The beginning of all things

Written by; Thomas G. Arndt

A life for much is normal until you find out the truth

Chapter 7

All the vampyres in Oklahoma were sent invitations to the party, the Prince was sent extras to give to those he felt had to come, his wife was very diligent in telling us the numbers that would attend. The day before I had made up my mind to take the extra set, I mean I had taken Amy with me to pick out the ring, and she was very careful to have it designed in a true vampyre fashion. Timothy knew about the ring also, but no one had known about my decision, I had to wonder on how to do it, put in her soup, maybe in a piece of cake, I mean every fashion had already been used. Maybe a carriage ride with the end ending up at some place romantic, they all knew I was nervous, I played it off as being nervous about the party, but I knew I couldn't do it at the door where we would be greeting guest. And even the carriage ride seemed a little to obvious to me, then I decided it had to be as much as a surprise to me as well, one thing for sure I would have it in my pocket, and in a way I knew it had to be classic. So we stood at the front door shaking hands, if vampyres could sweat, I knew I would have been doing it, we all knew in classic vampyre fashion everyone would be late.

We stood at the front door shaking everyone's hand, as I leaned over and said to Amy, " Amy tonight's the night."

She smiled at me as she finished the next hand shake and asked, " What ran?"

" I think I'm ready, so it has to be tonight."

" Ran you're not making sense, tell me more clearly."

" The surprise for you know who."

" What-"

Timothy then cut her off with, " Are you sure Ran, that's a big step to be doing in front of the Prince."

" Yeah, it has to be tonight, and he will either recognize it or be damned with him."

Carla then asked, " Ran you're confusing me, just tell us what you mean."

Amy then said, " Oh. OH! Carla don't worry, Ryan knows what he's doing, I'm not so sure about the Prince, but if he feels it's time he has to do it."

" Do what in front of the Prince?" Came from the door.

We all turned our heads as the Prince came in, I then replied, " It's kind of a surprise, I know you don't like surprises, but this is a good one if you'll give me your leave to continued with it."

The Princess then said who had on a very lovely southern red and black dress, " Ran you have our leave to do whatever you please, Charlie you know I like him, so please go with him on this."

He had on a beautiful black silk suit with red shirt, I knew he had to have been dressed by his wife as he gave me a stern look and said. " Ok Ran, but don't try my patience."

He shook Timothy's hand and kissed Amy's hand, I then shook his hand and looked at Carla as I said, " Your heinous I would like to present you Carla, Carla this is Prince Charles and his lovely wife Princess Stephanie."

Then I kissed the Princesses hand as the Prince did the same with Carla's hand, the Princess got close as she asked, " What is it?"

I whispered back, " I got her a ring."

She straightened up and went over and gave Carla a big hug, and she said, " Oh dear you are such a lucky girl."

Or course she looked confused, I took her hand and squeezed it, then we welcomed the rest of the Prince's party, this party would be a long one, and maybe even longer for Carla, but I had to hope not. As soon as the guests were in, Amy and Timothy escorted the Prince and Princess to their seats, he put his hand out so everyone would start to dance, but then I put my hand up, this is the way vampyre interrupt an event. So he turned to me and asked, " The surprise Ryan?"

I nodded my head and he then said, " You have my leave."

I then took Carla by the hand, and escorted her up to the front, then I started with, " As the two of you are perfect examples to us, you also have a perfect love as an example for all of us to see, it is in this boon that I now do what I feel is only natural to us."

He looked as confused as Carla, the Princess reached across and held his hand, then I turned to Carla and continued, " Carla I've voiced my opinion to you, and I had no idea of how to do this, then as we were standing there it came to me, it is in our favorite movie together." I then looked back to the Prince and Princess and said, " If we were in a different age I would have asked the two of you if I could court her, I may have stole a kiss here and there, but nothing would have happened in between us until I asked you permission to do this."

The crowd got very silent as I got down on one knee and pulled the very small box out of my pocket, then as I cracked it open I continued, " Carla my love, if it be your pleasure, would you do me the honor of being my bride."

She blinked her eye's in disbelief, she then looked around the room, I could see the tinge of red at the corner of her eye, should I have waited, could I have waited, did I put her on to much of a spot light. Oh my God, did she even love me, had I put to much into the fact that vampyre look at love making as just an act, why didn't she just say no and get my torment over with. Then her beautiful voice sound in the tone that I loved so much and would farther love after this day, " Yes Ran, yes."

She then put her fingers out on her left hand, my hand was shaking as I put it on, and after I had finished the crowd was deathly silent, but one hand started to clap, we both looked as we saw the Princess clapping. Then the Prince joined in, and one at a time joined in my gayety then, she said yes and that's all I needed to hear, my love truly loved me, the Princess was the first to come over and kiss her on the cheek. Then the Prince asked to me. " Ran may I start the dancing off with a dance."

I thought it would be funny so I replied, " Ok but I think we would look strange on the dance floor." He gave me a slight smile as I then added, " Oh you mean Carla, well only if I can dance with your beautiful wife."

He then asked her, " Well dear you can dance one dance with Ran can't you?"

She gave me a big smile as she nodded her head, then the two of us led our ladies out on the dance floor and started things off, I had to feel sorry for Carla, I mean every man wanted to dance with her. I danced most of the night away also, but mine was as constant as her was, she had to be exhausted, and I felt that if she wanted to have sex after all this it it would be fully up to her. Well it was always fully up to her, well not our room so much, I mean if you saw it you'd say she had all the influence in there, but she bought a pink comforter, a pink comforter. I had Amy talk to her about this, as I felt very uncomfortable with a pink comforter, but I did compromise on the sheets, we had four sets for our bed, a red set I bought, a pink set she had bought, and two sets that Amy had bought. One with little flowers on them, and one with green ivy on them, all high dollar Egyptian cotton and the pattern were embroidered on them, she had to have paid a fortune for them. Well the party started to break up at five in the morning, and the caterer went home at two, we finally had the house closed up by six thirty, and were in bed by seven. Can you believe that Carla was full of energy, so did we do it, well no, what we did do was talk about what she liked about the night, and of course the high light was me asking her to marry me.

We went down to let the caterers in to get their stuff, and to allow the special maid service in to clean after the party, I explained how late the party was, and to please not disturb us in our rooms. So in the end we got up at six in the evening with Amy whom was surprised at how clean the house was, did I tell you that vampyres really don't need to sleep. Well you can tell when we don't rest, we sit down and have to allow the blood to work when we do rise, and if you were very energetic you are forced to drink human. That evening both Amy and Timothy had to drink human blood, where as Carla and I could just drink animal blood, oh we had three refrigerators, one had a lock so as no one can get to our blood supplies. The second one was almost full of beverages, wine, soda pop, and energy drinks, the last really tasted bad when you added blood to them, Carla really love root beer, and Amy and Timothy had a coke now and then, we also had juices in there. I found that for a change I could put my blood in a glass of red grape juice, we had two brown bottles that were our special blend, Timothy had a device that could reseal a bottle, so we could seal our blood in them, it was a way to hide our blood in plan view.

We also had three washing machines and four driers, and in the linen closet we had three vacuums, four brooms with dust pans, and four buckets with rags and full cleaning brushes. You see at a proper house it was the fledglings job to keep it clean, even until the fledglings started to pour in it would be our jobs, but I have to give it up to Amy, she was a real pro when it came to cleaning. And yes I did say we had a cleaning service come in once a week, we still cleaned on a daily basis, Carla wasn't used to this so I had to show her how to clean at first, but even she got into the game after awhile. I mean we could handle up to seven fledglings, with Carla that would mean eight for now, with the possibility of two full time elders and Timothy and I, we had the ability to have six full classes working all at once. And as the student came and went, we could easily have new elders every year, our first student came to us in April, did I tell you that our tracker wore buck skins, I think he was a real American Indian.

Oh one more thing before we get into the new kid, well grown up adult that had been turned into vampyre. So what was I going to tell you. Oh yeah, Amy's treasure chest, on the day of the party she pulled out a chest, it was an old steam chest from the thirty's I think. We sat there as she opened it up, it was full of jewels, I mean every piece had it's own display box, it wasn't like the treasure chests you see in the movies. Man did she have a lot of jewelry, Timothy's eye's got really big after she opened it up, I don't blame the man, I mean who keeps jewelry around like that. He made an attempt and failed to talk her into buying a safe for all that, she explained to him that this was Carla's dowry if she ever passed, and how would she ever get to it if it was locked up. I knew she really loved emeralds, but this chest had more jewelry then I had ever seen, white gold yellow gold, platinum, and silver of all kinds. Placed within them were diamonds, ruby's, amethyst, well and more jewels then I think you could find at a jewelry store, well and of course her ever present emeralds, the entire top level was devoted to those.

Oh and she had it all broken up in level of importance, the ones she hated to have, they were on the bottom, and up to her beloved emeralds, an emerald bracelet could easily get you out of trouble with Amy, I know she had mine right on the top. That piece got me out of world of trouble from her, even though it looked so small in comparison to the others, she told me it was her most prized possession in her jewelry box, yes you heard me right, she called it her jewelry box. Carla had one that was eight inch's, by a foot, and probably six inch's deep, I bought it for all her jewelry that I had bought her, which added up to eight pieces, well nine after the ring, but she would really never take that off. Even as we took our shower together, she would bring the box it came in, then she would take it off, we would take our shower, then after we dried each other, the first thing I would do was put it back on her. That night she wore more jewels then the Princess, and she gave Carla enough jewels to almost equal the ones that she wore, the Princess not Amy, oh and she made sure that all her jewelry was purple, Carla really loved purple. All except her choker, it was pink and white, the broach on the choker not the choker, it had a purple ribbon that fastened in the back with a silver hook and chain, the Princess wore all diamonds on white gold.

As this was a normal day, it was jumping time, Carla's favorite class, we used the rock climbing stuff so they could crawl around on the ceiling, my job was to show her what to do, then watch her do it. We had enough mates to cover the entire floor, the ceiling was just the height of the floor, but I showed her how to bound to get down, And Amy showed her how to always land on her feet, after awhile she taught herself how to crawl without effort on the ceiling. Since the house was a little over three stories high, I took her out all the time to show her how it how work on a building, we had to board up the windows so no on lookers could see what she was doing. Of course the out side work was always done at four in the morning so no one could see her, most people didn't get up until six or six thirty, oh and never on a Friday or Saturday, just to many late night people for any of this. I had to wonder if anyone even thought about the house that kept it's lights on all night, Timothy would go through and turn off all the unused rooms, and Amy would go behind him and turn them all on again, anyways this night I had showed Carla a new trick, and Amy had come in to do it with her.

I just stood inside the door watching them as I was thinking of joining them, it wasn't uncommon for me to join them, even though my job was to watch them just in case they got hurt, and Amy joining her was an almost nightly thing, it's when Timothy went through the books, so she had the time. It was kind of funny, he would come in and say, ' Carla time for the book young lady.' Then she would complain until Amy would say in her Irish voice, ' Just go do what is given ya young lady.' I had told her a few moments before she could play if she wanted, so Amy and her were crawling around on the ceiling, I had a way of knowing when he was there, so our Mr. Jones came up behind me and said, " Ryan where is Amy?"

I pointed up as I replied, " She's having fun with Carla, why what do you need?"

He glanced up as he replied to my question, " I found a fledgling, and have brought him with me, Ryan may I introduce you to Nicholas."

I turned and put out my hand as I said, " I'm pleased to meet you Nicholas, is there a nickname you like or do you prefer Nicholas?"

He took my hand in a firm hand shake as he replied, " Nick, are you a student?"

Amy jumped down and replied, " He's a part time teacher, I'm Amy, nice to meet you Nick."

He jumped a little as he carefully looked up still shaking my hand, he asked, " Whoa, how is she doing that?"

I replied, " It's really quite easy, don't worry though I'll teach you, it's all part of your physical education."

Amy then took his hand from mine and said, " Carla come down here and shake Nick's hand."

At that very moment Carla decided to show off, she did a half twist and landed on all fours, she almost looked like a cat how she had done it, she then straightened up and came over and shook his hand. Then she said, " Carla, first year student, well really the first student, so Nick how old were you when you were changed?"

All he did was stare at her, so I waved my hand in front of his eye's as I asked, " Nick are you going to answer her of what?"

He shook his head and replied, " A, thirty- two, my sire took me just four day ago, she said she would be here in a day or so, her name is Serena."

Amy then said in a strong voice, " Timmy take Nicholas here and show him his room, explain the house rules and class hours."

Timothy was there in a flash right behind Nicholas and asked, " Have you been a vampyre long?"

He had to jump a mile as her said, " HOLY SHIT!"

He followed up with, " I presume you found him Mr. Jones."

Mr. Jones then replied, " I was drawn to him, the damned mortician already had the tubes hooked up to him, I barely got there in time, you have to talk to his sire about remaining with the body after the change."

I then spoke directly to Nicholas, " It's a little disconcerting at first, you'll get used to it though, to allow you to get use to it we've given you a generic bed room, you can do with it what you will. After all it's yours for four years, only we ask that you return it to it's generic state after that time, I teach control and physical education. Timothy here teaches history with vampyre law, and economics, Amy teaches a class on personal hygiene, and a special class that you'll only know about. We need another teacher, hey maybe your sire will apply, I would be cool to have your sire here with you."

Timothy then added, " This life is quite simple, for now you're under the protection of our mistress Amy and our Prince Charles."

Nicholas then looked at him with a strange look, and to me, and finally to Amy as he said, " I his wife's name is Dianna I'm out of here."

I had to laugh hard as both Timothy and Amy chuckled, only Carla didn't see the humor in his remark as she answered him with, " No, it's Princess Stephanie, I don't see what's so funny, he had a serious question."

I put my hands on her shoulder's as I asked her, " Carla you know Prince William of England right?"

" Yeah, so."

" Did you know his Momma's name was Princess Dianna, and I'm sure you know his Daddy's name right?"

It didn't take her long to realized what he had said, her eye's then wrinkled up as she started to giggle, then she asked an honest question, " How did she die anyways?"

I then replied in as honestly as I could, " No one really knows, I mean there really wasn't a reason or sense about it, she supposedly died on the way to the hospital after being in a car crash, and they say her injuries weren't life threatening."

" Could she have turned into a vampyre?"

I had to look at Amy because I truly had no idea of how to answer this, Amy shook her head as she replied, " I think someone as important would have made it on the web, I mean I can't be sure, I can be sure that Prince Charles wouldn't have gone with her, and I'm sure that the entire vampyre world would have known about her."

Timothy then asked her, " Amy would you like me to research that for you?"

I then looked at Carla as I replied, " No Tim, I think this would be a good research project for Carla, after all she had the question, Honey you can write a report for Tim or Amy, it wouldn't be right to give it to me, even though I would enjoy reading it."

" I'll do it," Carla replied, then added, " Ran I think I should give it to Tim, after all he is my history teacher. Is that ok Amy?"

Amy nodded her head as she also added, " But do it in your off time, maybe use that fancy lap top Ran got you."

Nicholas then asked, " You called her Honey and she called you Ran, does that mean that the two of you are like a thing."

Amy then jumped in with, " Ryan and Carla are the first vampyres to wed in two hundred years, well they're not married as of yet, but Princess Stephanie has approved their union, you'll find out vampyre rules are very formal here."

" Do you have to be approved to get married?"

" No, not usually, but Carla is under the six year window, you have to be in this life before you can wed, if one or both are within this window you have to seek permission."

Timothy then said in an overly calm voice, " Like my and Amy's wedding, if you're of age no one ever has to know, and we're keeping it that way."

My eye's went straight to her left hand, she always had on jewelry, but she was very careful not to make any mistake with her jewelry, she had the biggest diamond ring there I had ever seen as she said, " Great Timmy, I hadn't had time to tell Ran yet, I just asked Carla when we were playing."

My eye's then went to Carla as she answered my unasked question, " I'm her maid of honor, oh and she said if we have to suffer a vampyre wedding, she would be very happy to join us, even though then I couldn't be her maid or honor."

Ok my questions were getting answered before I even asked them and as I turned my head to Timothy he did the same, " Hey Ryan would you do me the honor of being my best man, well unless you're forced to suffer a vampyre wedding."

I have to say I was a little surprised at this, so I just nodded with the thought of a vampyre wedding, it had never even occurred to me that we might have to have a vampyre wedding. Carla then asked, " A Ran, what's a vampyre wedding?"

I went in auto mode as I replied, " Vampyres believe the blood is everything, so we would have to be dressed in blood."

" Oh that's it, why do they say we would have to suffer a vampyre wedding?"

Amy then added, " Well Carla you would be dressed in nothing but blood, and all the elder vampyres would pass to make sure you would honor him in your vows."

" Well-"

I cut her off with, " What Amy means is nothing but blood, you would be in nothing but what God gave you, then the Vampyre High Priestess would put the blood over your head, after she did this she would then call the elders up one at a time to look at you. Well and me, you see it's a union, we would both be there in only what God had given us, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this Amy."

" Wait, as in bare naked?"

Nicholas then said, " She is a little slow isn't she, I got that like fifteen minutes ago, he wait if it is a wedding would I have to attend?"

Timothy then gave him a look as he responded, " Yes, don't you like weddings?"

" No, I kinda like them, I mean it's very easy to pick up girls and stuff, and to see two beautiful women nude, well that would be an added plus," he then looked at the two of us as we stared a hole through him, and he added, " Hey I'm not a pervert, I just enjoy the sight of a beautiful woman."

Amy then added with a little look at Nick, " Well and honey that would only happen if one of the elders called for it, you have a choice of everything except the way you get married, and one of the things you can call for is a blind for the public."

I'm sure she added that part just for Nick, I then added to try and give her more comfort, " Plus Amy already said she would allow us to suffer it alone, these things are all handled in the same manor, so she and Timothy would be right next to us."

Carla then said in a calm sweet voice, " But Ryan I don't want anyone to see what I have, well in what you have I mean, I want to look upon youe body all myself."

I took her hand and said in a low loving voice, " I don't want them to see what I have in you either, I mean they see your perfection and they'll want it for themselves, so I have something even greater to protect if you know what I mean."

Timothy then added with a kiss to Amy, " Yeah Babe, I think that they'll see you and I'll have to go searching for another."

Nicholas then said, " If you four start quoting the be attitudes I think I'm going to be sick."

" Maybe I should take you to your room Nicholas, I have to stop by my office and get some paper work for you, it's really formal so your old life doesn't encroach in your new unlife."

" Not that you have to, but what do you mean?"

They started to walk off as he replied, " You see we give all your information of your life to the Prince, and he gives it to his men, then they do a search on you to see if your past has a chance of catching up on you."

He then said something about how his old life was really just a pain in his ass, and how Serena had changed everything for him, well I really wasn't listening that well, you see my attention had turned back to Carla. I put my fists on my waist and said, " Young lady you still have twenty minutes here, so get back to training, and I want you to do your new track at least three more times."

She did a ballet turn, then a three step run and jumped back up to the ceiling.