The duo waited for another sign of the shadow but after fifteen minutes nothing was to be seen. Suddenly, the small scythe tattooed on their wrist ached. A sharp pain of burn surrounded the symbol and was diffusing the long of their arm. Seo-Yun grimaced as her sight blurred. She felt the urge to run in a certain direction. Without any control and in company of her partner, the young woman hurried toward a high wall of stones. As she was getting closer of the entrance, the pain lowered. It was it that conducted them to the iron gates and to the other wasters. They distinguished between the crosses of the misty graveyard, the silhouettes of the two wasters. As they run to them, the pain was decreasing. A third silhouette added up to their line of vision. The view that offered itself to them left them in shock. Lachlan and Soifra were in difficulties, at the grip of the shadow. The creature had a humanoid appearance. It fact, it was a human or rather it has been a human. Now, it was only a powerful and enraged ethereal being. Blood from its previous victim was still dripping from its livid face, as dark circles emphasized its dead gaze. Its emaciated silhouette repulsed the wasters. . Its nails were abnormally long and sharp as the skin under them had withered, taking a bluish coloration. For each of its movement, it was possible to witness the bones and the muscles slither

Lachlan was trying desperately to repeal the assaults of the monster that had tackled him to the ground while Soifra attempted to make it unclamped its prey. Arthur rushed to help the attacked boy; he grabbed the human-like beast but could not push away. The last waster tried to find a makeshift weapon to use on their attacker.

“How can we kill it?” she asked a bit of panic in the voice.

“It is a vampire, we must find its grave and stack it in the heart” Soifra answered before being pushed away by the monster. Her head knocked on the graves, and the girl felt a little bit disoriented for a few seconds.

“Where are the cape, the good manners and the castle?” argued Lachlan. “It does not look like to one”

“It is because nowadays vampires are not depicted as they used to be before. It is Stoker and before him Le Fanu who started to introduce vampires as beings with a conscious thus creating the myth of the modern vampire. There are been evidences of the vampires myths for millennia s and all around the world; from Greece, Malaysia or from long-gone civilisations. This type of creature bears various names and adopt many different forms; from the Romanians Upirs, or the Strigois to the Asian Penanggalan and the Jiang Shi. They all share some common characteristics. They drink blood and attack their victims at night. What differs, is the method to destroy them. ”

“And how do we kill this one?” asked Lachlan. “Because it seems it wants to turn me into its next meal”

The vampire was trying to reach the boy’s neck to sink its fangs in it. It was the less bothered by Arthur who was still trying to make him let go off the Waster, finally annoyed by his insistence, the monster grabbed the boy and throw him away as he did previously with the girl.

As her partners were getting in difficulty, Soifra tried to quickly remember the most efficient way to kill the supernatural being. For its parts, Seo-Yun tried to summon her scythe. She focused on the small mark, attempting to feel the burning feeling again or see the glowing light. As it did not seem to be efficient, the girl began to scratch around the symbol.