Three

"Let go of me." I said

"You want to go back with your brother?" He asked me.

"No, but you can't fight all of them alone. And I don't want someone to die because of me." He was amused by my answer. Why was he amused?

"Ah! littleone, already predicting who is gonna lose?"

"We both know who's gonna win." I said.

Saying that, I turned my back to the man and started walking towards my brother, who already had an evil smile on his face.

Oh God, why did you do this? Giving me a taste of freedom and not even letting me to devour the meal.

I was five steps away from my brother when I felt someone taking hold of my upper arm. I looked back and saw that it was the masked man and he looked.....angry?

"You think I'm a fool to let you go? that I can't fight a bunch of kids?" I was confused. Why is he calling my brother and his friends, 'kids'? Even with his mask on, he didn't look much older to me.

"Watch me." with that he pushed me behind him and punched my brother on his face. I could hear the cracking noise of the bone.

What? How did he reach over my brother so fast? And more importantly, he was nowhere to be seen.

My brother was shocked. Blood was tricking down his nose and suddenly he fell forward, as if someone pushed him from behind. But there was no one behind him. He grunted, when suddenly a foot came on his back, hard enough to snap his spinal cord. He screamed, an earsplitting scream , " Boy, you wail like a woman in labor." the masked man said laughing at his own joke.

My attention went to my brother's friends that were slowly backing away from the masked man.

"Some friends you have there." The man said to John without taking his eyes off him. How did he know that they were trying to escape without taking his eyes off John? They were not making any noise and he knew they were trying to escape? how?

The man then suddenly moved. Too quick for my eyes to follow. He was a blur, how was he able to run so fast? There was something definitely wrong about him.

He smacked Henry's face on a tree and said to him in a very dangerously low voice, " Take your friend out of this woods, I'm allowing to let you walk out of here alive, but if you come back even once, then I'll separate your head from your body and play Soccer with it, Understood?"

Henry nodded and started crying. The man threw him across John and sneered at him, "Get the hell out of here, my patience is already running thin."

With that Henry helped John on his feet, who was already half unconscious and ran back in the direction they came in. The others were nowhere to be seen. Think they ran when the man attacked John.

My attention came back to the man who just not only saved my life but beat the hell out of John and Henry.

He looked back towards me and my eyes searched his only to root a new fear in me.

Oh my God. I was immobilized in my place, not believing what I was seeing. My heart began trashing in my chest.

His eyes were glowing red. And something white and pointed was shining just a few centimeters down his eyes.

"You're....you're" I stuttered

No, they were just in movies and myth. There was no way this was true. This was just a dream. Yes, this is just a dream. After all, I'm not brave enough to run away from my brother, not brave enough to dash into this woods.

"This is not a dream littleone." He said,.

Wow a person can read minds in dreams? But I can't read his.

"It must be. I'm not brave enough to run away from my brother." I said.

"If this is a dream, then how are you here, in this woods? Have you ever been in your entire life, visited this woods? Because if you've, then I would have known it. Besides, you can't conjure up placed in your dreams you've never been to."

That was true. It means...

"This means that you're real, and it means that you're a..."

"Yes, it means that I'm the most dangerous creature in this entire world. It means that the myth is indeed true and it means that you were being saved by a vampire himself." He said that last sentence in such a cold voice that shivers started trailing down my spine.

Oh God, vampires were real. Of course, I should have expected that because of the powers I have...

Still, there was an evil glint in his eyes and he started coming towards me with slow steps making my hear pound faster.

I took two steps back and sprinted in the forest away from the vampire. Stupid as I was.

He boomed in laughter, I increased my speed even more without tripping. Wow, fear can make you do unexpected things.

Suddenly someone pounced on my back, knocking the air out of my lungs second time tonight.

It was him. I didn't hear him coming. A little warning would've been nice I thought.

He was on top of me and I was face down on earth.

He moved my hair onto my one shoulder, exposing my neck, "Little one, Don't you watch movies or read books? Most of the things in vampire movies and books is crap, but one thing is certainly true."

I was too scared to even stutter a single word.

He continued on, "We like our blood with adrenaline coursing through it, it spices it up. But most importantly, we like to hunt our prey, to chase it knowing that you can never outrun us."

Darkness was seeping around the corners of my eyes. Oh no, I am gonna die.

Suddenly the weight was pushed off me and I was on my legs, staring into the stormy grey eyes. He had his arms around my back.

"And little one, I'm the Predator and you're the Prey."

Darkness surrounded me and I fell into the arms of nothingness.

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