Leonaira: Tales of fallen kings

"Exiles" :- Chapter 4

James

I jump down from the cave smashing down on the ground. I'm starting to mark it now more and more. I look up seeing a large group of hunters looking at me. "Shit, did they discover the bodies?" I ask myself, my internal voice screaming yet. I try and keep my charm, composure and adjust my shirt slightly despite it being ripped from Mia's escape yesterday. All of this can ride upon whether I knew about the bodies or not. Unless they haven't discovered the bodies and I'm overthinking it all. My mind preoccupies itself before I snap out of it and start talking.

"Morning all" I smirk standing up. Oddly most of them are vampire hunters.

"Ye this is our own reject" one of the younger hunters who I know as. He enjoys the company. I mean I know they can be monsters. Yet there still people. Deep down.

"Ye right he's no vampire" on shoots a crossbow bolt at my head. It's only a steel bolt. I catch it dropping it, I smirk.

My reflexes are fast. Even for a vampire their above average. "Oh, he's a vampire" Some of them smirk looking at me, not at all a good smirk. But an evil smirk. My instincts are reacting crazily to the numbers. I can hear all their hearts beat almost like they want a fight. Or maybe that's the rush and adrenaline of talking to a real vampire.

"What did you do to get exiled again?" One of the hunter's chuckle. "kill a couple of vampires, a royal guard and simply walked away from the false king," I smirk. I did all the above, all I'm proud of.

"Woah wait, you killed a vampire royal guard!?" A hunter girl exclaims loudly and out of nowhere. The other hunters look at her disapprovingly. "sorry" she smiles before looking at me again. The girl looks at me almost admiring.

"So, you just walked away from Victor?" A hunter questions.

"Yes well, I mean wouldn't you just walk away from a pathetic madman who kills- " I stop almost revealing my identity to the entire hunter group. Being Victor's nephew may raise some eyebrows.

"So how exactly did you kill them?" He asks.

"I simply cut the heads of the vampires off for outing me. They were trying to torture a human friend of mine. So, I let him free along with a few others. I killed them with a silver short sword before they could kill the people. As for the royal guard. He found out my secret, so I Ripped his head off before he killed me with his War hammer. Which, he was the viceroy. So, he was a captain's second lieutenant. In turn, I needed to make sure he was dead and at that time he had taken my sword so. Things got messy." I huff leaning against the mountain there are simple things I say. To humans it's a over simplification. Yet to me it is a simple as it gets.

"That's got to be a lie." One of them laughs "Vampires cannot die by their head's being removed. They just regrow it they can only die by silver". He smirks stepping forward.

I roll my eyes "plus you would never-" He goes on. I disappear from their perspective reappearing behind him. "Never what?" He panics, he's scared. They may be human and young hunters, but I love messing with them. "Vampire's can die merely by their heads being removed. Their evolved humans not monsters." I exclaim I may not want them doing it to me though. 

"They will die without a head and a heart. Plus, vital organs but I'll talk about that later." I look at each of them before looking at the original hunter. He finally turns around looking at me in the eyes.

"How do you just, disappear?" The hunter girl asks from earlier.

I look at the girl before speedily moving back to my original spot "now that's a question I will answer kindly, your eyes can only see so many things. Think of them like a picture, each picture you can see. Yet if something moves fast enough, they can be unseen as the image is completely gone. I can even go so fast I can make what seems multiple versions of myself. You just need to pay attention to the core image."