Tales of Aradia The Last Witch Volume (26 page)

At first, she just ignored
him.

"I am Korrigan McAlester," was how
he introduced himself.

"That's nice," Aradia muttered, but
loud enough for him to hear.

He laughed a lot longer than the
feeble joke required, and then returned to staring at her. However,
this time instead of just staring at her endlessly he began to
approach her. She could sense that he was vampire; therefore, she
knew she could use her powers against him with no fear of exposure
or defeat. This time she felt it was different though especially
once Aradia made a ball of fire appear in her hand. This was when
he sped towards her, and grasped her hand with no fear or
hesitation. He looked unfazed as if what Aradia could do was
something he had seen before and many times. However, according to
both Dax and Tristan such a thing was impossible. Looking down at
her, his eyes glistening with what Aradia could only call madness,
he clenched her hand tighter making the ball of fire she had
created disappear.

Okay, Aradia thought, now I might
be in a little bit of trouble here.

Korrigan chuckled as he gripped her
throat with his hand, with lightning speed he pinned her against
the wall. She gasped from the sheer force of him slamming her
against the bricks.

"My god," Korrigan panted in long
drawn out raspy breaths. "You have no idea how sexy you sound when
you're injured."

For a while, he just held her in
place and breathed on her until finally he dove towards her neck.
Amazingly, instead of fangs piercing her flesh all she felt was him
pressing his nose against her neck. Aradia wanted to cry out in
disgust.

"You smell so damn good!" he
growled, "There are no words to describe it!"

He pinned both her arms on to the
wall, and pressed his cheek against her face. She turned her own
face to avoid him as best as she could.

"Ever since I first saw you, I have
not stopped thinking about you, and fantasizing about you. What it
would be like to make hot passionate love to you and hearing you
beg for me to take you..."

"Did you forget to take your meds
today?" Aradia asked him petulantly, "Or maybe what you really need
to do is lay off the Viagra!"

She did not know if he had heard
her or even understood her insult. The fact that after she said
this he pressed his body against her painfully harder gave her some
indication though.

He whispered in her ear, and
pressed his wet lips against her ear. "You have no idea how much I
have dreamed about you lying in my bed, and me on top of you making
you truly appreciate you being born a woman."

"My god! Read some Shakespeare or
at least some Lord Korrigan Byron poems dude, because with lines
like those the odds of you scoring are a million to one," Aradia
spat at him.

"I don't know," he said finally
responding to her. "From the current position I am in, I can
honestly say I have just scored big time!"

"I am not a score!" Aradia
snapped.

"Want to bet? You being the last
witch... hell you’re a better score than a playboy model on the
rebound," he breathed heavily as he rubbed his whole face all over
hers and down her neck.

Aradia quickly raised her leg,
ready to knee him hard in his most sensitive area. Suddenly, he was
pulled off of her quicker than a flash from a camera. Aradia looked
up eagerly expecting Dax, but instead she saw Roy in his werewolf
form. Not even hesitating for a second Korrigan bared his own
fangs, and retaliated. He slashed at Roy who tried to take a swipe
at him with his paws.

Aradia just stood motionless until
she saw Roy getting thrown back in a blaze of fire. Aradia dashed
straight towards the direction he was falling and held out her arms
to grab him. She managed to catch him in time, but as she did so,
she could not help but stare at Korrigan in
astonishment.

"How?" she sputtered, "How did
you..."

"How do you think I did it Aradia?"
Korrigan snickered.

She shook her head, still not
understanding anything.

Until finally he said, "I am a
witch just like you!"

Chapter
Seventeen

Aradia gasped as Korrigan leaned
down closer to her. Suddenly, like an animal sensing a predator, he
raised his head quickly .

He glanced around and said, "I will
explain the next time I see you and believe me I will."

He then blew her a kiss. "Until
then, my love."

With that, he took off in to the
darkness of the night. Soon afterwards, Roy's brothers showed up,
and carried Roy inside. It had taken some time, but Aradia had
managed to heal Roy. At least his physical self, but according to
him what truly hurt were the wounds to his pride. Aradia had not
even been able to laugh at that because she was too confused about
what had had happened. After Roy had dropped her off at home, she
had still been in no mood to talk to her parents. Instead she had
just raced up to her room, threw herself onto her bed, and began to
think.

She had found proof that she was
the last witch yet here was a guy who undoubtedly had witch-like
powers and was at the same time a vampire.

How can he be both? Aradia
wondered.

"Oh it's easy," said a horrifyingly
familiar voice from out of the darkness. “To be part witch and
vampire that is.”

Aradia sat up her in bed, and
looked around frantically. She finally spotted Korrigan emerging
from the darkness grinning crudely. At first, Aradia wanted to
demand answers as to why was he in her room and how? Neither
questions seemed relevant though, all that did was getting away
from him. She then sprang up, and reached for the door. Korrigan,
however, sped towards her, blocked her path, and pushed down onto
her bed. Almost instantaneously, he was on top of her, breathing
heavily once again. Aradia struggled hard, trying to free herself.
She even threatened to scream for her parents.

Korrigan just laughed and whispered
in her ear, "Try it! I will kill them before they even have a
chance to beg for their lives!"

Aradia grew still and finally
whimpered, "What do you want from me?"

Korrigan laughed. "Only you my
dear! Only you!"

Aradia kept struggling, but
amazingly all he did was just hold her down as if the thought of
holding her captive was enough. However, he soon shook his head,
flipped himself on his back, and put Aradia on top of him. At
first, Aradia was stunned but once again, she struggled to get away
from his vice like grasp.

"God!" he gasped, "I love how you
wiggle on top of me!"

"Jesus you are gross!" she snapped
at him as she finally managed to break free.

Korrigan grabbed her again and
slammed her against the door, pressing himself against
her.

"What do you want from me?" she
gasped again.

He snickered softly. "I think we
already established that my sweet! Anyway the only reason I am here
is to give you the answers you want!"

"Answers?!" Aradia repeated, "What
answers?"

"Answers to how I can be a vampire
and part witch," he said.

Against her better judgment, Aradia
grew still. After glancing at the ground, ceiling and then at him,
she finally asked how.

He laughed yet again and explained,
"I was born a pure blood witch in a coven several miles away from
Salem, but one day I was turned into a vampire. My brothers took me
in and showed me how to use my powers. No witch had ever been
turned before so no one knew if I would even survive the turning,
but I did along with half of my witch powers."

"You mean warlock powers don't
you?" Aradia joked amazed she could do so in this type of
situation.

Korrigan merely shrugged.
"Whatever! Either way I am like you Aradia. I am a witch!
Therefore, you are not the last of your kind, you are not
alone!"

Aradia paused, but not because she
was enjoying Henry's roaming hands on her.

"But you are not really a witch,"
she argued, "You are a vampire!"

"With witch powers! It's basically
the same thing!" Korrigan argued.

"Why are you telling me this?"
Aradia finally asked him.

Korrigan groaned in frustration.
"Don’t you see? I can teach you how to use your powers. I can
explain to you about your past! Most especially, I can keep you by
my side and we can make more of our kind!"

"What?" she whispered.

"Babies! We can make babies
together!" he cackled, "Don't you want that? A family of your own
and more of our kind to be roaming the earth? Isn't that what you
want?"

"Can you do that?" she asked
astounded.

"No," he replied, "But we can! Just
you and I! We can make a whole brand new witch’s coven all by
ourselves!"

Korrigan then chuckled
crudely.

Aradia did not know what to say.
She knew it was possible that he could be lying, but what if he
wasn't. What if mating with him was the only way to restore her
people to existence. Then another more important thought crept into
Aradia's mind, what about Dax?

Using all her strength, she shoved
Korrigan away and gripped him about the throat as he landed against
her bookcase.

"Now you listen here you psycho
stalker with fangs!" Aradia snarled, "You get the hell out of my
room and don't you dare come back!"

With one last thrust of her hand,
she threw him out of her window! As he fell, he gripped the trunk
of a nearby tree, and swung around to crouch onto a branch. He
looked at her, but his look of shock soon turned to
amusement.

"Fine! I am going to leave you now
so you can think about what I have said," he chuckled, "But I can
honestly say I am going to enjoy breaking you!"

After licking his lips
languishingly, he disappeared from the branch. Aradia could hear
him running through the trees. Leaving her alone to sink against
the wall of her window, feeling violated, and emotionally tortured.
Her parents soon burst into her room with her father holding a
shotgun, and her mother behind him. Her father brandished the gun
left and right until her mother saw Aradia and dove straight to
her.

"Honey! Honey! Aradia! Are you
alright?" her mother said as she wrapped her arms around her. Her
father dropped the gun and soon followed suit.

They huddled clutching their
daughter as she cried until finally her mother forced her to look
at her.

She then repeated the question of
what was wrong, but all Aradia did was respond with a question of
her own. "Mom, dad can I sleep in your room tonight?"

The next day Liza called the school
and said that both she and Aradia could not come in today. Ross
still went to work reluctantly realizing that this sort of thing
was something that could only be talked about between mothers and
daughters. After baking some chocolate chip cookies, Liza threw a
blanket over Aradia's shoulders and asked once again what had had
happened. Aradia hesitated, but eventually she poured out the
entire story. She then spent the rest of the day crying in her
mother's arms.

"Are these all the files of the
latest assault charges filed?"

"Yeah," said Officer Sage,
"Why?"

Ross did not answer, and continued
to leaf through the papers. Unknown to his wife, and daughter he
had overheard Aradia describe her attacker. Although he knew that a
vampire was hardly going to be described in the police reports, he
still wanted to check.

So far, nothing had turned up, but
as he sat in his office as one of the many assistant district
attorneys of Salem he decided to go through the "Jane Doe" files
courtesy of the homicide division. Remembering what Aradia had
described, and trying to restrain the urge to go after the guy
himself with a wooden stake and mallet; Ross looked for
similarities of what had happened to Aradia in the
files.

Eventually, he hit pay dirt. An
identified woman, probably a prostitute, had been found badly
beaten by the side of the road. Judging by the lacerations on her
wrist, she had been tightly restrained to a bed, raped repeatedly
and then ultimately killed. What made this case so unusual was not
only did the victim have no traces of DNA of her attacker on her,
but the coroner also had discovered that she had had no blood left
in her body.

At lunch, Ross drove home to make
sure Liza and Aradia were all right.

He explained his findings to Aradia
who shuddered. "I figured his enthusiasm in holding me down was not
exaggerated on his part."

It was during English class, which
she shared with Dax when the teacher introduced three new students.
One of them was Korrigan! It was all Aradia could do from screaming
out loud especially when Korrigan walked right down the aisle
without even waiting to be introduced by the teacher and sat right
next to her. Unwilling to show that he freaked her out, Aradia kept
facing forward without so much as a side glance at him. Dax sat on
the opposite side of Aradia, and sent Korrigan the dirtiest and
fiercest look she had ever seen on him. Korrigan, however, did not
even notice him. He focused on Aradia as if he wanted to eat her
alive, slowly.