Ascension Of The Blood Throne by Mikel Wilson (red scrolls of magic .TXT) 📗

defensive motion as she slid a stake from behind her back with the other. "Stay there, I don't want to hurt you."

“Hurt me?” Christian laughed. “I now see where your daughter gets her strength. You human women are just too much; you think so highly of yourselves that you don't even fear for your life as you stand in the presence of royalty. For your age, you are quite beautiful, wouldn't you like to live that age forever? I'm offering you a gift."

“And I'm offering you a chance to leave my home, Christian of the Elites. I will only make the offer once before you become dust. It's your choice, vampire, leave or fight.”

Mackinzie and Lillith were completely shocked at Alisha's boldness, her strength, and her pure foolishness. She stood eye to eye with something far stronger than she, yet she stood unafraid. She stared down Christian with a confident smile as if she had a secret none of them knew.

Rather than attack the woman who openly mocked and challenged him, Christian turned his attention to his bride to be and her best friend before again bowing. “I shall not disrespect your home, my dear, but know this... We shall be family soon enough. Just remember that soon, you will have to join us.”

“The only joining will be you joining the countless vampires that have fallen. Whatever you bloodsuckers are planning will not come to pass; that I promise you,” Alisha announced firmly, her homemade stake still held tightly in her grip.

Christian slowly walked past Alisha, turning when he stood at the door and keeping an eye on Alisha, who kept her back to him, seemingly without a care.

Lillith held Mackinzie in place to keep her from following him. “Stay here. I don't know what's going on, but we need to find out. Okay?”

Christian looked at the girls and smiled. “I will see you at sunset, ladies... And you too, Miss Alisha. I really like you,” he said with a grin that showed his fangs.

"Vampire, it's obvious to me that you don't know what side you're on,” Alisha responded as she turned. “I remember you saying that you are soon to be king. Is this the example that you want to set? Maybe you can rise to the occasion and be the king your people truly need, or maybe you’ll just be the arrogant vampire that I see before me... No more, no less."

"You will all learn your place soon enough," Christian announced before exiting the house with a sinister laugh.

“Mom! Spill! What exactly is going on? How do you know so much about vampires?”

“Mackinzie, where are your parents?” Alisha asked as she got a good look at Lillith's shirt, which was covered in blood. Mackinzie’s shirt also showed blood stains, and dried blood still covered her chin.

“We turned them. Christian said it was the only way we could truly be family.”

“And you?” Alisha asked as she eyed Lillith’s shirt. “Were you a part of that?”

“The thirst got the best of me, and I couldn’t help myself. I fed, but they were already turned, Mom. I swear.”

Alisha shook her head in disgust as moved to a chair and sat down. “You girls, sit, we have much to discuss.” As Lillith and Mackinzie moved to the couch, she began to explain. “The reason I know so much about vampires is because I once fought them. I was the first vampire slayer to be born in nearly one hundred years. When I was still a young woman, California was under attack, and it was up to me to fight them back. Along with a group of vampire hunters, we succeeded in driving them back to their island, but it was a brutal fight. With so many casualties, our parents decided we needed a fresh slate, so we moved here. We didn't want you girls to know the dangers of war or about the other side, but it seems the war is once again coming, and you two girls are on the wrong side of it.”

"Mom, do you know how strong he is? He could've killed you," Lillith cried.

"No, he would've dropped where he stood," Alisha replied, flipping the pointed stake in the air and catching it with the opposite hand before twirling it around and placing it in her back pocket. “You see girls, I have faced ones like that before, and he is exactly the same as they were. He’s arrogant, and so sure of his powers over humans. I am something far different. I am a vampire hunter. At a young age, I was found through some prophecy, and I was trained by the council to be stronger, faster, and more skilled than the vampires. I did my job in California, and I’ll do it now.”

Alisha paused, seeming to gather her thoughts before turning her attention to Mackinzie. “I saved your mother from a breed of evil vampires called the ancients. They nearly killed her, but I turned them all to dust to save my best friend...” Her voice broke as she continued. “...Only for her to be turned into a bloodsucker by her own daughter! Susan deserved better than that, your father deserved better than that.”

Lillith watched as her mother took a deep breath and shook herself, straightening. “I have so much to do. Most importantly, I have to get your parents back before they are fully turned, but first, I must contact the council to inform them that the vampires have once again returned.”

Chapter Three

Alisha left the house to see what she could get done, and Mackinzie and Lillith were left alone, staring at each other in shock at what they had just heard.

“Christian doesn't seem like the vampires she talked about. He seems gentle in a way. You know how parents are always overreacting,” Mackinzie said.

“That's true, but my mom has always seemed to be hiding something from me. Now I’m wondering what else she hasn't told me?” Angry, Lillith stood and put