//------------------------------// // Travelling // Story: Noir Spiderman: A Van Helsing Story. // by Adamverse //------------------------------// Later that day, Adam and Twilight had taken Electro with them, back to the castle in the village. The saddled up some horses and hooked them to the carriage; ready to take this band of heroes to Canterlot. Whilst back at the castle, Spike informed Spiderman of his encounter with the painting that came to life. The friar and the holy man walked out to the carriage together, “..and then the painting came alive and the two creatures attacked each other.” “Really?” “Yes, what does it mean?” Adam replied, “I don’t know.” Spike was going to be riding in the carriage with their ‘guest’; so Adam stated, “Now, whatever you do Spike, don’t stare at him.” The second Spidey opened the door and revealed Electro to the easily frightened man, the creature was tied in chains and struggling to get free; Spike was already terrified. “I’m staring at him.” He closed the door again and backed away. “Is that a man?” “Well, it used to be.” Adam replied. The hunter opened the door again and pushed Spike in, now he was sitting face to face with Electro. The creature yelled, “You fool! Now they will come for me; you incompetent piece of…” the door closed before Adam could hear the rest. Twilight walked outside and stated, “Nothing is faster than Tramplevanian horses, not even a Were-Wolf. Anything else, you’re on your own.” She then climbed up onto the driver’s seat of the carriage. Adam just smirked before applying his mask. Their journey had begun; they travelled back across the snowy and rocky landscapes Adam and Spike crossed to get here in the first place. As they journeyed, they kept their guard up; it may day time, but that hasn’t stopped the vampires before. Spiderman sat in the driver’s seat of the carriage, he whipped the horses to go faster. About three hours into their journey, they had entered a forest; it was one Adam didn’t recognise, they didn’t come this way to get to Tramplevania. Whilst riding in the carriage, Spike was doing his best not to keep staring at the electrical creature sitting across from him. At one point, Elector leaned over to Spike and demanded to be set free. "Let me go!" he growled. Spike replied, "Where are you going to go? I don't know if you've looked in the mirror lately, but you can't just go out in a crowd." That comment made Electro mad, small, non-harmful sparks began flying off his body; Spike just sat there, fearing for his life. Spiderman sat in the driver seat of his carriage, as he felt the wind blow on his mask, he could hear something in the distance. The sounds of flapping wings were getting closer, so Adam equipped the crossbow weapon. He looked to the skies, the noise sounded close now; until suddenly, something flew over Adam and sent him hurdling onto one of the horses. He looked up and saw the two Vampire brides flying around the sky; he turned back to the road and got a big shock. The bridge was out, there was no chance the horses could jump it whilst dragging a carriage. However, the horses didn't stop; they ran faster towards the gorge. Adam closed his eyes and the horses took the leap of faith, they jumped across the gorge and tried to land on the other side. Luckily, they made, Adam held on and made it with them; the carriage wasn't so lucky; it hit the edge of the cliff and the cables snap. The horses and Spiderman off, but the carriage begins to plummet to the bottom to the gorge. The two vampire brides watched the carriage fall, Adagio flew down after it; she cried, "We must not let the creature be destroyed!" They both flew down to the carriage, Adagio managed to latch onto it with her claws; Sonata, however, couldn't keep up with it. "Save him, save the monster!" she said before gravity pulled her back up. Adagio crawled along and pride the door off, when she looked inside, the carriage was empty. Not completely empty; the vampire notice the small bunch of sharp wooden stick tied together. "Stakes!" she cried, before flying away. However, when the carriage his the rocky ground, it exploded; the stakes were launched all around. Three or four of them were stabbed into Adagio body. "No." she muttered before falling back into the fire and her corpse burning to ash in the blaze. While Adam rode one of the horses, he noticed by now, the vampires had fallen for his little trick. He looked over to the other trail, and saw their second carriage; Twilight was in the driver's seat and Spike opened the door to see what was happening, him and Electro were fine. Spiderman rode the horse along his trail until the two paths met, Adam leaped off his horse and landed next to Twilight in the driver's seat. Adam removed his hat and mask; it was smooth sailing from here. Suddenly, their attention was drawn to the front of them, the were-wolf was charging towards them; the beast leaped over the carriage, knocking Twilight and Adam off the seat and making them fall to either side of the moving vehicle. Before they could hit the ground, they each grabbed onto the handles of the carriage doors; they held on for dear life. While the were-wolf was chasing them from behind now, the carriage had found its way to a cliff road; on their left side was a two thousand foot drop. Spike looked out his left window and saw Twilight hanging on, he opened the door and asked her, "What're you doing out here?" "Spike." she replied. "Right, right." he then tried to help her back onto the driver's seat. On the other side of the carriage, Adam's door handle was starting to break, the bolts holding it on began to snap. Spiderman was in more peril than he thought, both his legs were on either side of a back wheel; if the handle snaps off, the wheel will either tear him in two or crush him. Adam banged on the door of the carriage, shouting, "Hello! Spike, hello!" Electro could hear him banging, it caught Spike's attention as well; the creature turned to the friar and said, "I can help." Spike asked, "And you won't kill me?" "Only if you don't hurry." he replied and yanked on his chains. Adam was seconds away from a terrible fate, the handle finally snapped; however, Electro opened the door and caught him, he then lifted him onto the driver's seat. Twilight pulled herself up, now they both had control of the carriage again. As the cliff road ended and they were back on solid ground, they had completely forgot that they had a were-wolf chasing them. The beast leaped onto the roof of the carriage, so Adam had to do something about it; he picked up the lantern and threw it at the monster. The lantern smashed into fragments of glass, and the whole top of the carriage caught fire; the flames weren’t enough to scare the monster away, it just made it angry. The were-wolf clawed at the carriage, ripping a whole in the roof; the fire began leaking into the carriage. Electro screamed and crawled to the floor of the vehicle, he wanted the flames to go away. You see, Electro was terrified of fire, it reminded him of that the night he was chased to the windmill and the night he lost the man who created him. He thought the flames were trying to get him, and now, they’re coming back for him now. Our heroes had no choice, they had to abandon the carriage; Twilight turned to Adam and shouted, “Jump!” Twilight cut the cord, the horses ran off; everyone jumped of the carriage and rolled onto the ground. What everyone didn’t know, Adam’s revolvers were loaded; as he jumped, he spun around and pulled the trigger. All that was heard after that was a growl and the crash. When Twilight came around, she began looking for her friends; but what she found wasn’t what she expected. The princess stumbled upon someone lying against a rock in the forest, she saw it was her own brother; she sat down next to him, both worried and happy to see him human again. Shining Armour turned his head and saw his sister sitting next to him; he muttered, “Twilight, thank Celestia you’re alright.” She replied, “Come on, Shiny; I’m taking you home.” “I’m afraid that is impossible.” He moved his arm of his chest, Twilight gasped when she saw the two bullet wounds. “I’m off to see our family, may Celestia have mercy on my soul.” After those words, the prince’s eyes fluttered closed. “No.” she mumbled, tears fell from her eyes; her brother was truly gone this time. Her mourning was interrupted when she heard footsteps coming towards her, she got up and walked over to them. She found Spiderman, walking off the injury he sustained after the crash; he noticed Twilight walking towards him. She muttered, “You killed him.” She shoved him against a tree and the said louder, “You killed him!” Adam replied with a groan, “Now you know why they call me ‘murderer’.” Twilight was about to give out to him again, but then she noticed another injury that sustained from the recent event. Spiderman moved his jacket out of the way, revealing a large wound on Adam’s chest. “Oh my goddess, you’ve been bitten.” Twilight says. When Spiderman took the shot at Shining Armour, the beast came crashing down onto Adam; unfortunately, his teeth managed to sink into Spiderman, passing the curse onto him. Twilight went to look for the others while Adam leaned against to the tree; she didn’t find the others, but she found someone. Hiding behind a tree, Sonata stepped out from her hiding space and punched Twilight in the face; knocking her clean out. The vampire converted to her bat-like form and carried Twilight off. Spiderman heard the cackling, so he ran towards its origin; but when he got there, all he saw was Sonata flying away with Twilight. “Spiderman?” Adam turned around to see Spike and Electro running to the scene, they all watched Twilight be carried away. Electro turned to Adam and asked, “What now?”