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A piercing cry filled the air. As I flew home from my hunt, and heard this evil sound, i dropped my catch(a deer)and immediatly and flew to the village. 'Not again...' I thought, for the vampires were attacking the local werewolves again. I realize there must be dozens of them this time, for the air was heavy with the scent of wolves blood.
I decide that there is nothing to do but leave before I get killed as well, and return home. My name is Amaya Horatu, I am a Dark Angel, no, I am not dark, just Fallen. My entire family was killed at the age of 60. I found them, sucked dry by the Evil Ones, and I took my mother's Silver Locket from around her neck. This is what gives me my mind powers.
I even managed to fashion a bow from my brother's work, he was a blacksmith. I donned the endless quiver he had been working on for nearly his entire life (an short 300 years, for he was young.) Ever since, I have discovered many powers that go unknown in most of us. I found, at age 70, that I have telekinesis. Paired with my arrows, they will never miss. Several years ago, at age 90, I learned that i have energy. Not normal energy, like what we get from sleep, but energy beams. When angered too severly, i can shield myself with it, and kill all in the vicinity of myself.
As I stand on my house(I live inside a hill, a sod house, whatever you may call it) a soft breeze whisks my hair across my face. But, I hear no leaves rustle from it, so i duck immediatly, and sure enough, a vampiress goes flying over my head. Of course, she wasn't expecting it, and crashes into a tree. I shaft my bow, and ask,pointing the arrow at her, "Of where do you come, harpie?"(I called her that, because our races are in a dispute over the land, and thus, I despise Vampires.) No response. She must have been knocked out by the tree.
I shoot her with the arrow, so she can't tell the others where i live. I turn to take a hunt, I am famished since i lost my catch. My cloak ends up catching on a bush. I always wear this cloak, stolen from the Vampire fortress, which is why I am so hated by their race. It was their leaders dying wish to have that cloak passed to the next leader.
Of course, as soon as he wished it, an arrow from nowhere stole his life, which caused enough distraction for me to steal the lunar cloak. Most others only see the arrow coming at them, and my two red eyes like embers burning, glare at them before they die. My kimono and shoes were my sister's. She was 400.(In you humans, that would be considered around 16.) She had many clothes, i took 2 kimonos and these shoes. I've never returned to my home, across the Vampire lands. That's probably why, they never let anything living fly over there homeland.
I live in the forest, so i can walk anywhere and no dead Vampires can see me. Once I got untangled from the bush, I sense there is an ambush ahead, so I stop, and shaft my bow again. There is a rabbit ahead on the path, and they must think I'm going to shoot it. Then i suddenly turn and fire at a bush, hear a screech, and re-shaft. By now the others have jumped out, and are attempting to blast me with ice, fire, and dark energy. I swoop the cloak around myself, deflecting all attacks back at them, wounding them greatly. I decide to let these three go, so they can tell others that i was in the woods. They fly off hurriedly.
*CRASH*

'Master? Are you alright?' A voice called. I sigh with relief, its just one of the scouts from the army. I glance around, and notice the ground is burnt where the blasts hit.
"Yes, I'm fine, but what was that crash?" I ask as i walk toward him.
'Well, Griff ran into a tree.' the scout, named Kit replied.
"Again? I hope it didn't fall on my house!"
Griff is a giant that we tamed a few years ago, but he is blind, so going in the forest doesn't help him at all. He was a cave dweller, so he didn't need his eyes. When we get to the clearing, there's Griff, lying on the ground, opposite a few broken trees. I give him a small energy zap, and he gets up. 'Griff, wait over 2 steps to your right.' He obeys, and nearly steps on a small group of cat-demons.
As we walk a little ways into the sun, I stop. 'What?' "Those harpies, they were out in direct sunlight." 'Really? Very interesting...' At last. Over this last hill is the main village and forgery of weapons for Dark Angels. As we get closer to the top, I realize I haven't been here since I was a small child. I fly the rest of the way up, I'm too excited. No. The village had been burned down, but the forgery, resting in direct sun, wasn't touched.
'Grandma!' I yelled out, she came to give me a hug. "I'm sorry, child, but I must go stay in the Main Village for a while. Come visit when you can." That was 8 years ago. We visited her once. Only once. I half run,half fly to where her house was. Scorched to the ground. "Now, it's war. Prepare the troops, Kit; and send Griff home."

I watched him fly off to get the blind cave giant, as i drew plans for battle.
Finally I stand from my drawing in the dirt, erase it with some wind from my wings, and fly to the citadel. I figured that Kit had already rallied the troops together, but as always, nobody would listen to him. "QUIET YOU INGRATES!" I yelled. All speech silenced immediatly. "As you all know, the Harp-..Vampires are attempting to take over our land. They have destroyed the Village! Burned to the bases! How shall we respond to this invitation?"
No response. "Nobody has any ideas? Well; here's what we'll do..." I showed them the plans(I will detail them for you later)and there was (yet another) crash!

Just when things couldn't get weirder, they did. A walking pumpkin being crashed through the door, along with several blades. Of course, he was expecting to come in on a room full of normal people, not trained warriors. All of them had bows shafted, and pointed at him. "Wait! I wish no harm come to you! It is night, and the Vampires are out! They almost got me! Can i stay here until morning?" 'Sure. Stand down.' Bows lower.
'Who are you?' I asked. "I am the last of the Demonic Pumpkins, once the king. Our village was wiped out but me by the Vampires. I wish to join your army at once."
'Well...can you fly?' "No, but i can float by air currents underneath me. I control wind and air." He replied. 'Alright, but what is your name?' "Call me Jack. I actually used to be one of you, Dark Angels, but an enchantress turned me and my Village into...this. Then the Vampires came and destroyed them all. I was out hunting, and they didn't get me.
"I just wish I could find that enchantress and get her to turn me back."
'What was her name?' I nearly yelled, for my grandmother was an enchantress.
"I believe it was...Amaya Felecia?" 'WHAT?!? MY OWN GRANDMOTHER TURNED THE VILLAGE INTO PUMPKIN DEMONS? She can't turn you back, she died because of the Vampire raid.' I told Jack. "I'm gonna be stuck like this forever?"he cried. 'Not unless we can find her spellbook and the spell she used. Wait..she gave me something when I was young. Wait here! Scouts, follow me!'

As we flew back to the abandoned village, I saw something burning on the ground. I swooped down, and took a look at it. It was a Whip of Fire! That could come in handy! I took it by the handle, which conformed to fit my hand comfortably, but for a moment, before it changed, it felt icy, like a vampire had it last. At last, I had something worth more than that heavy cloak. I returned the cloak, for I realized it would confuse the Vampires out of their undead minds. Plus this is lighter, and does more damage. Could this have burned the village down? I regain altitude and rejoin the group of scouts and warriors. 'What's that?' Kit asked cautiously after a few minutes. "What does it look like? It's a Whip of Fire! Some lazy harpie must have dropped it."
After around 20 minutes of flying, judging by the sun, we reached the burnt village. I found my grandmother's house, and moved ashes aside. "There used to be a basement where my grandmother kept all her magical stuff, in case this sort of thing happened." I found the trapdoor, opened it with telekinesis, and 3 soldiers fell in. They flew back out of course, they aren't THAT stupid. I walked cautiously in first, and the first stair collapsed, sending me falling to the floor, only the floor wasn't there!
I kept falling, as if in a chute. "Wait! This is a cellar, much deeper than a basement," I thought. "I should hit the ground about"-'OOF!' Many bottles on the floor clinked as I reverberated the floor. I used the Whip to illuminate the room. Many glass jars, full of unknown and very dusty substances lined 2 walls, another was full of an experiment of some kind. The last wall was half staircase, half books. There was also a lantern above my head, so I whipped it with the tip, it lit, and lit the others in the cavernous hole. The others knew I got down safely, and flew down following the lanterns.
All were murmuring softly in awe. I looked throughout the bookshelf, without finding anything. 'Nothing. Maybe Felecia hid it?' Kit suggested. "Of course! How could I be so naive? If the Vampires discovered her spells, they would destroy us all!" I used my telekinesis to locate the book, but couldn't find it. "She must have hidden it somewhere else, I can't find it!"