Unfortunate coincidence

(This is John Sinclair Fan-Art. From ------------ to ------------ it's almost original text from Jason Dark's "Geisterjäger John Sinclair: Assungas Hexensturm" save for the thing that I translated it from german to english...)

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Elaine stuck the knife across between her teeth and ducked deeper before she crawled up to the edge of the flat roof.
From this side,she had a perfect view over the garage yard,which belonged to the area of the supermarket. She remained lying on the stomach and listened.
Yes,she was not mistaken,there were the harsh noises of steps to hear that previously hit her ears and had forced her to this action. And now she saw the person,whose step echoes so sounded that loudly. She reached a lantern and for a moment she was into it's glow so she was good to see...
It was a woman. She was wearing a coat,that she hadn't closed. At each step,the laps were swinging back and forth. Determined the woman was going to a car,was that parked across in front of a garage and was the only car in the yard. Elaine smiled. It went nearly perfectly.
The car was near the garage,on which she ducked down out sight. She had not even far jump to reach it. Seconds would still pass then she would launch her attack. She again checked the tightness of her knife between her teeth, because she doesn't wanted to lose it during the jump. The woman suspected nothing. She was simply just in a hurry. Why she had parked her car here didn't interested Elaine at all. She took it as coincidence of destiny to which probably meant it good wiht her that day. Albeit "The day" was over. The darkness was laying over the city.
Dark grey to black clouds hung in the sky and covered the stars and the moon.
In this place,only someone had to look for something who wanted to get his car out of the garage or drive it away. That had not happened twice in the last minutes. The woman reached her car.
Now,only seconds would pass until Elaine could finally vanish from the garage's roof. Wouldn't had been a knife put between her teeth,she had licked up lips,because she was full of anticipation.
The foreign woman remained standing on the driver's side. She took the car keys out of her pocket and later the radio signal opened the doors. She could enter. It was Elaine,who wouldn't let her. A weak cry broke through her clenched teeth,she were already in the air and fell upon the other person...
The woman had heard the scream. She also responded by jerking around,but it was too late. Elaine bounced against her victim and threw it back to the side,and when she reached the height of the hood,the woman fell finally to the ground and lie next to the front wheel.
Elaine laughed. She simply had to. She was happy about her success,because soon she would get what she absolutely needed. Blood! Fresh blood!
She opened her mouth. The knife fell down to where it soon was caught by her hand. The victim lied on it's back. The woman wasn't moving. Probably,she had been stunned by the harsh impact. And also the shock could have done something in this regard.
Elaine smiled. Then she grinned and said,while the tip of the knife pointed on the lied-down:"Well,how do you like that?"
The other woman was caught by sorprise so there was no response at first. She hadn't become unconscious,because the pupils were moving and she could also speak.
"What do you doing?" "This is a robbery!" "I know." Elaine was surprised because this person was saying only this few words. "More don't you say?" "Why should I?" "Aren't you afraid?" "Oh,do I have to do that?" Elaine could only wonder about this response.
"What do you think? That thus here is some kind of joke?" "Certainly not. But you're out of luck. I have hardly any money with me. If you want to enrich yourself,then look for someone else." "Money? HA! As I would care?" "Not?" Elaine leaned forward further. Now,she saw the other woman's face more clearly. She especially registered her heart-shaped mouth and large eyes under a forehead,which was without any wrinkles. The light hair was certainly coloured. You could no more speak of a blonde,but you had to talk about a pale color.
Also now discovered Elaine not a hint of worry in the sight of the woman. It was more a kind of curiosity. That made her not necessarily nervous,but it made her wondering,however she not admitted that,she reflected it:"Now you're wondering,huh?"
"That can you say. So,you want no money?" "It is like I said." "What then?" Elaine had been waiting for this question. Now she could say finally that,what she had on her heart. "Blood!",she gasped,"I want your blood,bloody hell,and I will drink it aswell..."
Now it was out. Elaine waited on a reaction,that also happened,but not so as she had imagined it. The hijacked opened her mouth,and a loud laughter echoed through the night.
Elaine was completely devastated. She had expected some responses,alldictated by fear,but not with that sardonic laughter that totally messed her plans up. She was moving the hand with the knife forth and back,however she not stabbed her victim at all.
"Shut your mouth!" The laughter of the silverblonde fell silent. But it was not quiet. She asked:"And now?" "You heard it.",Elaine whispered,"I'm going to get your blood. There is nothing to avert that. I have waiting for you for a reason. I'm empty, but you're full. Do you understand that?" "Yes,Yes I got it,but my blood..." "I need it,damn it. I want it,and I'm going to get it!"
"Only vampires drink blood." "I know." "Are you a vampire?"
Elaine bowed her head. Then she opened her mouth as far as possible. Before she could ask a question,or could has done something else,she heard the other woman's voice.
"If so,where are your vampire teeth? Were you caught in a fight and they were beaten out of your jaybone? You're making yourself ridiculous." Elaine could stand much,but no ridicule. And she proved it in the next second, she thoughtfast moved the blade and all of a sudden a wound gaped in the left cheek of the pale blonde. Immediately,blood gushed forth and the red smeared blade danced before the eyes of the victim.
"Well what do you say now?" "What's with that cut?" "I told you,I want your blood. Not more and not less. And I'll prove that to you."
Elaine grabbed her and ripped her victim in the height. She knew exactly what she was doing, because she turned around the woman and gave her a push,so that the silverblonde landed with her back on the cowling.
Elaine wasted no time. She threw herself on the woman and put the knife to the throat of her. "Take it easy",she whispered,"I will now drink the blood that oozes from your wound. Should you nethertheless put up a fight against me,I will cut through your throat,is that clear?"
"All right,all right."
Elaine grinned. She focused on the flesh wound from that still blood gushed. She lowered her head deeper,her mouth gaped open. Then she moved the tongue and licked sipping the first drops.
"It won't taste you"!,gasped the blonde"You're out of luck..." "Shut your mouth! I choose what I like or not! Understood?"The knife's blade was now directly on the throat of the woman. She kept her mouth shut. She seemed to gave in to her fate and allowed everything to happen.
Right and left of the cut Elaine pressed her lips against the skin. It was a holiday for her. It was just wonderful to be able to saturate herself again.
The woman had been right as she had questioned Elaine whether her teeth. You couldn't look at Elaine as a female vampire,despite their greed for human blood. She was still in the process of becoming a vampire,and for such a creature,there was also a special name:She belonged to the group of halfvampires,her food was human blood already,although she had to get it in a different manner than a normal vampire.
She left no bitemarks on the neck of the victim,she hurt it in the conventional way to drink the blood out of the wounds and saturate that herself that way.
Even now she,slurped, sucked, and smacked at one such wound. She would not stop until her hunger was satisfied,and she wouldn't took any consideration.
It was her intent,and it had worked always wonderful and smootly,so there was no reason for her to believe that it would be different this time.
And yet it was so.
After the first bigger gulp,she broke her lips from the cheek of the victim. Then she went with a furious shriek in the height and spewed out what she had been drinking. The blood smacked to the ground and it was a wild curse to hear.
The victim sat up slowly. The silverblonde used her car as a prop,took a towel from her coatpocket and pressed it against the left cheek.
More she didn't do. She watched only and saw how the halfvampiress tried to spew that what she had already swallowed. The ground collected blood and saliva,mixed up.
The whole action was accompanied by coughing and wheezing,but also wild curses. She danced around,shook herself,spewed over and over again,stood half bent over.
The silverhaired gained a kind of serenity. From time to time she took a look at her handkerchief,whose colour now more showed red than white. Nevertheless,she kept it pushed against the cheek. She looked like someone who had everything under control.
The panting of the halfvampiress lost on volume. Now wheezing sounds started to come out her wide open mouth. With the back of the hand,Elaine is wiped over the lips,then she stood up straight,as she had swallowed a stick and turned her head the other person,that leaned so casual against the car.
"Damn it,what was that?" The blonde replied weird:"By the way,my name is Nora." "Okay how great for you. But this is no answer to my question." "You have to know what it has been. You wanted to drink but my blood." "Yes,that's true",Elaine came a step closer,"But that's not all. I know about blood,very good indeed. I love the blood of humans,I need it,and you're a human!" "So,do you mean that?" "You look like it." Elaine laughed. "I can rely on my eyes. Just not on your blood. It was different. Disgusting,as bitter as bile." She shook herself. "I just had to get rid of it." "And why?" "Ask not so stupid!",she gasped."It was not to edible. Yes it was disgusting! So don't tastes the blood of any person. Whether man or woman!"
"This may be. But just as that tastes the blood of witches!"
Elaine was silent for a few seconds. Then she started up again:"What are you talking about?" "I can make even simpler for you: Yes,I'm a witch. Not more and not less..."
Elaine said nothing,though she had heard everything. She stood on the spot,staring at the silverblonde and couln't manage to close her mouth. Nora waited and saw how Elaine shook her head wildly. Can't you believe it?" I...I umm..." "Why don't you test it again?" Nora pointed to her unhurt cheek. Come on,take your knife! Cut me a new wound,then you can drink your hot-beloved blood again."
Elaine laughed quietly. "No",she whispered,"I won't,I drink no poison." She nodded to Nora. "So,you're a witch. Witch blood flows in your body. Did I understand it correctly?" "Yes you did. It's your bad luck that you just picked a witch out of all the humans. But nothing is perfect in life." Elaine countered:"It's said that there are no witches,at least as I have heard. Yes,this is a pure fairy tale. There are no witches."
"Do I look like a fairytale to you?" Elaine laughed scratchy and shook her head. "But also not like a witch." "You know that?" "Yes." "Where from?" Nora spread her arms. "Now don't tell me that you think about the pictures in the books where witches are represented as old women with crooked noses and warts. This is really nonsense,humans have made up that! Admittedly,I wasn't expecting that there are types like you: a blood-drinker,without that you're a vampire." "Not yet!",Elaine growled. "Even more than that.",Nora added,"You're noting half and nothing whole. No a human anymore,still no vampire,actually a kinda ridiculous figure. And now you even came across the entirely wrong person. This must throw you completely off track."
Elaine had heard the truth,and also absorbed. But she trusted her powers. It was not easy to chase the wind. Her hunger was still there and the night was still long. She'd find yet a suitable victim.
But the shame to be handled as a child by this woman,this witch...
If she weren't able to drink her blood,because it was unfit for any consumption,so she at least wanted to wipe that... unperson from the world,and an appropriate weapon to achieve that lay it in her right hand. She threw a quick look at the blade,which still had a red streak on the top.
Nora hadn't let Elaine out of your sight,so also this small movement had not escaped her sight. With a half aloud voice spoke she out a warning. "I wouldn't even think that way if I were in your place. It can only go wrong. In contrast to you,I am complete."
"Shut your fucking witche's mouth! Nora changed the subject:"What is your name anyway?" "Why do you want to know that?" "Pure curiosity." "I'm Elaine. Now you know who will send you to hell. Because there is where you belong finally!" "Certainly not!"
"Oh and how!",Elaine spewed out,"Witches belong to the devil and thus in hell!" "Make no mistake. So far I have taken everything,but even my patience has an end at some point. And this is as good as reached."
Elaine laughed,because she had the knife and saw herself as the stronger one. She glided to Nora,who still leaned on the car's side. The knife was not quiet. It was moving,it twitched,at times the blade aimed on Nora's head,then back to the middle of her body.
"Neck or belly? You can choose it!" "None of both. "That you don't have to determine!" Nora shrugged. "In your place,I would stop and turn around." Elaine laughed,before she asked:"Why would I do that?" "Because then you will see,how little chance you have. It's just like that."
Elaine had planned to go to close in to the witch with a another step. But now she hesitated,because something had been in the voice of that woman that warned her.
She stopped,saw that Nora was even clasped her arms under the breast all too casual,so she did what Nora had advised her. She turned around...
Darkness laid over the area,but it wasn't so dark that anything more would had been seeable. Therefore also the sight of this figures fell to her,of which some had already passed the light of the lone lantern...
Elaine not counted them all,but she came already on half a dozen figures.
All women! Also all witches?
She had to assume. They formed a slightly curved chain and were not in any hurry. In the strolling transition they approached,but their goal was clearly.
And that was Elaine itself!
At this moment,she cursed her unusual condition. Would she have been a normal vampire they would,even as witches,hardly had been able to peform something to really hurt her. But much human was still stuck in her. The only vampiric of her was just that she fed on blood. Well,she was stronger than other people of her physique,but that would hardly help her against this predominance...
Elaine went back a step and turned her head so that she again had visual contact with Nora.
"What's up with that?" "Can't you imagine that?" "That are my friends who are coming over there. Or did you think that I'm alone? No,this night belongs to us. We will unleash a real storm of witches. Maybe,I haven't been here by chance. Everything is possible. We might also fellowed you and you set this up to make the start with you. Maybe it was a coincidence. One must reckon with everything in life. You missed that."
Elaine pondered. It was not a normal thinking. The thoughts twitched through her like lightning and she had to catch them to develop plans. She had not much time. She didn't want to die,at least not in the regular way.
For a normal flight,it was too late. Her way was blocked with the new arrivals on one side and if she would head to where Nora was located,then she would have a problem with the garages...
What to do?
"No!",she yelped and ran to Nora,grabbed her,pushed her back on the cowling and squeezed the tip of the knife against the throat of her...
Elaine looked into Nora's face,at the mouth a superior grin was located. That brought her up, so she asked in a sharp voice:"You want to die so badly?" "Not so fast." "Okay,do what I say! And only this!" "Good." The witch smiled even wider. "What do you want? Don't move. Don't even think about resistance. You understand that?" "Sure." Elaine felt somewhat safer. She turned her head,however left the blade directly on the neck of the other woman.
The witches were still appraoaching nearer. They have not stopped and it looked like she wanted to stop only if they had reached their fellow witch and the halfvampiress.
"No!",screamed Elaine,"Not a single step further! If you got closer your friend is dead!"
The women stopped actually,apparently they took Elaine seriously and don't wanted to risk too much. Elaine saw that Elaine and gave herself more time now. She wanted to test whether the witches also continue so. They had to do that,if they don't wanted to risk that the neck of Nora got slashed. Nora asked:"What do you want Elaine?" "Oh it's easy. I will drive away with you. Not more and not less." Ah? Is that so? How do you want to achieve that?" "You have a car,or not?" "Yes,and?" "We will enter it and then it goes off. I will describe you the exact way later on." "You won't get away with that." "Let that be my concern."
After these words,the knife disappeared from Nora's neckand she could move more freely again. She pressed herself into up from the cowling and saw Elaine standing before her,which still threatened her with the knife. "Get into the car. It's open after all."
It was Nora's smart,which was still standing in front of the garage. As Nora reached for the door handle,Elaine turned around to catch a fast sight of the other witches.
They stood in a row to watch what happening.
Yes,they were all witches,but they looked different:small,also tall women,one of them estimated Elaine even over two meters in height.
Some were chubby,others slim and also the hair colors differed. Their outfits were also unremarkable.
They weren't attracting attention in this cool night. A normal group of women wanted to go to some event.
"Stand out! If you make trouble your little Nora will be dead." "You can't win!",called one of the witches. "And why not?" "Because we are stronger. Much stronger." "Yeah,that I've seen already." Elaine shook her head. She wondered how someone could be so arrogant. She glanced at Nora,which was about to sit in the smart. Everything looked normal.
The silence got teared apart.
A noise was suddenly in the air and the halfvampiress threw her head into the neck to look in the height.
Her eyes widened when she saw the inconceivable,because something was falling down out of nowhere...
For Elaine it wasn't to recognize what flew there to her. Anyway,it was not concrete and no direct figure what fell from the sky. Elaine saw a bright whirlwind,which revolved around a darker center. And this center was something recognizable,even if it wasn't to believe for the observeress.
It was a human form,which was surrounded by numerous little whirls and only unclear to recognize,as would a good amount of water got faomed and had dissolved itself in its countless small drops...
Elaine didn't realize that Nora scurried awayfrom her reach. She only had eyes for this figure,whose body became gradually clearer,as it proceeded to peel itself from the swirling maelstrom and stood protectively in the front of the other women,as this figure would be their leader.
Elaine wasn't able to say anything.
Although she wasn't a real vampire and also not a normal human,she felt very human in this moments. In her case,that meant a nagging fear that crept up in her,who possesed such a power,was clearly superior to her.
Whatever had previously surrounded this body,it now collapsed.
There was no more whirl,no water or fog,it was only this one person,who had come out of nowhere,and now seemed to dominate everything,although she did nothing and just stood on the spot,as she had only appeared to be stared at,what did Elaine. She simply couldn't see away from this person,which was something unusual and also special for her.
The woman offered a contrast:That was the dark and widely-cut cape,which was held together by a brooch close to the neck. The woman's hair,which shone red was another contrast to the black fabric.
It grew in a wild mane around the head,and this red was natural. Who should describe the face,would had to use the term exeptionally:It was strong. Interesting,appealing,but also a certain determination was to be seen in it. A woman like a storm,and even that had happened by her appereance...
The eyes had a color that was anything but easy to describe,but they were cold and clear.
The woman took a look on the halfvampiress,then she turned her head away without saying a single word,now she looked at Nora which had joined the row of the other witches. "What did she want from you?" Nora began to laugh. "You're not going to believe it,Assunga,but she wanted to drink my blood,even though she is not a vampire. Can you imagine that?"
Elaine had heard everything. Now,she knew the name of the redhaired woman:
Assunga!
She had never heard of her before,but she felt how a cold shiver went down her back,although she was still in no way attacked.
Assunga laughed. She seemed to have her fun. She shook her head so that her hair got in a motion.
The laughter stopped just as quickly and completely as it had begun,Assunga nodded to Nora. Who knew exactly what was expected of her and said loudly:"Elaine wanted my blood!!!"
Assunga and the others had heard the answer. But only the headwitch reacted:She shot Elaine a quizzical look.
"Is it true what Nora said? Did you drink her blood?" Elaine knew that it was better to stay with the truth. Therefore she replied:"Yes, I wanted to suck it,but her blood tasted so disgusting bitter,that I had to spat everything out again."
Laughter rang out around them. Nora's laugh was especially loud to hear. Assunga said:"Yes,you have still much to learn ,halfvampiress. Because witch's blood is not like that of normal people. It is for vampires and those who still want to become them completely inedible. Has nobody told you that?"
Elaine not wanted to nor could speak. Therefore,she only shook her head.
"Then you know it now. But I tell you also,that it's already too late for you to know. Who is attacking my friends,didn't that do for nothing.
I figured out a punishment for this now and we're going to execute it right now...
More she didn't say and so Elaine could  about how think this punishment probably looked like. She felt a wild pain in the head as she was suddenly pulled up her hair. But Assunga's hand let go almost immediately again. Elaine lurched back slightly. Tears swam in her eyes. So she didn't see clearly for now. But the veil of tears was not so dense that it had hidden everything. She saw that this Assunga opened her coat. It suddenly seemed like an invitation and it was also was of a second color.
Outside,the coat was black. But inside it was yellow! It was also the gradually recovering Elaine recognised briefly before she was packed by Assunga. The halfvampiress didn't know what happened to her,as her body was pressed against the body of the red-haired witch,she knew only that it hurt like hell as the coat closed around them.
For the others,she was no longer to see. Only Elaine's quieter becoming screams were heard,which were silenced a few moments later and shortly afterwards Assunga opened her coat again.
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Elaine was still there. Barely so.
But she doesn't looked like before her personal meeting with Assunga's body and magic. She was shrunk! In addition,her skin had taken on a very pale skin tone which strongly reminded to Nora's hair.
A thin thread of white smoke circled around this little figure,which could hardly on stay on it's legs and collapsed after only three unsteady steps.
Not much was any longer to recognise of the fairly strong and also proud halfvampiress:What lay there on the ground,was a broken finger-sized frame,which had been deprived of it's life,it's mere existence...
Assunga turned around.
She wanted something of Nora,who eagerly waited to be addressed and Assunga also did her the favorShe spoke so loud that everyone else heard with:"Now Nora,as your teacher I helped you,but you also know that we witches always have to settle our depts by oursleves... Nora had understood and with cold determination,but also a certain anticipation she moved in direction Elaine...
Meanwhile Elaine was gradually finding back to herself. What happened here was just too surreal. Her transformation into a halfvampiress had finally triggered a nightmare,because an event like this simply couldn't exist.
Then she heard Assunga's short speech and swallowed involuntarily,and right again pretty deep as she saw Nora coming to her with a faint smile on the lips.
She went,no thundered towards her. Boom Boom. Her warm boots were like tanks. Boom. Boom. What previously was smart for Elaine,was now the boot in size 36! It was easy to surrea... No. Elaine knew that she had to admit the truth. It was too REAL! This couldn't be a dream,therefore everything was too clarified,too exactly... and cruel. Boom. Boom. The thundering of Nora's steps reverberated.
Elaine confessed to herself,that this coated tower of a woman,these huge witch,
was actuallysticking up into the sky before their tiny self and that there wouldn't be any sweat-bathed waking up as an escape...
Nora squatted dwon in front of Elaine and smiled broadly down at her.
An outsider would probably mistook that smile even as friendly,but it was nothing but sheer derision for Elaine. She stared darkly up to the massive witch. "What  a look."commented Nora tauntingly,"With that I'm immediately believing that there is some vampiric in you." "What do you want now?",Elaine asked,half angry,half scared.
Without waiting for a reply,she continued:"You want to take revenge,am I right?" She wildly gestured the,not longer bleeding,wound in Nora's face at hers. Go ahead! Crush me! Grind me like dirt!" She spat out angry. "I won't.",Nora said quietly. "You have heard what Mistress Assunga said about the payment of debts,or?" Nora licked about her lips.
"You've got my blood.",the witch locked fast. Elaine seemd like she wanted to say something,but Nora commanded her with a hand motion silence. "And regardless of that you disliked the taste,you got it nonetheless." Now,her face distorted to a malicious grin. "And therefore I'm going to get back the amount right now!" The shock met Elaine. At her current size...
Nora tilted her head. "I guess all the blood that flows through your puny veins now should hold the amount you stole from me the balance!"
Another laughter went through the row of witches,also Assunga smiled again. Elaine was like stunned. In addition,even though she hated it, she had to gave them right,that this was actually kind of funny: A witch would now drink the blood of a half vampire...
She felt how Nora picked her up,stood up whilst that,and put her onto her palm.
"There are last words or such a wish?",asked the witch in a surprisingly friendly tone. "Are you kidding me???",shot it through Elaine's head, but she said:"Don't make it too painful for me." Then,she ran with an imaginary blade over her neck.
Nora shook her head barely noticeable,her swaying hair making it an tremedous experience for Elaine...
"This cannot be avoided. Eating is an ugly thing. For the food at least." "Food? I don't understand why..." Elaine's heart suspended several beats long. Something horrible dawned her...
Nora seemed to has been reading her thoughts.
"Exactly. I'll devour you sweet little morsel!" The witch grinned again. The looks of the shrunken half vampire glided to the teeth and sucked fast at this big,almost perfectly white,executioners.
A fresh,more desperate last wish was formed in Nora's small heart.
"Please don't chew me up...",suspected Nora more as she heard it actually.
"I hadn't planned that anyway.",gave the witch back gently to the small half-finished bloodsuckeress,before she led her palm to her mouth and kept it beveling,until Elaine eventually slid into the hole by herself...
In Nora's Cave,it was humid,dark and sultry. However,there weren't any wet throbbing monsters in caves,which Elaine had pressed against the ceiling of the cave. But In this mouth there was a tongue and also a palate she was pressed against it. Then,she was whirled by Nora's tongue from one into the other cheek. And Nora kept her promise. Elaine was pressed sometimes by Nora's teeth pressed but not injured. Every now and then there were some "Mmmmh"-sounds to hear from Nora.
"So",Elaine heard from anywhere around her,"Then it's time for you to go,little vampire." The witch chuckled over her own joke and swallowed. Elaine slid headfirst into the esophagus and knew this was the last she would ever see. Nora's cheeks had let some of the lantern's glow through,Nora's stomach wall,hidden under a thick coat,would this certainly not...