Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess 3 (3 page)

Chapter
5

I was coming back home
,
walking into slow motion
,
observing
a
landscape
totally green
,
the wind whistled through the vivacious trees
.  All was
different from everything I‘d seen
on
Neptune,
where
there were
dry trees and darkness
.

There appeared in front of me
a
seven–year old boy
. He rode on his
red
bike
toward me
.
A stone
on the way
interrupted
his
route
.  He
fell to the ground
after I had
moved past
it. His
bike
fell
shortly after his body
.

He
mumbled
when he saw
his
wounded knee
.
I took five steps
forward to help him
.

“Are you all right?”
I asked him
as I grabbed his arm
,
trying to pick him up
.

“
My knee aches
!” he said,
crying
.

I was surprised to see
his knee was covered with blood.
...Then I
closed my eyes
,
avoiding
an increasing
desire
inside me
.

The sweet soft scent of his blood
turmed me into a bloodthirsty vampire
.
I turned around and quickly looked up at the sky
thus
the little boy
could not see my supernatural face
. My eyes
changed
color
. They were
gray
and my
teeth became sharp
.

My brain
imagined
a drastic
scene
. I had
penetrated my fangs into his neck flesh
.

I fought
against
my thoughts
as much as
I could.

Then my
muscles
compressed
and an extensive
pain
invaded
my stomach
.
It was the
symptom
in favor of my
blood’s
dependence.

First,
I wanted to
save the existence
of
that
innocent
child.
I didn’t want to interrupt
his lifetime
to feed myself. It would be
such cruelty.

Despite the fact that
I had
become a vampire
,
I struggled
against
it.
I didn’t want to adjust
myself to their
form
.

I
tried
to feed
as little as
I could
to try and preserve
lives

“
Go away!”
I shouted at him. “Go away, now!”

The boy, startled,
took
his
bike
,
went up on it and
was pedaling
away
.
He didn’t understand what was wrong with me
,
though,
he
followed my orders
.

I put my hands against the ground and looked up into the air.
The cloudy sky
had witnessed my agony.
My gaze and
my
teeth had come back
to normal
.

At that moment, I realized
I had defeated my
wish
to drink blood
,
at least
...
in that moment
.

Chapter
6

I slept
a lot more
.
I was late for school
.

Then
my mother
realized
I hadn't
woken yet.
She walked into my room and gazed at my bed.

While I slept on my
stomach,
my long black hair
flowed over my
pillow. My
nightgown’s loop
went down my shoulder.
My left-lung was revealed and
my mother
stopped
her
gaze on
my
tattoo
.

My mother’s face puckered up in irritation and disappointment at me
.

When I woke up
,
she was not
in my room any longer
.
I walked to my wardrobe and put away my night-dress
and remained
barefoot
.

My mother
got up from the couch and started walking through the living room,
but
the television was on
.

“
You didn't go to school
today,”
she said
and pressed the ‘
Stop
’ button on the remote and the screen became
black.

“
Oh
...
I think I slept too much.
”
I wiped my hand across my forehead.

“
What
tattoo is this
on your back
?”
she asked, discontented.

“
How
can I tell
...?”
I shook my head as I was a little dazed
.

“Valkyrie, I
didn’t expect
this from
you!” she confessed. T
here was an edginess in her voice.

“
Me too,
”
I declared, shaking my head.

“What's going on, Valkyrie?”
She
looked down at the ground
. “Are you
rebelling against me
?”

“No.
..
It is nothing to do with you!”
I said dissatisfied.

“
Why
did you do this?
You know
I don't like tattoos
!”

“
I didn't!
”
I confessed as I looked up at her face.

“How?” she asked, disappointed. “What are you talking about?”

“
I won’t try to explain it
... you
wouldn't understand
the reason why
I have
this
symbol,
” I
said, looking around.

“What
symbol is
this
?
Where did you get it?” she insisted.

“
Mother
,
I really can’t explain the details
.
You must stay out of this,
”
I advised.

“
I'm your mother
and
you still owe me an explanation
!”

“No!” I said and
stepped out of
the living room,
avoiding a major discussion about it. However
, my mother wasn’t
satisfied
. She
came walking after me
,
searching
for
answers
.

“
Who’s
playing with
your mind
?
Your friends
?”
she insisted and her voice was elevated.

“They have nothing to do with this!
”
I contradicted.

“Your
friend
Eros...
He looks
to
like he would do this kind of thing
.”

“
What do have
against him
?”
I stared at her, frustrated.

“He
doesn't seem to be a good boy
! You
became strange
after
you
met
him.”

“
You don’t like Eros
.”

“I don’t want
you to be
friends with
him!” she
ordered.

“
Your wish is
realized.
”
I took my
hand away and folded my arms across my chest.
“He
went away
from this town,
”
I muttered, my voice almost inaudible.

“
That’s good news
!”
she exclaimed, happy.

“
I want to be alone
!” I
ordered angrily as I
knew
my mother
wished
to see
Eros stay
away from me
.

“If you really like
this
boy
...
You need to forget about him
! That is b
ecause I have never
wished to see
you together
!” she
confessed.

“Okay,” I said and stared down at my feet. Then I
quickly closed my bedroom door
.

My love for Eros had
become
a
burden
in my life
.

I realized my mother
who
had never opposed my
feelings
for
boys
, was now doing so. 

She would want to see Eros stay
away from me
,
even though
it would
cost
my unhappiness.