It was dark outside and around nine o'clock at night as Vlad Masters walked on a path that was marked a couple yards away from his castle like mansion. The path was right next to a forest. The moonlight shone brightly on the path, so Vlad had no problem seeing where he was going.
He had his silverish gray hair pulled back into a ponytail with the pieces that wouldn't fit into the ponytail out hanging over the middle of his forehead like he always did. He wasn't really that old for his hair to be all the way gray, it had just turned that color when he had been turned into a half ghost. He was actually like in his early thirties, but somehow his complexion had been preserved or just aged slowly. Most people think he is like twenty something, so he just told most people that he was only like twenty-seven or twenty-nine. He wore a black tuxedo with the shirt and jacket unbuttoned some on the top exposing just a bit of his chest. His mustache on his chin that came to a point on his upper chin was well groomed and was the same color as his hair. His light blue eyes shone under the moonlight.
He was deep in thought about how to get Maddie to be his one and only. He had plans but none of them seemed to be good enough. He was about to turn around and head back to the mansion when he heard a woman scream in the forest. He quickly turned into his ghost form. His silver hair turned jet black and was in a style that made it look like he had horns, his skin turned a light shade of blue, his ears turned into pointed ears with one small gold hoop in the left one, his black tuxedo was now a white suit and cape, and his blue eyes were now red. He soon headed into the forest. He used his ghost senses to try and find the screaming woman. Then he saw a green glowing ghost beating up a woman. Vlad wasn't usually the good guy, but it wasn't like it was Danny Phantom who was the ghost. He shot a red stream of energy at the ghost a couple of times without saying anything to it or the woman. After a while the green ghost disappeared into the sky. Vlad went over to the woman. She was bleeding and bruised all over. Now that he was closer to her, he could see what she looked like. She had long jet black hair that went down to the middle of her back, he could barley see her eyes but they were the same shade of light blue as his, she was slender and looked to be about 5'4, and her lips were as red as a rose. Her clothes were torn and dirty.
"Please don't hurt me." She said through her tears.
Then she fainted. He couldn't just leave her out there all alone so he carefully picked her up in his arms and flew back to his mansion.
Vlad had changed back into his normal form and had taken the woman into his bedroom. He got a wet washcloth and started cleaning the woman up. He saw that some parts of her hair were wavy put most of it was straight. Then the woman started to wake up. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around the room.
"I see you're awake now." Vlad said.
"Where am I? Who are you?" she asked as she started to sit up.
"You are in my bedroom in my mansion, and my name is Vlad Masters. Now, stay still. You still have some cuts and bruises."
"Oh my god! You're not the one who saved me?"
"Yes I am."
"No you're not. The man who saved me had blue skin, black hair, was wearing a white suit and cape, and had red eyes."
"Miss…?"
"Arabella. Arabella Cunning."
"I assure you, Arabella, I am the one who saved you."
"Whatever. What was that thing anyway?"
"I don't know." He lied. "But whatever it was it's gone now. Where you lost or something?"
"Well…kind of."
"Well, it's almost eleven, so if you want to, you could stay here for the night and I could take you home in the morning?"
"Sure, that's fine." Vlad held out a hand for her. Arabella took his hand as he helped her up.
"If you will follow me, I will show you to your room." He said.
Arabella followed him to a room that was just down the hall from his. When he opened the door she was amazed.
"The bed's right there and the bathroom is right off of that." He said pointing to a bed and another door. "There's a pair of pajamas in the dresser and some clothes in the closet."
"Thank you so much, Mr. Masters."
"Please, call me Vlad. Come down for breakfast anytime you like in the morning. Goodnight, Arabella."
"Goodnight, Vlad."
Then he left shutting the door behind him. Arabella grabbed a pair of pajamas out of the dresser and headed towards the bathroom to take a shower.
Vlad went to his room to go to bed. He changed into his gray pajama pants and left his shirt off. Then he got in his bed and drifted off to sleep. After Arabella got out of the shower she put the pajamas on and climbed into the warm queen size bed. She soon fell asleep. But not for long.
It was about two in the morning and Arabella was starving to death. She had to eat something. She decided to go find the kitchen and get a small snack. She peeked out her door to make sure no one was up. She didn't see anyone and saw that Vlad's door was closed, so she shut her door behind her quietly and headed down the stairs. As soon as she was down stairs she saw the kitchen off to her right. She tiptoed into the kitchen.
Then out of nowhere Vlad popped up from behind the island that was in the middle of the kitchen. Arabella jumped and screamed.
"What-what are you doing down here so early in the morning?" Vlad asked her.
"I-I was just going to get a small snack."
Vlad noticed what pajamas Arabella was wearing. She was wearing black Capri pants with pink trimming and a sort of revealing pink spaghetti strap with black polka dots and black trimming. Arabella also noticed what Vlad was wearing. He was wearing gray pajama pants with a long-sleeved button up shirt. Except the shirt was unbuttoned completely and revealed his entire chest. She noticed that he was well toned. His muscled made him look like he was in his early twenties.
"Well so was I." Vlad said interrupting her thoughts. "Do you want some cake?" he asked.
"Uh, sure."
He sliced a piece of chocolate cake for her then one for him. Arabella took a bite of the cake and almost died, it was so good.
"So where do you live?" Vlad asked.
"Just a couple miles away from here."
"Do you live with anyone?"
"Well, I did. But…"
"But what?"
"Um…nothing. I just don't, ok?"
"Ok. No need to get mad."
"Sorry. Uh, I better go back to bed. Thanks for the cake."
Before Arabella went back to her room, Vlad noticed the necklace she was wearing. It was a small dark red rose with a little diamond in the middle on a silver chain. He sworn he had seen it before.
After Arabella got to her room, she couldn't stop thinking about Vlad and how good he looked. She tried as hard as she possibly could to stop thinking about him and went back to sleep. Vlad as well went back to his room and fell back asleep.
Arabella woke up around nine in the morning. She could smell pancakes cooking. She decided to get up. When she got downstairs she didn't see Vlad in the kitchen. She went through the kitchen and found the dinning room where she saw Vlad sitting and the head of the long table. He was reading the newspaper and eating pancakes. He heard footsteps and glanced over the paper.
"Ah, you're awake. Good morning, Arabella." He said.
"Good morning Vlad."
"Your pancakes are on the kitchen counter along with a glass of orange juice."
Arabella got her breakfast and sat down at the other end of the table. Vlad noticed she was still wearing her pink and black pajamas and sneakishly stared at her a few times over his paper.
"As soon as you're done eating and ready I will take you to home." He said.
"Um, Vlad?"
"Yes."
"I was wanting to talk to you in private." Arabella glanced at the maids.
"Alright."
He waved the maids and servants off. Arabella got up and sat in the chair that was right next to Vlad.
"Um…about me going home? Do you think I could stay here for a while?" she said nervously.
"Why?" Vlad had put his paper down and was staring at Arabella.
"Because I have nowhere else to go." She said.
"What about your house a couple miles away?"
"I can't go back there. I don't think you would believe me if I told you."
"Try me."
"Well my boyfriend is a ghost that's trying to kill me. My powers are not strong enough to beat him, and he killed my family."
She was trying so hard not to cry but it was not working. Tears rolled down her face. Vlad just sat there staring at her in shock.
"You have powers?" he asked.
"Yes."
"What kind of powers?"
"Ghost powers. I'm half ghost."
