Of Ravens and Bats
Prologue:
Raven's Notes: I am the Cursed.
I am unwanted, jaded, cursed. That what people like me, always are. I remember when I was a child, so happy and carefree. Now I know that it was all just a lie. The world is full of cruelty and monstrosities that go on unknown for the rest of our human lives.
I always considered myself human, a sad fact really. Nobody is human anymore. We give ourselves to the sins inside of our heart; Envy, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, and Wrath. We all give ourselves over to them sometime in our life.
My sin…well I have committed about everyone there is. I have yearned for something that is not mine. I have eaten more than my fare share. I have turned my anger on another. I have self-indulgenced in something that was not mine. I have been arrogant. I have been jealous of one that has more fortunate than me. I have not laid a hand to help one that was in trouble, simply because I was too lazy. Yes, I have committed every one of the sins there is.
The sad thing is that I don't care. I'm going to hell any way. So why care? The seven sins are nothing to me. Why even talk about them? I don't know maybe…it's to try to make sense of the mess I call my life. Yeah…I guess that's the reason. The blood on my hands hasn't faded, nor is my reasons for living. To get revenge on the one who ruined my life.
Heh, but enough about the past; why don't I get on to my story…well actually it's our story, mine and my best friend's. I would start from the beginning but heck that would take to long. If I want to be exact, I would guess about…two hundred to three hundred years ago, and I'm not even in the story for the first few hundred.
Now I'm not that old. You see I just happened to inherit a mutant gene (as I call it). My gene wasn't activated till I was bitten.
Bitten by what? You ask.
A vampire, I say.
You say, that is impossible, that vampires don't exist.
And then I say they do.
You stare at me like I am crazy till I show you the bite mark on my neck. The one that is the palest skin you ever seen, and is cold to the touch.
You stare at it for awhile and then you accept it, quietly, more quietly than the other people that I've told.
Yes, this conversation is going well. My stalling techniques are coming out quite well. You see I can't get on with this story till my partner in crime is here…and now here she is. We can begin now.
I welcome you children to my story and my partner's. This story is full of nightmares that you never imagined where in this world innocent blood is spilled to justify a curse that has been haunting humans for centuries. A place where your ties and your friends are everything, I can imagine that they took years to work up. Yet, in this world, they can just be torn down as if they were never there.
With this final word, I leave you. This story happened many years ago, and I wished that it never had to end. But alas, all stories have to end, even great ones. And what of the characters? You ask.
They always disappear into nothingness, as I have done many times before, forgotten by family and friends. For I am the Raven, cursed and lonely, doomed to roam this earth forever by myself. Of course you always meet someone unique along the way.
Take for example my good friend Bat. She by far was the most interesting person I met so far. So gather round children and I will tell you a tale about Ravens and Bats and how they are not so different from us then we think they are.
Come children; listen to mine, and my companion's tale about a small town that was constantly covered with rain and the residents that lived there. And may I remind you that this happened along time ago. Now sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
Heavensblackcat: hey me and my friend are working on this story together. give me feedback, please.
