A Brush with Vampires by Betsy Flak

Author:Betsy Flak
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2018-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

Monday

Lucy

The wind whipped at her neck through pigtail poofs. She stood shoulder to shoulder between her two allies. One hand wrapped about her trusty stake. The other grazed the hilt of her favorite sword, the one with the curved blade.

It was quiet, too quiet. Not a cricket dared to chirp. Her steely gaze pierced the darkness, seeking movement in the brush surrounding them, between the trunks of those ancient oaks, or even behind that rotting log. When none came, the three stalked forward, hardly venturing a breath for fear it would obscure a sound hinting of its location. High above, a branch flashed silver in the full moon.

Something twanged in her brain. “Stan, wait.”

A dark form shot out of the leafy canopy. Its knees landed on Stan’s shoulders, then slid down to drive him chest-first into the underbrush. A vicious crack echoed through the empty woods.

Her stomach spiraled downward. The creature had snapped Stan’s neck as if it were nothing. Ebony eyes that sucked away every speck of light turned to her. She was next.

But she was not afraid. This was what she was born to do, what she’d spent years training to do. Stan’s was not the first death she’d witnessed at the hands of the Indestructible, nor would it be the last.

If not for the toddler waiting in a room too far away…

No, she couldn’t think of her, not right now. She had work to do.

Her fingers tightened around her weapons as she dropped into a defensive crouch. The monster cocked its head like she was a rare curiosity. Keeping the fallen log between her and the beast, she drifted. Her feet picked a path between half-grown saplings, untamed bushes, and moss-covered trunks.

It mirrored her movements.

If not for Stan’s death, her mouth would have twisted into a bloodthirsty smirk. It was always like this; they forgot about everyone but those right in front of them. Although…there had been a moment she’d worried that this one was different from the rest of the Indestructible. After all, she’d never heard of one using the height of the trees as protection. But now it fell into their trap, the same as countless others. Stepping in a gradual half-circle, she guided the brute so its back was to the supposed safety of the packed trees. The packed trees where Nic had disappeared, silent as any predator.

Nic poked his head around the edge of a trunk and gauged the angle of his assault. Her eyes flicked toward him.

The creature whirled away from her, surging on all fours toward Nic.

As practiced, he held his position and waited. She followed in the beast’s footsteps, ready to back him up. When it soared toward Nic with bared fangs, his counter was textbook: a sidestep paired with a swipe of his sword.

The demon screamed. It clutched its torso, its nails tearing at the gash across its chest. It stumbled away from them. Evidently, this was the first time a blessed blade had cut it. It would be the last.

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