It felt so good to work out again, to get back on the treadmill, to lift some weights. However, the thing that still bothered me was that I hadn't been able to find an empty space, a place for me to do my actual training with the swords and stuff.

"You are really good at this, " Chase said when we left after one and a half hour. "How long have you been going to gyms?"
"Actually I haven't been able to come to one in a while. Mom and I were busy..... relocating." Wow that was close. I was going to say that we were busy being on the run but thankfully, I stopped myself.

"We should do this sometime again you know. I would love to see you throw sass at people more often. "
He said with a smirk.
"I can't agree more with you. I am quite entertaining to be around." I told him when we reached at the road we had to get separated at.
"See you at school tomorrow Katherine." He bid me goodbye and left.

I was already tired from all the exercise I had done so I decided to take the short route home. Mom had categorically told me about isolated roads like these but I was too tired to listen to her. Besides I had my kindjal with me for safety.

I know I was being a brat by not listening to mom, so I decided to call her to give her some reassurance. She could track my phone so before she called me, I decided to call her myself.
And this ladies and gentlemen was the second stupid thing I did (the first one was taking this road in the first place).

"Bella... " she started with a threatening voice as soon as she picked up the call but before she could continue I stopped her.
" I know, I know mom. I shouldn't have taken this road, blah blah blah. Im calling you for the exact same thing. Don't worry I'm not going to die today and you will have your precious daughter home to give her a lecture soon. But mom I genuinely am really tired and I don't want to walk more if I can avoid it," I whined and replied.
She sighed at the other end and said, "Look I understand all of that but you have got to take care of yourself honey. You can't do reckless things like these."

She kept lecturing me but just then 7 men started walking up to me from the opposite side. From the looks of it, they weren't mundane.
"Hey mom, I totally understand okay. I need to go now though, one of my friends from school is calling. Bye. Love you."
I didn't move my eyes from them the whole time. If this situation was going to get out of hands, I had to analyze what I was getting myself into real soon.

"Have you lost the way mister?" I said looking at the guy standing right in between. From the looks of it and the authority with which he carried himself, he looked like their leader.
"It's not the way that's lost, Ms Crawford, it's a book."
Shoot, looks like my 'buying time ' plan failed because this man got right to the point. It didn't help that he knew about both- My real name AND the book too.

Thankfully I had my kindjal in the back zip of the bag so I easily unzipped it, removed my kindjal and threw the bag down. It seemed that I was lucky today since I already was in a gear which would help me to maneuver better during the fight that was about to break out.

"Looks like you guys don't waste time unlike the idiots I have come across before. Good. I like the professionalism."
"Your validation is what we have been waiting for all our lives haven't we, " said one of the guys sarcastically.
"Just tell us where the bloody book is. We don't want anyone to leave injured from here now do we? " said Guy No. 4 (I'm not calling them 'the other guy' all the time)

"That's exactly what I'm saying too. No one has to leave injured from here so unless you want to get your asses kicked, I suggest you people leave. Anyways, from that familiar smell of death I'm guessing you guys are vampires and from the hideous taste in clothing and unnecessary tattoos I can also tell that you guys are from a clan called Armageddon. You'll are the last ones left right, a dying species, since mom and I got rid of the rest and looks like the doors of extinction are really close boys," I said proudly.

"You bitch!" said their leader. "I wasn't planning on letting the boys kill you but you do know how to get on someone's nerves. We'll just take the journal from your mother then... It'll surely be real fun torturing her."

The mention of mom got me extremely angry. "Ooh you made a big mistake there zombie guy. You shouldn't have gotten her in this", I said as I advanced with my kindjal, flipping it in my hand.

Two of them ran straight to me. (You must be wondering that why not use their super speed. My kindjal you see is a kind of a power dampener. So vampire speed does not work 50yards around it) I put the kindjal right through the stomach of the first one and after a punch on the face of the other, it went through Guy No. 2 too. They disintegrated to ashes and lay at my feet.

The remaining 5 realised that to get hold of me they had to attack me together. That's exactly what they did.
We were in a dark alley and a big curtain at the top prevented from sunlight coming our way. I ran towards the rope holding the curtain with them hot on my tail.

I was still far away from the rope but one of them caught onto me. My body, I realized, was giving up as after the intense exercise, it was in no condition to support me more. He pulled me by my hair and turned me around. A punch on my stomach got me to fumble backwards. Even though it hurt like hell, it got me closer to the rope. With the kindjal in my hand and the distance between the rope and me shortened, I did the first thing that came to my mind. I threw the kindjal with as much precision as I could with hopes of it cutting the rope.

It sliced right through the rope and the curtain fell. Guy No. 6 and 7 who were at the back quickly disintegrated but the 3 near me were quick to dodge it and land closer to where I was.

The leader and his two minions seemed to enjoy the position we were in. With the kindjal beyond my reach and me, defenseless and tired on the ground, they thought victory was near. Just as they started to lunge for me, I heard a howl.

With the shocked look on their faces they seemed to hear it too. Two werewolves charged our way and took the vampires down one by one, ripping their heads. Soon it was just the two large werewolves and me. 

I was still in shock. Who were they? How did they find me? Why did they help me? Are they going to kill me too? But before I could get answers to any of these questions they ran away in the opposite direction. I was dumbfounded and was still sitting on the ground. As they ran off though, one of them turned back one last time and looked at me intensely. Something in its eyes looked familiar that I couldn't place my finger on. It soon, however, joined it's partner and got lost in the shadows of the dark alleyway as I sat there wondering about what the hell just happened.