Appetite for Destruction

Chapter 7

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ACT 2: CORRUPTION
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Unleash the darkness and you'll find great power and strength. Strength to strike all down and forge your path, strength to make it rain blood...

"Hey, Gantlos, Ogron's calli...Gantlos?"
Gantlos snaps his head around to Anagan who gets stunned a bit as his appearance shifting more. Sharper fangs, red eyes, messier hair, he looked more feral but with some semblance of regality, confidence, perchance leadership? Nah, no way, not from Gantlos.
"Tell him I'll be...busy." Gantlos growls. He turns away from Anagan.
"What—"
"Go on, tell him, Anagan."
"Uh...okay...?" He takes a few steps back while still looking at the blonde wizard and leaves.

Gantlos could hear his footsteps despite knowing Anagan would be too far for anyone else to hear him, his elven ear twitching. He could hear their talking, muffled but clear. Gantlos thinks about it; before the bloodmoon he would have only heard faint muffles or nothing, but now he could hear Ogron's shouting as if he was right next to him. He covers his ears at the sharp and stern shouting cause by his disobedience and gets up. He said he would be busy and he'll get to that now. There was a sewer grate welcoming the red moonlight into their lair, and Gantlos uses his vampiric magic from the stolen mana to turn into a swarm of bats made of the night itself. They fly out of the grate, leaving no trace of the blonde wizard behind as Ogron comes in to fetch him.

"Gantlos you useless piece of sh- Where did he go?" Ogron asks Angan as he looks around.
"He was there just this second!" Anagan insists, "Well, Gantlos said he was busy."
"And busy with what exactly?!" Ogron huffs. Anagan shrugs. Ogron returns to his magic orb and plays an imagine of Bloom picking herself up in the dorment library.
"She seems weaker..." Ogron comments, before a realization dawns on him. "Wait...that dog absorbed the Dragon Flame!" Ogron stays silent for a bit before a grin cracks on his lips and he starts laughing maniacally.
"What's going on now..?" Duman asks, a tad confused as he looks at Ogron too.

"You boys don't get it. The most powerful type of magic in our grasp. Or rather, the most powerful magic out of the Winx's reach, finally our vengeance will be successful! HAHAHAHA!" Ogron catches his breath after his second trigger happy laughing fit, his expression shifts from swelling pride to seething rage. "But he ran away...that selfish mutt! He's going to keep all this power to himself, huh? Well, not on my watch. That old dog still needs training, he should know I'm his master by now yet he still does this. He'll regret doing that. And I need that power..."

Ogron flicks some magic sparks at the orb and it changes from a wavy picture of Bloom to where Gantlos currently should be. The cluster of bats reform and shape into his silhouette before he becomes clearer. Ogron's eyes widen at the visibly more confident, more feral creature. He seems to mumble somethingn about going after those damn wizards who made him eat dirt before crushing a nearby jack-o-lantern under his heal. Ogron takes offense, scoffing at the disrespect. He looks at Anagan and Duman, who look at each other, "Gentlemen, we have to find that half-vampire and catch him before he does something stupid...and lethal."
Duman and Anagan nod as they all teleport away from Gardenia's sewer system.