Getting Out Alive
As D'Ablo and Jasik started to get the room ready for the ritual and Vlad helped Otis to stand. Mina followed his lead and helped Henry. He nodded to the doors and they slowly-very slowly-started to move closer to the doors.
But just as Vlad was about to open the doors, D'Ablo turned and faced them. "Fools. Did you really think that would work? The four of you are no match for even one of us. Especially given the fact that two of you are injured, one but a drudge. You can't escape."
Mina then let Henry lean against the doors and she stood in front of the group. She widened her stance and glared at D'Ablo. "Then fight me, vampire to vampire."
"Mina don't!" Vlad warned but she ignored him. D'Ablo laughed loudly.
"Come now, my child, you would die before the fight even began!" Mina growled when he addressed her as his child and D'Ablo smirked at the reaction.
"Then why do you hesitate?"
D'Ablo seemed amused by the stubborn actions of his vampire daughter. "Because I do not wish to waste my time. And with all the odds against you, it would hardly be a fight, and if I were to have a battle with such an intriguing specimen for a vampric daughter I would rather do so properly. Which we have no time for so stand down or the pain I cause your precious Pravus will be more severe than planned in your honor."
She growled in anger and she finally stepped down. She bowed her head yet her eyes never stopped glaring daggers at him.
"The let's even the odds. You against me and her. Right now." Vlad offered and D'Ablo seemed more entertained by this.
"As tempted as I am by your offer, Master Pravus, we have our business to attend to." Then with a look to his goons D'Ablo revealed Mina, Otis, and Henry's fate. "Lock Otis and the human in a cell together. It ought to be quite interesting having them share such a small space, what with Otis's now surely ravenous appetite. How long has it been since you fed, Otis? Nine months? Ten?"
Otis was held up by Jasik and his expression was of terror as he realized the trap that waited in their cell. But he forced a miserable laugh. "I've gone longer without blood."
"You shouldn't utter such lies in front of these impressionable youths, my friend." D'Ablo shot back at him. Otis then spat at his face and covered it with spit and blood. Otis then growled in a warning tone.
"I may be a lot of things, D'Ablo. But your friend is not one of them." D'Ablo took out a handkerchief out of his pocket and cleaned his face of Otis's marks. Then he stared Otis right in the eyes and spoke harshly.
"Enjoy your meal."
Jasik pulled Otis out of the room and Ignatius spoke up and drew D'Ablo's attention back to the cousins. "What about the girl?" D'Ablo thought and moved closer to them as Ignatius held them firmly by their arms. Mina could feel his iron grip as it bruised her arm. D'Ablo looked at her and smiled smugly.
"Put her in a cell next to them. I want them to hear her screams." Mina struggled against her bond and hissed at her vampric father in hatred. He chuckled and turned to Henry. "Think of it as a...channel to what I have planned for Vladimir."
With that Ignatius grabbed the cousins by handfuls of their hair and dragged them across the floor towards the door. Vlad watched in anger as Mina and Henry yelled and cursed more than they ever had in their life. Mina was also begging and pleading helplessly to stay with Vlad.
"I swear you hurt her-any of them-and I will kill you." Vlad threatened and D'Ablo smiled cruelly.
"I won't be hurting her...you will. And for your drudge...that would be your uncle hurting him." D'Ablo told him and Vlad felt a boiling rage growing inside him.
