" Before that I just need to one thing." Emma said.
" Huuuh!! you are ruining the fun, but what is it?" Albert asked.
" What exactly is going on, what do you mean by we all are going to die?" Emma asked using her magic for defense at all times, even though Rupert was on his guard looking for any unusual movements from Albert.
"OOOh!! so you want to know. Well, even if you know at this point, it's not going to make a difference anyway. But since I have the honor to fight both of you at once, I'll slide that one now." So listen carefully." Albert said in a serious tone.
" As you already know, the execution orders of all the Vamps were already given about 1000 years ago. So you people made them hide here. But it seems that you've got yourself a snitch amongst yourself. Someone reported to us about the location of yours." Albert informed them.
" That's bullshit, you are just doing stuff right now. A vampire will never betray his own kind," Rupert said angrily.
" Cry all you want, but that is the truth. No one was the one that informed. But as of now, every vampire in this city and carnival is being assassinated," Albert said.
" No, this can't be happening. Mom and dad went to a carnival... Emma... what is happening? This can't be true. Who did that and why?" Rupert was mumbling hastily.
" Rup-" Emma wanted to say something, as she took her hand to his husband when they both were interrupted by Albert.
" Rupert this isn't the time panic, you have a bigger problem here. By the way I am seeing the things here. Your parents should already be dead by now." Albert said in a sarcastic tone.
Rupert was getting more anxious by the time. He was not able to think anything. He was going to his normal self. When Emma held his hand, handed over the baby to him. Looked him in the eyes and gave a smile. Rupert had spine chilling sensation.
"What are you thinking Emma?" asked Rupert in a worried tone.
"I can only use it two times for now. But I will make sure to come back and join you, if I sense any danger or I finish things off. " "Teleportium Miraculum" As she said those words heavy wind begins to flow. A small portal begins to appear behind Rupert. The portal is of blue color and on the other side the Carnival was visible. It was all happening so fast that Rupert holding the child on the ground got sucked into it. But he saw Emma saying something.
" Take care of Patrick. And save them all. I know you can do it." As she finished saying that, a strong Red light hit her and she fell on the ground. And the portal closed.
Rupert was shaking from his head to toe. His hands in which he was holding Patrick were not able to stabilize with all the trembling that was going on with Rupert. Patrick opened his beautiful eyes just like his mother and looked at his father. The father who was on the verge of breaking down. With the ambiguity on his face Rupert looked at Patrick. He saw Patrick trying to reach his head with his little hands, as if he was trying to calm down him. Patrick then gave a bright smile to his father, which reminded Rupert the smile of his beloved, his wife, Emma. That smile of Patrick just hit Rupert with a different kind of feeling, his face started to look less tensed. He began to look calm, his hands and body started to return to normal. All the trembling stopped.
He looked down on his little baby, who now started playing in his hands. Rupert gave him a big smile. Holding Patrick in one hand and taking wand in other. He remembered the words of Emma. And started to run hastily inside the Carnival.
As Rupert was running towards the circus, where they were going to be with their parents, he saw something or rather someone in the air. To him it was not clear who was there, but he could see a wand very big in the shape of a snake. He began to panic, thinking about his parents. The circus was still about 500 metres from there.
" Water Breaker!!" shouted Rupert with the wand in his hand, and a huge amount started to come out of it. After that he shouted " O water trying to fall, I will ice it all". Which made the water to ice. It was enough for him to reach the circus.
He began to look for something to slide on that ice. He looked here and there and he saw a flower basket lying near a flower shop. He held Patrick in his one hand and with the other he tried to sit in the basket, then jumped on the ice. He started to race down the ice but the figure in the sky had already started moving. Huge winds began to flow around the carnival. The dead bodies of all the vampires there were now floating in the air.
Seeing his friends and everyone like that Rupert's eyes became a little watery. But he continued to go down the path. The carnival was the first place that was attacked. Everything there was quite destroyed. Except the statue of their God. Rupert finally reached near the circus. While at the same time, the sky was howling due the spell of that figure.
Rupert without wasting any time started to look for his parents, between all the dead bodies that were there. But he was not able to find them, as the place was quite messy because of all the rumbles and debris. He took a baby carrier strap bag, in which a baby was dead, lying there on the mother's back. Portraying that she died trying to protect her baby, but as she landed on her back the baby died on impact. He couldn't stop his tears while doing this.
He wrapped the baby around him, tied him to the back strap, and started looking for his parents. As he was going through every part of the circus, he heard some kind of sound that came from behind the stage of the circus. He moved slowly towards the backstage. There were many bodies lying around the backstage area. Many of them are missing different body parts. Some of them were burned alive. While some looked like the soul was sucked out of them,
In the meantime, the shadowy figure in the air completed his attack. He was about to destroy the whole place. When he saw someone standing in the middle of the circus with a baby wrapped around his back, looking down on the ground. But the aura he was emitting scared the sh*t out of the shadowy figure.
"Who are you?" asked the shadowy figure.
"…" Rupert didn't reciprocate, just standing there with eyes red with tears and eyebrows frowning so hard that his face was not able to take the pressure, and his veins in his head were such that it seemed that they were about to explode. Such was his fury that even the strongest sorcerer in the world right now would get startled if he faced him right now.
"I am James Pistol, the second in command of the mission to exterminate the vampires. But if you will cooperate, I will only take you as a prisoner. In the name of the high and mighty Mags, I ask you to surrender right now. Or else-". James was explaining the situation to him when he was stopped by a very hoarse voice, which sounded as if it could cut through a person if it were a weapon.
"Shut the f**k up, you piece of s**t; I am not here to listen to your babble!"
"Oh, then what are you here for, Mr.?"
"I am here to kill you and everyone you bought HERE."
"What can you possibly do? I am only second to Alber---." As he was trying to finish up the sentence, he saw that Rupert had disappeared. He tried to look for him. But he was nowhere to be found. But as he looked back, he was there with his fist, nearly knocking down his face. The force of the fist was such that, even though it just gazed, he felt a great pain in his mouth. But due to that, he was no longer levitating. He came back to the ground, but as soon as he put his shoe on the ground, he saw fire in the shape of a dragon coming to him. Which would have engulfed him if, for the fact, he hadn't used
"Ice Dragon is a magic spell to counter the spell Fire Dragon." James understood that he was fighting no ordinary vampire; he knew that in terms of raw strength, he was not even close to Rupert's power level as a vampire. But in terms of magic prowess, it was the opposite. So, it was a matter of who took the other down with their power.
Now they were standing facing each other on the ground. Even the trees, animals, and birds were shaking because of the tension and the force field that was being created because of their magic.
"Let's do a duel, Mr.... excuse me, what is your name?" James asked with a grin on his face.
"You are laughing? You're LAUGHING AFTER KILLING ALL OF THESE PEOPLE?"
"What does a duel have to do with some worthless people dying?" he said in a sarcastic voice.
"Worthless, you say, all of those worthless people had families—a family that always cared for them, a family that always stayed together, during all these times when you were chasing us to kill all the time."
"So what? What do you expect now? Sorry, there is a place for you monsters to live. You people shouldn't have been born in the first place. Do you know how many of you monsters have killed innocent non-magic folks? Don't act like you are the victim here."
"Victim? You're right. Maybe I am one, or maybe those innocent kids that you have killed are ones. Yes, some of us have killed some nom-magic folks out there. But it has been a long time since we abandoned the inferno. The vampire group that you people are searching for, We had nothing to do with them."
"Nothing to do with them; SHUT UP! All of you are the same. The day you get a taste of a living person, you will crave more, look for more, and hunt for more. You never care for what will happen to them."
"No, I don't care. When you people are killing us for a reason that we have not done. Just because of your infidelity to catch the real criminals,"
"It doesn't matter."
"You're right; it doesn't matter anymore. You wanted a duel, right? I will give you a duel."
Both of them started to adjust their positions. The rules of the duel are simple. Both of them have to say they are ready, and they can only use one spell at a time. They are allowed to dodge a spell while it is being cast. They are allowed to use spells twice only if the second one is for defense.
As they looked for each other. They started to move back a little for extra space so that it would be advantageous in the duel. Now was the time for the battle. But then suddenly, someone from the sky fell. Rupert knew who it was.