Prologue
Somewhere far in the forest, as from nowhere, a man appeared. At the same time, the sun glared its last beams over the dark woods. The man seemed to be going nowhere. Just walking around among, then when nightfall had intruded, frightening trees. This was no place for a man to take a walk at night. But the man was no ordinary man. His appearance was very delightful, and if you could take a closer look at him, you would see his dark red eyes, glowing in the dark.
When night-time the birds stopped singing, the squirrels stopped jumping up and down from the trees, and every larger mammal predator went to sleep. Usually, there is always some sound of an animal or two digging around in the dirt in the darkness. But this was no ordinary night. The greatest predator that ever existed had chosen his annual prey. And since no one wanted to interrupt him, too frightened to wake his anger, they stayed away. Letting this terrible crime happen.
The man seemed to have stopped. He closed his eyes and let something else lead his way. An invisible force. Something that he, however, seemed to trust, because he didn't make any resistance at all. After a few moments he began to breathe heavily, as if he smelt something delicious just around the corner. And that was exactly what he did. He did a halt. He was standing in a middle of a meadow. Small white flowers covered the earth. If it was not affected by the terrible thing that was going to happen, the place would've been really beautiful. Just a few metres from him, there were something lying on the ground, whining.
"Oh, please", it whispered. "I promise I won't tell anyone, just let me go".
But the man just smiled and stepped forward to it, and lifted it up. The moonlight fell on its face. It was a young woman, maybe just eighteen years old. She had short, blonde curls, huge, hazel shaped, brown eyes that were wide with terror, and freckles.
"No", the man said. "You were chosen for me, and therefore you have to stay." He bent down and kissed her red lips. He worked his way from the lips and down her neck, where he suddenly bit her. You could hear him moan of pleasure, the woman's blood tasted probably very good to him. But from the girl you heard nothing, and he must've realized it too, because he suddenly stopped in surprise. Without premonition he started to laugh.
"Well, young human, it seems like you have to endure with me for a long time in the future", he said. "I'll wait for you until the time has come, Aeriel."
The man walked away, leaving the girl shivering on the ground. Left on her neck was only a barely visible scar, gleaming like silver in the moonlight.