Chapter three

Blood was life and Blood was sweat thus when the morning came around I was craving more, John had told me that the earge to drink would decrease with age and it was only the first few months that one had to continuously drink to feel sated. Last night we had gone out hunting killing several humans and capturing a few to play with right now. but the highlight of the night was when we entered a bar to find a Moroi and his guardian having a drink obviously not hearing the news and wanting to stop on their way to Court. With John and I the Guardian was quickly dispatched and the Moroi was drained leaving their bodies out where the other guardians would find them easily, it was time to stop hiding in the dark and truly attack the Moroi's.

the day passed slowly where I mostly just watched television flicking through the channels knowing that tonight we would have to raid a video shop so i can stay entertained throughout the day.

the night was approaching and as the sun set I slowly went outside, somehow i knew that the Drogomir princess would soon have a search party out looking for me to bring me in alive so i could be returned to my original state but that did not sound like fun so i found John and organized for us to leave. thinking of a plane trip to Russia but i knew that Beliklov would hunt for me there as i did him so we bought tickets to Turkey the home of my ancestors and John and I left for the airport leaving the others behind neither of us wanted to burden ourselves with looking after fresh meat.

the plane trip was long and uneventful other than leaving the flight attendants a surprise of the body in the out of order toilet we behaved like normal humans.

Turkey was warm as we landed in Istanbul Airport the sun was fading away as night here was falling, deciding to hunt before we found a place to stay John who had been here before took us both to a crowded club that Moroi and Dhampirs both frequented. Here we quickly compelled our dinner into a trip into the lane way as her Dhampir guardian was not watching as closely as they should have been. Back through the city we ventured out into the country not bothering about a car as we could easily move quickly without getting tired and we didn't have to stick to the roads like a car did. The Mansion rose from the ground in front of us as we ran up a hill, there were a few others patrolling the grounds and paused when they noticed us but saw John and ignored us. I could count at least 5 Strigoi on the patrol and was amazed this many together in a house seemed almost impossible but I reminded myself that I did know too much about my own race just yet. The house itself was beautiful as though straight from an English romance novel placed into an empty land thousands of miles away. The doors were opened for us by humans, I could smell their blood from the moment we started to climb the steps to the house, there were many more as slaves throughout the whole house and I could smell them all as we made our way through the entrance, a slight movement caught my eye, A woman who reminded me of Galina, Dimitri's Patron when he was awoken and moved to Siberia, was walking along the landing towards the stairs where she walked down towards us heading straight towards John where she went up and hugged him, showing more feeling that I knew our race could hold but her motives became know as she raised her gloved hand behind him with a sliver stake and brought it through his back straight into his heart. John did not have time to do or say anything, the woman moved much too quickly for that. I moved away from her least she do the same to me but it seemed that I had nothing to worry about. She stepped back from the body and motioned for someone to come and take it say to just leave it outside for the sun before turning towards me and smiling.

"Hello, Roza we have been expecting you." She said not moving at all as I watched her hands and taking note of where the exits to this house were.

"Thank you, that is kind but you will understand if I don't show my appreciation just yet," I replied making her laugh.

"No, I understand John was an old lover of mine that left me because he got bored and thus he ended because I was bored of him." She replied, and I almost relaxed an old lover's feud I could understand but something still seemed off about the whole situation.

"How exactly is it that you were expecting me?" I asked her has she began to walk towards a room off to the right which opened up into a large and elaborately furnished sitting room.

"Ahh, news travels very quickly in this world as to what is happening and when we were told that the Infamous Rosemarie Hathaway had been awoken we were all very, very happy, though you have a large amount of enemies within our world as well as the world of the breathers," she said taking a seat on one of the lounges and gesturing for me to do the same. "My name is Kövan or Angel whichever you wish to call me as I shall call you, Gülçin."

"Gülçin?" I asked not understanding the turkish word.

"Rose, Rose in Turkish but do not be surprised if you become known by a phrase there are many who have already named you, Kan Kirmizi gül, the Blood Red Rose, from your time as a Dhampir but I believe that that can be changed into that name for different reasons." And she smiled as a human entered the room and placed two glasses on the table in front of us where it proceeded to slit its wrists in front of us with a small knife and allowed the blood to drain into the glasses. It took me a fair bit of self restraint as I watched the blood pour so not to jump the human and kill him where he stood.

"Here drink, you must be thirsty," She said giving me one of the glasses which I took greatfully.

"Now Gülçin, I am not here as your Master, no, no I am here to help you set up your own empire where ever you wish, just say the word and I shall set you up."

"that is too kind Kövan, too kind where exactly is it that you shall aquire this empire for me?" I asked sipping my drink.

"From the empire that you destroyed of course, when you killed Galina and Dimitri there was an empire left over, I aquired it until I could find someone to control it and I have decided that it truly belongs to you, though had you not come here I would have kept it, but I am content in my own world and happy to give you yours."

I smiled a Strigoi kill I had made almost one month ago had left me with a fortune worth almost as much as the Drogomirs. I was going to be the Strigoi to go down in history.