Valkyrie - The Vampire Princess

Chapter 44

Chapter 44

My throat was dry, as I was agonized to be imprisoned in that cage. The sorcerer hadn't honored his word. The hours imposed by him to be ready the formula had been exhausted, it was more than necessary.

I'd be lost if he didn't remove me from the cage.

Odik had prepared no formula yet, it was all swindle. He returned to the site after an extensive time away, with his empty hands.

"Why did you imprison me here?" soon I questioned him. My body was exhausted as I remained in the cage.

"Aren't you accustomed to it yet?" he scoffed at me. His irony came over.

"What have I done to deserve this?" my voice insisted as my fingers surrounded the iron bars.

"You, nothing ...but your father...." His voice affirmed and his stare looked angry at something.

Immediately I frowned. Things were starting to make sense. He wanted to avenge my father by using me.

"What has my father done to you?"

"The problem ...is... he 'hasn't'."

I narrowed my eyes. I couldn't believe what was happening.

His eyes stared toward me. "I wanted the immortality of the vampires," he said, approached the cage and put his terrible face next to mine. "I would just need to drink your father's blood ...nothing else."

Odik walked around the cage slowly.

"And he denied it with all contempt. I had to resort to another method of immortality. I invented a way to live for long. Up until now I have had no success."

He stopped walking and focused his attention on me confined in the cage.

"You will be my new attempt."

He laughed long and it startled me.

"And when it finally happens, I will need you no more. Then I will throw you to my dogs to satisfy their hunger."

"So you do rapidly what has to be done and finish it!" I pleaded and blinked in fury.

"I have no hurry and seeing you in this state. ...I think it compensates all my wasted time," Peacefully he affirmed and removed his eyes from my image.

"Destroy me soon!" I yelled at him and tried to agitate the iron bars with my hands.

Even so the wizard ignored my screams and walked to the next room, leaving me alone over again.

***

Minutes later...

I had used all the force of my mind as I had invoked my vampire powers to try to step out of there.

Thereafter I contracted a vast fatigue and it made me powerless. The circle on the floor blocked all my powers, nothing happened.

Onward, I heard a noise from the corridor. I thought the wizard was returning to the site. A dark creature approached me. Finally, I recognized it.

"Eros!" I exclaimed and stood up. My gaze shone in the direction of him.

"Valkyrie!" he said smoothly, his gaze met my pale face. Eros perceived I was tired and I was imprisoned in the cage for some extended time.

"How did you know I was here? Did Valeska tell you?" ingenuously I asked him. Eros gave me a grave quick look.

"We have no time for conversation." He needed a way to get me out of that cage. Then he walked away and took several steps back, in order to use his powers against the cage.

"Protect yourself!" He ordered before unloading a wave of lightning against the steel cage.

Two dogs came up behind him.

"Take care! They're behind you!" brusquely I screamed when I saw the dogs moving toward him.

Eros turned his body back and was surprised at the sudden jump of two dogs over him. Then Eros was thrown on the floor. They advanced on him with the instinct to devour him.

At that second Eros was fighting with two dogs on the floor. He used his vampire powers to get them off him.

Odik returned to the site and saw Eros in the fight with his gigantic dogs.

"Devour him!" The wizard screamed at them.

I felt a deep desperation watching that scene and I could not do anything to prevent the dogs hurting Eros. I shook the cage with all the force that came from my distress. I had to save him. He was there for me. I put him in danger.

"Let him go! Do what you have to do to me!" I cried deeply, as if my prayers could save him from some danger.

Suddenly Vincent appeared at the scene, flying over the room. His wine long cape flew in the company of his body.

When I stared up and saw my father, hope painted the face of defeat. I thought everything was not lost yet. At that split second I nearly smiled.

"Father!" my voice cried.

Vincent flew up to the wizard Odik and held his throat firmly with his hands. His intent was to strangle him.

"I'll do to you what I should have done centuries ago!"

Vincent raised his hand and a metal bar flew up his hand. He pulled out the head of the wizard with it. The body fell to the ground without its skull. The wizard's head rolled on the ground like a ball.

Vincent looked at Eros struggling with two dogs on the ground. Energy went out of his hands and hit the dogs, throwing them onto the wall. They were destroyed and dissolved like ashes.

Eros got up from the floor. His clothes were torn, and there were several bites on his arm. He was very hurt.

I fell to the ground, relieved to see everything ended well. That wizard no longer existed and those devouring dogs were gone. Eros was safe.

"Stay down!" my father ordered.

Quickly I buried my head onto the ground and closed my gray eyes, protecting me from what would come next.

My father stared at the cage. Red rays came out of his eyes, hit the metal and melted the cage.

So I looked up and saw I was free. I got up and ran to hug my father. My face touched his firm chest. My fear was having no power over me now, because I was in my father's arms.

"How did you get here?" Vincent asked as he hugged me. His hand smoothed out my hair.

"It was my fault!" I replied with my face hidden in his costume. My voice oscillated in alarm another time as I thought of Valeska.