When Katrina realized the men she just beat up were gone, she hurriedly rushed to where the human alpha lay on the ground to pick him up. She understood that vampires needed blood to survive, hence the need to hunt for food. What she didn’t understand was why these four vampires had to beat this man to pulp. “They could have just sucked him dry instead. . .”, she thought to herself. “. . . they could have just easily done that. So why not? Why didn’t they?”, she continued with her thoughts, searching around with her eyes as if to find clue or answers scattered on the ground somewhere. There was nothing. Not even their scents were present anymore. She remembered when she used to go on missions like this, but this time the mission was different. It was to save a human, not to kill one. It proved difficult. She wasn’t used to saving things or people. She was a born killer. She killed her first pet. A rare, white bat her parents had gifted her on her seventh birthday. She h
She knew they would be back. The vampires. If they didn’t complete a kill, or whatever their mission they embarked on, they always came back with a swarm. They never moved alone. They move like a swarm of bats. Never alone. She wondered what they wanted to do with him and why they didn’t just feed off him. She was well aware vampires were involved in recent kidnappings due to their ability to move unnoticed and subtly, but this only occured with well planed strategies and fancy weapons and good cars and not this type of backstreet bullying. Whoever sent the men was either someone very influential who needed to trace him a lesson, or someone he had ratted out on. Someone who wasn’t very pleased with having him around anymore, but in the contrary, as she would later come to discover, it wasn’t either of the two scenarios she had made up in her head. It also dawned on her that the men didn’t have intentions of feeding off the man. They just wanted to give him a good beating
In the dawn that breaks without falling, before the dusk that rises with the bloodshot red emanating from all sides of the night sky, there was nothing comparable to the red in the eyes of the fangs lurking in the shadows. It was their strongest moments. The ones who saw through the blanket of nights that covered images in the darkest of skies where no normal human eyes could see. The blood suckers with fangs always as young and firm as their age in time. No one was too old to live and no one was too young to hunt. They hunted alike. Like the bats that crush down on insects at night, to the tiger tearing through the tears ripped on his prey by his teeth while on savage attack. The life force of all supernatural life forms, the vampires. The beings with the eternal ability to live through time and all they had to do was just to constantly renew their blood sacrifice by picking any young human they’d like to live in for the next five thousand years. It was also during this
His vision swam into blackness for a split second, but just long enough for his brain to register the pain that followed on each passing second of the fall. A few things registered in slow motion and he wondered vaguely if this was what dying felt like. If anyone would have told him he’d be dead by now, he’d tell them to get their facts right. Not only that. By the time that thought finished registering in his mind, he was flat on the cold concrete and his body gave out completely as darkness took over once more. No longer aware of the world, the pain, or anything else, he slipped into the welcoming arms of unconsciousness. And, as he finally succumbed to the numbness that seemed to pervade the world around him, he wished his life was better than getting beat up by men he didn’t know. It wasn’t about the pain. Or the lack thereof. Growing up, he’d been hit before—many times—and he knew how to handle himself better than most. It was the fact that he feared he wouldn’t live lo
“There had to be an explanation somewhere”, he thought, as Katrina looked at him with her head tilted a little to one side. He had never heard anyone speak like that before. Usually, everyone spoke with a certain confidence and authority in their voices, making him wonder why she felt the need to talk in such a soft, tender way. He didn’t like the idea at all. In fact, he thought it was pretty creepy. And he didn’t understand her at all. She certainly hadn’t acted like anyone else. What the hell did she want from him? She didn’t seem to be acting like anybody he’d ever known in his life – people, at least. He knew that humans weren’t exactly the best judges of character either. At least, he wasn’t sure about the human he’d known. All he knew was that he had never met anyone who didn’t seem to have some flaw. And if those flaws didn’t exist in the humans he knew, then they must also not exist in the other humans too. There was just nothing common about them at all. He tried har
On the night Katrina rescued the man that was being beat up, the men supernaturally escaped—amidst the fatal blows she dealt on them. The blood moon helped them regenerate and escape. They hurriedly returned back to the Vampire Queen, Sophia, whose original intention was for Tyler to be brought to her dead, so she resurrects him. . . and makes him indebted to her, leaving him the choice of being her mate. “We were attacked”, one of the men said, standing in a dark room with his other acolytes. The room had a few candles, none of which they lit. “We were knocked unconscious, and we could not summon you. We left, but we cannot get rid of the smell that lingers”. There wasn’t much to it, really—the smell was only in their minds. They were already vampires, which meant they couldn’t actually smell anything. It didn’t smell like blood. It smelled like... well, blood. And that was what kept them from turning into vampiric animals during the daytime, but there was no mistaking
Michael took a step forward but stopped himself. He couldn't touch her because he was a vampire. The urge to comfort her only intensified. He looked up into her eyes and tried desperately to find some hint that she was just trying to play him for an idiot. Something to show him that she wasn't as strong as she looked. But there was nothing. No anger. No sadness. Just tears. They fell onto his chest. He was unable to move. Unable to speak. Unable to make sense of what she was doing. His heart pounded in his ears. He couldn't breathe. It felt like she was squeezing the air out of him, physically holding him immobile until she chose to let go. But she didn't seem able to do it either. Her grip remained firm but she did not break eye contact with him. Neither one said anything. Only tears. A few moments later, her hand fell limply to her side as Michael continued looking at her. He waited patiently as she gathered herself once more. This time the tears were silent though. Her lips
Katrina couldn’t make much sense of the conversation, but she knew she had troubled a certain group of people. She knew they were vampires, but she didn’t realize she was in the presence of the Queen. She wasn’t sure what it meant, exactly. But as soon as she heard it, she felt her entire body grow cold, and she realized that she couldn’t stay. There were too many unknown variables. She couldn’t keep playing games against people who wanted to do bad things to humans, or maybe even worse. Katrina didn’t want to know any more about those people, so if they wanted to find her, they would just have to go through her. The only problem with it being dark was that she couldn’t see where she was going without activating her werewolf powers without alerting the vampires of the presence of another supernatural bring, or how far away from them she had to go before . Her hearing was good enough to tell that they were the only ones on the east side of town, so the alleyways shouldn’t be s