Natalia

Chapter 13 - Freya's Death & Moloxar

Katarina finds it soothing to observed Natalia's usual routine before killing. She looks at Natalia dreamily while she's washing her hands with tap water. The vampire noticed she was being watched and turns to Katarina who's playing with her hair.

"Is there something you want to say?" Katarina shakes her head. 

"It's just watching you getting yourself ready caught my interest. How did you coop up with the kill and you being a newborn?" 

"You mean how do I control myself from killing everyone?" Natalia rephrased Katarina's question.

"Something like that," She smiles.

"I remember my first kill, it's so hard to stop myself from it," Katarina added.

"It's easy for me. I only need to kill a specific person and for a specific reason. I do have rage in me but then I remember Satan," Katarina finally understand it.

Fear.

The reason why she able to stop herself was from fear stopping. But for whatever reason, Satan might like it when she kills innocent life the werewolf thought to herself. Katarina shakes the thoughts off.

"How many kills you have now?" Natalia asked.

"Just 1," Katarina sheepishly smiles at her. 

"I was forbidden to kill anyone after my first," 

"Why is that?" Katarina sighs.

"I can't be controlled. I was caged for a few days before I can finally get back to my senses," Natalia tied a strip of leather on both of her wrists.

"I'm about to do my third," Natalia smiles before facing Katarina.

"How do I look?" Katarina looks at her from head to toe.

"That jacket made you hot." Katarina winks. 

"Are you flirting with a vampire, Katarina?!" Rina, Katarina's wolf asks.

"Shut up," Katarina banter. Natalia finds it funny to see Katarina talking to herself.

"You seem to be arguing with yourself. Is that normal?" Katarina smiles.

"Nah. It's just my wolf, Rina," Natalia noticed how Katarina's brown orbs slightly turn to yellowish but it quickly changed to its original again.

"She's been trying to come out of my body for days," Natalia was intrigued to know more about the legends and history of werewolves. She never met a shapeshifter before. Now that Katarina standing in front of her, maybe she could learn more about other supernatural creatures as well.

"She's here," Katarina suddenly said while sniffing the air around them. Natalia walks towards the windows and looks down.

"Right on time," she said while keeping a close eye to Freya's whereabout. Natalia walks back in to put on her shoes.

"Let's visit the great Freya," Natalia walk back towards the window and walk along the walls. Katarina was dumbfounded because it’s easier for her to use the emergency staircase instead.

"You do know I can't walk on walls or ceilings like you bloodsuckers," Natalia smile at the werewolf.

"I'm sorry. I forgot," Katarina feels like her stomach is about to burst from all the butterflies when the vampire smile at her. She thought that it feels so much different than when she met her ex. She actually could feel her heart beating faster than usual. 

"I can hear your heartbeat from here. Are you nervous?" Natalia asks and jumps onto the ground. She waited for Katarina to be by her side.

"No. It's like that. Always," Natalia grabbed on Katarina’s hand when they both cross the road to Freya’s building.

 "Wait here. I'll be back," Natalia let go of her hand and went to make sure no one saw them. Katarina stares at her hand where Natalia had grabbed.

Natalia apologize when she came back for grabbing her hands without permission.

“The coast is clear. I’m going to find a way in,” Katarina was still staring at her hands when Rina decided to interrupts her train of thoughts. 

"Are you being serious right now, Katarina?" Rina asked. Katarina ignores her wolf and continued to stare at her hand. She smiles stupidly when she feels the coldness from Natalia’s hand.

Meanwhile, when Natalia finally manages to locate an open window, she quietly enters Freya’s home. The first thing she notices was rings of garlic. Natalia covers her nose from inhaling such a disgusting scent. 

"I know you'll be coming for me," Natalia heard someone speaking behind her. When she turns, she saw Freya was holding a wooden stick on her left hand and a hammer on the other.

"I've prepared myself for this. Do you think I don't know what's happening back at home? You killed them. You kill our old classmates," Jac laughs and takes a sit on the armchair. 

"So what are you planning to do? Kill me? I thought you already that I am death," Natalia said in a matter of fact tone. Freya was ashamed of herself.

"I didn't think about that part. I thought my plan was flawless," Natalia laughs.

"That is why I fall in love with you. You never think everything through that it almost comical," Natalia turns grim.

"But you greedy little assfuck was never enough! You want everything! You hurt me. Now it's my turn to hurt you back!" Natalia suddenly lunges towards Freya, leaving the human vulnerable. Freya was trying hard to fight back. She drops her hammer but she kept the wooden stack on her grip. 

Without Natalia's knowledge, Freya stabs her back with the wooden stack. For the very first time, the vampire feels pain on her back but she still holding on Freya's body. When she had enough, Natalia grabs on both of Freya's hands and pin her on the floor. The vampire hisses at her prey.

Natalia shows her fully extracted fangs and trace it on her prey’s bare skin. 

"I'll keep this clean and simple. Promise," Not wanting to cause for trouble, the vampire takes a huge bite on Freya's neck and pull a chunk of her flesh with her mouth. Natalia starts chewing the raw human flesh as if she's eating a home cook meal. She swallows and licks her lips when she feels the blood dripping from her mouth.

The vampire releases Freya's hand but still sit on her stomach. She smiles when her prey tried to stops herself from bleeding to death. Natalia smiles and lovingly caressing Freya's cheek. She leans in to kiss Freya on the lips passionately. The vampire pulls away when Freya moans inside her mouth. 

"Too late.." Natalia twisted Freya's head around and pulled it hard to separate it from her body. She got up while with her prey’s head in her arms

"I will never forget how you treat me before, Freya," before Natalia walk towards the window, she grabs the wooden stack on her back and escapes before anyone decided to knock on her front door.

***

Natalia and Katarina march down the hallway towards Videric's study with a sack containing Freya's head. Katarina on the other hand nearly gags when she saw Natalia with the bodyless head. She never saw anything like this before and it's affecting her but not her wolf. 

Natalia pushes the door and presents the head to Videric who's reading a paper behind his desk. Videric looks at the sack and the vampire back and forth before opening it. Videric smiles.

"Good job newborn," Natalia was glad Videric smiled at her. This is her first mission without Arika and Ivy. Now that she managed to do it alone, she will never have to think about the creatures who threw her away.

"Now that your mission is done, follow me," Videric turns to Katarina.

"You can go home. Tell your father I'll be there after my mission is complete," Katarina bows to the king and smiles at Natalia gave her a small hidden wave. When Katarina shut the door, Videric stands up and went to the windows.

"Are you ready to meet Moloxar?" Videric asked.

"This is your brother correct?" Videric nod.

"Yes. I am." Videric chuckle.

"He's not like Rose or Hannah. He's.. not in human form. He's.. a demon. A demon with a hunchback deformed face and limbs, and he only eats raw flesh and drinks any kind of blood he can get his hands on." Videric faces the newborn. 

"He was born from the very pits of hell. He was born without a heart nor feelings. All he can think about is to kill our father and be the ruler of the underworld. Now that he's trying to crossover to this human world, he probably gathers enough army to tricked the halfbreed."

"What's a halfbreed?" Natalia asked. she never heard of that word before.

"Halfbreed means a creature that is not a creature of the heavens nor the hell. It's in between. But, they can go in and out of both realms. They’re dangerous to come across. Some say they’re creatures originally from hell who got the summon from the Great Lord and was forgiven for its sins before," Natalia chuckles.

 "Those things exist?" Videric smile.

"Oh they do," The king looks at the time before sidles out of the room. Natalia follows him closely.

"My psychic predicts he will somehow manage to possesses a kid and using its body to cross over," Videric chuckle and got in the car. Natalia shuts the door when she went inside. The driver started to drive towards their venue.

"Somehow I think it's quite ridiculous. He can't make a human body as a portal. That's just impossible. He needs a proper gate. Like our father's," 

"Are we going to exorcise this brother of yours?" Videric laughs at Natalia's question. 

"No, newborn. I'm going to let the humans do that, all I have to do is drag him back to hell," Natalia's eyes widen.

"So this means I'm going to take a stroll in hell?" Videric nod.

"Sweet!" Natalia was excited.

"Don't get too excited. It's not as beautiful in the movies," Natalia chuckle and looks outside the windows. This is the first time she's been to London. She was hoping for a happy trip but she just kills a person and now they're going to beat up a demon. Natalia observes how calm Videric is. Videric notice s set of eyes watching him thoroughly.

"Yes? Any question?" The king asked.

"Now that you mention it, how did you manage to be sane after all your mission. You look so calm and act as if you're not going to drag a demon to hell." 

"Well, after years of doing it tends to do this to you. It's like a normal job now. A responsibility to balance the world order. Between life and death, sickness and health. Just wait until you were given orders to deal with the supernatural realms. Now that's a tough mission. For now, your job is to complete the 7 kills," Natalia nod. Videric opens the door when they arrived. Natalia closes the door as she follows suit.

"Where are we?" When Videric's feet take the first step, a gush of wind suddenly hit both of them.

"He knows that we are here," Videric said before continuing to walk towards the building. Natalia followed the king inside. She soon notices a man standing by the foot of the twin stairs and bow to the king.

"How is he?" Videric asked the man.

"See for yourself," He said and lead them upstairs.

"Where is this place?" Natalia asked when they walk up the stairs.

"An all-boys school. One of the oldest and still running schools in Europe," The man explained. Before they entered the room, Videric notices something on the floor. A burn footprint.

"s**t," The king kneels and touches the print.

"He's here. The halfbreed," The king asks Natalia to push the door open and was surprised to see the boy who was possessed turns his head the way humanly impossible. 

"Videric, brother," The boy said in a very deep raspy voice.

"Hello, Moloxar. Nice seeing you.. again," The boy let out a burst of hair-rising laughter before crawling down the bed towards them. Natalia was terrified but she is also curious.

"Are you scared, newborn?" The boy gives her a cynical smile before facing the king. 

"Did he send you here?" The boy stands up and asked the king.

"He did. I want to bring you home," The boy laughs again and came face to face with the king.

 "Not this time. I'll fulfill my mission before you can stop me," Videric can feel the demon tearing the boy's soul piece by piece. He can't let this going on any longer. He needs to exorcise his brother with his own hands.

"Sorry, brother," Videric said before stabs his hands into the boy's chest. Moloxar screams in pain from the sudden stab and left his mouth ajar opened. The halfbreed, Bethor needs to do something to save the demon from being extracted. He went to the king's back and stabs him with his heavenly sword.

"Only a weapon forged in heaven can kill the son of darkness," The halfbreed whispers and twisted the sword inside Videric's chest. 

Natalia grabs the halfbreed by the neck and threw him across the room. Videric hisses the pain away and continues to extract the demon from this human boy. He ignores the stinging pain from the sword and screams when Moloxar refused to come out. He goes elbow deep into the boy's chest just to grab his brother. 

Natalia went to the halfbreed and step on his chest to stop him from getting up. She's worried that Videric might be hurt. It's the first time she saw him bleeding profusely like this. Even blood started coming out of his mouth.

"LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Videric pulls his hands away from the boy's chest but still grabbing the demon's body close to him.

"You cause me a lot of troubles," Videric said while kept his arms around his neck. Videric reached out from the sword and pulled it out. He sighed heavily and turn to Jac. 

"Grab him. Drag this bastard to Hell," 

***

Satan was kissing one of his many wives when he smelt something burning. When he turns, he saw his sons, a halfbreed and a newborn in the room.

"Oh. Moloxar. Welcome home," The demon turns away from looking up to his father. Videric shoves him to the floor and went to the chair to rest. He looks down at his wound and touches it a couple of times before leaning in.

"Marcia, fix Videric's wound," The half-naked woman nods and went to Videric. Satan faces the halfbreed who dares to help his ungrateful son.

"What's your name halfbreed?" Satan asked. 

"Bethor." 

"As much as I want to conquer the world, I am not that stupid to use such a way to be the ruler. For you to be the ruler you need to kill me first." Satan stepped on his son's chest and face the halfbreed.

"Octavia will handle you. After I remove your wings," On cue, two demon guards walk in and drag the halfbreed out. 

"And you, my son, will have to stay in the darkness, with your other brothers and sisters who disobey me, FOREVER!" Satan kicks Moloxar out of the door and was taken to the black hole by the guards. Natalia was watching how the woman with exceptionally huge breast, treating Videric's wound. 

"Which wife are you?" Videric started a conversation. The woman smiles.

"I'm the healer. This will sting a little," Videric nod and close his eyes when the woman's hand suddenly burst to purple flames. Natalia was speechless. When the woman released her hands from Videric's chest, the wound was almost healed. 

"You're lucky that sword is not fully in power." Marcia stands up and went to Satan's side. "I'll meet you in your room later, Marcia," Marcia winks and saunter out leaving them alone with Satan.

"So. You manage to do what I asked you to do. Good," Videric sighs and touches his chest. 

"I did." 

"Is there something that I can do for both of you?" Videric groans as he stands up from the floor.

"Well. Since you're asking, send us both to the Crimson Packhouse. I'm meeting the Oasis family," Satan squints his eyes.

"Why are you even meeting those dogs?" Videric sighs while shaking his head.

"They are not dogs!" Natalia went to the king's side and hold his side.

"Come on father. Just send us. Please," Satan wiggling his finger.

"Not now. I'm going to show the newborn how we run things here." Satan turns around and walks out of the room. 

"What is this place?" Videric chuckles and walks down the dark stairs to nowhere.

"This newborn is a place where I, torture creatures for fun," Natalia heard a clap before the dark dungeon was lit up. Her eyes widen when she saw the things that only exist in horror movies. Chains, ax, saw, several types of knives, sword, whips, and even metal cages that storeman and woman in their most degrading state.

"Don't be a fool. They're the eaters," Videric whispers. Natalia walks towards them and wonders what does he meant by the eaters.

"The cages kept them sane. Once they're out, nothing can stop them except when they are full." 

They all heard someone squirming under the guards hold and turn around to look at Bethor. He was forced to kneel in front of the devil. He tried to free himself but failed.

"You should know better than to help my son to crossover," Satan touches his wings.

"You have no mercy in his eyes anymore and neither will I have mercy on you," Satan rips one of his wings off and enjoy the sound of pain throughout the whole dungeon. Bethor was trying to reach for his wings but it was gone. Satan held up his hands and sniffing the air. He smells something familiar. Something holy and something.... heavenly. He turns around and glares at the side of the archangel. 

"Mom.." Videric breath out. Octavia smiled at Videric before keeps a serious look on her face when she turns to Satan.

"You have no right to ripped his wings off," Octavia said in the softest voice ever. Satan scoffs and threw the wings towards the archangel.

"You and your rules, Octavia," 

"Without them, there will never be order," Octavia banter and looks down to Bethor.

"You have disappointed me far enough Bethor. You will have to go on trial in front of all the archangels and then we will see how heavy your punishment will be," Bethor nods and crawls to Octavia. Octavia turns to face Videric and smiles lovingly at his stepson.

"You look rather sick Videric. What happened?" Videric didn't get to say anything when Natalia cuts him off.

"He stabbed him your greatness," Videric stares at Natalia. The vampire shrugs her shoulder and looks down on the floor. 

"I'm fine mom," Octavia smiled and touch Videric's cheek.

"You're a good son Videric. Never think otherwise and also never be as bad as your father. He's way overboard with his killing. Just look at the mess he did for me to clean up," Octavia bad-mouthing Satan who only standing behind her. 

"You're not supposed to be bad mouthing me, angel," Octavia ignores him and says her goodbyes. Videric smile at the person who has been there for him and watches her go. 

"Now. Let's get you both to Crimson Pack House," The devil said before made both Videric and Natalia choke on sulfur.