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Chapter 8 - Going back home

After many hours talking to the leader of the werewolves on Transylvania I decided to head home. Bradley and I were getting tired from traveling for six months straight so this was a good chance for me to start on my new book. We said goodbye to the workers at the Inn and head home to America, on the flight home we ran into some of my fans. They asked me why I was in Romina again? All I told them it was my vacation time and that I love this country for its privacy, they looked at me strangely and I laughed a bit.

Then when we landed hours later after switching flights, I found that my truck was well taken care of. It was a newer truck and had bright red paint, the seats were black with a spot for my cigars, Bradley was loading the car when I heard my name. "Cousin is that you?" The person said and I looked right at them, the person was my oldest cousin on my mom's side. He was a military officer and was on his leave, his vacation time.

We talked for a minute and he told me that he's read some of my books, I smiled "Were they any good?" I asked him and he laughed, "Yeah never would have imagined that you would be traveling so much." He said back to me, I saw he didn't have a car and he was calling for a taxi. I grabbed his phone and told him to jump in the truck. He had his wife with him and didn't want to impose, I told him that was ridiculous, "You're the only family that I like and see as family, now get in the truck and let's go."

We talked more till I dropped him off at his mother's and when his mom came out I left with Bradley. My aunt asked my cousin, "Was that Jake? What has he been up to?" Cousin shrugged his shoulders " He's been traveling a lot the last six months, it also looks like he's changed since he was a kid.'

I pulled up to my house which was a custom-built large home right next to the forest. I had built my home in the same town I had run away from when I started to travel. I did this to prove to people that I wasn't a fuck up. When I opened the front door to my home, Bradley turned on the power to the whole building. I walked through the building and saw the place was dusty as hell, So I spent an hour cleaning.

After that I opened the back patio and hung outside for a bit, The air was nice and warm for it was the start of summer. I was in my chair looking over the journal, I had drawn a bunch of things in it since vampires. I saw I drew the scenery from the plane and train, which made me smile a bit. I looked up from my chair and I heard a small voice coming from the forest. It was a pixie, she was waving to me for some reason. I jumped up and ran over to her and she saw it was me, " Thank god Jacob, Queen needs your help." Without asking what was going on I ran to the little village at breakneck speed.

Bradley watched me run into the woods so he ran after us, He grabbed a bottle of water for some reason. When we all reached the village, I sat it was on fire, everyone was crying for help because Viza was stuck. I grabbed some water and put out the big stuff and Bradley told the others how to put out the rest of the fire. I grabbed into the building and picked up Viza gently with my hands. She was covered in ash but she was relatively fine, She was unconscious but she was breathing. The village tho was gone, the fire destroyed everything.

We stood there for a moment then Bradley and the pixies asked, "What are we going to do now?" I looked at the queen who wasn't awake yet. "Maybe you all can live with me, my home is huge and no one will bother you." Bradley looked at me like I was crazy then he remembered that we had a garden in the middle of the home. The home has five bedrooms one living room converted to a kitchen and a huge garden in the middle of the house. It had a huge tree with grass and natural flowers and rocks all over.

Viza woke a bit and saw the village was gone, She began to cry when I patted her head. "Viza you can all stay with me, this is as much as I can do for you." I said to her and she kissed my cheek, "We can't thank you enough." She said to me and I had only had one thing stuck in my head, (Who set that fire? no pixie would hurt their own like that for no reason. ) I stood at the black smoldering pixie village pondering what had happened.

A month had gone by and I was writing my best story yet, it was tough for the non-humans so I may not get the money I'm used to. The pixies were enjoying their time around me, I got them all they needed for their new little village in my garden. Queen Viza told her people that they were responsible for cleaning my home. They didn't argue about that order and so my home was always clean besides my room. I told them to leave my room alone, I clean it myself but when I'm writing on my books it can get a bit overwhelming.

I was deep into the last chapter of the book when Viza came into my room and watched me for a bit. I was writing right out of my journal when she saw Andreea's picture I drew months ago. She knew right away that she was a vampire. "Are you crazy kid? She's too dangerous to like that much." She said to me and I got a bit annoyed, "She's actually nicer in person, I even met her father who happens to be my biggest fan." I said smiling, and Viza seemed to get upset with me till she read the page on her people.

The page never said what she was but it talked about how kind she was after I talked to Vlad. Viza realized who she was and was even more concerned about my safety. " I know what you're thinking my dear, but you have nothing to worry about with me and Bradley." I turned to her, she at this point moved to the desk reading my journal more. "Watch this Viza," I said to her as I cut into my arm and nothing happened. She was shocked and then asked if that's the reason I was safe from her kind. "Yes, and from the werewolf kind as well," I responded back with and she was frightened about that part.

"Viza, you should know that I have and will meet everything I can that is not human, I just want to learn about the real history of this world. You don't have to worry about if I'm going to be in trouble, I will not throw my brother into a dangerous situation." Viza looked at me and I was looking up at a photo of the younger version of my brother and me. It was during our family's vacations in the north woods.

I had a lot of resentment for most of my family but there are a few people that are family that I still like. My older cousin is one of them and my Grandmother is on my mother's side, they showed me the respect I gave out. I couldn't ask for more if I tried, I sat back in my chair and had Viza look it over for me since she was good at human grammar. She showed me what I needed to change and she then had made a bunch of copies of the book for me for free. I had millions of books in my house and I started to laugh, "Can you send them to the non-human stores around the world?" I said to her and she smiled, I can send them to everyone non-human who reads your books. It will be a simple spell for me, just give me a second."

I waited and they all disappeared from view and I looked at my phone and saw I got a cool five hundred thousand dollars put into my bank account. "Everyone who accepted your book had to pay a small fee, they choose how much they wanted to pay." Viza said to my and I shook my head, " I would have charged only ten bucks for a book, I don't really care about my get back on the book." Viza saw I only wanted to get my book into the hands of people who love my work.

Later that night I started a workout routine for no reason but to get into shape. I saw I was getting kind of fat from all the relaxing. I followed my martial arts routine and ran through the woods for the next couple of days. I began to get to a trimmer version of myself then I started my strength exercises for a week. With one of my last books done it was time for me to do something else. I was twenty-five and one of the richest people in the world for an author. It was high time I did something more than write and climb mountains.