Vampire

Title: Vampire 8
Author: scots_rock
Pairing: Monaboyd
Summary: AU, the battle begins
Rating: R
Disclaimer: FICTION
Feedback: stays in my heart forever!


~***~

Dom wondered what time it was. The sun had already gone down and night covered him again. The only light now came from the moon that shone directly in the little room. Dom also asked himself what would happen next. Orlando didn’t turn up to check on him, to see if the injection really had worked. Something was wrong. No one seemed to care for him anymore. Apparently they had forgotten him. Dom went to the door and out of pure curiosity pulled handle. At that moment the door sprang open and two small figures came running in.

“Elijah? Sean? What are you doing here?”, asked Dom, totally astonished.

“Came to rescue you. Seems that we didn’t need to, huh?”, laughed Elijah and embraced him. “Thank god you’re alive. We didn’t hear from Orlando, so we didn’t know if the injection had worked.”

He opened the rucksack he was carrying and passed Dom some fresh clothes and weapons – guns, swords and daggers.

“It did, Lij! I’m a human! Well, only for some hours,…but that doesn’t matter now.” He stopped. “You…got my sword back!”, smiled Dom as he recognized the patterns on the handle.

“Of course we did! You can’t fight without your sword, can you?”

“Where are the others?” Dom kept on asking. He wanted to know everything that happened.

“I hope in position. They followed Billy, so we don’t know exactly where they are. And the connection is really bad in the castle…”, answered Sean.

“But Billy’s safe, isn’t he?”

Sean looked away, so did Elijah.

“Isn’t he? Damn it, Elijah, what happened?”, asked Dom, very serious and worried now.

“They’ve got him.”

~***~

Billy woke up with his head aching like hell. What the fuck had that been? He hadn’t been trying to resist! Why that whole “we-have-knocked-you-out-so-we-can-show-that-we-are-better-than-you”-stupidness? The first thing he realized was that he was lying on a marbled floor in a great hall. No handcuffs, no chains tied him to ceiling or ground. He would be able to move around freely. If he could stand up at all. The pain went down his spine and into his legs. What did they use to knock him out? He rubbed his right hand over the back of his head and then tried to stand up. Though it was night outside the whole hall was filled with light. Billy blinked several times and when his eyes got used to the brightness he looked around.

“At last! I thought you would stay like this forever.”

Billy turned around and looked into the cold, evil eyes of Viggo who stood some feet away from him.

“So, now that you decided to join my little party, why don’t you come over and sit down.” Viggo pointed to a chair next to him, the only one in the great hall.

Billy immediately rushed over to him at the same moment reaching for his sword, but Viggo was faster. He blocked the attack with a simple swirl of his sword so that Billy’s weapon flew out of his hand and crashed to the floor coming to a halt some meters away from Billy.

“Didn’t my servants tell you? Don’t waste your energy! ”, Viggo said. “Leave your courage for the next time. I only want to talk to you.”

Billy calmed down but only because he had to. He had no sword, nothing to attack with or to defend himself. He didn’t move from his spot but watched his opponent carefully and suspiciously.

“We both know why you are here. You want to save your lover and I want… well, you.”, Viggo began to speak receiving now a disgusted glance from Billy.

“Wouldn’t it be just perfect if everything was that simple? I give you Dom and you will become a vampire and serve me forever and ever? But, I’m afraid, that the situation got a little bit complicated when I found out that a traitor existed in my group of loyal servants. I felt kind of betrayed I admit, so I had no choice to end that little life of Orlando…”

“You killed him?! You bastard!!”, shouted Billy, shocked and furious.

“SILENCE!”, Viggo roared back suddenly which scared the shit out of Billy. For a split-second Billy couldn’t recognize Viggo anymore. He had changed, his face disfigured completely and became monstrous and ugly.

“I really don’t like to repeat myself: Don’t waste your energy, you will need it. So, now that the spy was out of the way I was still very furious with Dom for not telling me. But I couldn’t kill him. You see, if I actually had killed him I would have nothing to blackmail with.”

Billy’s eyes still stood open wide in shock and though he got angrier with every second he wasn’t able to move. Fear had filled his bones and it wouldn’t let him do anything. If Viggo was so brutal to just kill off Orlando…what would he do to Dom if he didn’t go over?

“Any questions left?”, Viggo asked after some minutes had passed.

“In fact…yes.”, it popped out of Billy’s mouth. “Where is Dom?”

“Ah! Good question! He’s s locked up, tied to the ground with a blood lust that is growing stronger and stronger while we are talking.’”

Billy fell silent.

“Oh yes, he will bite you sooner or later. In his veins flows my blood. When I made a vampire out of him I gave him my blood to drink. And this means, my dear little William, that you will be bound to me forever through him.”

“What makes you so sure that he will really bite me? Don’t you think that he will recognize me?”, Billy asked abruptly with a grin.

Viggo slowly shook his head. “He won’t. He will have transformed completely into a vampire by then. He will only smell your sweet and poisoned blood.” His voice was cold as ice.

Billy’s self-confidence vanished, his head fell on his chest. Now he had to fear Viggo and Dom. He didn’t even know if the medicine that Orlando injected Dom had worked. What if it hadn’t? What if Dom still was a vampire? More dangerous than before?

“Don’t worry. You and Dom will be together. You will both work for me. But…”

Billy looked up.

“But what?”

“But only if you go over and become my servant. Otherwise I will kill Dom. I mean it. The sun will come up in about 6 hours. The sunlight will destroy his flesh and bones. See? That’s the blackmailing part within the story!”

Billy thought over it. Finally, “What if I agree. When I become…your servant. Dom and I will be together and you will do him no harm?”

Viggo nodded. “So, is that a yes?”

“Yes…”, came the subdued answer.

~***~

“If the others had followed Billy and his kidnappers they should be right there where he is. But how do we know where Billy is? Where do you think they captured him, Dom?”, asked Elijah while Sean and Dom were running at his side.

“I don’t think Viggo captured him at all. He surely wants to persuade Billy to go over. He won’t torture him. Well, at least not physically…”, answered Dom under his short breaths while he quickened his run. Suddenly an idea came to him. “I think I know where he is!”

Dom remembered the construction of this castle, he had been here before. There was one hall in this building, no sunlight came through, it was Viggo’s favorite place in the castle. He had often ordered his victims there, there he could show his true face.

“It should be there! Now left!”, Dom ordered and indeed – right in front of them a huge wooden gate came into view. Dom wasted no time and pushed the heavy door open with the help of Elijah and Sean.

Dom had expected really everything to see now – but that was simply too much. Billy was walking towards him – side by side with Viggo. They stopped when they saw Dom, Elijah and Sean enter the hall. Viggo looked like he was about to explode with rage.

“What are you doing here?!”, he shouted and again became this ugly creature for a few seconds.

“Remember when you locked me up? Let’s say, it didn’t work out as you had expected. You might have missed one thing – I have allies around here.”, said Dom self-confidently.

“You mean had!”, answered Viggo, calming down and now grinning. “If you mean Orlando, he’s dead.”

Dom’s eyes opened wide in shock. But he hadn’t even time to react on that news properly because the next shocker was ahead. Billy stood next to Viggo not moving but staring to the ground. Dom wasn’t able to look him in the eyes, neither did he understand why Billy still stood there.

“So, you’ve become human again. But I guess not for long. That somehow destroys my plans.” Viggo clenched his vampire teeth and looked around. “Let’s go over to plan B then. If I can’t have you both then no one will have you!”

With that he grabbed Billy from behind and held a dagger to his throat.

“Say goodbye to your lover, Dominic!”

He was about to cut, Dom knew that Viggo wasn’t joking. Viggo pressed the dagger against Billy’s pure skin and a fine bloody line appeared there.

But Viggo couldn’t finish his cut for an arrow shot out of nowhere and hit him in the hand holding the dagger. Viggo screamed out loud in pain. He let go of Billy and he tripped over. Dom caught him in his arms.

“Billy! Everything okay?”, Dom immediately asked his friend, quickly checking his throat for other and deeper wounds.

“I thought…I had lost you…”, Billy suddenly said looking tired and exhausted.

Dom had a feeling. Billy’s mind had been or still was controlled by Viggo. He had to stop that. He turned to Viggo, furious and outrageous, still holding Billy in his arms, but his facial expression changed at once from anger to disbelief and fright. Viggo was changing into a hideous and monstrous beast. His clothes ripped apart and revealed dark red skin, thick pulsing veins visible under it, his head resembled the one of an animal, a combination of a lion and a bull. His teeth, especially his canine teeth, grew larger till they stood out of his mouth.

“And he needed help from Billy?”, asked Elijah, stunned.

“Guys, I think we better… RUN!!!!”, shouted Dom, grabbed Billy’s hand and dragged him towards the door, which suddenly slammed shut loudly. “Damn it!”

“You can’t escape!”, roared Viggo with a deep and dangerous voice. And then he began to move towards the little group. By then the room filled itself with Viggo’s vampires creeping through doors that magically appeared in the walls and as quickly vanished after the servants stepped through them.

“We’re doomed.”, said Sean.

They were surrounded by vampires, dozens of them. They slowly built a circle around Dom, Elijah, Sean and Billy off who sweat was pouring and whose eyelids were closed tightly. They were being pushed towards the middle of the room where now Billy’s sword lay, shining and razor sharp. And then Billy’s eyes sprang open. He went over to the sword, seized it, hands gripping the handle firmly, and then approached Dom from behind.

Viggo’s lips – if there were any left at all – curled suddenly into a wide and evil grin. Dom recognized it in the last moment. He turned around and just in time blocked with his own sword an attack of Billy. At that moment the servants jumped on Elijah and Sean who were now very busy defending themselves accompanied by arrows which hit the enemies. Elijah had a guess and gained some hope.

“Billy! What the hell are you doing?”, asked Dom loudly and terrified.

“Kill…You…”, Billy murmured with clenched teeth and an empty look.

Dom got it. Still Viggo was controlling him. He pushed Billy some feet away and looked back at Viggo.

“You! Stop that! Why don’t you do it yourself?”, Dom cried out furious and again defended himself against another hit from Billy.

Viggo didn’t answer but kept watching the scene.

“Billy! Stop it!” Dom tried to stop that mind control of Viggo’s and started talking and fighting at the same time.

“Billy! Just listen! Please!” Another hit. Dom ducked. “It’s me! Don’t you recognize me anymore?” The blade missed Dom’s stomach by inches. “Don’t let him take control over you! I’m vulnerable now, Billy! I can be killed! You know I would die for you but I had hoped that it wouldn’t be you that would kill me.” Dom’s sword flew out of his hand. There he stood. Unarmed. Desperate. In Love.

Billy stood right in front of him now while the fight escalated around them. Elijah and Sean lost their energy and became weaker with every strike. They put their swords aside and got out their guns firing away the silver-made ammunitions. Billy held up his sword with a trembling hand ready to strike, to kill Dom, to murder him. Him. Dom. His one and only. The last thing he had in this world.

“I love you, Billy…”

It came out as a whisper but Billy seemed to have heard it loud and clear. He never finished the strike. Instead he dropped his sword and fell to his knees. Dom crouched beside him.

“Dom…I’m sorry... I don’t know what happened to me… I suddenly heard that voice in my head and…”

“Don’t. I’m glad you are al…”, Dom tried to say but all of a sudden his eyes opened wide in shock and he took a sharp breath in.

Then Billy saw the tip of a sword blade appear in Dom’s chest on the right side.

“Dom…?”

Dom was lifted up and thrown to the side lying there motionless. Viggo came into view a bloody sword in his right hand.

“You are stronger than I have thought.” And while saying this Viggo shrunk back and became the human Viggo again, dressed only in holed black trousers.

Billy had no words left. He felt the temperature of his body rising, his heart hurt terribly and his eyes showed no mercy. He stood up sword back in hand. Hot tears streamed down his face.

“Let’s finish it.”, said Billy in a whisper that yet sounded, strong and dangerous, through the hall.

The vampires stopped fighting and backed away. Elijah and Sean used this opportunity to run over to Dom and check upon him.

The fight began.

~***~

Billy saw nothing, heard nothing, felt nothing. He only had been concentrating his energy on killing Viggo. And that theory had come out even. The sword seemed to lead Billy’s hand not the other way round. His feet moved on their own stepping to the right or left when necessary, swirling around when needed.

They’ve been fighting for almost two hours now and apparently neither of them was tired or exhausted. Nobody wanted to give up. Viggo was an even opponent and Billy showed his best. From time to time he peeked over at Elijah and Sean who were taking care over Dom. They hadn’t been able to wake him up but Elijah gave him a sign that he was alive, barely, but still alive. Billy counted the hours till 7 am. He knew the details and he knew that in three hours Dom would become a vampire again and this wound would simply vanish. But the question was if he would survive till then at all.

Billy started losing concentration with every minute passing by. Thinking of Dom’s condition he overlooked a stone lying on the ground.

And then the unexpected happened.

He tripped. He had lost balance. And he knew Viggo would use his weakness. He couldn’t allow that to happen. He had to live. He had to save Dom. If Dom died it wouldn’t be worth living at all anymore. At the point where he should focus all energy on getting up again and avoiding Viggo’s next strike he was thinking of Dom. He would die because he was thinking of how much he loved him.

It all went off within seconds.

Billy fell to the ground. Viggo swung to strike. Dom opened his eyes. Dom saw Billy. Billy was in danger. Dom seized his dagger. Dom threw the dagger at Viggo. The dagger hit Viggo in the leg. Viggo screamed. Billy saw Dom. Billy and Dom looked at each other. Billy rose to his feet again. Billy swung to strike. The sword went straight through Viggo’s body.

A bright, shining and golden light filled the room that erupted from Viggo’s chest. The light filled not only the room and destroyed all of Viggo’s loyal servants but began to spread over Viggo’s whole skin burning it slowly to ashes. Viggo screamed one more time and then the light was gone and with it Viggo. It was over.

Billy panted heavily. It had taken him a lot of power to force that sword into Viggo. But now it was done. Viggo was dead.

Realizing this he now rushed over to Elijah, Sean and Dom.

“How is he?”

“He has a strong will but he really has to be taken to our headquarters. We have the machines and medicine there.”

“Why not a hospital? He needs a bloody doctor!”, shouted Billy.

“Billy, think! Dom will transform sooner or later back into a vampire. Do you think they will welcome him there?”, answered Sean calmly but impatiently. “We must leave! Now!”

“And how? The doors are closed!”, said Elijah.

“We know the exit!” This shout had come from above. A few ropes were thrown down and Karl and Bean appeared. “We’ve succeeded in unlocking the front door. Quick! We must hurry!”

The castle started shaking. Viggo’s world started crashing down. Bean took Dom on his back and they all ran like hell out of the collapsing building. They managed to get out safely and jumped on the first speed boat.

Billy held Dom’s hand tightly. He had done it again. He had saved Billy’s life and had risked his own. Like he had said. He would die for Billy. But Billy didn’t want that. He wanted Dom to survive. He just had to. Billy hoped that some of his own life went over to Dom though this was impossible. But he pressed even tighter. Dom had to live again. Because Billy loved him. And he had to tell Dom.

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Be sure of it: There is an epilogue!