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Alucard \\ Adrian F. Ţepeş ([personal profile] cryptsleeper) wrote2018-11-01 07:51 pm
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2019-05-03 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There are no moths. There is nothing at all, in fact. The air is perfectly, deathly still. It's only after a few minutes that there's the slightest of rustles in the grass. A rabbit emerges, a small one with dark, curled fur and ice blue eyes and two bony growths upon its head.

It looks at Alucard, twitches its nose in what may or may not be acknowledgement of his presence, and runs. ]
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2019-05-03 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
The girl?

[ It's a woman who responds to him. Short, with dark bushy hair, long ears and small nubs for antlers. ]

She is in a cathedral, and she has not come out. She claimed sanctuary. For the moment, it has been respected, but we do not know when the men will change their minds, and they will not permit her to leave alive.

I come seeking the vampire Dracula to tell him of our hunt, as our sire has long demanded of us. [ Her long ears flick. ] It would seem he knows.
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Oh. Good. I had been wondering how I would speak to him with the building warded so.

[ Only a Belmont would respond to 'Dracula is SO MAD' with 'good'. ] Are you able to speak with him? One of his own ran with us on our last hunt, imitating our own kind to violate your people's laws. We would have him know that our only quarry is the Cathedral of Arges, so that he might know the traitor for herself should she do so again.
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2019-05-03 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
That is my messages heard, then. Save for that he will be welcome to his anger on the day that he would not do the same. But that part seemed unnecessarily combative.

[ Local bunny gives 0 shits about Dracula's anger, but would rather not be rude for no reason. ]

I do not know, yet. If the girl is touched, sanctuary is broken, and we enter the building and do what we must. If she is not, we take the cathedral apart brick by brick, until either she is returned to us or we can enter. I suppose we shall see whether we hunt stone and wood or meaty, bony things tonight. The choice is with the meaty, bony things.
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I would ask him his terms myself, but he does like to tear the tongues out of our messengers, and I do rather like myself as I am, whole and unscarred. I shall let my sire bear his wrath, once he wakes. It is what he is fondest of doing.

[ The rabbit-fairy nods. ]

Our brother, yes. Out hunt is small. Four in number, I think, so far as we are ever any number at all. Myself, my sisters and our brother. The cathedral should hold many, many hundreds of humans were they to hold their breath and stand very still on top of one another. But humans tend not to do such things, so I imagine there should be less than a hundred. It would be an insignificant number, were we not concerned with keeping the girl alive.
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Oh, not at all. Our sire will dislike this immensely. There is a human saying about begging forgiveness and asking permission that I believe to be relevant, though I do not know that we intended on doing either.

[ ALL DADS WILL BE MAD. ]

You are invested in our success, son of Dracula. Despite his own anger.
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[ The rabbit fairy gives this some thought as she calls her steed - a one-horned horse - over. ]

You may ride with me, if you wish. It would perhaps be best that there be someone there to protect the girl by morning. We will be called away, no doubt. And our brother will be unable.
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Very well. -Dog.

[ The unicorn stomps a hoof into the ground to mark the spot, so that they can find it again if they need, and the fairy climbs atop it. ]

I will leave a trail for you.

[ And with that she is gone, leaving in her wake a trail of hoofprints and long iridescent hairs from the unicorn's mane.

Just before dawn, at the end of the trail, there is the smell of blood. The rabbit fairy uses a delicate lace handkerchief to wipe blood from the mouth of another woman with great feathered wings and golden paws poking out from under her skirts. Another woman draped in a long cowl fusses over a collection of dogs as they squabble over very human bones. And Trevor is there, surrounded by his sisters, holding a slumbering Sypha in his arms. She seems unhurt, for the most part.

Soon, the griffon woman says. He is waking. He will be here soon.

Trevor nods solemnly. ]
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[ The griffin growls, the woman with the dogs looks up only briefly before looking away. Trevor doesn't stir at first, clinging to Sypha, but eventually looks up at Alucard. ]

We know.

[ It's the rabbit fairy who speaks first, and she finishes making her oldest sister presentable for their patriarch's arrival. She smiles to Alucard, sadly. Trevor stands unsteadily, stumbling over to Alucard and holding Sypha out for him to take. He feels numb. He doesn't know what happens next, but he knows that it's going to be unpleasant. And he knows that he isn't going to be here to take care of her. ]

Please. Take her somewhere safe?
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[personal profile] miraclewhip 2019-05-03 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
No. She won't.

[ Trevor just purses his lips, looks down at Sypha one last time, and then looks up, swallowing as he meets Alucard's gaze, so much softer than it had been before. ]

I'm sorry.

[ The sun starts to peek over the horizon as he says it, and the rabbit fairy pulls her brother into line before Alucard can say anything more, dusting him down and straightening his hair and pushing him around to correct his posture. She looks expectantly at the woman with the dogs, who makes her hounds sit properly but not without sighing as if it's a terrible nuisance to have to do so.

Leon Belmont arrives with the sun, as he has done for four hundred years. Unlike his children, he appears entirely human, save for that when part of him moves through the shadow of a tree branch that part disappears entirely. His expression is impassive as he looks over the fairy siblings, and his voice calm and soft. ]


Who is responsible?

[ Trevor steps forward, and Leon sighs. Carefully, he takes from from his belt a small, jeweled box and holds it out. A single moth leaves Trevor, settling itself into the box. Leon closes it.

And then he draws his sword and plunges it into Trevor's chest. The rabbit fairy looks away as moths fall away from her brother, each tumbling to the ground in flames. ]
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[ Leon moves with the sunlight, and it'll be another few minutes before the sun strikes the walls of Dracula's castle. When it does he is there, before the doors of the great building. He dusts the moth-ash from his hands. ]

Mathias.

[ He does not knock, just says that one word. ]
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[ The castle is dark, and Leon moves from flameless, cold torch to torch, vanishing into nothing in the shadows between them. He simply does not exist where the light does not touch, and has not in centuries. Has not, save for on that one night every seven years.

He knows the castle, no matter how little it cares for him. It is the angry, twisted child of one that he fought through centuries ago, new wonders fashioned from old parts. He follows the path that it gives him, requesting only a candle from it, so that he not vanish entirely.

(He relieves it, the candlestick is on a table a little further down the hallway. But it is offered grudgingly, the candlestick a beaten, tarnished thing that the castle seems to have pulled out from the darkest parts of itself just to offer the greatest insult that it can, and the candle burned so low already that his meeting with Dracula will not be a long one without an additional form of light. The castle wants him gone as soon as possible.)

He bows when he enters the room, moving to his own seat and placing the candle upon the table to illuminate him. Next to it, he places the small box. ]


I understand that my children have been hunting in your nights without your leave. [ He does not recognise territory in terms of geography anymore, only in terms of time. Wallachia means nothing to him, but sunset does. It was night, and not the night of all hallows, and so it was Dracula's territory. ] I imagine that you wish to discuss with me how this might be made right.

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