Alucard separated everyone to different floors of the Blood Tower. Bell was in an alcohol cellar, where giant barrels were spread across the area. The aroma of liquor was everywhere.
She searched for everyone. "Mike! James! Eduard!" She yelled, "Where are you guys?"
Bell got no responses, making her worried, 'Where did they go? Did Alucard kill them?!' She thought.
'I may be wrong, he wouldn't have time killing them that quickly, and why would he let me live, not the others?!'
She was following the flicking lights to find a way to others. "Which means he split us up on purpose." She saw an elevator in the distance and went toward it, looking at the buttons. She blinked many times to see if she saw it right.
"Huh? Why are there only two buttons?"
There were only two buttons for two floors. The letter F was printed on the upper and C on the lower buttons. Bell found this strange but still pressed the button, figuring it was a way up. Just as the elevator door began to close, swords were flung at her, winding themselves in the gap. They slammed into the wall, inches from her head.
"What!" She was shocked by the swords flying toward her.
"God, that surprised me!" She started pushing the button to close the elevator faster, "Hurry, close! Before the monster threw the swords, come inside."
In the distance, she saw an Ariadna start running toward her, so she pressed the button, but the elevator refused to close. "Why are you not closing!"
The woman entered the lift and removed her swords from the wall. She looked at Bell and said, "Don't be so defensive. I'm fair, not gonna kill you without you putting up a fight." She took a sword beside her, the "Hell's Unholy Blade." The elevator door closed.
Bell Oldicity had to pick up the sword on her left side—the "Heaven's Holy Blade." It had a divine aura around it, opposite to the demonic aura of Ariadna's weapon.
She picked it up, swinging it like she was familiar, supersing Alucard's right hand. "Oh? It seems you held these blades before?!" Bell was watching the door to open.
"No matter, you can't get past me!"
After the door opened, Bell instantly charged at the green-eyed Russian woman, swinging her sword toward her enemy's face. The Russian's long black hair flowed down after the blades clung together.
Then Ariadna jumped backward, exiting the lift and entering the new area. This room was a factory where alcohol was stored in glass bottles from the buttom floor that came up on a conveyor to be shipped onto ships.
She was surprised that Bell had conquered her fear. She asked, "You were scared a minute ago. What happened?!"
"Now that I know you are human, not a monster, it'll be easier to fight you!" She said while slowly approaching Alucard's right hand.
When Mike's wife came into the trap spot, Ariadna swung the sword into the air, "Hell Fire!" Two slashes turned into flames, one changing the factory robot's direction toward Bell, and the other cutting the rope, dropping the box where Oldcity was standing.
***
Alucard's right hand was poised to return her blade to its sheath when a feather suddenly fluttered out from a small gap in the box. Ariadna, after seeing it, understood what had occurred. The quill that landed on the box burst it open, revealing that Bell Oldcity was alive and well. She was protected by many angelic feathers, which formed a holy barrier around her.
"Now, there is a possibility that you used to—?!" Before she could finish her sentence, Bell charged at her, swinging her sword at her head. Ariadna blocked the attack.
After many blocks from her enemy, Mrs. Oldcity tossed the sword into her other hand and swung it to her side, changing her pattern of attacks. However, the Hatchling had quick reflexes and blocked the strike.
The swords cling with each clash. None of them wounded one of the others a single time. Eventually, Bell jumped back from the fight and said, "Godspeed, Slash!" Light emerged from her sword, engulfing her in light, dashing toward Alucard's right hand.
Bell turned back into a human after bearing close to Ariadna, attacking her. However, her attack still got blocked, which annoyed Mrs. Oldcity with the constant blockade of her attacks.
"Tsk! With Hell's sword, you are pretty annoying, so I will take it back." Bell said.
Ariadna's eyes twitched when she heard, "Oh, I was generous in giving you my other blade, but now you want to take my sword from me as well." She angrily said, "I will not let that happen; I will kill you!"
Bell approached her slowly. "I'm going to take that sword back even if you try to stop me." She slid her blades across the ground, creating a scratching sound.
Ariadna returns to the conveyor belt, where they bring bottled alcohol from the buttom floor to the current floor, which loads it into trucks outside. The Hatchling grabs the glasses, which catch fire due to the presence of Hell's Unholy sword, and throws them at Bell.
Mrs. Oldcity, with slashes, slices the bottles that are coming at her into multiple pieces, but some of the shards pierce her face. The sharp chunks burned her. It was a deep burn, making her scream in pain.
The Russian woman knew she had to quickly finish the older woman before her weapon stopped the pain, so she slashed the air with her blade and yelled, "Hell Chains!" A dozen chains from a portal rip out from those tears, capturing Bell, holding her.
The holder of the Hell's blade was in front of her, looking at her eyes, "Unfortunately for us, our fun ends here!"
She thrusts her sword down. Before the sharp point of the blade stabbed Bell's stomach. Many feathers from her Heaven blade blocked the strike, and some landed on Bell, healing her from the fire, and the chains broke. She instantly gets up and thrusts up toward Araidna's chin.
The Hatchling quickly blocks the attack, jumps back to breathe, and Bell gets up.
"I guess our fun didn't end." She excitedly said, "But I wished I had kept that blade instead of giving it to you."
***
Bell smiled and swung her sword toward the head. The symphony of clashes between the women created a sound, clinging together, echoing around the room. Each strike was majorly close to becoming life-threatening or fatal.
Ariadna saw the swing of Heavon's Blade dangerously approaching her, so she dodged it by stepping sideways. However, that decision was bad because she was quick enough not to tear her sleeves off. Her skin was showing, revealing a pupetteer cross brace tattoo. She saw it and jumped backwards.
"Shit!" she yelled after seeing it, but the greyed woman didn't see it.
Alucard's right hand got angrier after seeing the tattoo, so she charged at Bell, firing fire toward her. Mike's wife cut the flames and blocked the sword head on. They started clashing again. Each attack was getting stopped. Neither of them could harm the other.
Bell Oldicity grew tired of the back and forth, eventually jumping back and changing her fighting stance, closing her eyes.
Upon seeing this, the Russian woman became angry, "How dare you use that stance!" She yelled at a short, grey-haired woman.
From that stance, a thousand-headed dragon loomed around Bell Oldicity as she posed. It was the embodiment of the stance that came to life. It has a strong aura, putting pressure on Hatchling's body by the mere aura from that pose.
Bell opened her eyes after taking a deep breath and said, "Godspeed, Slash!" Bell turned into light from it, emerging from her blade, charging toward her enemy, and she attacks Ariadna.
Few of Bell's attacks were stopped, but it became so overwhelming for the Hatchling that she dropped her blade to the ground and turned into a thousand pieces. It was over, Mike's wife, Mrs. Bell Oldcity won the fight against the right hand of Alucard's Ariadna, the Hatchling!
"God, that drained my Flow quickly, but at least I defeated her." She saw the elevator. "I need to hurry and find others." She grabbed Hell's Unholy Blade. 'How long had I held both blades in my hands?'
She started yelling, "Mike? James? Eduard?" She was slowly approaching the lift when suddenly the floor collapsed.
"Huh?!" She fell onto the bottom floor, hurting herself.
"Ow, I overdid it with the slashes." She stands up, struggling.
Bell smells the scent of the liquor and is looking for an exit. She searched around the room, and eventually a painting caught her eye on a wall near a door that may lead to different areas.
It depicted an elf on a battlefield riding a unicorn, fighting a group of strange creatures alongside 12 individuals. She was slashing the monster with her heroic sword. In the background, which was hardly visible, there was a snowy mountain with three mysterious figures standing on its peak. One of them looked like they were holding a scythe.
Mrs. Oldcity was in awe until she remembered she had to find the others, so she went toward the door. A few steps in, she heard a strange noise coming from the room she had come from, so she ignored it by thinking, 'I'm not going back there.'
However, a familiar voice echoed in her ears: "Rise, Rise, my child! Show your emptiness, show your strength!" That voice made Bell return to the cellar; she would not leave that alone.
'I hope I didn't hear that voice again, but now that I have, I have to stop it before it can continue!'
Bell entered the room, seeing strings from the ceiling above come down, connecting Ariadna's pieces into one. She became whole again, yet she wasn't human. Ariadna was now a woman marionette controlled by something.
"I should have noticed that tattoo earlier!" The cross bress tattoo was glowing bright yellow.
To be continued.