Chapter 3. Feel My Touch

“Stand down brothers. No cause for alarm. He’s the chosen one.” On hearing Jasmine say this, they became calm. She was still held down on the table. She looked Scott deep in the eyes and then asked him to unhand her.

“Why will I do that?”

“Because you need the truth and we have the truth.”

“You made a deal without getting me involved knowing full well it has to do with me.”

“Please, release me from your grip and I will tell.”

Scott releases Jasmine from his grip and snarls. The wings disappeared and his eyes turned to normal. “What are you hiding from me?”

“There’s nothing I am hiding from you.”

“You lied to me and lied to Sasha. To what end?” Scott yelled.

“If Sasha knows our every move or secret, she will be in danger and we might be in danger too when she is captured and tortured to speak the truth, or even been be glamoured to speak the truth against her will.”

Jasmine seems to be making sense but to Scott, she isn’t making any sense. So Scott fired a question at her. “What do you mean by ‘glamoured to speak the truth against her will’”?

“Glamour is a supernatural ability that can enable vampires to get a mortal into doing their bidding. This ability is specific to vampires. There’s not much difference between glamouring and hypnosis. All vampires have this ability but werewolves don’t.”

Mind compulsion is an ability of immortals, vampires from Dracula’s kin, and vampires not from Dracula’s kin have to control the mind of a mortal through eye contact. Glamoured mortals follow the instructions given to them by the vampire who glamoured them. No mortal can be able to resist the vampire's bid when glamoured. It’s impossible to resist doing what you are asked to do by the vampire that glamoured you.

“So you're telling me the lesser we know, the better?”

“Yes!”

“I am not buying that.”

“Right now you need to complete the transition of Nyx’s power in you.”

“By having sex?”

“Yes by having sex!”

“If I refuse?”

“You will die and before you will die, your anger will be terrible more than we have witnessed now. You will hurt people you do not want to hurt and you will end up with the guilt before dying.”

“Why make a deal with Nyx? Why the goddess of the night?”

Scott's curiosity for this deal can’t be ignored. It would have been better to make a deal with another god or goddess. Why the goddess of the night? This sounds evil.

Jasmine put up a soft smile and held Scott’s shoulder. “Nyx is the protector of

Dracula’s kin since we stalk at night. This path was made with our ancestor, Dracula when he was being pursued by the first werewolf. Werewolves draw their powers from the moon. And the moon god is Apollo. He is not on good terms with Nyx. Therefore Nyx has to intervene and help Dracula escape the werewolf. Afterward, Nyx vowed to protect Dracula’s line and took part in their interest. That’s another story for another day. I have to stop here since you have something to do on your side.” Jasmine motioned Sasha to come forth. Sasha has been standing by the entrance of the great hall. “You have a job to do.

Please, there’s no more time,” said Jasmine.

Sasha stared at Jasmine. “Has he agreed?” she asked.

Jasmine turned to enquire from Scott. “What do you say?”

“Let’s do it.” Scott nods in the head in approval.

As Scott walks back to the room with Sasha, his mind flashes back to her late girlfriend, Ivy. He’s not sure if his moments with her can ever be compared with another. His thoughts went deep and flashed back to the first time they met. It was raining and Ivy slightly rubbed his ears

Scott said nothing and she gave a deep laugh. He heard her laughing in little chuckles. Is as if he is hearing that laugh over and over again as he makes his way back to the guest room with Sasha. The laughter of Ivy was sounding over and over again in his ears.

Ivy had said to him: “I won’t ever be far from you.”

He said nothing. He stayed resting there on his left elbow staring at her. She said again, “Why don’t you say something? What’s wrong with you? I’m all yours and we will forever be together.”

Three times he wetted his lips, and he managed to say: “I was thinking about our wedding night.”

She laughed and said to him: “I can imagine how that day will be?”

“It will be the best wedding ever!” he said turning towards her.

Too bad he’s no longer in the past and can’t go back to the past. His thoughts of his lovely memories with Ivy were interrupted by Sasha who was already standing inside Scott’s room. “Are you sure you wanna do this with me?” she asked.

Sasha isn’t resisting. She certainly wanted it. The first time she set her eyes on Scott, she felt different. She has never felt that way before. She makes her way to the door and gently shuts the door. “Let’s do it; It won’t hurt a bit, I swear.”

Not any lady can put smiles on his face like Ivy used to. He was pledged to marry a female colleague in the Sheriff’s department before he met Ivy. Severally he has spent time with his colleague but his colleague has never given him as much peace of mind as he has gotten from Ivy since they both met. He was still standing close to the bed when Sasha interrupted his thoughts again. “Scott your countenance,” she said pointing at Scott’s body.

Scott’s countenance was already changing without him knowing about it. His eyes started glowing and his veins turned black. Suddenly there was a violent shaking that interrupted all his thoughts completely; Scott was covered with flashes of lighting. His eyes were lit with fire as he let out a thunderous scream as he became suspended in the air and away from Sasha.

 “What in the hell!” Sasha exclaimed jumping to her feet. She quickly grabbed her trousers and slid into them. She was marveled but at the same time terrified at Scott’s countenances. Throughout her years of hunting, she has never encountered such manifestation from the creatures she hunts. She quickly moved to the window putting on her top as she cast a searing gaze at Scott. ‘What the hell am I supposed to do?’ she pondered. She has no idea of what next to do. Nyx didn’t inform either of them of what next to do nor did Jasmine have a clue of what was going to happen next.

As she was still filled with awe and terrified as well, they were flash-forked lightning and a great clap of thunder that came close to each other. Thunder roared and lightning flashed across the sky.

“What is happening to me?” Scott yelled. He is still suspended in the air with flashes of lightning covering him. The more he tried to touch the floor, the higher he went.

“I have no idea!” yelled Sasha.

Scott was still naked with no clue of what was happening to him. Certainly, he is sure this is Nyx's doing, after all, no one can make a deal with the goddess of the night and not expect strange things to happen.

The thunder roared and lightning flashed across the sky again; John caught a glimpse of dark horses flying towards the window. They were pulling a dark chariot. When he focuses his gaze on the horses, he comes to realize it is Nyx in her chariot pulled by two dark horses. She carries the mantle of night.

From her chariot outside the window, Nyx flicked her fingers releasing Scott. She then made her way into the guest room of Scott with her gaze on Scott.

 “I interrupted the process and bypassed the procedure.” Nyx moved closer to Scott and then placed her hand on his chest. “How do you feel?” she asked.

“Get your hands off me!” Scott rudely removed her hand from his chest. “What did you do to me?”

“I gave you a gift no man can ever possess.”

“What type of gift is that?” Sasha switched her attention to Nyx. If there is anything she hates, interrupting her romance is one. She glared at Nyx and then fired another question. “What is your endgame?”

“Theirs is no end game. I am here to help.”

“Help with what?” Scott snapped at Nyx. The best way to start a new life could have been a new girlfriend but that’s not going to work when the creatures of the dark are out there looking for whom to prey on. He wants to move on with his life but now he’s caught up with the mess he knew nothing about, there’s no way he’s leaving without solving the case as he used to while working as a deputy.

“I gave you a gift and the least you could do is to thank me.”

“You call the strange things happening to me a gift, huh?”

“You’re welcome!”

“Fuck you! I didn’t say thank you!”

“You are still welcome.”

“Fuck! I hate this bitch!” Scott kicked against the bed. He quickly grabbed his leather jacket and then turned towards Sasha, “I am leaving this shit-hole, are you coming?”

“Wait for…”

Sasha’s words were pushed back to her throat when Nyx flicked her fingers and the door locked on its own. They could hear the sound of the bolt and the key moving on its own. “No soul is going anywhere.”

“You must be out of your mind thinking you will keep us, prisoners!”

Scott was freaking out but he had to act up rather than show his fear before the goddess of the night. He moved closer to Nyx and demanded she should unlock the door or get her ass kicked.

“I don’t know what Jasmine saw in you that she chose you. Anyway, I don’t have all the time in the whole world; we need to get down to our lessons.”

“What lesson are you talking about?”

“What do you think, that you will just possess the power in you and figure out how to use it on your own?” Nyx walked up to the bed sat down and continued, “I am here to teach you how to master your power. There’s no time!”

“I don’t have time for all this shit. I have rogue vampires to hunt.”

Sasha didn’t want to be part of Nyx’s master class. After all, she is not the one in possession of such power but Scott. She just wants to get away from Nyx or her life will forever get dark staying around the goddess of the night who holds the mantle of the night.

“Your ass is going nowhere sugar girl!” Nyx snapped her fingers and unseen force carried Sasha and slammed her to the sofa next to the bed. She switched her focus to Scott. “You are next sugar boy!” she snapped her fingers as she did with Sasha as unseen force slammed Scott to the sofa too.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” Scott snapped back at her. He attempted to get up to his feet but it seemed impossible. His ass is glued to the sofa. “I can’t get my ass off this damn sofa!” he yelled.

“Mine too!” Sasha struggled to move away from the sofa but it was impossible. Nyx is always ahead of them and always ready to show she’s in charge.

“When you two are done, you let me know so we can begin.”

Nyx grinned and crossed her legs as she relaxed on the bed. She was enjoying the moment staying ahead of them and exhibiting her superiority as a goddess. If she can’t get Scott to do her bid, at least she can stick his ass to a sofa all night.