Not So Silent Hill
Yakov floated silently through the halls of the manor. He knew his prey would come after him soon. They couldn't bear to let their companions be lost forever. Humans were too predictable that way. Beyond that, those he'd drained had already risen, and were actively on their way to hunt down the prey to drag them to him for feeding.
He'd already located those books in the library that told of how to defeat one such as he, or contain his thralls until defeat happened. His first thought had been to destroy those tomes to ensure they couldn't be used against him...but it went strongly against his grain to destroy books. A last vestige from back when he had been mortal, he presumed, such a strong aversion to the idea of burning books. Still, it had been easy enough to fold space around the books such that they could not be found except by him, and the folds could only be undone by his death. He doubted his prey could accomplish that, not when he had already drained enough chi - and chi with a divine taste at that! - to grant him full access to all his powers and resistance to all his weaknesses but the spell to force him to lose his chi. What luck that his first victim had been an adult woman on her fertility cycle with a divine blessing! That had granted him his full physical capabilities...
And the second! A Chi Wizard who had imbibed of the Elixer of Life! He was almost strong enough to cross running water now! Part of him wanted to just hide out now and wait for sunrise for all the chi he'd stolen to become his...but he knew he would be actively hunted if he did. Instead, he would do the hunting-
"Say chi spell!"
Yakov spun in surprise at that statement, only to receive a parchment scroll to the forehead from the blasted demon. He could feel it messing with his magic, so he locked onto the demon with his gaze and-
Clutched at his forehead as pain shot through his eyes.
Not on my watch! the blasted ghost snapped in his mind. Normally I let my sister use her full powers under control...but I'm not about to let these nice people become food for a monster! Stopping things like this is why my sister and I are like this!
"I shall rend you to bits and scatter you to the four winds!" Yakov snarled angrily, lifting his hands to claw the parchment from his forehead.
"Heads up!" the giant declared as he punched him right in the face.
"Tohru!" the ghost called out as Yakov sailed back. "I'm able to stop most of his spells, including his feeding gaze! You can let yourself see!"
Tohru wiped his hand across his eyes, and his irises slowly parted to reveal his pupils once more. "Then it's time to focus my chi elsewhere! Wǒ de shēntǐ shì dùnpái..." As he chanted, he became surrounded by a green glow.
Yakov cursed as the Chi Warrior charged him, being forced to focus on keeping him at bay. Admittedly, he was strong enough to bat the giant around like a rag doll, but with his spell in effect that wouldn't actually hurt or slow him down at all. Still, if he could knock him back far enough that he had time to reach for the blasted parchment-
An animal snarl, and a white tiger man was lunging for him, claws glittering with divine power as he slashed away at him, reacting to Yakov's too fast strikes to evade and dodge with relative ease. Curse cat-like reflexes! All he needed now was-
And yes, there was the blasted demon charging in, launching lightning bolts and other weather formations as both weapons and distractions, trusting to his compatriots magical protections to shield them. The three-pronged attack was frustrating, but Yakov could hold them all off in the air, or shoot upward so only the demon could reach him. He just needed to delay-
"¡Siente el peso de la muerte! ¡Siente el peso de la muerte!"
Yakov's eyes widened as he felt his body growing heavy, too heavy to be held in the air. The minotaur! She would have made excellent food...but she somehow knew a spell to weaken his magic so he was forced to fight physically at ground level. He could feel himself slowing down slightly, not enough to be beaten easily, but enough that the trio were now actually landing blows on him and the tiger was taking the time to-
He was going for his socks! They knew the spell! How?
Emeraude carefully led the three fillies out to the cemetary on the property. "Good, there's some gravestones after all," she murmured in relief. "We need to find a graveyard toadstool, a mushroom that grows in the shadow of a grave. Then we need to put it in...either the vampire's left or right sock, I'm not certain which, and then throw it into the river."
"Ah'll find that toadstool, even if'n ah have ta grow it from scratch!" Apple Bloom spoke up eagerly, racing over to look.
"Once we've got it in the sock, I'll zip it over to the river," Scootaloo volunteered. "On Cumulo, I'm the fastest one here short of using the Rabbit Talisman."
"I can use my magic reading spell to sense which sock reacts to the mushroom!" Sweetie Belle offered. "That ought to tell us which one to put it in for the spell to work."
"Then we just need to wait and hope Jackie is able to get both socks away from that beast and to us, so we can work the spell," Emeraude concluded softly. "And hope our plans to keep things from spiraling out of control work...and that we finish it before sunrise."
"Definitely," Sweetie agreed as she took a few calming breaths, stabilizing the glow around her horn. "Keeping Viper and Uncle confined so they can't attack us is hard. Uncle's not so bad since his only skill danger is his magic, and as an undead thrall he doesn't have any chi to cast with. But keeping Viper contained requires completely immobilizing her, since I have no idea what gear she's got hidden who knows where!"
"Could you not strip her completely to remove that resource?" Emeraude suggested nervously.
"Two problems with that," Sweetie panted. "One, I wouldn't put it past Viper to store a few extras inside her body through...certain openings...that come out at a mental command, just in case someone strips her to remove her resources."
Emeraude blinked in surprise. "Right...I suppose I must think of her like a kunoichi then-"
"Second, if things get intense enough and it ends with Jackie coming back to see Viper naked and immobilized, with how crazy those two get we'll probably end up with a cousin those two aren't ready for!" Sweetie added firmly. "It's her fertility cycle right now, after all!"
Emeraude blinked slowly. "...why, exactly, are you keeping track of that?"
"Because I know Viper stopped keeping track of it, and I consider it my job to pop in at inconvenient times to ensure that doesn't happen until they get hitched when she is fertile," Sweetie pointed out logically. "Once they're hitched, I'll know they're ready for kids, and then we can have more cousins!"
Emeraude simply stared, stupefied. "...and Jade is used to all this..." she murmured under her breath. "I feel sorry for the next Chosen One in our position who gets her as the guide..."
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Crazyness tolerance is one requirement of this family.
It's called a Weirdness Censor. You've seen so much sh
t that nothing fazes you anymore.
Supposedly that's actually a thing using Qigong, in "Ripley's Believe It or Not!"!
Am the only one thinking of Senran Kagura here?
Good call, Sweetie Belle. Might sound a little on the traditional side to some, but the logic is flawless.
Chapter One Hundred Eighty-One
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"I'm not his/your Mistress!"
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both those two have Cat in them now, dont forget that. and whats one thing cat do almost as well as rodents?
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No kidding
I wonder how long it will take for Jackie and Viper to get the hint and get a ring for Viper’s finger?
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the great work. Deus tecum.
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Actually Most mythologies about vampyres/vampires have means for the beasts to overcome their natural weaknesses, the most common of those in western vampires deals with religious idols being ineffective from no actual faith behind them I.E a Buddhist couldn't use a cross and other such cases. Another deals similarly with what is shown in story that Sanguinary(blood suckers) can gain what are otherwise unique abilities by feeding off a vampire with that ability such as an immunity to sunlight to humanistic levels. Now I'm not exactly sure what some of those rulings are for eastern vampires besides Psychic(energy, chi, ect.) ones that feel directly off of lifeforce like this one can usually divert gained energy to power through weaknesses if it isn't something they can out right overcome. That said a Cross is probably one of the last holy symbols the Chan clan would want to use since they know of other gods and Christianity in any form kind if killed by that knowledge with how it is generally taught.
That seal holding his powers might be paper thin but it's plenty to weigh him down. Oh wait, that's be Sofia since she can better grasp the gravity of the situation better than most. Too bad Sweetie can't strip Viper or her weapons cause we all know her body is one in and of itself.
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Not what i meant, but informative.
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eh that was mainly so people could see more cases of that, besides your example without being a random comment
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I meant that i actually have an issue of Ripley's Believe it or Not and under the Feats section there is a man who used Qigong to actually run across water.
MOAR!!
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What, like dating a Demon well having talking mythological horses for cousins and you Uncle and (basicly) Aunt are cat people with both magical an martial arts training?
Sweetie is very helpful.
On her fertility cycle? Does this mean a shotgun wedding is on the horizon?
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In this universe, It might make sense for Christianity, Judaism, and Islam to teach the other, real mythologies (Norse, Egyptian, Greek/Roman, Chinese, Japanese, etc) as lesser gods. They would be powerful divine beings worthy of respect in their own right, but not anywhere near as powerful or divine as God (note the capital “G”).
To which the concrete evidence of God’s existence sits on the Jade Council in the form of Lucifer Morningstar (God’s second created Archangel, and his favorite, prior to Lucifer’s fall from grace and subsequent banishment from Heaven to Hell). Those three religions would probably still be arguing over whether Jesus is the Son of God or yet another prophet (since even though Christmas started off as a pagan holiday, it gained the moniker for Christ’s Mass and the celebration of his birth in 336 AD under the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine. Plus TMT spent an entire story arc dedicated to saving Christmas, so we know Jesus showed up 2000+ years ago).
The big questions are how powerful are those 3 religions in this timeline, and whether or not Father Alexander Anderson both kills vampires on the behalf of the Roman Catholic Church and has an unusual “friendship” with a bloodsucking vampire hunter based out of the United Kingdom.
I sincerely hope the answers to both make the Chan’s future trip to Stonehenge very entertaining for all… and possibly involve excessive use of zeppelins.
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God as defined by monotheism has actually already been brought up. The Class 0 being dubbed 'The Creator'. Monotheistic religions in this world dub the Jade Council as 'God's Angels', the divine beings created by God The Creator to manage Creation.
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Ah. Forgot that detail. My bad.
But this does give me hope for the wonderful feud between The Hellsing Organization and Iscariot, a.k.a. Vatican Section XIII—
*Looks at Vatican Section XIII*
*looks at Captain Black and Section 13*
*Looks at Vatican Section XIII*
*looks at Captain Black and Section 13*
Okay… that is a hilarious coincidence. And one I hope gets capitalized on in this story.
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an I put money on that bet?
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Actually While Lucifer Morning Star is part of the Council the Idea of God/Allah from Judaeo-Christianity and Islam as we know has been confirmed not to be a thing by two points, First God from those faiths isn't supposed to have an equal but the story has set up an equal if opposite side to the balance as the Creator with the destroyer know as Ragnarok, and the fact it's stated that SANTA(the focus of the Christmas arch not Christ) actually becomes a being with no equal during Christmas when the class/tier system was explained. Second the only signs we have seen Judaeo-Christianity have any kind of representation is with the cross that was recently used, despite the fact that is used in symbolism for a number of mythologies, and that the Winter Solstices holiday was called Christmas instead of Yule or one of the other Pagan names for the holiday. In short there is no evidence that any form of Judaeo-Christianity or Islam exists in the story's world in the same way we know them to exist in ours
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I already responded to that and gave an answer. Just because the teachings of Monotheistic religions are slightly different in this world doesn't mean they don't exist (those that do know of 'Beast Ragnarok' would classify it as another aspect of God, much as Christianity has Father/Son/Holy Spirit).
And yes, the existence of Beast Ragnarok as equal/opposite of Creator is not well known outside the Council and those connected to Veil enforcement.
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Tats I hate to say this but that explanation to remind him of points you already made in the story makes everything a form of Paganism, just with a slightly different Hierarchy scale between them because they would recognize The Destroyer as The Creator's equal as well. But that is getting into technicalities.
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You missed my final Point Tats and I didn't see that you responded to it until after I posted, that they way we see those faiths don't exist, even if another form that would be fairly harder for us to understand does.
Excellent logic by Sweetie! I can totally see her doing this!!!
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Oh like a Jesus Lizard?
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Actually...
https://kotaku.com/shaolin-monk-runs-on-water-for-almost-400-feet-1680583761
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TV Tropes defines "Weirdness Censor" as being unaware of the weirdness, not as being accustomed to it (which they call "Seen It All") - so the CMCs amulets in early chapters were an example of a Weirdness Censor, while Jade taking everything in her stride is Seen It All - she's aware of what's up; she's just used to it.
You know how in Avengers, Thor can magically make tiny metal plates for his arms and it’s actually decent armor? Why hasn’t Uncle learned of a lesser version of that trick? Will it hurt his antiques?
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I just remembered something. We saw Seras pop in for a cameo early in this story which seems to imply that Hellsing (hopefully abridged) is a thing here and that the Chans could very well run into them at some point in the future.
Sweetie Belle is best contraceptive.
Two words...
yana kanji...