Another one of my very old stories. Sometimes i wonder what the heck i was smoking when i thought these up. oh well.

SUMMARY: Selena is a girl whose been abused since a very young age. Battared and broken with the aid of her brother and his friends she's brought to transylvaina. A place she once dreamed of visiting. It is here that she finds and discovers the vampire king himself. Dracula.
Dracula first thinking he's found himself a free meal finds himself increasingly curios of this human girl who does not fear him. Her mind silent of all thoughts, in order to solve this puzzle he decides to get closer to her and as time goes on he becomes more and more attached to her and vows to protect her from the ones who hurt her.

crappy summary i know but i litteraly just know came up with it.

-CHAPTER ONE-

It was dark, dank, and cold. 'So very cold,' she thought to herself. Her fingers and toes numb and had there been any light she was sure she would be able to see her breath. The child shivered and hugged herself in a vain attempt to keep warm. The air reeked of stale blood.

The stench did not bother her though. She was use to it. This cold dark basement was her prison. She deserved to be here. She was bad. The child pushed herself up off the floor ignoring her body's protests as her wounds tightened and pulled sending jolts of pain through her entire body. She listened carefully for sounds of any movement upstairs. She let out a sigh of relief when all she heard was snoring.

'The mother and the father were still sleeping then' she thought to herself. Slipping on her old and worn sneakers, she crept softly up the stairs. She gently pushed the door open and peeked through before stepping out completely. She then walked over and turned on the light switch. Blinking she let her eyes adjust to the sudden brightness in the room. The light shown throughout the room to reveal a young girl who appeared to be no older than thirteen or fourteen years old, her appearance was due to years of mistreatment and neglect. The lack of proper nourishment and the amount of injures sustained over the years stunted her growth making her appear smaller and younger than her actual seventeen years. Her long waist length black hair was matted, dirty and oily and hung limply down her back. Her clothes were dirty and torn and hung off her to thin frame. She was a sickly pale color and her cheeks were hallow and sunken. Another side affect of her malnourishment. She had dark circles under her eyes from insomnia. Her sapphire colored eyes were cold and lifeless and told the tale of her pain filled life.

Her body littered with cuts and bruises, some old some new. Her hands had deep gashes that would leave bad scars when fully healed from when her parents made her tear down some thorn bushes that were growing on the back yard shed without any protection. She looked around the kitchen and spotted the clock on the wall, which read half past five in the morning. Nodding to herself, she walked over to the stove and began to cook breakfast. She had just finished and began to set the table when her older brother came walking in. He smiled at her. "Hey selena, did you sleep well?" She looked up at him with dead eyes and said nothing. He sighed. Her brother was the only person in their family that actually cared about her but even he could not bring her out of her shell or even properly protect her. He walked up to her and whispered in her ear. "Don't worry; just hang on a little longer. Soon you will be free of this place. I swear."

Selena just flinched and moved away from him and continued to set the table. When she was done, she started to walk back to the basement when she felt someone yank her hair painfully snatching her backward. She let out a cry of pain and instinctively reached back to grab the hand that was pulling her hair. Suddenly someone pushed her roughly to the floor. Shockwaves of pain coursed through her body as old injures were aggravated. The sound of skin hitting skin echoed through the room when her mother slapped her harshly across the face. Her cheeks burned and she bruises were going to form. "What does 'it' think 'its' doing? 'it' knows to be out of sight before we come down to the kitchen! Maybe 'it' needs another lesson!" Selena did not move from her position on the floor knowing that any movement would only serve to anger The Mother further. "Well?" "No ma'am" she whispered quietly. Her mothers face turned an ugly shade of red. "Who gave you permission to speak?"

Selena's body tensed as she prepared herself for another attack. Her foot connected with selena's rib cage and she bit the inside of her cheek hard enough to break skin, as she tasted copper. "Mom!" her brother cried out grabbing the older woman and pulling her away from the broken bloody form of his little sister. Said woman turned and faced him with a smile as though she was not just beating a child. "What is it dear?"

Disgust filled him but for the sake of his plan, he forced it down and said, "Leave her alone. You should eat before breakfast gets cold." "Your absolutely right Hun." she turned back to selena and said, "I'll deal with you later. Get out my sight you disgusting creature." Brian looked down at his sister with pity and felt unshed tears burn at his eyes. He wanted so bad to just pick her up and walk out the house but he knew he could. Any act of kindness he showed his sister in front of their parents he knows would only backlash on her. Therefore, for her sake he just forced all his anger and hatred for his parents down and walked away toward the table.

They would get what's coming to them sooner or later. He would make sure of that. When she felt it safe to move, she had to crawl to the basement door and down the steps. When the door shut and she was back in the safety of the darkness she let the tears fall. The tears of pain, anger, and hatred for her parents. 'Why? Why me? Why did I have to be born?'

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This story here is another one that's fairly old that ive only just come across again recently. I'll post up the chapters that I have written out and if the story gets some positive feed back I'll continue working on it. So please if you enjoy the story remember to review or else it wont be continued.

~KageMori