-Chapter 13-
My pack on my back I faded into the darkness, without looking back.
By the time he finds my note I will be long gone, I thought to myself with certainty. My life here is done.
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Ten years had not let me physically grow, but mentally I have grown like a foot. I practically ruled Europe, well I felt like I did. Alone and free. The best way to rule a place, when you are searching for something.
The search was really a mystery to me. I looked for Vampires to kill but besides that hunt, there was something in me that I was looking for. I cannot remember when exactly this feeling began taking over me, but it came fierce the first time it showed it's ugly head. So while I passed the thousand of faces I saw everyday, I searched. Very few people have made it in my life, and even they could not fill this hole in my life.
One night in a pub, I overheard some people talking about four men who were after a slayer. I thought this was interesting information, because not many people, at all, are called Slayers, apart from myself. I smiled to myself. If this was a new so called Vampire gang coming to challenge me, they were in for a huge surprise. I, myself, have been blessed if you want to call it that, with vampiric powers. Sadly enough not as great as the legendary Dracula, but I could keep my own with him, if he were alive.
I got up and left the pub, to a motel to retrieve my weapons. A dagger, crossbow, stakes, and my favourite weapon: the sias. If they were coming soon, then I'd be ready to stake them out in a manner of speaking.
It took two days, and seven vampires before the four mystery men were in my stomping grounds. When I saw them, they were obviously looking for something or someone. I was hoping it was me.
I stepped out of the shadows and began following them. The weird thing was they were not taking to the shadows as a vampire should. Their walk slowed down, and they whispered to each other. I took out my sias, and tried to eavesdrop on their conversation but I could not.
They quickly turned a corner, and it seemed that I lost them. But their scent was still around. I followed it slowly, checking shadows and cracks. I opened my eyes to a power that very few had. Human auras came into my view, and I was searching for grey auras, vampires did not have colours like mortals do.
I passed a second corner before I was blocked by.. mortals! Their auras were full of colour. One walked up to me, I pushed him away with my super strength and readied my weapons.
"What the fuck do you want!" I yelled out.
"We were wondering if you knew a girl named Kali?" one asked, his voice sounded familiar.
"What do you want with that bitch!" I asked furiously.
"We are looking for her. We lost here ten years ago." another said, his voice was familiar as well. "Rumors say she's in this village."
"Those rumors may have been correct. Besides finding her, what business do you have with her?"
"She was our friend long ago, and we just want to know if she is ok." the second guy said, and his voice was already picking at my brain.
I twirled my weapons individually in each hand. "If I tell you she is okay, will you leave?" I asked.
One sighed, "Kali..." he said.
I flipped him with an energy blast, something I found I could do a long time ago.
"Don't you dare say my name. Now who the fuck are you guys!" I yelled, my green aura flowing angrily around me. The one I flipped got up on his own.
"Pierre, Scott, Jason, and Garren." one of them said.
They stepped into the moon light, and I could barely recognize them. They were older..., not as vampires should be. I did not change at all in the ten years I have been searching.
"You are here..." I said, my grip on my sais did not change.
"Yep." Garren smiled in the little light the moon gave off.
I could tell it was Jason who I flipped, for his pants were muddy.
"Why?" I asked, fuzzy memories of the night I left came back to me.
"Cause you are family." Jason smiled, without shiny fangs...
"Cause we missed you." Pierre said.
"Because we got the cure." Garren said.
"And because we love you." Scott added.
I threw down my sais. "Well I wanted to be left alone!" I yelled. Alley lights coming on after my yell echoed out. "My job will never be finished, and I cannot settle down! No matter how much I want to. I will have to die before my soul rests--" my screaming was cut off.
"We have the cure." Garren said.
I stared at them, as it finally began to sink in. "It will take away my powers..." I said quietly.
They nodded, Pierre was looking hopeful.
"But even then, a Slayer's job is not done until she dies. So then another Slayer may be called to duty." I said, repeating the tale everyone knew.
"We know." Jason said.
"We'll fight along side you. So then you don't die alone." Pierre said, coming up to me, giving me a hug.
Memories began coming back to me in pieces from that month living with them.
I smiled to myself. "Okay then," I picked up my sais. "Let's get hunting and curing then."
"And you didn't forget your weapons!" Pierre said, walking beside me, the others around me.