Sorry about not updating. I got grounded and couldn't be on during the summer. School starts 27 August 2012. (August 27th 2012) so I should be updating more after that. Here you go! Thanks Homeskillitbiscuit.93 for editing!
As the dim fire burned its way through its last embers, crackling as it did so, Skyler and Vancha finished off the last scraps of rabbit meat they had. Then, Vancha stood to his feet and stretched.
"Ready to go?" he asked, gesturing to the short brunette girl that he now called his assistant.
The girl nodded mutely at him and stood, and proceeded to follow him out to a clearing, where the bright sunlight caused both of them to squint and hold up their hands to fend off the onslaught of light. Both were sunburned, despite Skyler being human, and when Vancha would go on his daily runs, Skyler had a hard time keeping up with him.
As the two prepared to run once again, Skyler noticed something out of the corner of her eye; a man aiming something at her. As her vision focused, she saw it to be a silver hand gun. In that instant, every single muscle in her body froze in sheer terror, fear reaching up to seize her soul with an icy claw; a terror she knew too well.
Skyler prepared for death as the man's finger teasingly brushed against the trigger, and without warning, his body fell to the ground, limp as a rag doll; a shuriken embedded deep in his skull. Skyler simply stood where she was, frozen like a deer in headlights as Vancha sauntered over and retrieved his shuriken from the head, not minding the blood that was now spattered all over it. When he finished cleaning it with his purple animal hides, he looked at Skyler and spoke, his tone flat.
"For someone who's killed a person, you sure are a wimp."
Those words struck Skyler hard, the impact snapping within her like the harsh twang of a violin string, and her anger suddenly surfaced. She was sick to death of Vancha and his insults, and to make matters worse, the fact that she had to live like this beast (no bathing and eating raw meat) was just too much to bear. He had been driving her nuts since she had unwillingly become his assistant five months ago. However, with all of this combined with his constant reprimanding of her and her abilities, it made Skyler explode.
Hot tears were suddenly streaming down her dirty face; the memories of her human like flooding back like a high speed train. Her anger began to best her, and everything then came crashing down.
"And what the hell would you know anything about killing? How could begin to understand what it feels like to have ended the life of the person you love most in the world? How could a creature like you ever begin to even understand any of that?" she roared, her voice becoming high and shrill with every spiteful word that ripped past her lips.
Vancha's eyes flickered for a moment; the usual nonchalance swapping with what looked like regret and pain, but Skyler was too wrapped up in her violent tornado of emotions to even care about how he reacted to her outburst.
Seeing his stone-like expression return, Skyler then took off, the hot tears still streaming down her face, her sobs drowned out by the howling wind that roared past her ears as her feet pounded down onto the hard ground. She kept on running, pushing through the burning in her legs until they finally gave out. She fell forward, grazing her hands and knees, but not bothering to get up. Instead, she lay there and cried; cried until her voice was hoarse.
It was only minutes later that Skyler looked up and around her to realize she was totally and utterly lost. Pulled herself to her knees, she rubbed her eyes and tried to catch her breath, trying to analyze her surrounding and figure out where she was.
A voice suddenly spoke out, causing Skyler to jump.
"Are you lost?" The voice was behind her, but when she turned around to see who it was, she could see no one. Just a dense wall of trees and grass and dirt. She immediately stood to her feet, arms up chest height, preparing to fight.
"W-Who are you?" Skyler called out, her voice stammering, trying to stay strong and choke back the hiccups she attained from crying.
The voice paused before answering. "Someone who can help you."
Skyler scoffed. "I don't need any help."
Skyler swore she could hear the smirk within the voice's tone.
"Then how will you find your way back?"
Skyler turned around once more, and became a little more aggravated as she could still see no body belonging to the mysterious voice.
"I'll manage," was her curt reply.
"Very well, then," the voice sneered. "I'll just have to work a little harder."
And as if on cue, a form stepped out of the shadows to reveal a tall man with dark purple skin and piercing red eyes. Skyler's eyes went wide, and her body once again became frozen in its place.
Skyler's shoulders suddenly felt heavy; a strong weight overwhelming her entire system, and her eyes began to droop. She fought against it, but the weight grew heavier with each passing second, and before she knew it, everything went black; her last glimpse of life being those piercing red eyes as the vampaneze took her down.