“I bet that makes you real happy, but there’s a downside to everything,” Tina said.

“Let me guess Jodi is more ruthless than my ex-boss,” I said.

“She’s preparing an army of evil vampires, demons, witches, and werewolves,” Tina said, “our clans are gathering good vampires, demons, witches, and demons as well, but it will not be enough. We are just outnumbered.”

“So you want the indestructible vampire to help your army,” I said nodding in understanding.

“More than that, we want the indestructible vampire to lead our army and kill Jodi,” Tina said.

“Whoa,” I said, “I will kill Jodi no problem, I may not kill innocents anymore, but I have absolutely no problem killing the evil ones. But the leader thing, I don’t think I can do it.”

“I figured you would say that,” Tina said with a smirk, “we also know that you know the legendary vampire. The very first vampire to ever walk the Earth at the start of civilization.”

“Aaaaaand there’s the catch.”

“Catch?” Tina defended, “how is that the catch?”

“Look, Tasha was the very first vampire to arise, she’s the mother of all vampires and is the strongest and most powerful vampire,” I said. “She is as indestructible as me but because she’s so strong not because she was cursed. You are asking me to basically go to the queen of my species and ask her to join us lowlies to fight against others of her species! Do you really think she would do that? Especially when it involves helping out other species that she doesn’t particularly care about?”

Tina nodded, “I get that, I really do, but Tasha is your friend. You were dying of the Black Plague and she converted you to save your life. She trained you and took care of you.”

“I’m not the only one!”

“But you’re her favorite one.”

“Tina, what you’re asking me is impossible,” I said.

“Fine, then you lead us!”

“I can’t!”

“Why the hell not?”

“Because I can’t be trusted!”

Tina looked stunned. “What?”

“Tina,” I said more calmly, “when I first noticed you and I took a whiff of your scent, my fang actually popped out and I had to literally force myself to stop from killing you. Do you understand that? I have to much evil in me to control.”

“You know I actually believe you can do this,” Tina said.

“You don’t even know me.”

“I do know you,” Tina said. “My clan taught me about you and I’ve spent the last five years learning everything about you so that I could be able to say all these things to you today.”

I blinked in surprise. Wow, not even in my human life had anyone even given me a second glance. I mean I was the daughter a slave and her master at the cause of rape and I was treated like some piece of dirt. That’s why I massacred that Confederate base. And even the three hundred years that passed after all that, not one person cared enough to actually figure out who I was, much less believe in me.

Her hand in front of me snapped me out of my thoughts and I looked up at her smiling face. “If you grab onto my hand we’ll teleport to the base,” Tina said, “will you help us?”

I looked at her hand then up into her eyes. They were twinkling with admiration. They should be filled with fear, I just told her I had a hard time not killing her and she admires me? I reached forward and touched her hand tentatively then pulled back when I felt that electric shock. I thought it could have been that weird magic she has, but I knew it was different when I saw her shocked expression.

She was so beautiful and so real. I’ve stopped killing innocents for 175 years but I still don’t feel less evil. This is my chance. I can take this girl’s hand and lead this army to victory. I can stop this Jodi character and her army, and save humanity from sure extinction, because standing by and doing nothing when I can is just as evil as doing the deed myself.

My face set in determination and I grabbed her hand firmly saying, “let’s go.”

TBC??