The Aftermath
Upstairs the group is sitting in the living room trying to figure out where they need to go next.
"If what I've read of the book, Kamen needs these ingredients to evolve to a Adult Vampire. It would seem that he needs the blood of a vampire that is King level. It's weird that this is the only requirement. But where are we going to get the blood from a King level vampire?" Alistair explains.
"I'm not sure, the only King Vampires I know about is Vlad, all of the counts in Evengail are at-least Duke level vampires." Jenny says.
"I can reach out to my fellow witches and see if there is a way around this, does the book say anything about what happens when a vampire consumes King level blood and evolves?" Alice asks.
"From what I saw, there's different reactions for evolution. Since Jenny and I are pure blood vampires, the evolution doesn't really play a role in our lives. Since we're pure blood we're able to ascend with less but most are afraid of the counts and Vlad. It would seem that Vlad only trusts his counts and those who evolve are killed to make an example out of them for the others." Alistair explains.
"Alice, can you go ahead and reach out to your friends and see what they can do? We'll eventually need to go and get those two battle freaks and let them know what's goi-" Jenny tries to explain as they feel a tremor in the ground.
"What was that? There has never been an earthquake here before." Alistair asks in shock.
"Oh no, I think we need to go and check on them sooner than we thought. The only reason I can think of it that they're getting really rough with each-other. That area is strong and will eventually go back to it's original state, but it can only withstand so much before it breaks down." Alice explains as everyone feels another tremor but this time it's stronger and it shakes the entire house and knocks everyone to the ground.
Getting off of the ground, everyone runs down to the basement. Once they enter the basement, everyone is silent with what they are witnessing.
Elizabeth is in her true form. She's covered in Blue and Purple armor similar to lightning. The armor is actually her skin, it's simply been awakened and has transformed her into a monster of a vampire.
The pressure everyone feels is smothering, it's hard to breathe, every breathe feels like they're breathing in fire, their legs are frozen in place like they're glued to the spot, only able to watch what happens next.
"She's a Dragon level Vampire. It's impossible! Who is she really?" Jenny says in panic.
Sighing, Alistair reveals who she really is.
"She's not just a King level Vampire. She's one of the deadliest vampires to exist, no one but Vlad has the power to stop her. He tried to bring her to his side thousands of years ago but she refused, saying that she didn't agree with how he was as a King. Of-course, Vlad didn't like that. So he sent out his best troops and counts to stop her and force her to be his."
"That's terrible!" Jenny says.
"That's not the worst of it. The troops that Vlad sent were all tortured, bled out, and then slaughtered. Or so the tale goes. Apparently Vlad didn't want anything to do with her, he let her go." Alistair explains
"She's fighting Kamen, seriously! What if she kills him? What did Kamen do to make her this angry?" Alice yells out.
Alistair forces his finger up and point over to Kamen.
"It would seem that something caused his thirst to go out of control and he somehow drank her blood, causing his evolution to start" He explains as everyone looks Kamen up and down and notices that he is covered in blackness with blood red eyes shining out.
"ROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRR" Kamen lets out a roar completely taken over by his evolution.
"Until his evolution is over, he'll stay like this. Let's just be thankful that they're over there and we're over here." Alistair states.
Everyone nodded their heads with effort knowing that he's right, and confrontation between them and Kamen would be fatal.
"You need to calm down Kamen, I am warning you." Elizabeth says in a growl.
Kamen opens his mouth and every sees darkness and light combine together.
"Shit. This is going to be bad."Alice says out loud.
"Kamen! You need to stop this, come back to us!" Jenny yells out to Kamen.
Big mistake.
Kamen turns his head and stares at them with the energy forming in his mouth .
Seeing this Elizabeth is shocked.
"Kamen, this is between you and I, don't involve them!" She yells out as Kamen releases the energy at the group.
Unable to move the group is stuck, waiting for their death.
Suddenly Elizabeth stands infront of them. A barrier of pure red energy mixed with lightning surrounds them. "Everyone! Brace for impact!" Elizabeth yells out as the energy hits them.
The resulting explosion can only be compared to 3 Hydrogen bombs exploding at once. For comparison, the Hydrogen bomb is 1000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb.
Smoke clears away revealing the crater, 2 times bigger than Elizabeth's crater.
Down in the crater stands Elizabeth down on one knee still holding the shield up. The shield is cracked and slowly breaking.
"Holy shit, Alistair. Are you sure that he's only at the Adult stage?!" Alice says in utter shock.
Alistair shakes his head. "At this point, I'm not sure. I've never seen anyone force a Dragon level Vampire to it's knees except for a King level or higher. I'm not even sure that we can say that he isn't at the level Elizabeth is now. I just don't know how it's possible. Unless...." Alistair explains and they hear a growl and look up.
Kamen is floating above them looking down at them with pure malice in his eyes.
He pulls his fist back and starts hitting the shield. Sending shockwaves through out the ground.
"This is crazy!" Jenny cries out as the shield cracks more.
Elizabeth coughs up blood.
"I don't know how long I can keep this shield up. I'll try to open a small part of the back and let you guys escape while I hold him off." Elizabeth says coughing up more blood.
"You can't be serious, Elizabeth?! We're not going to leave you!" Alistair yells out.
She gives them a look of 'You better fucking leave while you can'.
Everyone looks down at the ground and nods their heads as Elizabeth opens up a small portion of the shield and lets them escape.
As soon as they get out they hear the shield break.
They turn around and see Kamen holding Elizabeth in his hand squeezing down hard.
"Kamen, please! Don't hurt her anymore! Please, I love you!" Jenny cries out tears rolling down her face.
Kamen looks over at her and throws Elizabeth to the ground and slowly walks towards them, then his slow walk turns into a sprint and he clears the distance in three seconds.
Standing infront of everyone, they feel the pressure he's releasing. It's enough to kill someone. The anger and rage that's radiating from him is immense.
Kamen reaches out for Jenny as Alistair strikes out towards him hitting him in the face.
"Damn, it's like hitting a diamond." Alistair cries out as he feels his hand break.
Kamen looks over at Alistair and puts his hand through his gut and throws him into the wall with such a force that one would assume that it would turn a human into a fine mist.
"AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH" Alistair cries out as he feels his insides cut open.
Kamen looks back over to Jenny and resumes reaching out to her, as his hand reaches her. The black armor around him slowly starts to crack and break away.
Seeing this everyone is in shock.
"His evolution.....It's.....done...." Alistair says coughing up blood and trying to catch his breath.
Kamen falls to his knees and then to the ground. As he hits the ground the armor completely breaks revealing Kamen.
He's visibly taller and more masculine, with longer hair black hair that glistens in the artificial light from the area.
"Kamen!" Jenny yells out as she drops to her knees and grabs Kamen and holds him in her arms.
Elizabeth appears limping with blood dripping down from every part of her body. "It'll take more than that to take me out." She says with a pained smile.
"Is it finally over?" Elizabeth asks.
Jenny nods her head. "It seems that his evolution is over, no one expected that Kamen would be that strong."
"I don't think it was all him, from what I experienced. It would seem that Lumen and Vestis helped him speed along his evolution and forced him to skip a few evolutions." She explains.
"How strong do you think he is now?" Jenny asks tears still rolling down her cheeks.
Elizabeth shakes her head. "I'm not sure, I think he's above Dragon level now. If he was at my level then it would have been an even fight. But I was damn near powerless compared to him."