02x06 - Ancestors

[bunniefuu]

[eerie music plays]

[barking]

[music ends]

[Maria panting]

[gentle music plays]

[Mizrak grunts]

[Juste] You have to want it.

You have to want to put your magic right.

I don't know how.

Start with what's in here.

[Maria gasps]

- [dramatic sting]
- [shudders]

- [dramatic sting]
- [sighs]

I know loss.

I know what it's like to fight your way
back to yourself.

Richter reminded me of what I'm a part of.

What brings my magic to life.

I'm not part of anything anymore.

[sighs]

[gasps softly]

We're family.

Even if you don't carry the Belmont name.

[sighs]

[gentle music continues]

[pleasant, ethereal music plays]

- [whip cracking]
- [Richter grunting]

[chuckles]

[grunts]

[bird caws]

[Richter gasping]

[Tera chuckles]

[Tera laughing]

[giggling]

- [music intensifies]
- [magic humming]

[snarls loudly]

- Maria.
- [Maria] Wait.

[creature snarling gently]

[gentle, ethereal music playing]

[Maria gasps softly]

[magic whooshing]

[creature grunts]

[both grunt in surprise]

- [gasps]
- [creature bellows gently]

[gasps]

[Maria shudders]

- [creature purrs]
- [Maria sighs in relief]

[Maria shudders, sighs]

[music fades]

[theme music plays]

[music fades]

[indistinct conversations]

Robespierre called for all citizens
to join battalions in their neighborhoods.

Legions of volunteers
are taking positions around the city.

Do you think they're ready
for what's coming?

An impassioned speech can make
even the weakest man believe he's brave.

[clears throat]

So, I know things didn't work out
at the Louvre,

but maybe all isn't lost.

I have a plan,
and I think it's going to work.

[tense music playing]

If we work together.

[tense music continues]

This will do.

[door closes]

[music fades]

My soul might be away
from my body for a while.

Just in case.

[somber, mysterious music plays]

Cecile always warns that our souls
mustn't get lost in the spirit world.

What happens if they do?

I will never wake up.

[gasps]

[Richter] We'll both be here.

Don't be afraid.

Maybe it'll help you find your way back.

[inhales deeply]

Papa Legba.

[recites incantation in Creole]

Papa Legba.

[recites incantation in Creole]

Papa Legba.

- [magic hums]
- [recites incantation in Creole]

Papa Legba.

[whooshing]

[recites incantation in Creole]

Papa Legba.

[mysterious music playing]

[recites incantation in Creole]

[Richter] Annette?

Can you hear me?

[door clicks, creaks]

[music fading]

[door creaks]

I'll be here.

Remember, I'm here.

[water sloshes]

[mysterious, ethereal music plays]

Your ancestral home is a vast landscape.

Where are all the spirits?

[Cecile] They are here.

[whooshing]

Listen to the wind.

The rustling leaves.

The flowing waters.

Look beyond what your eyes
think they can see.

The specks of light are souls.

[music intensifies]

I see them.

[music continues]

They have been waiting for you.

[music fading]

I've seen her take down night creatures
and vampires in one move.

She can handle herself.

But the spirit world
is a different b*ttlefield.

You want to go after her?

- Do you think there's a way I could?
- No.

You weren't born worshiping her gods
or using their powers.

You'd just probably get in her way.

I'm not as useless as you think I am.

I never said "useless."

Sometimes careless.

Oh, excuse me for not having 300 years
to perfect the art of w*r.

[Alucard chuckling softly]

What?

Nine generations later, and sarcasm
still runs in the Belmont blood.

Trevor would be proud.

I don't need
some distant relative's pride.

My mother would be happy with who I am.

[gentle music playing]

[Alucard] Your mother and I never met.

But when you've lived as long as I have,
you start to understand.

We're all part of the same story somehow.

And these connections

run very deep.

[pleasant, ethereal music playing]

[shudders, sighs]

[sighs]

[Annette, softly] ♪ In the night ♪

♪ Your mother's Iwa ♪

♪ Is unchained ♪

My sweet baby girl.

I miss you, Mom.

Why don't you come to me
like the others do?

Because I left you
with everything that you need.

Look at the woman warrior
you are becoming.

[metal clangs in distance]

[clanging continues slowly]

Go to Ogun, deep in the forest.

He has lived long before us.

He's seen the creation of Earth
and other spiritual realms.

He will guide you to Sekhmet.

Aren't you coming?

I have been blessed
to be your teacher for three years.

But you are called to a higher mission
that requires a god's wisdom.

[clanging continues]

I'm fighting a vampire
with the souls of a god.

I don't know if I can win.

Erzsebet is already winning
if you doubt your power.

[clanging continues]

[kisses]

[dramatic, ethereal music plays]

[clanging continues]

[music fading]

[Alucard] Rest.

I'll take the first night's watch.

I'm fine.

You can't keep your promise to protect her
if you're too tired to fight.

I'll watch over you both until morning.

Night and day are much the same to me,

thanks to my lineage.

Would you change it if you could?

Being Dracula's son.

- [Alucard breathes deeply]
- [melancholy piano music plays]

Everything is connected, Richter.

I can't remove one name from my story
without erasing others.

Like your mother?

[Alucard] When I was traveling in Japan,

I learned that family
is not only made by blood.

Ancestors and their offspring
are linked together by a shared bond.

[exhales softly]

For centuries,
I've been fighting to save humanity

with a Belmont by my side.

Isn't that a family too?

[snoring]

[snorts, continues snoring]

[Richter exhales]

[Alucard chuckles softly]

[Richter continues snoring]

[ominous music plays]

[metal clangs]

- [dramatic, ethereal music plays]
- [metal clangs]

[Ogun] When the orishas made
their first journey to Earth,

their path was obstructed
by dense shrubbery.

But I had a machete.

From that point on,

I became known
as the Remover of Obstacles.

Iron, my material.

The machete, my symbol.

[clang echoes]

Your father built an altar to me,

and Vaublanc k*lled him for it.

So your mother sang oríkì in secret.

Your lullaby is a praise poem.

Erzsebet has the ka and ba of Sekhmet.

[whooshes]

[Ogun] Old gods everywhere
are being forgotten

or misused by worshipers...

- By priestesses, by vampires.
- [clangs softly]

Corrupted souls
are causing chaos across the realms.

[eerie music playing]

Does a third soul exist? Is that true?

It is called the akh.

The Egyptians believe it to be
the good soul.

A vital force. A radiant light.

I've only seen Sekhmet's
bloodthirsty destruction.

[Ogun] But she is also
the goddess of healing.

She was a just ruler
when she was in the human world.

Hmm. I made this for you.

[metal clangs]

Good souls that balance
on the scales of justice

are sent to their resting place
in the land of the dead.

- Duat. That's where you must go.
- [heroic musical sting]

Can you take me there?

[Ogun] Hmm.

Gods do not cross
into one another's realm.

Bow your head.

[dramatic music plays]

[Ogun reciting incantation in Yoruba]

[magic humming, whooshing]

A god's blessing.

Sing the new oríkì on your journey.

It will fortify your courage.

[whooshing]

When the river of night
turns to liquid fire,

you will be close to Sekhmet.

[dramatic music building]

[crescendos, fades]

[gasping softly]

- [gasps]
- [dramatic sting]

[gasping softly]

[tense music plays]

She's been doing that for hours.

Why didn't you wake me?

What were you going to do?

[eerie music plays]

You should tell her.

Tell her what?

- I'm pretty sure she loves you too.
- [gasps]

[clears throat]

Oh. Did she... say something?

Yes. Yes, she confessed it

when we were braiding each other's hair
and talking about you.

Funny.

[chuckles softly]

[melancholy music plays]

She laughs at your jokes.

She debates your ideas.

She understands what you have lost.

You should tell her.

Preferably before you get old.

What are the chances we'll live that long?

You must have been in love.

Over all that time.

Countless times.

Show her who you are
beyond the Belmont bravado.

You said you'd be here.

Make her feel it's true.

That she can always come back to you.

[ominous music plays]

[ominous clacking and whooshing]

[haunting music plays]

[dramatic music plays]

[night creature snarling]

[crow cawing]

Is this the mission you envisioned
for your army, captain?

[dramatic music building]

[music crescendos]

[sinister choral music plays]

[music becomes suspenseful]

[chorus singing dramatically]

[squelches]

Goddess.

Return.

[eerie music building]

Stronger than ever before.

[orbs warbling]

[music fades]

[light, suspenseful music plays]

[water sloshes]

[gasps]

[magic humming]

- [water sloshes]
- [gasps]

[eerie music building]

- [screams]
- [thud]

[grunts]

- [orbs pulsating rapidly]
- [dramatic music playing]

- [screams]
- [roars]

[suspenseful music plays]

[snarls]

[chomps]

[screams, whimpers]

[monster bellowing]

- [sizzling]
- [Annette grunts]

[monster snarling]

[screams]

[eerie, suspenseful music playing]

[gasps]

[grunting]

- [grunts]
- I'm here.

- [straining]
- I'm here. You can do this.

[grunts fearfully]

[suspenseful music plays]

[ominous music plays]

[magic hums]

[whooshes, clangs]

- [monster shrieking]
- [dramatic music playing]

[magic jingles, whooshes]

[dramatic choral music plays]

[gasps]

[music fades]

[Richter gasps]

[mysterious music plays]

[monster bellowing faintly]

[suspenseful music plays]

[low rumble]

[dramatic music playing]

[water sloshing]

[music fading]

[ominous music plays]

[woman whimpering]

[dramatic sting]

[woman shudders]

[woman sobs]

[woman continues shuddering]

[metal clangs softly]

[dramatic sting]

I know why the scales are out of balance.

Your high priestess,
Drolta, has betrayed you.

She desecrated your tomb and mummy.

Fed your ba and ka to a murderous vampire.

She plans to use your power
to bring an eternal eclipse.

Then the devourer of souls
will drag me into the liquid fire

as punishment for the chaos in your world.

- [gasping]
- [eerie, dramatic music plays]

Please. [gasps]

I-- I need your help.

You used to live among us, didn't you?

Until humanity found ways
to betray their gods

as much as they do each other.

[gasps] Don't you want
to reunite your souls?

Balance the scales?
Go back to being at peace?

I am no safer with you
than I am down here with that.

Aren't you?

[snarls]

[dramatic music playing]

My soul will need a worthy vessel.

[snarls]

[monster charging]

[roars]

[shrieks]

[dramatic choral music playing]

- [bones cracking]
- [Erzsebet grunting]

- [squelching]
- [bones cracking]

- [music crescendos]
- [shrieks]

[music fading]

[ominous music plays]

[metal jingling]

[dramatic sting]

- [rustling]
- [metal continues jingling]

[wind whistling]

[bird screeches]

[ominous music continues]

[ominous sting]

[mysterious music plays]

[gasps softly]

Annette?

[Richter gasps]

[mysterious sting]

Annette, you've come back.

Did you find it?

Did you find Sekhmet's third soul?

[dramatic sting]

[eerie music plays]

- [dramatic sting]
- [grunts]

[dramatic music plays]

[whooshing]

[eerie music plays]

Annette?

Where is she?

Where is this Erzsebet?

[dramatic music plays]

[shrieks]

[bats screeching]

[music building]

[music crescendos, fades]

[gentle string music plays]

[music ends]