The next day, the girls went to school like normal, except Skara wasn't there. When the day ended Boscha and Luz walked to Skara's house.

"Maybe she's just sick." Boscha said.

"Can we even get sick?" Luz asked.

"Well, why else would she not be in class?"

Luz knocked on the door of Skara's family manor and her father opened the door.

"Hello, we brought Skara's homework." Luz said.

"Well, I would say you should go give it to her, but she isn't here."

"What?" Boscha asked.

"We woke up and she was gone."

Boscha and Luz went inside and walked to Skara's room.

"Her bat cage is empty." Luz said.

Boscha opened Skara's coffin.

"So is her coffin. Think we can track her?"

"Well, we have to pick up her scent and we have a lot it here." Luz said.

Boscha and Luz took a big inhale through their noses and their eyes turning into slits.

"Got it." Luz said.

The two of them started following the scent. They found a rotting corpse in a small clearing.

"Skara must've been lured here." Luz said, "Her scent is all over the place, smells like there was a fight. Probably the Vampire Hunters."

Luz took another sniff and looked behind them.

"And they're still here."

Boscha followed Luz's glare and saw one of the Hunters. The vampires growled and the hunter threw a knife at Luz. She easily dodged it and ran at the man. She hit him hard enough to break of their mask. The man was old, had grey hair, pale wrinkled skin, and gold eye. Boscha and Luz hissed at him and he threw a bottle of Holy Water at them. They avoided it as the man ran through the woods.

"Come on, Boscha, we can't let him escape."

Boscha and Luz ran after him. Meanwhile, Skara was waking up in what looked like a Healer's office inside of a cave. There was a feeding tube, in her mouth, connected to an empty blood bag. She got off of the cot and started to walk around the cave. It was large, had grass growing inside it, and had a hole in the top that led a large waterfall go into a pond. It also had several openings that had doors put in.

"Good, you're up."

Skara turned around and hissed at the masked figure with glowing eyes.

"You're pretty feisty."

"Who are you?!" Skara demanded.

"I'm the only reason you're still undead as opposed to dead."

"Who... are you?" Skara repeated.

"I'm an ally. I have information that you should know about."

"I mean, who are you? What is your name?"

"I'm someone you know." He looked around, "Follow me."

He started walking and Skara started following.

"What were you talking about when you said there was information I should know?"

"I have on good authority, that the Emperor is the one who is financing these Vampire Hunters."

Boscha and Luz found the man running into an old building.

"No way." Boscha said.

"What? What is it?"

"That's an Emperor Coven jail. It's where the Emperor puts the prisoners that he doesn't want the Isles to know about. There's no tell who... or what is in there."

"We do know what's in there. A Vampire Hunter."


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