The sun had set about an hour ago. I'd called Jayde and apologized for being such a bitch earlier. She'd quickly accepted my apology and invited me to party that Raidyn was throwing. I accepted the invite and she'd said she'd pick me up shortly after sunset.
"You are not going in there, Seph," Shayne said from the doorway. Kaige was sitting on my bed.
"Yes, I am. It's our only chance of finding him."
"But, Seph, I don't think you're ready for this," Kaige argued. "I know Mom and Dad trained us for this sort of thing and that you've been training everyday. Hell, you're probably the most dangerous one out of the three of us. But, after Mom and Dad, I just…I just don't think you're ready to face this."
I whirled around. "Don't try to back out now. You agreed that this could be our only shot. We're taking it." I turned back to my closet and tried to figure out what I should wear tonight. Hey, even a vampire hunter/witch has trouble with her wardrobe sometimes.
Finally I decided on a plain, black, tight, spaghetti strapped shirt, that hugged my curves in every way, making me look extra sexy and a purple and black plaid mini skirt with strappy black high heels. I straightened my dark hair so it feel way past the middle of my back. I lined my eyes with a thin line of black eye liner and added a touch of dark purple eye shadow. It was the best I had to work with and I made the best of it.
Jayde led the way down the block to an abandoned looking house. The windows were dark, no lights were on inside and if they were there were curtains over the windows to make the house empty. I followed her up to the door. I wasn't worried. My brothers were somewhere in the dark; they would be watching the house and my every movement…up until I entered the house.
She knocked. We waited.
The door opened and a tall, blonde, blue eyed vampire answered the door. I knew it was a vampire because her skin was as pale as the full moon that was out tonight and there was a thin red ring around the irises of her eyes.
"Well there you are!" the vamp exclaimed. "Raidyn was starting to think that you weren't going to show up. Who's your little friend?"
Jayde smiled. "This is-"
"Renee, Renee Young," I said interrupting here. I glanced at Jayde and hoped she wouldn't blow my cover.
"Right," she said. "This is my good friend Renee."
I sighed with relief when the blonde vampire girl stepped aside and let us pass. That was the easy part. The hard part would be getting close enough to Raidyn and getting him to give me the information I wanted.
The moment we were inside, Jayde went off somewhere and left me alone to fend for myself. It didn't bother me. I was, after all, a badass vampire hunter and could take care of myself. I walked down the hallway and up the stairs to the first floor. The house was a three story mansion, so there were a lot of places to look for the vampire I wanted.
Music was blaring through the entire house. I was never really a fan of techno dance music and this wasn't helping the case any. I walked into the first door I came to and found and empty room with a single bed against the far wall and one small window facing the street. I was about to leave but when I turned around I ran right into Raidyn.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? The little witch has come out to play." He took one step into the room and I took one step back.
"Hello, Raidyn," I said. Just stay cool, calm, and collected and maybe, just maybe, you'll make it out alive, I thought. It didn't surprise me that he'd found me at the party this quickly.
He grinned and his gray eyes sparkled. "What are you doing here, Persephany?"
"You know why I'm here, Raidyn," I said.
He shook his head. "What I meant was: How did you find this?"
"That was all Jayde. She showed up at school; I saw the bite on her neck; she led me here. It wasn't really that hard to convince her to bring me along. You really should pick smarter girls to be your familiars," I said sarcastically. It wasn't really a good idea to be sarcastic with a vampire, but with my set of skills and with my witch powers that had been passed down through the generations in my family, we were pretty evenly matched. So, I wasn't scared.
He chuckled and that one sound sent shivers down my spine. I was suddenly cold and I knew that Raidyn was using his vampiric powers to lower the temperature in the room. I fought the urge to shiver. He would see it as a sort of weakness and I refused to let him use anything against me.
"I didn't know where Blane was three months ago. I still don't know where he is now. So I'm going to give you the option of walking out of here unharmed, or I we could fight and I could kill you right now. Which will it be?"
I let my magic course throughout my body and felt the balls of fire appear in my hands. "You could try, but it won't be easy. And if I'm going down, so is this place and all of your little vampires, including you. So I'm going to give you the option of giving me the information I want or burning this place down to the ground."
"You realize that if you set this place on fire, you'll be killing yourself as well?"
I nodded. "I know. But it will be worth it just to see you and yours go up in flames. And my brothers will find and take care of Blane if I die. So I'm not too worried about it."
He took another step into the room but this time I held my ground. He stepped into my personal bubble so that I had to look up at him. "You would really sacrifice yourself?"
I nodded. "Yes, I would."
His face was serious and I was ready to fight before the next words left his mouth. "Bring it on, then."
