The Vampire Princess Saga Box Set (8 page)

CHAPTER 24

A
forest, with its floor covered up with dry leaves.

The
brown color prevailed at that empty and obscure scenario, in which the sound of an angry wind sung a chilling melody.

I found myself lost
and frightened, it seemed like I was the only person in that terrible place. I was trying to find my way back home and see my mother again.

I
restrained my steps when I realized the wind was blowing much more violently, unleashing all its fury on the trees, which didn’t stop shaking.

I
sat on my haunches and placed my face between my knees, avoiding looking around me.

That
was when, in the middle of that agitation, I heard different sounds, as if anyone else was close.

I lifted my head a little
and saw that man again,
the same man who was always in my dreams, since I was a child.

He was wearing
dark clothes.

He
stretched his hand so I could walk in his direction. I stood up quietly, looking straight forward. I stared at him again and his hands grabbed mine; I could feel his frozen fingers on my warm hands.

I looked up into his eyes
, trying to find an answer for his frosty hands.

I was still looking
at him; I could see his chest, and he had an amulet made of iron around his neck.

There was a
n engraving on it. I stared at it, I was still taken aback.

It was a
‘symbol of Neptune’…

When I opened my eyes, then I realized it was just a dream.

I sat
on my bed as I was intrigued about that dream and also about Eros’ tattoo. I associated one thing to another.

“
It was in my dreams…I knew I had seen it before!” I wondered.

I
lay down on my bed again, staring at my room ceiling, with my hands touching my head.

I was puzzled.

“What does Eros have to do with this?”

I asked myself, surprised, trying to
find an answer. I couldn’t understand why.

That
strange man was in my dreams almost every night.

The amulet
made of iron, with the symbol of Neptune on it, besides the tattoo on Eros’ arm.

Could
everything be a great coincidence…?

CHAPTER 25

I stayed in the
library while I was making a summary I had
to present
on the next day.

When I stepped out
of the school library, I noticed it was already dark; the sky was cloudy as if it was going to rain.

I looked up at the sky
as I was trying to get
home before the rain could come on.

The desert
and silent street made me walk faster…

I
sensed a constant danger.

Right
ahead I saw Eros was standing on the other side of the road; it seemed he was waiting for me.

He showed up very oddly
, he was too fast.

Certainly
he had realized I was frightened.

“
Eros!” I exclaimed, surprised.

“
Come with me! I’ll show you something.”

He said
it seriously and his voice was rude.

I
didn’t say anything, I just walked by his side as I was intrigued with what could
that be.

T
he fact is that I being with him that made me feel safe and puzzled at the same time; there was a mystery to be solved.

We walked together,
both were silent.

I
realized how far that place was; though, his company made that journey very pleasant.

The place
was remote and obscure, a hiding-place in the middle of the forest.

It
looked like a landscape from a dream I’d had a long time ago.

There was an
unsuitable and very old house there. It had no electricity and no comfort at all for a demanding person.

We stopped
in front of a wooden door.

Eros
pushed it and entered the old house.

I
remained exactly in the same place; I was really afraid to enter into it.

He
remained in silence all the time, his unfriendliness intimidated me.

For a moment
I thought he would hurt me.

“
Are you going to stay outside?” he asked, after having crossed the doorstep.

I decided
to go ahead, since I had come there. I should take that risk.

I thought
of my mother and knew she was protecting me, somehow.

And
that feeling encouraged me before I entered the house.

Inside
it, there was nothing, just a huge room and a large mirror in the corner of the room; there were also dark curtains on the window.

Eros sat on the floor as if he were meditating, with his back to me. I remained standing and was motionless, just watching him.

“
Did you want to know where I live?” he asked, with a chilling voice. “So, here is my house.”

He remained with his back
to me.

All
I could do was to remain in silence. All the words fled from my mind. A huge rat ran into the wall and I scream out loud:

“
A rat! I want to walk away!”

My hands started to shake.

“Not before you see something!”

He said
that and stood up quickly.

I didn
’t have time to get out of that house; he was quicker than I’d imagined, and my arms were stuck in his cold hands.

He glared at me
, with a supernatural look in his face.

I had never seen somebody with such features.

His
face was pale, with a strange look on it. He suddenly changed his expression.

His eyes
were gray, around them there were rings. His lips were red and between them there was big and sharp teeth.

I was desperate
and didn’t have energy to try to escape from his claws.

I closed my eyes
, blocking my tears.

“Now you know what I am really.” He said and let my arms free. He flinched back.

I needed so much to open my eyes at that moment to stare at him.

His attitude
made me understand what had just happened. He didn’t intend to hurt me. He just wanted to reveal what he was, as well as what I was about to be.

He approached
the mirror.

“
Look at this mirror!” His voice sounded very confident.

I looked at
the mirror and didn’t see his reflection; I had seen only the opposite wall.

He
slightly touched his hand on the mirror's wooden frame and images were reflected through it.

That was
an exhibition of my entire life. My mother appeared on those images, almost twenty years ago, in a nightclub that had been the night she’d met my father and generated me.

My birth
…

Then the images showed me when
I was seven, when I started dreaming of that strange man.

My
adolescence…

The
first day I met Eros in the classroom.

The mirror
showed me how my brooch vanished from my purse.

Eros
had planned everything. He had used his vampire powers to remove it out of my purse, only with the power of his mind.

When
he lost his school ID inside the school library, this was done on purpose. That’s why I found it.

He did everything because there was a purpose behind his reaction. He wanted to be with me almost all the time.

Mirta
’s nose bled and Eros left the classroom because he couldn’t handle that smell of blood.

The last image
shown in the mirror was the symbol of Neptune on the amulet and on Eros’ arm.

T
hen, the mirror came back to normal.

“
All your life is resumed in this mirror”, he said and his voice suddenly became serious.

I was confused
after having seen those images in the mirror.

They
seemed so real… My life in a mirror… It all seemed to be like a dream, or, instead, a nightmare from which I wished to wake up.

“
I’m not here by accident.” he confessed while he approached me. His supernatural face didn’t scare me anymore.

Even though, I was attracted to him. That was so strange for me. I had desired a monster.

“
I came to get you and take you to your father.” he claimed, his voice was quiet.

I shivered
, perplexed. I was speechless.

I should
have asked him several things. Though, nothing came into my mind, just a grief after knowing the truth about my father and me.

“
Your father is our master…our guardian.” His voice was mournful.

A
storm was formed outside. Lightning and thunders emerged, sprung up outside the window.

“You’ll be one of us soon.” He glared at me. “It’s in your blood.”

He stared at me
again.

“You’ll be
a
…
vampire…
” he said, quietly.

Everything made sense for me at that moment. There was no doubt; I was definitely the daughter of a vampire and sooner I would be just like him, I would be of his kind.

“
I wish I wasn’t born…” That was all I said.

Now I knew everything about the mystery in my dreams, about my past, about my vampire father and also about Eros.

Then I
walked in the direction of the front door; I stepped out of that house at the same time as I was embarrassed with what Eros had just told me.

It was raining harder
, it didn’t matter if my body got wet; I didn’t care about anything else.

Everything made no sense to me.

Death would be
welcome.

I walked slowly
through the streets, barefoot after I had taken off my sandals.

Eros
followed all my steps while he was still transformed into a vampire. He could jump great heights, over the roofs of the houses, so I couldn’t see his quick movements on them.

I stopped
on a desert street and opened my arms extensively at the same time as I was inviting death.

I saw
an intense brightness in the sky and I fell on the floor, unconscious.

Eros
came down from the roof of one of the houses, through a double mortal jump. He was soon on his feet again, quite close to me.

He
picked me up in his arms as he was watching my livid face due to the rain.

He
stepped inside my bedroom through the window and held me in his arms like a rag doll.

He placed me
gently on my bed and perceived that my dress was wet. Then he used the power of his mind while his hand was sliding along my cold body, he made the water evaporate from my clothes and also from my body.

When he finished the vampirism process, he seemed exhausted since he had used almost all of his powers, trying to avoid I could catch a cold.

He glared at me
to check if I was really fine.

He
knew I would only wake up in the next morning.

And then
he jumped out of my room window and disappeared into the darkness.