Me: Here is Chapter 4!!! Sorry it took me so long to write this. I wanted to make sure that the flashback sequences were just right!!!

Adien: Remember folks…she's kinda slow.

Me: I can still kill you and let Dawn take charge!!

Dawn: Umm…I'm kinda in Hell right now.


Chapter 4

I stared at the woman, unable to move or speak. I knew for a fact that my mother was dead…maybe.

"You can't be her," I whispered. "I watched her die. The day I was changed was the day she died."

"No my child, I am very much alive," she chuckled.

"Then you should have died of old age or something. That was over 400 years ago!!" I cried.

"I'm an immortal you twit," she replied rapping my knuckles with a wooden spoon.

I brought my hand back, blowing on my burning knuckles. I turned to look at my companions to see Raven staring in shock and Slivian looking rather bored. I turned my gaze back to the Von Helsing.

"Did you know this?" I asked her.

She shook her head as she looked from my "mother" and back to me. I saw that she was telling the truth and turned back to my "mother".

She was stroking the back of the snake's head, cooing softly to it. I looked at her, trying to see something that might show she was telling the truth. That's when I found my clue.

Under her left ear on her neck was a small star-shaped scar. It was faint against her pale skin, but it stuck out at me like a red gaping wound. That's when I slowly slipped into the contents of my mind.


A small boy ran up to his mother. He cried out in joy as she gathered him into her warm embrace. The boy loved his mother very much. You could see it in his unusual red eyes. He gazed up at her happily, burying his face into her chest.

Her eyes were a warm, ocean blue that matched her honey blond hair perfectly. Her skin looked cold to the touch, but left you with warmth that started at the spot where she'd touched you. The only thing that flawed her perfect skin as a tiny birthmark on her neck that resembled a star.

"My darling Adien," she cooed nuzzling the top of his head.

Adien beamed up at his mother upon hearing his name. She reached down and brushed his dark hair out of his face. He swatted at her hands, laughing.

"Stop that Mother," Adien said between laughs.

"Oh but your hair is such a mess," she joked ruffling it.

Adien squealed as he squirmed, trying to escape the abuse to his hair. His mother laughed, hugging her child closer to her.

"I love Mother," Adien whispered against the scar

"And Mother loves Adien," she whispered into his hair.


I let the memory fade away as I looked back at my mother. It really was her. I felt the burning sensation of unshed tears in my eyes. I rubbed them with the back of my hand as I looked at the blind woman.

"Maybe we should tell your friends what happened all those years ago," she suggested sitting in a wooden chair by the fire. "They deserve to know."

I nodded slowly going to stand by her. I put an arm up on the wall above the fire, leaning forward and staring into the flames.

"It all began on my 6th birthday…"


Adien looked up at his mother's approach. He stood, running up to her and wrapping his small arms around her leg. She smiled and reached down, ruffling his hair tenderly.

"Happy birthday," she said kissing the top of his head.

He smiled up at her, happy that she remembered.

"Yes…happy birthday," a cold voice said.

Adien's smile dropped as he looked back at the source of the voice. It was a man with the same dark hair of the small boy. He had the same eyes as Adien as well. This was his father: Alexander Evermore.

"Hello Alex dear," his mother said going over to give her husband a kiss on the cheek.

Alex only nodded to his wife and walked over to his son. Adien looked up at him blankly. Adien didn't like his father. And it was clear that he didn't like Adien either.

His father reached up and pulled a gift off the table, handing it to Adien. He took the gift from his father and opened it slowly.

He didn't get to finish opening it before a loud banging sounded on the door. Adien's mother came over and gathered her shaking child into her arms. She looked fearfully up at her husband.

Alex went and opened the door, only to fall back with an arrow sticking through his chest. A man came in and jumped on the dead body, sucking blood out of the bleeding wound on his father's chest. Adien was aware of his mother shrieking as he realized that the man was a vampire.

"Fresh blood," the creature groaned as he licked his lips. His eyes snapped to them. "A child!! Oh how sweet your blood will taste!!"

He leaped through the air, claws outstretched. Adien felt his mother turn him away as the creature's claws ripped through his mother. Adien screamed as his mother fell to the floor, long cuts running across her chest. She looked over at him, blood bubbling from between her paling lips.

"Run…Adien," she managed to get out before her breathing slowed and her eyes closed.

"MOTHER!!!!!!" he cried going over to the lifeless form.

He shook her desperately, sobbing as he did. The tears began to blur his vision. He was barely aware of the man till he felt icy fingers curl around his neck. Adien turned his eyes up to the man.

His face was contorted into a cruel smile, his fangs gleaming in the dim light.

"That's enough Charles," a woman's voice scolded gently.

She was truly a sight to behold. Her red hair was braided down to her waist, her skin as pale as freshly fallen snow. Her eyes were what caught the boy's attention. They were a beautiful sapphire-blue with gold flecks melted into the blue orbs. They reminded him of the day sky with the rays of the sun cutting through the blue.

She kneeled down next to the boy, reaching out gently. Adien flinched back slightly, but soon relaxed into the woman's embrace. She pulled back and looked down at me.

"Can you do me a favor?" she whispered into my ear. I nodded slowly. "In a few centuries a baby will be born with eyes like the sky and hair like the sunrise. Her name will be Dawn Caldwell. You'll find her in London. I want you to do to her what I'm about to do."

"What's that?" Adien asked fearfully.

"This…" the woman answered as she sunk her fangs into the soft flesh of his shoulder.

Adien's lips parted in a silent scream as she drank deeply. Soon, Adien felt something warm and salty against his lips.

"Drink," the woman commanded.

Adien nodded and did as he was told. The liquid was thick and tasted vile. Adien managed to get it all down before the woman pulled it away.

Adien licked his lips and looked at the woman. She smiled as she reached out and pushed the hair out of his face. Adien could feel his eyelids grow heavy as he fell forward.

"Remember what I've told you," was the last thing he heard before allowing the darkness to consume him.


I let out a sigh as I finished the story. Raven and Slivian were looking at me, pity in their eyes. My mother sat silently in her chair, her hands folded neatly in her lap.

"So the woman was Dawn's mother?" Slivian asked me.

I only shrugged, not trusting myself to speak.

"What happened to you after you passed out?" Raven asked next.

"A couple of Von Helsing's came onto the scene and took me to their base in the area," I told her. "I killed them later that night once they discovered I was a vampire."

Raven nodded glumly as she looked out the window. I looked back into the fire, the memories still playing through my head.

"Well…" my mother began softly. "Shall we get you started on your descent to hell?"


Me: Yay!!! I did it!!!!

Pandora: I see your future Readers….you shall wait to read Chapter 5!!!!!!!!