Chapter 3

Alvaria's Point Of View.

"I caught his scent…he's moving fast. Let's split up and overtake him by the river upfront. You take left and I'll take right,"

I nodded my head in acknowledgement as I ran towards the left just trying to track the scent of the river ahead.

The more I ran the closer I got to the river and the stronger his scent got which propelled me to run faster towards him.

I could just feel my wolf stirring up within me as the aura of darkness around the man grew stronger the closer I got to him. I could just tell that he was strong and not going to be an easy monster to take down but I had a job to do and mercy is not part of the job description.

I dug my heels into the floor just ready to pounce on him when a sudden gust of wind blew by and the man tumbled over into the ground.

"Ouch! That must have hurt bad…probably will leave a bruise,"

Bulks of energy radiated off of him with a dark aura surrounding his whole being. Damien stood over the man and looked down at him just daring him to get up. If not for the seriousness of the situation I would have given Damien a high five for the way he tackled our prey to the ground like that.

"What the hell is wrong with you!"

The man's booming voice rang through the forest and he looked up at us looking Hella pissed and with his eyes glistening with an orange hue. Thich blue and purple veins surrounded his eyes as his fangs extended…A vampire.

"I guess we all lost the bet huh…who could have guessed vampire? I was so damn sure it was a dragon ,this is honestly a big let down…disappointment of the century,"

I couldn't help but agree with Damien… as much as I love hunting monsters I have to admit,I love being right even more.

"Well…well… I have to ask , how does a blood sucking leach such as yourself cause such damage?,"

*Slap!*

"Ouch!"

Damien was not one to accept any insults about vampires slide which forced me to change my wording as I awkwardly chuckled the slap off.

"Ok then…Amma try this again. How does an elegant blood suckers like you get caught up with mass murder ? Are you working with someone?"

The vampire did not seem to care about my question as he got off the floor and tried to make a run for it , unfortunately for him Damien had vampire speed too and he had already anticipated the vampire making a run for it.

"Listen here you idiots…I don't have time for your nonsense. I don't answer to you ,if you knew what is best for you ,you would get the hell out of here while you still can,"

His wild and crazed eyes looked right at me. The smell of ash and dead flesh still lingered around him as well as hints of something I can't quite put my finger on. Something about the underlying notes of his scent just made me want to get closer and inhale more of it. A part of me almost wanted to bury my face in the crook of his nose but ewww no! That's weird .

Enticing scent undertones aside I couldn't detect any deception from him. He honestly believed his words . It was almost funny how pathetic he was being by underestimating us. After all the years that we have been hunting supernatural creatures together ,threats don't work on us…we've been through hell and back, literally

"Ahhhh….is that your plan B? You try to run and when that doesn't work you try to threaten us? Looks like you are and idiot here,"

Everything happened so fast I barely had time to get in my fighting stance as all of the air got knocked out of my lungs. I hit the ground with a loud thud and the vampire was on top of me in an instance.

His hands wrapped around my head as he dragged my body up making sure to have my neck trapped in between the crook of his elbow. His grip around my neck was tight and if it got any tighter I just knew that I would not live to tell the story.

I could almost hear my neck snap as he pulled me closer to him in response to Damien taking a step closer to us.

"You move any closer and doll face dies,"

Wait a minute,who the hell is he calling doll face!

One thing about me being a doll face as he put it is that creatures usually underestimate me. He was touching me and kept my body in close proximity to him…big mistake.

**γίνε η σκιά μου και θεώρησέ με τη δίδυμη φλόγα σου μέχρι το σκοτάδι να μας καταβροχθίσει και τους δύο

Be my shadow and deem me your twin flame till darkness consumes us both**

I grabbed onto his hands around my neck and used upy magic to siphon his strength and use it for my own gain. It took some time but in the end I finally got the hang of it and interlocked our magic. The spell rolled off my lips like smooth red wine and brought deep satisfaction into my heart.

His coughing caught my attention and brought an evil smirk on my face as the siphoning got Complete and the spell sprung into action.

"Now let me tell you how this is going to work…doll face. If you snap my neck you will also be snapping yours. You might be a vampire and hey ,you will probably recover but bear in mind that my vampire friend over there, will not take too kindly to you killing me and might just finish you off while you are passed out. So…what will it be ? You decide…doll face,"

He slowly let go of me and we both stood up with our eyes totally frozen upon each other . Just when I thought that we had the upper hand he sped over to Damien and sent him flying back first into a tree.

I was on him in an instance as I jumped on his back and wrapped my hands around his neck only for him to grab onto my hands ,flip my body over and throw me onto the floor .

"I don't have time for this nor do I have energy to waste on the two of you ,leave this place right this instance,"

I was not about to listen to him trying to intimidate me nor was I about to let a gruesome murder like him escape. Damien was soon right by my side in his fighting stance when a gust of wind suddenly filled the area and the ground started vibrating as we all fell on the ground.

"Hand it over ,"

I looked up to the source of the voice only to see two witches standing over us . Witches were hard to take down especially when you don't know their power but that did not mean it couldn't be done so I wasted my time tracking one of them to the floor only for the b*tch to send me literally flying off her . She blew me off her in a harsh gust of wind which pissed me the hell off.

"Hand it over , we have you surrounded,"

I could only assume that he was the man that we saw from our vision from the bus and he did not budge. His fangs were out and his stance made it very clear that he was not going to let the witches have anything. Him and Damien speed towards the witches in vampire speed ready to attack only for them to be sent flying back by a simple wave of the hand as the witch conjured up wind to send them away from her .

"Hand the book over to me and I will let you be,"

The witch said once more but he did not seem to care what they had to say as he slowly got off the floor and dusted himself off.

"You are not getting it so you might as well show me you worst,"

One moment he was standing in front of the redhead witch as she threw him off her only for him to change direction and land upon the blond headed witch .

*Snap!*

The sound of the witches neck snapping echoed around the forest as her dead body dropped to the ground with a loud thud followed by the other witches scream. The more she screamed the more windy it got and dust lifted off the ground. Trees started moving, shrubs were uprooted and the wind grew stronger and stronger by the second as we struggled to not be blown away by the strong gust of wind.

**Κράτα με από τον άνεμο και μη με φιλήσεις . Πάρτε πίσω τη δύναμή σας και κρατήστε την για εσάς, έτσι πίσω στον αποστολέα

Hold me back from the wind and don't blow me away . Take back your power and keep it to thee so back to sender**

The screaming got louder as the wind got stronger before stopping as if meeting some sort of magical force field and went right back at her at the speed of lightning.

I couldn't help but let out an audible breath of relief as her own attack sent her flying through the forest and Into the tree right behind her.

"They won't stay like that for long ,we gotta get out of here…come on run!,"

The strange man's frantic words sent panic in my system as Damien and I tried to follow right behind him when a sudden fire started in front of us. We tried to go in the other direction out of instinct but the fire just uprooted off the ground and started burning up wherever we tried going until it formed a circle around us . The flames got brighter , higher and closer the more that we tried escaping as we inhaled more and more of the fire's harsh smoke .

There was nowhere to go and nothing to do to escape…we were trapped in a circle of fire with no hopes of survival.