Meeting the Immortals
Studying over the notes already taken by her, Lacey began to type them on the word processor. She loved the intrigue that Danny was adding to the story. She also liked that they were working equally on the story. He had most of the details. She wrote it and made the grammar corrections. It was working out fabulously. If Danny wasn't being a cocky, arrogant jerk.
Lacey glanced through her notes and decided to write some of the earlier years associated with Daniel Vikram Desai. She thought the meeting of the other immortals was an appropriate place to begin. It was probably the creepiest part of their creative essay. She wasn't sure if she should even add all of it. Perhaps, she should tone it down a bit.
Lacey read over Danny's ideas slowly.
Daniel kissed his mother's cheek. "It is for the best, Mother."
"I know." Victoria touched Daniel's cheek with the palm of her hand. "I love you."
"I love you." Daniel closed his eyes at his mother's touch. "Sorry for what I've become."
"It is not your fault, son." Victoria handed Daniel a small broach. "The design of the Desai family crest is on this broach. Keep it close to you so you never forget us."
Daniel nodded then glanced up at his father and brother standing in the door way staring out at them. "They hate me."
"No. They fear you." Victoria explained in a soft voice.
"That is worse, Mother." Daniel felt his lip quiver. "Father won't even let Allison near me. I would never harm my family."
"I know." Victoria exhaled sorrowfully. "But we don't know who else you will harm. Your brother loved Sarah. You killed her. I know it was not your intentions. It was what you've become."
Daniel nodded as he stepped back from his mother. "Pretend that I am dead. Perhaps, I am."
Victoria watched her sixteen year old son walk away. She wiped the tears from her face. Rajesh walked up to her and embraced his wife. She leaned against his chest crying.
"You never even said goodbye to him." Victoria cried as her fingers wrapped in her husband's cloak.
"He is no longer our son, Victoria. He is a murdering creature." Rajesh smoothed out Victoria's hair. "Our son died that night in the ally."
Daniel made his way into the familiar ally. He leaned against a wall of an old building. He listened to the chirping of crickets and sounds of the night. He slid down to sit on the cold damp ground. His eyes closed as he listened for anything or anyone to come his way. Suddenly, an eerie feeling came over him. He felt his skin prickle like he had slipped into a vat of ice.
"Why do you dwell in this place? Have you not heard it is dangerous?" A man with flowing brown hair stood over him.
Daniel peered up at him noticing his glowing eyes. They were almost clear in color. "I need information."
"About what?" The man stared down at the boy.
"About the creature that I have become." Daniel eyes begged for help.
"How old are you?" The man bent down to stare at the boy.
"Sixteen." Daniel responded as he brought his knees to his chest. He felt strangely cold.
"Sixteen?" The man shook his head back and forth. "The code of ethics was not followed. Even our kind has laws. It was made plain that only the young could be fed from not made immortal. Who is your Master? He was supposed to teach you all your lessons."
Daniel swallowed nervously. "I have no Master. The man, who made me what I am, was killed during my attack."
"You were not seduced into this life?" The man questioned as he furrowed his eyebrows. "That is unheard of. You should only be nourishment in that case."
"I don't know the rules, Sir." Daniel glanced down at the cold ground. "I only know that I am what I am."
"Come. Follow me." The man stood up swishing his long green cloak around him. "You must meet Tyler. He will know what to do."
"Who is Tyler?" Daniel stood and began to follow the man.
"You will see." The man was silent as Daniel followed him after those words.
Daniel tried to notice his surroundings so he would remember how to get back to this place. The man stopped.
He turned to Daniel. "You will know how to come back if you need to."
The man then walked down a long set of old block steps. It seemed like an old entrance to an abandoned brothel. Once they entered the old wooden door, Daniel stared at the broken down furniture and bar. He watched curiously as the man knocked lightly on the door of a side wall.
The wall opened slightly. Daniel realized it was a hidden entrance. The man grabbed a torch from just inside the entrance. He followed the man down a cobblestone hallway. He noted the rats that scurried about the hall. The man stopped at another entrance before glancing back at Daniel.
The man sighed out. "Tyler will be upset when he sees you. Don't speak until he asks you to. Do you understand?"
Daniel nodded as he bit his bottom lip. He followed the man inside another door. Once in that door, Daniel noticed the surroundings changed. It was a well decorated place with art hanging on the walls and intricate detailed furniture. It was dimly lit with candles and a few torches. People were throughout the room. They stared at Daniel curiously.
The men all had a female or more clinging to them. The females were dressed in scantily clad clothing causing Daniel to glance down at his feet. His mother would be so disappointed in him coming to a place as such.
"Your mother would be ashamed. However, you are no longer her son." A different male's voice spoke causing Daniel to look up.
The man who spoke was seated in a large chair with a woman at each side of him. Two more women were wrapped around his legs. These women were completely nude and had metal collars around their neck. They seemed to be chained to the man's throne. Bite marks covered the chained females' bodies. The man stared at Daniel making Daniel fidget nervously. It was obvious that this man was the leader of this strange group. It was also obvious that he didn't care for Daniel immediately by the anger etched on his face.
"Who do we have here, Cole?" The man addressed the one that brought Daniel to this place.
"I found him in the ally of the dead, Tyler. He is new to our life." Cole answered as he stepped away from Daniel.
Daniel glanced as Cole sat in another chair along the wall of the room. The others in the room watched on curiously.
"What is your name, boy?" Tyler asked as he placed his hands on his knees.
Daniel nervously spoke. "I am Daniel Vikram Desai, Sir."
Tyler laughed evilly. "Who is your maker? Why has he chosen to abandon you and not be your master?"
"I'm not sure who my maker was." Daniel glanced up at the man noticing that he had strange blue eyes that seemed to glow as bright as the flames on the torches. "He was killed while I was attacked."
"Attacked? You mean changed willingly." Tyler laughed loudly. He slid back into his seat and scratched his chin. Why did this boy seem different? Why did he cause Tyler to feel unsafe in his own dwelling?
"No, sir." Daniel heard all gasp around him. "I was attacked."
"Perhaps at first." Tyler crossed his legs as he continued to study the boy. "But then you begged to be as we are."
Daniel slid his tongue across his lips. He felt thirsty. The smell of blood lingered in the air taunting him with that thirst. "No, sir. I fell down in pain. The attacker was killed as he attacked."
More gasps sounded as Tyler studied the younger man. "So this was not a pleasurable thing to you. I know after the transformation takes place there is immense pain. However, there is pleasure with the change at first."
Daniel shook his head no. "Sorry, sir."
"Have you tasted your first blood?" Tyler was sure he had to. The newest of them would die quickly without the first taste of blood. Usually, the taste was from their maker.
"Yes." Daniel sighed ashamed. "I killed. I know you can milk the feeder. I felt that as I killed. Yet, I don't know how."
"Was it a female?" Tyler arched his eyebrow. "Did you enjoy her body as well?"
Daniel spoke softly feeling shame of his actions. He was raised better then to be with a woman before marriage. He was also raised better than to have sex and kill his own brother's fiancé. "Yes."
"Did she beg you?" Tyler questioned curiously.
The crowd laughed at Tyler's question. They all thought they knew the answer. After all, without the vampire being taught or having years of experience of how to make a seductive bite, the victim was in excruciating pain.
"Yes. She begged." Daniel thought he was answering simply what should be answered.
"What?" Tyler stood and walked closer to Daniel. He circled around him reading Daniel's memories. "Indeed, she did beg. She begged to satiate you. She begged for her body to be taken by yours."
Silence hung over the crowd as they stared in disbelief at the young boy.
Daniel simply whispered. "Yes."
Tyler scratched his chin. "How old are you?"
"Sixteen." Daniel rocked back and forth on his heels nervously. He glanced curiously at Tyler. "You think I'm strange. I am a rare case."
"How do you know this?" Tyler stepped back in surprise.
"I felt …" Daniel shook his head slightly. "I mean I could hear it from your thoughts."
Once again, the crowd gasped. Murmurs and whispers sounded in the room.
Tyler held up his hand. "Stop!" He glanced around the room. "Leave me alone with him all but Cole." He pointed to the girls chained to his throne. NOW!"
Immediately, the chained females were pulled by their leashes out of the room while the other people scurried from the room in fear.
Tyler looked at the boy curiously. "We have had younger made into our kind. However, their weakness caused them to die quickly or need to be put to death. They are too immature to know how to make it pleasurable for the victim. Male or female. Have you killed more than this one?"
Daniel shook his head no. He sighed out. "I don't want to kill."
"It comes with who you are now, Daniel." Cole spoke as he took a drink of red liquid from a large goblet. "How you kill will define what type of immortal you desire to be."
Tyler glanced sideways at Cole. "This one will not find pleasure in drinking from a male. He will only feed upon him. That is for certain. Awwww..but a female will make his thirst unquenchable."
Daniel furrowed his eyebrows tightly together. "Is there a cure?"
"No, child." Tyler laughed boisterously. "You are one of us forever." Tyler walked back and sat on his throne like chair. "He is beautiful. One of the most beautiful if not the most. Perhaps, I should lock him in the outer room."
"Tyler, he has come for help." Cole pleaded for the boy's life. "He will learn to embrace who he is."
Daniel stared up at Tyler. "Sunlight does not hurt me."
"Excuse me." Tyler glared at Daniel.
"Sunlight doesn't kill me. I feel weak but I do not die. I know your thoughts of the outer room. You taunt Cole to chain me there. But I will live through it."
"Daniel, don't be naive. Don't rebel against Tyler." Cole touched the boy's shoulder.
Tyler grabbed a large spear like object with a skull at the top of it. He pecked it against the floor. The room filled with many immortals.
"Tyler, he is boy. He will learn his place." Cole pleaded. "Killing him will teach him nothing. He has no maker. No Master. Take mercy."
"I think being chained in the outer room will be enough of a lesson." Tyler laughed as he motioned for two men to grab Daniel.
"He will die." Cole whispered.
"So be it." Tyler waved his hand over his head uncaring.
The men grabbed Daniel by both arms. He tried to jerk away but they were too strong. They pulled him along as the immortals followed cheering for his death.
Daniel was pulled into a room and locked in shackles. He tried to pull loose but once again found himself trapped. He leaned against the wall and cried. He only wanted help in his new life. He didn't mean to insult Tyler. He was only explaining that sunlight would not kill him. Daniel thought that the myth was wrong about sunlight. He had no clue that he was the only immortal to be able to withstand the sun.
Daniel didn't know how long he was there. He had fallen asleep in his wariness. The sun woke him as he felt it burn his eyes. He closed his eyes tightly. He felt like he was getting a sunburn but his skin was not searing. He did prefer to be out of the sun. He felt weaker than usual. The day seemed longer than usual. He wondered how long this would last. Was he to be there for days? Perhaps, their intentions were to starve him to death.
The young teenage boy slept throughout the day. When nightfall came, he felt a renew in his strength. However, he was hungry as he always was. But this time he was hungry for both his mother's cooking and the taste of blood.
The sound of the door opening caused Daniel to look up from his sleeping. Cole stood there shocked. "Daniel, you live."
"Yes." Daniel held up his hands. "Must I stay like this until I starve?"
Cole rushed to him. "This is impossible. Not even the eldest of us can live in sunlight."
"I told you and Tyler." Daniel exhaled. "Can I be freed now? I will leave and not bother you."
Cole took a key from his pocket and released Daniel from his shackles. "I came to clean the room of your ashes. Not to find you alive."
"I thirst." Daniel looked at Cole.
"I will find you nourishment soon." Cole smiled at him. "I can't believe you live."
Daniel rubbed his wrists due to the soreness of the shackles. He glanced at Cole briefly before questioning. "Who am I that Tyler hates me?"
"Your Master should've been the one to teach you of this life." Cole helped Daniel up. He could tell the boy was weak yet not near death. "Your maker was Tyler's twin brother. They were known as the Lewis twins, Tyler and Christopher. " Cole ruffled Daniel's hair. "Tyler is my Master."
"Were they born this way?" Daniel asked as he leaned against Cole trying to steady himself for walking.
"No. They were attacked by the same Master while out together. Tyler thought it a good idea for a night out to celebrate their twenty first birthday when they were attacked. Becoming immortal is not planned by any of us. However, we all three begged for this life. It was a pleasurable and seducing experience. Unlike yours with Christopher." Cole sighed as he contemplated telling Daniel more. However, the boy must know more in order for Cole's plan to work. "Christopher made a beloved immortal out of Tyler's wife, Regina. She was his wife before this life. Now, Christopher is dead and Regina may die as well if she does not partake of another maker."
"What does this have to do with me?" Daniel asked curiously.
"Boy, I will be honest with you. For you may not understand that jealousy of a brother runs deep but love does as well. Tyler and I can read thoughts of others. Regina craved you from the moment she spied you with me. Perhaps, it is because her maker was yours. Perhaps, it is your beauty. Yet, you are young. Most immortal beloved would not take note of such a male with youth teasing his features." Cole continued to pull Daniel forward.
"Where do we go?" Daniel stopped as he leaned against the cobblestone wall to rest.
"We go so you can feed off a female. After that, you can allow Regina to feed. She will die without tasting of her Master."Cole watched the young boy.
"I am no one's master." Daniel shook his head in refusal. "No one's."
"No. But perhaps, Christopher's blood inside you will satiate Regina enough to live. A beloved immortal must drink her first drinks from her maker before she can go to another. She doesn't crave another yet. Christopher's death could equal hers unless my plan works. Regina craves you immensely. It has never been heard of before. However, neither has an immortal being made as you were."
From the alcoves of the hall, Tyler watched as Cole led Daniel down the long pathway to where the females awaited to be fed off of. Cole turned to stare at his master when he felt Tyler's presence.
"What shall I do besides this, Tyler?" Cole questioned with a pleading voice. "If the plan doesn't work, she is lost to you anyway."
Tyler stepped from the darkness. He stared at Cole and Daniel with a concentrated silence.
Daniel jerked away from Cole's hand clutching his shoulder. "I will not allow a female to drink from me. I will not be committed to a female for an eternity."
"You heard my thoughts again." Tyler smirked. "How is it that you are so powerful? You have not even aged enough to acquire such gifts."
"I don't know. But you can have this Regina. I want out of all of this." Daniel begged. "Do you hear me?"
"Allow him to feed off Regina." Tyler laughed again with jest at the boy.
"Tyler?" Cole shook his head. "You know that the boy must drink from fresh blood. Regina has already been changed. It will kill him and she will die as well without being fed."
"Let them both die due to my brother's ignorance in making them." Tyler turned. "Christopher took her from me in his arrogance. This boy will pay the price for Christopher's indiscretions."
Tyler left to meet with other leaders of the cults of immortals. He would return in hopes of hearing of the deaths of both Daniel and Regina.
Daniel was pulled and tossed into a strange room. Candles flickered around the room against flagstone walls. A large bed sat at the corner of the room covered with black silk flowing scarves. The bed had large red pillows and blankets strewn across it. In the middle of the bed sat a female dressed in a dark green dress. Her strawberry blonde hair flowed all the way down to her waist. Adorning her hair, pink flowers were tied to a flowing white ribbon. She was a pale skinned girl with the kiss of death upon her. Her blue eyes looked hauntingly at Daniel.
"I am Regina." Her voice was soft yet alluring. "Why did Cole bring you here? Am I to feed off of you?"
"No." Daniel snarled angrily. He read each thought of Tyler's. Due to Tyler's jealousy, Tyler hoped that Regina would die with Daniel.
"Shall I starve?" Regina pushed herself forward then she began to crawl seductively towards Daniel.
"Perhaps you will starve because you will not taste of me. My maker was the one to take my blood. He is dead. I will not have any take power over me like that again." Daniel breathed out angrily.
"I beg you." Regina traced her hand over Daniel's chest. She began to unbutton his tunic. "I will make it pleasurable. I will show you that having your own beloved immortal can be most gratifying."
He could smell the enticing blood pumping through her veins. She was still at the early stages of becoming an immortal beloved. Something took over him that caused an animalistic craving in him. He grabbed Regina by the hair. Harshly, Daniel pulled her body to him.
"You will not taste of me. I will taste of you though." With those words, Daniel ripped off Regina's dress.
Daniel threw her body back on the bed before crawling on top of her. He bit down on her neck sucking in the sweet nectar that he was beginning to appreciate as much as he craved.
"I hate this!" Lacey slammed her laptop shut before jumping up from her computer desk.
She wiped a tear from her eyes. She walked from the computer desk. Throwing herself on the bed, she sobbed harshly thinking of how Daniel had lived through feeding off of Regina. She hated that Daniel had sex with Regina and fed only off her.
Daniel never allowed Regina his blood as she craved and begged. He had become as an animal tearing her clothes from her body before he satisfied both his mortal cravings and his immortal ones. Regina became his to do as he wished with yet Daniel gave nothing back to her after feeding from her and having sex with her. She was sent to feed off other mortals that were newly changed. Regina would forever crave Daniel now due to his not giving her what she needed. Tyler would never get the woman he loved back as his companion for eternity.
Daniel's body changed each time he fed from a female provided for him. He became more keen and more powerful. However, Daniel still needed a Master to help him learn the ways of being immortal. Cole became that Master.
Regina was fed off of by Daniel but she was never given the opportunity to taste him. She begrudgingly took of other immortals.
Cole noticed the boy's growing up. Tyler did as well. It was strange to age after the change. The other immortals were beginning to fear the boy. His beauty was becoming more predominant each day. His muscles more defined. He grew taller even. Daniel's hair even grew longer into dark raven curls. His skin was dark but his eyes were a more glowing brown than most of the Immortal's whitish blue eyes or blackish brown eyes. He was by far the most beautiful of all immortals. But the fear was due to Daniel being able to drink from the other males' immortal beloved. The beloved immortals wanted to have Daniel as their own master. However, Daniel would not allow any to drink of him.
Tyler was growing angrier each month that passed when he saw Daniel with Regina. It angered him that his own wife of mortality craved this newly made immortal. It angered him even more that Daniel didn't desire Regina as he should. His brother had caused the pain. Yet, Daniel was reaping the benefits of Tyler's beautiful wife.
Cole noticed his Master, Tyler, seething with hate for Daniel.
An immortal being overtaken with jealousy due to Daniel having taken of his own beloved immortal's blood and body, went to kill Daniel. Instead, the immortal ended up dead at Daniel's feet. He had drank from the immortal until he died.
After three months with the immortals, Cole told Daniel to flee from them. If Tyler knew that Daniel could drink of Immortals, he would surely be put to death any way that Tyler could think of. Because Daniel was not only an immortal but he was a threat to the immortals. Cole knew that Daniel could not be kept alive feeding off of old blood such as the immortals had. He would have to kill a mortal to survive. However, an immortal's blood would keep him going longer than most immortals before Daniel would have to quench his thirst again.
"Don't be so silly." Lacey told herself as she dried her tears.
Why was she jealous over this fictional character that Danny had made up? Why was Daniel Vikram Desai's story consuming her? And why each time she imagined Daniel Desai, did she see Danny's face?
"He's a made up guy."
Lacey ran her hands down her body as she closed her eyes. She felt her skin begin to grow cold. She pulled a blanket over her as she closed her eyes to sleep. "Danny, don't allow any to taste of you but the immortal beloved that you truly desire and love."
Danny stared out the window of his bedroom. He felt Lacey's plea to him. She was speaking in her slumber things she should not know about.
Was she the one that belonged to him for an eternity? Or was he wanting her to be the one due to her looks of the females he desired in his past?