Still Hungry

Chapter Seven

Instead of teleporting down to the street, Casey went over to the side of the building that and jumped onto the wall of the adjacent one. From there, she jumped back and forth between the two tall buildings until she reached the ground. 

Casey stood there in the middle of the alleyway watching for her prey. The second it passed in front of the alley's entrance, she lunged and dragged it into the dark path. 

The prey was a well-dressed werewolf. It was very short, indicating that it must've been a very low-level member of its pack. That didn't matter much to Casey. Next to Human and Halfling blood, Werewolf blood was the best. All those legends about vampires changing shape? That came from the blood of Werewolves. The best part was that a vampire could feed on a Werewolf and have the effects last for months. 

"Please don't kill me," the werewolf pleaded, smelling the mixed blood within Casey indicating that she was a vampire.

"Well, I was going to, but since you asked so nicely, I've decided against it," Casey agreed. 

"Really?" The werewolf appeared both shocked and pleased at Casey's response. 

Casey smiled, "No." The vampire lunched at the lesser creature, and bit into his neck. Casey covered his mouth to stifle his screams as he was subjected to having his blood sucked out by the elder being. After a while, the werewolf corpse was dropped to the ground, and Casey transformed into a bat. She flew back up to the top of the roof, and landed next to Maddie. 

Maddie jumped, startled as the bat melted into the more familiar form of Casey, the humanoid bloodsucker. 

"Did you have fun feeding?" Maddie asked nervously, trying to be polite. 

"Oh, yes. Yes I did." Casey went to wipe imaginary blood from her face. The blood that had spilled onto it just before had fallen off when she had transformed her body into the smaller winged form. Luckily, the vampire had remembered the skill of hiding her clothes along with her real body so she did not reform naked. 

"Alright." Maddie turned back to the phone. 

"What have you been doing?" Casey asked her. 

"I've been updating all of my old social media," answered the fledgling. 

"Are you sure that that's a good idea?" Casey squinted down at her before sitting next to Maddie. "Pretty sure people think you're dead."

"That's why I'm updating stuff."

"But won't they wonder where you've been?" Casey pointed out. 

"If anyone asks, I'll just tell them the truth."

Casey inhaled. "You better hope that Rin doesn't hear you say that."

"Who's Rin?" Maddie asked. 

"She's my ex. She's in charge of making sure that humans don't find out about this world. If they do, then its game over. I mean there's a couple of humans that probably know, but the majority shouldn't know." Casey explained, her eyes narrowing at the memory of Rin. 

"Why does it matter if humans know about the supernatural world?" Maddie wondered aloud. 

"Because it would cause a panic for the bottom of the food chain to realize their place. For them to realize that the majority of unsolved murders and missing person cases are the result of magical beings. Well, that's what the council says anyways. Personally, I don't care who finds out." Casey was frustrated by the memories Rin and what she had done to her. She jumped off of the roof, transforming into a bat. 

Casey swooped around the corpse in the alley and out around the tall buildings that made up the city. She flew past neon lights and human heads and animals and buildings of all shapes and sizes. There was a huge dome-shaped structure, and countless rectangular buildings with rectangular boxes of light scattered across their sides. She flew and flew, finding the freedom exhilarating. This was what she was resurrected for. This is why Earth was worth it. For this kind of experience. And she would pass it on to her new vampiric apprentice. 

Casey landed on a curved lamppost. She dangled by her bat claws, which melted into a pair of hands as she dropped down onto the sidewalk in her humanoid form. The vampire felt a bit bad about briefly abandoning Maddie, but she needed some time on her own. 

The problem with being alone was that the thoughts you don't want to think about end up at the front of your mind. Rin. Little old Rin. Rin was older than Casey by a couple centuries, Casey wasn't sure how many, and she looked like a little kid. She has black hair and the perpetually red eyes of a well-fed vampire. 

Casey slowly made her way back to the building which sat beneath Maddie, and when she got there, she saw that there were human police officers around the werewolf body. They were puzzled as to how he lost so much blood. 

Casey changed back into the bat form to go around them, and landed back on the roof.