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Gabriel could smell whoever was intruding her cave. The doe she had fed on earlier was skinned, gutted, and cut up. Different parts were put in different canisters, trying to finish bleeding the animal. The vampiress was in no mood for a fight. It was probably someone trying to rid the area of her evil. She couldn't even remember the last time she actually left her cave. And the last human she fed on had tried to kill her. Any where else, it would be seen as self defence. But mortal rules did not apply to her. "If you're looking for a fight, you won't find it here. I've done nothing to those who have done nothing to me. I haven't even left my cave in a few decades. Why bother with a sorry excuse of my kind?" She doubted she could change the intruder's mind. He had come there for a purpose. And men with a purpose were dangerous.

"I don't mean to hurt anyone. If anything, I'm ashamed to have to live like this. The only reason I don't leave this cave is so that I'm not forced to hurt anyone." She sighed. It would be no use. He was going to kill her no matter what she said. Slowly, she sat up. Her movements were fluid as she walked over to a mirror hanging on one of the cave walls. Her non existent reflection saddened her. Gabriel's black dress brushed the clean cave floor. Had she not been cold herself, the floor would have sent shivers up her spine. "May I at least know the name of the man that plans to kill me?"

He did not mean to kill her? What was this? Some kind of sick joke? At least he honored her with his name, it would be rude not to do the same. "I am Gabriel. Well, that is what I was called so long ago." A sad sigh escaped her. She still breathed out of habit. While the veil was dark, she could still see through it clearly. "If you did not mean to kill me, then why are you here?"

The vampiress did as warned and backed up. The only weapon she had kept was a rapier, but that was mounted securely on the wall. She had no idea there were others in the cave. She had never seen them before and the girl had been living there for a long time now. Gabriel did not dare get in his way. If he had not come to kill her, she did not want to give him a reason to.

The giant man swung the hammer with both his hands. It hit stone, hard stone. Even with it's thickness and hardness, the wall burst forth breaking into another cave filled with stalagtites. Other walls of the massive cavern had been broken through similiarly, but each other one had caved in earlier. In the center of the massive cavern was a single coffin. A simple moon was cared on the front. "You have never been back here before." Paradox said simply. His feet moved forward, over the puddles of cave water to the coffin.

Paradox nodded solemnly. "People are always surprised by what is in the places that they never reach." He slowly walked over to the coffin. There was no grace in the way he moved. It was heavy, but somehow seemed unnatural to the giant. His hand, covered in metal and cloth grabbed one end of the coffin, flipping it off, so he could peer inside. Inside the coffin was a man that that could have passed for a young Dracula. In his heart was a rotted wooden stake that had been there for more than a decade. The clothing was all moth eaten, but the young man's skin was smooth and pale. Paradox grasped the rotting stake in one hand, and the new one in the other. "Will you try to stop me?" The giant asked the question as it reverberated around the cave.

The man nodded again. His voice was calm as always. "Good. He used to be like you. He used to be a vampire. But now. . ." He cut off his voice as he pulled out the stake that punctured the young man's heart. The man buckled and opened his eyes. His mouth uttered a cry, "MASTER!!! SAVE ME!!!" before the next stake was slammed into place, pinning the man back into the coffin. The man continued to breathe, but it gradually became slower and slower, until it stopped again. Red eyes closed as if going to sleep. "He remembers every second of every day." Paradox continued. "The stake is supposed to last a thousand years, but only lasts a hundred against such potent magic." Paradox finished. He tossed the rotted stake aside and began walking back to the entrance he had made.