Upir drove down the road in a car she had hypnotized a man into giving her. Lehi drove while she gave the directions to their destination.
She wanted to establish her rule immediately, she was afraid that the beings from the abyssal realm might find a way to stop her so she decided to act quickly.
Upir was not very interested in ruling over mere humans, it now seemed baseless to waste her power on them. She had more important things to attend to first, one of them was revenge and the other was getting back what she had lost.
“Are you still going to make yourself known to humans?” Lehi asked her.
“Humans can come later Ah’Lehi,” she replied, “they are mere flies compared to what we shall be.”
“And what shall we be?” He asked her.
“We shall be gods.” Upir replied.
Lehi was confused. Upir had always said that she wanted to reign over werewolves, vampires and even humans. So what did she mean by showing that she was not really interested in ruling humans. Lehi was beginning to regret awaking Upir. He had no idea what she really wanted. Was it world domination or something different, something more sinister?
Upir told Lehi to stop the car in front of a large house. It was owned by Tira, an old and very powerful witch. Upir knew that Tira had descended from the witch who had cast her to the abyss two thousand years ago. She would make her pay for what her ancestor did.
Upir had been monitoring Tira for a while. She had first tried to trace her magic, and then when she got the power from the abyssal realm, she had pinned down her exact location.
Upir walked out of the car calmly, her heart boiling with rage.
Lehi followed behind, curious.
“I wish you would explain what it is you want to do.” He said.
“The witch that sent me into the abyss and wrecked my life,” Upir said, walking to the front door, “her wretched descendant lives in this hole.”
Lehi looked at the house, it was big and beautiful. The picket fence they had passed enclosed a wide array of colourful flowers that made the front yard look like an exotic garden. The house itself looked somewhat old but solid. It had the feeling of a secure home.
It was definitely not a hole as Upir had called it.
Upir would have resulted to banging on the door if Lehi had not showed her how to use a door bell.
A little while after Upir had rung the bell, a young girl of about thirteen, with brown hair and a lot of freckles came to answer the door.
“Hello.” Upir greeted warmly, taking care to secure her sunglasses properly so that they would not reveal her strange eyes.
“Hi,” the child greeted cautiously.
“I’m looking for Tira – Tira Remmin. I’m an old friend of hers.” Upir said again.
“Oh,” said the child, “Tira’s my granny. I’ll call her.”
The child looked into the house and yelled.
“Granny, a friend is here to see you!”
“Who is it?” Upir heard Tira say.
“Who should I say you are?” The child asked again.
“Tell her it’s a surprise.” Upir replied.
“She says it’s a surprise!” The child called back.
Tira gasped, she knew that Upir had come back. She had felt it and she had heard about what she did to the witches of Lockwood coven. What she did not know was that Upir would find her or even know that she was a descendant of the witch who had banished her to the abyss.
Now she was sure that it was Upir who was standing outside, she had felt her strange power.
“Tell her not to come in – quick!” Tira yelled, counting on the fact that a vampire could not come into a house uninvited.
The young girl was alarmed.
“You can’t come in.” She said and slammed the door.
“Great, we’re locked out.” Lehi said, “is this your big plan?”
“Do you really think I came all the way here to have a door slammed in my face?” Upir asked with a smile on her face.
“Well you can’t go in.” Lehi said.
Upir smiled again. She streched her hand towards the door. It shattered, showing Tira, a woman with grey hair and hard eyes leading her children upstairs and away from the sitting room.
“You can’t come in!” Tira shouted. She was at the foot of the stairs.
“Says who?” Upir smiled.
Lehi saw her raise her foot slowly, dramatically stepping into the house.
Tira seemed to hold her breath as Upir did her slow motion step.
Sure enough, Upir stepped into the house.
Then it dawned on Lehi, the abyssal power they now possessed had raised them above the laws of normal vampires. They were not just magic weilding vampires anymore, they were abyssal vampires.
Lehi followed Upir’s example and stepped into the house.
“As hi j’enni!” Tira shouted and streched her hands towards Upir.
Upir raised her hands and intercepted the spell that would have otherwise blown her out of the house.
“A pitiful welcome Tira,” Upir mocked, “your ancestors would be disappointed.”
“Get upstairs now!” Tira said to the child who had opened the door and two other kids who stood on the stairs, terrified.
As the children made to go upstairs, Upir held them back with her magic and flung them down the stairs.
They tumbled down noisily.
“They go nowhere!” Upir said with a note of finality.
The children tried to move but Lehi made sure that they could not move. So the children resorted to crying.
Upir took off her sunglasses and smiled at Tira again.
“What do you want Upir?” Tira asked, trying to conceal her fear.
“Now that is what you should have started with.” Upir mocked.
Tira said a mental spell and sent a knife sailing through the air and towards Upir’s heart.
Lehi stopped it halfway through. Upir retailiated by raising Tira up in the air with an unseen hand and strangling her.
The children screamed and cried louder than before.
“Stop this child’s play of yours or be killed by me in the worst ways possible.” Upir seethed.
Tira choked under Upir’s unseen grip. She nodded, showing that she had submitted.
Upir let her fall with a thud. The old woman gasped for breath, trying to hold on to her life.
“Now where were we?” Upir asked, “ah yes, you asked what I wanted.”
Tira was at the bottom of the stairs, crumpled on the floor.
Upir made her stand up even though she was shaking.
“I want revenge.” Upir said, raising Tira up and hitting her against the floor with a thud.
“Upir… please,” Tira begged, gasping for breath, “it has been two thousand years. The…those who hurt you are long dead. I… I… took no part in it.”
“Well you took no part in it, but you see I was away for so long that I couldn’t meet the unfortunate generation that betrayed me. But someone has to pay right?” Upir said.
“Please…” Tira entreated.
Upir lifted her up again.
“But you are also partly to blame aren’t you?” Upir asked, “you’ve kept up your family’s deception.”
“There was nothing else for… for… me to do.” Tira said, “how could I begin to change what has been for two thousand years?”
“You could have burnt the books!” Upir shouted, her voice breaking with emotion, memories rushing through her.
“How… could I have gotten all … all.. of them?!” Tira said appealing to Upir’s reasoning.
“It doesn’t matter!” Upir shouted, pure rage consuming her, “your family started this , your family will end this!”
Lehi was thoroughly confused by the discussion going on between Upir and Tira, but he guessed that he would find out later. He turned his back to the stairs.
Suddenly, he felt a force directed towards him, he turned just in time to stop the wind spell and throw it back to the person who had cast it.
In the moment Lehi threw the spell back, he saw the person who had cast it, so he rushed to the top of the stairs with the speed of a vampire and moved the person out of the wind spell’s path.
The wood on the stairs shattered and everyone near the staircase felt the impact of the wind that crashed into the top of the stairs and shattered the door of the room closest to the top of the stairs. The wind went further into the room whose door had shattered and destroyed the windows and anything else in it’s path.
Lehi and the person who cast the spell fell off the staircase and landed hard on the ground.
Lehi lay on the ground beside her, looking into her face keenly…