Chapter 2: Part 3
5 days later
"I just can't seem to pass this stupid level!" I scream tossing the controller at the TV with all my force, thankfully the controller comes right back dangling down my arm since it's tied to my wrist. I collapse backwards on the ground frustrated.
" I see you have come up with a prefect solution for not breaking the TV screen like the last two times. Though I personally would advice anger management classes." William mumbles chugging down topical juice and eating potato chips on the couch. I stick my tongue out at him ignoring his statement. As usual he's wearing dark jeans, a T-shirt and coat with sneakers. Along with his new black hair and auburn highlights compliments of his girlfriend.
" I see you've been letting your girlfriend practice on your hair again." I say back knowing very well it bugs him every time I mention it. Sadly for him his hairstylist slash girlfriend sucks at styling hair.
He growls jumping from the couch and starting to search for some unknown object, while throwing everything and anything which isn't that object out of its place.
" Hey! I just cleaned, William. What are you looking for anyways?"
" A hat!" He says meaning to sound and look serious, but the red around his mouth from the tropical juice makes it too hard not to laugh. Laughing I reach for my cell phone which has just buzzed.
Looking down I see the new text message, " Don't be mad. I'm staying 4 a few more dayz k. cover 4 me, bye chica. The person u luv most in the world Elly."
I quickly reply, "watever, ur loss having fun kicking vampire butt without u anyways."
I tuck the cell back into my pocket, and turn to William.
" Like I told you Will, Elly's out for a couple more days like I predicted. Which is perfect for our plans so far." I sigh kinda wishing she'd come back and maybe agree to help me like William has with this crazy plan of rescuing Eli's brother.
William, which I had searched up and contacted a few months after escaping for Eli, had become one of my really good friends. We'd meet up every so often. After leaving his undercover mission at Eli's place a couple days after I escaped, at which point the mission had become to risky, he started training new recruits members for his agency of slayers with I never stop mocking, stating the only people able to play with vampires, as I like to say, are Fallen which he follows up with a shrug. A while back he moved to the outer area of the city close enough to where the Fallen live so I could visit him and he could visit me, and sometimes he comes along to kick some vampire butt with Elly and I.
" I think it's amazing how no one seems to notice Elly has been absent for 5 days." William says with one of my hats on which I have no clue how he managed to find.
" Whenever they ask me I tell them she's out shopping, they never question me after I tell them that. " I tell him.
"Oh, and these plans of your aren't really all that great." William says looking over the scattered papers on the dining table with are my rescue and strategy plans.
" What are you talking about?" I ask sitting up to face him. " I personally think I'm a mastermind."
" Far from it," he whispers knowing very well I can still hear him, " most of your ideas are based off video games, and off of history books."
" Look I'm the cunning mind here as well as the muscle, and you are the bait or the distraction I haven't decided yet so let me worry about it. And you're eating all my food! Doesn't that girlfriend of yours feed you?" I ask knowing very well all William can cook are sandwiches if at all.
" She's as good at cooking as I am. And I will not be used as bait or as a distraction, I'm offended. Do I have to remind you I'm a slayer of high calliber."
" Whatever, your girlfriend's using you for your hair, and you know it. You were once a great slayer now your just a Ginnie pig. How the great have fallen." I say in a dramatic tone.
" At least I can pass level 12 unlike someone in this room."
Instead of tackling him like I would like to, I say, " You know what lets start heading out it's midnight already, Shani's probably already at our meeting place."
Four days earlier I had met up with Shani discussing more of our rescue mission. We were on the same page, and both of us decided to act quickly. We had decided to booked a cottage for our stay around the outer skirts of the Marcus territory. That would be our "Station" and then I had called up William to get him in on the whole plan. Of course at first he had disagreed, and tried profusely to talk me out of it. Then when he understood I wasn't budging from the idea decided to join in. I had yet to tell him about the whole Eli is hunting me down, and once I rescue his brother I'm planning to move away situation. He only knows that I feel bad for Shani and have taken pity on her which is why I'm doing this. Which is partly the reason I decided to do this. He then called a good friend of his Olivia. She also decided to get into the action, even though we've never meet. William tells me she's up for anything that involves high risk and thrill, even if that thrill comes from the knowledge of knowing you might die. Either way she agreed to meet up with us at the cottage 5 miles for Marcus territory.
" You packed winter clothing right?" Unfortunately the Marcus territory is a winter wonderland. Reaching the lowest degrees possible.
" Yep." William answers. " Along with a bunch of other weapons and frozen food I'll microwave when we get there."
Standing up I grabbed hold of a sword instead of my regular knives, and strapped it around my hip. Lastly I threw on a long wool coat to conceal the sword even if partly, and to protect me from the cold night. William grabbed his special silver gun, which when connects with its chosen target the person is immediately paralyzed for a long time, and tucked it in his waist and zipped up his coat to cover it.
I walked to the table with all my papers, throwing in all my strategies in a bag along with a bunch of junk food for the long ride we're about to go on. Finally I leave the note for the other Fallen.
Hey, went off for a vacation with William. Don't miss me. Cause I won't have fun patrolling suckers.
William looks over it. " That's it. They won't be the tiniest bit worried or angry you left to have fun will they have to patrol. They'll just believe you."
" Hope so." I say shrugging my shoulders. " Plus its not like I can tell them the truth. So, I guess that's it lets get out of here."
Walking out the door, I take a look back, a thought crossing my mind, what if I never make it back? Shaking away my nervousness I close the door behind me, William's already in the elevator waiting for me, running in I hit the first floor button. We make it outside seconds later and hop into his vehicle which if filled with bags of our clothes, weapon, food and anything else we'll need for the mission. Only available space is big enough for a small child.
" Where's Shani going to sit, you do remember she's with us." I ask. William nods
" Yeah, she'll squish in."
Soon afterwards we're off in the air, racing to the place we're suppose to meet Shani. It's gloomy outside and the clouds are thick, meaning it's likely to rain soon. And even though the streets are empty below us and nothing is around us as far as I can see, somethings off. William has Apologize on and his gaze is straight ahead. We're going 100 mph, and rising. Plan is to go 250 mph to get to the cottage before sunrise. I rack my hands through my hair agitated. I look around again, sensing something outside, but seeing nothing. I have the gut feeling it's a vampire, and memories from along time ago rise. Elly and I both in the vehicle and then the creatures tracing onto the vehicle claws ripping the metal apart. Elly had saved us that time, but I wasn't willing to chance it this time.
" Will, stop okay."
William looks over confused. " But we're making great time."
" Just stop." William sighs, and three seconds later the vehicle is hovering in air. Opening the door I all the way look down, good thing I'm no longer afraid of heights.
" What are you doing?" William asks confused.
" I'm going to check something out okay, you go meet up with Shani wait for me over there okay."
" Oh yeah okay," he mocks " No way. I'm not leaving you."
" Just go. I'll be fine."
William looks over at me pleading with his eyes for me to close the door so we can be on our way. Instead I dangle my feet out the door.
" Okay!" William says. " Just make it back!" I give him a small smile before jumping out the vehicle and falling down with great speed. The wind brushing against me, I throw my arms upwards, and my wool coat slips off as the wind pulls it off me, I wait a moment before revealing my wings, and then stop my fall with the flap of my wings. Looking up I see William's already taken off, almost out of sight.
I reach for my sword at my hip. Gripping it with one hand. Getting closer to the ground I land on the roof of a building. Landing in a slight crouch, with the softest landing. Walking around slowly, I wait, knowing I'm on the right track, that the vampires or vampire is around here somewhere, hiding. It's silent, and a little breeze catches my hair brushing it by my cheek. The vibes I'm getting, only becoming stronger, telling me whoever it is, is strong. It has to be more than one vampire.
And just as the thought leaves my mind something starts to appear, tracing in front of me a couple feet away. I hold my sword with a stronger grip, prepared for anything and everything. And a second later there he was, only one vampire, not a group like I had imagined.
I take a small step back sizing up the situation, thinking, He's strong, stronger than any other vampire I've encountered. With some scars on his face and short buzzed hair along with a normal attire of jeans and a black sleeved shirt, he appears human to the untrained eye. He opens his mouth, revealing his fangs, about to say something then closes it. Instead he reaches into his pocket about to pulling out what I thought would be a knife or some sort of weapon, but it turns out to be a crumpled paper, he looks over it then over at me. Afterwards he smiles then places the paper back in his pocket.
For a moment I have no clue what to do, usually the vampires attack me first I've never had to attack them. But he just stands there smiling. Until finally he said, " I just want to make sure, just in case."
Confused, about what he was asking or stating I moved on and said to him, " You were following me, which tells me your looking for a fight, which you must know will end with you head on the tip of my sword's blade."
He chuckled, ignoring my statement and asked, " Your name?"
" None of your business," I slowly approached him sword pointed right at him. The wind has started to blow harder, blowing my hair in front on of my eyes. Ignoring it I keep my eyes on him. His eyes also followed me, but other than that he showed no emotions of being aware of me. He's relaxed, not caring that I has a sword and have threatened to slice his head off. Chuckling like I'm a joke to him.
" Where were you heading with your human friend?" He questions.
Like my previous answer I say, " None of your business." Finally I'm close enough to attack, and maybe land a shot.
" I've always wanted to see one of your kind." He states reaching his hand out, I automatically swing my sword. Slicing into thin air, since he's already traced away leaving, me to face nothing. I feel something glaze my right wing less than a second later, and flip around my sword in my hands and go in for a stab even thought I can't see what's behind me since I still haven't turned around. Again I connect with nothing, and as I turn around swing my sword just in case, but again I connect with nothing. Finally facing the other direction my sight lands on him and I realize he's plucked off one of my feathers from my wings. I bare my teeth out in anger mostly at myself, for letting him get close enough to touch my wings. Any other vampire would have done worse than plucking off one of my feathers, if it was another vampire I might not have a right wing anymore. I make a quick dash for him in frustration, and by the look of surprise on his face I can tell he wasn't expecting the quickness of my attack. I manage to connect a blow this time barely cutting the right side of his waist before he jumps away, landing on all fours then jumping backwards to land on his two feet on the edge of the buildings roof. I frown, knowing I missed a great shot to do more damage, the cut I made is nothing, but a paper cut to him. I look over at him, thinking of my next move.
" Your quick, but I'm quicker." He says waving the feather in his right hand at me laughing at me and mocking me at the same time.
I never wanted to kill a vampire more then I wanted to now. I move two steps forward, planning each move in my mind.
" Well, I must be on my way I have important stuff to do. Maybe I'll see you around." He smiles, and before I can say anything he traces away leaving nothing for me to track him with. No vibes like I felt before, it was like he was never here. Ever vampire leaves behind a certain signature as I put it, all Fallen can just tell when a vampire has been near, but I feel nothing. I hold in the scream of frustration I want to let out. I'm left confused not understand what had just taken place. Had he rethought his actions thinking I might have been able to kill him, and got scared. Is that why he left? I finally decided to get back to William and Shani before it gets any later. What else could I do. I strapped the sword back on my hip, and took a last look around before ultimately taking off to find my coat and reach Will and Shani.
" I found her." Jaxon said, holding the feather in his right hand right up to his face studying it, and holding the cell phone to his ear with his left hand. " I managed to obtain a feather from her so it won't be that hard to stay on her trail." He says sitting down on a bench near a bus stop.
" Where are you?" The voice on the other line whispers with a tone of frustration mixed with hope.
" Where are you, you don't sound well." Jaxon questioned looking down at his cut, and reassuring himself it was nothing, it was already healing.
" Rin, like always now a days, got herself into some mess she called me a couple days ago. Blurted out some hotel name, frantically yelling to come get her. I'm here now, but I don't smell her scent. Something wrong."
" Do you want me to come over maybe I'll be of some assistance, I did after all track down your Fallen." Jaxon laughed as her heard a growl on the other end of the line. He tucked the feather into his pocket, tracing back to the roof where he first encountered the Fallen, and like he thought the Fallen had left. Again he couldn't believe his luck he'd been tracing from building to building when he spotted a woman and man entering a vehicle. He'd sensed something different about the woman so decided to follow, soon afterwards he'd seen the woman jumping out for the vehicle falling to what looked like her death before revealing her wings. It was mostly an accident how he found her.
" No, I'm going to get Rin out of whatever mess she got herself in, and you follow her don't lose her. Don't make your presence known to her, I'll meet up with you as soon as possible. Oh, and Jaxon don't lay a hand on her."
Jaxon smiled, " Too late." He hung up tucking the phone in his pocket. He took a quick sniff of the air, and quickly picked up her scent.
Now I have no problem trailing her with the feather to remember me of her scent. Jaxon thought. He'd spent two years tracking her down for his friend, two boring years, now he was just supposed to keep hidden.
I'll keep hidden, but there's no reason I can't play tricks on her spook her and that friend of hers. He thought. Serves her right for cutting me. Jaxon started tracing from building roof to building roof his method of transportation, stopping to make sure he was going the right direction. Smiling as he thought of all the fun he was about to have.