It was stinky near the docks. Perhaps it was just Khanna's repulsiveness to fish, but she really hated it here. The faster she finishes the job, the faster she could leave and move on to something more classy. Running around stinky places wasn't her choice of a perfect job, but for the amount of money given to her, she was ready to do just about anything. But, anything could include a lot of things.
The nearby sea was highlighted by the moon, and she threw a few pebbles in the calm surface. Her employer was supposed to be here soon, and she was completely ready to face just about anything in order to get to that money. Her dark armour was almost invisible and her dark cloak made her face unrecognizable to other people. Not that there were many. Cerenis was currently in the state of utter fear, and it's citizens were rarely out of their homes after nightfall. It had something to do with the late night attacks and killings. Khanna suspected it was just another gang making it's way through the city.
She heard the silent movement. It was barely audible to an untrained ear. Just a small sound, scratch of boots over the ground. Slowly, she turned around from the water staring at the utter darkness in front of her. Something was there, she was sure of it as she slowly got her light daggers from her back. The last thing she saw before falling onto the concrete was a pair of fangs. Her instincts immediately rushed in as she tried to knock the creature out. That was easier said than done.
Sophia's target was a vampire, a blasted, cursed, reckless vampire, with an appetite for young girls.
So when she spotted said vampire prowling the streets, she stalked it, waiting for something to distract it so she could teleport in and distract it.
It attacked a young woman who was quick and defenceless. Sophia decapitated her corpse to avoid he becoming a vampire, then placed her on a pyre. By the time she got back onto the vampire's trail, it was already attacking another woman.
She teleported in tucking her hair away for safety, and grabbed the vampire, throwing it, and teleporting after it. She was quiet, and silent. By the time it could figure out exactly what was happening, it's head rolled off it's shoulders and onto the cold cobbles.
Her employer wanted a tooth to ascertain the kill. She would bring it's head.
She opened her satchel, threw the head in, and looked over at the victim, her eyes shining in the moonlight.
Vampire. Khanna never had any dealings with them, but now she realized they were probably the ones causing all the chaos in the city. But before Khanna could claim her first vampire kill, something, no someone snatched it from her. The movement patterns were unrecognizable but the appearance belonged to someone she knew well.
Before saying his name, she stopped herself. The face was female, the figure was tall but it was undoubtedly also female. This wasn't Torak, he was out on business, and yet the woman in front of her looked just like him. Khanna slowly rose from the ground her gaze never leaving the the female in front of her. This was something worth of investigating. She returned her daggers in her cloak and just stared, not sure if she should say something or just flee. On the other hnd, she never did meet her employer. She glanced towards the headless corpse, with one of her calculating looks. Evidence.
"Are you ok? I am Sophia. That, was Von Bardo. Local vampire. He wandered, slaughtering young women, turning them into vampires. I have been tracking him for several days." Sophia felt it was worth explaining that why she had not jumped in before the mauling. This woman could potentially be infected with the plague that was vampirism.
"What is your name?" Sophia cleaned her sword on her robes, and sheathed it.
"And did he bite you?" In her head, she knew that the moment she said she didn't know, the sword would come back, and she would have to inspect every inch of flesh on this woman. She would literally hold her at sword point until she allowed Sophia to check literally everywhere for bites.
"Of course not." she crossed her arms "The name is Khanna."
Her face was hidden beneath her cloak and she didn't feel like removing it. Like this, she had a small barrier between her and the woman. She still didn't understand the similarity between her and Torak, but was ready to find out. Not really minding the woman, Sophia, Khanna crouched near the corpse not really minding it was headless and continued searching through the stuff. She wanted evidence, something to confirm that there was indeed a large gang of vampires in Cerenis. The things she saw this night were enough to convince her but far from enough to convince her employers that there was a real threat in the city.
"Would you mind." she told to Sophia "You're standing in my moonlight."
"Do not bother. The vampires will die by morn. Their master is dead. I identified only one other who could source the vampires and she died too." Sophia froze, looking over at a guard, then teleported over, knocking the man out instantly, then back to Khanna.
"If you wish, you may help me find them so that we can stop any more vampires being created. This breed of vampires, once they find someone to bite, they can survive the day. Without creating one, they disintegrate. They only need to create one vampire to become the new leader. And this causes problems when dozens of attacks have been reported." Sophia, waited coldly for the reply, her cold attitude almost identical to Torak's.
"Can you fight?"
A real threat in Cerenis? Well, at least she guessed it was there. Khanna narrowed her eyes when she saw that Sophia can teleport. That wasn't a common power, and she only knew one other person who can do it.
"Yes, I can." she said "I'll help you, for a small price, if you are willing to pay?"
Yes, Khanna likes to help people, and prevent as much deaths as she can but if she can do it plus earn some money along, that would be great. Also, she wanted to know why is this woman so similar to Torak. Was it possible that she was somehow related to him, that she actually knew him? That was something she wanted to find out.
"Fine. How does 10 gold for the night sound?" She talked as Torak would, her cold disposition identical to his.
((So sorry for the major drop in reply length, haven't slept))
Khanna cocked her head on the isde, thinking. That was a nice price, and she didn't really feel like pushing Sophia's limits. She didn't quite look like a person who was ready to bargain or chit-chat about a price.
"It's a deal." she nodded with a slight smile beneath her cloak.
(It's okay, no worries ^^)
Sophia adjusted her headwear so her mouth was open now.
"Very well, let's get moving. Don't want to be the reason one of these damned vamps lives beyond the morning. Don't like the idea of having family. Not like I would know any of mine. Knowing my luck they are out there and stealing my marks." Little did she know Torak was out there taking down targets as she spoke.
"Any idea where we can find more vamps?" she asked, not mentioning anything about families. It was a pain in the neck, and Khanna was never really interested in finding out who are they. Besides, they were probably either very poor or dead since they did sell their youngest daughter as a slave. On the other hand she was very curious about Sophia's familiy, since she was now almost sure they were somehow connected. Khanna didn't want to press the subject... For now.
Where to find more vamps? "Oh that's easy."
Sophia drew her sword.
"We bait them to the smell of blood." She cut a line in her palm, leaving it to bleed. It stung, but she didn't show any pain, she just let the blood stain her hand.
"Interesting concept." Khanna agreed "You don't have to look for them, just wait."
It surely was a great idea, but Khanna was a little bit worried. To much open ground near the docks. Behind her was the sea, in front of her were the edges of the city, buildings and houses. There were too many possible attack spots, and the escape routes were weak. In her head, she tried to make up a plan of movement for different attack patterns. Most of them didn't have nice escape ways.
"Let's walk. We can discuss things as we walk." Sophia had no idea what they would discuss, but they would.
She set off in the direction of the poorer district.
"Do you have any questions about my qualifications?" Khanna asked sarcastically. The only qualifications she had weren't fancy at all. Street smarts and pickpocketing. Everything she knew, she learned on the streets. Classy jobs come later, but even with the classy ones, she used the same tricks the ones she learned on her own.
"No. Just curious about where you are from? Are you local?" Sophia walked through the streets her katana sheathed, he hands dripping blood.
"They'll smell it soon."
"No... I get around." she told her vaguely.
"Yeah, any minute now." Khanna agreed and kept her hands on her daggers, ready to attack as soon as she hears anything. The smell of blood was strong and Khanna was sure something will come very soon, from the shadows.
"Here one comes." A man in bloodied robes stumbled out of an alley, bleeding profusely from his neck. And that brilliant set of white fangs.
"Oh hello sweetie. This what you want?" She drew her sword, smiling flirtatiously at the man.
"This is all they have to throw at us?" she said with obvious arrogance in her voice.
Nevertheless, her voice was perhaps arrogant, but she was already tensing her body for a fight. Khanna took her daggers out, just in case.
"Give it a bit. 3." Sophia started counting down as the recently made vampire stumbled and fell.
"2. Come and get me." She split the cut on her hand and smeared blood over her face, and just for temptation, under her underwear.
"1." As she finished the last count, a healthier looking vampire sped out of the alley, sniffing for blood.
"Come on boys, you know you want me. First one to take me down can have me in bed tonight."
"And the first one who comes near me will get a dagger in it's throat." she smiled sweetly.
Unlike the her first encounter with a vampire, Khanna was actually ready for this one. She completely uncovered her daggers, watching the more dangerous vampire. She glanced towards the newly made one who still had problems controlling himself, so he mostly stumbled. Khanna calculated that she should probably concentrate on the powerful vampire for the moment.
She ran straight at him, avoiding the claws and fangs with great speed. Khanna even managed to completely cut of one of his arms in a swift motion, and then retreated a bit.
"Your turn... If you want it." she beckoned towards the wounded vampire and smiled to Sophia.
Sophia picked up the arm, having dotted blood on her neck, and gave it to the older vampire, turning to Khanna.
"The wretch got me, but he was so pathetic, so my lord, why don't you finish her off?" She feigned politeness, and as the powerful vampire reattached his arm, and stepped forward, Sophia decapitated him.
"As are you. My lord." She wipe her neck clean of her blood, and smiled at Khanna.
"They're so stupid."
"Hah, no doubt this species won't survive for long." she grinned "Intelligence of a rock."
Khanna looked towards the decapitated head and nodded. Yeah, this probably won't take long.
"Look, here's two more vampires now. Newbies. Watch how you deal with the newbies. They're so fun to toy with." Two freshly born vampires stumbled towards the pair.
Sophia stepped forwards.
"Hey boys..." Her voice would make any male cave to desire right now. "Fancy some fun before you turn me?" She sheathed her sword, walking between the pair, who seemed rather intelligent, as they grinned at her offer.
She decided that for a very teasing kill she would grab and let herself be grabbed. Just for this kill.
When she thought they were done with over the clothes stuff.
"First one to kill her gets me in bed tonight." The vampires grinned again and began their slow hobble towards Khanna.
And in one swift motion, they were headless, both decapitated by one clean swing.
"Men eh?"
"Can't live with 'em..." she abruptly stopped and grinned "And you can't wait to decapitate them."
She liked clean kills, they were not messy and Khanna had no problems with washing her clothes after those. Blood was a pain in the neck to clean from clothes. If she was wearing a regular armour, that was mainly made from metals, it would've been easy. But, no she had to use clothes.
"I see you like playing with your prey." she said, crossing her arms.
"The moment they think about going under my clothes, they find a dagger magically thrusts into their throat. Or I simply punch them in the face. I'm no whore." She stated defensively, crossing her own arms.
"Oh, no I didn't imply that." she said, loosening up a bit "Men are always ready to believe that a woman is interested in them, and that is a gread advantage in most kinds of situations." Khanna smiled.
"Too true. When we have a female Vamp, it will be a straight up kill. But you should try tricking and toying with then men." Sophia looked at the vampires bleeding onto the floor.
Then she had a rather twisted idea.
"Feel like covering me in blood?" She pointed at the pools of blood the headless victims laid in.
"Oh, you have a thing for blood?" Khanna asked, cocking her head. It wasn't judgmental, she had interesting 'hobbies' too, so she surely wasn't a person with a right to judge anyone.
"No, but the vamps do, and the more blood one of us is covered in, the more likely we'll attract every vamp in town." In all honesty, Sophia was doing it to get the vamps to smell her.
"Nice." she agreed "Okay want me to cover you in this?" Khanna asked.
She dripped her fingers in the warm fluid.
"Give me a sec. They like to see the blood, not just smell it." She took her outfit off, leaving her in a nice set of black, lace underwear.
"Now, just don't wreck my underwear girl, haha!"
"After this." she said with a frown on her face "You'll have to say goodbye to that pretty underwear."
Khanna took some blood in her palms and started dripping it on her shoulders.
When she was covered in blood, she examined herself.
"Meh, with the money I will get from this contract, I can have four pairs of these." She was a sight and smell that Vampires would die for.
"That's some expensive lingerie." Khanna smiled.
Her hands were all bloody and slippery. She didn't quite enjoy the feeling, but decided to ignore it.
"Let's arouse some vampires." She strutted off in a decided direction, hoping to gain a lovely following. Within seconds one came sprinting round the corner of an alley, and straight at her.
He suffered a rather nasty femme fatale fate.
Tripped, mounted, then decapitated mid kiss.
She liked this fighting style.
"Nice... You're getting better at this." Khanna smiled, watching the alleys on the side.
Something fastly rushed through the shadows. She smiled and took one of her favorite stiletto daggers. Small and nasty, perfect for moving targets. Not that she'd ever miss.
Khanna threw the stiletto straight into it's throat, while he was just few meters away and then decapitated him with one of her longer daggers.
"You watch the front, I'll take care of the rear and sides."
"Oh shit. They had to be girls didn't they..." Sophia sighed.
Three scantily dressed vampires walked, rather seductively out of an alley, clearly dressed in courtesans clothes, all ready to fight.
"Hey girls, you whores better be ready to suck a demon prince's big fat donkey dick!" The insult was just to get them angry. Except they laughed.
"Oh fuck..."
"Well, where seduction doesn't work, you have me to kill them in a less stylish matter." Khanna smiled but couldn't resist to say something.
"Those shoes with that dress are a no-no? And your hair looks like shit, too." she told them with a disguisted look on her face. That did struck a chord with them. Girls will be girls, vampires or not.
As one of them attacked Khanna, she easily moved out of the way and backstabbed her from behind. In a swift turn her head was rolling down the street.
Sophia got into close combat, and thought she felt a bite on her arm. Sure enough, a vampire was clinging to her arm. Sword through the head.
"Dammit!" The next one didn't even get near.
"You okay? Any bites?" she asked.
Vampires were tricky, one scratch and you're a blood sucking maniac who roams the streets in search of food. And they're so dumb when they're young... So easy to kill.
"Yeah, bite, forearm, watch." Sophia produced a small vial from seemingly nowhere (truthfully, a naughty little enchanted pouch in her knickers), and poured some of the sparkling liquid into the wound.
"Holy water. It will erase the plague."
"How sure is that as a cure?" she narrowed her eyes. Khanna had her doubts about water removing something serious as a vampiric infection. That has to be one hell of a water.
"It burns the flesh off the vamps, they die from it. So very sure." Sophia cringed as the liquid entered her blood stream.
"Fuck me, this hurts..."
"Of course it hurts." she rolled her eyes "You're lucky it didn't burn your flesh off, proving you're not a vamp."
The wound now looked quite nasty. It was a mixture of blood, water and some other liquid that looked like poison.
"On the other hand.. It does look quite bad."
"Well it feels it." She was speaking through her teeth now. If she turned, the water wouldn't kill her.
"Kill me if I turn. Swear it."
People had the tendency to ask Khanna to swear to kill them if something happened.
"You won't... I have experience with these situations." she said calmly "You'll be fine, but you'll have that on your body for some time." Khanna frowned towards the wound.
"Good to know. Dammit this hurts so gods damned bad!" In frustration, she brought her foot down on a vampires head, crushing it.
"Gimme a minute..."
"Take your time." Khanna started cleaning her daggers in a slow motion. Since her new battle-buddy wasn't going to die, she was free to relax a bit. Yeah, she will probably need time to get used to the pain, but she won't die, and that was good. Everything else didn't quite get to Khanna.
"Maybe it isn't working... Ow..." She felt her bottom lip bleeding, and looked in a puddle, to see fangs. BIG fangs.
But she wasn't hungry. Not yet.
"Khanna... I don't think it quite worked... I'm, uh... Half way there?..." She stepped forward, examining herself.
Khanna raised her gaze from the dagger.
"What's with that water you spilled... Didn't it work?" she asked as she got near her, examining the bite mark on her skin.
"Whoever made that holy water was piss poor. I'm half freakin vampire now. Not hungry though... Feel bloated if anything..." She sighed, looking down to make sure her perfect tummy wasn't wrecked. No, it was fine.
"I told you that water isn't a cure." Khanna said with a sigh.
"Not even holy water." she added with obvious sarcasm and disbelief. Khanna wasn't a believer and holy water was nothing more but water to her, and she doubted water could heal vampirism. Turns out, it can't.
"I shall be having words with the priest over this. This is bullshit! I can't go round with these! I look like crap!" She huffed in a diva like fashion, annoyed that this had happened.
"What can I do about this?"
"Yeah... You do." she said honestly watching her.
"But before visiting the priest... You probably should take a bath and wear some clothes. Something tells me you won't get a warm welcome looking like that."
"I'll take a bath... Screw clothes though. Sexy vampire assassin running loose here, haha! In fact, screw a bath, the sea is just there..." She walked over to the edge of the dock, and jumped in, feeling the salt water rejuvenate her skin, like she remembered.
"That's a wonderful attitude." she said sarcastically and sat on the edge, her legs hanging above the water.
"So, what's the plan? Threaten the priest until he gives us the real 'holy' water." Khanna asked with obvious dismay.
"Oh nononono..." Sher bared a grin, showing off her now perfect teeth and fangs.
"Just make him realise that his damned holy water means nothing..."
She cocked her head on the side.
"Nice... I'm always up for proving people wrong." Khanna grinned "How are your cravings for blood?" she was interested to see if the vampire in Sophia was hungry.
"The word "non-existent" springs to mind." She swam over to where Khanna was, and pulled herself next to her.
"I'm thirsty, but not for anything specific. Maybe I can drink the priest's blood? Get a taste for it..."
"Hmm, I am curious about how 'holy' blood would taste like." she said with a smile.
"Anyway, we can always rob the priest, I am sure he won't miss some gold... Priests seem humble, but they're usually swimming in money." and Khanna knew that from experience.
"Too true, they think themselves fair but they think themselves above the common man or woman too. We'll show him he's not. Rob him, turn him into a vampire. Then you can kill him. I don't feel like a problem, so I can assume that surviving the night won't be a problem." Sophia smiled before cleaning her sword in the water, then drying it quickly.
"We can show him what it feels like to be lied to."
"So we're out for revenge.." Khanna nodded in approval "And money, let's not forget the money." she said.
"Yep. Money, and revenge. You okay with that?" Sophia said plainly.
"That's my job." she said "I'm always up for that."
"Good to hear. Let's go get a priest shall we?" She stood up, offering her a hand up, in identical fashion to her brother.
Khanna accepted her hand and stood up.
"Let's visit the church and repent our sins." she said with obvious sarcasm.
"You know I may need you to escort the priest outside right? Just tell him he's in serious danger in there." Sophia took out her nail file, and started working on her new fangs.
"Wanna keep these pristine..."
"Sure thing..." she said "You don't wanna eat him, just scare the hell out of him and then kill him?"
"I'll drink a little bit from him, turn him vamp, then kill him. Wanna make sure I survive for however long." Sophia began to walk.
"Okay... That's a plan, then." she said "What about your employers. I doubt they'll like that you are a vampire now."
"He is my employer."
Khanna glanced towards her.
"Oh." she shouldn't be surprised, but she was "Well, looks like it's payday today."
"Yes siree. My lucky day." She smiled at Khanna, baring her fangs.
"Perhaps you should refrain from smiling until we get there." Khanna said honestly. Those fangs were creepy to her.
"Hahaha, you not like my new teeth? Hopefully these petty things are just baby teeth." She laughed, and saw the church up ahead.
"There we are."
"Looking as grimm as ever." she narrowed her eyes when she saw the church. Khanna was never a believer, but she believed even less in churches and priests.
"Right. I'm gonna try and step on the ground here." She tentatively put one foot on the ground, then gently put her hand down too.
"Nope, we're fine, let's go in."
"Want me to get the priest out?" she asked, simultaneously glancing around with a grim frown.
"No." Sophia stepped across the border, unharmed.
"We can go in and get him."
"Perfect." she said with a sly smile.
"We should also try and get ourselves some of the real holy water.. I'm interested how will that work." Khanna said and pushed open the large doors of the church.
"Father Austerin? Hello?" Sophia called into the church.
"I'm thinking I might stay like this, I mean, I'm not blood thirsty or anything." Sophia made a discrete effort to hide her new fangs from the priest. She didn't want her prey to bolt.
"Probably... Don't want to scare him off before he gives us the money." she confirmed, looking around the church.
Father Austerin stepped out from a passage way, and smiled.
"Sophia! I see you are alive! I take it the job is done then."
"Yes."
"Good. You and your friend can join me then." He grinned, flashing his fangs at Sophia. And she found them oddly attractive all of a sudden.
"Well. This changes the dynamic."
Khanna bit her lip.
"Well... Does this mean we won't kill him? Or take his money?" she asked, crossing her arms "Too bad."
"No. It means the bastard dies. This was part of his plan. For me to get bitten and the holy water to not work. For me to become his mistress. HA! You are stupid Austerin. I am better than you. I outsmarted you." Sophia grinned at the Father, baring her new fangs at him.
"Well your fangs say otherwise."
"Idiot." she chuckled "You just gave her the reason and a weapon to kill you. Might as well chop off your head yourself."
Khanna was keeping her cold with a smirk.
"No, I made her. She obeys me. That holy water was tainted."
"Too bad I already got bit."
"Not so smart now..." she said "I do have to wonder, what did you hope to accomplish with this?"
"I need a queen. She was suitable. A girl with morals, turned to be my kind." The father grinned, and suddenly, as if forming from nothing, batlike wings appeared on him.
"Nice trick."
"A queen?" she glanced towards Sophia. Killing suited her better than being a queen, at least that was what Khanna thought.
"So, are those just for decoration or do you actually fly?" Khanna enjoyed poking her enemies although it was life threatening. She enjoyed the thrill.
Father Austerin simply flapped his wings and glided over to Sophia and Khanna, and Sophia drew her katana. Technically, a daitō, really. It had all the attributes. She loved her daitō.
"Go on, try and hurt my companion. And see how quickly I run you through."
Khanna smirked slightly towards father Austerin.
"I am really starting to like those wings." she said "But I do wonder if you would look so dangerous once they're gone?" Khanna continued poking, just so she could test his limits. Her daggers were ready to strike anytime.
"Such insolence from a whore." The words were sharp and vicious, and to the point. No long insult. Just a simple sure fire one.
"I'm warning you Sophia, and you, I'll kill you both. Turn you both fully."
"Less talk Father, more fight."
Khanna cared little about his words, but his remark made her want his death even more.
"Good luck with that, Father." she said with sarcasm "You're going to need it."
"Ah, fuck this. You die now, Austerin." Sophia lunged at the priest, slicing a wing off with her sword, bringing him down to Khanna.
"Agh!" It was unclear who the yell came from as the two landed on the church floor, brawling and fighting.
Khanna slid her small stiletto dagger into his ribs, blood pouring out and bones breaking beneath her strenght. She never thought she was capable of something like that, but it seemed that fear and a wish to live make you much stronger.
The vampire turned, attacking Khanna now that Sophia's body was limp. Two small marks were bleeding on her neck.
"You cannot kill me!"
"Watch me." she told him with a smirk, trying to pull him away from Sophia so that she can recover from the attack. Khanna took out her daggers and attacked with astonishing speed.
In a flash of smoke, Sophia was holding Khanna. It would be rather unexpected.
"Feed..." Sophia's voice was seductive, but filled with ravenous hunger. Or it would sound so.
"There we go, see Sophia? It's not so difficult after all." Sophia smiled, before taking Khanna's daggers out of her hand with brute strength.
Then she rammed it straight through Father Austerin's heart.
At that moment Khanna decided two things: vampires were scary and Sophia could also be scary.
"I'll stop trembling any time now." she took a shaky sigh.
"Good thing he's dead now. But just to make sure." Sophia went outside, using her newfound strength to bring a huge stone slab in, one made for gravestones, and dropped it on his head.
Only it was messy.
"Ew. Ok, well he's dead now."
Khanna made a face at the bloody scene in front of her.
"Well... Not the best way to do it, but effective." she nodded.
"Are you okay?" Khanna asked her.
"He bit me... I can feel his venom trying to make me worse. But I should be ok." Sophia kicked his body for good measure, and then went to pick up her sword.
After about 5 minutes of looking thoroughly, she found the blade. Well, half the blade.
"FUCK! My daitō!" She kicked a wall in frustration, knocking a brick out of place.
With a frown on her face Khanna only pointed out the obvious.
"No one can save that one." she crossed her arms "It's a new begnning for you, perhaps this marks an end to a chapter of your life." Khann cocked her head to look better at the blade. Nope, that didn't mark anything for her, but a broken piece of trash, but she at least tried making Sophia feel better.
Sophia wasn't comforted in the slightest, and ran over to Austerin's corpse, kicking it violently.
"NO ONE BREAKS MY SWORD! I'LL KILL YOU AGAIN IF I CAN FIND A NECROMANCER. DO YOU HEAR ME YOU SON OF A BITCH?!" She gave the corpse a violent kick in the groin, truly abusing the body.
"Calm down." she told her "That's not going to fix your sword. Though, I must admit it made me feel better."
With a small smirk, Khanna crossed her arms. Bad judgement, today was the day for bad judgement, she thought wondering how she got from a small bounty hunt to this mess.
"Breaking my sword is the biggest insult anyone has ever thrown at me." She screamed a profanity that was on par with the levels of demons, aimed at the symbol of the dead in the church.
"I hope he bloody hears that."
"I doubt he does." she said calmly "Come on, you'll get a new sword, daito or however it is called and everything will be fine."
Khanna felt like she was talking with a small child whose toy was just broken. Perhaps Sophia's nerves were on the edge, it was a messy night after all.
Sophia let out a childish "Hmph." that would only add to Khanna's thoughts of talking to a small, stroppy child.
"Well let's go, I'm sick of these vampires."
"You realize you're a vampire?" Khanna asked, with a small smirk.
She skipped over the body, with a frown on her face. That was still too messy for her, and she let out a irritiated sigh, as her cloak was now stained in blood. Wonderful, just an addition to a perfect day.
"Whatever. Shut up, haha. I may be a vampire, yes, but at least I'm not bloodthirsty." Sophia stared back at Khanna, before deciding to simply get a new daitō. They were expensive though. She might have to take up a second job.
"So.. A quick question for you." Khanna said with a smirk "How does your family feels about you doing the job you do?"
Vague enough, Khanna thought. Perhaps she could find out something interesting here.
"I don't know my family. The monk that raised me said that he was given the choice between a boy, and me, and he chose me, because he believed I would be the most successful. Apparently my brother appeared identical in many ways to me, but he chose me as I would be faster, and I could be stronger." Sophia admitted the truth. Where her mother and father were was a mystery, but she didn't care. She was more interested in her brother.
"Oh." Khanna said, something flickering in her eyes "You have no contact with your brother, then?"
If what she was suspecting was the truth, and Khanna was rarely mistaken, this was a real discovery. But, since she wasn't the one to say somethingbefore investigating deeper into the subject, she said nothing.
Sophia paused, wondering what this girl was asking about.
"No, none. Why are you asking? Have you seen someone with my features?" Sophia raised an eyebrow in suspicion, not wanting to be stuck having a brother. Her code dictated that she remain within audible proximity of any family member.
Khanna lightly shook her head. That wasn't the moment, plus she still wasn't sure..
"Nope." she lied smoothly "I was just interested how you dealt with your family and people close to you. But, since you have no one, the answer is 'easily' I suppose." Khanna added a small smirk in the end.
"Well I've no doubt my brother is working for some thieves guild somewhere, doing trivial things." Sophia sighed, as she believed her work was no longer important. She killed now because it was burned into her nature.
"Yeah.. He probably is.." she said vaguely "Anyways, what are we up to? The Sun is almost coming out, and in your condition.." her voice trailed off "I'm worried how that'll go."
"Well I am a monster until proven an angel. It is time to see if it is a gift or a curse. And if it is a curse, I bid you farewell Khanna. I will see you again at some point." Sophia smiled, and teleported outside, watching the sunrise. And she felt it soak into her skin, just slightly scalding her. She looked at her arms and she was sunburned.
"It is a gift then."