Omnia Paratus

I left Moscow with the phone in my hand. I needed to extract the signal and the flame pattern, but I had to find a quiet and elevated spot. I sat near a cabin, took out the phone, and focused on the number. I closed my eyes and began analyzing the signal.

I followed the signal of the number, taking notes and infiltrating the databases of various telecommunication companies. The search was going to be intense, so I had the servers create a program to automate it. I expanded the operation to multiple servers, and my program sent me back the data. There was a signal jumping between many countries, constantly changing, but its entry and exit point was in Kazakhstan. "It can't be!" I said to myself. It was the same place I visited and destroyed last year, and now I was confirming that the signal was still active. "There must be a secret location I couldn't detect back then. That means my work with the cult wasn't finished! There was another place, an additional floor, or some underground facility. The line was likely a cable connection since the signal continued to a nearby radio tower, and the data confirmed it was a disguised landline."

At that moment, I heard a familiar noise, a familiar scent. There was a vampire nearby. I traced his scent through the woods, leading me to a nearby farm in Kazakhstan, and there I saw it: another unknown vampire approaching a young girl who was tending to her animals.

The animals immediately alerted the girl, and the vampire lunged at her. I managed to grab the girl and get her out of there.

"She's my prey! I saw her first!" the guy shoved me, and I activated a pepper gas grenade, trying to hold my breath. He fell into the trap and inhaled the gas. I took the opportunity to kick him. I noticed the girl was injured and bleeding from her leg.

"The scent... not again..." Having a bleeding human nearby only attracts disaster. It's the worst thing for a vampire to be caught off guard with a bleeding human. "I need to focus..."

I took out my dagger once again and went after him, despite the girl's scent and my irritation from the pepper gas. He managed to dodge my attacks and disarm me, throwing the dagger in another direction. He pushed me forcefully and focused on the girl.

Before he could touch her, I managed to tackle him. In one or two swift moves, I realized his desperation. He was completely focused on the girl, it was my chance. I used some of the techniques Od had taught me. I bit off his arm, ripped off his ear, and threw him into the woods. As I ran to retrieve the dagger, he, wounded but determined, kept advancing towards the girl.

I quickly grabbed the dagger, ignited the blade, and threw it towards him...

Fortunately, the blade managed to decapitate him, falling just inches from the girl. The flames began their work, and his body disintegrated.

"Are you alright?" I asked her. The scent of her blood became unbearable, calling out to me, tempting me to become the monster that Od, that Anastasia are... I fell to my knees. I mustn't, I mustn't give in, I mustn't surrender.

She didn't respond, obviously not speaking the same language as me. I saw her bleeding profusely, and then she passed out...

"No, not again..." Memories of my wife Marie, of my little Lucero, their breath fading away in my arms. "No, no, I can't go through this again..." I approached the girl...

"Her scent, I can't bear it anymore... if you can, Gonzalo. If you can... you must!"

I slowly took the girl in my arms and headed towards the cabin... "We are vampires, Gonzalo, it's in our nature to feed on humans..." Od's words echoed in my mind, even after his death, this man continued to torment me.

There was blood everywhere. "Don't do it, Gonzalo! Don't do it...!" I cauterized the wound with the heat of the dagger and wrapped her in a blanket for protection. I tried to give her water, her parents were nowhere to be found. "What irresponsible people... damn it!"

Finally, she started to open her eyes. "Drink, drink..." I tried to tell her, she needed to hydrate. She was beginning to feel better. The ashes of the vampire faded away, and she finally looked at me with a smile. "How brave she is," I whispered to myself. She pointed her finger, and I saw her parents approaching in the distance. It was time for me to retreat, hoping she would be fine.

This is the first time I've finally managed to save a human from a vampire...

Well... how does it feel? I can't say for certain, but I think I feel like I'm on the right path.

I wandered through the tundra, crossed the mountains, and arrived at the same place I reached last year. That imposing fortress that claimed so many innocent lives at the whim of a few. I entered again through the same door I used that afternoon when I used everything I knew at the time as a vampire to destroy the vampire poison, to erase the data of all future victims. The snow fell slowly and covered the now ruined entrances, the towers, the cracked concrete, and the fallen metal doors that once made this laboratory so formidable.

Upon entering, I could feel the cold of this gloomy place. I could feel the nightmares that occurred here back then. I'm grateful for Commissioner Klein's courage and sacrifice to obtain the information about this place. As my footsteps echoed in the deafening silence of this abandoned place, I could sense a faint signal, a signal I hadn't felt before due to the noise of the digital devices that once brought this laboratory to life. Step by step, the signal grew stronger, but I couldn't find any doors.

Mr. Petrov sat in his chair and asked me, "If you came to rescue me, I don't think you can. Not that I would want it either. I have been here for far too long with my tormented thoughts to want to continue living."

"Don't you want to see your daughter again?" I asked him.

"There is nothing in the world I want more than to be with her again. But I have too much weighing on my conscience to put her at risk. And my soul weighs too heavily for me to keep on living. But you see, I am too much of a coward to take my own life at the same time."

"I can understand," I said. "I had a daughter and a wife too. Unfortunately, they are no longer in this life."

He stared at me intently and then turned his gaze back to the monitor. "It was them, wasn't it? The ones who turned you into what you are now."

"Yes..." I lowered my head and clenched my fists tightly. Mr. Petrov could see the tension in me and how my hands were trembling.

"You want to get revenge on them, you want to find them... Ahh... you were the boy who destroyed this place last year. You see, I sought refuge here, thinking it was the Volturi, but it seemed strange that the assault was so chaotic. They usually operate with precision. And many were left alive and managed to escape. I saw you on some cameras and thought you were coming on their behalf." He paused and added, "Do you possess any special abilities?"

I took out the dagger, placed it on the table, and typed on the computer with the power of my mind: "I can control machines..."