Dark Memory
Chapter 3
Vampire Hunter D fan fic
Crystal watched silently as the shadow in the room laid down to rest. She knew why he was here. She watched for a bit longer to make sure the coast was clear. Her unique powers and training allowed her to almost be unseen and unheard. She dropped out of the tree she was sitting in and landed silently. She made her way to the tavern where he was but she had no intentions of using the front door. No, there was a large oak tree outside the window of the room where the hunter currently rested. She needed to get a closer look at the man who was here to hunt down her mother. She knew that her father hadn't told him the entire truth about the situation and that's why she would need to see him. She needed to know if the rumors she heard earlier that day were true. Was he really Hunter D and if so what he really a dhampir? She climbed the tree effortlessly still trying to remain unseen. She found the lib that almost touched the window and climbed out to its edge. This was close enough for her to what she needed to do. The curtains were drawn tight across the window and the sun was starting to set.
This has to be him…it must be true then. He really is a dhampir. Crystal thought. She reached out her placed her hand on the window and closed her eyes. She cleared her mind and let her power take control. She was able to look into the room even though it was somewhat blurred. She scanned the room when her eyes fell on the Hunter. D was lying on the bed with his sword next to his right side. His hat was tilted down over his eyes and he was still in his cloak. She could see the lower part of his face. His chin was pointed and his jaw was chiseled and hard. His lips were thin and tight and his skin was so pale it was almost translucent.
I don't think mother has skin as pale as his. She could tell just by this that the rumors were true. D was a dhampir. I guess some rumors are really true, he really is as gorgeous and everyone says he is.
Just then his left hand came up and raised his hat to reveal his eyes. She let out a small gasp when she saw his eyes. They shone like diamonds in the sun with no light. She had lingered too long. He had sensed her presence. She pulled her hand away from the window and climbed up a few more branches to hide amongst their dark.
D, wha—what's wrong? his left hand asked yawning.
"Nothing, I thought I sensed someone." D replied as he adjusted his hat back over his eyes.
Yea, there was someone watching you. But I don't think you have to worry…D? D are you asleep already?
When nothing came as a reply his hand snickered I will just tell him when he wakes up.
Crystal remained hidden in the darkness of her tree deep in thought. Daddy told him I was dead. He told him the Sheriff had shot me. D doesn't know what he is up against or what mother was and he surely doesn't know about what I am either. Because according to my father I don't exist.
Crystals memory
Her mother who is now Countess DeWinter was powerful as a human. She kept her powers hidden very well from her newfound love and later husband. She was beautiful. She was taller than most women and slender. She had tan skin that would glisten in the sun and mesmerizing green eyes. Her blonde hair that flowed down to her waist that she kept in a neat braid with a black ribbon that bound it and it had a single streak of red through it. She always wore simple dresses and no shoes. She looked like your common farmer's wife but her hair. Mayor Keanen liked her hair. But Crystal couldn't hide it as well. As a young girl she knew something was different about her. She too was very tan and taller than most kids. She had long white hair with a single black streak through it and eyes of the bluest sky. She looked like her mother. But she was an outcast with the other kids. They made fun of her hair because it was white. Not blonde but white. When she would get mad the ground would turn to vines and begin wrapping themselves around ankles and anything else they could reach and when he was happy random things would catch fire. She couldn't control it nor did she know what she was at time. Her father thought she would grow out of it and decided to teach her from home to avoid troubles but mother knew differently and when father wasn't home she would take her to a clearing outside the walls and teach her how to control her powers as well as taught her new spells and enchantments. Crystal became very good at healing spells.
When Crystal was 16 she noticed a changed in her usually happy mother. She was depressed and acted like she no longer loved her father. She would sneak out of the house when the assassins would make their trips into town to speak with them. The assassins never bothered anyone so father permitted them to come in a stock up on supplies that the castle would need. One night the mayor watched out his bedroom window to see why his wife was sneaking out. This night she was in a pretty white lace dress. He watched her closely, this was very odd. He didn't know Crystal was watching too. They both watched as her mother headed out to the fountain in the square and met with Count DeWinter. He whispered something in her ear and she nodded. That's when he bit her. She was dressed for a blood marriage. She became Countess DeWinter on that night under the full moon. Crystal then knew she was alone. Her mother left with the Count and that was it for about a year.
Upon Crystals 17th birthday her father had been drinking and became enraged at a comment she had said about her mother. She reached out and struck her. He yelled at her to never speak of that woman ever again. Crystal retaliated the only way she knew how; she conjured up all her strength and shot a bolt of ice at her father. When it hit him it rendered him unconscious. At that moment the Sheriff barged in and was stopped dead in his tracks when he saw Crystal standing over her fathers' body. It looked bad. She collapsed in a shaking heap on the floor weeping uncontrollably. She never lost control like that, mother had taught her better but tonight she did. Sheriff Stone walked over to the Mayor and knelt. He reached out his bony hand and shook the mayor's shoulder.
"Mayor, are you alright?" he asked
The mayor woke with a start and stated to shiver. Crystal was still balling as she somehow mustered a voice
"Daddy, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean too."
Sitting up from his ordeal with the ice bolt still shivering he turned to Crystal with narrowed eyes blazing with hatred and resentment.
"Get out, you are no daughter of mine." He told her.
That's when her mother showed up. The sheriff took a shot at her with his plasma gun and missed. That didn't anger her, what did was the fact that the Mayor practically disowned her daughter because of what she did as a matter of protection. Crystal stood up and ran out of the house past her mother and out the rear gates of the town to the looming forest outside before a crowd formed. Her mother told her father that because of that she would torment the town . Then she left. Father didn't listen to her.
Crystal ran out with only the clothes on her back to the nearest cave she could find. It was at the base of the mountain the castle DeWinter stood on and only 3 miles away from town. Her mother never followed her there but knew where she had gone. She kept it hidden from anyone with prying eyes as well as protected it for her. Shortly after that when the assassins would come into to town they would kidnap, stalk and kill just for the fun of it. They always returned the kidnapping victims but they were not the same anymore. Crystal would sit in a tree and watch all this destruction happen.
If only I hadn't lost control. She thought to herself. She pulled her knees to her chin and sat there in silence. Her father knew she was an elemental witch, but he denied it like he did with her mother. Now her mother was a vampire and that would just enhance her powers. That's made her nervous. D doesn't know any of this. She would have to wait until he set out that night to tell him. Could he really defeat her? I know he could the Count, but I just don't think he can defeat my mother. I have to tell him. Just then a scream pierced the night sky and brought her out of her thoughts.
"Oh no, the assassins are here!" she whispered to no one in particular and jumped from her place in the tree and took up a spot in the shadows next to the butchers store she couldn't risk being seen. The town thought her as dead.