Resistance (Dark Realm Series) (9 page)

First of all, Kizzy, can you tell the
audience a little about yourself?

Kizzy:I didn't realize this would be
about me. I don't want to talk about myself. I'm just here to gather intel from
my enemy, Prince Leopold.

Moderator: Just a little background for
the audience? Please?

Kizzy: Well, first of all, I'm not really
fifteen. I'll be sixteen in a few days. I enjoy urban spelunking, which is
exploring abandoned buildings and tunnels, with my friends. There's not much
else to tell. I'm pretty average except for the fact that my father tried to
kill me and I just discovered my blood can open a vortex leading to an evil
alternate dimension.

Moderator: How about telling the audience
where we are?

Kizzy:This room is a psychomanteum.

Moderator: Psycho—what?

Kizzy:It's a visioning tool. The basis
for the psychomanteum dates back thousands of years. Staring into reflective
objects such as pools of water or mirrors has been considered a conduit to
communicating with spirits or other dimensions since the ancient Greeks.

Moderator: How does it work?

Kizzy: The room is set up so that I can
reach a meditative state. Once, I get into the right frame of mind, the prince
should appear in the mirror. At first when I started using this thing it was
hard to get into the right headspace. But it's been easy lately.

Moderator: Why do we have to use a mirror
to talk to the prince?

Kizzy: Duh. Since Prince Leopold is the
ruler of an empire in an alternate universe, it's the only way to talk to him. I'm
certainly not about to open the portal between our worlds and allow him to come
here to be interviewed in person.

Moderator: Who is Prince Leopold?

Kizzy:He's the son of Queen Victoria. He
was born with hemophilia, a blood disorder that prevents clotting. In our
dimension he died in 1884 as a result of internal bleeding from a trip and
fall.

Audience: Awwwww.

Kizzy:Don't feel sorry for the prince. In
his alternate world, Queen Victoria employed a warlock to try to save his life.
But the cure went wrong and he was turned into a vampire. He became monarch of
the
Empire of
the Dark
after killing off his entire family, including his mother. Since
then he's been busy creating a vampire aristocracy and gathering all sorts of
paranormal creatures into his sphere. Only trouble is, humans are becoming
scarce in his world so he'd like to get control of me so I can open up other
dimensions for conquering.

Leopold (laughing as he appears in the
mirror): Kizzy, you make me sound so evil.

Kizzy: Hello Your Highness. I didn't
realize you'd already arrived. I'm just telling them a few facts.

Leopold: You'll have these nice people
thinking that I'm some kind of villain. While it's true I will do anything and
everything to do my duty to my subjects, I believe that clearly makes me the
hero, not the villain.

Kizzy: Whatever floats your coffin.

Leopold: I do not understand this idiom.

Kizzy: Never mind. So, what new schemes
are you plotting against the human race these days?

Leopold: You do not expect me to reveal
my plans so easily do you?

Kizzy: It was worth a try.

Leopold (shaking his head sadly): Am I
really so different from you? You want to save your friends and family. I
merely want to save my people.

Kizzy: You used my friends as your
personal sippy cups. Should I thank you for that?

Leopold: My subjects — vampire,
ghoul and the like— require humans as food. Am I to disregard my duty and
allow them to starve? To perish in the most horrible of deaths? No I must
provide for them. In this world, all free-range humans have been or soon will
be rounded up and placed in the feedlot system. But we need an influx of new
food sources and the only choice is to go outside this world.

Kizzy: So you admit you're killing
people.

Leopold: All human feedlots in my empire
are run to the strictest of industry standards for production. Food stock is
treated in the most humane way possible.

Kizzy: Yeah. You suck 'em dry and use
their bones for toothpicks. Real humane.

Leopold: Would it be better to allow them
to be hunted down in the wild? No. It is better this way. Our system ensures
that the humans do not feel pain or fear. They are virtually unconscious. In a
trance.

Kizzy: Like zombies.

Leopold: No. Zombies are brain-eating
fiends. They are rotting flesh. I would not suck on them if—

Kizzy: I get it. There's a difference.

Leopold: Let us not argue, dear Kizzy. We
will agree to disagree. But let me say how happy I am to be here today to
communicate directly to my fans in your world.

Kizzy: Fans? What fans?

Leopold: Come now, Kizzy. I am a ruler of
great power and wealth. If I may be immodest for a moment, I also possess good
looks and charisma. I embody a very attractive combination. Of course I have
fans in your world.

Kizzy: No, I don't agree.

Leopold: Besides, you Americans love
British royalty. I have heard, for example, about your admiration for one of
the descendents I would have had but for my transformation. The wedding of
Prince William to a girl named Kate was quite a popular event in your world by
all accounts.

Kizzy: Yes, but that's different. They
are a beautiful young human couple in love and living a romantic fairytale.
You're a...a ...

Leopold: Blood sucking monster?

Kizzy: If the fangs fit.

Leopold: Is that sarcasm?

Kizzy: Oh no. Not a drop.

Leopold: Just because I used a couple of
your friends for —what did you call it? — a sippy cup, does not
require a fit of ill manners on your part.

Kizzy: Why don't we try a few questions
about your likes and dislikes for the throng of "fans" you imagine
you have out there? I'll throw a few choices out and you go with your first
answer.

Leopold: Ah yes. This is bit like word
association. My psychoanalyst has utilized this technique on me to explore my
Oedipal issues.

Kizzy: Your psychoanalyst?

Leopold: Yes. Sigmund Freud.

Kizzy: Is Freud a vampire in your
dimension?

Leopold: Of course. You may find it hard
to believe, but I was quite traumatized by my childhood. I am not ashamed of
requiring therapy. Dr. Freud was one of the first humans I turned after my
transformation was complete.

Kizzy: My question was legitimate. He
could be a ghoul. Those creatures are created by you vampires, right?

Leopold: Yes, but you don't think I'd
divulge the innermost workings of my psyche to a mere ghoul do you?

Kizzy: Well he could be a werewolf
or—

Leopold (snapping fingers): Me talk to a
dog? Please. Now you are just being ridiculous. On to your questions.

Kizzy: Okay. First of all, messy or neat?

Leopold: Neat.

Kizzy: Mozart of Beethoven?

Leopold: Mozart.

Kizzy (mumbling): Figures...he was crazy.

Leopold: What did you say?

Kizzy: Nothing. Chocolate or Vanilla?
Oops sorry. You don't eat do you?

Leopold: In fact, I find chocolate quite
delicious when added to some pickled brain. It's the perfect combination of
savory and sweet that—

Kizzy: Moving on. Dog or cat?

Leopold: They're both tasty.

Kizzy (shaking head): Team Edward or Team
Jacob?

Leopold: I have no idea who theses
"teams" are. Do they play rugby or football?

Kizzy: Never mind. It's a stupid
question. All these are stupid questions. Let's wrap this up.

Leopold: All right, but before I go I'd
like to say thank you to the moderator for having us on your television show. I
hope you didn't consider the animosity of my exchanges with Kizzy discourteous
to you or your audience. I really would like to visit you all in person one
day.

Kizzy: I bet you would. Interview over.
I'm shutting this down.

Leopold: You may run away now, Kizzy
Taylor, but be assured you will not be able to run forever. I will find some
way to open the portal between our worlds again very soon.

She steps away from the mirror and the
prince's image fades to fog

Kizzy: Not if I have anything to do with
it.

To read more
about Kizzy and Prince Leopold, and to find out what's happening in our
dimension while the action of
RESISTANCE
is
taking place, look for
ENTANGLEMENTS
, a paranormal romantic suspense, which is part of
the Paranormal Realities Box Set.
http://amzn.com/B00AAZ5YMO
.
Watch for Amy to make her appearance there as well.

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