running. why did it seem that i was always running? even though i could run through a forest faster than a speeding car and not hit anything not even trip over the roots of the trees.
this time i really did it. why did he have to be so nosy? now he is dead and its my fault, but i don't regret it.
...
"i've been investigating you for a while, but i can hardly find anything on you." he said with contempt.
"what do you want? Money? is that it? power? estate? i can get you anything you want, just stay away from me." i said putting my 5000 years of life behind that statement. good he got chills maybe he wont meddle after all.
he cleared his throat. "Sir it doesn't look like you have any family living."
"no i don't they all died in a fire 23 years ago." i said with fake remorse.
"but you couldn't be older than 20!" he said surprised.
"i am 26 sir but thank you." i said with chagrin.
"erm it seems that you have estates all over Europe and America, where did you get all the money?" he asked a little nervous for my answer.
"i inherited all the money from my dead parents. they left me everything in their will." i said lying, ha my parents had been dead for over 5000 years. but he wouldn't live to know that he probably would not live past this night.
"Sir it seems that that your life partner has been with you for 6 years now, does he know about your situation with all the money left behind for you?" he said curiously.
"he knows as much and more as you do about me." i said with malice. then i said something that truly upset him.
"its time for you to die." i said and then laughed unaffectionately.
i lunged across the desk in a fraction of a second and took hold of his throat, we were on the ground now, his eyes went wide with fear. leaning next to his ear i whispered "you went to deep, dug to much, it makes me killing you all the more easy when i know that people that want to dig up my past are put down. oh don't worry you are not the first to die by my hand, i have killed tens of thousands over fifty centuries."
he began to cry at that moment. "please, please, i don't want to die, i'll do anything you say, just please don't kill me." i looked at him without mercy, many have begged even groveled at my feet before for me not to kill them. but i always do in the end and then drink their blood. and my thirst tonight needs to be quenched. and his blood will do just that for me tonight.
again he begged "please don't kill me i have a son and a wife! i don't want to die!" then using the line from my oldest friend i said "Then you should never have been born." I lunged for his neck and sunk my teeth deep into his flesh, i got to the cerrotted artery. then his lifes blood began to seep into my mouth. i took it in refreshingly resiliant was his lifes blood, full of questions and answers. five minutes later i pulled away with him completely drained of blood. i would have to haul him away from here myself.
i loaded him onto my shoulder and jumped out the second story window and landed on my feet, the pain was intense i had broke all the bones in my feet with the weight of the detective and myself. but in a minute they were healed and i took off running at about 80 miles per hour.
...
as the years went by i realized i was getting stronger and faster and i hardly needed to feed. but i still needed to stay under the cover of night because the sun sapped my strength. i was 18 when i was changed. i had lived peacefully in the magnificent palace in Alumut the Persian holy city. it was here that i met Yaksha. i had always knew i was different, hell i had a husband, though it was wrong in the eyes of the sultan i was the prince and no one ever questioned me.
the day Yaksha came for me was a particularally odd day, there where no clouds in the sky yet the sun did not shine. it was dark as night. the orecal said that is was the world coming to an end but i didnt belive her, no i knew that it was only for the day. i had recived a letter that day from my husband that was off to war,
Azada, i will return home tonight to meet you, meet me in the palace garden i am bringing a friend. dress nice.
I did as he said, i dressed in my finest clothing and was waiting for them as soon as the day was over though i couldnt really tell because of no sun. it wasnt until midnight when he a rived with his two guests. the girl was dressed so finely with a jewel right in the middle of her for-head and she had a silk veil running over her mouth. the man was dressed i a tunic that was made of gold fibers and silver threads. and his face was so beautiful i was gawking with my mouth open. i realized what i looked like and shut my mouth. the man smiled and said,
"what a beautiful price to meet on this fine evening. My name is Yaksha." he took my hand a kissed it. i blushed. i felt relived that he couldn't see in the night with his human eyes. he then looked at my face and smiled, that made me blush even more. what was strange was the fact that he smiled when he saw my face like he knew something about me that i was holding back.
"and my young price i am Sita. it is an honor to meet such a famed price." she said smiling the moon shown down on her blond hair and made it look white.
"Ha, more like belittled price." i said with mock hatred. but was pleased to see someone warm to me nicely "no one in peaceful Alumut would dare try to assainate a price but i fear if i was outside this city and price of another i would be dead." i said with confidence.
"my price dont be so sure, you are loved by many, you are a kind and gentle ruler. many love you." my beloved Dara said with the up most confidence.
"i agree with the price my lord and so does Sita." Yaksha said "but tonight we have business to take care of." Yaksha said with a grave tone. "Tonight you will cease to be human, you will become a vampire along side Dara and Sita and Myself. there are many others hundreds but tonight you dear prince will join our ranks."
i had to laugh he was crazy i said to myself. there is no way vampires exist, they are just myth. "my dear Yaksha you are sadly misinformed there is no such thing as a vampire..." and with that he disappeared i turned to run but the girl, Sita, that was behind me was now in front of me. "how did you..." my heart was racing and my heart dropped into my stomach. "Oh god please no." i whispered. then Dara materialized before me and i fell to my knees knowing i was going to die.
"Azada, Yaksha believes that you have a magnificent power, a power that can only be strengthened by becoming a vampire becoming a vampire is very pleasurable, you will enjoy it. its as good as our time in the bed chamber.
"young prince give me your arm." i didnt resist. he cut his vein i began to say something but it got lost in my fear. his blood was running down his arm and onto me. he took my wrist and slit the vein, i cried out in pain "NO!" i said but his strength out matched mine he pressed his bleeding arm to mine and then the pleasure began. it felt like sex, only better, i think i was moaning but i dont really know for sure. and then it stopped i looked down at my arm. the wound was healed and there was no scar.
"But what happened?" i said eager to find out more. i definitely felt stronger. Yaksha began to speak.
"young prince run from hear to the edge of the garden and don't hold back."
"but i will fall to my death if i don't stop well before the edge." i said with fear.
" Young price no you wont you will stop in time. now run." he said smiling
so i ran. i ran as fast as i could, and in less than a second i was already at the edge of the garden. and i stopped right there with out falling. it was exilerrating. now this had happened over the entire night, so the sun was rising i looked over the edge of the garden at the rising sun and suddenly i felt weak i turned around to see Sita, Yaksha, and Dara i looking at my with happy faces, but when Yaksha spoke his tone was grave.
"the sun is your enemy for the first several thousand years of your new life, you must sleep all day to retain your energy and you must feed every day. this means taking a human life with your hands, your hunting instincts will tell you how to feed, no the sun will not cause you to burst into flames but it will drain you. you must if you can stay inside during this time. and you will only be able to rule this land for ten more years then you must ether fake your death or leave this land. Now do you have a chamber to where me and Sita can retire?" he said looking at me with affection.
"yes follow me." i said and lead them into the palace.
...
i had to dump the body, but where? and i would have to make it look like an animal attack. but that wouldn't be hard for me to do. so about one quarter into the forest i dumped the body and began to maul it. after i was done i looked down at the poor man that got in too deep. it was his fault that he died not mine i was just protecting a 5000 year old legacy. then my cell phone rang.
"My dearest," said Dara. but that was his ancient name his new name was Damien. "meet me at the pier in a half hour." i smiled and then he laughed.
"i will Dara. don't worry." then i began to run. i ran past the detectives house and then past his street careful to keep in the forest so as not to raise susspision. the trees went by fast but i could see everyone of them and every single detail on them. i was now almost halfway to the pier. then i saw something out of the corner of my eye something moving just as fast as me but was the shape of a human. i didn't smell any vampires near by i wonder what that was but it was gone before i had a chance to think about it. now i was on the beach under the pier. the people and foods i could hear and smell as if i was holding them. then i heard Damien. i could hear him speaking to one of the vendors he was getting two coffees.
now i was at the entrance of the pier so i slowed down to a human jog and then to a walk. it took me three minutes to find Damien. and when i found him he smiled and handed me the coffee.
"your early by five minutes. that's a new record for you fifty miles in twenty-five minutes." Damien said with astonishment.
"i know but there is something we must descuss. when i was running here i saw something running along side me it was human in shape but i didn't smell vampire on him. it was very strange." i said slightly worried about what he would have to say.
he took a sip of his coffee. "hmm, this is very strange indeed. Maybe it was Yaksha."
i looked puzzled. i wonder if it was. "maybe but i couldn't smell vampire on him."
"of course your not going to smell vampire on him you were running at one hundred and twenty miles an hour. and he was beside you!"
i was embarissed why did i not think of that. "yeah your right i am sorry i was so worried, i know Yaksha is in America hunting vampires, how many do you suppose are left?" i asked quizicly.
"i honestly dont know there could be a hundred still left. or there could be as little as just us." he said with no confidence.
"i am going to call Sita when we get home." i said with worry.