The Transformation of Two - Life As the Vampire God

Life As the Vampire God Chapter 21 - The Transformation of Two

The dust cleared. I was kneeling on the ground with my head bowed. Everyone rose to their feet.

Ares shrieked. "Nooooooo!!"

Slowly, more for dramatic effect than anything, I rose to my feet, erect and whole. One minor detail, I was glowing bright blue, then it stopped, and I returned to my normal color.

A small voice in my head urged me to pick a new weak spot. It sounded like it was my subconscious. For a moment I thought about my right Achilles, opposite leg of Achilles. "Thank you" it replied. I'm thinking that the voice was added when I was created to ensure my survival. I decided to move on.

Lucifer announced. "Upgrade complete."

My head snapped up. "What?" Sorcerer Ares shot a quick bursting blast at me, but I sidestepped to the right and it hit my statue which ironically, like myself, instantly started to repair itself. I rushed at the Sorcerer, but the Demon Ares stepped in front of him thus shielding the Sorcerer from my assault. Undeterred, Demon Ares sputtered, "let's talk about …" Not to be thwarted, I grabbed his throat, lifted him into the air as though he were as light as a feather. His eyes widened in fear and surprise. However, it wasn't until I broke into a wide smile that he began screaming. "Arrrrgggg!!!" His eyes and mouth opened simultaneously, both glowing bright red. When the glowing stopped, he was dead. I dropped him into a heap at my feet. But no rest for a warring, Vampire me. I sensed an unwelcome movement.

Hercules charged from behind, I pivoted around. He swung a punch, but I easily fielded it and somehow the force of the blow was absorbed by my left palm. My hand was glowing blue, I watched while the color traveled up my arm, across my chest and down to my right hand. I then punched him hard on the right side of his neck.

The force of my punch shredded the Nemean Lion skin upon impact. Hercules flew backwards. At this point Lucifer stepped in and sucker punched him, Hercules hit the ground hard like a felled tree except no one yelled 'timber.' I ran at him like a runaway freight train! I'd never run this fast in my life. Life! Wait! I had died and apparently, I resurrected better than before. Hmmmm. Hercules screamed, well it sounded more like a plea, "wait! No! Please, no!" Since when was he such a coward? I sunk my teeth deep into the opening of the shredded lion skin where exposed sweaty flesh beckoned to be renewed. I released my General Venom. Hercules managed a garbled, "aagghh!!"

I stood upright. Hercules was squirming on the ground. I slowly turned, purposely facing Ares. Oddly enough I could feel and hear Hercules's blood dripping off from my chin. All of the Ares's began backing up. At the same time Hercules stopped squirming and rose to his full height. He ignored the Ares's and stared directly at me. I nodded then said, "injure but don't kill him."

"Yes, my Lord." He immediately advanced toward Ares, and as if on cue, the Power Core Guardians vanished.

I addressed Lucifer. "By the way, thanks for the upgrade."

"Actually, Draven my son, there's more to the upgrade than what you just experienced." That caught me off guard. Not the upgrade information but the term, 'Draven, my son' …

Hercules attacked the large Ares, they clashed, tangled weapons and hurled themselves toward the right wall. Luck flew in where the doors had been destroyed but before he could engage in combat of any sort, Ghost Ares ran straight through Luck which disoriented Luck. Sorcerer and Demon Ares both caught Luck by the throat and shoved their arms deep into his chest. Luck's chest glowed bright red. At that point they let go of Luck and he effortlessly rose into the air. His whole body changed to a bright shiny gray.

I screamed, "well that's a shame…" Luck exploded leaving nothing behind, no debris, nothing! It was as if he had never existed. I'd have to wait three months for him to revive.

Lucifer alerted me. "Here he comes." I followed Lucifer's gaze. A ghostly form appeared. It was the Primaral God Protector! In a blink he turned from ghostly into a solid form. His green hair was spiked up. Why not, right? His eyes were bright green, and he was initially wearing a loin cloth which fortunately morphed into an Easlum made tee and long cotton cloth pants. The Easlum clothes looked good on him.

"Ummmm," I began. He cut me off. Yes, that was irritating!

"Just call me Constructs." His green eyes glowed brighter than the finest emeralds I'd ever seen prior to now.

"As you wish …" I heard a commotion and glanced toward the noise. A smile formed. I couldn't help myself! All of the Ares's were running toward the opening left by the destroyed doors.

Construct raised his arm and yelled, "no, no, no, no! I don't think so boys!" His outstretched right hand shot a rainbow of glowing colors toward the opening where the destroyed doors had once stood firm and sturdy. The array of colored lights bent and formed a perfectly shaped set of double doors, replacing the once damaged pair. I did notice that Construct's powers were similar to powers Sermoff possessed. All of the Ares's stopped in mid strides. Their former escape route no longer existed. They were rendered powerless. And they knew it. They slowly turned around and were facing me.

Metal Ares spoke first. His voice shook slightly in delivery. "C-come on Draven, let's make a deal."

"What is your proposal?" I asked. I wanted to have my fun and was curious more than anything at this point.

He didn't waver. "I'll tell you what Sermoff's plans are and in exchange, you'll let me go." I was pleased to notice that Attila and Achilles were already slowly walking towards the repaired double doors.

"Fine," I said.

Metal Ares double checked the status and restated, "is that a deal then?" Cain just then appeared at the entrance of the Temple and Hercules walked behind me.

Again, I reiterated, "yes."

"Well then," he took a deep breath. Sermoff is held up in a pocket dimension similar to yours." He paused slightly then continued, "he's been taking people from Earth, turning them into weaker witches and raising an Army." He smiled, "he also has access to Easlum, in fact, enough access to bring his entire Army here."

"Is that all?"

"Yes! Isn't that enough?" he added cockily.

"Good, good," I declared with a smile. "Get him, hold him down."

"Wait! Wait" Metal Ares screamed, definitely in a panic now. "We had a deal!"

I smiled again. I loved showing off my perfectly formed pearly white teeth. "Did we now?" I sighed, "you should have made sure that you made an unbreakable deal, especially with me!" I shook my head at him in mock pity then added. "A real novice mistake on your part. Also I'm not going to let you go, you did attack me first after all."

Enlarged Ares leapt at me with zero warning. I ducked. He went soaring over my head and straight into Hercules who was waiting. Hercules immediately smashed him into the ground, unceremoniously stomped on his face, killing him. Achilles, Attila and Cain charged forward. The ground around the dead Demon Ares's body got darker, his eyes opened, and he slowly rose to a standing position. This was not expected!

"You thought you killed me, didn't you?" Demon Ares stated matter-of-factly.

"Yes," I replied. There was no sense in making a grand showing here. The guy was definitely NOT dead.

Demon Ares then shot energy from both of his hands outward, the movement sent Achilles and Cain flying backwards but left Attila unfazed. Ghost Ares then leapt at Attila. Attila blasted him but he disappeared and reappeared behind Attila. Ghost Ares tried to attack but Attila spun around and shot demonic energy into him.

"Damn you monster …" was the last sound Ghost Ares uttered before he exploded.

"Someone please deal with Draven!" Metal Ares shouted.

Achilles and Cain were standing again. Achilles moved forward and attacked Demon Ares. Achilles punched him, the thrust was so forceful it sent him blasting through the clear Construct doors. He crashed unceremoniously onto the ground right next to the edge but popped back onto his feet as though he had springs attached. Black energy flowed around his hands and formed two black cloud swords. They fought hard, continuing their brawl to the VIP train. Sorcerer Ares teleported right next to me, grabbed my throat and shot energies into me like last time. I then punched him and unlike last time, I blasted him back thanks to the powers I got from Hercules. Next, I teleported behind Metal Ares. He tried back kicking me I grabbed his foot, swung him up into the air and slammed him into the unyielding ground. I knelt down, bit into his throat and released the General Venom. He immediately started squirming along with Sorcerer and Demon Ares. I rose to my full height, stretched to get the kinks out and started toward the door and casually said loud enough for Lucifer to hear. "Let's see if I passed the test?"

"What test?"

The Ares's stopped squirming and stood up. The fighting outside stopped. Silence ensued.

I answered Lucifer's question. "The test that Bezmic gave me."

"Bezmic," he groaned. "No! Not him!" He started pacing. Not a good sign.

"If it's any consolation, Bezmic told me that he is much weaker because of my existence."

Lucifer looked at me and paused his pacing. He cocked his head slightly. "Wait. It works."

"Yes, the massive power depletion works," I confirmed aloud.

"Well then," Lucifer said slowly, "That's good to know."

Just then, a huge black ball appeared above the city, then it disappeared. Floating in its place was the multicolored Bezmic. He floated toward me then abruptly stopped. His voice boomed. "You did not do what I told you to do!" He was clearly agitated.

"I did!" I yelled.

His colors brightened as he spoke. "You turned them into generals, YOUR generals."

I allowed a small smirk. I knew it would drive him crazy. "Oh yes, about that." I looked directly into his eyes and stated. "I DO NOT TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU!"

Bezmic puckered his lips then said softly, "well then Draven, this is a act against the Celestials. And the punishment that falls on a person who goes against the Celestials is," then screamed at the top of his voice range, "YOU WILL DIE, YOU GREEDY APEX!"

"Apex," I thought. "Why did he call me that?"

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