It was 1o'clock a.m. and he finally got dressed. He went through the house making sure his parents and two other siblings were asleep. After that he went back to his room reached for his sword in his closet, put the strap of the sheath over his shoulder, and took off walking toward town, which was only a mile. As he walked he said, "I wonder who will be my blades next victim." As if talking to the wind. He got to town and saw an old homeless person sleeping and thought that he shouldn't kill him because it would be too easy. He kept walking and finally found the perfect kill, there were two people, male and female, walking down the sidewalk looking in all different directions acting like they were looking for someone so Spyke thought, "I guess they've heard of the killings so they are making sure they aren't next, oh well too late for that." He slowly crept up on them making sure they didn't see him. A few years ago he found that he had advanced agility and strength so he used that to his advantage by killing people and seeing how far it would take him so he flipped up on a fire escape and crawled his way over above the couple. For an instant he thought he had seen a red tint in both of the pairs of eyes as they looked about, but regarded it as a glow from the street lights. He drew his sword and looked at it for a split second then flipped off the fire escape, turned, and brought the sword clean through the males' neck and stabbed him in the chest as he watched the guys head fall off his shoulders onto the ground. Spyke leapt back a few feet then threw two daggers straight at the woman's heart and right between the eyes. The second dagger had slipped and instead of between the eyes it was in her left eye. She didn't even scream not when the man was killed or when the daggers were thrown into her all she did was hiss and fall over dead.
On his way home he heard sirens so he walked faster, then they got closer and by the sounds of it not more than half a mile away and Spyke was a quarter of a mile from his house so he ran and once he got to his house he jumped up to the second story opened his window and crawled in. He always left his window unlocked just in case come cops decided to roam looking for someone. Once he got in he threw his trench coat on a chair, his shirt on the floor, and put some shorts on and lie in bed. Just as he looked out his window he saw the red and blue flashing lights go down the road and the red reminded him of the red tint in the couple's eyes. Just as he thought about that something clicked and he remembered he had seen fangs as well right before his sword had his the guy's neck and as the woman hissed. He kept thinking about how they could have fangs and guessed they were porcelain caps that some people put on their teeth to make them look real. He decided that was it and fell sleep.
The next morning he got up put his sword and trench coat back in the closet got dressed and walked downstairs. His mom was cooking breakfast and his dad was at the table, typical family, huh? He walked to the refrigerator got some orange juice and sat at the table. Just as he was about to take a drink his mom asked. "Do any of you know what those sirens were about last night?" Spyke slowly shook his head and took a sip of his drink.
His sister came walking down the stairs and said, "I do." Everyone looked at her, surprised then she continued, "Yeah, my friends' dad's a cop and they said there was another killing last night, but instead of one it was two bodies."
"Really, I guess the killer is seeing how many they can kill in one night." Spyke's dad said.
Spyke finished his orange juice grabbed his backpack and left for school on his motorcycle. When he got to school he overheard a few people talking about the murders, so he decided he'd ask his friend, Kyle, what he thought about the murders. He asked him and his friend replied, "I think its pretty cool someone can do all that without getting caught, but last night that murderer killed the wrong people."
"What do you mean 'the wrong people'?" Spyke asked.
"Nothing." Kyle said.
After that they went to class and all Spyke could think about was what Kyle had said. Close to the end of last period Spyke and Kyle were called into the office. As they opened the door to walk in the secretary motioned them to the principal's office. Kyle walked in first and sat in the nearest chair and just when Spyke walked in to face the principal he jumped back a few inches when he saw two cops sitting in front of the desk. He inadvertently let out a low growl and asked, "What do you pigs want to accuse me of this time?" Kyle sat there staring them in the eye.
One of the cops stepped forward and said, "Now, now Spyke calm down we just want to ask a few questions." After a minute or so Spyke finally pulled the chair back and took a seat, but kept his guard up. "Ok Spyke first questions, do you have any weapon other than your two daggers?"
"Nope" Spyke lied.
"What about you Kyle, do you have any weapons at all?" the other cop asked.
"No." he said in a low, nearly growling voice.
After the cops asked a few more questions about weapons he finally said, "One more question, where were you both last night?"
Kyle answered first and said, "Asleep" and Spyke said the same thing.
The cop nodded and said, "Thank you for your time and I hope I don't see either of you in the back of my squad car anytime soon." The cop had said that straight at Spyke because he had had run-ins with the cops lately. As the cop passed him to leave he tried not to growl but lost let out an audible growl and then stood and watched the cops leave to make sure they didn't try anything.
School had ended and both of them were headed to the parking lot when Kyle grabbed Spyke's shoulder, turned him around and asked, "What was with the growling in there, they're liable to drag you to the pound with you doing that."
Spyke replied, "I was showing them how much I hated them and if they would have touched me." he showed him the two daggers attached to his belt.
Kyle chuckled and said, "I'd love to see that, you throw a dagger right between the eyes of a cop."
Spyke said to that, "If he would have touched me that's what would have happened."
When they finished talking Kyle jumped in his jeep and Spyke got on his motorcycle and went home. When Spyke got home he threw his backpack on the floor and turned the television on. It was doing a report over those two people he killed bringing the total to twenty-five people. Then all of a sudden if says, "This just in, one of our reporters doing a story on the murdered couple last night has reported that the bodies have been stolen by two suspects with, let me get this right, fangs and one of the suspects is the female that was supposedly murdered last night." Spyke turned the volume up and finished listening to the rest of the report.
Spyke went up to his room, changed into some other clothes, put his daggers on is belt then left to find Kyle and get some answers. He was hitting 60mph when the speed limit was only 30mph. Finally he spotted Kyle's jeep, slowed down and started following him until he pulled into a convenient store. Spyke drove right up beside Kyle, skidded to a stop and said, "We need to talk and I mean right now."
"Ok, but not here lets go to the park where no ones around." Kyle replied in a low, calm voice. Kyle walked into the store, grabbed a soda and a snack, paid for it then walked to his jeep and they took off toward the park.
When they got to the park not a soul was around and it would make a perfect spot to talk. They walked over to a park bench, sat, and Spyke asked, "Ok you said that the murderer had killed the wrong people and just today two people with fangs and one of the dead bodies took the body, what were they?"
"That I can't tell ya I'm sorry, but I really would if I could." Kyle said.
"Well why can't you tell me, it's getting rather aggravating not knowing." Spyke told him.
Kyle sat there and stared at Spyke for a few seconds them said, "First of all, I took an oath, second, why so anxious to know?"
"Well I'm just curious because not many people round here have fangs and get up and walk away after being stabbed." Spyke replied. With that being said they went to their vehicles and as Kyle drove away Spyke sat in the parking lot and talked to a squirrel, even though it didn't talk back. He asked it, "The only way someone could have red eyes and fangs is if they were vampires and I haven't seen any of those round here lately. Think that could be it?" The squirrel just sat there with his acorn and wiggled his nose at Spyke. "Oh well, if it was vampires then they will be fun to kill from now on." Finally he got on his motorcycle and went home. When he got home his mom asked where he'd been for the past three hours and why he didn't tell anyone where he went. He just shrugged his shoulders and walked upstairs to sharpen his daggers and think about his next move. He finally got the daggers sharp, tested them on his wall and decided he'd call Kyle to see what he was doing; it was a Friday night at 10p.m. he had to be doing something interesting. He picked up his phone and called Kyle's cell phone and waited for an answer. Kyle picked up and it sounded as though wood was being broken. After Kyle said hello Spyke said, "Kyle its Spyke what you up to?"
Kyle answered, "Nothing, just watching some guy go crazy because he lost a round of pool."
"Anything else interesting happening there and where exactly are you at?" Spyke asked.
"Well it's an inn on the outskirts of town and it gets interesting every now and then around here." Kyle replied.
"Well I guess I'll head out there then. What side of town is it?" Spyke asked.
"It's on the outskirts of the north side of town and I'll see ya when you get here." Kyle said.
After Spyke hung up he went to the closet to get his sword. When he saw it wasn't there he ran downstairs to ask who had been in his room. When he got to the bottom of the stairs his mom was waiting there and asked, "Looking for this?" Spyke looked at her and was about to attack her but gave her a chance to live and said, "Give it here, you don't know who you're messing with."
"I know damn well who I'm messing with, my son who is grounded for the next two months." His mother said.
Spyke couldn't help but laugh at her feeble threat and said, "You think you can do that to me? I don't think so." He jumped at her and done a roundhouse kick and kicked at her neck and brought his foot all the way through her neck.
He walked over and got his sword just as his sister and brother came in from the living room and his brother said, "What do you think you're doing? Are you insane?"
Spyke laughed again and said, "If not then pretty close to it, man my family can be funny sometimes," and stabbed his brother in the heart. His sister dropped to her knees and begged him not to kill her and right before Spyke raised his sword his dad was running down the stairs at him. Spyke slid back and right as his dad came by he brought his sword through his dad's torso. His dad held his stomach and had wide eyes as he saw Spyke walk over to his sister who was now crying while begging him not to kill her. Spyke stood in front of her and said, "This is all my anger built up by my family taken out on you." After he said that he quickly brought the sword through her neck, both arms, both legs, and finally stabbed her in the heart. Spyke started laughing as he sheathed his sword and walked to the door. When he got to the door where his father was still alive he squatted down and said, "I'm going to let you suffer until finally you die because you deserve all my anger for pissing me off so many times," and kicked him in his side then continued, "Finally free, well that was fun maybe I can do that to the cops that show up later tonight when I get home." He walked out the door and left on his motorcycle.
Before he got into town he decided he would take the loop to get to the north side. He was only going seventy, he thought he might as well slow his speed a notch, he was just inside the north side of town when he passed a sign that all he saw said 'Inn'. He did a complete 180 hit the gas and went to where the sign was. He pulled up beside the sign moved a few vines that were in the way and saw that the sign read 'Dragon's Inn', decided this must be the place and went down the path about half a mile and came to a huge two story building with a lake on the other side. It was surrounded by a huge forest which made it a good place to hide. Spyke pulled up next to Kyle's jeep and walked to the door. As he walked to the door a pain started to build between his shoulder blades. As he walked through the door he saw two people with wings coming from their backs and one of them was Kyle. Just as he saw this he doubled over and felt two objects grow from his back, he looked back to se two black wings poking through his trench coat.
All of a sudden one of the visitors, who had the characteristics of the two people he killed and the ones that took the bodies, said, "It's him! It's him! The one that killed the last two." He unsheathed his sword and about nine or ten that looked like him stood up and took a fighting stance. The one that yelled ran at Spyke, sword out, then the other man with the wings jumped out of the rafters and knocked the vampires sword to the ground with his own and kicked the man back six feet with one thrust of his leg into the mans stomach.
"Now, now Raziel first you can't lose a pool game graciously and now you want to attack our brethren. By the looks of those wings our friend here could take you and your whole search party out." The man said.
Spyke looked back at his wings, felt a dark resonating energy coming from them and smiled.
Raziel got up, walked back to his table, sat, and said, "Yeah well if he kills another of our kind then we'll see if he can. As for you" he pointed at the one who kicked him, "the next time you kick me I will fight you to the end, no matter who is around."
The man that kicked Raziel smiled, walked over to Spyke and said, "The names Dragonkeeper, most call me Dragon, what's your name?"
"Mines Spyke and you seem to have nice visitors here." Spyke answered.
"Yeah Raziel has just got too much pride. If you like you can order a drink and I'll tell ya about my establishment." Dragon offered.
Spyke looked around amazed at the structure of the building and said, "Sure, uh, I'll take a little vodka if you have it."
Dragon turned and said, "Follow me to the back room I'll have someone bring you your drink," and started walking to the back.
Spyke followed him still looking around but this time at all the tenants. When he passed the bar he saw a woman, who as well as he could tell was young, was fixing his drink that he ordered. They reached the back room and sat. Spyke started by asking, "Ok first off how did this place come about?"
Dragon thought for a second then said, "Well lets see, about twenty years ago I built this inn to give the outcasts of this town a place to stay and be safe, but there was something missing. You see I have a dragon soul, as like you, which means we can take on the attributes of a dragon whenever we want and we can also take a dragon form, just don't take the form while in the inn. I waited for the day the right person would come in and make it where the soul is released and anyone who walked in that door would take the form of their soul. Finally someone walked through the door that could do it, her name was Severed and she was a pretty powerful sorceress." He stopped as a woman walked in, gave Spyke his vodka, then sat in Dragon's lap and put one arm around his neck. He continued saying, "This is Severed, my wife, after she put the spell on me to release my soul we combined our magic so that whoever walked through that door, they would take on one attribute of their soul then they could gradually learn to take their soul's true form."
They each took a sip of their drinks and Spyke asked, "So did it take the full force of your magic to do the spell or what?"
"Well it wasn't even a fraction of my power but it did take about a quarter of Severed's, but she's also gotten a lot stronger as time went by. I was the strongest dragon around that I know of but now that you came in and judging from the energy coming from you, you might have taken that title but there also might be stronger dragons around the world."
"If that is so then I could have some fun when I am able to use my power good enough." Spyke said.
"I bet you would. Oh yeah, if you ever see someone walk in here and not take on an attribute, kill them where they stand. No true humans are allowed." Severed said.
"Two more things, Dragon why do you call me your brother and why do you call yourself 'Dragonkeeper'?" Spyke asked.
"Well first of all, you grew dragon wings when you came in as did Kyle and I and that is my name because I am the keeper of Dragon's Inn. Now let's go join the others."
They all walked to the main room and Spyke saw Kyle over at one of the pool tables so he walked over to him and said, "Leave it up to you to find a place like this."
"Don't ya know it, I was driving around a few months ago when this inn somewhat pulled me to its location." Kyle said.
"Yeah I know what you mean it did the same to me, but why did you tell me where it was at if I could have been killed if I didn't change?" Spyke asked.
"Well you only get that feeling of its location if you have anything other than a human soul so if you didn't feel it you would have never come and I would never have told you." Kyle told him.
"Ah ok." Spyke answered.
"I still can't believe it was you who was doing all those killings, how did you do all those without being caught?" Kyle asked.
"Well I have advanced agility and strength and I had to blow off some steam somehow." Spyke replied.
"Ok, so how long have you known that you had these abilities?" Kyle asked.
"Well you remember when we were playin' basketball a few years ago and I kinda jumped to go up for a lay-up and instead slammed into the backboard because I jumped so high? Around that time." Spyke said as they both laughed remembering what happened.
"And you waited that long to kill people?" Kyle asked.
"Well I had to wait until I could get my motorcycle, sword, dagger, and throwing stars, but other than that, yeah." Spyke told him.
"Yeah I guess that would take a while." Kyle said.
They finished a round of pool which Spyke won, went to the bar and sat. Spyke ordered some more vodka, turned around, and looked at all the visitors. Even in such a short period of time he could sense how much power everyone had and could actually use at their present state. With just his and Kyle's power they could wipe out the entire North American continent. "Hmm, maybe if one more dragon walked through that door we dragons could rule this world." Spyke thought to himself.
Just as he thought that Dragon and Severed walked over to him and said, "Sounds like you got a plan there Spyke."
"Huh, what do you mean?" Spyke asked confused.
Dragon and Severed laughed and Severed answered, "Dragon forgot to tell ya, along with my sorceress powers I am also telepathic. Even though you can sense others powers my telepathy is insensible."
"As for your plan I'm pretty sure that me, you, Kyle, and Severed here should be able to do it with the help of the rest of the tenants here can pull it off." Dragon said.
Kyle looked over at them with a confused look on his face and asked, "Do I have a choice in this matter?"
They all looked at him puzzled and Severed asked, "What do you mean?" Kyle looked at Spyke like he was supposed to know why Kyle had said that.
It took a few seconds then Spyke figured out why Kyle had protested, but before Spyke could say it was because of a girl Kyle said, "As you all have your reasons for wanting this I have my own for not wanting it."
Spyke put hit hand on Kyle's shoulder, looked him straight in the eye, noticed that he was confused about what to do, and said, "I know why you wish for this not to happen, but there will be others and if you take this one you would outlive here many times."
Kyle lowered his head and said, "I guess." he hesitated then said in a sadder voice, "you're right. Although with all the humans gone we won't have anyone to feel superior to, unless you count the vampires."
"Ah, great now when shall we start?" Dragon said.
Just as he said that the door burst open and a line of ten-plus cops stormed into the place with their weapons drawn and yelled, "Freeze!"
Spyke looked at the intruders, notices that none of them changed, and was about to attack when Dragon put his arm in front of him and said, "Wait." Then he turned to the cops and asked, "How did you find this establishment?"
"So you want questioning before you're taken in? So be it." The cop said then looked at all the visitors, noticed that they were a little more than human, backed up a few steps and asked. "What kind of freaks are y'all?"
Raziel stood and growled at the cop then said, "Dragon either you give the command or I go at these people alone."
Spyke looked back and forth from Dragon to Raziel confused. Dragon stood there, smiled, and then said, "Now, now. I was going to let you die a quick death, but since you went and called us freaks I guess we'll just have to have a little fun."
One of the cops in the back looked at Dragon, laughed, then said, "You're going to have fun with us?" Hell we have guns and the only one of you that is armed is Spyke."
Spyke moved his gaze over to the cop that had just spoke and noticed it was one of the cops that had talked to him at school. Dragon closed his eyes and shook his head then said, "Raziel you wanted the command, well here it is." He opened his eyes then yelled, "Guard!"
All of a sudden Raziel and his group, two werewolves, and a lone elf lined up kneeling side-by-side about ten feet from the cops with Dragon, Kyle, and Spyke hovering above them and Severed, palms pressed together, chanting behind all of them. Severed chanted for a few seconds and all the cops' guns disappeared and then continued to chant. Some of the cops in the back tried to run out the door but hit an invisible barrier. Severed's chanting had put the barrier all around the inn so no one could get out. Dragon, Kyle, and Spyke shot fire orbs at three of the cops and incinerated them. The cops didn't notice but the two werewolves had climbed into the rafters and were directly above them. They howled, dropped down on top of two of the cops and ripped them to shreds then jumped back to where the group of beings were. Three other cops came at them but Raziel and two of his crew jumped them, drug them to the ground, and sucked enough blood from them to kill them slowly. Finally the rest of the cops charged the group and that's when arms were torn off, bodies slashed, and screams went on for about ten minutes. Finally when it all ended the cops lay slain on the floor, and the creatures had blood all over them, and Raziel was pouring the blood from one of the bodies into a glass. Spyke looked around the room, saw that the cop that had called them freaks was still breathing but was struggling with it, and said, "Dragon there's still one breathing." Dragon and Raziel looked over at the man that was clutching his chest trying to get a breath.
Raziel was about to jump on him but he backed down as he caught Dragon's gaze. "Toss me your sword Spyke." Dragon told him. Spyke unsheathed his sword and tossed it to Dragon. Dragon propped the sword up on his shoulder walked to the cop and said, "You asked what kind of freaks we were? Well here's your answer, we are the freaks that are taking what's rightfully ours." After he said that he brought the sword clean through the cops neck, tossed the sword back to Spyke and said, "Ok Raziel get your group there to kneel and form a circle around Severed. You two wolves kneel at the farthest edges of the circle and elf you get at the front of the circle in front of Raziel." Dragon flew above the circle up next to Severed and asked, "Are you strong enough to do this?"
She nodded and said, "I'm not absolutely sure but I think I might have enough."
"Ok then, Spyke and Kyle you two hover over the werewolves, spread your arms and wings, and concentrate. I'll take the back."
As soon as they were all in formation Severed starting chanting again and Spyke could feel an energy growing within the circle, Severed chanted for minutes then all of a sudden all the energy disappeared and she fainted. Dragon dropped down and caught her before she hit the floor and laid her on the couch. She lie there unconscious for several minutes then she woke up and asked, "Did I do it?" Dragon looked at her then kissed her forehead and Severed said, "I'm sorry I guess I didn't have as much power left as I thought I did."
"It's ok we'll just wait until tomorrow and then try it again if you think you can do it, just rest for the time being." Severed sat up and let Dragon sit down behind her back. He put one leg on either side of her and she lay back against him as he wrapped his wings around the both of them and sat there as she went to sleep. "Alright everyone is staying here for the time being until we get this done." Everyone agreed and he continued, "Two of you vampires go to the roof and keep a look out, if you see anything go check it out but don't make a scene of it. You two wolves go and search the surrounding area for any other people snooping around. Break the look out into shifts and as soon as one shift is over two other people will take their places. Everyone else that I didn't call out relax and wait for your shifts. Now go." The two wolves and the two vampires went to their appointed positions while the rest figured out a schedule of shifts. The rest of the night went by pretty fast while Dragon and Severed were sleeping on the couch still the others were either sleeping or doing what they were supposed to be doing. When morning came Dragon woke up and found that Severed was still asleep, he figured that last night toke more out of her than he imagined.
He tried to get up without waking her up but as soon as he got off the couch she woke up and said, "Is it morning already?"
"Yep." Spyke said as he and Kyle walked in from the last shift of lookout.
"How are you feeling?" Dragon asked Severed.
"Well other than better I feel stronger, using that much magic must have given me more. Also I'm more than ready for that spell unless you'd rather do it at night, for the vampire's sake." Severed said. Dragon told them that it would be better to do it at night so they waited until night fall. Time went by fast but nothing interesting happened, a few visitors came in and the rest of the tenants drank and played pool. When everyone was there they got set up in their formation and Severed started to chant again. After a few minutes of magic building up in the circle it finally exploded from the center and sent everyone kneeling to their stomach and the dragons were pushed back. Dragon made sure everyone was ok especially Severed then just seconds afterward screams could be heard from all over the world.
"It has begun."
The screams went on for several minutes as humans disappeared into flames and souls came out to greet the world. Finally when it all stopped Dragon grabbed Severed and flew to the roof. Severed pressed her palms together and started chanting. It took little time for her to get her message across since she just increased her power the night before. The message that she sent through every dragon's mind was,
"Dragons around the world hear me. It is your time to rise to power. Join together and help your brethren rule what land is rightfully yours and now is in your grasp."
Although Spyke had already wanted to rule that message spurred a new happiness, one that made him more anxious to rule and be free of the human race. They flew back inside the inn and Spyke said, "Well this is the beginning of the dragons rule."
Spyke and Dragon walked to the bar, each grabbed a glass of vodka and Dragon said, "May it live on forever." And they tipped their glasses.
