GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Xigger brought quite a number of fledglings with him to fight. They reach 100 in number. The Vampires are vastly outnumbered but they are also stronger individually. The two forces clashed with no one gaining an advantage. 

The Vampires clustered around each other. It is pack behavior from their previous race. It is a habit that brings them no real benefit right now apart from preventing them from being overwhelmed. So the Vampires formed a small stronghold within the tide of Warrogs that attacked them from every direction while Xigger and Sauron tore at each other in the air.

The will of the plane was watching this spectacular event. The fountain of life was also watching everything with interest. The two of them remained silent as they watched. The demon God of Carnage was not silent. It was clamoring for more Carnage and violence. 

Its voice rang loudly in Xigger's mind as it egged him on, "Tear him apart. Rend his existence to pieces. Open up his insides to the chilling air of the night. Let his blood wet the earth and let the earth drink freely of it until it is drunk. He caused all your pain. He caused all your suffering. So make him feel pain. Make him suffer. Revel in the violence of it. Let there be CARNAGE."

There was Carnage. Blood was spilled everywhere. Life was made to make the transition to death. Life force turned to death force in large amounts. The soul was liberated from the shackles of the body. And it was beautiful.

The light of the moon seemed to shine brighter that night. Its light shone upon this grotesque beauty and made the blood seem to glow in the night. The world was covered in a red hue that was intensifying the more blood flowed into the earth. The aura of blood and death thickened in the valley. It permeated everything including the body and soul of everyone in the valley.

Ragnarok was watching. The stench of blood and death wafted up to him in his position at the top of a mountain. 

He observed to himself. "Violence and demons truly go hand in hand."

The smell of blood and death reminded him of the first time he experienced something like this. It was with Gehaldirah when the Life plane was attacked by demons. His eyes were opened by that experience and his life was changed forever.

"How nostalgic." He murmured.

He has been watching right from the start of the battle and he witnessed the initial clash between Sauron and Xigger. What he saw allowed him to finally come to a decision.

He observed silently, "Sauron and Xigger are evenly matched. The Warrogs and the Vampires are also at a stalemate. The fight can go both ways. The Vampires are tireless. They can hold on for hours. The Warrogs will tire but they have the advantage of numbers. The Vampires will surely lose if the sun comes up. Even Xigger cannot bear the sun. He has to escape. Anything can happen between now and sunrise. If the Vampires don't win by sunrise then they will die. I think it is time to make a move."

The outcome of the battle is indeterminate. Anyone can win. He is screwed if the Vampires win. He doesn't care that Xigger is his father. The fact that Xigger seeded his mother doesn't mean that Xigger can't kill him. Parents eat their young all over the realm. Xigger is also a vampire that feeds on life. So he is practically food to his father. The only thing he can rely on is his strength. 

He is weaker than Xigger so he is not safe at all with Xigger. But that will change if he has enough strength to defend himself. He will have the chance to negotiate with Xigger. Vampires are bad but it is not a problem for him. Strength is what reigns supreme. If you're as strong as a vampire, then you can speak on equal terms with one. 

His situation doesn't get better even if the Warrogs win. Xigger was defeated and killed last time. Then he returned much stronger. The same thing can happen again. Xigger will only wear down the Iron Fur pack. That's what Vampires do. They spread like a disease and grow stronger over time unless they are permanently killed.

A viscount is already a serious problem. They can spread the vampirism plague. But they have to rest in between the creation of fledglings. They can't create fledglings wantonly. Each fledgling that they create will weaken them. That is not the same for an ancestral vampire. Xigger can create thousands of fledglings in a single night compared to a viscount that can probably create a new fledgling every month. 

So the Iron Fur pack is in big trouble regardless of victory or defeat. An ancestral vampire is a terrible entity to be enemies with. He doesn't have a way to kill Xigger permanently. Even if he does, he won't do it because he will be risking the vengeance of every vampire in the plane. Ancestral vampires are sacred. Killing one is an unforgivable sin. 

Every vampire in their lineage will die if an ancestral vampire dies. There's no way the other ancestral vampires will allow such a threat to them to exist. He will be hunted everywhere. He already has wood elves as enemies. He doesn't want to add Vampires to his list of enemies. 

It is not even individual enemies. It is making enemies of an entire race. It is better to make an ally of a race so that they can protect him from the other race. An ancestral vampire is a good person to facilitate gaining the help of vampires. The Vampires will be able to help him resist the wood elves. If he will suck up to someone, it is clear who he should suck up to.

His eyes glinted as he said, "I guess I will go with plan B."

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A/N: Is it just me or is CARNAGE the best cheerleader?