Chapter III: Separate Ways
"Oh my God..." Mina said taking a step back, "what should we do? We can't just leave them."
Soma put a hand on her shoulder and said, "Mina, calm down. I don't think we have much of a choice."
"Charlotte, do you think you can break the connection on Nathan and Hugh and see what's going on with Serenity?" Hector asked with a hint of nervousness. Charlotte nodded and read a passage from her book, in a few seconds Hugh and Nathan faded from view and a new horror was in front of them.
Isaac and Eric stiffened at the sight of Serenity lying on the ground with Chaos standing over her, his sword pointed at her neck.
"Damn it, this is just what we didn't want to happen." Trevor said through his teeth.
Trevor recalled the past month's events when they last fought Chaos. He and Simon had gone off on their own to search for Serenity and Hugh, and what they found still made his blood boil to this day. Chaos had a plan to take Serenity over by forcing himself on her. He would have taken her if it were not for himself and Simon engaging in a fight with him and driving him off.
"We cannot do anything for them here" Alucard said, breaking Trevor from his thoughts, "we need to move before we have even more problems."
"Adrian is right, if we move fast we might be able to help Serenity, depending on the demons already on the move in the castle." Julius said and he started moving up the staircase.
All but Eric and Charlotte followed him up the stairs.
"Let's go you two, you heard Julius." Yoko called over her shoulder. Charlotte was just about to close the link before she gasped and saw Serenity. She had knocked Chaos back against the wall and was holding him by his neck. The others stopped and instantly saw what had made Charlotte cry out. A pitch-black aura was surrounding Serenity and her eyes had gone from a clear blue to crimson red. Chaos said something to her, but whatever it was no one could tell. Serenity tilted her head to the right, her eyes never leaving his. She smiled, showing that her fangs were out, and started laughing.
"Enough," Eric said breaking Charlotte’s spell with one of his own. "we must not linger here any longer."
Eric grabbed Charlotte by the arm and ran up the stairs to the others. Releasing her, Eric took the lead as everyone ran up the steps at full speed. The group cleared three floors, none saying a word, before Lisa and Camilla halted them in the fourth floor.
"Oh my, would you look at this. You have all done well to get this far." Camilla cooed from the center of the room.
"Master thought you would only get to the second floor before we came to you." Lisa said, smiling at them, her eyes never leaving Adrian's.
"Well, I guess we have no choice. I want all of you to get out of here and make your way up to the throne room. Isaac and I will handle these two." Eric said taking out his sword.
The group stepped away from Lisa and Camilla and started for the set of stairs to the left as Lisa said, "Oh boo, I was hoping I could play with my Alucard," she took out a knife and licked the blade, "Well, I should have guessed that whore's brothers would ruin my fun."
Isaac stepped forward with a cold look in his eyes, taking out his lance he looked over his shoulder to Eric, "Stay out of this fight Eric," he looked back at Lisa and smiled, "this one's mine."
