The Protector

Chapter Sixteen: The Second Meeting

It is still nightfall and the cold breeze brushing against Gabriel's fur feels satisfying. It would still take a few days to get to the Vampire Kingdom but if he kept at this speed he should be more than fine. He had no plans to stop or rest either. He had a mission and he was going to complete it one way or the other. Whilst he had never personally been to the Vampiric Kingdom. He had heard descriptions from his parents that were something akin to " Where Happiness goes to die". Vampires did not seem to love or feel remorse for anything they did. And there did not seem to be a single time in the history of their existence where they had proven otherwise.
As a young child, he had questioned as to why that was but Noone could ever provide the answer. And now he would be in their domain and be able to experience their home for himself. He wondered how many of them would recognize him for who he was and how many would just see an easy meal. It seemed like that was how they viewed most things. Especially with humans. For what little remorse they did show, none was shown to the dwellers of earth. And this baffled him. Humans had alot more to offer than just being food. Though, he had never actually eaten a human before. He still knew that humans meant alot more than that. Which is why he believed in Queen Aurora as much as he did at the time. But then she betrayed him. And humans are known for doing that sort of thing as well. Perhaps the defender of humans is doing so because they remind her so much of herself.

Shawn and Victoria continue battling. Which mainly consisted of Victoria trying to get past him and not being successful in the slightest. Which was frustrating her more and more and made her attacks sloppy. Shawn could tell, and was taking full advantage of this. She had trained her whole life in combat. She was an extremely experienced fighter and yet she was making mistakes. Running off of emotions seemed to be her weakness and she knew it. She knew she couldn't keep this up for much longer. She was wasting so much time with Shawn when Gabriel could be hurt or in danger.
It had been many years since they had last seen one another and she didn't remember him being this strong. His power was unmatched but it made sense. He was a night slasher. The quentisential God. And there was no way she could win but her pride would never allow her to give up. She took pauses in between each attack. Trying to calculate her next move but he was always several steps ahead of her. She took mental notes of his moves as well though it seemed to do no good. He was changing them way to fast for her to be able to keep up. He was unpredictable and that was another thing Victoria knew she couldn't compete compete. This was just an immense waste of her time. And he knew exactly what he was doing.
It wasn't too long into their fight though that they heard a loud explosion coming from the west of them. A giant sand cloud formed in the distance and both were confused as to what could cause it. Victoria could tell it was Gabriel but the sand manages to hide the scent enough that she knew she would have to investigate. And without further delay, she ran off toward the cloud. Shawn was relieved the fight was over, he was growing more and more bored by the second but his curiosity was peaked with the sand cloud and decided to make his way there as well.

    Kara opens her eyes, she is covered in sand and her body is hurting. She had been travelling so fast and she knew she was lucky to be alive at this point. And whilst she was happy that her spell worked, she wasn't sure that er thought she would be able to continue if her body is beaten up this badly.
She had to find a way to fix this. She wasn't exactly good at healing spells yet especially considering Queen Aurora had not quite taught her how to master those yet. Though, she hadn't taught her a lot of spells. But she knew she had to do something. She thought back on the time in which she was trying to Heal Gabriel and it had not worked.
At that time she felt so discouraged from being able to ever do any type of magic whatsoever. And yet here she is, It's not only knowing how to do some spells but actually being quite good at them. Queen Aurora had called her a prodigy of sorts. Yet so much so that Queen Aurora had admitted to her that even when she was Kara's age, she wasn't able to do the things that Kara can do.
And it was that belief in her that gave her the confidence to try.
And so Kara began concentrating yet again, placing her hands on her legs and fusing her energy into them.  She wasn't exactly sure if this was how it was done or not but she had to give it a shot. And though it could have been in her head, or it could have been a concussion, she really did feel like the spell was working. And so she moved her hands up-and-down her body very slowly so that she could take her time to focus the energy properly to distribute it accordingly.
After several moments of this, it  turned out that the spell had indeed worked to some degree because Kara felt as though she could move again. Which was an absolute sense of accomplishment for Kara. This was her 2nd time trying a healing spell and it actually worked.
" I can't believe that worked"  Kara squealed happily.  And just as she managed to get backup to her feet, she heard the sounds of footsteps in the distance. She looked towards the sounds and saw the face she had never truly wanted to see again in a million years.
It was Victoria, she must have been in Wolf form because she was panting pretty hard and she recognised that Gabriel did the same thing when coming out of Wolf form.
" What the hell do you want..? "  Kara barfed at Victoria who simply smirked at the sight of Kara looking so helpless.
" Well look at what I found..The wannabe Queen"  Victoria snickered as she approached Kara, who remained as guarded as she possibly could. She knew she couldn't trust Victoria and was expecting to get into a confrontation with her. Which, Kara, if she was being honest, she was almost looking forward to it.