Night Stalkers...

Bittersweet Dreams

Claudia's POV

He was dead. I killed him. My father was dead... That's all I thought as I lay there,in some old house, abandoned it was. I figured I could stay here for the night and travel away during the day, after all, I needed my rest.

I noticed how I felt cold even after half an hour in the bed, the lush velvet still felt cold. Odd...

I soon let sleep take over, still, the thoughts of his death lingered in my mind, oh how he suffered i thought. That's when I heard something. I felt something was in the room, but where?

Suddenly I felt something on top of the bed, before I even tried I knew I wouldn't be able to move.

It got closer, I knew it would be above me by now, I knew it could kill me, yet, I wasn't afraid, subconsciously I was awake and could sense all this but I was still asleep, then I woke...

Someone was sitting on the bed above me, staring at me with bright red eyes. I knew I would be killed if I tried to move, but I needed to at least try and escape.

I found that I couldn't, something was drawing me closer to whoever or whatever this person was. I couldn't leave.

Finally my vision focused on the person, they had a sort of armour on, yet it wasn't like metal but leather, it was sort of padded around the chest and shoulders. Used for fighting in possibly.

The person looked at me and spoke, a very deep voice filled the room, echoing off the walls.

"I know what you've done..." Was all he said,

"You have been very entertaining to watch, while you killed him. But. Answer this, why did you hesitate?" I couldn't answer, I didn't want to answer, I didn't know what to say.

"I-I, I didn't think I could do it" I spoke at last, a slight sigh escaped from him.

"Oh... But you can do it-" he spoke but I cut him off,

"Who are you?" I asked, trying to move but unable to.

"Don't interrupt while I'm talking, I suppose there is no harm in telling you, besides you'll be joining us soon. My name is Xavier, I'm an assassin, part of a cult of assassins." He spoke a slight laugh filled the air, he obviously thought me interrupting him was funny.

I watched as he pulled out something from behind him, I couldn't see what it was but I knew I had to be careful, he could kill me at any second.

"Here, take this. It's a welcome gift to the family." He said with a smirk, I just wriggled trying to get free then he handed me the object. He move back allowing me to sit up and take the object, it was in some sort of holder, with soft silk around it, I slowly unwrapped the silk to get a better look at what it was... It was a dagger, it had its own sheath and when I slowly pulled it out it was inscribed with some sort of rune.

"What is this?" I asked, I was now afraid, sas he going to make me kill someone?

"It's a dagger stupid... Oh wait, you must be on about the rune? It means 'May Death Strike Swiftly' in a language that you have never heard of or know exists, I will tell you about that when you are home."

Home?

"What! Why makes you think I am going back to that house!"I almost yelled

"Shush" he whispered, then I realised I did shout that a little too loud.

"Not back to your old home, but, simply your new one. The cult's safe house, well it's more like a cave with its own mansion to put it one way"

Was he crazy? I don't even know him!

"Get lost" I yelled as I attempted to get up and run but before I even had moved an inch I was pinned down...

"Easy. I'm not gonna hurt you. But. Please consider the gift and our family, you'll always be welcome, you'll know where to find us..." With that he seemed to disappear into the shadows as was... Gone.