"Christina" I could hear Dominick's distant voice shouting for me in panic. "Chris I didn't think we were going to make it back in time" he flew to my side clinging to me. A beautiful girl came out of the trees following him so elegantly. She had almost white blonde hair that hung to her shoulders and icy blue eyes that you could get lost in. The was one distinct thing on her that was not a beautiful. She had a long scar going from her chin to her collarbone.
"Chris this is Carmen, she is the oldest living witch and the most powerful. She is going to teach you how to reach your powers and bring them out." "Dominick her powers are sour now, you have changed her, and if she was smart she would stick with being just vampire. No one has ever done anything like this before we don't know what she is capable of." Carmines words stung me. Sour what is that supposed to mean. "I touched the hunter's forehead and he died almost instantly like his life was drained.
Carmine turned her back to me and put her hand on her head then turned to touch the hunter whose body lay lifeless next to the tree. "You powers seem to be able to drag the life and soul out of a body the way you would if you were to drain it of its blood. This could mean that you are the most deadly among us. Christina I want you to touch my hand and close your eyes." Carmine stuck her hand up in motion for me to raise mine as well. I looked at Dominick in fear of what was about to happen. Would something happen to me or would something happen to Carmine?
As our hands touched we both shot through the air both bouncing off trees back to the ground. "This is incredible, I can't harm her." "Harm me? Dominick she was trying to hurt me!" Carmine and Dominick both glanced at each other smugly.
"Child do you not understand, I am the most powerful and oldest of the witches left and I didn't even cause a tint of pain to you. This could mean that you are the most powerful. The only thing I am not sure of is how to train you to use your power. It is so intensely strong that I am unsure if you will be capable of controlling it."
"What happens if I can't control my power?" Dominick intervened at this point "they will try to destroy you Chris; they will consider you an abomination." "Is that what I am Dominick am I an abomination." I got up and walked away from the two and went towards the creek. The moon was shining bright and beautifully. My body felt so strange, there was so much energy flowing through me and so many paths my body wanted to choose.
Parts of me wanted to attack anything with a heartbeat, and other parts of me wanted to lay down and never get back up. Then I figured I could do just that lay down, not move and not think. Dominick and Carmine stayed where I had just stood and spoke as if through whispers but I didn't acknowledge their voices. Instead I cleared my head of everything, but the sounds of nature. The leafs blowing in the wind, the animals rushing about and a sound that I couldn't make sense of. Something like a humming blowing about with the wind.
It was almost calling me to follow it and that's what I did... "Carmine what are we going to do? I won't allow anyone to hurt her; she is the one for me. So ultimately if it comes down to that I will intervene." "I know. Sadly Dominick if it did come to that, you could never win. So why sacrifice yourself for her, she's nothing but a mutt. Human, witch and vampire, what is she capable of and how would you know if her feelings would stay the same." Dominick just shook his head knowing Carmine was dead on with what she was speaking of. A combination of such creatures has never been mixed before.
"Dominick I think the more important thing to focus on is what the town's people are planning. They will send more to look for those hunters now as well as her. We need to think of a place to take her and work on her skills. If we do not travel soon they will gain advantage on us." "What about Black peak? Christina isn't frail now; we could make amazing time to the top." Carmine agreed and she and Dominick turned to retrieve Christina from the river.
When they realized she was gone they went into sheer panic "Carmine go up to the peak I will find Chris and return with her." Carmine was off in a dash and Dominick lifted his nose into the air to track Christina's scent, and then was off himself.
….. I followed the humming into a type of cave, I supposed that's what you would call it, it was in the mountain and very dark. But I was positive the direction was leading through there and I continued in. The darkness continued downward into the mountain, after what I guessed to be 100 feet in, I could faintly see a light. Then I smelt a fire and heard the thuds of heartbeats. Those humming had stopped but I had come too far to not know where this beautiful tune was coming from.
When I turned a corner their sat an Native Chief with a flute. The man stared at me as if he were expecting me. "I'm so glad you could come Christina. I'm Chief Silver tooth. Please come sit and join me." I could see no reason not to join him, after all I was who should be feared not him. "What was that you were playing?" The Chief smiled in contentment "The calling, it is a native tune we have used for centuries to retrieve someone." In the same instant he finished his sentence the Chief exploded into a wolf. He got on all fours and growled at me and then two men came in the same way I came. "My dear Christina, I hope we did not frighten you but I think you would like to know that Chief Silver Tooth will attack if you move. Which I don't think you will be doing because you see we have your aunt and uncle in a prison right now and unless you want to see something bad happen to them on account of you I suggest you come with us."
It seemed that no one had any idea just exactly what I was capable of, but at the same time I did not want them to know until I was able to get my aunt and uncle to safety. I played along with a sheared of being afraid and followed.
Dominick followed Christina's scent right to the cave that now lied vacant. There was more than one scent he had picked up though. He had picked up the scent of humans and wolves. This made it all the much easier for him to determine that Christina had been caught, but the bigger decision was to determine if she had fought them off and travelled further or if she was taken down by them.