The New Rose

Chapter 17:

I tossed and turned for an hour and then managed to doze off.

(Three hours later)

I awoke jolting up in bed getting annoyed that I couldn't sleep. So I jumped up out of the bed and got dressed into jeans, t-shirt and a jumper. I went downstairs, grabbed my stake and shoved it in my sheath and grabbed my sword and put it under my shirt so it clung on my back underneath my bra straps and I went outside grabbing my wallet and keys. I went outside and locked the door. As soon as I locked the door I looked around searching for any sign of strigoi. I seen lights on in the house across from mine and seen a form lurking in the darkness and I quickly jumped behind some trees and when the back of the form was in my direction I jumped over the garden fence and ran up to the house and crept to the back of it. When I came to the last corner I stayed there and got down on my knees and peeked at the form. The figure was looking around and I could see the red rings around its irises and then it turned and went to move around the corner but I c quickly jumped up and ran behind it, soundless. I kicked it in the back and it went sprawling forward five metres and landed on its hands and knees. The strigoi jumped up but not before I ripped my sword out from my back and accidentally cut my skin a little. The strigoi smelt the air and turned to me.

"You're going to wish you never did that Dhampir," he said menacingly to me and swung a fist in the direction of my head but I quickly dodged it and did a round house kick to his head. He kicked out and I couldn't dodge and I sprawled backwards and landed on my ass. I jumped up and ran forward and punched him in the head with the hand that my sword was in and hit him in the head along with cutting his skin. He was momentarily distracted and I took that as my chance and swung my sword back and cut his head off clean. He fell to the ground and I smiled to myself and quickly got the head and body and chucked it in the garden. I ran back to the front of the house and walked along the street, searching for another strigoi. I seen a light turn off from the house in front of me. The street lamps were on and shining bright.

Three houses down I seen another strigoi lurking in the darkness on the roof of the house and I quickly hid behind and tree and ran forward to the dark house and shimmied up the wall and jumped up onto the roof, scaring the strigoi slightly. I held my sword in my hand and kicked the strigoi in the chest and it flew backward. It was momentarily distracted and I took my chance to get out my silver stake and stake him in the heart. He screamed and fell to the flooring of the roof and made a huge 'thump' when it hit it. I quickly got my stake out of him and jumped down off of the roof and landed on the grass. Seconds later I heard a door opening and someone talking to another. I reached up to the top of the wooden fence-that was about four and a half metres high-and climbed up it and landed on another street in another property. I ran through that street and no sign of strigoi. I ran to from street to street killing strigoi that I seen every now and then.

After the seventh strigoi I had killed tonight I went back to the house and went inside. Got changed into a red cocktail dress and placed the sheath under the dress on my thigh and placed my stake in there and put my sword in its sheath and ran out to the Porsche and placed the sword under the passenger seat and drove off into town and headed to some of the Moroi hangouts in Spokane.

First stop. Far West Billings a night club in Spokane it has a good atmosphere and it has heaps of Moroi hang out in there and so do Dhampirs and that means strigoi. I parked just in front of the Night club and got out, locked the car doors and went inside. I walked inside showing them my fake ID and looked around. There were people dancing and getting drinks. I looked around and seen a few Moroi and Dhampirs that were laughing and talking together on a stool at the bar. I walked over and sat down next to them.

"Hey," I said.

"Hey," the Moroi said. He looked surprised when he noticed me. "What's a young Dhampir like you doing here?" he asked, smugly.

"Nothing. Just hunting strigoi," I whispered in his ear and his eyes widened.

"Really?" he asked astonished.

"Yeah." I told him smiling.

"Wow! I never would've expected you to be that type of girl," he said astonished.

"Well, nobody ever does." I told him earnestly and he laughed.

"So where's your graduation mark? Since that you aren't a Guardian."

"Oh. I didn't graduate," I told them. They were all huddling up now-including the Guardians.

"Really?" One of them asked. "Are you like a refugee or something?" he asked and I nodded.

"If you see any strigoi or hear about anything let me know." I told him writing my number down and giving it to him. I had wrote my name down as 'strigoi slayer' and when the Moroi guy seen it he laughed. I got up and left the them. I moved my way around on the dance floor and seen a strigoi near the emergency exit and I ran up there and made sure no one was watching-except there were Moroi and Dhampirs watching-and I kicked him out. He tumbled out and hit the road. I slammed the door shut. The strigoi I noticed was a Female. As soon as she got up she brushed her hair away from her face and licked her lips and her fangs scratched along her bottom lip. She went to attack me but I kicked my foot out and got her in the chest and she went flying backwards. I took her momentary distraction as an advantage and staked her in the heart. She screamed and crumbled to the floor. As soon as the light went out of her eyes, I pulled the stake out and tucked it away in its sheath again and dragged her body out to a bunch of garbage bags and left her there.

I walked around to the left side of the night club and seen a bunch of strigoi hiding in some bushes and I quickly got out my stake and attacked the first two that I seen first. I kicked the second one and punched the first and then staked it and as the second one came running towards me I quickly pulled the stake out of the first one and as the second one came closer to me I shoved my stake into his heart. They both screamed when they fell to the ground. The other three jumped out of the bushes and tried attacking me but I dodged and staked one of them and then quickly dodged the next hit that got aimed at me and then staked the second and then staked the third. I searched along the edge of the bushes and there were no more strigoi. I put my stake back in its sheath and went to my car and got inside heading to the next place.

Double Dribble was the next night club I'd be heading to.