Clang!
Clang!
Slash! Rip! Tear!
"AIEEEE!!!!!"
Blood spatter...
Ranms staggered to the ground of his dungeon, shuddering in the aftereffects of the teleport and the slaughter that he had just seen. After a brief moment, Horny clomped past him with a satisfied smile on his face. Closing his eyes the new keeper tried not to remember the body parts flying past him, and the laughter that had followed. He had little success.
Off to the side, Seras licked the blood of her recent kills off her hands. She contemplated Ranma's shuddering figure with a slightly predatory expression. The thoughts going on inside her head were not friendly, and several of them involved draining the young keeper dry, and taking the dungeon heart for her own.
The other slave simply fell to the ground with a giggle, laying back without a care in the world. She smiled briefly before scrambling to her feet, crouching over onto all fours and twiddling her hair with one hand. Her eyes darted from figure to figure with quick fleeting glances.
"Really keeper, glorying in your past victories is all well and good, but we have some work to do." The Mentor's voice drifted past Ranma, both smug and amused. He knew exactly what was going through the keeper's mind. "Though you may have destroyed the physical bodies of your rival keepers, you must find their dungeon hearts to truly eliminate the competition. Sadly, your current forces are inadequate for the job."
Ranma shuddered once more, before rising to his feet and glaring at The Mentor. "Fine," He sneered. "Later. Right now I'm gonna do what I wanna do." He began to stomp off for a moment, before stopping and turning to glare at Seras as well. "Get over 'ere blood sucker."
Seras blinked with surprise at the change in demeanor, smirking a bit when she finally figured out what was happening. The poor boy was projecting, trying to deal with what had just happened by getting angry. The greater vampire followed the keeper as he tromped through the dungeon.
The halls twisted and wound around, but half of the corridors seemed unfinished and damp. There were no real rooms to speak of, but as they walked it became apparent that the reason for this was how long the tunnel was. Near the end the place took on a far more finished look, though the dungeon still seemed rather small compared to how many dungeons were. Finally the two stopped at a moderate sized room with a water cistern near one end. It was the same training room where Ranma had dueled Horny.
"All right." Ranma turned to Seras and cracked his neck. "I ain't one for contemplation, and really there isn't any point anyway." He smirked slightly at Vampiress. "So I am gonna work this out the best way I can. Lets see how strong you really are."
With that the young keeper charged at the surprised Vampire, who hit the stone wall with a loud thump. The girl laid against the wall for a brief moment before letting out a shriek of rage and attacking Ranma. Very quickly the screams of rage and Ranma's shouts and taunts echoed throughout the halls, attracting the few inhabitants of the dungeon.
"Come on girl!" Ranma growled with a savagely sarcastic edge on 'girl.' "I've seen little old crones do better than that."
Seras growled with animalistic fury, charging at Ranma once again. Her brief attempt at a grapple was met with a graceful dodge, and a throw which if she had been human would have made her head spin. As it was she got to her feet with lightning speed and lashed out with one clawed hand, only to meet air as Ranma dodged once more. Every miss fanned her fury brighter.
Ranma found the vampire's style almost boring. Blinding speed, and immense strength did not make a fighter. They helped, but Seras was acting more on instinct than anything like the honed reflexes that the pig tailed keeper had. Her every move was cataloged, analyzed, and countered.
Against a human Ranma would have won hands down. Seras wasn't human, and eventually she proved it. A claw strike sent blood flying across the room, to Horny's obvious amusement, and The Mentor's dismay. It was a glancing blow, a mere clip of Ranma's cheekbone, but it bled everywhere.
Seras looked at her bloody fingers with a wide grin. Slowly she began to laugh, and her eyes seemed to glow red as she licked at her hand, the torches around the area slowly dimming. Her smile only grew wider as her form began to flicker at the edges.
"Keeper!" The Mentor called out. "She has been starved too much! Get her away, she is berserk!"
Ranma wiped at the claw mark that Seras had made. The wound seemed healed now, courtesy of the mana that the keeper had been channeling through himself, but the skin was discolored, and instead of a bleeding wound there was a red slash where Seras' attack had struck. The young keeper smiled grimly. "Now I can stop holding back."
"He is channeling the Dungeon Heart's mana through himself again." The Mentor sighed as the two figures in front of him clashed.
Horny laughed. This was almost as entertaining as killing them both himself!
Off to the side the insane slave girl watched them both with almost maniac intensity. There was no telling what was going on inside her head.
The fight ended as suddenly as it started. Seras' animal like behavior made her predictable, and against someone of Ranma's caliber, that was as good as dead. A quick dodge, and a trip, and then the girl found herself on the ground, helpless in the pig tailed keeper's hold. Every push, every pull used her very own power against herself, and the vampire found herself rapidly growing weaker now that she couldn't move.
The bloodlust was subsiding, and a black curtain began to sweep across her vision. Even as sanity began to return, the vampire could feel herself slip away, and her last thoughts were of her friend. The insane girl. "Sorry Skuld....."
"Damn, she really was pushing herself." Ranma frowned as the vampire began to lie still. The boy let go of the hold and knelt down to look at his former captive.
The other girl, Skuld, scampered to the vampire's side with a faint distressed whine. She shook Seras with a frown, which she then directed at Ranma. The young keeper winced at the accusatory look. He really hadn't known that the vampire was that far gone.
"Yeah Yeah Yeah." Ranma pulled up one sleeve and put his arm in Seras' mouth. "She better not take a chunk out." He tapped the vampire's chin with his free hand, causing the fangs to gently pierce his skin.
The young keeper winced as the girl bit down harder. Seras shuddered, and brought her hands up frantically, gripping Ranma's forearm with terrific strength.
"Enough!" Ranma growled out as he struggled with the greater vampire. "Knock it off now!" He got ready to knock the girl's head back if she kept trying to feed. Finally the girl let go, and Ranma's hand blurred out of her reach.
With a moan, Seras began to stand, getting to her stomach, and then to her knees. Her red eyes looked at Ranma with a curiously blank stare. The young keeper backed away with a nervous look, unnerved by the look in her eyes. Finally, the vampire gave up trying to stand, and knelt instead.
"My lord keeper, my master Ranma."
Ranma just placed his head in both hands and sighed deeply. Only then did he realize that Sera's uniform had no underwear, and the other girl was still naked...
The young keeper's body slumped to the ground in a dead faint from a combination of blood loss, and other factors. Both The Mentor, and Horny were quit amused at how the new servants fussed over him. Or maybe it was what a wuss he was over a bit of female flesh. Really, it was hard to tell.
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