STEFANO
When the vampires start to fly around me, I knew that this is the infamous Circle of Death that I've read about many times and dreaded happening. Only now, it's not a series of images from a book.
I'm surrounded, with my chest growing increasingly tight, my breathing getting more and more ragged.
The vampires' wings flap more aggressively. Their screeches hang in the air. I can almost feel them taunting me, counting down to the second where I fall flat and die out of suffocation.
But I'm not about to let that happen.
I force the fire in my hands to get bigger, and as I do so, memories from earlier in my life start to flash in my mind.
"Vampires are killed by a stake to the heart, decapitation, and fire," my mentor, Professor Blossom, told me the first time I got past the gat
