Sorry it took so long. School started a few weeks ago and I have been buried in homework. Hope ya like it cause I'm back!
Drina decided to wait until morning to talk to her mother. While she slept, the nightmares came back.
Families were slaughtered ruthlessly. Babies and kids were snatched away from their parents and torn to pieces by one vampire. He wielded his sword with a mighty force. Then he turned his eyes to her.
Drina stepped back cautiously, only to realize that he was staring past her. She turned around and saw her mother.
The setting had changed. She was in bar. She saw her mom talking to the murderer. She noticed that her mother wasn't scared of the guy. She didn't understand.
Time fast-forwarded a few hours. She saw her mother asleep on a bed in a room. The man was extended his hand. Claws grew from his fingernails. He used his index claw to lightly puncture the skin on her back. He traced a sign on her back. The sight of the blood made Drina want to hurl.
The scenery had changed again. This time she was in a boathouse near two dead bodies. The guy was drinking from one of the guys. A woman came in and he killed her too. He left looking for somebody else. Drina followed him.
He opened a vent and pulled a little girl out. Drina recognized her as the younger version of Zoe. Drina screamed in horror.
Drina woke up in a cold sweat. She had always had the nightmares. They had plagued her every night. She had been taught how to meditate to prevent the nightmares, but with all the excitement that went on today, she had forgotten.
She took a deep breath and held it for 10 seconds. Then she blew it out slowly, and counted backwards from ten.
Once she had calmed down, she came to a decision. She was going to talk to her mother now.
Drina quietly walked to the armory where her mother and Abby and King were talking. She peered in and the adults immediately stopped talking.
"Mom, the nightmare's came back, and this time you were in them," she said. Vanessa went stiff. Maybe it was time to come clean about her past. She knew what had plagued her daughter at night. Drina had inherited her father's memories in her sleep. She had dreamed about his life. Drina hated it because it was mostly bloody and gory.
Abby and King glanced at each other and nodded.
"We better you leave you two to talk things out," Abby said. Her and King left the room.
"Mom, was my dad a vampire? Is that whose memories I dream about every night?" Drina asked carefully. She knew her mother was sensitive, when the subject came to her father.
"Yes. Your nightmares are his memories. He was the first vampire ever. He was around for over 6,000 years. He became disgusted with how the world turned out, so he went into a long slumber. Then one vampire, decided to bring him back. My father was a hybrid, half-human and half-vampire. I was the product of his romance with his childhood sweetheart when he was a teenager. I inherited the same strengths and weaknesses from my father. He was immune to silver, garlic, and sunlight, and he had a vampire's strength and ability to regenerate. He also had the Thirst, which I also inherited, but mine was mild. When his partner was killed he joined us and met me for the first time. I was an undercover agent for the Nightstalkers, who hunted vampires. I met Drake one night on patrol. I was able to convince him to trust me and I became his lov—I mean follower. Unfortunately he found out who I was. Blade used a virus Zoe's mother came up with to kill the vampires along with Drake. I was given the cure to stay alive. Then I found out I was pregnant with you, so I changed my life and kept you safe. The guy who attacked us tonight was a familiar, a wannabe vampire and follower of their kind. It seemed that he wanted you. And even though I don't want it to be true, I think the familiars might want you because your father's blood runs through your veins."
"I wanted to keep you away from this, from my past. But it seems that I never really left my past behind," Vanessa said sadly. She loved her daughter more than anything. Drina was still staring at her, eyes watering.
"This is where I got all of my powers?" she asked. Vanessa sighed and nodded.
"Why me? I'm only nine and a half. When did my life get so difficult? I'll never get to know my father!" Drina ran out of the room in tears.
Vanessa slumped to the floor in defeat. She had always hoped that the past would stay in the past. She felt like a terrible mother. She had brought her child into her own mess. She had had regrets of keeping her child. If she had given her up, then maybe her child could have grown up with a father who cared about her and away from all of this vampire mess. But she had thought about how amazing it would be to raise a child on her own.
She pulled her cell out of her pocket and punched in a number.
"Hello? May I please speak to Erik? This is his daughter calling."
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