Cinderella, The Monster Slayer

Chapter 20

Hello! I'm so sorry for the long delay. Like I've said in the last chapter, the college project is really taking a lot of my time/ Update on getting better: I've becoming more okay now. I guess. Still a little bit unstable on the emotions...but I am trying.

Anyway, here' s the new chapter. Apologies for the mistakes. 

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P.S : This chapter is dedicated to glitterdoll who wrote this amazingly amazing story, which I hope she will soon update...Chasing Possibility.  Go check it out. It's really great. 

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“Ela...” Henry called her. However, she made no move to stop. She kept on walking through the woods that was at the end of the town with a strong determination in her head.

She wanted Vlad’s blood.

And she wanted them now.

It had been a week since Daniel’s death and Elektra was not herself. For the whole week, she had been killing monsters brutally, not giving them a chance to fight back at all. She ignored her wounds no matter how bad it was and kept on fighting.

After slaying those creatures, she would go looking for Vlad at places that her guts tell her that he was at, the places that he was once there. By the time they got back, she did not sleep. She studied about the creatures’ odd behaviours and search for Vlad’s roundabouts until daylight.

Needless to say, Henry was dead worried about her.

Angela told him that at school, she was lost in her own world. She did not pay attention to anything that the teachers were teaching and she avoided any human contact. Even from her friends. She had shut out both Chelsea and Blake and Henry could only guess how hurt they must have felt.

Henry, who had known her, knew what was going on in her mind. She might not admit it, she might not see it, but she was blaming herself. She blamed herself for the death of Daniel. She was torturing herself with it. He knew that she thought it was best if she ignored everyone that she cares for, so that they wouldn’t become Vlad’s next target.

She was trying to protect everyone.

However, she was hurting them and herself in the process.

Henry’s heart broke for the burden the girl must carry. She was only seventeen, soon to be eighteen but she was already going through so much. He wished he could take the pain away from her. He wished he could replace the pain with happiness instead, but it’s not easy. Nothing really ever was.

For tonight, they had killed a few aggressive zombies and werewolves and were now in the forest at the end of town where Vlad was there recently as Luke informed her. It was just her and him. Angela was ordered by Elektra to find Vlad’s roundabouts at the lair, using whatever she could. Connections or magic, whatever it was, Elektra wanted Vlad to be found.

Henry and Elektra had been walking around in hours in the forest, trying to search for a vampire who was hard to locate. However, it did not stop her from walking and searching. Henry thought it was a fool’s errand because they were going round in circles, searching for someone they have no idea where he was.

“Elektra.” He called her again, this time with a strong voice enough to make her stop in her tracks.

“That’s enough, Ela. Let’s go home.” He said softly, her back facing towards him.