Marylin’s POV…
Father Jacob helped me bury the dead worker’s body and helped me leave town. He would have followed me, but he had to ensure that things were ok back at home and that no one ever found out how that poor worker died. So, I was all on my own.
I journeyed into the wilderness for days, the canopies from the trees formed a shade that protected me from the blazing sun, as father Jacob had told me that I could never see the sunlight again. At first, I was scared, being all alone in those dark woods and with the wild animals that lived there. It was not until I realized that I could feed on animals, a very useful piece of information father Jacob ought to have given me before he left, that I found it easier to adjust to this strange new life of mine. A wolf that wanted to attack me on one of such nights I was resting, I was sitting by the small fire I had created and singing one of the hopeful songs Gerome used to sing to me, how I missedDana sat there in the cave beside me and for the first time, we had a conversation. I told her all about myself, my story and how I ended up here, and she sympathized with me.“Ok Marylin, the first thing we need to do is to get you out of here. Can you fly?”“No,” I told her. “Even if I could, I don’t have enough strength to do so, I haven’t eaten in days.”“Sorry about that, let me quickly get you something to eat, then we can leave.”She stood up, and flew out through the cave. I only had to wait for a few minutes before she returned with a small dead antelope, captured in her fangs. She threw the antelope on the floor at my feet.“I just killed it, eat up so that we can go.”Of course, she didn’t need to tell me twice before I grabbed the animal with my claws and devoured it there. Suddenly, I felt strength and life return to me again.&n
Derick and I began a relationship not long after he moved in with us, he confessed his feelings for me and I felt the same way about him too, so we became a couple. Dana was happy for us, and gave us her full support.Our relationship didn’t get in the way of me and Dana’s friendship, sometimes she would even steal me away from Derick to take me on a new adventure. One of such days, she took me to the enchanted forest.The forest was a sight to behold, and if you would have told me before that a forest could live on a river, I would have thought you were crazy. But there it was, surrounded by the full beauty of nature, and illuminated by the glowing pixies that lived in it.The forest was home to many mystical creatures Dana had told me about before, she brought me here to see things for myself. We walked a bit into the forest, and that was when I heard a little pixie crying in the distance.“Do you hear that? Someo
Life continued the way it was in the castle and with my new diary, there was never a dull moment. It was always a place for me to safeguard my thoughts as Dana and Derick always kept spying on them. Although later, Derick and I promised that we wouldn’t do that to each other, but there was nothing I could do about Dana.My relationship with Derick grew stronger and stronger, and as it grew, so did the misunderstandings. We fought over everything. Dana used to be the one keeping the peace before but then it even got to a point that she stopped involving herself in our arguments.Many at times I would apologize to him and he would do the same and our relationship would continue, but then the same thing would happen again and then it would be back to square one. On and on it went for many years, until two new vampires joined us in the castle.Edmund and Hillary were a married couple, from a different coven that had separated. They didn’t have much
Back to the present…Joana dropped the diary she had been reading. She didn’t even realize that she had been reading for more than twenty-four hours. She never thought that reading about Marylin would turn out to be this exciting, even better than how it was when she read the first one. It was the hunger in her stomach that made her stop. The time she told herself she would go hunting had already passed and it was daylight again. She would just have to make do with vamscren so she could get a good meal.As she climbed down the stairs to enter the kitchen, she thought about this new diary she had found. She noticed that Marylin didn’t write the same way she did in the former one. In this diary, she talked more about herself like she was telling a story, and Joana couldn’t help but relate to every single thing she had been through. She didn’t want to rush her reading by skipping to the final pages to see what happened, but something tol
Before I left, I told Dana where I was going and by the time I reached the enchanted forest, it was already morning. I quickly flew myself inside to escape the blazing sun, as I didn’t carry along any vamscren. I was now in the forest, protected by the shades the forest trees offered. I went to Pixieland to visit my friend, Mariana, and we engaged in a conversation while she was making the new diary. She was glad to know that I loved it and decided to make the new one twice as large so I would have more room to write about my thoughts.Although Mariana had finished making the diary since, I waited in the forest till sunset before I began my journey back to the castle.When I returned, I met the coven gathered in the study again, discussing about their vacation. I wondered if they ever got tired of travelling.Dana invited me to join the meeting as they had already decided on a location but I declined giving the reason that I was tired. And I re
Following the months that passed after the vacation, Derick would always question my whereabouts whenever I wanted to sneak out to see John. I got sick of it, but I had no choice because Derick was not the only one who was concerned about where I was going to. It resulted in numerous quarrels between me and the coven but that never stopped me from always going to see John. I knew they were already suspecting that I was going to see someone, but I didn’t care about what any of them thought. They would never understand how I felt about John, never.I hadn’t started cheating on Derick but with the way he was all over me, I didn’t have much of a choice. I knew that sooner or later; our relationship was going to come to an end.Things would have been easier if I could go to see him during the day, at least the whole coven would have been asleep and then I wouldn’t have to answer to any interrogations about where I was going, but John&rs
I was still with John on the bed when the sun began to rise, and his window was wide open. He had gone to open it in the night to let some fresh air in as we continued making love. I was too involved in the moment to even realize the serious implications of what that would have on me in the morning.The moon looked so pretty from the window, I thought as I continued kissing him, and there we lay until the morning time, when the blazing sun came out.***It was the smell of my own burning flesh that woke the both of us up, the sun rays had entered through the windows and came to meet me where I slept, when I realized what was happening, I quickly ran over to shut the windows, but John had already seen everything.“Your skin is on fire, you’re smoking Marylin!!” What is happening to you? he exclaimed.I looked at him, holding his blanket over me to cover my naked body, I didn’t even know where to start explaining
I jumped out of my skin when I saw Derick in my room, his eyes red with sadness. I just prayed he hadn’t read my thoughts, as I didn’t know how long I stood near my door, thinking of all that had happened between me and my Johnnie.“You cheated on me Marylin, Derick said with tears in his eyes. Why? Was I not enough for you?”I began to feel empathy towards him. My face flushed with guilt, the guilty conscience I threw away last night on the bed with John returned to me now stronger than ever. I didn’t know what to say to Derick, I knew I had hurt him badly and there was nothing I could say now to justify myself.“I’m sorry Derick, I just think we should end things between us, I don’t want to keep hurting you anymore.”“You’re a coward Marylin, you know that? Is this the first time you’re seeing me hurt? Is this the first time you’ve broken me, or seen me in pain because of
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