(Dauphine's p.o.v)
I was sitting on my chair with my cup of hot tea, the clock on my computer said it was 2:34 AM. I was waiting for the girls and I had to call my older brother Mark or I would have been curled up in my nice warm bed. We have a protective sphere that covers the house. It acts as a shield to keep the demons, creatures, ghosts and lost souls from passing through our walls.
And yes, I know it's odd but I like to keep my family safe and even with the protective shield... the house still creeps me out at night.
God, why did we ever come here?
I sighed and I slid my phone into my pocket before slipping my cup in the sink and tip toeing through the house. I opened the door and slowly walked down the steps to the basement.
The walls were a faded black color; the wall paper was falling off the walls. If you hit them, thousands of little bugs would come running out of the cracks.
The steps creaked and moaned as I went down; I tested each step before moving.
The pipes leak, you could hear the small drips of water as they hit the floor.
If you looked hard enough you could find two or three mice wandering around.
Nobody but me ever came down here; the wood is old and slightly rotting so I keep the girls upstairs. The construction guys are coming tomorrow to fix them before one of us falls right through.
Finally I made it to my destination; I walked up to the far end of the room. There hidden behind a bookshelf was a large black door, instead of a handle though there's a silver dish full of water. I press my finger into a small spike above it, blood rolls down the hollow lines and mix's with the water. After glowing a bright white the door shifts and slides to the side.
Once inside the door shuts and seals, on the wall is another small bowl. I dip my hand into that, swirl it around and wipe it off with a white cloth. I watched as the cut sealed itself up. Lanterns hang from the tall tiled roof and burst into flames as I walk near them.
When I reach the end of the tunnel, I walked into the lush gardens and sit on a comfy chair, the sun is shining. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming. I sat down at the edge of the chair and picked up a long knife, with a small wince I glided it along the palm of my hand and begin to chant in latin.
"Cum sanguine Lunis quatuor colligitur electi surgent, et mors ex parallelis ad salutem innocentium." I brought my hand onto the table and it guided across the surface with ease "Excita dico tibi extremis terrae, custodes terrae. Ignis, aqua et aere." the blood glowed a bright orange and the glass faded white, within seconds I'm met with a face.
"Hey lil' sis" my brothers cocky voice rings through, I roll my eyes.
"Hey asshole..." I hear him laugh "And cut it out with the lil' sis shit, your only 4 minutes before me" He laughs and leans back against a brown leather couch.
"So" he smiles "how you doin'?" I shot him a look as I wiped my hand off with a towel.
"I'm okay, it's a bit hectic raising five teenagers and a three year old, but we make it work" He laughs loudly.
"Well it's your fault you decided to protect all of them" I rolled my eyes.
"Their stronger together..."
"Yeah, yeah, I've heard it before" he smirks "Where are the brats anyway?"
"The girls are out stopping a group of Espíritus de la niebla" I roll my eyes at their Spanish name.
"You sent 5 keepers out to kill a group of fog spirits...?" my brother laughs loudly "That's like baby stuff Daph! Do you have that little faith in them?"
"Well they wanted to go!" I blush under his laughter "Besides, they mauled a group of people at a club somewhere in Shannon's territory." I say his mouth drops.
"No shit eh?" he grins "Old Shannon is still up and kicking?" I roll my eyes.
"She is not old dumb ass, and the only reason you tease her is because she wouldn't sleep with you" I laugh.
"Ouch..." he laughs
"What do you have for me" I grin, referring to the problems brewing in the south.
"There have been a lot of disappearances in the east lately, People disappearing. Victims found dead in forests or parks... The counsel thinks it could be werewolves but I'm not sure" I glance at my hand and run my finger over the now sealed cut and picked up my cup
"What are the killings different?" I ask before taking a sip.
"Well, there mauled pretty badly so I see how one could assume that. But their also drained and it's not just on the full moons either" I sent my cup down on the marble table
"Wait, like vampire drained?"
"Yeah, but usually their more neat about that" he sighs "You know with their laws and all" I roll my eyes at the reference to the volturi.
"No shit" I laugh "We said we would slaughter all their sorry asses if they didn't stay in line."
"And it kinda helps when Aro is fucking terrified of you" he laughs and I can't help but smirk at the mention of the brunette vampire "Hell hath no fury like woman scorned" He sighs with a smile and wipes away a few stray tears.
"It could be lycans but they're not that careless to leave the bodies in a park..."
"I don't know sis, this one has me thinking of one creature" I sigh at the thought of not killing the leeches.
"But that wouldn't make sense; I thought we killed all of them in like the 1100's?"
"Well, I thought we did to but nothing else would fit. There are no drops in tempter, no reading. No scents, there's just nothing that's would point me out of this one" I sighed and grabbed up my cup. I looked at the liquid with disgust before throwing it on the flowers behind me.
"I know... It's a windigo army"
HAHAHA I'm trying to hint at things here. Read and review!
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