Revelations
How does one avoid death? A permanent end? staking, dissolved in holy water, impaled on antlers... well the antlers are questionable, exploding, how? David has been very open to answering me, not sure if this is good or bad. David I've found actually likes to socialize and can be decent, actually good nature even... As long as you're not human. He's made it clear his thoughts on humanity.
" You're dieing of curiosity, ever been told the only stupid question is the question gone unasked?" David pulls his attention from some broken object he's holding. " What's on your mind Micheal?" David tosses the object over towards Marko who catches it.
" How did you guys all survive?" I glanced a round, a few smirks and chuckles answer my question, till I again look to David. " You, i can get, but how did everyone else?"
" Oh that's easy. Marko." David sits back in his wheel chair with a smirk plastered across his face.
" Well Mikey, it's like this, you watch horror movies, where Dracula's getting the stake?" Marko waits my answer from the chair he was taking up, then continues at my nod. " They aren't far off the mark, you can't shove a stake threw someones chest free handed, you would have to pound it in and like hell you can do it to someone hanging in the air, but hurts like hell." Marko makes a face rubbing his chest. " I'd deserve to die if some little twat who hasn't even got his pubes yet could put a stake threw my chest."
" Paul." David nods to Paul.
Paul was sitting on the couch next to Dwayne, now a shit eating grin on his face. " Oh yea Holy bath! That shit burned, dumb dog knocked me in, but shit man, you fell into boiling water would you just stay in it to boil you away? Oh hell no, burned my ass up good, but I didn't stay in it when I got knocked in, wasn't like I was chained down. "
" Dwayne." David looks over at Dwayne.
" Arrow missed my heart, but seriously you think an arrow could pick "me" up and send me flying into a stereo to be fried? I'm not fucking made of paper mache." Dwayne sneers.
" And myself, well you caught on, antlers aren't wood. Very useless." David chuckles.
" What about what we saw? Herd and the damage to the house, well from what I herd Liquid Paul was what tore up the pipes." How they survived made sense, but it wasn't what my memory was telling me, well I wasn't present for the others, I just know Sam would know what he saw.
" It'd be difficult to manipulate your mind, since you had my blood in you, but very possible. Humans how ever are quite easy to manipulate and to mess up their memories and fix them how we desire them to be." David says as he lights up his cigaret.
" We came not for revenge so much as to bring home what is ours and punish those that attacked us. You, Star and Laddie would have came home with us, your brother, well, we would have not hurt him to badly, his little meddling hunter friends however would have been dead. Max however being a fool, decided to show up with your mother, having felt our rage threw the bond and that we had been injured. This of coarse made us have to change plans and withdraw. Paul wanted to leave you a parting gift. A little pay back."
" Cherry bomb in the toilet!" Paul let out a cackle. That explained why one of the first things those Frog kids seen destroyed was the toilette and not the bathtub, which if Paul boiled in should have been the most damaged.
" Yea, and Dwayne decided to impale the stereo with the arrow on the way out.. Wood you know doesn't conduct electricity? So even if an arrow shot threw Dwayne and stuck into a stereo, it wouldn't fry him. I stayed on the antlers, it hurt, but Max had walked in and I couldn't do shit, so I played dead while you hid and then confronted Max. What you saw after fighting me was all real, Max is very dead, which actually saved us some trouble of doing it ourselves. What you remembered, Dwayne, Marko and Paul's' deaths was all implanted in your mind, well Dwayne's' was in yours to match what we put in Sam's' memory, you wasn't present for Paul or Marko.
" I guess you didn't like Max. " When I said this, the guys burst into a laugh. The idea my memory was played with didn't set well with me, but it at least explained how they were still around. Also proved one thing: Vampires are hella hard to git rid of and that we were all idiots thinking there was a snow balls chance in hell to out wit them.
" Max served himself and did nothing for us, he gave nothing and demanded everything. Add to that he was delusional, we're creatures that take comfort in our own and within dark depths away from humanity.
We are not meant for white picket fences and painted walls. We rule the night and should be free from the conformity of mortals. freedom isn't just about choice Micheal, it's also being free from material and social restraints. " David stood as he said his and walked up to where i stood, placing a hand on my shoulder. " I can't think of a better life." David holds out a joint for me. " Everything we want it's ours."
" Except the sun." I mock, David smirks.
" Pbbbttthhh." Paul's' blowing on his arm, making fart noises, Marko snickering behind him. " Pppbbtttbbtt."
" Paul." David shakes his head.
This was interesting information, but got me no closer to knowing Davids reasons, what set me apart from every other human? why the trouble and why go after me again? David had made it clear his thoughts of humanity, pathetic species that served as food, but what is it that made me different, made me worth his time? " David?"
" You fit Micheal, you're one of us, you always have been." David answered which wasn't really an answer.
" There's more to it than that." I huffed out, but David smirks, David answered what he felt like answering or what he thought I needed to know, but anything more and he didn't want to give away, he was tighter than a clam. " Fine." I turned and decide to walk from the room.
We had taken up in the ballroom part that had collapsed into the cave, it had once been a large room, now it was broken and the walls of the cave lined part of it, the grand ballrooms walls long broken away. Out now in a corridor of the cave with winding tunnels, who knew this cave had so many? One side led out to the main entrance, no longer used due to Sam and the frogs knowledge of the den, due to myself. the other end there had been some rooms to fallen down. We used them to store clothing in and personal trinkets and things, but that's about it. Our sleeping area, or roost was somewhere beyond the ballroom on the other side.
Getting this far in would require being able to leap over a large drop, basically the person would have to fly to get over to this side.
" Psst, this way." Marko walks past me, beckoning me to follow him.
Nothing better to do, I follow, wondering why Marko has found it so interesting to have me follow him. we stop before a room, the door barely hanging on. Markos' room I guess as the shorter teen enters.
Inside it looked like something taken straight out of a ghost town movie, old wall paper curled, but the colors still vibrant as they day they was put on, broken windows jutting inward as the rock had pushed them in on themselves as the building fell, a few boxes lined the floor, torn clothing, patches. thread and needles sat up on a night stand, the lamp that was once there long fallen and broken on the floor.
But one thing, the most grizzly decoration hung on on wall. The pelt of a human male, black hair. I cringe at the sight. looking around I see a few chard bones in one corner and now the thing that was in Markos hand earlier that David tossed him was revealed. Marko tosses it into the broken, charred and splintered bone pile. It was a broken piece of skull, only the upper part and the eye socket remained to reveal what it once belonged to. I had no idea why I was here, but I'm sure it wasn't to show off his macabre room.
Marko lifts a jacket, it looked like Marko had already started adding patches to it.
" What you think?" Marko seemed to anticipate my answer.
" It looks cool, uh so why we here? I'm sure it's not just to show off your work." I again glance around, Marko grinned when I gave my approval of his work.
" Well no, it isn't, but I thought since you'll be in here." Marko shrugs, tossing the jacket onto the moth eaten bed. " This is what I wanted to show you." Marko opens a drawer in the night stand, which held loose bullets an old six shooter, a few knives, key chains and rings, but those weren't what had truly caught my eye. " David doesn't like talking about it, but you want to know why we wanted you, it wasn't just David, we all decided to bring you home." Marko holds out an old photo inside a heavy old frame.
" You're got to be kidding me." My finger traces over the picture. The people in it looked like David, Marko, Paul, Dwayne and then a fifth all dressed in clothing you see in a Western movie, the last person I not seen with them, but I'd know him... Each time I'd look in the mirror.
" Jasper, he died shortly after being turned, David blames himself for everything. Us getting turned and then loosing Jasper. We don't really notice except when a memory suddenly pops up to remind us he was gone. David saw you as a way to fix this mistake. You're passing our tests only proved to him you belonged with us, it's sort of a home coming." Marko was watching me for a reaction.
" Uh, I'm not this guy, I'm not, so I may look a bit like him, sure, but I'm not him." I shook my head at Marko, hoping he didn't think I was some guy. I didn't want everything I did based or judged by how someone else was.
" Maybe, maybe not, you do have similarities to him, not just looks. Who knows? It's good enough for us, oh we know you're Micheal, even if you might have been jasper at one time, don't worry. David though I'm not sure, I really think he thinks you really are Jasper, don't take it personal. " Marko takes the photo, running a claw over the picture of Jasper.
" Loosing Jasper was hard on him, mainly cause he considered everyone his responsibility, looked out for us all, so he took loosing Jasper the hardest, he saw him die with his own eyes, not just felt it threw the blood we all share. So he wont talk about it." Marko shrugs and places the photo back into the drawer. " So now you know why you, what drew us to you, to want to take you in. Don't worry, you're our brother now, one of us since the moment you passed our tests regardless, the past doesn't matter, what matters is it's like somethings fixed for us."
" You do know how creepy you sound right now?" I asked, glancing towards the Drawer.
" Umm humm." Marko smirks. " But it's true, bringing you in is like fixing a part that has been missing. Oh there have been others, but well, Max didn't want us to have friends, so when David turned someone" Marko makes the slash motion across his neck to indicate Max killed the others. " And he never knew about Jasper." At my look Marko chuckled. " Max was our master, not our Sire, David killed our sire, how David managed to hold that secret from Max, we'll never know, but then Max was pretty gullible."
I again look over the room. " Marko?"
" Yea?" Marko looks at me curiously.
" Why do you have a human pelt on your wall? And bones in a corner?" My eyes landed again on the thing, despite the fact I wanted to look away.
" I like to collect things and sometimes I like to preserve my kills, take a little something from them." Marko answers with a smile.
" ... Ok... Seriously, you sound like a wacked out serial killer." I answered looking at him with a your insane look.
" I'm a vampire." Marko looks smug. " Everyone has their taste in things, we have things we do as humans, then they change or warp when we turn, you'll have your own, but I have an idea what it'll be." Marko's' hand then goes up to his mouth, covering that smirk.
" Ha, ha. Guess should get back to the others before they miss us." I turn and start for the door. Marko follows me on out. At least I know the reasons why, but I don't know if it makes me feel better or not.