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Love Across Time

Chapter 9: Vampires, Werewolves, Warlocks OH MY!

A few weeks had past. Nothing extraordinary had happened. The Newsies were very good about keeping my secret from Pulitzer and other who would turn me over to him. No one else found out after Spot. I for one was glad the boys did not show any sexual interest in me. I would never endanger them like that.

Jack was the newsie I mainly sold with. He was the only one who knew about my father. I had no intention of telling anyone else either. The day after I told him of my father I had ment to tell him the rest of the story. But my favorite little birdie told me his mind was not yet ready for this information.

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The Sun had set. Thee street was empty of any living thing other than the four shapes of Mush, Blink, Jack, and Racetrack. They were on their way back to the lodging house. Maybe if I had told Jack the rest of the story they wouldn't have gone done that alleyway. But they did.

That's the funny thing about mortals. They think that they are the only intelligent creatures on this planet. They are blind to all of the other creatures around them. And they always go down the dark scary alley with the monster half way through.

They did not see the Warlock till he was right in front of them. The Warlock was dressed in his hunting clothes dark trench coat, slicked back black hair, and a smile that should have told those boys to run.

This was a particularly nasty Warlock. He could sense a supernatural creature's claim on these boys. It was pure luck that made me mark those boys like a young fledgling, so the Warlock though these boys would make a nice addition to the power he gained from killing that witch behind those crates. Maybe if he hadn't been drunk on power he would have checked closer… but he didn't. One point for me.

I sat on the roof of the apartment above them. If that Warlock raised a finger to them he would pay dearly. 'Then again' I thought smiling. 'He's going to pay dearly anyway.'

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I could barely see. Why Race had to take us down one of his shortcuts to the lodging house I will never know. The four of us stumbled clumsily through the alley. I could only barely make out the shape of Race in front of me. Then suddenly…

"Ouch! Race why the hell did you stop?" I looked around his shoulder and saw exactly why. A man a big man. If his eyes hadn't been blood red I would have thought him a drunk. But I knew better.

Blink apparently didn't. "Hay, get out of our way!"

"Shut-up Blink" I Whispered not wanting to anger this man. But instead of moving or going to blows the man started to laugh.

Now we were all afraid. The man's laughter was cold and full of death. He moved toward us. It took me a minute to figure out what he was doing, he was trying to pin us against the alley wall. Even though we all knew how to fight we couldn't stop him.

He grabbed me by the throat and pulled me so I was inches from his face. His breathe stank of raw meat. I felt sick. He smiled revealing teeth stained with blood.

He then did something none of us expected. He buried his nose in my shirt over my heart. I yelled in fear and disgust. The Man pulled back smiling. "You're her favorite." was all he said.

He looked into my eyes. "What's your name boy?"

"Jack"

"Well Jack, do you know even know what she is?" he questioned.

"What are you talking about?"

The man sniffed again. "I do not recognize this mark." he looked over at the others. "And I know that no Ferret would mark this many mortals. You have yourselves a Weasel master."

This man was crazy I thought. A Weasel master? That was that sound?

The man shook his head. "Whoever she is I'll enjoy taking away her power." Then a ceremonial dagger appeared in his hands.

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The Warlock had Jack by the throat. What to do, what to do? I then saw him smell my mark. eww. Smell my mark? That's a new one and a very disturbing one at that. I could only imagine what my boys are going through. I knew what I had to do.

I jumped.

With a soft swoosh I landed ten feet away from them. The Warlock's magic darkness that covered the alley kept me hidden. The warlock's attention was all for Jack. He was curious to see what Weasel would endanger her boys by marking them as a Lesser Ferret would. But I have my reasons.

"Whoever she is I'll enjoy taking her power."

"Oh no you won't."

He dropped Jack and turned to me with speed only a demon or an angel could summon up. And I was damn sure that he was no angel. He made a swing at my head with the dagger. I grabbed him by the wrist and broke it. "BITCH!" he screamed in pain. Wow was he weak.

"That's me." Then I dealt with him Weasel style. I used all his anger, power, and speed against him. This is what I've been trained for. He threw his weight at me trying to pin me I sidestepped him with speed that made him look like a snail and he slammed into the wall behind me. God I love skinny alleys. After a few more tries the Warlock was forced to lift his spell. That's the problem with vision impairing spells they sometimes turn on the caster.

Once the spell lifted the alley was filled with moonlight from the full moon. The Warlock writhed in pain. I picked up his dagger which he had dropped and slammed it into his shoulder pinning him to the cobble stone beneath him. The warlock screamed in agony as the moonlight burned him to an ash.

I removed the dagger. I put it in my belt to check out later.

Then taking a deep breathe I turned to the boys. Jack had fallen after the warlock had dropped him and was still on the ground he had his hand at his neck where the Warlock had grabbed him. Mush, Blink, and Race were staring at me like I was an alien.

I moved to check on Jack. "Get away from me whatever you are!"

"I deserved that." I looked in Jack's eyes and saw fear and betrayal. I reached out with my mind to try and identify the Warlock. What I found was very not good. (yes I am telepathic) "Tombs"

"What are you talking about?" questioned Mush. He was having a hard time believing that I was capable of what I'd just done.

"That was his name." I said. They gave me a blank look. "Tombs was the warlock's name."

"How do you know that?"

"I have a photographic memory." I did not elaborate. I would explain later.

I looked around the alley for a place to stash a body. "What are you looking for?" asked Race.

"The body."

"What body." he asked nervously.

"The witch's body." they had blank looks on their faces so I explained. "Tombs was drunk on power." Their faces were still blank. By God what do they teach these kids these days. "Warlocks must kill their victims to absorb their power."

"So he killed a really powerful witch? Are you sure it was a witch?" asked Blink.

"Yes, Warlocks rarely go after anything but good witches." I said as I moves toward a pile of crates.

"Why?" asked Mush.

"Good witches have the best powers. And Warlocks are evil so they would rather go after good than evil." I answered half heartedly. Then I found the body. The body was inside the crate and man did it smell. Even I who had seen many dead bodies thought it smelled. I kept the boys at a distance for a reason.

"Mush check the street for civilians." I ordered. When he said the street was abandoned I carried the crate onto the street were some one would find it. I then led the boys away from that place.

"Where are you taking us?" asked Jack.

"Someplace safe."

"Why?"

"Because Tombs had many servants who will be wanting revenge and a lot of them are not human that's why."

"But why would they go after us?"

"I'll explain once we get their."

: So what do you think? Weren't expecting that were you? You thought this was one of those annoying I fell through a portal and landed in Newsies fanfics didn't you? Didn't you? Well it's not. So RR and tell me what you think:

:Don't worry I'll explain everything in the next chapter. I had to stop because I try not to go any longer than five pages but I'm halfway down pg. 5: