Trapped and Set Free Chapter 2
I felt the pain rip through my throat as Victoria ripped open the man's throat, and let the blood drip to the floor. I hadn't had blood in over a month now, and I could feel the weakness in me. I tried desperately to get to the blood, now running slowly across the floor. The man was gasping in pain, and so was I. Then something that had never happened before happened. There was a loud crack from outside. Me and Victoria both looked up. I was surprised. Maybe she had found a new way to torture me. But she didn't look like it was her idea.
Then a man walked in. He was covered from head to toe in a black cloak, but what you could see of his face was not human. It looked almost like a snake.
"Who are you?" Hissed Victoria. The man murmured something that sounded like nonsense, but made a green light shot out from his hand... Well, actually the stick from his hand. Then Victoria dropped dead. I hissed in excitement. Finally, death had come to claim me. The man noticed, and turned his attention to me. I looked him in the eye, and smiled. He looked confused.
"Little girl, why are you smiling?"
"I..." I tried to speak, but my throat was to dry. He said something else, and the locks dropped of me. In seconds, I was by the dying man, and had sucked the blood out of him. He died in moments. The man looked at in surprise.
"I wanted death. I have been here for 10 years now." I rasped. I was still incredibly thirsty, but his blood was... Different. It was certainly appealing, but not in that kind of way... Why was I thinking this?
"Now you have set me free. Please, may I travel with you? I know nothing of the outside world, and although I am not human, I will not hurt you." I said, in the kindest way I could.
"I do not mind. I have know many people who are not human. Just... I have never met anyone like you. What are you?" He asked "I am a vampire. One of many. There are even kings of my kind. When I was human, I dated a vampire. He and his family left, they were animal drinkers, and settled in places for long periods of time, Victoria took me to pay for the loss of her mate, a while before. Her mate tried to kill me, and the vampire killed him in retaliation. She changed me the same day he left me. This was about 10 years ago. What are you? You don't look human." I asked. The burning was still there, but I could ignore it if I wanted. I would have to feed again soon though.
"I am a wizard. Well, technically, I am the evilest wizard ever, but you know. The snake look came with the descendant of Salazar Slytherin thing." He replied.
"Cool. So, when are we leaving?" He looked surprised that I had taken it so well, but I had always been good with new species.
"So eager to leave?"
"No, I was wondering if I had time to hunt. It will only take a few minutes..." I've never actually hunted before, but I've watched blood being spilt enough times to know how it's done.
"Well... The nearest city is a long way from here... Maybe I can get there faster?" I nearly laughed, then remembered he could probably teleport, or something wizardy.
"No, I will run. As a vampire, I'm pretty quick, and if I'm lucky, there will be a few hikers around. I can take those instead. Hunting in a city is harder, especially looking like this." I said, gesturing to my tethered clothes. They're pretty revealing, actually. He realised this at the same time I did, and glanced up to my face instead. I didn't really care. The burning in my throat was getting worse. He nodded.
"Ok, but do you mind if I travel next to you? It will be fun watching you hunt." I nodded back.
"Alright, but don't get to close. From what I hear, it's quite easy to lose control, and attack the wrong thing when you're hunting." He looked at me.
"You've never hunted before, have you?" I shook my head. He smiled. "A vampire's first hunt. This should be very interesting indeed."
I turned and ran out the door, at full speed then stopped. A black cloud followed me, then hovered next to me. I smiled at it, then took of into the forest.
I was lucky, I found three campers, and took them down, one by one. The last one only got one scream out, before they were all dead. I licked my lips, then turned to the cloud.
"So, mister, where next? Oh, and what's your name?" I asked, realising I still didn't know. The cloud morphed back into the man with the snake face.
"Well, most of my followers call me the Dark Lord, or to my face, Master. My enemies call me You Know Who, my evil name is Lord Voldemort, but my real name is Tom Marvolo Riddle." I thought about which name was nicer.
"Hmm, well, I'm not your enemy, or your follower, so I think I will call you Tom. My name is Isabella Swan, but everyone called me Bella... I think I prefer Issy now, though, I guess my preference has changed after ten years of torture."
"Then I will call you Issy. What kind of torture did she put you through?" I grimaced.
"Starvation. She wouldn't give me any blood for weeks, sometimes months on end. Remember that most vampires feed at least once a week usually. Then she would cut people's throats and let their blood spill all over my feet while I was unable to do anything. I hadn't been feed for a month when you came. The worst was nine months without blood. She only feed me because I was about to die, and her torture didn't work anymore." He stared.
"Then you must be very strong to have survived that long." He said. "Now,hold my arm, and don't let go until I say you can, ok? Oh, and get out of the way of any curses people's shot at not sure if they work on vampires, but the killing curse obviously does, so I imagine the rest do... Also, are all the legends about you true? You know, the crosses,garlic, sunlight?" I smiled.
"None of them are true, but I will show you what sunlight does if you want? We can go up the mountain before we leave?" He nodded.
"Can you give me a lift? I want to see what it's like, traveling like that..." I slung him across my back before he could say anything else, and then I ran up the mountain as fast as I could.