Welcome To Fright Night

Chapter 19

Samuel couldn't bring himself to watch them burn Lenore's body. He just turned his head just as Emmaline had done. When it was all said and done Dr. Utterson comforted him.

"You did the right thing." He said. "She's at peace, I assure you."

"I...I killed the love of my life." Samuel said as tears were threatening to spill from his eyes.

"No Samuel, you didn't kill her. The vampire did, you set her free from an eternal hell on earth."

"You fools!" A horrible voice screeched in the night. They looked up to see that the voice belonged to Thanatos who now looked like the monster he truly was. "What have you done?! You've destroyed my bride!"

"You bastard!" Samuel shouted in heartbroken rage. "You did this to her! You took her from me!"

"I will have my revenge!"

"And I will have mine!"

He transformed into a horrible, bat like creature and lunged for Samuel, dragging him down into a dark abyss that lay below the tomb. During the fall both men fought with the intention of killing their opponent. When they landed on the stone floor Samuel felt great pain but was too enraged to care. In his hand he gripped the bloody stake that he had used to end Lenore's undead existence and during his fight with the dark vampire he managed to plunge it deep into his heart. He gasped and choked, slowly falling from Samuel's chest and on to the stone cold floor. Then poor crawling away into the darkness to die he uttered these last words.

"You haven't seen the last of me. Someday I will get my power back and when I do I will have my revenge, I will have my kingdom, I will have my queen, and I will destroy you Samuel Warren."

Present time...

"Thanatos was destroyed that night and so was Lenore." A much older Samuel said. "The next day James and Emmaline left town and got married as soon as possible, Dr. Utterson continued hunting vampires and I remained here where I never got over that horrible night. That night where I had to destroy what I loved most."

"That's terrible." Juvia sobbed with tear filled eyes. "To be forced to kill the person you love."

"Yeah no wonder you're so miserable." Natsu said.

"Anyway." Sam grunted. "I may have staked him that night but I had forgotten to burn his body. Which is why he was able to be revived all those years later."

"What exactly is his plan?" Natsu asked.

"If I'm correct he plans to slaughter and/or turn everyone in this town and maybe even the whole world."

"But we can stop him right?"

"I staked him once, I can stake him again but I can't promise that your friends will get out of this alive."

"We don't believe it's too late to save them."

"Gray reisisted their control over him." Juvia said. "It was brief but he resisted long enough to get away from me."

"Then maybe he's not as far gone as I feared though I don't know about the other one. Her transformation may be complete."

"No! Lucy isn't one of them!" Natsu said. "I refuse to let her become one of those monsters."

"With all due respect kid, you're not in control of weather she turns or not."

"I know Lucy. She can hold it off, I know she can. We're going to kill this bastard and save both her and Gray."

"I pray that is the outcome of this mission."

"So what's the plan Chief?" Jack asked.

"For now let's just get some sleep. We're going to need it and tomorrow we train non-stop."

Meanwhile Gray had returned to Sloane and Thanatos's lair. By now he was once again under her control.

"What do you mean you didn't bite her?!" She screeched at Gray angrily when he told her that he had failed to bite Juvia.

"I don't know what happened." He said. "One minute I had her and then...I don't know."

She drew back and struck him across his face causing him extreme pain.

"You useless maggot! You reisted me didn't you?! How dare you resist me! No one is allowed to resist me!"

"Calm yourself sister." Thanatos said. "Be grateful that he didn't bite her because if he did it would have ruined our entire plan."

"What do you mean? I thought the plan was to have him capture and turn her."

"The plan was to have him capture her! Not turn her! You foolish woman! We need her to remain human!"

"Why?"

"Because her blood is no good to us if she becomes a vampire! We need her blood and you know that once a human turns into a vampire their blood basically turns to ash, tar, a black substance that's of no use to us! You could've destroyed all my hard work!"

"Well what's so special about her blood anyway?"

"Do you honestly not see how valuable she is? She is a water mage which means she can make water into blood, she's made entirely out of water so she's practically a blood bank. With her in our clutches we won't have to worry about feeding on other humans, we can just turn them and feed on her to regain our strength and power."

"But how long will she keep us supplied?"

"Until we drain every last drop of her."

"But..." Gray said standing up with his eye bruised from Sloane's attack. "But if you do that she'll die."

"Yes it appears that way." Sloane said. "Is that a problem?"

She quickly tightened her hold on his mind.

"No. It's not a problem." He said.

"Good now here's the new plan, at nightfall find the rain woman and bring her here."

"But bring her to us alive and as a human!" Thanatos added. "We need her heart pumping...For now."

Without a word Gray left to fullfil his mission.

"He's slipping brother, something that woman did caused his human self to briefly regain control." Sloane said.

"Relax Sloane, it was just a moment of weakness due to him being away from you. I'm sure there won't be any slip ups this time. Now get the steam and fire ready while I prepare the chains."

"Very well but what do we need the steam and the fire for?"

"We need the rain woman alive but we don't need her to be strong. We must weaken her and from what I know steam and extreme heat weakens water mages. If we don't have any foul ups then she shouldn't be able to slip through the chains we lock her in or fight back."