The Bats, the Cat, and the Wolf Chapter 8

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 8: To Trap a Vampire

Japan snowy mountain…

'Damn it all! They are giving me no end of trouble!'

Bishamon had been walking around the snow mountain for the past few hours, but still cannot find Jon and Felicia. He began to grow impatient from the fruitless search, getting angrier at every passing minute. Suddenly, Bishamon stopped, having realized an important fact, about Felicia's relationship with Demitri. He then shouts out at the top of his lungs.

"I will burn down this whole damn mountain! See where you two can still hide! Too bad you two won't be able to see how I destroy Demitri!"

In the cavern where Felicia and Jon were hiding, Felicia's eyes widened in shock. "Demitri… Oh! They are using me to lure him into a trap! I have to warn him..."

Jon slightly frowns. Even though he never met the man before, he still feels he hates Demitri all because of how much Felicia cares about the vampire. 'Why…?'

"God above, please give me power!" said Felicia as her hair began to blow upwards.

She began to focus her power to transform into her catwoman mode, but before she could, she collapsed to the cavern ground unconscious, via sidearm chop to the back of her neck.

Jon, in his werewolf form, stood over Felicia's unconscious form with his hand up, after knocking her out. He looks at her apologetically.

"Forgive me for this, Felicia. No matter what, I won't let you die. If you want to fight, I will fight for your sake." Said Jon. He focused his ki into his hand and flicks a ki orb at Felicia, wrapping her naked body in an aura of light to prevent her from freezing to death in the cave. Jon was already badly injured, and by doing this, he had reduced his fighting strength. Fighting Bishamon as he is now is not much different from committing suicide. "Take care, Felicia... Hopefully, I will see you again soon in this life…" With resolve, he leaves the safety of the cave to confront the accursed samurai.

Bishamon continued to look about for his prey, when his senses went off. 'So, one of them is nearby…' He turned to see something charging towards him.

Jon Beast Cannons towards Bishamon. "Bishamon, let's fight!"

"You finally willing to show yourself?" said Bishamon as he leapt up to dodge Jon's attack.

"Kill me if you can, but I will not let you hurt Felicia!" shouted Jon as he then shot upwards after Bishamon in his Beast Cannon.

Bishamon is knocked out of the air and fell to the ground where Jon followed up with another Beast Cannon. The samurai dodged and parried a claw attack from the werewolf. Both began to trade blows with each other, each dodging or parrying the other. Even without the Kien, Bishamon was a tough customer.

The samurai spirit decided enough was enough and jumped upwards. Jon chased after him by doing an upwards Beast Cannon. Bishamon then held his arm out. "Kien!"

At the base of the mountain, the cursed katana pulled itself out of the ground, dispelling the barrier and immediately flew towards its master. Almost in an instant, the Kien reached Bishamon and was grasped firmly. He held it up in a stance.

"Now I shall cut you into pieces!"

"Just try it!"

The werewolf and ghost samurai collide with each other in midair. Blood then spurts out as Bishamon had managed to impale Jon through the side of his abdomen, causing him to howl in agony. To save Felicia, Jon ignores his injury and continues to fight Bishamon. However, with his bady wounded body, he is no match for him. Bishamon could also feel Demitri heading towards their general location, so he opts to finish Jon off quick.

At another part of the mountain…

Eligos stood at the mountain's forested base as if waiting for something. He held his bat shield in his left hand and a wicked-looking double-edged sword with a bat-winged handguard in his right. Looking up, he could sense a strong power heading his way.

"So, Demitri finally comes."

Surrounded in a corona of red light, Demitri flew full speed towards the mountain all the way from the Egyptian Sahara. Looking down, he caught sight of Eligos, and of an unconscious Felicia being suspended by her wrists on chains under a wooden rack. Immediately, Demitri dropped down hard before Eligos, creating a shockwave from the impact.

Eligos could only smirk despite the hateful glare he was getting from the vampire. "You are indeed fast, but from now on, you cannot move even one step forward!"

Demitri's aura emitted dangerously. "Eligos, if you still consider us comrades, please step aside. But if you insist on getting in the way, I will have to resort to killing you outright."

"If you want to kill me, you will have to defeat my elite knights first! Since you insist on going against me, don't blame me for this!"

Suddenly, black-armored knights, numbering over thirty, had appeared out of the ground and surrounded Demitri on all sides. All of them held out their swords threateningly.

"KILL HIM!"

Eligos's elite knights immediately jumped at Demitri to carry out their lord's wish. Despite the numbers disadvantage, Demitri showed no fear.

"You call these pieces of trash elite?" said Demitri as he made a motion with his cape.

He rushes forth at five knights and swipes with his cape, easily killing them in a shower of blood. Another knight tried to stab him from behind, but Demitri quickly turned and decapitates him with a punch to the head. The vampire then punches through the torso of another knight and throws him into more knights. He then lashed out with a kick that tore off a knight's head, then kicked at another, tearing off his torso which slammed hard into another group of knights.

Despite the difference in power, the elite knights kept on moving forward without fear. To save his beloved, Demitri would kill even his own kind.

Eligos couldn't believe what he was seeing. 'Damn! Demitri is much weaker than before, but my elite knights are still no match for him…' He then called for Demitri's attention. "Well fought, Demitri. I wonder what will you do if I do this?"

Demitri stopped to see Eligos pointing his sword at Felicia's neck, angering him. "You dare hurt her?! YOU BASTARD!"

The angry vampire lord immediately killed off all the remaining elite knights in one blow, then rushed towards Eligos with murder in his eyes.

'Yeah, get angry. Anger will cause you to make mistakes.'

Before Demitri could reach Eligos, a hulking demon over eight feet tall appeared out of the ground before him. It was gray-skinned and humanoid, clad in only purple pants and was overly muscled. His right arm and fist were freakishly huge compared to his left one.

"Titanfist! Kill him!" Eligos commanded.

Titanfist moved fast in spite of his hulking build. Before Demitri could react, he was hit hard by Titanfist's oversized fist, knocking him back more than a few yards. Demitri's body tore a huge trench in the ground as he was knocked further into the forest, uprooting a few trees with his passing. He finally stopped and sat up to clear the cobwebs in his head.

'Damn it! I have drained too much power fighting Anakaris and flying all the way here from Egypt!'

When he looks up, Titanfist is already starting his second wave of attack. He descends down upon Demitri with a punch, intent on flattening him. Demitri quickly got out of the way before the ground he was on moments before got destroyed.

'A low class demon like you dare fight me? Let me teach you a lesson...'

Titanfist then punches at Demitri with full force. Before it could connect, Demitri counterattacks. He raised both hands at the huge fist and turned to his demonic form.

"GET MY RAGE!"

Demitri fired his ES Chaos Flare point-blank at the fist, engulfing Titanfist's entire arm in flame and reducing it to ash.

"Does it feel painful? Well I'm not done yet!" The demon vampire then gets on top of Titanfist's shoulders and grabs his neck. "DIE!" With supernatural strength, Demitri rips Titanfist's head and spinal cord off his body, effectively killing him.

Crack!

Eligos heard the cracking sound from within the forest and smirked. 'A sound of bone cracking, seems like the wounded vampire got killed by Titanfist.' He waits for his minion to return with Demitri's head, but was shocked to see Demitri himself walking back out from the forest. 'But how!? How could this happen? He can still fight?'

" Eligos...now... you... you are the on...only one left... you still want to stru...struggle?" Demitri said with strain. Apparently, he was still hurting from the battles he has had.

Eligos took note of this. 'He sounds like his wound has gotten heavier. This is a great chance to kill him.'

Demitri continued to glare at Eligos. "For Morrigan's sake, if you let Felicia go, I will spare your life."

" With your current condition, do you think you are in any position to bargain with me?" said Eligos in defiance. "What if I kill her?

To Demitri's horror, Eligos raised his sword and slashed at Felicia, beheading her.

"FELICIA!"

Demitri would not have guessed Eligos would suddenly kill her. He rushes to her in sorrow as Eligos leapt to the side. He catches her head before it fell to the ground, then realized something very wrong. For one thing, there was no blood, her flesh felt dense, and looking at her eyes, they were completely black.

'A doll!? I am too careless, how did I not catch this? It's a set-up!'

"Demitri! For Morrigan's sake, I will give you a quick and painless death!"

Demitri turned to see Eligos behind him with his sword raised high. Because of his fights, he failed to react in time and the sword plunged deep into his shoulder. Blood gushed out, but Demitri refused to cry out in pain despite feeling intense agony. His mind is filled with hope knowing Felicia may still be alive.

'Felicia… where are you…?'

With Jon and Bishamon…

Jon was feeling great pain after getting impaled by Bishamon's katana.

"You lose! Now, die and be chopped to pieces!" said Bishamon as he prepares to attack Jon with the killing blow.

Jon didn't struggle, but he tightly grabbed Bishamon's sword arm to prevent him from moving.

"Bishamon, let's die together!" said Jon.

The samurai felt danger to what the werewolf was planning. Suddenly, Jon does his Beast Cannon, shooting himself and Bishamon forward at great speed, where they plow right off a cliff.

"Damn you!" shouted Bishamon. "Are you insane!?"

"If I'm going to die, then I'm sure as hell going to make sure I take you with me!" said Jon.

"Damn you, you psychopath! Let go of me!" Bishamon used his free hand to repeatedly punch Jon to make him let go, but the werewolf defiantly held on. The more Bishamon hit him, the tighter Jon held on.

As they plummeted down the cliff, Jon's thoughts focused on the one person who mattered most to him.

'Good bye, Felicia...'

He lets off a howl of agony and despair as he and Bishamon fell.

Dark cavern…

Human Felicia laid on the cavern ground. Demitri's thoughts and Jon's howl both reach her mind at the same time as she began having dreams about the both of them.

'Demitri... Jon...'

Felicia's eyes slowly began to flutter open and wakes up.

"Demitri! Jon!" She looked about the cavern trying to regain her bearings and recall what had happened. She looked down at herself and noticed the ki aura surrounding her body. She looked at her hand and realized what it was. "This is Jon's ki… Jon..."

Felicia gets back on her feet and focused her ki. Her hair blew upward as electricity surrounded her naked body. Felicia lets off a yowl, and in a flash, she turned back into her catwoman form. She had a determined expression as her ears perked and tail swayed.

"Jon...What have you done?"

The catwoman quickly rushes out of the dark cave to find Demitri and Jon.

To be continued…

Done with this chapter. Jon fights against Bishamon for Felicia's sake, and Demitri gets pulled into a trap by Eligos. Now that Felicia has recovered, she heads out to find them quickly. Next time, Demitri wraps things up with Eligos as the time of the Voice of Makai draws near. Pyron makes his appearance again to form on Earth, and Felicia reunites with Demitri and Jon.

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