Chapter 20: What are you?

After entering the building Tanha started to search for the other witch; there were very few rooms. She opened the door of the first one, and it was empty except for a few weapons. There was nothing else. She opened the next one and the witch was bound and unconscious.

She was tempted to end her but she knew Erik wanted to save her and if he found it was she who had killed this witch, things would turn ugly.

So, she didn’t give in to the temptation to kill the witch, and quickly unbound her, instead.

When she was still unsure what to do now, she heard the sound of some heavy vehicle moving from the front side of the building, and also heard heavy gunfire. This gun was making noise louder than the others these Hunters were using before.

As the witch had told her and Erik different things these people use to hunt supernatural beings, she knew Erik was strong, but she wasn’t sure if he could survive such a weapon.

She rushed out of the building while taking the unconscious witch with her. She came around the building while still hiding in shadows. Though she wanted to save this witch because Erik wanted to save them, her priority was Erik.

For her, Erik’s life was as important as her own!

So, her heart was crushed when she saw a powerful vehicle was about to trample Erik. The distance between them wasn’t much, but she knew she couldn’t reach him now.

But what she saw next turned her hopelessness into shock, and then into fear!

Not only was he able to take the impact of the vehicle but he lifted it and then threw it toward the building like it was some toy.

She wasn’t sure what to think about it. Though an average demon could perform such a feat with half of their power, it was beyond explanation when a normal human did such a thing!

She knew after harvesting him a few times that he wasn’t a normal human at all but he wasn’t a magical being either. ‘What are you?’ was the last thing she had on her mind before the vehicle combusted itself, after impacting with the front side of the building.

She and the unconscious witch were both thrown a few feet away from the building, due to the blast.

She wasn’t hurt but she moved towards the witch, who was conscious now.

“Who the fuck are you?”

“I am Tanha, Master Erik’s servant. We came here to save you.”

Before the witch could say anything else, Tanha felt extremely negative emotion directed toward Erik.

She turned and looked toward the burning building a half-burned man was holding some kind of weapon and aiming it at Erik.

She could feel extreme blood lust coming from him. When she saw, Erik was trying to protect the witch from whatever this weapon was about to do, instead of running, she knew she had to do something. She immediately gathered as much raw power as she could and threw it toward the man like a ball of energy.

She was fast but wasn’t fast enough to stop the man from firing the weapon.

It was Karim’s 57^th Mission. His boss had told them they should wait for the local help and then plan their mission accordingly. But Karim was in a hurry to end this mission.

After the success of doing so many missions against the werewolf packs they hunted in Russia in their last mission, he was confident enough in himself and in his team’s ability to take down two witches. With the weapon and their experience, his confidence wasn’t misplaced.

After his team member got the first witch from the club, he knew there wouldn’t be any problem taking down the other one. Still, he didn’t take his enemy lightly. He planned extensively to make sure there wasn’t a chance for failure.

His men had assault rifles. Two remained behind as snipers. Even Rudy’s assault vehicle was ready to be used. All of his men were on high alert. All of them had different types of weapons on them and weapons were placed in several parts of the building so they could be utilized if need be.

Their boss had also given him The Box. It was a strange device; his boss didn’t tell him much about it. The only thing he was told was, ‘The more magic a creature has, the more pain they will feel!’

After its successful use on the first witch, he knew it worked.

When the second witch also fell under the effect of The Box, he knew it was a victory. However, the mission wasn’t yet over, and he and his man were still on high alert.

When one of his men was about to touch the fallen witch, he caught a movement behind the trees. At first, he taught the witch was using her magic to move the trees to attack his men, but instead a shadow moved out of the trees.

It was dark, so he wasn’t sure who or what it was, but from the speed, his guess was a supernatural.

He tried to warn his men, but one man was already dead, while the other two were fast enough in their reaction they opened fire on the attacker. But he used the first dead body as a shield and took the other two, using them all as a larger shield to stop the snipers from hitting him.

His doubt was confirmed; it was a vampire. No normal human could move that fast. When he threw dead bodies towards the snipers, he knew his guess was right. Vampires are good at sensing emotions; that’s why he could predict where the snipers were.

Though he had arrived today in ‘Old Town’ he knew from the records that there was no vampire in this town. If such a vampire was living here, one that had so much power, he knew his boss would have warned them about it.