1 Chapter one

I hit the floor arms bracing at the last moment to break my fall as my head hit the wooden floor hard leaving me disorientated for the briefest of moments. I felt the ghoul leap from the other side of the room bearing down on me I turned over onto my back to see a dark silhouette somewhat lit by a sliver of moonlight coming through the window with bright yellow eyes. As it shortened the distance, I sat up pushing my arms out on instinct to protect myself as it hit my hands, I grabbed what was left of its shirt and in a single motion swung it over to the side and onto its back while I swung up over it landing with one hand on its chest and one on its shoulder I pulled my hand into the air bringing it crashing down into its jaw. I then reached back wrapping my hand around the handle of my blade pulling it out of its sheath and while still holding the ghoul to the floor with the one hand I drove the blade into the creature's eye with the other going through to the brain and killing it instantly. I felt the fiends body stop pushing against my hand and fall limp I then pulled my knife out and stood up watching it set aflame starting at its chest and rapidly covering its entire body burning it till there was nothing but a small pile of ash in the middle of the room where its body once was. As I stood there a horribly childish like giggle came from behind me I turned to see a small teenage girl with raven black hair and intense blue eyes she was wearing a black leather jacket and was lent up against the rotting wood of the doorway she was staring at her nails and in a neutral voice says 'what a shame I liked him' then as if to brush this off she looked up and said 'well it's not as if he would of made it to the end of the week anyway'. I stood there almost surprised at how normal she seemed at a glance she would have almost appeared to just be a regular seventeen year old girl but when you looked closer you began to notice how pale her skin was and how cold and emotionless her face appeared. I hadn't been faced with a vampire like this before as I had only encountered feral vampires these where rabid and could barely speak with only a slight increase in strength over regular humans this however was clearly a watcher although I had never met one in person, I knew them to be closer to human in behaviour if nothing else. Watchers are incredibly rare they have no emotions and are known to have no regard for human life this along with a heavily increased amount of strength and speed makes them dangerous to say the least this and while feral vampires live for only a matter of weeks blue eyed vampires are immortal and can only be killed by a wooden stake to the heart. I snap out of my own thoughts to see her stood there staring at me this is unusual as vampires typically either strike or flee being unable to understand anything more than basic instincts. She sees I am slightly taken aback by this and says calmly if not with a slight hint of something in her voice 'I won't bite' then in an almost flirty voice 'well not unless you want me to' she then gives me a sly grin and a flirtatious look. Taken aback even further by this I simply look at her and say in a sarcastic tone 'why would you it's not like you're a vampire or anything'. She then lets out another giggle saying, 'fair enough I guess not like there's anything wrong with it though is there'. 'You mean apart from the killing people and draining their blood part or is that of no importance to you' I say anger building in my voice my hand tightening around the handle of the blade. She looks at me and in an almost condescending tone says, 'of course that's half the fun of it dummy'. My anger begins to rise at her sheer disregard for human life not only killing and feeding on people but taking pleasure from it enjoying it. She sees my hand tighten around the blade the clear rage building inside me and says, 'aww there's no need to have a little hissy fit is there'. I then toss my knife over in my hand to hold the blade in my fingers I pull it back to head height and throw it aiming for square in her chest, but before the blade can make contact, she moves with such speed the blade hits the wall where she was standing. Shes now stands in the other side of the doorway she looks at the knife and looks back around again at me she raises her finger and moves it from side to side saying, 'now don't be rude we have barely gotten to know each other yet you haven't even told me your name'. I look at her calmly and say 'James and you are' I try to hide the fear slowly building up inside me how she was able to dodge my blade as if it was nothing and then stand there taunting me as if without a care in the world terrified me to say the least. She looks at me and again in the same flirty tone says, 'Abigail so jimmy what brings you here' I respond, 'you're dead mate not enough of a clue' gesturing the pile of ash in the middle of the room 'or maybe when I threw a knife at your head didn't tip you off'. She looks at me and giggles saying, 'well maybe I just want to hear you say It." I began to feel my anger rising again as she says, 'anyway you look terrified and you're barely a child that's no fun was hoping for a fight'. I look up and with a grin say, 'I'm not a child and if it's a fight you want, I invite you to give it a shot'. She then looks at me with a taunting look on her face and in a condescending tone says 'oh looks like someone put on his big boy pants today but please let's face it you're a child and you're not exactly threatening. I then look down at the pile of ash on the floor before looking back up at her saying 'well I do believe your friend might have a different opinion on that to be fair'. She then begins to move into the room with slow deliberate steps and in a terrifyingly calm voice says 'well why don't u prove it little one' her face changes as she begins to lunge at me teeth bared. I shove my hand into my jacket pulling out my sidearm as she moves towards me, I dive to the side rolling to my knees and turning to see her running at me I then fire three shots in quick succession each hitting her in the body, these slow her down but not enough. she kicks the gun out my hand using my lowered position I tackle her to the floor delivering an elbow to the face at this point however I feel a strike to my chest sending me flying across the room. I crash through the decayed wall hitting the other side of the corridor as I move to stand up, she enters the corridor as she does this I see blood covering her shirt and jacket her jaw is obviously broken although even as I begin to notice this it is already healing I look at her and with a smile I say 'well you wanted a fight'. Even as I feel a sense of triumph at hurting this stronger opponent I can't help but be distracted by the pain searing through my chest from my own injuries as I realise a couple or more ribs are broken at this point she looks at me and with a slight smile says 'well it's not exactly like you came here looking to make friends now is it' I then look her up and down and say 'well judging from the state of your jacket I would say you found that fight you were looking for wouldnt you?'. She looks down and places her fingers over the centre of a patch of blood on her stomach pulling them across wiping the blood off her stomach revealing a completely healed wound without so much as a scar to ever prove its existence. She looks up at me and with a grin on her face she says in a childish like tone 'try again jimmy' she then leaps down the corridor teeth bared to show long sharp fangs blue eyes like lights in the dark of the corridor as she leaped, she let out a roar like a large cat. I threw myself headfirst through the hole I had left dodging out of her way by inches and hitting the ground hard going out into a roll and landing just short of my weapon I reached out my hand and clutched it turning around onto my back to see her come through the door and again I pull the trigger in quick succession sending half a dozen rounds into her chest as she stood there almost stunned I began to stand and fired three rounds into her lower torso before I heard the click telling me I was out. I dive across the room picking up an old chair leg as I break it across my knee, I turn to hear a woosh and the sound of glass breaking I see her silhouette falling towards the ground hitting it without so much as a sound and darting into the woods. As she reached the treeline, I threw my makeshift stake missing her by a clear foot and sinking into a nearby tree she turned giving me an almost taunting look before she slides into the darkness. I go to leap out of the window after her but as I begin to leap up the ledge, I feel another sharp stab of pain shoot up through my chest causing me to recoil back I stare into the woods and decide to leave and live to fight another day. I turn to leave retrieving my weapon however as I reach the threshold of the house, I hear what sounds like an animal in pain a blood curdling sound stopped abruptly by a load crack around a mile behind me. I see my car a black 2010 demon on the other side of the gate I walk towards it and get in starting the ignition and hearing the 6.2L V8 as I do this, I realise my ribs are already starting to heal I may not heal as fast as her but it's only a few ribs they should be fixed by tonight hopefully. As I drive home, I think of the watcher I have just encountered they were called this because of their connection to the feral vampires they sired leading to them having the ability to control or even see through the eyes of the sired feral, only watchers can sire a feral and only an alpha can sire a watcher. But they have not been seen for over a century however a feral bite will cause the human to become ill and tend to not last more than a few days at most this is the first watcher I have seen though this is because they typically don't bother with their own dirty work instead preferring to send their feral vampires out to fight and bring them food using their hive like control over them, this is another way in which they are dangerous as they are rarely alone and can even manipulate the minds of regular people making them do whatever it is they want through a form of hypnotism. This is why they are so feared with the ability to mind control people along with their increase in speed and strength makes them very dangerous closer to the type of vampires you may see on a tv show or a movie. However as these thoughts go through my mind I notice a glimmer of sunlight on the horizon signalling daybreak and the end of the night as I begin to notice the rising sun I push my foot down urging the car to go faster as if to race against the sun.