Faith.

Chapter 13

We all froze as Azelie edged closer to the edge of the clearing gun aimed and her arms steady. Without warning a small squirrel jumped out of the trees. The frightened creature stared at us wide eyed before abandoning a large chestnut and retreating to the safety of the trees. 

Azelia sighed and lowered her gun. "Jesus." She muttered.

"Well that was surprisingly anti climatic."Luna rolled her eyes for the millionth time. At the back of my mind I wondered how her eyes had not yet rolled right on out of her head. 

"Okay, moving on." Azelia projected her voice. "We split up! There are three things you need to know about this mission. One! Everything and everyone who inhabits this place wants you dead. We are off the blood land, vampires have no real authority hear. Two-"

Tyler cleared his throat "What about the squirrel?" 

Azelia flashed him a deadly glare and hissed impatiently. " The what?" 

Tyler looked down clearly sorry that he even dared to speak up. "You, you said that everything and everyone in this forest is out to get us, so presumably the squirrel too..." He trailed off.

Azelia closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose her body trembling. I could practically feel her counting to ten in her mind trying her hardest to cool down. "Two! The girl we are looking for is a nymph. This means that she will do anything to save her ass. I repeat anything." Azelia continued seemingly recovered from her episode of rage. "Three. Do not get your sorry little butts killed out there. Id hate to be the one to scrape your guts off the ground." 

She precoded to hand us out brown standard issue backpacks filled with ammunition and what I could only assume to be blood for the vampires.

"Hey! I don't exactly drink blood, what am I supposed to eat?" Skye dug around her bag searching for anything.

"Oh for the love of God figure something out yourself this isn't a family camping trip. Feed off of the sexual energy or whatever you succubus types do." Azelia stated a certain steel tone to her otherwise exotic voice. 

Skyler looked somewhat offended as she slipped her backpack on her back. 

"You, you and you go east. Stop at the river and follow the stream." Azelia pointed at Tyler, Mike and Skye. 

That left me and Luna. 

"You've got to be kidding me." Luna growled crossing her arms.

Azelias eye twitched in frustration and she inevitably lost her cool. "Listen here little miss perfect either you shut your mouth or I will shut it for you with this bullet permanently. You got that?" 

Luna looked like a slapped dog. 

"You two will go west. Find the river and follow the stream that way we will have the whole perimeter circled. You see her you do not hesitate!" And with that Azelia loaded her gun with one swift movement and began to walk off. 

"Wait how will we know who she is?" Mike finally spoke up. 

"Just look for hair as white as snow." She shouted loud enough for the sound to barely reach our ears as she sped off disparaging into the trees. 

Mike quickly grabbed my hand and squeezed it tight. 

"Don't get your pretty face all messed up you got that?" I grinned.

"You think my face is pretty?" Mike laughed the tiny creases by his eyes making an appearance. 

"Oh will you come on!" Luna called for me from the edge of the forest.