Living forever is not all fun and games. Watching everyone that you know die right before your eyes, and knowing you'll never die often gets depressing. However, it did make it a little easier with my family here. My two younger brothers and my younger sister made it a lot easier to cope with spending eternity on earth. However, my twin brother Jasper, died back in January of 1863, and I missed him, and my mom who died in childbirth with my youngest sister in 1857, and the baby, whom my father named Virginia, died a couple days after her birth.
We are very aware of "cold ones" that roam the earth, but unlike these vampires, we don't feed from humans. Rather, we rely sorely on chlorophyll, which is plant blood, and the sun. Those two elements are vital to our survival. It's rather easy to pick a cold one right out of a crowd, the pale skin, the gold eyes (or red eyes), the way they stay out of the sun and their cold skin. For us, we blend in with humans, when we are turned, we retain our human qualities, such as our eye and skin colors. Although, we are just as fast and strong as they are.
How we get turned is a bit tricky, and if I didn't know this firsthand, I wouldn't believe it myself. We are turned by a vampire plant. That bites you. Or, being injected with the plant's properties also does the same thing, however, you have to be near death for the DNA and RNA to alternate. If the person isn't on the brink of death, then it doesn't work, and it just neutralizes in the person's bloodstream. That's why we're known as Sol Vampires, or Reverse Vampires.
I sighed as I got up to get ready. All of our stuff had been packed up, and my brother, Silas and I are moving today with the horses from California to (finally) Virginia, and our father, Henry and Genie would be moving in the next two weeks, as they wrap the last of the stuff up and tied up all loose ends. It was Christmas day, but at least the roads would be clear enough for us to get through.
Dad had a job secured in Winchester, Virginia, so that's where we were moving to, well, at least not far from it, at first he didn't want to accept it, because of Andrew, but I assured him that I would be then. We are actually moving to the old family plantation, about half an hour away, where my dad grew up before moving to Texas. My dad was born in raised in Front Royal, Virginia, the property was that of what was used as a hospital in October 1863. The whole property total, was about 116 acres, it's not used for farming anymore, so it was pretty easy to upkeep. It would be 41 hour, 2,732 mile trip, and my brother and I were transporting 9 horses, it shouldn't be too hard, as I would have Silas with me to help out.
I got dressed in a pair of jeans, a black long sleeved shirt and pulled a camo hoodie on as well as my Dixie flag cowboy boots. I put part of my long curly hair in a crown knot and left the rest running down my back. I grabbed the last of my bags and put them in my dark gray 2011 Toyota tundra, before backing it up to hitch the 6 horse trailer to my truck before making sure each stall in the trailer had sawdust and hay on the floor, a hay net in reach of the horses, and that the vents were fully open. In the back of the trailer, I made sure that I had buckets of food and water, a horse first aid kit (per horse), grooming kit (per horse), and tack and rugs.
I went to the stables to get the first horse to load, which was mine, a Quarter Horse named Total Rebellion, but I called him Rebel for short. He has a dark brown coat and some white markings on his legs. I had an orange camo halter on him and a camo leading rope that I used to get him on the trailer, before closing his pen, and headed back for the next one.
The next horse was also a quarter horse, a solid black horse named Southern Legacy, whom we called Legacy. He had a dark blue halter, and I took the black leading rope that was hanging beside his stall and got him onto the trailer, before going back for Dixie, whom was an American Saddle Bred, and she was a gray and palomino mix. Then I went back for the fourth horse, Rover, an appaloosa, who had the leopard coat pattern (white body with black spots).
Silas brought out two horses, his, a Rocky Mountain horse named Bullet, and a quarter horse, Midnight Dances. Henry was helping out and brought Casanova, his American Saddlebred, and Genie's Paint Horse that she named Tango. I went and got dad's quarter horse Morning Glory. After each of the nine were loaded and settled, I closed and secured the trailer door. Then I went to go and find my father to let him know that we were leaving.
"Hey, Daddy, I have the horses loaded up, and Silas and I are leaving now." I said.
Dad nodded. "Okay honey, call us when you get there and make sure you stop for breaks." He said. "An can you take the dog with y'all?
I nodded. "Sure thing." I told him before going to hunt Silas down. I opened the back door of my truck and Gunner (the chocolate lab) hopped in. I made sure that I had their papers in a folder on the passenger's seat and my I.D nearby, in reach and drove out of the drive way after Silas was settled. I stopped in Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and finally in Roanoke, Virginia for breaks for the horses. Now it was just 2 hours and 46 minutes before I got to my destination.