Human Again "D"

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Leigha

Human Again- "D"

Someone picked me up and threw me to the far side of the alley through the column the girl had been hiding behind. It didn’t even hurt. Next to me was another piece of wood I could have sworn wasn’t there before. I sniffed the air. I could smell Sway and the girl. She was still human. Only Riata stood between me and saving her. I stood up, laughing, and stepped down hard on the piece of wood splitting it in two. One half to flew into the air, I grabbed it.

“They were my prizes!” She screamed and flew at me. I ducked. She rebounded off the wall, flipped and landed in front of me. I looked behind her. There was a pile of smoldering ash where Eleazer had been and the wooden stake was still in the brick above another pile of ash that had been Jonas.

“Tsk, tsk. Sorry about that.” 

“Now, you’ll really pay. I don’t know how you got so fast or strong, but you will not leave this alley. You’ll turn to ash like them and I’ll scatter you on the wind.”

“Promise?”

She hissed and sprang towards me. I spun around and darted down the alley. I had to find the girl. I caught a whiff of Sway, his body temperature was higher, he was going to do it soon. I ran as fast as I could and my mind wandered back to the ally. I had never fought others of my kind before. I found them slow and clumsy. I couldn’t figure out why. If I had never fed and they did all the time, wouldn’t they be faster than me? I didn’t focus on that thought. I passed an abandoned warehouse and stopped. They were in there. Riata's footsteps were faint in my ears, but she was coming up behind me. I broke open a window and ducked inside.

I crept along the baseboards crouched on all fours, like a roach, scurrying softly as I followed their scents. It didn’t take long to find them. Sway was talking to her, promising her love and life and the like. Lies. He was trying to dazzle her and make her comfortable with what he was forcing on her.

They were in a dimly lit lower part of the warehouse; I peered over the banister at them. She was seated on a bed in front of what looked like an old walk in refrigerator where I could see four more beds. This must be where they lived. Riata wasn’t one for decorative homes like others of our kind. She had always been more about the hunt.

“P…p…please, I don’t want to be a vampire. I faint at the sight of blood.” The girl begged.

“Don’t worry, after tonight your desire will be for me and the hunt, you will no longer have that affliction.” He pushed her down on the bed. She tried to sit up, but he prevented her. She struggled against him as best she could. I heard footsteps behind me. Riata was close.

I jumped from my perch without making a sound and dodged the abandoned equipment and boxes that littered the floor. Sway heard me. I heard his feet hit the floor and the low growl in his throat. He didn’t scare me. “She’s mine!” he hissed “I’ve laid claim.”

 “You can’t collect when you’re dead.” I jumped on him sending him flying back into the edge of the opened refrigerator door. It crumpled from the force of our bodies. I jammed the stake through his chest. He screeched, convulsed and turned to ash. The girl screamed. I turned and saw Riata holding her tight to her body.

“You had NO RIGHT to take them from me.” She screeched.

“Why not? You took everything from me!”

Panic flashed across the girl’s face as Riata held her neck level to her mouth. “Please, please, help me.” Her eyes begged me.