Trigun Fan Fiction ❯ Fallen Angels ❯ lament for the innocent ( Chapter 7 )

*chapter 7*

"Vash ..I have to go."

Running towards the door she barely ran past Vash before she felt his hand around her unburnt arm holding her back.

"Vash please let go of me I have to go now."

"No Meryl, I think that it's time that you tell me everything."

"No Vash I can't you'll hate me if I do."

"No Meryl I can never hate you."

"Meryl what the hell happened?!" ran in a worried Natalie alongside a serious Alucard.

"Meryl who burnt your arm?"

"It was Julius Natalie. He betrayed us, he was serving Lord Walter. He tried to throw holy water at me but I moved out of the way and it only hit my arm."

"I'll go get some healing potion to cure that."

"No Natalie I have some with me" said Alucard as he pulled a small jar from his business suite pocket. Extending her burnt arm out Alucard poured some of the liquid from inside the small jar on it. Instandly her skin started healing it self.

"Thank you Alucard it feels so much better."

"You welcome Meryl."

"Someone please tell me what's going on?" asked a very confused and worried Vash as he still held Meryl's arm.

"I agree with Vash. I also want to know whats going on" came the cold voice of Knives from a shadowed corner.

Looking towards her sister, Meryl had a curious look on her face

"I thought that you let him read your memories Natalie?"

" I let him look at the past that we had together and that's why he knows what we are."

"You've known all this time that they weren't humans and you didn't tell me!" proclaimed an angry Vash as he stared into his brothers eyes.

"You idiot I only remembered yesterday when Natalie let me read her mind!" Turning his angry eyes from his brother he bought them to gaze into Meryl's and with a pleading look in them he asked her to please tell him everything.

Dropping her head down her voice came out in a defeated tone "It all began when a man by the name of Mathais Cranqvist lost his wife to an illness. After she died he became very depressed and would not leave his bed. Leon Belmont his best friend tired to help him but all his efforts were in vain. One day Leon found out that his fiancé Sara was missing. Mathais told him that Lord Walter took her to his castle in the enchanted Eternal forest. Leon right away went to go rescue his beloved and on his journey he met a man by the name of Rinaldo Gandolfi who gave him an enchanted whip made to destroy evil. As Leon went through the castle he had to fight the undead creatures that lived there. When he finally reached Sara he managed to get her out of the castle and he bought her to Rinaldo's cottage. There it was discovered that Sara had been bitten and drunken vampire blood and because of that she would turn into a vampire. Sara begged Leon to kill her by using the whip that way she wouldn't turn into a vampire and her blood would make the hunter whip strong enough to defeat Lord Walter. In the end Leon agreed. Leon went back inside the castle and defeated Walter who was shocked because he a stone under his possession that granted him immortality. As Lord Walter was dying Mathais came out carrying the stone and before he exited the crumbling castle he told Leon that his purpose in life now was to go against god. Over the years Mathais became the legendary Count Dracula and Leon Belmont's descendants passed the whip from generation to generation ready to rid the world of any powerful evil. Count Dracula and his castle known as Castlevania would always be defeated but every so often he would be resurrected along with Castlevania. His cycle of resurrection came to an end when Castlevania along with his demons were trapped inside an eclipse in the year 1999 by a young Belmont. Natalie and I along with Roxana our sister are the offspring of Lord Dracula and an angelic queen. Our mother was the count's third wife."

"That would make you and your sisters angelic vampires?"asked a shocked and serious Vash.

"Yes it would."

"Do you, do you have to drink blood?"

"Yes Vash the three of us have to drink blood to keep up our energy."

"Do you kill them?"

"Sometimes it all depends in how hungry we are and how much control we have over ourselves."

Bringing her hand up Meryl's eyes looked at Vash's with a sad and desperate look in them "I told you that you would hate me Vash." Pulling her arm away from Vash's hold she tired to walk away but was suddently pulled into Vash's warm and protective arms.

"And I also already told you that I can never hate you."

"Thank you Vash it means a lot coming from you."

"As much as I hate to interrupt this touching moment(both Vash and Meryl blushed tomato red) I want to know what all of this has to do with him and who he is" asked Knives as his eyes fall upon Alucard.

"I go by the name Genya Arikado but the people who are close to me or know me very well call me Alucard."

"So I take it that these two are very close to you?"

"Yes especially Natalie" his response was immediately followed by a glare from Knives.

"So what are you doing here?"

"I am here because Lord Walter has been resurrected along with his castle and the Eternal Forest."

"And what business is that of theirs?"asked Knives as his eyes traveled to Natalie and Meryl.

"The last of the Belmonts died in the Great Fall so I will go and try to stop Walter but he is too strong and I will need help. I came to Natalie and Meryl to ask for their help and they've agreed to come with me. We leave tonight."

Strengthening his grip around Meryl Vash looks at Meryl with sadness in his eyes "Is that true Meryl?"

"Of course it is Vash."

"When were you planning on telling us?" demanded to know Knives.

"Never we were just going to leave after all of what importance are we to you and Vash?" responded Natalie

"God damn it woman you've been haunting my dreams with your presence ever since I can remember and you think that you mean nothing to me!"

"And what the bloody hell do I mean to you then?!" demanded to know a very irritated Natalie but then her eyes widen as she barely whispered to everyone " Some of Lord Walter's demons have just entered the town."