Her heart burned with agony, the heartbeats slowing as the curse manifested inside weighed her down; each footstep heavier than the last, the placing sloppy and unsure. Her shaking breathes clouded in the moonlight, the moisture clinging to her cheeks, freezing the skin. I've got to get away. I'm stronger than he is. Her knee buckled and she gasped in pain as a rock cut her. No I'm not. He's got everything over me. I'm not strong enough… but I can't stop… not when I'm so close. Suddenly, a rogue branch flung across her face, scratching the delicate skin beneath the eye. The blood fell halfway to the ground and froze before greeting the dying earth. A single false tear, the first she had "shed" in years, was stained with a past life visible to none but the immortals above. A single crystal gem, engraved in a stone choking her neck, gave off a vibrating hum so high that none but her could hear the high pitched scream.
She stopped at a cliff's edge staring down into the blackness. The sound of unseen waves revealed their secrets below. The moon broke through the clouds and its light found her heart; making it beat faster and faster. The swaying pendant connected to her rib cage like a magnet above her heart. The amulet began to melt in to her skin, a crack formed in the stone, shining light burst through, more cracks formed and more light came through. As the stone sunk farther into her skin and the last of the gem was about to disappear, a silver arrow shot through her back bursting through stone, shattering it, spreading the tiny particles through the circulating blood.
Oh god no. She collapsed to her knees. It hurts so much. I can feel my heart.
My blood is burning through my veins; I'm boiling in my own skin. This is not right. I can't be human, not again! Get out of my blood! Stay away!
She walked backwards toward where she came; towards the very thing she was trying to escape. She stopped, shaking her head slowly, she screamed, a viscous primal sound that the penetrated the very bone. She ran fast and hard right over the edge of the cliff. Her body changed and she flew into the night flying to wherever her new fate carried her.
"ROBIN!" Vlad screamed for his purposely pale friend, "Where are you?"
"I'm over here, behind the rocks. It's nice and shady over here." Robin's voice reverberated around the slate. Vlad came around the corner with a bucket full of shells that he dumped onto Robin's bare white feet. A hermit crab popped out of its shell, crawling over the paraphernalia of hard colors, scurrying into the nearby large tide pool, that sparkled in the sunlight.
"Ew! Why do you have to be so normal? Can't you just avoid the sand and colorful objects?" Robin objected
"No. I like it. Robin, can't we go in the sun?"
"No. My mom only got me SPF. 35 I need at least SPF 45 to survive!"
"It won't matter if you get a little tan and I'm going to be the one who's gonna need SPF 75 to survive!!"
"Yes it will! My entire persona will be thrown off." Robin said, throwing his arms up in exasperation, he added with disgust "and besides…how would I look with a tan?"
Vlad's mind began to wander to a normal Robin with olive tan skin camping with his family like a post card "You would look weird, Robin, Too weird."
"Exactly my good man, now let's go back to your dark dank castle where I can at least feel cool."
"But I like the sun. I only have a year left to even be in its presence!"
"Yeah but, but…ah okay fine. I'll brave the burning fire star just for you."
"I appreciate it and hey just for this I'll let you wear my cape tomorrow." Vlad answered as he got up and brushed the sand off his hands and pants.
As Vlad began to walk away Robin let out a heavy sigh and stopped.
"I forgot my sketchbook," he stated.
As Robin reached down to grab the black book a shadow darkened only sunny area and a body crashed into the shallow water. Warm salt water shattered the air spraying Robin and darkening the sand.
"Bloody Hell…." The airy words escaped Robin's lips as he walked over to the body. As he made his way to its immobile form he realized three things:
It's most definitely a girl.
She is a blonde
She is bleeding….a lot….
"Oh shit!" he exclaimed.
Robin ran towards the girl as fast as he could in the knee deep water. When he reached the seemingly lifeless body he fell to his knees and gingerly put his arms underneath, lifting her out of the water as gracefully as a teenage boy could do. He rushed out of the water, struggling to mange both speed and balance. He took off his shirt, spreading it out on the sand. By the time Vlad had emerged from behind the rocks, Robin had placed the girl on the clean shirt, transforming it to a muddy red color.
"Robin? What the hell-" His eyes took in the scene before him, a pale wet girl, swathed in a blood-stained emerald dress, long blonde hair spread wildly around her body, lying next to Robin, thin framed and shirtless.
"What the hell, Robin!? I'm gone 40 seconds and you kill someone!?"
"NO!" Robin threw his arms back and forth. "It's not like that! She fell from the sky!" Robin pointed at, well, the sky. Vlad stared in disbelief. "Seriously, Vlad, why would I lie about this?"
Robin's eyed stared in Vlad's pleading for understanding. Vlad, who was still in shock of seeing Robin not only with a girl but also telling the truth
"What are we going to do? Because I have no idea…" Robin said, looking up at Vlad. Shocked looks appeared on both boys' faces. Neither thought those words would ever be used in a sentence together.
"Okay um….right… Is she breathing?" Vlad asked.
"Uh yeah…."
"Okay...well. What now?" They stared at her awkwardly.
Then something shattered the silence...A sneeze.
"Damn salt water went up my nose…how the hell did that get there?" Robin sneered
.
Ow my head is pounding, my knee is throbbing and I can feel my blood pounding under my eye. Wait! No I can't be able to…oh god…
"ow! Ow! It's so bright out…" she shot straight up only to fall back down, her back arching in pain as blood rushed to her head. "Ah….I'm still not used to the whole circulatory system yet. Go figure."
The boys kept staring. They were caught, not knowing how to introduce themselves into this girl's moment of awakening. Vlad chose to be the brave one…considering he was the farthest away from her.
"Hi," he crooked his mouth in a half smile and awkwardly waved his hand. "I'm Vlad."
She responded, shielding her eyes from the overbearing sun as she looked at him.
"Well… hello, Vlad. I'm Evelyn, I'm very thirsty and tired since I just flew across the ocean for the entire night and my ovaries huuuuuuuuurt!"
Robin stared at her in disbelief. "Wait!" Evelyn slowly turned eyes angry and tired and stared at Robin's frightened face.
"Yes?"
"You flew?"
"Long story and I really don't feel so good with my new heart beat, it kind of hurts."
Robin's confusion was ignored by both as Vlad walked over and placed his hand on Evelyn's forehead. "You have a fever and you're dehydrated. You have lost a lot of blood and you're coming back with us." He said matter-of-factly. "By the way, you don't have a choice." He added as an afterthought.
"Well aren't you just mister..." she stopped, thinking better, she bit back the end her sentence. "Okay." Her world faded to black as she fell back onto Robin's lap.
"How does this happen to us, Vlad?"
"Says the person whose best friend is count Dracula's son." Vlad rolled his eyes.
"So it's my fault a fantastically pretty girl fell from the sky and I get to carry her?"
"No, I just think it's not surprising; although I bet her story will be."
The boys gathered their things, wrapping Evelyn in their towels so her Blood soaked dress was not visible.
"We better not meet the The amulet around her neck, Van Helsing's along the way," said Robin.
"Well it's too late now that you've said their name" Vlad retorted, "Way to go Robin"
"Hey!" Robin objected.