Sacrifice Helle

Chapter 7

What happened next was unclear to me. I was laying there on the ground, wet and dirty, watching him yell 'oh shit', when a sudden wind flashed by, the vampire was within the blink of an eye 3 meters away, on the ground, with a dark figure on top of him. And in the same second there was a flash of fire, an instant scream, and the vampire was gone. My eyes were as big as plates, Im sure, but mostly I was in shock. I didnt even remember to breathe. The dark figure stood up and walked towards me. "Didnt I tell you to stay out of trouble?" "Darien?!" I threw myself at him, giving him a real bear hug. I dont think I had ever been so happy to see anyone in my life! Then I almost fell down to the ground again with exhaustion, but Darien held me tight. "Well well well, look at that..!" I turned my head and saw the guys Darien had talked to earlier that week at school. It was the pale guy in black who spoke. Next the red/brown haired, "Is she really more important than Vaan?" 'Vaan?' "We'll find Vaan, dont worry, Gerha." Darien sounded a little irritated. But the red/brown headed Gerha continued, "Still, I dont think I like this, we had the perfect opportunity to find his hideout this time." "With the girl as a bait, yes."

Gerha walked up to us and looked me straight into my eyes. He had sparkling green eyes, I could see them shine even though there was hardly any light in between these threes at all. He then looked at Darien and a devilish little smile played on his lips. Then the other one spoke again, " At least now we know who Vaan is after, right? He'll come after her again?" "Perhaps..." Now the fourth had come into sight. "Cora, you think she is the one?", Darien asked the white haired. Cora came closer and took a look at me the same way Gerha had. There was a slight jingling sound coming from all her ear rings. Her eyes were shining in the dark too, grey and yellow sparks. "Difficult to tell...Is she a virgin?" At this I reacted, "Whaaat?!" And the worst was that Cora had asked Darien the question while smiling in the same way Gerha had. I ripped myself out of Dariens hands, faced Cora and was about to yell something about utter rudeness to her, when she laughed me in my face, "I guess so!" The others seemed to find it amusing as well, and I blushed deeply. It was none of their business if I was a virgin or not! And they certainly didn't have to laugh!

"Cora, Gerha, Lathien, focus please!", Darien said firmly, "We dont have any proof that she has been chosen by Vaan, for all we know; she could have been his dinner." "And now that he didnt get it, he will be suspecting something, my guess is that she is worthless to us now!", Gerha said. "And even if he HAD chosen her, he probably will not come after her again, knowing that we will be waiting...", Cora stated. "Still... He is very stubborn and used to getting what he wants..." Gerha walked up to me and tilted my head up with his fingertips, taking a better look at me. "I dont understand why he would choose this one though, I dont see anything special about her, she's not even pretty!" "Knock it off, Gerha!" It was Darien, he pushed Gerha gently away from me and placed his arm around my waist. "Appearance can be deceiving, did you forget what happened the first time you fought Vaan?" Gerha shrugged and Cora bumped down to the ground. "Don't remind us!", she pouted. "Fine, I won't. And now if you'll excuse me, I'll call tonights hunt for over and go home." Lathien rose an eyebrow, "WITH the girl?" "Ey! Wait a minute!", Cora protested, "What if he is still after her? One of us is no match for him, and we'll loose the only bait we got!" Darien gave Cora a hopeless look, "Like the great Vaan would ever come out in person!" "It happens!", Gerha this time, "It happens. But I say its not worth waiting for, maybe she was only dinner, or amusement, or maybe he'll loose interest in her and find someone else. We can't go baby sit her anyway!" Lathien agreed. "Fine, then we meet again tomorrow, here at noon.", Gerha decided. Cora nodded. Then they disappeared right in front of my eyes. I looked up at Darien, and again he looked at me like he was holding a lost puppy in his arm. He smiled, "You just can't stay away from me can you?" "Hey, its not like I planned this! But.. thanks for..." "...saving your ass again? No problem. Lets get you back home."

Darien pulled me closer to him, and then let me loose again. I looked at him confused, and he pointed behind me. "My house! How did we... you..." He smiled at me, "No point in walking, you saw what the others did, it's no use trying to hide it from you any longer." "..what?... Hide what? Wait! You need to explain me one thing or two!" I was so confused that I didnt even know what to ask about, and I didnt even know what to do. First it was that.. Vampire. Was that really a vampire?! Oh my god....... I started feeling dizzy, but Darien supported me. "Lets go inside, I'll explain to you what you need to know." I opened the door and we walked inside. The first thing Darien did was sniff into the air, "Did you burn something?" I looked at him confused as he went into the kitchen. Then I heard him scream lightly, "Aah! How can someone do this to good food!" "Not you too! I had enough with Asamis complaining, I dont need you to throw shit on my cooking skills as well!" I fell down on the couch, closed my eyes and almost fell asleep when Darien stuffed a burned meatball up in my face. "This used to be a meatball!" I opened my eyes and saw a small black ball. "Its not so bad, they're soft in the middle..." He eat the meatball, but then ran back into the kitchen and I heard water pouring from the spring. Then I fell asleep.