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"Raypulse" Zhalia called out.
"Armorbrand" Amy blocked the attack.
"Shadowspeed" Zhalia moved closer to Amy and kicked her, but Amy reacted quickly.
"Boltflare" she shouted and hit Zhalia with the orb.
"Darkfog" Zhalia said and a dark mist appeared all around.
"Hexkill" Amy said and the mist disappeared.
"Venomhand" she heard Zhalias voice from behind.
"Hyperstride" Amy jumped away.
"That's enough. Bramblebind"
As Zhalia said the spell, thorny vines came out of the ground and grabbed Amy and pulled her down on the ground. She was trying to free herself, but it was hopeless.
"Break…" she tried to break the spell, but the vines shut her mouth.
"Hmmhmhhmmhhm!" Amy was trying to say something.
Zhalia was standing above her, gasping for air. She was obviously tired. They were fighting for almost two hours, and none of them wanted to give up.
"This was amazing" Dante said from the door.
"Yeah, she's really good" Zhalia agreed.
"No, I'm talking about you" he said and went over to her.
"Huh?" Zhalia asked tired and confused.
"You reacted quickly at her spells and attacks and blocked them. She's a vampire and she's faster than you are. It's amazing how fast you became as you're training with her. You both improved" Dante said with a smile.
"Hmhmmhm" Amy said something.
"Are you going to free her?" Dante asked and pointed at Amy who was still covered with vines.
"Maybe" Zhalia said with an evil smile.
"Hmmhhmhmmhhm!" Amy said something that sounded really angry.
"Are you swearing at me?" Zhalia asked with attitude. Amy shook her head.
"Oh well. Breakspell" Zhalia sighed and let Amy go.
When the vines disappeared she caught Amys hand and pulled her up on her feet.
"Thank you" Amy said gasping for air like Zhalia.
"Tired?" Dante asked her with a smile.
"No, I just find amusing the fact that my lugs make funny noises while I'm gasping for air" Amy answered sarcastically.
"Sorry Miss Vampire for asking. You're spending too much time with Zhalia, you know that?" Dante said as he crossed his hands on his chest.
"Well sorry Mister Investigator but you told me to do so" Amy shot back and put her hands on her hips.
"I see you still have a lot of energy. Do you want to spend it fighting me?" Dante smiled at her in a nasty way.
"Why not? Fighting is like sex, the more you get the better it is" she smiled back at him in the same way as he did.
Dante looked away and blushed a bit. He usually didn't have problems talking about sex, but Amy caught him off guard. Amy and Zhalia started to laugh.
"I won" Amy said still laughing.
"Yes you did. Gonna pay you later" Zhalia answered giggling.
"Wait. What?" Dante asked confused and not knowing what's going on.
"We had a bet. She said she can make you blush and I said the opposite. I was obviously wrong" Zhalia explained with a big smile.
"You two are spending too much time together, obviously" Dante shook his head.
"And you're still having a dirty mouth" he turned to Amy.
"You think the things I say are dirty? Than what would you say to the thing I keep for myself?" Amy asked in a cheeky way.
"You two go on fighting if you want to but I'm going to take a shower" Zhalia went out of the gym.
"Do you think you are ready to face me?" Dante asked Amy, but now with a serious voice.
"Yes I do" Amy nodded.
"Are you sure? Two months aren't' a long time to get much experience" he said, not sure if she's really ready.
"Maybe you're more experienced, but I'm faster and I've got sharper senses. That put us on the same level" she said with confidence.
"Good. In that case I'll go to talk with Metz now and you're going to training with me today" Dante agreed with her. Amy nodded. Dante went to the living room to call Metz and Amy went to take a shower.
When she dressed up she went to the living room, but it was empty. On the table there was a note:
Amy,
Zhalia and I went to the Headquarters to speak with Metz and Guggenheim. Have some rest. I'll be back in the afternoon and you will get through the test to become a real member of the team and the Huntik Foundation.
See you later,
Dante
Amy smiled as she put back the note on the table.
"The weekend begun well. I have the whole day to rest and think about a way to quickly fight back Dante when he attacks me. He's tricky, but I'll find a way" She sat down on the couch and the same second fell asleep.
"It's alright Katarina, it's alright" a man said while holding his wife's hand in his hands.
"But it hurts so much!" the woman almost screamed and squeezed her husbands hand harder.
"It will be soon over" he was assuring her.
The woman was lying on the bed on her back. She was in labor, giving birth to her first child. She had straight brown hair with a few curls, yellow eyes and pale skin.
"Erno!" she screamed her husbands name.
Erno felt so helpless, so weak and worried because he wasn't able to help Katarina. He had black air, big dark-green eyes and pale skin.
"One more push and you will have your baby in your arms" said the woman who was helping Katarina.
Katarina squeezed Ernos hand harder and suddenly relaxed. They both heard a baby crying.
"Congratulation, you got a beautiful baby daughter" the woman said and brought the baby to its parents. The man kissed his wife and than the baby she was holding in her arms.
"You see? I've told you we're going to have a cute daughter" he said with a big smile.
"What time is it?" Katarina asked.
"It is 9:50 p.m. and the date is the 3th March. What will be her name be?" Erno asked.
"Amy" the proud mother answered and kissed her newborn daughter.
Amy woke up at the sound of her phone ringing. She took it out of her pocket and answered.
"Hello?" she said with a sleepy voice and a Finnish accent.
"Amy?" she heard Loks voice.
"No, the tooth fairy" she answered irritated.
"Sorry, wrong number" Lok laughed from the other side of the line.
"Not funny. Talk. What do you want?" she yawned.
"Sorry if I woke you up. I heard that today is your big day" he sounded excited.
"Yeah it is" she answered sleepy.
"I just wanted to wish you luck" he said at last.
"Thank you Lok" Amy smiled.
"Bye" he said and hung up. Amy put her phone down on the table and thought for a moment.
"I had a really weird dream. I think I dreamt…" she stopped for a second.
"No, it wasn't" she said and sat back on the couch. She fell asleep again.
A little girl was lying in her bed, while her mother was walking up and down in the room.
"Mommy" the little one said silently. It sounded more like a whisper, but her mother heard her.
"I'm here my precious baby. I'm here honey" she said and sat down beside her sick daughter.
The child was about three years old now. She had pale skin, but her cheeks were burning because of the fever. Her hair was dark-brown and here eyes were green and shinny, like two big emeralds. Usually she was running around her mother while she was working something or they were playing, but now the child was really sick. She had fever for a few days, and it wasn't getting lower.
"Where is daddy?" she whispered as she noticed that her father was away for the whole day.
"He will be soon back with someone who will help you" Katarina kissed her daughters forehead and turned away so she couldn't see the tears in her eyes.
"Katarina" she heard Ernos voice.
He stepped into the room and run to his daughters bed. When he saw his little one, he kissed her forehead.
"Hello daddy" the emerald eyed child answered and kissed her fathers cheek.
"Is he here?" Katarina asked worried.
"Yes" her husband nodded
In that moment she had a chocking feeling in her through, but she haven't said anything. She knew that their guardian won't help without asking for something in exchange. Right now she was willing to give anything to save her daughter, even her own life. The only thing she didn't knew that she will pay the biggest price in her life. Erno was thinking the same while holding his precious child in his arms. He turned around, looked into Katarina's eyes and nodded. They both stood beside the child's bed and kissed her, maybe for the very last time in their life.
"Listen honey. Whatever happens right now, you have to know that we love you. We always wanted the best for you" Katarina said. They hugged her and went out of the room.
The little girl was alone for a really long time, before she heard screams. After a minute, a man with black cloak came into the room. His face was grim, his eyes were bloody-red and he had a pair of fangs which were covered with blood. He was tall, completely in black with long, light blonde hair. He stepped to the bed.
"Hello my little one" he said while his eyes were focused on her. The child found that his greeting sounded more like a growl.
"H-he-hello" she greeted him, although with fear. Her parents taught her to be polite, what she was doing always.
The man stepped to her bed and smiled at her. She found it really creepy. Her instincts were telling her to run, to flee from this man, but she couldn't. She was too weak and sick.
"Do you know what I am?" he asked her, still smiling. The little girl shook her head.
"Of course you don't know. Your parents never taught you. I heard from them that you're sick. I came to help you" he said with a false sweet voice.
"Who are you?" the little girl asked.
"I am your creator" he laughed darkly and leaned down to her.
"I will make you one of us and you shall serve me" he whispered into her ear and bit her neck.
Amy woke up screaming with pain and fear. She jumped up from the couch and put her palm on her neck. She felt a sharp pain, that's what woke her. She looked at her palm, but there was nothing.
"Amy?" she heard a voice from behind her back. She was gasping for air while trying to calm down.
"Are you alright?" she recognized Dantes voice. He stood in front of her and caught her shoulders.
"Amy?" he asked with worry.
"I'm… alright…" she answered still gasping.
"What happened?" he asked and gently pushed her back on the couch to sit down.
"I just had a nightmare. Nothing more… I think…" she said silently, almost whispering.
"About what? Do you want to tell me? You might feel better" Dante offered his help.
He knew that she would feel better if she tells him, at last he always felt better when he could talk with someone about his problems and nightmares. Amy thought about it for a minute.
"I think I dreamt how I became a vampire. I'm not sure" she shook her head.
"U-huh… Um, do you want to talk about it?" he asked and looked at her with compassion.
"I'm not sure if it was a dream or if I remembered what happened" Amy looked at the floor.
"How do you mean?" he asked confused.
"I was too small to remember how I became a vampire. Sometimes I have dreams. They are more like visions, memories from my past. I don't remember much from it" she said with sadness, still looking at the floor.
Dante wanted to ask her if there were any good dreams, but he stood silent because he knew he won't get a positive answer. Instead of asking her, he decided to make her forget the dream and reassure her about it.
"Hey, forget it. I'm sure it was just a dream. We sometime have weird dreams" he was trying to cheer her up a little bit.
"You're right" she looked up on him with a smile and nodded.
"Hello lads! I'm back!" they heard a squeaky voice from the window.
"Welcome home Cherit" Dante stood up to greet the small titan.
"Hello" Amy greeted him too, surprised and confused.
"Ups… Dante, have I made a mistake by flying in?" Cherit asked as he saw Amy's expression.
"No, you haven't" Dante smiled at him.
"Amy, this is our talking titan friend, Cherit. I've told you about him earlier this month. Cherit, this is Amy, our new-team-mate-to-be" he introduced them to each other. Cherit flew to Amy and they shook hands.
"You're a vampire!" Cherit said with amazement.
"Yes I am" Amy answered wondering from where he knows it.
"I haven't seen a vampire for centuries!" he said with a happy voice.
"Lucky you" Amy and Dante said in the same moment. They looked at each other and started to laugh.
"Where have you been for these four months?" Dante asked after some time. After defeating the Professor, Cherit decided to go into the world again.
"I was flying all over the world. I saw things which weren't there the last time I flew by" Cherit explained and told them everything he saw.
"So, why did you called me back Dante?" he asked when he finished his story.
"Right. Amy is going to take the test today and you will make sure no one cheats" Dante told him the plan.
"Good. How will it go and when?" Cherit asked at last.
"Yeah, how and when?" Amy repeated the question.
"First we will go, well actually run to the nearest park. It's always empty so we can use spells there. You will have to fight me, and if you are good enough, I will consider it that you passed the test" Dante told them the plan.
"When?" Cherit asked.
"At sunset" was the answer.
"That means we can go right away" Amy said and stood up.
"Ok. Let's go" Dante stood up and they went outside. He locked the door and Cherit flew up high in the sky.
"Ready?" Dante asked with a smile.
"Always" Amy answered shortly and they started to run.
After about ten minutes Amy started to gasp for air heavily.
"Are you alright? Should we stop?" Dante offered her.
"No… It's… alright… I can… make… it…" Amy said, still gasping.
They went on running, although Dante started to gasp a little bit too. After ten more minutes they reached the park. Dante went deeper into it, so Amy followed him. It was more like a forest than a park, so Dante was right that no one will see them using spells. Dante stopped at a big tree and Amy stopped a few steps from him.
"Can we… rest?" Amy asked.
"No. Don't… rest… Just… stand… here… and catch… your… breathe" Dante answered gasping like Amy.
"You know, I think that's called resting" she started to laugh.
"Yeah, I know" Dante joined her laughing.
The sun went down, so it was already dark. When Dante saw that Amy calmed and rested a bit, he decided that he could surprise her with an attack.
"Boltflare" Dante said and sent the orb towards Amy.
"Armorbrand!" she said before Dantes attack hit her. A barrier appeared before her, and as the orb hit it, it disappeared.
"Quick thinking" Dante admitted. "Thank you" Amy said with a smile.
"Augerfrost!" she attacked back.
"Hyperstride!" Dante jumped away.
"Shadowspeed! Touchram!" Amy run to Dante and tried to hit him, but he blocked her attack.
The fight went on for ten more minutes before Cherit flew down from a tree.
"Lads, aren't you tired"?
"No" they both answered in the same second.
"Mindsight" Amy whispered.
"Bramblebind!" Dante tried to do the same as Zhalia did, but Amy foresaw what he was planning.
"Breakspell" she said as the vines caught her legs. They disappeared immediately.
"Bramblebind" she said and the vines reappeared, but this time around Dante.
"Want to go on a higher level?" he asked with a nasty smile.
"Fight for me, Caliban!" As Dante called out, his titan appeared.
"Ravenheart!" Amy called her titan too.
She wasn't sure if it's going to listen to her, but it did. Caliban freed Dante and attacked Ravenheart. Ravenheart grabbed Caliban by its hand and flew up high in the dark night sky. Amy and Dante meanwhile continued the fight back on the ground.
Cherit was watching carefully their every move and attack, making sure it's all by the rules.
Caliban cut Ravenhearts leg with his sword, so the black raven-shaped titan let him go. As Caliban fell on the ground, he returned into his amulet around Dantes neck. From the sudden power Dante have to take a step back to keep the balance.
"Headcage" Dante muttered.
"Try it again if you can" he said with a nasty grin.
"I don't have to. Sorrowbond!" she said and a light appeared around Dantes pocket.
"That's cheating" he said a bit angry.
"No it's not. It's a spell I learnt from Zhalia" Amy answered with a grin.
"Bramblebind!" they both yelled and thorny vines bound them both down.
"Whe schrewhed twish whup!" Amy said with a vine in her mouth.
"Mhm" Dante nodded, completely covered with vines and unable to speak because of them. Suddenly Ravenheart flew down and freed Amy.
"Thanks" she thanked and the raven went back into his amulet around Amy's neck. She went over to Dante and freed him with a Breakspell.
"Thank you" Dante said as he stood up.
"Equal?" Amy asked and offered her hand.
"Equal" Dante answered with a smile and accepted her hand.
"Was everything ok?" Amy asked from Cherit as he flew down to them.
"Yes it was" the small flying titan nodded.
"You're good" Dante admitted to Amy.
"Well, I had a great teacher" she smiled at him.
"True, she is great" he nodded.
Amy couldn't suppress a giggle. She knew Dantes feelings towards Zhalia, and she knew that Zhalia felt the same way. During two months it was more than obvious. Besides it, Amy was slowly gaining a new ability, empathy. She was able to feel others feelings, so it wasn't hard for her to find out Dantes and Zhalias love towards each other.
"Let's go home" Dante suggested as he suspected why Amy is giggling
They slowly started to walk out of the park, when they heard a branch break behind them. They turned around and saw a man standing not far from the place they were standing a second ago.
He had blond hair, pale skin and bloody red eyes. He was dressed completely in black, with a big black cloak on his back.
"Tuomas!" Amy said with a big smile.
She wanted to run to him, but Dante caught her wrist with a hard grip. That's when Amy realized that the other mans eyes are red.
"What happened to you? What have you done?" Amy asked him shocked.
"Nothing happened to me. I only became stronger" the man answered with a rough and dark voice.
"Amy?" Dante looked at her with a questioning look.
"He's my friend Tuomas. Angelus taught us together back in Finland" Amy gave the answer.
"I'm not your friend Amy. I'm your worst enemy" the dark vampire answered bitterly.
"But…"
"And if you tell me where's Angelus I will make your death quick and easy" he growled at her.
"Cherit…" Dante silently said.
"I'm on my way" Cherit answered and flew away.
"You should go to" Dante whispered to Amy.
"You can't fight him. He's a strong vampire, stronger than I am" Amy whispered back
Tuomas laughed frantically. Dante felt like his blood froze in his veins.
"I don't know. After I left I haven't seen him or heard anything about or from him" Amy explained.
While she was talking her vampire senses made her feel that she has to protect Dante, so she slowly stood in front of him, right between the two man, ready to block an attack.
"Why are you protecting him? He's a human" Tuomas asked as he noticed her movement.
Amy growled at him a bit. That's when he realized.
"He's your mentor, isn't he?" he smiled and showed him fangs. They were big and shining and looked really sharp.
"Why do you care? Leave us alone" Amy growled at him, but this time louder.
Dante felt the urge to move away from the danger, his life as a seeker and his experience made him really careful.
"Dante, I'm not gonna hurt you and I don't have the time to assure you, but if you go too far from me I won't be able to fight for my life and protect you, and he will hurt you or even kill you" Amy whispered and turned a little bit to him, but she was still looking at Tuomas at the same time. Dante understood what she was saying and he stood on his place.
"You are not even a vampire Amy. You're a traitor and a disgrace to all vampires" the other vampire yelled at her and attacked.
Amy's senses made her move and she pushed Dante into a bush as she jumped at Tuomas. They were wrestling a bit on the ground before Amy kicked him off of her.
While Tuomas and Amy were fighting, Dante was trying to call any of his titans, but it was in vain. He realized that they were still under Sorrowbond and he was too tired to use spells. He could only fight normally, but he wouldn't stand in the fight more than a minute.
Amy was fighting with all her strength. It wasn't easy to fight such a strong opponent, especially because she was tired from the fight with Dante, and she was keeping an eye on him while fighting against Tuomas. She was really tired and she was sure she's going to loose the fight, so she decided to end it.
She was right beside Dante when she crouched down into a defending position, and revealed her fangs and started to hiss. Amy started to growl, while still showing her fangs and hissing from time to time. Tuomas got confused and surprised and even a bit scared because he never saw Amy like this, and she looked dangerous. He slowly started to go backwards. That was what Amy was waiting for, to confuse him and get a chance to run away.
"Darkfog!" she yelled and a dark mist appeared in the already dark park.
Amy run to Dante, grabbed him by his wrist and started to run. At first Dante was struggling, but when he realized that she's helping him, he started to run with her. A few times thy used Shadowspeed, and soon they were at Dantes house. The lights were on, but they didn't care at the time.
As they run in, Dante immediately locked the door. He wanted to go to the living room and sit down somewhere, but he wasn't able to. He wasn't able to make even a step, but he wasn't able to stand because he was shivering too hard. He leaned against the wall beside the door and slowly sank down onto the floor, so he sat down at least. Amy was standing beside him, gasping and leaning against the wall too, but she didn't sit down.
Lok, Sophie and Zhalia immediately stood up when they heard Amy and Dante approach the house. The first thing Amy noticed was that Cherit was missing. He probably flew to the HQ.
"Fucking bastard!" Amy shouted and with anger kicked the wall far from Dante.
She went on swearing, but the others couldn't understand her because it was all on Finnish. They never saw her so angry. She swore sometimes on English when something happened, but never so much and never on Finnish. Lok was really happy right now that he didn't force her to teach him Finnish when she told him no one time.
"Dante!" Zhalia gasped and kneeled down to him.
She saw fear in his eyes, although he was trying to hide it. Lok and Sophie didn't understand anything at all. Dante haven't replied; he was just gasping for air, shivering heavily and shaking his head. Zhalia hugged him to help him calm down.
"What happened?" she whispered into his ear.
He wasn't able to reply, he was completely exhausted and still gasping. He wanted to answer but he couldn't. He only looked at Amy with wide eyes while the girl was walking up and down from the living room to the kitchen, still swearing on her mother tongue.
"Amy" Zhalia growled at her and gave her a killing look.
She was ready to jump to the younger girl and find out what happened by force, when Dante suddenly pushed her away gently and stood up. She immediately stood up beside him and caught his arm.
"I'm alright" Dante said and took a deep breathe to calm completely down.
"What happened?" Lok repeated Zhalias question.
"A vampire attacked us on the way back" Dante answered at last.
"A vampire?" they all said together.
"Yes. Someone who used to be my friend" Amy came back from the kitchen.
"How do you mean?" Sophie asked her, not believing what was going on.
"Back in Finland our mentor Angelus trained us to have the knowledge how to defend ourselves from other vampires. Instead of doing so, this so called 'friend of mine' used his knowledge to get more power. He is more powerful than I am. Tuomas, that's his name, left us and went to find others who were sharing his dream about the great vampire war" Amy said and rolled her eyes.
"What war?" now it was Dantes turn to ask.
"Some vampires think that there shouldn't be any humans on Earth, only for food" she said bitterly.
Dante swallowed hard at this thought and the memory of the sharp fangs.
"Don't worry. Just few vampires think like that. About 2 out of 20 vampires. There won't be any war" she said with a calming voice.
"Amy, are you alright?" Lok asked and stepped closer to her.
"Of course I am. Why?" Amy answered, but stepped backwards from Lok. He took a step back too.
"Sorry" he apologized.
"I'm fine. I just can't believe that Tuomas wants to kill me" she said with sadness.
As she said the last two words, the lights went out and there was nothing but darkness around the team.
"What happened?" Sophie asked and went to Lok.
"It's because the bad weather" Lok explained and put his hands on Sophies shoulders.
"What bad weather?" Amy asked and went to the window to look at the sky.
It was completely dark, but the heavy clouds were visible.
"Oh, that weather" she concluded.
"Haven't seen them?" Lok asked.
"Sorry, I haven't time to look at the sky while running from the vampire who wanted to kill us" she said sarcastically.
She was a vampire and she could see in the dark, so she went to find a candle. She barely made a step when there was a loud thunder.
"Dante!" Zhalia gasped and jumped into his arms. He hugged her, confused with her action. No one saw what happened, expect for Amy.
There was another loud thunder, and the entrance door shot open. In the door there was a silhouette of a man stepping into the house.
TBC
Ha! A cliffhanger! I've told you guys I'm gonna make one as well! xD
I hope you enjoyed reading this chapter, and sorry that you had to wait for it this long. Tell me what you think about this chapter and the whole story with a review! And don't forget to answer my questions! And here they go:
Was Amy's dream just a dream or did she saw the past? Who was the dark guy? What happened to Amy's parents? Is the guy really Amy's creator? Where is he right now? What happened to Tuomas and why is he looking for his ex-mentor? Why is he attacking Amy? Who is the guy stepping into the house? Will the team be able to defend themselves or will they fall?
Thank you all!
