#arongoth

ARON- “I’m serious, Vada.  I don’t think it is a good idea you out running around alone as long as this stranger is around.”

CHARITY- “Stranger?  There is a stranger in town?”

VADA- “The guy from my crystal ball showed up, and Aron is freaking out.  He is not vampire or a witch, and if he came here from wherever to warn me of something, then I don’t think i am in harms way.”

CHARITY- “Okay, I think someone needs to fill me in here, what is going on?  Who is this stranger and where did he come from?”

So over the next few weeks, Micah never made an appearance. And D’Mario found nothing in the church rolls regarding a child by the name of Micah.  Baron continued to follow Vada, but she actually obeyed the rules, for the most part (because she knew Baron was following her). Aron had perfected the serum, and he was ready to fill Charity in on his plan....

CHARITY- “So, you know that Abraham and Ezil are still alive.”  

ARON- “Yes, I haven’t felt their life spirit leave, so they are alive.  I just do not know where.”

CHARITY- “So if they have any vampire blood in them, this mist will remove it, and they can begin healing.  I get that, but how are we going to find them.”

ARON- “That is where you come in. I want to do a locater spell.”

CHARITY- “I have tried, Aron, I can not locate them anywhere.”

ARON- “Anywhere in the country, you haven’t tried a world locator spell.”

CHARITY- “I am not sure I have the ability to pull that off. Vada could.”

LILITH- “So there would be no danger to those trying to inject the vampire... You are a genius.”

ARON- “We wouldn’t even need to be in the same room with them.  We could put it in the ventilation system and they would breath it in and never even know.  We need to locate where Abraham, Ezil and the other witches are that the vampires are feeding off of, and save them.”

LILITH- “How do you know it is going to work?”

ARON- “I don’t, at least not 100%, but the serum worked on Vlad, so the mist should work.”

LILITH- “And this Vampire Lord, or leader, he is probably an ancient.”

ARON- “Yes, I doubt the mist would work on him, it would probably just make him sick.  He would need to drink it or have it injected like we did Vlad.  But with him being dead...a powerful necromancer could control him to allow us to inject the serum.”

LILITH- “Baron and Vada both are---”

ARON- “Vada...I am not going to discipline you. I want to talk with you, open and honestly.”

VADA- “Okay...I’m intrigued.”

ARON- “You are going to be sixteen very soon.  And that seems to be the time when most of our kind come into our full abilities.  I know you are already quite powerful, but it is very likely that you are going to become even more powerful, and other abilities may manifest themselves.”

VADA- “Such as??”

ARON- “I know that your mind reading skills are very strong, and many times, people with high mind reading abilities, begin to exhibit empathy skills.”

VADA- “That is like taking on others pain, right?

ARON-  Empaths are highly attuned to other people’s moods, good and bad. They feel everything, sometimes to an extreme. They take on negativity such as anger or anxiety which is exhausting. If they are around peace and love, their bodies take these on and flourish.  You are a very emotional person, you think with your heart, and impulsively do things based on emotion and what you are feeling instead of thinking logically through a situation.”

VADA- “Wow, that was almost the same exact words that Baron said to me not more than ten minutes ago...”

ARON- “I feel you may already be experiencing some of the empathic traits, Vada.  You need to focus on the things that are not as stressful, and things that cause you anxiety. When overwhelmed with the impact of stressful emotions, empaths can have panic attacks, depression, chronic fatigue, food, sex and drug binges, and many physical symptoms that defy traditional medical diagnosis.  We need to work on finding your center so to speak, when you feel these things.”

VADA- “Okay, now you a scaring me a little.”

LILITH- “Aron, you have been down here all night, you didn’t even come to bed...”

ARON- “I know sweetheart, I am almost there....”

LILITH- “Almost there with what?  What have you been working on?”

CHARITY- “But you can not guarantee that, Aron. If we find Abraham and Ezil, we would be putting their fate in this serum mist, what if it doesn’t work?”

ARON- “We have to try, Charity.  Once we get the Vampire Lord’s attention, then we can take him down, I know it. We are too powerful.”

CHARITY- “With Vada, yes, but without her, I am not so sure.”

ARON- “ There has to be a weakness, this vampire can not be that powerful.”

CHARITY- “He is using witches to do his dirty work, Aron.  He has no powers of his own, I can guarantee that.”

ARON- “Precisely, and if we can turn these vampire/witches back to the original form with the serum, then we can use his own fledglings against him.”

LILITH- “Okay, you are not turning into Dr. Frankenstein are you, down here trying to create some being...”

ARON- “No, silly, I have been doing research on Vampires....what I have found out is that before a person is actually changed into a vampire, they are fed upon. This weakens them and when they drink of the vampire blood, this causes their metabolism to change.  It takes several days for them to actually die, then reanimate.  Until then they are known as a fledgling....even after they reanimate, they are considered a fledgling until they feed off of another human.  Once they do that, then they become a full fledged pure vampire.”

LILITH- “Okay, so what does that hae to do with what you are doing down here?”

ARON- “Remember the serum that we used on Vlad?  It caused him to be released from the blood curse, and normally once that happens they became weak, and start to age, as he did.  But he was an old vampire, and had been a vampire for a very long time. If we were to use the serum on a fledgling, before they drink human blood, then I believe that they would revert back to their human forma completely and not age, as they are still young and time has not passed.”

LILITH- “So if they drink the serum, or it is injected into them it changes back their metobolisim?”

ARON- “Exactly.  So, If Abraham and Ezil are still alive, as I believe they are as I still feel their life spirit, and they have been feeding off the vampire, they are still fledglings. If they are injected...or breath the mist of this serum, then they can be saved from the curse!”

LILITH- Mist of the serum??”

Over the next few years, Vada grew into quite a precocious little girl. Extremely intelligent, and extremely powerful in her gifts and abilities.  But she more than anyone knew the consequences if anyone was to ever find out just how powerful she was.