As I lay there, in that dingy cell I called home for the past thirteen years, I thought to myself 'Why me?' My mother was dead, my brothers where being experimented on, and my father was on top of me having his way with me. This isn't the first time he's done this, him and his priests have been doing this to me since I was eleven, but today was different. I was angry and getting angrier by the second. I felt something deep in my core that consumed my body and forced me to take out all my anger on everyone and everything around me.
It's been five long years since that happened and I feel happy and guilty about it at the same time. Yes my father and his priests are dead, but so are my brothers. Hence why I feel two different emotions whenever I think about it. But I cannot linger in the past; I know that they wouldn't want me to anyway since I have a long life ahead of me.
Ever since that day I have traveled and mastered most of my powers. Being part of that experiment did have its advantages, but very little. Right now I am in Egypt, not for a particular reason, I travel mainly because I don't like being in one place for too long. But something told me that my stop here would last longer than I expected.
Staying in the shadows of this rather large city, that I found out was called Egypt, I waited for my unsuspecting prey. Speaking of which, there was a man heading my way. 'What a fool.' Before he got to far I grabbed him by the throat and pulled his back towards me and sank my fangs into his neck, drinking away the substance he needed for life.
I heard a gasp behind me, but didn't bother to turn around until I was finished with my meal. Dropping the body to the ground I turned to see who had spotted me and saw a young boy. He had chocolate brown hair, cerulean blue eyes so wide they looked like they were going to fall out and his mouth was ready to drop to the ground. "W-Wh-" "Well hello little one, what is your name?" "S-Set." "Set. What a strong handsome name," I said ruffling his hair. He seemed to come back to his senses "Don't touch me! I saw what you just did!" I couldn't help but smile "Yes I know. You think I'm not right in the head. My name is Mira and I have a feeling that we will be seeing each other very soon." I turned and walked away before he could say anything in search for a place to stay.
The next morning I decided to look around and get familiar with my new home. My legs brought me to the pharaohs palace. I walked all the way to the back and decided to get a better look over this enormous gate. I bent my knees and jumped, clearing the gate, and landing on my feet without making a sound. I was standing in a garden and no one was in sight so I walk forward to get a better look at everything.
While looking at a beautiful rose bush I sensed someone coming. Again I didn't bother to move. I heard tiny feet running closer towards me. 'Why are so many children drawn to me lately?' A little boy with spiky black, red and blonde hair was standing behind me, just staring. "Hello. Who are you? You must be a new servant," he said noting my dirty and tattered clothing. "Yes I am new to the area, but I'm not a servant. My name is Mira." "I'm Atem. If your not a servant then what are doing inside the palace walls?" "I guess you could say I'm just getting to know the area."
He sat down right next to me and asked "So then…what are you?" "I'm a traveler. For the past five years I've done nothing but travel to different cities and countries." "Really! What's it like?" "Oh little one there is so much to tell and so little time." "What do you mean? We have lots of time."
As if on cue four soldiers ran out of the palace. Two of them grabbed Atem while the other two grabbed me and held my hands behind my back. "Stop! What's going on?" I then recognized Set from the other night approaching us. Atem ran to him while all four of the soldiers started dragging me towards the palace. "Set! What is going on we must stop them!" "Are you daft! She's a monster! I saw her last night and she was drinking someone's blood right from their body." At this point I could no longer see them, but I did catch the last part. "No, your wrong…"
I was thrown into a cell and shackled to the far wall. Once I was locked in memories of my past started flooding back. I didn't cry, I didn't do much of anything, but reflect and stare.
That night as I was almost on the verge of sleep I heard something off in the distance. As it got closer I recognized Atem's footsteps. He was panting by the time he collapsed on his knees just on the opposite side of the cell bars. "Mira! Mira!" he said in loud whisper. I slipped out of the chains and moved forward into the moonlight. "Hello Atem." Hearing the chains rattle he asked "How did you get out of the chains?" "Don't concern yourself with me, you should be sleeping." "I can't knowing your down here when you didn't do anything wrong." "I'll be fine. But what Set said was the truth." He looked into my eyes with a questioning glance. "He said that he saw me drinking blood and its true. I was born of a vampire and a sorceress giving me both of their abilities." He had a look of confusion and awe on his face putting a smile on mine.
"What is a vampire?" "A vampire is a human who's heart no longer beats. Their skin feels cold to the touch. They need to drink other human blood to survive because food no longer sustains them. They sleep during the day so that the sun will not burn their flesh. But when a person is turned into or born from a vampire they gain the strength of 10,000 men, better hearing, they can move so fast that no human can see them and they can live forever or only a few things can kill them." "And you can do all that?" "Yes." He was silent for a minute and looking down at the ground thinking about all I had said. I reached out and tilted his chin up to look at me "Why don't I tell you a story from my travels." A smile lit up his face "I would like that."
From that moment on every night Atem would come to see me and I would tell him another story or continue the one from the night before. I was happy to put a smile on the young boys face, but sometimes there where tears shed. "What happened to him?" "He was killed…by his own brother." "But…why?" "Let me finish."
But after a month I finally grew too weak to move let alone tell a story. "Mira what's wrong?" "Nothing Atem, I'm just very tired." "Your lying." I didn't respond, but I did muster up enough strength to pull myself forward so that he could see my face in the light, he gasped. "What is happening to you? You look awful." I chuckled at this and said "This is what happens when a vampire doesn't feed. I become nothing but skin and bones." "Then you must feed." "Of course, but there is no blood in sight." "You can have mine." I was stunned a little by this. "You don't know what your saying-" "Yes I do! Here take it" he said holding his arm out to me. I looked at it almost unable to control my thirst, but then I looked into his eyes "No." "Stop being so proud and take it! You need it more than I do!" I crawled forward and grabbed his hand, forcing him to stop his rant. "It will hurt." "I don't care." I bit into his wrist, done arguing and drank the delicious blood flowing into my mouth.
After a minute I pulled back, nowhere near satisfied. He looked at me with a little more warmth "Do you feel better?" Turning away from him ready to go back to the darkness I told him 'No.' "Then keep drinking, I don't want you to die!" "Listen you little brat there is only so much blood I can take from you at a time because of how small you are" I said while looking at him from over my shoulder. "I'm just trying to help." "Then leave me alone." I crawled back to the darkness and looked at him to see tears in his eyes. "You really are heartless!" He screamed as he ran away leaving me to wonder whether I would live or die in this cell, either way it was going to be hell.