CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 1

9 am at Vrykolakas’ Museum…

People were busy on taking a tour in the museum, while the owner Blake was inside his office, on the fourth floor, he was in his seat and behind him were walls and door that was made by glasses, it has a balcony outside, for him to take a look what’s on the lower grounds, He could see every movement and people below him.

He was gritting his teeth and trying hard to forget about sucking human’s blood, he was sad and worried.

Pocco knocked to his office but no one was answering so he entered the office and saw him, quietly sitting on his chair, his head was leaning on his chair head-guide, and just looking at the ceiling, tapping his fingers on his lap, it was a sign of him being anxious about something.

Pocco felt sorry for him, “Are you okay, Blake? It was only a self-defence,” Pocco said, his friend, trying to comfort him, yet he kept spacing out and not focusing on what Pocco was telling him.

“Blake?” he yelled, it vibrated inside his ears which waken up his senses; and brought him back to reality, he turned around his chair and faced him.

“You’re breaking my eardrums, Pocco,’’ he whispered as he rubbed his ears, his sense of being a vampire was extraordinary, he could hear even a whisper, and Pocco’s screamed definitely hurt his ears.

Pocco sighed in relief when he finally caught his friend’s attention. “Well, stop spacing out there, I’m worried about you.’’ he frowned.

“I’m fine, I just needed time to be alone,” he explained … “But, Blake…’’ he paused. Pocco was worried about his friend but he doesn’t want to disturb him. He said goodbye and left the office. Blake was not doing his work properly since the incident happened. The museum looked dead when he’s not okay.

A week ago, … The incident…

 It was dark and quiet outside the City; all buildings were closed and all lights were turned off.  Blake was walking towards home because he doesn’t have his car with him, he was rushing earlier and took a taxi for it takes time for his car to be fixed. While walking quietly in the dark, he suddenly heard a woman screaming in the dark street. He paused, peaking at the place where he heard the screams. Blake was surprised by what he saw…  A man was gripping the woman’s neck and pointing his knife on her stomach as he harassed the woman, kissing her on her neck, thirsty.

He was afraid that something might happen to her and calling the police would be waste of time because they would surely come when everything was done, the police station was miles away from the incident, the time calculation won’t make it, and the victim was already in the centre of death. The criminal was now pointing the knife at her neck, making sure she would keep her mouth shut as he continued harassing her. Being a vampire, he could go near them in just a blink of an eye. He was like a wind when he went near them, you could not even notice him with your bare eyes when he does that, it was one of his abilities as a VAMPIRE.

 The criminal and the victim were shocked by his sudden appearance, they didn’t notice him. The woman cried, she was glad that someone came to help her, but she was still worried because she could only see a thin yet tall young man, she wondered if she could beat the guy who was thrice bigger than him, especially that he has no weapon.

“How dare you disturb me when I’m not even finished and just starting to feel good,.,’’ he glared at him as he let go of the woman’s neck.

“Gross!” he spitted out.

The man was annoyed at the way he let out that word as if he was laughing at him.

“How dare you interrupt me and have the guts to say that!” he groaned.

 The man kept attacking him over and over again, but he only dodging all his attacks. Blake has incredible strength and speed but he wasn’t using it to harm people, but then he got distracted when he saw the woman was still on her feet, shaking and speechless, he was careless and he got stabbed, that it almost reached his heart a bit, it wasn’t that deep but it could make him weak.

 He was not worried about his wound, being immortal…it would soon heal, but it takes time, what’s he’s worried about more was the girl. “Damn girl! You should have run away when you have the chance,’’ he uttered as he glared at her.

 He fell on the ground with one knee, trying to help his body, his vision went blurry but he could still see what was happening, his hands tightened like stones as he saw the criminal went near her, he was about to stab her and because he was weak and couldn’t control himself, he flew as fast as he could and he did what he had never done before.

 His eyes went red, pangs slowly formed in his mouth and he didn’t notice himself biting the man’s neck, and began sucking his blood. His blood cells began to circulate too fast inside him, he felt strange but he somehow felt stronger and satisfied, he felt good that he even closed his eyes as he continued tasting his blood.

 He kept sucking the blood… non-stop, the man’s eyes began to roll as he could barely move… his body was shaking and held Blake’s head tightly but he felt weak and he let go of it.

Blake just realized what he did when the man fell down and the woman was staring at her with trembling hands and feet, speechless. The girl wanted to run away but her feet went numb. He didn’t know what to do, him, himself was also shocked by what he just did until a police patrol came and saw them.

His heart was beating too fast when the police were asking them what happened, but thanks to the woman who explained to them that she got harassed and he just saved her, she even showed them his stab, she explained everything except the fact that he was a vampire.

 The incident was troubling Blake for a week, he never sucks human blood before, and he admitted that the moment his pangs went inside that man’s flesh, his flesh was starting to enjoy it and he wouldn’t want to let him go not until he loses all his blood, his body wanted the man’s inside to be dried up, thanks to the woman who distracted him, or else he would never stop.

 He frowned as he looked at his reflection in the mirror.

“Blood…blood…blood!” his own mind was whispering to him, he tried to stop the whisperer but it lived inside his brain, it wouldn’t go away. His body wanted more human blood, he couldn’t understand, he never craved for human’s blood before but the moment he tasted it, his body started begging for it, he even wanted to devour their organs until no flesh and blood would remain.

“What should I do now?” he whispered.

 Another week has passed. Blake couldn’t stop his body’s desire.

He was busy talking to the tourist guide, Shiera, one of his friends at the same time she was also in charge of his Museum, she discussed with her about the new displayed art that he discovered thousand years ago. Shiera was wearing a floral off-shoulder top that almost reveals her front. He already told her not to wear such clothes yet she didn’t listen, telling him that it could help attracts tourists. While speaking to her, his eyes caught the woman’s neck, she could see her heavy sweats and breathing because of the hot weather, her sexy collar bone was indeed seducing but it was not the thing that was calling his attention. He swallowed like he was thirsty. He looked at her and suddenly rolled his eyes, “Let’s discussed this another time,’’ he said, sweating.

Shiera laughed at his expression and said, “See… even you couldn’t resist not look at my body…’’ she paused… “Blake,’’ she added in a teasing voice, giggling inside her mind.

“Stop daydreaming, Shiera, I rather suck your blood than being seduced,’’ he whispered.

“What did you say?’’ she confusedly asked and Blake drew out a teasing chuckle.

He clenched his hands into a fist and went straight to his office, getting rid of his cravings.

“What do you want?” he talked to himself. He was having a hard time battling with his body’s desire, sucking human blood was against his will, but he did it. He hated himself, he was only fortunate that Veronica, the girl he saved never told anyone what she saw and shut her mouth for his sake. She was the only human being who knew his identity as a vampire.

While Blake was busy spacing out, he heard a sudden chaos under the ground floor, he went near the balcony and looked down. Although he was standing on the 4^th floor, his eyes were too sharp that he could see clearly what’s on the ground like he was using a binocular.

 The place was crowding something, there were too many people that he couldn’t see what they looking at. He was about to ignore them but then he got worried that some of the antiques of the museum may be got broken, so he hurried downstairs and walk through the crowd.

Walking through th crowd, “Excuse me,’’ he kept whispering and then he saw Shiera.

“What happened?” he asked Sheira, who was spacing out at her feet.

“Sir, there is a naked woman suddenly appeared, we didn’t notice where she came from, she may be a crazy woman who lost her direction,’’ she explained to Blake.

Question marks were painted on his face. “Crazy woman, wasn’t it was you? What kind of nonsense is that?’’ he said as he kept looking at the woman’s strange look.

 “Naked woman? What are you talking about, Shiera?” he added and Shiera began to explain.

 Blake was confused about what was Shiera was trying to tell him for her voice was stammered that he barely understood every each of her words… So, instead of trying to understand her, he looked at where the aforementioned woman was. He then saw a man, one of the bodyguards, covering a woman with his jacket, and when he went near them, he saw a beautiful lady, she was thin and her skin was as white as snow, and her lips are red as strawberries, and he got a pair of wonderful green eyes.

 He looked seriously at her, scanned her from head to toe, and wonder why she was there, naked, he thought that she might be got harassed by someone, but... “How could a man take off all of her clothes that instant without people knowing... but the main question is; how did she come in and past the guards outside?”  he focused his eyes on her more.

 When he scanned the young woman’s body, he found no scar and if she was crazy like what Shiera thought, he doubts it because her skin was completely clean, no dirt, and her hair was completely okay. And if someone harrassed her, he couldn't as well saw any sign of it, no scar no any details to proved that. What only bothered him was her actions, how the woman looked at the things around her was odd, she even looked at her hands, looked confused, as if she had never seen one before, nor did she know that she’s a human?

 The bodyguards put the woman inside the guard’s office as they continued to investigate how did she get in while Blake was inside the CCTV room trying to check the footage, where they saw her, alone, while waiting for the other guards who tried to check if someone was suspicious, maybe the one who did it is still on the area.

Blake kept forwarding the footage until the footage showed the exact time when the incident happened, then he immediately stood up in enormous surprise. “What the heck is this?” he whispered when he saw where the girl came from, she didn’t enter the museum with her bare feet, she didn’t even go through the gate, instead… there was a light that brought her inside, the light disappeared and she came out like a ghost. Blake was surprised by what he saw, and he knew that the woman was not a human being.

“Is she a vampire?” he thought but he knew vampires were different from her, in her case he knew that she was something!

Blake hurriedly copied the footage on a flash drive he saw near the table and deleted the copy before the guards could view the footage. He didn’t want to let them know what happened, because it could only spread rumors, besides he wanted to investigate about it, alone.

“Did you saw what happened, sir?” asked one of the bodyguards.

He got startled and quickly took the flash drive secretly as he stood up from the stool to face the bodyguard.

Acting like mad and serious, “No, the CCTV might have a problem it didn’t record anything,’’ he lied.  

 The bodyguard was confused because the CCTV was working but when he checked the recording files there was empty. Blake made sure that he deleted everything that the CCTV recorded since morning on that day, to make it looked like nothing was recorded that day, because if he only deleted the time where the woman appeared, he knew that they will suspect it, that was indeed suspicious.

“Made sure you ask a technician to fixed it,’’ he said in a serious tone and acted cool as he strode away from the office, and the guard nodded, yet still confused about what happened to the CCTV’s.

“Where is she?” Blake asked where the woman was when he crossed paths with John, their Janitor.

“In the security office, sir,” John replied.

Blake went to that office and when he saw her, questions began to play around his mind.

“Who are you? No… What are you?” his mind thought as he kept staring at her.