74 What Did You Do To Her? (1/2)

This took longer than he hoped it would. He was screaming on the inside, desperate to get in there and get this over with already!

Before Ruby ended up in the clutches of his archenemies, Ash thought he would want to draw out his revenge and savor it. He didn't care about that at all now; he wanted it to be over and done with so they could go home.

How things had changed. She changed a lot of things in his life and he hoped she would continue to do it more. But they had to save her first.

Everyone awkwardly huddled together to make it through the barrier and about a dozen wolves broke off as soon as they were through to catch any vampires milling about the gardens. There turned out to be five of them outside so a few more wolves had to get involved.

The rest headed inside and broke up to handle the layout of the castle as planned. They had to move silently in order to avoid being noticed by any Cromwells who weren't in their immediate line of sight.

Sirius's pack was incredibly efficient; they took out more than a dozen vampires without anyone else in the castle noticing. They snuck up behind their prey and jabbed their hands into the cores so quickly that there was no time to scream.

This was too easy. Ash felt a distinct feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach as they continued on. Nothing ever went this well for him.

They crept around checking various rooms that could potentially be the throne room, killing vampires as they went. Roughly a third of their enemies had been decimated before they found what seemed to be the right spot.

Ash hesitated outside the door. There were a bunch of voices inside so the moment they went in everything was going to hit the fan. They had to be smart about this.

He put a finger to his lips and gestured for everyone behind him to stay perfectly still while he tried to figure out when best to strike. As a result, he was able to hear some of those voices though they were muffled a bit by the door.

”Lord Dorian, please be mindful of the contract.”

”Is it dead?”

”Not dead but close. I think it passed out. How pathetic.”

”Fairies are incredibly fragile, aren't they?”