Chapter 3

Later, that night, after Kyra got settled into her motel in Washington D.C., she walks to the diner named “Candie’s” just a few doors down from her motel. She orders a BLT sandwich with fries, a 7-UP, and some ketchup for her fries. The server comes out with her order and asks her if there is anything else she can get her. Kyra tells her she is fine. All Kyra wants to do is eat dinner and go back to the motel.

Kyra gets back to the motel, opens up the blankets of her bed, then goes into the bathroom to get ready for bed. Kyra is bushed and just wants to get some sleep so she can talk with her boss in the morning.

As Kyra falls fast asleep, she has a disturbing dream about her grandmother, Sukie. She tells her not to go to her boss in the morning. He has been bitten by the vampires and is now one of them. Instead, she tells her to find a gentleman named Gerald Thomas. He has been looking for her and will explain everything when she finds him. Then, suddenly, with a jolt, Kyra awakens from her dream.

Kyra realizes it is morning and remembers what her grandmother told her about not meeting with her boss because he is now one of them. Instead she checks the phone listing for the name of the man her grandmother mentioned in her dream. She found one in the listing and dialed the number. A man’s voice answered.

“Hello?”

“Yes, is this Gerald Thomas?”

“Yes, it is. Who’s calling?”

“My name is Kyra and this probably going to sound strange, but I was asked to contact you.”

“Is this Kyra Levine?”

“Yes.”

“Kyra, yes. I’ve been looking for you for years.”

“Yes, that’s what my grandmother told me.”

“Well, where can I pick you up?”

“I’m sorry. I don’t understand.”

“Where can I pick you up so we can get started on your training?”

“My training?”

“Yes, I’m what they call ‘The Watcher,’ and you, Kyra, are the next vampire slayer.”

“The next what?”

“Yes, I’m supposed to train you to be the next vampire slayer.”

Gerald hears a loud thump on the other end of the line as Kyra faints and falls.

A few minutes later, Kyra wakes up to hear Gerald shouting from the other end of the phone line.

“Kyra, are you okay?”

“Gerald, are you still there?” as Kyra picks up her cell.

“What happened?”

“I guess I fainted. The last thing I remember is you telling me I need to start my training as the next vampire slayer. Is that right?”

“Yes, Kyra. You are the next vampire slayer, and we need to get to work on your training so you can banish these creatures back to hell where they came from.”

Kyra tells Gerald the name of the motel she is staying at and he tells her to be packed by the time he arrives. Gerald is there within 20 minutes and he gets her into his car and they drive to his estate, shows her to her room, tells her to get settled so they can get started on her training. Kyra can’t believe that she is the next vampire slayer, so she does an internet search and finds out that she comes from a long line of vampire slayers where the women in her family have been trained to slay vampires, the last one being her own mother.