The Little Halloween Girl: She Ain't So Little Anymore

By Ryoken

Someone was calling out to her. That voice, it was so...familiar, but Sara couldn't place her finger on who it was. Ah...yes, she thought, Rahab. She still wasn't able to see him, but she felt it in her gut that it was him. Suddenly, through the darkness, she clearly saw him, but nothing else. He wasn't too far away, but she couldn't move. Strangely, she was able to hear something else, other than Rahab's voice. Even though she was right in front of him, Rahab seemed to be looking for her. "I'm over here!" She yelled, but he paid no heed. He began to move on, when a bush appear. And out of that bush appeared what must have been a Sarafan, creeping up on her friend! "Look out!!" She cried, but he still couldn't hear her. The knight speedily got behind him, apparently without him knowing, and was about to stab him straight through his heart when her vision grew dark once more.

"Sara...Please, wake up...Don't die on me, damn it," Rahab thought aloud as he held her hand in his. Her clothes had been stained with her own blood, ripped almost to shreds with the greed and hunger of his own kin. He had found her new clothes and he had bandaged her bleeding wounds given to her by assaulters. Someone's hand landed on his shoulder, scaring him half to death all over again...or however it might be put for someone who's already dead.

"Whoa, sorry my little brother. I did not mean to surprise you."

"It is all right, Raziel. But I thought you were supposed to be with the others?"

"Kain replaced me, God knows why."

"Oh, I see," he said, turning back to Sara, but with a more stern face.

Standing in Rahab's room, Raziel had overheard what Rahab was saying. "Did you say that this is Sara? That little girl from last year??"

He nodded.

"My god, how she's grown. Why in the world would she come back here?"

"She simply wished to visit. Now look what's befallen her," Rahab said, looking his brother in the eye.

"I'm...over here..." Sara suddenly said in her unconscious state. Rahab quickly turned back to her, only to see that she was dreaming. "Look...out..."

"I know this isn't a good time, Rahab, but Kain ordered me back here to bring you back out onto the battlefield," Raziel said as Sara cried out in her dreams. Rahab started to speak, but stopped when Raziel put up his hand to silence him. "I also must take my clan to their position. I cannot stay here to watch over her."

Rahab thought for a moment or two, and came up with the only safe conclusion. "Then I will have to somehow take her with me."

Raziel went crazy with concern. "You can't do that, she'll be drained of what's left of her blood in a second once you bring her into that camp. And who knows what Kain will do if gets his hands on her!"

"And if I leave her here out of my sight, she may very well be! No, so long as I can keep an eye on her, she'll be safe."

"Fine then. But I don't suppose you've come up with some bright idea to bring her there have you? You can't exactly carry her there."

"As a matter of fact, I have."

She awoke again in the darkness. She could feel cloven hands gently lifting her body and then once she felt something underneath her, the hands let go. It wasn't as soft as whatever she had been lying on, but it wasn't exactly solid ground either. All of a sudden, there was much commotion, like riding through a very rocky road. There wasn't anything to see except black all around her. She still could not move. She began to wonder if she'd ever get out of this place. Pain struck her deeply in her side and she cried out.

"Sara?! Are you all right??!" Rahab said, slowing down his horse until it stopped so that he could check on her. She still wasn't awake.

"Maybe we should slow down a bit. This bumpy ride probably isn't the best thing for her right about now," Raziel said.

"I know, but it's the only way that wouldn't take us long. Let's go."

They arrived within an hour, and as Raziel had predicted, the vampires were practically jumping on the horse to feed on her; they hadn't feed in hours and were becoming ravenous, their ability to not-be-hungry that was bred into them when the first wars had come, were now gone from being lazy. The two vampire lords had to keep them at bay with their own swords. Confusion swarmed the two clans. Rahab put the situation as clearly as "Anyone who even so much as tries to drink a drop will die ever so slowly and painfully!" The two then carried her gently to Rahab's quarters and lied her down. They looked for Kain, but he was no where in sight.

Another vision occurred in the surrounding darkness. It was a castle...no, a fortress, Sarafan banners were hung all around and they were fighting the vampire armies. She could hear no screams of the wounded and dying, but clearly saw what was happening. They fought on the roofs of the guardhouses on the surrounding walls, in the courtyard, everywhere. She saw no sign of Rahab until a glimpse of blue caught her eye. It came closer to her, until she saw him running up a flight of stairs, weapon in hand. She wasn't sure where he was going until he opened a door and she saw herself standing the middle of the room, dressed in a white, almost see-through, dress, hands folded in front of her. Her image didn't look up when he entered, nor did she move when he touched her face. Sara felt as thought something was not right, as thought she was setting her dear friend up for a trap. But he took her arm and practically dragged her out into the courtyard where the fighting still raged on. He shook her then, almost as if trying to wake her out of that trance, and it looked like he was about to slap or slash her face, when he stopped. Finally she looked up at him, and the vision was gone, replaced with not darkness, but sound. The sound of a camp fire, people talking, thought muffled, people walking. And she saw the "ceiling" of a large tent. She moved her head to the side and saw Rahab asleep at a desk with papers on it, probably maps. She tried to get up, but found the pain jabbing her too great to stir. She had even found it a tremendous effort to turn her head towards him.

"Rahab?" She said, quietly, so as not to let anyone else hear. He seemed to wake up, for he moved, but then nothing. So she called his name out louder. "Rahab." That time he woke up for his head stood up straight and he got out of his chair. He turned around, and he didn't look too happy to be awakened for he drew the sword at his waist and started walking towards her. Her eyes opened wide with fear and closed when he raised the blade towards her and it came down sickeningly as it went into the dirt.

"Not so loud, Sara, or someone else you wouldn't want in here might hear you," he grumpily, and then he smiled. "I am relieved to see you've awakened," he said as he sat down on a nearby chair.

"So am I," she said.

Yes I know it took me about a month to get this one up, but once Christmas rolls around, can you not help playin around with your new stuff?