Eight months. It has been eight months since the village had finally been at peace without anyone dying from an unnatural being. For years the case of the Dracula's Curse was what made them fear for their lives. Until one night the sound of a gargled bloody howl filled the air to waken the many people. Their pitchforks and torches and farming weaponry was all they could grab as they was ready to kill this curse. The curse was in the form of a big beast. The muscles being covered in thick dark brown fur with claws sharper than a thin blade. Tall and having pointy ears made it clear who the culprit was. A werewolf.
The werewolf was dying from small holes on his neck and many wooden stakes aimed at his chest and stomach. It's dark blood forming into a pond of metallic scented red. They look around to spot who could have ended this beast who was at death's door. Their tired but frightened eyes laid on two young kids. A white haired boy who was laying against the villages well as he catches for his breath with four scratches on his arm. The other was a brown haired girl going to his aid as she panics from looking at the cuts seeming to be deep. She patted him down as he looked over to them. The people. Before his own family could reach him his eyes closed and his body rests on the dirt with everyone going to his aid.
The eight months had passed and everything seemed normal. Back to what it was. The people weren't afraid of their own haven anymore. The grisly killings were halted permanently. Traders, shopkeepers, anyone in general were outside of the day as the clouds were blocking the bright sun. The villagers seemed custom to their life. No more fear. No more vampires to be talked about. Except for one. The girl that was trying to say that white haired boy was not just a slayer of its beast. Rather a beast herself. A vampire. She was walking down into the part of the village where the market and most people, villagers or others from towns, were in crowds.
She knew the sun was her weakness. It wouldn't kill her but the ray of that blasted cursed sun would make her ill. So she had to walk out in what she called it a 'Protector'. The outfit was what made children and even men fear her as she wears it. The black mask had a beak shaped nose and its glass eye openings were blood red colored. Her waxed leather shirt and leggings were black as coal as the same with her over jacket that reached down to her ankles. The over jacket was unique as it had a hood for her to put on despite her shirt being a turtleneck that covers her neck, ears, and chin. The gloves she wore were as black as night while her high heel boots were the only thing she could wear to show it was her.
The people backed away from her as she walked. Parting the sea of a crowd as they feared her. They never knew she was a bloodsucker. They only feared her for acting like one. Her eyes weren't focusing on them as Lynn moved the crowd as she walked off as slowly they started to go back to their mundane lives. She walked over to the gate. She could feel some still looking at her costume. She wouldn't care about them. She had other plans in mind. She walked over to the gate that was opened to the public and walked through as Lynn kept going. Her walking would lead her straight to the forest. The same forest that she never been in at the last eight months. Only because it reminded her of her ways before the werewolf attack. Before he came into her life.
Lincoln Abraham. The monster hunter that tried to kill her but decided to spare her fate. Only because he believed in her of when she said she wasn't the killer. Throughout the months Lynn and Lincoln had helped each other. She taught him about monster mythology while he helped keep her identity a secret while providing animal blood for her. They kept it going for a long time and yet it still kept going. Under the mask she smiled as she looked up and saw the clouds were still covering the sun. She sighed that was muffled with her hands taking down the hood and unhooking the black leather belt to free the mask off her face.
She grabbed it and took it off to let her face exposed. "Finally." She took the long neck of the turtleneck shirt to let her ear and chin be free also. Her long brown hair was free but messy looking. She groaned and fixed it with a small rope to have it be in her natural ponytail at the back of her head. She sighed in relief as she walked into the forest with the trees growing fresh apples and green as grass leaves growing. Her glove wearing hand gently brushes against the trees to feel its strong barks. The wood being heavy but yet so breakable with her fists.
Her eyes wandered around for sight of the sun's rays showing. Yet it was something else her sight was looking for as she came in here. Lincoln. He was out gathering fruit and meat for his family and the village that was named Royal Woods. Everyone looked up to him as some hero so he had to act like it. Granted the fame of being labeled as "Village Hero" but it hadn't gotten to his head. Well not yet. He had other things to care for like his family and Lynn.
She walked with her boots stepping on sticks that had fallen off and rocks that were on the grass. The sound of those and it's cool wind was calming. Peaceful even. However it all stopped when she spotted something on her eyes. Someone actually. It was the white haired white male Lincoln in his same monster hunter outfit. On the left arm of his the jacket was stitched well by his older sister Leni. It also was where he was scratched at. He was sitting on a tree that fell over with baskets of fruit by his right and a bag of meat from his left. On his back was the strapped crossbow he had kept and still uses for practice. Lynn just smiled and walked over to him.
By each step growing closer Lincoln could hear the sounds of someone walking. His head turned to meet the vampire girl. "Oh hey Lynn." He said with a smile on his face with her returning a smile. "Hey Lincoln." She sat down next to him with her latex jacket going over the tree as it lays on the ground. The hunter himself just looked at her with still the smile on his face as if it was stuck on there. "How's your day going so far?" She setted the mask of hers down next to her as she looked over to him. "Oh I'm doing good. I think Lucy's groups outfit is starting to grow attached to me." He chuckled at her comment. "Well that's Lucy for you. Making something creepy seem like a normal thing apparently."
Lucy is Lincoln's young sister who was very much easy to spot. She is pale as snow with her black hair being so long that it covers her eyes and showing only her nose and mouth. Her clothing was something of gothic like, being black with an unknown substance that made her clothing be dark as a shadow. It was until however a group was formed. New and fresh but the people felt like it was a bad taste to try. A bunch of other kids her age and older wearing the same type of outfit Lynn was wearing. They was only known as the Blood Of Vampyrism. They was like a cult. Trying to get many followers down the path to become 'vampires'. And Lucy was suckered into it. To make it short she quickly joined in and was given that outfit. Lynn was lucky to have gotten one that just wasn't purely fashionable. She didn't had a taste for it.
"Hey you got some meat in that bag ri-" Her words were stopped by a wooden cup being held by Lincoln giving her it. Inside was thick darkened liquid which he nose could tell right away what it was. Blood. "Yeah. I swear squirrels just have more blood in them than actual me-" It was then Lincoln's turn for his words to be cutted off as she grabbed it in quick motion and within seconds had the cup to her lips with the blood going down her throat. Lincoln had seen her consume animals blood always but yet it was odd to see her just chug it down in pure seconds. Like this pure instinct of hers was making him be in awe and without shock in his head.
As in a matter of second the cup was empty with the stains of the metallic red drink of her being show inside. She letted out a sigh of satisfaction as her breath smelled of blood. "Thanks Lincoln. I owe you one." She said with Lincoln reaching into his pockets to pull out a small bunch of mint leaves as she takes two and starts to chew. They acted as a camouflage to hide the scent of metal in her mouth. She looked at him and he looked at her back. He noticed a small drip of blood on her bottom lip. "Hang on. You got red on you." His thumb gently pressed against her bottom lip to wipe off the blood off. Her eyes looked down with her face having a soft smile with soft pink blush on her cheeks. "Thanks Lincoln." He noticed with him giving a slight blush of awkwardness. "No problem Lynn." It was not his turn to look down.
There was only two in the forest. The human and the vampire. A boy and a girl. It was an odd to a normal human. Even to a normal vampire. The two teaming up and doing everything they can to save their own skins. No matter if they was undead or living, they still had each others back. They was alone with the air blowing as their only company. Lynn took a thought to keep this from getting awkward. "So how's the arm?" Lynn felt like dying of embarrassment from saying that. It was months ago. She was just calling herself stupid in her mind. "Oh it's good. I'm pretty sure it's healed up." He rubbed his arm as he was talking with him looking up to her as she in sync was looking at him back. Again their blushes started to form. "That's good. I didn't want to see you in pain." The vampire said while her human boy who is just a friend just looked at her with a nod. Just being friendly to a boy wasn't wrong she was thinking in her mind.
"With you around I'll always be ok." Those words made him open his eyes and have a more blushed face. "I-I meant like in a way that umm-" She scooted close to the point that their fingers were touching with her hand on top of his. "I know what you mean. Just give me one answer." She was so focused on him she couldn't even realize what she was doing. "Why did you save me from the werewolf? Risking your arm and life for me? You could had gotten two monster heads in one night." She sounded serious about it. The stare and tone made him look at her as if she pressed a button on him to answer for her.
It was an answer he easily knew. "Well you did teach me in minutes how my place had a werewolf. You also saved my skin more than I could. I rather die as a protector, a hero, your savior rather than be alive without you in my life." The exact words that almost sounded like a poet had spoken to her made her mouth slightly drop in shock. He said that in bravery but yet was blushing red on his own face. He could feel his cheeks burning by telling her what his heart felt. "Whoa. Lincoln you really mean that? But I'm a monster. A freak of nature. I'm something that should be killed, not saved by a mo-" A slight grip on her hand made her silent and look down as she felt his warm soft hand hold gently on top of hers being covered in leather. It was odd that they constantly stopped mid sentence because of their actions. This one was purely reasonable.
Lincoln and Lynn just looked at each other into their eyes. Like if time had frozen and only they were in motion. "You're no monster Lynn. You are you. I don't care if you're a vampire. I care about you. A lot more than anyone else." If Lynn could have a heart she could tell it be frantically beating like Lincolns. Slowly they scooted close til their arms were barely touching. Their eyes still focused on one another as Lincoln just didn't know what he had said and done either. "You really mean it?" Lynn slowly brought her head closer with Lincoln following her lead but also replying back. "I promise you with all my heart. Or blood. Or anything you want me to say." Their noses slightly touch by their tips with their lips growing near. "Blood will do Lincoln, blood will do."
The lips of a human and a vampire were close to meeting. The two could feel a spark. An unnatural spark that would be the risk of their lives. The risk of Lincoln being shunned and Lynn being exiled from the village if they know her true identity. Would it be worth it all to them? The answer was given. The answer came into the form of a black haired girl who appeared between them to which gasped them to gasp and scream as they fall on their backs on the soil. With confusion they look to see it was Lucy. "I'm sorry. Was I interrupting something?" The black haired girl with her bangs covering her staring eyes said with her voice sounding dull and lifeless. It oddly fitted for her style. The scared boy gets up with him helping up his vampire friend who was a girl. "Oh what? No nothing was going on." He went and grabbed the bag of meat and basket of fruit as he looked at Lynn. "I'll see you home." he said with Lynn allowing him to go as she watched him walk off with embarrassment on his face.
Lynn felt embarrassment too. Not showing it but deep inside she felt like she could let out disappointment and joy out of her body. She was so close to him. Almost ready to have him in her arms and never let her go. Yet time would have to wait for this cursed vampire. She looked over to the young gothic girl who was wearing the outfit identical to hers only it the masks eye openings were black to the point you couldn't see her eyes if she ever showed them. The mask was on top of her head being held by the leather strap as she went and sat on the log. "You ok Lynn?" She said with what Lynn could gather was a voice of worry and sorrow.
"Im fine Lucy." She lied yet still kept going on with it as she went back to sit on the log that almost got her close to Lincoln. She looked over at the goth girl and cocked her head. "Hey where did you get that?" She pointed at the outfit since she was wearing Lucy's. "Oh the BOV gave me a new set since they noticed you wearing it." She fixed her glove as Lynn cocked her head for a second before getting what she meant. "Oh the Blood Of Vampyrism. Ugh." She had a dislike to that group. Don't get her wrong they are just normal strange vampire lovers but the things they do and act seem over the top. Even Lynn, a vampire, would say that is too much.
Lucy just still looked at her with her same expression. "Well those guys know everything according to the lore of Romania." Lynns eyes just rolled. "Well you know they don't follow the vampire ways. And Vampyre? Did they have enough blood wine to come up with that name?" She smirked and snort laughed to herself as the member of FOV just looked still pale and showing no emotion. "They are good at teaching me the vampire ways." Lucy said with Lynn looking at her. "Well you got me. Living proof here." Not only did Lincoln knew of her being the supernatural vampire but also did Lucy.
The vampire know-it-all girl knew through the following months that Lynn herself was a vampire. She always sneaked out to follow her track to discover her and Lincoln's secret meeting of drinking animals metallic red liquid with him as the provider as she keeps her hunger satisfied. Two months earlier she had confessed her knowledge about Lynn to the vampire herself. However because of her wanting to learn more of how a vampire's life is like and which cliche is true or false, she had kept her secret to herself so her only chance of learning the ways of a vampire.
"Lisa told me the sun is going to appear in about five minutes." She warned her vampire friend with Lynn giving a nod. "Thanks Lucy. And don't worry I got my fix of blood." She said as she grabbed her bird looking mask with Lucy following suit. "Hey Lynn. Do you mind if I asked you something?" She looked up at her with her bang covering eyes looking up at her with Lynn looking down at her slightly. "Sure. What's going on?" Lucy took then took a breath and Lynn could feel her heartbeat pick up the pace. "Sigh. Well it's just the few months of learning from you, understanding the life and way of how you vampires are. It inspires me so much to keep going on being a researcher of vampires and other creatures. Thank you." The pale as white girl slowly showed a smile on her face that made Lynn herself felt creeped out how she could smile. Yet, it was happy to see her being happy as the two hugged into their arms.
"No problem Lucy. You know I can do anything for you." Her sweet kind words made Lucy start to loosen her arms around her and just let go with her head hung low. Lynn could tell there was more to it than what the vampire thought. Again the girl just did her sigh and held her hands together. Gripping them tightly as she was seemingly too scared to even look up above. "Why I came here was to find you. I have learned so much of vampires from you. How they act. How they are towards others both mortal and other vampires. Their strengths and weaknesses. I owe you a great deal for it, but I have one task I want from you. Just one." Her hands were shaking as the heartbeats grew faster and louder to Lynn's ears. "Though I am afraid its too barbaric even for you.
"Lucy. What are you saying? Come on, spill it out." Lynn wanted answers from Lucy and she wanted them now. She didn't want to see her act like this. To act like something is wrong when she could ask for help from Lynn. Lynn cared for the vampire obsessed girl and she didn't want her protector to be harmed. "Please. Lucy. Tell me." She went to reach out for her to make her comfortable. To show she does care for her and will help her. Lucy however spoke in her bored goth sounding voice. The words she said made Lynn feel like this was a twisted world and made the vampire feel her cold blood shiver from her demandment.
"Lynn. I want to know how they are like." Her face stares into the vampire and says what she wanted that was in her gut. "Turn me into a vampire like you."