The Vampires Pet

Chapter 21: Ambush

The next day was quiet and uneventful, but the following day was different. We needed to get some shopping and Kane joined us, he had said he was bored and wanted to help Amdis watch me and Amdis had agreed because that meant more protection for me.

“Why aren’t you all booked up?” I asked Kane.

“Our boss forces us to take holidays if we don’t book any off ourselves, says it’s good for our mental health or something. Personally, I love guarding and killing things and hate having time off.”

Ok, maybe he was a sociopath, he loved killing things? Sheesh.

I was talking with Kane while Amdis walked a few steps behind us, it was lightly raining and thundering, I had always been afraid of thunder and I jumped when it boomed across the sky. Kane laughed and Amdis said, “it can’t hurt you, do not be afraid.”

I scoffed at Amdis, we were walking through a quiet field, it was a shortcut to the grocery shop and was only a ten-minute walk, so we didn’t need the car.

It was quiet and then suddenly a big group of people silently came and surrounded us. Kane sniffed the air and growled, “wereleopards and vamps.”

“Shift,” Amdis commanded to Kane.

Kane did as he was told with no questions and Amdis created darkness all around us, making the others unable to see and giving Kane time to shift. He was in the darkness, I assumed Amdis had done it on purpose to give him privacy and when Kane stepped out he was in his lion form, he was magnificent and beautiful, he was much bigger than a normal lion and held more muscle too, his fur was the colour of a lions but it also had unique swirling patterns of black and gold, almost like symbols.

Amdis removed the darkness and Kane charged at the wereleopards who were still in their human forms. Two of the men tried to run while the others got ready to fight Kane. Kane tore into one while the other punched him using their supernatural strength, it knocked Kane hard enough he skidded a few metres, but he didn’t let go of the man he had clamped his jaws around.

While he was busy fighting, I recognised some of Zedrics vampires and panic set in, just seeing them brought back all the trauma and flashbacks and the terror they had always instilled in me. Amdis stood in front of me and one of them tried to flit supernaturally fast towards me, but when I next blinked, Amdis had his hand gripped tightly around their throat.

The male vampire he had a hold of was called Leo, I remembered him as being one of the ones who had helped in t.orturing me.

Now I knew Amdis’ true age, I knew Leo was much too young to go up against him, I think I had heard that he was only around two hundred years old.

He struggled, but he couldn’t escape Amdis’ tight grip on his throat.

The other male was called Stephen, he had sometimes watched with Zedric as the females did stuff with me. I knew he was a lot older than Leo, maybe just over a thousand years old. He walked towards us and I felt the wind pick up in power, I knew he could control the air element.

Amdis didn’t give him time to use his powers and while still holding Leo, he used his other hand and held it out towards Stephen. Stephen kept walking towards us, and then he gripped his chest in pain. “What is this?” He gasped and then fell to his knees and cried out in agony, his skin turned deathly pale, and he tore his top off clutching at his chest. “Stop!” He gritted.

Where his heart was I saw it looked all red and purplish under his skin, it was like all the blood in his body had traveled to his heart and pooled there.

Amdis crushed his hand into a fist, and Stephen quite literally exploded into a shower of blood and meat and flesh.

I looked at Amdis in horror and asked, “what was that?”

“I used his own blood to crush his heart, and then I tore his blood violently from out of his body, resulting in him tearing apart.”

“Just how much power do you have?” I whispered.

“A lot,” he replied, and then he ran to help Kane who had ten wereleopards on him, some in human form and some who had shifted to their leopard form. One of the leopards slashed their giant claws down his hind leg, tearing deep into his flesh enough to see bone.

The other one bit down on his snout, but Kane didn’t show an ounce of pain, he fought back ferociously, slashing his claws across the face of the leopard who had bitten his snout and then Amdis joined them, he drew out a sword and stabbed the leopard who had slashed deep into Kane’s hind leg, he stabbed him under his stomach and dragged the blade across making the leopards intestines and guts spill out onto the floor, it roared in pain and collapsed to the floor and I didn’t get to see what else happened because three other wereleopards in human form had used the distraction of the fight to run towards me.

One of them grabbed me from behind and with the training I’d been doing, I managed to flip him over my back and onto the floor in front of me, it was a move where you shifted slightly to the side and used your hip to both push into their body while flipping them over your hip and shoulder more than your actual back because I wasn’t strong enough to throw them over me, I couldn’t explain it perfectly, but it was a cool and handy throw.

I turned and punched the other man who was running at me directly in the face, breaking his nose and feeling like I also broke my wrist.

The other one I had thrown jumped back up, and the third guy managed to grab me.

Amdis noticed and came running towards us, he brought out two guns and began firing at them, he both started shooting and dropped to his knees sliding along the floor when one of the leopards pulled out their own gun and shot at him, it was like something out of a movie, two of them dropped down dead because even wereanimals couldn’t heal fast enough from being hit in the major organs or artery’s.

Still sliding across on his knees, he pulled out a short blade and shoved it into the stomach of the last leopard and when he fell to his knees, Amdis slashed his throat. He had moved so fast they hadn’t any time to respond.

When everyone was dead, Amdis relaxed, but that was what Zedric must have been waiting for because Zedric himself stepped out from the shadows themselves it seemed, and he smiled threateningly at me, showing his fangs.