SAME DAY
Everyone who wore the red robed today we're considered the bravest and most loyal vampires and wolves. To fight in a battle so gruesome, death was assured to come to you, in the faith for the greater good.
I had waited patiently, bearing the pulsating pain in my chest and hoping for the best for all of us. For the best that we would all survive and be together one last time as a clan before I set off on my own path to find out for myself the answers to my life. But the odds of that were slim and the chances of only one of us surviving was great.
But I had hope. Hope on the fact that the adjudicators with the mind's-eye were to pair up with another fighter, either wolf or vampire. The one with mind manipulation would do their best to deceive the enemy into seeing mirages while the other defeats the opponent. But the wolves were no ordinary being, and the control they had over their minds was strong. It was left to a psychic battle between vampire and wol
CONTINUATION…I heaved painfully with a croaked grunt as I killed the last one in the higher court. I had used the same move Jereum had used to get behind me to kill the second wolf. As it had bit at me, I jumped, planting a foot firmly to the walls and pushing myself forward. Driving the sharp silver blade into the back of the creature’s neck, dragging the blade along its spine and severing just about any vitals in its back.All the adjudicators lay in pieces on the floors. Their bodies slowly vapourizing away. I went through a door at the back of the large assembly hall, that's where the refuges were held. On walking down the stairs and getting to a lower floor I was roughly hit and then pinned down by something.The wolf snapped at my head repeatedly and I dodged to either side while still lying under it. It went straight to me this time and placed a hand on its snout and pushed back on it as it tried forcing its head down. It was winning, its op
ONE WEEK LATER. FRIDAYWhen I wake up it is to the soft touch of someone's skin against my regrown arm. My eyelids flutter slower as dim lighters through my lashes. I saw several blurry figures looming above me. I couldn't make out any faces or sounds except for the darker skin of Jhan... Or Nicha.After a few more minutes of indistinct chatter and blurry vision, I finally made out Leya's face. She looked down at me, a concerned frown on her face."Le-Leya?" I muttered. "What happened?""Shush. He’s waking, he's waking..." I couldn't recognize to whom this voice belonged to but it sounded feminine."Where I'm I?" I tried raising my head but the blow from a strong migraine sent me back down."We won Kaldar, you helped defeat Hardaj..."“Tia? Who is Hardaj?""Oh, for hells sake. Cut us the slack Kaldar! You were only out one week." Jereum said in an irritated complaining manner.I tried recollecting how I had g
I didn’t think much of it before I leaped for her windowsill. This town had mostly human occupants, I had to be careful. I caught hold and hoisted myself in, it was just like old times. When we were still madly in love. Her warm scent coated the room like a paint, it reminded me of the warmth she brought to me. I waited for her to walk in, for her to close the door behind her before I stepped out of the shadowy part I was camouflaged in.She gasped at my cold touch but she did not scream. I had expected her to at least put up a small fight but she didn’t resist when I pulled her closer to me. She stiffened for a little while, allowing me to wrack my brain in thought that it might not have worked, before she slowly whispered my name. Jhan had kept his word, she remembered me, the feeling of walking into her room to meet her vampire lover must have been all it took.The familiar warmth from her body seeped through my jacket, warming me up. She hugged me back
My mind had been frantic throughout out the night. I had done something unforgivable not to mention killing a vampire in the process. Wasn't I supposed to not be able to feel love or to care? Wasn't I supposed to be unfeeling, unnerving?I could still seer her cowering in fear under his grip. She had looked at me like I was a red horned demon from hell.The heavy weights of guilt, sadness and fear had been thrown over me. I was careful to burn the clothes I wore in an alley before returning home. I was oozing of Dawn.I could still feel the heat from her body, her delicate lips inbetween my own. But all those warm thoughts were dissolved by the thrilling sight of the vampire as he disintegrated into the air. Before yesterday I wouldn't have thought I could kill, and with such ease it only took about a second to do it. But I did I for Dawn. I couldn't let her slip away from me under the arms of that delusional vampire. I heaved out a heavy breath, trying to calm
It had been raining heavily.The nice after smell of petrichor would excite any vampire. Our senses were sharp, sharper than the average humans. It was why I was able to perceive the scent of every human that used our town. Humans were not supposed to use our town, little did they know that this quiet, small town harboured only blood drinking occupants.I had no memories of myself, I had just woken up in a dusty attic decorated with cobwebs. I could hear my own heart beating from inside my chest. I could see the other vampires that I woke up to live with, through the wooden walls. It was like I had developed the sense of a bat.Although I couldn't remember much about myself, the remainder of my memories came to me in short flashes. Those flashes usually brought a strong sense of nausea with them.I remembered some of it very vividly, the pain, the numbness, the pungent smell of unknown chemicals and medicines that always hung in the air, the constant urge to vomi
I looked at her skin glow under the sun light. Her golden hair flowed like a gold river down her head. Her smooth skin and deep dimples made her look perfect. My dreams were filled with her warm scent. My cold heart was immediately filled with warmth at the mere thought of Dawn. Dawn was just a human girl yet to me she was like a bright star in my dark cold heart.I had cherished every moment of yesterday, every moment that I basked in her sweet scent.I sat on the couch. I had taken a short walk around the block but I saw no sign of Dawn. I hadn’t even picked up the slightest traces of her sweet scent. I had returned home before anyone would notice.I was sitting on one of the sofas, waiting for Jhan to come back from wherever he went so I could bombard him with the mountain of questions I had mentally piled. I was still in pyjamas, the light blue colour of the material gave a nice contrast to my dark skin.Yesterday I had heard Jhan tell the other that I
A black minivan was parked in the garage beside the house. Jhan started the engine and Jereum mounted the front seat.Leya sat beside me. The thirteen years old could have passed for an eight year old because of her childish character.Jereum told me that he was a hundred and three, Tia was sixteen when she was impurified but she had lived for seventy-seven years and Jhan was a hundred and sixtyMy introduction to the higher court was kept simple. Vampires whispered amongst each other as I was announced to be a Supreme. I was yet to discover what that meant.The building of the higher court was a large white manor with broad deep underground compartments. The higher court were made up of table of vampires. They looked no older than thirty, one of them even looking to.be about Leya's age.The clans that were assembled in the large underground hall wore identical clothing. My clan wore brown jackets; Tia's was a very short croptop like jacket. Leya wore a brow
THURSDAYI stared at the passing cars. Every red one pulled my gaze along with it until it was out of sight. I had been waiting for twenty minutes now, counting the passing seconds in my head and keeping track of every minute that went by. I was sure she would soon jog pass or drive by. I was waiting. I was patient.house was just around the corner, I would see her as soon as she rounds the—"Hey."I jumped, killer instincts ready to attack, but as my gaze fell into hers my bones turned to jelly.I clutched my stomach as her scent filled my nostrils, strong, living, lively. My human mate had no idea what influence she had over me."Are you alright?" she asked. Her voice calm.'How did she... Why did she turn around the block?' I asked myself. I was too concentrated on the road I hadn't heard her come up on me.Her sweet scent was beginning to overwhelm me, I needed to block it out.Tia had gave me a small white towel that was