Chapter Four – Hard School

Sorry for delay…

Diana walked through the cemetery alone. Her patrol was over and she heard the church bells indicate two hours. She was exhausted, but J'onn insisted on her patrolling a little more, since the activity of the other hunter had increased in recent weeks. Whoever he was, he looked like a machine of destruction. Wherever he passed, he left his trail.

On the way out of the graveyard, she heard what sounded like a woman's scream. Diana ran to where the sound came from. Arriving there, she saw a redheaded woman fighting among a vampire group. Getting closer, she saw that it was Shayera. Even though she did not like the girl, her duty was to help.

However, before she could aim her beast at one of the vampires, Shayera let go, punching one of the vampires holding her with surprising strength. She turned and kicked another. A third tried to hold her, but she pulled a stake from his waist. The redhead knocked him down and pierced his heart. The vampire was dust.

Diana came closer to see the scene. One of the remaining vampires ran away, the other tried to cut it with a dagger. Shayera screamed as the blade cut through her skin. Anger took over her and her face changed. Her control vanished every day and so the vampire was dust.

Diana, still surprised, had only reaction to carry her weapon and shoot. Shayera listened and managed to divert. She ran toward where the arrow came and knocked over someone. The two girls rolled across the floor when Shayera realized it was Diana. Her face returned to normal and she just ran away, hiding in the darkness.

Diana met with J'onn and her friends in the library. She told them about her unpleasant encounter with the vampire version of Shayera.

"I just don't understand why she ran away. She didn't look like a typical vampire."

"Are you sure?" It was John. "I've seen her today."

Two red heads passed the corridor outside. The presence of friends was noticed by Clark.

"Well, I just saw her."

Diana looked back, just in time to see the glimmer of red hair.

"Ah, but she'll see me!"

"Diana!" Bruce ran after her girlfriend.

J'onn also followed his slayer, as well as his friends.

Wally and Shayera were walking down the hall. It was only a few hours after the meeting of Diana and Shayera. And even bickering, Wally was his only comfort. She needed him very much.

"How did she see you?"

"I don't know, Wally. She was just there."

"What did you tell her?"

"Nothing, I fled."

Diana was coming down the hallway with Bruce following. She grabbed Shayera's shoulder and slapped the redhead against the wall. Wally and Bruce tried to separate the girls, but they started a real fight. Soon a crowd gathered around the group, encouraging.

The four teenagers were in the principal's office. The girls still looked at each other as if they were fighting again at any moment.

"Miss Hol has a pretty ... colorful background, and this is not the first time Miss Prince is in trouble ..." The director began. "I am surprised that two brilliant young men like you have become involved with such troubled young people."

Bruce just shrugged. Shayera stared at the older man with disdain.

"Is everything?"

"The boys will have only one warning, but you ladies will have a more severe sentence."

After some scolding, the teenagers went their separate ways. Wally took Shayera to a place where they were alone.

"What was that?"

"I didn't start this fight." She folded her arms. "Don't gice me sermons."

But the redhead shook his head.

"Your eyes ..." he observed.

"Yellow?" Shayera shrugged. "It's normal when I'm in a hostile environment, like now."

"No kidding, Shay. If you need me, I ..."

"All right, Wallace." She got away from him. "I don't need help."

The night of parents and masters arrived, and Shayera and Diana worked to clear the place. It was part of their punishment. Bruce was there to keep his girlfriend from getting into more trouble, and Wally was for the same reason. The redhead wrote on a poster, but Shayera did not take her eyes off him. He noticed and looked up.

"What is it, Shay? Still thinking about the cat fight?"

She kind of laughed.

"Catfight?"

Wally continued to write.

"You're beautiful, Diana, too. Cat fight."

"Do you think she's beautiful? More beautiful than me?"

"N-no ... look, my parents have come."

More than quickly, Wally rushed to his parents. Luckily, they arrived at the right time. Shayera stood alone, pacing the hall, and feeling as if she were being watched. There was someone, or something, watching the movement in school. She knew it, she could feel it.

Discreetly, she walked outside. Bruce watched as Shayera followed and, knowing his girlfrien, she wanted to find out what the redhead would do. He also thought there was something wrong.

Bruce walked across the empty schoolyard, but then he heard a noise, something in the trees. The vampire jumped at him and knocked him down, trying to bite him. But when the vampire turned to dust, he looked up and saw Shayera. She helped him up.

"I don't know what your girlfriend is, though, it's no time for argument. There's a lot of these things in the school."

They saw a group heading to school.

"I need my weapons. They're in my house. "

" There's no time." He returned. "Diana's things are in the library. It's faster."

" Library? Things? "

"I explain on the way."

"Wait! Wally's in the hall."

"He'll be fine. Now we have to go ... "

Shayera nodded. The two teenagers then rushed to the library.

The vampire group entered the hall and closed the doors. Everyone present looked at the strange group. But Wally and Diana knew better. Calmly, they locked the door. One of the teachers approached.

"I don't know who you are, but you cannot ..."

He could not finish, as the largest of the vampires present exchanged his normal face for the vampiric and sank his teeth into the poor man.

"Ah, shit! Everyone getting out of here!"

Taking a look at Diana, the two teenagers guided the teachers and parents into the school or it would be a real bloodbath.

To Be Continued...