“Wow,” Sonya said, breathless. “Not only are your moves precise, but the power... I’m really impressed.”
“April has taken to running around the farm house, running out to the stables, up around the guest house and back through the main garden,” Dr.Ang said. “And when one of our stableboys left to go back to school, April took up the tasks.”
“I like to keep busy,” April said with a shy shrug.
“And what about you, Dr.Ang? Have you been practicing?”
He set his teacup down and came to her. Without warning, he made a quick succession of kung fu moves, never striking Sonya, but barely brushing up against her. His kicks were high, his strikes precise and as he went on minute after minute, he proved he had the stamina to fight long and hard.
“Are you sufficiently impressed?”he said with a proud grin after he’d stopped and bowed.
Sonya laughed. “I felt the wind against my skin with every move you made, but you never touched me. That is beyond precision.”
“Dad is too modest to say that he is a kung fu master.”
Dr.Ang nodded.
“He’s also been training with weapons and is a sharpshooter.”
“This just keeps getting better. I can breathe more easily knowing all this.”
She looked at the man who’d done such a marvelous job of raising her daughter. No wonder Sifu had chosen him for the task. As a wise old vampire, Sifu had quickly seen the importance of putting April in the right hands.
As humans went, Dr.Ang was the best she could have hoped for.
“I don’t want to be alarmist, but...this Bat that I’ve seen. He’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I have to assume that he is a very ancient vampire, one who is able to shift into a human-sized bat by night but retain his human form by day.
“Sifu must have known of his existence,” Dr.Ang said. “She thought it imperative that a human vampire slayer get involved. With April now so well prepared, we are two slayers against this Bat.”
Sonya nodded, not quite convinced it would be enough.
“Remember, Sonya,” Dr.Ang said. “As a vampire yourself, you have certain limitations when it comes to fighting someone like the Bat. But April and I are here. We’ll succeed in destroying him. I promise you.”
Chapter 14
Sonya poured waterinto the bottom chamber of her new percolator, then spooned ground coffee into the top basket. Setting the basket onto the stem, she then put the cover on and placed the percolator on the stove burner.
