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Chapter 26

Zuko's Transistion

~Zuko's POV~

This is how I became a vampire.

When I was younger my father left and I lived with my mother. A group of guys came to our house when I was seven years old. My mother told me to go hide in my closet and not to come back downstairs. When I was in my room she opened the door. A few minutes later I heard her scream and I looked over the railing of the stairs. I watched them kill her, a bullet to the chest. I had hid back in room after that with my hand over my mouth, trying to hold my sobs back till they left. The neighbors called the police when they heard the gunshot after her scream.

I can still remember the sound of the gun today.

I was left with nobody then. The police had taken me from the house and I was stuck in a foster home when they couldn't find any of my family that would take me in. I wasn't with that foster family long, they didn't like me. I was stuck with another family that I hated. I stayed with them about two weeks then I ran away because I couldn't stand living with people I didn't know and that would never really care for me.

I lived on the streets for about a week hiding from the police that I knew were looking for me. My foster family had reported me missing. I didn't want to be found. Being alone as a seven year old was better than living without my mother in a strange home with people I didn't know. I lived as a homeless kid sleeping in a tunnel I found with a blanket I stole from my foster 'parents.' I ate with the other homeless people around the city.

That was until she found me.

I was walking around town by myself when a girl about seventeen walked up to me. She had long dark hair and beautiful face. She told me her name and asked mine. I'd told her and she asked me why a little boy like myself was walking downtown alone. I didn't answer her so she kept talking to me. Telling me pointless things and talking like we had been friends forever. I didn't mind, she seemed nice.

She pointed out how dirty I was and my clothes were. After that she grabbed my hand and told me she was taking me somewhere to get cleaned up and then to get something to eat. I followed her even though she was a stranger. Food sounded great at that moment, I was starving. It probably wasn't smart of me to get in her car then but I hadn't cared. I figured since she was nice enough offer me help that she wasn't going to do anything to me.

She drove us to an apartment downtown and let me inside. The apartment was huge and expensive looking. She showed me the bathroom and told me to take a shower. I did as I was told. When I was done I found a pair of clothes sitting on the counter and put them on. They had fit me kind of big, but it was still a lot better than what I had been wearing before. When I came out of the bathroom she handed me a pair of new shoes.

"I hope they fit you, the clothes are a little big but they work." She said. They fit, surprisingly. I rememeber wondering why she was doing all of this for me. She'd obviously been watching me and had the clothes and shoes ready.

We went to a resturarant and she told me to order whatever I wanted. I asked for chicken nuggets, a hamburger, fries, a soda and a big slice of cake off the desert part of the menu. I ate it all. I remember her saying she was surprised I could eat that much. It wasn't a shock to me since I hadn't eaten much but what I found in dumpsters or what people gave me the past week.

I stayed at her apartment the next few days and she told me she enjoyed having me around. She wasn't home much so I had the place to myself. I played video games on the huge tv she had and raided her fridge all the time since she said I was welcome to anything I wanted. I didn't talk much but she didn't seem to mind. I didn't understand why she was taking care of me at all, but I didn't ask since I didn't want to talk to her unless I had to.

On the third night we went walking out downtown. I saw two boys fighting in an alley. It looked like the taller one was getting beat pretty badly. I felt someone push me from behind right in the middle of them. I ended up bumping into the taller boy and knocking him down as I fell, falling over him. He quickly pushed me off him and got up.

"You here to stand up for this little wimp?" He said, acting tough.

I got up and looked from him to the other boy, who had a bloody nose and a shiner already. It didn't look like he was doing good. I didn't want to be in the middle of the fight I was pushed into. I looked around and noticed the girl was no where to be seen now. The taller boy pushed me backwards.

"Well? You little punk? Why ain't you answering me?" He shouted.

I stumbled back and he decided to hit me in the face. It looked like it was too late, I was in the middle of the fight. I wasn't going to let him get away with hitting me. I punched him back knocking him off balance and he swung at me again. He missed and I pushed him backwards and he fell down. His head hit the ground and he groaned. He got up then and ran away cursing at me. I helped the other boy up and then walked away.

The girl who'd invited me into her home was back now. She walked up to me and asked if I was okay. I nodded and she said I was a tough boy and a good fighter. I took pride in that and smiled. We walked around the corner and she leaned down to me.

"I like how you fight. You could be useful." Her voice was different than it usually was. Her tone sounded really dark and the expression on her face looked psychotic. I backed away from her. She grabbed my arm and looked me right in the eyes.

"You will not move, scream, or make a noise, understood?" She said, her voice staying in that same tone. I nodded and she leaned closer to me. I felt her teeth touch my neck and she bit me. It hurt at first but then I felt a weird whoosh of pleasure. That feeling was over as soon as I felt it. She pulled back and smiled, licking blood off her lips. Her eyes were bright red, instead of the pretty brown they were before. I stared at her shaking with fear.

I wanted to run away, but I couldn't make myself move. She stared at me and smiled again. "You will be a great little monster, I can tell." I looked at her confused and she snickered. "You may move now, just don't run."

I found myself able to move as she said that. I didn't run as she said. I was afraid of what she would do if I did. She was no longer the same person who'd been taking care of me the past few days. The girl in front of me was a monster. She'd bitten my neck. Told me I was going to be a 'little monster'. She took me by the hand and walked me down an alley. I saw a girl about my age sitting on the ground and crying.

"Have fun." The monster beside me said and then she was gone.

I walked over to the girl who was crying. I started to smell something weird in the air. I didn't know what it was until I got closer to her. I noticed that she was holding her neck and there was blood all over her hand. I suddenly felt drawn to the smell. It was like nothing else I had never smelled, and I felt myself getting closer and closer to her. The girl looked up to me.

"H-help...it hurts..." She cried.

I heard the fear in her voice but was distracted by the smell of her blood again. I reached out to her and lifted her hand off her neck. The blood ran down neck and I licked my lips. It looked so good to me all of a sudden. The girl pushed me away from her.

"No..no please! Not you too, you're like her!" She yelled. I was brought back to my senses as she said that. What was I doing? I took another breath and like that I couldn't hold back. I threw myself at her and knocked her backwards. She screamed. I felt the need to taste her blood, I needed it. I leant my head down to her neck and tasted it.

It was like nothing else. I suddenly wanted more. I licked the blood on her neck again and then bit. It was amazing. I felt a horrible pain in my mouth right at that moment. I pulled back and yelled out in pain then it was over. I remembered how the blood tasted and bit her again. The girl stopped screaming and went quiet. I got lost in the taste of her blood and I knew it was wrong, but I didn't stop. I didn't care, all I wanted was more and more.

I felt a hand on my shoulder. "Now, now Zuko. You don't want to kill her do you?"

I stopped thinking of that. No, I didn't want to kill somebody. I pulled away from the girl and looked down in horror at what I had done. She had blood all over the dress she was wearing and was laying there without moving. I paniced, afraid I had already killed her. I recognized the voice as hers. looked back at the girl who'd bitten me.

"Don't worry, she's not dead." She said kneeling down next to me. She bit her wrist and put it to the girl's mouth. I watched and wondered why she was doing it. "My blood will heal her. She will become like us later, a vampire, since you just put your venom into her bloodstream. She will sleep until her body heals.

Us. She'd just said us like... I was like her now. A vampire.

Azula smiled. "Being a vampire is the best thing that has ever happened to you. This will be so much fun!" She said, the second part sounding like she was talking to herself rather than me.

Azula had taken advantage of the orphaned homeless seven year old me. At first I liked being a vampire, I loved drinking blood. Azula had taught me how to take victims and I loved it. It was about a month after I changed that but I realized just how much of a monster it made me. I stopped biting people then, and started drinking from the blood bags from then on.

Since that day, I've been a vampire. She took me to Ozai's lair after that and I grew up there, having no place else to go, and no longer able to live as a human. She set that girl up for me, knowing I wouldn't be able to resist.

Azula did this to me. I will never forgive her.

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