"…Do they.."
"I think the witches are going to summon him by sacrificing an equally tainted entity…In other words,… I think they are going to sacrifice me here."
" I will take care of it. You don't need to do anything." said Joshua with a stern face.
" ..No. I need to see the one who is brave enough to play with fire. And to be honest, I was getting bored." said Ancia with a amused expression.
Joshua sighs and looked at his sister who is clearly enjoying the situation.
"Should I say that this is good or bad?" Joshua wondered as he started following Ancia back to their car.
On their way back home, Joshua started " I saw a group of witches to take shelter in a nearby pack the other day."
" Hmm.. Which pack?"
"I don't know yet. I followed them from the neutral zone but the pack security was quite tight."
"Is this your excuse?" said Ancia as she speeds up the car.
" Well, i thought you didn't want any unnecessary bloodshed before getting our orders."
" It's those mutts , Joshua. Just kill one or two. It doesn't matter. I could care less about their existence."
"..... Yea, you are right. I'll try to invade that pack tonight."
"Good." said Ancia and the silence fell in the car.
" Sister, don't you think you are driving a little too fast."
"Are you scared?"
" No, But I prefer to keep my limbs intact."
Ancia chuckles. "I just want to return to the shop."
"....This is amusing. Are you telling me that you have finally found something worth living for? Because as long as I have known you, You find living tedious and prefer not to indulge in anything for too long."
" That's cause I have lived for far too long. Everything starts to become dull once you have lived as much as me. And the worst part is that no matter how much you try, you can't die." sighs Ancia.
" Then you should travel the world with me. It's fun. You get to meet people and eat people." says Joshua with an angelic smile.
" ... Keep your thirst in control around here. I don't have time to take care of your shit for you." warned Ancia as she rolled her eyes.
It was around 4pm when Ancia arrived at her shop. Joshua decides to return home and wait for the evening to put his plan into action.
While he was driving, Joshua recalled his first meeting with Ancia and with Father. Joshua was a newborn vampire who had killed his kin, the one who turned him into the creature of the night. As a newborn, Joshua was very strong but not only that he was also hungry. Nobody taught him how to relieve his newfound thirst so he followed his instincts and fed on humans every single night. But that was not enough because the more he fed, the more uncontrollable his nature was becoming. This happened for 17 days before he encountered Father.
Father was the one who offered to teach him how to control and tame his nature. So, he followed Father without any second thoughts. Father lead him to a thick gloomy forest which seems to come out of a horror movie but what intrigued Joshua more was the woman who greeted them at the small garden of this small cottage. The woman was very pretty as if she was sculpted with marble but what made him enchanted was her deep ocean like blue eyes. It was Ancia.
Father introduced Joshua to her and told him that she is his third child and only daughter. Ancia was a quiet person but she took care of Joshua like an actual family member. On the other hand, her behaviour towards Father was more like of a subordinate than that of a daughter. The days living with them were calm but difficult for Joshua as well. Father put him on a starve diet of 15 days in order to get the taste of human blood out of his system.
Every single day Joshua was becoming more and more feral and dangerous yet neither Father nor Ancia seemed any concerned at all. It was the night of the 8th day when Joshua finally lost it and decided to feed on Ancia who was sleeping in her room upstairs.
He silently slipped into her room where he found her in defenceless situation. Joshua didn't want to harm her but his thirst for blood was too much for him to bear. As he was about to attack her, he heard loud howls of wolves coming near the cottage. In a blink of an eye, Joshua found Ancia standing in front of the window. He was gobsmacked as he didn't feel her move at all and not just that, he was pretty sure that Ancia was sound asleep just before. As he was contemplating this, Ancia put on her silk robe from the chair next to the window.
"Wait here. We have guests. I need to greet them." Said Ancia.
Her eyes glowed in the dark with a spark in them and a small smile danced on her lips. Joshua fell into a daze but as she passed by him towards the stairs, he grabbed her arm to stop her. The moment his hand touched her arm, shivers ran down his spine. Joshua didn't know the reason but he could feel the hair on the back of his neck standing. Ancia softly puts his hand aside and continued on her way to her small garden where around 40 wolves were gathered together.
Before Joshua came to understand the situation, Ancia was already out and was talking with the biggest wolf present there. In the next moment, the big wolf turned into a middle age man. It was Joshua's first time witnessing a werewolf and also an Alpha. While he was setting his mind straight. He got to know the reason of the werewolves arrival. It was him, Joshua. Because of his feeding history, he was a threat to human kind and werewolves are the protectors against vampires to humans.
So they were here to get rid of him. Ancia was repeating the same thing over and over to the Alpha about Joshua being a newborn and how he is being taught how to control and tame his urges. After the same thing keep on repeating again and again, the alpha was enraged and decided to jump on Ancia. Joshua felt as if his already stopped heart skipped a beat but what happened next was unbelievable. The big alpha who turned and was ready to tear apart Ancia, was crouching on the ground while Ancia had a thumping heart in her hand. Slowly the blood started dripping from the fist size hole in his chest and the Alpha lay dead in the pool of his own blood. Everyone was shocked to witness such a scene. Ancia told the beta to return before any further casualties happen but it only provoked them more. The beta ordered to attack Ancia together. The fight didn't even continue a whole 5 minutes. The small garden was filled with dead werewolves and Ancia was standing alone between all this. Joshua was shocked…that would be an understatement. Joshua was terrified. Not because of what Ancia did just before his eyes but because he could be one of those corpses if the wolves were even a second late.
"Isn't she wonderful." Came a voice from Joshua's behind. It was Father. He gazed at Ancia through the window very affectionately.
"What is she?" asked Joshua in a panic stricken state.
" My masterpiece." Father replied happily.