Natalia
Blood followed by the trail of bodies of both young and old lying lifelessly on the ground with their gust out. I trembled with fear. I pushed for more. I stood at a point, looking at the pile of dead bodies on the floor and the mixture of pure blood with the sand. I could hear the dying wails of the victims surrounding me.
The smoke stepped up high in the air with the loud sound of cries. The worst has happened. With curious overwhelming me, I ran as fast as my weak legs could carry me to my home. I had hope in me that my family would be safe and sound.
I tried to turn the knob but to my despair, It seems like the door was left open for some unexplained reason. I pushed the door fiercely to push my way in with a mallet on my right hand. I went in search for my parents but to my horror, I couldn't find my father.
All i saw was my mother lying lifelessly on the disoriented living room with blood gushing out of her neck.
Her blood stained the entire floor. I felt tempted. Drops of tears fell from my cheeks. I raced to help my mother. I touched her to check for any pulse but it was all in vain. I realized that she was beyond saving. She drifted apart in my arms. I suddenly went down in tears. She was dead but I could never forgot her last words uttered by her dying breath.
"It... was....Edward", said Rose Ransbottom.
Edward!
How can Edward be the last word she uttered in her dying breath? a lot of ideas kept pouncing on my head. Did she know about the pregnancy or was it something else? Did she hear anything about it? what did she discover? It was all cleared out when I got out of the house in search for help.
I got outside standing in the roadside. The particles of dust in the air with the dust made my eyes blurry but I could see a strange figure out in the open some distance far away from me . The figure change its movement rapidly. I chased after it. It got to a point that it stood still. The shady figure appears to be looking at me.
I moved forward a bit, linking us closer. Then out of the open, I heard a scream. I rushed out, moving towards the direction of the sound.
It looks like the sound was from the shady individual's direction. As I approached my target, the dust level in the air decreased. The figure appears to be a savage, like an animal I think. I hid from it, leaning slowly forword to its spot. The weird looking figure appears to be devouring something, making some strange sounds.
The sun shone its brightness from the sky directly down to the earth. The fumes died down and with just a quick look at the figure, I saw the savage Beast.
It was Edward, in flesh and blood.
I looked in shock as Edward was covered with blood all over him. I could barely recognised him. His eyes shone like the moon and his mouth was covered with blood.
He didn't look like a human at any aspect. He appears to be another identity of himself. He turned to me, locking eyeball to eyeball. He got scared as he felt my presence, standing close to him. Through his eyes, I knew he felt ashamed, sad and confused. Me on my own case, couldn't recognize the man in front of me.
Was he even human or an animal?
He leaned closer but I drew back.
"Natalia, let me explain", said Edward as he began to move closer to me but due to fear, I hardly got much closer. "Explain what? How you killed this people or how you sent them to their early grave?", I responded to Edward's speech in an angry tone.
That's what I am trying to explain. Please hear me out", Edward replies as he eventually began to to clean his mouth covered with blood. Me on the other hand stood shocked at the sight of the man i couldn't recognise anymore.
"What in the hell are you?", I asked with a face of fear on my face.
"Natalia, I should have told you this earlier. I am not what you think I am", Edward responded as he opens his hand contaminated with the blood. Right from the start, I already knew that he wasn't a saint I thought of.
"From the looks of it, you really are not", I replied weeping furiously while covering my head in shame. Our conversation was about to get thickened until we heard some noise through the bushes. Sounds of anger and vengeance of the townsmen with their clubs and swords echoed the background.
The townsmen were coming and they were on a solo mission; for Edward head. On the onset of this, Edward quickened the conversation. That was when he mentioned something that made my eardrum hurt.
"Natalia, I am a vampire", Edward spoke up with a sense of phobia in his words. Surprised to the outcome of this, I opened my mouth in awe. I couldn't even understand. Was he just playing around or was this some sort of folkloric dream which I need to wake up?
"A what?", I asked lamenting at the top of my voice as I asked the same question to my baby's father right in front of me to be sure.
"A vampire", He replied, lowering his head in shame. It seemed so funny and confusing to the core.
So I wondered, for all this time, stories of fear told to children were all true? Alive and roaming the world? To me, I thought all this was just some kind of sham.
"Like a blood sucking beast... hmm? You must be joking as hell", I corresponded to Edward's speech which made me laugh a little bit.
"Yes, Natalia. Sort of but this isn't my fault. I'm really serious here.", he moves toward me, trying to extent his hands to me but I reluctantly moved back as I was trying to complie all these weird information in the head.
"Vampires aren't meant to be real. It just a myth. Stories of horror, nothing more", I replied to his words after I noticed a broken bone under my boots. I shrieked in fear, jumping up fearfully as I slowly moved to the adjacent position far away from the dead bodies.
Edward instantly followed me. Eventually, we got to a point to continue our conversation.
"At least, you are looking at a real one in front of you", Edward responded. It was then I knew it wasn't a joke after all. The blood, dead bodies, bones all added up now. To my new knowledge of this, I rolled in on the ground, crying on sorrow and guilt to what I had done to my life – Loving and abomination.
"And you never told me this? why?", I asked.
"To protect you. I didn't what you to find out about the dark and dirty side of me. If I did, we wouldn't have even seen eye to eye", replied Edward as he slowly gets to his knees.
"Hell with your protection!. Now, let me get this straight .You are a mass killer and a blood sucking demon all in one day. Do you have any idea what you have just done? you just killed half of the population of Sandroville. You are really a beast!!. Wait a minute, since you have been doing this bizarre act for years, tell me, how many other towns and cities have felt your wrath? Those children? Old men and women? An entire populace? How many innocent souls have you slain", I asked in accordance of what Edward had previously said.
"Natalia, right now is not the right place to talk about this. I have…", I immediately cut Edward off with this speech.
"I said HOW many?", i shouted out as I quickly observed that Edward was trying to ignore me.
"Natalia… 11 places, with this involved but I am trying to repent from this. Sometimes, I had control over myself and sometimes, it feels like someone or something just changed all my controls over myself. It's like the change of season.
Truly, it really isnt my fault. It's just something I can't describe. I can explain more to you some other time but now, i have no time to spend here. The townsmen are coming for my blood.they will not rest until they see me dead", replied Edward.
"11 different locations? You are a damned murderer. You stained little children and women, both old and young and you say you want to redeem yourself? Redemption isn't good for a demon like you. Death is the best gift you need. It's like I don't even know who you are again. You are indeed a beast", I responded in tears.
"Natalia ,I couldn't control myself. I just can't stay a day without blood. It has been a curse on me for years now. I'm so sorry putting you through all this trouble", Edward replies, laying his hands on my shoulders which immediately I took off out of anger.
"I don't care!", I revolted, enraged to the core.
" Okay then, but then, I need your approval. I require you to accept my previous proposal". Said Edward.
"What proposal?", I asked towards the puzzling word Edward said for I had no idea what he meant but in time, I realised that his drastic proposal was as baffling as I could describe it.
"Run away with me, Natalia", said Edward while he holds my hands softly.
"Run away with you?", I asked.
"Yeah, let's get out of here and leave somewhere else", Edward spoke up with a sense of overwhelming joy in his tone.
"Are you serious?", I asked with a shocking appearance in my face.
"Yeah, we should leave Sandroville and go somewhere safe. I hear Cladus city is quite peaceful. Apart from that, it is a good place to raise our child. I have planned it all out. We can go now as soon as we can due to the fact the townsmen on on the trail for my head", replied Edward with a smile on his face.
He may hold the greatest weakness on the world upon the opposite sex – his charming appearance but that doesn't mean he could get away with everything. He doesn't even see anything. He was like a man with no conscience.
He doesn't even sense what he had done. Beside that, he couldn't even see how the anger was building up in me. Truly, I couldn't take this anymore. With annoyance, I slapped Edward.
"how can you tell me to elope with me? You killed half of the entire town and also killed my mother and you still have the audacity to plead me into eloping?", I asked out of anger.
"Natalia, i'm sorry but this is the only way out . If you really love me, you should approve. Are you in?", asked Edward but he was soon drawn by the sound of the townsmen as they approached rapidly through the bushes yeiling songs of revenge. Edward was persistant for my reply.
I had no choice. I had to pick a side and choose the right option.
"No, Edward. I have an obligation to my town. I still maintain my ground. I will stay in Sandroville. You should too", I responded to Edward, giving him my last advice to him but towards my help I wished to render to him, he angrily revolted.
"Can't you get it? I am a wanted man. I can't even live five kilometres next to Sandroville, not to talk about staying here. I need to leave here as far away as possible", Edward replied.
"Well... then I guess your love for me was a lie. I am staying in my home", I spoke up to Edward with a fully decisive look. I had made up my mind and it was final.
Edward knew this finally. He looks up to me with a scornful face.
"hope you made the right choice". Edward instantly replies in a compromising response despite all my efforts. The townsmen coming closer and closer towards the arena. At that moment, i knew it was time to say goodbye.
"Then I guess it's goodbye. I'm sorry Natalia. Please, take care of the baby. I will see you some day, l pray", said Edward hastily. The morning breeze came up again. The smoke perfumed the atmosphere again with its uncomfortable smell. The light bit of human flesh danced up high with the birds of the sky while the vultures joins in the feast of the fallen but not for Edward.
In a blink of an eye, he dashed off through the wind and out. He went it to the city. I watched as he left with those striking words in my hearts.
I crumbed down to the ground with tears in my eyes while the footsteps of the townsmen surrounded me but it was to late to be saved.
And soon, Edward was Gone...
Meanwhile, in a far land....
"My Oracle, we have found the rogue", said Sismon to an unknown figure inside a dark room.
"That's highly impressive. What is his location?", replied an unknown individual inside the room.
"He is moving east,due for west maybe. He appears to be on the run again", responded Sismon while he rolls a scroll inside the room. There, a loud bang was heard in the room.
"He is heading West, with no intention of slowing down", replied the voice.
"Yes,my lord", said sismon as he picks up the scroll laid on his feet again. Then, he was given the next set of instructions; "Sismon, round up the Troopers. Head west. Every scavanger must be on the hunt for him. Fetch Edward and bring him here ,dead or alive...UNFAILINGLY!", said the autonomous voice in the room with a loud voice.
He paused for a minute as Sismon slowly leaves the room, acknowledging his master's orders: "Any Vampire to get him will be rewarded with unlimited fresh blood supply".
"The Age of the Dark Queen is near!"