“Anything?” Charmwill leaned forward.
“Anything, sir,” Loki stressed. “If not for the sake of going home, then to know who my dad is, what I did wrong, and who that girl I fell in love with was. How do you expect me to move forward when I don’t know my past?”
“As your guardian, it’s my duty to teach you and help you fulfill the destiny you choose,” Charmwill leaned back in his chair. “And now that you’ve decided, you should know that everything the man on the phone told you is true,” Charmwill stopped Loki from interrupting so he could explain further. “There is a sixteen year old vampire called Snow White. She is a troubled girl with a mysterious past, who lives in a castle in a town called Sorrow. It’s more of an island than town, and it can only be reached by passing through another town called Hell.”
“So there is actually a town called Hell?” Loki wondered.
“There are many towns called Hell in America. You can easily spot them on the map,” Charmwill said. “There is Hell in Michigan, in the Cayman Islands, in Cleveland, Ohio, in California, in Arizona, and in Kentucky. All of these towns serve as portals to the island of Sorrow—its residents like to call it a town, but it’s actually an island. The vampire Snow White lives in that town. We’re talking about things few people know about.”
“But Lucy looked like an ordinary Minikin,” Loki considered.
“Sorrow is a special place with special secrets,” Charmwill interrupted him. “You shouldn’t bother yourself knowing much about people like Lucy.”
“So what should I bother with, sir?”
Charmwill stared directly into Loki’s eyes, “That killing Snow White is worth ninety-nine vampires in the eyes of the Council of Heaven,” he said.
“What?” Loki snapped.
“Like I said, if you kill this Snow White vampire in Sorrow, you will be forgiven and allowed to go home.”
“Why didn’t you tell me that a year ago?”
“Isn’t it obvious?” Charmwill raised an eyebrow. “You’re scared of girls, Loki. How did you expect me to tell you about her a year ago? I thought you might either like this Ordinary World or kill ninety-nine vampires, or even overcome your fear of monster girls. You didn’t do any of that. Now, you’re left with the only chance to fulfill your destiny.”
“By killing the kind of vampire I am scared of the most,” Loki shrugged his shoulders.
“Nothing comes easy. If you want to go back, you will need to face your fears this time. Going to Sorrow will be your greatest challenge because it will not only tell you who you are, but what you are capable of, and that’s the most important to me,” Charmwill took a casual drag from his pipe.
“So all I have to do is go to Sorrow through a portal in a town called Hell, kill Snow White and it will be over?”
Charmwill nodded.
“I will have to face my fears,” Loki said to himself. “But what if I kill her and someone pulls the stake out later like the dude in Forks? I am afraid they’ll ban me again,” he replied eagerly.
“That’s why you will need this,” Charmwill handed him a thick, but small notebook.
Loki picked it up. It was old with yellowish pages and hundreds of hand-written drawings and instructions. He flipped through it once without reading anything specifically. The notebook’s title read: The Dreamhunter’s Guide.
“Dreamhunter?” Loki said.
“You wanted to know about your past, and one of the things you didn’t know about was that you were a Dreamhunter like your father, a very good one, too.”
“I am? And what does a Dreamhunter do? I didn’t know my father was one, too,” Loki was excited.
“A Dreamhunter is the only hunter that has the ability to kill Demortals, which is the name we call a certain kind of immortal demon including vampires. Demortal demons don’t die, no matter how many times you stake them. Like the vampire in Forks, once you pull the stake out of them they will come to life again. However, only a skilled Dreamhunter can get rid of them,” Charmwill leaned forward again.
“How so?”
“A Dreamhunter stakes a vampire in their dreams while they’re asleep so they can never wake up again. The Demortal’s mind can’t comprehend the idea of being killed in their dreams and it paralyzes their brains and they can’t wake up again in the real world.”
“Even when someone pulls the stake out?” Loki had to ask again.
Charmwill nodded. “The only way to kill the vampire girl in Sorrow is to kill her in her dreams, which is practically not killing her, but putting her to sleep forever, which is good enough.”
“Is that why they were looking for me?” Loki wondered. “Lucy said there was some kind of prophecy about only one person being able to kill the vampire.”