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face. I killed her. It felt good for some odd reason?
    I got out of the window , and ran back to the tree. I climbed it, and sat down with Blaze. “You did well. I’m proud of you,” he said, paying attention to the window.
    People must’ve heard th e window break, and her screams, because they are now standing at the door of her room. Some screamed, and some ran off. Blaze laughed and said, “Let’s head back home.”

Chapter 19
     
     
    The next night, everyone was running back and forth in the hallways. I went upstairs to the throne room, and saw the same thing. I saw Rose at a table. I went to her and asked, “What’s going on?”
    “The city of Vile is going crazy. T his morning they said that they were going to form a posse, and try to kill us. That was hours ago, but our guards took them down. We didn’t kill them, we just injured them to scare them off. You know whose idea was to send the people over here? Ravine Katz. That spineless bastard!” she said, bring me up to speed.
    “So what now?” I said, taking a seat with her.
    “The military is intervening. People all over the world are scared of us. They want us dead. We are expecting an attack, but we don’t know when?” she said, sipping some tea.
    “The military! Can we handle them?” I asked, scared.
    “Maybe? We have 1 king vampire, 200 lord vampires, and 500 full-fledged vampires. Full-fledged vampires need their rest, or else the sun will get them. Lord Vampires can stay up for three days and three nights, and king vampires don’t need sleep. Everyone can attack at night, but the other 500 will need to retreat when the sun rises, leaving a few out in battle,” she said, shaking her head.
    I get it now. This is dangerous. Vampires can die this time. “I see. Even if we make it, the other nations can still attack us, and then the whole world. We’ll be fighting forever until someone wins.” I said, sharing her fears.
    A loud explosion sounded above us. The whole fortress shook. “What was that?” I said, getting up.
    “I don’t know?” Rose said.
    It kept happening over and over. Are we being bombed? “Rose! We are being bombarded by the air force! We need your help!” a vampire said, running towards us.
    “Very well,” Rose said. The vampire wheeled Rose outside of the fortress. I went with them too.
    A group of lord vampires are holding up their hands in the air. They are generating a dark red shield that is protecting the whole fortress from the bombs and missiles that are being fired from the jets. The military wouldn’t stop. They kept firing everything at us from above. This is all horrible! Rose joined the lord vampires, and raised her hands. When she did, the shield deflected all the hits that it had received, and the bombs and missiles hit every jet in the sky. 
    I didn’t know what to do? I’m too new here, and I don’t know how to fight. Golly, I’m useless! “Starr!” I looked up and saw Lord Erebus at the gate entrance.
    I went over to him. “I see Rose is out here. Good, we can win this small battle. I’m in the front, Mr. and Mrs. Pixy are on either side of the fortress, Lord Obsidian is in the back, and Rose is in the center with Nyx. We have a good defense. Starr, can you do me a favor?” he asked me.
    “Yes,” I said.
    “Tell Lord Obsidian to lead a small unit outside of the fortress. I must know how much we’ve got left, and go with him,” he said.
    “I can do that. I’ll be back when I can,” I said, running off to the back of the fortress.
    I got there, and saw Blaze and the other vampires fighting off a small unit of soldiers. They got done within minutes. I told Blaze what Lord Erebus had said to me. “Right, stay close to me then,” he said.
    Blaze quickly explained to the other vampires on what was going to happen. A group was left behind to guard the back of the fortress. Blaze, a few other vampires, and I ran into the woods through the back gate. We covered a mile all around the