8-frica

Kya's heart hammered in her chest as her mind raced. The woman before her was a vampire! A REAL VAMPIRE! Her mind raced as she tried to process this new information. The stories were true and the creature before her was drinking the blood of a young boy and was possibly going to find someone else to feast from. Kya's feet felt like lead as she took a slow step backwards and tried her best to keep calm. Now was not the time to loose her head and go screaming through the village. The woman before her smiled with a savage look in her eye, clearly the boy that now lay at the woman's feet was not her only meal for the night, she had now set her sights upon the maid. Kya kept calm until she saw the vampire take a step towards her then stop when she was about to step into the grave yard. This caused Kya to stop and look for another way to run. As long as she stayed on Holy ground they couldn't touch her! Kya looked from the ground and back towards the woman and gasped when she did not see her there.

"Oh god." She whispered to herself before turning in a small circle and looked around to see if she was any where around the grave yard.

As she turned she didn't see her any where around the village. Taking the chance Kya took off running as fast as she possibly could towards the castle not caring what would happen should she run. Just as Kya reached the half way point in the trail she was knocked over by someone, and was sent rolling down the small hill she was on. Once she stopped Kya quickly tried to get up and keep running. If she made it to the gates of the castle she could call out for help but being this far away no one would hear her. She heard a high pitched laugh come from behind before something hard and cold wrapped around her throat and forced Kya to stop running and try to pull the object from her throat. The object tightened around her throat cutting off her air and lifted her off of the ground causing Kya to choke and try to escape harder.

"Is this the one Verona?" A high pitched thickly accented voice, laced with venom asked from just before the struggling maid.

Kya opened her eyes to see who'm her attacker was and she felt her heart race faster as she saw not only the woman from the grave yard but another woman of equal beauty. Her eyes were bright green spitting venom upon the young maid as she held her by the throat a foot off of the ground. Her firey red hair flowed around her almost glowing to show just how angry the woman was.

"It smells like the one." The woman in green said her voice soft and yet still held immense power within it.

"L-let... me... go! PLEASE!" Kya gasped before being thrown back into a tree, then landed on the ground as severe pain began to spider through her body. She chocked as air suddenly rushed into her lungs making her throat burn and her vision turn blurry for just a moment.

She quickly tried to stand but was throne back down by a hard blow to her shoulder followed by laughter.

"Whore... what does he want with such a pitiful and horrid creature as you?"

Kya coughed once more before pushing herself up against the tree she had been thrown into and felt something warm and wet start to run down her cheek. Upon touching her head she felt a sharp pain flash through her skull. As she pulled her hand away from her head she saw it covered in blood. This wasn't good, she needed to escape and quickly. Perhaps she could reason with them? She had always been good at talking people down from doing something they shouldn't be, however... she wasn't dealing with a human. The two women before her were immortal beings, spawns of Satan, creatures that feasted upon the blood of others and they clearly had their sights set on her. What had she done to warrant this kind of torture before death? She had always tried to be kind to others when needed and help them as well and now when she needed help the most there was no one around to help her.

"I say we kill her now and let her rot."

Kya looked up towards her attackers and saw them arguing with each other about what to do with her. Kill her or leave her in the woods. She slowly pushed herself up and reached into her cloak pocket and felt the familiar weight of the holy water and crucifix that Anna and Velkan insisted she carry with her when she started working at the pub. They said that it would come in handy when she needed it. Kya very carefully took it out and hid the bottle behind her cloak and very slowly opened the top before putting her thumb over the opening and looked at the two vampires before her. They were still speaking to each other about what to do so Kya had the opportunity at hand. Ignoring the pain in her body, Kya rushed forwards and sprayed the red head in the back with the water causing her skin to immediately begin to boil and sizzle as if severely burned by fire. Kya took off running again as the vampire shrieked in pain and anger.

"She'll die!"

Kya could hear her heart pounding in her ears as she ran through the woods trying to get to the castle. Just as she could see the branch in the road that led to the castle Kya screamed out in pain as something sharp sliced through her right arm forcing her to fall down and hold her arm in pain. She looked up and saw a large grey winged creature flying off into the night followed by another similar creature. The first one took a turn and came right back towards Kya and landed in front of the injured woman transforming back into the read haired immortal. This time her eyes are bright pink and she her long fangs showing from her mouth.

"You will die tonight whore! Your blood will keep me beautiful for ever." The woman bent down and grabbed her by the throat and opened her mouth as if to bite her.

Kya closed her eyes tightly hoping for a quick death and to hopefully see her family again, but just before she was sure she was about to feel the icy hands of death take her, a thundering roar rang out from over head. The woman quickly let Kya go causing her to fall onto the ground in agony. The two women both cowered away in fear of the sound and backed away from what ever was over head. Kya did not wish to stay to see who or what this new creature was, she was almost at the castle and she needed to get there before she lost any more blood. Pushing herself up she ignored the agony she felt in her arm and spreading through her back. All that mattered was getting back to the castle, to where it's safe. She stumbled at first then managed to run as best as she could with multiple injuries, as she ran she held onto her injured arm trying her best to stop the bleeding but failed miserably as she noticed that she had started to drip blood onto the ground as she walked. This wasn't good, at this rate she'd bleed out for sure. A rush of relief swept over Kya as she spotted the main gates of the castle, she picked up her pace slightly needing to get to the gates.

"Thank god!" She cried.

She stumbled slightly but caught herself against the gates as she finally managed to make it to safety. Her numb fingers fumbled with the gate pin but after a moment of struggling she managed to open the lock and open the gate. Kya rushed through before quickly pulling the gate closed behind her and made sure that it locked back in place before moving on. Just as she was about to let go of the gate a gentle touch upon her hand made her stop. Had she been followed, was this the moment she was to truly die? Her heart began to race for just a moment before she hesitantly turned to see who was on the other side of the gate. Upon seeing who it was her heart picked up its pace for just a moment before calming all together. He stood there with a very concerned and worried look upon his face, an odd sight for Kya to see as she had only seen him calm and somewhat amused.

"They should never have layed a hand upon you." The Count's voice was calm and sincere as were his eyes. The light blue pools were filled with sorrow and pain, as if he truly wished for this to have been avoided.

Kya stared at him for a moment trying to decide what to do or even what to say. She had just been attacked by creatures that she had once thought to be nothing but a fairy tale, and now... she knows all to well that they are real. They had just tried to kill her! And now the master of them all was speaking to her as if they were old friends. Granted they had been meeting in secret for the past week however, that did not change the fact that she now knew the truth about him. He truly was an immortal, yet... she still did not believe the stories told about him specifically. He had never acted as anything but a gentleman before her. He was always kind and respectful, he was never vulgar or abusive towards her. In fact he often encouraged her to read and offered to give her one of his own books. How could she feel hatred towards someone who hasn't harmed her?

"I find out... that everything i've known... everything is a lie... and you... you are an immortal as they say and yet... I can't seem to stop seeing you as something different. Something other than the stories." Kya pulled away from the gate before stumbling slightly and fell back against the gate, light headed and weak. "I-I need to go."

She felt a gentle hand upon her shoulder and looked up to see Vlad kneeling before her looking at her injuries. She weakly pushed him away before forcing herself to stand and walked the rest of the way back to the castle. She struggled to keep herself up right but managed as best she could as the adrenaline inside her began to wear off and the full amount of pain began to sink in. Kya didn't look back at all as she made her way to the servants entrance of the castle and walked into the main portion of the house. Once inside she leaned against the nearest wall that happened to be where Anna and Velkan had a large painting of the Vatican in Rome. She felt as though she should laugh at the odd painting especially when God did not grace her this night. Kya heard a soft gasp of shock before she felt small hand upon her wounds. Kya could barely keep her eyes open as her body gave into its fatigue. The last thing that she saw before falling to the ground were two figures running through the hall to get to her.

Pain.

That was the first thing that she could feel as she began to wake from a dream less sleep. Her right arm throbbed in pain as well as her head. How was it that she had managed to survive to wake and see what had become of her. As Kya opened her eyes she saw that she was laying down in her bed inside the castle, completely covered by the blankets the only portion of her body exposed to the cold air in the room was her right arm that was heavily bandaged in white cloth and has several spots where she had bled through the dressings.

"Try not to move, you'll pull at the stitches." A familiar voice spoke from just beside her.

Kya turned her head slightly and saw that Anna was sitting beside her bed carefully wringing out a small cloth in a basin of warm water. Kya watched her for a moment before sitting straight up in bed and very carefully touches her body to ensure that this was not a dream.

"What did i just tell you?" Anna asked in a very serious tone, clearly she was annoyed that Kya hadn't listened to her. "I still need to sew your head closed, for now you've stopped bleeding, but if you don't lay down and let me work then you'll never heal properly. Now lay back down."

Kya looked at her cousin completely in shock as the nights events suddenly flooded back into her mind. How had she managed to survive this long, espeically with loosing so much blood? Kya saw just how annoyed her cousin was but ignored her wishes as she continued to try to sort things out in her mind about the recent attack on her life. Normally she could handle beatings especially since she was beaten regularly by her mistresses son, but since coming to this country she felt as though she were free. Free from all the constraints of London society. She would never had tried to defend herself before and yet she did. She used holy wagter against an immortal being that shouldn't exist.

"They... they're real..." Kya muttered to herself as her cousin placed the warm cloth into the wound on her head making Kya flinch away slightly in pain.

"What are you talking about Kya?" Anna asked, annoyed with her at the moment.

She didn't listen to her when she said not to move, Anna was still trying to figure out just how her cousin had managed to cut her arm so badly as well as split her head open. Thank fully the cuts on both her arm and head were able to be cleaned easily however, stitching them up was the problem. The cut to her head had gone deep enough to just barely scrape her skull and split down towards her forehead. IT would need a lot of time and stitches in order to heal properly but Anna had dealt with these kinds of injuries before. With the kind of lifestyle that her and her brother lived they needed to know a vast amount of medical procedures in order to properly heal themselves with out needing to call for a doctor every time one of them was injured.

"Where is Velkan? I-i need to apologize to you both. T-those stories... they're real!" Kya looked at Anna as she spoke ignoring the fact that Anna was picking up a curved needle from a small bowl and black thread.

Once she had said that Anna froze as it all began to fall into place.

"Were you attacked?" She asked.

Kya nodded before looking at her cousin. "I am so sorry that I didn't believe you before. I-i didn't think that they were real but now... they tried to kill me!" Kya shouted before standing up and looked down to her cousin. "Why would you leave your people to defend themselves against creatures that strong?"

Anna looked up to her cousin and very carefully tried to sit her down. "Sit down and take a breathe. Speak while i sew your head closed."

Kya reluctantly sat back down on the bed and began to tell Anna about her encounter with the two vampires while she carefully sewed her head closed. Once both parties had finished, Kya looked at her cousin partially scared and exhausted.

"You don't know how sorry i am Anna. I should have listened to you from the start and i didn't and now... now it almost cost me my life."

Anna simply sat there watching her cousin trying to decide what to do. She wanted to tell Kya that she had been wrong from the start, however she knew Kya felt horrible for not listening to them before. Now she felt confused and angry that she had nearly lost her cousin to two brides of Dracula this night. As she sat there she contemplated just what to do. It was clear that Kya was now in danger, but why would they attack her. This is not like any patterns they had shown before, not only had they attacked earlier in the month but they had left someone alive after an attack. Though she gave the young woman credit for using the Holy water that Velkan and herself had given to the young woman, it wasn't enough to fully escape from a vampire. She had to have help to escape from them... but who was it!

HEYY GUYS! Thanks for reading, this is going to be the last chapter for a little while. Theres a hurricane headed towards where i live and were not sure whats happening. Theres so many different options right now and we dont know what to do. Any way i hope you guys liked this chapter. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REVIEW THEY ARE MY CRACK AND I NEED TO SATISFY MY ADDICTION!