02x02 - Angel of Death

[bunniefuu]

[Drolta] Daughter of the Sun.

She of great beauty and hope.

I pledge to deliver
healing and justice to your people.

[mysterious music playing]

Give me the strength to serve them

in your name,

beloved Sekhmet.

But what if I am too weak?

Not brave enough?

We're so few and so tired.

For every suffering, a wisdom is gained.

{\an8}- [wind gusting]
- [sand rasping]

{\an8}[indistinct conversations]

Drink it all up and get lots of sleep.

[girl giggles]

[woman screams]

[gasps]

[footsteps approaching]

[woman gasping weakly]

[gasps]

[men grunting]

[people screaming]

- [blades slashing]
- [women screaming]

[grunts]

[music fades]

[groans weakly]

[groans]

[ominous music playing]

[groans]

[dramatic sting]

[Drolta gasps]

[gasps]

[gasps]

[sobbing]

[music fades]

- [wind gusting]
- [sand rasping]

[gasps]

[dramatic sting]

[gasps, whimpers]

[sobbing]

[gasps]

Show me how to be stronger,

Daughter of the Sun.

Tell me what I must do, and I will do it.

- [metal clanking]
- [ominous music plays]

[vampire munching, snorting]

[gasps]

- [eerie music plays]
- [snarling]

[exhales, grunts]

[groans]

[vampire wheezes, chuckles]

You should have run.

[suspenseful music plays]

- [Drolta groans]
- [snarls]

[grunts]

[grunts]

[screams in pain]

[Drolta groans]

[groans, gasps]

[both straining]

[mysterious music plays]

- [grunts]
- [vampire groans]

- [vampire groans]
- [grunts]

[Drolta grunts]

- [squelches]
- [screams]

[panting]

[vampire groaning]

[Drolta] I prayed to be made stronger,

and she sent you.

[vampire grunts, laughs]

Do you think you can
make yourself a vampire?

You're not strong enough.

You're a feeble woman
serving a feeble goddess.

[shudders]

A goddess merely of healing.

Sekhmet isn't only a goddess of healing.

[groans]

{\an8}She is also a goddess of w*r.

[eerie music building]

[blade clangs]

[music fades]

[head thuds]

[mysterious music plays]

For every suffering,

a wisdom is gained.

- [groaning]
- [eerie music plays]

[retching]

- [groans, gasps]
- [blood gurgling]

[whimpers, screams]

[pants]

[gasps, grunts]

[gurgling continues]

[panting]

[music intensifies]

[moans, chuckles]

[music swells]

[music fades]

[theme music plays]

[music fades]

[birds chirping]

{\an8}[Richter] So the mummy
was stolen by thieves,

{\an8}tomb robbers, bandits,

{\an8}and disappeared into the desert.

{\an8}Why would anyone steal a corpse?

{\an8}I thought they might have dumped
it in the river

{\an8}because they had no use for it.

{\an8}Drolta thought so too,
that perhaps it was lost forever.

{\an8}But you were able to pick up its trail.

{\an8}Turns out all sorts of people
will pay for an ancient corpse,

{\an8}buy it and sell it on,

{\an8}with no idea what it really is

{\an8}and the extraordinary power it contains.

[gasps]

{\an8}[Richter] Oh, sh*t.

{\an8}[ominous music plays]

[fire burning]

[Richter panting]

{\an8}[Richter] Juste!

{\an8}Juste!

You normally interrupt someone
when they're taking their steed to water?

[Alucard] Do you normally piss
in the lake you drink from?

Alucard.

This doesn't bode well.

There was an eclipse.

We know.

f*cking vampires everywhere.

Never seen one before, an eclipse.

But this one was magic anyway, wasn't it?

Erzsebet Bathory, the Vampire Messiah.

She can turn day to night.

Oh.

So, what will it take to k*ll her?

[dramatic music plays]

[stone crumbles]

[water splashing]

[Erzsebet chuckling happily]

Delightful.

[tense music playing]

You feel nothing from the sunlight at all.

It is pleasant.

This eclipse tired you more
than the ones before.

[chuckles dryly]

I never tire of vengeance.

{\an8}And I will have my vengeance
on the son of Dracula.

[Drolta] Mm.

Who right now is leading us
to Sekhmet's missing soul.

[eerie string music plays]

[music fades]

[chuckles]

Why don't I come to Paris with you?

Erzsebet is still in Machecoul,

and Maria will need you
to talk her out of doing something stupid.

Well, if she won't listen to you,
what chance do I have?

I'm frankly not very good
with teenage girls.

Now's your chance to do better then.

Maria needs you, Juste,
and you owe it to Tera.

And, well, you're--

I know. I'm a Belmont.

Are all Belmonts like this?

Irritating? Oh, yes.

To be honest, it's years
since I had much to do with them.

Richter, we need to go.

But if I can't stop Erzsebet,
I'll need a Belmont to finish the job.

Or a revolutionary witch, of course.

[grunts]

What happens if we get to Paris,
and the mummy doesn't hold any power,

and it's just some old corpse
that was stolen hundreds of years ago?

Then at least it's no use
to Erzsebet either.

[ominous music playing]

[vampire] Mm.

- [music fades]
- [indistinct conversations]

- [footsteps passing]
- [gasps]

I can't believe it.

I've known these people all my life.

[growls]

[magic hums, stops]

God bless you, brother.

You don't still believe in your god?

Of course I do.

[people clamoring]

[Maria] I tried to warn them,

but the captain of the National Guard
is an insufferable, ignorant sow.

[Mizrak chuckles]

[ominous music plays]

If you want the supplies from your house,
we need to move fast.

[ominous music continues]

[music fades]

[ominous music plays]

[gasps]

[gasps]

[eerie sting]

[gasps]

Don't be afraid.

Richter says you're not my mother anymore.

- What do you think?
- [gasps]

When she made you a vampire,

did it hurt?

I was protecting you.

Saving you from this fate.

That's all I cared about.

And what's it like now?

In ways, the world seems brighter.

In others, impossibly dark.

{\an8}It's strange to think
that I will live forever.

{\an8}[chuckles dryly] Unless someone kills me.

[unsettling sting]

Remember when you were small?

You used to ask to listen to my heart
and lay your head on my chest.

[heart beating]

Now I can hear your heartbeat from here.

[ominous music continues]

[gasps]

[snarls]

[Mizrak] Run!

[Mizrak grunting]

No!

Stop!

She's a vampire, Maria. Nothing more.

She cannot love.

Don't trust her.

Five minutes ago,
you were making night creatures.

- [grunts uncertainly]
- Why should I trust you?

[Mizrak grunts uncertainly]

[music fades]

[wind blowing]

[sighs]

[church bell tolling]

[Juste] Forgive me, Lydie.

I haven't brought any flowers.

[shudders]

But that's not why I'm here.

I have to rejoin the fight.

[somber, ethereal music plays]

[kisses]

I can't hide away anymore.

Perhaps this time,

evil doesn't have to win.

[music fades]

[footsteps approaching]

[Alucard] The river will take us
much of the way from here.

We won't be stopping,
so if you need provisions, get them now.

Keep out of sight.
For sure, we're being followed.

I'm always being bloody followed.

Will you turn the tables on them,

surprise them and take them out
with your flying sword thing?

I'm going to find a boat.

[stifles laughter]

I'll hunt, you gather.

I mean, you can hunt too.

I'll find some mushrooms.

- What are you going to hunt?
- [Richter] Rabbits.

- [Annette laughs]
- [chuckles]

You actually have to be careful
with mushrooms, you know.

I-- I promise I won't poison you.

[ominous music plays]

[music intensifies]

[Erzsebet] Ah, my dragon.

Look, she has returned.

[Olrox] Hmm.

A miracle.

Magnificent.

Where have you been?

[Olrox] Reconnaissance.

Given our new enemies,

I thought it best
to scout the countryside.

What did you find?

Did you find Alucard?

[Olrox] Not yet.

- [Drolta] Or the Belmont?
- He's disappeared.

The witches?

{\an8}Not even the little warrior monk
who turned against us?

I didn't even bother looking for him.

I thought it might amuse you

that the Revolutionary Army
has arrived in Machecoul.

Soldiers armed, trained,
but not many of them.

Oh, good.

We need more corpses for the machine.

I'll see to it.

[Drolta] Why wait until nightfall?

[dramatic music plays]

[wings beating]

It'll be much more fun
hunting in the sunshine.

- [eerie music rises, fades]
- [wings beating]

Caught any rabbits yet?

You had the easy job.

Mushrooms can't run away.

[Richter chuckles softly]

[ominous music plays]

What is it?

[Annette] Nothing.

[Richter] Are you thinking about Edouard?

We underestimated them.

Of course we didn't know
about the eclipse.

And I've got the measure of them now.

Next time, we won't run.

[chuckles dryly]

Fighting evil.

It was never going to be
sunshine and flowers.

[groaning]

[gasps]

- [groans]
- [music fades]

[gasps]

Though, I suppose it is quite pretty here.

I'll go get those rabbits then, shall I?

Okay.

- [flies buzzing]
- [mournful string music plays]

[Alucard] I wish
there was time to bury you,

but there's no time.

I'm sorry.

Not a moment to lose.

[quick footsteps approaching]

[suspenseful music plays]

[snarling]

Ugh.

[vampire grunts]

- [clangs]
- [Richter grunts]

[whooshing]

- [eerie music plays]
- [chuckles]

You want to give that back.

[grunts]

Fire it is.

- [footsteps approaching]
- [gasps]

[both grunting]

[vampire] Ah.

[vampire grunts]

[Richter grunts]

[dramatic music playing]

- [g*n fires]
- [gasps]

[grunts]

[groans in pain]

- I would have dodged that.
- Is "thank you" so hard?

- [vampire yelling]
- [chain rattling]

[grunts]

[grunts in surprise]

- [Richter chuckles]
- [gasps]

[grunts in surprise]

[screaming]

You get the small one.

[dramatic music playing]

[groans]

- [arms rip]
- [grunts]

[both grunting]

[yells]

[grunts, groans]

[music continues]

[gasps]

[growls, grunts]

Thank you.

[grunts in surprise]

[ominous music plays]

I hope the vampires in Paris are better
than this bunch of blood wankers.

[chuckles]

- [screeching]
- [grunts in surprise]

- Richter!
- [vampire yelling]

[suspenseful music rising]

- [Richter grunts]
- [whip cracks]

[Annette] But the little one's escaped.

[music fades]

"I hope the vampires in Paris
are better than these."

Great. Now they know where we are going.

Yes, I know. Sorry.

I suppose we have to tell Alucard.

Let's not. It probably won't matter.

And I don't want to give him
another excuse for that,

"Oh, you children" look he does.

- [water splashing]
- [mysterious music plays]

Might want to explain
why you didn't catch any rabbits, though.

[music fades]

- [whooshing overhead]
- [gasps]

[crows cawing]

[unsettling music plays]

[Mizrak gasps]

[music becomes ominous]

- [dramatic music plays]
- [man] Down with the revolution!

- [horse neighs]
- [g*n fires]

[panting]

[man 1] Traitors!

[man 2] Death to the revolutionaries!

Curse the uprising!

We are here to protect you.

[tense music rising]

- [grunts]
- [groans]

- Take ten paces back. I'm warning you.
- [wings beat]

- [people clamoring]
- [ominous music playing]

[wings beat]

[gasps] Keep formation!

[eerie music playing]

[shots ricochet]

[panting]

[men screaming in distance]

[man] Death to the revolution!

[g*ns firing]

[man] She's here!

[blood squelching]

[dramatic music plays]

[panting]

[gasps, whimpers]

[whimpers]

[muffled scream]

This abomination is your Abbot's work.

[eerie music plays]

[strangled groans]

- You can't stop this, Mizrak.
- [groaning weakly]

- [people screaming]
- [blade rasps]

[grunts]

[ominous music plays]

[female captain whimpering]

[shudders, whimpers]

[sobbing quietly]

She'll k*ll you,
and that will be the end of it.

[Mizrak shuddering]

[Mizrak sobbing]

[female captain straining]

For every suffering,

a wisdom is gained.

[choking]

You should have run.

- [man] Execute them!
- [suspenseful music rising]

[choking]

[music swells]

- [blood squelches]
- [music ends]

[somber string music plays]

[unsettling music plays]

[music fades]