Detective Dick 2: The journey begins

Segment 10 -: Chapter 19 & 20

    

       Chapter 19 -:  The city of  Teras.

     In the nightwalkers fortress, every room was now a place for the wounded to receive medical attention.  Bodies were continually being wheeled on beds from room to room.   Lots of mages were present, their function was to heal.  Sarah was the one who led them as she gave out orders from time to time.  She was presently tending to a young vampire whose fangs stuck out of his lips, he was handsome, and had an enormous hole in his chest.  Sarah focusing as best as she could, with yellow transparent runes on her palms, she stretched it towards the body but it had no effect whatsoever, her magic wasn't refined enough to pull this off.

 Alucard walks into the room, his face a mask of regret and pain, he came over in Sarah's direction.  "How is it going? Will they be alright?"

Sarah turns at him, she had a regrettable look on her face, she nods her head silently.  "We have tried all we could, we are simply not versed enough in the art of healing magic to pull this off."

Alucard's face turned pale, he was in deep thought.  Dick and Tommy walk into the room shortly after, they appeared to be in a casual discussion.

"Hey love, how are the bodies doing?  Hope no ghosts have come out yet, we wouldn't wanna add more freaks to our gathering," Dick grins as he plants a kiss on Sarah's forehead, Sarah smiles mildly.

"Why's Aluk looking so pale?  Did he get his soul sucked out too?" Dick smirks, Alucard gives him a cruel look.

"Redoulp says he needs to see us, you and Sarah included," Tommy finally speaks out.

"He tell you what it's about?" Sarah asks, she looked intently at Tommy.

"No, he just said it was important.  Said it's about the welfare of the wounded comrades" Tommy replies tiredly. "Well then, let's go!!" Alucard says aloud as he turns towards the room.

"You are doing a great job, honey,"  Dick ends with a reassuring smile.

"Maybe but it is certainly not enough," Sarah grins back.  Dick didn't have a reply to that, she was right.  They lacked the resources they needed.  Sadly,the four went into another room, it was the basement, the luminous blue ball was still close to the ceiling.  Redoulp was hovering in the air, he was in a meditative yoga pose, not too far from him was Katharina's body which still laid unconscious on a bed.

"You said you wanted to see us!"  Alucard bellowed, this snapped Redoulp out of his medication.   Redoulp opens his eyes, he was back in his oversized clothing and his face was covered with a brown cloak, he stares through the cloak at the four people who had now assembled in his room.

"We don't have the magical resources or expertise to restore our comrades, we also lack sufficient warriors to take out Azexela herself," Redoulp began, he pauses for a while and takes a moment to observe their reaction which was indifferent.  "Therefore I propose we go to a place where sufficient resources can be gotten and we recruit more warriors."

"Where are you suggesting?" Alucard asks, anger now visible on his face.

"Teras!" Redoulp answers aloud.

"You know I am not welcome there," Alucard raised his voice.

"I don't think the inhabitants of Teras will mind that very much given this present crisis..."

"Y'all, holdup.  Isn't Teras the greek word for monsters?" Dick cuts in with a sly smile on his face, Everyone in the room turns at him.  "I knew it, we also got freaks in here, cause ACL got so much, I was wondering where our's was"  Dick ends grinning.