Fire In The Night
It was a cold night in the forest and it was also
a bright night, the light coming from a brilliant
full Moon which was filling the sky with light. A
lone figure is walking along a path between the
trees and it is walking fast on its way home.
The figure is that of a woman walking through the
forest path as it is a shortcut to get to her house.
She is dressed for the cold wearing a long coat over
her work clothes which were navy blue dress pants a
white shirt and m matching jacket over the top. She
had just finished working back late at her office
which was on the other side of the forest on the
edges of town.
The area she lived in wasn't isolated it was in fact
a big city called Fairhaven which had at it's heart
a man made forest of tall pine trees and other plants
which made an enchanting place to visit and be around.
As she walked she had an uneasy feeling that she was
being followed and she quickened her pace. "Oh come
on Rose you're over working your imagination," she
said to herself. However this did not help much as she
only felt like walking quicker.
She just could not shake the feeling she was being
watched, but where, and from who? Was it the young
guy outside of her work that was looking her up and
down as she put her coat on and picked up her briefcase,
or was it the filthy street urchin who gave her a dirty
look for just being there... She had no idea, but she just
kept walking.
As she turned a corner in the path she could see the big
full Moon as it was facing the path of the rising Moon and
she felt a bit calmer. "Ah the lovely Moon" she said to
herself to calm her worries down. It was true too the Moon
was big and it looked friendly and inviting. She kept it's
image in her eyes as she walked and that made her feel happy.
But as she walked something happened. She could see a figure
at the end of the path near the next turning and it was just
standing there doing nothing. She brushed the thought aside
saying to herself that she was imagining things now, and kept
walking forwards. As she came to the corner she felt a hand on
her shoulder.
"Ooooh" she screamed, but this didn't deter the hand, and it
turned her around. In front of her was a man about 40 years
old very neatly dressed, just standing there in front of her.
He locked eyes with her and she could not move. As she stood
there he eased her coat off after first getting her to put her
briefcase down which she did when she had stopped. Her coat fell
to the ground. He then looked at her, looked her up and down, and
then he placed his hands on her shoulders and turned her around.
He then moved forwards a bit and placed his arms around her waist
and eyes still locked into hers he started to kiss her, first on
the lips and then on her neck, she tried to resist but her strength
and will to fight were almost gone, as he had a magnetic hold on her.
She then finally caved into the embrace kissing him back.
He then knew that he had got what he wanted and he kissed her back
on her neck and as he did fang like teeth extended from the top of
his mouth and he sunk them into her neck. She didn't scream, nor
did she fight. This took a while and when he was done he let her
go and she fell to the ground. The man then scooped her up into
his arms with her coat and her case and walked off into the distance
with her........
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MEANWHILE
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Operations is moving along a corridor to the Perch, and as she
moves she floats with little effort. Operations is Nikita a tall
blond woman formerly an operative of Section One the most covert
and secret anti-terrorist organization on the face of the Earth.
Nikita was here on Section Zero Alpha a top secret hidden base of
operations for Section One. It is a massive orbiting space station
a quarter of a mile wide as it is deep, at its widest point. It is
spherical in shape with mazes of passages and corridors rooms and
offices. The floating eyes and ears of Section One on Earth......
She was at the Perch and it overlooked a briefing area below with
table and chairs. This was an exact copy of the briefing area on
Earth right down to the table with holograms which was used to
present mission briefings.
Also up here is Birkhoff at a copy of his comms station on the
ground and they were all up here for a special briefing from
Nikita. They had no idea why or for what she had brought everyone
there for but they knew it must have been important. Section Zero
Alpha was normally almost deserted only needing 12 people to run
it and it's only purpose was to relay information and also coordinate
missions on the ground as well as the monitoring of events on the
ground. But on occasion it could house a full compliment of operatives
and equipment for special occasions where
secrecy is a must.
As she stood there she watched as all the other operatives filed
in and took up seats at the big table. Even Birkhoff joined them
and she then walked down the steps to outline the mission.......
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Part 2, Angelique
Strange unnerving nightmares of floating red eyes
glowing in the darkness and of a handsome man with
sharp almost wolf like fangs kept haunting Rose's
subconscious mind.
"Rose... wake for me." A deep voice echoed in her
mind, soft yet commanding.
Rose tossed and turned on a... bed? She frowned in her
sleep as she tried to figure out how she had gotten
home, but couldn't.
Rose slowly opened her blue eyes and blinked groggily,
as she took in her surroundings and put her hand to
her head. She didn't know where she was and it felt
as if she had a hangover, but ten times worse than any
she had ever had before.
The scene of her walking home replayed again in her
mind, yet Rose refused to accept what her mind tried
to explain... she had been attacked by a vampire.
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MEANWHILE BACK IN SECTION
"We have a serious situation people, there have been
reports coming in of attacks and missing people all
over Europe and different parts of the world."
Operations/Nikita said as she gazed out at the
Operatives sitting at the briefing table before her.
Birkhoff frowned and said solemnly, "So it's begun
already..."
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Part 3. John
BACK AT SECTION ONE IN EUROPE
On the ground at Section One it was a quiet night, with
everyone up at Section Zero Alpha there was not much to
do. Quinn was left in charge and she was pacing up and
down waiting for a signal from up above.
She didn't have to wait long, however as there was a
beep on her comms panel and she clicked on the screen
bringing up an image of Nikita in the briefing room
at the Section space station.
"I'm about to outline the mission Quinn"
"I'm here and ready," Quinn said back to her as she
started the recording device to make a copy of Nikita's
mission briefing.
Nikita stood up to speak and as she did she flashed
a hologram of Europe on the screen, then a map of the
USA, and finally a map of the town of Fairhaven in
France. "At around midnight four weeks ago in the town
of Fairhaven in France a number of people have disappeared.
Also in the cities of Texas, Illinois, and the town of
Norfolk Virginia the same thing has happened." and she
paused for breath and flashed up the names of a whole
bunch of people that have vanished, about 30 in total.
"we can't explain these disappearances in any rational
way other then the irrational, which leads us to believe
that this is the work of some kind of vampire cult,"
and to this all the operatives at the table grimaced
and laughed. Nikita let it pass and she continued.
"A few of the missing people are important figures in
world affairs, and we don't believe that their sudden
disappearance was coincidence, that is why we have
become involved." Nikita then took a few breaths and
continued.
"Our aim is to find out why these people have vanished
and if possible retrieve them alive so they can be
returned to where they came from. There are innocents
amongst the missing so if we can save them too it would
be a bonus." She then produced a list of names of all
the missing people and Rose was in that list. Rose it
turns out is a very clever lady. She is a scientist
and her work has connected her to many world leaders.
Rose is responsible for inventing some very high tech
materials such as plastic that has the strength of a
sheet of steel. She has also worked on a number of
important defense projects as a consultant.
Quinn finished with the recording of both the briefing
and the list of names. She would compile all that and
have it for Nikita when they return, which shouldn't
be too far away.
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MEANWHILE AT SECTION ZERO ALPHA
Nikita and the other prepared to return home to Section
One on the ground. Everyone boarded a specially fitted
Shuttle and they left the station with it's normal crew
of 12. They would land in Central Europe and head straight
for headquarters where Quinn is waiting with all the data
from Nikita's briefing.
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Part 4. Sandy
SECTION ONE - CENTRAL EUROPE
After landing Nikita headed straight for her jet propelled
Jaguar. On the way to headquarters she mentally reviewed
some of the transmissions which Quinn had given her prior
to landing. Quinn had mentioned a small village which she
passed through on her way to Headquarters. She had mentioned
the strange happenings going on in the area and Nikita
wanted to see for herself some of the oddities for herself.
See could see lights from the village as she rounded the
roadway that led into the place. It seemed that the town
was very much alive as if it were in the middle of the day
instead of 1:00 AM in the morning. As she passed the
school yard, she could see children out playing as if they
were at recess, moving further along all the stores were
brightly lighted, auto's were parked, and people were in
the streets as well as in the stores,
A cold chill ran down Nikita's back. This didn't look
normal. As she continued down the road the beams of
her lights showed a person before her car. Nikita
swiftly brought her vehicle to an instant stop. She
looked again, "there's no one there", "I must be
dreaming or so very tired I wish I were".
In an instant, there was a huge crash to the top of her
car. Nikita didn't want to open the door but knew that
she must. Cautiously, with her weapon in hand she turned
to open the door.
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Part 5. John
NIKITA FACES DANGER
Nikita crouched besides the car with the door open to
hide herself. She could see a black figure standing
besides the front of the car, obviously that was the
thing that had jumped on the car's roof. She tried to
aim her gun and she pulled back the trigger hitting it
in the leg. Immediately the unknown figure bounded away
howling in pain, and leaping away with impossibly high
bounces..
She then got up and stood upright only to find herself
surrounded by what looked like a circle of schoolgirls.
She grabbed a torch that was on the passenger seat of the
car and closed the door. She used the torch to survey the
circle of figures. In the light of the torch she could see
that they were indeed schoolgirls. They all looked about
17 years old and were all very athletic looking.
These rather unusual enemies all wore long sleeved white
shirts under what looked like blue tunic type dresses
which were all mid thigh length and pulled in at the
waist to show their figures. By doing this they all had
a nice cuddly harmless kind of appearance.
Nikita edged forwards from the car gun pointed forwards
and as she moved the circle seemed to move too keeping
her in the middle of it. they even climbed the car so
as not to break the circle..
"I have to go from here and look around" Nikita barked
in a stern voice. The girls did nothing except giggle
softly.
She moved forwards aiming for one particular girl and
as she tried to punch her way through a long leg reached
up and kicked the gun out of her hand. The same girl then
faced Nikita and both ladies were standing face to face
with only a couple of inches separating them... Nikita
hit the girl in the jaw and the girl swung up hitting her
in the stomach almost winding her. Nikita tried to stand
up and hit back again but this time all the "women" came
and surrounded her. Suddenly the world went black and
there was no full moon to light the area.......
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Part 6. Angelique
"Get away from the woman!" A low soft, dangerous
voice echoed around the car and Nikita. Nikita came
to with a start and watched as these "school girls"
that were able to temporarily overcome her seem to
tremble with fear.
The same red haired girl that had knocked her out whimpered
in fear,
"Master, you said we could have anyone we wanted! Why is
she so special?"
"Because she is and she is mine." Came the simple yet
deadly reply from the shadows. Out from the shadows came
the man, his dark brown hair curling just below his ears
and his unusually pale skin seemed to glow as the moon
came back from behind the clouds.
Nikita sat up and scooted herself so that the car
door was at her back. The vision of the man
walking towards her couldn't be....
The man growled low in his throat at the girls and
said,
"Leave us..." Then to the girl who struck Nikita,
"I'll deal with you later."
The school girls seem to blend into the night itself,
as if they were no more substantial than a shadow.
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Part 7. John
Nikita woke up and found herself on a large comfortable
bed. There was another bed in the same room and on it
was a woman lying down in what looked like a beautiful
long dress, very dark blue in colour. Her hair was a
dark red kind of colour and she looked ever so peaceful
on the bed.
Nikita tried to sit up and rest on the headboard of
the bed. She felt a little sore and when she looked
at her hand she noticed that she too had a dark blue
dress on.
"Someone's undressed and dressed me." she thought to
herself as she lay on the comfortable bed. The very
notion of this horrified her. She then remembered the
main from the forest who had "saved" her from the killer
"schoolgirls" which was also an image she could not shake
from her mind.
She tried to put a name to the face and then it came.
He was Gray Wellman whom she had met on a previous
mission while trying to recover the Section directory
which contained the names and locations of all the
agents that Section uses, as well as command personnel.
She wondered though why he was now clearly working as a
hostile, and with people who were working under him,
namely those cute but deadly "schoolgirls."
Clearly Nikita had to do something about this, but what
to do is the main problem. She had to find out exactly
what was going on and at the same time she had to save
any innocents, protect any vital information that needed
to be protected and also eliminate any possible threats
to the outside world.
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Part 8. Sandy
Nikita knew that all this was vital for the completion of
the project but right now her main concern was how to get
out of the place she is in. Quietly she arose from the bed
and made her way to the huge door just opposite her bed.
Her hand grasp the handle and the door opened easily.
Nikita peered from the doorway into the massive hall, the
quiet of the area was deafening. Surely there's someone
nearby. As Nikita made her way down the hall she put her
ear to the numerous doors that were shut in the hallway.
She decided to look inside.
The door she picked was the only one that had a large
scrolling emblem carved on it. She opened it so very
carefully, and went inside. Seeing a huge bed with a
curtain around it she crept closer. Looking at the figure
lying there asleep she could see that it was Wellman. As
she surveyed the figure closer she could tell that no breath
came from his lips. HE'S DEAD, Nikita thought in her mind.
This man is NOT alive, although in all appearances it seemed he
was only sleeping, awaiting for time to get up and return to
the evil that he did.
Suddenly it occurred to Nikita, this man is NOT human, he's
a vampire. Nikita knew in her own mind what must be down.
The whole place must be burned to the ground. She must
make sure there are no innocents here, just vampires.
Slipping from the room she started her quest, to check
each and every room before the final destruction was done.
Continuing along the long hallway she entered each and every
room, checking, looking, seeing. At the last door, Nikita
was just turning to leave the room when all at once she felt
eyes staring at her, she jerked herself around and there stood
Wellman with such an evil look on his face. "Nikita" look into
my eyes, I need you.
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Part 9. Angelique
Nikita knew better than to look him into his eyes,
she could feel the power radiating off his body,
willing her to look into his once handsome face.
"No." Nikita said softly, "You don't need me... you
never did."
Wellman's gray blue eyes lost their feral glow for a
moment, as something that was lost so long ago rose
to the surface.
"Your wrong, Nikita. After you left me. I lost everything,
one thing after another was taken from me.... my job, my
home... my daughter." At the last part, his voice trembled
for a moment.
Nikita chanced a glance up, but focused her gaze on his
neck and no higher.
"What happened?" She questioned.
Wellman's eyes grew hard as he spoke,
"Section happened... EVERYTHING that happened to me
is because of YOU!" His voice thundered loudly in
the room.
Wellman started to pace, running his hand through his hair.
"I wanted revenge so bad I could taste it... but what could
I do against Section? Nothing!"
Wellman stopped pacing as a cruel look slid over his face,
"Well, nothing until one night I came across a creature from
nightmares, I begged to be changed and she felt the need for
vengeance in my blood and did as I asked."
Nikita's blue eyes widened, "You let a vampire feed off of you...
change you on purpose?"
Wellman's face morphed into the visage of a vampire, "Yes... I
wanted to destroy what you helped create, but most of all I
wanted you."
"You want to kill me." Nikita stated simply.
"No... I want what I lost..."
Nikita looked up puzzled, as Wellman continued,
"You shall rule the night with me... be the mother
to my minions and mate by my side for all eternity!"
The scent of smoke started to drift through the house and
now even Nikita and Wellman could smell it in the far side
of the house.
"What have you done?!" Wellman roared and faced Nikita
with a murderous rage, his human appearance melting away
to reveal the monster that lay just beneath the surface
of his skin.
"I did what had to be done..." Nikita said as she moved
her body into a ready stance, prepared to counter any move
Wellman made.
"Creatures... abominations such as yourself and those girls
don't deserve to live, they are a plague on the face of the
earth. Section is going to clean house... starting with yours!"
Nikita stated and readied herself for a fight to the death.
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Part 10. Sandy
Turning to face her aggressor Nikita knew that if she didn't
have the will power or the strength to kill Wellman or what
seemed to be Wellman she would not die but face a horrible
undead for eternity. She could hearing the unearthly screaming
floating as if the entire house was alive with tortured souls.
Before her eyes the body of Wellman seemed to disappear as if
by magic. Appearing before her was a huge bat suspended in
midair with it's red eyes glaring straight into her on. The gaze
was so very soothing that all Nikita wanted to do was obey
whatever the creature had in mind for her.
All at once, behind her, out of the darkness came a voice.
"NIKITA" wake up. It was MICHAEL, the trance in which she was
in snapped as if she had just awoke from a nightmare. Michael,
I need help. The words had not escaped barely from her lips than
he was in front of her a huge stake in his hand.
Suddenly Michael leapt toward the creature but as quickly as he
came about the creature also swooped up and away from the pair.
The fire and smoke were so intense in the old house that Michael
and Nikita HAD to find a way to get out. Michael grasped Nikita's
hand in his and kicked down a door at the far end of the hallway.
"Quickly, in here, the window is the only way we can escape now". "
But Michael, we are on the third floor, how can we jump without
killing ourselves in the attempt?" " This is the way i was able
to find access to the place. I left my rope on the outside of
the house."
If we don't leave now, we never will Nikita. As they hurried
toward the window, in front of them stood Wellman, his arms
crossed an evil smile upon his face.
"I told you that your mine, that you'd never leave me". At
that moment, Michael plunged the stake into Wellman missing
his heart by inches. It was enough time for Michael and Nikita
to get from the window and start sliding toward the ground.
Wellman screamed from the window,
"You'll never make it, I'm coming after you." Looking up
Nikita and Michael watched as Wellman turned again into a
creature of the night, swooping out the very window they were
making their escape from.
Michael yelled just as Nikita reached the ground.
"Nikita Look" the sun is rising, as the creature seemed to
hover above the two it seemed to be trying to decide what
it should do. Go back into the flaming house or await it's
fate from the sunlight.
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Part 11. John
TILL DEATH WE DO PART
As they stood there watching the creature just sat there
in the air gliding in lazy circles, somehow appearing but
undecided as to what to do and also hypnotized by the little
glimmers of sunlight as the Sun peeked over the horizon.
As it was from so high up the Sun looked like a tiny pinpoint
of light as it sat there peeking out onto the world.
The creature hovered, the humans below just stood there too
and while this was happening a familiar figure emerged from
the burning house. It was Rose, the girl that was in the
room Nikita was brought into when she first awoke. She seemed
to be totally unhurt by the fire, and maybe this was due to
the magical powers of the lead vampire and while it would seem
all the other vampires had perished she was 'alive' so to speak
still......
Rose kept walking towards Michael and Nikita and moving slowly
all the while their gaze split between looking at Rose and the
still hovering lead vampire that was Gray Wellman. As she walked
she looked at Nikita in the face and spoke, her voice soft and
almost as if she were in pain.
"Help me!" was the sad cry from Rose. Clearly there was some
kind of internal struggle going on inside her and her human
half was not all gone yet still. She was fighting the vampire
half of her new self and it was visible with the cries for help
and the pained look on her face.
Nikita had an idea as she stood and she put her mind into gear
and ran off towards the burning house. Some wood was falling
from the walls and she had an idea to use that. She found a long
square piece of wood that had fallen off the house. On one end it
was burnt and the rest of it was more or less intact. Now they
only had a minute or so to act as now the creature had decided
it would land and was moving fast into the forest of trees and
bushes outside the house...
Nikita took the long wood beam and ran towards Michael. The
Sun was up now and it was daylight but even so Rose was still
there too. She looked at them and they looked at her.
"Michael he's run off into the woods" Nikita said and she
urged him that they must give chase. Rose seemed to lighten
up and come to life a bit more
"I can help you." she said to them and she explained that with
her help they could pursue and track Gray Wellman.
With that agreed on the trio ran into the woods and they seemed
to be heading into a hilly wooded area. Even though it was now
daylight and the Sun was risen the trees made it a very dark
area and provided their own kind of darkness, enough for a
vampire to run and hide in...
With the help of Rose they seemed to be closing in on him
because they found tracks and they seemed to be heading
towards a dark rocky place in the woods where a few
caves existed.
"Michael I think we have him." Nikita said in a even voice
which was loud enough for Michael but nowhere near
enough to cause suspicion, especially if their target was
nearby... Nikita just realised also that if they did kill
Gray Rose would be freed from the power of the
vampire and she would be human again. This made her
even more determined to succeed....
They kept running for a bit more and finally they were
at the caves. They seemed to end in a clearing and
it seemed the perfect hiding spot for a vampire in the
daylight...
Nikita told Michael to stay here outside with Rose
"This is my fight Michael he owes me." And with
that she vanished into the cave with the wood beam
under her arm. Nikita turned on a small light she
had strapped to her hip which Michael had given
to her. She shook it to get it to light up and once
it was lit she put it back on her leg so her hands
could be free...
She had found Gray, and he seemed to be totally
aware she was there but doing nothing.
"Go ahead get this over with Bitch!" he said to her
with both venom and loss in his voice. He was
still filled with anger but at the same time he felt
loss in that he didn't want to go on and was ready
to give up...
With that Nikita plunged the beam into his chest and he
stopped moving and she could see his chest had stopped
moving meaning he was no longer breathing.....
"Thank you!" was the only sound that she heard as he
spoke his last breaths.... With that she turned and moved
out of the cave back to the entrance where Michael and
Rose were.
When she emerged she found Michael kneeling besides
Rose.
"She collapsed." he said to her and then they both were
around her. Nikita was feeling for a pulse in her wrist
and she could just make out one.
"Good she's alive." and with that she gently lifted her
up and sat her up. Rose's eyes slowly opened and
she seemed to be stirring to life, human life...
"Where am I? Who are you?"
Nikita and Michael helped Rose back into town and
they then departed heading back for Section and what
would be a very odd debriefing.
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BACK AT SECTION ONE
The debriefing went off quite well despite the fact that
Nikita thought their very odd little tale would not go
down well with the likes of Oversight and Quinn, whom
would be the one to forward it to them. But surprisingly
it was accepted namely due to some hard evidence in the
form of the remains of some of the "girls" that were found
in the house by a clean up team...
Nikita was in Munitions talking to Walter and Quinn walked
up to her and took her away for something.
"I have a new operative for you to train. We recruited him
outside of Southern Bosnia. He seemed to like our offer of
life with us over death." and with a click of her fingers
the new recruit walked inside the main area of Section.
Everyone turned to see who it was and both Michael and Nikita
were as white as ghosts.
"Gray." Nikita said before fainting into unconsciousness.....
THE END ?