Part three: Monday at
school, in the cafeteria
"Hey Alex where were
you this morning??" a voiced raised over the crowds of
people running to get their
food.
"In the library
Katie!" Alex said recognizing the voice right away.
"AGAIN?? Find anything
interesting??" Katie asked as she sat down next to
Alex on the grass,
underneath the Willow Tree.
"Yes actually. I hadn't
expected the school library to have anything good on
my newly found
obsession," Alex said as she took a bite of her peanut butter
and jelly sandwich.
"Do tell!! Then after
you tell me your interesting news I'll tell you
mine!!" Katie said
jump, sitting up and down with excitement.
"In the book that I had
gotten from the public library, ya know the
Christianity and Vampirism
one?? Anyhow they mentioned someone briefly in
that book and it caught my
attention. So me, being an obsessed fool that I
am went back to the library
and didn't find anything on this guy, but then I
went to the school library;
I almost missed it completely. It's called
Historical Vampyres. It
includes information on Gilles DeRais, the guy that
I was looking for. Are you
ready for the bloody details," Alex said putting
a screech in her voice at
the end.
"My stomach is so
prepared. You may begin oh genius one," Katie said
sarcastically.
"Thank you, I don't
mind if I do. So this guy Gilles DeRais was a Marshal of
France, one of the richest
and bravest noblemen in the land. He was
cultured, sophisticated, you
name it. His main claim to fame was that he
fought alongside Joan of
Arc. Pretty cool huh??!! They said in the book that
his claim to infamy was more
horrific to even Vlads. You know who Vlad is,
right?" Alex asked as
she took anther bite of her sandwich.
"Of course I'm not an
idiot you idiot," Katie said smiling.
"Obviously. Gilles was
born in 1404. He got married into an equally noble
family at 16. He had owned
five vast estates, had a private chapel
that
required the attendance of
30 canons and was so esteemed in the eyes of the
court that he was appointed
to the post of Marshal so that he could
personally crown King
Charles VII of France. He was a very brilliant
warrior, being instrumental
in maintaining Charles's victories over the
English. He rode along side
Joan and was followed by a personal retinue of
200 knights. With all those
prizes and every thing of all the happy-go-lucky
things of what people saw of
him, he still managed to keep a sick and savage
secret. Gilles had secretly
tortured and killed hundreds of children just to
satisfy his craving for the
shedding of blood. In the book it says
that
what he was guilty of was
described as 'that which the most monstrously
depraved imagination could
never have conceived'. What was rumored was that
he sadistically tortured and
murdered between 140 and 800 children. Obsessed
with the letting of blood,
he would order his servants to stab his young
victims in their jugular
vein so that the blood would spurt over him. He was
alleged to have sat on one
dying boy while drinking his blood. What a crazy
asshole right??" Alex said.
"DON'T
STOP!!!!!!!!!" Katie exclaimed obviously getting into it.
"Okay, okay, keep your
head on. Ten years after Joan of Arc's trial for
heresy, Gilles was charged
with the same offence after he attacked a priest.
Haughtily refuting that
accusation, he was then charged with murder. In the
words of his ecclesiastical
accusers, he was a `heretic, sorcerer, so do
mite, invocator of evil
spirits, diviner, killer of innocents, apostate from
the faith, idolater'. The church had fabricated the case against
Gilles
because he was a secular
challenge to their power over the king and his
court, and if Gilles had
been found guilty the church would have stood to
seize his lands. No effort
was spared in preparing the most damning case;
Gilles servants were
tortured until adequate evidence was given against
their master. Gilles himself
was probably not tortured. So the book said.
He had mad a full and ready
confession-not only to the murder of 140
children, of which he was
charged but to the murder of 'at least 800'. Two
rational reasons were given
for this slaughter. Rational reasons my ass!"
Alex said as she paused for
a breath.
"The first was the
influence on him of a book, an illustrated copy of Lives
of the Caesars by Suetonius,
which included graphic descriptions of the mad
Emperor Caligula's sadistic
excesses. I still think that, that part was a
bunch of crap. Influenced by
a book. What loony!! The second was the
approach of an Italian
alchemist, Francisco Prelati, who promised the secret
of turning iron into gold by
black magic rites and sacrifices. You have to
be pretty damn stupid to
believe that on my terms of thinking. But the real
reason for the mass killings
Gilles perpetrated could only have been what we
now know as paedophilia and
sadism-both carried out on a scale probably
unequalled before or since.
Gilles was found guilty and in a show of public
contrition and humility he
had to beg for forgiveness from the parents of
the children ha admitted to
slaughtering. He was sentenced to a fire death.
But as an act of mercy' for
not recanting his confession, he was first
garroted to death before
being thrown on the flames on 26 October, 1440. My
opinion; they shouldn't have
shown him any mercy!!" Alex finished.
"That's awful!!"
Katie said as a tear slithered down her check.
"That they killed
him??" Alex asked in astonishment.
"NO!! About the
children!" Katie whispered.
"Yeah," Alex said.
Alex and Katie were quite a
while.
"So, what were you
going to tell me??" Alex asked.
"Come over here,"
Katie said.
Katie had motioned for them
to go behind the school building.
"O-kaaay," Alex
said following Katie.
Alex stood there waiting and
then finally her impatience got the best of
her.
"What is it??"
Alex asked desperately.
"Vampires are real!!'
Katie said.
"I know," Alex
said gulping at Katie's tone.
"Do you? Really know I
mean??" Katie asked.
All of a sudden Katie's
beautiful life-filled eyes changed from sky blue to
a dark silver blue. Her
teeth lengthened, her nose scrunched a little.
"Nice trick
Katie," Alex said.
"I'm not tricking you.
You know when I moved here about five years ago and
you were the first one to
accept me?? Well, I found out some information on
you that day. Some shocking
information," Katie said.
"Oh yeah and what's
that??" Alex asked really pissed that Katie was playing
her like this.
"That you're the Black
Angel. The Angel of Death. You. So full of life. A
person that loves every
moment of life on Earth for what it's worth. You.
The one person that would
freeze and kill the love and warmth that she once
lived in; the one planet
that she loved so much with just a wink of an eye,"
Katie said.
Alex brought her hand up and
smacked Katie, hard across the face, with a
force that snapped Katie's
head to the side.
"I hate you!! You went
too far. The goddamn jock wasn't funny. You're not my
friend anymore," Alex
said and walked away.
"Alex if you aren't
careful you'll destroy us all!!!" Katie yelled at her.
"FUCK OFF!!!!"
Alex yelled.
The willow tree that Alex
and Katie had been sitting under, but had moved
away from, burst into
flames. Ashes was all that was left.
TBC....
If any of you guys want more
information on some of the stuff that I was
talking about up there, then
e-mail me and I'll give you the site! It's an
amazing site will a bunch of
information. I love it!!
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