Chapter 6 Chapter Six

Ashara's POV

I ran into the park, my shoes digging hard into the grass. I followed the lady's cry for help into the obscure, unlit areas of the park and stumbled into an eerily dark trailer. The cry for help came louder now, jarring my ears.

I snatched the door, and I jumped right into the trailer, just right when the bastards spread the lady's legs over the small bed, and each of the four boys held each of her limbs while a fifth took down her pants.

“Who are you?” The boy moved away from her. At first, panic strained his voice, but when he stepped closer into the flush of moonlight from the windows, and he registered my features, the panic slowly consuming his face was quickly replaced by a smile.

He brushed his thumb on his lips, chuckling. “Do you know what you have just done, woman? You have just walked into—”

I didn't have the patience to listen to his speech. I lunged for his neck and lifted him from the ground easily. His eyes stretched wide on his forehead, marvelling at my strength. His legs dangling in the air, I flung his across the trailer.

The multitude of noises that consumed the darkness in the trailer told me he had crashed very roughly into something. I didn't bother to check. I advanced for the others.

Witnessing the fate of their friend, they had already dropped away from the lady and were charging for me, grunting with fury.

I swung my claws for one, and it caught him squarely on the neck. Blood splurted about the whole place, while he clutched his neck, staggering on weak legs, until he crashed to the floor, gurgling blood.

Another swung a club at me. I dropped back a foot, and it sailed past my head. Once I was clear of the attack that had propelled him forward, I clutched his neck, and I heaved him into the air. I squeezed his brittle human neck, but I didn't have the patience to wait for him to die from my strangling fingers. I threw him away, but that was before I struck him on the neck.

He died, clutching his bloodied neck in his hands, before he hit the floor. The trailer shook as it received him.

One of the last two came again, grunting madly. I heard his teeth rattle. I didn't bother to move away from his attack. I just swiped his hands away with my claws. They tore his clothes, bits of his skin clogging my nails. He screamed in horror, clutching his hand. But I wasn't done yet. I struck him at the neck after, and like his colleagues, he was clutching his neck and gurgling blood.

The last one stepped back now, shivering so badly that he made the trailer tremble with him. The lady had already moved away, crumpling fetally in the corner.

He glanced past me to his colleagues on the ground, and terror split his eyes again. He spoke, voice trembling as much as his chin. “Who are you?” He demanded. “What are you?”

“I am your nemesis, boy,” I replied.

His quivering brows tightened. “What does that mean? What do you want with us?”

The questions were already beginning to bore me. I traced to him, and I caught his neck in my fingers. This time, I gave up enough time to strangulate him. His legs danced beneath him, as my fingers tightened on his neck, until his eyes were popping out of their sockets.

I threw him away when he croaked his last breath. It was then that I dropped low to the human lady. As I expected, she was terrified of me, even though I had just saved her from five men about to defile her. She clutched her legs, squeezing herself into the corner as if she could disappear from the room through there.

Humans are always scared of what they don't know. So I wasn't bothered when she looked up at me with so much terror rather than joy.

I grabbed her head and heaved it up so that our eyes leveled. “I am coming for you, human,” I said with a smile. “Keep this body safe for me and stay away from bastards like these men.” I made sure she heard me loud and clear.

She dared not harm the body for me. I couldn't claim it now, not with the corpses around. If I did now, then the vampire and the demon Exorcist could track me faster.

Touching her forehead, I could feel that extra human energy from her. She was really the perfect vessel for me, the one I had been searching for for years. She shivered under my touch, pulling back, her voice trembled as she asked. “What are you?”

“You don't need to know that,” I said. “All you need to know is to keep your body safe for me. I have already claimed it.”

I slipped her terrified face a smile before I traced away from the trailer. I landed back on the earlier alley. The moonlight's gaze seemed to have shifted now. The alley was now darker.

I was stepping out of the alley when I spotted the familiar figure. Broad shoulders, dark aristocratic robe, far ahead on the other street.

Cold shivers drilled down my spine—the vampire. I ducked back into the darkness of the alley instantly, keeping away from his line of sight only to collapse into something else, or should I say, someone else.