Chapter 14
I 'awoke' in a beautiful room. It was dark, but I could still see the ancient beauty that proudly flaunted itself to anyone who would see. It had roman arches facing towards a balcony, with curtains flowing gently with the warm breeze. Now that I looked, it seemed to be from a different era, one of less cares, just survival and power. It was such a change from what the modern world called beautiful.
I heard footsteps come outside my door, knock thrice, and enter. It was the magnificent being that whisked me away here. The intensity of his eyes, and the love radiating there, knocked me back. How could this stranger love me so intensely, more so than any love I have seen in my family, so soon?
He smiled, and walked out to the balcony.
"Will you join me, Catherine?" He asked sweetly, in a voice indescribably beautiful and soft.
I lifted myself, carefully, and made my way beside him. I felt like a clumsy human beside him.
"I feel the need to explain myself. I am Aamir. I have been waiting for you since the dawn of time, Catherine, my love. I am indeed a demon and vampire." He stopped, gauging my reaction. I just looked at him timidly, trying to implicitly get him to continue. I was genuinely curious now. He didn't sound like a monster that would kill thousands just to see them die and bleed, killing thousands of innocent and non innocent vampires for no reason that I could see.
"Do you believe in an after life?" he asked, staring into my eyes. I couldn't think at all when he did that, but I tried.
"I don't know. I would like to say that I do, but the vampirism has confused me. I think that there is an after life for humans, something fades from the shell as they die, I think that the object that disconnects from the body lives on, not necessarily in that form, maybe that's just a mode of transport. For us, this is our afterlife; it is what we make of it, horror or paradise. Our human life was our first life. Of course I am not sure of anything, though."
He reached over, slowly and tenderly, and brushed the back of his hand across my right cheek. I leaned into his hand, relishing in the warmth and love. Nothing can compare to this, I didn't think that I would find this connection, or bond, so strong or early in my lifetime. As soon as he called me to him, I could feel an eternal bond connecting us with love; it's as if I have known him forever, even before I was given this vampire life.
"Why do I feel as if I have known you forever?" I asked, gently.
"Because you have. If I tell you the story, you have to keep an open mind, alright?"
"Sure, I'm a vampire and you're a vampire-demon, anything else can't be too far fetched." He just laughed at my comment, it sounded like the air, the water, the earth, beyond comparison or description. Just like everything else about him.
"Have you heard anything about the Archangels of creation?" his face was serious, pleading with me to understand.
"Yes, when I and my brother were born to my parents, and they found out our powers, they called us the archangels of creation, left and right hands of god, why?"
"Because it's true. In the endless universe, darkness abound among the endless sky of tiny stars already created, there was no life, he created his angels, and two that could be trusted above all else, his archangels, left and right hands. Together, they created a place that would be paradise, showing beings created in his image everything that he knew.
Unfortunately, half of his angels separated, hungry with power. What I didn't mention earlier was there were three archangels of creation, but only two were his hands. The third Archangel got jealous, and created a war. Many angels died in that war, until he was imprisoned. You were one of the casualties, taken from us too early.
I was torn. I had taken the opposing group, but loved you so intensely, and couldn't fight against you in battle. I tried to fight for him, but keeping an eye on you closely. I was watching too close, though, and wasn't paying attention. I was about to get decapitated, but you took the sword through the heart for me, and died in my arms.
In my anger, I slaughtered three quarters of the army that I had once sided with. They were imprisoned then, for trying to overthrow the power, but I was sided with them, and I got banished too. For our punishments, we got turned into despicable and evil creatures, the demons.
I protested, crying out for you, but to no avail. Your brother, Aaron, hated me with a passion for taking his sister from him. I had to find you before they did, or you would be lost to me forever.
It became a race, but my kind was banished from the light, his love. I had to find a way to brave the light.
Through many rituals, and group discussions, I finally found the answer. I went about creating a type of dark spirit that shared control of the body with its inhabitant, the Vampyr.
I offered myself up to that spirit, and it took it gleefully. The fusion of dark spirit and fallen angel; demon, made what I am today. Enhanced beauty from the angel, blood cravings and need to spill blood from the evil of demon and dark spirit to fulfill my empty shell with some life, in any way I could. I wondered if I could brave the light now, or transmit this gift. I took my first step into the light, hoping that it would work so I could find you.
You can imagine my excitement when I felt the warmth of the light on my skin, only then did I look down. I had human like skin, pure white in color, but I did not care. My skin shimmered in the light; I still can't figure that one out. Only later did I discover that I was indestructible, ran faster than light, use my beauty to my advantage.
I didn't want to go back to the others that were banished like me, because they would try to get this ability too, and it would be devastating to have them rule the world and kill everything that you worked so hard to create. I took asylum in the light, even though I was colder than stone and glimmered in the light.
I began to think about where I could find you, the only way that any of us would have seen you would be to reincarnate you into a human, find you again, and revive your angel spirit within you. I had to go amongst the humans and look for you.
After millennia, I found you. You had kept skipping human bodies and lives, all exactly what you looked like, awaiting for the one to take you back home. I knew the only way that I could keep you for all of eternity beside me was to bite you, to infuse you with the dark spirit that I had. I did bite you, begging for your forgiveness as I bit you, and the fire of the venom that the dark spirit created in my body began to spread through your veins, attempting to stop your heart and create room in the body for the other spirit. When the heart stops, it is then that the two are fully fused, and they can live together in harmony without the hindrances of the human body." He paused; I just looked at him with a newfound admiration. I was hearing the story of the first vampire; Carlisle would absolutely die if he could meet Aamir, hearing this story.
"What is the venom, though?"
"It is the dark agent that calls dark spirits to the human body; it calls one that is compatible with the spirit of the human, to fuse with."
"I guess that it makes sense that way." I muttered, wondering how I didn't think of that myself, and how plain and ordinary I seemed to be beside him. I wonder if this is what Bella felt when she was around Edward, human and vampire.
"Don't be sad, my dear," he put his hand on my cheek comfortingly.
"I was just thinking about my parents' relationship when they were human and vampire, I was wondering if this is how my mother felt beside my dad."
"Like how?"
"So plain, stupid, ordinary, compared to this beautiful, magnificent being that was good at everything, and loved without condition. Of everyone to love, why me?"
He shook his head gently, as if scolding me.
"Catherine, my love, You are the only one that I see, how beautiful you are physically and mentally; how you love to have equality, and how you punish others to defend the lower person, how beautiful your personality is, how giving you are, and loving, lovable. If your parents had the same relationship, then they would understand everything, your brother on the other hand…"
"I can deal with him. When can I see my family?"
"Whenever you like, as long as you never leave my side again."
I looked into his eyes, they were sincere and serious. I was drawn to him, his lips, and his love. I didn't notice that we were coming together until his lips met mine softly. They were so warm! My cold hand snaked its way up his neck and into his hair. He locked me in an iron embrace, and began kissing more passionately. I parted my lips against his, and he did the same.
If there ever was a heaven, this was it. I collapsed, weak in the knees, but he held me tight against him and continued kissing, as if this was the first time that he saw me in millennia, oh wait, it was. How could I ever have forgotten this man?
I broke away, needing air, but remained un-breathing until the excitement died a way a bit, and when I did start breathing, I was still gasping so hard that human lungs would have collapsed.
He just held me there, in his arms, cradling me and rocking me. What a reunion. I noticed, as I thought about everything that I learned and that I didn't feel so whole since I could remember, not like this.
We remained like that for hours, until I felt he pull to call my parents, knowing that they would be devastated at my disappearance.
"I have to call my family, they would be devastated that I disappeared with what they think is a mass murderer."
"Are you referring to the multiple deaths that are occurring around the world?"
"Yes, they think it is you killing entire towns of humans and whipping vampires off of entire continents."
"It is not me; it is the one who brought us all down with him, that devil."
"Does he have a name?"
"Yes, but you must not speak of it, it is like a summon to him, it attracts his attention. I think that he knows that another Archangel is on earth, and he is looking for you and your brother. He wants out of his bondage."
"Ok. I'll protect you from my family of vicious vampires."
"Honey, they couldn't destroy me even if they wanted to. The fusion of demon and vampire makes me indestructible, literally."
I laughed at my stupidity again, and patted my pocket for my cell phone. It wasn't there.
"I lost my cell phone; do you know where it is?"
"It's on the night stand."
"Thank you."
I walked back into the room and grabbed my phone, and made my way back to Aamir.
"One last question, if you bit me, how did I end up in this body?"
"Aaron found you, and took you from me. He reincarnated your now Archangel-human-vampire spirit into a human mother a few centuries in the future. But, unfortunately, with the vampire blood, you needed the body to be part vampire too. Hence your parents. Aaron refused to leave you, so he incarnated himself with you as twins. He made himself vampire by entering the body of a human-vampire child, now the two of you are Archangel-human-vampire highbred.
There's something else, as much as I don't want to tell you, I must. You refer to me as a vampire for vampires, and the transformation of human to vampire works the same way for us. I refer to it as a ladder pyramid: Humans on the bottom rung, vampires, and angel. The next step on the pyramid is, on the bottom rung, are the hybrids, human-vampire, vampire-demon, demon-angel. The next step is the ones like me; human-demon, and vampire-angel. The second-last step is those like you; thrice infused: human-vampire-demon, human-vampire-angel, vampire-demon-angel, and demon-angel-human. The last step is the quadric-infused: human-vampire-demon-angel. The confusing part is the jumping of rungs, like you and your brother; you two are angel-human-vampire. You can mix the steps, like demon is higher than human, but angel is higher than demon, and vampire is between human and demon. You don't have any demon in you, and if I bit you to transform you, you would become the quadric-infused, and the first of her kind. You would entirely jump the wrung that I am on, because I am higher than you, my demon beating your vampire, my vampire beating your human, a wrung defeats the others only if they are adjacent, like the only one that you trump me on is your angel beating my demon, since you have no demon there's nothing to beat my vampire. Do you understand any of this?"
"A little bit, I would be even stronger than I am now if you were to bite me, right? Infusing into me demon?"
"Yes, but it isn't that simple. Have you been explained the pain from transforming from human to vampire?"
"My family and I share a strange bond. My dad, Edward, can read minds, and we can read everyone's mind because we share that talent. We share eachother's talents when we are in eachother's presence. I control fire, my brother ice, mother; Isabella, controls people with suggestions. Our connection links us telepathically, so I know the pain that Edward and Isabella went through, Edward more so."
"That pain is nothing compared to transforming, or jumping, the higher wrung. The first transformation is the easiest, pain wise. Jumping to the demon wrung would be three times as intense as the pain from transforming into a vampire, going from demon to angel, if you aren't already angel, is the highest amount of pain that you can imagine; nobody has made it so far. I would be surprised if you made it through the demon transformation."
"After I call my parents, we need to talk about that more; I do live forever as vampire, but I can be destroyed. As a demon, I can't be destroyed at all, right? I can't be taken from you again."
I picked up the phone again and dialled Bella's number. I hoped that she would be with the rest of the family by now, it would make explanations earlier.
It rang twice and someone picked up. My mother's voice came on the other end, hysterical and panicked.
"Catherine? Is that really you?" She asked, it sounded like she was actually praying that it was me. I heard screams in the background, the rest of the family must be there, and I heard Emmett, Esme and Edward's voices screaming in the background.
"Yes, it is me, Catherine. I am fine, mom." I sighed, they were really worried. "I have a lot to explain to you all, but you need to come to me, I can't come to you, it's too dangerous for me."
"Is it the demon-vampire that's the danger?"
"No, it's another. He's actually protecting me." I thought about it, but I didn't know where I was.
"Where are we?" I whispered to Aamir. He laughed and held his hand out to me, to give him the phone. I handed it to him, curious.
"My name is Aamir, yes I am he, I had to, and we would have all lost her if he got his hands on her. Actually, he was right behind me; if I didn't get her when I did she would have been lost. I know you're vampires, that's what Catherine wants to explain. We're in a secret place, I can send for transport for you all, but you can not know the location, not even she knows. It's an ancient and protected castle. Yes, bring everyone, pull Carlisle out of the hospital for a while, it will be worth it. She's safe, as long as she stays near me. Yes, Alice, you can bring all the clothes you want." He paused for a moment, putting his hand on the mouthpiece.
"You never told me that she was psychic, Catherine."
"It slipped my mind." I shrugged. He laughed lightly and returned back to the phone.
"Yes, you can stay here for as long as you want, I think that would be the best idea, keeping you and her safe. I have to explain that when you get here. I'm sorry, Alice, that was the only way to keep her alive. Forgive me, Alice." He rolled his eyes as I faintly heard Alice screaming at a mile a minute, likely chastising him for the way he whisked me away.
"Yes, Alice, it will be sent in seven hours to give you a chance to pack. Yes, it's safe. The windows need to be that dark so that you can't know where you're headed. Just trust me, Alice, and trust Catherine. It's for the best. Sure, here she is." He handed me back the phone, grinning wildly. He looked so cute with that grin.
"Alice?"
"Catherine! Do you know how bad you scared me? I'm going to kill you both when I get there, it's a promise. I'll see you soon, ok?"
"Ok, tell my family that I love them, everyone, ok?"
"She loves you guys, says she'll see you soon!" Alice screamed a bit too close to the phone. I had to pull the phone from my ear as she started screaming.
"I gotta go pack now, ok? Bye Catherine."
"Bye Alice." And we hung up.
I sighed contently.
"I love you, Aamir."
"I love you too, Catherine, more than you can imagine or comprehend."
"I believe that my dad said that to my mom too. I guess like mother like daughter, huh?"
"If that's true, I'm sure we'll hit it off superbly, and completely understand eachother."
"I don't know about that, It's my mother I'm worried about, she's a bit overprotective of me, I am her baby girl, Aaron is Edward's little boy."
"The only being that I'm worried about it Aaron. I hope he doesn't remember anything from his past lives, or this will be very difficult."
"I'll keep him back myself. As a team, we're unstoppable."
"I hope so, Catherine, I certainly hope so."
My Immortal Sacrifice
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