A.N.
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CHAPTER 2: How I Came To Be
Everyone has a past. . . and I should tell you about mine. And the best time to tell you is now, the day when I was created. . . one could call it my birthday.
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I was raised up by the King and queen of the gypsy tribe in England, so that makes me a princess. But I am not really their own child, when I got older I learned that I was given to them by the elders but they loved and cared for me as if I was their very own. . . I grew up in the 1800's, when I turned seven, I had the biggest birthday party I could ever remember, all the gypsy elders from around the world came. Something was unusual they kept looking . . . staring at me! At the end of the party, they brought me into a room and I was made to sit at the center of a star painted on the floor. They told me to sit still, be quiet and to listen to a story they were about to tell me, so I did.
Seven years ago, on the very place I am now sitting, four friends gave their lives in order for a savior to be born. These four friends were gypsy women who came from the different tribes. Each one of them was special, they were the prides of their tribes . . . Reluire (french: shine/glisten) or Rei as her friends called her was a witch trained in both balck and white arts of magic and she also had the gift of sight. Amitie' (french: friendship) or Ami was the first ever vampire with a soul; when she was only a year old while she and her parents were out picking strawberries, they were attacked by a group of vampires and were killed. Ami was lucky because as a vampire was sucking her, the tribe found out of the attack and came to her rescue. They killed all the vamps except for the one that bit Ami, they first took some of his blood then staked him. They made baby Ami drink the blood which then turned her into a vampire, then the elders performed a ritual giving Ami her soul back then the elders themselves raised her as their own. Makellos (german: flawless/immaculate) or Mako was a slayer and lastly Mina (italian: mine{my own}) was a gypsy princess who was taught in the old ways of the gypsies and was known for her beauty and grace.
I wanted to ask the elders on what the story meant cause I did not understand and why did they told me. But before I could open my mouth to speak, they began chanting then suddenly four colored floating orbs appeared around me then it turned into four women. Each woman had a colored aura, the woman with the red colored aura spoke " I am Reluire "; then the blue " I am Amitie' "; then the green " I am Makellos and the orange " I am Mina. " Then suddenly colored beams came shooting our their hands towards me . . . it was very painful . . . I screamed as I closed my eyes . . . then I felt nothing . . . when I opened my eyes I was surrounded by a white silvery light. . . then i saw images flash before me . . as I watched it, I slowly began to understand. The images were the memories of the women . . now they were becoming mine . . I now understand the story . . . I now know what I am and what my purpose in life is and then I felt their power flowing within me. As I absorb their knowledge and powers, I began to glow silver in color until a single bright flash occured and I find myself standing in the middle of the star surrounded by the elders. I was now a young girl of seven with the knowlege, wisdom and powers of the women and elders.
From then on I started my physical and mental training with the elders as their warrior. From Rei I got from her the ability to do white and black magic and I also got some part of her gift of sight, I am able to dream of things that are yet to come. From Ami, it was the unending youth, I stopped aging when I got to the age of 23 and all the natural and unnatural abilities of a vampire. From Mako, I got strength, endurance, the ability to weild all kinds of weapons, a tactical mind and instinct and from Mina, the knowledge of the gypsy elders, their secrets and the grace and beauty of a princess.
I was created to kill our prime enemy, the Lord of the Vampires and all his demonic allies. I killed all of them when I was 25. And if the elders had given me permission back then, I would have eliminated all vampires and demons but the elders told me that there should be always be a balance between good and evil and if one were to disrupt this, tip the balance to one side, destruction would occur. So instead of killing anymore evil creatures, they made me get a vacation in London. Thats where I saw William . . . it was love at first sight. I was a love sick puppy, I followed him everywhere, but I kept hidden in the shadows . . . I never had the courage to face him. I have been following him for months, then one night I decided to take a dip in a nearby lake . . . it was the first and only night I was not with him and it was this night that Angelus changed him. I blamed myself, this would not have happend if I was with him. I wanted to kill Angelus then but I could not, who would teack my William survive? I could not, even though I had some vampire traits but I was not a vampire. I do have the fangs, they come out when I am angry but I do not thirst or need blood. So I let Angelus teach him but I kept watch, from then on I never left William. And because I never left William's side, one night Angelus killed a gypsy . . I was devastated, I blamed myself more for not fulfilling my duty to protect my people. Now I had to kill Angelus, I cannot find any reason as to not kill him. But the elders interveined, they told me they wanted to teach him a lesson . . let him suffer for as long as he walks upon this earth . . they give him a soul and a curse. I was glad that Angelus left William, I thought he would mellow down in his killing, but I was wrong . . it worsened. He now started calling himself Spike and with Drucilla they created havoc. I should have killed both of them but I could not kill Spike . . I love him too much and Drucilla, I could not stand to think that he would suffer much grief if she died. . . Deep inside me I have a feeling that I can change him, but when and how that would happen,I did not know. I started back then of thinking and formulating ways to get him but i was not able to come up with one good enough . . until now!
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Opening my eyes, I looked at the alarm clock stretched out my right arm and then the clock stopped ringing. It was time for me to stop meditating and go to school. Standing up I once again perform the glamour spell on myself. Instead of Serenity gypsy princess and warrior there now standing was Rena Charles, sophomore student of Sunnydale High.