We notice that there are knights and gargoyles all around us as we leave the dining area. Dracula and Toriko can be seen on the top of the stairs. "Vlad, stop this, please! Kamen did nothing wrong!" Toriko pleads with the man.

"Can't you see that man is trying to put a wedge between the vampires and me? You'll understand eventually that this was the right call." Vlad said. I look up to Vlad and yell out. "I never did a single thing to you! You're exactly what I thought you'd be! A coward!"

Vlad waves his hand. "Kill them." As soon as he said that, the knights and gargoyles moved in to attack. I feel the darkness welling up inside. Anger bursting from the seams. I yell out. "I will not let you harm anyone here, you bastard!" My body is consumed in darkness. I disappear into the darkness and appear next to a knight, pick it up by the head, and slam it into a gargoyle, shattering both of them.

I look up at Vlad. "You'll regret this, Vlad; I promise you that." Disappearing back and forth, Vlad sees his monsters and knights fall one by one. Suddenly, I appear in front of him and throw my fist out at him. He catches it and throws me across the castle through the stone walls. I land outside of the castle on the ground. It starts raining. Vlad appears outside the castle, and suddenly all of the gargoyles on the castle come to life and attack me.

One by one, I dodge and counter their attacks, destroying them and swallowing them up into the darkness. Vlad snaps his fingers again, and suddenly the ground starts to shake. A hand pops out of the ground, grabs my ankle, and tries to pull me under. I kick the hand away and move back. All around me, skeletons come out of the ground. Their bones clack when they move. The skeletons screech in unison and rush me.

"Damn it, there's too many." I think to myself as I see Ruby come jumping off of the castle, casting a spell, and covering her fist in bloody earth as she slams into the ground. The shockwave from the attack sends the skeletons to the ground, and they break apart. Ruby looks at me with a serious glare. "Where you go, I go, Master." I nod my head and look as the skeletons start reattaching themselves and getting off the ground.

I look at Ruby. "Go to the others and get them out of here!" She looks at me and shakes her head. "I will not leave you, Master!" Frustrated, I yell at her. "Your being here is not helping Ruby. You need to leave with the others. That is an order!" As I say, my eyes shine red, and Ruby obeys and runs to find the others before turning her head at me with a sad look.

I look up at Vlad. "So this is all you got, Vlad? Where's the infamous Impaler I heard so much about?" I taunt him. He glares at me. "You will soon find out if you can survive, boy." He waves his hand, and soon a dark figure can be seen hovering above the castle.

"It's a fucking dragon!" I yell out, ignoring the skeletons, as one stabs me through the chest with a sword. I turn to the skeleton, grab its skull, and crush it. I focus the light into my fists, imbue it with fire and lightning, and slam into the ground, creating a shock wave that can be felt throughout the land. Jenny and the others see Ruby running towards them and yelling out. "Where is Kamen?" Jenny looks around and doesn't seem to see him anywhere. "Did something happen to him?" Jenny asks, freaking out as fire can be seen flowing around her like an aura.

Ruby looks at her and explains. "Master said to get everyone away from here while he deals with the monsters and Vlad." Elizabeth looks at Ruby in shock. "He's fighting Vlad alone! Damn it, Ruby! Why would you leave him alone?" She asks as she feels her anger boil up. She starts running back to where Kamen was. Ruby appears in front of her again. "I'm sorry. The master said that no one was to help him. We need to leave." Ruby insists.

"If you do not move out of the way, I will force you to." Elizabeth says this with a hint of anger in her tone as the area around them suffers an aftershock. Everyone falls to the ground. Jenny gets off the ground and starts running towards Kamen. Ruby again stops them. Having had enough, Jenny hits Ruby. Ruby barely moves. "I will not let you jeopardize my master while he fights." Jenny snaps. "DAMN IT RUBY, CAN'T YOU SEE WE'RE TRYING TO HELP HIM!" The flame around Jenny grows in intensity, and she focuses fire into her fist and slams Ruby into the ground.

Running past her, the group got outside.

Everyone looks up. "Oh my god, no. KAMEN!!!" Jenny yells out, crying. Vlad is holding Kamen by his neck and snapping it. Letting his body fall, Jenny runs over to Kamen's side. "Kamen, please wake up. I need you here. Please, everyone needs you. I love you, Kamen. I want you to be with me forever. You said you would protect me and be with me." She says tears are rolling down her eyes.

"I'm sorry to say, but your 'boyfriend' wasn't enough, and looking at you all, you're clearly not enough either." Vlad says, laughing maniacally. Alistair looks up. "You may have once been my father, but now you are no longer. You will pay for hurting him!" Alistair jumps and attempts to attack Vlad.

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Vlad swipes his hand, and Alistair is sent to the ground with a force that shakes the ground around him. Seeing this, everyone runs to Alistair's side. Feeling their rage boil, they all attack Vlad at the same time. Vlad scoffs before disappearing and reappearing behind everyone. He slams them into the ground and knocks them out. Seeing this, Jenny swallows her saliva. "I will not let you hurt Kamen anymore. I'll protect him no matter what, even if it costs me my life." She says, and she sends fire towards Vlad, and he deflects it.

"Why don't you understand that man cannot help you? You are all doomed." Vlad says as he turns around and sees everyone getting up. "Why don't you understand, Vlad, that with Kamen anything is possible?" Elizabeth says.

"I hear something; I can't make it out. But it seems like someone is calling for me." I say it out loud as I stand in a room full of darkness. A figure appears; it's Vestis. He looks at me with a disappointed look. "I cannot believe you would let this happen, Kamen. You're down on the ground unconscious, and your friends are fighting your battle for you." He says he is walking around me in a circle.

"What can I do against Vlad? He's too powerful." I say to Vestis, He laughs. "You can give up control of your body and let me have a go at him." I look at him with disgust. "I can't let you do that, Vestis. I vowed to never let you take over for the safety of my friends and now my family," I say.

Vestis swipes his hand, and a window appears. "These friends?" I walk up to the window and see Vlad beating everyone. One by one, he's hurting them. I see Jenny standing above me, protecting me from the skeletons; she's not doing well. "Damn it, why can't I do anything to protect her?" I say it out loud, as my anger and rage are boiling at the surface, ready to break out. "I feel so useless. so unimportant, like I could disappear. It was because of them that I got this far. I....Will....Not.....Let....Them.....die....." I say that as the ground suddenly shakes, the pressure that is around everyone makes them freeze. The sky slowly darkens to a blackness that no one has ever seen. The dirt around them slowly starts to rise, and then suddenly everyone feels this feeling of fear, like a monster is looking at them.

They turn around and see a figure enveloped in total darkness, carrying a black sword with red veins. Their presence is suppressive, and it feels like it could take their lives in a split second. "What are you?" Vlad says, squinting his eyes.

"I am the eternal darkness that will swallow light whole; I am the being that will bring catastrophe to the world. I am the slayer of gods. My name is...Vestis." The figure says, Nobody can believe what they heard. "Did he say Vestis? Did he finally take over? Did Kamen lose?" Jenny said it out loud. Elizabeth looks at her. "I don't know, but we need to get out of here before one of them kills us." She says it in a panic.

The figure looks down at them. "Kamen has requested I spare you. As long as you stay away from this fight, I will only tolerate so much. If you do not obey, I will eat you whole." The figure says it, and it suddenly disappears and appears behind Vlad.

Sensing him, Vlad tries to turn around and attack, but fails and misses. "How are you in this form? Answer me!" Vlad roars out. Vestis laughs. "I don't have to tell you anything, Vlad. You have shown your true colors and have been deemed unworthy of the crown. I think I'll take it from you... with force." Vestis says before grabbing Vlad by the head, slamming him into the ground, and piercing the sword into his shoulder. "How does it feel to be powerless, Vlad? Knowing that the person you looked down on and tried to kill will be the one to take your life," Vestis says, smiling.

"I doubt very much that you will be able to kill me, Vestis." Vlad says this as he grabs the blade and slowly pulls it out of his shoulder. Vestis grunts, trying to hold the blade down in Vlad. He finally gets the blade free, and the blade goes into the ground and splits it, creating a hole 3 meters wide. Vlad gets up off the ground and commands the dragon to attack.

The dragon looks down upon Vestis, flies down, and swallows him whole. Vlad chuckles. "That wasn't so hard." Vlad stops when he notices the dragon has stopped moving. Suddenly, the dragon is sucked into itself and swallowed in a black void.

"Today really isn't your day now, is it, Vlad?" Vestis asks as he opens his mouth, and dragon fire comes out. Vlad moves out of the way; his cape is caught on fire. He rips it off and slams it on the ground. Vestis laughs. "You're going to regret trying to hurt Kamen and me." Vestis says as he disappears and appears behind Vlad, punching him in the back of the head and sending him flying through the castle, breaking pillars along the way.

Vestis holds his hands out, and the castle is swallowed whole in darkness and disappears. "HAHAHAHAHA, YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE ENOUGH VLAD." Vestis yells out, laughing. Vlad slowly gets up and slowly feels the overwhelming pressure loom over him. His body feels tight and heavy. "I can't believe you're making me do this. No one has made me do this in a very long time." Vlad says as his body is covered in black and suddenly reappears in his Impalers armor. Red scales go up and down his armor, which has a red mask with ears on it like a dragon.

Vlad roars out his dark power, which leaks out mixed with blood. "You will fall today, Vestis," Vlad says as he attacks Vestis.

Vestis laughs. "You'll have to do more than that, old man." Vestis says as he sends a darkened blood swipe towards Vlad.

As soon as the darkened blood swipe hits Vlad, it's absorbed into his armor. His armor glows red, and Vlad begins to laugh. "Who do you think I am, Vestis? I drank the blood of my enemies. I had them impaled in my kitchen and outside my castle. I am the king of the vampires!" Vlad roars out in a fit of rage before attacking Vestis with his own blood swipe. Vestis goes to block the attack and gets knocked to the ground.

"What the fuck? How did that hurt me?" Vestis thinks out loud. Vlad laughs. "Your blood powers come directly from my bloodline; you think I couldn't use them against you?" Vlad says as he strikes down on Vestis, but before he can, a light suddenly appears, blinding everyone. A figure appears out of the light.

"Lumen," Vestis says, looking at him.