As I walked down the twisting road towards Kukunith, a small fishing village just 43 miles south of the academy. I was supposed to start my investigations there. My investigations to find and araticate vampires.
Not many people knew this but, the solgdures from the organization were half-vampire or, more prisise to say would be 1/13 vampire, give or take a unit. This is, exepte for me, I was an expearament and after a span of 13 years had no varyation in my overall performance than the other students, they desided to put me on the field to train. They thought that because of my large disadvantage of age I had thay expected me to drop-off and die quickly. But to their amazment I exeled to the other students exact level almost immediately (two weeks to be exact) it was unheard of. For someone who was in a virtual test tube their whole life compleat training that took a normal student all of 17 years to compleat, I did it in two weeks.
I could have gotten stronger, much stonger. But then they would have taken me back to be experimented on and I would have never been able to leave, the whole organization would have been called to confine me, they would have needed the whole organization. I just somehow know that inside of me there is an absolutely enourmas power. And now I could unleash it all apon the world, starting with who ever got In my way, wether it be human, solder, or vampire!
When I was trapped inside the encampment-like area of the training facilities of the organization they had control over me. I couldn’t leave. I had a little chip in my upper left arm that they could use to ellectricut me at will. But at graduation they take it out.
And so it went from there. My first confrontation was a mere two days later. I ran smack into a 4-member coven of vampires, while most soldures take their time and take them out one at a time, I simply walked right in. they were shocked that a lone sholdure was walking amoung the four of them. Even the most experienced never did. They stood there laughing…untill the leaders head suddenly rolled and fell to the floor. The three of them shreacked and jumped in union. And so did their over-bloody bodies fall-in union. I turned and walked out into the cold night air.
Three months later I had racked up a head count of 36 vampires and ten humans (there was a band of thugs who were attaking a small caravan) a feat only done by the fourth and above generation. not even thought possible the newest 26th generation. But every three months we are supposed to report to the HQ about how many vampires we each have killed, but I had no intention of doing that. When that heard I had 36 vampires under my belt they would instantly put me in confinment for exsperaments. I would no show up and then they would send out a search party (who I will kill) as the search parties get bigger and bigger they will eventualy send a hunting party (thinking there was a huge vampire coven) it was an exalent way to take out the whole 26 generations. My plan for domonation was fool proof
Two months came and went, so did thirteen search party mambers and 6 vampires. A total of 65...never has any one member of the organization ever, ever reached that number. The record was 58
But that man had 36 years of fighting in the palm of his hand.
The wind blew into my face, I was on top of a very tall mountan called…I wasn’t sure what it was called. I hadn’t talked to any one sense I had left the academy. I hated thinking about it but…I had what felt like a hole in my chest. Like something was missing. I was never a lier, even to myself so it wasn’t difficult to tell myself that I was lonely. Only hard to believe, why would I be lonely? who could love me? Why would they love me? Why would I love them? It was illogicl, but those questions didn’t ease the slow-burning pain I my chest. Well, maybe I could find someone later, right now I had things to do…
37 vampires, 11 humans and 44 souldures. That was my tally, my strength was seemingly endless there had so far been no one strong enough to make me make a second swing of my sword humans of coarse were easy…I barly felt a thing as my sword went through them. Soldures came next, I needed about a foot of swinging space to cut cleanly through one. And then there was vampires, by far the most tough creatucer on this planet. If I wanted to cleanly cut them in half down their middle I usaly had to use both hands in a powerful two handed stroke. a smell drifted by in the wind ’Vampire!’…one of them. I stood up my score was about to go the 38. I jumped out of the tree and started running down the hill. There was a short grassy field and a low 30 ft cliff. I came to a dead stop at the top of this cliff and sank to my knees. Directly below me there was a female vampire…about 15 years old by the smell of her. Her blound hair was well past her waist. She wore an overly elagent white and blue dress that spread around her like a cloud.
I couldn’t see her face…yet. I jumped, and while in mid-air I summersalted and drew my sword. I would land with my blade on the ground and she would be in half.because of my speed the jump took my a small time, I seen her stiffen and right as my sword came to her head…she disappeared. Or to be more exact she changed position. She was a step or two further that she had been at first, the tip of my sword just barly missed her. “how is that possible?…I landed and without thinking twirled aiming at her waist and again, the tip of my blade cut empty air, just half a cetameter from her body. ”what!?” “I might be able to pass off the first swing as me not paying attention, but this one…that was delibarit she’s fast” faster then me? Not likely! I plunged myself into a series of faster-than-lightning strokes and not one of them came close to hitting her…well, that’s not completely true, they were all close to hitting her, just they never did. All within a hairs breath of hitting her. As the minets went by I started to notese that she never tried to hit me, never blocked-only dodged. I stoped for a moment and took ten steps back. My side was killing me, I’d never had this kind of workout before. Then to my utter dismay she sank to a meditating position and closed her eyes. Completely in peace. I couldn’t bring my self to strike her while she was sitting down (I had a felling I wouldn’t even if I wanted to) so I too sank down, only I wasn’t meditating I was trying to regain my breath. Ten minets passed and I looked up at her. ’she’s very pretty, her skin is so smooth. And why does she have such control over her emotions? (a quick note, vampires are much stronger and faster than a soldure, and we both have a intelligence levle of a human, so logicly souldures are weaker and should be no match for a vampire. But you see, a vampire once he or she gets into battle the human side of them vanishes and is replased by a savage monster that can esaly be manipulated and that, is how we kill them, we trick them into emotions that help us and we use that emotion to our advantage. Like my first vampire hunt, I made them over confedent, then took advantage over that to kill the leader, and it also helped fule the emotion for the last three. Blind anger.) yet here this lone vampire is, sitting here completely under control. And after such a hard battle too! She should be frothing at the mouth. I waited anuther 15 minutes. And then she spoke.
“your blade is swift, but your heart is full of grief. If you would look into your inner self-you could find that your curent state is a sad comparisen. You have much potental.” her eye lids slowly opened to look straight at me.

“why should I lesin to you?”
“you don’t, in fact I rather hope you don’t you’d be a little to fearsome with formal training”
“’formal training’?”
“yes”
“what about my 17 years in the acedmy?” (in reality I was only in the academy for 3 months)
*no answer*
“well?”
Do you really think that three months were enough for your full potentol?”
“what do you mean?”
“well, think about it. A normal 1/13th vampire soldure spends 17 years in training to get to full potentiol, while you spent three months and where even with the best one there…” she let her sentence drift off
“you mean that I’m the ecwevalent of a 1/13 vampire who’s been training for three months?! And that I can get stronger?”
‘you can”
“Bu-”
“no buts! You can get stronger, and surpass your wildest dreams, at your full strength you could go up aganst every single vampire soudure and human in exsistance and come out completely unscathed. Isn’t that what you want?”
‘is it? Is that kind of power really what I want? I knew the answer before I even asked the question, no’
“no”
“no? you don’t want what is rightfully your’s? what you decerve? What you could easily obtain?
You could single handedly make entire empires fall to their knees”
“I don’t care, it’s time we finish this fight!” I stood up-she didn’t
“you can’t beat me, you’re nothing against me!”
“I’m well awear of that, but I don’t want what you have to offer, and I can’t back down to a challenge!”
She laughed “I never challenged you, you jumped at me from that rock, it’s not ofical”
I contenued to glare at her
“I’ll come back later, once you have given it some thought”
“I have given it thought! And I don’t want it!”
She looked up at me and smiled “if you had really thought about it you wouldn’t say that.”
I grited my teeth and glared harder at her
“nevertheless, I’ll come back when the time is right”
And then she was gone…completely and whole gone.
I didn’t really have anywhere in mind to go after that. I was sore from our fight but my pride was mortaly ingured. How could she keep her emotions under control? How could she beat me? How did she know about me? When is ‘later’? and how can I get stronger?
It was quiet for a week, not a single fight. And then the souldures started flooding in like rodents. The 8th day two came, 9th came 4, 10 day was 6, 11th day anuther 6 and today there were two groups of 5. 28 in six days. That was my 72nd souldureit might have slowed down, but I didn’t care and I hadn’t changed spots, so they knew some large force was here, weather or not they knew it was me, I didn’t know.
Everything was quiet , no birds, no bugs no one, I was alone…
As the days went by a feeling started to grow in me. It felt like a hole, right in my chest. It took me a while before I could pin the word ‘sadness’ to it.
And it took an equaly long time to realise that I was thinking about her a lot. Not as an opponet but just her.
‘whats wrong with me?’ why do I feel like this? I’m going crazy!”
Almost a year had past sense that night. And not a single day had gone by without me thinking about her. My tally was at an all time high. 307 vampires, 531 souldures and my human tally hadn’t left 11.
I hadn’t left this place in that whole time. I only killed what attaked me, and humans never did.
I trained daily, I wanted to be stronger when or if she ever came back. I knew that even if I trained as hard as I could I would never be a match for her. But I trained on.
Eight years had passed. Eight years! And never a word from her. But I no longer thought I needed her, I had grown in strength many time over.
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