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Summary: Jeremy was once again alone in the world. When he's walking one day a stranger hands him a package and then disappears. Inside he finds the journals written by a vampire and the girl he had lost.
The Anna Diaries
Blood Ties Part 1
I watched as he bit his wrist and brought it to my mouth I tried to turn away but my head was held in place and my jaw was lowered. The blood filled my mouth as it was clamped shut I had no choice but to swallow it. When they were sure that I did the three men left as if nothing had happened.
The woman stood in front of me and caressed both sides of my face, smiled and the world went black. When I woke up I was on the floor, I was momentarily confused at what happened then everything came rushing back. The people possessed by the evil spirits were in my home one of them fed me his blood. Blood. As that word came to my mind I smelled something familiar yet foreign so I sat up and turned my head towards the smell. It was coming from the kitchen I slowly stood up and made my way over and sitting there tied to a chair was my husband. But that's not what I saw first, what I saw was the tiny little cut on his cheek. The blood was slowly dripping down and I licked my lips. I wanted it so badly more than I ever wanted anything. As I walked over to him I saw the blood drip down his face, that little bit of blood was tantalizing to my senses. My husband was trying to yell at me but his mouth had been gagged so all I heard were grunting sounds.
I reached out slowly and with one finger slowly wiped some blood off of his cheek. I stared at the red liquid on my finger as I brought it to the tip of my tongue that little bit of blood set my taste buds on fire, I had never had something so delicious, I needed more. I cupped my husband's face in my hands and licked the remaining blood off of it. Then I saw the veins in his neck pulsating, calling to me.
I looked into his eyes and no longer saw anger, I saw fear and I enjoyed it. I used my nails to cut into his neck and brought my mouth to it. As I was drinking I felt as my teeth elongated and I was able to bite deeper into his neck. I brought my hands around him and to bring him closer and I let the delicious liquid fill me until there was nothing left.
I dropped his body when I was done I licked my lips of all the blood and caught my reflection in one of the pots on the counter. My eyes were red, the veins under my eye were showing through my skin. I brought my finger to my teeth, they were sharp as I drew my own blood, I licked that up as well. The evil spirit was in me now and I had never felt better in my life.
I looked over at my dead husband and felt nothing as I stepped over him to walk outside. The dark haired woman standing there.
She stared pouring oil all over the place; she told me we couldn't leave bodies lying around and that we couldn't be discovered.
"My name is Katherine" She told me in stilted Chinese but I understood her enough. Originally from Bulgarian nobility Katrina Petrova became the countess in the Kingdom of the two Sicily's when she married into the Italian royal court over a hundred years ago. I could tell than that she was someone that was used to getting whatever she desired.
We watched my house burn to the ground when Katherine was satisfied she climbed on horse and held her hand out to me. As a woman I wasn't often allowed to ride my family's one horse Manchu which means pure, my father named him that because he was white as snow. When I was younger my father took me on rides with him, but as I got older I couldn't be seen on a horse they were only for the males in the family. So I was hesitant to join Katherine on her dark black horse. She told me it didn't matter what others thought now, I was stronger and better than any man could ever hope to be. Katherine always loved having men under her spell and do whatever she asked of them even give their lives for her. I knew she was right so I took her hand and she lifted me as if weighed nothing and placed me in back of her, I held on tight as we rode off into the night.
As we continued riding further than I have ever been before; I closed my eyes and let the wind wash over me and I heard sounds I never was able to hear before the wind was singing, the leaves rustled against each other and the animals were moving through the night with their hearts beating fast as the predator was catching its prey.
We stopped only once to feed on the drunks that were unlucky enough to be in our path. As we were feeding some wolves had joined us, Katherine smiled at them and moved away from the bodies inviting the wolves to finish them. She than told them to make sure all the bodies were destroyed. I wanted to ask why she was speaking to the wolves as if they understood her but I was feeling very tired. One of the wolves brushed past me and I looked into it's eyes and saw more than an animal inside of them. I knew wolves were intelligent but this one looked almost human. Were these wolves possessed by evil spirits too I thought to myself.
Katherine told me to that to finish the transition I needed to sleep. So we got back on the horse and she took me deep into the woods to a house. She knocked on the door and man answered it. Katherine asked Mr. Liang if he would invite me in, he did and Katherine pushed me across the threshold. Again I wanted to ask but she told me after I slept they would answer my questions. We walked through the house and she opened a door on the floor that led to the bottom of the house. I followed her down the stairs and saw beds lined up along the wall. She took me to one and told me rest. As soon as I hit the pillow I was out.
When I woke the tall dark skinned man was sitting on the bed across from me. He was called Amun and he was very old, older than I could even imagine. He began to tell me what I was.
He told me we were called demons; the term vampire wasn't widely used until the 18th century when vampire fiction started making appearances. Although many ancient civilizations all over the world had tales of blood drinkers like Hecate in ancient Roman and Greek mythology, Kali in India and Sekhemt in Egypt. They were thought to have drank blood and have fangs, it is to be believed that vampires are older than man.
Blood is what makes us keeps us alive and that was true for both for humans and demons. He told me I shared his bloodline and that was important. We must follow each other and protect each other for our blood is tied together making us family. Amun told me he came from a land that no longer exists, a land that was paradise. He then me that we the walking dead, we were strong but not invincible, fire was our enemy along with sunlight and a stake to the heart. So I must be careful to avoid all those things.
He paused for a moment and said. "The biggest question on your mind young one is why you were chosen" I nod in agreement.
"I saw you in the marketplace" he began. "You defied what you were taught and looked us in the eye even though it was only for a moment. I saw a girl that wanted more then what she had been given. I saw who you could be Xiao-ling, I saw you were one of us"
I stare at him trying to take in what he told me. I did want more, I always did. My mother told me I had fire in me. I wasn't satisfied staying in one place, I wanted run free and if I could I would be unstoppable.
"Now you can, the world is yours to burn" he said to me, stood up and left. I thought about what he said, they told me to push my emotions down and I tried but the mention of family brought them back up. I didn't know them, they weren't my family. I missed my family, most of all, my mother.
Tbc…
