How could they? What made them think she was a witch when she was clearly just a kind hearted woman? Am I the reason they fear her? Was it because of my father that they killed her?
The cold night air chills me as I enter the village where my mother is being burned at the stake for being something she is not, a witch. My mother is kind, gentle and she always gives of herself to the people here and she asks for nothing in return.
She was making and then delivering medicine to the villagers since there had been reports of an epidemic going around, so my mother had made sure to have anything medicine ready for them if needed.
When the first signs of illness had appeared, she had been there with kind words and the medicine to help and the villagers had gotten scared at how she had been so fast on the scene and had accused her of causing the illness in the first place. They gave her a trial, well my father called it more of a mockery when he had found out. She was found guilty of being a witch after an hour had passed and now I am here to try and save her, yet what can I, a child, do to save her?
I manage to get through the mass of villagers anyway only to see that the flames had been started already and my mother was just calmly accepting her fate.
"Mother!" I yelled out as I ran towards her and she turned her head to look at me.
"Alucard, my lovely son, please go now. They've made their choice, there is nothing I can do about this, so you must go before they kill you." The villagers are looking at me and some are heading towards me, murderous intent clear in their eyes and expressions.
"No mother, I can't leave you here to die alone! Father can save you, let him help you!" My mother shakes her head, the flames somehow going slowly with their burning of the wood that my mother is standing on, her hands tied to the stake.
"No Alucard, please go now, GO!" I can feel tears springing to my eyes, an odd feeling for me as I do not usually cry, yet I can feel them now, their salty wetness alarming me as they flow readily. I can not fight these villagers myself, I'm not able to fight yet and I could only hurt my mother if I even tried to fight.
"I love you mother, I will go now and tell father of this, he will do something!" The mention of my father makes the advancing villagers stop in their tracks and they mummer amongst themselves, clearly scared of my father.
"I love you too, my beautiful Alucard. Tell your father that I do and always will love him, now go!" And I turn round and manage to ram my way through the villagers and run back home to my father, I can hear the crowd cheer as the flames finally reach her, I can hear her screams as she begins to die and then her screams fade away and I know then that my mother is dead.
My father will get his revenge, that I know of, he will be like an avenging dark angel for the death of his beloved. But what of me, the son of Dracula, what of me now that I am without the one link to my own humanity? Is my mother damned to hell or is she now an angel with God? Is being married to Dracula a curse?
"Goodbye mother, I love you." I say as I run back home to tell of the news, my tears still flowing, flying from my eyes and falling to the ground. Am I as bad as my father though? Will he cry like I am, will he grieve for the loss of his beloved? I am only a child, yet I know that my life has entered a crossroads and I must choose the path that will lead me to my destiny. Goodbye Mother, goodbye.