(A/N): Thankfully, this chapter doesn't involve much knowledge that I wouldn't know, like, for example, the species of the (assumed) jungles of Indonesia around the time Lake Toba was formed.

So, once again, I'm not a biology major, and even if I was, I probably wouldn't know what I would need to know for this.

Now that I'm finished with this rant, how about you read, so that I don't have to rant again?

CHAPTER THREE: MIDNIGHT

I am prepared to drink his blood.

He is the last one left.

So am I.

Whatever happens here, no one else will ever know.

If I win, blood fountains erupt everywhere, leaving behind lakes of blood and disease and misery and death and blood.

If he wins, I get revenge.

Either way, I benefit.

He will lose.

He appears very thoughtful, in the same way that a leader studying battle plans appears thoughtful: that focused look in his eyes, that small, lopsided, evil grin on his face.

"I didn't expect to be seeing you again, Stormcrow."

I want a taste. I want to make sure this was worth it.

"Someday, you may get a taste," he tells me, playing with his fingers, not bothering to look at a creature he thinks of as less than him. "For now, however, I suggest we end this – that we stop this meaningless bloodspill. Of course, you are a creature that cannot see reason, so I don't expect this to end."

One of us dies. One of us lives. I live. You die. The end.

"I wouldn't count on that, defeated one. All you seek is what you can benefit from, and there is nothing to benefit from here. You want to say that you triumphed over me, so that I am powerless and out of your way to world domination, or whatever your primitive instincts' motives are."

I want your blood.

"You really have to become less predictable," he laughs. "Do you honestly think that those simple motives can let you triumph?"

I lunge at him. He pins me down.

"Did you think it was that easy?"

I want a taste.

"You'll get one eventually."

I see nothing.

Why was he so stupid? He only killed me!

I came back once.

I could come again.

I will kill you.

Now I seek my next target.

(A/N): Did you like?

That's the end of this book.

Anyway, I'm completely finished with the final chapter and epilogue of the final book, The End.

So, I'm happy about that, and I don't care what you think.

So, let us move on to the next in the series!

The first chapter of New Blood (if I choose to add one – not sure…) will be up in a few hours, or less. Give or take a minute or fifty.