The Vampire of the Seven Veils
It had sucked that Jane had just upped and ditched her for some guy she just met, and with Trent and the guys blazed and expected to play another set there wasn't a ride to be had.
So Daria found herself hoofing it in the middle of the night in the deserted sidewalks near Dega Street.
The only sounds were her footfalls.
"This is creepy." Daria admitted to herself and hoped that the roads further on down had some sort of activity to fill the void.
"Lost are you?" A woman's melodic voice asked from behind her.
Daria whipped around and found herself looking at an extraordinarily beautiful woman who looked completely out of place in her slinky black dress, pale white skin that seemed to shine under the streetlights, and a chest that rivaled Brittany's.
"Are you?" Daria countered.
The woman laughed, "No, I am always at home in shadows. But you are a bold one... I was going to just eat you but I think I could use a new progeny."
"Wha-?" Daria began to say but was cut off by the woman turning into a blur.
Then Daria found herself slammed onto the ground, the woman on top of her, and pain flared through her entire body, then the woman bit her neck.
She tried to fight back, but the woman was stronger than she looked, and the agony from her neck was unbearable.
Everything began to turn dark and the woman's voice whispered, "When you rise from the soil tomorrow night, you will address me by my name... Salome Agrippa."
Then it all faded away, and Daria knew nothing more.
Daria opened her eyes and felt pain, she couldn't see anything, she was trapped on all sides.
She couldn't breath.
Instinct caused her to flail around and she discovered that whatever was trapping her was loose, so she began to claw through it, it came apart like paper.
Her body oriented itself and she felt that the right direction was to go up.
She couldn't explain why, it just felt right.
She found it surprisingly easy to push herself up as she dug through what she was now certain was soil.
Someone had buried her alive.
Then her hand pushed through something and she felt the cool air of the night.
Daria pushed and clawed even more fiercely and then...
"Guuahhhh!" Issued from Daria's throat as she sucked in oxygen and her senses came alive, the soil tried to suck her back in but her hand found purchase on sterner stuff that hadn't been broken up.
A hand reached forward and Daria gratefully allowed it to pull her up.
"Rest my child," A woman's voice sang to her, "Everything is alright now..."
Daria spat out some dirt and took a ragged breath before looking up, and discovered the woman from the night before towering above her, the black dress rags and covered in soil.
Just like herself.
"What... What did you do to me?" Daria asked with raspy breath, but found herself strangely at ease around this psycho.
The woman smirked, "I gave you the ultimate gift."
Daria rose to her feet, and found the wooden area they were in to be strangely beautiful, she knew by instinct that it was night, she didn't need to look up at the sky to know this, but for some reason everything was even clearer than the brightest day to her.
A laugh brought her back to reality.
"I was the same way," The woman, what was her name again?, said "We'll get you showered and dressed before your first meal as a newborn."
"Newborn what?" Daria asked, for some reason part of her was afraid of the answer.
The woman laughed, "A newborn vampire Daria."
Everything came together in that moment for her, the woman's strength, the biting of her neck, her death, and now rising from the dirt...
Then she remembered the last thing she had heard as a mortal.
"Salome Agrippa," Daria said weakly.
"Yes, my progeny?"
Daria paused for a moment before saying the first thing that came to mind.
"I'm hungry."
Salome laughed, "Like I said my child, as your Maker I'll make it happen, but first thing's first. Come with me."
Salome offered her hand and only after a moment's hesitation Daria took it.
A moment later Daria discovered just how fast she could now move, even in combat boots.
She wondered what came next.