Life as we know it needs water, oxygen, and sunlight. What if there was an organism that only needed the power of the wind to live? How cool would that be? What if it required the power of your blood would that still be cool? I don't know about you but to me, that would be a nightmare. Some would want to call it a vampire or Strigoi which would make you think of a romantic movie were a young girl falls in love with a handsome young vampire or also there is the classic vampire some would think of that would turns itself into a bat and would fly through the air biting people and sucking their blood then turning them into vampires like them.
Well, I am Johnny, and I am a vampire. I was bitten in the fall of 1885 in upstate New York I was Eighteen when late one night while I was hunting I fell asleep in my camp and something bit my arm at first I thought a bat bit me, because there were two small puncher marks on my arm but it turned out to be it was Fred. Wondering who Fred is? Well turns out Fred was the one who bite me and turned me into a vampire. Well, that story is a long one and I will try and explain to everyone more what happened to me and what it is really like to be a vampire and a teenager.
Fred is my best friend now, he said he bit me because he was hungry, I was lucky one night, so Fred decided that he need to get a bite to eat and here we are now I'm a vampire.
Fred was pretty lonely, he was scared to be around others and pretty well hid a lot he had a big heart and was just a teen also when he become a vampire and fact after I was turned into a vampire, he apologized to me for biting me. He is a good kid, he was only seventeen when this old guy came and bite him on the thigh like an old pervert. Well the guy that bit him died later that night when he forgot for some reason people would freak out when you try to kill their whole village, seems that they get angry and drove a stake through his heart and then set him on fire.
Fred is from the old country were are kind first came from, so after he turned he left the village where he had been transformed into a vampire just so that he would avoid the same fate as the weird old guy that had bitten him. He was able to get a job on a ship and come to the new country as the people of his time had called it.
By the way, I need to explain something about the movies you watch because they are way off about vampires. I like to take time and let you know that sunlight and garlic don't hurt us, also holy water gives us a severe rash and does not make us burst into flame it will make us itch a lot though. Then there is the cross doesn't make our heads exploded either it doesn't hold any power over us. We need blood to survive yes and not always human blood like the movies want you to think.
You were also wondering well if you get bitten then you will I turn into a vampire? Well, yes if the vampire drains you of all your blood you will die and not be turned into one of us. We usually just hunt animals for our food. We will kill it and drain the blood or we will just kill it and drain the blood into a ziplock bag and then save it by freezing it just like you do meat.
Well anyway we live in Oklahoma now, I know I said we live in Oklahoma I don't want to tell you the town so that way you don't come and visit us or try and drive a stake through our heart.
We live in a small community where the people pretty much stick to them self and leave Fred and me alone. He and I are good friends and have stuck together after I turn fact Fred lives next door to me in his apartment, and we both work at the local factory making parts for cars.
One nice thing about being a vampire, we have a long lifespan, if we don't get a stake to the heart and set on fire by an angry group of villagers plus we don't age. We are entirely like you in almost every way, but we just need blood to live on.
Creepy and weird huh? One other thing to this whole idea that we can turn into a bat and fly like superman well that is Hollywood. We do have superhuman strength, and we can blend into our surroundings so that we can hunt. Also, the idea you can use a mirror and a vampire will not appear in the mirror well I wish that were true cause I wouldn't have to look at my self in the mirror.
We both like to date girls and well another thing that Hollywood got wrong ounce again is vampires have got some type of power over women. Well, we don't they tell me "no I just want to be friends" or just plain ignore me the same as they do any man.
Ok so let me tell you about our adventures so far since Fred and I have been friends. We moved here to Oklahoma from upstate new york about the turn of the century the stories I will tell you sometimes will make you shake your head and laugh or sometimes you will make you cry but pretty much this is a story of two vampires in a big world.
I was born in the summer of 1887 to Idabel and John Olsten from Syracuse New York they were formerly of Dublin Ireland. Dad was a veteran of the silver war he was signed into service the moment he steps off the boat from Ireland. Mom had come over a few years later after dad had sent her enough money to catch a ship to join him. Then a few years later I was born.