Amaranthine Dawn Of the Supernatural

Part 20

In late 18th Century, on the roads of the Transylvania, a caravan moves slowly at its darkest nights on this god forsaken place, a small child from inside of caravan slowly peeps out from curtains to see its residents but her mother who was beside her shuts it out.

"Careful, don't let them see us." whispers the mother taking away her pale hand from the curtains. "But why?" Asked the innocent child. "Because sweet Helana, these mortals fear which they cannot understand." said the mother. "Why don't they understand us?" said Helana.

"You'll see soon enough, everything will be clear my darling, you will understand this soon, very soon." said the mother as the caravan moves into the kingdom of Hungary. The horses stop at the command of soldiers approaching the caravan from the kingdom.

Then couple of slaves rush to put out carpet to welcome the honored guests despite being almost drained to death. Just as the curtains open, a well-dressed royal emerges from shadows from the kingdom and approaches to welcome them.

The mother steps out of the caravan holding her daughter by her icy cold hand. "Welcome, welcome, we've been expecting you, may I know what caused the delay lovely ladies?" asked the flirty royal. "Apologies for keeping everyone in waiting, there were some complications with some dogs." replied the mother.

"They were being nice… Until...” whispered Helana until she was silenced by her mother. "Fear not my ladies, you're in safe hands now, come, we've kept everyone in waiting for so long." replied the flirty royal.

They begin to enter the dark kingdom where an uneasy feeling enters into Helana's sight; she begins to grab her mother tightly as they enter deep into the kingdom. Several moments pass as they enter into the catacombs of Vlad himself deep into the dungeon.

It is with bones and blood of its fallen victim, but it appears as if it is prepared for a certain ritual since the marking written on floors look fresh. "I'm scared…" whispers sweet Helana. ”Fear not my lady, just a few more minutes till the ritual, and then you can move back to…" said the flirty royal who was interrupted by the mother.

"What? You never said anything about a ritual before, you only told me to bring the child for the procedure, and I did..." said the mother. "My lady, the ritual is part of the procedure, since it has not been done for a child before, we have to take every precaution, things can go very wrong very quickly." said the flirty royal.

"Whatever, let's get this done with, take her." said the mother as cultists from shadows emerge and tear of the daughter from the mother while Helana cries in fear as she is dragged into the center of the blood markings.

"Mother! Please let me go, I'll be nice, I won't do anything wrong I swear!" cries Helana as she is shushed by an approaching hooded sorcerer who stands in front of her as cultists make way for him.

 "Fear not child, for all is revealed." said the sorcerer as he uncloaks himself revealed to be a desolate face with stitches to mark his wounds, and a Amaranthine, corrupted with the essence of dark crimson magic, attached to his forehead which begins to glow as he reads his Incantation.

The blood markings too glows as Helana cries out to her mother, pleading to save her but her mother stands cold as the rest of hall hears nothing but the Incantation.

As the walls begin to shatter, a beam bursts on Helana, as she screams in pain and agony, but sadly, no one left to save her from this pain. This beam bursts at the coffins in the hall, invoking the dead into the land of the living. Despite being ice cold of her daughter's a***e, she breaks looking at the tears raining down from the poor child. "Stop! I said stop!" screams the mother.

 "Shut up filth! This ritual must not be interrupted..." said the flirty royal who grabs the mother by her neck preventing from saving her child. Mother! I'll be nice, I'll do whatever that makes you happy, please save me, anyone of you!" cries Helana as the beam bursts on her.

"Take…. your…. hands …off." shouts the mother as she breaks free with her eyes red as crimson and fangs emerging from her teeth, biting off the royals hand and rushing to save her daughter within a matter of seconds. While doing so, she pushes off the sorcerer, disrupting the ritual and pushes her child to safely, sacrificing herself to ashes from the beam burst on her.

The child rests, while the sorcerer gathers up his strength aided by the royal. "What happened?" asked the royal. "I do not know, it has never been interrupted before..." said the sorcerer.

 "Something… doesn't ….feel right…What… Is this… you fools!" said an elderly voice coming from Helana with her eyes red and her skin pale. "What? It cannot be. Valor?" said the royal.

 "Anton! What is the meaning of this, why am I locked in the body of a child?" asked Valor in body of a child. "Apologies, brother of Dracula, there was a complication, the mother of the child…." said the sorcerer before interrupted by a soldier rushing himself into the catacombs.

”Forgive me my lords, Lady Serena has returned with an army of Crinos and Vampires, they managed to break through." said the soldier.

 "Things couldn't get any worse, take the….child to safely, they must not know what happened here." said the royal. "You fools, I'll kill you all, all of you, blood will spill, and the world shall tremble once I return in my shape once more!" said Valor as cultists begin grabbing he despite her elderly voice screams to free herself.

Just as the child is taken away, the walls are burst through by a Crinos Itself with size equal to a two werewolves, it's structure is much more muscular build with fur as black as night, despite several soldiers battling to take this monster, the Crinos tears them off with a claw, then, ripping off the head of the royal. Within seconds, Serena, with a hooded vampirc royal robe leaps like a thunderbolt in front of the sorcerer, slamming him to the wall, choking him as he held his last moments of his life.

"What happened here? Did Valor's resurrection succeeded?" asked Serena. "Th….e.. ritual was… interrupted." replied the sorcerer as Serena rips of the stone from his head, turning him into ashes. Just then, a heavily built man arrives to the scene. "Looks like you did manage to get to his mother, ritual was interrupted." said Serena.

 "Though it came at a heavy price." said the built man.

"Hmm, true, at least we got the Amaranthine, or is it a ruby, given its corruption of dark magic." said Serena. "Give it to me." said the built Man

"No way, what do you plan to do with it?" asked Serena as she draws out her powers from the gem, and like an aura blossoms surrounding her. The Crinos, knowing its power, almost comes close to cleaving her head, but ultimately falls prey to its power along with the heavily built man, kneeling down and swearing their allegIance to their new queen who smiles and reveals her appearance as the present day Rebecca recalls her past memories as a former queen with the power of Dark Amaranthine.

Suddenly she hears a knock on her door to which she attends to it within a blink of a eye, the door opens and revealed to be Ilayda. "Sorry to bother you, can I grab your car? It's an emergency." said Ilayda. "Sure, why don't you come in first?" replies Rebecca.

"No, I'm sorry, my friends are in trouble, I need to get to them." said Ilayda. "I insist, please, just for few minutes." replied Rebecca. Thinking for few seconds, Ilayda decides to accept her invitation, moving in her house, having no idea how her life is about to change. Meanwhile, in the present, three months after the events of the Wakefield Falls War.

Ceuvest remains a memory of its former self. Residents have been put under curfew, and under strict military supervision with military tanks and soldiers everywhere, with Ceuvest under complete control of DAWNEGARD since the arrival of Commander Hector.

 Despite with strict quarantine, after the attacks and Pandemic, like all other towns, Ceuvest too begun virtual way of life, including school semester, the former hospital, now rebuilt as DAWNEGARD command center is where Agent Diana is being treated for mental health care.

 "Could you tell me your name please?" asked the doctor attending to Diana. "You already know." said Agent Diana. "Yes, but I need it to hear it from you." replied the doctor. "Eva Diane Walker, mostly people call me Diana." said Agent Diana. "Good, do you know where you are Diana?" asked the doctor. "In the Command Center of DAWNEGARD." said Agent Diana.