Chapter two

Date: 1/19/1980

"The bloodlust is affecting you André you need to feed soon," said Jordan Another vampire like myself but older by about three hundred years or so. I knew he was speaking truth since I hadn't fed in a couple weeks I knew I would have to feed tonight or tomorrow. I would do it tonight but I have been busy learning as much magic as I could so far I could create walls of ice but I couldn't hold them.

" I'll feed tomorrow Jordan I'm busy right now."

"You need to feed tonight or you might not have a tomorrow."

" I will survive another night before I start to be weakened by lack of blood."

"You might be stronger if you fed now you realize that right."

"Yes but then it would just be the blood strengthening me not my own improvements"

"Look lets agree to disagree and then after you finish learning one more spell you go feed"

"Fine but you have to come with me when I go"

"Why."

"So I don't kill some innocent kid"

"You couldn't do that and you know it would kill you on the inside if you did it anyways."

Time skip: two hours

"Ok ill go feed now Jordan"

" Finally I thought the sun would come up before you were done"

"Where are we going?"

" We are going nowhere. You are going to hunt alone."

I knew I should have seen this coming when I decided to travel with Jordan he never was the social type when he did speak it was insults, truth, or the rare compliment. All this was said with a cold indifferent voice that could send chills down my spine and my flesh could freeze water so that's saying something. I decided to hunt in the slums of town and just kill a few thieves. Luckily I knew where to go for that. There is an area in the slums that has the lowest of people on the human social chain thieves, murderers, drug dealers, and other shady dealers. I could feed on a few and slip back into my studies. This would keep me fully rested and I could learn at least fifty spells by the next time I had to feed.

" Huh that's odd." I said to no one. "I wonder what a wingweaver is doing in the slums of a backwater city" I could feel its aura like the sun's burn which I have felt on one occasion and don't feel like repeating the feeling. But this wingweaver's aura was stronger than any vampire's aura I had ever sensed. It looked like a three thousand watt light bulb in a pitch-black room. I figured it must have been a holy or fire magic user because of the aura. I recently learned to identify magic by the person's aura.

Then I saw her she was shining in a holy light filling the alley with her eighteen wings of pure energy. The she spotted me and her aura ceased flowing. It retracted to where she appeared human. She then spoke in a warm voice "so have you come to try to kill me or just feed on me like a normal human?"

" Neither I figured you would obliterate me when I came in the ally but obviously you haven't." I realized if she chose this I wouldn't have a chance but then again she might just leave since I meant no ill will to her or her race. But since I was going to cause a death or two tonight she might kill me.

"Then I will leave and allow you to feed I wouldn't destroy a weaker being than myself unless it threatened my race which obviously you couldn't do in your current state."

"Thank you for being honorable and not destroying me out of anger towards my species"

"Why would I do that you do what you do to survive not out of sick pleasure"

She left in a flash of energy and I felt her aura slipping into the west as I found my first victim. This was a human that was a weak-minded thief incapable if living with the amount of damage drugs had done to his body so I extinguished his life to end his suffering. It wasn't enough though I just needed one more victim and I would be satisfied for a long time. I found her breaking into a house I pulled her away from it without making her think she had lost control I just made little prods at her mind and then she came to me. She embraced me and gave into my prodding at her mind and she slipped into a painless dream while I drained a small amount of her blood. Not enough to kill her but enough to finish my appetite then I took her to where her house was after I pulled it from her mind and set her in on her bed and covered her up then left and locked the door.

On my way back to the hotel Jordan and I were staying at I had an idea. If I could show and hide my aura I could create a bluff to scare away people that I didn't want to deal with like the wingweaver tried to do with me. That would really turn the tide of tings.

"So you fed enough to keep you alive" Jordan said when I entered the hotel.

"Yeah like you care if I'm alive or dead." I replied coldly so he would leave me alone

" I'm considering leaving André so I can travel by myself and not have to baby-sit you if I do you have to remember to feed at least one a week to stay healthy."

"And if I decide to up and die."

" You would have wasted all the knowledge about magic you have learned and the time you have spent as well. If you do decide to do that warn me ahead of time."