Chapter 20 “Death Pays a dear friend a Visit.”

I wanted revenge, but I knew it would come at a cost. It's not easy to get your revenge when you are blinded by emotion.

I knew that if I wanted to get revenge, I needed to be patient; like a lion watching its prey before its eyes, the anticipation of the kill was more pleasurable than a quick kill. I need my revenge.

I don't think I can just let it go, no matter how much I want that, but this kill would be unlike any other. It would be a kill that would be memorable.

Jia and Maka looked at me as if they could read my mind.

I laid down her cold, stiff body in the forest. The pack of wolves stood around the body, and the mist was spook-grey. It was lifeless and motherless.

Rags of the mist tickled the lake as it passed; it grasped at the calm water, moved on, and enclosed the shrubs. It looked fumy and filmy in the weak light of the morning.

The rain began. The rain seemed mist-like also as it came down in thin sheets. It became heavier and pregnant drops of rain arrived. After hours of this, the river was turf-brown and slushing.

Jia was quiet. She stood beside Maka holding her hand, as Maka glanced over at me. Reading Maka's thoughts was hard, especially with Lei standing beside her. Ever since the crash, I never spoke to Lei. I felt partially guilty, but something was bothering me.

That girl we saw was not my imagination. I mean, Lei was driving. He must have seen her, and he has not mentioned her.

Was he hiding something? He always looked like a nervous wreck around me; even now, he keeps glancing and looking away.

I could smell his fear. I could hear his heart beating, was it fear or was he nervous? By the stare of these wolves, the pack of wild, voracious wolves with gaping mouths reeling with fangs and forked tongues, each as thick as my wrist.

They roam the woods, ten feet or more, then hang in the trees, raggedly tasting the scent of these wasteful humans, considering how best to devour them.

I glanced over at Lei, wondering what Maka saw in him, he looked like a spoiled rich kid who nearly fucken killed me, yet I saved him from that explosion.

Maybe Maria would be alive if I had left him, and I could have saved her. I should have. I gazed over at Jia, pausing my sentence. I should have listened to my sister.

The dark forest softened the sand beneath me with its hard pouring rain. I stared down at Maria as the pack of wolves transformed back to their human shape, bare chest, long hair wearing jeans they, had a tattoo of the moon shaded half white and half black as they.

Ling, the leader of the pack, picked up the spade, and as the four other male wolves followed, the three female wolves stepped behind us. Jia's eyes had changed yellow, and her pale skin had a light glow.

She turned and looked up at Mia. Mia was the female wolf, nineteen years old.

She was a southeast Asian with more melanin and had darker pigmented skin with freckles. Her hair is straight, coarse, and almost invariably black. She was Asian; her birth name was Hana.

Her eyes were dark and deep with long eyelashes her perfect red lips highlighted her smile, showing her dimples.

This had been the first time any of us had seen the wolves, but they had known us. They were expecting us.

Ling walked to me, got on one knee, took my right hand, and placed his hands over mine, bowing his head, "Mr. Kai, we are sorry for your loss, and we are honored to have you and your sister here. As a token of appreciation, I am offering my daughter to you as a protector.

Mia, please come around."

Maka looked over at Mia, who stood behind me. As Mia made her way around and got down on one knee in front of Jia, "it would be my honor to serve you."

Jia reached out her hand as Mia kissed her tiny hands, "stand up. You will escort me to school, tell everyone you are my babysitter, and not expose us publicly.

There will be a consequence, as far as these wasteful humans are concerned. They need to know I am an ordinary kid."

The stones on my neck started to glow as the pack of wolves got on their knee.

"Master."

I looked down at Mia, "I shall not be slaving your daughter. Jia, we are doing fine on our own."

"I agree. We don't need her."

The Pack looked up at her as if they had not seen her there before. Ling turned to me, "Master, this is destiny. We cannot change it, and I am afraid to tell you, this is not a choice."

My fangs shot out as my eyes change yellow, "do you dare to tell me what I can and can't do? I will tear you apart." Maka smirked.

"No, master, I am not questioning you. You will need my daughter, and this is why. Mia," he ordered, "hold out your wrist."

"What are you doing?" Maka insisted as her eyes became red.

Her Fangs came out as she hissed. The wolves were about to attack Maka, but Ling stopped them. Ling looked over at me as Mia stretched out her arm and kept open her wrist.

I couldn't resist the scent, different from any other smell, as I leaned over and gently lifted her wrist to my lips, "Stop, Kai, what if this is a trick to poison you? How do we know you can trust them," said Maka.

I looked over at her, then at Lei, "the same way you knew you could trust him, besides if anything happens to me, Jia will turn them into ashes."

The pack glanced at Jia, her fangs were out, and her eyes were glowing yellow.

Unlike any other, Jia's power grew increasingly more significant with her brother's courage and strength.

She was a hybrid, the type of hybrid who can cause you pain by looking at you and reading your thoughts.

Jia could see things before they happened. As her strength increased, her sensors became sharper. She could shape-shift between human, wolf, and Vampire.

Jia looked at Mia. Mia let out a scream holding her head shaking on the ground, then stopped. Jia stepped forward, "that's a taste of what can happen to you if you double-cross us."

Within that one minute of inflicted pain, Mia was lying on the ground with white foam coming out of her mouth, "what have you done to my daughter? " Ling shouted.

Jia glanced up at him as the wolves took a step back. Without saying a word, Jia touched Mia on the shoulder, and she sat up as if nothing had happened.

Jia could bring you back from the dead with just thirty percent of the power Kai had given her. Ling had heard stories of how powerful hybrids were but had never seen them until now.

Maka and Lei couldn't believe what they were seeing.

Jia stepped back as her eye color changed to red, "you may now proceed to let my brother have a taste of your blood."

Mia was still dazed as she lifted her sleeve.

"Hold on. No vampire can touch her blood. If a vampire sucks on her, it will be an asset to their insides."

Jia looked at Ling, "if anything happens to him, you will all die."

Maka gave an evil smirk of satisfaction.

"Nothing can happen to me." I leaned over, and Maka stopped me, " What makes you so sure."

This was when my eyes had two colors the center of my pupil was yellow, and around it was red.

"Does this answer your question?" I looked up; everyone had taken a step back.

They had now known who I was and won't ever doubt me again.

I pushed my fangs into her wrist and let out a relief. This was indeed the best taste of blood I had. I barely had half a pint, and I was satisfied.

I felt a rush of warmth racing through my body, a sensational desire I had not felt before, a desire of satisfaction.

I looked up at her. Mia's hair was wet from the rain as it, her beautiful tanned skin, highlighted her perfection.

She kept a straight face. This brave, assertive girl was willing to sacrifice herself for me.

If I kept her, I would spare more lives 200ml was satisfying and made me feel like I had drunk three pints. I looked over at Jia, then at Ling, ran my sharp nail over Mia's lips, "I will take her."

Mia stood up; this would be the first time she was leaving her territory after many years. The family she grew up with was the family she knew.

As a little girl, a little boy chased her into the woods. He got taken by the witch who had been killed. No one knew about her dark secret, and when she saw the fire surrounding the boy, she ran deeper into the woods.

That's when she got saved by Ling, her darkest secret of what had happened that day was a secret she had not told anyone about.