Chapter 7: Blood
Red was checking the ground when the first droplets of rain hit the earth.
She started swearing viciously at the sky. Why out of every 356 days did it have to rain today? She was so close, so close to eliminating the wolf, but no the sky had to start pouring it's heart out at this very moment. Her hunt was going to run into a dead end once again just because of a few drops of rain.
"No it won't" Red thought to herself.
There was only one thing she could resort to now and would have been ridiculously preposterous in any other situation except for this one. After two years her sworn enemy was no more than a mere three hours from where she was residing. Red had to think fast before the rain began a heavy downpour and masked her scent.
She quickly unsheathed her sword, Ardens, and carefully brought in down toward the center of her palm, grabbing a small bowl from her bag she placed it under her hand before cutting deeply. The blood soon started to flow and Red watched as it red touched brown. When she began to feel dizzy she grabbed a strip of gauze from her pack and firmly wrapped it around her palm.
The rain had started to become a heavy drizzle, quickly Red grabbed a number of dry branches underneath the trees and with her expert skills she quickly made a fire despite the rain. Slowly the smoke began to steam the clearing. Red knew that this smoke could be seen from at least 500 acres away in any direction, but there was only one thing that she could do to bring them directly to her, she quickly poured the blood soaked bowl into the center of the fire.
If this was normal blood the fire would have been extinguished long ago, but there was a reason Red had quicker reflexes than a normal person, a reason that she could tell you precisely what she did 2555 moons ago when the sun was at precisely 46 degrees in the sky. You see Red wasn't a prodigy at all she just wasn't completely human. Her mother was, most certainly, but Red's father was well…complicated.
But Red knew that there was something in her blood that tempted these wolves like no other, made her irresistible even, because they, like her, weren't human.
For a moment the girl watched as the red smoke filtered into the air spreading her scent for acres, the creatures would kill to get a taste of this smell, but what they wouldn't know is that she would be the only one doing the killing tonight. Red lithely jumped onto a tree just to the right of the clearing, she smoothly climbed until the foliage beneath her was thick enough that no one would be able to see her from below.
Feeling a wave of dizziness from lack of blood wash over her again, Red grabbed a bag from her pack, filled with nuts, berries and yogurt chips, she slowly began to eat it all, she would need the energy. So she sat there leaning against the trunk of the tree and waiting as the rain became torrential, before filtering back to a dry drizzle, all the while her fire burned brightly red because of her enchanted blood, until she felt it, the shift in the air.
Red held her breath as she looked down just to the east of the clearing to see hundreds of luminescent eyes. She watched until she cornered the blue and gold ones that she would recognise anywhere. The eyes of a murderer.
Red unsheathed Ardens before letting out a gleaming smile. Now she was hungry, for blood.
