The Kidnapping

It took me over two hours to get near the hotel because the police had started a manhunt for me again…

The whole city was full of policemen, state troopers, and whatever else they could find to track me down.

But I would probably do the same if I were the police and I knew the person who kidnaps and kills people all around Nebraska is here.

Anyway, after using the side roads and every dark alley, I finally arrived at the hotel.

The only strange things were that my car was missing, and I could sense Cthylla's necklace inside, but not her…

Our connection was still strong, and we had even learned how to telepathically communicate when we were close.

But because it was much more difficult to track her through our connection than through the necklace, I stopped actively doing it through my perception after she started wearing it.

Still, I should have felt it when she was in danger…

The other strange thing is that there is a police car standing in the parking lot, and a familiar aura coming from the room we rented…

I walk inside and go to my room, but when I arrive there, I hear a person speaking inside through the now broken door.

"Dewey, bring me a coffee. Dewey, clean the cars. Dewey, you are not allowed to have a pistol. Dewey, hide the teeth. Dewey, free our friend from the morgue. Dewey, clean the room from the woman we just kidnapped…

I'm not Dewey! I'm Deputy Dwight Gilmore! And soon everyone will listen to me!" chants the young deputy I met at the crime scene.

I open the door and say, "Don't worry, I'm already listening to you, Dewey."

He suddenly freezes when he hears my voice and turns around slowly.

"You? You are the fake FBI agent who sent me to get coffee…"

I walk closer to him, pick up the broken necklace lying on the ground, and say, "That's right. So why don't you tell me more about the part with the woman who just got kidnapped?"

"Fuck you! I will tell you nothing!" says Dewey and takes out his taser because, this dumb idiot isn't allowed to have one.

*ZZZT*

He shoots the taser at me, but I simply grab the wire from the air, endure the shock, and then throw it back at him.

"Agggggghhh!" screams Dewey and falls to the ground, shaking like crazy because the darts hit him in the face.

I turn off the taser after a few seconds and pick him up by his collar, while he only stares at me in shock because he is too paralyzed to do anything else.

Then I take out my knife and ask him, "You see the knife? I will use it to hurt you really badly… so blink if you understand the following: You are a human familiar of the vampires, right?"

*Blink*

"They feed you their blood or something like that?"

Nothing…

"They promised to turn you into a vampire?"

*Blink*

And this idiot believed it...

"You do the dirty work for them in this town?"

*Blink*

This is interesting. Do they have more familiars in the other towns too? That would explain why the police were so useless in the other cases…

"My partner was kidnapped and brought to the vampires?"

*Blink*

Since I felt nothing when it happened, that means she allowed it and is planning something. But it still doesn't change the fact that they attacked her…

"Do you know where their base is?"

Nothing…

Well, it is also not necessary because I can sense my coin overlapping with Cthylla's direction.

"Thanks, Dewey. And you should know one thing in contrast to the vampires. I always keep my promises," I say with a smile.

His eyes go wide, but I'm not sure if it's from the fact that he remembers that I said I will hurt him really badly.

Or from the fact that I stabbed my knife into his guts and twisted it...

I drop his body and sense how his soul becomes blank because I destroyed his soul name, giving him no chance to enter the hell or heaven of this world.

Then take his key and walk to the police car to drive towards my girlfriend.

~~~ An hour before Rasiel arrived at the hotel ~~~

Cthylla could be seen sitting on the bed, sighing while waiting for her stupid immortal boyfriend who never lets her help him.

She could have easily picked him up, and they could have avoided the police together somehow, but he prefers dealing with it alone, as always...

That's why, like so many times before, she felt kinda useless at the moment. And not only because she is waiting for him, once again.

Thanks to the elder sign on her body, which had one more function than she told her boyfriend, she felt weaker than ever before.

In the meantime, Rasiel grew much stronger because the supernatural beings in this world can somehow strengthen him.

At least she could learn some powerful spells that would help her in most situations. Still, she felt that it was not enough... she simply doesn't feel equal to him.

Not in this world and not in the last.

She doesn't see it negatively as her father does, but Rasiel is still an abomination even for an eldritch being like her, who is often described as the definition of an abomination.

If she counted her rebirths till now, she would be much older than him... but even during that whole time, she never saw someone like him.

Sure, she met a lot of beings who claimed they were immortal, some even said they were immortal gods, but all of them died in the end.

But he was different…

His body somehow holds an unlimited amount of life force, which makes him basically invincible.

And like her father, she thought when she met him that he was one of them or even higher in the hierarchy. But the more time she spent with him, the more she knew it was not the case.

Sometimes she asks herself if he even knows what he is…

But who knows maybe he is really only an immortal who was spat out into a world where no other supernatural beings existed before him.

She couldn't tell...

But whatever he is, she promised herself that someday they will be equal, and this can only be achieved if her father is gone and she is not limited by him anymore.

*Knock, Knock*

A knock at the door brings her back into reality, and she eagerly wanted to open the door for her boyfriend when she sensed it wasn't him.

She couldn't sense auras like Rasiel, but she could sense strong emotions from people around her, and the people behind the door wanted to harm her.

*Crack* *Crash*

Suddenly the door breaks nearly in half, and the two remaining vampires from the bar are standing there.

Keith smiles at her and says, "Found you! Did you really think you could escape the nose of a vampire?"

The brown-haired vampire woman named Nora steps inside, while looking around, and says, "Her boyfriend is still far away, let's grab her and get out of here before he causes trouble."

Keith nods and also steps inside the room while Cthylla simply looks at them calmly, thinking about what would be the best course of action.

Sure, she could take them down with her blood-binding spell, but then they would probably start from scratch again if the blonde vampire finds the coin or loses it somehow.

And if she gets kidnapped, Rasiel can track her down, and they can deal with them.

So she decided to play along. They couldn't do anything to her that she hadn't experienced before anyway.

"Oh no, you got me! What should I do now? I'm so helpless without my boyfriend..." she says while badly pretending that she was afraid, grabbing her cheeks and grimacing.

But Keith uses his supernatural speed to dash behind her. Grabbing her hand before binding them with cable ties, while Nora dashes forward and places duct tape over her mouth.

"Don't play the innocent one, I can smell that you are not a normal human…" says Keith and sniffs around her.

Then he says, "Witchcraft… Nora, remove every accessory on her. Witches are tricky and can use objects to perform magic."

Nora nods and checks Cthylla but finds nothing except the necklace and rips it off.

The calm Cthylla suddenly becomes furious about it and starts to wiggle around, to the point where even Keith had trouble holding her back with his normal strength.

But for a vampire who is nearly a thousand years old, it was easy to focus on his supernatural strength, so he simply increases his strength and presses her onto the ground to make her kneel.

Then Nora places a bag over Cthylla's head and says, "I'll call Dewey and have him clean this place up. He should have already freed Amber anyway."

Keith nods and then drags Cthylla out while grabbing the keys to her car.

Outside, he sniffs around, then walks to the car, and opens the trunk.

"What the hell, why is your trunk so full... fucking hoarders... first stabbing the tires of my car and now this..."

So he has no other choice but to open the passenger door and throw her into the backseat.

Then he sits down there too to keep Cthylla in check and waits until Nora appears to drive towards their home.

"I hope you are worth it, and Bill is finally satisfied... but if not, well then the nest will have fun with you. We are always thirsty, and supernatural beings taste even better," says Keith with a smile, looking forward to tasting her blood.

But first, he needs to report to Bill that her boyfriend killed one of them because they were careless.