Well, I'm back again! Thank you so much for the encouraging reviews! They really boost a new writer's self-confidence. I'm really sorry it has taken me so long to write again. I've been really busy and unsure on how I wanted to start this next chapter. I just hope this next part lives up to your expectations. Now on with the story!
Disclaimer- I do not own Sleepy Hollow. The movie does not belong to me and neither does the legend. If you sue me, all you will get is pocket lint. Thank you.
Witch's Blood
The Hunt Begins
The next night, somewhere in New York City...
"Elaine?" Called the woman before the fire.
"Yes, my Mistress?" A voice whispered from the darkness.
"Step forward into the firelight, I wish to see your face." A beautiful woman with long black hair and blue eyes stepped into the light.
"What do you desire?" spoke Elaine.
Elaine's mistress stood and gracefully crossed the room. Her emerald eyes locked onto Elaine's. "I want you to begin the hunt for Ichabod Crane. The magic running through his veins should allow you to sense him, but you must be very close in order to do so. As time goes on the power inside him will become more evident and you should be able to sense Crane from greater distances. He is somewhere in this city and I want him found before the new year."
"As you desire my Mistress." Elaine said. As she was about to go her mistress grabbed her chin and forced her to turn back.
"Hear me Elaine, for I am giving you one warning. You are forbidden under any circumstances to spill Crane's blood. For if you do a fate worse than the undead awaits you." Elaine's eyes were filled with fear as she was released.
"Yes my Mistress." She whispered shakily.
"Good. Oh, and Elaine go ahead and get yourself a bite to eat while you're out." Elaine's mistress said with a smile gracing her lips. Elaine nodded as she melted back into the shadows of the room.
That night on the streets of New York City
"Night patrol again." I felt myself sigh as I said these words. Oh, how I wish I was home with Katrina and Masbeth. I smiled as I thought of my wife and the boy I had started to consider as my own son. Without them, the Burgomaster would have thrown me out of the Constabulary for good. I remember his skepticism when I told him the killer of Sleepy Hollow was a woman and none other than the Lady Van Tassel herself. With Katrina and young Masbeth as witnesses, however, he had no choice but to accept my conclusions. I sighed again as I gazed down the street. My apparent success in Sleepy Hollow changed my status not at all it seems. For here I am still on night patrol, which only the lower ranking constables are assigned. I stopped walking and scanned the area hoping for once that I would not have to bring in a body.
" Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" I could hear the scream coming from a nearby alley. Immediately I pulled out my pistol and began to run towards where I heard the sound. I could feel my breath start to quicken and my body starting to tremble. I entered the alley and slowed down to a walk. Cautiously making my way towards the back, I peered through the darkness trying to discern any shapes. Then my eyes noticed a shadowy figure fleeing deeper into the alley.
"Halt and turn I have a pistol aimed!" I shouted keeping my hand steady on the pistol for once. However, just as I started to give chase my feet stumbled over something and I hit the brick ground hard. I looked back to see what had caused my fall and saw a man slumped down against the wall.
The man appeared young around his mid twenties to thirties. I felt for his pulse and found none. I steadied myself against the wall and began to ring my alarm bell.
"Another dead man. It seems all of my night patrols end with me finding a body." I said faintly.
"Constable Crane is that you?" A voice shouted down the alley.
"None other, you had better bring the wheelbarrow I have discovered a corpse." I yelled back to him. As the other constable got the dead man to the lighted street, I took a closer look at the deceased man. I leaned down to examine the man's face glancing at his neck as I did so. What I saw made my heart stop. There on his neck were two puncture wounds as if he had been bitten. My mind flitted back to the nightmare I had the day before. The woman's fangs coming towards my neck... I could feel my eyes rolling into the back of my head and passing out onto the pavement.
A place in New York
"Elaine, you have returned early. Dawn is still hours away, why did you come back?"
"I am sorry Mistress, but a constable nearly discovered me while I was finishing my snack.
I had to flee before he could reach me in the alley. After the body was found, many more constables were sent in search of me. I thought it best that I should return back to you Mistress." Elaine replied with her head lowered from her mistress's gaze.
"Very well Elaine, but remember you must find Crane before the new year and you have already lost one night."
"I will my Mistress, I will not fail." Elaine declared.
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