It was a dark winter night. There was a sharp biting wind that blew the white snow into a man's face. The man had a black coat that hid the bottom half of his face and the upper half of his face was covered with black sunglasses. His white hair was short and slightly spiked and seemed to have icicles in it. He was standing on an ice covered bridge, looking down at the huge frozen river. Another man, this one taller adn thinner than the other, walked up beside him.

"how have you been?" the man asked The other man looked over at him and shrugged but didn't say anything. The other man sighed. He was wearing slightly baggy jeans adn a sleeveless shirt. His pitch black hair cascaded down to the top of his butt and his pale skin was slightly darker than the snow itself. His eyes were hidden behind a pair of shades as well.

"Why are you here, Andrew?" came a deep gravelly voice from the first man.

"They are coming. You did a truly stupid thing by beraying them, you ass. Leaving me there to take the brunt of your punishment." Andrew growled, his inch long sharp fangs showing.

"I did what I had to do. You know I could never have done that. I may have been, am still, the best they ever trained, but I refuse to kill a child who had done nothing wrong," he growleed back.

Andrew sighed. "I know, but dammit, J, you could have acted like you killed them and then put the child in safe keeping." Andrew said. He took his shades off and revealed deep crimson colored eyes. J looked over and sighed.

"No, they wanted to see all of their heads, and they knew what they lookied like. Thank you for the warning," J said and walked away.

Andrew sighed. Little did J know, they had already found him. He looked back at the five men who had been hiding in the shadows, dressed all in black, they had even died their skin black.

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J sighed; they were so stupid! They thought he hadn't sensed them. He could have smelled their stench from a mile away. He fingered his pointed ears and sighed. he looked down at his naturally coal black skin and looked over at the icy landscape. He glanced back, not showing it' he was still being followed and it was irritating him. If they continued to follow him they would not be allowed to go back from where they had come. He walked a few more miles and then stopped and turned to look at the men following him.

"I know you are there," he growled. They slowly walked back out, their hands on their hips where their guns were.

"You are to die now," the tallest man said and drew his gun quickly and fired J sighed and turned aside and the laser passed by him by bare inches. The tallest man's eyes widened when he saw that he hadn't been hit.

"You have no cance of defeating me. I hope you realize that," J said. All 5 men scowled at him.

"You have no weapons. You have no hope of it," the shortest one said.

"I have more weapons than you think." The shortest man quickly re-assessed him. Still, not seeing any weapons, he shrugged, drew his gun, and fired.

"Dleihs," J said, and the shots were stopped cold in their tracks. The short man stared at him with wide eyes.

"How did you do that?" he asked with a quivering voice. J shrugged.

"Not sure," he said with a smirk.

"I don't believe you," he said

"Mason! That must be why he was the best!" That was the tallest assassin. The short one, Mason, looked back at him and then at J.

"Erif llik," J said, and fires went up and surrounded them, starting to burn them alive as they screamed.

"The thing that made me the most powerful assassin was my magic," he said as he watched their skin shrivel and turn black and charred, smelled their flesh, the stench of burning humans. He spat, turned and walked away, vanishing into the shadows.

"Stupid idiots." he said to himself outloud, causing a dog to bark at him. He glared at the dog, but kept walking.

After about two hours of walking he looked up and standing before him was a huge line of trees, leading into the Damor Forest. He smiled slightly, home. This was where he belonged, where he lived.

A deer walked out; it was a large, old buck. He got on its back and they bounded off into the forest.

Are you okay? The old voice came into his mind. It was the deer, or rather, the shaman. He nodded.

"Yeah, Divoran. There are far worse off than I am." he replied with a mental smirk. The buck shook his head and laughed. He stopped in front of a large tree. J got off and thanked Divoran. He nodded his head slowly and bounded off again. J glanced up at the tree and started to clib up it. To a bystander he would have just seemed to vanish as he reached the canopy, which seemed sparse and almost non-exsistent.

"What took so long," asked Andrew, sitting in a chair that seemed to be just a slight indentation in the tree trunk. J gave him a glare.

"These guys were weaker than the last." he said with a scowl. "I decided to play with them a little."

"I see," Andrew replied, then stood and took his shirt off. J watched him with a weary eye as he sat back down and crossed his legs.

"More are going to come. If they find out I am helping you I'll be killed. You owe me at least something." Andrew growled.

J narrowed his eyes. "What are you implying?" he asked. He knew of his friend's sexual leanings, and he wasn't about to help him in that aspect.

"I haven't fed in almost 3 weeks. If I go any longer without blood I'll go rogue." Andrew said. J relaxed slightly. That he could do; he'd done it before. He took his coat off and tilted his head to the side, inviting andrew to feed on him. Andrew stood and walked over to him, knelt on his lap, then sank his fangs into J's neck. J let out a gasp and clutched at the sid of the chair he had sat down in.

Andrew drank hungrily at the blood that poured from J's neck. His was far better than any othere blood Anrew had tasted. When he felt J start to weaken he stopped. He pulled his face away and wiped th blood off of his mouth and looked down at a sweakly smiling J.

"Is my payment paid?" J asked, with a slight humor. Andrew shook his head and nodded.

"Yes, thank you." Andrew said with a chuckle. He started to walk to the "door." he waved goodbye and jumped down from the tree.
Kage Yotogi "ELECTRIFIED" - 13 years, 11 months, 28 days ago