Note: This chapter might not be as good as some of the others, but I wanted to do something with an idea I had.

"Can't you just turn them into flaming piles of dust?" Krisha asked as the vampires surrounded her and Linu.

"I tried! They're too powerful!" Linu screamed.

The vampires were taking their sweet time as they advanced towards the girls. The female ones looked at them with hunger in their eyes, as they bared their canine teeth and hissed vague threats. The male vampires also looked hungry, but it was a different sort of hunger, and they smirked as circled around the mortals. Both the bard and the cleric gripped their weapons a little tighter.

Suddenly the female who looked like the leader lashed out and grabbed Linu by the hair. The vampiress was unnaturally strong, and the Elf was rather light, so she was able to drag her close almost instantaneously. Two males held Krisha back as the vampire and her prey vanished and Linu's screams faded to nothing.

"She will be returned...in time." The vampire male who said this stroked Krisha's neck and whispered into her ear.

"Would you like to know what it feels like to have your will seized and your blood mingled with that of another?"

"Well, I obviously wouldn't like to, but I have a feeling that was a rhetorical question."

With this, she screamed out a War Cry at the top of her lungs. The vampires dropped her and ran off shaking, their heads surrounded by floating fiery skulls.

"I always did like that effect."

She raced to the tomb nearby and ran inside. That was the place the undead seemed to be emerging from, and it seemed the logical place for the vampire girl to have taken Linu.

More vampires were to be found inside the tomb. Not so much fighting them as running like hell, Krisha made her way to a long hallway. She stopped in front of a door, fiddled with the lock, then threw herself inside and slammed it shut before her pursuers could see which way she had gone.

"Krisha."

She spun around to find the Elven cleric huddled in a corner of the room. The female vampire's bloody corpse lay at her feet.

"Linu! Are you alright?"

"I- I think so. I don't know. When she bit me I started to feel more powerful, and then I...I don't know. It all went black."

"Don't worry, the infection must be gone now. It dies if you kill the one who infected you."

"I hope so."

The two women looked at the door. If they were to get out of the tomb, they would have to wade their way out of the mess of undeath.

"One down, six hundred to go", Krisha said as she took out her dagger.