Chapter Three

LUKAIS AND TREVOK took to the sky, traveling quickly at a blurring speed. Even from up in the air they could still follow the woman's scent. Although arriving late to the scene of death and destruction, she had not run far.

The vampires' presence was close, the small band now down to four.

"Four vampires against two Carpathians seems like such unfair odds, do you not think so, Lukais? I mean, they will have to realize that there is no escaping us this time. It will be a quick battle."

"Do not sound so pleased, Trevok. They are after the woman, and she is wound and slow moving. Our timing is terrible. By now they should already be upon her. We took too long cleaning up that mess back there. She could already be dead by now."

"She killed one of their own. They will want her to suffer by prolonging her death. They will most likely violate her, each in turn, share feeding off of her, and then kill her. Who knows, they may even try to turn her so they can watch her kill herself."

Lukais looked to his brother. "It is not right that you speak of her torture so casually. She is a human that hunts the vampire; she must have a good reason to do what she does. Instead of thinking what they will do to her, think of a plan on how to save her. If she was bitten, she will need to be purified and healed."

"You are right, Lukais, again as usual. Typical Lukais, always the better of us both; even though I am the elder." Trevok said sarcastically.

"Only by a few minutes, dear brother. And do not talk nonsense. You have always been the better. And it seems that we will have to discuss this at a later time. Look over there, our quarry has found the woman. Damn it! It is like you said. They wish for her to suffer."

"Bloody hell, I hate it when I'm right." He continued to curse under his breath as they descended.

...xXx...

"Did you miss us, sweetness?" The vampire's voice hissed in her ear. His tongue slid down the nape of her neck, leaving a painful burning sensation behind. "You killed our master, which is quite impressive but very unacceptable, dearie."

Luce struggled underneath him but to no avail. He was too heavy in her weakened state. "If it were up to me, I would have gladly killed all of you."

The vampire sat up just enough to turn her over on her back then pressed his weight back down. He pinned her arms above her head with one hand as his other tore off the bandages on her neck, re-tearing the flesh that had begun to heal. He leaned forward and lapped the open wound.

In a futile attempt again at struggling she only managed to rub her hips against his. In response to her movements she felt him grow hard, his full erection pushing tightly at her lower belly.

He made a sound like that of a growl and a moan mixed as one. "Yes, that's it. Since you killed our last master that put me as runner up. I should thank you. Perhaps I will make you my lifemate. You do posses an extraordinary amount of psychic abilities, which could be the key to my redemption."

He ground his hips harder against her, enough to make her gasp and cry out in the pain and humiliation of it all. Her wordless cry only enticed him more. With his free hand he made quick work on ripping off her shirt and groping her breasts through her bra.

Luce knew that she would not be able to stop him physically, so she fought back the only other way she could. Using her mind, she built up her mental energy to slash out.

In the past, she had been able to use her psychic powers to disable the very vampire that killed her family. And she was only seven at the time. Now at twenty-four, she had perfected her skills. She learnt to use her mind as a very deadly weapon to those not expecting the attack.

As the vampire continued his physical assault on her body, she blocked it all out and focused her mind for her own attack. She snuck into the vampire's body, straight to his cerebellum where she threw a good dosage of power into snapping the muscle and tissue.

The vampire's body immediately went limp and fell heavily onto her, nearly crushing her chest and knocking the air out of her momentarily. Though to a vampire it was not a killing blow, she regained her power for a second attack. This time she went to his heart where she made an invisible vise grasp the blackened organ and crush it.

The vampire let out a strangled cry as she now physically pushed him off of her. Her victory over her assailant was short-lived as she noticed the other three vampires closing in on her.

The vampire to her left yelled his anger. "You bitch! What have you done? Playtime is over, now you will die..."

Before the vampire could finish his sentence a fist burst through his chest and back out again, leaving a gaping hole in its stead. The sky lit up and lightening danced from cloud to cloud. A ball of fire fell from the raging night sky and crashed into the heartless vampire.

From behind the flames of the burning vampire stood a man who tossed the dead heart into the fire, who then dissolved into the air. To her right she heard a bellowing roar. She turned her head just in time to see another vampire suffer the same fate as his brethren.

Luce didn't wait a second longer. Pushing to her feet she tied the torn ends of her shirt together in a knot and bolted as fast as she could into the forest.

...xXx...

Lukais was just killing the second vampire when he saw the woman disappear into the darkness of the woods. Trevok was finishing off his kill as well and was moving to the fourth one that was lying on the ground where he fell attempting to rape the woman.

Trevok knelt down by the still vampire. "Look at this one, Lukais. Not a scratch on him yet he is disabled. But give him some time and he may be able to heal himself. Let us not wait for then." Raising his arms to the sky he directed another fireball to destroy the last of the vampires.

"Lukais, are you alright?" Trevok turned to his brother who stood very still staring at his hands, then at the burning fires, then at the sky and back to his hands again, to finally rest his eyes on the forest. "Lukais?"

"Trevok, I... Color. I can see color. That woman, I did not even notice until a second ago when I finished off the vampire. This... Is this real?"

Trevok walked up to his brother, picking up the woman's discarded backpack and gun on the way, and grasped his shoulders. "Tell me, Lukais, what color shirt am I wearing?" He could not help but smile.

Lukais' gaze slipped to his brother's shirt. "Green, a solid dark green one." He looked back into Trevok's face. "Like your eyes. Trevok, I am seeing in color."

"Yes you are, Lukais. That can only mean one thing."

Lukais turned to look back at the forest where the woman had fled into. "She... She is my lifemate?"

"Well, duh! Obviously. And your lifemate is wounded. We must go after her and help her before she gets into any more trouble." Trevok's smile widened at his brother; Lukais looked so confused and childlike, as though he couldn't believe at what was happening to him.

At the thought of his lifemate hurt and in any more danger, Lukais quickly snapped out of his reverie, and charged into the forest. Trevok followed close behind.


A/N: If you liked this chapter than I believe that you will enjoy the next one. Please stay with me. I'm trying to update my stories at least once a week or so. But I have four different stories I am working on, not to mention two REAL novels that I am hoping to one day have actually published. So, as you can imagine, I am quite busy in the writing department. It's hard to keep up and come up with ideas for all the different plots. Trying to keep in mind all the many characters. Thanks for reading and please review. -