The vampire

We were on our way to meet Asher, they had also found a body with a similar mark, that we had found on the body. Me, Felix, and onyx were going to take a look at the body, Sharon and Selina had to go to the office, to report about the black magic and the body vanishing in front of our eyes.

Fortunately, Aiden left after he stood there creepily staring at me for a few minutes, it was a good thing that he did not ask any questions. I have a nagging doubt that he knows, he knows something is different about me. I should not have called Nyx. But when I see Selina, I don't regret asking for her help. I am just a bit down that I could not even use the basics of my own powers.

Felix was looking at me weirdly since the incident with Aiden. There was a softness in his eyes that wasn't there before, I caught him staring at me, but he would look away with a slight smile on his face, it was getting weird. He looked like he was about to say something, but his phone rang, interrupting him.

This is getting more and more complicated. First, the vampire's victims have the mark, now this dead body has the same mark, but the previous victims had no trace of black magic linked to them. How are they even connected? It is complicated because we haven't found the vampire who was responsible for the deaths yet. Maybe he knows about the mark.

A ping sounded from my mobile. I checked to see a message from Andrea. "We found the identity of the vampire." the message read.

I opened the photo she sent me with a full profile. He looked like he was in his 30s, like all the vampires, he was also handsome, with pale skin and sharp features. I opened his profile. Marcus Fang. He is not from Starfall, and he has no family, he had a wife, who he used to love dearly, but she died a year ago. After that, he seems to have gone mad and started going rampant.

Love can do that to you. You get so lonely once the people you love leave you.

That is not an excuse for him to kill all those innocent people though. He took other people's happiness just because he had lost his. I have to join Andrea once this is over to find him. Now that we know who he is it will be a lot easier for us to find him. My first mission will be a success, not that I have contributed much to it. I should focus all my attention on this one.

We were in an alley, surrounded by tall, weathered buildings, there was barely any light reaching in here even in broad daylight. The only way we knew that we were in the right place was because there was someone with red hair who had been waiting outside the alley, Felix recognized him.

"Prince Asher will be here in a minute." The guy with red hair said I had seen him in the weapons room he was in Asher's team.

"He left you here?" Felix asked in disbelief. It is reckless of him to leave his team here without supervision. He was their team leader. He should have been a bit more careful, especially when they have found traces of black magic on the body.

"This was not our original mission, prince Asher had sensed something wrong in this area, so we came here to examine. And found the body, he went to scout the area," he said. I guess he was not so bad after all, I should tone down the judgment a bit.

The guy with red hair cast a spell that lit the alley, there was a suffocating energy filled in the alley, there was something wrong here, I know I am not the only one feeling it by the way everyone was looking alert, on their guard. We were nearing the body when Asher appeared behind us, even he was on his guard.

As soon as I saw the dead body a gasp escaped me. This cannot be happening. "What?" onyx asked.

"He is the killer we have been searching for weeks, his victims had the mark, we saw on the body earlier," I explained. Who did that to him? He was lying in his own pool of blood, with a bloody knife in one of his hands, did he take his own life? After what he did? He did not deserve to die that easy death. Has he truly gone mad? Is that why he killed that many people, but... but his attacks were cleanly planned without leaving a single clue behind.

Taking out my mobile I showed them his profile and his photo. "They had just found out his identity. He was really good at evading the cameras."

"He also has the same mark on his wrist," Asher said, sure enough, on his left hand the mark was visible. "Do you know what the symbol means?" Asher asked me.

"No, the search team had been looking for weeks they could not find that symbol, or what it means." This just became so much more complicated. Before we could do anything. There came two women, one of them wearing pantsuit while the other one is in jeans, the one in the suit flashed a badge, "We are from the supernatural investigation unit (SIU). We will be taking over this case. Please cooperate."

We were sitting in a café near the alley, while Felix was chatting with the two officers who arrived and took the case out of our hands, I made sure to tell Andrea about it, and she said it was normal, if the case is too big or too complicated, the case is handed over to the SIU.

I was a little sad that my first mission was being handed over to others.