Detective Dick 2: The journey begins

Segment 9 -: Chapter 17 & 18

Chapter 17 -: An old enemy

In the basement of the nightwalker's fortress, a gush of white wave in the shape of a ball appears in the middle of the room.  There was a small luminous blue ball which was about forty feet high in the air, it was located at the ceiling of the castle. At the left far end side of the room stood a lot of books scattered about, each written in a strange language, not too far from the pile of books were two small beds, Resting on the two beds were Katharina and Redoulp, they were unconscious.  The white ball which was comprised of white waves begins to dim, soon the wave had dispersed completely, Dick falls from it with a bump, followed by a clanking sound.
Dick was troubled at the events that took place back at the mistress' domain, it all happened so fast, she had cost Lefinna his best friend to disappear with a snap of her fingers, she claimed to have taken his abilities, Dick prayed internally, he hoped it wasn't true as he looks at his hands, to his dismay, his middle finger was still gone, and there was fresh blood on the part where the finger was slit off.

"I hope Alucard and Kilo were able to defeat her medium," Dick gets up to his feet, he surveyed his environment, he couldn't shake the feeling that something terrible had happened.  He then noticed the two beds at the corner of the room, as quick as he could, he moves to the bed and sees Kilo lying on it, he tries to use his internal vision to check what we wrong with her body and again, nothing happened.  Using his hands, he checks for her pulse but he couldn't hear a sound.
"This can't be happening, was Rollover so strong?" Dick thinks, his face was beginning to show fear, looking over at the next bed, he sees Redoulp, he too was unconscious.

"I battled a medium just barely an hour ago, how did these all these happen within a short time?" Dick thinks as he steps back, he recollects Lefinna's words which was a minute in the universe he had left was a day here.

"Have I been gone for weeks?!" Dick mutters aloud as he thought.

"No,  son of the dick, I transported you through a time-balancing portal to enable the same time free-flow for the two worlds," comes a weak voice behind him.  Dick turns around to see Redoulp sitting up on the bed, his unusually large clothing was off, it was then that Dick notices his small brown body which was decorated with scars, his face was molted as always with a small horn sticking out of the left side of his neck, he had a face only a mother could love.  Dick fought the temptation to make a wisecrack as he dashes to the dwarf, he embraces him tightly, a tear nearly dripped from his right eye.

"Thought I lost you," Dick says, he nearly crushed the small body in his tight embrace.

"Azexela must have broken you, when did you get so nice," Redoulp says weakly as he tries to break out of the embrace. Dick smiles lightly, he releases the body from the embrace. "Sorry about that, I am just so happy to see you, what happened here?"

"The mistress' slave came visiting, he thought he finished me off but I barely survived," Redoulp says out as he sits up fully on the chair, Dick takes a seat close to him, pointing towards Katarina.
"How about her? What happened to her?  Did the blue blur also do this?"

Redoulp turns towards the attractive body sleeping on the bed close to him, Katharina was in a black dress, her hair was spread out behind her face, her eyes shut along with her small red lips. She looked like an angel sleeping
"She and Alucard went to face off Azexela's priest, they were not successful and as you can see, she wasn't so lucky," Redoulp ends as he bows his head down, there was a pang of guilt on his face.

Dick felt annoyed with himself.  "Why did I have to play hero? If I had fought Danny alongside them, we would have won, now I lost my bestie and I am now pathetic in this war." Redoulp looks over at Dick, he could feel the mortal in turmoil with himself.
"Don't feel bad, son of the dick, your intentions were noble, you should learn to accept failure as it comes but never let it wear you down," Redoulp says in a kind voice, a tear falls from Dick's left eye.