Chapter 38

"You guys can't afford to miss your flight,"
"We will be out soon Dad," Belinda replied.
The girls got their bags and travelling boxes. Enroute to New York, they got into the minivan. Vanir drove them straight to the airport. Although it was a two-hour drive, it was all fun and noisy. The girls could never stop talking, they all had something to say. All three looked better than before. Skin shinning, hair perfectly combed. One would have thought that the three girls who were in the claws of Blackclaw just mere weeks ago were completely different from the happy damsels in the car.
"Dad, please make sure you come see us soon as possible,"
"I'll be there Bella", Vanir ascertained.
"Why not leave with us now?" Bianca asked again. Prior to that Vanir mentioned to them that he had some pressing issues to attend to too.
"I have told you Bianca, I-"
Bianca cut him, as father and Daughter echoed the response like it was a refrain.
"YOU HAVE SOME PRESSING ISSUES TO TEND TO" Belinda and Bella giggled. Bianca could always do that to have fun.
"Yes, some pressing issues to tend to. Issues which have to do with our safety,"
"Is it that vampire guy?" Bianca was curious.
Vanir hit the break and the tire screeched immediately. He turned to Bianca who was at the back seat.
"None of you should ever mention that to anyone not even yourselves. Is that clear?"
The playful mood mutated into a weighty ambience. Vanir didn't get a reply to his order, the girls were all silent and terrified.
"Is that clear?" He echoed
"Yes, Daddy" the girls responded.
They got there thirty minutes before their flight. Vanir kissed them goodbye. They were all he had, and he was never going to expose them to any form of danger anymore. Watching the plane as it rose to the skies gave him so much joy. Finally, they were safe from the trouble, torment and misery which came along with the underworld. Vanir got in his car and drove off. He was still on his way home, ten kilometers away from his crib before he received a phone call. After the call he made a sharp turn back to the airport.
Bianca, Bella, and Belinda sat close to each other as usual. All seemed to be fine until when the plane initiated take off on the runway. The sound and vibration had triggered the vamp senses. Her instincts were accentuated with many factors, fear inclusive.
Unknown to Vanir, Bella and Belinda, Bianca had been turned. But Blackclaw was so smart to make it hidden.
The vamp blood had been transmitted into her body fluids except her blood, this slowed down the turning process drastically. The vamp blood wasn't just any vamp blood.
Amy's sister the bad witch did tweak it with her magic. Bianca went into a killing spree on the plane. She didn't kill for feeding she did kill because she wanted to kill. That was the work of the witch. To turn her into a killer. The killers are vamps with no other instincts but to kill. They were always servants to their masters, and they couldn't think on their own. The difference between them and the morphs is that the morphs would go back to normal after they had achieved their aim. Killers would remain forever bound to their masters. The airport emergency squad had arrived at the crash scene.
Vanir stared at the crash site, tears dropping down his cheeks.
"I will make sure I kill you Blackclaw, even if it takes the last drop of blood in me," he said to himself. He got into his car and was heading to Blackclaw's compound. On his way he picked his cell to call Aiden.
"My girls are dead, on my way to face Blackclaw,"
Aiden was shocked. First at the news and second at the manner Vanir said it.
"I... jus-I-" Aiden began to stutter.
"It's either he dies, or I die," Vanir stated.
"Pick me up at the vale junction," The vale junction was a place known to the members of the underworld. It was the nearest location to Blackclaw's compound.
Vanir arrived at the vale junction. Aiden got in.
"So, what's the plan?" He asked.
"We've got no plan," Vanir answered.
"Vanir what are you doing?" a terrified Aiden asked.
They were getting close to Blackclaws gate, and he wasn't stopping. The speedometer hit 250. Vanir rammed the car into the gate. The gatekeepers were running after the car. They would take them as soon as the car stops. Blackclaw's compound was a battlefield. Someone who could cause more mayhem was present, not someone, people. Aiden couldn't believe his eyes. There was Divina fighting alongside Kane. Aiden was double shocked once more. Kane was killing his own! Vanir hit the brakes and both bounty hunter and a grieving father got down from the vehicle to face Blackclaw and his followers.
In Blackclaws compound Divina stood side by side Kane, a particularly good friend, and a lover. She worked frantically to parry blow after blow, waiting for her opponent to pause and then strike hard.
One of Blackclaw's followers struck from behind but Kane came to her aid. Divina brought her sword forward, catching the vamp who she thought was Kane at the side and opening up a long gash in his hip. The vamp fell to the floor and did materialize into ashes. When other vamps saw these, they were scared. Divina was also startled.
"Kill them! You swore an oath to Blackclaw," Amy's sister screamed. She made her way to face Vanir.
The sheer frenzy of battle began filling her every sense. Her body numbered and her vision swam. The fighting around her became clouded and she struggled to focus on the attackers around her. She then fell back with a cry of pain as a werewolf tore her skin just managing to cut through the leather cuirass her mother gave her. She looked up to see the wear vamp moving up for a killing blow and found herself frozen in fear. The world began to slow as she waited for the final strike.