'How on earth did she?' Demetri questioned himself as he stared wide eyed at the vacant spot she was just standing in. Everything had vanished. Her scent lingered around the room but where she stood it was just... gone.

Ignoring his sire Demetri found himself running in the direction of the tenor of her mind. 

The hunt had begun. 

Flashback About 1100 AD Cairo, Egypt:

Demetri was locked in his room. 

Again.

He couldn't understand why Amun wished to keep him hidden all the time. He was a vampire, one of the most feared creatures ever created. He was at the top of the food chain, so what did he have to fear? 

He stood by the window in the shadow of the curtains as he watched the humans go about their lives. From up here he could see them scurry about like insects. Like many before him, he couldn't remember his human life but according to Amun he'd expressed a talent for finding things. He enjoyed hunting, he missed the feeling of stalking prey. The fear as they tried to run knowing they'd been caught. But for him the thrill was always in the chase.

He was a hunter, he always will be. 

Which is why being locked in his room was driving him insane. Sure he could just break out but he couldn't disrespect Amun like that. He scanned the crowed below him latching onto the tenor's of their minds. He would hold on to one and see how far he could trace it just to pass the time. 

Kebi would bring him food but he felt like some lost princess waiting for a prince to take him away. Snorting at the thought he turned to his sire's mate.

"How much longer?" He asks taking the human from her arms. 

"We do not know, they've been watching the city for some time now." She replied sympathetically. "He's annoyed you went hunting and drew attention to us. He's only trying to protect you."

"What is the point in this existence if all I am going to do is waste away in the shadows?" He pondered out loud watching black hooded figures approach their front doors. He had been hunting without permission and crossed the path of another vampire. The vampire, Felix, was rather interested in the way he hunted, so Demetri told him. "We have visitors." Kebi rushed to the younger vampire's side and looked down gasping in surprise causing red eyes to glance their direction.  A smirk tugged on the lips of the man that clearly stood out as their leader. 

Kebi and Demetri descended to the living area quickly taking their positions at Amun's side as the double doors opened and the cloaked figures entered the room in an extravagant manner. 

Demetri never realized in that moment his life had changed for good. 

His loyalty to his coven faded away, but one thing stood out for him.

He had finally gained a purpose.

Demetri allowed the slight haze of memory to pass from his mind as he'd been blindly chasing her mind for a couple of days now. He took in his surroundings. He recognized the Spanish architecture and the undeniable scent of Madrid. He followed her scent easily. She was long gone, her tenor somewhere further north, but her scent had been all over this area. 

The smell of olives and honey led him to an abandoned building. He could smell the spilled blood inside  leaving a rusty tang in the air. The temptation of fresh blood causing his eyes to darken considerably. 

"She said you were coming." A nomad stood by the window looking at the envelope in his hand. He wore a large brown trench coat that buried his slim physique. Dull colored jeans and a t-shirt was just visible. "I suppose this is my punishment for betraying her coven hundreds of years ago. I always knew she'd call in the favor I owed her eventually." His red eyes met Demetri's.

Demetri shifted uncomfortably under the stranger's curious gaze. "She is more dangerous than anything you have ever chased before. The smiles, the playfulness, it's all a facade. Makes you drop your guard, makes you vulnerable as she swoops in for the kill." 

"And yet you're here doing her bidding." Demetri pointed out in a cool voice.

The nomad scoffed a little. "I'm a tracker too, I've tried to play this game of cat and mouse before, it never ends well for the cat."

"What did she do for you to owe her?"

"She let me live." He replied with a blank tone lost in memory as he held out the letter to the vampire. "I suppose she'd only let me live for so long. Especially after what I did." 

Demetri moved back to the other side of the room his eyes roving the neatly written script.

Demetrius,

This is Mathias, he's been around a very long time and is wanted in relation to the attack on the Greek Coven. I think that Caius would be very pleased to meet with him.

Pleasure doing business with you,

Andromeda.

P.S. Enjoy your meal can't have you starving in your attempts to capture me.

He could make out a heart beat in another room and turned back to the vampire who was still looking out the window. 

"You're not going to run?" Demetri questioned the man.

"What's the point, you have my tenor now, after centuries of being careful of who I meet and interact with, the one person I could never catch turned me over." He was void of any emotion but Demetri could sense something else as he spoke about her.

"You love her." His tone was slightly accusing but the man's eyes didn't deny it either.

Mathias smiled slightly, sadly. "She was not my mate, but yes, in a way I did love her. She's like no one you have ever met." Mathias straightened his coat and gazed into the night. "I'll be in the city." With those words he blurred out of the abandoned building. 

Demetri ran a hand through his wind blown hair and felt a familiar burning in his throat. The hunger for blood was breaking his years of patience as he wondered how she knew. How did she manage to time is arrival and hunger so accurately?

He pondered the strange creature that is Andromeda as he drained his meal disposing of the evidence. She was an enigma, an enigma with a smile. She was the kind of person who could torture someone for centuries on end. It was what she had done to Mathias. She let the man live in fear of her, never knowing when she might show up to end his life. From what he knew of the tale she had more than enough reason to take that man's life and here she was gifting him to Caius. 

"What?" Demetri snapped into the receiver of his phone annoyed at whomever brought him from his thoughts of her, him mind desperately latching onto hers. Contrary to popular believe vampires aren't all grunge, coffins, castles and moats. They may cling to habits of the past but modern technologies have their uses. 

"Easy there buddy," came the reply and Demetri rolled his eyes at the sound of his friends familiar voice. "The Masters want to know what's taking you so long. Mr Best-tracker-in-the-world and nothing can escape me." Felix teased and Demetri growled in warning an annoyance.

"She's fast." He replied simply.

"That's her gift, she's fast." Felix replied and Demetri could hear the skepticism in his voice.

"Oh and she can teleport."

"What?" Came the disbelief in the giant's voice.

"Like poof and gone teleport." Demetri replies not sure if he should be excited or annoyed by her talents. 

"The Masters want to know what else you'd found out."

"Her name is Andromeda, she is a former member of the Greek coven."

"Do you know who sired her?" Came another voice in the background.

"No master. I do know she has ties to the Egyptian coven. They took her in for a while, and she's been a nomad since. I also believe parts of her gifts are to do with foresight. She can predict and anticipate the movements of others."

"It is imperative you catch her Demetri,"

"Yes master. Also she led me to another vampire by the name of Mathias. He's here in Madrid, she said that Caius would want to meet with him."

"The Masters are going to send the witch twins to pick up Mathias." Felix spoke again. "So how does it feel to have finally met your match."

"It's all just a game to her."

"As I recall you're very good at games. Quite competitive too." He could hear the smirk as Felix spoke.

"She's toying with me."

"Then toy back, you're just as cunning, if not more so. I'm sure you'll figure something out." He could hear the giant sniggering at his misfortune.

"Thanks for your wonderful advice." Demetri replied sarcastically. "I'll call with an update later." 

Demetri stared at the burning corpse of his latest meal as he planned to catch the minx. He couldn't rely only on his gift to hunt her, her speed was outmatched. She had the advantage knowing he was hunting her, and how he found his prey. He'd have to change that. He picked up the small note inhaling her scent with a grin. 

This cat had a plan.