Chapter 3

Vampire nouns (in stories) reanimated corpse that leaves its grave at night and sucks the blood of sleeping persons; ruthless ill – disposed person who preys on others.

Although I'm a witch but it surprised me when Mr. Crepsley wanted to blood me to be a vampire. I though vampire it's only in movies, in stories or myths but I was wrong......

"No way! I'm not going to be a vampire!" I shouted at him, the vampire, my mentor, Mr. Crepsley "Well I don't mind it at all. I surely will find someone else to become my assistant." He said "but you! You will die if you didn't become my assistant! Do you still remember what Desmond Tiny said?"

Seems that there's only one way to survive......That is to become a vampire, explore the night and feed......

"Ok! I'm yours now!!"

"I will make you a half-vampire. That means you will be able to move about during the day. You will not need much blood to keep you ticking over. You will have certain powers but not all. And you will only age at a fifth the regular rate instead of the full vampire's tenth."

"What does that mean?" I asked confused.

"Vampire does not live forever," he explained, "but we do live for longer than humans. We age about one-tenth the regular rate. Which means for every ten years that pass, we age one. As a half vampire, you will age one year for every five."

"You mean, for every five years that pass, I'm only be one year older?" I asked.

"That's right"

It sounds dodgy to me but I have no choice.

I took a deep breath. "How do we do it?" I asked.

He raised his right hand and showed me the back of it. His nails weren't especially long but they looked sharp. He raised his left-hand fingers. Then he used his other set of nails to mark the right-hand fingers in the same way. He winced as he did it.

"Left your hands," he grunted. I was watching the blood drip from his fingers and didn't obey the command. "Now!" he yelled, grabbing my hands and jerking them up.

"Wait a minute!!" I shouted.

To be continued........

See yer in next 2 chapters on 13th August 2004.......