Vampire story - part 14 - The visit

I accompanied Gerald during the time he visited his parents. I promised him he would see them so we went there. At first they were scared because they heard about his accident, but when they sow him alive, sound and save they came to their senses. He was white and cold but of course this was because of his skin operation. The accident was pretty bad.
They would probably realize much further that their son would remain young and they would grow old, but we still got time by then. For now the operation was the perfect lie.
The dinner was pleasant, in the end I let Gerald alone with them and went to visit Richard. Richard and Gerald lived in the same town, they were almost neighbours.
"Oh Jullie, Gerald greeted me, come in, come in. To what miracle do I own the pleasure?"
"To the miracle that Gerald is back in town," I said "He came by to see his folks"
"That old bastard is out of the hospital?" Gerald ask
"Yes he is, sound and save"
"Well, finally some good news , though the jerk could not come by and say Hy, couldn't he?
"He'll come by Rich, I let him talk alone with his parents, but he'll pick me up in a few moments"
"Well I long to see his dirty face" Richard laugh
"Actually it's quite white" I said
"Indeed, you might think he is dead... but he is not" I continued
"How white?" asked Rich
"White like ... mine"
"Oh, well than it's good, you're not dead, you're pretty much alive"
I could contradict him, but it would have been a stupid thing, I wondered if Richard sensed anything strange when he was beside me. If he could feel that I was cold, or if there was something to disturb him, but he did not seemed disturbed.
I sat down on the couch and turned the TV set on.
"Hum Rich?"
"Yes"
"Don't you feel anything wired when I'm around? I mean don't you feel a little uncomfortable?"
"Uncomfortable? With you around? You must be joking right?"
I sighted. I did not know if I was glad or sad. Glad because at least he didn't notice anything wired, sad because I could not tell him the truth. He could not realize by himself either.
Richard went into the kitchen to prepare something for me. One more problem, I had to explain him that I was not supposed to eat anything.
The door ranged and Ger showed up.
"Hey Rich"
"Gerald, old bastard. You finally dear to show up." They embraced each other laughing, but Richard started to trumble."Gee, you're damn cold"
"Well I lost some blood, must be because of that"
"You're damn right you lost something, your head" Richard cried "Please sit down, can I get you anything? Juice, bear?"
"No thanks, we're in a rush"
I was glad Gerald said that, I could not manage to find myself an excuse for not eating
"No bear? How hard did you hit your head bro?" asked Rich
"Hard enough to hit yours if you piss me off" it was Gerald style to say aloud what he wanted.
"Ok, ok, no need to be aggressive"
"So, where's Michelle" I asked, weren't you supposed to be together?
"She's with my mom. They're up to something, I don't know what"
"If I"m not mistaken Rich I think you're birthday is coming up this month, am I right?"
"Yea, Juls, you're right. They must be going shopping on something, less chat on my head"
We all laughed. I let the boys play a little on the PlayStation to remember good old times, Richard drinking bear after bear, Gerald a little stiff.
When Michelle and her mother in low returned we raised. We were about to leave.
"Leaving so soon?" Rich cried
"Come on guys, I just got here" Michelle said "you could stay for tonight"
Not a good ideea.
"It's late Michelle" Gerald said "we have to get to Jullie's parents in time"
My parents were the best excuse, they always wanted me to be home before midnight, of course Michelle and Richard did not know that I haven't seen my parent for a few months, and I was not willing to see them.
"Well ok, but I thought she leaved with Sasha now?"
"Yes, but I want to see my family too. They go to bed early"
"Well, ok. Though you could go there tomorrow"
Finally we left. We were both exausted, but managed to recover flying back to Sasha, who was talking to the older vampire. They were trying to find the dimension were the all seeing guy was and bring him into ours.

Lumina, zapada sau luna?

... zapada scartie sub talpi, si lumineaza in noapte, aerul e rece, foarte rece cu gust de fier, e frig, foarte frig, sus, deasupra suiera cetina, un sunet care nu poate fi uitat niciodata, si luna- luna este undeva in dreapta , nu se vede dar poti banui ca este acolo, pentru ca deasupra ta licareste Carul Mic, si urci, continui sa urci, gambele dor, rucsacul taie umerii, dar acolo sus este cald, si traiesti o senzatie nemaipomenita cand deschizi usa cabanei, si dai de caldura cu aroma de rasina arsa, si descoperi ca ai obraji reci, cand iti duci mainile la fata si dai jos caciula din cap si apoi dezbraci haina... miroase a ceai cu rom, inca iti vuiesc urechile, apoi te integrezi in decor, instinctiv alegi bancutza cea mai apropiata de soba care dogoreste, langa gramada de lemne pe care iti sprijini bocancii, gata, am ajuns, e cald si bine-si te mai intrebi inca: lumina zapada sau luna?
Si acolo in cabana e bine, mai sunt si altii refugiati de frig. Un baiat dragut, brunet it intinde o cana cu ceai ca sa te incalzesti. Si il accepti. Si dupa ce il bei te simti mai bine, si baiatul pare o companie placuta, la fel si prietenii care canta la chitara si spun glume si totul e vis...

Vampire story - part 13 - Gerald's lie

Gerald was being sorry. He did not wanted to hurt me, yet he did. It did not bothered me the fact that had an affair with Laureen. It was not my business. What bothered me was that he had killed a girl, an innocent person. I promised myself I'll never kill anyone, drink blood but not kill. And he did. I could not forgive him so easily.
He tried to talk to me, but I was too disappointed. So, he had to find himself something to do while he waited in my room for Sasha to arrange his.
Gerald went to my computer, while I leaned crying on my window and he turned the computer on. He was upset too. He entered the internet and looked for our friends. Richard was connected, anxious to hear news from Gerald, Roxanne too.
"Hi Richard, it's me Gerald"
"You son of a bitch" Richard screamed "You've got a lot of nerve to show up like that. I suppose you haven't heard that the telephone was invented, I wonder how did you manage to enter the chat?"
"Rich listened, I wasn't well, I ..."
"You're damn sure you were not well. What was in your head to go to that race? You thought you'll conquer America or what? I've got news for you pall: this is Romania, stick that to your head Romania"
"Richard I..."
"Two weeks without a word? Do you have any idea of how worried I was? Or your friends, or your family? You really got nerve mister. If it wasn't for Sasha we would have really gone mad"
"Sasha?" asked Gerald and then I heard him speaking aloud:"I should have known Sasha told them something about me, hey Jullie save your tears for later, come here, please"
"What now?" I asked
"Since you're show in Bulgaria is all a big lie to cover the fact that your a vampire, I demand to know what lies have you told to our friends about me?"
"Gerald I didn't lie"
"Come on Jullie, what did you tell them then? Come on I don't mind, I just wanna know the story so that I would not make any mistake."
"I don't lie Gerald, I haven't told them anything yet, just that you are in the hospital and that you can't receive any visitors, you'll tell your own story"
"All right then remember this: I had a motor accident, I was in a hospital, still am in a hospital, Sasha brought me a laptop, I have to be operated soon. Ok?"
"It's your own choice Ger, whatever you tell them, it's your choice"
"It's my choice but you'll have to remember it to cover me up"
"Why don't you cover yourself up?"
"Come on Jullie, you're not gonna hate me forever, one day you'll have to accept it. I killed a girl, this doesn't mean anything"
"And when you'll kill one of your friends what will it mean?"
"I'm not gonna hurt them, I'm telling you this, I love them just as much as you do, I could not make them any harm"
"I don't trust you, talk to them on the internet, or on the phone, but stay away from my friends"
"Your friends? They are my friends too Jullie"
"Stay away from them it's a warning."
"I'm not going to argue to you anymore. I'll show you I'll take care of them just as you have"
"Hey Richard, look man, you don't have to be angry with me" Gerald tasted on the computer "I'm still in the hospital and I can't move to well, I'll have to be operated soon"
"I hope they'll chick your ass fine, you asshole" Richard was really angry, actually I knew it I talked to him. The others were worried too, none of them approved Gerald's race. They all said he had no brain when he decided to take part in it.
"I really thought it was a good idea, besides I was angry on Richard" he told me now
"And now you really worried him, are you satisfied? Why do you always have to question everything and become mad so quickly, if you had patience and waited for me and Sasha to explain to you, that girl would have lived"
"I'm sorry Jullie, how many times do I have to appologize to believe me?"
"You'll have to show us we can trust you, one mistake Gerald and you're on your own"
"There won't be any mistakes, I'm really sorry Jullie" he came to me and embraced me again. I tried to believe him this time. After all he come back to save me and Sasha.
"Stop shouting like mad people, I found them. I found the old vampire and the all seeing guy" Sasha burst happily into the room making it getting brigther all of a sudden."We can be saved, now I'm sure of it" Sasha's eyes were full of tears.
"How did you do it Sash" I asked
"Well I followed Gerald's instrunctions, I found the old vampire and he will find the other very soon. We still have hope, we have hope." Now all three of us were happy.

Vampires

Vampire story - part 12 - The library

Gerald and I were floating through the mansion. I showed him all the rooms: the big kitchen, the enormous living room, the stairs, the first and the second floor.

"This is Sasha's house" I said

"It's big, it's beautiful" said Gerald

"Yes, isn't it?"

"What's this?" asked Ger pointing to a wooden door

"This? Aaa the library"

"The library? Well let's see what does Sasha reed?"

"It's not such a good idea"

"Why not?"

"I tried once to enter but Sasha doesn't like strangers in her library, she says she has her medical books there and that she doesn't want anyone to change their order."

"We'll just have a look, come on, maybe she has something about vampires, like who we are, who created us"

"There are myths if you are interested, Ger"

"I am"

"Why do you bother so much, I mean we are vampires and that's it right, we're immortals, that's cool, it should be enough for you"

"I want to know who created us, where we come from, who we are"

"You're not gonna find that in books, books are written by men. You need myths, I've told you"

"Myths are many and we don't know who created them, but a book, an author, an idea, it's something else"

"I doubt you'll find something in Sasha's medical library"

"That's exactly why I want to look there"

The two entered the big room, to see three rows of shelves full of books going from the floor to the ceiling. The books looked very old, ancient, rare, expensive.

"Wow, Sasha really has fortune in here Jules. Look at all this books. They are so old they must make a fortune now"

"Sasha has the books from the time she was human" I explained

"I can see these books are older than the world herself, look Jullie papyruses"

"Wow, I never saw one before"

"There are all medical treatises all right, some old literature and look black magic?"

"It makes no sense, vampires doesn't need spells, they can have whatever they want" I said

"Yes, but still black magic books?"

"Actually there are all kind of books: white magic, grey magic, green magic, red magic, black magic, astrology, divination" said Sasha in a loud voice. "There's also a dimension tracker here somewhere."

"Sash we just" I tried to explain

"Why do you need this kind of books?" Gerald asked

"Because I'm a witch"

"A what?" I was amazed.

"My grandmother was a gypsy, she had gifts, she could foretell the future exactly, she could also cure people, from her I have my talents, I can see the future and I can practice medicine, as you I have tried for many years to explain who we are, where we come from, how we got our gifts, but I had no luck. You see Jullie, when I saw you lying in the street that day, hit by the car I saw you becoming a vampire. I knew. That's why I chose you. And I have also seen Gerald becoming one of us, and I have seen things about him he didn't said. Like that innocent girl you killed"now, Sasha was looking deep into Gerald's eyes

Gerald felt ashemed

"You killed?" I frowned "Innocent blood?"

"I didn't know, I didn't wanted she forced me Sasha, you say you saw it all explain that to Jullie" Gerald seemed wild

"You were trapped by her" said Sasha

I looked at him with tears in my eyes. He killed an innocent for a woman, for a vampire.

"But it was all for the best, now you know your gift don't you?"

"Yes, I know"

"You have a gift?" I asked him

"All the vampires have one, Jullie, you have one too, we'll just have to wait and see what it is"

Sasha said to me

"I know you already told me, but I've shown no particular gift by now"

"No problem, it will come out eventually"

"Now tell her your gift Ger" Sasha encouraged

"I can read someone's mind. That's how I knew what Laureen was thinking, that she was going to come here and kill you. You have to believe me Jullie, it was not my fault"

"You shouldn't have left in the first place. You should have listened to me and to Sasha" I screamed and I left the room slamming the door behind me

"Why? Why did you tell her? I could tell her about my gift, you should not tell her about the girl" Gerald cried

"She has to know the truth and I have to know it too, are you able to resist without human blood Gerald, like we do? Are you able to be one of us before I'll tell you all my secrets, or you'll betray us like you did before?"

"I told you, you can trust me. You should have talked to me alone, Sasha"

"Next time mind your own business, and don't put your nose into someone else's business. That's a warning, don't come to my library again if we mess things up here, I'll never find the guy that sees all dimensions"
"You think he is here? in this library?" Ger asked
"In one dimension lost out there"" Sasha answered
"Than use your dimension tracker and just find the guy to turn us back into what we were, better than vampires anyway." Ger screemed and left her and the library running after me, he caught me up in my room, now our room. It was not such a pleasant idea anymore.

Suddenly sharing my room with an innocent blood drinker was not such appealing to me.

"Jullie please listen to me" he asked

"I don't want you in my room. Talk to Sasha to give you another and you can also take your gift and do something with it" and I sat furiously on the bed.

Vampire story - part 11 - The coming back

He had to run. Slowly he tried to float out of the mansion, but Geon was already in front of the doorway.

"Leaving so soon?" he asked smiling

"I have to hunt" Gerald lied  "I'm hungry..."

"Let's go together" said Geon

"No, thank you, I need to walk by myself"

"You're not going anywhere alone, you're a new born, it's dangerous" Geon insisted

"I'm going by myself" Gerald said firmly

"You'll go with me or you'll die" Geon announced him , catching Gerald's throat. Gerald struggled. One blow and then another, like in a boxing match. For a moment Gerald was hurting Geon, in another moment Geon was leading, until he made a mistake. He came to close to the wall, so Gerald stroke him, then slapped him so hard that he was on the floor. With a sharp knife Gerald cut his head and then took his body in the living room and set it on fire.

One vampire was dead. There were other two more vampires to kill. He looked for Laureen and Marius but they had already left. He had to fly to Sasha, find Sasha and Jullie and save them, so that he could save all of his friends.

Back to Sasha's mansion I was talking to Roxanne on the phone, when suddenly I heard a noise downstairs

"I know I tried to see him but I couldn't..."

"It's weird Jullie, It's not like him to disappear like that" Roxanne said

"He did not disappeared, Roxanne, he had a motor accident for Christ's sake, he's in the hospital"

"And he can't call? You said he's better now"

"He's not allowed, you know ... the rules, why don't you call him or visit him?"

"You didn't tell me where the hospital is remember? And I tried to call but he doesn't answer. He's parents doesn't know anything about him, I called them too."

"I'll try to talk to Sasha again, but I can't promise you anything, you know Sasha doesn't like her patients to be disturbed while they are in convalescence."

"Yes I know, we could not talk to you either..."

"Then you have to be patient, I'll try to see how Gerald is doing"

"Roxanne, wait I'll call you later, I think I hear some noises downstairs, it must be Sasha, goodbye" and I put my mobile phone away.

I floated downstairs just in time to see Marius and Laureen caring Sasha in by force.

"Let me go" Sasha cried

"So, you are the vampire's creator" the woman said

"I am what?" Sasha cried again

"You created two new born vampires" Laureen said

"I have no ideea what you're talking about"

"Don't lie bitch, I know it's you, Kill her Marius, let's get over it" Laureen shouted

"No" I screamed.

I threw myself on Laureen and tried to beat her. The next moment Gerald entered the room and started to fight Marius.

Sasha managing to free herself helped me to fight Laureen and together we could overcome her. Gerald trapped Marius. The two were taken in the backyard and set on fire.

I catched Gerald arms while looking at the flames and cried:"Oh, Gerald"

"I'm sorry Jullie" Gerald said, holding my hand, he was warm now, like I was. to the humans we would seem rather cold. "I didn't mean it, I was just too angry, I could not see."

"Who were they?" asked Sasha looking at the flames too

"Vampires" Gerald answer

"I can see that, what did they wanted?"

"You two" Gerald said embracing me "Änd to tell a guy named Victor about you"
"That's the leader of the west clan" Sasha explained to him, so at least now we had some evidence. He told her everything he knew.

"Us?" I asked "But why? we did no harm to them..."
"Sasha created you and you created me, Jullie. That's a sin. Old vampires don't accept the young ones, they steal their food and theritory."

"I did not meant to harm anyone, neither Sasha, she just saved me, and I saved you and I want to take all my friends into eternity with me, that's all"

"I know, now I know it, but to them this was a crime and you two had to be killed. Oh Jullie, this thing must stop, we will not create other vampires anymore. Not without giving them the possibility to know what awaits them. It's terrible to wake up in thirst, see your body dying, feel empty, feel that you're not human anymore, kill and drink blood. It's terrible. I hated it, I still do, no one should live like this..."

"I'm sorry Gerald, I did not want to hurt you, I thought you'll like it like I do, I feel great being like this. I drink blood but I don't kill humans. And the powers are great: the force, the speed, the immortality, every wound heals, every part of me is beautiful now, I can do what I want. I thought you'll like it"

"These things I like them too now. But the price is too high, I don't want to transform the others withought giving them the possibility to choose"

"We cannot say what we are Gerald" Sasha said, "remember our code"

"We shall not speak" Gerald said "They will discover it by themselves"

"How?" I asked?

"Leave this on me"

"So this means that you're back?" I asked, my face turning into happiness

"Back? He has to ask me first, if I want him here" Sasha said trying to predend she didn't like the ideea.
"I'll have to think about it" she smiled

"Oh, Sasha can he stay?" I cried " Say you let him stay, say it Sash! He will appologize. Appologize Ger" i cried turning to him 

"I'm sorry Sasha, it was my mistake, I promise it won't happen again. I promise I'll stay here and protect you and Jullie" appologized Gerald

"Come on Sash, he means it, I know he does, I know him"

"Well all right" said Sasha smiling "He can stay, after all who am I to say no to you or to a such nice young fellow" Sasha said flirting "See he does not make me anymore trouble, or he's out"

"No, Sasha, I'll take care of him", I promissed

"Oh, Sasha"

"Humm?"

"Where will he stay?" I asked

"That's not a problem Jullie really, I won't stay here too much, I'll go to my parents or find a place of my own"

"You are a vampire now Gerald, you'll have to stay here, you won't risk putting your family in danger. You can see them but not leave with them. You don't know when you'll get hungry and you can't keep the blood in their fridge can you? How will you explain that to them? Of course you can lie for a short time saying you'll need it, you lost blood but you can't lie them forever. Trust me, the best for you is to stay here where I can watch over you" sasha said

"You're right Sash, I did not think of that, I'll have to stay here, but I'll have to visit my family somehow"

"You can go whenever you like, but you'll have to come back, meanwhile you can share the same room with Jullie, until I'll arange one for you, if she doesn't mind"

"Mind? I don't mind. Come Ger I'll show you the house"
"Oh I forgot, they were looking for an old vampire called Guy, I think I know where he is, I read it in Laureen's mind, they were going to kill him, does it ring a bell Sasha?" Gerald remembered
Sasha's face got suddenly illuminated with hope:"Yes, Oh yes, he's my old dear friend, if we find him, he is a clairvoyant better than I am, he can find the one who sees in all dimensions and we can find a solution"
"Then let's find him Sash!" This was our next job, to find the old vampire.