Shadows of the Night; C9 – Meeting Once Again
I was so shocked. My room was completely intact. All I could see that resembled that night was the blood smeared all over the floor. I lifted my body off of the carpet, though my knees were so weak that I instantly collapsed back down. I stayed that way for quite awhile. When dawn broke over the horizon I finally got up. And I must say it was one of the most beautiful sunrises I have ever seen in my two lives.
I gathered what clothes and things I could possibly bring with me, including all my old journals. And all the ones Father had gotten me that were unused. As I began to leave someone – or something? – jumped out at me from behind, trying to choke me by putting silver chains around my neck.
"You cannot kill me." I said with no fear in my voice.
"What makes you so sure of that Night Creature?" he knew what I was?
"Who are you?"
"No one you need to know my dear, seeing as your life is about to end." He began holding the chains close to my neck, but nothing was happening. And I knew what they did to you. They burned through your neck till your head is decapitated. But nothing. "What the hell are you? I've been killing your kind for too many years out of my longed life, but yet you're not dead yet?" now I recognized the voice.
Professor Black.
I turned around while his attention was diverted. But just as he was about to attack I put my hands up and yelled very loudly. "PROFESSOR BLACK!" that stopped him in his tracks. "Professor, it 'tis I, Willow."
He stood there for a moment, looking at me at first in confusion. Then it changed from confusion to recognition, then to pure happiness. I smiled at him, he reached out his arms and I ran to the professor giving him a huge hug.
"Willow, dear I cannot breathe." I pulled away mouthing oops. The professor chuckled at me, and then turned around to sit down in an armchair to my right. "So, tell me, how is it that my protégé is a Night Creature? And a completely different one at that?" so I told him my story, of Stephan, the lady with the dress, the events of the ball, and how I found the palace.
"It felt like there was some sort of pull, leading me here." I finished.
"It 'tis probably the pull of the magic and it once being your home."
"Maybe so." We sat in silence for a while. Eventually the silence was broken.
"You know, Willow, many Night Creatures are ruthless, bloodlust animals. You are not. Why 'tis that so?"
"I am not like others professor. I have no need to hide out of the sunlight; I am just like all humans. I have no fear of being discovered."
"You mean they can go into the sun?"
"Oh yes. They just fear of being discovered. That's why they emerge during night." He sat there looking thoughtful, then eventually asked;
"Then why do they kill?"
"I do not know. I do not need the blood of others to fuel my hunger, thirst, energy. I feed off the moonlight. But only when there 'tis a full moon. And I'm afraid I am beginning to get weak in its absence."
We talked a while longer, and eventually I sped off through the night, still waiting for the full moon.