03/15/1990 - 03/15/2013
Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday Alessandro, happy birthday to me! Applause!
I: Thank you Mind, you remembered my birthday.
Mind: Of course, how could I forget it? By a strange coincidence coincides with mine.
I: Yeah, life's mysteries.
Mind: Post new chapter instead of wasting time!
I: But, why do I talk with my own mind? I'm feeling alone...
I dedicate this fanfiction to my girlfriend, and a special thanks to futureauthor13 for helping me in the correction.
CHAPTER 6 - Inconvenient truth
Knock knock
"Mavis, are you here?"He received no answer, but he heard a cry coming from behind the door, so he sat leaning against it.
"Mavis... I know you can hear me...why did you run away it that way? It is not your fault, we left to go and we have forgotten your sharp teeth, it was an accident"
"Jonathan, what are you talking about?" Dracula appeared retransformed from bat-shaped scaring the boy.
"Let yourself go?... sharp teeth? then, why are you all wet?! What did you do to my daughter's mouth?!"He continued growling menacingly approached to Jonathan, Jonny jumped.
"Isn't what you think ... "
Dracula did not answer with words, but he just to further knit his brow, was very explicit. The boy increasingly concerned, so he cringed flattening against the door, which it opened fall him into the room. It was empty, only the curtains blowing in the wind caught the attention of the two men to the window open. The vampire ignored Jonathan and ran to it.
"Mavis, where are you?" then turned into a bat and flew out. The daughter it was on the roof, her favorite place when she wanted to be alone to reflect under the Moon. He glided towards her and returned man kneeling in front of her crying coiled up on itself.
Mavis, my little-bat, what's wrong? Why are you up here? Why do not you talk? You've seen with him recently, he said that you ran away again, you do not like him?"
"Yes, I like him... too much..."
"He's a good guy, it's normal that you like him! He also spoke abouth an "accident", what is it?" Dracula was concerned to discover an embarrassing truth, but he had to know what was going on between the two...
"I could not stop myself, I could not control, I just wanted to vent my desires..."
"She just kissed me..." Jonathan's exhausted voice came from the other side of roof, then laboriously joined them. He took a deep breath and continued:
"Then, she scratched my lip with a fang, but it was an accident."
"I'm sorry..." Mavis added with a whisper.
"Mavy you didn't hurt me, why do you keep worrying?"
"But I've hurt myself... Now, please, leave me alone..."
Dracula put his hand on the boy's shoulder.
"I'll take you back down." Then he turned into a bat, picked Jonny for his sweatshirt and flew down entering trought a window.
The boy was worried and felt helpless, he wanted to be of help to Mavis, but he did not know what to do.
"Jonny, don't worry, she everything will be ok. She's just a little confused" The vampire said with calm to him, but maybe he just wanted to reassure himself.
Jonathan looked down and sighed.
"I feel so useless..."
"No Jonny, do not say such things, my daughter loves you and also I"
"She was so strange since this morning, no, since tonight: Looking for me, then running away, then looking for me again, finding me, and running away again! I'm afraid it's my fault... Maybe she doesn't like me anymore?"
"No, no, no! You must not think these things, you are her Zing! I'm going to talk to her in private, I will solve everything." Said Drac that turned into a bat, flew back to the roof and sitting next to anguished daughter.
"Why do you always lie me?" Mavis broke the silence.
"What you're referring to, honey-guts?"
"Every... everything... You've never said anything true? All I know about you, about me, about monsters, humans... and mom... Is there any truth? Until now I have lived peaceful with my ignorance, deluded by the crystal castle of your lies, but now that castle is collapsing, demolished in a single shot from the only unexpected happened during these 118 years... You hoped it is forever, but it was not so. I know, you tried to protect me from everyone and everything around me..." Mavis raised her wet eyes to her father who did not know what to say, so she continued:
"...but who will protect me from myself? "
These words left baffled Dracula, he was confused, but he knew that the situation was more serious than imagined.
"Are you referring to human blood, right?"
The daughter buried her head between her knees from the shame of herself, so the vampire began to gently stroke her back to make her happy.
"I was hoping that you were not attracted by it beacuse I've always done evtything to avoid it, but it seems to be an innate appeal for the vampires. Remember? I've already explained that there are three types of monsters: the creatures, which are like animals but have an intellect comparable to that of humans, such as uncles Frank and Wayne, then there are the spirits that are made of pure energy non-corporeal as ghosts or specters that move the armor and finally the magical creatures who are like the union of the first two, you and I are part of it, together with all the other monsters with magical abilities."
"What do you mean with this speech? You've already told me that."
Let me talk, little-bat! I did not tell you that to use magic power is necessary some energy-"
"Are you referring to our soul?" Mavis interrupted him.
"No... this is the point, the soul is a super-concentrated spirit, too much united to be able to take a small part in and turn it into magic, there is a spirit in us that we can use. In truth we should not even have a soul, it is this that gives us all emotions that we feel...
Long ago I was a human, a cruel sovereign. The only thing I wanted was the power and practiced in the worst way, I was feared by all. I was called Vlad the Impaler, but this isn't enough for me. I wanted eternal life, and I used black magic nourished with the blood of my thousands of victims. I bribed my soul and that was how I became a bloodthirsty monster. I do not remember much of those years, I wanted to forget.
Only in 1800 in my wander I crashed into your mother. That hit had detonated a spark that she called Zing, feeble and weak, but she knew how to feed it with her love. She had given me a soul that I never believed I had, that I never believed a monster created just by me had...
She convinced me that everyone has a choice and everyone is master of its own destiny.
I stopped to kill and wandered the world in search of other peaceful monsters. We discovered that Frank, although always hunted by humans for his appearance, continued to help others and with him there were also adopted by Frank, Griffin and Wayne as brothers, which I joined too..."
"And so... my father was a murderess and my uncles are not my relatives. There is nothing that can surprise or disappoint me anymore. Now, I know why humans call us "monsters" and hate us..."
"Mavis, you must understand that it is a past that never will return, now you have to be strong. You must ensure that your soul will remain more powerful than your spirit. If you will be sad and disconsolate your soul will be weak. The battle against yourself is the hardest, but if I let Jonathan stay with you is because I know that the love of your Zing will make you unbeatable by the demon that you have inside. Sooner or later you'll get used to that little bad voice and you do not hear it anymore. Unfortunately you can not defeat it because it is part of you, but you can keep it at bay for ever..."
"I am afraid of hurting Jonny, the call of his blood is irresistible... that of earlier was not an accident... I tasted it, it was just a drop, but it was too good, I knew what I was doing, but I didn't want to stop myself... why?"
These words shocked Dracula, his little girl had tasted that damned blood, he hoped this day would never come, now no longer made sense to lie.
"We vampires need blood because we do not produce it by ourselves and to keep alive the demonic spirit because in blood is contained the soul and the human soul is the most powerful and energetic in the world, is this that awakens the demon inside you. If I have magical abilities much higher than yours is because I've eaten many souls. If, until now, I've said that human blood is unhealthy and tasted terrible, it's because I hated what I was becoming. You do not commit my same mistakes, you can be stronger."
"It's too difficult. Ask Jonny to go away, I do not want to hurt him..."
"I can't do that Mavy. If you leave him you feel bad forever and the demon inside you may conquer your soul weakened by sadness and loneliness. Calm down, take a deep breath and relax, go to bed and tomorrow we are all together with you with ideas cloudy, okay? I'm going, but you hurry up, the Sun is rising." Dracula turned into a bat and went back to the hotel. He went into his room and stroked the painting of Martha.
"I failed... again... I wasn't been able to protect you from humans and haven't been able to protect our daughter from her nature... Why didn't that arrow pierce my heart instead of yours?"
A ray of light cut in two the dark room. Jonathan had opened the door. Dracula came to him, he knew what the boy wanted, so he began to speak, without waiting for any question:
"I told her what she wanted to know, tomorrow, when she has a clearer her mind, she come back to us. Jonny, you're close to her. She will have to overcome a difficult time, because she can only do it with your help. After said this, he left the room leaving Jonny alone. He came to the big picture.
"Why do vampires always speak in riddles?" He turned to leave, but he saw near his feet some shiny spots on the ground. He knelt intrigued.
"These are drops of water? They're tears? Drac was crying ... Mavy, what happened to you?"
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