The Protector

Chapter Eighteen: The Rise And Fall

Though hes had to travel harder than hes ever had the trouble before, Gabriel has finally made it to the mountain that leads up to the castle of vampires. There is no towns that surround this mountain whatsoever. There only exists the castle though the castle is absolutely massive. It could house at least a million vampires and still have extra Room.
In order to get the answers that he needs, he is going to have to scale this mountain one way or another. He places one hand on the nearest rock to him and begins climbing.  This goes on for hours and he is barely made any progress whatsoever. It feels as though it's going to take forever for him to finally reach the top. But he is determined, he can't give up especially with how far he has come now.
He continues climbing for another 5 hours and isn't even a quarter of the way up the mountain. His arms are tired and his body is exhausted but he continues to climb. As he does so, he thinks about his people. He thinks about how innocent they are in all of this. How they've been basically nothing but casualties of war and how much they have suffered at the hands of these creatures that he is heading in the lair of.
If he could kill them all he would but he knows this is an impossible task. He may be strong and he may be one of the best Lycan Warrior's besides Victoria. His Victoria. He is only one wolf in a sea of endless Vampires who are hard enough to kill when just dealing with one on its own.
And of course he thinks about how he is going to be able to defend himself once he is in the castle. Again he didn't really seem to have that much of a plan going into this.  And relying on his Wolf form. while it could aid him, it's more than likely only going to exhaust him quicker. He has already expended so much energy as is. He has to find a way to fight off the Vampires in case he gets attacked.
He does look up occasionally, noticing the giant swarm that he had seen before. And of course, it confirmed his fear. It was indeed a gathering of vampires. They were in feasting mode.  He had seen it enough times to know exactly what it looked and sounded like.

Victoria continues rushing trying her best to catch up to Gabriel. As she runs, she can hear what sounds like things flying over her head. Large things, things that are definitely not any type of bird that exists within the Underworld. " Its Vampires " She says to herself.  She looks up to the sky above her though she cannot see them. They travel way too fast for her to be able to do so. She either has to wait for them to come down and attack her or she has to try to find cover. Which she's not exactly keen on doing considering that it would be wasting time which she has already done so much of by fighting Shawn and Kara. And so, she will have to risk being attacked.
What didn't  Exactly makes sense to her as to why they didn't attack her already. It's almost as though they were stalking her, are they trying to keep track of her whereabouts. Almost as though they knew she was coming there. But there's no way for them to have known that. There is no way for them to have possibly known that she would be coming. She wonders if they had found Gabriel as well.

Meanwhile, Kara and Queen Aurora continue staring on as they can't believe their eyes. An actual vampire is standing in the castle of witches for the 1st time and hundreds of years. This is a vampire neither one of them completely recognised either. But something definitely seems special about him, he doesn't exactly seem as animalistic or as savage as the other vampires do. Something is definitely off about him.
" Please pardon my intrusion but I have come to seek you out Kara"  He explains as he takes a bow in her direction.  Queen Aurora stands backup, and takes a place standing in front of Kara. " And what could you possibly want with my daughter? " Queen Aurora asked, ready to fight if necessary. The Vampire smiles and raises his hands up to show that he no intention of a confrontation. " Perhaps I should introduce myself first. My name is Pierce. Prince Pierce" this shocked Queen Aurora the most. If he was a Princess then that would mean he is Royalty to Vampires. "  I thought that all the royalty when it came to vampires did not leave the castle. You must be here for a pretty important reason if that was the case" Queen Aurora keeps her yes locked onto Pierce who nods and laughs. " Yes actually it is. I've come to talk business and to offer a proposal. My people, and by that, I mean mainly my family, are interested in making a treaty with you. We do not wish to seek anymore war. And we have found another food source that is going to suit us just fine. So we have no intentions of going back to Earth"
Queen Aurora finds this almost too good to be true  " And what is the catch..?" She askes, hesitating to get her hopes up. " No real catch. Though, we would like to bring our Kingdoms together. Peace needs to be made. There has been too much fighting for too long. And we wish to make amends. We aren't saying that we are sorry for everything we have done..just more so that we have changed our thinking and would like to make things right. But in order to bring the Kingdoms together..two of the kingdom would have to Wed " Pierce looks at Kara who makes complete eye contact with him. " Oh hell no! " Queen Aurota objects. " And how the hell do I even know this came from your family... how do I know you haven't stuck out on your own? "
This is when Pierce reaches into his back pocket and pulls out a letter with a red wax stamp on it. It bears the mark of the Vampire Royal Bloodline. Two skeletons , facing the opposite direction with coffin shaped box between them.  This definitely belonged to the Royal family. Queen Aurora had seen the sill a few times before when the act of war was declared between the kingdoms. As Queen Aurora looked over the seal, Kara came up from behind her and walked past, straight to Pierce. " So you wanna marry me, huh.." Kara asks to which Queen Aurora again, tries to Object.
Pierce ignores and nods and " Then I say yes "