We return to the caravan. The two we left behind were still asleep, lazy asses. Since Rik died, courtesy of that elf freak, were down to four members. We got ourselves hired as caravan guards so we could steal the caravan. Everything went well until the stupid caravan master decided to take an elf with us. If it wasn't for my great intellect, we might have a problem. However I saw this as an opportunity to see her to some slaver, elf children go for a hefty sum.
When I get back I kick the two sleepers and yell at them for not guarding the loot, it was mainly furs with some elven provisions. We light a campfire, with the intent to cook some food.
"I have a bad feeling about this" Says Leis. He probably only feels this way because he watched his friend die
"You always have a bad feeling, so shut up" I say, quieting his complaints.
After sitting at the fire for an hour, after finishing our meal, I hear a sound from the nearby woods. I perk up and listen. Whatever it is, it's getting closer.
I draw my blade from my scabbard, I haven't had the time to clean it off so it still has a thin layer of blood, my companions react by drawing their own. We have not worked together for long, but they know that I wouldn't draw my blade like this for fun.
I can vaguely see a shadowy figure at the treeline, still out of reach of the fire light. It walks forward into the clearing. The small, humanoid figure mumbles something I cannot hear. It enters the light. Surprise. That's the word that would best describe our feelings. The freak, that I killed but an hour ago, is still alive, and on top of that her previously green hopeful eyes, hope that I wanted to tear away, has become lifeless.
"I guess she really is a freak" Leis mumbles beside me
"I don't know of any magic that would let her fake her death but no matter, we'll just have to kill her again"
I take up my stance to prepare for combat. Leis stands in front of me protecting me from attack. Normally if something like this would happen we would not care, we would just capture her again. However, the look in her eyes and the fact that she has already killed one of us makes us a bit more cautious.
The remain two charge directly at her. She doesn't move from the attack. Both their blades pierce each of her shoulders. Even after taking the two attacks she deems undaunted. Her eyes reflect no pain, no anger, just... nothing. She reaches out with each of her hand, each grasping one of the men's throats. And squeezes. Both men collapse, their swords still resting in she shoulders.
She makes a mad dash forward. Her eyes now revealing insanity. Leis manages to duck under the attack, his fear prominently shown on his face. He dodged, I couldn't. I had my stance prepared however. When she entered my range, I slice my blade in a horizontal strike. If I had experience more combat, or if I trained harder, or if I wasn't so scared at the moment, I might have killed her. But I was to early. The tip of my blade cut through her chest... but not deep. The cut was long, but not threateningly so. The elf, who was barely five feet tall, knocked my to the ground when she rammed me. She was sitting on my chest. Arms pinned. I was powerless as she leaned down and opened her mouth.
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Fangs that's what I saw, fangs. She bit down on my neck, tearing a chunk off. The last thought I had before my life faded to black was: she is drinking my blood, she is a vampire.
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Inside the large office, behind a sturdy oak desk, sat a burly man. His steel gauntlets clinked with every movement. As he read over the document he spared a glance at his assistant in the room
"Interesting" the man thinks out loud
"What is it sir?" his assistant asks
"It appears some fool in a village on the outskirts thinks he saw a vampire, tell my why he would be wrong?"
"Well if it was a vampire then he would be dead would he not?" the assistant answers, used to this kind of quizzing
"That's true, but it said here that a child, the supposed vampire, was able to cross the room in a blink of an eye. Can you explain that?" the man bounces back
"If a person is able to cross that distance it means that they would be a powerful individual probable in the realm of A or greater. Since you said it was a child, assuming that they are a S rank, in any form, would be an exaggeration. But if they truly could cross the room like that then anything below a B would be underestimating them" the assistant finishes his answer
"This is true enough. So we have to assume that, whoever this individual is, is talented correct?"
"I believe so sir"
"Alright send a team out to that village to investigate, we should find this person and recruit them into our ranks. Send a low ranking team so even if, for whatever reason, it is a real vampire, our losses will be irrelevant"
"Yes sir, please excuse me" the assistant leaves the room after bowing his head
He's a good kid, the man think to himself. Good thing I recruited him when I did, he has the potential to succeed me in my position.
The man pulls out his axe, which was resting on his lap, and cleans the blade with a rag.
"Shhhhh it's ok baby, I know it been a while but you will be able to feast soon, there's rumor about a gathering of vampires, not something we can crash, but it means that the ball might start rolling. We will kill the vampire queen together and you can have your meal" the man says affectionately as he cleans the blade.
Oh yes, things will get much more interesting from here. It's almost time for the Shadow Hunters to return to action.
AN - These chapters still aren't long enough, i'll be working on that for next one. I wrote this chapter in RoyalRoad and for whatever reason I occasionally got a red error line in places I couldn't remove it, for example at the end of the first part "The last thought I had" the I is red underlined, originally I didn't caps lock it so it was an error but even after I corrected it all letters following it(spaces included) were underlined, so if you know why that happened please let me know. Also let me know of any grammatical errors and leave a comment about what you think. Thanks.