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  About that time, Haley walked bato the room carrying a few rge vials of water, with a cross emblem on them. “How the hell?” Haley pondered for a sed, and uhe first bottle at Casey, missing her by a wide margin.

  With most of the artificial sunlight damaged in some way, Sylvie began to groan from uhe b Casey draped over her. “I feel like I was hit by a truck.” Sylvie peeked her head out of the b just as the first bottle of holy water bounced off her head and spttered on the floor. Quickly shuffling to avoid the ented water, Sylvie grimaced and made her way to the sofa, pulling herself up. “How does a preot see something like THIS?” Sylvie rubbed her arms a blood to seal up the minor holes that the light had caused.

  Breaking the bottle in the ter of the room, Casey sent the potassium flying all over the room in a white cloud. “ we focus on the visions ter? This chieeds to go down.” Casey dropped into a fighting croud flicked her cws out. Fog her twin suns oall and fit reporter, Casey’s fangs locked into pce. “I would really like to know where the diary and ledger are. I make this painless or make you suffer more than we did burning on your floor.” Casey’s gold eyes slowly rimmed with red as she circled the reporter.

  After she'd sealed the holes on her body against the artificial sunlight, Sylvie threw off the protective b and froze in pce, her third eye showing the mystic the truth standing before her. “Casey..Love..Don’t drink her blood.” Sylvie’s eyes shifted into bnk pools of bck-rimmed red as well. “If I see this right, Miss Grant is not who you think she is.” Sylvie’s vision pierced the illusion that hid the Shadewraith uhe woman’s skin.

  Taking a careful step back, Casey heeded the words of her maker and looked around for an alternate means to fight the woman holding a sitle of holy water. “Got any ideas? I mean we ’t just leave this thing free, right?”

  A deep hollow ugh came from Haley and her eyes shifted tht white diamonds. “Talented Nightstalker. You’ve been graced I see.” The Shadewraith grunted and applied horrific pressure on what was left of the real Haley’s persona. “Every little twist I do to her, makes this sack of blood cry out in pain…” It tilted its head, “Feed..ing…me, little bloodsuckers.”

  Sylvie ran beside Casey in a fsh and put herself between her lover and the Shadewraith. “Casey, I don’t know how to fight these…” Sylvie paused as a realization hit her. “...I have an idea.”

  Remaining in her crouched position, Casey kept an unmoving wat the Shadewraith known as Haley Grant. Initially ready to jump if the creature made a move towards Sylvie, Casey let out a little gasp whehe body peel off from the Shadewraith in yers, hitting the floor in little pieces of rotten skin, muscle and bone. Casey felt fear creeping up from her chest as Haley’s eyes rolled her skull in a bloody mess and then it hit her that the monster wahe tires to be scared of the little act. “Sylvie..” Casey gulped and fought back her fear, repg it with anger so she could protect Sylvie. “It mentiohat it got stronger as it tortured the woman…” Casey furled her eyebrow ahe rest of the gruesome se wash over her. “...So don’t give it ara power by being scared.”

  A sed ter, what was left of Haley’s body hit the floor, as though a heavy wet sponge had been tossed casually to make the worst sound possible. Screeg and ughing, the Shadewraith spun little circles and floated above the tires, morphing its form into various shapes and sizes. It dove with lightning speed towards Casey with six arms and wispy hands at the ready.

  Proteg Sylvie had bee the sole focus in Casey’s mind as the Shadewraith plummeted from the ceiling. She pushed her mistresses away from her a from where she felt the ghostly creature would nd. Not anticipating that the creature could expand just as fast as it could fall, Casey felt six fingers dig into her ankle and pull until she fell ft on her face. “O, Fuck!....” Casey howled in pain. “Let…go…you..” Casey tried to kick the beast with her other foot, and sadly watched her foot gh the shade harmlessly. “Your idea would be lovely right now…” Casey winced in pain as she felt herself getting dragged into the air.

  Holding Casey upside down by her foot, the Shadewraith used another one of its ghastly hands and gripped her throat. “It would seem, little blood thief, that Archaios Enas is correct about this brood. You will e to anything where it seems your little illusion could be broken.” It ughed maniacally. “Inhabiting you will be such a pleasure, open up little vampire…” The Shadewraith used another hand and pressed Casey’s cheeks until her mouth opened against her will. “We are going to have such a good time…” Glowing e for a split sed, the Shadewraith’s eyes focused on its captive and pressed part of its form into Casey’s mouth i on taking over the young vampire. From its right side, the evil wraith heard the ch of something solid and turo look just in time to get a face full of bloodstone dust blown into its face.

  Standing with a simple smile on her face, Sylvie held ahree stones in her hand. “What now, you beast?” She smashed the three stones in her hand and smeared them all over her arms before shifting inthost form. Spinning up in the air like a small tornado, Sylvie flung her amorphous form at the Shadewraith, pummeling it back through the living room wall and outside into the starlit treeline.

  Quickly shoving blood to her numb foot, Casey stomped the feeling bato it and ran for the backdoor. “You could have told me before it nearly took me over, dyface.” Casey looked up into the trees where the two were still locked in bat, the Shadewraith doing very little to stop Sylvie’s advanbsp; Casey pulled the one bloodstone Sylvie found for her at the ke and tucked it safely in her palm. Scrambling up a thick tree, Casey reached where the two were spinning in a desperate attempt to gain the upper hand. Crushing the small stone and maniputing her closed fingers so that the rock would end up a fine powder, Casey cpped her hands together, produg a heavy chalk-like cloud of bloodstone ahe air carry it right into the Shadewraith.

  Emitting a heartstopping screech, the Shadewraith pulled away from its bat and disappeared into the woods without a trace for the vampires to follow.

  Dropping to the floor of the forest, Sylvie’s ghost shifted back to her human form and colpsed from exhaustion. “C…Casey…” She breathed heavily out of habit, “You are my saviain. I couldn’t hold that form much longer. It…it..”

  Casey nded on a small bed of pine needles, crushing them and releasing its st between the couple. “We saved each other, Sylvie.” She k and pulled the helpless vampire into her p. “It’s gone, you drove it off.” Casey felt blood-staiears stream down her cheeks, “You did it, love…you found their weakness.” Casey punctured holes in her wrist and pushed it to Sylvie’s lips. “Drink, please Sylvie. You need something until we have the strength to…to…” Casey lost her words and poio the other houses in the subdivision. “Heaven help me, I love you.” Casey cooed and moved Sylvie’s little rows from her eyes and watched as Sylvie opened her eyes and blinked her full moons to Casey. “Hi there.”

  Drinking for a few seds, Sylvie pulled away and kissed Casey’s wrist. “Hello, yourself.” Sylvie reached up and held her head. “How is it that I have a headache?”

  Hunger welled up inside Casey, and it caused her eyes to rim red. “Is it possible to get a headache?” Casey asked and helped Sylvie to her feet. “My sweet-potato, I am ravenous.” Casey squeezed and kissed Sylvie’s hand one more time and dashed off to the house across the street.

  Brushing herself off, Sylvie partially stumbled into Haley’s home and looked around until she found the paper versions of the ledger and the diary. “Got them. That ain in the ass.”

  “Systems indicate there is still one form of the items left in the house, ected to the puter upstairs.” Code spoke ftly.

  Curious about what the little AI was referring to, Sylvie made her stairs and looked into the various bedrooms until she found the puter iion. She walked to the back of the tiny toulled the plug from the power supply. “There we go. It should be offline nht?” Sylvie asked and then happeo see a small USB device ected in the front of the puter. “Was the item a fsh drive Code?”

  “Affirmative. All tasks plete, repair mode activated.” Code went silent and the lights dimmed.

  Sylvie yahe little drive free and crushed it into pstic powder and wiped her hands . “That should take care of that.” Making her way back downstairs, Sylvie opehe front door as Casey arrived with a man with the look of love in his eyes. “Thank you.” Sylvie leaned into the older man and drained a little more thaended, but did not kill the guy. “I am good now, let him have a lovely evening and a better m.”

  Nodding slowly, Casey grinned wide. “I didn’t kill any of them.” She poio the wreck of Haley’s house. “I figure the police will have enough of an issue with this.” She started to carry the man back to his home and stopped. “How will they expin her body as a puddle?”

  “That is for the Rid Veil cil to deal with.” Sylvie chuckled, “We have our own problems.” She poio the smitten man, “Get him home, then we go home. Mission aplished.” Sylvie patted the two books and smiled.