Forested Haunts

[Lucyfer]

The Lancel siblings had arrived in Alexandria before the sun, but not soon enough. They spent a day in the penthouse that their corporation owned, with the green-eyed Abel pacing out his boredom as the morning hours ticked on. “Where exactly are we going, anyway?”


“Kisatchie,” Vera answered. “I already have our ride ordered. We’ll leave as soon as it is dark,” she informed him, though he likely guessed that. “It isn’t terribly far from here, about half an hour.” Even so, they’d have to plan their leaving time well. “Hopefully we’ll be done with this tonight,” she muttered that to herself, though she heard Abel make a sound of agreement.


“What are we even going for?”


“Strange happenings in the locations nearby.”


“Such as?” Abel sounded annoyed with the lack of details.


Vera looked up from the laptop, “Computers and televisions going on the fritz, animals running out from the forest for no discernable reason, people starting to act strange, and lots of accidents.”


“What do you mean by accidents?” Abel frowned.


“I mean nearby streetlights falling onto passing cars, or televisions exploding.” Abel’s eyes widened.


“Why are we—”


“—because I understand this.” Vera’s eyes went back to the laptop. Abel hadn’t been told the stories of her occult days. They were long behind her now. “And not many in this world understand these things. I just need to assess whether it is an angry ghost, or a demon, and then I’ll know how to deal with it.”


“A ghost? That exists?” Vera looked up again, a dead expression on her face.


‘Really, Abel?’


“Oh…right,” he chuckled, remembering what he was. He collapsed onto the couch besides her, an arm going around her shoulders. It was just to make her tense, and to get a rise out of her. He saw the glare tossed his way, “So, do werewolves exist then?”


“Yes,” Vera spoke through gritted teeth, trying not to be annoyed by Abel.


“And witches?”


This would continue for ten minutes, until Vera had enough of his foolishness and locked herself in a room. She wouldn’t come out until it was the evening, dressed in a way Abel had never seen before. He kept to his tailored suits, blue in hue to bring out his eyes, but Vera had chosen leather pants and a red tank top. She had also put her hair up in a ponytail.


None of these things had Abel seen before, since Vera preferred the elegant evening gowns, but he supposed this was more practical to go investigate a forest in.


They exited the penthouse together, and found their ride waiting for them just outside the glass doors. They were driven to the town of Pineville, and dropped off near the entrance to the forest. The man promised to return around 4:30 am, to give them plenty of time to get back to Alexandria and their hotel.


With that arranged, the two siblings looked to the mass of forest before them. “Where do we even begin…?” Abel asked, wondering if they could possibly find whatever it was in such a place.


Vera just took out her phone. “There’s a graveyard in the forest. We begin there.” And she set the GPS to guide the two of them, and started walking.


“You take all the fun out of this!” Abel complained, but followed along dutifully.

 

[Alex Black]

"Angel, we don't have all day, hurry up" angels mom called from the kitchen. "You can just go without me" she said, and walked down the stairs, she had just placed her paper block and pencil on her pockets. "No, you need to hunt, what if you one day meet a vampire" her mom said, as she took on her jacket. Angel didn't answer the question, she just sighed and walked out of the door, she didn't wanna talk about it. "Do you have your knife and onoions?" Her mom asked as she as well walked out. "Mom, I do not think that what they say about anions is real" "listen to your mother Angel, and let's go" her dad said, and started walking twords the forest


Angel was always trying to act polite and nice twords everyone besides her parents, but they were always after her, she was always doing something wrong, if something was wrong it was always her fault in some way, always. They were more interested in hunting vampires, at times. But if she should be honest, she didn't really mind being alone, sometimes it could be very nice being alone.


As they got to the forest they stopped. "Angel, you will go twords the graveyard, me and your mom will go this way" he said, and limited in another direction. "Take care, and if you see any vampires, kill them" he said with a little smile on his face, as he and her mother started walking away. "Bye bye darling, we will see you later" that was the last thing Angel heard befor they were gone in to the forest.


Angel sighed, and walked into the forest. She also had a little flash light that she would turn on so that she could see where she was going. "Huh, it's pretty about here, as usual " she said to her self, when she was alone she was always talking to herself. "What if I one day disappeared? Or not disappeared, but one day just stayed out here in the forest, and didn't come back?" She asked, as she made her way twords the graveyard. "You would t be able to survive on your own, you are not that smart Angel. You would die within days" she answers her self with a sigh. "Guess you are right" she stopped when she got to the graveyard, her grandmother was buried here. She took a deep breath befor making her way into the graveyard.


While all of this happens, Alex was in his little house, just sitting there looking at the moon, he didn't really have anything to do. He had been sitting inside all day, just waiting for the sun to go down. With a little smirk, he took his long jacket, and walked out of the little house that he lived in. He was dressed in a long black jacket, some place pants, and a black bottom up shirt, so it was hard to see him in the dark.


He looked up at the sky as he was walking, didn't really pay much attention to where he was going, he was just walking. He closed his eyes, and enjoyed the cold breeze on his face. He loved being outside, it reminded him of his old days, the days where he could be outside, in the sunlight, without almost dying, the days where had friends, the days where he was human.


Alex suddenly stopped, and looked around, he could smell something. He walked slowly twords the smell, it was the smell of a human. He got a bit surprised when the smell let him to the graveyard, what would a human do out at a time like this, in graveyard, hidden in the forest. But he didn't really focus on that, now he was just focusing on the girl he could see, siting I front of a grave, with a pen and a pice of paper, she was drawing. Alex smirked, he could almost taste the human blood, as he slowly made his way twords her.


//please tell me, if there is ever something wrong with my reply, it or if there is something you would like to me change about anything, I don't minde :3

 

[Lucyfer]

Humans were expected everywhere. In the modern eras, with their flashlights and night-shift jobs, Vera had come to accept the night would never, truly, belong to vampires again. She was therefore not unnerved as the scent of humans reached her, though she did reach back to grab Abel when she heard his steps stray.


“What?” He asked, amused.


“Don’t,” she warned.


“Fine,” his amusement didn’t die, “There’s one the way we’re heading anyway.”


“You had blood at the hotel,” there was no point to unnecessarily revealing themselves. Modern technology had given them the ability to store blood.


“It isn’t as good,” he whined.


This was true, of course. Blood from the vein tasted so much better. “I don’t care,” Vera tightened her grip on his wrist. “You will not get us in trouble or I will call Stephanos.” She couldn’t see Abel miming the words in mockery.


When they arrived at the graveyard, Vera let his hand go. There wasn’t just a human there, and she made a beeline right for the dark-haired vampire. She didn't see him so much as she caught his scent, like she'd caught the scent of the human, “Don’t,” her tone was the same was with Abel, cutting through the air to get the attention of both the girl, and the vampire who was looking at her with a far-too hungry expression.


Abel made a show of rolling his eyes as he followed after. He gave the human with the long, brunette hair a smile and a wave, “Sorry love,” he said as he stepped closer, “Don’t mean to be disturbing you, just have a bit of business, don’t mind us. Pay your respects,” he noted the tools of the artist and imagined she was some sort of new-wave goth or noire artist.

 

[Alex Black]

"Mom and dad, are still hunting vampires" Angel said as she started drawing. She was talking to her grandmother, she knew that she couldn't hear her, but she still liked climbing out here, and think that she could. "They wouldn't stop talking about them, and how they don't deserve to live" she said he'd and shook her head. "There is just something very stranger and interested about them" she said


Alex had moved closer and closer to this girl, but eh. He sudden could feel that there were to her vampires by, he stopped and looked around, and it was now he saw the siblings, and heard the other vampires word. He didn't like when people told him what to do, so he just continued walking twords the girl, who now looked up, as she heard a voice.


She looked a bit confused at this stranger, she had never seen him befor or the girl by his side. She didn't understand what these people were doing out here, they did not have any weapons at anything, they couldn't be hunters. Angel got up on her feet, and dropped the paper and pencil in her hand. "Who are you, and what are you doing out here so late?" She asked, her voice was confused, and she tilted her head slightly to the side, while Alex was pretty close to her now, and he had that hungry smirk on his face, as he looked down at the girl

 

[Lucyfer]

“Trust me, mate, you don’t want to do what you’re thinking,” Abel spoke to the vampire who had continued to approach. He could tell him that Vera was a couple thousand years old, that she was probably faster and stronger than him, but then again…Abel liked it when Vera lost her cool.


She always got so awkward about it, and embarrassed. He knew there was a story there, but she’d yet to tell it. He knew it when he saw how other European vampires looked at her, and how so many of them flinched when she raised her voice.


Vera had been someone worth fearing, even though she tried to hide it behind her make-up and dresses.


Abel didn’t answer the human. Neither did Vera. Her eyes were intent on the other vampire. Her pace quickened—years added to her natural abilities, and she made it to the side of the girl first, and stopped there. A dare was written in her blue eyes. She spoke again to the vampire rather than the human, “I’m not here for a fight,” she was going to interrupt his hunt, if only because she was pretty certain the girl was just that—not even an adult. She'd make a note to report this to Stephanos later. She was certain there was a rule, at least in Europe, about only hunting adults. Hunting children was a new level of disturbing. “I’d like to talk.” If this vampire was local, he might know a bit about the strange disturbances.


Abel couldn’t help but chuckle at the tone. “Still no fun,” he commented under his breath.

 

[Alex Black]

“Trust me, mate, you don’t want to do what you’re thinking,” Abel spoke to the vampire who had continued to approach. He could tell him that Vera was a couple thousand years old, that she was probably faster and stronger than him, but then again…Abel liked it when Vera lost her cool.
She always got so awkward about it, and embarrassed. He knew there was a story there, but she’d yet to tell it. He knew it when he saw how other European vampires looked at her, and how so many of them flinched when she raised her voice.


Vera had been someone worth fearing, even though she tried to hide it behind her make-up and dresses.


Abel didn’t answer the human. Neither did Vera. Her eyes were intent on the other vampire. Her pace quickened—years added to her natural abilities, and she made it to the side of the girl first, and stopped there. A dare was written in her blue eyes. She spoke again to the vampire rather than the human, “I’m not here for a fight,” she was going to interrupt his hunt, if only because she was pretty certain the girl was just that—not even an adult. She'd make a note to report this to Stephanos later. She was certain there was a rule, at least in Europe, about only hunting adults. Hunting children was a new level of disturbing. “I’d like to talk.” If this vampire was local, he might know a bit about the strange disturbances.


Abel couldn’t help but chuckle at the tone. “Still no fun,” he commented under his breath.

The Vampire was still walking towards Angel. Angel was not sure what was going on, but when she turned her head and looked at Alex, her heart dropped. She was speechless, she took a step back, and fell in the paper she had dropped before, and was now on the ground. She was not sure how she should feel about this, she wasn't scared, she was more surprised. "Y...You are..." She almost couldn't get herself to say it. "You are vampires..." She said. She had never seen a vampire before, only drawings.


The smirk on Alex's face disappeared a bit when he looked at Vera. He could see that she was way older than him, and she was way stronger and faster. He him self was not used to his new 'powers' yet, he was still training, and he knew that he couldnt beat he in a battle. "hmmm..." He started to get a bit curious when he heard that she wanted to talk, and he maybe knew what she wanted to talk about, but he knew nothing about the strange disturbances, he had worked on it him self, but he wanted to find out what it was.


"Hm, fine. I have a house here near by in the forest, we can talk there, but the girl are cumming with us" He said, and looked down at Angel, who still were just looking up at the 3 of them, not really saying anything, just looking at them. "And no, i cant leave her here now, she is a hunter, and now she knows i have a house in the forest, she will go back and get some help, and then come back to kill me" He said, still with a cold voice, as he looked up at the two.

 

[Lucyfer]

Only a hunter would surmise what they were so quickly, and yet the girl gave off no air of a hunter. She had no weapons, Abel noticed, and she wasn’t even as athletic as most hunters. She looked far too soft. Bait, maybe, but he wasn’t sure how she was all that good of bait in such casual clothing. Usually bait was sexualized far more than she was.


At his statement about the girl, Vera arched an eyebrow. “You would show a hunter where you live? What manner of idiocy is that?” Vera turned instead to the girl, and gave her a once over.


Had the girl only kept her mouth shut, the situation would have resolved itself and Vera could have let her run. As it was, she had unfortunately revealed her knowledge, and wasn’t at all arguing with the assumptions made that she was a hunter.


Vera didn’t like killing humans on a whim any longer, but this was no longer just an innocent girl out in the woods. Now this was a stupid girl from a hunter’s family, and there was only one response to that. Vera grabbed the small dagger she kept in her coat and unsheathed it in a flash. “Vera, what—!” But the answer became obvious to Abel when Vera made to thrust that dagger into the throat of the hunter.

 

[Alex Black]

"No no no, I'm not a hunter, I-I swear" the girl said, with a shaking voice, "my-my parents are hunters, I would never kill a vampire, I promise" she said, and looked at Vera.she tried to get away, when she saw the dagger. She had moved away, but she then started to feel something on her throat, and then the pain. She quickly placed her hand to cover it up, but the blood didn't seem to wanted to stop. "Hey, please don't kill her" Alex said, and took a step towards them. He short looked at Angel, and saw the blood. For a moment he just stared at it, but then shook his head, and looked at the other two, and tried not to think about the bleeding girl.


"Their blood taste way better, when they are alive" he said with a sigh. "We can take her to my place, and we can... Have a little drink, all of us..." A little smirk appears on the males lips. "I feel like this one has some very tasty blood" he then continued with a little grin. He had not had blood from a human in a very long time, and you could see it in his eyes, they were full of hunger. He was one of those vampires, who could go out and kill a dear, and drink from them, but Human blood just tasted a lot better


"Plus, what should you do about the blood, on the ground. Someone might come out here and fined it, and what will they think then, huh?" He leans up against the tree, and looked at all the 2 of them, still trying to keep his cool, and not attack the still bleeding girl. "Do you think that it's normal, with blood in a graveyard? I don't think so, people would start to be suspicious, and they would hunt out here, even more then they do now." His eyes was cold as ice now. "So please, let the girl love, at least until we get to my place, so nobody would notice that she was gone"his eyes were not on Vera, she had his full attention. Angel just looked down, her hands were shaking, and her heart were beating fast. She had no idea what to say, she was pretty sure that she wasn't gonna survive the night, but she was a very quit girl. Even in situations like this, she didn't know what to say, to save her own life. "Please don't kill me..." Was all she could say, with her shaking little quit voice, she lifted her head and looked at Abel, her eyes was full of fear, but she was not scared of them, okay maybe a little scared of them, but she was most scared of losing her life. "Please..." The hand she had placed on her throat were full of blood. Some voices could be heard, they were calling for Angel, it was her parents, and the voices were coming closer and closer.