Part three: Monday at school, in the cafeteria

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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