5. RETRIBUTION
Sasha didn't know what to do or where to go. She was just angry. She knew that she couldn't be seen in the daylight like this so she went back to the brothel and hid in the ally way. The stench was even worse now, or she had just become more aware of it. She traced all of her bad fortune back to Aleksey. If only he had done what he should have done. If only he had been the man that she thought he was.
These thoughts seeped through her mind like poison. When the night finally returned, she knew what she wanted to do. She walked into the brothel as if nothing had happened. The manager approached her and started to yell at her for not coming to work the past few days but when he saw her, he stopped. She had somehow become frightening but she was so beautiful. The desire for money won out over his instincts to survive and he knew that she would make him rich. So he left her alone and acted as if nothing happened as well.
It was hard for Sasha not to kill every person in there. Her mouth watered and her throat burned but she somehow found the strength to resist. Finally, Aleksey walked through the door. He started to walk over to the table by the piano but out of the corner of his eye, he saw Sasha and changed his course over to the bar.
"Sasha, wow. You look amazing. How have you been?" Aleksey asked, stunned by her beauty.
Sasha forced that smile out and said "I can be however you want me to be."
Aleksey gulped. "Hey, I'm sorry about before. Can we be friends again?"
Sasha breathed in his sweet scent and said "Friends." Then she walked around the bar to his side and gently took his hand to guide him upstairs. She had seduced him. And when she had him where she wanted him, she attacked him and drank his blood. The nectar was so sweet. Instead of filling her, it turned the atmosphere into a frenzy and all she could think about was getting more. She ended up going from room to room; drinking the blood of every person she came across. Then she moved downstairs and fed on every person down there as well. When there was no one left she finally realized what she had done. She caught a glimpse of her reflection and instead of being stunned by her own beauty, she saw a monster. Blood dripped down her chin onto her clothes. Sasha knew she would never be the same. She accepted this, but even more, she embraced the power she now had.
To hide her gluttony, she poured the alcohol out everywhere. Then she lit a match and set the place ablaze. She stood there watching as the bloodless corpses burned. Then the flames got close to her and her skin actually burned. So she wasn't invincible after all. She thought about it, staying there to die. She had wanted death so badly before. But now she felt more empowered than she ever had and she relished the feeling. She fled the building before the flames could hurt her anymore and stood outside to watch. The burned skin quickly healed and returned to normal.
Sasha left Saratov and wandered the Russian villages, searching for men to feed off of. Surely there was not a single good man in this world. She was doing a great justice by taking them out of it. Still, from time to time, she would mourn the loss of her son. She would look down at her hardened flat belly and try to remember what it felt like to have him moving inside of her. She missed that feeling.
The seasons changed and winter turned to spring and spring turned to summer, though Russian summers were still quite cold. Sasha had been wandering for a long time until she came to the seaport town of Tiksi. It was already nightfall and Sasha was very hungry. She very rarely killed women but did it if she needed to survive. She was walking along the rocky shore when she saw her.
A woman with strawberry blond hair looked out at the sea. Something about her expression made Sasha stop. She looked so sad. Sasha wondered what man had hurt her in her life. Sasha had been lonely and longed for a companion. Perhaps this girl could be that. Sasha could give her a life of power and control.
Sasha went down to the girl and wrapped her arms around her in a hug. For some reason the girl did not struggle. She seemed utterly defeated, even before Sasha came to claim her life. It was hard for Sasha but she somehow managed to stop feeding. She stayed with the girl on the rocky shore for three days while she suffered through her change. When it was finally over, Sasha told her what she had become but she also told her the benefits of this new life.
As the information sunk in, Sasha asked her "What is your name?"
The new vampire spoke and said "I am Tanya."
Sasha helped Tanya get retribution by killing all the men in her town that had ever wronged her. Tanya was a bloodthirsty newborn and Sasha looked out for her as a mother would look out for her own child.
Over the course of the next several years Sasha would add two more daughters to her coven, Katya, who was called Kate for short, and Irina. Kate was a pretty blond that was the daughter of a scientist. She would not reveal much information about her human past other than her father used her for experiments. It was interesting, however, that when Kate changed into a vampire she had an ability that the others did not. She was able to send electric shocks through the touch of her skin.
Then there was Irina. She was the youngest of them all, only 16. She had silvery blond hair and seemed like a fragile little creature. She, like the other members of her coven, was exceptionally beautiful. These four women would often seduce men and lure them to their deaths. They are the originators of the succubus myths.
