David and I stood there with locked eyes for a beat of silence. He stood from his chair slowly and I could see the shock in his eyes as his jaw clenched. I waited for him to ask.
David takes slow steps to stand in front of me and he looks down at me. I look up at him with a raised eyebrow and a smirk gracing my lips.
"How..." He starts but closes his mouth. He takes a deep breath and licks his lips. "Hunters?" He tenses, waiting.
I hear a snort from Michael and I narrow my eyes but my smirk staying on my lips. "If we were hunters, don't you think we would have attacked by now." I tilt my head at David. "You must not be that old if you can't tell what we are...and I couldn't tell what you were either...So really young." I look him up and down slowly before looking back in his eyes.
He's starting to grow angrier, but not at me surprisingly. "What are you?" He says slowly. I smirk and let my fangs down as my eyes darken to black and red vines spread down my cheeks under my eyes. From the gasps behind me, Michael had done the same.
David steps back and looks at me in shock as I let my vampire face fade back. I watch him for a moment.
"How are you like this? You don't have the same face as us" He states in shock. David stares into my eyes, looking for answers.
I watch him as my face falls into a serious expression. "That's because we are a different species of vampires than each other. There are multiple actually." I state as I slowly relax. "I'm a little old so I have met almost of all of the other species. There's a species that burns in the sunlight but they don't really have much a deformity like yours or mine. They only have the fangs and can't wear spelled jewelry like the species Mike and I come from. We can walk in the sunlight because of these little things." I take my left hand and hold it up, wiggling my fingers. Showing off the Lapis Lazuli ring. "From what I understand, these stones only work on our kind." I glanced at Mike.
Mike was staring at Star, who looked at him back with an expression of shock and horror. I glanced at the other boys and they were standing up and watching the interaction with rapt attention.
I looked back at David. "I'm actually wondering why your maker hasn't taught you this by now. He's old by the looks of this old thing." I say as I walk up to him and grab the bottle from him to look at it up close. "It's been a loooong time since I've seen one of these" I frown my brows as I examine the bottle.
David looks at the ground and I can see he's in disbelief of the situation. "How old... exactly are you?"
I hum in thought for a moment as I pause. "A little under three thousand...give or take..." I say before looking back at the bottle.
I set it down on a table before turning back to others. David looks at me with his lips parted in shock. I smirk and sit down in his chair and look at the room. "How about this... you can ask me anything you want and I'll answer." I say and spread my arms to the side in a 'why not' jester.
David looks at the boys and they look back at him. Star tries to take off to Laddie and drag him to the back of the cave, but Laddie jerks away from her and runs to me and climbs on my lap, facing me. He wraps his arms around my neck, as I wrap my arms around him. He plays with some of my hair as I watch Star for a moment. I wait for David's response.
Star looks at me in fear before rushing to her bed and hiding behind her curtains again.
Michael comes and sits by me at the fountain. David and the boys seem to be communication mentally so I wait for their decision. I rub Laddie's back and hum softly.
"Why didn't their maker teach them like you taught me?" Michael asks softly. He sits there looking between the boys and Star.
"Because they are still young, maybe in 200s. Their maker probably thought it would be safer not to teach them." I shrug. "Won't know til we meet them or they tell us."
Now I should probably explain that Michael and Sam were not my actual brothers. I changed them back around the late 1700s along with their mother, Lucy. They are my family and it's been that way since I grew attached to them back then. Grandpa Emerson is actually Lucy's great-great-grandnephew. We always come to check on him and stay for a little while. But recently Lucy had lost her mate last year and we decided to move back here.
My maker, Silas, died around the time he made me protecting me. And he taught me everything I needed to know and I did the same to the Emersons.
After a moment of the boys talking, David turned to me. Marko, Dwayne, and Paul stood behind him and looked at Michael and I.
"Tell us what you know." David states.
I glance at Mike before looking back at David. I grin widely.
"I don't know exactly when the... vampires were created. At least your kind I don't. My maker and his lover were the first that I know of my kind. I've come across different kinds of vampires over the years of me being alive. There's your kind." I wave to the boys as they sat around the cave near me as I spoke. "I think I came across around the 16th Century. I've only come across maybe forty of your kind since then, including yourselves. Then there are the other kind that are turned by vampire venom." I sigh and roll my eyes.
"We don't like them very much." Michael tells the boys. "At least the ones we've met. They are very pretentious and broody."
"Very pretentious! And they tried to control us?" I look at Mike with a sarcastic face. "I'm older than their 'rulers'. But some are good friends. Then there are diluted kind..." I sneer at nothing and shake my head.
"Diluted?" David asks me. He sat next to Michael with his elbows on his knees.
"They are a diluted and experiment kind of vampires. Their 'Alpha' as they like to dub him, created the species by experiments. They are sensitive to light and have a row of sharp teeth that come down from their gums. They can be weaked by dead man's blood and to kill them all you have to do is cut off their heads or stake them. They are the weakest species I've met." I had a disgusting expression on my face as I spoke of them.
I sighed and looked at the other boys. They were staring at me and were listening with rapt attention. My lips twitched into a small grin as I looked down and saw Laddie sleeping in my lap. I ran a hand through his hair softly before looking back at David.
"Farah's maker and brother, Silas, was the first Immortal vampire of our kind. Along with his mate, Amara, they helped to create the Immortal beings. Silas, Amara, and Farah are the True Immortals. They cannot be killed. They can be put in a suspension state though." Michael told the boys with a smile. He always loved the stories I told of Silas and myself.
"Then where are your brother and this Amara?" David asked curiously.
I grinned sadly. "My brother is in an eternal sleep because of Qetsiyah, Silas's fiancé who he betrayed when he fell in love with Amara. Now what happened to Amara, I never found out. I'm assuming she is also in an eternal sleep."
Clenching my jaw, I sighed through my nose.
"Can't you wake them up?" Paul asks me with a confused expression.
"I can't. I wasn't a witch like my brother and Qetsiyah were so I have no magic." I shrug. "Now what about you four, is your maker around?" I ask David while rubbing Laddie's back as small snores come from him.
I see the other boys smile at the sight of Laddie sleeping in my lap but I keep my sights on David.
"Yeah, although he's not as old as you. And you're right to assume that we are young. Paul is the youngest of us, just being turned a couple of years ago. Marko was turned back in the fifties. Dwayne during the late 1800s. And I was turned in early 1800s. Max, our maker, is maybe around 300. I don't know his exact age but he told me around the time he was turned." David explained simply. He clenched his jaw and zoned out in thought for a moment. I glance at Michael to lock eyes with him at the mention of Max.
David continues, causing me to look back at him. "I just can't believe he left us in the dark for so long. What else has he being hiding from us and for how long?" He asked rhetorical and looked at the other boys.
