1 Prologue

"When will I stop running? I don't know. All I know is that I'll stop running when I find a safe place to call home." -Beatrice

I still remember the screams. The look on their faces when they held their stakes and penetrated my parent's hearts. The look of pure pleasure. Madness. Relief. But what did we even do? We didn't drink their lifeblood. We didn't steal their food. All we did was survive. Survive as normal humans would. So what did we do to deserve this? I don't know. And I don't care. All I want is revenge.

I've found a safe haven. A place where those bastards from the Church won't find me. And I won't forget what they did to me, what they did to my family.

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"Hey Beatrice~! It's your turn to clean the dorms!" My best friend, Agnes, giggled.

I shrugged and smirked. New York was the perfect place for supernaturals to hide. Cleaning the dorm would be the perfect opportunity for me to kick out the creatures that aren't supposed to be here.

"Good luck! Cause you'll need it..."

Yeah. Cleaning the dorm was one of the most hated tasks among the students. There was trash everywhere, and the dorms were enormous. Not to mention, I have to clean out the different monsters hiding in our dorms. That'll take a while too. But every time I kill a monster, my purity increases. And once my purity reaches 100%, I could take down those bastards from the Church. They call us monsters, but they resemble monsters more than us. I shuddered as I recalled the screams of the children when they were being slaughtered. The elderlies' cries when the stakes suddenly came down on them. The hatred welled up, and my eyes turned red.

I finally came to my senses when I noticed someone walking towards me. A human. A human who reeks from his wrongdoings. I shirk away, but he keeps on following me. Then, I catch a sniff of a different smell. The smell of a Possessor. Like its name, a Possessor can control people to do things. They gain power by using their control of the mind to kill people. The more people they kill, the higher their purity becomes. But they could only control the minds of humans with evil nature and easy to defeat. Now, all I have to do is lure out the Possessor step by step...

But first, let's antagonize him!

"Hey! I'm having some trouble holding all this. Could you help me carry these? My dorm is not far away from here, but I'm really tired from holding all my materials." A perfect way to distract him.

As he stared at the enormous mountain of textbooks in my arms, his eyes twitched. He was about to decline when I dumped the whole mess onto him.

"Thank you so much! What's your name?"

"My name is Steff. What's yours?"

"My name's Beatrice! What major are you in? It would be nice if you had the same major as me! Then I would finally have someone to talk to! All the other girls avoid me..."

(A/N: She has tons of friends, but... hehe...)

His eyes glinted. The fish caught the bait! My own eyes glinted, but he wouldn't notice that when he's too absorbed in his 'victory'.

"I major in Biology."

"Kya~! Same here! You're the first person who's helped me this much before. You see, I'm an orphan. And most people distain orphans..."

His mouth subconsciously curled upwards. To him, I was the perfect prey. But sometimes, underestimating people could get you served on a silver platter.

Tsk. He's still stuck in his little world. But I stay cautious. You never know if he's hiding behind a mask. But if he is, then his acting skills are praise worthy.

As I inched closer and closer to him, I saw the object the Possessor was using to control Steff's mind. It was a small disposable napkin. We had finally reached a deserted place.

"Look! The curtains are swinging on its own! Is there a ghost?" I 'shivered' and ducked behind him.

"Where?"

"Here!"

I clobbered Steff on the head with a baseball bat I found not too long ago, just as he turned his head to look in the direction I pointed head. Because he turned his head, it was the perfect angle for me to take the swing.

He crumpled down and I took the napkin with a triumphant look on my face. Before the Possessor could escape, I made a fire and burned the napkin with the Possessor trapped in it. I dusted myself off before taking out a brush and ink. I left the scene whistling with my mood high. If someone came onto campus, he or she would notice the word 'SCUMBAG' written on Steff's face.