291 Transylvania IV : The Monster The Goddess

I can't remember how many times in the last I've warned myself about how volatile it was for me to make a combination of multiple energies and release them as an attack in a fight. I would tell myself that it wasn't worth it, and that I might end up injuring my own allies. I was right, but this time it wasn't really my fault, but more like the fault of the monster.

Just before an explosion that completely decimated part of the bridge, and the ship that served as blockade occurred, I watched as the bullet I shot slater into the head of the monster. And at the same time, the monster slammed itself into the shield, breaking it apart. And the shield falling apart released an explosion of energy of it's own that melded with the explosion from the energy busts I had just fired.

Our only saving grace was the fact that shield exploded outwards rather than inwards, so it went towards the monster rather than the vampires being protected behind it. However the ensuing explosion still cost some people their limbs, and some of them were burnt beyond recognition. The only surprising factor to tall this was the fact that, they all survived, even with the injuries. And since they survived, it was only a matter of moments before they all started healing the damages to their bodies, and with the help of my Soul rune Heal, lost limbs were restored.

The path ahead of us was cleared, and the really sturdy bridge has had a section of it almost a kilometer long, broken and twisted beyond recognition though it was still standing to the shock of myself and everybody else. It was after the explosion was over that the purist vampires made their way past the wreckage of the ship. They had no lent a single helping hand, and had let us fight the monster all on our own, now they would just breeze through without any difficulty.

My vampires were angry about these entire turn of events, but there was nothing that could be done about it. The purist vampire faction were elitist childish scumbags who think the world should fall at their feet. One day the world would fall on their head instead, and maybe that day might be today.

I walked forward, and shifted my gaze underneath the bridge, and there hanging on for it's life was the monster. It was still alive, though a significant amount of all its legs and bodies had been turned to ashes. The souls within it's body were rapidly escaping from it's multiple wounds, though it seems to be holding them back with some sort of magical net. But I knew the net won't last, and neither would the monster. I gave a signal to the vampires of Ethernalia Leonis and asked them to move ahead while I stayed back to talk to this monster.

But this was a conversation I did not want the purist bastards behind me to hear, so I had to get really creative with my abilities. This monster knew how to control and manipulate soul energy, maybe even to a higher degree than I could. But it stands to reason, that there might be a way for us to communicate using just our souls, or rather our soul energy. And so I sent my soul energy towards the monster in an attempt to communicate with it.

The attempt left me shaken and horrified, the closer I got to it, the more chocking the evil I felt from it was. Whatever this thing is, I doubt I've seen half of what it's capable of, it was almost as if it was going easy on us. And if that was it going easy on us, I could not even begin to imagine what it's angry face and mode would be like, the very idea of this thing taking me and my vampires seriously chilled me to the bone.

"You really have some nerve sending your towards my direction. Are you not afraid that I would devour you very sense of self? That I would take that powerful soul of yours and leave your body nothing more than a withering husk!"

I couldn't help it, I shivered and for a moment I was stuck there horrified for not other reason than the fact that it had spoken to me. I couldn't fathom bow deep the scope of it's powers might be that it could make me feel so threatened, but I was determined to see my experiment through, so I replied to it. Using my soul energy as a communication line between the two of us, and surprisingly, it worked.

"I can heal you, let you fight for your life again and this time against vampires that very much deserve to die. All I ask that you let me and my people passage anything we come through here."

"Hahahaha you!... You want to strike a bargain with me! Oh how the mighty have fallen. A million years ago, your kind worshiped me, they adored me, I was a god on earth and they basked in my glory. Do you know what they called me, do you know the name of reverence and honor they gave me…, They called me Kali. A demon goddess of war, and blood and everything evil. But now I have become this!

With the fall of the royal vampire bloodline; The Dracula's worship of me ceased. I was after all one of the patron goddesses of the vampires, and the royal family were my priests and messengers. And then the vampires fell, and what remained of you people decided it would be a good idea to summon pieces of my body and divine essence to empower themselves. How foolish, it turned them into monsters, a gross perversion of demons, and me into this.

I was reduced to scrounging for the body of the dead and summoning their souls back to the land of the living to become my sustenance. But it's not enough, it was never enough. I killed and I hunted and I summoned, but the souls were never enough, my divinity was still lost. And it is because of that that you were able to beat me, so take pride in that filthy vampire that you were able to best a weakened goddess. It's the only thing you're ever getting from me!"

A goddess? Wow this is what a goddess looks like. I mean based on her story it seems she's had a shitty life and all that, but I couldn't bring myself to feel sorry for her. I knew Kali, calling her evil might even be an understatement. And this was just a story from her own perspective, there's bound to be a different side to it. But it didn't stop from reaching my hand to her monstrous form and saying.

"Let me help you."

She fell silent, I didn't really know what she was thinking, but I took action anyway. I weaved my soul rune heal on her body, and then I watched in abject fascination and horror as her almost destroyed body was restored and she was standing above me, the mouths on her stomach wild open with fangs so sharp they gleamed within the darkness of the highway.

"Are you stupid or retarded?" She asked me, as she brought her huge head to my face, and I shook like a leaf. Even my Aura could not keep me from feeling this fear, it went deeper than that, all the way past my brain and it's chemic reactions to the depths of my soul.

"I'm not stupid or retarded, I just felt that it was shame letting you die, when you would have been more useful alive." I answered her.

"Let me tell you something young vampire, it would have taken me fifteen minutes to recover to a point where I would be able to move, and thirty minutes to heal to a point where I would be able to attack. I would be coming for you and your vampires then. And just one tidbit of information I think you should know, I'm a goddess, weakened and mortal yes!, But still a goddess which means I'm immortal. I cannot be killed by anything other than another god or goddess, a godly weapon, spell, skill, or sickness. So now what do I do with you?" She asked me, as she shifted her gaze back towards the purist vampires who had at this point smartly taken a few steps back away from her.

"Very well then, I will do as you ask. But in return, you shall hunt the three demon princes who have my divinity in them. Kill them, and bring my divinity back to me. You've managed to beat me, so I'm sure you will figure out a way to beat them too. Transylvania awaits, and once you do what I ask, and free from this cursed shell, I shall bear you a child of godly blood, now be gone."