Dark Night (3 page)

"He's turning behind us too." Richard pointed
out the obvious.

"Okay, nobody panic. I'll pay, keep it
normal." I took my credit card and ID out. The gas station was
deserted I don't think even spiders lived there. The building was
painted a grayish color that looked washed and faded, the roof was
a maroon color and there were only two pumps there, we were on
number one. i was walking about half way, when I heard the engine
of the hummer roar back to life I knew why that was. The thought of
it made me sick to my stomach but I spun around anyway.

"Mia run!" They were all screaming. Without
thinking twice I ran towards them but I didn't make it they took
off and hands grabbed me from behind.

"NO!" I screamed loud, but it was no use the
main rule of leaving someone behind applied to everyone, I was no
exception and all the screaming in the world couldn't help me now.
"Let go!" I kept screaming anyway but it was too late and
everything had happened so fast. Then I felt a sting in my neck it
was only seconds, I started feeling weak and I couldn't scream
anymore. I was fighting it, but it was no use my eyes closed, and I
felt someone sweep me off my feet.

ROBERT

After that night, five months ago when I had
to complete a mission that had been delayed for a while, I was in
denial. Denial, because I kept thinking back to the moment I saw
that girl and how she looked at me... I just couldn't take her out
of my mind. She was... beautiful, although she was not a vampire
yet, her true beauty though I could see. Her dark flow of hair
around her shoulders, her honey colored eyes, her perfect tanned
skin, the way she blushed when I spoke to her, she was just___

My cell phone rang. I flipped it opened and
sighed.

I was losing my mind, I had just been
thinking of some girl, when my girlfriend was calling me, what a
gentleman I was.

"Hello!" She yelled to the phone.

"Yes, I'm here." I said in a flat unhappy
tone.

"Robbie, what is taking so long? We had a
date tonight, or did you forget?" She said with sarcasm, I
frowned.

"Gene, I cannot make it tonight, I'm sorry. I
will make It up to you, promise. We still have... some things to
take care of, it will be a.. while___"

"How much longer? This is driving me nuts!
I've been getting ready allll dayyy loonnnggg, and you give me this
bull crap!" She paused for a brief second. "Mommy and Daddy won’t
be happy to hear this." She changed her tone.

"Yes, well your mommy and daddy were the ones
who ordered this. Now, if you excuse me I have to___" And the line
went dead.

I sighed. Then Mylian walked in the room.

MIA

I woke up in a dark room, with only a lamp
on. I got up, still dizzy, but slowly I grabbed on to the dresser
that was right beside the bed. I walked slowly and I could see the
door but before I could touch the door knob I saw my reflection in
the mirror. I noticed I wasn't wearing my clothes, I was wearing
black jeans, and a black blouse it looked very expensive, but this
was more comfortable than what I was wearing before, I could admit
that. I wasn't wearing the contacts, and I didn't have all that
foundation on my face, it was clear now. My hair looked the same,
but when I touched it, it felt silkier.

"Hey." The voice scared me. “Don't be
afraid." He got closer, but it was too dark to see his face and I
was afraid to. "Come on, she's waiting."

"I'm not going anywhere with you." I
hissed.

"You don't have a choice." The man -whose
face I refused to look at-said.

I knew I could escape once I was out there,
so I listened to him and followed. He held my wrist, once we were
out of the room it wasn't dark, but all the walls were dark colors,
there wasn't anybody in this hall. We went down two stories of
stairs and went through a couple of doors. I still didn't look at
the man that had me by my wrist I was as mad or more than when I
was screaming at Cole. We stopped at a large door and he knocked. A
lady's voice answered. "Come in."

When he opened the door to let me in, first I
tried to run, but he was too fast and he caught me and pushed me
in. I fell on the floor.

"Ah, dear you must not try
to escape, or it will be difficult for us not to hurt you." She
paused. This lady was sitting at a desk, it kind of looked like a
principal’s office, and she was ugly. "I am goddess Mylian and you
are fragile little Mia." She didn't bother letting me talk. "Well,
you got away the first time, but we finally caught you." She stood
up from her chair behind the desk and walked around it to stand in
front of me. I was still on the floor the man who I didn't want to
look at was surly standing by the door blocking my only way out.
"It is very unlikely to happen again, a ninety nine percent
chance... But there is still that one percent which brings me to my
next point." She walked back and forth. "Robert will you introduce
yourself?" She went to sit back down, while I heard his footsteps
approach me, he grabbed my arms and stood me up as if I were light
as a feather.

"I'm Lord Robert Townsend. I will be watching
after you, for reasons that you may not understand right now. But I
will explain when the time comes... In other words I will be your
shadow from now on." I turned around and looked at him straight in
the eyes. His eyes were no longer black, they were emerald green.
His hair was slightly longer than I remembered, but still just as
handsome. But I kept telling myself that he was the enemy.

"I'm sorry, but just who do you think you
are?" I had to ask, I tried to sound annoyed and pissed but It
didn't work and I was scared out of my mind.

Mylian laughed. "You have a
lot to learn, first you must know you were chosen to become a
vampire, chosen by king and Queen Stuart. That is an honor, and
that is what others must earn. You shall do as said, no questions
asked." She stood up and slammed her hand on the table for dramatic
effect. But she didn't look mad more like it was an act to try to
get me to cooperate.

"Vampire?" I asked. "Do you
know how crazy that sounds?" I looked around the room. "You don't
honestly expect me to believe...." I was cut off when Robert
grabbed my hand and bit into my wrist. At first I was terrified,
but I felt all kinds of emotions run through me. I forgot about
Mylian for a moment because suddenly I felt like I wanted to bite
him too. But before I could do something stupid he pulled away and
licked my wrist before he let it go. I stepped back, backing up
into a chair as I was holding the wrist he bit close to me. “Get
away from me! You monsters!" I cried. Mylian just stood there,
taking that. I had known that something was going on, that there
was something off about the people that inhabited the earth now,
but never would I have guessed that it would’ve been
vampires
.

"Mia. Control yourself." Robert said, his
tone was firm with a mixture of what sounded like concern.

"Let me go!" I jumped off the chair and tried
to run for the door but he was there in less than a mil a
second.

"We bonded and you felt that, we're real." He
was close now, but I stepped back until I fell on the chair..

"Excuse me?" Mylian asked shocked. I looked
up slowly and she had her arms crossed. "You bonded?" She asked
Robert who was standing over me, looking away. But when she asked
again he was forced to answer.

"Robert! Did you bond with her?" She raised
her voice.

"I-I didn't mean too. I was just trying to
put more V2 into her system she needed it, but... I lost control
and well what can I say?" He didn't seem concerned like Mylian, in
fact I'd say he was being an ass.

"Do you know what this means?"

"It doesn't mean anything! It doesn't have to
be that way!" He almost yelled at her, she didn't flinch though but
she stood there, unblinking or moving.

"You were supposed to bond with Princess
Genevieve! How dare you! What do you think the King and Queen will
do?" She shot back with hands on her hips.

"I could care less what they do. I'm my own
person. And no one will tell me what to do, Mylian I am a Lord do
not forget that!" He said loudly. "Mia, let's go!" He ordered.

"Wait." Mylian didn't relax, but she calmed
down when she spoke.

"This is going to change everything. But
perhaps there is something we could do__"

"We are not doing anything else about this."
He cut her off.

There was a moment of silence before Mylian
spoke. "Very well then Mia, you have new clothes and things in your
room. You will stay here until you're trusted enough so we can
transfer you. Or if your counselor approves Robert will explain
everything else you need to know." She was acting like herself
again, or at least like she was when I appeared.

"Whatever." Was all I said as I followed
Robert back the way we came from, he was not stupid, he held me by
my arm this time. When he touched me It was like I felt a current
of electricity run through my veins and I wanted to bite him. I was
resisting the urge, bad and I knew he felt it too he loosened his
grip a little until we reached the room I pulled away and ran
inside. He didn't run, but he followed, I stood in the middle of
the room with my arms crossed and looking down.

"It's all normal," he said in a cold voice.
"It's your fault I did what I had to do. Now, I'm stuck with you, I
have better things to do but I guess it will all have to wait."

"What's my fault? You were the one who caught
me right? I want to leave! You want to keep me here, are you an
idiot? Or do you just like acting like one?" What I said really
pissed him off because he grabbed me by my shoulders and held me
hard.

"I was supposed to be with Princess
Genevieve. You are not a Princess or anything for that matter. We
bonded when I took your blood and now I'm stuck with you." I pushed
myself away from him and when I did I felt my head hit the floor
hard then I felt dizzy. I couldn't believe what a nightmare this
was I couldn't believe what he had just told me. I was his,
basically and I had liked when he took my blood, because I wanted
his too. This was bad and I didn't know what I was going to do now.
I heard him say something I didn't understand and then he was gone.
The door opened after a few minutes and someone came in the
room.

ROBERT

After storming out of the room to get some
help, I felt awful for what had happened. It had not been her fault
but I blamed her for it anyway, now I was feeling guilty and
ashamed of what I had caused. I would have to deal with the
consequences but.... that blood it was so sweet, and it watered my
mouth just thinking about it. I smacked myself in the face I could
not be thinking about that, it was wrong in so many ways.

I punched the wall out in the hall. Ever
since I had been looking for her, I couldn't stop thinking what
might of happened, now I knew and that being near her would be
dangerous. But I knew I had control, it was just a moment of
weakness, and It would not happen again at least that was what I
told myself.

When Mylian had told me that she had arrived,
my heart had skipped a beat. I was feeling anxious to see her, but
I did not know why, and now I was afraid of what that might mean. I
could not allow myself to be weak and let a simple girl like her
control me, but that's where I was wrong, she was not just a simple
girl. Everyone knew that.

MIA

"Oh dear!" I heard a woman say. My vision was
a little blurry but from what I saw, she didn't look like a
vampire. She looked like Mylian and I wondered if she was a
vampire? "Help me." She said to someone who I didn't notice was
behind her. It was a guy I had never seen, he picked me up and
carried me to the bed.

I had fallen asleep because I didn't remember
what happened after that. When I awoke, I thought I might have been
dreaming but I wasn't, the woman was still in the room. "How do you
feel?"

"Fine," I said in a flat voice.

"I'm Isabelle, a goddess. I can cure
injuries. Your head had a long cut it wasn't deep but it was a lot
of blood you were losing. It is okay now."

This woman seemed nice, I decided to be nice
to her since she did heal me. "Thank you."

"Mia, is it?" I nodded. "You are going to
begin a new life now. You should welcome it, not fight it. It is
not what most humans think it is, your world is still the same as
it was before, except with different kinds of creatures
...vampires, humans, goddesses. We choose who can become one and
who cannot, those who don't, they continue their normal life's.
Those who do become something more than a human, they are
appreciative about it in a way it's like a gift. We don't harm
humans, though there are others out there that will and those we do
fight, and send them back to hell. Humans help us all the time that
is why there is no war. Only the rebels who think we're demons or
such. But that is not the case, I don't expect you to believe me
right now but you can see for yourself, later. They are going to
transfer you to the U.S. where life is normal and kids go to school
like they should here. You are going to go to a private High
School, like the school you were attending here. Instead of just
learning about your human life, you will also be trained to become
a vampire. After your graduation you will become one and you will
be proud of it, I promise you." She smiled like my mother used to
and that made me feel better. I hoped she wasn't lying, but how was
any of this possible?

"It looks like I'm going to have to see for
myself because I still can’t believe that. Since they caught me,
they have been treating me very...bad. Robert and I were arguing
when this happened."

"He did this to you?" She was surprised.