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"Hello, Justus," Salazar greeted. "Welcome to my humble abode. Why don'tyou sit down?" he said and pointed to the medieval straight back chair to hisleft.

Justin stepped forward.

"Uh-uh uh, don't even think about it. I can cut her throat before you ever reached me," Salazar threatened softly.

Justin clenched his fists and tempered his anger. He needed to remain calmif they were to succeed in defeating Salazar. He sat down in the chair, hishands on the armrests when suddenly, metal clamped around both his wrists,and his strength began to slowly ebb.

Salazar chuckled and lifted his hand. In it was a little black box with a red button. "You didn't think I'd be prepared for you did you, Justus?" hegloated. "Right about now, your strength should be diminishing at a lowrate, that's the chemical I created, which when it touches skin, will draw thestrength out of the victim."

Justin tried to break free, but it was no use, it seemed he wasn't strongenough.

"Justin, are you alright," Justin went still when he recognized Devon's voicein his mind.

"We're in a bit of a pickle my friend," he replied as he watched Salazar grabRae by the hair and pull her up. His eyes roamed over her face as shestumbled, her gaze when she looked at him was unfocused. He tried to reachher mentally but her mind was fragmented, jumbled. "I'm stuck in a chair with metal restraints that are sucking my strength out, Salazar has Rae, he'staking her out of the room."

"Why isn't she fighting back?" Devon asked.

"She's dazed, she must have hit her head," replied Justin. He tried again toget out of the chair but it was no use, he roared in frustration. "Are you wellenough to help me?"

Outside, Devon was already nodding and heading back inside the house.



"You cannot go back in there!" exclaimed Salazar's former servant as he puta restraining hand on Devon's arm. "You're strength has not yet returned for you to battle the master."

Devon growled, "I have to, Justin is restrained in a chair and Salazar hasRae."

"Oh no! No, no, no! The Chair of Calvitus! You can't touch the chair. It willdraw all the strength you have left. No. I will go in your place. I know whatto do; I was there when it was built," George Leeds said, and Devon wasamazed that a two hundred year old human could move that fast.

~~~~~*~~~~~

Rae's head spun as Salazar pulled her up the stairs to the attic. He opened thedoor and pushed her, sending her sprawling across the gleaming hardwoodfloor.

Dizzy, she sat up as she heard the door slam shut. Opening her eyes, shetried to glare at Salazar but didn't succeed for there was two of him standingover, her staring at her.

"At last, your power will be mine and then no one will be able to stop me. Iwill finally have it all!" exclaimed Salazar as he walked past her to an open

book sitting on a pedestal.

Her head still spinning, Rae focused her gaze on the door and begancrawling to it, but cried out when Salazar gripped her hair and pulled.

"Oh no, my dear. You are staying right where you are," he said as hedragged her to a chair that sat in a circle and pushed her in it.

Rae's heart began to pound as she looked down and recognized the circledrawn on the floor. It was a ritual circle, meant to conjure demons, or in thiscase, transfer power from one to another. That was Salazar's goal. But whatthe vampire didn't know was that the first time she'd made love with Justin,she'd transferred some of her power to him as he'd made her a vampire.



"I see you recognize the ritual circle and know its meaning," said Salazar hissmile revealing rotten and yellowed teeth. Soon you will be dead and I willhave everything I deserve."

Rae wasn't listening; her mind was frantically trying to reach Justin. "Justin,answer me! Why can't I hear you?" she begged.

~~~~~*~~~~~

George entered the living room and gasped at the site of a man, he assumedwas Justin, slumped in the Chair of Calvitus. He quickly grabbed somesurgical gloves from the desk drawer and pulled them on.

Then he went down on his back and scooted under the chair where he knew

a metal lever, drenched in the same chemical as the metal clamped were,was and pulled on it. He heard the click as the clamps opened, freeing theman.

He quickly stood, pulled Justin out of the chair and lowered him gently tothe floor. He then grabbed the sharp letter opener from the desk's surface,cut his wrist and brought it to Justin's mouth.

Warm blood trickled down Justin's throat, his eyes opened and he stared atthe gaunt man as he drank his fill. His strength returned, he closed thewound and sat up.

"Thank you," said Justin.

"Go, they're in the attic," George whispered as sat down hard on the floor.

Justin nodded and stood. Halfway out the door he turned back and looked atLeeds. "Are you going to be alright?" he asked.

George nodded, "I'll be fine. Just go, stop him from gaining her power," hesaid.

Justin nodded and ran up the stairs.

Chapter Twenty Three



Rae cringed, as she smelled the noxious fumes of Dragon's Eye dust mixedwith Black Poppy. This potent mixture was often used to paralyze warlocksand witches gone bad, making it easier to capture and destroy them. Shetried to concentrate on the see through window and shimmer, but her headstill hurt from hitting it on the desk leg downstairs.

"Justin, where are you?" she cried in her mind as Salazar blew the paralyzing mixture over her head. Her limbs stiffened, her throat seized up,she could no longer move, couldn't speak; only her eyes and mind were not

paralyzed.

"I'm almost there, sweetness. Just hang on!" Justin exclaimed as he leapedup to the first landing and went for the second.

"He's paralyzed me, Justin. I can't move!" she cried out to him.

Justin could feel her panic as he rounded the corner and took the last flightof stairs to the attic. Though his face showed no emotion except anger,Justin was terribly afraid, afraid he'd get there too late to save her.

~~~~~*~~~~~

Devon entered the living room to find George still sitting on the floor.

Concerned, he knelt down at the man's side, his hand resting lightly on hisshoulder. "George, are you alright?" he asked.

George nodded. "I gave Justin my blood, so he could save the woman," hesaid.

"Come on, let's get you out of here," said Devon as he helped George stand.

"No. Don't worry about me. I may be weak, but I won't die, just yet," George

said as he pushed away from Devon and leaned against the wall. "You haveto help Justin. They're in the attic. Both of you just might have a chance atdestroying Salazar together."

Devon nodded, and his admiration of George grew. The man was trulycourageous. He left George and ran to join Justin.



~~~~~*~~~~~

Justin reached the attic door, and cursed when he saw the smoke rising fromhis hand where he'd touched the knob. The knob had been dowsed in holywater. Behind the door he could hear Salazar chanting.

"Cumita Daglytar Hotura Barrakitu!"

A bright light began to filter under the door, and Justin knew if he didn't getit open, Rae would die.

"Think! Think!" he muttered to himself as he ran his fingers through hishair. Suddenly, from deep within his mind, a door opened and a memoryemerged. A memory of the first time Rae and he made love, her childhood.

He wondered why he was seeing her childhood now, and then it dawned onhim. Her childhood memories were the key. Something in them would givehim the answer he sought, a means to destroying Salazar.

He sat down on the step and examined each memory that surfaced of Rae'schildhood. He saw again the memory of her parents' death, then when she'dskinned her knee and her mother had healed her. Nothing there helped himso he went deeper into her earlier memories.

He sucked in his breath at this one as he saw Rae at the age of maybe two or three. She was sitting on the floor, crying as she saw her mother sitting in achair, a man stood tall over the chair and blew some kind of powder over her. He saw the woman raise her hand and freeze, she no longer moved.

He heard the cackle of the man, then a crash as the door in the room he wasseeing opened and a tall, handsome man came in shouting, "Luminas,Jorakee, Ambutu!"

Justin swung his gaze back to the woman in the chair and saw her move. Her

hand came down and she stood up, her face shining, her eyes glittered withstars as she spoke.

"Warlock, you have chosen the black arts as your companion, thereforedamning your soul, for this I sentence you for one eon inside the Crystal of Souls, where you will suffer untold torment, until such time that I or another crystal guardian deems your sentence fulfilled." She stretched out her arm



palm up and the crystal he'd seen lying on the floor in the living roomappeared in her hand.

Before the warlock could move, she pointed the crystal at him and a thinstream of smoke began emanating from it. The smoke swirled and curledaround the warlock thicker and thicker until he could no longer be seen.When the smoke cleared, the warlock was gone, locked for an eon inside thecrystal. The tall handsome man, Justin assumed was Rae's father, caught thewoman before she fell, and then looked straight at him.

"You have what you need," the man's deep voice whispered in his mind,then the images disappeared, and he opened his eyes to see Devon loomingover him, shaking him.

"Justin, snap out of it, will you!" He was shouting over the noise comingfrom behind the door.

Justin blinked at his friend and smiled. "I know what to do," he saidcryptically and stood.

Both men walked to the door and nodded to each other. The noise comingfrom inside escalated as Justin and Devon with their combined strength,lifted a foot and kicked the door down. Fierce wind assailed them, whippingtheir hair about their heads as they fought their way into the room.

Justin shouted, "Luminas, Jorakee, Ambutu!" and watched as Rae's arms andlegs began to move.

Salazar roared in anger and flew across the room at the two men he knewshould have been dead by now. He kicked Devon in the stomach and senthim flying against the far wall as he turned and raked his long poisonousnails across Justin's chest.

Rae cried out as she felt Justin's pain. She growled low when she sawJustin's blood, and her fangs grew. For the first time since she'd been turnedvampire, her face took on a demonic expression as a burst of strength welledup, and she leaped several feet, landing on Salazar's back, her own long nailsembedded in his throat.

"You will die for that!" she yelled.



Salazar cried out and stretched his arm behind him, clamping his handaround her ankle and pulled her off him.

"You bitch! You will die for this!" he shouted and thrust his hand toward her chest.

~~~~~*~~~~~

Stanley had seen the light show from outside and decided to follow Devonin, to see if he could help. At the entrance he saw a medieval suit of armor holding a sword, he pulled the sword from the metal hands and slowlywalked up the stairs towards the attic.

The noises he heard as he climbed made him shiver and want to turn back, but he still needed to make things right. So, with some difficulty, heswallowed his fears, and pushed himself onward.

Stanley reached the door, just as Rae flew through the air, and landed onSalazar's back. He shuddered when he saw her face and her gleaming whitefangs. Stunned, he watched in horror, as Salazar grabbed Rae by the ankleand jerked her from his back, and then he thrust his hand toward her chest,intending to deliver a fatal blow.

He saw Devon and Justin rise and run to pull her out of the way but knewthey'd be too late. So, without conscious thought, he reared back his arm andthrew the sword with all his might.

The sword caught Salazar in the stomach, propelling him backwards into thechair where he landed on his back inside the ritual circle.

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