TOXIC SCENT

" Hello, can you lead me the way of mystic grill?" "Sure. Just go straight and you'll see a alley on the right hand. At the end of the alley, you'll get the grill on the opposite side of the main road." "Thank you so much." Tessa Grimson smiles at the stranger, who just helped her, and starts walking towards the grills. Tessa looks around and sighs as she keeps walking. She says in her mind, "this town have been changed so much. Oh! Silly me, aferall I come back here after 10 years. It's normal to be changed. But nothing changed for me. It's the same family less, friendless mystic falls for me." She chuckles. "But really? It doesn't matter now." She enters into the grill and observes every details there. she sees a boy is working at the bar table turning back to the table. Tessa goes there and says, "hello". The boy turns to the front, "Hey, how can I help you?" "I'm the new bartender here." "Yeahh right. I was informed someone new will come today. Let me check your application form." He pulls out his phone from the pocket and starts checking it. "Um... name...Tessa Grimson, age...20, never worked before at any bar or diner. Great. "He looks at tessa, smiles and stretches out his hand towards her, "I'm Mattew Donovan, you can call me Matt. Welcome to Mystic Falls." Tessa shakes hand with matt and smiles at him. "Hey, do you mind if I put my luggage here? I actually just arrived in mystic falls and come straight here." " yeahh Sure. But you should take rest some first then come here." " it's OK Matt. It's not like I have anyone here to welcome me", Says while putting her luggage down. " no one? No friends no family?" "Nope. No one." " well kinda same for me. So... is it because of them? You lost your parents? I'm assuming you learn the secret about this town before come here." Tessa was wearing her apron. She got surprised after hear Matt. She looks at Matt and frowns, " what are you talking about? What secret? And about whom are you actually wanting to say by referring 'them'?" "Sh*t girl! You don't know anything? Really you shouldn't have came here. Hear me out, you need to leave from here. This town is cursed." Tessa is become irritated a little by Matt, "no Matt. I finally get a job here. I can't leave. I need this. And please don't talk in riddles, clear it out." Matt barely starts to say something, a group of 4 teenagers enter into the grill at that moment. One of them is brunette, looks so smart and intelligent. One is a handsome hunk with a perfect hairstyle. One is a blonde, cute and sweet girl. And the last one is a gym guy with well developed muscle and abs. Matt waves at them. They come at the bar table where tessa and matt are standing and sit on the chairs. Immediately Tessa starts to sense something very bad. Something very evil. She starts to feel dark aura around them. She closes her eyes, and says in her mind, "didn't expect I'll get to meet them so soon". She smirks. "Tessa! Tessa!" Matt shakes Tessa a little. She is startled and opens her eyes quickly. "What happened? You just got freezed for a moment." " o my god. Just forget it. I get lost in my thoughts." She laughes nervously. "Crazy. Anyways I'm about to introduce you to my friends here." Matt introduced everyone with Tessa. The brunette one is elena Gilbert, handsome one is Stefan Salvatore, sweet blonde girl is Caroline Forbes and the gym guy is Tyler Lockwood. She also get to know Stefan and elena are dating each other. And same for Caroline and Tyler. Tessa talked with them a lot, had drinks together and about 3 hours later they left. Matt didn't get a chance to say anything about that secret. Cause today grill was so crowded. Now the sun has set and the starry night covered up the earth. Tessa looks at the clock of the grill. It's quarter to eleven. "I think my work is done here. You have someone else to do the night shift, right?" Tessa asked to Matt. "Yeahhh... actually it's me. I work here all night, then get wasted totally and finally get back to home at the dawn." "Damn! And you called me crazy huhh? What about your school then?" Tessa laughs. "Don't worry about that. I manage it. Anyways bye. See you tomorrow." Matt says. "Wait no. You can't go home alone." Suddenly he says in a little loud voice as he gets anxious. "What? Why? No, I can. I know where I have to go. Don't worry Matt. I'm a night person. I love to walk in the dark." "Not in here Tessa. If you go outside without any protection, you'll end up dead." Matt continues to argue with her. "No Tessa you..." Matt didn't get the chance to finish the full sentence, suddenly Tessa grabs tightly his head with her two hand and press her thumb on his forehead. She closes her eyes and mutters something for few seconds. Now she releases him and forced a smile at him, "bye Matt. See you tomorrow." She takes her luggage and walks away. Matt standed there, freezed, without batting eyes. Tessa is walking on a very lonely street. The darkness covers the town like a blanket. The lampposts are maybe out of battery as it is lighting very dimly. Tessa sighs and says to herself, "ahhh!! What a hectic day. I couldn't even imagine it'll be so hard to put a nice girl mask on. Like what the hell!! I just gave some fake smile and talked sweetly and people started to think I'm a nice girl? People are soo dumb. No wait! I'm the good actress actually." She smirks and presses her cheeks with fingers, "oh god! My cheeks are hurting so hard." As soon as Tessa enters into the jungle, she sences a weird creepy scent. She immediately understands what it is. She smirks and says, "now this is the time for some real drama." After some distance, she saw four men are standing right infront of her. They open their mouth largely and the canines of the upper part of their teeth comes out bigger than normal. IT'S FANGS!!!! The veins of their faces are starts to swollen as their eyes gets red, looks like it is filled with blood. IT'S "THEM". THE BEAST OF THE NIGHT. THE BLOODSUCKERS. THE VAMPIRES!!! They are running towards Tessa. Tessa stretches out her hand, squeeze her fingers and mutters some Latin words. " qcoros decante heora subsitos Qcoros decante heora subsitos Qcoros decante heora subsitos...." A sudden heavy storm is started there, the dry leaves are spiraling up around them, dusts are flying around very randomly. As they are starting to feel a terrible headache, they also experiences a pain in their heart, like someone is squeezing their heart very tightly that can gives a major heartattack. They falls on the ground and starts to fumble because of the dreadful pain in their body. One of them already died. He was must be the youngest one among them. Two of them tries to get up, Tessa sees it and starts another spell, "Phasmatous tribum, nas ex Veras, uenes fes Matos et somnos. Ex totum ex Um maleo Matos." Some aerial roots come out from the trees and colied them like a snake, tear their bodies apart. There is still a vampire alive, fumbling on the ground. Tessa goes near him, put her feet on his chest with high heels and presses it powerfully. "Please, please let me go. Please" He begged for his life as he is panting heavily. Tessa laughs loudly then presses her feet more powerfully, "did I forget to mention that I'm a green witch? That means I took power from nature. And tried to kill me in a woods was really a bad idea. I lost everything from my life because of this pathetic creatures like you. You think I'll let you go so easily?" Tessa takes a wooden stake, "you deserve to be die dreadful animal" and daggers him through his chest. His body turns white and he died immediately. Unexpectedly a boy comes out from god knows where, runs towards Tessa, covering his neck tightly as it is bleeding terribly. Blood is all over his shirt. He is panting heavily. "Please save me. I saw you how you killed them all. I know you're a witch. they bit me. I'm dying. Please help me, please." " you know I'm a witch?" Tessa steps slowly near him and whispers in his ear, "then you should also know that I'm a bad witch. What if they made you to drink their blood, then you will be a vampire too. And.... for your kind information, I'm not in a mood to help you." Tessa immediately hits his head super powerfully with a large piece of wood. His head is ripped apart from his body. "Huhh, enough drama for today." Tessa says herself. Tessa turns back leans down to take her luggage, suddenly she feels another vampire is about to jumping upon her. Before Tessa tries to do something she sees someone just rips the vampire's heart out with hand and throws it away. Tessa stood up and observed a well- shaped male figure is standing at the dark part of the place. She can't see his face and even what he is worn. Tessa widens her eyes in shock and says calmly, "who are you?" That human figure came out of the dark place and positioned himself right in front of Tessa. "Hello sweetheart" He smirks.