Eight

He stands there furiously fuming with his claws out and his emerald green eyes shining under the moonlight like he's something straight out of a horror movie. He went from a handsome lost puppy to a vicious wolf. And to Jessica, this wolf version is sexier.

"Great. Another Nytheri." The Nocturne holding Jessica hostage says, rolling his eyes in annoyance. "But that one is the same as the others, even more boring, I might add," he jokes, and the other Nocturnes laugh at the joke.

"So what makes you so special?" he asks Jessica once again, and she doesn't know how to answer that question. She doesn't even know what the hell a Nytheri is, but she does know it's what she is. But what is she exactly? She knows the name of what she is. It's boldly written all over her forehead. It was placed there by the Nocturnes who can't stop calling her that.

"I said put her down!"

"Oh, calm down, Nytheri. We're just having fun," the Nocturne smiles, and his canines show. Which sends a chill down Jessica's spine. She still can't believe she's staring face to face with vampires…well, Nocturnes is what they're called. But still.

Two Nocturnes swiftly appear next to the Nytheri who claimed to have brought Jessica back to life. They hold his hands in hopes of overpowering him, and at first Jessica loses a bit of hope. But she underestimates his power. He grabs both their hands and makes them clash against each other like a wave hitting a large rock.

He doesn't even give them a chance to recover from the clash; he stabs them both with their claws. And at this point Jessica knows what their claws can do to Nocturnes. The two Nocturnes fall to the ground. They're in pain and they look like they're going to die over and over and over again. Jessica can still hear the cries of the girl she scratched.

Their claws are poison to them. But does it kill them? Is what she wants to know.

"Who else wants a piece of me?" he asks, laughing, and the Nocturnes don't even answer verbally; they just go for the kill. They run toward him like ninjas, but unluckily for them, this young man is a warrior, and Jessica has hope that he's going to save her. He fights off the Nocturnes with such ease.

Dodging their attacks. Slicing them with his claws and even removing their heads. Jessica flinches at the sight of a decapitation. She understands that they're already dead. But still it's harsh to see.

"Your hero isn't going to save you on time," the Nocturne says, looking at him straight in the eyes with so much evil. "I guess you've forgotten that I'm still here," he puts on a chilling smile. He opens his mouth to bite her. She closes her eyes, getting ready to embrace the bite.

"Jessica, come on, you can overpower him. You're more powerful than you think. You can do it, I know you can."

He hears his voice say to her, and as usual, his voice gives her power.

She opens her eyes, and then she kicks the Nocturne on his crotch, and he lets out a yell and drops her. She lands on her feet and she faces him head-on. She's angrier than she is confident, and she is ready to end the monster in front of her. She brings out her claws with ease, like she has been doing that for years.

"You are going to regret handling a lady like that," she says and then swipes and swipes, but the Nocturne dodges. She's not going to give up until she touches him and ends him for holding her like that.

She's got to say, this guy is pretty skilled, and the other Nocturnes may look older than him physically, but he is the oldest.

He was probably turned at the age of twenty, while the rest were turned later on in life. But still, if the strange handsome man says she has the power to take him down, then she has the power to take him down.

He kicks him on the leg, breaking a bone. He screams, and she sees it as an opportunity to attack him, but someone tackles her to the ground, and she sees that it's the girl she scratched before. She looks so horrible, it's so hard to look at her when she's like that.

"I'm going to fucking kill you!" she yells, hitting Jessica weakly and then the Nocturne turns into a pillar of black smoke, and then she disappears. Jessica is not looking at a girl with a disfigured face; she now has her gaze on the stars.

She doesn't understand. Did the girl disappear? Is she officially dead? She's going to figure all that later, but now she has to stand up and fight. The Nocturne, who held her attempts to hold her again, but she catches his hand and breaks it. The Nocturne yells, and someone grabs him by the neck and lifts him.

It's the hot brown skinned man lifting him. And he's loving it.

Jessica looks around her and sees the Nocturnes on the ground disappearing one by one.

"Wow," she mutters. Then she looks at the Nytheri before her.

She admires how hot and heroic he is; his muscles flex as he lifts the disgusting blood sucker in the air. He has so much anger in his eyes.

"Now you know how it feels," he says to the Nocturne.

"Oh…pl…please." The Nocturne says, trying to catch his breath. "You Nytheris are going to fall soon, maybe not now, but someday you will fall. Mark my-" The Nocturne groans, and just like that, Jessica's knight in shining armour has put his whole hands in the Nocturne's chest, and he brings out his cold heart and squashes it like it means nothing.

He drops the Nocturne on the ground, and just like the female Nocturne and the other Nocturnes who were touched by the weapon that is the Nytheri claws, he turns into a pillar of smoke and then disappears.

"Mother fucker." The knight spits, looking all proud; he is proud. Anyone who kills a Nocturne should be proud of themselves.

He shifts his focus to Jessica, who looks tense.

"Hey, are you okay?" he asks, genuinely concerned.

"No, I am not okay. We just killed a bunch of vampires."

"Nocturnes." He corrects, and Jessica gives him a look that makes him remove the smile on his face and face the ground.

"Nocturnes, vampires, whatever. All I know is that these creatures are not supposed to exist. But they do." She panics, moving back and forth, trying not to hyperventilate. But she has no choice but to do so because she's hella confused.

"Jessica, please calm down."

"Calm down? How can I calm down when we've just killed people?"

"Uh, they're not people, they're Nocturnes and they're already dead."

"But what about the living guy who was killed by one of them?" She gestures to the young man who is lying dead by the dumpster with blood all over his neck.

The knight does a hissing sound "Damn, I forgot about him. It sucks, but don't worry, the witches will handle it."

Jessica's eyes widen and her jaw drops.

"Witches? Witches exist?"

"Yes, but you have to calm down, Jessica. We're going to- JESSICA!"

Jessica has fainted.