Hell

Time skip, He returns, A new mansion?

                                                    6 years later

      "Have you heard anything from him?" My dad asked as he barged into my room once again. "I told you no." I respond. "Ashley it's been six years. He is not coming back so get over it. Get a high paying job and forget HIM!" He yells as he slams the door to my room. "Still no word from him, eh? I can tell you he is nowhere in Hell or Tartarus. I know I have my entire sixth legion looking for him and I, myself checked most of Hell's lower reaches." Azazel says from his corner of my room. Since Eryk did not leave any paperwork behind saying I could stay at the mansion I was forced to vacate by the law. "Check again. There is no way one man can disappear in this world." Jazmine says. "I should know. I slept with enough men. You are no exception sweet cheeks. You left a clear trail behind." Azazel grunts and disappears again. I look at Jazmine. "Before you ask about Nikola, I can't find him either. Looks like where ever Eryk went he took Nikola and all his projects." She says and sits down in a chair. "I still don't understand why he left." I say and lay back down on my bed. "Sweetie men do strange things. Did I tell you about the Australian bartender?" Jazmine asks from her seat. "Like four times." I answer as a letter slides under the door and my dad says, "For you." I pick the letter up and open it. Inside is a plane ticket and a small note that reads 'Accident happened come quick.' I look at who wrote it and see that it was Matt. I look at the ticket and see that it is for Transilvania. "What is he doing in Transilvania? More to the point why is he in Europe? Romania of all places." I think to myself, but shrug and begin to pack. But Jazmine pulls out a fully packed suitcase. I raise my eyebrow and she says, "I don't know how you put up with a man like your father for so long so I figured I'd have a just in case ready." I nod and unzip the suitcase to see all the clothes that I bought before he left, a trenchcoat, and my mask packed. I pick it up and walk to my door, but before I open it I hear my dad yell, "She is not getting out of this house. Not even for a field trip!" "She is a grown woman. She can do what she likes!" An unfamiliar voice yells. Was it one of my old friends? I open my door to see Kalista standing outside my room. She shushes me and leads me out the back door where a car was waiting. We got in and Hanna, my best friend, came running out of the house followed by my dad. Kalista started up the car and Hanna jumped in and we raced away from my house. "So... What were you two doing at my house?" I ask. They both held up the notes and plane tickets, again from Matt. "What do you think happened?" Hanna asks. "I think he has girl trouble." Kalista says with a smile. "Why would he want Ashley then? Would that not embarrass him?" Hanna asks. "I bumped into Lucifer down in Hell. He says that even he does not know where Eryk is. He has not contacted him for the past six years." Azazel says in my head. We drive to the nearest airport and show our tickets to the receptionist. "Right this way please." She says and we follow her to a private jet. "This can't be right. Matt doesn't make this kind of money." I say. Hanna and Kalista board the plane, but the receptionist stops me. "You need to remember old friends." I turn and see that she is gone. I board the jet and fly to Transylvania. When we land there is another jet landed already and Matt comes off it just as I get off mine. "Ashley, what are you doing here? I thought you were in trouble." Matt says as he walks over to me. "I thought you were in trouble." I say and show him the message. He shows me a message with the same exact words except signed by me. "This doesn't make any sense." I say. "Since when do you question if the world makes sense or not?" Ken asks from behind us. I turn to see a limo and him in a uniform and burst out laughing. "What happened to you?" I ask. "Did what big L wanted me to do. Now hop in. Something happened to the mansion." Ken says and opens the door for us to get in. Inside is Jack, Jane, and Jeff sitting with impressive disguises on. How I know it's those three is because one of them said, "My name is Jeff. This nice man is Jack and this gorgeous lady is Jane. If you would like to 'Go To Sleep'... Excuse me something in my throat. If you would like to take a nap please do so." Glorious acting, 10 out of 10 I think to myself and smile. "The driver mentioned a mansion. Why are we going to a mansion?" Kalista asks. "Don't you know? Ashley dated the prince of Transylvania." Jack says with a bemused glare at me. The three of them looked shocked then Kalista starts laughing and says, "I would sooner believe one of you would cut his cheeks all the way ear from ear than the fact she dated a prince." Jane passes an amused glare to Jeff who takes a knife and cuts the fake cheeks of his disguise. "Now do you believe us?" Jeff asks. Kalsita looks shocked and says, "I would believe that one of you would gouge out your ey..." She is cut off by Jack coughing and both of his fake eyes popping out. "I told you we should've super glued fake ones in but no." Jeff says. "Shut it twinkle toes." Jack replies. "I danced one time!" Jeff yells. Jane laughs and says, "Ah memories." Kalista passed out at the sight of the eyes popping out. Hanna just sat in silence while Matt just stared at Jack's empty black sockets. We drive the rest of the way to the mansion and just as Kalista regains consciousness we see that the mansion is in ruins. All the windows are shattered. All the barrack's are destroyed and still smoking and that the entire wall along the mansion looks to be burned. We go up the driveway where we are greeted by Malphas. "Sorry I had to forge your signature S. Desperate times call for desperate measures." "I have no problem, but what happened here?" I ask. "It would be easier to ask the one that attacked. Seeing that he is chained up in the basement and constantly being punched by a very happy Grim." Malph answers and leads us to the basement. Grim is punching the hell out of a student from HELL, I just can't remember his name. Grim looks over to us and punches him again. "Welcome home S. Sorry that this little idiot trashed it." Grim says as he walks over and leans on his scythe which was hidden in the shadows a bit ago. "The fuck!" Matt says as he sees the guy. He then looks at Grim and his scythe. "The double fuck!" "What did he do?" I ask ignoring Matt's outburst and the others faces. "Remember when we first met the Creeps and what happened when they broke the other three out?" Grim asks. "Creeps?" My eyes drift to Jeff. "Ah, yes I remember." I say. Grim nods and points to the kid. "Stone over here had the great idea of drawing a pentagram on the floor to try to make this house haunted as you can see the glowing demon spewing star in a circle on the floor behind me." Grim says pointing to the glowing blood red circle. "Problem is.... like last time, he did not know about the nice fellow Eryk trapped after he saved us the first time." I nod as I see a hand start to come out of the circle. Malph goes over and stands on it until the bones crack and the hand falls back inside the portal. "So why not just erase the circle?" I ask. "Not so simple for us to do. Seeing that we would get trapped as well." Grim says. I nod and look into the circle. It is a spinning red vortex that goes down for miles. I step on part of the circle and rub a bit of the chalk off causing the portal to close. "I meant to ask Grim, did you already find Eryk?" I ask. "I've always known where he was so did Malph and L. Just needed to get you here so we could lead you to him." Grim says. "That's the reason I could not see him for six years?!? That's the reason I was stuck with HIM!?!" I yell referring to my dad. "Well that's no way to treat a host. Where are your manners Silver or did you already forget them after losing your boy toy?" Stone asks from the floor. The room got visibly darker and a purple rift opened in the wall. Five figures stepped through. I recognized Ryan and Eryk, but did not know the other three. One was a man in a blue robe that the romans wore and he was holding a book. One was a muscular warrior adorned in blood red armor with skulls as shoulder guards. The last figure was a girl in a purple dress that seemed to pull at Matt's attention. "Please just let me borrow it for a moment!" The woman said. "I will not have my axe defiled by your horny ass woman!" The warrior said. "What is baffling, but a thought of the mind? And what is a thought, but a figment of the imagination? And what is imagination? Why are we considering all these factors knowing it's completely useless information? And how do we know what information is useless? I me..." The robe guy was cut off by the warrior punching him. "Ugh, to be trapped with you three for company for the past six years and don't think you were much better Ryan. I know all about your visit to your spider-castle thing... The fuck is that thing anyway?" Eryk says. "Well it's the place that Nurgle made all diseases come to life so I don't fucking know." Ryan answers. "What is knowing, but an illusion of thought? And what is thought, but a..." "I swear Tzeentch if you ponder one more thing I will take that book from you and burn it or better yet give it to Slaanesh so she-he-it can have fun with it." The warrior says. "Khorne you are so stuck up. Now give me that chain axe and let me use it. It's the best feeling when it turns on!" Slaanesh says. "Last time I lost my axe I had to spend three years cleaning it in the pool of blood before all your horny asses germs were cleaned off." Khorne says. "And you wonder why I hate to visit any of their palaces." Eryk says to Ryan. "Nurgles is not so bad..." Ryan responds. "Mhm, because the place where people beg you to kill them so they can stain the very air is so much better than the kinky shit of Slaanesh's palace." Eryk responds and finally notices us. "Welcome home Silver. Sorry about the mess and... them." He says pointing to Slaanesh more than the others. "The triple fuck!" Matt says. Slaanesh completely oblivious to the others says, "Let me use that chain axe. It is the only big thing here that vibrates, well other than a certain bone." "Why must you be so horny!" Khorne yells. "What is horniness, but a state of emotion? And what is emotion, but a feeling? What is a feeling?" Tzeentch says. "Oh for fucks sake!" Eryk says. Slaanesh looks at Stone and says, "He would be a nice play thing..." "Sex driven psychopathic bitch that thrives on penises and vaginas!" Khorne yells. "He has a bigger 'axe' than you I bet." Slaanesh says. "Sex loving bitch." Khorne says as he throws a massive axe and decapitates Stone. "NO MY PLAYTHING! IT'S RUINED! RUINED!" Slaanesh yells. Eryk and Ryan facepalm and move away from them. "Remind me again why we brought them." Eryk says. "Something about Slaanesh pictures if we didn't." Ryan answers. "Fond memories those would have been. Eye shattering memories that would scar us for life, but still memories." Eryk says with a voice of sarcastic nature. "Malph how goes the arrangements?" Eryk asks. "Asura found an empty plot of land and bought it for us. I have the strongest casters working on a house already." Malph answers. "Good, all that's left is the transfer of all the wine, weapons, and Ghouls to the location." Eryk says and opens the wall of weapons. "The quadruple fuck!" Matt says. "Wait till you see my garage mate. There will be many more fucks to be had." Eryk says as he and Ryan start stuffing all the guns into bags. "Umm, who is that Ashley? And who's his friend? He's kinda dreamy." Kalista says. "Which one?" I ask. "The dreamy green eyed one." She answers. "The green eyed one is Ryan and don't think about it. His girl is a third degree black belt. The red haired one is Eryk, the prince of Transylvania it seems." I respond. "I can see why you like him. Look at that gorgeous red hair. It's almost as beautiful as mine!" Hanna says. "Why did you have to bring them Malph?" I ask. "Wanted to see the reaction." He says with a shrug. Eryk whistles and Aamon and Czarek walk out of the shadows. "Awww. Look at da pretty little puppies! Look at them! Come here poochie!" Hanna says. Aamon turns and smiles at her. "What the hell?" Hanna says and stands up. "The pentafunk" Matt says. "Wait till you see the garage. I say again." Eryk says and slings three bags full of guns on his back while Ryan gets two. We go into the garage where we see a line of cars and at the end a... 11 barreled tank. "The... Something fuck!" Matt says. "Told you many more fucks in the garage and now pick a car. All of them will be driven out of here which is why I got all of you here." Eryk says and straps the guns and weapons onto the back of the tank. "Let's go Ryan we got planes to prep." "Leggo." Ryan says as he lays on the bags of guns and Eryk gets inside and drives down the road. I got into the car that he gave me on the first day I got here and started to drive back to the airport. When all of us arrived, we saw two massive Ac 130 planes with their backs opened for the cars to drive in. "Two into the one with the tank and the other 6 in the other one." One of the pilots says. Matt and I drive and park after the tank and see the two private jets waiting. "Lucifer, Malph, Jack, Jeff, Jane, Grim, and Silver on the black one and the rest of you into the white one." Eryk says. When we got onto the black jet the doors closed and I saw that Eryk was sitting and drinking some white wine and looking out the window. I sit on the seat opposite of him and ask, "Where were you for the past six years?" He looks at the wine and then to me. "I was stuck killing hundreds of rogue demons and researching a way to cure a certain... Problem of mine." He says. Ken walks from the pilot cabin and says, "I really hope that you know what you're doing. This is only the second time I have piloted." "You'll do fine. I once flown in a helicopter with Slaanesh... Anything that happens cannot be worse than her using that chainaxe as a vibrator... Ugh." Eryk says. "You cannot be serious." Ken says. Eryk looks at him then plays a recorded message. "Stick this chainaxe up my vagina and rev it as hard as you can. It gives the most pleasing experience!" Says a voice that sounds exactly like Slaanesh. "WHO STOLE MY CHAINAXE!" Khorne yelled off in the distance. "Well if you aren't gonna do it, looks like I'll have to do it myself." Slaanesh says. I start to hear moaning and the revving of something that sounds like a giant chainsaw. "Ah yes. Harder. faster!!!!!!" Slaanesh says. "WHERE IS MY CHAINAXE SLAANESH!" Khorne yells and Eryk pauses the recording. "Want me to continue? Maybe you want the video that went with it?" Eryk asks. "Nope. I'm good." Ken says and walks back into the cabin. "Tell me you do not have a video to that." I say. "You know I don't lie... And that scene is forever burned into my mind... Fucking slut." He says. I don't even wanna begin to imagine what he saw. We fly for a couple of hours and when we touch back down on the ground I don't know where we are. We get back into the cars and drive away from any major city into a valley in between mountains and see a massive structure in the valley, a twice as big mansion, caves where I think we can store the cars, and six barracks for the Ghouls. We drive up to one of the caves that ends up being a seven mile open dome that we see 100 more of the tanks that Eryk is driving and hundreds of cars. "I am rich. I do this kind of shit." Eryk says and walks to the other cave and we see that he made an arena to spar in. We leave that cave and go into the third and last cave to see a wonderful waterfall and lake. When we come back outside he leads us into the mansion. "We will be living here until the Transilvania mansion is fully repaired which should be... Never." Eryk says and then he turns to Matt, Hanna, and Kalista. "Now you make a choice. Will you go back to whatever life you had before this or stay and train as Ashley's apprentices?" "Her apprentices? What kind of things would we learn?" Eryk laughs and snaps his fingers causing Malph to fly behind him in full armor. "How about teaching you how to control semi mentally pissed off demons and using their powers?" I say. "I'm in if I get even more beautiful red hair." Hanna says and I remember that she was a fashion queen back at school. "I'm in just because that is awesome also da fuck." Matt says. We turn to Kalista and she says, "I'll join if Ryan's my teacher." Ryan raises an eyebrow and says, "Trust me that is the last thing you want." "Why is that?" Kalista says. "Because Elizabeth will be here shortly." He says. "Whose El..." She is cut off by Elizabeth tackling Ryan and slapping him. "And where have you been! I waited six, SIX, years I demand an explanation!" She says and kisses him. "I missed you, my little demon." "That would be Elizabeth." Eryk says. Kalista stares for a second and says, "On second thought I'll stay if you're my teacher." He laughs and spreads his wings. "Time to get to work." He says as he flies picking her up and going towards the nearest barracks. "We are not seeing her anytime soon." Ken says, "That was Touka's building he took her to." I nod. We are not seeing her for the next month as Touka trains her. Eryk appears near me and says, "Well that's one problem out of my hands. The other problem is the graduation..." He walks over to Lucifer and whispers something to him. "Will do and that is one of the dumbest requests I have ever heard." Lucifer responds. "Fail me on this one and Slaanesh has a new boy toy for the next six years." Eryk says. Lucifer pales even more and says, "Will not fail." "Now that's all the problems out of my hands what do you guys say we go watch a movie?" Eryk says and flashes us into a gigantic movie theater inside the mansion. "Welcome to the basement. Seeing that I have the arena in the mountain I thought this would be a nice addition to the house and there is just one rule. Never open that door." Eryk says pointing to a door near the screen. "Why should we not go down there?" Matt asks. "Well you probably could, but... Not recommended." Eryk says. Matt gets up and opens the door and sticks his head through for a moment. When he pulls back there is lipstick all over his face. "I can see your reason." He says. "If that was the reason I want that door locked I would only get slapped by Silver. Let's say the Ghouls tend to have a certain... effect on girls if they get it on." Eryk says. "What kind of effect?" Matt asks. Eryk looks at his watch and says, "3... 2... 1... And now open the door." Eryk says. Matt opens the door again to nearly be stabbed by tendrils of crystallized spikes. "That's the effect and why they are locked in there." Eryk says with a laugh. "I won't doubt you again, but explain to me why are we training to control demons?" Matt says. "Well from my own experience over the years I hunted demons. I saved Britain from falling eight times, saved Leonardo Da Vinci's life twice, stopped the apocalypse more times than I care to count, resurrected from the deepest pit of Hell, and still had time to save the life of your sister seven times or so." Eryk says and they look at him stunned. "If you saved Da Vinci then you would be a old man. A dead old man." Kalista says. "And you would be Slaanesh play thing for the rest of your life." He responds and I shudder. "Well let's not dilly dally. What kind of movie do you have?" Hanna asks still playing with her hair when she sees his. "You obsessed with that hair anymore and I will personally cut it with this nice knife I stole from Khorne on one of my unpleasant days." Eryk says and takes out a ornate in skulls dagger that was blood red. She moves her hands away from her hair. Eryk sheaths the knife and tosses it to her saying, "So you can be taught and as to answer your question, name a movie and I most likely have it." "Fast and Furious 6?" Matt asks. Eryk pulls the film out of his coat. "Scary movie 2?" Hanna asks. Eryk laughs and points to the screen which shows the pause menu for the movie. "Your fast." Hanna says. "Fastest man alive... Basically." Eryk says with a shrug. "Explains why you can't keep a girl." Hanna says. Eryk puts a hand on my head and says, "Point has been disproven." "Nice." Hanna says. "Bella Rimonta." Eryk says with a smile and disappears for a moment. He reappears with Kalista. "Enjoy your training tomorrow. That was just friendly entrance." He says as she runs to hug Hanna and does not let her go. "FFFFRIENDLY ENTRANCE! SHE HAD ME CHASED BY THAT WEIRD SMILING DOG!" She yelled. "The red one or the white one?" I ask. "The white one." She says as Hanna looks very uncomfortable with Kalista burying her head in her breasts. Eryk whistles and Aamon comes into the room. "Now, why you gotta scare the guest Aamon? You know better than to smile at such a girl." Eryk says in a sarcastic way. Aamon smiles a bit more and whispers so only me and Eryk can hear him. "Touka told me to chase her so I did. She also said I would get the prize of her booty if I caught her." "That is no reason to chase a girl though I know all about you and your so called 'power of boner' being stronger than your will. Don't forget we have Jazmine. You can have that booty." Eryk whispers back. Aamon walks over and lays on Kalista's feet. She buries her head even deeper into Hanna's breasts nearly causing her shirt to fall off. "Kalista calm down and stop pulling my shirt down." Hanna says as she awkwardly pats Kalista' head. "HE IS THE DEVIL'S DOG!" She yells and hugs Hanna harder. "The hell did Touka do to her?" I ask even though I already knew. Eryk winks and seems to say something to Aamon with his mind because he sits and lays his head on Kalista's lap. She whimpers and buries her head deeper into Hanna's chest. "Down girl, I ain't a pillow to cry on, or a man for that fact." Hanna says. Eryk winks again and Aamon stands up and licks Kalita's cheek. "He is just a cute little puppy. Just a little puppy." Kalista mutters as she pats Aamon's head. He licks her face and lays at her feet again, tail wagging. I look at Eryk, but he puts a finger to his lips and points to a smiling Matt. I nod and smile. Matt sits by Kalista and drops his arm around her shoulder. I look back to where Eryk was standing and see that he was missing. I look back to Matt and see that he and Kalista were kissing... I can see why some of the people back at HELL called him matchmaker now. I turn back to see him in a gray hoodie instead of his normal trench coat and the fact that he had a case for after the movie. I lean on his shoulder and he kisses my forehead. "I missed you." I whispered. "I missed you too." He whispered back. "You sly devil." Hanna says as she sees me and Eryk. He smiles and ignores her. "What is this place?" I hear a high pitched voice that could only belong to Lili. "I don't know honey, but you read the letter it said this was the place." David said. "Yup the gigantic mansion between the mountains and river could only belong to Eryk." Tod says. He walks downstairs and smiles when he sees us. "Well there are the devils. How are the two of you?" He asks with his southern accent. "I'll tell you about Slaanesh torture if you tell me that you finally landed a date." Eryk says with a smile. "Unfortunately not yet my friend." Tod says and goes to sit by Hanna. When he sits down Aamon jumps on him and starts licking his face. "Good boy, good boy!" He says. "Looks like the fluffiest hellhound missed you Tod." Eryk says looking with one eye. "Well he did spend a long time in my care." Tod says rubbing his belly. Hanna laughed and stood up to walk out, but unless my eyes deceived me and Eryk was not Lucifer's host, Aamon tripped her and caused Tod to catch her. "Are you ok?" Tod asked as she lay weirdly in his arms. "Yes. I'm quite alright." Hanna said getting up again, but was onced again tripped by Aamon and ended up kissing Tod. I could see Hanna blush and run upstairs. The four of us laughed and Tod was stunned. "Who are you and why are you blushing? Are they watching porn down there?" Lili asked. "Why would Eryk watch porn if Silver is down there ready to slap if need be. Anyway I'm gonna find out what happened." David said and walked downstairs. He sees Tod blushing and looking stunned and the four of us laughing. "Fill me in." He said. "Looks like I hooked up another couple in the same day." Eryk said. David chuckled and walked back upstairs. "Well what happened!" Lili asked. David muttered something I could not make out and suddenly Lili was down stairs and looking at Tod. "You insufferable pig. To kiss a girl you barely know is an act so rude that it is thought unacceptable and you! Where have you been for the past six ye..." Eryk snaps his fingers and moves Lili away. Ah memories. Eryk leads us to our rooms, and he placed Kalista and Matt in connected rooms and the same with David and Lili, who had to walk four miles to get back here. Me, Hanna, Tod, Elizabeth, Ryan, and him went to the top floor and had 19 floors of separation between us and Lili. Hanna blushed even more when she found her room was connected to Tod's. Ryan and Elizabeth, he dared not separate so their rooms were connected and for us we just went up one more floor to see a penthouse like room that was constructed for us. "How does satellite not pick this up?" I ask I lay on the bed. "You're dating the host of Lucifer and that's the only question that comes to mind?" He asks with a big smile. I smile back and walk over and give him a quick kiss before taking off all but my bra and panties and going to bed. After a few moments Eryk slides in next to me and falls asleep. I smile and fall asleep, for the first time in six years, peacefully. In the morning I see that Eryk covered me with one of his wings since I slept on the covers. I got up to find that he was not sleeping. "Morning." He said and wrapped the wing around his body like a robe. "Morning." I say back and go take a shower. When I got out and got dressed I saw Eryk holding the box from yesterday in one hand and the katana he used from time to time in the other. "Shall we go m'lady?" He asked. I smiled a bit and said, "We shall indeed." He smiled and jumped off the balcony and I followed, spreading my wings right before impact to slow my fall. Eryk walked inside the main courtyard and snapped his fingers causing the rest to appear fully dressed. He first looked at Hanna and asked, "What would you rather fight? A trained assassin or swordsman?" She looks a bit stunned, but says, "I rather fight a swordsman." Eryk nods and opens the box pulling a short sword in a red and silver sheath and tossing it to her. "Bloodripper will serve you well until you become better trained, but knowing Tod who is an assassin, you will need this as well." Eryk says and tosses her a .357 magnum. He looks to Matt and asks, "You have an hour to live and you can only do one thing. What do you choose to be the final thing you do?" Matt is silent for a moment until he finally says, "I would choose to spend the hour with you and my... Extended family without better words to describe them." Eryk nods and he asks, "Red or Blue?" Matt looks a bit confused but he says, "Blue." Eryk tosses him a blue and gold rifle. He looks to Kalista next. "You were afraid of Aamon without knowing why. That will never do I would like you to meet Ragnarok, the norse end of the world and the dragon that I command." Eryk says while he waves his hand behind him causing Ragnarok, in all his magnificent beauty, to appear. He lowers his head so one of his eyes is even with her and puts a sword and shield down in front of her. "Looks like we found a champion to bear another dragon weapon..." Eryk mutters. He turns to me and smiles. "We have a fine team here." He says. "Seeing that it is the first day. Ryan if you please, draw your sword and show them what the originals can do." Ryan smiles and this is the first time I see his weapon up close. In one hand he gets a sword similar to Eryks. One of the only differences being the gem in the hilt of the sword was very deep green and the blade seemed to have an aura around it. In his other hand he had a maul that also had the green aura. As for his armor, he had a green cape and deep green plates with brown trims. He had no helm, but a hood covered his head. Eryk laughed and just summoned his armor, but kept the katana as a weapon. They walk into the arena as we sit in the carved seats/stairs. Eryk and Ryan go stand on the opposite sides of the arena and stand at ready positions. Eryk seemed to position himself so he had greater speed and range to the strikes he could do. Ryan stood in such a way he could block with either weapon, but knowing him he would prefer the swords quick block and the mauls heavy attack. Ryan charged at Eryk and when he was about to swing the maul, like I predicted, Eryk used the scabbard of the katana to block the strike and gave three quick strikes on Ryan's maul guarded side forcing him back. Ryan charged again, but used the sword to strike quickly. As one swing landed Eryk was cut in half and dissolved into shadows. "Really Ryan? That is the simplest trick in the book." Eryk says from right behind us. We turn just in time to see him dissolve into shadows and reappear behind Ryan and put the blade against his neck. "Now that was a disappointing demonstration. Yes, Ryan you managed to disappoint me. We will take one of you under our wings at a time. Kalista chose me on that first day so she will be learning stealth and close combat first. Matt will go with Ryan so he is not killed this month, and will learn ranged combat and your specialty. Hanna you get Silver and her training of mixed martial arts and how to fly." Eryk says. "Specialty?" Matt asks. "Silver, Ryan, and I are perfect examples. Silver is a balanced fighter in terms of speed and attack power. I have unrelenting speed and power from a very bad experience that I will not mention right now. Ryan has unmatched accuracy and power, but lacks in speed. Tod is similar, but instead of power Tod has speed nearly like mine. Elizabeth is all for speed and prefers to get close with daggers, meaning be damned if she gets angry at you and I have to be your guard for the next month. Lili lacks in speed and power, but is very strategizing and will be your leader when you go on missions or when we practice defence. David is a shield bearer meaning that he is a basic tank and be fucked if you have to get through him. The last specialty is a caster, who so happens to be on her way here so I can demonstrate teamwork." Eryk says and Ryan laughs. "You really called Vero just so she could come here from Canada so you could show a caster's powers?" He asks. "Half the reason. Other half being she asked for help teaching a rider." Eryk says. "I thought only your blood could make riders." Ryan says with a puzzled look on his face. "You really think that I did not get married in the 14th century? Azazel can testify. Otherwise there would not of been my blood to be reborn." Eryk answers. "Knowing your ways. It was Jasmine." Ryan says shaking his head. "Well it was that or spending more than 5 quintillion years with... Him." Eryk says. "You remember what happened to the last rider you trained." Ryan says. "How can I forget. I had Grim possessing me and making me watch as he used this katana to gut her." He responds and teleports away. I get up, but Ryan stops me. "Let him have his moment. It was my fault. I shouldn't of brought her up." He says. "Where did he go?" I ask. "Most likely back to Transylvania to pay his respects at her grave." Ryan responds. "Where is she buried?" I ask. "You already know." Ryan responds. "Where is she buried Ryan?" I say more forcefully. He sighs and says, "The spot that Grim cursed so that no living thing could grow. The spot where Vlad was killed. The spot where War was sealed to protect her spirit from Armageddon. She is buried in the spot of the most haunted forest in the world. She is the reason Eryk does so much for you of all people. He needs a reason to stay sane. If not the horseman would be wild and he would be at their rear, leading all of Hell on a purge of all life." I stand stunned for a moment then sit back down. "What is a rider?" I ask. Ryan smiles and points to my warhammer witch was in my hands. "A rider is a person with enough will to command the soul of a dragon. For every hundred years one to two riders would be born. Out of all the riders that were recorded, none were stronger than the four immortals. Sir Gawain, the leader of the South. Sir Percival, the rider of the West. Sir Lancelot, the knight of the East and, King Arthur the lord of the North. Remember that only after Eryk mixed some of his blood to... I don't know what to call it, not resurrect nor strengthen... Save you, Azazel was sealed within you and you got access to Gawain's hammer which contains the soul of his dead dragon." He looks at Kalista. "And it seems he found two riders to train. Kalista the weapon you hold now is the sword of the West. It contains a soul of a dragon that will not awaken until after your training finishes. Eryk has the blade of the East and has to deal with the moodiest of the dragons, then again it was his dragon so it makes sense and the rookie that Vero is bringing holds the spear of the North. I don't know why Eryk acts the way he does, but when someone is given a dragon weapon by one of the dragons you have a direct connection with the predecessor of the weapon. Ashley has somehow managed to awaken Gawain's blood by getting Eryk's mixed into her bloodstream, but I have no idea how he plans to awaken Percival's blood in you." I hear a car pull up and see the red haired girl we saved from the Axes years ago lead a young royal blue haired girl holding a spear. "Veronica!" I say with a smile. She smiles when she sees me and Ryan. "How have you two been?" Veronica asks as the blue haired girl tries to sneak behind Vero and run out the cave. "Good, but Vero..." I say pointing to the girl who was now sprinting away down the tunnel. "Vero I think you lost something." Eryk says as he comes back through the tunnel holding the spear in one hand and carrying the girl over the shoulder of his other hand. After a moment Arthur, Percival, Gawain, and Tesla walk into the room. Eryk walks over and gets Kalista as well. They walk down to the center of the arena where I was standing. Eryk hands the spear back to the blue haired girl and stands to the right of Arthur. "This is what became of the riders..." Gawain says. "Gawain I swear make the joke I think you are planning to make and I will slap you." Percival says. "But none of them are blond." Gawain says and he takes off his helmet revealing practically golden hair. "Who got my hammer?" He asked. I lifted the hammer and he nodded. I felt the dragon in the weapon stir and I saw his eyes appear on the hammer. "He no longer is bound to me. Silver, please cut your hand and let the blood drip onto the hammer." Gawain says. I do as he says and I feel the dragon's power rush into me and begin to empower all my limbs. "Lance you picked a good host for him." He said. Eryk sighs and snaps his fingers causing Slaanesh to appear. "Well will you finally use this chainaxe on me?" She asks. Eryk points to Gawain and says, "He will gladly satisfy your horny ass." "What?!?" Gawain says as he disappears in purple mist. "3...2...1... And rift." Eryk says as the purple rift opens and a half naked Gawain runs out. The rift closes after that. "And mental scarring followed by uncontrollable crying." Eryk says as Gawain curls up on the floor and weeps. "And that is why I don't show the video Silver." He says. I nod and walk a step away from Gawain. Percival looks at Kalista and smiles. "The dragon is very happy." She says and Eryk nods. "The thing with the hilt only happened to you. I am quite impressed that it activated." Arthur says. I look at the hilt of her sword and see that the hilt wrapped around her ring finger and made a little ring that resembled a dragon with its tail wrapped around the finger. "Yeah... That dragon is very happy." Eryk says. Percival walks over and kneels and whispers something to the blade. A brilliant pink eye opened on the hilt and Percival ran Kalista's palm across the blade, making her bleed a little in the process. "There now you and Leilah, who happens to like Ragnarok for his color, are bonded." "She likes Ragnarok for his color?" Kalista asks and looks at Eryk. He sighs and says, "Leilah stands for dark beauty or dark as night and you saw that Ragnarok's color. Nothing she likes more than a dark as night dragon and remind me to teach you languages because damn." Arthur walks over to the blue haired girl and asks, "What is your name?" She looks at him for a moment, but says, "My name is Misty." She responds. Arthur nods and touches the blade of the spear. "Necromantia, awaken from your 500 year slumber." He says and the room darkens a bit. The blade glows with a white aura until a single white eye forms on the metal where the blade meets the shaft. Arthur runs Misty's palm over the blade drawing blood. Suddenly Ragnarok, Astarot, Leilah, and Necromantia appear behind each of us. Ragnarok looks even darker than usual and his eyes are much redder, practically all I saw in the dark arena. Leilah is a gray dragon that sits staring into Ragnarok's eyes. Necromantia is a brilliant white dragon that lays curled nere Arthur and Misty. I look and see Astarot looking at Necromantia. "Lance you are the only rider here who is of old blood, why not pass Ragnarok on to a newer generation?" Arthur asks. "If you remember my family visit that is half the reason. The other half is the fact that Ragnarok is insanity incarnate and I am the only one that has successfully calmed him down." Eryk responds and something happens to Ragnarok. He seems to shrink until he is sitting on Eryk's shoulder. I turn to see that Astarot is sitting on my shoulder about the same size. Same with Leilah and Necromantica. "Very well, but you shall not go alone since Necromantica is finally awake. All of your necromantic powers are returned as well. Resurrect the squad you led and save this world from him again." Arthur says and sits down next to Percival and Gawain. "We will be here for you, but you worked better with those four and one is already here to help you." He says as he pats Percival on the shoulder. "Well he better hurry I slowly rise from this damn prison." Echos a voice around us. "You be silent bea I'll deal with you in a second." Eryk says sarcastically. "That is the thing that killed the worthless whore you called a friend." The voice says again. I see the souls that sometimes surrounded Eryk before, but instead of being red they were light green. Eryk pointed to the ground and four souls charged in and formed bodies. "I'll need cover for three minutes, else these souls will betray me and not resurrect them." Eryk says. Ragnarok grows big again and wraps his tail around Eryk and covers him with one of his wings. "Eryk was never a caster. He had problems summoning more than a little fire." Vero says. "How does he suddenly have powers that only the greatest necromancers have?" "That was not Eryk who was resurrecting. That was the host of the Grim Reaper and slayer of demons. His name was Lancelot before he died and was reborn as Lucifer's host." I say, somehow knowing all those facts. "That makes no sense." Vero says. "He has a minute before I am reborn and will finally kill him. He better hurry." Says the voice and I see a red void start to form on the wall. "Cover the rift for two minutes or we can say goodbye to this entire planet." Arthur says. I charge to the rift just as an arm reaches through. I kick it back in, but it reaches through again. "Looks like this little slut he found wants to die." The voice said with mocking laughter as he pulled himself through. He was an eight foot tall behemoth with two giant axes... Not axes Slaanesh play things. "Damn it, Lance how much longer?" Arthur yells as he draws his sword. "You did not just ask the guy who is resurrecting your greatest warriors how much longer. You try keeping thousands of souls from possessing the bodies and looking for the right souls at the same time." Eryk yells back. "Should be another minute." "I can't give you more than thirty seconds with Khârn here." Arthur says. "Ah fuck my life." Eryk says and a green glow shines from under Ragnarok's wing. Just as Khârn swings to decapitate me a soul blocks his swing. I turn to see Eryk surrounded by souls, searching for the right ones and keeping the warrior soul to fight off Khârn. "Found Brandon." Eryk says and one soul goes into one of the bodies, becoming a six foot goliath with giant axes and a great sword on his back. "Brandon block Khârn!" Eryk yells. Brandon nods and charges to my side blocking everyone of Khârns swings. "Anthony and Jackson..." Eryk says and two more bodies awaken and turn into almost exact twins, but one has a mad smile and red eyes while the other one has a calm smile and blue eyes. "Help Brandon." Eryk says and stops the souls from doing anything else. They nod and charge and slice at Khârn's feet in sync. "Malph." Eryk says and he appears. "What do you need?" Malph asks. "Drag Jasmine's soul over to that body and get Khorne to come here and stop his fucking champion." Eryk says and he picks his scythe up from the shadows. "There you are." Khârn says and jumps down to be face to face with Eryk and the once again small Ragnarok. "Good to see you again. Sorry I have to kill you again." Eryk says and grabs his mask. "I remember how you said I would not win without this last time. I won so let's see how quickly I can kill you with it on." "Let's see if you can even scratch me." Khârns says. I see Eryk put the mask on and a shadow forms outside the arena. I tried to run in and help, but the shadow rose and blocked my path. "Sorry Silver, this is something between me and goliath over there." Eryk says and he gets into a ready position with only his katana. "Can't you do something? You're his king! Tell him to back down!" I yell at Arthur, but he shakes his head. "Whenever he puts that mask on he has the right to do what he wants because he becomes one with the demons." Arthur says. I see Khârn charge and Eryk do nothing. When Khârn is just about to chop Eryk in half, he swings the katana upwards and slowly seath's the katana when the blade is enclosed Khârn is split in two and a single cut forms to the arena stair. As Khârn begins to become blood I see Eryk take a soul from the blood somehow and trap it in the katana. "This will be the last skull you take for Khorne." Eryk says and sheathed the katana again. He then summoned another katana and tossed the Khârn katana to Arthur. "Now you can draw from his energy instead of Necromantica's." He says and stops the shadow barrier. I charge to him while Kalista and Misty stand stunned at what they just saw. "I have a feeling that by the end of the week we will all have katanas." Gawain says. "I would not doubt it." Eryk responds. The room grew even darker than before and the voice of Tartarus came through the darkness. "I would not be too happy, 'Crimson Satan' as you are so fond of calling yourself that. Khârn was my weakest minion." "If you had a pair you would fight me yourself... Oh wait you already did six times and I won each time." Eryk says. "Don't underestimate your opponent Eryk. You might just find he is trying to help you." Tartarus says. "Mhm... I think I'd believe that Slaanesh was not a horny ass god first." I say. "Don't get sarcastic there girl." Tartarus said. "Who says that I am being sarcastic." I say and look Tartarus in the eye. "Why should I believe that you are not being sarcastic little winch." Tartarus says. Eryk smirks and says, "Don't think you want to do that Tart." "Do what ask that whore of yours a question?" Tartarus asks. "The question is fine, but what you just sa..." Eryk is cut off by me saying, "A winch, a whore can you fucking asswholes come up with anything better to call me. I mean it's all the same. I am a whore this. I am a whore that. Its old and tiring. Dont forget an easy way to piss me the fuck off." "Told you. You probably didn't want to do that" Eryk says. "If you think a damn god like yourself is going to get away with it and everyone else doesn't it will be a long immortal life for you." I say. "What are you talking about. You can not do anything to me. You are only a mortal. A weak, pathetic mortal who deserves to die." Tartarus says and lunges at me. I easily move past him. "If you think I am mortal anymore I think there is something wrong with your damn eyes because it is bloody fucking obvious that I am no longer mortal. What mortal have you ever heard of could face you and not be terrified with you, but instead wanting to bury their fucking teeth into your damn heart to suck all the blood out of you as possible." I say as my eyes turn from a golden color to a silvery blue because of the lust for blood. Eryk looks amused and a little shocked at how my eyes changed because of the bloodlust. "I don't believe you. You are just as terrified from me as everyone else. Also who is this person that wants to sink their teeth into my heart and drink as much blood from my heart as possible because it is certainly not your little whore of an ass." Tartarus says. I smile and say, "I wouldn't be so sure of yourself there. This 'whore' is never going to be afraid of you." Eryk is watching in amusement and with a look that meant he was thinking about something. "Azazel, when was the last time she had any blood?" Eryk asks. "Beats me. All of us have been looking for you while she was stuck with that horrible father of hers." Azazel says. He whispers something to Azazel who grows bug eyes. Eryk then looks at me and says, "Interesting. Very interesting." "What is?" Lili asks. "Tell me. I want to know." Lili says. "I would like to kno..." "Silence your own ego and listen for once. What is happening is quando i demoni non bere sangue per un lungo periodo di tempo e hanno fame di sangue, vanno in uno stato d'animo chiamato berzerkers furia. Quando sono in questa furia capacità del demone crescono di dieci volte fino a quando non bevono cinque litri di sangue." Eryk says with a smile as she grows angry at not knowing the answer. I spread my wings and move out of the way as Tartarus is charging at me. "Tartarus there is a wall there. It's not a door." I say with an amuse look on my face. He growls and mumbles something under his breath and then tries again. "Twice now have you not figured out that you will not lay a finger on me." I say. Eryk and Azazel are whispering about something. "I will not be bested by a fucking vamp." Tartarus says and charges yet again at me. I move out of the way as he yet again hits the wall of the arena and I say, "That is a new one to be called, but it still means the same thing as a whore." "Does it look like I care any? You are going to die no matter what and then I will shatter your soul so Eryk can not bring you back." Tartarus says. I laugh and say, "You do care because if you didn't you wouldn't be getting this frustrated about not touching me and with me just toying with you." "Toying with me you are getting so worn out that you can barely stay in the air." Tartarus says. "Fine suit yourself, but there you go again." I say and moved one last time as Tartarus fell into position for me to get a perfect shot at his heart. I laugh evilly and the bloodlust grows in my eyes and I dive straight into his chest where his heart is and out the back side. I then fly back in and sink my k9s that seem to have grown some since covering myself in Tartarus's blood when I flew into his chest. Matt looks at Eryk and at me and back at Eryk and says, "What the fuck! Why is my sister eating a heart? What the fuck! When did she learn to fly and get those wings? Why are her eyes silver with blue flakes in them?" "MMMM so good been so long. Need more!" I say and look down at everyone. "Come down here. I got more for you to have. Just come down and don't attack anyone." Eryk says. My blood lust renders most of what he said unhearable. All I heard was attack and have more. I fly down with my arms angled at his neck, but he catches my arms before they reach their mark. "This is why I summoned you of all people Azazel. You know about the berserkers rage and what it does to hosts." Eryk says, but puts one of his arms close enough for me to bite down on and savor his blood. After a few moments the bloodlust subsides. "Azazel remind me to not trust you with a fucking four digit code next time." Eryk says and lets go of my arms. "Well sorry that something so min..." "If you say minor you will experience wrath like you never knew before. In the warp time travels differently, while here I was gone for 6 years I spent 750 years under Khorne's tutelage on how to crush blood and inflict pain." Azazel shuts up. "So what is that... Berserker's rage?" Matt asks from the other side of the arena. "When demons don't drink blood for a long time and they hunger for blood. They go into a state of mind known as berserker's fury. When they are in this fury the abilities of the demon grow tenfold until they drink five liters of blood... Which happened to be five liters of my blood it seems." Eryk answers and leans on his katana for support. "You have not seen the last of me." Tartarus says on the brink of death. "No, but I have seen enough of your pathetic excuse for power." Eryk says as he drives the katana through Tartarus's brain. When he pulls out the blade it has turned pitch black. "And so falls another excuse for a god." Says a voice I am not familiar with. "Like you should be speaking Hades. Just take the sword and leave my presence." Eryk says as he tosses the sword into the shadows where it begins to dissolve. I feel somewhat betrayed by that action seeing that I was the one that fought Tartarus. I lunge for the sword, but Eryk blocks my path saying, "That's the reason most of us would be dead. You need to control your emotions or I will not be able to stop Grim from riding." He says as the sword finishes disappearing. He then disappears himself. I look on my hands which were stained golden from Tartarus and red from Eryk. I look at Tod and the others who were cowering in the corner with Lili and David trying to calm them down. The only one that came to see if I was ok was Matt. I sit down a bit shaken up by the turn of events. Matt sits by me and starts to rock me back and forth. "I will be here for you, so will Tod, David, and the others." I feel a hand on my shoulder and see Arthur standing above me. "Even though we haven't know each other for a long time S, we'll be there for you when you need us." He says and I nod.