Helena’s POV
If you are a native of Bulgaria, then you could have probably heard of our family name. Ours is one of the oldest and noblest that ever lived in the country. After the first world war, my ancestors felt the need to anglicise our surname because of a family scandal.
I am Helena Battenberg and I am three hundred years old.
Three hundred years old is equivalent to a teenager in the human world. I am still very young, in this case, I kid you not.
One thing about us, is that we do not age, right after we hit the maturity age--and that is eighteen years old, we slowly stop disintegrating until the next fifty years. Like botox on steroids.
Bettenberg was before the family scandal. here is a little back story, My uncle. Thedeus Battenberg went on a killing spree in a little village. Killing at least thirteen people. I personally do not know what has gotten into him, but from what I was told, it was the root cause of all the succeeding alterations in the family. My mother told me that I was a wee little baby when that happened. Even those days, killing a bunch of humans to feed your gastronomical needs was not okay. We had rules. And rules have kept us alive.
“So, what happened after?”
“That is a tale we are to discuss not tonight, moon pie.” As she tucked me in for bed, we just had dinner--a whole venison--and it was yum.
Mother told me that he was placed under the high jury and was incarcerated for an eternity. Personally, I did not think it was just. We live forever unless we are staked to the heart of course. Uncle Thadeus to this day is said to be very well and alive, we still send him a deer once a week for his consumption. Nothing came after about the infamous Thadeus Battenberg. I am guessing that some of the high jury used their prized hypnotic ability to keep it hushed but to make sure that we do not get connected to any more of my uncle’s shenanigans--we switched into Mountbatten.
To this day, I am Helena MountBatten.
To ease the tension and suspicion of us not aging, we do not stay in Bulgaria for a hundred years and then return. In my case, I spent the last one hundred years in Asia. I circled most of the countries whenever someone points out that I have not aged a day. That is a vampire red flag. Our ancestral house is managed by trusted personnel. Those who served our ancestors and those who pledged alliance to us. We are big on loyalty.
We do not eat people this days.
That is too morbid.
Gone are the days of coffin and moot and goth. And devouring a person.
I, in particular is very fashion forward. I value and find fashion more of a need than a necessity. I always have the best and the latest shoe or bag. The family came from old money and that money is not going anywhere unless I spend it, right? My family does not object to my purchases. I am entitled to it, it goes with my birthright. Being the last of the original Battenbergs. My brother does not care about the money, he likes to be a nomad with very little of everything.
One thing remains though, we still cannot handle the heat of the sun. We are still nocturnal , but this days--no one will question you when you state beforehand that you work graveyard. We can go out as early as five in the afternoon as long as the scorching death rays of the sun is gone. We vampires have evolved too. We became more humane and developed laws that makes sure that our human counterparts are safe and that we live in harmony with them. We have people who work in blood banks that give us easy access to blood anytime. Money works wonders.
Today, I return to Bulgaria, along with the rest of the family. My mother is coming from Turkey. My sibling Maddox, from Africa and I, from New York. There are a lot of family members too that were about to spend the weekend or more in Bulgaria. After all, a millennia happens very scarce and some of us are not very lucky to attend the next gathering.
This years millennia is very special to the vampires because it is also the year where we pay tribute to the Godesss Persephone, the goddess of the underworld. Contrary to popular belief that it was Hades who run the underworld--it was not true--Hades was her slave and he had no freedom whatsoever and everything that happens in the underworld, directly affects us. We are the decendants of Persephone.Why else would we have this festivity in her name?
I traveled the usual way. Just like any human would, by plane. Although, I could easily teleport, teleportation is one of the perks of being a vampire with noble blood.And only the purebloods can do that. However, I like to travel in style and also, I just had my passport and Visa done by a fellow vampire. I like to travel in style, so, of course, I took the first class and slept through out the flight. When I reached the airport, I saw how hard it was to get a cab, so I went back inside with the little hand carry luggage I have, mostly a prop--and teleported in the ladies’ room. In the blink of the eye I was in the magnificent hallway of our country mansion.
The Mansion of the House of Hesse-Dermstadt had barely aged like us. We hired a human curator to take care of it and it was her job to make sure that her predecessor will do the same. It was easy to do with a little help of hypnosis and my mother’s ability to hypnotize. Each of the family have a gift, mother with her ability to persuade people and Maddox with his ability to manipulate and I with the ability to do nothing but to teleport, which was kind of a normal thing with vampires with noble decendancy.
Before I could inhale the familiar scent of the mansion, a swishing sound was heard, and my mother, the Duchess Solandra Battenberg now Mountbatten appeared with her silver white hair, that was now cut in a very fashionable pixie cut and sporting a velvet red tunic with a matching scarf. Her ensemble made her look like she was a distinguished delegate from the country she came from.
“I swear to Lilith that I wanted to teleport in the bedroom to change first.” She complained in her very sultry voice.
“Hello, mother.” I said.
Solandra looked around and ignored my greetings. I know who she was looking for.
“Where the bloody hell is Maddox?”
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