“Marylin returned to the castle to keep the peace, but for days she couldn’t sleep. She came here to the library, searching if she would find a way or a place for her and her lover to be together without causing any disruption. John had offered to run away and come and live here as a vampire, but Marylin knew that his family would never stop until they found him or even his dead body, as he was the only child. And if they ever came here, this coven will be finished. She didn’t want to endanger our lives by transforming John, so she kept on searching for another alternative and never gave up until she found one.
“Luck shone one her one day when she found a book about where she could find the supreme council. Everyone knew about their existence and how they keep the law but no one had ever seen them, except of course for those who had incurred their wrath, and were never seen or heard from again after being summoned to their presence.
“In her desperation to be with her
He looked at her eyes again and gave up. He would never say no to the one he loved, even if it meant she would leave him again. “Fine,” he said. “But I am only helping you for personal reasons.” She raised her brow at what he said. He then realized how weird that just sounded. “No,” he said, correcting himself. “I mean that I can’t tell you the reason why I am helping you, but just know that it has something to do with Marylin Lou.” Ok, she said with a small breath of relief. “We will go hunting now as we need to feed and store some blood for later. I will show you how to do it, Dana didn’t come back with the remaining members of the coven, Hillary and Edmund. They should be on their way if they are not already back. I’ll go and check for them and see if they are around, then we will all go together.” And with that, he flew out of the room quickly. He came back about two minutes later with a bowl and a cover. “They are no
Joana never believed that she would have this much fun going hunting with Derick and drinking from the dead body of a wild animal. At first, she refused to let her mouth touch its raw skin, telling him to pour the blood into the bowl for her before she would agree to drink. But as she saw the blood was rushing out from the deer, she felt it call to her. She didn’t know what came over her as she dragged it away from his claws and began to drink from it. She couldn’t believe it, but it felt better than drinking from the bowl as this was coming right from the source, still flowing, still fresh, it felt like heaven to her mouth. She didn’t stop until she finished it, she didn’t mind Derick who was looking at her, shaking his head. After she finished, she dropped the bloodless animal to the floor, licking the few drops of blood that stained her lips, she was still hungry, or still thirsty rather. Derick noticing how she felt, spoke to her. “You’ve got quite an appetite th
“The first thing that you will be learning from me today is how to control your affinity for blood. As a vampire, blood is the same as life for you, you will always desire it and you will always feel as if you cannot live without it. The truth of the matter is that you can, but for an inexperienced vampire like you, it’s impossible as it takes years to control one’s hunger.”Joana sat down in the study, listening to everything that Derick was saying. Tonight, was the first night of her training with him, she didn’t know how long it would take before she would be able to master her vampire powers but she hoped it would be soon enough, as it hadn’t been three days yet and she already missed the sunlight. She turned her focus back on Derick who went to the table to bring the bowl of blood they had gone to hunt for last night.“I will place this bowl directly in front of you, and I will cuff you in handcuffs containing bits of silver; not enough to harm you but to weaken you
“Are you crazy?” Dana said to Derick. “So, in your bid to make her see the importance of patience, you try to kill her?”“Relax Dana, she’s an immortal, she can’t die.”“I expected better from you Derick, you know how important blood is to us as vampires. No vampire can survive without it. But instead of telling her that, you choose to lie to her. What if she had surprised you and tore down that roof? What would you have said?”“I’m sorry, Dana, but you can’t blame this all on me. While you and the others decided to leave her alone because she said she wasn’t joining us, I was the only one who still decided to help her. You know I would never try to kill her. I wanted the best for her, the same way I did with Marylin, and I would never make her go through anything I haven’t been through myself.”Dana tried to shield her thoughts. She didn’t want him to read them, but she hated it when he was right. Derick continued speaking.“No one loved Marylin more than me in this
“Yes Joana, you guessed it right. They were lovers. Derick fell in love with her right from the first day he joined the coven. They went into a relationship not long after. They were still together when Hillary and I joined the coven. Their bond was inseparable, and no one would have ever thought that they would break up; until John came into the picture. At first, she would lie to Derick that she wanted to go somewhere far, but she would go and see John instead. The outings became too frequent and Derick kept on wondering where she would always be going as they hardly spent time with each other anymore. One day, he decided to spy on her thoughts even though they promised they wouldn’t do that to each other, but he couldn’t help his curiosity anymore. He became heartbroken upon seeing that she had been cheating on him with John. He confronted her about it, and she confirmed it. They broke up immediately after and she continued her relationship with John, eventually moving in wit
Joana didn’t need any more explaining to understand why Marylin had chosen John. She missed her human life because she had a husband whom she was happy with; and it must have killed her when she found out that she would have to leave her husband and her family, and live as a lonely vampire for the rest of her life.Dana, upon reading her thoughts, said to her.“Marylin was never lonely here. She had me, Derick, Edmund and Hillary.”“I know she did, but you can’t replace the happiness you will feel when you have a family with that of being in a coven. You probably didn’t know what she had to go through, she had to leave everything she had behind to come and live in a strange world. The same thing you wanted me to do. But it’s never easy to make those kinds of decisions, to leave your loved ones behind. It’s like you’re dying, and you make them think you are dead, but you’re still alive, but you know you can never see them again.”“It’s one of the sacrifice
“Oh, hey Joana come in, you wanted to see me?” Dana said, placing the book on the bed upon seeing Joana at the entrance.Joana entered the room and walked towards where Dana sat.“Yes, I did,” she said. “I went to your room but you weren’t there. Derick told me where to find you.”“Sorry, sometimes I just get carried away and come here. This is the only part of the castle that reminds me of Marylin. It’s like I can still feel her presence here, you know.“We used to hang out here a lot. I would visit her here and she would always read me stuff from her diary.” Dana then picked up the book she was reading and gave it to Joana.“It’s a magic diary, it was given to her by a pixie,” she said. “It’s pages never wither and only the owner can read it. Try and see if you can.”Joana held the book to her eye and turned one of the pages open. There was nothing written there, just blank pages staring at her. Then suddenly, before her eyes, the words bega
Dear Diary,From the very first day I became a vampire, I hated my life and I always thought that God was punishing me for still choosing to work in the tavern even though he did not like it. I stayed in that empty cave alone with nowhere to go after leaving the town. During those lonely days it felt as if death would have been a better option, because there was nothing happy or interesting about life anymore. Until my sister, Dana found me. I call her my sister because from the very first day I met her, that is all she has been to me. She gave me a home with a nice big room, she gave me comfort, she gave me love, and she took me on so many wonderful adventures. It was on one of our adventures that I met a pixie who gave me this diary I am writing in today. I never thought I would be able to keep a diary, but it turns out that this is a magic diary whose pages never wither. The pixie says I can always come to collect another one if the pages ever run out, I know I’ll be doi