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Luke.
    In the distance, Luke saw the two vampires
pick Karina up and super speed down the street. He made a note of
the direction they had gone.
    "You have to be wondering, Hero," Geric said,
"am I fast enough to catch the little girl if she falls?" His eyes
were bright as he stared at Luke. "Well," Geric said, "are
you?"
    Geric suddenly threw the little girl to the
opposite side of the roof, so high in the air it was obvious he
intended for her to fall over the other side of the building. She
screamed. Luke sped over and jumped in the air and caught her
gently just before she sailed over the other side of the roof. He
glanced back. Geric was gone.
    He looked down at the little girl in his
arms. Her eyes were wide again. She stared up at him. Her little
fists each held a handful of his T-shirt. She was desperately
afraid.
    "It'll be okay," Luke said to her. He held
her close and ran back into the building and down the stairs. He
got to the first landing. "Do you remember what floor you live on?"
he asked her gently.
    She nodded and said, "Three."
    He stepped out into the third floor hallway.
"Do you remember what number is on your apartment?"
    She nodded again. "3B."
    He quickly walked to the door of 3B, and set
her gently down in front of it. He had to carefully pry her little
fingers off his shirt.
    "Are your mommy and daddy home?" he asked
her.
    She nodded. Tears were starting to run down
her face. He wiped her tears away with his thumbs and said, "You'll
be safe now, okay?"
    She nodded again. He knocked on her apartment
door loudly, then super sped away before her parents could answer
the door.
    He sped down the stairwell and out of the
building. He ran down the street as fast as he could go in the
direction he had seen them take her. He tried to follow her scent.
He lost the trail a few times and had to back track to make
different turns. He realized they had taken her outside of town. He
ran down the highway and into the woods. It was really a park,
green grass with trees here and there. Then he saw them. Geric had
just caught up to them and they had stopped to confer with him.
    They saw him speeding up to them and took off
running again. But he was too fast. He pulled Karina out of Corin's
arms and set her down. They all stopped running at once.
    Karina had been pondering something as the
vampires talked a moment ago. Wooden stakes through the heart
killed them. They were standing in a wood. She had telekinesis. Now
that Luke had distracted them, she tried her plan. With her mind
she quickly broke off a small branch from a nearby tree and slammed
the broken edge of it into Zachary's heart. He burst into dust
immediately and fell to the ground. She was shocked. So was
everyone else.
    Luke didn't waste a moment. He quickly
grabbed the branch lying in the pile of dust and shoved it through
Corin's heart. He turned to dust as well.
    Geric's eyes were wide. He had just lost two
of his clan. He stood farther away than the other two had been, so
Luke picked up the branch and threw it at Geric.
    Geric deflected it easily with his arm. He
stared in shock at the dust on the ground. Then he looked back up
at Luke. "This is not over," he said. Then he sped away, a blur
through the trees, away from town.
    "Oh, my God," Karina said and turned to Luke.
She threw her arms around him and he held her tight.
     
     

Chapter 12
     
    Luke and Karina had decided it was too
dangerous to go back to her apartment for her things. So Luke had
picked her up and sped to his apartment to get money, clothing, and
his car. They would have to buy Karina clothing when they got to
where they were going.
    They walked down dank stone steps to his
apartment, and Luke unlocked the door. It was a one-room apartment,
very neat and tidy, hardly any possessions in it.
    "You don't have much," Karina said, shivering
at the door.
    "I like to travel," Luke said as he opened a
drawer and pulled out a small pewter trinket box. He opened a
closet and pulled a few