O my gosh your guys' reviews were awesome!! I'm so glad you all reviewed, they were supper inspiring. Now I do believe this is the last chapter. Right now I don't know how ill end it truth be told, I just usually go with the flow of my ideas. So depending on how I do this there might or might not be a sequel. Enjoy!
His eyes were pit less, animalistic eyes that held no mercy. Vladimir's eyes bored into me, and I knew I had no chance. 'Why fight? Maybe if he just killed me he would leave and I wouldn't be the cause of anymore killing in this area,' I thought but as I relived Elena being pulled into the shadows, screaming to run, and Nicoali fending Vladimir off so that we could get away, I knew I couldn't give up. I would fight to live.
But in my case fighting meant running.
"So 20 second head start sound fair, my dear?" Vladimir snickered. He expected me to not even think to take the offer and just stand there quivering in fear until he ripped me to shreds. Not going to happen. With out waiting another second to let my common sense, and with it my fear, catch up I pivoted facing away from Vladimir, and bolted.
For an all powerful vampire he sure did react slowly. But I was guessing out of anger that I wasn't going to just let him slaughter me, he didn't count. Not soon after he was right on my heels. Literally. I hadn't even made it all the way to the clearings edge when he caught up, clipping me on the heels, causing me to collapse gracefully on the ground. I knew I had torn something in my right leg, the pain was shooting up and down my entire calf, but I managed to roll onto my back and sit up a little. I was desperate to find something that could possibly help me defend myself. But what could you possibly use against an indestructible vampire? My powers were useless. I mean, what's the point in having them if they don't help at all?!
I sighted a good sized branch a few inches away and grabbed it. A branch is better than nothing. I didn't even get a second to contemplate what in the world I was going to do though, because Vladimir still angered at my unexpected rebellion struck out across my face. At first I thought he had snapped my neck, as I heard an ominous pop, but was assured it wasn't when Vladimir gripped by my neck and lifted me into the air.
I felt my air way close unbelievably fast as his grip crushed my throat. I dropped the useless stick as I raised my hands to try to loosen his grip. Of course it was in vain and ended up just causing him to laugh. But as I was starting to see black spots he decided he didn't want me to die that easily and threw me into the air. It only took a few milliseconds of being airborne before my back connected with a large tree. I felt the pain shoot up my back hitting peek in my head as if it was splitting open. Hell it could be spitting open. It also felt as if I had broken every bone in my body, but as I twitched random parts of my body it came clear I'd have to wait for the joy of having them broken. Yay. I barely managed to look up to see him gazing at me in hunger. He crouched down as if a lion ready to tackle its prey as I lowered my eyes anticipating the killing strike.
But something strange happened.
Seeing him crouched like that as if he thought he had a right to toy with me and that he had the right to slaughter Nicoali, Elena and I made me fill with pure anger. He had killed my best friend and the first guy that cared for me like that. I wanted revenge; I wanted him to be torn to a thousand different pieces. Angry tears spilled over and ran down my face as I thought this over and over again. But I was distracted when suddenly after Vladimir had stood up he doubled over in pain, growling.
Again shocked I lost my train of thought and my anger and Vladimir stood up again, finally composed. He looked at me in pure shock then anger. But after a while he seemed to think better and crouched down again but didn't wait this time, lunging in record speed. But as he made it in the air a blood red streak flew across my line of vision and when I blinked Vladimir was gone. All I could manage was a faint gasp and then the darkness flooded in.
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"I don't know how it happened!! All I did was tackle him, I didn't cause him to suddenly feel pain, that's impossible,"
"Maybe it was Violet? I mean if I managed to get the ability to burst into flames just because I hit my head, I can't wait to see what she can do,"
These two voices brought me out of the warm quiet darkness that I was really enjoying. I registered one was female the other a thick male voice with an accent that was really familiar. I registered how dry and sore my throat was and then the pain radiating through out my whole body. I just wanted to sleep, why can't these people understand that?!
"I'm trying to sleep here," I managed to rasp as I turned over to relieve the ache shooting up and down my back.
"Violet?" a very familiar voice weakly asked as if shocked. That's all it took for every thing that happened before I blacked out to come racing back to me. The feeling of loss, impending death, pure anger, and the reasons for these feelings made me unwisely shoot up in bed with a shocked "Oh,"
Unfortunately the pain caught up with me, and I fell back down gracefully.
I looked around though and met his eyes. Nicoali's eyes. He was alive! I felt tears flood into my eyes and all I could manage was a sob as I covered my eyes with my hands. He was alive; he didn't die because of me. The revelation was almost too much and all I could do was to continue sobbing. Only after a few seconds though I felt strong, smooth hands pull my hands away and hold them. I looked down at my hands in Nicoali's slightly embarrassed at my water works. He lifted my chin up though so that I looked directly into his slightly amused, slightly worried eyes.
Lost in his eyes I decided that I could stay there for eternity. It was perfect, just us gazing into each others eyes, until we were interrupted. I had forgotten there were other people in the room.
"Cough. Yeah, yeah he's alive, what about me? Where's the water works now?" I looked over Nicoali's shoulder to see a very disgruntled and bruised Elena. She grinned though when she saw me look over.
"Well I knew Vladimir just couldn't kill you, you're ridiculously hard headed," I said in my most serious voice, as Elena stuck out her tong. Only then though did I realize that there was another person standing beside Ena with his hand wound around her waist. He was tall and looked a lot like Nicoali, except he had blood red hair. His eyes were sharp but had the look of mischievousness in them. He raised his hand in greeting when he saw me examining him.
"Hey I'm Kohl, I'm the one that came to your, probably unneeded, rescue," He said in a Russian accent identical to Nicoali's. I looked back at Nicoali with my eyebrows raised, for a conformation. He just grinned and shook his head and looked at me.
"Remember when I told you Vladimir killed all my family? Well I was wrong about my brother. He managed to get out and like me thought he was the last one," He said looking towards his brother.
"Except unlike him I was smart enough to ask around and track him down," Kohl said raising his head. "And good thing I did, or I wouldn't have met wonderful flame girl here," He added, leaning into kiss Elena's forehead.
I finally took in all of our appearances. Kohl looked untouched, except for a few cuts and bruises and was wearing dark jeans with a black T-shirt. Nicoali looked ten times worse; he had a long cut that was running across his forearm and a lot of other gashes and bruises that seemed like they were already days old. Ena looked worn and was clad in some sweats of mine but had a new fiery spark in her eyes which made me recall what Kohl had called her.
I must have had a really stupid look on my face because I was confused. "Flame girl? I don't know what you're talking about," I stated looking between Nicoali, Kohl, and Elena, feeling the head ache return.
"Oh yeah I had forgotten you've been knocked out this whole time. Well it's actually simple how it happened. I was tracking Vladimir when I heard he was going after a vampire from the same area as the Massive vampire slaughtering. I sensed a huge physic surge go through this area so I ran until I made it into that forest and heard a scream. And after I saw this pretty thing get thrown into the air and into a tree. What caught my attention though was when she fell out of the tree and onto the ground, she burst into flames. It's a very rare and powerful ability. Let's just say besides taking down Vladimir with Nicoali, I haven't let go of her." He said grinning down at Ena and wriggled his eyebrows.
Nicoali turned towards me again with a serious face on. "That reminds me, the reason we were able to take Vladimir down so easily was because he wasn't expecting to see me or Kohl again but he was also distracted. We saw him double over in pain right when we got there, and your eyes changed to the white glow that you get sometimes when you have a vision. What were you feeling right then?"
I thought back to when it happened and it didn't take long for me to remember the intense anger I felt when Vladimir crouched for the death blow. "I was angry, and kept thinking that I wanted to tear him into a thousand different pieces," I said feeling some of the anger return. "I mean he had no right, he just thought it would be fun too," I added bitterly but was distracted when the glass of water beside my bed suddenly flew across the room and shattered against the wall across from the table.
"Ha told you!" Kohl exclaimed. "Ena's not the only one who got a new ability from getting knock in the head a little,"
I looked at the broken glass at the base of the wall confused. I had caused that? I looked at Kohl, eyes wide. "So I was literally tearing Vladimir from the inside out?" this freaked me out. It's one thing to have visions and a friend that was an empath, but now she can burst into flames and I can move things, including evidently, internal organs if I'm pissed. Great.
Nicoali answered though, hearing my freaked out tone, "Vi this is a gift, don't be scared. And you would have probably killed him easily, if you weren't distracted, but I know that you'll be able to control this soon," He looked down at me caringly, and that's all it took for me to realize that everything was going to be ok.
"Hey I hear there's a school being opened in Moscow for our generation with abilities like us. People can go there to learn to master and control their abilities," I heard Kohl comment. I was distracted though when Nicoali leaned down and captured my lips with his. Kohl seemed to get the idea and pulled Ena out of the room, whispering into her ear, "I've never made out with a girl who was on fire before. Let's fix that," Ena laughed and left quickly with Kohl.
But I was more concentrated on what Nicoali was doing with his lips. All my senses were flooded with Nicoali and all I could think was yeah, I think everything will be ok.
OMG. I finished it. I know it was more than likely a suck ass ending but I did the best I could. Now I hope you all liked the new character kohl, and also I need to know if I should make like a sequel or leave the ending alone. Again I hope I haven't disappointed anyone and REVIEW!! Come on people it's the last chapter, it's the least you could do.
