They stayed with Katariina for a little while before saying their goodbyes and heading for Pixieland. Joana, although happy, still found it hard to believe that her quest would be over soon. Finding these ingredients were no easy feat but she never would have done it without the help of the coven, as Dana had told her that Marylin took a much longer time to find them on her own, even though she was a powerful vampire. She thought of them as they neared Pixieland, very soon this would all be over; she would be back home with grandma Jen and would be getting ready to wed at the altar with Andrew, and she wouldn’t have to worry about becoming a vampire again on her wedding day. She would miss her friends, Dana, Derick, Edmund and Hillary very much, she wished that there was a way not to cut off from them forever but there was nothing she could do. She had to choose which one of the lives she would live as she couldn’t live both; and she chose her human life because she knew
Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday to you,Happy birthday Joana,Happy birthday to you.Joana smiled in her sleep while hearing the birthday song being sang for her, she thought it would be Andrew, Sandra or grandma Jen who had come to sing her a birthday song, but she opened her eyes and saw Dana, Derick, Edmund and Hillary standing at the foot of her bed, each holding a present. It was early in the morning, two days after she and Derick had returned from the enchanted forest. After months of searching, she had all the ingredients complete, the last of which was flowing through her veins. Some part of her felt reluctant to go to the supreme council to offer the sacrifice right away. She decided to go on a three-day break and do nothing but rest. After all, she deserved a big break after all the trouble she had been through the past few months. It had been so hard to keep track of time and dates in her new life in the castle, she never even
The final ingredient: Blood of an immortal vampireThey say human blood sustains life, but the blood of an immortal vampire is life itself. Highly addictive, the main source of the various supernatural abilities possessed by these creatures and which serves as their literal life essence. It is useless to other vampires who possess the same blood in their veins, but is life to the humans.For centuries, the vampire community has succeeded in keeping this precious gift a secret to the humans, else they try to start hunting vampires for their blood. The sacred blood that heals and turns the natural to the super, blesses us with healing and gives humans a second life.The blood of a vampire gives the essence to immortals,Humans who drink it can escape the death portals.Humans who drink it can form a bond with the blood giverBut do not drink too much, else your human blood will wither.This precious blood that flows through
It had been a week now, and it took a while for Joana to summon the courage to take the ingredients and offer the sacrifice unto the council, even though she had all she needed to do it. She didn’t know why, but part of her just wanted to wait a while first. After all, there was no need to rush things and she would soon be home. She decided she would go there tomorrow. She wondered how grandma Jen and Andrew would be doing by now. It had been so long since she’d seen them, a year in fact. And now more than ever, she was curious to see how they were.A knock on her door startled her and brought her into reality.“Come in,” she said.“It was Derick.”“Hello Joana,” he said.“Hi Derick, why aren’t you asleep?”“Because I wanted us to talk in private.”Here he goes again.“I know you love me Joana, and I do too, and that&rs
Joana went into the kitchen and chugged down a whole gallon of vamscren. It was daylight, and she needed to go somewhere, anywhere in fact that wouldn’t remind her of the amazing times she spent with Derick. She needed a form of assurance that she was making the right decision. She needed to find something that would remind her of the times she spent with Andrew, and she knew just where to go. She left the castle and flew out through the gates in the direction of her neighborhood where she lived as a human. She knew that Dana had warned her not to do this until she became human, but she decided to risk it just this once. All she needed was a little convincing that she wouldn’t regret this decision she was about to make for the rest of her life, like Derick had said. Two things added to her doubts; the first of which was when the supreme council warned her that she was making the same mistake Marylin did in her past life, the second was when the evergreen rive
Christopher, who was it at the door? Andrew’s mum walked into the living room wearing an apron, she appeared to have been cooking and Joana could have sworn she almost fainted upon seeing her seated in their living room.“Joana!” She gasped. “Is this really you?”“Yes, Felicia, it is,” Joana said to her.“Hold on just a second,” Felicia said. “I just finished preparing the food, you’ll join us for lunch, won’t you? Then we can talk over a good meal.”“I’m sorry,” Joana apologized. “I can’t stay to eat. I only came here to see Andrew, is he around?”Felicia, looked over at her husband, Christopher, they appeared to be hiding something from her. She tried reading their thoughts but their minds were as blank as paper. They couldn’t even think of what they were going to tell her.“Is there something wrong?” Jo
“Ok, where is she?” Joana asked without reservation, she hoped that Sandra wouldn’t say what she thought she would. She wanted to read her thoughts to find out, but before she did, Sandra had already begun to speak.“Grandma Jen is dead Joana, she died a few months ago. She had lost faith that you were still alive, and couldn’t bear the thought of you being dead. Everyone told her to hold on and at least wait for them to find your body. She tried to, but I guess the loneliness and depression was eating her up and she couldn’t bear it anymore. She was found dead in her house three days after she was last seen. Her one regret she had always mentioned was allowing a stranger take you away from her.”After Sandra finished, she watched as a fresh wave of tears began to run down Joana’s cheeks. It hurt her to see her friend like that, and she didn’t even know if Joana was going to be able to hear the news about Andrew after t
“Are you sure you want to do this?” Sandra asked her friend. She and Joana now stood in front of Andrew’s house. He had moved out of his parents’ right after he got married to one of Joana’s rivals in high school, Janet.Joana stood on the road opposite where the house stood. She remembered when this house still had the “FOR SALE” sign in front of it, Joana and Andrew always passed the front of this house on the way to and back from school. They both fell in love with the house and planned on buying it right after they got married. Joana always wondered where Andrew would get the money, but if there was anything she loved about Andrew, it was that when he wanted something, he always made sure he got it no matter what. He had gotten this house, but not to live with her in it, he had gotten it to live with Janet. She had only been gone a year, how easy was it for him to move on so quickly?Sandra had answered that q
She had had enough of this; she still had some things to take care of before she left this place. She couldn’t keep standing there and listen to the flimsy excuses Andrew was giving her. It was time to do the right thing, something she ought to have done long ago; be true to her feelings. She knew the person she had loved since the first day she set her eyes on him, but because of this bastard standing in front of her who clearly didn’t deserve her, she pushed him away. She pushed away Derick and now because of Andrew, he probably wasn’t going to speak to her again. She had never felt this stupid in her life.Andrew getting married to someone else was the last thing she expected to happen, but like Dana had said, things happen in life that you can’t control. She didn’t wait for Andrew to finish speaking before she walked out on him. He might have been able to humiliate her, but she would never let him see her tears, ever.She went
Joana cuddled little baby Jennifer by the fireplace of the quarters she and Derick had moved into after getting married, she rocked her to sleep, singing her one of the lullaby songs grandma Jen used to sing to her when she was little.Being married to Derick, they still had their misunderstandings but now that they both shared a bed, they now had a place they where they could settle those little pending issues.After a few years of getting married, Joana was more than surprised to find out she was pregnant, she felt it was either the supreme council that just wanted to give her a gift, or the fact that she and Derick had had sex like a million times till the point she conceived, she didn’t care for whatever reason she became pregnant, all that mattered was that her little bundle of joy was right there in her arms, and had brought nothing but happiness into their lives ever since she came. She named her baby Jennifer, after her grandmother, because she kn
Six months later…Joana looked into the gift that the evergreen river had gifted her for her wedding day. It was a magic mirror that allowed her and any other vampire to see their reflection. She looked into it and saw how beautiful she looked in the magical flowery dress the pixies had made for her for her special day. This gift was truly a keeper and she sure would cherish it.“Are you ready to get married?” She heard a voice behind her. She turned to see Dana and Hillary in their bridesmaids dresses the pixies had made for them too. They went to get some flowers that she would hold to walk the alter, as if she didn’t have enough flowers on her dress already.“The more, the merrier,” Dana said.“You look stunning!” Hillary gasped, taking in the view of the beautiful white dress.“You two look amazing also, come and see yourselves in the mirror,” she showed the mirror, an
Back to the present…The news of Marylin’s suicide had the whole coven in silence for days. It killed the happy mood that had been brought about by Derick’s reappearance, and no one was able to eat or sleep during that period. Who would have thought that a story that everyone thought would be a happy ending, actually turned out to be a tragedy?Dana soiled her pillow with tears those nights while thinking, so her husband had lied? He announced to everyone that she died from a strange sickness, and yet couldn’t produce her body, she should have known something was up then. This was the most disheartening news she would ever take.John was truly a snake, she was even sure that he hadn’t bothered to go and look for her when he found out she was missing, he was a bigger bastard than Andrew, and she wished he were still alive so she could go and kill him herself.With all the bad news, she was still happy for Joana, she had
Marylin’s POV…I returned to John’s house after breaking the news of the sacrifice and me becoming human to the members of my coven, they were all distraught by the news but that didn’t make me change my decision. Besides, the supreme council had already said the action was irreversible once I performed the sacrifice, so even if they succeeded in convincing me to stay, it wouldn’t matter anymore. The only thing that gave them a little comfort was when I told them that it wasn’t going to be permanent; my 200th descendant would return as me again with only no memory of the life I’m living now, and would become a vampire on her 18th birthday. Dana promised to always send her messenger bat to watch over my descendants until it reached the 200th, so she would help her return to the castle when it was time. I didn’t care whatever she tried to do in order to bring me back to the coven, all she needed to know was that I was leaving them
Joana searched and searched but couldn’t find the river anywhere, she tried to remember where she saw her the last time she and Derick came here, but in that same place where she met the river, there was nothing there but empty land. She then realized that she probably couldn’t see the river because the river hadn’t called her, but that would mean she would have to pray. Her heart sank, she remembered how long it took for the river to respond the last time she prayed, and she wasn’t sure she had that much time now that her spirit was here. She then got on her knees and began to pray, hoping that the river would hear her and respond quickly, now that she was closer.She hadn’t even begun praying when the river called.“Hello Joana, welcome back. I see you brought your spirit body here this time around.”“Hello river, please I need your help. I am sorry for how I acted the last time; I need to find the one I lo
Back to the present…Reading about Marylin’s experience with the gem piece made Joana remember something important. She quickly dropped the book and hurried over to her bag where she had gathered her own set of ingredients. She emptied the contents in it and lo and behold, amongst the ingredients in her bag, the gem piece was there. She remembered that she didn’t put the pieces back in their normal positions on the five stones because of the pack of wolves she encountered after leaving the supreme council’s presence.If Derick had truly gone to the supreme council to take his life, he wouldn’t have been able to summon their presence without this gem piece she had in her hand. Realizing this made her heart skip a beat, if Derick was still alive, then where could he have possibly gone to? Where could he have been all this while?She rushed out of her room and went to meet Edmund in his quarters, Hillary and Dana had gone hunt
I didn’t waste time in going into their presence as the book told me all I needed to do. I flew to the heart of mother nature, united the gem pieces thereby summoning them and poured my heart out to them when I did. The leader of the supreme council; the one who sat in the middle, then spoke to me.“We have a solution to your problem, we can take away your immortality and make you a human so that you can be reunited with the one you love, but keep in mind that once you offer this sacrifice, your decision can not be changed. You will begin a new journey and you will bring back five ingredients; the first is waters from the evergreen river, tears from the black dragon, earth from the volcano of life, a speck of pixie dust from the enchanted forest, and finally your immortal blood.“All these ingredients are needed to make a sacrifice at the center of the heart, where you first summoned us. If your sacrifice is accepted, then you will becom
After that weekend at Johnnie’s parents’ house, I tried as much as possible to distance myself from his family, even though they began to visit him more regularly to find out if I had any witchery going on. They always came during weekends and sometimes during the weekdays, his mom and his aunt most especially. I knew the reason why they were coming; to check to find anything that would confirm their suspicions that I was a witch or that I had bewitched Johnnie so they could go and report to the king. They gave up when they couldn’t find anything after a few weeks.Alas I was finally free from his family, and now I could have more alone time with my Johnnie. More good things started happening to us as Johnnie, with the whole of his life savings, bought a small land in the town as he was tired of his job, and wanted to go into pig farming. We would both run the farm together, and I even agreed that I would help with night duties while he slept. He would b
After Dana’s visit I became more wary about what people said and thought about me, I never trusted anyone apart from my Johnnie, I managed the vamscren she gave me to make appearances in many parts of the town during the day. It worked, and after a while, all the witch rumors about me stopped, people just assumed that I was heliophobic or something.Johnnie decided that it was now time for me to meet his parents, we were going over to their house for dinner tonight. I was excited at the thought of going to meet them, I only hoped that the fact that I wouldn’t be able to eat anything wouldn’t pose as a problem.We went to their house in the evening after he came home from work. Their house wasn’t in the same neighborhood as Johnnie’s and in this area, there were entirely different faces, they lived in the outskirts of the town. I made sure to look my best before we left and soon, we reached the house. It was bigger than Johnnies and