Nathan was surprised how nimble the young drake was with his long talons and nodded his head approvingly. "Your pretty nimble for a winged lizard," he remarked holding his rib cage chuckled painfully. "It is a pity you don't know how to sew," he remarked bitterly as he pulled up his shirt. His entire rib cage in his left side was a giant ugly  dark purple and grusume green bruise that surrounds a long deep gash that went all the way the bone that badly needed stitches. It was then Nathan noted his little brother's sudden unease.<br/><br/><span style="color: #4000FF"><span style="font-style: italic">"Nathan, something is in the woodâ€¦I donâ€™t think we should light a fire.â€ </span></span><br/><br/>Nathan quickly dropped his shirt, covering the wound back up and laughed... it was a weak tired laugh but did not lack his usual fighting spirit. "On the contrary,the bigger the fire the better,<br/>we are already spotted," he announced pulling out a lighter from his pocket he lit the entire stack of fire wood ablaze. "This will act as a second barrier, and if they are what I think they are... this should make their eyes sting a little, " he chuckled as he threw pouch of black power into the flames shoot upward making the flames burn even brighter!" Nathan nodded approvingly.<br/><br/>"Relax, Borial, its just a scout! if they wanted to attack we would have been dead a half hour ago," he informed him as he calmly set himself on a round boulder and held his sigh painfully.<br/><br/>"My little brother, if wish to survive in this world do fight with not with tooth and claw, or weapons formed from steel... fight with fire, earth, water and wind," he said in a low calm confident voice. "This isn't my first encounter with vampires," he assured him, as he fished through the pocket of his coat he grinned pulling out a sleek intricately carved wooden flute, "Have you ever seen a Vampire cry before," he asked Borial.<br/><br/>He did not wait for Borial to answer, and then began to play a sweet soft pleasant soothing melody. His sharp blue eyes glanced over to Borial and gave him a sly wink as he twisted the top of the wooden flute.... and the sweet melody suddenly turned into a terrible high pitched ring.....<br/><br/>Seconds! their was a horrible loud shrieks echoed throughout the forest! Followed by a vampire glad in fine armor that fell out of the trees right into middle of their campsite squealing and writhing in anguish as with his hands over ears. "No more! No more!No more!" he wailed wretchedly as he clasped his bleeding eardrums.<br/><br/>Nathan pulled the flute from his lips rose up from the stone he was sitting on and ruthlessly kicked the  vampire in the face. "Blood or silver Vamp?" He demanded as jangled a pouch of silver coins over his head.<br/><br/>"Fucking half blood! Queen Vinna will hear about this!" he snarled angrily, until he looked up to see Nathan's sword at his neck.<br/><br/>Nathan grinned, "I remember, the pair twins told me the same thing last time," he told him and emptied the bag silver coins onto his head, "And you can tell your vampire bitch! to leave me the hell alone!" he shouted over the Vampires shrieks as the silver burned into his skin! "Get the fuck out of here!" he snapped and  with another sharp kick to the behind, he sent the scout running back into the darkness.<br/><br/>Nathan calmly sat back down onto his rock, and glanced over toward Borial, "Relax, look strong keep the fire going, and they won't mess with us," he told him encouragingly.