Authors Note: Alrighty, well first things first, I would just like to thank everyone who has taken the time to review/favorite/alert Midnight Tryst because quite honestly, it's SO awesome how much you guys actually like the story! I'd also like to thank those of you who took the time to check out the trailer video and the website with all the extra information. (And if you haven't yet, make sure to do so!) Now, it's time for Chapter Five :) You guys will thank me for the chapter, it will answer you're questions, but it will also make MORE questions arise. Also, note that this chapter is NOT in Amber's POV, it's in a different characters POV now. :) I hope you still enjoy it! PLEASE REVIEW!
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Chapter Five – Kill Caustic
Vicente POV
(NOTE: THE POINT OF VIEW HAS BEEN CHANGED FOR THIS CHAPTER. I'M INTRODUCING A NEW CHARACTER NOW! YOU GET TO SEE THE POINT OF VIEW FROM ANOTHER MORE…SINISTER…CREATURE. IT MAY BE CONFUSING, BUT GO ALONG WITH IT. ALL WILL BE EXPLAINED IN DUE TIME…)
I let out a small but dark chuckle into the wind as I looked at the two shocked children standing in the middle of the forest path. The children were familiar to me. They were the same children my coven has been hunting for years, not that they knew of this. But, fortunately for them, our plans always seemed to be ruined before we could make our attack. Those stupid vegetarian vampires always use that damned force field to keep us from harming the children. But luck is with us now, as the vegetarians are literally no where to be found.
A few years ago we started noticing that the children came to their little 'camp-site' at the same time every single year. Thus, we put our plan into action. The only thing that differed this year was that they decided to show up earlier than normal. Originally I wouldn't have wasted my time on six foolish children when I could have easily hunted down something else, but it was all part of a little game.
It's his entire fault—everything. All the things that I lost were because of him and his idiotic vegetarian ways and his atrocious love for human beings. He doesn't seem to understand that human blood was food. He tried to stop me from attacking a human and it was he made me lose the most important thing in the world to me, besides my loyal coven that is. As it is, he is the one who managed to start a fun game for me by protecting those children. Now, the children were completely innocent in the matter but he didn't need to know that either.
'It was time I got my revenge on him. Now I shall take away something of importance to him. Just like he made me suffer, and so shall he.' I thought.
Now is my chance to take action, to have my sweet vengeance. I know that it is quite possible that I could never have another chance like this ever again. Luck is on my coven's side. We will attack tonight—the smell of the girl's blood is stronger than ever. It is simply delicious. I just want to run up to her and sink my teeth into her neck. But I can control myself.
Many people had this notion in their heads that vampires had some sort of uncontrollable bloodlust. It made us dark creatures sound more helpless and as weird as it sounds, less frightening then the actual truth. Vampires had complete control over their thirst. There aren't any sort raw pains in the back of their throat, there isn't any loosing of control. No, there was only the pure, undaunted want for human blood. We wanted to see humans withering in pain, screaming as we sunk our teeth into their flesh. We lived off the smell of their fear, not just their blood.
In all, humans had painted a false image of the sinister undead beings that we really are.
I shook my head, erasing all thoughts of thoughtless human notions and forced myself to focus on the task that lied just ahead of me. There were six children as usual but that he is not with them this year, and his mate is not using her force fields to keep us out either. I did one more quick sweep of the area, searching for the third and final member of his coven, a young male who was probably sixteen or seventeen in age. This is turning out my favor tonight. There are six members in my coven, we will each have one to attack and there will be no fighting over the leftovers. I am to have the girl standing just fifty feet before me—the girl with the black hair, green eyes and the delectable smelling blood.
The two children who were in the woods were already terrified. Besides scanning the area for the Vegetarian Coven, I had been running around trying to scare them. I was—to put it simply—toying around with them. The girl was much more frightened of the boy. He is trying to talk himself into thinking he is insane. He wasn't seeing things like he was trying to convince himself. No, he really is seeing something of the supernatural. No amount of arguing about it to himself was going to change that.
I was ripped from my thoughts and my head snapped to attention as I heard the boy she was with speak, "Merce, like I said earlier, nothing is going to bite you."
I chuckled lightly into the wind, such a foolish and insignificant boy. How dare he think that we would let him go oh so easily?
"That's what you think…" I whispered softly but my voice carried.
The boy and girl both stiffened as they heard my voice, they turned in my direction with fear clearly showing in their eyes. I knew they could see me, even if I was hidden in the shadows. The look on the girls face was enough to prove it. She could see my blood red eyes and my pointy teeth. Before they could even blink I blended myself back into the shadows as I watched them with amusement. Humans were so comical, they would try to talk themselves into seeing things they really weren't when they really were seeing things. Monsters like myself walk around every single day with those foolish mortals yet they don't even know it, they couldn't even begin to detect us.
"Vicente, we attack tonight right?" I heard a light female voice from my coven ask.
I turned to find my lovely mate, Natalia, standing before me. She looked much like the rest of my kind in her disfigured state—her deathly pale skin, blood red eyes, purple bruise-like splotches under her eyes but her luscious black hair and plump red lips made her look stunning to the human eye. She was the only one in my coven I did not use my power on. She followed me willingly while the others had no idea what they were doing. After all, I controlled them.
"Yes my dearest Natalia, we will attack them tonight. After waiting so that vegetarian and his mate are finally no where to be seen and we finally have our chance. This is perfect." I told her.
She laughed deviously, "Of course Vicente. We should prepare, the others are getting restless with anticipation to attack."
"Spencer needs to calm himself—he is much to restless. Until he and the others calm down, we will not attack. Juliet is probably the calmest and I would say that Garrett and Dylan pretty calm as well, but they both need to quit pacing around so much. It's extremely distracting." I said in an off tone.
"Yes, I will speak with them about that. Are you going to keep an eye on them?" Natalia asked.
I nodded, "Yes my dear wife, now get ready—we start in just a few hours."
She giggled darkly and then I watched as she disappeared into the forest. I was certain that this time, I—Vicente Havok—would not fail.
No, not this time around.
-x-x-x-
I sat back in the shadows to where my coven could not see me. They were waiting rather impatiently near the forest's edge to finally attack. I wanted to see how eager my coven was first before we could attack so that is why I stood off to the side and watched silently while my coven had no idea I was watching them.
"Is it time yet?" I heard a very intolerant Spencer ask. Spencer was tall like the other men in my coven, standing around six foot. He had short pale blonde hair and the normal blood red eyes that my kind had.
I heard my wife sigh in annoyance in response to Spencer's question, "No, not yet Spencer. We have to wait for Vicente to return and say that we can attack." She said.
"Why can't we just go now?" Spencer whined.
"Because Vicente is the coven leader and you do what he says. If he tells us to stay put and wait for him, then we will." Natalia snapped at him. I had to smile. My Natalia always put up a good fight.
Spencer had jumped back a little in surprise of Natalia's anger, "Sorry Natalia." He said.
"It's okay Spencer." Natalia said. "But I do wish he would hurry up." She muttered under her breath. She too was getting impatient, I knew it.
Both Spencer and Natalia looked up when they saw that Juliet was chuckling softly at them, "Impatient are we?" she teased.
Juliet was the essence of beauty. She had long, curly bright red hair, plump pink lips that were always pulled into a brilliant smile. She had been a pageant queen before she had been changed into a vampire. Her mother and father had both been famous supermodels and she had got an extra dose of beauty after her transformation.
I watched as Natalia rolled her eyes at Juliet.
"I can just taste their blood now…" I heard Dylan fantasize with a far away look written on his face.
Dylan was shorter than Spencer and stood at only five foot and nine inches. He looked terrifying though, he had dark brown hair and a stony face that was always plastered with a menacing frown. He was extremely strong and muscular despite his height.
I decided to make my presence known, "Snap out of it Dylan, we leave now." I hissed at him.
I removed myself from the shadows and walked towards the members of my coven, whom were growing edgy with suspense. In all I would say I looked pretty frightening, I was a towering six foot and five inches and was pretty muscular. I was dressed in my usual black attire with my midnight black hair falling over my right eye just like it always did. My hair was cut short in the back while on the sides it was slightly longer and my bangs were grown out and parted to the side so they hung over my right eye, covering it completely. My pale thin lips were pulled into a tight line while my maroon eyes were alive with excitement as I admired my coven. But quickly I noticed that someone was missing, "Where is Garrett?" I asked edgily.
A deep voice answered me, "Right here."
We all turned to fight Garrett standing in the moonlight. He was very lean standing at six foot and three inches with super short light brown hair.
"So I heard that we are going to leave now?" Garrett asked me.
I nodded at him, "Finally—after all these years we have our chance."
The other all nodded along with my in agreement and decided to make our way closer to the campsite. As we neared closer to the edge of the forest, the sound of giggling and laughter filled my ears as it floated with the wind to myself and my coven.
"Looks like we are going to be crashing a little party." Spencer chuckled lightly as he started to go observe the children.
I quickly stuck my hand out and held him back, "Wait." I said slowly.
I stepped forward towards the edge of the woods and tried to stay hidden. I wanted to make sure that the vegetarians were no where in sight before we even attempted to attack.
"Checking for those stupid purple-eyes?" I heard Dylan ask.
"Yes." I answered.
"If they are here waiting for us I swear to god—" Garrett growled.
"They aren't here." I told him quickly. The others in my coven didn't know about my extra powers nor that they had a few as well. Not even Natalia knew of this.
Garrett and the rest of the coven visibly relaxed and then began to get even more anxious for the hunt to begin. I took a small step towards the campsite and when I did I accidentally stepped on a small twig and when I did, it snapped. I mentally cursed myself as I saw the girl who was looking up at the stars stiffen slightly and then turn to look at the woods with frightened eyes. I tried to stand absolutely still and make myself not visible to her human eyes, as did the rest of my coven.
I watched as the girl's eyes scanned through the edge of the woods and then widened drastically with terror as they came to a rest on my shadow. I knew that all she could see was my eyes but that would be enough to scare any human. I held her gaze as she used her hand to rest around to feel for a second girl who was sitting behind her, when she got the attention of the second girl the second girl then proceeded to yell at the girl I was currently staring at until the black haired girl shushed the second girl. She then started talking to her in a low voice but thanks to a vampire's extra sensitive hearing I could tell that she was asking the other girl if she saw anything weird looking in the woods.
At first the second girl scoffed and rolled her eyes but scanned the woods anyways and she looked around with a bored expression splattered onto her face but as she laid her eyes upon me she started stuttering about my bright red eyes. I almost chuckled in amusement. But I stopped when I smelled it.
The rest of the coven grew restless at that point because they could smell it too. Someone had spilled their blood around the campfire because our sensitive noses picked up the delicious smell of fresh blood. I could feel my eyes turning black with pleasure.
Natalia was suddenly beside him, "Now?" she whispered.
At that moment he heard a girl say, "Aww shit—I cut my finger on that knife and it's bleeding pretty bad. Did anyone remember to pack the bandages?"
That was all I needed to hear. I nodded silently to the rest of the coven and without another word we all shot out of the woods at vampire speed in the time it would take a regular human to blink. The two girls who had been watching me jumped back in surprise and squeaked with fear. I reached them just as I heard an ear shattering scream coming from around us and the two girls.
So, what do you think? I had a little information about the vampires in this story. Very creepy, huh? And I borrowed the idea of Veggie Vamps from Stephenie Meyer so yeah, not my original idea, just thought I would throw that out there. Anyways, REVIEW! What do you all think of Vicente? And who do you think "HE" is?
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