Author's Note: This is set after the wild powers, the prophecy did not come true and Evil still remains. This is a story about a half breed witch tainted with vampire blood. Read and please review.

'Oh god No! Please, just let us go.'

A woman cowered in a corner, glowing with an amber light with tears cascading down her face. She was beautiful but very weak and delicate, drained of power and helpless.

'And face his wrath? I think not witch. I would rather murder the innocent to save my own life, than let an insignificant thing such as morals prevent me.'

The blond man twisted his handsome face into a fierce glare and fixed his eyes on the young woman trembling in front of him. She was so beautiful, the only good thing in his life, did he really want to take that away. His life would have no meaning without her he loved her he wanted to protect her, he. No. She must die. It was exactly as his master had commanded and she was making him weak. She ruined his chanced of becoming what he was destined to be, he was a fighter not a lover. And yet, could he really kill her? He bent down to caress her face but she recoiled from him; shrinking into herself away from his touch. He straightened and softened his face. He loved her so much but what was he to do? He had been given orders to kill her and he could not disobey.

'I'm sorry,' he whispered quietly, 'I have no choice.'

'There is always a choice Alex. Don't give up on me, on us, on your daughter.'

She was scared that all his training would overcome him, but maybe, just maybe she could persuade him to let her live. Destria knew that she could never be with him even though she loved him more than her life, his training kept them apart, and they would never learn to accept each other. But even though she had lost him, she wouldn't loose her child.

'Daughter? How do you know? It doesn't matter the child will not live be it boy or girl. I have to kill you now. I'm sorry, I love you but we can never be together.'

He abandoned all thought and feeling, he was a vampire, a killer and nothing was going to stand in the way. She was the enemy, and she must die. He had been trained as a ninja, an assassin. He would carry out what he came here to do and give no thought to feeling and sentiment.

'I did a spell. It will be a girl. Please Alex, let her live, let your daughter live. I will never come back you can kill me afterward but she deserves a chance at life. Please Alex. If you cared anything for me you'll let her live.'

He hesitated; he was loosing his focus, his bloodthirsty concentration. What harm can it be to let the child live now don't loose focus, eliminated the enemy kill her NOW!! He could feel his teeth sharpening and his instincts overpowering him. She's your soul mate you can't kill her, you love her don't do it. Alex was torn in half and lost his focus completely, he was lost, what should he do?

In the next moment the decision was taken swiftly away from him. Dark figures burst through the door behind them and rushed forward to grab Destria. He was suddenly thrown back without warning; he jumped up and took on two of the dark figures. He punches and kicked but none of his blows seemed to land. He had vampire strength and speed but the figures avoided his blows and were far too flexible. Then one came forward and as fast as lighting, pushed five pressure points in swift succession. His neck, his forehead, his side, his knee and the middle of his spinal chord all got a hard prod. Suddenly the messages and nerves endings collapsed, his brain no longer functioned and it went black. Destria was unceremoniously hauled through the door with a hand over her swollen abdomen and shoved into a black car as it sped off into the night.



4years later

Dahlia was sitting in her chair reading her book when her mother came in.

'Hey sweetie I brought you some cookies for being so good in school today. Your teacher says you're so smart, and I'm very proud of you.'

Destria was proud of her little girl, she had become a very talented and eager child with a thirst for learning and an open heart. She was her world and she loved her more than her life. Dahlia was her last link with Alex, she was conceived in love; and she would protect her always. She knew Alex was dead. She had felt it in their soul mate link, it was quite soon after she had escaped and she supposed he had been blamed for her disappearance and that he had been accused of letting her escape. Turning on the CD player she played a classical compact disc.

'Now Dahlia have you been practising your music?'

'Yes mummy,' replied Dahlia with a smirk, she knew she would get it. She always did. 'Just test me,' she challenged.

'Ok' said Destria, 'Here goes, name this one,' she said as she sat on the couch and played a track on the stereo. Dahlia listened for a while and finally said,

'That one is really easy, Beethoven's fifth symphony. I always remember that one 'cause it goes da da da da, then da da da da lower.'

Dahlia returned to her book while Destria beamed with pride. There was a knock at the door and Destria got up from the couch and went to answer it. It had been four years now but she was still terrified that the men who were trying to kill her would find her; she looked through her spy hole and saw her friend a Chinese master Nagani - jin out there. Master Nagani was the man who saved her life and gave her a new beginning and a new identity. He was master of a centre for martial arts students. He taught all types of self-defence and had hopes that someday Dahlia would be a pupil of his. So she opened the door of her small two bed roomed apartment to allow him to enter as no one can with the wards she had constructed around her. He followed her inside and smiled at Dahlia reading her book when they were interrupted by a noise from behind. Nagani swivelled round poised to defend his charge. A tall dark haired man stepped out from the threshold and smiled his wolfish grin. Dahlia had never met him before but sensed a very sinister aura around him. He was clearly full of dark magic and was a powerful vampire.

'Good evening,' he said, 'Destria I presume? I have been looking for you, the one who reduced my prime assassin to a pleading pathetic excuse for a man. And now I see that he credited you with far too much beauty, in my experience you are nothing special in comparison.'

The man turned his head adroitly to Dahlia who was standing behind her mother curiously.

'Ah and this must be the young witch child. The only child I'll bet to have both witch and vampire blood in her. No other self-respecting vampire would touch a witch; Alex was truly deluded'

Destria could take no more. She turned to Nagani-jin and he nimbly knocked the man to the side with a hard flying kick expertly executed. The man straightened and recovered.

'You'll pay for that. In blood. Her blood.'

He clicked his fingers and scores of black ninjas sprang out all over the room. They surrounded the three and stood tense, ready and waiting for action. The man gestured lazily toward them and said,

'As you can see you are clearly outnumbered so a peaceful surrender would be most beneficial.'

At that moment the master sprang out and started taking out as many of the black ninjas as possible. But although he was more skilful and stronger, he was seriously outnumbered. After a brief fight he was held down by four of the figures swathed in black and Destria was trembling and she clutched her daughter's hand tightly in her own. The man came close and briefly touched her cheek with a whisper,

'Goodbye Destria, join your soul mate in the next world.'

And with that he drove a stiletto into her chest. Even as the poison in the blade took hold of her Destria glanced at Nagani-jin one last time, and in her eyes she told him to save her daughter and gave her thanks for his help. With one last burst of strength she let go of her daughter and summoned in her hand the last of her strength throwing an orange ball of fire on the dark man's head, while her tired weak body expired. Dahlia gave a cry and knelt over her mother's bleeding form.

Meanwhile the vampire bellowed ferociously and tried to stanch the flames licking his black hair with his hands but by the time he stopped the fire, his head was completely singed. In this moment of confusion Nagani-jin seized Dahlia who was crying into her mother's hair and muttering a few words, he disappeared with her in his arms. The ninja's were left stunned and the vampire leader surveyed the room and said softly,

'Never mind about the girl, we've done what we came here to do, which was kill the witch. I had the satisfaction of taking the life from her body and her daughter will keep for later. Let's go.'

With that he turned and left with the ninja's stealthily trailing him behind.

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