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Chapter 6

I have never seen someone go through the change. I remember every grueling second of mine. Not five minutes after the shots she starts to scream. Horrible wrenching screams her hands ripping the flesh off her body. I watch as the flesh repairs it's self only to see her rip it again. The bones in her legs repair them self I hear the snapping of bones pulling back into place. She gets a little taller but she will never reach 5' stopping at 4'-10". Her breasts fills out a little b-cup by the looks of it. Her hair that reaches down to her waist becomes perfectly straight shimmers a black that is almost blue with high lights. I pull her name from my memory "dew on the flower", daughter's only get adult names from their husbands. We will have to discuss that. I am not calling her that. We will pick a new one for a new life. I watch over her I feel a love, not for a mate but for a child. Her heart is racing it won't be long now.

Her heart beat is so fast that there is no pause between the beats. It takes its last and silence falls. All you can hear is the wind and the birds outside. Her eyes fly open. They are crimson red some would say blood red. With a start she leaps from the destroyed bed and flies to the corner of the room. She looks at me and tilts her head. Looking around at her surroundings trying to understand where she is. Like a light going off she realizes who I am and falls to her knees.

"Hunter, thank you, for saving me, and for healing me."

"Never knee to me again for you are now my daughter." I motion her to stand. I have given much thought to this as I watched her go through the change. I am going to do something that will make it easier for her to go among the humans. I will make her an animal drinker.

"We have much to discuss." I motion to the two chairs by the 6'x10' window.

She flies over and sits the chair sliding back a foot. I walk over at human speed and sit across from her. Her hand goes to her throat. I smile at her.

"I know you are thirsty we will take care of that in a little while."

"It burns, like before." She tells me as she rubs her neck.

"You will call me Mac or father when we are with others, in privet dad or daddy is fine."

She bow her head "yes daddy."

I extended the power to bind her to the next promise. "You will never drink from a human unless your own existence is at stake they never smell good or taste good you prefer the blood of wild animals."

"Yes daddy." With those words she becomes a good vampire bound by her promise. She feels it settle in her new mind. "What is that daddy?"

"It is part of my making. You will be able to walk among the humans. Most immortals like us kill and eat them. You never will feed from them."

She is so trusting looking up at me she smiles. "Thank you daddy, I would not wish to hurt people."

I hope to never have to use that power on her again. It makes me feel dirty forcing a way of life on another. I smile at her. "It is time for you to have a proper name. Fathers give their children their names. In my world it is at their birth. You have been reborn today it is your first day. I name you Kaytlyn or Kat for short."

She breaks out in a big smile. Only adult's girls have names. "Kaytlyn" the sound rolls off her tongue. "I like that thank you for my name dad."

"It was my sisters a long time ago."

"I will do it much honor father" she half bows in the chair.

"None of that we are family now. Let us go out and I will show you why I was called hunter by your old people."

I brought her to a herd of deer. I figured I should not spoil her with a predator for her first meal. "Close your eyes. What do you smell?"

She takes a deep breath, "woodsy, earthy, and salty."

"What do you hear?"

She frowns,"Thumb thump many times."

"That is heart beats of the deer's you saw." I look at her face with her eyes closed. "Do you still feel the thirst?"

After I mention it, it roars back. It's all she can think about again. "Yes" she hisses.

"Let go."

At my words her eyes fly open and she is bounding for the deer. Her eyes fasten on a large doe. In one lunge she takes it down. Her teeth finding their way through the doe's fur piercing the large vein in its neck. Salty sweet goodness flows down her throat. Like a drug hitting her brain, she feels euphoric and sucks harder. The burning dimming, soon there is no more. She shakes it looking to me with a pout. I can't help it, I laugh, and she smiles back at me her face covered in blood.

"Can I have another?"

"You can have as many as you wish but must stop once you cannot drink anymore."

She looks at the herd that has run a quarter of a mile away. Racing to them she takes a small male. Making happy noises as she sucks the blood out after all her mind has been rewired to think of humans as tasting like shit.

She has been running around half naked. She looks like she works in a butcher's shop with her face smeared in blood.

"Let's find a stream and get you cleaned up then find you something to wear."

She looks down at herself. Only now realizing how her cloths faired through the change. If I was an out sider she would feel ashamed but I told her we are family, I am her new father. Family's mostly live in the same room in her home city. There is not much left to the imagination.

After her bath in the stream we go for a run. I am careful to keep her away from the humans. She still has the ability to hurt them without even thinking about it. I wish for her to experience some of the joys of her new life before we sit down and talk again.

We get back home and I show her how to jump up to the door it is only 48' not much for us. Her new mind catches everything I do and on her first try it looks like she has done it her whole life. I motion to the seats again.

She looks to the bed. "Sorry dad I broke your bed."

Smiling at her, "you were the first to use it."

"Then where do you sleep?"

I laugh, "we never sleep we don't need to."

"Never?"

"Never, we never eat food it tastes like dirt and we have to throw it back up or it sits and rots in our stomachs. We hunt and drink blood. We are called blood drinker, cold ones, or immortals."

"Why cold ones?"

"We are cold to the touch."

She reaches out and takes my hand. "You do not feel cold father."

"To humans we are. We never feel the cold or the hot. It is late fall and you have been running around in little. Have you been cold?"

"No dad it was fine."

Speaking of that, I motion for her to follow me we go down to the first floor. All the gifts and things I have collected over my1600 years have been piled in here. I have bolts of silk from china, yards and yards of lining from Egypt, and wool from Rome. Hides and skins from the tribes some fashioned into cloths.

"We will have to jury-rig something up for now."

She looked at the cloth. Fingering the silk "I know how to sew I made all my and my old father's cloths."

"Change into something that fits for now you can use whatever is in here. This is your home too now what's mine is yours. I will wait for you upstairs."

Thus began her training I taught her all the languages I knew. Math and sciences that this world has not even learned she soaked it up like a sponge. We went to the city I kept us unseen unheard we looked in on her father. Two decades had passed the tribe cared for him in his last days. We appeared before his house, our skins shining people falling to their knees as we enter his home. I look down on him all the elders have gathered.

"The last of Torick," my voice rings out. The old man's eyes open and he looks at me. Then his eyes flow to the beautiful girl next to me. He is too weak to speak but his eyes water. "Leave the trees, our daughter walks with me now."

She takes his hand we had been working hard on her control so as not to hurt him she wished to say good bye to her first father. "I am well; Torick's line will walk the mother with hunter for all time. I am now his true daughter first father. He has given me a name it is Kaytlyn. It means "smart beautiful child" in his tongue." He forces a smile a tear trickles down his cheek it's the only way he can tell her of his joy. With a hiss his last breath passes from his body. He died with a smile on his face. She looks to the elders. Patting his hand in farewell she leans in kissing his wet cheek. In a murmur they hear "I love you daddy good bye" then her voice gains strength. "Make sure he has all the honors he was the shaman to Hunter and the last of Torick's." They all put their heads to the floor and we walked out. I wrapped my gifts around us and we left.

We grew closer every day. I taught her to fight she was a deadly little thing Mars would have loved her. I bound her molecules together so she could not be torn apart. Before we knew it 300 years had passed. I was getting restless again I had been home for over 400 years. I asked her if she would like to travel and see the world.

"Yes, oh yes I would like to see the things you have told me of father."

We will run down south and see Ature first and see how Pablo is doing.

She went and got the back packs. I had described too her what I wanted she had made them out of thick leather. We packet a few changes of clothes that she had made, she really was quite good. She bound her hair in a high ponytail and we headed off after locking up our home. we looked like a couple of kids off to school with our back packs. She was not as fast as me and she had no gift. I had started to think that the singers of the human race were the gifted. The reasons gifted were so rare was because they were the first eaten. We got down to the Incan's and smelt five immortals. We were greeted by a young female of 15. She took one look at our eyes and invited us to their home.

It was a palace sitting on the edge of a cliff as we entered Ature appeared with a woman in his arms. Disengaging himself he opens his arms. "Mac it has been too long."

I embrace him. "I see you have been busy, three more my brother?" Two other come out one is Pablo. He goes to the young girl holding her hand.

"Not me" he points to Pablo "I have not the skill he was after all an accident. I met my Teea and I knew she was the one but I didn't think I could do it. Pablo had already changed Shail I asked him to do it."

I turn to him. "How are you little one," my pet name for him?

Smiling he extends his hand and we grasp forearms as is the custom here. "Good Mac I see you met my mate Shail and this is her sister Reail."

"Everyone this is Kaytlyn my daughter."

She smiles and waves. "Please its Kat father is so formal he never lets me call him Michal."

Everyone laughs the girls are looking at our eyes. Finally Teea asks if we really eat animals with a face.

"Oh yes" Kat tells her with a huge grin, "bear is my favorite. Dad has been telling me of the polar bears I can't wait till we go there."

"Is it as good as humans" Reail asks?

"I don't know. I don't like the way humans smell. I have never ate one" she shakes with revulsion just thinking about it.

"You owe me a rematch Mac." Pablo roles his neck "I have been training with Ature since your last visit."

I give Kat a smile. "How about you go a few rounds with Kat she is looking for a new challenge."

Kat gives nothing away she fights me to a draw most times. She looks like Bruce lee and a shoaling monk all rolled into one.

We head out side and they face off Pablo confident in his skill. She has him pined with her teeth to his neck in under two minutes. The rest look on stunned.

"How old did you say Kat is?" Ature looks at me.

"I'm 313 this year" she tells him as she lets Pablo up. She refuses to count her human years.

He looks at me. "Is it a golden eye thing?" He looks put out being beaten by a girl.

The other three girls swarm Kat and with giggles they disappear into the house.

"I fear you have brought a whirlwind into my coven Mac." Ature claps him on my back. "Let's head in you can tell me what is going on in the world."

"I have been a little single-mindedly working with Kat for over 300 years at my home. But before that I was in your old stopping grounds. Anubus killed a very close friend I stalked him for 30 years and then ripped off the bastard's head."

"How are you still here?" Pablo sat and listens as Ature asked me that.

Pablo knew of the death touch, Ature shared all he knew of the places he had been. He sat waiting for my answer.

"A lot has change I fear, I have had to remove more heads than I care to admit. Roman's Greek's Egyptian's they all call me death. Most shy away I have a few who call me friend. I count both of you on that very short list. Soon my friend we will have to move into the shadows, dark times are coming for the immortals."

Ature shakes his head only he knows I'm from the future. "Will it be bad?"

"For you no, your time comes much later the sickness that will hit the other place will kill five out of every six humans. They will be fighting for food over there. The sickness will take a few centuries to reach these shores."

"Will it affect your diet?" The young immortal asks.

I smile at Pablo, "no and there are only two of us."

Kat was a disruption to the males in the Inca coven. The woman were sparing with her talking back to the men becoming more independent by the day.

Pablo came to me in a panic. "She wants me to train her! Shail told me we would not be together until I agree!"

I smile at him. "What do you want me to do about it?"

"Talk to that hell cat daughter of yours she is putting ideas in the girl's heads."

I laugh out loud. "I wouldn't be saying that where the girls can hear if I were you. They might break off a few parts you are very happy to have. You won't have to worry about Shail cutting you off then."

His hands move to that universal spot every guy covers when something like that is discussed.

:You better get used to it the world spins and time moves on. Someday women will be equal in all ways that matter to a man." He stomps out.

Ature has listened to everything we said, vampire hearing. Shaking his head, "the fool forgets they can hear everything in this house." We hear four girls giggle. He plays up to the girls and with a smile to me, "I think it's a good idea for the ladies to know how to defend their selves from any attacker."

I mouth SMART MAN to him and smile.

"What next after you leave" Ature ask me?

"I think I will look in on a few friends Zhou, Toa, Aro. See how things are faring Aro has some good ideas and has the right frame of mind to take charge."

"What of you old friend I think you would do a great job roping in the others." Ature asked in a serious voice.

"No I would not have the tolerance for it I would just start ripping heads off. Kat has the same mentality we run well together."

From the back room I hear. "Thanks dad" with a smile in her voice.

"Your welcome love."

We spend a few decades with them our eating habits make it easier for both covens to get along. Kat got all the girls to try her eating habits it was not a big hit. Reail tried to entice Kat with human blood eating messily in front of her spilling a lot on the ground. Ature saw my face, after that he had a privet word with his coven while Kat and I hunted. He knew my views on waste and cruelty. After that not a drop got spilled. I never had to say a word but Reail looked a little scared when she ate if I was there. Before we left the men were back in the dog house with the girls. They had seen the silk in Kats pack. Asking where I got it I told them "it was a gift from Zhou." After that they were nonstop on a campaign to come with Kat and I.

"They are staying in the wilderness for a few decades where there are no humans the closes are Mac's people and I have sworn to never eat them and as leader of this coven none of you will either." Ature was ready to pull his hair out.

I finally came to his rescue "why don't you come home with me Art." I was the only one to get away with calling him that except Kat she could do no wrong. It was a name of affection from our travels 1600 years ago. "I have a few bolts the girls can have you can bring them back."

The three of us left the next day.

"Thanks for the save back there. They are not ready for the other place maybe in a few centuries of training." He looks at Kat. "There to meek not like our little hellion over there."

Kat smiles at him, "thank Uncle Art."

She had started calling him that after I had put my arm around his neck and called him brother. The sisters called me uncle Mac after that day and Teea treated me like a brother in-law. He was right though my girl was taking no shit from anyone. And feel sorry for the fool who ever harms one hair on her head they will die in excruciating pain.

Two days running and we are home.

"This is the first time you have ever invited me into your home Mac."

I cock my head. Before Kat I would never have let anyone in here. Now I find I don't mind a guest as long as the leave my humans alone.

We hop up and Kat opens the door it will only open for us I bound it that way. We sit and have a nice game of chess as Kat digs out the silk she is willing to part with. I had to promise to ask Zhou for more.

"How much longer do you think this land will remain secret?" He asks as he moves his knight.

"Not much more I'm afraid. Soon I fear my people in the city will have an immortal living among them. I will not spend all my time babysitting them, however if they are being murdered." I left it hanging there.

"Yes the Black Death you called it. They will be looking for food."

"I may have to discuss it with Zhou, Zeus, Aro, Stephon, and whomever the Greek's have left. Make some ground rules. No more being seen in the sun. Any humans that see us sparkle must die. Stop drawing attention to us. Let us fade from the memory of the humans becoming stories to scare the young."

"We will start as you say to slide into the shadows. My coven will work with you."

"Good, old friend I fear we will have to impose hash punishment to any repeat offenders." He left with five bolts of silk I knew there was at least six more down there especially Kat's favorite blue.

We had to repack having given away all but the cloths on our backs to the Inca coven. Kat made me pants and shirts with pockets out of a canvas material made in our city. It was not as smooth as the silk but it was almost as strong as it. And it was plentiful as the people would give her anything she asked for. Kat was going to find some of the new rules restrictive. It was a good thing we lived in the redwood forest. Cloudy and rainy most of the time I swear if the sun came out 40 times a year I would be surprised. She fixed a tear in her pack and we were ready to go.

we are almost done with BC half way back to were Mac started this journey

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