• It was a night like any other cliche` night. Peaceful in its own yet still not peaceful to any being who could sense what was really afoot there. In the town of Myjeet I stepped out of the inn we had taken shelter in for the night after an outting to the ruins of a derelect town just north of here. I assumed we weren't followed but one can never be to sure. The sun had just fallen and it was prime condictions for me to be outside. Having been never in this town before.
    At the time I was lightly armed for what I normally carry around. I had a hidden blade mechanism in each of my sleves, and a mechanism in each of my boots that would snap out a knife out of the toe of my boots when I when I tapped their sides together. I wore a dagger hidden at my side and throwing knifes on my belt. Knowing I was more armed than a mercenary team I started to meander around the city.
    The darkness seemed to come slowly to the small mountain city yet it came all the same. I walked the town to search for anything that seemed out of place, but nothing fit the bill. I walked past the market, blacksmiths quieting their forges, shop keepers shutting their their windows, and stall vendors going home. Nothing seemed amiss.
    I continued to walk about the town sure that nothing was wrong. While walking down a back street, I saw four women in the distance. Three Lavishly dressed in what looked to be silk, one in red, one in blue, one in green. They were normal height, sharp features, with dark brown hair, and uncharacteristically pale skin. They looked shockingly the same except for the dress colors. While the forth wore what looked like some sort of normal brown fabric. The forth women had bland hair, a slender figure. She looked young. As I approached them I studied them further. The three in silk looked tired, hungry, satisfied, and angry. The woman in brown looked dazed, confused, maybe even sleep walking.
    Thats when I realized it, the 3 lavishly dress women weren't humans. They were Vampires, the blood-sucking kind.
    They walked nearer, so when in range I shoved a hidden bladed into the neck of the woman in green. She screamed in pain and her blood stung my hand I was sure the three were vampires. I snapped the neck of the vampire woman I had stabbed. Her body fell liflessly to the ground with a thud. It then turned to stone and then ash. She was now a nice neat pile of ash and fine silk clothing.
    The two who were still alive Looked at me with astonishment. The in red spoke first.
    "YOU KILLED ABBEY YOU DEVIL SPAWN!"
    "Pot calling the kettle black," I replied,
    The woman in red rushed at me with the intent to kill me. Fangs drawn and nails turned to claws in a violent hate fueled blood rage. She slashed at my chest hoping to gut me like a fish. I jump back barely missing the brunt of the slicing claws, it only cut my shirt. I tapped my left boot to the other and made the knife pop out of the toe of my boot and kicked her in the stomach, stabbing her with the knife. Blood gushed out and she doubled over and gasped for breath. I quickly snapped her neck and she died like the one in green.
    I stared at the last vampire and she stared back with a look of fear. She raised a question to my ears.
    "You move fast, you are strong, and you were able to realize we were vampires. You are a cut throat seeking to mug us and instead found monsters, a vampire hunter who knows what to look for, or an inhuman beast wether it be demon werebeast or vampire. Pray tell Who and what are you?"
    "My Name is Xerra. I am a vampire, a daywalker if you will. And I will not stand by while an Atrusian bloodsucker lives to feed on the blood of humans. I am sangwinarian. I need not of blood yet I live off life force. While you kill to feed on blood, I need but to feed on emotion and I will not let you take the life of this woman."
    "I am Sarah and her life is the price paid for a debt owed to me and my now deceased collueges. I shall collect and you can't stop me from doing so"
    "Then prepare to die Sarah for your evil."
    " Not an evil deed, just debt collection."
    Sarah grabbed the girl in brown and turned a nail to a claw, holding the girl ready to cut the girl's throat.
    "You take one move closer and I cut her throat."
    Cliche` as the threat was she was serious and to prove it she made the girl bleed. Xerra had to think on this Idea before acting. Her life rested in his hands. Xerra remembered he was carrying more than just hidden blades. With swift movement and a quickly aimed throw, Xerra threw a throwing knife at the head of Sarah the vampire. The knife hit its mark and sarah staggered back in pain letting go of the girl in brown. The girl fell to the ground unconsious.
    Xerra moved in with wicked fast speed, but Sarah had already recovered and pulled the knife out of her face, her eye to be more percise. She dropped the knife to the ground with a clatter and she she tried to avoid the punch that Xerra threw, but it failed. Sarah fell to the ground in pain while Xerra stood over her. Xerra pulled out his dagger and stabbed it through her throat, pinning her to the ground. Gasping for air she stared back at Xerra.
    "I will not feed off a human, but you are not human. Therefore I can feed on you, but if I eat you I will be no better than you so I leave you to death," Xerra said
    Xerra knelt down to her and looked in her eyes and pulled out the dagger and sheathed it. Sarah started to sit up when Xerra grabbed her shoulder and neck and ripped off her head. It desintigrated into a fine ash almost immediately while the body hardened and turned to stone and then to ash.
    Xerra walked over to the girl in brown and knelt down and checked her pulse. She was fine just unconsious. No telling for how long though. Xerra thought to himself 'I can't leave her alone like this. I'll take her to the inn until she wakes up. Xerra hoisted her up over his shoulder and walked back to the inn. Luckily no one saw him to raise suspiscion about a man who looked like he was in his Mid 30s carrying a 17 year old girl over his shoulder to the local inn.
    Xerra poked his head through the door of the inn. The owner was not there so he strode into the inn with the girl slung over his shoulder. Xerra walked up the stairs to the room he had rented for himself and his companions.
    I opened the door to the room and my friend Uriele was sitting on the bed. She looked at me bewildered by the sight she saw. Xerra carrying a young girl over his shoulder. Her first reaction was,
    "Why the hell are you bringing your late night snack to the inn. Do you know you could get us chased out of this town, maybe even killed or jailed!"
    " Whoa whoa whoa. Don't jump to conclusions here. I did not bring this person to eat. Turns out this town had vampires in it."
    "Something followed us back into town?"
    "No not in the least. There were three of them, female vampires. I killed them. They had some kind of hypnosis goin on her."
    "So they were out for a late night munch and instead they find you?"
    "Yes and No. One of them mention a debt. I will question this girl once she wakes."
    "Don't scare her she'll freak out if she sees a man standing over her when she wakes."
    "Fine, I'll just set her on the bed and leave her to you. I'll be in the other room."
    Xerra set down the girl in brown and walked into the other room. James was laying on the bed sprawled out. He looked back at me and sat up. questioningly he asked,
    "Did you find anything?"
    "Yeah, three vampires and a hypnotised girl."
    "What did ya do?"
    "Killed the vampires, they planned to eat her."
    "So where's the girl?"
    "Other room."
    "Okay so now what? Do we leave town and not hit up the ruin again or should we stay and search for more vampires?"
    "We will find out what the girl knows when she wakes and go about it then"
    Just then a scream sounded from the other room and Xerra rushed to the main bedroom. When Xerra entered he saw an odd scene. A frightened girl looking at Uriele like she was one of the Female Vampires. Wait thats it she thought She was one. Xerra started to say,
    "Don't be afraid. She's not one of the vampires. She is not out to hurt you. My name is Xerra, I saved you from the vampires. This is Uriele she is my companion. Behind me is my friend James."
    The girl looked at Xerra while being both astonished and scared. Tears flooded her eyes as she began to weep. Uriele stepped closer to the girl and handed her a small swatch of fabric to dry her tears on. Uriele stared at her for a few moments before asking a question.
    "What is your name?"
    She stared back at Uriele for a time before answering.
    "I-It is Alice"
    "Alice what a lovely name. Now can you answer a few questions? Why were you attacked by the vampires?"
    "I-I-I don't know. They came to our house. There were more of them then two more, one man and one woman. My ...... my brother killed them."
    Tears rushed back to her eyes as she started to cry.
    "Your older brother must've been brave and strong to fight them just to save his little sister."
    "He used magic on them. It killed him too. I was the older one. He was just eleven years old and he threw a small red stone on the ground and there was a flash and two of the vampires weren't there anymore.... just ash. I saw the front part of his body and his hand were burned black."
    The fear and sorrow in Alice's eyes was the most dominate feature she was scared for her life and sad she had lost the life of her brother.
    "Go to sleep now," Xerra said, "You need rest after an event like that. Sleep on your thoughts you can share this room with Uriele for the night. We will talk more in the morning."
    James started back to the shared room while Xerra appraoched Uriele and said,
    "We'll ask her more Questions in the morning, when she's up to the task. For now bare with it and we'll pick up where we left off tommarrow."
    Uriele nodded and Xerra walked back to his room. He fell on the bed he of the two in the room. Wondering what this entire ordeal could entail, gave Xerra little sleep that night.