Faye just remained where she stood, freezing while she did. She couldn't see and hearing was her only option. Yet all she heard was the howl and scratches of the wind.
She took one step forward.
CRACK!
She knelt down and picked up her glasses. Feeling the new holes the glass broke from, she placed the pair in her back pocket. Maybe she could fix them later if she happenstance on a wand.
Haahoooooo!!
The grims howled.
"There's more than one..." She listened to the howls and began to run toward them. She took out her needles and soon lifted herself up in the air, threading.
Something must have happened for the other grims from the other churches to have come to this location.
Then she heard it, the screeching of the vampires. The fluttering of their wings flew past her ears. She turned to try and attack, but she missed.
"Ach!"
A foot found its ways to her back and she found herself falling from the air. A grim jumped up and caught her by the jacket. With its strength, the grim threw Faye into the air and the priestess landed on its back.
She used her hands to feel around its back, holding onto its fur. She listened out and heard the vampires once more. One flap of a wing was quite close to her so she struck her needle out.
"ACH!" There it was, the sound of a vampire in pain. She heard a grim come by and snap down on the vampire.
CRACK!
There was no mistake, that was the sound of a neck breaking. Faye smirked, she can do this. She stood ontop of the grim's back while it ran toward the vampires, leading her and helping her. Whichever direction it turned, she knew to attack. She would lay down the blow and the grim, which ever one, would finish the job.
The witch had taunted them, there was no reason to negotiate with her. She wasn't going to help. Faye was going to have to create the holy water herself.
She patted the grim on the head and like telepathy, it knew where she wanted to go: Makala's house.
Makala sat on her bed with her knees to her chest, feeling like a love sick teenager. She wiped her eyes and nose, but she was a teenager.
The door to her house opened; she ran downstairs to see Faye searching for something with the grim inside of her house.
She ran down the stairs ignoring the beast that stood in her foyer. "Where are your glasses?"
"You slapped them off and they broke. Do you have buckets of water so I can bless them?"
"Give me your glasses so I can fix them. I...I didn't know they fell off." Faye handed her the glasses from her pocket. "Let me go get my wand...and the buckets."
Faye stood in the foyer with the snow melting off her clothes. She was shivering forgetting just how cold she was. She was also exhausted but she wanted to complete this.
Makala ran to her basement and managed to find a couple of buckets. She left them at the top of the staircase as she ran to her room for her wand.
"You're a big fluffy dog, you know that?" Faye said as she sat on the floor of the home rubbing the belly of the grim.
Makala ran down the stairs and gave Faye her glasses. She watched as the priestess placed them on; she blinked a couple of times to make sure she could see properly. Even was going to say thank you but Makala cut her off by simply hugging her, and apologizing once more.
The two girls used the kitchen sink to fill up the buckets. A large spoon was plopped into the buckets to make it easier to spread the water.
"Step back," she told Makala so she could bless the water without hurting the vampire. Throughout all of this, the grim waited patiently.
Faye got onto its back and used her needles to teleport back to the location of the church.
While the grims did their best to fight off the vampires, Faye took the spoon, and began to spread the holy water throughout the perimeter of the church.
"Tsk," she had to hurry because the water was beginning to freeze.
She entered into the church. The priest met her at the door and helped her carry the still full of the two buckets to the bowl for the holy water to be emptied into.
"Bless you, Child," he said, wiping his forehead.
A howl came once more but this time it was because it was over.
Faye ran outside and saw the vampires burn where they stood; as a result, the grims were able to kill the remaining ones there and the holy water deterred any others.
She collapsed within the snow...when she opened her eyes, she saw she was being dragged by one of the grims. It stopped when it came to a residential area.
"Mama, its a priestess."
Faye had enough strength to look up to see a human boy smiling at her. The mother at his side knelt down to Faye.
"Thank you for protecting us," she said. "Let us help you."
It was horrible what the humans did to the witches and wizards centuries ago, but to Faye, it wasn't right to make people suffer for the sins of their forefathers.