Tales of Old: A Vampire's Story

On a mountain a wolf lets out a small howl. The ground is covered in a thick cold blanket of snow, a girl safe from the cold is getting ready for bed in her grandmother’s cabin in the Pocono’s. 1

“Lara, come back here you need to put on your night things” said an elderly women with a kind and gentle voice but slightly out of breath.  2

“I don’t Want to Nana I like being nakey” the girl giggled peak into the hall which her grandmother was in.3

“Young ladies don’t go around the Nana’s house nakey” the elderly women said kindly.4

“But small Fairies, like me, do” giggled the girl. The elderly women couldn’t help but smile for she told young Lara about fairies, dragons, heros, and especially magic.5

“But five year old girls get dressed if they want a bed time story.” Nana smirked, she had said the magic words “Bed time story”6

“Oh, fine Nana” Lara said walking to her grandmother naked wanting nothing more than to hear one of her Nana’s great stories.7

“That’s a good girl now put these on they are nice and lose and thin your fairy skin will breath easily” Nana said teasingly as she handed her some silk pajamas.8

“Nana, can you tell a story about a night time creature, please Nana.” Lara said as she pulled the top to her Pj’s on with a little difficulty.9

“How about a story of a vampire, Lara? That’s one of the most famous Night time creatures.” Nana said helping Lara with her bottoms and kindly smiling at her.10

“Nana, can I get your story Book please?” Lara pleaded in her deep violet Pj’s with her ice blue eyes looking through her soft blonde hair.11

“Yes, Lara and hurry back” Nana smiled and busied herself making sure the sheets were warm for Lara. Just as she finished Lara came rushing into the room carrying a large leather book under her tiny arms, the title was faded and was no indication the author’s name was even on the old book.  Lara leapt into her bed still clinging to the large old book, she finally let go of the book when she got under her covers and looked at the cover of the large old shabby book, the remnants of  a star inside a circle seemed to be on it. Lara would always stare at it for hours as though in a trance.12

“Ok my little fairy, lets see… Ah here it is, The Forsaken Line.  This is the one with the vampires.” Nana said to Lara who was confused when she heard the title of the story.13

“Once upon a Time in a cabin, just like mine, a boy was born, he wasn’t a typical boy either he was born with a pentacle cut into his Fore-“ Nana started14

“What’s a pentacle Nana?” Lara interrupted trying to imagine what it looked like.15

“It’s the symbol on the cover of my story book, now let me continue. Like I said a boy was born with a pentacle cut into his forehead. No one knew how or why the symbol was there and that it only ment trouble.  The boy was also Born with the ears and a tail of a fox so they named the child Kyuubi, which is Fox Demon in Japanese. As little Kyuubi got older he became more lonely every one in his village shunned him for he was an abomination to them all even the children learned to hate him because of their parents.  On his 16th birthday Kyuubi was walking home at night alone, the breeze picked up and  Kyuubi stopped fearing a villager was going to come out of no where and beat him especially the clergy of the church that was one of their favorite hobbies. Something came up from behind Kyuubi and sank fangs deep into his neck, with his last breath he looked to see whom his attacker was. He turned to see pale girl no older than him with black hair and blood red eyes biting his neck and sucking the blood out. A few days later Kyuubi woke up and felt extremely different, he felt extremely cold and his skin was extremely pale and his canines have grown a lot. He looked over to the mirror and nothing stared back at him.16

“Your finally awake my dear” the lady that bit him sat next to him smiling and licking her lips. Kyuubi moved away wondering what happened he thought he was dead.17

“Who are you, and why am I still alive?” Kyuubi shouted, the girl laughed bearing fangs the same as Kyuubi’s 18

“My, my, what a temper. I’ve given you eternal life and my name is Krystal.” The girl explained. Kyuubi was starting to put every thing together.19

“I’m a vampire?” Kyuubi whispered20

“Yes, now lets have some fun shall we? How about terrorizing the Clergy?” Krystal said in a delighted way.21

“Terrorize the church? Lets go” Kyuubi said wanting to get revenge for all the beatings he’s received from the clergy. With that said Kyuubi and Krystal left the castle heading for the church, they terrorized the church defacing it and wrote blasphemy upon the walls. A few years later, the clergy of the Catholic Chruch caught Kyuubi, but his love Krystal who was waiting for her babies was able to get away. Just before Kyuubi was put to death he shouted a curse that his heir worthy of his powers will receive recognition of that power when he turns of age and will over power the Catholic church and prove God’s powerless.” Nana finished her tale and looked down at Lara who was now sleeping peacefully dreaming of the fox child and a world of magic.  Nana smiled at Lara sleeping and kissed her than left her to sleep with the old book still under her small arms.22

In a small suburb eleven years later, a boy is waking to the sound of an alarm clock to get ready for school.  The boy rolled out of bed and slowly dragged his feet across the floor to his door and then to the bathroom to take his shower. About 15 minutes later the boy walked back into his room and picked up a pair of black boxers and slipped them on after he dropped his towel to the ground. Then the boy pulled on a pair of baggy black bondage pants and a small black tee shirt. The boy looked to the mirror on the back of his door to make sure he was doing his hair right. A, five foot six, 160 pound 15 year old boy stared back at the boy through a mess of black hair with soft amber eyes. The boy was putting his hair into Chaos spikes for his first day at the new high school to see how much attention it would attract.  The boy sighed lightly and grabbed his messenger bag backpack realizing the time and headed out for the bus.The boy was slowly walking to the bus knowing it would be late like it was in junior high. Right as the boy got to the bus stop, a large yellow bus came rolling down the street toward the stop.  The bus stopped slowly letting out a soft hiss from the brake pistons, The boy got on to the bus hoping not to draw too much attention to himself just yet. 23

“Hey, Bryce is that a porcupine on your head or something?” A male called from the back of the bus. The boy ignored the comment and sat in a seat that was relatively close to the front of the bus.  The bus started to move again, Bryce sat low in the seat even though his hair stuck out the top. About 15 minutes later the bus turned into the school driveway, Bryce looked at the building that would be his new school for the next three years.  Bryce got off the bus and entered the closest entrance to the building and started walking down the halls.  Bryce thought that at first glance outside the school seemed ok, but inside the ceiling was leaky and full of holes and Bryce sworn he saw mice scurry into a hole in the wall.  Bryce continued down the hall referring to a school map every now and then looking for his home room, Bryce looked down at his map when he bumped into some who was watching something. Bryce looked up and saw there was a crowd of people enclosing some girls, Bryce pushed through the crowd to get a better look at what was happening.  24

“Hey girls look what’s decided to follow us to the high school, our little Goth slut Lara.” Said one of the girls making sure the entire crowd heard every word she said, the group of girls behind her giggled malevolently.  Bryce looked at the girl who said this, she was wearing a baby blue low cut no-sleeve the shirt with white halter top underneath and a faded blue jean mini skirt. She had bleach blonde hair on top of black hair and brown eyes, but the thing that ticked off Bryce the most was her skin, it was orange.  That is what Bryce calls “Fake and Bake”, who look orange from going tanning, all of the girls cronies seemed to look almost the same as she did. 25

“I’m not a slut, leave me alone please.” A small voice said.  Bryce looked over the crowd of people to see who was talking. He saw a small girl, no larger than five foot four, and no more than 110 pounds, had ice blue eyes and soft dirty blonde hair. She didn’t really have large breast but they looked good on her small body.  Bryce thought she was extremely beautiful, and thought her emo glasses brought out the beauty of her eyes.26

“Leave you alone? Why on earth would we want to do that, slut?” one of the fake and bake girls shot at Lara.27

“I’m not a slut, and I haven’t done anything to you.” Lara said meakly as she looked around seeing lots of people laughing, Bryce was not one of them he was trying to keep calm and not get in trouble on his first day of school or he would get smacked by his mom.28

“No, you little fucking slut we don’t care if you didn’t do anything.” The Leader of the Fake and Bakes shot at her with an evil eye.29

“Leave me alone.” Lara said so softly it was barely audible.30

“What was that?” One of the lesser of the group said trying to get her fun of picking on Lara as well.31

“Leave me alone.” Lara said a little louder with a shaky voice.32

“What was that? We couldn’t hear you.” The leader said. Bryce was now starting to get extremely angry and couldn’t believe no one stepped in to help her, he swor he saw a teacher come up and laugh at Lara too.33

“She said for you to leave her alone.” Bryce shot at the fake and bakes and walked out of the circle and stood next to Lara.  Lara seemed to be at lost of words but seemed to be extremely happy some one was standing up for her.  Bryce anger was through the roof his warm amber eyes seemed to flash blood red as he stood there.34

“Mind your own business Spiky.” One of the lesser girls glared at Bryce, most of the Fake and Bakes looked annoyed.35

“Shut your trap whore.” Bryce shot at her trying to make sure he didn’t go over and start beating the crap out of them. The crowd seemed to think this was soap opera hanging onto every word that was said waiting for the response from the other.36

“We’re not whores, the girl standing next to you is.” The leader said puffing her chest out trying to either seduce Bryce or intimidate him, he couldn’t think which it was.37

“You know what? I think you’re all jealous of this girls beauty.” Bryce said gesturing to Lara. 38

“Ha! Us be jealous of that slut, I think not.” One of the girls said. The crowd seemed to not exist as they shot come backs at each other.39

“Really?” Bryce said sarcastically looking around at the crowd.40

“Yes, all the guys think we’re hot and want to bang us.” The leader said in a cocky manner. Lara seemed to scoot herself behind Bryce trying to hide but Bryce moved so she wasn’t behind him.41

“Really? Ok, any guys that likes ORANGE sluts and think they are so hot that you could bang them raise your hand.” Bryce said to the crowd, the Fake and bakes looked shocked as not one guy had their hand raised.  Bryce looked at the girls with a malevolent smile upon his face knowing he was right. The girls ran away apparently to the Girl’s bathroom. The crowd soon dispersed talking about what just happen to all their friends.  Bryce turned to Lara smiling at her only wishing she would of stuck up for herself, but is glad she is ok.42

“’Ello, I’m Bryce. I heard your name was Lara right?” Bryce said in a friendly voice.  Lara seemed baffled at Bryce’s kindness.43

“Y-yes I’m Lara, its nice to meet you, Bryce.” Lara said as a weak smile crawled onto her pretty face.44

“The pleasure is all mine, just don’t let anyone put you down like that and always bring a friend to battle.” Bryce said bowing to try to get Lara to laugh.45

“All my friends moved away last year.” Lara said slowly starting to feel better.46

“Well lets go find our home rooms together ok?” Bryce asked looking down at his schedule. Lara agreed and found out they had the same homeroom, they talked about what they did this summer and got into a deep conversation about book they both read over the summer.  Bryce was glad they had a lot of  the same interest it was easier to get to know Lara more. They walked into their homeroom a few minutes later and stopped as they crossed the threshold seeing that their were only preps and jocks in their home room.47

“This sucks, we’re the only none conformist here.” Lara said. 48