Chapter 5
Delicious….. his instincts purred at him.
Anna paused for a moment in his iron grip, overwhelmed by his scent and the dark power that seemed to radiate off him in waves of pure cold. It washed over her like a giant tidal wave, crushing all resistance. It took incredible effort to focus her mind and stop drowning in his vampiric aura. The tiny whisper of "master..." in the back of her mind was what finally snapped her out of it. She went rigid with affront and then fought viciously to escape his grip. He let her go willingly and she bolted from the room.
Dracula rolled his eyes after she fled the room and went back to the book he had been reading. She wouldn't get far. She didn't have a clue of what she was.
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Anna pelted down the icy, stone stairs barefoot, never feeling the cold. Running blind and scared, determined to never stop until she couldn't sense his presence anymore. Something in the back of her mind whined about this. She told it to Shut up.
After reaching the sheet of ice that was the mirror door, Anna stopped and stared in dismay. The mirror only worked one way. She punched the ice with all the strength of a female vampiress and it didn't even crack, only jarred her hand to the bone.
Wincing slightly and rubbing her knuckles, she pressed her back against the icy mirror wall and slid down it to the ground. Castle Dracula stood tall and strong in front of her mockingly. She buried her head between her knees.
The bad thing about being a vampire was she could literally sit for centuries and never freeze or die. The even worse thing about being a vampire is that the sun still rose and set at Castle Dracula. As she sat there, covered in snow from the gusting winds around her, Anna could feel sunrise was soon. If she didn't take shelter, she would burn to death. Before the human blood Dracula had sabotaged her with, when it had just been animal blood, she could bear sunlight though she hated it, now she knew it would destroy her. That animalistic voice in the back of her mind was telling her so, urging her to move inside. She grit her teeth and ignored it. She was not going back inside that castle. If she was truly and fully transitioned into a vampire now, then she'd rather face the sun.
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Dracula sighed. He could sense the little idiot outside, defying her better nature and all common sense. Reaching past their mental barrier, he sent a firm command: "Anna, Come."
"NO" was the only response he got.
"You won't like it if you make me come out and get you."
Anna just snarled at him thru the mind link and tried to close the connection in vain.
Dracula severed the connection himself, but teleported immediately to her location, grabbed her, and teleported back into his inner sanctum. She started to fight him tooth and nail to run back outside again, so he wrenched her down into the coffin with him and froze it solid, ending her ceaseless struggles and instantly putting both of them to sleep.
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For Anna, it was the longest, most restful sleep she had ever experienced. A deep oblivion lacking all discomfort. When night fell, and the ice slowly melted and receded from her body, the only thing she became aware of was her ravenous hunger blocking out all rational thought. The thirst was so much stronger than before. She scrambled out of the stone coffin. She needed to find an animal in the forest NOW, before she completely lost it and hurt someone. She staggered towards one of the huge open windows and looked out on the snowy mountain range in a panic, not a single forest in sight. Nothing but sharp cliffs and deep ravines to be seen for miles and miles. Her stomach growled loudly.
There was the sound of glass chinking behind her and she whipped around to see the master holding a bottle out to her. She ripped it out of his hands and gulped it down in an instant. Anticipating her reaction, he grabbed the bottle back from her before she could shatter it against the stone floor.
"If you didn't wait until the last minute to feed, you would have some control over when and where." He patted her on the head like she was some kind of wild pet that had succeeded at something. She smacked his hand away. He smirked. "But I suppose dining for want instead of need would mean actually stopping long enough to enjoy the sensation."
"I want animal blood." Anna demanded.
Dracula scoffed in disgust at the idea of it. "No, you don't."
"Yes I do! I don't want any more of your human blood!"
"You will drink human blood from the bottle. Or..." an excited gleam entered Dracula's eyes, "I can bring a human back for you to play with."
Anna trembled even as the demon in the back of her mind jumped in glee. Dracula didn't miss it for a second. The way her pupils dilated and her breath caught for a moment, even as she shook like a leaf. He might have to do it. Just to mess with her and see how it would turn out.
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