Brook woke up to the sound of a song playing in her seven year old mind. Where did it come from? She didn't know but she wanted to find out. It was a soft, hypnotizing lullaby playing in her head. Nothing else was filling her mind. Getting out from under her Barbie doll covers, she walked quietly out of her room, stalking down the carpet of the steps as quietly as she could. Her little feet made no sound at all. She reached her back door, her little hand turning the golden knob. She walked out the door with her feet meeting the concrete steps as she walked down them taking her into the back yard. Cutting through the yard, she went into the dark woods with the lullaby getting louder and louder as it lured her more into the night.

She was getting closer and close to the source of the song. She was desperate to meet that source. Her bare feet walked through the dirt and gravel of the path. The gravel didn't hurt her feet and the dirt didn't bother her one bit. The tall branches of the trees cut into the path but they were to tall to meet her head. Her light blue nightgown went to her knees and her auburn hair went straight down her back to meet her little waist. Her forest green eyes were set straight ahead to meet her destination. Nothing else appeared to be important to the seven year old.

The dirt path trailed her to meet a cave. Out of the dark cave appeared a tall man. Her mind was confused at the appearance of the strange man but this appeared to be the source of the song. He sang the entrancing song from his lips. She just stood there to hear it. The song disappeared for the man to ask a question.

"Who are you, little one?" He asked with a gentle smile showing white teeth.

"Brook." She answered. "Who are you?" She asked shyly.

"I'm Devin." He answered. "Come here, young one." He ordered gently, probing her mind to force her to listen. He held out his hand for her take. She studied his large hand than his appearance. He was tall with black hair and dark eyes that held nothing at all. It creeped her out a bit but his face held beauty. His face looked like it was carved from perfection. He waited for her response with his hand held out for her to take.

"Okay." She smiled, placing her small hand into his. "Good." He said, his voice holding some accomplishment. He started leading her to the cave.

"Was that you singing that song?" She asked curiously.

"Yes. It was me. Do you like it?" He asked looking back at her.

"I love it. It's beautiful." She said, her voice cheerful. Furrowing her brows, she asked, "Where are we going?"

"Just in the cave. I want to show you something." He answered. Something inside her told her that something wasn't right. "I should probably get back to my house. My parents will wake up and find me gone." She said trying to pry her hand from his but his grip on her tightened.

"I won't be long, I promise." He responded. His voice started to sound gruff and that sent a shiver of fear down her spine.

"Alright." She started to relax a bit chasing away the confusion and fear that were stirring in the pit of her stomach. She was in the cave now. Everything was pitched dark around her making her scared.

"I can't see anything." She said, her voice quivering. "You will." He responded in a gruff tone. She blinked her green eyes and when she opened them, she saw a horrid sight before her.

It was ugly and she screamed at the sight of it. The thing before her was terrifying. It had gray skin the was tight over its face and sunken black eyes that were hollow. Its mouth had protruding teeth that were stained black from what looked like to be blood. Skidding back to the entrance of the cave, she fell backwards onto her back. She tried to get back up and run but the thing grabbed her bare foot and dragged her back to him. Screaming, she kicked at his hand but to no avail. His daggered nails were digging into her ankle sending pain through her foot.

"Let me go!" Brook cried with tears forming in her eyes. She turned onto her stomach and tried to drag herself from his grasp, digging her nails into the dirt below her.

"You're not going anywhere." He rasped dragging the girl to him. She screamed at the top of her lungs. The thing put his dirty hand over her mouth.

"Shut up! You're never going back home to anyone. Your staying with me. Your happiness will be gone, the love of anyone will never find you, and most of all you'll be in the dark forever from now on." Tears started choking at the back of her throat at the sound of his words coming from his foul mouth.

Back at the House

Brooks mother woke up at the disturbing distress coming from somewhere. "Brook." She whispered in panic. She flung the sheets over her waking her husband, Mark, up. "Anne, what's wrong?" He asked, his voice filled with grogginess. "It's Brook. Something's wrong with her." She answered running out of bed to her daughter's room, her husband following behind her. They saw her door wide open but Brook wasn't in her bed. Her blankets were disturbed and thrown to the side of the bed.

"Oh God!" Mark said racing down the steps to the back door. Mark and Anne saw the door open, they both raced outside. "Brook!" The called out but came no response. Anne calmed her racing nerves down, closed her eyes, and tried to feel which direction her daughters energy went. She opened her eyes and felt she went down to the path leading into the woods.

"Mark, she went this way." She told her husband. "Ok, let's go then." He trusted her judgment. They both began walking down the path. Anne lead while her husband followed. Once they got closer to where Brook was, they heard their daughters cries coming from an eerie cave.

"She's here." Anne whispered. Mark raced ahead of her, entering the cave. Anne chased after her husband.

"Brook!" Mark screamed with worry at the sight of an ugly thing holding his daughter captive. "Oh my god!" Anne covered her mouth at the sight her husband was seeing.

"Mommy, daddy." Brook cried holding out her arms to her parents. "Hold on, honey." Her mother said.

Brook saw her parents enter the cave. She was relieved yet scared. She wanted to go home to her warm bed and safe in her parents arms. She looked to her mother who had blond hair and forest green eyes while her father had brown hair and dark brown eyes. He was 6'0 and her mother was only 5'5.

"So these are your parents, ehh?" He asked rhetorically with humor filling his gruff voice.

"Let her go!" Her mother screamed. Her green eyes narrowed on the vampire, then all of sudden he was flung away from her daughter slamming into the wall of the cave.

"Mommy." Brook cried running into her mothers arms. "It's okay honey, we're here." Anne reassured her daughter, carresiing her hair. The vampire got up and transformed into a large, growling black wolf.

"Oh no, this can't be." Mark said before the wolf leaped at his throatm its teeth aiming for a killing bite.

"Mark!" Anne screamed, she flung the wolf away from him, then went to his aid. She could tell that he was dead just by the blood running from his gaping throat. "Daddy." Brook whimpered in her tiny voice. She went beside her mother only to see the wolf leap at her mothers' back sending her on top of her husband.

"Nooo!" Brook screamed jumping on the black wolf only to be sent flying into the cave wall being knocked into blackness. The last sight was of the wolf killing her mother.

She woke up to the horrid smell of death. Her head was thrumming behind eyes. "Where am I?" She asked herself.

"You're with me." She heard a foul voice say to her left. At the sound of the voice, everything came running back to her mind. The song, the tall male, the sight of the ugly thing, and her….her parents.

"Mommy, Daddy?" She whimpered. Following the smell across from her, she saw her parents lying on the ground. Her fathers' throat was ripped out and her mother had blood under her form.

"Mommy." She croaked, she crawled to her mothers' body. Her soft blond hair was splayed over her face. She swept her hair from her face to see her eyes closed.

She shook her body. "Mommy, wake up." Brook called. No response came.

"She's not waking up dear." The thing called from behind her. She ignored him and went to her dead father. "Daddy, wake up." She shook her father's body but again, no response.

"They're both not waking up." The vampire laughed. She started crying at the news. Both her parents were dead because of her. A choking sound came from her throat with tears forming in her eyes. Crawling over to her mother, she curled into a ball onto her mothers' stomach.

"I'm sorry mommy, daddy." She cried softly. "I didn't mean for the to happen, forgive me." She whispered.

"Oh boohoo! Get up, we're leaving." The vampire mocked walking over to her. He grabbed her by the hair pulling her from her mother. She screamed from the pain bringing more tears. She grasped his hand to ease the gripping pain from her head.

"Let go of me!" She screamed. He slapped her across the face to silence her scream. He forced into her mind sending her psychic barriers down. So, she had psychic powers too. He grinned at that knowledge. Perfect.

"Shut up!" He threw her into the wall, sending her into oblivion. Walking over to the girl, he picked her up and formed himself into mist and traveled to another location with the girl.

-End of Chapter-

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