The Vampire & Her Witch

Chapter 119: Broken

Chapter 119: BrokenFor the first time since beginning this hunt, Imnek felt the icy grip of fear on his heart. Two of his fellows were dead, one had fallen and retreated, and they’d only managed to kill one pathetic horned soldier in return. When Paulus warned him about the witch, he had dismissed her because she was cowering behind an ice shield. Now, he realized that she wasn’t cowering, she was a hunter herself, choosing her time to spring a trap.

Five years ago, he’d left the frozen islands of his homeland in

Blood spurted from Imnek’s mouth, flowing down his tusks and even more blood flowed from his wounds. Along his tusks, swirling ice blue, pale white, and even dark blue energy began to pour from the sharpened Frost Walker horns lashed to his tusks, rising around him like mist above a grave.

"No, no, you can’t!" Imnek cried, his eyes trembling in fear. Ghostly voices of Frost Walkers long dead whispered in his giant, floppy ears and cackled gleefully as they pulled free of his control. Frost spread rapidly up his tusks as two phantom Frost Walkers advanced inexorably toward his face, impaling themselves on his tusks much as he had impaled them so many years ago.

Dark blue apparitions latched onto his open wounds, plunging icy hands into his body and freezing his blood as they seeped into his flesh until their icy hands gripped his still-beating heart.

White mist flowed outward from him, surrounding both Imnek and Ashlynn with a fog that pulled the warmth from their bodies and poured it into the ice below. Cracks reverberated across the frozen lake as the ice weakened and shattered under Imnek’s feet. Beneath the cracking sound, early drowned out by Imnek’s dying roars, laughing voices celebrated as the owners of his trophies finally claimed their revenge.

"My Lady!" Heila cried, darting out from behind Hauke’s ice shield as the ice beneath Ashlynn and Imnek gave way, plunging them both into the frigid watery depths below.