She had been told that she was destined to forever be alone, he had been
cursed to a life of the undead, when by chance they meet, they begin an
adventure that no one had been expecting...
Serena shivered as she ran through the pouring rain. If she hoped of surviving she would have to find some shelter in the next five minutes. For a moment she thought of going back to her village, but quickly almost slapped herself back to reality. The people of the village were ever so superstitious, they believed anything and everything that Madame Olga foretold to them, even if one of them was that Serena must be banned from the village for safety reasons. Serena; however, knew for a fact that the real reason Madame Olga had foretold that was because she hated Serena for her beauty and had yet caught her son giving Serena quite too many and too long glances. There was something else Madame Olga, and every fortune teller who had read Serena's fortune had told her. It was foretold that she would never find true love, no human boy or even older man would love her, only want her. She glanced about, only seeing grasslands. She shivered again, where she had been unfortunate enough to live in a place where the rain got so bad that it often flooded several villages at a high speed. Oh no, groaned Serena, as she felt water clog her throat and felt herself choking. She began slipping on the water from beneath her feet and fell to the ground, still choking. Her last vision before she passed out was of two eyes peering coldly at her, then there was darkness.
Serena awoke to two people having a conversation. She kept her eyes shut and listened.
"Another one, my lord?"
"Yes."
"What are we going to do with her?"
"Put her with the others."
"Yes, my lord."
Serena's eyes popped open, the others?
"She's awake, my lord."
"I see that, but how much has she heard?"
Two men looked expectantly at Serena, one with his head cocked slightly to the side.
"Are you going to answer me or do you not speak english?"
"I..." Serena faltered, it was the man with the cold eyes, she shivered again. What was it about it him that was so familiar? She stamped her foot in frustration, she could not remember.
The man with the cocked head let out a bit of laughter, before being silenced by a stare from the lord. The lord turned back to Serena once again,
"I'm still waiting."
"I heard," Serena piped up, deciding to be confident, "That I am to be placed with the others, that is all."
"Ah...so you do speak english!" laughed the man by the lord. His laughter seemed somehow...unnatural.
"Take her away," ordered the lord.
"No!" shouted Serena fiercely, causing them both to stare at her again, then she began stutteing, "I-I mean, the rain should be over soon, I can't stay here with you and whoever the others are, I-Imust be leaving. You know what they say, Company in rain will most times cause restrain."
"I've never heard that one before," stated the man by the lord.
"I have," said the lord calmly, "She comes from that village round the hills."
"Oh...." started the man by the lord, "I see....well, I must be off now, to check on the others, you know."
"Stay where you are," the lord ordered.
"Yes, my lord," said the other man, stopping in his tracks.
"And you, girl, must stay here. You have found my fortress whether you recognized it or not. You may never leave, therefore, you may stay with the others who may never leave," the lord explained briefly.
Serena glared at him, she would not take orders from anyone. "I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand, I'll keep your little secret, but I'm leaving, and Serena turned to leave, not really her knowing her way out of the castle, told herself she would help herself out somehow. When she looked up she found the lord staring at her in the face with his cold eyes once more.
"No. You don't understand," the lord told her firmly, "You will stay with the others, if you try and escape one of two things will happen to you. One, you will get lost and the other undead will kill you when they smell our blood. Two, I will find you and will kill you myself."
Serena backed up a little, never taking her eyes off him, and said, "I don't believe in the undead. Maybe I come from a village where they do believe in that sort of thing, but I don't. You had better give me a better reason to stay."
This time, the lord glared at her as she walked past him, now jogging slightly as she saw a door in the distance. Once again, though, with amazing speed the lord had caught up to her and had blocked her path. He pinned her down and she could only stare at his mouth as two of his teeth extended to a longer size. He ran his teeth slowly up and down her neck and then bit her. It was the most painful thing that she had ever experienced, besides being rejected by her family and thrown out of her village. She screamed but had no voice as she felt blood, her blood leaving her and going into him. It's over, thought Serena, I'm going to die. that was when it stopped. No more blood came out and the lord seemed distant in her memory. She shook her head and came back to reality. She was a bit dizzy but could hear the two men discussing something again.
"Darien, what had gotten into you. You're only supposed to drain her halfway or else who might risk dying! Then we can't.....you know!"
"I know, I know! I don't know what was wrong this time, I couldn't stop!"
The lord ran some fingers through his hair, his usually clear thoughts running wild in his head. There was something about this girl, something he couldn't place. When he had drank her blood, he had noticed something strange in it, but that something had tasted good to his vampiric senses, better than anything he had had before. He hadn't been able to control himself.
The other man was helping Serena up. Serena felt so weak, she could not resist anymore as she was carried off towards another part of what she now guessed was some sort of maze castle. She looked around her until she noticed another girl was in the same room as her, staring off through a window.
"Oh, you're awake," stated the girl flatly. "Oh yes, I'm supposed to tell you, meals are in a few hours. Sleep time is slightly after that and don't be alarmed if people are missing in the morning."
"What?!" Serena burst out. "Why would people be missing in the morning?"
"Well, people tried to escape. That didn't work, the vampires got 'em. So we all, as in the other people in the other rooms, decide to stay in our rooms for extra safety, but yknow, vamps need to eat too. So, occassionaly, a room is chosen to be emptied every day and people go missing."
"I don't believe you, " Serena replied ungraciously. "If that's true, and you seem to have been here a long time to know all that, then how come you haven't been eaten by a vamp?"
"Never mind that," the girl burst out, suddenly turning a faint shade of red.
"I heard that!" came a voice through the closed door. The door opened.
"Have you been spying on me again?!" the girl screamed.
"Oh, come on Rei, I love you!" the man who had been beside the lord said. "I, humble Jedeite have been telling you that for as long as I can remember."
"Well you have a very short memory," Rei critisized.
Serena giggled and Rei glared at her, "What's so damn funny!"
"You. It's kind of obvious you like each other. Here he is, telling you about an undying love and you don't believe him for a second, but when you don't think he's listening you're too embarrassed to think about him. I think you like him," Serena pointed out, she had always had a nick for telling if people had a thing for another.
Jedeite looked gratefully at Serena and turned back to Rei, "See, sweetheart, even she knows! And additionally, I brought you something."
"I don't want it!" Rei yelled, shaking her fists.
"Fine, fine," Jedeite said sadly and left something on the table in the room. As soon as he left Rei started raving again,
"WHO does he THINK he is! He is UNBELIEVABLE! I HATE him SO much!"
This continued for a little while longer before Serena closed her eyes, she was tired. She peeked at Rei before she fell asleep. Rei, thinking Serena had been asleep, silently snuck the item off the table. It was a fancy hair decoration.
A few hours later Serena woke up and had a sneaky idea. There was a window right in their room, she could just sneak out so simply! A piece of cake. She went to the window to see how deep the distance to ground was and was shocked. Instead of the view she saw from her bed, she saw something else, a grey desert with no plants, just sand and wind. She felt someone watching her.
"I told you we can't escape," Rei whispered.
The door popped open again.
"Hello sweetheart, ready?" Jedeite called to Rei.
"Don't call me sweetheart!" screamed Rei, causing Jedeite to frown slightly. "You're an evil blood sucking creature.
"And you're a beautiful creature full of blood," Jedeite said wistfully.
"Is it just me, or doe he always pop in at the most unwanted times, " Serena commented.
"Oh yea, " Rei agreed, giving Serena a quick smile.
"Shall we?" Jedeite inquired again.
"We shall not! At least not with you! Coming Serena?" Rei replied, holding out an arm.
Jedeite looked even more dead, if that was possible, since he was already dead. Serena felt bad and when Rei wasn't looking, pointed to the back of Rei's head. Jedeite beamed, it was the fancy hair decoration he had given her. Serena winked at him as Rei unconsciously adjusted the ornament in her hair.
As they neared a certain corner, Jedeite reached out a hand to stop Serena and Rei.
"Today, we don't go right, we go left."
"We never turn left, that's where big boss vamp eats. We're not..." Rei trailed off.
"No, you're not being his meal," Jedeite reassured her. "I made sure of that."
Rei stiffened, feeling slightly guilty, yet only slightly.
And so they had dinner with Darien, the lord...
"Pass the bread, will you?" Rei called to Serena.
Serena reached out to get the bread, but a hand stopped hers.
"Allow me, "Darien told her.
Serena pouted, "I can pass my own bread so no thanks. And I don't remember you being so nice."
"He feels guilty," Jedeite commented, soon after followed by a polite snort from Rei, "Guilty! You have to be joking!"
Jedeite looked at Rei, seeming somewhat a little more cheerful after critisizing the lord. Th lord; however, was glaring critically at Rei and Jedeite, but Rei only ignored him and Jedeite just winked at him.
"A rule I have in my fortress," Darien started.
"It's a fortress is it? I thought it was a castle in the middle of a desert with lots of rain but no plants," Serena said sarcastically.
Darien's hold on her arm tightened, "Don't you dare critisize my home. It's not my fault I have to live here!"
Serena tore her hand away, "Then who's fault is it?"
Darien looked away from her and left the table, "The meal finished," instantly all the food dissappeared.
"What about my bread?!" whined a dissapointed Rei.
"I'll get some for you," Jedeite practically chirped, glad he could help Rei.
Before Rei could think of a good come back Serena whispered,
"They didn't touch any of the food while we were there."
"Of course not, they're vamps. they don't need food, they need blood."
"Seems like Jedeite vamp is after your blood. He's courting you at every chance!"
"And who's courting you?" Rei smirked.
"No one, why?" Serena argued.
"The lord likes you," Rei told her.
"Like I'm going to believe that," Serena pouted.
Rei suddenly became serious, "Really, Serena, that was actually the second time I've seen the lord like that. The first time I tried to escape, he found me, and Jedeite rescued me, I was lucky. Doesn't mean I owe my life to him though, but anyways, Darien is seen by no one. I think we were invited to eat with him because of you, and that soup was good."
"Yea, it was good soup," said Serena distractedly, if Rei was right, Serena was headed out of here as fast as she could go. In her village, they had talked about the undead, the vampires. she had not believed in it until now, which meant she would now believe what the village hadsaid about vampires. they had said that when a vampire offers his love, it may be dangerous. The vampire might uncontrollably kill you or worse, also turn you into one of the undead. Rei had a good reason to ignore Jedeite's offers of love. And now Serena had a good reason to run away.
Without thinking Serena turned away, running down a corridor, looking for a door, any door. She came across quite a few and stopped, out of breath, before a large oak door. Panting, she pushed the door open and shrieked a little. There was no footing past the door, it was a dead end, a deep pit of a dead end. Pleading voices could be heard from the bottom, crying out for forgiveness and blood. Serena accidentally slipped, but managed to grasp part of the door handle. She clung on for dear life when the most unwanted person showed up infront of her.
"What are you doing," came the deep voice of Darien, his cold eyes seeming angrier than before.
"Oh no," groaned Serena.
Serena shivered as she ran through the pouring rain. If she hoped of surviving she would have to find some shelter in the next five minutes. For a moment she thought of going back to her village, but quickly almost slapped herself back to reality. The people of the village were ever so superstitious, they believed anything and everything that Madame Olga foretold to them, even if one of them was that Serena must be banned from the village for safety reasons. Serena; however, knew for a fact that the real reason Madame Olga had foretold that was because she hated Serena for her beauty and had yet caught her son giving Serena quite too many and too long glances. There was something else Madame Olga, and every fortune teller who had read Serena's fortune had told her. It was foretold that she would never find true love, no human boy or even older man would love her, only want her. She glanced about, only seeing grasslands. She shivered again, where she had been unfortunate enough to live in a place where the rain got so bad that it often flooded several villages at a high speed. Oh no, groaned Serena, as she felt water clog her throat and felt herself choking. She began slipping on the water from beneath her feet and fell to the ground, still choking. Her last vision before she passed out was of two eyes peering coldly at her, then there was darkness.
Serena awoke to two people having a conversation. She kept her eyes shut and listened.
"Another one, my lord?"
"Yes."
"What are we going to do with her?"
"Put her with the others."
"Yes, my lord."
Serena's eyes popped open, the others?
"She's awake, my lord."
"I see that, but how much has she heard?"
Two men looked expectantly at Serena, one with his head cocked slightly to the side.
"Are you going to answer me or do you not speak english?"
"I..." Serena faltered, it was the man with the cold eyes, she shivered again. What was it about it him that was so familiar? She stamped her foot in frustration, she could not remember.
The man with the cocked head let out a bit of laughter, before being silenced by a stare from the lord. The lord turned back to Serena once again,
"I'm still waiting."
"I heard," Serena piped up, deciding to be confident, "That I am to be placed with the others, that is all."
"Ah...so you do speak english!" laughed the man by the lord. His laughter seemed somehow...unnatural.
"Take her away," ordered the lord.
"No!" shouted Serena fiercely, causing them both to stare at her again, then she began stutteing, "I-I mean, the rain should be over soon, I can't stay here with you and whoever the others are, I-Imust be leaving. You know what they say, Company in rain will most times cause restrain."
"I've never heard that one before," stated the man by the lord.
"I have," said the lord calmly, "She comes from that village round the hills."
"Oh...." started the man by the lord, "I see....well, I must be off now, to check on the others, you know."
"Stay where you are," the lord ordered.
"Yes, my lord," said the other man, stopping in his tracks.
"And you, girl, must stay here. You have found my fortress whether you recognized it or not. You may never leave, therefore, you may stay with the others who may never leave," the lord explained briefly.
Serena glared at him, she would not take orders from anyone. "I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand, I'll keep your little secret, but I'm leaving, and Serena turned to leave, not really her knowing her way out of the castle, told herself she would help herself out somehow. When she looked up she found the lord staring at her in the face with his cold eyes once more.
"No. You don't understand," the lord told her firmly, "You will stay with the others, if you try and escape one of two things will happen to you. One, you will get lost and the other undead will kill you when they smell our blood. Two, I will find you and will kill you myself."
Serena backed up a little, never taking her eyes off him, and said, "I don't believe in the undead. Maybe I come from a village where they do believe in that sort of thing, but I don't. You had better give me a better reason to stay."
This time, the lord glared at her as she walked past him, now jogging slightly as she saw a door in the distance. Once again, though, with amazing speed the lord had caught up to her and had blocked her path. He pinned her down and she could only stare at his mouth as two of his teeth extended to a longer size. He ran his teeth slowly up and down her neck and then bit her. It was the most painful thing that she had ever experienced, besides being rejected by her family and thrown out of her village. She screamed but had no voice as she felt blood, her blood leaving her and going into him. It's over, thought Serena, I'm going to die. that was when it stopped. No more blood came out and the lord seemed distant in her memory. She shook her head and came back to reality. She was a bit dizzy but could hear the two men discussing something again.
"Darien, what had gotten into you. You're only supposed to drain her halfway or else who might risk dying! Then we can't.....you know!"
"I know, I know! I don't know what was wrong this time, I couldn't stop!"
The lord ran some fingers through his hair, his usually clear thoughts running wild in his head. There was something about this girl, something he couldn't place. When he had drank her blood, he had noticed something strange in it, but that something had tasted good to his vampiric senses, better than anything he had had before. He hadn't been able to control himself.
The other man was helping Serena up. Serena felt so weak, she could not resist anymore as she was carried off towards another part of what she now guessed was some sort of maze castle. She looked around her until she noticed another girl was in the same room as her, staring off through a window.
"Oh, you're awake," stated the girl flatly. "Oh yes, I'm supposed to tell you, meals are in a few hours. Sleep time is slightly after that and don't be alarmed if people are missing in the morning."
"What?!" Serena burst out. "Why would people be missing in the morning?"
"Well, people tried to escape. That didn't work, the vampires got 'em. So we all, as in the other people in the other rooms, decide to stay in our rooms for extra safety, but yknow, vamps need to eat too. So, occassionaly, a room is chosen to be emptied every day and people go missing."
"I don't believe you, " Serena replied ungraciously. "If that's true, and you seem to have been here a long time to know all that, then how come you haven't been eaten by a vamp?"
"Never mind that," the girl burst out, suddenly turning a faint shade of red.
"I heard that!" came a voice through the closed door. The door opened.
"Have you been spying on me again?!" the girl screamed.
"Oh, come on Rei, I love you!" the man who had been beside the lord said. "I, humble Jedeite have been telling you that for as long as I can remember."
"Well you have a very short memory," Rei critisized.
Serena giggled and Rei glared at her, "What's so damn funny!"
"You. It's kind of obvious you like each other. Here he is, telling you about an undying love and you don't believe him for a second, but when you don't think he's listening you're too embarrassed to think about him. I think you like him," Serena pointed out, she had always had a nick for telling if people had a thing for another.
Jedeite looked gratefully at Serena and turned back to Rei, "See, sweetheart, even she knows! And additionally, I brought you something."
"I don't want it!" Rei yelled, shaking her fists.
"Fine, fine," Jedeite said sadly and left something on the table in the room. As soon as he left Rei started raving again,
"WHO does he THINK he is! He is UNBELIEVABLE! I HATE him SO much!"
This continued for a little while longer before Serena closed her eyes, she was tired. She peeked at Rei before she fell asleep. Rei, thinking Serena had been asleep, silently snuck the item off the table. It was a fancy hair decoration.
A few hours later Serena woke up and had a sneaky idea. There was a window right in their room, she could just sneak out so simply! A piece of cake. She went to the window to see how deep the distance to ground was and was shocked. Instead of the view she saw from her bed, she saw something else, a grey desert with no plants, just sand and wind. She felt someone watching her.
"I told you we can't escape," Rei whispered.
The door popped open again.
"Hello sweetheart, ready?" Jedeite called to Rei.
"Don't call me sweetheart!" screamed Rei, causing Jedeite to frown slightly. "You're an evil blood sucking creature.
"And you're a beautiful creature full of blood," Jedeite said wistfully.
"Is it just me, or doe he always pop in at the most unwanted times, " Serena commented.
"Oh yea, " Rei agreed, giving Serena a quick smile.
"Shall we?" Jedeite inquired again.
"We shall not! At least not with you! Coming Serena?" Rei replied, holding out an arm.
Jedeite looked even more dead, if that was possible, since he was already dead. Serena felt bad and when Rei wasn't looking, pointed to the back of Rei's head. Jedeite beamed, it was the fancy hair decoration he had given her. Serena winked at him as Rei unconsciously adjusted the ornament in her hair.
As they neared a certain corner, Jedeite reached out a hand to stop Serena and Rei.
"Today, we don't go right, we go left."
"We never turn left, that's where big boss vamp eats. We're not..." Rei trailed off.
"No, you're not being his meal," Jedeite reassured her. "I made sure of that."
Rei stiffened, feeling slightly guilty, yet only slightly.
And so they had dinner with Darien, the lord...
"Pass the bread, will you?" Rei called to Serena.
Serena reached out to get the bread, but a hand stopped hers.
"Allow me, "Darien told her.
Serena pouted, "I can pass my own bread so no thanks. And I don't remember you being so nice."
"He feels guilty," Jedeite commented, soon after followed by a polite snort from Rei, "Guilty! You have to be joking!"
Jedeite looked at Rei, seeming somewhat a little more cheerful after critisizing the lord. Th lord; however, was glaring critically at Rei and Jedeite, but Rei only ignored him and Jedeite just winked at him.
"A rule I have in my fortress," Darien started.
"It's a fortress is it? I thought it was a castle in the middle of a desert with lots of rain but no plants," Serena said sarcastically.
Darien's hold on her arm tightened, "Don't you dare critisize my home. It's not my fault I have to live here!"
Serena tore her hand away, "Then who's fault is it?"
Darien looked away from her and left the table, "The meal finished," instantly all the food dissappeared.
"What about my bread?!" whined a dissapointed Rei.
"I'll get some for you," Jedeite practically chirped, glad he could help Rei.
Before Rei could think of a good come back Serena whispered,
"They didn't touch any of the food while we were there."
"Of course not, they're vamps. they don't need food, they need blood."
"Seems like Jedeite vamp is after your blood. He's courting you at every chance!"
"And who's courting you?" Rei smirked.
"No one, why?" Serena argued.
"The lord likes you," Rei told her.
"Like I'm going to believe that," Serena pouted.
Rei suddenly became serious, "Really, Serena, that was actually the second time I've seen the lord like that. The first time I tried to escape, he found me, and Jedeite rescued me, I was lucky. Doesn't mean I owe my life to him though, but anyways, Darien is seen by no one. I think we were invited to eat with him because of you, and that soup was good."
"Yea, it was good soup," said Serena distractedly, if Rei was right, Serena was headed out of here as fast as she could go. In her village, they had talked about the undead, the vampires. she had not believed in it until now, which meant she would now believe what the village hadsaid about vampires. they had said that when a vampire offers his love, it may be dangerous. The vampire might uncontrollably kill you or worse, also turn you into one of the undead. Rei had a good reason to ignore Jedeite's offers of love. And now Serena had a good reason to run away.
Without thinking Serena turned away, running down a corridor, looking for a door, any door. She came across quite a few and stopped, out of breath, before a large oak door. Panting, she pushed the door open and shrieked a little. There was no footing past the door, it was a dead end, a deep pit of a dead end. Pleading voices could be heard from the bottom, crying out for forgiveness and blood. Serena accidentally slipped, but managed to grasp part of the door handle. She clung on for dear life when the most unwanted person showed up infront of her.
"What are you doing," came the deep voice of Darien, his cold eyes seeming angrier than before.
"Oh no," groaned Serena.
