Chapter one
Well, my friend got me a journal for Christmas and that somehow inspired me to write this. So here it is. Hope it turns out okay O.o will discontinue if its not that popular.
"Mom?"Asked a little blonde haired girl with giant curls.
"Yes dear?" her mother replied.
"Can I go out to the orchard with Akiyuki? He would really enjoy the walk!" Said the girl looking down at the full grown Rottweiler.
"Of course you can, Caterina. But do be careful!"
"Yes Mama, we will!" she replied back enthusiastically, then ran towards the door with the dog at her heels.
"Please be back before dinner! And don't get your dress dirty!" yelled her mom, but they were already out the front door, and she wasn't sure she was even heard.
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"Ahhhh." Sighed Caterina. "Freedom at last, eh Akiyuki?" they were laying side by side under the apple trees. There was no fear of falling apples because it was not yet the right season. So they were content to just lay in the shade of the trees and let the cool breeze surround them. Maybe it was because of that much too comfortable feeling that she got that led her into a deep sleep. But when she awoke, the sun was just starting to set.
"Ah! Yuki! Why didn't you wake me? Mama will have our heads for this!" she said, running back home as quickly as she could in her skirts. The dog following behind her at a steady run.
"Mama! Sorry! I fell asleep!" yelled Caterina while she opened the door to her mother's room. She hadn't realized how quiet it was until then.
"Mama?" she said tentatively. But there was no one in the room. "Must be eating already…" then she headed to the dinning room, barely noting how they were no servants bustling around in the hallways.
When she finally reached the dinning room, she was quit spooked to say the least. Akiyuki was whimpering at her side, glancing around nervously from time to time.
The door was partially open. So it made no sound when she entered the room.
"Mama? Papa?" she called again but not as loudly as before. But there was still no reply. So she continued on.
"Where could everyone has gone?" she thought to herself. "Surely they would not just of left me here? Could they?"
But she got her answer only too soon. For she had reached the biggest room in the house, the indoor Chapel. As soon as she entered the room she found her mother and father. Or at least, what was left of them. The entire household was in there. Slashed to bits. Blood was painted on the walls, and some even on the ceiling.
"Noo!" her strangled sob escaped her while she sank to the floor. Akiyuki, seeing his mistress in distress, sat next to her, on guard.
Tears slid down her face, cascading onto her mother face. She had crawled over to her, and had her head resting on her lap. Akiyuki, still sitting vigilantly at her side, began to growl deep and low. If not for him, she would never have noticed the man sitting before the altar, tears too, stained his face. Upon closer inspection, she saw that he was not of her house hold, and so must have been the one to murder everyone. For he was as covered in blood as they were.
As quietly as she could, she inched back towards the door, to safety. But a squeak of surprise betrayed her as she tripped over some unfortunate servant's leg. The man turned around abruptly, and stared at her as if she were a God.
"Your alive? But how did you escape 'Him'? You must not have been here when 'He' arrived. I presume you are this manor's heir? Then I must apologize for what has transgressed. I tried to stop 'Him,' but 'He' was too powerful…" she looked closer at him and saw that it was mostly his blood she had seen earlier. There were deep gashed over his chest, a sleeve of his white robe was missing. An arm was twisted the at an odd angle, and when he walked toward she saw that he was limping.
"You assume correctly, sir." She stammered out. "The Lord and Lady of this manor are. No. was, my parents. But now it seems that I am now the owner." Akiyuki had stopped growling, and went to sniff the mans outstretched hand. "Who are you? How did you get here?"
"Well, my name is Abel Nightroad. As to where I'm from, I'm not entirely sure myself. How I got here is laying in one of your gardens. A ship from the moon. But that's all I can tell you. And now, for what I'm doing here, that simple. I was chasing the man who did this to your family. And when I catch him, I will kill him.
"well then, Mister Nightroad-"
"No no no no. please. Just call me Able." He smiled sweetly at her.
"Well then, Able, what shall I do? I just…don't know!"
"Well, this is a good question. I can't very well leave you, can I? So that leaves only one solution that I can think of."
"And that is?"
"Well, you just have to come with me." He smiled again, and held out his hand for me to take.
So I reached out my hand and took it.
And then, still smiling, a dribble of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
"Oh my." He said, whipping it away. "Well, we might have to prolong leaving for a few hours, for you see, I just can't…stand…the sight of…bloo-" then his eyes rolled back all the way and he collapsed.
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I gave him as much first aid as any 9 year old could. But dragging him out of the room was not the best possible thing for him. But I just couldn't stand seeing everyone's dead bodies around me. I had accepted there deaths, knowing that they were already with God. I had given up prayers for all of them too. But that didn't change the fact that there mutilated bodies were still all around me.
So I brought him to the only place I thought of as safe. My room. I couldn't lever him onto the bed, so I made a comfortable place on the ground consisting of pillows and comforters from all the other rooms. Then I placed some antiseptic I found in the kitchen, and wrapped them as tightly as I could. But even with all that, I knew the wounds were too deep to heal on there own.
The silver haired man looked like no one she had ever seen before. And his eyes were a most startling blue-gray. His robes looked like none she has ever seen before either. They were completely white, or they were, except for the edges. They were a light blue, almost the same color as his eyes. He has a kind of childish face, but yet there was a stern look to it when he talked about the man he was hunting.
She could do no more, so she left to find whatever food she could that was premade or would not perish. She didn't come up with much. It was late afternoon, so the cook had already served most of the food by the time the attack had happened. So all that was left were sweets, and fruits. She brought those back to her room, which she had made into her own stronghold.
"I'm all alone in the in the world. Therefore I must be strong!" said Caterina to herself. She knew that the mans wounds were too bad. If he survived them, he would still have to face infections, and permanent scars. The wound to his chest was the worse. It stretched from his lower abdomen to his upper right shoulder. Then there was one on his leg that wrapped from his shin to his calf in an upward circular slice. If it has gone any farther, she feared it might have been hamstrung. All that, plus many more minor wounds, and judging from the bruises appearing on his body, there might have even been internal bleeding, if he had any blood left at all. She thought that most if it most have soaked though the bandages and sheets already. He couldn't have much more to spare, could he?
But even with all those factors against him, he still had the energy to eat and go to the bathroom. But she saw that he wasn't getting any better.
This continued on for about 3 days. Everything was very peaceful. She had found more non-perishable foods in the storeroom, and had brought most of it to her room. Things seemed to be looking up, she thought.
But it was on the forth day that 'they' came. Attracted by the smell of blood of her slain family. The vampires, or as they called themselves, the Methuselah. Akiyuki had smelled them first, and a deep growl, which was what he was trained to do when one was near, escaped his mouth.
Caterina had been out in herb garden that there cook has used looking for any vegetables that were ripe. When Akiyuki gave that sign, she dropped whatever she had and sprinted to her room. There, she barred the door using all the furniture she could move in the room.
"Able. Can you hear me?" she whispered. "They're here. I don't know what to do! The door wont hold them for long, and were not fast enough to get away. I thought it was luck that I survived the first attack, but it seems that I just avoided my fate that night. So now fate brings around yet another way for me to die, as I was supposed to that night…"
"No. Luck did spare you, but fate will not take you tonight. Didn't I promise you that I would take care of you? And I will, for as long as you live, ill be there with you. I promise you that. But now you need to go and hide. Somewhere where they can see you. Ill take care of them, but you have to promise not to make a sound. Can you do that for me?"
"Yes. Is the closet okay?"
"Yeah. Now go, quickly. They're approaching." He said, and then he got himself up into a half crouch and flung a bloodied sheet at me. "Cover yourself with this. It'll hide your scent from them."
Then he watched me hide myself in the closet, then turned towards the door.
After what felt like a lifetime, they crashed into the room. I stifled a scream stuffing a clean part of the sheet over my mouth. They looked just like us, except they had an air of dangerousness around them. That, and when they smiled, their fangs protruded.
"Ah. So you've finally arrived? I've been waiting for your arrival." Said Able in the most nonchalant way he possible could.
"Nooo!" Caterina screamed in her head. "No! I thought he was on my side! But I must have been right the first time! There was no other man! It was he who killed my family! And here I was nursing him back to health! How foolish could I have been! Even after he promises to protect me, he was probably thinking of selling me out to his other friends!"
"What do you mean by 'Waiting for us?' is death what you want that badly? Judging from all that blood, death was just around the corner for you anyways." Replied the man in the middle. He seamed to be the leader of the five.
"Death is just around the corner for all for all of us, but for you, death is standing right before you!" retorted Able.
"Ha! You think death is that close to us? You who only live as far as 100 years of age? We live more than 8 times your lifespan! Who are you to preach to us about death being around the corner?"
"But, kind sir, I am your elder. In power and in age. "
"Bur your not of the Methuselah! You're a mere Terran!"
"Ah. But at that you are wrong! I am something better than a Methuselah or Terran." He said, giving then his most dazzling smile. "I'm something that you've never seen before, and never will again! Nanomachines: Krusnik 02 loading. Limitation at 60%. Acknowleged."
