Back with Ben and his now younger twin Lin, things had become hectic. They had decided to hide her from their parents and most of their normal friends due to her sudden change of age and now Max was raising her as she worked to grow up again. She still had all the info she had gained from her first go around but was now stuck in a ten year old body. She so did not like it, she couldn't do anything anymore it seemed. She had lost her job, couldn't use her money anyway she wanted since it was all under he grandpa now, and she couldn't go anywhere without him without someone saying "Oh, hello little one. Where is your mom and dad?" in an annoying babyish talk.
She wanted to smack some of the people but she would normally hold back or would be dragged off by her grandpa before she could hit them more than one time at maximum. Oh she so hated this now, not to mention even her own brother treated her like a child as well. She was so livid when he did that and she left the room storming away so that she could get away from all the people who had forgot who she was. However that ended bad too. She ended up running into someone who she knew and she didn't like them.
Lin tried to run from them even though she knew she couldn't out run them. She was caught however they didn't bite her like she thought "Calm down will you. You don't have her inside you anymore remember? So that means that you have nothing to worry about right now. We just came because we could tell what was going on, and we feel sorry for you." Leo said trying to get her to calm down however she knew better and still tried to get away. "Ok, guess it was too late to try that. Oh well, guess that makes things a lot faster." she said getting to the chase.
Lin came back home with an annoyed look on her face confusing everyone what happened to her since she had a few scrapes and had twigs and leaves in her hair. "They came after me again." she said dragging herself to her bed where she finally let herself pass out. They all couldn't believe it, they thought they wouldn't come back after her at all; yet they had already got her. "Ben go contact Kharina." Max said pinching the bride of his nose "I sort of lost the thing she gave us to do so." he said scratching the back of his skull. "Already!?" Gwen shouted "Yeah, I thought it was in my bag but when I got home today it wasn't there." he said. "Great." Gwen said face palming.
They searched for the thing all over his house but it wasn't there so they looked at their houses but it wasn't there either. So time took its course and she ended up back to being a vampire again, however she seemed to have more trouble with it than she had last time. Everything hurt more than the last time and she had a harder time casting vampire spells. It seemed like everything was more unstable and she didn't know why, her grandfather hypothesized that it was because Kharina was not there to help her in her mind. Lin now felt even more annoyed though that she was a vampire, because now since her spell wasn't working she is stuck as a ten year old till either she got the spell right or she got cured and aged.
Course she kept trying but more often than not she ended up messing up horribly sometimes looking hideously deformed. She also found that she got hungrier faster than before which made it to where she had to eat bugs more often. She was so sick of everything right now, she wanted people to treat her like a person and to treat her by how old she really was. However now she was treated like a ten year old and was only treated with respect on occasion because they were scared of her. When her parents came to give an unexpected visit one time and didn't realize she was even their child and said "Excuse me little one, can you help us find our daughter Lin?" that is what drove her over the edge. She ran out of the Rust Bucket in tears trying to get away.
She ran deep into some woods, not even looking where she was going. When she finally noticed that she had no clue where she was she sat down and just started balling. She was miserable as she was now. No one treated her like a person should. "Guess your not as good as she was despite the fact that you are practically her daughter." a familiar voice said. Lin turned to look and sure enough Orion was sitting against a tree and looked like he had been taking a nap. "What are you talking about?" Lin asked confused "You know how she had been inside your head all that time?" he asked "Yeah, she was in hiding from you." Lin said thinking she was right. "No, you were an accident that her friends had made trying to save her. You are pretty much a clone of her." he said not even bothering to open his eyes this entire time. "Liar! How can that be true?!" Lin shouted outraged. He sighed and cast an illusion spell which then showed how it had occurred in the first place. Lin watched it all before collapsing in her own tears. "Oh suck it up, a clone is never an exact copy. You were raised by different people and had a different life in whole. You can make your own choses." he said sounding annoyed. "Your right." she said looking over to him "Can you teach me!?" she begged bowing in front of him. "Huh!? What are you talking about!?" he asked his eyes snapping open. "I cant seem to use my powers right, I cant even do a common spell without it backfiring or messing up badly. Please train me how to use these spells!" she begged. "Fine, but it wont be easy." he said with a smirk.
She looked up at him with a hopeful smile "Brace yourself, I am going to speed up your transformation." he said suddenly grabbing her and pinning her to a tree. "Wait your going to-!" she said knowing what was coming "Yes, after I am finished you will have to feed off someone. I have a feeling you wont want that, so I will follow behind you and remove the venom out of their veins when you finish and if need be heal them." he said to make her feel better. Then, without anymore warning, he gripped her jaw till her wings and tail came out again. When she finished growing these he dropped her and followed her in the shadows for her to catch her victim. He did as he had promised which made her feel a lot better that he had kept his promise and had saved them.
He then began teaching for real. She expected that he would start with the basic spells but to her surprise he said that they were no where near starting that yet. She was annoyed with it but he said they had to start with combat training. She quickly went to attack him only to be quickly out matched and restrained by the older vampire. She continued to try but every attempt she made to attack him she would end up on the ground or trapped in a position that kept her from moving.
Days went by and Ben had still not found her, grandpa said he had left for a few hours knowing she should be fine and she was gone while his parents where sitting there looking confused. He didn't really know what happened all he knew is that his sister has been gone for almost a week now with no word. The only thing he had heard was that a person reported being attacked by something and it was reported that they had two puncture marks on their neck. It was most likely her or the other two but either way it was his only lead to find her.
It has now been over three weeks and she was getting to the point she was able to last almost a minuet against him before he stopped her movement. He had to admit that she was getting better quickly but she still had a long ways to go before she could learn how to control her spells. She didn't complain anymore since she could see how she might actually be able to use this in the future now. She kept trying harder and was gaining each time, even if it was slowly. However her, now, teacher sniffed the air one day and said they needed to leave and go to another location. With that they left and went to look for another place to train.
Ben had a feeling he was on her trial, she had this habit when she was board to carve things into trees and he was finding a few pictures on trees lately. He soon stumbled across a wide area that looked like a small war had taken place there. The grass was dead and the trees were all damaged and broken. There were foot prints going all over this place, however none were leaving only coming to or running around. He only saw that this meant that Lin had been here and fighting them again. Had she won though? Had they taken her? Where was she? All of these where buzzing through his head as he was more determined he had to find her.
However Lin continued traveling with Orion learning more from him. For a while she was actually having fun learning with him, he somehow made it more fun. It had been probably over two months now and she could feel how much stronger she had grown and could keep up with his moves in physical combat now, he now planed to train her in tracking and sneaking. He claimed they were also important to know for her if she wanted to be stronger so she went ahead and went along with it. He smiled and in the next second he had vanished, she figured that was her queue to start looking for him.
It took forever to find him however he knew she was coming a mile away from all the noise she had made looking for him so he tricked her into walking into a trap. "See, you need to improve your sneaking ability. Other wise you could have caught me easier." she sighed in annoyance as she swung side to side slowly as he gave her tips and hints on how to sneak. "Well it wasn't easy to find you either you know!" she said annoyed still "Really? I left a good trail right to me, how did you miss it?" he asked. He then started giving her tips and hints to help her in tracking as well which just annoyed her more. They soon had to change location again before they continued but after a few more weeks she was getting much better at catching the slightest scents lingering in the air and was able to tell about how long it had been there. With this he promised to teach her how to speak vampirian properly to be able to say her spells right.
Before he got to that though she caught a small smell in the air as it blew past her. She was able to tell about where it was coming from and about how far the source was. She leaned against a tree and did one of the few things she could do. Leave now. she thought Lin! Is that you?! Ben thought back to her Yeah, please leave now. she told him What is going on? Why did you suddenly leave? Why wont you come home? he asked her wanting to know I am studying in the ways of the vampirian with that Orion guy. Just trust me ok? I know what I am doing. Don't come after me anymore. she told him. I don't know about this, but I'll trust you. Please promise me you will stay you. he said wanting at least that much Ben, I have already changed since I had left. I cant come back the exact way I left. I will promise that I will come back though. Just trust me for now though, will you? she asked hoping he would get the message Fine, I'll leave you for now. Just stay safe if nothing else. he said leaving knowing what she was trying to tell him. Orion smiled having listened to the entire thing and not caught the hidden message. They quickly began the next lesson with Orion noticeably thrilled over something. Lin just smiled thinking Glad the lesson was not cut short.