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Daha looked at his sister, it had been six months since Saluka's death. Six months since the battle. And yet she was still scarred. Deep down in her heart she'd never be the same without Saluka. And Daha understood that.

Shuriken and Ty had taken the twins home after the battle, that's where they'd been for the last six months. Shuriken was worried about Damla, everyone except her had moved on about Saluka's death... He wondered where and how Luna was. She'd disappeared after Sarik's death, and had not returned.

Damla sat on their couch. Her eyes staring straight, nothing but emptiness was detectable within them.
She felt nothing, she hadn’t said a thing since the battle, Her mother had been worried sick about her. She tried to get her to speak but all Damla would do was nod, shake her head, or just sit there and listen to everything around her.
Even at school she’d sit in the back row and stare out the window, not a word would pass through her lips. Never had she laughed, or cried.
Ty looked at her daughter from across the room, she had been filling out papers for the local hospital, she worked there as a diagnostician after the battle. She had been sending Damla to therapy but it never worked.
Finally Ty couldn’t take it. “Damla.” She said from across the room but the young vampire gave no mind to it.
“Damla!”
She looked up her eyes saying nothing, her mouth hadn’t moved.
“Damla you need to pull out of this.” Her mother said walking towards her and she wrapped her arm around her.
Damla pushed her off.
Ty left it alone, she had no other way of dealing with her hopelessly depressed daughter.

After Sarik’s death Luna mourned in silents. She spent most of her time at the police station. Not because of crimes she had committed, because of crimes other’s had committed. She brought herself out of her daze and went into Lab Forensics for murders. She worked with one other person, a man named Jake, who would spend most of his time staring at her then connect DNA with criminals, or determine what a murder weapon was by the splatter the blood had left.
She lost contact with the other Vampires and she could have cared less, she moved on and the wars had died out.

Evver had no clue where Talon had run off to; he normally would come around to check on her and Benjiman. She thought that he probably ran off to take care of his Pack. He of cores had the Lycan to lead.

Benjiman had been getting use to the new age. He went to school with Damla and Daha and would watch Damla sit silently. From what he could tell Daha was close to his twin, but Ben never spoke to him, occasionally he’s say hello or give him a friendly smile, he had no recollection of how the twins fit into his life, something about Damla being his dead father’s mate.
He took no care into much of the things he did at school. When his mother would walk home with him, most of the male students would stare at her and make odd noises. Benjiman took offence in this and almost killed a kid for hitting on Evver.

Due to Damla's solitary attitude, Daha had been sticking up for her alot, beating up people who took the piss out of her and the other such. He watched as his mother tried to make Damla talk, he knew she wouldn't sucseed...

The shadow moved slowly and with a limp... His long black coat reached down to his ankles and his trilby hat shadowed his face... He couldn't show it yet... Not yet.

Damla watched her mother walk away and then looked to her twin. Her soft brown eyes saying little about how she was feeling.
Sadness and guilt flashed through them, she felt a strange pang in her stomach. Almost familiar. She left it alone, she had been waiting for the sun to shine through the clouds so she could get out of the house and be in her solitary state of mind at school without her worrying mother.

Ty walked up the stairs and sat down on her bed unsure of how to keep her daughter from slipping any further then she already had. She was loosing Damla.
Ty laid her head on her pillow and sobbed, she was so tired.

Benjiman walked out of his room to see his mother standing in the kitchen poring a bag of blood into a water bottle so Ben could feed on his way to school.
Benjiman wore his uncomfortable uniform. He still didn’t understand why it was a necessity to wear the tie.

Luna was working at a crime scene, taking pictures of blood splatters on the wall when she felt something familiar. She had no clue what it was but at that moment she felt sort of happy.

The Shadow could smell something... A familiar scent? He moved towards it... He definately recognised it... He sat on the top of a tall block of flats looking down at his earlier kill. There was a girl bent over it taking blood samples... The Shadow dropped down and clung to the wall in the shadows, here the ones below couldn't see him... But he could see them...

Daha shook his head at his sister and turned on the television... There was another death today... There'd been three in the last week...

Shuriken could hear the news from the next room... Soon he'd have to stop Daha and Damla going out... But tonight Evver and Benjiman were coming around for dinner... He and Ty would talk to Evver later about what he had to say... Recently he'd heard about these deaths... The other two to die had been vampires... The odds were this one was too... And even worse, they were drained of blood... What would drain a vampire of blood? It was the most poisonous substance in the world... No creature could drink it... Then his mind flashed, he remember something from six months ago... Akulas biting Saluka... The blood dripping down his throat and he remembered, demons could drink Vampire blood.

Damla listened to the news, not really caring about deaths in the area. She watched as the sun slowly rose above the houses on the other side of the streets. The shadows growing and growing then slowly moving back.
She wanted out of the house, she wanted away from her crying mother. She wanted it all to end.
She didn’t sigh, she didn’t cry, she didn’t speak.

Benjiman took a swig from the bottle of blood; his normally blue eyes had turned black within seconds of smelling the sweet aroma of the warm red liquid that now dripped down his throat.
He took his bag and swung it over his shoulder.
“Bye mum!” He yelled and when he opened the door a strong uninviting sent hit him. He growled.

Luna felt something watching her; she looked around the room only seeing other police officers and more people from forensics. She knew this sort of kill, it wasn’t caused by any weapon that she had ever seen. The wounds on the body said everything, a small cut to the neck and then their limbs being torn apart. Only a few splatters of blood on the carpet.
Her red eyes had settled to a green, she was working with other humans and knew it would be unusual for red eyes.
Luna looked up and blinked hard.
There was a shaded figure, she stared in shock.

The shadow dropped from the wall, he'd been noticed. A police officer came up to him, "I'm sorry sir, only authori-" He was cut off as the shadow grabbed his neck with lightning speed. He held him off the ground and dropped him... The shadow was too big to be a human, standing at 7'5" tall and that small ammount of time it took to kill the policeman was enough to see he had grey skin... The armed police officers in the area drew guns and began open firing at him, the shadow waved a grey hand and the bullets froze in the air, they flew back, hitting those who had fired them. The shadow raised its hand and bolts of lightning erupted from it, killing all the police officers left before they called back-up. That left just the female vampire and the forensics team...

Daha turned off the TV and walked from the house, Damla would make her own way to school... He had his bag over one shoulder... He walked left out his front gate, towards Benji's house... He'd recently tried to make a friendship with Benji, after all... Him and Benji were the only ones who could openly talk about the battle together... The adults were too paranoid to mention it and Damla never spoke... He got to Benji's house and saw him in the door, smelling the air, "What is it?" He asked.

Benjiman looked over towards Daha and shook his head, his light brown hair falling over his face and he flicked his head to the side moving it from his face.
“I don’t know. It seems familiar.” He took another swig of the bottle and his eyes slowly turned back to their bright shocking blue.
“Where’s Damla? Hasn’t she been having trouble with people at school?” He asked walking down his patio steps.
He licked his lips getting rid of the blood.

Damla swung her bag over her shoulder and walked out of the house without a word to her parents.
She walked along the sidewalk staring at her feet. The sun beating down on her while neck. Her brown hair slung over her shoulder.
She turned the corner to see Daha and Benji. No change there.
The sent hit her and she blinked hard.
She crossed to the other side of the street across from Daha and Ben. She had no intention of getting them to try and get a word out of her. Her brown eyes stared at the pavement.

Luna’s eyes widened.
“Y-you’re suppose to be dead.” She said her voice almost a whisper.
“Benjiman killed you.”

"Yes... But what he failed to do is remove my other heart..." Akulas said taking off his trilby hat and throwing it to the ground... He was in the form he'd been in before he'd supposedly died. Grey skin, shark like teeth, snakes nose. "My brother was a bit of a nusiance though..." He said and pulled back his coat to reveal a hole in his shoulder where Saluka had bitten him... "But he'd dead now... And soon you'll be joining him and your prescious mate..."

Daha looked over as his sister crossed the road, "She seriously needs to move on or at least talk to someone..." He whispered to Benji... "It's starting to scare me, recently I've been catching parts of her thoughts, every now and then she's been considering suicide."

Luna gritted her teeth.
“Go ahead and kill me.” She said her fangs extended.

Benjiman looked over toward Damla who was walking slowly down the road. Concern flashed in his eyes.
“Have you tried to get her help?” He asked turning back to his new, and basically his only, friend.
“Have you ever thought of putting her in a psychiatrics institute?” He rethought that. “No she’d kill everyone in group therapy.” He said with a serious face.
Benji walked down the pavement along side Daha. The sent that made his skin crawl still lingered. He saw police cars drive by and noticed the urgentness on their faces. “What happened? Did someone else die?”

Daha nodded, "We've had more theripsts and psyciatrists in than I can count..." Daha said, "And that's alot..." He shrugged, "And yeah... Someone else died this morning..." They walked past an alleyway that was cornered off by police tape and then Daha smelt it... "Can you smell that?" He said to Benji.

Akulas smiled, "Happy to oblige..." He growled and leapt forward to bite Luna. One of the foresnics team people screamed.

Benjiman’s brow furrowed.
“Poor Damla, she must be hurting a lot.” He said and then gritted his teeth his eyes turned black and you could see the blue veins appear from under his skin.
“I smell it alright.” He answered. He knew who it was.
The sound of a scream erupted and echoed through the neighborhood and he snarled.
“I know who it is.”

Damla had smelt it too; it shot fear through her whole body. She froze where she stood.

Luna jumped out of the way in time.
That would send Akulas towards one of the forensics specialists. The one who liked to stare at her.

Akulas landed on the human with his jaws wide. He clamped them down and ripped of its head... He spat it out to one side, it his another human and knocked them out with the force...He snarled and turned to face Luna again...

Daha leapt over the tape and ran around a corner, there was Akulas, facing a group of forensics. Daha recognised one of them... "Luna?" He asked.

Akulas turned around... Another vampire?

Benjiman fallowed Daha. He jumped over the tape and threw his book bag in the bushes. He ran through after Daha to see Luna and the man he wanted to see in hell.
“Akulas.” He said his features changing with rage.
“You’re supposed to be burning in Hell.” He said brushing past Daha and standing in front of Luna.
“Leave here now.”

Akulas giggled, "Come to rip out the other one?" He laughed, "This time I have protection!!!" He was even more mad than before... He pulled back his coat to reveal the place where Benjiman had ripped out his heart. There was a hole in his chest and it was full of small winding black snakes, twisting around each other. Another forensics woman screamed and tried to run, Akulas looked at her and two snakes flew from the hole in his chest, biting into her neck and injecting her with poison that killed her in under ten seconds.

Daha stood back cautiously... He'd only met Akulas once, and he hadn't been anywhere near this crazy last time...

Benjiman bared his teeth, his fangs growing. The thought of Akulas even being alive made him feel like killing anything that moved. His father’s murderer should burn in hell; he should burn in hell just like he had made Benjiman. Ben still could feel the fire against his skin, he remembered dying and waking up in a burning body over and over again for more than six-thousand years.
“I will slaughter you!” He yelled his nails growing and around his eyes turned blue and red. His veins were showing through his pale skin brightly. He looked like a true monster.

"You see, this is why vampires and immortals shouldn't have children..." Akulas said to one of the Forensics team casually, like talking to a friend... Then a snake shot from his heart and bit the man's neck, he died in eight seconds. He turned to face Benjiman... "Now, now Benjiman... Are you really going to kill your uncle?" He tried to look innocent, all the time pulling something from his back pocket. He held it up, it was a gun, but it wasn't pointed at Benji, it was at Daha. "Move and he dies."

A look of horror washed over Benjiman’s face. His black eyes turned back to their normal blue as he stared at the barrel of the gun that was pointing to Daha.
“Don’t.” He said his voice a waver.
He shook his head. “Don’t do this Akulas.” He put his hands up in defeat.
He couldn’t let someone die, someone who had nothing to do with any of this. He now had brought Daha into the family feud, and now there was a risk that him and his sister would die in the end.

Akulas smiled, he pulled the trigger. A bullet sped from the barrel.

For Daha, everything seemed to happen in slow motion... The bullet sped towards him and he thought of everything in his life... His parents, his sister, his friend Benji... Then the bullet froze. An inch from his nose. Daha looked at it and it fell to the ground...

The dark haired man had his head facing the ground... He was one of the forensics team by the looks of his uniform... He looked up, "Leave the boy alone, Brother."

Akulas looked around and snarled, "Don't make me kill you again..." He laughed.

Benjiman looked over towards the dark haired man. His eyes wide in shock. “No that’s not possible.” He said backing away. Damla would probably start to talk again if she saw this, she’d come out of her isolated shell and would be herself again.

Damla had heard another scream and she ran to where her brother and Benji had ran. She walked up the stairs in time to see the gunshot, but she couldn’t see the one who had spoke.

Akulas snarled, he was surrounded... Benji on one side, Saluka on the other... "You win this round..." He spat and jumped. He latched onto the side of the wall and then jumped onto a roof and sped off into the distance.

Saluka turned and started to walk off.

Daha put his hand out, "Wait!"

Saluka stopped, "What?"

"Is that really you?" Daha asked the new vampire...

"Do you think anything else could look this good?" Saluka asked and turned around, walked into the light.

Benjiman gritted his teeth at his Father. “You better go see Damla.”

"Two things." Saluka said, "Firstly, Never tell me what to do, you are my son and therefore should obey me. Not the other way around." Saluka sounded like a proper father there for a second, "And secondly, why do I need to go anywhere to see my true love when she is stood right behind you?"

Benjiman growled at first and then turned to see Damla.
"Oh hi. . .Damla."

Damla stared at Saluka, her brown eyes wide. this wasn't real, there was no way Saluka was right here. She was speachless.

"Did you miss me?" Saluka tried to smile, but there was no way he could make joy or humour from this moment... He just wanted to hold Damla close to him and whisper that he wasn't going anywhere this time...