General Cartography Part Five
Welcome to the prologue of Sister Vamp, the sequel to General Cartography. I was inspired to write the intro to this by music from Jem, the songs, Come on Closer, They, 24, Missing You and Stay Now. I'm pretty sure my readers from Europe know who Jem is. I did hear she's better known in Europe than in the US. But to the US people who don't like, let alone know who she is: WHY ARE YOU READING THIS? Sorry, I love Jem's music. Missing You makes me cry, it reminds me of a boyfriend of mine who I went out with for two weeks, (greatest guy I've ever met ::cries:: ) and suddenly one day he disappeared. I'm crying now. I NEED A HUG!! Or Vincent Valentine from FFVII (if you love vincent like me, read my vincent fic too!!) I'm reading The Pigman right now and I like it. I look like Tifa. (FFVII) ::still is listening to Missing You and really is crying:: This song really reminds me of Kurda and Lian. By the way, I have another Cirque du Freak story in progress. It's called Hafling Pride. Just about the daughter of a certain vampaneze (yes I do love vampaneze--::hugs Murlough:: ) I'm kinda of signing a death warrant if I ever was to hug a vampaneze like Murlough. If you want to hear about Halfling Pride, include it in your review. It's a tad similar to this story, but a few old characters come back. (characters from like book one, two and three). Okay I've blabbed enough...It's because me mom got rid of my email address so I can't email readers. One last bit, Halfling Pride, if you want to read it, is only on notebook paper right now, so you'll have to be patient for the story to come out. Now, grab some clam chowder and corn flakes and enjoy a new recipe!!
Chapter Five-Chapter One of Sister Vamp
During the next Council, Kurda had been executed for betrayal of the vampires. And as it was said, Darren Shan was how Kurda's alliance had spread to the vampires.
Kurda's promise of returning to Lian had been broken, and the word never got to her of his death...Until the day Lian found out she was the new target of vampires everywhere.
Lian had spent the twelve years in between the Councils fighting the insanity that was running through her veins. The mixture of the vampire and vampaneze blood in her was driving Lian over the edge.
She hadn't fed in over two months...It was getting harder and harder to find humans...let alone any animals. She was willing to feed off of anything: snakes, other vampires or vampaneze, cats-anything...She was ready to die...Lian had nothing left. Only angst.
"Damnit," Lian hissed as she kicked the skull of some foreign animal...maybe it was a human's. "The sun's rising..." It was around six o'clock, flecks of sunlight were popping on and off like the light bulb in your basement from 1980 that doesn't know if it's dying or not.
Lian trailed over to one of the abandoned buildings that had long since had its fires put out. Since Lian had vampaneze blood injected into her bloodstream, she'd become an arsonist. "It's a pity," Lian said. "All these lovely fires watching me, but no one for me to watch them with." She reached into one of her pockets and brought out a flaming match. "Thank god for flammable liauids." At Lian's feet was a pool of gasoline, and with a hand movement, it was on fire.
Lian turned away and started walking. Burning things had become a major hobby of hers; watching things turn to ash was hysterical to her. "Burn baby, burn." she laughed walking toward the rising sun. "Yeah, sun, come and get me!"
Hidden in trees nearby, three people who had been stalking Lian for some time now were on the move. They were heavily armed with swords, knives and similar weapons. "We've got her." one mouthed.
Lian turned to the area where the three people were hiding and laughed in a maniacal sort of way. "Full vampires think they can sneak up on me!" She dashed right up in front of them and snatched a knife. "You get to live if any of you are assisting Kurda Smahlt." She was in dire need of finding out the truth as to where he had been for the past twelve years.
A black haired, one-eyed vampire responded. "Listen, all the vampires assisting Kurda were killed for joining with him." Lian grinned evilly and cracked her neck back and forth.
"Bullshit." she said blandly. Lian grabbed the vampire's neck and gave it a quick twist while still holding her grin. "Who's next?" she asked dropping the body of the vampire who was struggling to clutch on to life.
"Do you see why the Princes have sent us to kill you?" a bald vampire asked trying to help his injured comrade.
"Listen," Lian said putting her stolen knife to the vampire's eye. "I have all the right to be insane. And by the by, you don't want to kill me. As soon as I'm gone, another insane vampire, possibly worse than I am, will take my place."
"Then we'll kill that one too." the first vampire said.
"No you won't." Lian said childishly. "This message is going with you to the grave." Before either of the living vampires could react Lian snatched another knife off of the dead vampire at her feet. Laughing crazily, she dug both knives into each of the vampires, one into the head, the other just slid across a throat.
Lian turned away and continued laughing. But over her laughter she heard on of the vampires last words. "Kurda's dead, he's been dead for over twelve years. He's dead and he's stuck here, you'll never see him, not even if you die with shame." The words trailed off into the wind and the morning sun.
Lian fell to the ground, letting the sun hit her, piercing her skin. The vampire, vampaneze hybrid cried for someone for the first time in a dozen years. "Kurda..." she whispered. "Why didn't you...Why didn't you just...escape?" Lian dragged herself into a heavily shaded area and remained awake through the day muttering, "Someone say he didn't die."