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Even though I knew that everything was not as it was taught to me, the entire night seemed surreal. I knew not to trust everyone at the…dare I say party. We were all of course in our best gowns; mine was a deep red color, with cream trim. The love of my life accompanied me in garments to match. He was very handsome indeed, he had his hair pulled back and braided then tied with a cream ribbon. We were there because we were invited by the Duchess herself, but also to put a stop to the vermin that killed daily, or rather nightly since they never came out during the day. I had not trusted Deavone at first, having fell in love once before only to find that it was one of the demon.
It never occurred to me that we never met in daylight, he would work late and then tend to his servants and give them detailed instructions on what he wanted done by the time he got home. Raven must have fallen in love with me because he never tried to bite me. I remember the night like it was yesterday, the night my heart was ripped from my chest, so to speak.
Everything was set up beautifully, fresh white flowers in vases surrounding one single red flower. Each vase contained different flowers, but the flowers in each vase were the same. I never did find out how Raven got white violets, and I’ll never know. Raven lead me to the middle of the room, where he had his coffin under a piece of board that made his coffin appear as a coffee table.
“My Chere, you know I love you, and for this reason I ask you this question because you alone I want to live the rest of my days with, and I hope you feel the same.” I nodded my head in Raven’s hand, for I had fallen in love with Evan. “I am not what you think I am. I was born of a man and a woman, but I will not die as one.”
Fear filled me, I tried to step back, but my legs wouldn’t work, I tried to talk, to scream, but I couldn’t, every muscle in me would not work the way my brain was telling it to. Finally I managed a, “No. You can’t be, I love you. You can’t be one of those damned creatures!”
“I am sorry, my beloved, I am what I was made to be. I had no choice in it, I was bitten when I was 25, in the prime of my adult life”
“I can’t. I know what you want to ask of me, but I can’t. I have sworn my entire existence against your kind; every fiber in my being has been trained to kill you, to hate you. You have turned my entire world upside down! Not only have I not killed you when I should, I have fallen in love with you! Tell me, creature in the name of the Goddess and God, what is your true name?”
“Raven, so named for the blackness of my hair. And now the blackness of my lonely life without you.”
“Damn you!” I started beating on Raven’s chest with my fists, beating as hard as I could on him, trying to hurt him, though I knew I couldn’t. “I loved you. I trusted you. And you deceived me and now you stand before me to break my heart. Damn you!” I turned around and walked out of his house, and his life. I should have killed him for what he was, but I still saw him as the love of my life, Evan.
Some ask me when I talk about him; how I couldn’t know that he was a vampire by his name. And with this I respond, I call him by his vampiric name now, the one I fell in love with, Evan, does not exist. Evan never did exist, only Raven pretending to be him and pass himself off as a human.
As a vampire hunter, you learn things of the circles, and Raven, after I pounded his chest with my fists again and again, gave me abilities and knowledge that I never knew one could get before then. People I talked to later said I could only get these if he gave them to me in sacrifice of his life. And the same amount of people said it was possible just by his love. All the same, I could smell vampires. Their odor, not surprisingly, was of decay and death, and each one had their own specific other smell, like humans. And I also had exceptional hearing, and my sight, though not as excellent as a vampire, was better than other humans.
I walked over to one of the vampires, curtsied, and we started talking, Deavone was keeping an eye on me the entire time, and followed us out when the beast suggested we leave the crowd, it was “too hot” inside. Vampires’ bodies were like that of a reptile, whatever the room temperature, that was their body temperature. That was another way to tell them apart from humans. When in a situation that a normal human would be sweating profusely, the vampire will just stand there as if it’s just the right temperature.
“What is your name?” I asked my companion, noting that Deavone kept close by.
“I told you, it is Marcus.”
“I mean your real name. That would be the one you were born as a human with, I want to know what your name you were given when you were “born” to vampirism. And don’t bother trying to bite me, I’m sure Raven would find you and kill you for biting me.”
“So you are his love that he wept about. You are the one that left him with a broken heart.”
“Yes, and rightfully so. If he had told me from the beginning that he was vampire it would not have gone as far as it did. I ask you, creature, your name by the powers of the Goddess and God.”
“Cyclone, mi’lady. How did you know I am a vampire?”
“By your smell. Which is why I brought Raven up, does he truly walk? Or did I get these gifts from him because he killed himself?” I had turned my back on Cyclone, giving him a false sense that I was un aware of him moving with quietness that only another vampire could hear, or me being given the gifts. “And if you look behind the plant in the corner, you should be able to see my collaborator, and my new love, with a small crossbow that has a silver tipped arrow aimed at your back.” Cyclone stopped where he was, and turned to face the plant, and with his vampire vision, saw what I told him he would.
“You are smart. You don’t travel alone.”
“Nor do I wear any jewelry that isn’t pure silver.”
“Very smart. Since you are Raven’s one true love, I will not kill you tonight while you know who I am, but be warned, I know more about you than you think I do. I will get you when you least expect it. And to answer your question, you got your detailed senses of smell, sight, and hearing from Raven’s love for you, and yes, he still walks the plane of the undead.”
I raised my hand in signal, and in an instant, Cyclone disappeared before me in a pile of ashes and a slight breeze carried them away.
“What took you so long?” Deavone practically yelled when he came from his hiding spot.
“Shh, we are being listened to, that female there with the golden dress, she’s one of them. She couldn’t see nor hear what happened, but she mustn’t see me, she has to think Cyclone killed me and that’s why she can’t sense him nearby. Go talk to her, I want as many killed tonight as possible.” We maneuvered efficiently, killing 5 more of the demons before the end of the night. The Duchess nor the guests knew what we did, and since there were never bodies, just ashes that blew away, no one ever knew.
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Deavone and I crawled into bed and lay together holding one another. “That first female found my neck plate just before you shot her.”
“I like to let them know we know what we are before riding this world of them.”
“Did you have to let her find it though? She got angry and scratched me!”
“I’m sorry my love. But we checked it out, and you’re fine, and to make sure, I’ll tie you in the sun tomorrow.”
“What if the vermin’s disease gets to me first and I bite you?”
“Then we’ll kill each other.” Deavone laughed at the small joke, closed his eyes and fell asleep. We had almost killed each other the first night we met.
It wasn’t long after Raven and I had parted ways that Deavone and I ran into each other, literally. “Watch where you’re walking!” Deavone had yelled at me after we both crashed to the ground. “I’m doing something important!”
“Not as important as what I’m doing.” I said as I got up and straightened out my dress.
“Oh I bet I am doing something far more important than running to your lover.”
“I am not running to my lover, I left him two weeks ago for… different reasons than you could possibly ever know.”
“I’m sure of it, now if you don’t mind, I’m chasing a murderer.”
“Your no officer of the law.”
“I’m chasing a different murderer,ones that would normally get away with it, if it weren’t for me and my hatred of them.”
“If your’re talking about a vampire in a green waistcoat, I just killed him, he came round the corner, and stabbed himself accidentally with my silver stake.”
“How do you know of them? Women usually don’t know they exist.”
“I know because they killed my entire family, and made my family like them, and forced me to kill my baby sister and the rest of my family. She was just 5 months old! It was either kill, or be killed. They forgot in their blood lust who I was, they only saw warm blood, that’s all my family wanted, they didn’t know they’d be taking it from one of their beloved family members of life. So I ended their lives, and purged myself of their beastliness from the bite my baby sister gave me. I guess they all have to be told sunlight kills them.”
“Who was it that turned them, do you know his vampiric name?”
“I know only his name, it is Hunter. Each day that name haunts me, and I make them confess their vampiric names to me, hoping some day to find the one that did this to me and my family. And to make matters worse, one of them didn’t tell me what he was, and I fell in love with him. I had no choice but to leave him.”
“Did you kill him? Did you make sure he’d never hurt another the way he hurt you?”
“No, I still saw my treasured Evan in Raven’s face. Still saw Evan in Raven’s heart, and still felt his strong, warm touch. He is the one and only vampire I let live.”
“You should have killed him when you had the chance! Now he has had time to make more of those bastard killers! You should have killed him!”
“Obviously you have never loved anyone, or you would understand what I have gone through.”
“I understand that you are weak and let that beast live to kill more.”
“Leave me! I have work to do!” And I walked in the direction I was heading when I bumped into Deavone knowing that entire conversation let Fire get away.
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Even though I knew that everything was not as it was taught to me, the entire night seemed surreal. I knew not to trust everyone at the…dare I say party. We were all of course in our best gowns; mine was a deep red color, with cream trim. The love of my life accompanied me in garments to match. He was very handsome indeed, he had his hair pulled back and braided then tied with a cream ribbon. We were there because we were invited by the Duchess herself, but also to put a stop to the vermin that killed daily, or rather nightly since they never came out during the day. I had not trusted Deavone at first, having fell in love once before only to find that it was one of the demon.
It never occurred to me that we never met in daylight, he would work late and then tend to his servants and give them detailed instructions on what he wanted done by the time he got home. Raven must have fallen in love with me because he never tried to bite me. I remember the night like it was yesterday, the night my heart was ripped from my chest, so to speak.
Everything was set up beautifully, fresh white flowers in vases surrounding one single red flower. Each vase contained different flowers, but the flowers in each vase were the same. I never did find out how Raven got white violets, and I’ll never know. Raven lead me to the middle of the room, where he had his coffin under a piece of board that made his coffin appear as a coffee table.
“My Chere, you know I love you, and for this reason I ask you this question because you alone I want to live the rest of my days with, and I hope you feel the same.” I nodded my head in Raven’s hand, for I had fallen in love with Evan. “I am not what you think I am. I was born of a man and a woman, but I will not die as one.”
Fear filled me, I tried to step back, but my legs wouldn’t work, I tried to talk, to scream, but I couldn’t, every muscle in me would not work the way my brain was telling it to. Finally I managed a, “No. You can’t be, I love you. You can’t be one of those damned creatures!”
“I am sorry, my beloved, I am what I was made to be. I had no choice in it, I was bitten when I was 25, in the prime of my adult life”
“I can’t. I know what you want to ask of me, but I can’t. I have sworn my entire existence against your kind; every fiber in my being has been trained to kill you, to hate you. You have turned my entire world upside down! Not only have I not killed you when I should, I have fallen in love with you! Tell me, creature in the name of the Goddess and God, what is your true name?”
“Raven, so named for the blackness of my hair. And now the blackness of my lonely life without you.”
“Damn you!” I started beating on Raven’s chest with my fists, beating as hard as I could on him, trying to hurt him, though I knew I couldn’t. “I loved you. I trusted you. And you deceived me and now you stand before me to break my heart. Damn you!” I turned around and walked out of his house, and his life. I should have killed him for what he was, but I still saw him as the love of my life, Evan.
Some ask me when I talk about him; how I couldn’t know that he was a vampire by his name. And with this I respond, I call him by his vampiric name now, the one I fell in love with, Evan, does not exist. Evan never did exist, only Raven pretending to be him and pass himself off as a human.
As a vampire hunter, you learn things of the circles, and Raven, after I pounded his chest with my fists again and again, gave me abilities and knowledge that I never knew one could get before then. People I talked to later said I could only get these if he gave them to me in sacrifice of his life. And the same amount of people said it was possible just by his love. All the same, I could smell vampires. Their odor, not surprisingly, was of decay and death, and each one had their own specific other smell, like humans. And I also had exceptional hearing, and my sight, though not as excellent as a vampire, was better than other humans.
I walked over to one of the vampires, curtsied, and we started talking, Deavone was keeping an eye on me the entire time, and followed us out when the beast suggested we leave the crowd, it was “too hot” inside. Vampires’ bodies were like that of a reptile, whatever the room temperature, that was their body temperature. That was another way to tell them apart from humans. When in a situation that a normal human would be sweating profusely, the vampire will just stand there as if it’s just the right temperature.
“What is your name?” I asked my companion, noting that Deavone kept close by.
“I told you, it is Marcus.”
“I mean your real name. That would be the one you were born as a human with, I want to know what your name you were given when you were “born” to vampirism. And don’t bother trying to bite me, I’m sure Raven would find you and kill you for biting me.”
“So you are his love that he wept about. You are the one that left him with a broken heart.”
“Yes, and rightfully so. If he had told me from the beginning that he was vampire it would not have gone as far as it did. I ask you, creature, your name by the powers of the Goddess and God.”
“Cyclone, mi’lady. How did you know I am a vampire?”
“By your smell. Which is why I brought Raven up, does he truly walk? Or did I get these gifts from him because he killed himself?” I had turned my back on Cyclone, giving him a false sense that I was un aware of him moving with quietness that only another vampire could hear, or me being given the gifts. “And if you look behind the plant in the corner, you should be able to see my collaborator, and my new love, with a small crossbow that has a silver tipped arrow aimed at your back.” Cyclone stopped where he was, and turned to face the plant, and with his vampire vision, saw what I told him he would.
“You are smart. You don’t travel alone.”
“Nor do I wear any jewelry that isn’t pure silver.”
“Very smart. Since you are Raven’s one true love, I will not kill you tonight while you know who I am, but be warned, I know more about you than you think I do. I will get you when you least expect it. And to answer your question, you got your detailed senses of smell, sight, and hearing from Raven’s love for you, and yes, he still walks the plane of the undead.”
I raised my hand in signal, and in an instant, Cyclone disappeared before me in a pile of ashes and a slight breeze carried them away.
“What took you so long?” Deavone practically yelled when he came from his hiding spot.
“Shh, we are being listened to, that female there with the golden dress, she’s one of them. She couldn’t see nor hear what happened, but she mustn’t see me, she has to think Cyclone killed me and that’s why she can’t sense him nearby. Go talk to her, I want as many killed tonight as possible.” We maneuvered efficiently, killing 5 more of the demons before the end of the night. The Duchess nor the guests knew what we did, and since there were never bodies, just ashes that blew away, no one ever knew.
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Deavone and I crawled into bed and lay together holding one another. “That first female found my neck plate just before you shot her.”
“I like to let them know we know what we are before riding this world of them.”
“Did you have to let her find it though? She got angry and scratched me!”
“I’m sorry my love. But we checked it out, and you’re fine, and to make sure, I’ll tie you in the sun tomorrow.”
“What if the vermin’s disease gets to me first and I bite you?”
“Then we’ll kill each other.” Deavone laughed at the small joke, closed his eyes and fell asleep. We had almost killed each other the first night we met.
It wasn’t long after Raven and I had parted ways that Deavone and I ran into each other, literally. “Watch where you’re walking!” Deavone had yelled at me after we both crashed to the ground. “I’m doing something important!”
“Not as important as what I’m doing.” I said as I got up and straightened out my dress.
“Oh I bet I am doing something far more important than running to your lover.”
“I am not running to my lover, I left him two weeks ago for… different reasons than you could possibly ever know.”
“I’m sure of it, now if you don’t mind, I’m chasing a murderer.”
“Your no officer of the law.”
“I’m chasing a different murderer,ones that would normally get away with it, if it weren’t for me and my hatred of them.”
“If your’re talking about a vampire in a green waistcoat, I just killed him, he came round the corner, and stabbed himself accidentally with my silver stake.”
“How do you know of them? Women usually don’t know they exist.”
“I know because they killed my entire family, and made my family like them, and forced me to kill my baby sister and the rest of my family. She was just 5 months old! It was either kill, or be killed. They forgot in their blood lust who I was, they only saw warm blood, that’s all my family wanted, they didn’t know they’d be taking it from one of their beloved family members of life. So I ended their lives, and purged myself of their beastliness from the bite my baby sister gave me. I guess they all have to be told sunlight kills them.”
“Who was it that turned them, do you know his vampiric name?”
“I know only his name, it is Hunter. Each day that name haunts me, and I make them confess their vampiric names to me, hoping some day to find the one that did this to me and my family. And to make matters worse, one of them didn’t tell me what he was, and I fell in love with him. I had no choice but to leave him.”
“Did you kill him? Did you make sure he’d never hurt another the way he hurt you?”
“No, I still saw my treasured Evan in Raven’s face. Still saw Evan in Raven’s heart, and still felt his strong, warm touch. He is the one and only vampire I let live.”
“You should have killed him when you had the chance! Now he has had time to make more of those bastard killers! You should have killed him!”
“Obviously you have never loved anyone, or you would understand what I have gone through.”
“I understand that you are weak and let that beast live to kill more.”
“Leave me! I have work to do!” And I walked in the direction I was heading when I bumped into Deavone knowing that entire conversation let Fire get away.
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