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“DADDY!! DADDY!!” a little girl about five or six with dark black hair and beautiful green eyes, came running out of the house as Niccolie came down the dusty street to his home near the far end of the town.
“KARIE!!” said Niccolie as he kneed to the ground to embrace his child
He gave her a big huge and she lead him to the house.
 “Finally back, you said you would be in time for the winter festival” said his wife as he walked in to the house
 “The vampires have no heart to feel the need to rest, my dear” he said as he leand over and kissed her.
 “You were gone a really long time daddy.” Said Karie with a worried look
 “I know Karie, that’s why I brought a special gift for you”
  “Really what is it!?”
 He reached in to his bag and pulled out a necklace I bought at the northern market, a tight worn necklace with a bright blue gem in the middle.
  “Wow, it’s beautiful”
 He bent down and put it around her neck, it fit perfectly.
  “She looks gordeous Nicolas”
 “Thank you so much daddy,” she said giving him a kiss
  “The natives in the northern high lands call it a memory gem necklace, they say that when received the person who gave it to you will be with you always in your heart, so just remember when ever I am gone, I will be there, you may not see me but I will be there”
  “Wow” she said feeling over the gem with her hands.
“Daddy, what was the northern high lands like?” Karie asked curiously
“Well, it’s cold, and the vampires are big and mean,”
 “Did you beat them up?” she asked in a curious tone
“Well yes of course” he picked up Karie and set her on his lap.
 “One cold day, so cold not all the fires in the world could make you feel warm. Myself and five other men were sitting down having breakfast waiting for the main force to show up when we were attacked, about fifty of the vampire spawns came they were big twice the size of me. They came upon us, we pulled our swords, but they came up to us and start slashing and thrashing  like mad men.  Your father pulled his sword and yelled ‘charge’ and that we did I fought my way through the vampire taking down any vampire who dared put foot in front of me, Until the leader came. He was huge about the size of this house, and I looked at him and said ‘you dare challenge me?’” Karie laughed and his wife nodded her head in disbelief “and he charged me and missed with his first blow and I ran behind him and gave him a poke in the buttocks left cheek, then he spun around eyes glowing red with anger and charged again and I ran underneath his legs and poked his other cheek. This time he spun around madder then ever and charged me and I stood my ground and gave him the stab straight through him it when. The battle field when quite, then the big one fell to the ground, and I said ‘who’s next’ the vampire was scared and ran as fast as their undead legs could carry them.”
 “Wow, daddy you really showed them!!!” 
  “Yes, but now that I am back I want do some thing far more challenging then fighting hundred of vampires with a butter knife and fork”
 “Wow, what could that be?!?!” she said in amazement
  “Fishing, as of tomorrow you and I are going to catch us some fish the size of whales” 
 “Really!!”
  “Yep, but you need to get some sleep. Tomorrow is going to be a big day for us.
 “Ok, daddy, good night!!” she gave him a huge  “I am glad your back daddy”
She ran to bed and his wife went to tuck her in, and came back out to sit at the table with him.
 “Five men?”
  “Actually fifteen”
 “The size of this house?” 
  “Alright about the size of outhouse*
 “That’s still big, these things seem to get bigger the longer you stay away”
  “They were Turelim, they are the big ones of the vampires unlike the razileim to the west, who happen to be much harder to kill. But they are as slow as cows”
 “Did I tell you what our darling daughter did two weeks ago”?
  “What did she do?”
 “You know the bullies at the church school she always complains about are picking on her,”
  “The Anderson kids?”
 “Yeah, she punched one and broke her nose and was about to do the same if the father Homen did not stop her, she has your battle field spirit”
 “That scares me”
  “Oh, something actually scares the all mighty Niccolie” 
 “The bed time stories are nothing like the real thing, there’s blood, guts and far more then just running around stabbing people”
 His wife walked in to the kitchen and he followed her

“Nicolas, she has so much of you in her, it’s impossible for her not to become a vampire slayer”
 He put his hands around her
 “She as me in her inside but, you on the outside”
  “What’s that supposed mean?”
 “Lets just say every vampire will be to distarcted with her beauty to fight back.”
  “Oh Niccolie”, she says with a sigh.
“Yeah, she love it with all boys leaving all kinds of presents at her door step”
  The two laughed in each other’s arms. The night’s sleep came and left in a blink of an eye.
 The next day
“Karie, you got the hooks?”
  “Yeah, daddy” she said giving him a small cup with lots of hooks in them.
 He packed up his sword, up with some of his throwing knifes and they started off for the small creek about a one miles and a half from the town. It took them a short time to get there and by late morning they were casting their polls in the water.
 “Hay, daddy what was the biggest vampire you ever beat?”
  “Probably one that Turelim I told you about last night”
 “He didn’t sound that hard to beat” she said disappointed
  “Well it’s not always about size, smaller and older vampires are hard to beat because they are fast and experienced”
 “Ok, what was the hardest vampire you had to beat”?
  “Probably, it was this one Razileim that was a second lieutenant or a third, I can't remember, he was so fast and smart he out smarted me a few times and it took me a number of time before I actually defeated him.”
 “Wow, smarter then you!”
  “No, I just wasn’t thinking very well, pressure and stuff”
 The two sat with their backs to their equipment and their feet in the water, they did not notice the hands reach in to their bag and take the sword and throwing knifes.
 “What was the worst battle you were ever in?”
  “The one he is about to be in,” said a sinister voice behind them.
 Niccolie jumped to his feet
There in front of him was Zephon with two other vampires holding his weapons.
 “Niccolie, the fisher man, I must say you have very strange hobbies for some one who does such a dirty work”
  “What is this, can’t a man get any peace from you monsters” Niccolie yelled at them.
 “No, unfortunately you can’t, I have some plans for you”
 Niccolie bent down as if to coax his daughter and picked up a rock and he stood up again, looking bolder then before.
  “You will regret the day you did this blood sucker”
 “You know you may be right, but what I'm seeing looks a lot more good then bad”
 Niccolie lashed out and threw the rock at the closest vampire who was blocking the road.
 “KARIE!! RUN HOME AS FAST AS YOU CAN AND WHAT EVER YOU DO DON’T LOOK BACK!!!" Niccolie screamed at her as he block the vampires from getting in her way.
  “Daddy, what about you!!!” she said with tears in her eyes
“DON’T WORRY, JUST GO BE FORE IT IS TOO LATE”
 She paused for a seconded and then ran as fast as he could down the road to the town. Zephon watched her go with out moving a muscle. The vampire that was hit by the rock got up holding his eye.
 “As I was saying,” Zephon continued, as Niccolie stood firm like he was ready for an attack. “Your history is very interesting, and if you reputation is true then I want you”

 “To be my fourth lieutenant”
  “Never, you will never have my services”
 “That’s what you think, by the way, your daughter will never get to the town fast enough, and I think you know that”
  “Not if I can help it”
 “Yes you can, you become my lieutenant and we will leave her be”
  “I will n…”Niccolie began
“Find then,” Zephon interrupted his eye browns going cross “I will kill you, kill your wife, capture you daughter make her my slave and torment her for the rest of her little life on the horrible things her daddy did while he was at war with us, like that time you cut out that cowards eyes and hanged him up for display at the Togmen hall. And when the time comes for her to die I will turn her into one of my own and continue with my torturing until I die or she is killed by a vampire slayer” 
Niccolie brought down his arms and loomed his head.
 “Or you could just be my lieutenant, they can make believe you are dead and go on living their lives”
  Niccolie looked up with tears in his eyes
 “You swear you won’t let any one touch them so long as they live”
  “I could just allow you to watch them allowing you to keep your memory of your first life”
 “I find this to be the most sinful thing on earth,” Niccolie said with a tear running down his cheek
  “I accept your offer”
 “Good, now you must come with me to my home for transformation”
Niccolie was bound and thrown in to a horse drawn carriage that Zephon had hid not far from were they fished. He was placed in the seat across from Zephon, the in side of the carriage was dark and the sound of four other horses ran along side of them. He could not see most of the way there but somewhere along there they stopped and a woman entered the carriage.
 Then they began to move again in the same direction.
“Thank you kind sir for giving me a ride,” she said
 “The pleasures all mine”
“Why is it so dark”
 “The sun hurts my eyes”
“Why does it..Muff!!! Muff!! Mmmmmfffffff!!!!” she was muffed by his hand. Niccolie could here his fangs stab in to her as she screamed in to his hand and violently tried to shake free of his grasp.
A few minutes later she stopped moving and her screams were no more then just deep breathes of pain. At this point zephon removed his hand and began to feed. Her labored breaths and painful moans soon die to nothing.
The sounds made Niccolie sick and he tried to think about some thing else. He thought about his wife and his child, would this monster truly do what he said, or would he lie and make him forget his loved ones, he felt sorry for what he had got Karie in to and how she would never again see her father again, nor would his wife feel his warm embrace, all he would be able to do is watch them as they lived a life with out him.
The carriage stopped, zephon got out and then they pulled him out. They had brought him to a cave mouth near one of the big eastern mountains.
 “Welcome home” zephon said
“You live in a cave?” Niccolie said in disappoint men
 “So it not Raziel's large cities or Dumah's castles but it’s temporary, and some day in the near future we will find a home that will show how great we zephonim are!!”
 “ And were is that, the local pig farm”
“No, some where like the great mlake hall or one of your great cities like the city of Stahlberg ”
Niccolie busted out laughing.
 “You vampire are a lot more stupider then I originally thought”
“Go ahead, laugh. But one day we will have a home for our great statue, and then we will see who’s laughing, “ Zephon said angrily.
 “I will want to see it when it happens”
“Yes, some day you will help us take it.”
The cave was more then it seamed, once in side there were a series of empty tunnels that were man made it looked like an underground mansion. They walked Niccolie to a room that was far away from the other rooms in the mansion. They entered the room and then…