Valkyrie Demons

Chapter 6

After a few days of nonstop travelling and luckily no more strange incidents, David decided that we should go into one of the villages because we were running out of food and couldn't find anything in the wastelands. I was a bit scared after what he told me about the witches but I wasn't about to starve to death. The only village we came across, didn't actually look like a village. No, it looked more like a prison!

"Try to keep out of the way and keep quiet. Let me try and explain our situation first," David whispers as we approach the walls.

"Who goes there?" One of the guards yells from atop the walls.

"David Marinossian, son of Ambrose Marinossian. We seek a place to rest, we've been traveling for a long time," David answers in the most formal and authoritative way. He hasn't spoken like that once since I met him.

"And the unidentifiable creature sitting behind you," He asks, motioning something to someone behind him.

"This is Valery she has not yet learned how to reveal herself."

"The coven leader wishes to speak to this hybrid at once," he yells and the gate starts to open slowly.

"How did he know I was a hybrid? We didn't tell him," I whisper to David.

"The coven leader most likely told him. Sometimes the leaders are seers and he probably saw you coming," he whispers back.

As soon as we stepped through the gate, strong hands pulled me down from the elk's back. I tried struggling but it feels like they have the strength of a thousand men! I lose sight of David while I'm being dragged towards, what looks like the castle. We enter the castle and immediately I'm blindfolded and my arms are tied behind my back. The guards lead me through a maze of hallways with a lot of twists and turns. Finally we step into another room and they take of my blindfold while still holding my hands secure.

On the throne sits a bearded, old man holding what looks like an ancient book. He closes it and leans forward, not once saying a word.

It suddenly feels like I'm flying. I look down and see a pale young woman with straight red hair and pale green eyes. She looks frightened with her hands tied behind her back. Wait, that's me! What on earth is happening? Am I dead!?

'Calm yourself child. I am trying to figure out who you are, but you seem to be blocking me. Would you be so kind as to think about all your memories so that I can decide if I should let you live or not.'

I'm to scared to do anything else and replay everything back from my childhood. I see a strong pair of arms pick me up and I immediately remember the day I was five and my adopted parents took me in. Another memorie surfaced from when I was fourteen where my dad was making pancakes. It jumped forward to when I ran away from home and discovered I was a vampire. I then went on a killing spree, which I didn't want to think about so I thought about when I met Dacian. The day we fought in the alley was very weird for me.

When he landed in front of me I actually thought he was extremely attractive, with his blue eyes and red hair. The freckles running across his nose like sprinkles, his lean body walking like a cat sneaking up on his prey. Then unfortunately when our eyes connected we both saw the day we were born and realized we were siblings.I quickly went through the past few months leading up to this moment. The next moment I opened my eyes I was back in my body.

"You may release her. She's the one we've been waiting for," he leaned back against his throne, looking satisfied.

The guards untied my hands and took a step back, still in reaching distance. I didn't know what to do with myself so I just looked at my shoes and waited for the leader to speak.

" You're a shy little one, considering the amount of vampires you have killed, " he finally says after an akward moment.

"I didn't mean to kill those creatures. Something just... came over me!" I frantically try to explain.

He chuckles a little and then motions for me to take a seat at the table beside the fireplace. He joins me at the table and motions for a servant to bring some kind of liquid.

" Where did you take David? He didn't do anything wrong, he just wanted to get some food," I say. I probably sounded like I'm scared out of my mind, but I can't help it, he's terrifying!

"He's being treated to food and a bath by his own kind. You can see him again when we are done talking."

"What do you want to talk about? " I ask, feeling slightly relieved.

"I need your help," he says abruptly.

"I, uhm, you need my help? What can I possibly do that you can not?"

"You have great powers, do you not?" He leans closer and looks at me like I'm clueless.

"Not really. I can teleport, hide my scent, jump really far and fast, but that's all the common powers of a vampire," I say matter of factly.

"That's not possible!" He slams his hands on the table and jump up. "It is said that the valkyrie demon hybrid will have great power, greater than all the leaders combined. So tell me... hybrid... how come you don't have them," he looks at me angrily.

"I don't know! I've just learned that I'm a hybrid about three weeks ago. When was I suppose to figure that out!?" I almost shout.

He calmly sits back down and motions something to a guard. "Mhm, I see your point. Well you will have to stay here and learn some new skills before you leave so that you can help us."

I stare at him blankly. "We can't. I have to find Fi - someone. It's very important!"

"All the more reason! You never know what you might find on your path to finding this... someone," he claps his hands together.

"Leader, we have brought you our best witch. She has been finding our witchling's powers for millenia." The guard steps forward bringing forth a little, old lady. She looks like she's about to die, but I bite back the words before I offend her.

"I am here to serve. Come child, we will begin at once!" She motions with a crooked finger to follow her.

I hesitate for a moment but then think that there's no harm in trying, so long as we leave in three days. I follow her down the hallway into a room full of potions, chairs, dead animals? and a lot of other strange things. What have I gotten myself into!!?