Dr. Luna
The Vampires Promised Bride Chapter 74

"You've done your part demon. You are free to go and do whatever it is... souls do." Count Basil said as he looked at the demon still standing there.

Lucy's eyes lifted up to Abaddon. She gave him a small smile to show him that she still believed in him. The connection was broken but she refused to believe that changed him that much. His eyes lowered from hers and she watched him vanish. Count Basil smirked as he shifted the vials in his hands. "Don't worry prince. I don't wish to kill you." His eyes narrowed looking beyond the prince and setting his gaze on Lucy. "But killing her will bring the war we need. And will be the step we need to break the bond."

"You are no match for me. We both know that I am the superior fighter between the two of us." Derek didn't like how the man talked as if they were the ones who were weaker.

"Here." Count Basil tossed the vials back over to Beryl. "Take care of the mutt. I'll handle the prince. You should feel privileged wolf. That potion has been customed tailored to attack that vampire blood of yours... with some special help." A sinister smile curled over his lips. "What do you mean?" Derek asked nervously shifting himself more in front of Lucy.

"The potion you were seeing before had some extra enhancements added. Just to take care of this little one. Not only will they separate her wolf from her but it will also strip her vampire from her. A little over kill sure but kill is the keyword here." Count Basil chuckled at his lame joke. Lucy... Derek whimpered to her mind.

They still think I have a werewolf... Lucy thought back to Derek trying to reassure him.

A blur shot towards them and Derek shoved Lucy backwards as he quickly blocked the attack. He bit the tip of his finger and pulled his blood whip out lashing it back towards Basil. At the same time, the witch sent a forceful surge of magic towards Lucy making her dodge more to the side separating her and Derek further.

Lucy felt her body behind pulled to the ground and she glanced around her noticing oddly placed crystals surrounding her. She glanced up to see a sinister smile on Beryl's lips.

"I helped set something similar up a long time ago for my grandmother when she planned a trap for your mother. She ended up getting out... of course, the abomination would. But I don't need to hold you here forever... I just need to hold you still for this." Beryl grinned as she held the vial up.

Lucy glanced up to see a small band of voidless marching on Derek. This was how Count Basil planned to overthrow Derek. He couldn't do it on his own so he would use numbers. She tried to move but couldn't... she could feel her energy pulsating from her body. It was pushing back on the crystals. Her fairy magic was repelling the crystals. They didn't account for her being a fairy princess. She just needed to hold out a little bit more until she could move the crystals and break the barrier that was set up. Then she could use the crystals to seal Beryl and then could help Derek.

Jasper, Irene, and Jester were overrun. Even with their abilities, the numbers were not on their side. On top of the dark elves and ogres, another legion came charging towards them. It was an army of imps, ghouls, and gremlins. This would be it. This was too much for them to handle. Suddenly a pack of wolves jumped in intercepting the incoming army. A mass entangle of wolves and demons collided together. The Pyrite pack had come out to attack the threat on their border. Now with a fighting chance, the vampires pushed through their fatigue.

Jasper elongated his nails that looked like five small blades and began slashing away at the enemies in front of him. He hoped Derek and Lucy were okay.

Justice lunged at the dark unicorn and his green sword roared as it collided with the beast's dark energy. The sword began to morph taking on the head of a bear. The green energy head sank its teeth into the horse's neck sending its power inside of its decaying body. With one last shrilling sound, the horse combusted sending dark shards of energy back at Justice.

He winced as they entered his body throwing him back to the ground. The blood pooled underneath him as he coughed up blood. He could feel himself getting weaker as the life force drained out of him. He stared up at the moon while red liquid trickled from the corner of his mouth. A movement caught his eye and he looked to see a dark elf raising his blade up to stab him. So this was it for him. This would be his end. He closed his eyes too tired to keep them open. He was okay with dying he just wished he knew Lucy and Derek were safe.

A loud commotion happened by his side and he forced himself to open one of his eyes. The dark elf was dead on the ground and Jasper was knelt by his side. "Justice!" Jasper cried out.

Justice quirked a slight smile and closed his eyes again. He just needed to rest.

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The red slicing blood whip wasn't enough to combat against Count Basil and the small army of voidless. He needed to take care of this quickly... Lucy needed him. Every time he tried to move in her direction Basil launched massive attacks in his direction. And while Derek was stronger, Basil was still a tough opponent on his own. Let alone with the small army that Derek was also having to fight off.

Derek could feel an energy surfacing from him. It was the same energy he felt back at his home earlier part of his fairy magic he had inherited from Lucy. The energy pushed around him and he felt it trickle up his hand. It poured into his blood whip that began to morph with the new energy. The blood whip shook slightly as red sparks jumped off of it. He waved the whip again and this time when it landed it sent a surge of red lightning through the voidless army.

Several of the voidless fell to the ground and for a moment there was fear in Count Basil's eyes. That quickly changed to a menacing smile as he looked over at Beryl.

"Do it!" He yelled out looking at the witch.

As if in slow motion Beryl threw the two potions at Lucy. They spiraled in the air and towards her captured body. Lucy couldn't move to evade the potions that were heading right towards her. As the potions passed through the crystal barrier a bright red cloud engulfed Lucy and nothing could be seen from the outside.

Derek cried out and tried to fight to get to her but stopped frozen when he looked at the disappearing cloud. Lucy was no longer there she was gone.

"Where is she?" Count Basil growled looking over at the confused witch.

"No place where you can touch her." A deep voice called out from behind them.

They turned around and all looked up to see a man with dark hair and dark eyes holding Lucy in his arms.

"What the hell are you doing? She isn't your master anymore?!" Count Basil's voice shrieked out angrily.

"She doesn't have to be my master for me to protect her." Aba smiled down at her. "She is my most important person and friend."

"It certainly took you long enough." Lucy spat out playfully.

"Sorry, princess. I had to get rid of the reinforcements they had coming. Oh yeah... by the way you won't be seeing the other army. They have been annihilated. I sent word to your father who quickly ordered the Pyrite pack to engage. And the army of goblins and orcs that were on their way... well they won't be making it either. The dragon's invited them over for a barbeque. So I was just a tad busy but I made it back in time." Aba chuckled as he slid Lucy down placing her back on her feet.

Derek sighed in relief. Thank goodness for Aba. His faith wasn't quite as strong as Lucy's for a moment there and he really did think he left them for good.

"Wait? What happened with the potions?" Beryl asked in exasperation.

"I switched them out on you back when you unbonded my servant relationship. It was actually quite easy. You two were so sure of yourselves you didn't pay attention to anything."

"So you are saying even with the severed bond you are still here protecting them?!" Count Basil shrieked out angrily.

Aba chuckled. "You cut the servant relationship and allowed me to absorb the djinn. Making me a stronger free version of myself...So thanks." He gave the count a smug smile. "But as I already said... Lucy is..." He turned and smiled at her. "She is the only person I have ever cried for. She is special to me."

"What a waste. Do you know how expensive those potions were to come by?!" Count Basil roared.

"Don't act like you were doing me a favor. You couldn't kill Mira and me. Which is why you are siphoning her magic now. It was easier to cut the bond and you just assumed that was the only thing that tied us. But you miscalculated. Because Mira and I are loyal to them willingly." Aba watched the heavy scowl form on the count's face.

"Is it possible to break the servant bond? I thought it was impossible..." Lucy asked looking up at Aba who smiled down at her.

"Mira and I can never seek out a way to break it ourselves. But an outsider could on their own accord. But something that strong..." Aba's eyes grew dark. Something that strong had special help.

Beryl clicked her tongue. She needed those potions. That was her revenge... the reason she sold her damn soul.

"Damn your family! One day you'll be consumed by the dark where no light can ever reach you!" Beryl spat out bitterly.

Aba rubbed his forehead and lifted his brows at the pathetic witch. "Honestly, I feel this whole end here is a bit anticlimactic for someone who has been brooding for so long." He looked at Lucy and raised his eyes. "It really is pathetic. Now, little witch... we just need that other crystal there so we can free Mira."

Beryl began to cackle as she held her sides. Desperate insane laughter echoed in the air. "I can't believe it has come down to this. I can't believe it. Well... I am not going down like this. If I am going to lose I would rather go down fighting. I am already dead... what is the difference?" She lifted up a black liquid and quickly downed the vial.

The moment she did her eyes turned black and her skin turned grey. She let out a feral scream and the voidless that had been killed raised from the dead. More voidless began creeping out of the woods all coming towards them.

"Shit..." Aba said in a low snarl. "Necromancy... She just traded her life for the power to control the undead..." He cursed under his breath where the hell did she get something like that... or from who?

"So what now?" Lucy asked licking her lips and flashing a nervous glance towards Derek.

"We have to kill the witch. Until she dies her undead minions will continue to live." Aba looked down at Lucy.

"So we have no choice but to feed Erebus soul here..." Lucy sighed and rubbed her forehead. "Well on the positive I really wanted to be able to kill her. I hated having to keep her alive." She looked up as Aba smirked down at her. "Is there no way to free Mira now?" She looked back at Mira who was still sealed to a stone on the ground.

"Not without the crystal she has or one like it. So killing the witch is the easiest way for everything. Freeing Mira and killing the undead minions." Aba looked up at Derek who was separated from them by a crowd of voidless.

"Aba you help Derek. I'll take care of the witch... or necromancer or whatever the hell she is now." Lucy felt Aba's hand land on her head.

"Be careful Lucy. And... thank you for believing in me... I wasn't sure if you would trust me without the bond."

"You are stuck with me now bond or no bond. You are my friend... and I will always trust you." Lucy smiled up at him and could see his watery eyes. She gripped onto her daggers and looked in the direction of Derek. "Just hold them off. I'll try to end her soon." She raised her daggers up and darted towards the witch as Aba flashed next to Derek. He shifted into his wolf and began attacking the voidless with Derek.

Lucy's green eyes met with pitch black as she swung her daggers at Beryl. Or what was once Beryl. Honestly, there was nothing human looking about her now. She was making weird screeching and screaming sounds and seemed to have lost the ability to speak. It was like she was just a mindless angry fighting zombie herself.

A black tar substance shot out of the witch's mouth and landed on Lucy's skin. The substance burned like acid and stuck to her flesh. Lucy used this moment to lodge her dagger deep inside of the witch. The witch glanced down at the object in her chest and then lifted her lifeless black orbs back up to Lucy completely unfazed.

Lucy hopped back in shock. The dagger had pierced right where her heart should have been. This could only mean one thing... she couldn't be killed with a mortal weapon. She squeezed her fist together and inhaled deeply. She knew fairy magic was finicky about how it showed itself and often came when you needed it. Well, right now she did need it. She called to the energy inside of her to come to her aid.

Her body began to feel warm as a gentle light caressed her body. And with this light, a new power of Lucy's was being born.