This is my new story, I hope you like it. Please read and review. This was just something I came up with last night and decided to write it down...
This is the story of how I came to be. My name is Luna Zairelys Sotomayor and I am forever seventeen. I was born on November 29, 1976 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. My given birth name is Angeli Sophia Alvarez Mendoza; I was forced to change my name after everything that happened to me. But before I get to all that let me tell you about me, well about the person I used to be.
My mother's name was Elizabeth Mendoza, she was very beautiful, she had long dark brown curly hair and I loved it when she smiled. She was married to my father Patricio Alvarez.
Throughout my whole life I was mostly the shy girl. I had known my two best friends for mostly my whole life, I practically considered them sisters. Their names were Valeria Gaitan and Michelle Rios. Michelle was always the outgoing one, she had long, curly brown hair, and tanned skin, and she was of a medium height. Valeria was…well she was a lot like me, we both loved to read, though she was less shy than I was, she was the tallest of all the three, she was also of tanned skin and dark brown hair, it had curls but mostly…well lets just say her hair did not know that a brush was supposed to be used more than once a week. We all had our differences but we stayed together, throughout high school and we even decided to go to college together. We were in freshman year when all of this happened. They were both eighteen years old. I was the baby. So we all ended up going to the UPR in Rio Piedras.
It all happened one night in mid-September the year was 1993, when my entire life turned upside down. Michelle, Valeria, and I were going down to the beach after dinner. We had just eaten in a restaurant in Old San Juan. The night was dark; there were barely any stars in the sky. We were walking down the street; there were hardly any people tonight, which was rare. These streets were usually filled with people.
Old San Juan was beautiful; it was a part of Puerto Rico that I completely loved. The road was of brick and all the building are so old and beautiful. All the history of this place had always gotten me to think about the past. Everything that happened here in the old days. And soon there would be another memory I could think about when I came here. One that was not of joy. I would look to the past, my past and see that this was where it all ended and where it all began. This was where Angeli Sophia stopped existing and Luna Zairelys was born.
We go to the beach, after a long walk, and sat on some benches. We had walked about two miles, maybe more. I really had to go to the bathroom, why did which always happen when there wasn't a bathroom near? "Guys I have to go to the bathroom, come with me?" I asked them.
"You crazy?" Asked Michelle.
"I'm not going to walk all the way back there!" Valeria said.
"Fine!" I said. "I will go alone. I'll scream if anything happens." I said joking.
I walked back through the dark street, there were a couple of street lamps on, but most of them were not working. I could almost see the restaurant with the restrooms. There weren't many people in the street, I was probably alone. Suddenly I was not alone. Out of nowhere came three people, they were all surrounding me. There were two men and one woman. They were all extremely beautiful. Tourist I would guess.
"Can I help you?" I asked politely. My voice was shaky and I was trembling. Something about their beautiful, pale faces seemed hostile and I was scared. They all looked at each other and suddenly I was on the floor. I knew that I should scream but I could not find my voice.
Both men grabbed me by my wrists, they looked up to the woman and she nodded. I had no idea what was going on or what they were going to do to me. They dragged me into a very dark alley and the next thing I knew they were biting me. "Stop!" Yelled the female. "I want to keep her." She said and both men stepped away from me. That was the last thing I remember.
Next thing I knew I was in a small room, it had no windows and only one small wooden door. The room was dark. I was lying down in a bed; on the other side of the room I could see the three people that had attacked me all sitting in a couch watching me. Suddenly I realized that I was in pain, the worst pain I have ever felt, I could have sworn I was on fire. I began to scream uncontrollably. The woman stood up and came to where I was. "It will all be okay, child." She told me.
"What is happening to me?" I asked. My whole body ached.
"You will find out everything when the pain is over." She told me. At least that meant that it would have to finish.
"Who are you?" I asked her while looking at the men on the couch. They looked very young and extremely pale; they all had dark circles under their fierce black eyes.
"That is Charles and Larry." She said motioning toward them. "And I am Elizabeth. And you are?" Her name was Elizabeth, that's my mother's name. I quickly began to think about her, would I ever be able to see her again? When whatever was happening to me finished? I asked myself. Then I thought about my two best friends, they were with me that night, were they okay? I was certain that they had noticed that I was gone. Then I thought about a very important man in my life, Ian Alexander Ruiz, I loved him so much. He was my boyfriend; we had been together for over one year. He was nineteen; I had met him thanks to my brother, Robert, who was good friends with him.
As I thought of all this I noticed the pain in subsiding from my fingertips. Was this a sign that it was almost over? How long had I been here? I thought to myself.
After an hour or so of extreme pain it was all over. I saw everything clearer, hear things better as well, and I felt stronger. I could not feel my heart beating and so I was certain that I was probably somehow dead.
"Am I dead?" I asked nervously.
"Well, you are now immortal." She told me and I felt in shock.
"What?"
"You are a vampire, dear." I felt so confused. I'm sure that if it were possible I would have fainted already.
They all explained what had happened two nights ago when they found me. They told me the rules I needed to follow, such as not going out in public when the sun was shinning. Also, they taught me everything I needed to know about the vampire world. I found it all fascinating. Though I had to admit there was one thing I was not willing to do. I was not willing to kill anyone just to calm the burning thirst I felt in my throat. Another thing I worried about was my family.
"My family, can I ever see them again?" I asked.
"It is safest if you simply stay away. You are a newborn vampire, very dangerous to humans, especially when you are thirsty." She said.
"I refuse to kill anyone!" I yelled at her.
"You will get over that eventually." She said looking at me. "You have a decision to make; you can either go with us or stay on your own." I did not want to stay alone but leaving with them didn't seem like a good idea to. I had always bee an independent person. I am sure that I can be and independent vampire as well.
"I think I will stay on my own, it will be what is best for me."
"If you wish." She said. Charles and Larry were always silent; it felt like they weren't even in the room. It was easy to see that Elizabeth was the leader of their little coven. That's why they quickly followed the order to keep me alive that night. But why? That still made no sense.
"Elizabeth, I have one question." I said.
"Okay…"
"Why didn't you kill me that night?" I asked her.
"Well, you see, I have a special ability. Some vampires do. I can tell if someone has the potential to be a strong vampire with a special ability and I saw it in you."
"Really? What ability will I have?" I asked curiously.
"Well you already have it, whatever it is. I can only tell that you will have one, not what you will have."
"Oh." I said. I was anxious to find out what it would be.
"Angeli, we are leaving tonight. Before we go we wanted to give you something that might help you out a little." She said handing me a big envelope. I opened it to find and ID and a birth certificate. The ID had a picture of someone who looked like me and had a different name. It said Luna Zairelys Sotomayor.
"A fake ID and birth certificate?" I asked confused.
"Yes, that will be you new name from now on, police are looking for Angeli so you can't be her anymore." What she said took me by surprise, from now on I would have to be someone else.
"Why couldn't you use an actual picture of me?" I asked. The woman in the ID was beautiful, she had tan skin and yet she looked a little pale, she looked to be very young.
"That is you, the new you. You haven't looked in the mirror, have you?" She said pushing me toward it. I was stunned by what I saw. It was the girl from the ID. She had my curly brown hair and I could deep down see that it was my face, but it did not look like me and my eyes. Wow. They were scary, bright red, definitely creepy.
"Are you leaving soon?" I asked them.
"Yes, Luna, in a couple of hours." I was going to have to get used to my new name.
It was after nightfall when they left, they were going to swim back to the United States. I watched them go, while I sat on the dark beach. It was the same beach where to nights ago I sat with my two best friends, Valeria and Michelle. Back then I was Angeli Sophia Alvarez Mendoza, a human. Now and forever I am Luna Zairelys, a vampire.
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