Supernaturals #2

[Spider-Man Beyond]

Supernaturals #2
Hellsing Lamia II (The Hellsing Vampire Part II)

Written by Thomas
Edited by Daniel Dyer

The strange tingling coursed through Sara’s body. She felt her throat close up as she gasped for air. Her vision began to blur as what felt like acid coursed through her blood stream. Through her fading senses she heard Jonathan uttering a spell.

“Telum of lux lucis!” Suddenly a beam of light shot the biting creature, launching it into the nearest wall. Without any support Sara collapsed to the ground.

“Light arrows? A little beginner, don’t you think, Jon?”

“There’s more where that came from, Victor,” he replied.

Victor laughed at the threat as he peeled himself off the wall. He felt a shift under his feet. He quickly looked down to see the rafter he was standing on come to life and ram a spike through his chest. He slumped; dead, but only for a second as he latched back on to life. “Close, but no heart!” He slowly moved himself off of the spike. Once back on his feet he watched the hole in his chest mend itself. “What’s next, Rob? Garlic?”

Robert turned to his ally. “Jon, get the girl!”

Jonathon nodded in agreement. “Levity.” Jon flew up to the fallen Sara.

Robert slapped on the clod cement, transmutating a hammer. “Come on, Vic!” he taunted. “Show me what you got!”

Victor chuckled as he simulated slitting his own throat. “First I kill you. Then I save my new bride.” With those words he jumped the tremendous distance to the floor. He strolled ever closer to Robert grinning. He brought his hand up in a claw like fashion and launched at Robert.

Robert braced himself, waiting for his former friend. As soon as he sensed the beast was close enough, he raised the hammer and brought it down with great force. He heard the cracking of Victor’s skull against the reformed concrete and immediately jumped back. As he landed, he felt pain rush across his chest. He gripped it, letting his hammer fall. He looked down to see his hand stained with crimson. “Damn!” he cursed under his breath. He looked up to see Victor looming over him.

“You slowed down, Rob.”

“And you slipped further into the darkness.”

Seeing his friend almost fall below him, Jon knew he had to hurry. He whipped out a bottle form a sack sow to his hip. He dipped his fingers into the clear liquid while praying an enchantment. Hope this works, he thought as he glided his hand over Sara’s neck wound. He took a deep breath and jutted his five fingers around the bite marks. <“Five Pronged Sealing Spell! Dispel the beast!”>*

Sara screamed out, but her voice morphed from that of a beast to normal.

Victor looked over his shoulder in fear. “No,” he whispered.

“Ancient Japanese magic does wonders for sealing spells,” Robert rasped. “Sent your newborn wife straight to Hell.” He laughed.

Victor sniffed the air. “I can still smell her essence.”

“Like you can persuade her,” Jon’s voice echoed from the rafters. He let down Sara; sleeping. “Levity.” He glided down to the two.

“I’ll kill you!” Victor raised his hands. Twenty three pairs of eyes shimmered from the darkness in his cloak. “May I introduce my own personal gift from Dracula himself, the twenty three dogs of Hell!” Twenty three identical black Dobermans jumped through Victor’s cloak at Robert and Jon. They glared their blood red eyes at their new prey.

“Jon, what do we do?” Robert asked as he started to back toward the wall.

“It’s a high class summoning,” Jon muttered.

“Yeah,” Robert quipped, “an open portal straight to the underworld.”

Jon glanced up at Sara, lying on the rafter. “We do what we do best.”

The two braced themselves as the beasts charging at them. Robert clapped and slammed his hand on the wall beside him. Suddenly a giant fist erupted from it. It slammed into a group of the Dobermans, crashing them into the opposite wall. Robert’s smile quickly changed to a frown as he saw the dark blood dripping from the indentation reformed into the Dobermans that were just destroyed.

“Jon, alchemy doesn’t do squat,” Robert whispered over his shoulder, but he only heard a spell in response.

“Evictum.Lightning engulfed a small group of the dogs as they suddenly stopped and howled out in pain. “Solor lux lucis.” A flash of light as bright as the sun erupted from his staff and engulfed the bound hell hounds. They barked loudly as they disappeared in the light. “Looks like they’re vulnerable to sunlight.”

“Shadow creatures?” Robert asked.

Jon smiled.

“Looks like Dracula screwed you over, Victor.” Robert smiled as he laid his hand on the wall again. The ceiling pealed open, revealing the light of the rising sun. The remaining dogs whimpered as they evaporated.

Victor raised his face to the glaring sunlight as he caught the faint sulfur scent left by the dogs. “Who needs a bunch of second rate mutts, anyway?” He glared down to his former friends. “I’d much rather drain you myself.” His fangs glistened as he stepped forward. He barely noticed a figure rushing towards him. By the time he noticed he was slammed into the cold stone.

(Editor’s Note: Translated from Japanese, Dan)
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[Spider-Man Beyond]

Sara awoke to the sunlight burning her skin. She felt like a drowned rat. Her whole body ached, her head pulsed, and on top of all that she was thirsty. She felt something rush up her throat. As she leaned over to almost vomit she saw three figures arranged on the ground below. As her blurred vision began to focus she could make out two of the figures; Jonathan and Robert. She stared at the third figure, trying desperately to identify him. As her vision peeked she saw the figure of the thing that bit her minutes, or was it hours ago. Him! she thought as she felt her breathing quicken. Her palms started to sweat and a strange high came over her. As her adrenaline skyrocketed, she could only think that one thought. Him! He… He… bit me! He… he… he… Before she could finish her thought she was hurdling feet first toward the pavement. She could feel the small vibrations from her landing echo through the semi-abandoned building up through the open ceiling. As she felt a second adrenaline rush she charged at the thing. With all her strength she slammed into it, sending both of them into the wall. As the thick cloud of dust settled she saw two piercing eyes staring at her.

“Hello, girl,” Victor said calmly.

“You! You!” Sara tightened her grip around Victor’s neck.

“Come now.” Victor placed a hand on Sara’s shoulder. “You wouldn’t kill the person that gave you so much power.”

“Wrong!” Sara’s eyes began to glow blood red. Victor laughed as the girl holding him grinned her newly formed fangs

“See, boys?” Victor asked. “She’s gone savage.”

Sara felt the words hit her. Tears started to fill her eyes. “No,” she whispered as she grasped her head. Her eyes flared back to their normal blue coloring. The color in her face faded as she paled. Without one more word she collapsed.

“Oh dear.” Victor smiled. “Not five minutes awake and she faints.” He looked up to the other two. “I should do the magical world a favor and get rid of such a horrible creature.” Victor began to descend upon the fallen body of Sara.

Suddenly Jon shot up in a white hot rage. “Levitas offendo!” A bolt of lightning shot out of his open palm and struck Victor straight in the chest. He fell back violently. He began to cough as he rose to his feet.

“Now, that’s getting old.” Smoke bellowed from his mouth as he spoke.

“Move one inch closer to her and the next one’s going down your throat. It won’t kill ‘ya, but it’ll strike every one of your vital organs. Basically turning them to ash. Then I’ll ram ten thousand stakes into your heart, soak you in garlic, and hang you out in the sun until you completely disappear from this world, you unholy bastard.”

“Touchy, Jon. You’re telling me that you favor this… well almost mortal over me, your good old chum?”

Jon only stared back with his eyes filled with anger.

“Fine, guess that’s it for now, gents.” Victor walked off into the sunlight. He turned his head to his former friends. His eyes were Hellish and bestial. He took a deep breath as he walked off into the day.

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[Spider-Man Beyond]

Sara moaned as she opened her eyes to a small darkly lit room. She reached for the familiar figure of Robert as he came into her line of sight. Robert slid a small cup into her hands.

“Drink,” he ordered her.

She drank and choked on the bitter taste.

“Yeah, I know it’s terrible, but finish all of it and you’ll feel better.”

Sara sucked it up and swallowed down the rest of the strange liquid. “What happened?” she rasped as she sat up.

“Well, you fainted and we brought you here.”

“And the vampire?”

“Victor? He’s gone.”

Sara glanced over to the nearest clock; 4:00 P.M. “Wait, do you guys know how to time travel?”

“No. Don’t worry bout your job. You won’t lose anything… well outside of respect from your kids. Jon should be back soon.”

Sara started to observe her surroundings. The house seemed to have been built in the Victorian era.

“Nice house right? Yeah I bought it a while back. It’s a real fixer upper.”

After a few minutes of dead silence a gentle rapping came at the door. Robert opened the door to reveal Jon standing at the threshold.

“How you doin’, Sara?” he asked as he stepped into the dank room.

“Fine.”

Jon stared at her with bags under his eyes. “I guess it’s about time you heard the whole truth, considering.”

“Considering what?”

“Do you remember anything about this morning?”

Sara dug for memories. “Yeah, that guy bit me, but I thought you fixed that, Jon.”

“Apparently not good enough. Somehow the spell wasn’t enough and you still are retaining traits of vampirism.”

“So what? I’m still part vampire or something?”

Jon nodded to her.

“Then what are you waiting for? There’s no use crying over spilled milk, right?”

“You’re taking this relatively lightly.” Robert stepped up.

“Trust me, I’ve read weirder. And after seeing you two do all of that magic and stuff it’s not hard to get used to it.”

“Well,” Jon took a seat. “As I told you before, just about every mythological creature you learned about exists. At the beginning of time the ‘real’ and ‘mythical’ worlds were separated, but their were trouble makers, like Dracula, that tried to break the barrier and terrorize the rest of the world. And as long as they existed some people on either side of the barrier decided to stop them. And ever since my first contact with the supernatural, I decided to become one of these people and make sure nobody goes through what my family had to.”

“So what do you say, girl? You in?”

Sara nodded. “Sure, I mean if I’m cursed with this I might as well put it to good use.”

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