Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess 3 (4 page)

Chapter
7

The wind continued to howl.
...

Some gloomy clouds
moved slowly across the sky
.

I
was sitting at the top
of a mountain.

Three bats hovered around me
.
They flew into the woods.

My dress’s black fabric
looked
to have acquired proper
life
.

It flew
toward the
windstorm.

Suddenly,
a tenebrous voice
sounded
in
my ears
.

“Valkyrie!”

I knew
who the owner of that voice was
.
I heard a familiar voice saying,
“Come back!”

It was my father’s
voice
.

He called my name
telling me I
should return to his castle. He needed me
in Neptune.

I stared toward the sound
coming from
his voice
.
I was looking for him
and his voice was
closer
each time
as if
he
was there beside me
.

“
Father
!” I said, looking up at the sky.

“Come back,
daughter
!”

A
dark
smoke
appeared
in front of me
. My father
emerged from it
,
extending his hand
in my direction.  He wanted me to to him.

I gazed up into his mysterious eyes and saw
my mother’s face. I was
confused
.
I didn't know what to think  and what to do
but I knew  I couldn't abandon my
mother
again
.

In my unconscious
,
I wished
to be with my father.
Neptune
was
my
home in fact
.
I knew I was safe in his castle. I didn’t need
to
hide
my true
origin from anyone
.

I shook my head as I was
bewildered.
Then I interrupted my daydream
.
I looked around my room to a
black wall
.
There was no one there
and my father
wasn’t
in my bedroom either. 

I had just dreamed
of my
father.

Chapter
8

It was night. I was still in school
and nobody was in the
place
.

My instinct
designated my procedure
that day
.
There was
a
need
for me to be
there
at that moment
,
in the
middle of the gym.

Without
witnesses
, it was
inevitable,
all that
was
happening
around me
. I
walked
slowly
and stopped
moving on
when
four
lamps
switched on. Then
at the same time
they switched off. They
seemed
to have a life of their own
.

All I saw were the flashing lights,
intensely
,
without quitting
, like in
a nocturnal club
.
Besides
flashing
, they
also
began
to
shake
.

I looked up at the ceiling and also around me and nobody was
there
.

There was
a
certainty
inside me
.

Who might that be?

‘Eros!’

In those seconds, my hope overcame me.
It’d been making me
wince.
...

I shuddered at the thought.

“Eros!”
I shouted at
the
four
corners of the place
.

The flashing lights
flickered
more often
and its
movements
added a strange eeriness to the place.

It looked
like
an answer
.

“Eros...
is it you
?”

My
thoughts
were fed by optimism.

“If it’s
you
...
please
become visible!” I said as I
thought
he
would be doing
one of his
vampire
tricks
.

The lights
came back to normal
.
I
didn‘t sense
any more of
that
stunning energy. It
wasn’t
there
any longer.

Chapter
9

I did not fall asleep quickly
after
what happened
in the gym
.
I was imagining
Eros could
have been there
,
close to me
. It
made me realize
how much I missed him.

I knew  I shouldn’t feel
that for
him.

I turned back to face my window
,
where I
always stood when
sleep did not immediately overcome me
.
The yellow stars filled the night sky and
in their company was a full moon
,
brightening the obscure clouds
.
I closed my eyes
and
imagined
an
owl
flying over the
trees
. I conjured it in
my thoughts
that it
could come
to meet me
.

Immediately,
an
owl
emerged on my window
. It
was like
Eros,
when
he morphed
into that
bird
.

I stretched my fingers
.
The owl stared down at my hands and landed just above them.

“Eros!” I said,
staring at
the
owl
. It
stared straight into my eyes.

Its
presence
banished Eros’s absence in my life.

It was fantastic and
something
enigmatic
.
A vampire was
dependent on
an innocent
owl
.
I remained fixed
at night under a perfect sky
,
until
my sleep
arrived to steal it
from me
.

Chapter
10

There were
days
I didn't
feed appropriately.
 

Ultimately, I just fed
on food
prepared
by my mother.
This, however, didn’t
extinguish my
desire for human blood
.

Since
my return to the
planet Earth,
I wasn’t actually giving myself the privilege
to drink
any
new  human blood
. My
hunt
began
in a
wood, distant
from my home
.
I didn’t want to
risk
being surprised by someone I knew
.
I wished
to save
lives
,
so
I
went in search of
some
wild animal
.

The
thick scrub
made it difficult
for my
journey
. My clothes were also quite inappropriate for this particular mission. 
I should have
hunted
wearing
black jeans
and
boots
.

In fact,
I
dressed
in a black
skirt that went  to
my knees
and a delicate
colored blouse
and worn
sneakers
.

I had a bright idea
that
I
wanted to become a
‘black panther’.
Things would better and I could hunt with more
precision.

My
female
body
originated into
a ‘black panther’.
After a few steps,
a
policeman was
in search of
someone
in the forest,
maybe some fugitive bandit.
He looked scared
,
after all,
I was a
wild animal and extremely dangerous. It was in his
standpoint
. He
gestured toward
me.

I jumped opposite him
.
It was
my
defense strategy
.
He shot his gun
before I
could attack him. His shooting was
a little faster than I
expected.
Certainly
the bullet
would have drilled
my heart
if it wasn’t for
the action
of a
owl
that
appeared
in front of me
.

The
owl
sank to the ground and closed its eyes
.

Trying to avenge what
the policeman
did to
the unprotected animal,
I immediately jumped
on top of him
and threw him to the ground. His firearm
dropped from his hand
. My triple jump didn’t allow any chance for the policeman to remain
alive
.
Yeah,
he was dead
,
his face was bloodied
.

I turned into human form again
and moved toward the
fallen owl
on the
ground.
I knelt down next to it
and
placed my hand on its head
.
What started out looking like a wisp of smoke began to take shape as a masculine body
and
the gray smoke
disappeared in that moment.
It wasn’t
the owl
that was
lying on the dirt
y ground.

It was a
creature
in human form
.

I couldn’t
believe
what I was looking at
.

“Eros!”
I yelled as I
was frantic
.

He
was still
unconscious.

“Eros!”
I said, sliding my fingers on his head and his ears as I was pulling him to my lap
.

“Eros!”

At this moment he opened his vampire eyes
. I
was so relieved when I saw he was
conscious
.

“Why did you do that?
The shot
should have been
for me
.”

He
didn't answer. He just closed his gray eyes, without
any
enthusiasm
for life
.