Prologue
My name is Phantom. My life changed the day I died. Or temporarily died is more accurate. I'm not completely dead, because I couldn't tell this story if I was completely dead.
However back to my story.
I died. I forgot how because it's not important. It was a Saturday morning in the middle of a summer vacation...
When I woke up I felt hungry. This wasn't the strange thing that happened. The strange thing was that I actually woke up. I thought I was dead. "Maybe it was a dream? " I sad silently. I walked downstairs, because it was strange that my parents weren't making breakfast. When I arrived at the kitchen, it was still awkwardly silent. The next thing I did, was, if I'm remembering right, to open the venetian blind, but when the sunlight hit my eyes, it felt stranger than usual. So I closed the venetian blind. After that I shouted through the house, but there was no answer. Then I finally recognized that they went to vacation. I walked downstairs to the cellar to get me some bread for breakfast, when there was this disturbing noise. I located the noise to one of the two building sites in my street. I didn't know why, but I was so angry about this, that I took my keys and opened the door. There it was again, this strange, nearly hurting, feeling, when the sun hit my eyes. It just made me angrier. I walked to the building site and shouted at the workers they had to stop what they were doing, because it's annoying. The master builder answered that I would interrupt their work and should leave. This just made me angrier. Again. I felt weird and mad, and back then I didn't know why, but I focused on his neck. Then I heard his heart beating. I became fascinated by this sound, and then everything turned crazy.
The whole time there was this strange feeling about my canines, so when this crazy thing began, they grew, my face felt like blood was flowing down from my eyes, behind the skin, and my eyes felt like they were burning. Then it happened. I ran to him and feed myself on his blood. The warm blood was flowing down my throat. This was the time, I finished something that was called "transition[1]". What I didn't know, back then. When he was empty of blood, my feeling of hunger and desire was still there. It was so distracting that I didn't realize I killed him, and the others were trying to run away. But this desire was so strong that I ran after them, and did the same to them, as I did to the master builder. And all this just happened in a few seconds. When I finished my work, I wanted to go home. But when I left the shade and tried to go home, through the sun, the parts of my body which were in the sunlight started to smolder. I stepped back into the shadows. The pain that was rushing through my body made me come back into reality. I realized that I had just killed a bunch of men. I had to hide what I had done. Then I saw that the wounds looked similar to those of animals, like wolves, so I took the first body, in the same speed I just used to kill them, hid the body in a nearby forest and ran back to the building. It worked because my skin healed nearly as fast as the sun burned it. Than I ran back to my home and hid inside. What I didn't knew, when I cleaned myself, was that the only reason I could enter my home was, that my family died in a car accident, so no one had to invite me in. What I knew was that became someone else, I became something else, I became a vampire, a special kind, an Original.
to be continued in Chapter I...
1 transition is the name of the process of becoming a vampire/hybrid