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Caution: This may contian Spoilers from the books, especially at the bottom.

With drool dribbling down it mouth after consuming it's latest meal. The Master let the male fall to the floor with a heavy thud. Old Habits dying hard The Master promptly snapped his nead and proceeded to smashed in it's victims head in, mostly out of aggrevation. It's link to the female Maddy was limited. There was only one other case when such a thing happened and it caused The Master's mood to darken even more. Maddy couldn't have been pregnant. The Master had made sure that all the females on the airplane were devoid of a second heart beat.

The Master 'saw' bits and pecies threw her eye's. It watched as Maddy overlooked herself in the bathroom mirror. The Master could see some physical changes happening to her, although, not as greatly as the others it infected. It called to her, trying and failing to compel her to come find him. Mostly to see if Maddy was remaing obedient. For some unforeseeable force, her mind had shut him out. The link opened again. The Master could see and smell the blood from the chicken threw her eye's. It encouraged Maddy to drink from it, only for her mind to shut The Master out again.

It was a phenomenon that The Master itself did not understand. The blood The Master drank from her while on the plane did not taste as a normal human would taste and it had to stop abrutly because of it. The Master felt an odd sensation afterwards, only for it to vanish after it fed again once it snuck off the plane, defecating the contents of her blood near it's prey's body. It 'browsed' the collecton of memories of it's newly risen vampires, who know doubt were already back and turning their Dear Ones. One thing was for sure, if the link between them did not strengthen The Master would gladly end her life.


The three Ancients awoke to the sight of three human cowering in front of them bound. They watch their hearts pump frantically as each of their eye's made contact with their latest meal. Their meals could see but not fully. They waste no time draining the human's blood from their bodies by shooting their stingers at them. Each meals body shriveled as the blood got sucked from their bodies. One of their hunters stepped forward after they were done to snap each of their meals neck. Once the bodies were thrown away the hunters stood patiently poised in front of The Ancients.

"The young one has arrived." One of the ancients, in the middle, spoke. It's lips devoid of movement.

"We can feel a slight link to The Master and it seems troubled. This is also troubling for us but why?" Another one, on the right, spoke.

"Pointless to worry, we have bigger things to regard. The hunters will take care of this intrustion." spoke The Ancient on the left.

"You will do well to do your job," The middle Anciet Spoke agian."Destroy the passangers and to bring the one who brought The Master across the bridge."

"It will be done." One of the hunters, better known as Vaun, replied. He and the other hunters left the Ancients, who no doubt were going back to slumber, chamber. Vaun was eager to serve.


Waking up in the morning was something Maddy started to look forward too. For the past couple of day's, she had been having nothing but nightmares. It wasn't the typical 'run away from zombies' type of dream either. It was filled with actually bite and eating of their victims. The one that terrified her the most was the one's that tried to come after her. Maddy always woke with a weird tingling sensation on her skin were they touched her. She'd confess though that she had been better then the previous nights. Maddy had planned to set up an appointment for a check up, Still that did not stop her father from voicing his objection and was adamant that she see their family doctor. Maddy truthfully didn't want to, yet went ahead an called Mr. Kyler anyways. That man. He always freaked her out, particularly when he stared at her. She, frankly though her mother could use a check up. Maddy's father hand check up on her and made note of how high her fever was. Her mother was sweating bullets and lethargic. Not only that, weird pinkish welts in the shape of squiggly lines appeared all over her body. Maddy had offered to take her to the emergency room, yet knowing the nature of her mother let alone any human being. The best thing her mother wanted to do was to wait for it to clear like any other flue. So wait they did.

Maddy's mother sent her out that next day to get more paint killers. Her father having gone to work in the early morning, therefore, unable to care for her mother. Which is why she was currently walking down a aisle in Walmart looking for a medicine bottle full of Aleve, Tylenol, or Ibuprofen. When she came across them, Maddy instantly forgotten which one her mother asked her to get so rather then stand there and play Eeny, meeny, miny, moe with them she took all three bottles. She couldn't wait to get out of there. People avoided her like the plague. They quickly dodging her with heads ducked when they noticed her appearance, especially her red rimmed eye's. Some where constantly whispering behind her back when they though Maddy couldn't hear. It took a lot of effort to not take the bait and start a fight in the store. Nobody, at least for Maddy, wants to go to jail. The eye staring was the worse. Only one, who was actually a man behind the cash register, had the decency to ask if she was feeling okay. After a ringing her contents up, He gave Maddy hopeful wishes to get well when she informed him about getting a check up in a few day's time.

Maddy pulled the car out from the parking lot and drove straight home. Not knowing that her life from their on would forever change.


It's very likely the next chapter will contain more of Mr. Quinlan. Hopefully I don't mess up his character...cough...cough...fully. Lol I finally finished with The Fall and The Eternal Night. :) It was quite sad when Setrakian died even more upsetting when Mr. Quinlan died. I already knew it was going to happen but I kind of had to stop and take a breather. I'd admit it I cried like a pansy. Gus death I wasn't all that phased, I didn't know if he died in the book or not prior to reading it but I had a feeling he was going to die. Fet and Nora seemed so out of place. It was just to weird to me and it had nothing to do with her being with Eph first. Quite frankly I wish that had never happened as well. I think my best moment was when Eph said "She(Nora) Needs You" to Fet, Then says "I have Mr. Quinlan." I think that pretty much had me sold on the pairing(Eph/Mr. Quinlan). Lol I kind of wish the ancients didn't go that quick as well in the second book, hope they last longer in TV series. Looking back now, it's so weird that it all started from people being infected on a airplane to freaking angels.