Chapter 37

Danny flashed his eyes open at the sound of the sirens. He sat up with a wince and grunted when he finally leaned on the wall. His skin was covered in purple spots from the numerous shots he was given. The mad scientist used him for several bizarre experiments that left his body aching all over.

The laboratory assistants were dashing out, each murmuring something to themselves or each other. None of them even bothered to look at Danny. Danny groaned at his sore body as he wondered where they were going.

He slowly got up, trying his best not to groan at the pain due to his new found fear of Dr. Spencer. He didn't want him to know that he was awake because it would have meant the continuation of his torture.

Danny peeped out of his cell to see if anyone was around. To his relief, he saw no one at all. He sighed and leaned on the door but to his shock - it opened. Danny gasped in fear and backed away from it. He listened for footsteps but heard none. After a long debate in his mind, he shakily went back to the door with the full intentions of opening it wide enough for him to get out.

The door made an agonizing creak that echoed all over the laboratory. He quickly ran back into the cell already thinking about all the punishments he was going to get for trying to escape. To his surprise, no one came. Again, not even the sound of footsteps were heard. Danny took a deep breath and got up once more.

He walked out of his cell cautiously, taking care to look left and right. It was unbelievable that his cell door was left unlocked but he didn't care enough to satisfy his curiosity. He had to escape the ridiculously painful experiments he was forced to endure for the pleasure of a mad scientist.

Danny tippy toed his way across the laboratory. Absolutely no one was around and Danny smiled at his luck. He turned the doorknob for the exit door when he heard,

"Going somewhere oh Danny old pal?"

Danny yelped and felt a cold shiver down his spine. He slowly turned to face Dr Spencer who was sitting at a table covered with barely cooked steak. Dr Spencer smiled deviously at him and gestured for him to occupy the empty seat opposite him. Danny was skeptical with Dr Spencer's gesture. The thought of him sharing a meal with a man that inflicted pain on him horrified him.

"Do not be afraid human. I had this meal specially prepared for you. You and I need to talk...you know...get to know each other a little better." Dr Spencer grinned.

"Please just let me go. I don't think my body can take much more of your experiments." Danny practically begged.

"I have a proposal for you old champ. I assure you that you will like it."

"The only thing I want is to get out of here."

Dr Spencer tilted his head and pulled his glasses down the bridge of his nose. "What if I told you that the Great One approves of this proposal?"

Danny's eyes widened in shock. "She does?" He asked and Dr Spencer nodded his head in confirmation. "I thought she was mad at me and wanted nothing to do with me."

"If that was so you would have been dead by now. Come closer, the food is starting to get cold."

Danny was relieved to find out that the Great One still had use for him. After all his screw ups, this was his final chance to redeem himself and prove that he is still worthy to be used by her. He joined Dr Spencer at the table and got ready to listen to how he could please the Great One.

"Danny, I'm a busy man so I'll cut to the chase. You see, I have been developing a new mutating catalyst that I like to call Reptalia. With the right amount of dosage, it is capable of turning any mammal into a beast. I am still working on calculating the right dosage."

"So all those shots you gave me were - "

"Wrong doses? Yes." Dr Spencer grinned as Danny studied his spots in surprise. "I initially tried my experiments on dogs. They turned into retarded beasts and died almost immediately." he shook his head sympathetically before saying, "Humans are better suited for this drastic genetic change. You are to be the first of our army of Reptalians."

Danny's surprise facial expression turned into a dark grin. "I like the sound of that. With that power, I'll finally kill that bitch and avenge my brothers."

****

Maradina stood face to face with Sheila. It was clear that she wasn't an ordinary vampire but a pure one from the Shriekers clan. Maradina didn't know why they were under attack. She could sense Waxx and Sean battling two other powerful vampires. Daisy was a sitting duck in the battlefield. Maradina had to lure Sheila away from her.

Maradina jumped high into the air, back flipped and landed away from Daisy. She then took heels and that puzzled Sheila. Sheila ran after her unleashing her lethal screams. Maradina swiftly dodged the waves. After a while she came to a stop and got ready for her showdown with the vampire.

Her dragon mark left her breast and formed into her bow of infinite arrows. She stretched her bow and an arrow appeared ready to strike the vampire. Sheila got closer still screaming. Rocks broke and dust rose as Sheila's screams hit the ground but Maradina was unshaken. When she got a clear shot, she did not hesitate to fire.

The arrow brushed and scratched Sheila's cheek and she fell to the ground on her fours. Still on her fours she hissed at Maradina and unleashed another scream. Maradina stomped the ground, a huge chunk of it rose and it blocked the sound waves. Sheila waited impatiently for the dust to clear up so that she could pinpoint Maradina's exact location. She activated her vampire vision only to realize that Maradina was nowhere to be seen.

"Where are you bitch?" she asked as she looked around.

Sheila stopped to listen and hoped that Maradina would make a sound and blow her cover. She felt a pebble hit the back of her head and then she turned with another explosive scream. To her annoyance, Maradina wasn't behind her. When she turned around again, her face was met with a punch that sent her flying for two miles and she hit a rocky hill that went crushing down.

Maradina threw a kick at her but her leg was caught and Sheila smashed her to the ground. While Maradina was trying to get her senses together, Sheila sat on her and rained down punches that Maradina blocked with her elbows. Maradina shoved her off, got back on her feet and got hold of Sheila's hair.

She proceeded to smash her face to the ground. She attempted to do it again but Sheila unleashed her sonic scream in order to stop her face from hitting the ground. The force pushed Maradina back. Maradina rolled away from Sheila and shot her arrows at her. Sheila deflected the arrows with her sonic screams.

After several failed attempts to hit Sheila, Maradina found herself panting heavily on one knee. She wasn't fully charged and had used too much of her gamarax. She knew that she wasn't going to be able to keep fighting for much longer.

She had to end the fight quick in one blow. The only problem she had was timing. If she didn't wait for the right moment to deliver her final attack, she was going to hibernate.

***

Josh and Bolt barely stood up straight facing each other. Panting heavily, each was bruised and beaten. The peculiar thing about them was that despite their wounds and bloody mouths, they were smiling widely at each other. This was due to the fact that both of them were enjoying their fight.

Josh couldn't deny that Bolt's lightening had an upper hand against his indestructible chain. That was because his chain was a good conductor of electricity. With every attack he unleashed on Bolt, he got zapped and he was getting sick of it.

Bolt slapped his hands together and formed a lightening sword. "This right here is going to cut you in half." he blurted out to which Josh scoffed.

"We'll just have to see about that."

Bolt swung the sword at Josh and he jumped back. Josh thrust himself at Bolt and caught the hand with the sword. He then head butted Bolt and the impact of it made Bolt lose his concentration. Consequently, his lightening sword disappeared involuntarily.

Bolt angrily punched his fists into the ground and lightening broke out from underneath, zapping Josh into a stiff position. Josh gnashed his teeth as he took the lightening burning through his body. Bolt kept on pumping in more lightening until he saw that Josh was on the verge of losing consciousness.

Bolt got up and balled up his fist and a surge of lightening appeared. He gave Josh a powerful punch that sent him crushing into a hill. Bolt landed with a ground shaking thud and stared down at Josh who was buried in rubble. He kicked it off and gave him another lightening punch that sank him deeper into the ground, sending massive cracks around him.

"You are all talk and no fight, just as I suspected." Bolt gloated

He formed his lightening sword once more but his face balled up into a scowl when he heard Josh say,

"Meh,"

"Meh? What do you mean by meh?" Bolt angrily asked him.

"I thought you'd dazzle me with something other than your lame sword." Josh rolled his eyes and let out a throat tearing cough.

Bolt deviously raised his eyebrows. "You call my sword lame? Well then, try this on for size."

Bolt turned his sword off and raised his hands in the air. Dark clouds appeared along with a cold wind. "This is my most powerful technique. Count yourself lucky because very few have seen its magnificent glory." Lightening flashed and Bolt made them target Josh "This ends now darkas god." And down went the lightening.

Josh, whilst still on the ground, quickly activated his chain and wrapped Bolt into it. He pulled Bolt to his position and ran to a sleeping Kremis. Josh wrapped the other end of the chain on it and flash stepped to safety.

Everything happened so fast that Bolt was unable to stop the lightening from striking him cold. In his last moments, he realized that Josh tricked him. He wasn't hurt by his previous attacks. He never should have underestimated him. Bolt closed his eyes and he was gone. When the lightening stopped, his body turned into ash and it was blown away by the wind.

****

'I can't sense Bolt anymore.' Sean thought.

"I see my pal has finished yours off." Waxx remarked to Sean.

Sean laughed softly to himself. "So what? I don't care who dies as long as I complete my mission.

"Spoken like a true sadist." Waxx grinned.

"I can be whatever you want me to be Waxx darling." Sean blew a kiss at Waxx who just gagged.

Sean thrust himself at Waxx and Waxx dodged him, grabbed the back of his neck and threw him high up in the air. Whilst Sean was still in the air, Waxx spun his scythe causing a hurricane that devoured Sean and sent him flying to the other side of the dimension. Waxx followed him, knowing full well that it wasn't enough to stop a vampire from the Lava clan.

Waxx, however, wasn't prepared to see what he saw when he caught up with Sean. He paused in his tracks and looked away.

"We both know that I have a sexy body. Stop being a gentleman. I actually enjoy preying eyes." Sean's teasing but proud words followed.

Sean stood naked with his hand on his hip in a hole his fall created. Waxx continued to look away from him. He took off his coat and threw it at him. Sean caught it without thinking only to flash a glare at Waxx.

"Put it on." Waxx firmly said to him.

"Does the size of my dick destruct you ever so much?" Sean cockily replied.

"Oh my gosh." Waxx sighed, "Look, keeping my face away is straining my fucking neck."

"I have told you that I like being oogled at. My body is perfection and it can do everything you want it to Waxx darling."

"Oh goodness no." Waxx coughed.

"I am the fucking definition of sexy!" Sean furiously pointed at Waxx

"Yeah keep telling yourself that."

"Hmph!" Sean hastily wore the coat.

Now that Sean was covered up, it was time that the two got back to business. Waxx wasted no time in reactivating his scythe which was received by a scoff from Sean. Waxx hit the ground with it and a huge crack made its way to Sean.

Sean yawned. "Such techniques are useless to a lava vampire and you know that."

Sean stomped the ground and lava began pouring through the crack. Sean started waved his arms around and the lava followed suit. He aimed it at Waxx who took refuge behind a boulder. He gritted his teeth at the fresh burn on his hand.

"I still find it amazing that you survived the war." Waxx said from behind the boulder.

"Which is all the more reason that you should date me." Sean swiftly replied.

Sean punched the boulder but his face was met with Waxx's punch. He returned the punch and side kicked Waxx but Waxx caught his leg and slammed him to the ground. Lava spurt out nearly burning Waxx's face. Waxx let go of Sean and backed away.

'It appears this guy isn't good with hand to hand combat but excellent at wrestling. I can use this to my advantage.' Waxx thought to himself as he looked at Sean who just stood there with glowing yellow eyes in the middle of hot smoking lava.

****

Maradina drew a portal with her bow and her snow white dragon stepped out. It roared at Sheila and she froze terrified. That was her first time been up close to a dragon. It looked magnificently enchanting yet horrifying as it stood bold with its tail shielding its mistress. Sheila swore she could feel its cold gaze.

Sean immediately sensed the dragon and created lava waves. He surfed away abandoning his fight with Waxx. Waxx followed him in a tornado. He wasn't ready to let him go.

Away from them was Josh. He furrowed at Daisy bleeding and unconscious. He knelt down, felt for her pulse only to sigh afterwards. Sean sat beside her and watched the on going battle.

Sheila took a deep breath and released her deafening scream but the dragon used its tail to block the sound waves. It then slapped her hard in the stomach and she fell back. She tried to get up but was blinded by the shadow of the tail as it came for her again.

Sheila screamed and covered her face. She felt nothing but heard the dragon's thundering roar. She opened her eyes only to see Sean standing before her with the dragon's tail tightly held in his hands.

"Useless girl!" Sean hissed. "Don't just stand there. Get up and do what we came here for. We are already heavily outnumbered."

Sheila got back to her feet, lunged at the dragon and once again released her sonic scream. This time the sound waves hit the dragon and it twirled in confusion swinging Sean side to side. Sean burnt its tail and it hit him hard into the ground forcing him to let go. Sean groaned at his broken ribs.

Sheila took out a dagger that was strapped to her hip and lunged to the dragon with the intent of stabbing it in the eye. She did not see Maradina's arrow until it sank into her eye. Sheila fell back down and screamed in pain as she held her eye.

"You bitch! You fucking bitch! I swear I will kill you! I will not spare you!" She screamed as she cried.

The dragon got irritated by her screams and blew its icy breath on her until she was trapped in an ice berg. Sean knew that Sheila was beat and when he saw Waxx landing in front of him, he realized that he didn't stand a chance. Waxx swung his scythe as he approached him and the dragon drew closer.

Suddenly, they were all teleported back to Earth. Sean quickly created waves of lava. He picked the ice berg and shielded himself in the lava. Maradina shot her arrows at him but the waves blocked them.

"My work here is done." He said and gave Waxx a wink. "We shall meet again darling."

Sean enclosed himself and Sheila into the lava and dived deep into the ground. It closed with Sana and Sanuika's daggers pinned on it.

"Are you guys alright?" Sanuika asked all of them.

"I am sorry I couldn't keep you there much longer." Bruce tried to explain. "I reached my limit and I -" His eyes widened in shock.

Bruce held his breath as he watched Josh walk towards him with Daisy in his arms. Bruce ran to him and got hold of Daisy. Josh backed away and Waxx faced away with his eyes closed. The twins hugged each other and Maradina wept.

Bruce hugged Daisy as tight as he could. "She is gone." he wept.