Alright, it four months later. Nothing of any real importance happened in
those months. Jager came and visited Avalon, only while Blaze is sleeping.
Eric visits twice a week, and Blaze gets much better and entertains Avalon
when she feels upset. You know something is going to happen, don't you? My
audience is so observant.
Four months later..
It's been almost a year since I came here, or at least I think so. I no longer remember what it feels like to have the sun on my face. I have gotten much skinnier, but the weights that Jager had bought for me has strengthened me. I no longer curse the mirror, but admire myself in it. I have grown greatly in these past 9 months or so. My hair has grown down to the crook of my neck, but I cut it back to its short state. I learned how to cut hair while doing Blaze's.
That little kid has grown into the clothes Eric had given him several days after he had been brought here by Jager. His skin is now as pale as mine, but he is nothing like what I have become. Despite my fight against the darkness of Jager's world, I have found myself falling closer and closer to the edge each time he visits. Blaze is just as happy as I was when I was a kid of his age.
I have let myself care for a few things my whole life. My mother was taken from me, my whole life was stolen, my innocence destroyed. But over these few months I have grown to care for Lucia, Eric, and Blaze more than I had ever cared for anything. My humanity is grasping for something to hold onto. Three things keep me from going over the edge.
I am 16 years old now, if I remember correctly. But that is not important anymore. I have tried to think myself out of this whole thing. I would rather belong to Flare than to Jager anyday. I would rather die than become a vampire. But you die when you become a vampire, don't you? Let me rephrase that. I would rather die a human than die becoming a vampire. That's better.
"Avalon, come look at this!" Blaze pulls me from my lonely dark thoughts as he tugs on my sleeve, which is quite long for me. Obediently I stand up and let him pull me over to the door. I don't know why he wants me over there, I don't see anything of any importance. "See it?" He asks me as he bends down and peeks under the floor. I sigh, but I smile as well. Seeing him act so normal under such circumstances always makes me feel like if he can still stay sane, so can I.
"Blaze, I don't know why you look under there." I tell him with a sad tone. I have tried countless times to open the metal door, but it never seems to even budge. Eric later explained to me that it has several locks on top and bottom, which would explain why I couldn't even make it move an inch.
"I can see light!" He whispers excitedly and the words catch my ears. Light? That means it has to be daytime now. Ever since Blaze came here, he has slept like a human. His sleeping habits brought me a step closer to my old self.
"It's just the sun, Blaze. You cant get a tan from it when your on this side of the door."
"But doesn't the first door have to be open if we can see the sun?" Oh, what a smart boy! I picked him up and took a few steps away from the door just in time before the metal door creaked open.
A young man with fire red hair, pale skin, and eternal black eyes stepped into the room. He looked at the two of us with a smirk before glancing behind his shoulder at someone who wasn't in my range of view. "Cute kid Jaguar, who's the girl?" I set Blaze down and he ran off, probably to hide in the bathtub. That is his favorite place to hide after all. Just then, Jaguar stepped into view and he seemed to be startled by my appearance. This is the first time in over five months that he has seen me. But his gaze once again turns serious as he looks me over slowly. I guess I must have looked sexy in my short long sleeved crimson red shirt and my black lowriders, which showed off my slowly forming little six pack because the red haired vampire smirked. "She looks good enough to eat."
"I brought you down here about the kid, not her," Jaguar informed the vampire as they both walked in and looked around my room. My mind went defensive and I walked backwards, towards the tub. This vampire was not going to take Blaze from me, I wouldn't let him. "Nada, where is the boy?" I glared at Jaguar for two reasons: he referred to me as Nada, who is dead, and he assumed that I would just give up Blaze easy.
"None of your damned business," I snapped, some of Nada's attitude coming back. The vampire was in front of me suddenly and gripped my wrists in one hand, his gaze piercing mine. A look of shock crossed his face and he tossed me several feet away.
"Flare." Jaguar growled as he saw me get up. The name made me stop moving instantly. This was Flare? This is who my mother and I are bonded to? Slowly, my brown gaze met his once again and he smiled.
"So this is the offspring of my lost slave, hmmm?" His voice sent a shiver down my spine and back up again.
"Flare, I believe that you found Tanata?" Flare took several steps away from me with a deadly grin.
"I taught her her last lesson. Never run from me." Anger consumed me. He killed Nada's mother, the one thing I still loved from her life as an innocent.
I ran at him and tackled him to the floor. He must have been so surprised to see a slave fight back that he didn't see me coming. If he had been ready, he would have barely budged.
The next thing I knew, I heard a piercing scream in my ear and I felt something drip down the side of my head. Opening my eyes, I see Flare glaring at me as he stood over me. He was about to make another blow to me but Jaguar's whip wrapped itself around Flare's arm and pulled him away. "She isn't yours." Jaguar growled and I finally recognized the coldness behind my head as the bathtub.
"Avalon.?" Blaze squeaked behind me and I heard another scream as Flare pulled him out of the tub by his shirt. The first scream was different than Blaze's. The first one was mine.
"Get off him!" I yelled as I grabbed the metal towel rack off the wall and smacked Flare in the head with it. I heard his neck snap and he dropped Blaze instantly as he staggered back. Quickly I pulled Blaze behind me just in time to see Jaguar looking at me, eyes wide. That's when I knew that Nada was truly dead. Jager had created an animal out of an innocent girl. Despite Nada's attitude, she would never injure something so severely. I had protected myself and Blaze, who was like my child. Animal instincts.
"Avalon?" Was the first thing Jaguar said after a moment or two of silence. I didn't even look at him, I was watching Flare getting up.
"I call blood!" He growled as he made his way towards me again. My heart thudded but I did not budge, I only pulled Blaze further behind me and tightened the grip on the metal towel rack.
"She didn't draw blood," Came another voice. My heart stopped. If I had known he was there..
"Adrian is right," Jaguar agreed as he kept his eyes on me. Did I see respect in his eyes? Respect for what? No, it was disappointment. He was disappointed in me for giving in to Jager's constant molding. Funny, he was never here anymore.
"Adrian Fair," Flare almost purred as he turned to see Adrian. Adrian Fair? Who is that?
"I don't go by name anymore," Adrian answered coolly, his eyes meeting mine for a moment. I still saw the hatred in those eyes, but there was sadness as well. But it was as if the hatred was reserved for someone else. "And if I recall, you don't go by your real name either. Rarely anyone does." His last comment was clearly meant for me. He knew that I was no longer the girl that he had bought. And no doubt he was glad that I took that metal pole to Flare's head.
"Fine, Adrian. You have stated your point." With that, Flare glared at me one more time before leaving. Then Adrian's eyes fell upon me again.
"Avalon is it now?" He asked, somewhat mockingly. "Well, do you think you can send a message to Nada?" My eyes stung with tears, but they did not fall. I head my head high.
"What would the message be?" I asked him almost as quiet as a whisper. I did not trust my voice enough not to crack. Blaze whimpered behind me. He still had a very nasty phobia of vampires, and no doubt Flare just made it worse. He had, after all, watched Jager kill his mother.
"Tell her that I send my regards to her about her mother, Dieta." My gaze became hazy. The tears were threatening to fall. "I shared a cell with her a few years back." That seemed very hard for him to say, and it was the first time I ever saw him look sad, truly sad. But it was replaced by disgust not a second later. "And tell Nada that I pity her pathetic lost soul." Then, he left as well. Which left me with Jaguar, the one who had betrayed me in the first place.
"Avalon?" He repeated my name again and I set the pole back on the towel rack before putting Blaze's towel back on.
"You ok?" I asked Blaze, putting my back to Jaguar to face the young child. His eyes were wide with fear and he was shaking, but besides that he was alright. Physically that is.
"Yeah Avalon, can I go to bed?" I smiled and kissed the top of his head. He would never really admit that he was scared. He is too manly for that, or so he says.
"Go ahead Blaze," I reply, nudging him on his way. Once he is in the bed I then turn my attention to Jaguar, who hasn't moved from the spot he had been 5 minutes ago. "Yes, you said my name?" Woah. My vision went black for a minute and I had to sit down right away, even if it meant stumbling back rather ungracefully and falling on my butt.
"Jager wont be happy when he sees this." Jaguar muttered to himself as he made his way over to me. I laughed, touching the blood that ran down the side of my face.
"For seeing me hurt or for seeing the bathtub cracked?" I asked sarcastically as he touched the side of my head. It hurt like Hell.
"You have a habit of getting yourself beaten up while your around me." He finally said after he watched me for a moment or two.
"You have a nasty habit of being there while I get beaten up," I snapped after he touched the wound. It hurt. "Sadistic are we?"
"I'll bring Turquoise down here to take care of your head," He replied coldly as he stood up and left the room. Before closing the door, he looked at me once more and sighed. " I heard Jager plans to take you to New Mayhem earlier than he planned." That being said, i allowed my mind to go black.
Four months later..
It's been almost a year since I came here, or at least I think so. I no longer remember what it feels like to have the sun on my face. I have gotten much skinnier, but the weights that Jager had bought for me has strengthened me. I no longer curse the mirror, but admire myself in it. I have grown greatly in these past 9 months or so. My hair has grown down to the crook of my neck, but I cut it back to its short state. I learned how to cut hair while doing Blaze's.
That little kid has grown into the clothes Eric had given him several days after he had been brought here by Jager. His skin is now as pale as mine, but he is nothing like what I have become. Despite my fight against the darkness of Jager's world, I have found myself falling closer and closer to the edge each time he visits. Blaze is just as happy as I was when I was a kid of his age.
I have let myself care for a few things my whole life. My mother was taken from me, my whole life was stolen, my innocence destroyed. But over these few months I have grown to care for Lucia, Eric, and Blaze more than I had ever cared for anything. My humanity is grasping for something to hold onto. Three things keep me from going over the edge.
I am 16 years old now, if I remember correctly. But that is not important anymore. I have tried to think myself out of this whole thing. I would rather belong to Flare than to Jager anyday. I would rather die than become a vampire. But you die when you become a vampire, don't you? Let me rephrase that. I would rather die a human than die becoming a vampire. That's better.
"Avalon, come look at this!" Blaze pulls me from my lonely dark thoughts as he tugs on my sleeve, which is quite long for me. Obediently I stand up and let him pull me over to the door. I don't know why he wants me over there, I don't see anything of any importance. "See it?" He asks me as he bends down and peeks under the floor. I sigh, but I smile as well. Seeing him act so normal under such circumstances always makes me feel like if he can still stay sane, so can I.
"Blaze, I don't know why you look under there." I tell him with a sad tone. I have tried countless times to open the metal door, but it never seems to even budge. Eric later explained to me that it has several locks on top and bottom, which would explain why I couldn't even make it move an inch.
"I can see light!" He whispers excitedly and the words catch my ears. Light? That means it has to be daytime now. Ever since Blaze came here, he has slept like a human. His sleeping habits brought me a step closer to my old self.
"It's just the sun, Blaze. You cant get a tan from it when your on this side of the door."
"But doesn't the first door have to be open if we can see the sun?" Oh, what a smart boy! I picked him up and took a few steps away from the door just in time before the metal door creaked open.
A young man with fire red hair, pale skin, and eternal black eyes stepped into the room. He looked at the two of us with a smirk before glancing behind his shoulder at someone who wasn't in my range of view. "Cute kid Jaguar, who's the girl?" I set Blaze down and he ran off, probably to hide in the bathtub. That is his favorite place to hide after all. Just then, Jaguar stepped into view and he seemed to be startled by my appearance. This is the first time in over five months that he has seen me. But his gaze once again turns serious as he looks me over slowly. I guess I must have looked sexy in my short long sleeved crimson red shirt and my black lowriders, which showed off my slowly forming little six pack because the red haired vampire smirked. "She looks good enough to eat."
"I brought you down here about the kid, not her," Jaguar informed the vampire as they both walked in and looked around my room. My mind went defensive and I walked backwards, towards the tub. This vampire was not going to take Blaze from me, I wouldn't let him. "Nada, where is the boy?" I glared at Jaguar for two reasons: he referred to me as Nada, who is dead, and he assumed that I would just give up Blaze easy.
"None of your damned business," I snapped, some of Nada's attitude coming back. The vampire was in front of me suddenly and gripped my wrists in one hand, his gaze piercing mine. A look of shock crossed his face and he tossed me several feet away.
"Flare." Jaguar growled as he saw me get up. The name made me stop moving instantly. This was Flare? This is who my mother and I are bonded to? Slowly, my brown gaze met his once again and he smiled.
"So this is the offspring of my lost slave, hmmm?" His voice sent a shiver down my spine and back up again.
"Flare, I believe that you found Tanata?" Flare took several steps away from me with a deadly grin.
"I taught her her last lesson. Never run from me." Anger consumed me. He killed Nada's mother, the one thing I still loved from her life as an innocent.
I ran at him and tackled him to the floor. He must have been so surprised to see a slave fight back that he didn't see me coming. If he had been ready, he would have barely budged.
The next thing I knew, I heard a piercing scream in my ear and I felt something drip down the side of my head. Opening my eyes, I see Flare glaring at me as he stood over me. He was about to make another blow to me but Jaguar's whip wrapped itself around Flare's arm and pulled him away. "She isn't yours." Jaguar growled and I finally recognized the coldness behind my head as the bathtub.
"Avalon.?" Blaze squeaked behind me and I heard another scream as Flare pulled him out of the tub by his shirt. The first scream was different than Blaze's. The first one was mine.
"Get off him!" I yelled as I grabbed the metal towel rack off the wall and smacked Flare in the head with it. I heard his neck snap and he dropped Blaze instantly as he staggered back. Quickly I pulled Blaze behind me just in time to see Jaguar looking at me, eyes wide. That's when I knew that Nada was truly dead. Jager had created an animal out of an innocent girl. Despite Nada's attitude, she would never injure something so severely. I had protected myself and Blaze, who was like my child. Animal instincts.
"Avalon?" Was the first thing Jaguar said after a moment or two of silence. I didn't even look at him, I was watching Flare getting up.
"I call blood!" He growled as he made his way towards me again. My heart thudded but I did not budge, I only pulled Blaze further behind me and tightened the grip on the metal towel rack.
"She didn't draw blood," Came another voice. My heart stopped. If I had known he was there..
"Adrian is right," Jaguar agreed as he kept his eyes on me. Did I see respect in his eyes? Respect for what? No, it was disappointment. He was disappointed in me for giving in to Jager's constant molding. Funny, he was never here anymore.
"Adrian Fair," Flare almost purred as he turned to see Adrian. Adrian Fair? Who is that?
"I don't go by name anymore," Adrian answered coolly, his eyes meeting mine for a moment. I still saw the hatred in those eyes, but there was sadness as well. But it was as if the hatred was reserved for someone else. "And if I recall, you don't go by your real name either. Rarely anyone does." His last comment was clearly meant for me. He knew that I was no longer the girl that he had bought. And no doubt he was glad that I took that metal pole to Flare's head.
"Fine, Adrian. You have stated your point." With that, Flare glared at me one more time before leaving. Then Adrian's eyes fell upon me again.
"Avalon is it now?" He asked, somewhat mockingly. "Well, do you think you can send a message to Nada?" My eyes stung with tears, but they did not fall. I head my head high.
"What would the message be?" I asked him almost as quiet as a whisper. I did not trust my voice enough not to crack. Blaze whimpered behind me. He still had a very nasty phobia of vampires, and no doubt Flare just made it worse. He had, after all, watched Jager kill his mother.
"Tell her that I send my regards to her about her mother, Dieta." My gaze became hazy. The tears were threatening to fall. "I shared a cell with her a few years back." That seemed very hard for him to say, and it was the first time I ever saw him look sad, truly sad. But it was replaced by disgust not a second later. "And tell Nada that I pity her pathetic lost soul." Then, he left as well. Which left me with Jaguar, the one who had betrayed me in the first place.
"Avalon?" He repeated my name again and I set the pole back on the towel rack before putting Blaze's towel back on.
"You ok?" I asked Blaze, putting my back to Jaguar to face the young child. His eyes were wide with fear and he was shaking, but besides that he was alright. Physically that is.
"Yeah Avalon, can I go to bed?" I smiled and kissed the top of his head. He would never really admit that he was scared. He is too manly for that, or so he says.
"Go ahead Blaze," I reply, nudging him on his way. Once he is in the bed I then turn my attention to Jaguar, who hasn't moved from the spot he had been 5 minutes ago. "Yes, you said my name?" Woah. My vision went black for a minute and I had to sit down right away, even if it meant stumbling back rather ungracefully and falling on my butt.
"Jager wont be happy when he sees this." Jaguar muttered to himself as he made his way over to me. I laughed, touching the blood that ran down the side of my face.
"For seeing me hurt or for seeing the bathtub cracked?" I asked sarcastically as he touched the side of my head. It hurt like Hell.
"You have a habit of getting yourself beaten up while your around me." He finally said after he watched me for a moment or two.
"You have a nasty habit of being there while I get beaten up," I snapped after he touched the wound. It hurt. "Sadistic are we?"
"I'll bring Turquoise down here to take care of your head," He replied coldly as he stood up and left the room. Before closing the door, he looked at me once more and sighed. " I heard Jager plans to take you to New Mayhem earlier than he planned." That being said, i allowed my mind to go black.