After a moment of thought, Lillith had a better idea to tweak Ivan's nose. After all, Uncle Vlad had told him to keep an eye on her. That means... if she ran off, she would trouble Ivan, and he'd have to follow her and find her. In that case...
Lillith waited for a moment where Ivan was distracted and darted away into the forest. Serves you right, mean ol' Ivan!
She sprinted at her top speed and scrambled up over trees and made rather large leaps around. For moments, she'd release her wings and use them to glide a distance away before hiding them again and ducking away under trees and through the canopy. With luck, she would have lost Ivan, and left a trail he'd have to take a while to figure out. After a while of this, she leapt back to the ground and began to wander, still disguised by her glamour.
***
Aniela sighed a bit, here she was on the run again. At least she hoped she might run into someone this time. Maybe a human, yes, definitely a human. She could just imagine tearing away at his flesh or making him her own toy. She grinned deviously.
The Empousai looked around the area she was now in, not to far from Vivian.. But far enough from the town, wasn't she supposed to be going to the town? "Diáole!" she cursed in Greek. She was lost once again. How could she get lost so fast?
***
Lillith continued to wander for a while longer, before glimpsing a figure in the distance. She ducked behind the trunk of a tree and peeked back out at it. Was it human or supernatural? Was it a group or just one person? Her tactics would have to change depending on all of these factors. So she crept closer for a closer look. If need be, she would climb a tree and try moving through the canopy to avoid detection until she knew more.
***
Aniela looked to the side, to where she had heard movement. She figured it was her imagination, but that was when she heard it again. "Who's there?" she called. She withdrew her sword and held it out in front of her. There was no reason to switch into her true form unless she learned the target was hostile. Her hands gripped the sword so tight her knuckles began turning white. "Again, who is there? "
***
Lillith wasn't too far away by now, and it seemed she hadn't been undetected. It seemed what she had glimpsed was a lone woman. A hunter? The woman drew a sword and called out. Lillith thought quickly, and chose to make a little gasp.
"P-please don't h-hurt me..." she whimpered, as she huddled against a tree trunk. Lillith chose to try to look as pitiful and terrified as possible. This scene should appeal to most female humans. Since she was facing a human, she might as well make sure they let their guard down. Uncle Vlad would be very proud of her if she managed to bring several humans home, after all, but she didn't need to bring them all at once. After all, if she rushed things, or passed up this chance, she might get nothing. So, she would focus on this prey before her.
***
Ani jerked her head to the little girl, she immediately felt something off. She kept her sword pointed at Lillith. "Move, and I will not hesitate to hurt you. Tell me, are you a human?" the Empousai asked. Her dark eyes glinted in the light that shined through a small patch in the trees.
She had slightly relaxed her hand, and she began walking towards the girl, hoping to trap her against the tree. Aniela was worried that this could be an attack from hunters, but why did this seem so off?
***
Damn, this seems to be a clever human. I suppose it is indeed strange to see a human child so far into this forest.
"Wh-What do you m-mean?" Lillith asked as if confused, eyes filled with tears as she let her voice tremble. Her little feet appeared to be covered in old scratches and bruises. The edges of her little white dress seemed to be torn and muddied.
She kept her eyes open, and made sure to look terrified and wary of this stranger with a blade. She huddled at the base of the tree, little arms pressed against her chest. Lillith did her best to keep up her act. If she wasn't careful, this human would realize the truth.
***
Aniela smiled, inside her mouth glinted two white fangs, "I mean.. I will tear you to shreds and then eat your corpse bit by bit." she cooed. She seemed to grow taller as she showed her true form. Her legs shifted into a bronze robotic leg, and the other a brown hairy goat leg. The whites in her eyes were gone as her pupil filled her entire eye, showing nothing but black. All around her head she noticed smoke rise as her brown hair turned into flames.
"Greek legend says that the Empousai is a succumbs and a vampire combined. I eat humans for fun, little girl."
***
As the woman spoke, Lillith suddenly realized she had guessed the identity of her opponent incorrectly. This should make things interesting though. This woman definitely wasn't a human-lover, so... things could be interesting if it turned out she was good at fighting as well. Lillith's eyes widened, and she pretended to be petrified in terror. To add verisimilitude to the act, she allowed her knees to quake and her shoulders shake with silent laughter, though she let none of it show on her expression. Instead it looked like she was shaking in fear. She intended to dodge the incoming attack, as soon as the Empousai made a move.
An Empousai... what an interesting creature...
***
Ani looked at the girl long and hard. Nothing seemed right, she eventually came to the conclusion that this girl was not a human. She smirked and than began laughing. "You are not human, am I right? If you were you would be screaming your tiny little heart out. Before we go anywhere with this, I happen to know there are a few humans in the area." she talked on, she turned around and began walking away, though she was still completely alert. "If you do feel like fighting, I just hope you could catch up with me." she mused. She enjoyed her powers.
The thought of her human "friends" did not go through her mind at all. She was thinking she could hunt with this girl. She could bring the well deserved terror to those hunters.
***
When the empousai before her laughed, Lillith was startled.
"Heeeey~ I could have been frozen in terror, couldn't I?" Lillith pouted.
"Damn it...! how boring..." Lillith sulked as she kicked the dirt a bit.
"Anyways, if we're going to hunt hunters, we need a plan. Hm... if there's one, I can be the first distraction, you can be the second distraction, and I can take them out. The confusion should allow us to take out a couple of them before they really have their guards up if we meet a group of two or more. However, I need to know how many we're dealing with. If there are too many, it would be better if we took them out bit by bit, after all. I also want to know how they're equipped." Lillith said.
***
Ani snorted when she heard the others reaction. But got onto business. She slid her sword back to where it was supposed to go and began shifting back to her human form. When she was done, she turned around and smiled at the girl. "I know the perfect person to go for. Aaron. This, I hope can bring me some revenge. I will point Aaron out to you later, his brother, Mason, had tried to scare me. He had tried to kill me, even hunt me down. The thing I hate most about him, is that he is immune to my powers of seduction." Ani finished in a dramatic voice. Her brown hair was strewn across her face, "But wait, before anything." she paused and held out her hand. "I am Aniela, it is Greek. As you probably figured from my accent. And I am a Empousai. People love to consider me a succubus, vampire, or werewolf." she chattered, but then stopped.
Why was she giving out all her information to this girl? She wanted to help hunt the humans. That's why.
***
"Someone immune to the voice? Sounds troublesome. Well, I guess we have a target then. I'll assume they're armed with guns and knives. They're probably all humans. Well then, if we're going after one. I'll try to split them up. If we meet them in a group. I'll be a distraction. You attack, than I'll attack. How's that sound?" Lillith suggested.
"Ah, that's right." Lilith added as an afterthought, "Nice to meet you, Ani. I'm Lilith."
***
Ani frowned. "I was thinking, maybe you run towards Aaron, because I do attend to get him. You scream that someone is chasing after you, then that's when I come in. I assume he will be more focused on me so you hit him on the head or something when he is coming for me" she tried.
***
"That's pretty much what I was planning, but there's no guarantee we'll find him alone. If he's alone, we'll definitely do that. Actually, that's probably a good plan for any person that's alone. So it's settled. We have a plan for handling a group, and a plan for handling a single person. Now, all we have to do is find them. If I see a person alone. I'll just start screaming and running off, so let's start at a distance. I take one side, you take another, so we have a better chance of spotting someone." Lillith said.
She began to move in the direction Aniela had come and began to search for signs of humans.
***
Aniela and Lillith moved carefully through the forest, searching for even a glimpse of a human figure. It had been a bit since their last conversation, but as supernaturals, they could keep up a faster pace than a human, and still spot as much as they would have if they had gone at a slower pace. Lillith froze when she saw a human, then began to slowly creep forward. It appeared to be a man. A lone man.
Lillith double checked the surroundings for any sign of others, but saw no signs of them. It seemed she would be able to use her plan soon. Lillith used her glamor to make her appear as if she was crying and make it appear as if there were tears in her eyes. After that, Lillith burst into a sprint at the speed of a little girl and began to scream. "Help me! Help me! A monster's chasing me!"
Aniela took a deep breath, counted to 10, and then chased after Lillith.
