by those sons of his.
He hates them for stopping him from getting happiness.
He destroys the decorations of his room leaving art works, spears and broken ceramics on the floor.
Two armored guards enter his room unannounced and he glares at them.
He growls lowly as their presence signifies his father's arrival.
From the dark corner of the room Lucifer appears with a wounded body.
He places his hand over his bleeding wound.
The two monsters stare at each other with irritation.
"All this happened because of your weakness.
You are a failure," Lucifer curses he spawn.
He spits at his name.
"If you had done your job properly I would have gotten a proper body," he shouts.
Dracula wears a frown as his father speak words of anger.
"You will be punished.
You shall never see Justina again.
She will stay in the depths of hell for all eternity,".
Dracula's heart drowns with what is left of his soul.
"How dare you?"
His heart bleeds with tears and he wears the face of a broken man.
He bends his head and takes a deep breath as he prepares to unchain his raging emotions.
He sighs deeply as he exhales.
He walks calmly to Lucifer and pushes him against the wall.
"I have always hated you," his long fangs shoot out and he sinks them into the possessed body.
He drinks the blood as his teeth pierces into his flesh.
He bites a piece of Lucifer's flesh and spits at the floor.
The armored guards draw their swords and charge at the count.
Dracula dodges their attacks and disarms one of them.
He stabs the blade into its chest and kicks the guard off the sword.
"You have forgotten who I am," Dracula shouts as he and the other armored guard fight.
They clash swords against each other's blade until Dracula best the guard and beheads him.
He throws the sword to the ground.
"I am the Prince of blood. I am terror. The nightmare monsters dream about…" he says as he walks towards the limping demon.
He grabs a spear from the ground.
Lucifer walks backward and presses his hand forward in attempt to exert his power but to no avail.
"Drago…" before Hell's dweller can speak, Dracula drives the spear through Lucifer's chest and raises him above the room's floor.
"I am the impaler," Dracula says and mounts the spear against the wall.
Lucifer's lifeless body hangs with open eyes.
His black blood stains the wall as the spear and the corpse fall to the ground.
The possessed body drops to the ground and falls like a log.
Dracula falls to his knees as his last glimpse of hope to see his wife disappears.
His dark eyes fill up with tears and he tears his clothes.
Anguish and pain stake his weeping heart to a lonely world.
And he screams out to the world; "Maledicam tibi, pater"