The three men left the mansion but stopped cold in their tracks.
The mutilated body of a young female lay only several meters away.
Dry lumps of blood stuck to her fur and it looked as if she had a difficult time breathing.
Without saying a word to each other, the three men approached her.
‘Are you alright?’ Thomas asked, trying to make his voice sound calm and nurturing.
Whether it was his voice or the girls fear they didn’t know. But she cowered at the mere sight of them. ‘Do not touch me, please leave. Please do not hurt me.’ Blood streamed down from her lips as she spoke, her voice was so soft. As if she spoke with the voice of a little child.
Whoever had done this to her had broken her spirit.
‘Poor girl, she’s lost it.’ Tony whispered. He could be so subtle.
She didn’t reply, she tried to crawl away from them burying her bloody fingers in the soft grass. Thomas noticed that an exceptional amount of blood seemed to drip down from underneath her body. ‘We have to get her to Susan before she bleeds to death.’ He said determined. ‘Whether she wants to or not is not important right now. We need to get her to my place if we want to save her life.’ Tony and Louie both looked at each other.
‘What did you have in mind?’ The first one said.
Yakira’s spirit realized that she had struggled enough for one day.
Her body wanted to continue escaping from the potential evildoers.
But she could not go on any longer. She rested on one of her arms and collapsed.
‘I guess that makes it a lot easier.’ Louie said with an indifferent tone to his voice.
Thomas squatted down next to her and rolled her over onto her back.
‘Alright Tony, you grab her legs and…’ He stopped right in the middle of his sentence.
Several letters had been spelled out across the cloth on her chest.
He looked over at Louie, as if he would somehow magically have an answer.
It looks like he did. ‘Estella Bane… This can’t be.’
‘You know who did this to her?’ Tony asked. Louie had never seen him this angry before.
He was impressed with Tony, who hadn’t thought highly off before.
But here he was standing, face to face with a vampire at least 15 times his age. And with an attitude. ‘She turned me into this… thing.’ After all of this time, he stilled found it difficult to call himself a vampire. They weren’t exactly known for they’re calm and friendly nature.
‘Let’s get this girl to the house first, he can tell us later.’ Thomas said to Tony, trying to calm him down and bring his attention back to the more important matters at hand.

‘What happened?’ Alexander said as he opened the door. ‘Who is this?’
‘We do not know, we found her at the mansion. Poor girl has been pretty roughed up.’
Tony said as he and Thomas placed her down on the couch.
Susan looked after her and healed her wounds. ‘It looks like something has attacked her eyes as well. What kind of monster could do this to her?’
‘A friend of Louie’s apparently.’ Tony said.
Yakira opened her eyes quickly, she could hardly see anything.
Several figures were surrounding her, she looked into the face of one of them.
She grabbed his hand. ‘Tell them not to hurt me.’ She said, before she drifted of again.
Her hand slid out of Louie’s who seemed dumbstruck for a moment.
He felt something soar through his body. Something he had not felt in a long time and then leaned over to her and whispered in her ear to make sure that no one else would hear him.
‘No one will as long as I’m around.’