"Madam Rin," called a female voice off to my left, "may I speak with you for a moment?"
"Well, I was actually on my way.oh, well.what do you need?" I asked impatiently.
"I was wondering if I could ask a favor of you," as her lips parted for her to give reply I quickly recognized her as one of Madam Adriana's pupils, another vamp.
"My name is Lenore and I have been sent by Madam Adriana. She wanted me to discuss a few things with you. First, she wanted me to ask you if you would be able to donate this year.vamps will pay a high price for your blood miss, I know you refuse to become a minion but, perhaps we could extract the blood by some other means?"
"Very well, you may tell her that she may be graced by my presence at eighteen hundred hours."
"Thank you Madam, also, Madam Adriana would like to know, on a more personal note, when Monsieur Unknown will be met with?"
"You may tell her that we will discuss Unknown's business when we meet this evening, is there anything else?"
"I only have one question Madam, but it is of my own.Madam Rin, you know that I as well as the rest of Madam Adriana's pupils of course, hold you in utmost regard, and out of my own personal interest, I was kinda wondering if like I could maybe, just for a short while, I won't touch anything, and I promise to be quiet miss, could I."
"Come on child! Out with it now!"
"May I see your dragons and unicorns please Madam, I know you're really busy, but I would do anything you say, and stay outta the way the whole time, the truth is I totally am fascinated by them and."
"All right.that's enough, fine. You may visit with some of my pets; actually I was just heading to feed them now, you may come along with me if you like."
To tell you the truth, I was actually quite pleased to have some one accompany me to the dragon's abyss. That is why I put up no battle when she asked to join me. I mean think about it, all alone in a dungeon filled with giant, looming, fire-breathing dragons and smart, fast, sharp horned unicorns in it. Not exactly the safest place to be by yourself, at least this way if a dragon had decided to flame broil me and have me speared by the horn of a war unicorn, I would have someone to scream for me before she got charred and skewered as well. That's one misconception of a lot of mortal-humans. They think that once you are dead, you're dead. That's not all the truth; I mean it's true but not true. When you die you sort of follow your beliefs, at least most of the time. Like if you believe in a "god" you go to "heaven", if you worship "Satan" you go to "hell". If you believe in reincarnation you get reincarnated, and if you don't believe it was your time to die, or you had a sudden death, you become a phantom of the night, or a ghost to put it in simpler terms. That is also why there is no right or wrong religion; it's just pretty much whatever you believe in. So it is possible to die after death, it's referred to graduating as far as I know, "how many times have you graduated?" is what you could be asked in any afterlife conversation, as for me, I have only died once, and even that was not a pure death, I mean I was sort of just brought to this damn abyss and was proclaimed dead, although, I think they just replaced my body with another spirit as I have never seen my body dead or have witnessed me dieing.
"How did you become a vampire Lenore?" I asked aloud.
"Well, I don't really know, I just woke up one morning with fangies, I am not really sure."
"Not like that, I mean how you became a vampire here, in Hell. Did you die a Satanist and then become a vampire; did you become a vampire Satanist then die? How is it that you came upon who you are today?"
"Oh, I was a Satanist slash Atheist throughout my life and at some point I became a vampire. Then these vamp-hunter freaks tracked me down and decapitated my head after shooting me with a silver bullet."
"So, the myths are true, yes? You can only kill a vampire in like three ways..?"
"Well, I am not sure. I mean I was only killed one way and anyone would have been killed after having been shot and abolition of the head, am I right?"
"Hs, ha, I guess you are right there. Anyhow here we are, home to unicorns and dragons alike. You first..." I said gesturing towards the open door. "Will you help me with some of the bags?"
"My pleasure," Lenore replied.
I followed her in and headed towards the storage room where the food was kept. Suddenly, my face hit the floor as I felt something ooze across my face and a stabbing pain in my back.