Chapter 3
It's been three years since I decided I was going to help innocents on Halloween night. I've even gotten a nickname, the Shadow Elf. Its good that they think I'm an elf instead of a vampire. Otherwise, they might be frightened by me.
During the rest of the year I travel the globe and train to get stronger. I've gotten much stronger in these three years. I've even mastered the ability to fly, one of the most advanced vampire techniques. Now I am far from home and my evil family. I want to return and rescue my mother, but I know I'm not strong enough yet.
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It was October 31 again. A cresent moon is in the sky tonight. I was dressed in my usual dark blue vest with a black undershirt, black jeans, and a dark blue scarf wrapped around my face. My partner and best friend, Xander Moonshine, is an elf. He looks a bit like me in skin tone. He has short blonde hair and dark blue eyes. He was a bit short, shorter than me, at only 5'7. He had a slight muscular build. He followed me after I rescued him from a ghost. He is one of the only two people that know I'm a vampire, aside from my family. When he discovered though, he tried to kill me. I quickly defeated him and told him about my life. Now he is the only one who understands me. He was dressed in a white dress shirt, I don't know why he dresses so preppy, with a white undershirt, some black dress pants, and a silver necklace with a cross on it.
We were in a desert this Halloween, trying stop a ritual that summons ghosts. Who would perform the ritual you ask? People who are desperate to see loved ones again.
Allow me to explain a little about ghosts. Ghosts are deceased creatures that are summoned to the earth by other creatures. Ghosts do not retain their intelligence when summoned. Instead, they only want one thing. Love, to feel warmth. Its sad really. They want to be loved and the only way they think of doing it is to rape people. Like I said, they can't rationalize their thinking. They can't see that if they rape someone that more than likely, that person will hate them. The way they rape is cruel. They possess someone and use that person to rape others.
I saw the group of people in front of us. It was a variety of people, from elves to dwarves. Just as an update, elves and dwarves don't get along at all. I saw a human in the middle of them. Typical. Humans have an innate magical ability that most don't know how to use. Among the good races, their magic is the strongest, if they know how to use it. I listened to see how far along the spell had gotten.
"Damn, they're already halfway done!" Xander almost shouted. I calmed him down and ran in to stop them. The human noticed me and raised a hand and froze me in place.
This surprised me. Not many humans have the power to stop a vampire in their tracks. This human must be a hybrid, I thought. As soon as the thought entered my mind the human looked at me. I saw his eyes glow dark red. That symbolized vampire. And not just any vampire. One that feeds only on the blood of the good races. He must have tricked them.
I struggled against the magical bonds as the hybrid wizard continued his spell. I couldn't even utter a word, that's how strong the magic was. At that moment, I could see the portal to the realm of death open. The people standing around looked at it as well. They all had a look of hope in their eyes. I noticed something else about all of the people here. They were all female.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Xander sneak into the camp. He was using the elfen technique to blend in with his surroundings. I still had not mastered that technique, but I was raised as a vampire not an elf.
He was crawling ever so quietly, that I don't think anyone could see him. The only reason I could see him was because he allowed me to. After a few agonizing minutes, he was right under the wizard. He grabbed the wizard's leg and slung him into the sand. The instance he did that I was free from the wizard's spell. I rushed in and tackled the wizard before he could get up. We tumbled into the sand. All of the people around us were shocked and surprised to see two elves in the middle of the desert.