The world had changed.
Everything was so different from when I had left it last to slumber. I had seen this before though; caves to crumbling castles, and from that to wooden forts and larger towns- cities. Filled with bodies ripe for the taking.
And take I did. In the new times there were thousands to pick from. Lots that no one would miss crowded like cattle in dark allies. Huddled around garbage set a light to keep them warm and stave off the darkness that blanketed the streets at night. But I lived in the darkness. I WAS the darkness, crawling through shadows and blackened corners. Taking what I wanted- what I needed to survive. The blood of the masses, their fear making it even sweeter.
I had taken a lot through the years that I had been on this planet, I was greedy and so, so very hungry. My greed was what put me in my retched tomb, to be sealed away for nearly two decades. I thought the humans to be like cattle- narrow minded and slow, hearding together for safety in numbers. I was wrong. The disapearance of a young Prince that I had stolen for an evening snack turned out to be my undoing. I took what I wanted, king, queen, peasant. I cared not for their titles because they were all just meat sacks to me, filled with sweet, sweet blood.
The disapearance had caused a huge fuss among the city as rumors of a blood sucking demon spread like wild fire lighting imaginations and torches. They searched for me. And they found me. I killed them all. I ate them all. And I loved every drop of blood spilt from their flesh.
They had grown smarter though, the humans ever evolving managed to trap me with large slabs of stone flooded with water. Using a single child as sacrifise, I was trapped so easily… because of my greed.
But instead of dying like they had hoped, I grew weak and tired until finally sleep claimed my body and mind. In the darkness I stayed for many, many years. Until finally the light crept back in…. I thought I was imagining it, fantasizing about the sun on my skin once more, but it was true and faithful falling warm and bright like my hope for it.
It took a childs inosence to put me in this place- and a childs inoscense to get me out.
I was free once more, weak and weary, but free. I wanted out of that wretched stone coffin and fled from it as soon as I could. Never once had I feared anything, I was the top of the food chain rightly so. But I had learned my lesson, that man was clever and greedy too. Now I just needed to be more so than before.
With their leap of evolution once again visible to my eyes I ran very far and very fast, my feet barely touching the softness of the Earth below me. I would have to place myself ontop once more, but it would be a slow return.
But return I will.