Veins of Magic - Bloodbound Sorcery

Midnight Resurgence

Olive's apartment was cold, very cold. She realized she had left a window open when she and Emily went out. Emily... she thought. Wonder what happened to her. Olive had left in such a hurry and they weren't exactly on good terms when she left. Olive picked up her phone, to see 5 new messages from Emily.

8 am: Hey... sorry about yesterday I was a jerk

8 am: and super drunk lmao

9 am: Are you okay?

9.35 am: Are you mad at me?

11 am: Please answer

She decided not to tell Emily about what had happened and instead wrote

: Hey.. im alright, it's fine we all have those nights.

She put her phone down and decided not to look at it for a while. Instead, she went on her computer to see if she could find anything about vampires and hexweavers. Half the information she could find was from fantasy novels and TV shows like Twilight or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The other, somewhat more interesting half was some people who claimed to have seen or met vampires, but most of this information was sketchy and didn't add up with the things Olive had encountered. She sighed and decided that even tho it was only 7 pm she would go to bed. 

She woke up at 3 am to a loud banging sound. It sounded like it was coming from the door to her apartment. She was scared but tried to calm herself with the thought that maybe it was something else. Maybe it was normal for noises like this in the city. Maybe it wasn't vampires trying to kill her. Despite her calming thoughts she looked through her purse and found the crystal Ava had given her. What does this thing even do she thought, but held it anyway. 

The banging noise continued, grew louder even. This time she was sure it was at her door. She opened a window and contemplated climbing out of it. but she was on the 5th floor, and there was nothing to climb on. She didn't see any people on the streets either. She picked up her phone. Who do I call... 911? she thought. But any thoughts of calling anyone were removed when her door was kicked down. Olive held her breath as she slowly and stealthily climbed under her bed. She heard the footsteps, a lot of them, it was difficult to get a good idea of how many people it was but Olive counted it to be around 4. She heard them talking.

"She's not here," a voice said angrily.

"She must be I can smell her so clearly," another younger voice said.

"Let's look around maybe she's hiding," a third different voice said.

damn, Olive thought. Hiding under the bed was the stupidest idea. But where should she go? There was nowhere and no other place in her tiny bedroom. She stayed, trying to make her breathing as quiet as possible. Footsteps, now close to her bed, walking around the bed, opening her closet. Maybe, maybe they won't look she thought

"Hi there..." A voice said smugly 

Olive gasped as a dark figure with glowing red eyes looked under the bed. The man pulled her at her ankles. She kicked and screamed but to no avail. The man was too strong.

"I found her guys!" the man yelled, as he pulled Olive up and held her by her throat.

3 other men entered the bedroom. They all looked very similar, like twins tho each clearly of different ages. They had long dark brown hair, tan skin, and glowing red eyes.

"Great let's get her back," one of the guys said.

"Hey WE found her, we can get a little taste as a reward," another one said.

"Let me go!" Olive tried to scream but her voice got muffled by the grip around her neck.

"Shhhhhh... be calm," the guy holding her throat said, squeezing a little more, so Olive almost couldn't breathe.