A Hunter's Curse

Chapter 16: After the Battle

Blood.....blood is what i smell and shouts is what i hear....also...voices....unfamilar yet so familiar...am i dead? No i can't be, if i was then how can i feel such pain within me as if something was clawing its way around in my stomach, eating me from within...

"She's not waking up" Someone cried

"NO, not my daughter!!" A woman's voice screamed in agony.

Mileena tried to open her eyes and when she did, everything around her was a blur of confusion, shapes moved in front of her and someone was holding her and crying and he kept muttering her name that's when she realised it was Manak.

"Come on Mileena, please wake up i don't think i could live with myself if anything happened to you, please Mileena!" He cried.

"Manak...." she responded faintly.

"Mileena your ok" he broke out in a grin and clutched her tighter to him as tears rolled down from his eyes "thank the holy ancestors, your ok"

But at that moment everything was not ok, no sooner were the words out of Manak's mouth, a rush of black blood escaped from between Mileena's legs and she let out an agonized scream.

Her mother rushed up to her, stunned."Oh my, i believe she lost the baby" she said as she helped mileena away from the mess.

"I think that when we destroyed the child's sire, we killed it and good thing its gone i mean who knows what sort of demon a vampire and werewolf can create" Mileena's mother stated.

Manak took Mileena in his arms and addressed everyone including the now free people of his tribe "We must travel back to the Chemboors and Myakas i know that our tribe and the Chemboors are enemies but can't we forget the events of the past and live with them in the future? Look at all they have done by rescuing you all despite being an enemy tribe and besides our gathering spot has been ruined, almost everything destroyed lets take this as an opportunity to start a new, break old feuds and make new friendships, who is with me?"

Everyone responded with a "yes."

"So its settled then, from this day forward i shall live with you" Manak said looking down at Mileena in his arms and giving her a gentle smile.

"Yes, you shall" she said smiling back and burying her face in his strong, muscular chest.

And with that everyone travelled back to the anxious Chemboor tribe.

*one week later*

Manak woke up drenched in a cold sweat and his head was spinning and he felt very sick and suddenly out of the darkness a glowing figure emerged and when he looked closely he realised it was his mother.

That can't be right, my mother is dead he thought.

"Yes my son i am dead," said the spirit reading his thoughts,"but this is also not a dream."

Manak was shocked and he realised that he wasn't feeling sick anymore "but how-" he was interrupted as the spirit of his mother lifted her hand for quiet.

"Your are not dead nor is this a dream i am here to tell you that you are free from vampirism, my son." She said with a proud smile.

"But how?" He asked.

"Well Dracula did turn you didn't he but since he turned you, not a drop of human blood has touched your lips and all you needed was for him to die, a week after his death you could have been turned by a drop but you didn't and now you are free" she explained, "i can't stay long, tell your father i still love him."

She gave him a kiss on his forehead which he couldn't really feel and he closed his eyes but when he opened them again, she was gone.

He began to notice that he couldn't smell as well as he did when he had been turned he also couldn't hear that far or see that far

So it wasn't a dream he thought as he jumped up and ran out of his tepee to tell Mileena of his good fortune.

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there we go i updated(happy now chels, i know ur reading this :p)sorry for the delay i got a bit busy so i tried making it a little longer then normal bet you guys weren't expecting a miscarriage AND Manak being human again oh well a chapter or two and i shall be done soon or not i don't know i make it up as i go along *shrugs*