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convention, you look adorable.  Almost exactly like…
what was that movie?”
    I blushed, not sure what they were talking about.  But
I did wish I could have changed out of my gi, I suppose I did look a little odd
outside of a dojo.
    The woman rolled her eyes and asked, “Seriously?”
    The other man laughed, “She does, but she’s cuter. 
Kinda hot actually.  Umm, crap, what was it…” he snapped his fingers and
grinned as it came to him, “Blood, the last vampire.”
    The first man snorted and looked me in the eyes, “Yup,
that’s it.  Great movie.  Now why don’t you run along sweet thing and
play somewhere else, we’re here to pick up our friend Terry there.  We’ll
take good care of him.”
    I shook my head, “He’s under my protection, I’m taking him
home.  Go find someone else to eat vampire.”
    He looked shocked for a moment, since his mesmerizing
compulsion failed to affect me.  Of course, I was shielded by my spirit
magic.  It wouldn’t protect me from anything physical, but magic and
spirit couldn’t harm me, unless of course, it was stronger.  He also might
have been surprised I knew what he was.  Outside of the sunglasses, they
just looked like three people out on a hike.
    The second male shook his head as his eyes roved up and down
my body, “I think I’d like it if you came a long too.  You can protect our
friend here and come with us.”
    I felt a little sick at that idea, and then the guy
charged.  Vampires were fast, but only because of air magic, which was fed
through his spirit. 
    I controlled spirit.
    Though it took some effort, and only if I was stronger than
the being attacking me.  These three vampires were very young, under
fifty.  I’d been around longer than that, and was inherently stronger.
    I reached out to cut him off, and he slowed to human speed
with his arms set to capture me, his teeth dropped ready to rip into my throat
right there.  I rolled to the side, and easily evaded his swipe, and
stabbed behind me into his kidney as he passed.  He screamed and fell to
the ground.
    The other male said something very unflattering and charged
me, less than a second later the female followed.  It was harder to reach
out and control their souls, squeezing off their power felt like bending a hose
in half to make them weaker while at the same time keeping track of all of my
surroundings.
    I swallowed a lump in my throat, my mother had trained me
well.
    I reached down, drew, and threw the short dagger from my
boot, hitting the woman in the stomach.
    She screamed in pain as she pulled it out.
    By then I pulled back to dodge the last man’s swipe, and
then lunged forward before he could recover, and cut his inner thigh
badly.  He too fell to the floor, and tried to hold the blood in while the
vein started to heal slowly.
    The woman glared at me and stepped forward through her pain,
wielding my own knife against me.
    I frowned, “That’s the only mercy I will show today. 
Put down the knife, pick up your friends, and get the hell out of here. 
This man is under my protection, don’t make me kill you all.”
    She growled a curse and dropped the knife, though her eyes
promised me death as she managed to get her friends to their feet, and they
staggered off into the woods.
    I just hoped I wasn’t making a mistake, allowing them to
live.  I felt hopelessly naïve.  In a way I was wise and intelligent,
but I knew I lacked…  The humans called it street smarts.  I was
meant to be clear headed, with my mother at my side to council me as I entered
the next phase of my life.
    Instead of the emotion mess that I was, unsure about so many
things.
    “What happened?  Who are you?”
    I sighed, I guess the fight woke Terry up, shame on me for
not noticing.
     

Chapter
4
    I cleaned my weapons and put them away as I gathered my
thoughts.  I took a seat about five feet away from Terry.  Close
enough to talk comfortably, but not so close that I’d spook him anymore than