Author's Note: I saw this and I loved it. So here is my take and my ideas. I also gave the Priest and Priestess' a name that way I don't confuse myself.
Disclaimer: I only own Cameron and his family. If you recognize it I don't own it.
"Daddy don't go please. Don't leave me with her." The ten year old girl cried as she hugged the man around the leg. Her white blonde hair was just touching her shoulders and tears were streaming down her face. The man knelt down and brushed the tears from her cheeks. The man looked at her with the same green-gold eyes ringed with cerulean blue.
"Klarissa everything will be fine." He said.
"But Daddy she doesn't like me." She whispered. The man kissed his daughter on the forehead.
"Keep your chin up and take care of her." He said as he left. Klarissa stood there and silently cried. That had been the last time she'd seen her father for nine years.
Klarissa jolted out of bed and struggled to catch her breath. She heard her brother crying. It had been nineteen years since her father had first left. He had come back briefly when she was nineteen. She had spent a year with him a twenty-eight to train and learn from him. Now twenty-nine she hadn't had that dream in years. She got out of bed to go comfort her brother. He needed to be quiet. She picked up the one year old and was soon rocking him back and forth. She hadn't liked her mother but she hadn't guessed her mother would purposely kill herself after having Joseph. That night had only been a year ago but it still stood out in her memory.
Klarissa opened her eyes from where she had been resting on the edge of her mother's hospital bed to find her gone. Joseph was fast asleep in his crib. Joseph not even two hours born had a shock of black hair. She walked out of the room and toward the door. The click of her heels echoing oddly off of the wood floors. Klarissa walked outside to see her mother standing on the outskirts of town. Klarissa grabbed a flashlight and walked toward her mother. She heard it then. Vampires. Klarissa barely had time to pull the silver dagger from pocket before the vampires killed her mother. Klarissa was about to turn around but they had caught sight of her. There was only two. They went toward her and her reflexes spoke for her. She took them down before she walked toward what was left of her mother. Klarissa growled. She stalked back inside of the hospital. Joseph was still fast asleep.
She sat down in the chair she had previously occupied. She'd have to go find her father. She needed to know more.
Klarissa was just setting Joseph down when she heard footsteps. She looked out the window and saw the sun was still high. Klarissa slept during the day while the rest slept at night. She looked up as Catherine walked in with her daughter on her hip. Catherine had honey blonde hair with green eyes. Catherine's daughter was two years old and adopted. Jenny, Catherine's daughter, was African America.
"Klarissa, Klarissa. Something is wrong." Catherine breathed as she hurried into Joseph's room.
"What's wrong Cathy?" Klarissa asked.
"There are Priests at the door." Catherine replied.
"Priests? No, they wouldn't bother to be out here." Klarissa said as she walked away and headed toward the door. She didn't bother to grab any of her weapons. She opened the door and her heart stopped.
"Daddy." She whispered as she hugged the first man she saw.
"Rissa you haven't changed a bit." He said as he pulled back.
"Come in." She said as she made way for her dad, the Priest, and the Priestess.
"Cameron is there something you forgot to mention?" The Priestess asked. Cameron had black hair that he wore short and the same eyes as Klarissa.
"Come now Rachel you've met her before." Cameron said.
"She was nineteen the last I saw of her." She said. Klarissa sat down and she took in the Priestess. She had black hair that was done in a braid and that braid was put into a bun. It clicked then. Before Klarissa could say anything else Jenny tottered over and climbed onto Klarissa's lap. Klarissa let the child rest her head on her while she looked at the group around her.
Catherine chose that moment to walk in with Joseph in her arms.
"Cameron." Catherine said as she set Joseph down. Joseph took two steps toward Cameron before he started to fall. Cameron was there to pick him up.
"This can't be good if you're here." Catherine said.
"You're right Cathy; I need Klarissa to come with me." He said. Klarissa was absently stroking Jenny's brown hair so she hadn't heard her father.
It had been pitch black. She hadn't expected to hear anything. She heard the familiar sound of her father's bike and looked out the window to see him there. She had been nineteen. She opened the door without a second thought. She hadn't noticed the woman with him until her father had broken her concentration.
"Klarissa behind you!" he yelled. Klarissa smoothly pulled the dagger from the holster on her leg and turned around in one movement. In the next she had cleaved the vampire in two. She went after the second one before the first's body had dropped to the ground. That one was murdered but before she could turn around her father was killing the final vampire. Cameron took one look at his daughter and the healing bruise on her cheek and looked away.
"She could be a Priestess." The Priestess said as she got off her bike.
"Let's talk about this inside." Klarissa said. Klarissa led them inside to see Catherine sitting on the floor. Catherine then fourteen looked up at Cameron. Cameron said nothing but settled onto a seat. The Priestess sat next to him.
"By the time she showed potential there was no need for Priests or Priestesses anymore." Cameron said. The Priestess nodded her head and they all turned around when someone shrieked and a bowl was thrown at Cameron.
"How dare you come into my house!" The woman shrieked.
"Michelle it isn't necessary to yell." Cameron said.
"You aren't welcome here." Michelle growled. She had white blonde hair and cerulean blue eyes.
"Klarissa are you listening to me?" Cameron asked. Klarissa jerked her head up to look at her father.
"Rissa you always were flighty." Cameron said with a smile. Klarissa looked at her father.
"We need you to come with us. We need all hands on deck." The Priestess said.
"Besides the more we have the better." The Priest said. He had spoken for the first time and Klarissa looked at him.
"Why?" Catherine asked.
"We're going after her." Cameron said.
"That's suicide." Klarissa said as she stood. The move displaced Jenny who Klarissa caught and set on the floor. Klarissa strode past the Priests and Priestess and opened the door. She said a handful of names but it didn't matter because then four animals walked in. A bobcat, a mountain lion, a black panther, and a wolf.
"Cathy I'm going to leave you with Bartholomew unless you want one of the others as well." Klarissa said.
"No, I'll be fine with him. You've taught me enough." Catherine said. Klarissa nodded and stoked the black panther's head.
"Bartholomew keep an eye on them and keep them safe." Klarissa whispered as she walked away. She walked into her room and Cameron followed her. She was pulling out her high heeled boots and other various gear. Her white blonde hair was pushed onto her right shoulder showing the skin of her neck. Cameron watched as she shimmed into leather pants and a long sleeved shirt. He watched as she not only strapped on the holster where her silver knife was kept but secured the stormedge glaive at the small of her back. She slid on her high heeled boots. She tapped the heels of both shoes on the floor twice and the silver blade slide out. He noticed that the heel itself was silver.
"You would have made a good Priestess I guess that's why you put that tattoo here." Cameron said as he traced the outline of the cross on the back of his daughter's neck.
"I learned from the best." She whispered as she turned around. She walked out of the room and her father followed after her.
"Do you even know where to look?" She asked.
"No. We're going to try multiple spots." The Priest replied. Klarissa nodded her head and stopped to give Joseph a quick kiss.
"Let's get this party started." Klarissa said with a smile as she strode through the door.
"Very excited isn't she?" The Priest asked Cameron. Cameron smiled.
"She's my daughter. She's always been special." He said. Klarissa smiled to herself. She walked toward the shed that held her bike. She walked out with it. She looked at Cameron who was shaking his head. Klarissa looked once more at the house before she put her goggles on and followed the Priests and Priestess away. She had no idea what would be coming though. Something that would make her question everything she'd ever known.
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