The first thing she saw was that she was at the cave entrance. Alabaster released wooden birds that would make an invisible barrier around the vampire territory. Her purification power is imbedded in the barrier and will slowly start to close and disintegrate any that get too close. Vampires are unable to perform magic and conveniently unable to sense it. By using her purification power on her weapons, she can terminate them without having the flashing light show her presence. But the downside is that it doesn't reach inside the cave so she will have to go in herself. But any bats that are stationed out will be affected.
Amy knew one fact about vampires that even humans in this world don't know. They dislike wearing their bat skin but wear it to fly. It sticks on their skin like a wet rubber suit and is extremely uncomfortable. It doesn't even keep them safe and they feel vulnerable. But like regular bats, it makes them small and evasive.
She saw two guards. She grabbed one of her throwing knives and threw it at the neck of one of the guards. Before the vampire can react, he disintegrate into dust. The other guard tried to scream for help but Amy teleported to the knife and threw another one at him. She quickly picked up the knives and hurried inside.
The pathway is narrow but since she is a child, it is not a big problem. It is quite an excellent way to block humans from getting in. Using the wooden birds, they guide her path. Then she stopped at a room, filled with large cages, the strong stench of blood, human bones and corpses that are drained of its blood until they resembled mummified remains. There are a few vampires children who are crushing the bones up to store away in buckets like trash and cleaning the cages. Some of them are even happily playing with the bones and collecting them as toys. The stunned girl stood there, horrified at the scene and briefly unnoticed until a vampire girl noticed her. She is a bit taller than her but she has a child-like curiosity as she approached her with a shrunken head full of hair and an ivory comb.
Amy wanted to cry and shivered as she hesitantly stabbed the vampire girl into ash. The rest looked at her with confusion. Amy felt the tears roll down her face.
Then a surge of unbridled anger just appeared. An emotion she is both familiar yet unfamiliar with. Tyler. The child she failed to save and mourned over. She is no different from his killer now. What a hypocrite she has become. She has no excuse for anything.
She then grabbed her spear which extended in her hand and head to the hall where she began a killing spree.
Not surprisingly, she cuts them up and turns them all to nothing. In other areas, she sees cages and remains which fed into her anger then she reached a room that is supposedly a nursery. All these babies are vampires, most likely stolen from their human parents. With a wave of their hand, she eliminated them using her purification power so that she wouldn't kill them while looking at them.
She then saw some vampires close by with horrified expressions and they screamed. Her reason is gone now. She's not gonna hold back anymore. She ran towards them with her spear and killed them and the screams are enough to notify everyone to her. She doesn't care anymore.
She cut through her way. Some tried to attack her as bats but she is fast enough to hit them precisely. The wooden birds told her that the bats that managed to escape the cave are eliminated. As she continued moving, Amy saw more cages and remains.
"Help us!"
Amy stopped and went into the next room. Unlike the others, this one is full of live humans, unbitten and unharmed.
"How many of you are still alive?" She said.
"We don't know but there are a lot of us." A woman said,
Amy looked at her stomach. She's heavily pregnant. Of course, they spare her. A vampire bite to an expectant mother would kill her child. Amy cut open the cage lock.
"I'll be at the entrance and pick them up." Alabaster said.
"Run to the entrance. When you get there, someone will pick you up."
She then continued running, cutting down her path then saved more humans from imprisonment and from being eaten, instructing them to Alabaster and Boris who are evacuating everyone.
Her aura is dark, storming and blinding as she sees everything without reason. No logic, no sense, just the instinct to cut. She could tell Boris is trying to calm her down but she has been ignoring him. The last thing she needs is to calm down after what she just saw.
For what seems like forever, she then reached a large open cavern and can only see complete darkness. But with her goggles, she can still see. The vampires were stunned that a human got inside but were quick to attack and with a burst of power, every single vampire in the vicinity is gone, except one. The wooden birds have reached every dead end and secret passageways where the vampires could have run off to, only to be dead by the sun now.
The one surviving vampire seems to be extremely old and small, so insignificant but she won't let her guard down. To survive that small burst of power, she must be tough. The vampire's hair is long but thin and there is no indiction or hint of the vampire's gender.
"You are quite angry. Your aura is blinding my senses." The vampire says meekly.
Amy is surprised to see that the old vampire is fangless. By the sound of her voice, she is female.
"You are monsters." she tearfully said, "I thought you are better than this. In the future, you are supposed to team with humanity to go up against the Cambion."
"I don't understand what you are saying. It is our nature. We can't change who we are."
"Where I come from, vampires yearn to be human. To consume regular food, befriend and meet other people who are scared of you, not needing to steal human children to turn them into vampires to continue your existence and live long fulfilling lives without fearing the sun." she blinked her tears away. "The next generation.... no, never mind." she looked away.
"I have no will to live, little girl. I haven't for a long time. If you want to kill me, do it."
To see one present themselves to die like this calms her down. She removed the hood and mask to show her face, leaving only the goggles on. "I don't want to. You killed and eaten people and I killed your children." Amy said, "I hate you but you're not cursing or yelling at me. I did when Tyler died." She said that last one out of solidarity.
"I understand your grudge. But like you, we survive." she said, "I stopped caring about grudges a long time ago."
"Do you have dreams too?"
"You summarized it."
"Tell me. I'm all ears."
The old woman shift in her seat. "I once saw a dance party once when I was a little girl. The ladies wear beautiful dresses and jewelry and dance so gracefully, having fun in the beautiful light. Vampires cannot have that as we are sensitive to certain material and we don't have hair or beauty like you. I keep a collection of items from humans. All vampires do." She grabbed a small box that held a pair of ruby earrings. "My most treasured possession. I had hid it from my mother and wore them a few times in secret. Though every one of my kind love to collect human items, it is considered shameless to show them off."
Amy listened open minded. "Were you human?"
"I was born and raised as a vampire but I've always wished to be human."
Amy then spoke up, "In the future, someone will figure out how to reverse engineer your condition and turn you all into pseudo-humans. No blood for sustenance and no human lives taken. You will be able to walk in the sun and live outside your caves. It will not be done in my generation but the next."
The elder vampire looked at her with a mild expression. "There are other vampire settlements in this country. Not all of them consume human blood like this one. They are much bigger and more prosperous. Please spare them as they don't shed human blood for sustenance."
Amy stared at the old vampire woman. "What is your name?"
"Yerenis," she answered after a brief pause.
In this world, vampires get their name from the first same gendered human they kill. They would ask the person their name and kill them. It is a messed up tradition but it is what it is.
"I am not proud of myself," Amy admits to her.
"Neither am I," she agreed before looking up at her, "You said that you can change us, right? If that is true then I should tell you this. I will die soon in a few hours. You just happened to walk in my death day ceremony. Normally I would just walk in the sun and disintegrate but if I don't then I would leave behind a body. Take it and study it if you wish. I am perfectly healthy, just old. All that are missing are my fangs and the venom with it."
"Are you sure about giving up your body like this? It will be helpful but we will be studying it and that would mean desecrating your corpse."
"If it earns your forgiveness and change our fate then I would like nothing more."
Amy's faded anger extinguished upon hearing her. This woman is sage-like even after witnessing her rampage. Amy felt extremely bitter from her actions and the inhumanity of this place.
"I forgive you, Yerenis."
Then the woman fell limp in front of her and she watched not knowing how to feel.