4 chapter four

Sara was in the basement laboratory watching Winnmire as he did one test after another. Sometime he would shake his head and sigh other times let out a musing grunt.

"This is why I feel out of place sometimes David. The twins have all the strength and mental prowess and you..well you are a doctor and really good at what you do, so smart."

The doctor looked at her with real surprise in his eyes." There is no difference in any of us Sara."

Sara saw that he was sincere , not just trying to boost her ego.

"How do you figure?"

"Well take Rick and Victor , the brothers never give up even when it looks like there's not a way around something in their way..Right?...She nodded and he continued ...You see me right now not being able to find the right combination for an innoculation, or an antidote but I keep trying..searching. How is there any different in that and the things that knocked you down but you got back up and kept trying ..did you not?"

" I guess..She replied slowly thinking things over...But it is different, The twins are like super ghoul hunters and you when you find the combination for the Dna strain you are after its like the most important medical find in forever...But me , I have only managed to survive through the things everybody goes through."

Winnmire was quite for a moment then." Maybe your time to shine just hasn't came yet Sara. As long as you never give up on yourself and doing whats right to grow and become what you want to be happy with ,someday doors will open and you may find that in the end the one you searched for was there all along."

" I think I know what you mean David..Like others don't see me the way I see me, They see the me that is not available inside just now. The one thats still to come.. Right?"

The doctor smiled and turned back to his microscope. "The only way to know is when that time comes." He said softly.

As he looked into the microscope he saw minute particles of the vampire Dna attack the other normal Dna particles and destroy them..." Success and failure are just words that describe the outcome of whatever a person tries to do long or short term but that is not what its all about it's more how a person learns from either and how they put that wisdom to use."

He walked over to his desk to write out a new formula sequence.

A few days later Sara went out to the barn to practice her sword moves and strokes . She had gotten very good with the short wooden fire danuabed weapon so much so Rick , Victor, and Winnmire had began to leave her to practice in the barn alone when Jason was napping.

This time to herself helped Sara more than anything to unwind and clear her mind plus the added exercise was one heck of a stress reliever, much better than some pills prescribed to her in the past when she had asked for them.

She did have a couple of pre-cautionary items to help just in case a vamp did attack. The hardest for her to get use to was a pair of mirror glasses the doctor had made that were designed to stop a ghouls trance by reflecting it back ito a blood suckers own eyes. Along with these glasses she had trained herself not to look right into peoples eyes but at the mouth area of others so as to see their eyes with slanted vision and not directly that enabled her to sense emotion but not depth.

Upon her side in its own pouch a large can of mace, now garlic spray instead that would shoot out to twelve feet or so. Winnmire had wanted her to wear a garlic necklace just in case but that smell..phew!

She had been doing a few different strenuous lung and stroke routines patterned after moves she copied off trainig videos for several minutes before glancing up at the large clock above the bathroom in the barn. Still had about ten minutes before waking Jason.

A creeping feeling started up her spine and a cold touched her flesh as a shadow seemed to rise up behind her. Whirling quickly to her left taking a fast three step evaisive move she saw the fien not six feet from her.

The vamp was coming fast she had no time to scream. It was either fight or die as she knew how fast these things were. She swung hard at the fiens throat but it moved quickly out of range and lunged at her as soon as the swing had passed in empty air.

As if in a slow motion dream of sorts she fell to one knee and as the vampire went right above her position she brought her sword up in a hard jab straight into the ghouls mid section and it was gone disentergrated to nothing but a stain on the floor.

Rick and Victors mind eyes followed Sara as she ran into the house finding the doctor telling him excitedly about the battle she had just had out in the barn.Victors pleased happy feeling drifted into Ricks realm as his own feeling of pride and admiration for Sara was felt by Victor. A shared sense of self satisfaction was simultaneously known by both twins at how real the illusion had been to Sara.

A testing slash training simulation meant to find out how she would react and also build confidence in her for a battle that was coming that she was to have a large part in.

It was also something she would never know the truth about.

The brothers stayed in their room most of the time locked into their frequency world now days as it was easier for them to communicate and search the surreal dimension for signs of danger in order to keep the cows safe from hugry roaming blood suckers and themselves aware of any plans of a sneak attack.

Matteo had completely dissapeared from detection. Not really a surprising developement since the battle at the ruins of the asylum at Mire mountian he had to know the twins had a much stronger mental telepathic prowess than previously thought. Being that Matteo was a master of the trait it was no surprise he could conceal his own frequency, tones , and oder.

They still read his allies thoughts and gathered some information that way so they knew that Matteo would be arriving soon to make his final preparations for the attack upon them but that was all because he was a very private vampire when it came to who knew what he was up to.

A true frequency locker.

Matteo had a serious problem that was in need of a solution but right now there was none.

Hose.

His right hand most trusted lieutenant..until now anyway..was planning on his demise when they attacked Ricks farm and then replacing Matteo as the leader of the vamps himself. A very concerning turn for him as Matteo unlike Joe was not a social type which was how he had managed to upend Joe although it had taken quite a while to do it.

Joe had thought himself invincible and had three other ghouls other than himself who had known all the workings of the machine. Himself , Hose, and Victor, who knew more than anyone how to operate and repair the machine. A very stupid mistake as Matteo had used that to his advantage being he was the administrator next in line to Joe knowing the workings of the machine inline to take his place.

Every time he thought about his cunning in Joes death and the plans made by himself that did the old king in, a self congradulating sense of pride rose in his abdomen. That had been the most defining aspect of his long life span.It was what made him sure the next phase of his scheming would succeed.

His plan was that once he killed Rick and the doctor and had Sara back in his possession he could use the trait to instill new memories and remove the true ones and images bringing Victor back into his fold as the chief machine operator.

Then he would kill Hose. Who's idea seemed to be following at least a part of his scheme that replaced Joe.

Matteo never let the thought that he may lose the fight at Ricks ranch enter his mind, to him because of a superiority complex of his self cognant ideal defeat just was not a possibility to consider. Nothing could be allowed that would defeat the plans and images that ran the gauntlet of his mind.

An irony to this that escaped his grasp was that Joe had had that same self assesment. It had been the main reason he was defeated.

The confidence Sara felt since her defeating the fein that day had transformed her whole outlook on everything she saw or touched. It was the one constant that had had an illusive quality and consistency before. At times it had been there for one area of her life but she seemed unable to exert it in another sector ,like it came and went at its own discretion.

She knew that wasn't how it worked but penning down the reason it fluxuated had never been easy or maybe not possible ..until now.

Just knowing she could battle and defeat a fein with so much more strength and speed was an inner concept that took on the statue of an epidemy rising up to the ideal she could overcome any adversity , nothing could stand in her way ever again.

Winnmire watched her run around the house noticing the new way of walking and talking she had adopted . High stepping with a sort of humming to her voice as if her words had a song behind them. It gave him a lot of pleasure to see the metomorphis to the new improved Sara.

Then his smile faded . Something they had not told her yet wiped it clean away.

She would have to be the one to kill Matteo when he came to take her.