Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess (12 page)

“
We will go to the place from where I came,” he communicated, looking up at the stars in the night sky.

I
watched his gloomy face.

“We will go to our planet,” he said and turned to face me.

“
Your father is there. I came to Earth to take you to him.” His voice seemed almost indifferent. .

“
All this scares me,” I confessed and closed my eyes, shaking my head.

“Neptune is our planet
. There’s no danger for us there. And if you stay here… they’ll try to kill you,” he said, afflicted.

“
I can’t leave my mother,” I said, looking down at the floor.

“
It will be just for a while,” he insisted.

“She
needs me,” I insisted.

“
Your father needs you too.”

“
Why didn’t he come to see me instead of ordering you?” I asked, and saw his face which was very serious.

“
When he figured out about you, it was too late. Your father, by being our master, needs to recover his energy and the only way he managed to do that was to be asleep for a long time.”

“
Can’t he come back to Earth as soon as he wakes up?” I asked.

“
He wants you by his side… in ‘Neptune,’” he softly said, touching my cheek with his hand. “As long as you’re with him, your mother won’t be aware of anything, she will be sleeping profoundly.”

“
What will you do to her?” I was frightened.

I panicked
, afraid that something crucial could happen to my mother.

“
Trust me,” he said in a friendly manner.

It was impossible not to
trust him.

After a few seconds of silence, his supernatural vampire aspect metamorphosed into an owl and it flew away.

I looked at him, surprised by with his transformation.

Then I realized that it  was him
all the time, the owl that stood almost every night on my window. That was him protecting me.

Now I could
understand why he was fond of owls, reading books about them. I remembered that day in which Douglas tried to burn that owl.

That was him
; he was there, not in a human form, but in a bird’s aspect. And so he had came back to school, the next day, with his hand bandaged, due to the burn on his hand.

Every time
he surprised me more
with his mysteries. When everything seemed revealed and clear to me, something unexpected always happened.

CHAPTER 29

My mother slept with her window open. She never imagined that she would have a visit in her room. Eros entered through the open window as he always did in my room. Then he watched her sleeping. He walked to her bed with the utmost care, avoiding waking her. He put his hands over her face, in a ritual that made her imprisoned in a deep sleep, until my return to Earth.

***

The owl flew over the town before it returned to the spot where I was standing.  When it flew over a street, it saw Christian’s car parked in front of Mirta’s house.

By that time
the rock and roll concert had already ended and he left Mirta at her front door.

He kissed her sweetly on her lips. Then
she walked in and he turned back to his car. When he opened his car door, he got scared with the hedgehopping of the owl over his head.

“
Creature from hell!” Christian murmured.

Before
getting into his car, he saw Eros standing around him, all in black. He didn’t know how Eros appeared out of nowhere.

“You, what are you doing here?” Christian asked and his face was sober.

“
It’s nice to see you again,” Eros said and his voice was tremendously sarcastic.

“I don’t
like boys, my business is girls,” he said and got into his car.

Eros
dragged him out of the car with the strength of a bull, letting Christian feel frightened and unprotected.

“
My business is girls too,” Eros said clasping his neck and looking into his eyes.

“
What do you want from me?” Christian looked scared.

“
You have always bullied me in school.” He stared at his eyes again. “Your insults and unfunny jokes made me very angry.”

“
I was just kidding,” he said, trying to defend himself.

“
But I was not,” Eros said and tightened his throat.

“
Do you want to kill me?” Christian asked, coughing a lot because of the choking.

“Not yet,” he
whispered.

Then
Eros strangled Christian hatefully.

“
Now you know who you’re provoking, and if you keep chasing me, I’ll do worse things to you.”

He threw him
on the floor and assaulted him, kicking his face.

“Stay away from
Mirta or be considered a weird dead guy,” Eros threatened him gruesomely.

A drop of blood ran down Christian’s nose. His blood’s smell incited his enemy.

Eros quickly left the place before his predator instinct could command the situation.

He
could have murdered Christian right there. Eros wouldn’t take the risk of being easily surprised by any person.

Then I was wrapped up into the smoke and vanished.

Even far away, he couldn’t control his lust for blood. He was in the mood to go back to suck Christian’s blood. He pressed his hands against each other, twisting his whole neck, trying to control his predatory bloodthirsty instinct.

A
huge dog, with dark hair, was coming in his direction. Eros threw a cryptic glance at the animal. After it had been mesmerized, it came towards him.

After having sucked all the blood out of his prey, there was nothing left of its body except bones and its head.

CHAPTER 30

 
Eros came back to the roof, where I was waiting for him in big anguish. I didn’t know the right decision to make.

I
could go away with him to Neptune and would leave my mother alone, or I could stay in Earth and I would lose a big chance to meet my father.

That was something I had waited for my entire life…

“
Are you ready?” he asked and stared into my eyes again.

I didn’t answer him,
seeing that I was still disturbed.

Being
prepared to go away with him was something I hadn’t set in my mind. Both sides of the coin were rough to measure. My choice became very difficult.

Eros
reached my hand. I remained still, sitting, frightened by his reaction, watching him with my cautious eyes….

Maybe it was the last time
… maybe I wouldn’t see him anymore.

“
Come”
, he begged and his voice was soft. Then he came closer, opening his hand slowly.

I stood up and then lifted my hand in his direction.

He held my hand between his, pulled me to face him and hugged me tightly.

For the first time our embrace represented a lot in my life.

I was sheltered by his body.
All the bad feelings disappeared from inside my bosom.

I
was doing the right thing by going with him to finally see my father. Even being a monster, he was still my father.

Eros
stared up at the sky at the same time as he was waiting for the right time for our departure.

Strong winds
emerged around us. When I looked up at the gloomy sky, a “symbol of Neptune” arose in a dark blue color.  We were dragged by some invisible force coming out of that symbol.

Eros and I were
still embracing and then both of us disappeared into the night sky, with a few scattered stars.

The symbol went out of sight
and everything came back to normal. The wind headed towards another route.

Eros
was the connection of all that had happened to me.

Soon
I would be in Neptune, beside my father…

THE END

Excerpt from

Valkyrie the Vampire Princess 2

Valkyrie

The Vampire Princess 2

A NOVEL

By

Pet Torres

SYNOPSIS

Valkyrie arrives on the planet Neptune.

She finally meets her father, the master of all vampires.

Her life will be laced with blood...

What she most wishes, she will never have because she has become an immortal...