Fan-fiction

Family Ties

By the Zekator

Chapter eight

After that experience I was different. I found my self-feeding on humans whenever I felt the need of it. I tried to make it rare, because then humans might get suspicions if their kids or friends keep disappearing when ever they when out, but the blood taken from a live person in to your own mouth was so much better then the pre-bled kind. But I managed.
There is a funny thing about vampire sorcery; only a very small population can do it very well. Among those who can are Kain, and Melchiah, and a very small amount more and that’s it. As for Me I only know one spell, Disguise, I took me almost five years to learn it, and I still haven’t mastered it. I took some lessons from the mighty Kain himself in a gathering once with him. He told me I lack the talent of a sorcerer, but have the mind of a true vampire; I still don’t know what he meant by that.
I choose Disguise, because I wanted to walk among my family as someone else, and learn about them and watch them.
I have tried to use it once when my old family went in to the market in town, but found it to hard to control and eventually left them to be on their way.
But there was a spell that I would eventually take on in the future, vampire making. Zephon said that at the moment he was the only Zephonim that could make more of his kin, but he said in the near future some time we will al learn the power.
I watched my family more closely now these days, sometimes getting inches from the doorways to listen to there conversations at night.
I had discovered much through this. My daughter was 17 and had already taken up an interest in boys. And she had already had one partner from her child hood that she “had feelings for” as she put it. Indeed she had and as I watched her I began to notice a lot of the boys had interests in her. Indeed she was very beautiful, like her mother. Like her mother when I first met her, long, long, ago. She was a waitress, and I was a young cocky vampire hunter. I walked in to a bar one bad day and there she was, after taking a mutual interest in each other I drank to much and she took me home since noone knew me there. I woke up in her fathers barn, turned out she was hiding me from him. He was a drunk with no respect for anyone so when he saw me, he tried to kill me, but I got away. I learned the next day that he'd beaten her and her mother. I went back and challenged him, after a rather mean fight I won. He left and told his wife she would never see him again. I fell in love with her, but duty called and I had to leave. But returned ten years later to marry her.
As I watched my past, I began to learn more on Karie's boyfriends, something I shouldn’t have. I found out which were just playing her and which for for real. And often myself trying to expose the bad ones with out exposing my self. And once she almost caught me.
Anyway away from watching my past vampire life began to heat up.
Zephone was mad a Turel because he had taken over an area of land in the north that Zephon was planning to build a base, Zephonim clan was small and could do little to push around Turels because his clan out numbered us.
So one day during a meeting he stood up in front of all his five lieutenants (he as still yet to fill in a sixth) and said
“I need some one to go to the northern high lands and tell Turel to give back our reserved land” first everyone in the meeting laughed but when everyone noticed Zephon wasn’t laughing they all stopped.
Zephon was serious, the second youngest brother telling the second oldest brother to “back off”. We feared the Turelim; they were like the barbarians of the vampire world, next to the Razielim who were the elite.
The Turel were in the upper high mountains, and spent all day running around in the snow, which also burns a vampire, when it melts. I remember when I was fighting them that if you threw them in to the snow they wouldn't get up as fast, then you could deliver a fatal blow.
We knew what would happen if we went, Turel would kill us and send us back to Zephon in pieces to show who has the upper hand.
But as Zephon stood there waiting for someone to come forward and take on the horrible responsibility, some thing in the back off my head, from way back at the war academy where I learned to kill vampires, some thing that my old tuters told me about loyalty. Loyalty reflects trust. Trust is what I needed to prove myself to Zephon.
I stepped forward. Everyone looked at me in amazement.
“I will go,” I said boldly
Next thing I knew I was on black fire, with all my weapons, headed to the north. Now that I look back on it I was mostly at my advantage, I had spent many years fighting the turelim in the north I knew how they worked. They were big, strong, and fast. But stupid, clumsy, and had slow reflexes.
When I finally got to the north I found I need gloves because the snow flakes would hit my hands and melt. When I got to the Turel capital I found that it was big and built in to the side of a mountain. It’s been cold inside, and the Turelim didn’t seem to notice. They lead me to the main chamber were on a big throne was turel, he was tall about seven six, with a well built body, and a long black hair fitted in to a pony tail
He looked up at me.
“Ahh, if it isn’t my little brothers messenger” he said in a deep voice.
I walked forward and got down on one knee and bowed.
“Raise, tell me why hasn’t my brother come?”
“At the moment lord Zephon was occupied by project he was working on.” I said
“And what does he ask of me?”
“Lord Zephon demands that you turn over his reserved land to him immediately, so he can begin construction on a northern base.” I said
“HA!” he laughed, “my brother demands me to return his land, and what will he do?”
It hit me; Zephon hadn’t told me what he would do if he didn’t get his land back. Or maybe he was expecting me to come back in a box with a note labeled “what is left of your lieutenant little brother” then I thought of what Zephon would do.
“He says he would turn vulnerably material, like detailed maps on how to get in to this city, to the vampire hunters.” That was zephon like not a direct attack, but an attack that would not harm him in a way.
Turel was quite for a moment.
“You, lie” he said slowly
“I speak the truth” I lied “ Lord Zephon as detailed maps on this city as well as your two, underground slave houses east and west of here.” I remember these places from my hunting days. Turels eyes grew big then quickly died. He turned to one of the guards
“Well let’s show little Zephon what happens when he tries such”
The guard pulled out his axe (Turelim have a strange love for axes) and walked to me.
I calmly pulled my riding sword and my normal sword from their back slots.
The Turel charged at me, I knew what he would do he would slam his ax down ward to try to scare me. That he did and I cut of his arms an I jumped to the side. He cried in pain but I slashed off his head before he could finish his screaming.
“Karda” said Turel to his first lieutenant. “Show this armature how to really fight.”
The lieutenant came running forward and knocked me to the ground. Then he pulled out a long sword and slashed at me. I tried to defend my self with mine but he whacked it out of my hands, I had to cripple hi some how, I pulled out one of my throwing knives and threw it in to his face, and nailed him in the eye. He screamed and dropped his sword and covered his face in pain. I quickly ran up and lopped off one of his legs.
He fell to the ground with a heavy thud. I got on top of him and was about to cut off his head when he pulled a dagger from his side and stabbed it in to my thigh after missing my stomach. I leapt off of him, the dagger still stuck in my thigh. Suddenly he was crawling up to me, he punched me as I lay on the ground and pulled the dragger out of my leg with a violent twist, and tried to stab me again. But I kicked it out of his hand then kicked the throwing knife in his eye and he screamed and jerked back. I ran to my sword and cut off his right hand. Then some thing came to me, my cruel side, and my hatred side. I jumped on to him my face as cold as ice and pulled out one of my daggers. I ripped out the throwing knife from his eye and held his Face down to the floor. Turel stood up. I held the face down so the eye was looking up at me and then I cutted it out of its eye socket. The vampire screamed wildly with pain. Pop the eye flew out of its socket and rolled to Turel's feet. He looked at me in horror. I turned the vampires face to its other side and wiped the dagger on my armor clean for another eye cut.
“AHHH!! PLEASE STOP!!” he screamed out loud as all the other Turelim looked at him in horror “ PLEASE MASTER MAKE HIM STOP!!!”
I brought the dagger up to his other eye.
“STOP!!!” boomed Turels voice in a shaky tone.
I pulled my dagger from his eye, the leaning up to his face I whispered “your lucky”
I got up and stood in front of Turel. He looked confused, like he didn’t know whether to kill me or say he was sorry for trying to kill me. He walked back to his throne and sat down and rubbed one of his temples with a look that said, “Zephon sent THIS guy to talk to me.”
I noticed that the eyeball was on the ground in front of me. I leaded down and picked it up and put it in one of my pouches.
Turel looked at me disgusted.
“What, did your master want again?” he said finally
“The land he had for building his base.”
“Oh yeah.” He said in a depressed tone
“And if you don’t give it he will give some vulnerable material to the vampire slayers about you.” I reminded him
“Yeah, I am going to right a letter for him ok”
“Ok”
“Guards, give...uh… what was you name?”
“Niccolie”
“Give Niccolie a room, some blood, and some ‘company’ if he needs any” he said then turned to me “you have had a rough day I suggest that you get some rest”
“Yes lord” said getting down on one knee again and bowing.
I think Turel liked the fact that I still yielded to his higher authority after I had defeated his own challenge.
That night I wandered around the Turelim city looking at the sites, everywhere I went Turelim would go quiet and would move out of my way like I was a mad man, or that was what they thought. And that morning I left with a letter to Zephon back to the southeast where home was.

Chapter nine

As I walked in to the Zephon meeting room all the lieutenants stared at me in awe. I handed Zephon the letter. He opened it quickly and read over it.
Then he stood up and read it out loud.
“Dear little brother Zephon” he began “through great thought and careful dictions I have decided to return your land to you provide that you don’t give any information on my bases or my clan to the vampire slayers.
You probably want the land very desperately to bring me such a vile messenger, please note that I will not take the mutilation of my first lieutenant very peaceful. But lets stop this squabbling and make peace. If I don’t push, you don’t push. In highest respects your older brother Turel.”
Everyone began to smile and some one let out a small laugh.
“Me giving information to the vampire slayers?” said Zephon raising an eyebrow to me.
“I need some thing to threatened him with, without actually indicating clan war.”
“Mutilation?”
I reached in to my pouch and pulled out the eyeball and threw it to zephon, he caught it, and he looked it over and then smiled.
“You have done well,” he said
“I exist but to serve you my lord”
“Your value to the clan is more then your rank”
“I am happy where I stand”
“Well, no less you must be promoted, you will replace Khalil as my first lieutenant.”
“BUT SIR” said Khalil out loud the lowing his voice “but sir, I run all the major operation I am almost thirty years older then him. He isn’t even a full adult yet. You must reconsider.”
“All true, but he has taken up a mission that would almost certainly come to death in which all of you have not dear looked at, and still he came out victorious and has proven that our clan, small it may be, must be respected.”
“Khalil, is right” I said with a deep breath. “I may have proven myself but, Khalil is right, he does control most of the operation that would seriously jeopardizes our clan if he left his post, I am also not ready to handle such an important job, the clans reputation is important but not more important then the clan itself.”
“Are you declining this promotion, Niccolie?”
“I rather live my simple life, let me have my post until times of greater need”
So life went on. I continued watching Karie and my wife. Life as a vampire had taken hold of me. And I lived to my best. Then tragedy struck.
One dark day. It was cloudy like one of those days you knew it would rain but never does. I was watching my houses, Karie had left, but I could see no sign of my wife. So I went up behind the house. I saw on the table a fishing box. With out thinking I walked in and walked to it. I slowly opened to see all the hooks and lines. And there, I took off my hood, in the corner of the box was a sketch drawing of me. I would have cried If could. They missed me as much as me, only thing I could see them and they couldn’t.
I was in such an emotional moment I didn’t hear the sound of bear feet patting in my direction on the garnet floor. I picked up the picture and held it up to my face.
Suddenly I herd a gasp behind me.
“Niccolie” I herd some one whisper behind me.
I spun around, there was my wife rapped in a towel, hair wet, and she was pale like she saw a ghost. I guess I panicked and tried to dash from the house but in the confusion of the situation I tripped over a chair and fell to the ground. I looked back at my wife. She was covering her mouth and tears streamed down her face.
It was over, she already knew.
“What did they do to you?” she said in a shaken and sad voice.
I got up and walked up to her, she backed away as I came closer.
“It’s ok,” I said in a soft voice, as I walked closer
At first she was scared, then sorrow over whelmed her and she embraced me, her still wet skin burning my flesh.
“What have they done to you” she cried
“I had to”
She pulled away from me scared again. Then she put her hand on her neck.
“Don’t worry, I wouldn’t dare do such a thing,” I said in a serious tone.
“God,” she said in her normal voice as she wiped her tears from her face.
“Karie said they killed you, but for some reason I believe what everyone else said. I don’t even know why I doubted our daughter”
She walked up to me and put her hand on my cheek, and another tear streamed down her face. I wiped it off her face.
“I was with you,” I said in a shaky tone
“When?”
“Always, I only thought of you and Karie since the moment they did this.”
“You were like this for twelve years? why didn’t you come to us.”
“I was scared, scared of rejection.”
She looked at me, into my undead eyes. Then she hugged me and I held her to me, I guess I missed her. She let go of me and ran off in to the living room. I was about to follow her but she came running back carrying something in her hand.
“I believe you are missing this” she gave a small box to me. I opened it and there was my wedding ring. I felt so sad and damned my self for not being able to cry.
“Th…thank you so much” I said
Suddenly I heard some thing move by the window and a young blond man went running from it like he was running for his life. Suddenly it hit me, vampire code any seen with a vampire is no better then a vampire.
“He saw us!!” said in a frighten voice
“He’s Karie’s boyfriend, what is it to him if he sees me and you?”
“There is a rule that says that if you are seen with a vampire you must be killed, I know him. I have watched him. He isn’t what he seems to you and Karie. He will tell every one!!!!” I said quickly running up to the window.
“You mean the vampire hunters will kill me?”
“Yes, Karie too”
“Why Karie?”
“She is your daughter, and I am you ...Er was your husband”
“My god we got to get her before they do!!”
I looked outside, and then ran inside.
“Go to the fields, hide I will find her.”
“But they will kill you!!!”
“Rather me then her!!”
“But she won’t even recognize you!!! She was a little girl when she last saw you.”
“I haven’t aged a day since then she will know!!!” I said as I ran out the back and she followed me. My wife hid in the fields and I ran to black fire and road around the town. The people were gathering in the towns square, they were holding up torches and had weapons out. They were already going out in to the fields and searching the town for Karie.
I wasted no time I charged in to the town and ran though the streets. Suddenly I saw Karie run by on the next street down, I charged up the street and pulled out my riding sword.
A man ran in front of me and aimed a crossbow in Karies direction.
Shrrromm!!! *Shink* his head fell from his body as I passed him.
The blood on my sword made me hungry.
Two more men ran up to me screaming at me and tried to shoot me. I snatched two throwing knives and threw them in to their faces.
I saw Karie she was running full speed to the open fields.
“AHHGH!!” I yelled as an arrow stuck in to my shoulder. I tore it out and I turned and saw an old man loading his cross bow. I rode up and picked him of the ground and threw him in to another group of humans. I turned back to Karie and she was gone. I ran then I saw her dashing thought the olive tree orchard as arrows zinged passed her I charged in to her direction and saw two men with crossbows. I charged at them.
“Aggahh!!” screamed one but was cut short as I trampled over him with black fire. Then I cut off the others head.
Then a blood-curdling scream I heard from the direction of the square and I saw smoke rise in to the sky. “NO” I screamed in my head, I charged in to the square.
There was a stage with burning wood on top of it. And in the middle of the burning fire was my wife, she looked at me, her face blacked almost to a crisp, and whispered words I could not herd but all ready knew, “I love you”. Then she dropped into the flames and died.

Chapter ten

I went mad; suddenly I was riding around the stage killing anything that was human. The killing was now a need, I need it. I don’t know why, I just need it.
Men, women, children, if it wasn’t like me I killed it.
I got off black fire and took out my combat sword, and with two swords in my hand I walked around the square, killing any one dared enter.
A man charged me from around one of the corners of the streets.
“Niccolie, I knew you would amount to this!!!” he said. “Just like your wife and bitch for a daughter!!!”
I went wild and cut off the man's legs then I took two of my throwing knives and stabbed them in to his eyes and left them there, then I dragged him up to the stage were the fire was and threw him in to his. I watched with glee and he blindly scramabled around looking for a way from the shirring flam. All they while screaming for my mercy.
Then suddenly it all slowed down and a grave fear entered me.
“Karie!!” I screamed in my head. I ran up and got on black fire.
I charged out of the town and in to the fields. THERE!! I saw five men charge in to the forest after a barely visible figure.
“HA” I stabbed my heels in to black fire and we charged up to them I caught three off guard.
*Shink* one arm and a head
*Shink* the top half of a head
*Shink* and a half of what used to be human
I saw in the distance running deep in to the forest. I saw the to men.
I slammed my heels and we charged in their direction.
As I grew close I saw what was happening.
One man the older one had a knife to Karie's neck and the other I recognized as Karie's boyfriend was trying to take off her cloths.
I went mad, I lost it, I lost my concessions and became no more then a bloodthirsty killer. Before I new it I was upon them the older man dropped the knife and began to run.
*Shink* blood splattered over my armor as I sliced off his head.
I turned around and saw the young man with the knife. I got of my horse.
“I will kill you vampire.” He lashed the knife at me. I caught his hand and tore his arm from its socket.
“AAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!” he screamed.
I cut of his other arm then took his legs as well. Then I held his face down and pulled out one of my draggers. I cutted out his eyes, as his screams echoed in to the night. Then I lost track of what I was doing.
When I finally regained my mind, I found that in my madness I had token both of his eyes, cut off his tongue, skinned his head, and pulled all the teeth from his upper jaw. And he was still alive.
I got up. My armor was stained with blood. I took my sword and then thruster it in to his heart. I wanted everyone to know what they had done to me. I hanged up the body so that every one who came in to the forest could see.
“Karie” I said again in my mind.
I got on black fire and when to where she was when I killed the first man. There were footprints in the mud but the die in to the forest grass.
I sniffed the air. I could smell blood. She was close; I trotted down to where I killed the first man. And looked around the sent grew stronger. I went farther and I could smell her. She was close, very close.
I looked around. Nothing
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggg!!!!” Came a scream as I was tackled down from my stale, with such force that I didn’t know what happened. Then I felt someone kicked me in the side. I looked up. Karie was kicking wildly at me.
I jumped up and caught her next kick. Then I grabbed a hold of her by the shoulder she screamed in my face so loud I went deft. I shook her and screamed her name back.
“KARIE!! DON’T YOU RECONIZSE ME!!!” I screamed at her.
But she didn’t stop fighting.
“KARIE, IT’S ME YOUR FATHER!!” I let her go and pulled of my hood. She stopped fighting and looked at me.
“It’s me, your father.”
She looked at me in silence for a long, long time. Then I saw a small tear streams down her cheek.
“Prove it.” She said with a flat tone.
“I uh…” I looked at her and saw the memory necklace I gave her, still bright blue.
“I gave you this.” I pointed to the necklace “the night I came back from hunting. The night before we went fishing and the vampires got me.”
She looked at me and then ran over her necklace with her fingers.
“Daddy?” she said slowly beginning to cry
I gave her a hug and she held me tight. Her tears burned in to my skin. But somehow it didn’t hurt.
“ Why didn’t you come home” she said though her crying.
“Daddy was afraid”
She cried even more. Then through my ears I heard voices in the distance. Quickly pulled away from Karie.
“Karie, people are coming, they are trying to kill you and me.”
“What about mom?” she said wiping the tears from her face, unfortunately that was just time wasted.
“She’s….she’s …. She’s at a better place” Karie looked at me, and then just busted out in to more tears. But through all her crying she managed to get on black fire. I got on and we road, but I soon had another problem. As I got to the edge of the forest I realized that they had surrounded it. They were trapping me in. so Karie and I had to ride up the mountain, they had followed us through the night. The next morning I found that they were chasing us up the side of the mountain. My hunger had come, but luckily I had brought three full Blood Vials.
As I drank, Karie tried to ignore me but found herself asking questions.
“What does it taste like. Blood I mean” she asked as I finished my second vial.
“Well to a vampire it is as sweet as honey.” I said as I wiped the blood from my mouth. She shrugged
“Did it hurt.”? She asks me.
“What?” I asked as I opened my third vial
“Did it hurt, to become a vampire?”
“Well, I don’t know I can’t remember. I just woke up and poof. I was a vampire.”
“How come you became a vampire?”
I stopped drinking. I thought a bit.
“ I just woke up as one and decided to live as one” I lied.
“Doesn’t sound like you”
I looked down the cliff we were on. From the side was the mountain waterfall that filled the river.
Zephon will be mad at me if I get away. The people of this valley now knew that vampires were out there or at least a vampire was out there.
Karie looked out off the cliff and saw the torches of the many people below us.
“They will chase us down till we are dead.” She said in a cold tone
Suddenly I had an idea. But then again it was a bad Idea.
“I have a idea, we can fake our deaths”
“Well unlike you I am not dead.”
“No,” I said pulling out a dagger and dipping it in to my still very full Vial. I pulled it out it was covered in blood.
“You just stabbed me with my own knife.” I said with a smile.
“What?”
I poured blood from were we were off to the end of the cliff and smeared the blood and threw what was left of the blood out in to the mighty waterfall.
“Then you ran off into the cliff and die hitting the edge were you sank to the bottom.” I said, she looked at me and then seamed to catch on.
“Then” she said “you ran your horse off the cliff after me.”
“Yes” I said turning to black fire. By now she was old. I looked in to her eyes.
“Well girl, “I said patting her head “ I have to ask you of a favor, I know we have had a lot of bad times but this is all I need.”
She whinnied like she knew what I was saying.
“That’s right, you will fly” then I got on her and we made our last ride, we ran just as we hit the cliff I jumped off and she soared in to the air. She was beautiful it looked like she could run upon the wind it’s self, and then she fell down in to the mysterious steam of the waterfall.
I stood there for some moments looking down the cliff. Then Karie ands I went farther up the hill. That night we watched the torches of the vampire hunters move down back to the town, like small comets in the night they went. Our deaths must have been established. That night I took Karie to the cave and we got there at early morning.

Epilogue

Poor Karie, she lost her father and found him, but then lost her mother.
I was afraid to tell her the truth about why I became a vampire for fear that she would think that I choose to become a vampire over staying I would have died. It's not a good example for your kids if you feared death and choose to live as a vampire. Then one day she shocked me by just walking up to me and saying, “I want to be a vampire”. At first I didn’t let her say such a thing, but then she told me of what she had lost and what I was and how she would hate to like a life that always viewed me as a “different” creature. So I gave her to Zephon and then she was like me. I taught her all the vampire things she needed to know, the funny thing was she caught on to the a lot faster then me. And she seemed to enjoy sucking blood from live victims for fun then just for food.

Then two years later, lord Kain declared war against the humans. And my true career as a vampire came to being.