"I truly don't see the point in keeping you alive."
"She might be of more use to us than you think. We haven't even seen a small amount of her power." Steven protested.
"I wouldn't mind if she was quiet and docile like 08 and 09. She wouldn't need to be in solitary if she hadn't tried to kill Michal." Yah, sure give the ones you trust names. I glared at him.
"Wow, you're in a bad mood."
"Actually I'm only very slightly mad. I suggest you leave now unless you want to be hurt." He simply stood there.
"I would if I could."
"What?"
"I'm supposed to administer this to you." He was holding a small vial in his hand. I quickly grabbed it from him before he could do anything.
"How the hell? I couldn't even trace your movements..." He said staring at his empty hand.
"Neither can Michal. I also won't appear on security cameras, that is if I were to move fast enough." I commented coyly.
"If you don't come quietly I'll have to take you by force. Those were my orders." He took a dagger out of his uniform.
"I'd rather die." He stabbed my righ wrist with the dagger, going straight through my flesh and bone, pinning me to a wall before I could do anything. I cried out in pain as I struggled while he took the vial from me and forced the bitter liquid down my throat."
"What...did...you...just...use?"
"Liquid silver. Enough to temporarily paralyze you and then anti-nanomachines programmed to slow down your central nervous system." He pulled out the dagger allowing me to slide to the floor.
"Damn...you...bastard..." He licked my blood from the dagger. "H-how..."
"I'm a cruznick's vampire. Created to deal with subjects like you." He kneeled next to me and picked up my bleeing wrist. "I'm sorry."
"What do you-" Steven began sucking on my wrist and palm. I saw the reddish glow in his eyes. He was beyond reason now. There was no point to struggle anymore. In my condition he was at least 100 times stronger than me. Once his mouth found the entry wound I felt the sharp prick of his fangs going into my skin. The door opened and the man from before walked in smirking. "What did you do to him? Before he actually had a soul...now there's nothing but an empty shell like with Michal."
"I'm impressd you noticed. We programed him. Or as you would say: mind control. Whenever we let him have any freedom whatsoever it's only so he can feed."
"Why the hell would you do something like that?! He's been obedient!"
"Actually he was origionally like you. Defiant. Weak. Pathetic." I gritted my teeth as Steven took more of my blood.
"He wasn't weak. You're the ones that are weak. We endure pain on so many levels everyday while you contently watch us like we're lab rats." Steven pulled back slightly.
"You ARE lab rats. Experiments created for our use. What you think doesn't matter. You aren't even human. You're beasts in human form. A disease on this beautiful planet, and we my dear child are the cure."
"You've truely forgotten?"
"Forgotten-"
"That the bacillus and nanomachines were brought to earth by your kind. That it's your fault there are 'vampires'. Or saying you're 'the cure' you're saying you want to hide your mess; your mistakes from the world like the cowards you really are." He features contorted in anger.
"Imputant brat. I'll make you pay. Apologize or endure torture until you die."
"I've been enduring torture all my life. If you were in my position but didn't have the experiences I've had you'd be struggling in vain to break Steven's grip. You would be cowaring in fear as he fed upon your blood. You would be begging for mercy; crying for forgiveness. But I shall cry no more. I shall fear no more. I shall coward no more. I will protect everyone that I care about. Even if their minds have been changed. Even if it kills myself in the process. You humans couldn't even understand this loyalty. Maybe some of your kind, but no one here would risk their life for you. Unlike me. I know many here; they'd all die to save me as I would die to save them." I said clamly.
"Inject your bacillus into her." Steven bit down harder, but it felt different. This is the same as when 05 bit me so I would become a cruznick...damnit I don't want to die and be brought back again!
"You MONSTER!" The man only laughed. "If I were a monster I wouldn't be the head of the UN now would I?" I bared my fangs at him. "Oh, and I wouldn't move much. He has to inject it directly into your nervous system, if you were to struggle you could loose use of your hand." "I fully understand why Abel is out to kill all of you. And I wouldn't be suprised if Cain was too." Pain surged up my arm and throughout my body. I screemed out in agony as every nerve in my body felt as if they were on fire. Steven released me as if he had been awoken from his trance. I collapsed in his arms breathing hevily. "Grace?!" "Grace? I-I don't...have...a name...you know...that...right Steven?" "Bravo. You made him snap out of it. You Therapserins are quite interesting, but you didn't get him out of it fast enough." "What...do...you-" I began coughing uncontrollably and my body burnt. "Damnit..." "You'll have to fully fuse her wether you like it or not now. She'll die if you don't." The man walked out of the door and locked it before either of us could get up. "What...did...he...mean?" Steven wouldn't make eye contact. "Steven?" "I'm sorry Grace." "Why do you keep calling me Grace?" "Your real name is Grace." "I like it more than being called a number...but what did he mean?" "...you'll die if I don't fully fuse you with my bacillus...but there's a chance you will if I fuse you too. I don't want you to endure the pain. That bit you had that made you scream was just the tip-" "It's fine." "W-w-what?" "I'll endure it." "But Grace-" "I made a promise to someone. I'm not going to break it by dieing." "But-" "Just do it." "...brace yourself...and hold still..." I nodded slightly. Steven transformed and bit my neck. The pain was ten times worse than when I had become a cruznick. I held onto him tight silently crying, afraid to let go...
I sat up in bed. "That dream again?" I groaned when I looked at my alarm clock. 6:43am. "Damnit. It's so early. Why the hell am I awake?" I flopped back onto my large canopy bed staring at the ceiling. "It's so lonely here after everyone left...sigh...Michal's with the Dragons, Steven is in the empire, Kelsey's working in the Vatican, Nick's with the Cat Demons, Kenzie vanished off somewhere in Albion, and then I'm here... Why'd we all split up again? This mansion's far more than enough for all of us..." I closed my eyes trying to fall back asleep but the visions from my past kept haunting me. "Why can't I just forget? It's been over 1000 years since then... Wait, what's today?" I looked over to the calender on my wall "August 9th...of course I'm remebering it today. This is the day I died a second time and the day my mother died." No wonder. My past always haunts me on these days. March 2, the day I was born and 13 years later the day I became a cruznick and Agust 9th the day of my mother's death and 3 years later I became a second generation cruznick. Damn those terrans. They were the real mosters... "I guess I should go into town and buy some flowers before the townspeople are up..." I forced myself out of bed just to feel my sides start throbbing and throat burn. "Why now?" I whined stepping into the hidden elevator connected to my room. It went straight down to the hidden lab underneith the building. My laptop started beeping. "So it's finally completely decrypted. Phew. That only took about 5 years to go through all the damn data." I dropped two blood-capsules into a glass of water and watched as it turned blood red. I gulped the whole glass down in disgust along with three pills and a small vial of black liquid. God. I hate my acursed body. I let out a sigh and headed back to the elevator this time up to the kitchen.
"Um Kelsey how did you know about this town? It's not marked on any maps. This area's just supposed to be forest..." A silver haired preist was speaking to a tall blonde haired nun. A small boy with pale blonde hair and ruby eyes was trailing behind.
"I just do okay? Ion needs a place to stay doesn't he?"
"Yah but..."
"Well I know a freind that lives her alright? I'd suggest an Inn, but the people around here aren't that fond of Methuselah last time I checked...then again that was about ten years ago..."
"When did you come here? You're only 15 right?"
"Do I really have to tell you my past considering you won't tell me a word about yours?"
"Er...I guess not...so where are we heading?"
"To that mansion." The blonde nun pointed to a huge mansion atop a hill on the other side of the town. "But first there's a shop I need to go to."
"What? A shop? What do you need?"
"Ah, here it is." She stopped at the front of a flower shop.
"Why do we need flowers?" The boy finally spoke.
"You don't need to know." He glared daggers at her. She glared back making him flinch.
"Wow you out glared Ion." The preist laughed.
"Yah, well if you knew the person we're meeting you'd understand why. Although she's still makes me flinch first. I wouldn't have even bothered to stop her if it weren't today...I hope she's alright..."
"What do you mean?"
"Today...let's just say there are two days in the year she can't stand both physically and emotionally. I know it sounds cleche, but... something major happend today...two major events. Both different years, but on this day..." The preist and boy grew quiet while the nun picked out a boquet of daffodills and white chrysanthemums. "Excuse me, how much for these flowers?"
"10 dinars. Wait..." The women looked as if she'd seen a ghost. "Is your name perhaps Kelsey?"
"Yah...did you think I died or something?" The women's face turned red.
"Acctually...since you just vanished that's what we suspected. That girl you lived with wouldn't tell us anything. So..."
"You suspected her of killing me because you think she's a Methuselah."
"H-h-how'd you know?" The nun leaned on the counter rubbing her temples.
"Because my sister has very odd sleeping habits and isn't usually out during the day unless it's today August 9th. And she avoids times when the sun's at it's peak."
"Y-y-your sister?!"
"Uh huh. I know we look completely different, but we're sisters bound by blood. She's actually quite a kind person once you get to know her although she is kinder to Methuselah than terrans because of something that happend in the past. I'm guessing she stopped in earlier when you opened right?" The women nodded and Kelsey placed the money on the counter. "Well, I'd kinda like if you people would stop suspecting my sister please. She would've become a nun, but she's too feeble and sickly at times. See you around. We'll probably just pass through this time. Bye." She and the two others walked through the door and left.
"What was that about? And who's this sister bound by blood suspected of murdur? Obiously she didn't kill you but... I didn't see it on any of your records..."
"Caterina helped me out on that. People are looking for us, so it was just better to say I was an orphan."
"Okay. Can you PLEASE stop keeping us in the dark?!" Ion pleaded.
"No...well not unless she doesn't mind you know about our past. Although I highly doubt she'll trust either of you. She only trusts 8 and a half people on this whole planet. And she knows A LOT of people."
"'A half'?"
"You really don't need to understand that. Or the phrase: EHWEIC...it's actually quite hilarious. But hey. Whatever."
"EHWEIC?"
"Wait, no that's the old one...it's ETWEIC one word changes. It means the same thing though."
"Terran?" Ion looked at Kelsey for an answer.
"One word down, only five more to go. And it actually makes sense if you get it right."
"What's with you?" Abel asked annoyed.
"Nothing. I'm usually alot more negative about well...anything and everything. So be happy I'll even talk."
"...I guess you're right about that. You're usually really silent... I just relized you never told us why you're out to get 'him'."
"THAT you really don't need to know."
"I'm sorry...it's all my fault. Please forgive me for not yet being able to join you in eternal sleep." I leaned on the glass capsul my late mother lay in arms and head resting on it. I fell asleep...
"A crypt?" The young Methuselah stared at the large carved doors in the hill side.
"Yah..."
"Why would your sister be here?" The preist asked suspiciously.
"This is the day her mother died, the day her time was stopped, and the day we lost our father."
"What?" He was confused by her words.
"Please stay here. I'll be back in a half hour. I need to talk to her." She put her hand over a hiddend key pad, typed an insainly long code and ran through. The doors shut before either the priest nor Methuselah could understand what was going on.
Hey! Gomenesi anyone that started reading this before!!! I know it's a comptletely different scenario, but i liked it better. lol. Please reveiw! I'd love to hear your comments about it! was having some MAJOR issues with saving so it kinda destroyed the whole prologue and I didn't have a back up...(my computer's evil at times...) so yah. I now have backups so this shouldn't happen again. (I hope.) well see you guys around! Oh, and YES I KNOW I CHANGED YOUR CHARATER STEPHEN! Just keep reading and you'll understand why alright?
