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Chapter Fifteen: Time to Feed the Monster
The Black Pearl docked in Port Isabelle just as the sun began to creep up from the horizon. Aurora discreetly made her way off the massive black ship and started to make her way through the town as the first few people entered the streets to begin a day's work. The pale woman kept to the shadows edge with her still red eyes cast down at the dirt lined street. Swiftly she passed through the streets unnoticed and up the path to the residential part of the port city. Her red tinted eyes landed on a familiar house; medium sized but nice in its design, a house that seemed as though the owner had money yet felt no need to flaunt it. Suppressing the beast within once again Aurora took on a calm collected air and knocked on the large oak door. Eager foot steps raced to the door as it flung open revealing a girl about the age of ten with sea green eyes, fair skin, and raven hair.
Just like her mother…Aurora looked over the little girl as she smiled back wildly then jumped on to the older woman giving her a huge hug.
"Rora!" She squealed as the fire mage picked her up in a great hug giving her a warm smile.
"Hello to you too Kendra," Aurora chuckled setting the girl back on the ground. Kendra hopped up and down in place with excitement.
"Mother has been teaching me Rora watch," Kendra cried holding out her hand. Aurora watched as a water ball formed in the girl's palm, it soon separated into two and began to form strings that spiraled up into an elaborate pattern.
"That's enough Kendra," A calm authoritative voice called from behind. The fire mage's eyes locked onto the smiling woman standing at the base of the staircase. Her deep black hair was pulled back into a loose braid falling to about her waist contrasting with her bright green eyes that shown the color of the Caribbean sea, and of course the double crescent with a deep blue sapphire gleamed in the early morning sun.
"Good to see you again Amaya," Aurora nodded to her sister as she came behind her daughter still smiling warmly.
"Kendra go prepare for your lessons with Cassandra," Amaya instructed her daughter who pouted at her in return "if you do your regular lesson I will teach you more magic later." Kendra followed her mother's instructions and ran off leaving the two women alone; Aurora stepped in and closed the door behind her.
"I take it you want to feed first," Amaya glanced over her sister with a soft smile "Would you like a bath and a change of clothes, I think you left some of your dresses in your room?" Aurora smiled at her sister and nodded softly.
"That sounds nice," She said lowly. Amaya turned around and motioned for the other woman to follow her up the stairs.
"I bought her off of some pirates down at the docks. Apparently they raided a passenger vessel and took some of the younger girls to sell as prostitutes in Tortuga," Amaya led Aurora to a door with three locks that only fastened from the outside. Quickly the water witch undid the locks and opened the door allowing both of the women inside. Amaya shut the door behind her and stood guard as Aurora examined the girl cowering on the bed in the corner. Her light brown hair fell long and slightly tangled, her skin was somewhat tan and held a healthy glow, and her fine dress told Aurora that she was the daughter of someone important. Slowly the fire witch moved across the room and sat on the bed next to her; reaching out she touched the girl's arm that in return flinched violently.
"It's all right," Aurora coaxed the girl, she peeked up at the older woman with sad honey colored eyes "What's your name sweetheart?"
"Nichole," She replied uncurling her body somewhat. Aurora nodded her head softly.
"Ah, and how old are you Nichole?" as the fire witch questioned Nichole began to feel strangely relaxed.
"Fourteen years," She answered, the woman smiled back warmly at the young girl and brought her into a hug which oddly enough Nichole could not stop herself from falling into the embrace.
"It's all right Nichole. No one else will ever hurt you," Aurora heard Amaya leave the room as her eyes glazed over red and her teeth formed into sharp animal like fangs.
"Promise?" Nichole asked feeling more and more relaxed in Aurora's arms.
"Promise," the mage whispered then sunk her fangs deep into the sensitive flesh of the girl's neck. Nichole's muscles tensed up and she weakly attempted to push the monster feeding on her off but did so in vain. Nichole let out a small yelp when Aurora bit harder and drained the girl until she was nothing more than a pale corpse. Opening the window she held the limp corpse of Nicole and incinerated it, sending deep black ash out the window and into the morning breeze. Dusting off her hands Aurora stepped from the room and stood next to Amaya.
"Did you clean up?" her voice held some tenseness in it.
"Yes I did," Aurora answered, her eyes seeking answers from her friend.
"Good because it seems you have a visitor," Amaya motioned downstairs. Aurora walked to the railing and peered over the edge. Standing down stairs was none other than Captain Jack Sparrow.
Look past the veil to where the feral nature resides.