Monsters and Lies

**Chapter 14**

**Monsters and Lies**

"In
my millenial time of living I have encountered many beings of good... as well
as many of evil. Though opposite they share a common trait when it comes to
lying. Each has it's own reasons but regardless of what they are it's always
self-serving to their own agenda."

As
the crescent moon shines in the night sky, Celeste makes her way to the window
she entered to sneak out to leave the Mondragon Manor and head back to her
horse. Just as she mounts the ledge to jump she is stopped abruptly.

Translated
in French.

Anabel:
You're pretty far off from where you are suppose to be....

Startled
Celeste stops then jumps back down from the ledge.

Celeste:
I thought I would come by... check in or on things... see if everything was
ok...grab some suppplies.

Anabel:
Supplies huh? You sure about that?

Celeste:
Yes, I mean why else would I...

Anabel:
Yes... why else would you? It's not like my sister saw you down stairs in the
dining area or anything...

Celeste:
Ok... I guess I got a little worried when I heard the commotion in the dining
room...went to see if you...I mean If everyone was ok...

Anabel
moves in closer to Celeste slowly. As she does so she starts caressing her
sexually on her legs, between her legs and up her body as she reaches in to
kiss and caress her neck with her tongue.

Whispering
softly in Celeste ear.

Anabel:
If I was ok... really?

Celeste
moans softly and gasp for air in pleasure as she is being touch senously.
Anabel then removes a knife from Celeste holster on her side and begins lightly
moving it along her body.

Celeste:...y..yes...

Anabel:
Any... thing... else?

Celeste:
Mon... monster... a Rak..shasa...

Anabel
stops.

Anabel:
A rakshasa monster...?

Celeste:
It's... abducting and eating children in a town not too far from here...

Anabel
steps and looks away out the window.

Anabel:
And you came back here instead of out there tracking it?! FUCK! What the...
This is the last thing I need.... Are you certain about this?

Celeste:
Louise cross referenced my description to a book you have in the library about
them... I'm almost positive...

Anabel:
Great... It's hunting and killing in my territory... then consider it is just
like the wolves... except kill it and bring me it's head. (saying as she tosses
Celeste knife back to her and catches it placing it back in her holster)

Celeste
walks up to Anabel slowly, drags her hand down her chest; Anabel gasp in
excitement; and to her waist and pulls a bloody kitchen knife.

Celeste:
Brass? (saying as she holds it up)

Anabel:
I think so. Not exactly sure... why?

Celeste:
It's what I need.... (Gets back into window prepared to jump out) I will notify
you when it's dead... any other monsters I should be on the look out for?

Anabel:
All... if they are hunting in the territory of the vampires they are
endangering innocent people... and we can't have that... kill them all...

Celeste:
Consider it done. (As she is about to leap out the window, she stops and ask)
Master Mondragon... I heard he is at dinner? Important figure?

Anabel:
I will say he is... being my father and all... among other things.

Celeste:
Really? I... perhaps a meeting with him to share strategies on the beast I
hunt.

Anabel:
Whatever works best will be what I decide thank you.... you are not ready to
meet father... trust me..

Celeste:
I'm just stating...

Anabel:
Go...(saying as she begins to leave)

Hestitating
for a second Celeste looks back at Anabel and leaps out the window like a bird
straight to the ground then strides away into the distance toward her horse.
Walking back down the stairs Anabel whispers to herself.

Translated
into Vampyric.

Anabel:
Good girl...good girl...

Celeste
mounts her horse and rides back toward her last battle with the monster as fast
as possible. On her way she couldn't help but think about the death of Sasha.

"I
had been around Sasha for weeks and not once did I get even a small scent of
her being a lycan or wendigo or anything else strange. Nothing other than a
regular human girl... scared at times.... I just couldn't wrap my mind around
it. The only thing that makes any sense is she must have been turned in my
absence....But tonight not being a full moon ...it just doesn't make sense.
From what I recall even a newly born lycan has to succomb to the full moons
sway monthly. It just didn't make sense... something was not right. And the way
Anabel was so adament on me killing the monsters in what she called vampire
territory... if they were protectors of good what did she mean by that?"

As
Celeste rides on through the night her mind continues to wonder if there is
something she is not seeing that is right in front of her. It is not too long
before she ends up back at the horse ranch she last fought the rakshasa
monster. With the monster scent still fresh Celeste leaves her horse then
begins tracking it from the ranch into the near by forest.

Meanwhile
back at Mondragon Manor, Anabel walks steadily down the long corridor to her
the mysterious witch. Opening the door she enters the witches chamber.

Translated
in french.

Mysterious
Witch: Did you achieve your last ingredient?

Anabel:
The blood purest and strongest of my line... yes... and all it cost me was my
best servant... so (hands blood over to the witch) this better be worth it...

The
Witch takes the blood and places it in a small cauldron sitting on an alter by
the window with the potion mix she has made for Anabel.

Mysterious
Witch: Stand in the center of the room. Drink this vial...You'll see things,
similar to an out of body experience...the past...present... it will hurt...
but no matter what it is dire you make your way through the visions back to
this point in time.

Anabel
does as she begins chanting with her hands over the mix of ingredients. As she
does so shadows begin to move, mystical energy surges and spins through the
air, smoke fills the room and all candles in the room combust in to large flame
as the wind picks up in speed.

When
the commotion begins to clear the witch can see Anabel seizing, foaming and
dribbling blood at the mouth, as her eyes roll back into her head and her fangs
petrude from her teeth. While she tenses up and her muscles contract; she digs
her nails into the solid stone floor extracting bone through flesh. Moments
that seemed like few were actually years if not centuries to Anabel as she is
visually and metaphysically transported back in time to 1600 B.C. central
Mexico as a chief with tons of feathers, scarring and paint of an ancient tribe
performs a scarificial ritual is surrounded by followers and other tribalmen;
over another man bound to a stone table with similar markings. The man has tan
skin and white hair, laying naked on the table. As the chieftan chants to the
sky he plunges a bone shaped dagger into the man's heart killing him but
releasing a mystical dark energy, for a second before death Anabel feels
herself in his place. As time shifts again in a cadre of smoke and mist around
her, Anabel is pushed sometime after the sacrifice and sees the same tribal man
with white hair masscaring his own people as well as others from around the
area. As he feeds with an insatiable hunger gaining power and even followers as
a maker; leaping centuries forward developing in his own strength and will.
Time than follows the man from Central Mexico to North America through Europe
and various time era's with few others just as strong as him if not stronger.
As time moved forwad again it leads to the birth of his first child from a
human wife and few descendants of his tribe, to the last child, only after the
birth of the last child does Anabel able to find her way back to the present.
As she does she gasp for a breath of air as if she lost it for the entire trip
through time. All mystical properties has passed her sight as she tries to
catch her breath covered in her own bruises and blood, from her own
inflictions, as they heal in front her.

Panting
steadily.

Anabel:
What...what was... that....

Mysterious
Witch: I do not know mistress... what did you see?

Anabel:
I...I'm not sure what the hell that was.... I was some... somewhere
else...another time... another place.... then I was back here...

Mysterious
Witch: The spell links present to the past.... for the potion to work your mystical
essence and soul had to pay visit to the source of your current life and
place.... that source being...
Anabel: My father... (looking at the skin and nails growing back on her hands
from bone) I saw him...being made vampire through improper sacrifice....
growing in power.... my birth.... He always told Sadie and I we came from
greatness... I just thought it was always a bullshit speech to get the other
covens rawled up... never understood...the power (saying as she looks out the
window).... (walks over to the witch) How do I know the whole thing worked and
this wasn't just some bullshit performance?

Mysterious
Witch: I'm not sure...it's the first of it's kind mistress... blood spells
different from regular ones.... permanent... powerful...if it worked you'll
know...

Anabel:
If? I've spent alot of time on this and been through hell so I dont want to
hear "if" right now.

Mysterious
Witch: All we can do... is wait... mistress.

Anabel:
I hope you're right... for your sake. (saying as she leaves holding her self in
somewhat pain)

Meanwhile
Celeste continues to track the monster leaving her horse and owl behind. Saying
a cloaking spell over the two.

Celeste:
This should keep you two safe....at least until I get back... If there trouble
get out of here as fast as you can. (the owl and horse respond in small noise).

Walking
through the forest for miles with a torch lit high, Celeste looks for the
rakshasa monster, following trails of dripped blood and claw marks. As she
tracks the beast she analyzes the different claw marks.

Celeste:
Damn it.... wolves... (draws short sword)

Celeste
walks through the woods, now with her sword drawn. The wind blowing her hair in
her face distorting her vision as she creeps slowly. She hears a variety of
sounds that are mostly insects but no animals at all. As she makes her way into
the woods she comes upon a gruesome sight. The slaughter of a wolf pack of
three.

Examining
the corpses.

Celeste:
Still warm... he's close (saying as the wind blows out her torch)... Shit.
(Draws a dagger in opposite hand dropping her torch, nothing but shadows of the
trees surround her.)

As
she looks into the dark, with perfect vision, she doesnt see anything dangerous.
Something flies by but its seems almost invisible. The only thing Celeste is
able to see are the trees and the shadows around her. She then feels something
attack her stealthly from behind, then again from in front. She waves her
blades wildly. But hits nothing. She waits calmly for a sound to occur.

Celeste:
Shit.... He's either invisble... or just so fast he doesnt make a sound.... I
have to foc...

The
monster takes another shot at her but this time wounds her one of her arms,
causing Celeste to collapse to the ground after dropping her sword. Bringing
her dagger up in defense, clinching her arm as it begins to heal, she is then
knocked several feet into a tree by the invisible force, losing her dagger.
Recovering as fast as she can, she creates a magically ring of fire around
herself, hoping to ward off the beast for a few minutes to gather her thoughts.
But it comes from above, in the tree pouncing her like prey. She manages to
counter flip the beast away into a near by tree revealing it to be the rakshasa
she had been hunting; it quickly turns invisible and charges toward her like a
bull, hoping to block or dodge the attack she is still hit but recovers fast.
Noticing the monster isnt leaving foot tracks but when invisible leaves
impressions on surfaces. She gathers two hand fulls of dirt. Quickly saying a
spell to scatter and multiply the dirt into the air it covers everything around
it, including the monster. With visual sight of the monster, Celeste begins a
full on assault. Finally gaining the upper hand with a variety of kick
combinations and punches she manages to render the monster the ground. She
brings the brass knife down to stab it through the heart but the monster
catches her wrist mid plunge trying to make one last effort to not be killed.
Celeste manages to over power the beast and impales it through the heart.

Standing
to gather her self as well as her own weapons, she catches her breath. As she
walks toward the sword she hears a low growl toward the rakshasa as it wakes up
and stands to its feet. Celeste stands shocked as it pulls the brass knife out
of it's chest, regenerating.

Snarls
and says.

Rakshasa
monster: No...weapon..forged can kill meeeeeeee......

The
monster then charges Celeste into a tree then grabs her by the neck holding her
up against it.

Rakshasa:
It's been centuries sense I had a woman... (saying as it opens it begins to
open its mouth)

Celeste
tries to use her tree spell to grab and hold the monster, but her voice is
muffled from the strong clutch around her neck to any spell cast. Seeing her
diamond edge sword in the distance she struggles but manage to levitate it fast
and quickly enough so to cut of the monsters arm that's choking her. Now in
pain as blood pours from the wound the monster beginning to back away from
Celeste in fear. Catching her breath, all over again, Celeste picks up her
sword and runs over to the monster as it tries to turn invisible again, but
loses it's chance as she decapitates him.

Celeste:
Heal from that.... (saying as she pants)

Back
at Mondragon Manor, Anabel removes her stained blood covered clothing as her
servants prepare a large, hot and steaming bath. The circular room is lit up
with fire cauldrons surrounding a large stone marble bathtub. Servants, male
and female, stand around as two others walk Anabel into the bath, too hot to
enter themselves.

Translated
in Vampyric.

Anabel:
Fuck... havent been this tired since my last acsenion....

Enter
Sadie abruptly with her own servant.

Sadie:  Normally I'd leave you alone to talk to
yourself after the night we have both endured but I figured we could both use a
bath before dawn, maybe talk...about the business prior dealing with our
fathers blood. (saying as she undresses herself and her servant helps)

Anabel:
Sadie..fuck not now... I've been strangled, mutalated, torn...I even think I
might have pissed myself at one point tonight... so forgive me if I'm not
talkative of the family business at the moment.

Sadie:
I understand (saying as she gets into the tub) we have tomorrow...at least tell
me what happen with your pet....

Anabel:
She didnt see or hear anything she wasnt suppose to... we are still alright in
our endeavours (groans in pain)

Sadie:
You sure you're ok? Need something? Maybe a virgin...you havent eaten in some
time.

Anabel:
Fuuuuuck that sounds amazing (she then vamps speeds and pull one of the servant
females into the tub and savagely drains her blood- her screams of terror
echoing through the manor- in grotesque in front of the other servants who
whimper and cower in fear)

Translate
in French.

Anabel:
(stopping briefly) Anyone have a problem with this? (servants respond no one
after the other) Good... Then I suggest you straighten up... (lets body
collapse into the water then continues to relax- submerging herself in now the
blood filled water).

Translated
in Vampyric

Sadie:
And you couldn't have done that out side the water? As if I care to bath in a
virgins blood right now.

Anabel:
Oh give it a rest... it's good for the skin sister... (saying as she massages
the blood over her bare breast, arms and face.

Sadie:
Be that as it may... oh (grows dizzy and uncomfortable)

Anabel:
You alright? You look a little sick... haven't seen you that pale since dad
ripped out your fangs to have you starve for a month for breaking coven
rules....

Sadie:
No... it's not... (continues to hold head from dizziness)

Anabel:
Maybe you need to eat something...

Sadie:
No... I think... I think I am going to call it a night (saying as her servant
helps her out the water and covereding her in a large robe)

Anabel:
Perhaps a good fuck?! You havent indulged since Mathias left years ago (saying
as Sadie and her servant leave the room)

Sadie:
Fuck you, Anabel... good night...

Anabel
contunes to bath ecstatically.

Anabel:
You there... (pointing at a male servant) get rid of that (pointing at the dead
servant in the tub) And you... (pointing at a big muscled male servant) come
here.

One
servant climbs int othe tub and pulls the body out the water, the other makes
his way over to Anabel. Anabel removes his loine cloth rag and robe as she hums
a compelling hymn to compell the servants fear.

Anabel:
I can use a fuck right now myself. (saying as she pulls the servant into the
water and begins to passionately ravage him)

Back
in the forest, Celeste cleans the blood of her sword onto the body of the now
dead beast and holsters it as well as her dagger. As she goes to pick up the
head, after torching the body, she's met with a generous applause from the
shadows as a stranger in a cloak shielding his face with the hood comes forward.

Translated
in Spanish.

Stranger
in Cloak: (Spanish accent) I applaud you. I've been tracking that thing for
months to no prevail. You how ever... manage to track and find it in a matter
of days...

Celeste:
Who are you?

Stranger:
You speak my tongue?

Celeste:
I speak many tongues... who are you?

Stranger
begins to pace curiously.

Stranger:
Haven't been able to speak my tongue to anyone but a chosen few close to me
sense I came to these lands... where are you from warrior lady?

Celeste:
I'm done talking (uses a summoning spell to cast her bow and arrows out of thin
air into her hands- draws and fires it)

With
impressive speed the stranger dodges the arrow, then catches the ones that
follow.

Stranger:
Impressive talent you have... but you might want to be careful...I might take
it you dont like me... wouldn't want to do that would you?

Celeste
draws her sword.

Celeste:
Last chance (saying as she points the sword one handed)...

Stranger:
It is I who should be asking you... these are my lands... for my kind....
(saying as dozens of wendigos and werewolves surround the two.)

Celeste
grows nervously of how to get out of her situation.

Stranger:
You can't run or magic your way out of this... you are completely surrounded,
in the trees as well as the surface.

Celeste:
Shit...

Stranger:
I don't want to hurt you... my friends and family won't do so on my command.
However... you have killed quite a few of us... a matter we are holding against
you... then again... you've killed this creature (pointing at the rakshasa) who
has stopped creation and killed many of my kind as well... you've done me and
mine a favor this evening... so I ask only your name...and perhaps we will let
you pass with a warning long as you leave and never return.

Celeste:
You know a normal lady would think you're trying to make a pass at her.. maybe
even impress her... but unfortunately (tosses a ball of fire from the rakshasa
corpse into his eyes momentarily blinding him,rawling up the other beast and
jumps into the trees) I'M NO NORMAL LADY.

Celeste
dashes as fast as possible through the many trees, knocking some wolves and
wendigos out of her way who then follow quickly behind her in hot pursuit.

"I
knew I wouldn't be able to out run them... there were too many and I was
exhausted from my previous bout. I ccouldn't take them close to the town where
my companions stayed waiting.. abd the town....they would've likely slaughter
the innocent people... I needed another plan..."

Celeste
enocunters and renders each beast to the ground among others as she jumps,
flips, and dodges through the trees. She then sees her best opening as she
scales the large mountain of forrest and woods. Gaining on her faster, she
contines to fight those who come to close off and soon drops and tumbles to the
top of the mountain side cliff; exahusted, surrounded by variety of tree trunks
and sticks that fall with her.

The
wolves and wendigos surround her as they had before, only this time accompanied
by the hooded stranger.

Stranger:
Impressive... never seen anyone, less than human, evade us so easily...You know
I saved you from this situation before by simply calling them back to me...

Celeste:
(panting) That was you?

Stranger:
I can easily do so again and let you go... give me your name....

Celeste:
Why is my name so important to you?

Stranger:
A name identifies not only you... but things about you...family...friends...
perhaps an employer... now... tell me... I'm losing patience.

Celeste
looks down the mountain side. She knows if she jumps she would survive, but the
beast would be after her again but for blood more so than they already are. She
leans over to grab a stick to stand, it appears to the stranger, but instead of
standing she smile proudly and falls back off the cliff.

Stranger:
NO! (saying as he runs to the edge)

Concern
grows to curiousity as the stranger sees Celeste fall. But instead as she falls
she enchants the stick, mounts it, and flies off into the night.

Stranger:
Very impressive.... (saying as he looks at her flee)

"That
was the first time I ever flew... and even now I still can not believe it
worked."

Back
at Mondragon Manor Sadie has made her way back to her bed room.

Male
Servant: Are you alright mistress? Can I get you anything?

Sadie
dizzy.

Sadie:
You.... could... not talk so loud...

Male
Servant: But Mistress..

Sadie:
Look... just stay outside... gaurd the door... then come morning you are
dismissed.... I should be fine by then if not later... (pain in her head
intensifies bigger to where she screams) AHHHHH!!! Just get out!

The
Servant leaves quickly as commanded and Sadie makes her way painfully to the
bed. As she does she moans and groans in more pain holding her head... then her
eyes. Veins popping from her body she digs her nails into her skull drawing
blood and pertruding fangs as her eyes begin to glow inside her eyelids.
Growing concerned her servant enters to help abruptly.

Servant:
Mistress!

Sadie:
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! (screams as a high focused beam shoots from her eyes
and toward her servant in a big bright shining concussive light- her servant
screaming at the same time)

When
the commotion settles all that is left is blood in Sadie's nails, face and
hair...and her servant turned to stone.

Sadie:
(Looking up) Haha... (gasp) hahahaha (enhales sharply)
AHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! (laughing sadistically)

In
the bathing room.

Anabel
having sex with male servant stops to hear her sister laughing echo.

Anabel:
Told her she just needed some cock. (continues to have sex with her servant)