I've Turned Into A Fox Girl?

The other hooded vampires all stood back, staring at me with fear. Even Alice looked terrified of me, but she still gripped onto me from behind, not wanting to get in my way. 

"Looks like I get to choose!" Using the blood ball, I formed it into a solid blood spear and threw it towards the crowd of vampires. Most jumped away in time, but one unfortunate sucker got skewered right through the chest. 

The spear then burst into vampiric flames, incinerating the vampire down to his life essence. It was at this point that the vampires realised I was actually the intruder. 

"Someone report to Alucard!" 

"Oh no you don't." I raised up a wall of flames as high as the roof, trapping everyone with me. Keeping this wall up took a big chunk of my mana, but as long as I keep absorbing more life essence it shouldn't be a problem.

"Stay and play for a while!" Dashing forward, I aimed for the few vampires that tried to leave. With my bare hands, I grabbed them by the back of the head and smashed them into the ground, killing them instantly. 

'I thought these guys were meant to be strong.' I couldn't help but feel like these guys were extremely weak. Hell, they were yet to even throw a single attack or use any of their inherent abilities. 

"Die bitch!" Just as I thought they were not going to attack at all, one came swinging at me with a dagger made out of blood. Spinning on my feet while extracting the blood of the two I just killed, I formed a sword and sliced that vampire's neck.

The rest of the vampires came charging at me with an array of weapons as some kind of last ditch effort. Taking advantage of my firewall, I caved it in to make it fall right on top of the group of vampires to wipe them out. 

"WAIT ELYSIA THIS IS BAIT, WE NEED TO LEAVE." As soon as Alice spoke, the entire grand hall began to shake until the roof blasted open. My flames still engulfed the group of vampires replenishing my energy, but now there was a new threat. 

"Oh, my dear Alice, what are you doing with the traitor?" Their words were cold and menacing, every word was laced with malice. 

"A-Alucard." Alice's voice trembled as she saw the very man that we wanted to avoid descend. 

'We can't be wasting time here.' I wasn't about to let him do his villain speech, so I grabbed Alice around the waist and began to fly through the air. I wasn't confident at all with my flying skills, but it was the fastest form of travel right now. 

Flying through the grand hall's door, I raised a firewall behind me, hoping that it would slow down Alucard.

Swiftly going through the windy halls, I used the walls as boards to push myself off of. It wasn't the smoothest process and I almost ended up crashing into the walls, but thankfully these halls were quite wide. 

"Are you crazy Elysia? AHHH!!" Alice, whom I was carrying over my shoulder, screamed in fear every time we approached a turn. She found it insane that I was flying through the hallways, but we didn't have much of a choice. 

I could feel how powerful Alucard was just by standing in front of him and there was no way I could fight him now. 

"Where do you think you're going?" Hearing Alucard's voice so clearly in my ear, I turned my head to see where he was, but no one was there. Just then, the wall to my left caved in and Alucard's hand appeared right in front of my face. 

Leaning back mid-air, I barely dodged Alucard's hand and almost dropped Alice in the process. 

"DON'T DROP ME!!" Alice held on for dear life so as not to be launched off. Even though she could fly herself, I didn't want to risk being separated and there was no telling what Allucard will do to Alice if she was caught. 

"I'm trying not to!!" I turned down the next closest hall, hoping to have put some distance between me and Alucard, but I couldn't be more wrong. Instead of trying to match my path the bastard just smashed through the walls, his speed completely unaffected. 

I tried to raise firewalls behind me, but they had no effect on Alucard. 

"TURN RIGHT!" Alice yelled a direction and I blindly trusted her. Taking my next right, we were suddenly met with the door to the church's front hall. My life essence reserves wouldn't last much longer, so I made one last gamble, covering the entire hallway with my flames, desperately hoping it would have some kind of effect. 

Rushing through the door, I finally locked sight with the exit, but there was a wall of vampires blocking it. 

"Shit! This is where the others were." Alice recognised the vampires this time meaning these guys were actually strong. 

"Well, well, well, it looks like we caught the little rat." Alucard came walking through the flames with ease while clapping his hands. It was frustrating to see him not be affected by it, but there had to be some kind of trick to it. 

"Now, intruder, how about you tell us who you are and why you possess the same abilities as me?" Alucard stood tall, awaiting my answer, which I didn't even have. I took this chance to look for any new skills I acquired from Alice, hoping she had something that would allow me to escape. 

[Blood mist] 

Transform the user and companions into a blood mist, allowing you to pass through small gaps undetected. WARNING! Consecutive uses may cause unknown side effects for the user!

'Perfect.' Pulling Alice in close in front of me, I activated the skill, turning Alcie and me into a blood mist. It was an extremely weird sensation, as I still had my full vision, but I couldn't see my own body. I noticed that Alucard looked extremely pissed off at me. I was still visible due to the slight red haze in the air, but I was untouchable until I deactivated it. 

'I should try to get as close as I can to the circle.' Turning to the wall of vampires, I floated right through them and the door behind them. Now that I was on the sky bridges, I quickly made my way to the transportation circle. However, due to how slow this form was, Alucard instantly made his way there, ready for me. 

'How the hell am I going to get past this?' I didn't know if it would be possible to activate the circle in this form, but a detail I noticed was that he wasn't standing on it. I would be able to easily hover over it and deactivate blood mist, but then I needed to activate the circle. 

'I just need to pray that I can activate the circle quickly enough.' It was odd that Alucard wasn't standing on it, so I wondered if there was some kind of barrier preventing him. 

As I flew right past him, he turned to face the circle, just waiting for me to come out of my skill. 

'Please, please, work.' Mentally preparing myself, I positioned myself close to the ground hoping to activate the teleportation circle as quickly as possible. 

Undoing the skill, both mine and Alice's bodies materialised in the middle of the circle. Since I was essentially hugging Alice, that ended up with me pinning her to the ground, but there was no time to worry about how we were positioned! 

"Finally!" Alucard created a solid blood rapier and tried to stab toward us, but was stopped dead in his tracts. There was a clear barrier, which when struck, gave a slight rainbow hue. 

"Hurry up!" As I poured my mana into the magic circle, it glowed brightly and began the teleportation. 

"NOOO!!!" Alucard continued to hit the barrier and, surprisingly, it began to crack. Bright white cracks appeared, progressively getting bigger until it finally shattered, but it was too late. 

The circle activated, teleporting me and Alice to the entrance of the dungeon.

"Thank fuck for whatever divine being decided to put a barrier around the teleporter to stop dungeon beings from escaping." It was the only logical reason I could think of as to why that barrier was there. There were zero cases of monsters breaking out of the dungeons, so there must be conditions in place to prevent monsters from leaving. 

"Shouldn't we move? Didn't he break the barrier?" 

"Ah shit! You're right!" I was so focused on trying to get the teleportation circle to activate that I didn't realise Alucard had broken the barrier. 

Standing up from the ground, I helped Alice up and we sprinted for the exit. I was a little worried that Alice would not be able to go through the exit, but I kept optimistic since she already made it through the first barrier. 

As we reached the dungeon entrance, a bright red light emanated from behind us, meaning the circle was activated again. Neither me nor Alice dared to turn around as we ran through the dungeon doors. I braced myself to see Alice be completely rejected, but to my relief, she came up the stairs with no issues. 

A few moments later Alucard smashed right into the dungeon doors but was completely halted by the same barrier. This time however, he had little chance to break out as the doors began to close on their own, perhaps as some kind of self-defence mechanism. 

"You will pay for this intruder! You and the traitor will face a fate worse than death!" Alucard yelled at the top of his lungs with rage as the doors closed behind us. If stares could kill we would both already be six feet under. 

With a final click, the doors shut close and we were officially safe and out of the dungeon.