Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess (10 page)

CHAPTER 24

I stayed in the school library, making a summary to be delivered the next day. At the library exit I noticed it was already
night. The sky was cloudy and hoping for the right moment to rain.

Then I advanced my steps, hoping to arrive home in time, before the rainfall. The street was deserted and silent and I begn to hurry to reach my destination, as I felt a constant danger.

Later on, I saw Eros was standing at the end of the street and he looked like he was waiting for me to approach. However, his apparition was strange. He was just waiting.  Certainly he perceived I was frightened.

“Eros!” I exclaimed, surprised.

“Come with me! I want to show something to you,”  he said seriously in a determined voice.

I said nothing, I just went with him, without thinking what it could be. The fact I was in his company made me secure and intrigued by what I was to uncover at the same time.

We walked silently to our destination. I thought the place was far, but his company turned our journey into a pleasant one.

The place was deserted and obscure. It was a hiding place amongst the woods. It was similar to the landscape from the dream I’ve been having for some time. 

It was an antique and dispossessed house for somebody to dwell in.  It had no electricity and a minimum of comfort that was claimed by a half-witted person.

We stopped walking in front of a wooden door. Eros pushed it and entered the old house. I remained exactly in the same place. I was really afraid to enter into it.

He
remained in silence all the time. His unfriendliness intimidated me. For a moment I thought he would hurt me.

“Are you going to
stay outside?” he asked, after having crossed the threshold.

I decided
to go ahead, since I had come there. I should take that risk. I thought of my mother and knew she was protecting me, somehow. That feeling encouraged me before I entered the house.

Inside it, there was nothing
, just a huge room and a large mirror in the corner of the room. There were also dark curtains on the window.

Eros sat on the floor as if he were meditating, with his back to me. I remained standing and was motionless, just watching him with his back to me.

“
Did you want to know where I live?” he asked, with a chilling voice. “So, here is my house.”

He remained with his back to me.

All I could do was to stand in silence. All the words fled from my mind. A huge rat ran across the floor and I screamed out at the top of my voice.

“A rat!
I want to go back home!”

My hands started to shake.

“Not before you see something!”

He said that and stood up quickly. I didn’t have any time to get out of that house. He was quicker than I’d imagined and my arms were stuck in his cold hands. He glared at me, with a supernatural stare in his face.

I had never seen any person with such features.His face was pale, with a strange gaze on it. He suddenly changed his expression.

His eyes
became gray. Around them there were dark rings. His lips were red and between them there were big, sharp teeth.

I was desperate and
didn’t have any energy to try to escape from his claws. I closed my eyes, trying to block my tears.

“
Now you know what I really am,” he said and let my arms go free. He flinched back.

I
needed so much to open my eyes at that moment to stare at him. His attitude made me understand what had just happened. He didn’t intend to hurt me. He just wanted to reveal what he was, as well as what I was about to become.

He approached
the mirror.

“
Look at this mirror!” His voice sounded very confident.

I looked down at the mirror
and I didn’t see his reflection on it. I could only see the opposite wall. He lightly touched his hand on the mirror's wooden frame and images were reflected through it.

That was an exhibition of my entire
life.

My mother appeared in those images,
almost twenty years ago, in a nightclub that had been the night she’d met my father and conceived me.

My birth
…

Then the images showed me when I was seven
, when I started dreaming of that strange man.

My
adolescence…

On the day
I met Eros in the classroom. The mirror showed me how my brooch vanished from my purse.

Eros
had planned everything. He had used his vampire powers to remove it out of my purse with only the power of his mind.

When
he lost his school ID inside the school library, this was done on purpose. He wanted me to find it.

He did
everything because there was a purpose behind his reaction. He wanted to be with me almost all the time.

Mirta’s
nose bled and Eros left the classroom after that. It was because he couldn’t handle the smell of blood.

The last image
shown in the mirror was the symbol of Neptune on the amulet and on Eros’ arm.

Then, the mirror
came back to normal.

“A
ll your life is in this mirror,” he said and his voice suddenly became serious.

I was confused
after having seen those images in the mirror. They seemed so real… My life in a mirror… It all seemed to be like a dream, or, instead, a nightmare from which I wished to wake up.

“
I’m not here by accident,” he confessed while he approached me. His supernatural face didn’t scare me anymore. Even though, I was attracted to him that was so strange to me. I had desired a monster.

“
I came to get you and take you to your father,” he claimed, his voice quiet.

I shivered,
perplexed. I was wordless.

I should have
asked him several things. Nothing came into my mind, just grief after knowing the entire truth about my father and me.

“
Your father is our master…our guardian.” His voice was mournful.

A
storm was formed outside the house. Lightning and thunder emerged, sprung up outside the window.

“You’ll be one of us soon.” He glared at me. “It’s in your blood.”

He stared at me
again.

“
You’ll be
a
…
vampire…
” he said, quietly.

Everything made sense to me at that moment. There was no doubt. I was definitely the daughter of a vampire and soon I would be just like him - I would be of his kind.

“
I wish I wasn’t born…” That was all I said.

Now I knew everything about the mystery in my dreams, about my past, about my vampire father and also about Eros.

Then I walked in the direction of the front door and
stepped out of that house. At the same time I was embarrassed at all that Eros had just told me.

It was raining harder
. It didn’t matter if my body got wet. I didn’t care about anything else.

Everything made no sense to me.

Death would be
welcome in my life.

I walked slowly
through the streets, barefoot after I had taken off my sandals. Eros followed my steps while he was transformed into a vampire. He could jump at great heights, over the roofs of the houses, so I couldn’t see his quick movements.

I stopped
walking on a deserted street and opened my arms extensively at the same time as I was inviting death. I saw an intense brightness in the sky and I fell on the floor, totally unconscious.

Eros
came down from the roof of one house, through a double jump. He was soon on his feet again, quite close to me. He picked me up in his arms and he was watching my livid face due to the rain.

He stepped inside my bedroom through the
open window and held me in his arms like a rag doll. He gently placed me on my bed and noticed that my dress was entirely wet. Then he used his mind’s power while his hand was sliding along my cold body. He made all the water evaporate from my dress and also from my body.

When he finished his vampirism process, he seemed exhausted since he had used almost all of his powers trying to ensure I didn’t catch a cold.

He stared at me
to check if I was really fine. He knew I would only wake up the next morning. Then he jumped out of my window and disappeared into the darkness.

CHAPTER 25

At breakfast,
my mother noticed my glum expression seeing as I gazed down all the time. Though I tried to give the impression of being perfectly fine, my mother knew I wasn’t.

She knew me so well
and knew all my feelings, even when I was in love with someone. She wanted to know why I was unusually quiet. I couldn’t tell her all I knew. I didn’t want her to know what I would become.

She had always been naïve
and never knew about my father’s true origin. Why should she know about everything in those crucial circumstances? That wasn’t correct. She didn’t need to suffer along with me. I should spare her from suffering.

“
Don’t worry about me… Everything’s good,” I said, before getting my stuff and walking away.

***

I went to school. Eros was the first person to walk in my direction. I looked at his face and he looked satisfied. He was staring at me with a sexy grin. His duty was over. Now I knew the entire truth. I glanced at him furiously.

“
Did you sleep well last night?” he asked, sarcastically.

“Yeah, and
I slept more than I
should,” I answered sarcastically too although my face was angry.

“
Days for us are usually short… though nights are long…” he said proudly and looked into my eyes.

“
You said I’ll be a vampire soon.” I looked back at him. “When will it be?”

“
Soon,” he said and stood in front of me. “You didn’t say anything to anyone, did you?”

“No, I didn’t,
not even my mother knows,” I answered and lowered my head at that time.

“
Not even she can know anything,” he informed me.

“
Is there something I could do to avoid this?” I asked, with a decreased hope.

“
To avoid what?” he seemed confused at my question.

“To avoid
becoming a vampire.”

“… No…” he
looked at me thoughtfully.

Each time it became more difficult for me to accept
my sad fate.

“
How did you become a vampire?” I asked him, curiously.

“
That’s a long story. I have no time to tell you about it. I’m going to history class,” he said and walked forward.

“
I’m not in a good mood to do anything. I don’t even know why I came to school today.”

“
Being a vampire is not so bad.” He looked at me strangely.

“
If it was a good thing, everybody would wish to be a vampire,” I said, defiantly.

“
Have you taken a look at your back today?” he asked with a modest smile on his face.

I frowned at him as I was puzzled.

Why was he asking me
that?

I ran to the school bathroom and took off my blouse. I turned aside and saw the symbol of Neptune reflected in the mirror, towards the left side of my lung.

I still didn’t know how that tattoo had been drawn on me.

At that moment I remembered
Eros’ words telling me.

“It
appeared
on my arm
.”

I had a feeling that the same thing had happened to me.