The Bats, the Cat, and the Wolf Chapter 5

The Bats, the Cat, and the Wolf

Disclaimer: Darkstalkers belongs to Capcom. If it belonged to me, I'd make Felicia beyond God-tier.

Chapter 5: Tomb of the Pharoah

The Sahara Desert in Egypt…

The pyramids, following the dreams reborn of the kings of old, the sweat and blood of the slaves turned into historic remains. Egypt is one of the human history's earliest civilizations. It is also the root of cruelty. During the golden age, all people in Egypt believed the pharaoh was the incarnation of God. Excluding nobles, most people spent their whole life working. Lowlife is their identities, poor and suffering is their treatments. And all the civilians' hard work is paid off with... death. It was like they lived only for the royals.

But is there really eternal life? Time has answered us, impossible.

Under the deep night in Egypt, Demitri flies in with the speed of a jet. He traveled all the way from Romania to Egypt. What is his purpose? Demitri thinks back to what Denial told him about his target.

Flashback…

"From what I know, the evil pharaoh was one of the first Ozomu sent to the human realm." Said Denial. "Many years ago, he fought with your ancestors. Your ancestors won, but they lost one of the Satan Dimension Keys to him."

End flashback…

'I have searched the desert several times already but still found nothing." Said Demitri. "Where is this Anakaris hiding?' thought Demitri as he flew above the desert. 'If it keeps on like that, I would have spent too much power…'

"Ah!" Demitri was surprised when he sees a huge purpleleech crawling in the sand. "A huge leech in the desert?"

Seeing the vampire, the huge leech shows its true face, opening its bloody big mouth, displaying a nasty set of fangs circling about within. It suddenly jumps at Demitri like a whale.

"What?" Demitri had no intention of becoming a meal for such a disgusting creature and raised his fist. "Die!"

Demitri sent the huge leech flying back with a punch, sending it crashing into the sand. He already grew impatient searching for Anakaris, now he vents his frustrations out on the leech. However, he feels the chi of Makai inside this leech, and does the unthinkable: he actually flies right into the leech's gaping maw. 'No wonder it is so big, it is growing by Makai chi...'

Demitri continued to fly fast until he broke out of the leech's back. "Get lost, trash! CHAOS FLARE!" Gathering up power, he blasts the leech with his Chaos Flare, blowing it up and reducing it to flaming pieces. The vampire lord landed on the sand and looked about. 'Since that leech absorbed so much Makai chi, I'm sure Anakaris is around here. But why can't I find him?' Looking about the vast amounts of infinite sand, he looked down at the sand under his feet and realized. 'Oh, it must be the sand blocking my sight, let me take care of it.' Demitri closes his eyes, concentrating to use the technique only vampires can use:

Telepathy, able to spread thoughts and sense to an unlimited distance, usually used to locate enemies and targets. Although it drains a lot of power, this is the only way Demitri can locate Anakaris.

A huge pentagram formed around Demitri in the sand and glowed with an eerie light. Suddenly, the sand inside the pentagram all fly into the air, unearthing a pyramid made entirely of gold.

"Found it!"

Demitri dropped down next to the pyramid entrance, but a deadly atmosphere spreads around the area.

"Who dare enter my tomb?" a voice suddenly echoed from within the pyramid.

" Anakaris, save the tricks. I am Demitri, come out and face me." Said Demitri as he stood before the pyramid.

"Demitri? I heard your name from Ozomu. You are from the damn vampire clan, right? Come in if you want to see me…" said Anakaris's voice.

"You think you scare me?" Demitri's senses went off as he looked down, to see a bunch of bandages shoot out from the sand below him. "What is that?"

The bandages wrap around Demitri's legs before continuing to wrap up his upper body. Before he could get completely mummified, Demitri immediately breaks free of the bandages, sending the pieces flying. However, the bandages get back up and combined into a mesh, forming a tall muscled mummy.

"What is it now?" The mummy attacks Demitri, swinging its huge hand against him, but is dodged. Demitri looked at the mummy in annoyance, not wanting to waste any more time that he wants to. "CHAOS FLARE!"

Demitri fired the huge sphere of hellfire at the mummy, blowing it completely through and reducing it to ashes. The attack kept going and impacted against the pyramid entrance, blowing the heavy doors wide open. With the way open, Demitri calmly entered the pyramid's depths.

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs believed when they die, their spirits would go to the Sun God and got rewarded, then they would go back to life. Besides building huge tombs to protect their riches, ancient Egyptian pharaohs also made their bodies into mummies in order to protect their bodies. What's worse is they even buried civilians alive to serve them when they are reborn. Then there are all the traps protecting the tomb from grave robbers, and the pharaoh's sarcophagus is hidden in the deepest part of the tomb. The pyramid is a symbol of miracles made by humans but also a symbol of the selfishness of the pharaoh.

Demitri pays no attention to any of these because it is humans who brought these upon themselves. The most important task is to find and defeat Anakaris.

'Hmph… humans are such foolish beings…'

The vampic Darkstalker continued his trek through the pyramid's depths without trouble until he eventually reached the pharoah's tomb. It was a large, spacious chamber with a fountain that seemed to somehow be still working despite being underground for over thousands of years. In the back he sees a large gold sarcophagus situated on an altar, giving off an aura of power. Demitri had found the tomb of Anakaris, sitting right before his eyes a mere few yards away. However, the fact he got there without trouble was worrisome, almost as if he were invited in. Everything seemed too easy. Demitri starts to hesitate to move forward.

Suddenly, the sarcophagus spoke.

"What's wrong? Too scared to come in? Vampires are all cowards like your ancestor, Dracula!"

The vampire clan was the last of the Darkstalkers to leave the human realm, and Dracula was the last of this group. The power that Demitri is searching for is also hidden by Dracula.

The golden sarcophagus glowed an ethereal aura, which caused the skulls on the floor to come to life and float in the air. They went into formation as they stared down Demitri and made ready to attack.

"Dracula was the greatest warrior of our clan! How dare you mock him? CHAOS FLARE!" Demitri fired his Chaos Flare at the skull swarm. To his surprise, the skulls destroy his chaos flare and began to converge with each other. 'His power even destroys my chaos flare?'

The skulls fused and formed into a tall skeletal warrior. It stomps its foot down heavily, cracking the tomb floor before advancing towards Demitri.

'My power is decreasing, why? The situation is not good, seems like it is better to finish it quick!'

Deimtri rushed the skeletal warrior. "Devil Stab!" With his supernatural strength, Demitri rained a barrage of punches on the huge skeleton, each attack fracturing its bones. "Noble Triumph!" He then jumps up and flips forward, slamming his feet down on the skeleton, breaking it in half.

Once it was destroyed, the sarcophagus opened up and out shot a huge mummified hand with an eye on its palm towards Demitri in an attempt to grab him. Reacting fast, the vampire punches the palm, but is pushed back from the force. Skidding to a stop, he looked down to notice a shadow forming around him. Looking up, he sees a huge muscled mummy over eight feet tall wearing a pharaoh headdress, bracers, and a pharaoh loin. His legs suddenly formed into an upside-down pyramid.
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"Pyramid Drop!"

Mummy: Anakaris
Birth place: Egypt
Birth year: 2664 B.C.

The attack came too fast for Demitri to even teleport away. All he could do is to block Anakaris's attack with his bare hands. But for some unknown reason, Demitri's power got repressed inside the tomb, giving him an uneasy block. Grabbing the sides of the Pyramid Drop to stop it from hitting him, Demitri felt his legs buckle from the force as the ground around him shattered. He began to get driven into the ground like a nail as he was now knee deep into the floor. Demitri was losing strength, but struggled to stave off Anakaris.

"Demitri! Anyone entering my tomb will get repressed by the Makai chi around here, don't you notice?" Anakaris asked mockingly.

Demitri's eyes flashed with anger. "Anakaris! You shouldn't anger me! Black Satan!" Using the power of Black Satan, Demitri turns to his demon form and turns the tide. He easily shoved off Anakaris from him.

'Impossible! How can he still has such power?' Anakaris thought as his legs reformed.

"You may be able to lower my power, but you can never lower my mind! Black Satan Devil Stab!" Demitri lands a heavy fierce punch into the hulking mummy, sending him flying back. He was not done yet as he rushed at the downed Anakaris and rained blow after blow of demon-charged punches. He kept up the assault until Anakaris and himself were driven through the floor and smashed through all the rooms below until hitting the lower base. Returning to his vampire form, Demitri cloaked his body for one last attack.

"BAT SPIN!"

Demitri unleashed his drilling kick into Anakaris's body, smashing into the ground before jumping away. Anakaris slowly got up from the assault as Demitri stared him down. "Anakaris! Going against me will only make you suffer more. Why don't you give me what I want and call it a day?"

Anakaris's ribs were no doubt broken, but Demitri's attack doesn't seems to cause that much pain despite that. "Demitri, don't think I have lost yet!"

Demitri only laughs at him. "Haha! I already know where to find the key even without you telling me where it is."

"Wh...what?!" said Anakaris in shock. 'How does he know?!' He then punched his fists together. "Then take it if you have the power!"

Anakaris's fists shine with evil light. The building structures around him began to break apart from the power emitted.

"Royal Punch!"

Anakaris threw his oversized fist at Demitri, who dodged. The ground he was standing on shattered upon impact. Demitri was forced to dodge again as Anakaris's fist obliterated a pillar. Royal punch is so powerful that Demitri has to get out from the attack range.

"How do you like this power? It was a gift from Ozomu-sama!"

"Ozomu again!" 'That damn Pyron!'

Anakaris's sudden stops, giving Demitri a perfect chance to counter attack.

"I won't falter even if fighting against Ozomu, left alone you!" said Demitri as he flew towards Anakaris with his arms folded.

"Foolishness!" shouted Anakaris as he punched at Demitri. However, his fist went through him as the vampire suddenly vanished.

"Anakaris! You think I don't know your weak point?" Anakaris failed to realize in time Demitri had materialized behind him. Before he could turn to attack, Demitri punched his fist right through his ribs, breaking them. During his attack, he feels Anakaris's left ribs were injured before as well as something else. "This must be where the Satan Key is hidden!"

Japan Northern mountain regions…

Bishamon sits cross-legged on the snowy grounds with Kien stabbed in the ground to his side. Before him was his prisoner, Felicia, who was suspended between two wooden posts by shackles chained to her wrists and ankles.

"Dem.. Demi... tri..." said Felicia in her half-conscious state.

"If not for Ozomu-sama, I would have already killed you. You should be thankful, cat" said Bishamon as sat in wait.

On the other side of the mountain, a person was secretly observing Bishamon and his hostage. He had a shock of white hair and wore what looked like a purple kung fu outfit, but is of British descent. It seems he has some reason to come to that lonely mountain, but right now he does not do anything. He lies in wait and looks up at the night sky.

'Come on, full moon, hurry up! If the full moon shines, I can save her!'

The clouds began to part until the full moon shone brightly in the night sky. The man's eyes started to dilate as he hunched over as if in pain. His hair grew out and became wilder as his form began to bulk up until his shirt tore apart. His snout began to elongate as his hands and feet burst out claws that destroyed his shoes then began to grow blue and white fur all over his body. Finally, the man's teeth became sharp as his ears turned pointed before letting out a howl.

"AWOOOOOOOOOO!"

Werewolf: Jon Talbain
Birth place: England
Birth year: 1940

Bishamon looked up to where the howl came from. "What is that power?"

Under the white moon, Jon Talbain completed his metamorphosis into a werewolf. His eyes shine with a dangerous light as he looked towards where Bishamon.

'Please wait for me, Felicia…'

To be continued…

Done with this chapter. Demitri goes toe-to-toe with the mummy Anakaris to claim the final Satan Key. With Felicia as Bishamon's hostage, Jon Talbain makes his appearance to face the undead samurai spirit.

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