Valkyrie - the Vampire Princess

by Pet TorreS

  “You have a rare type of blood. We need to examine you,” he stated.

  “No! I’m not going with you!” I said loudly.

  I glanced up apprehensively. I was very afraid.

  “Either you come with us, or you will die right here,” the doctor said.

  I had no choice. After all, I would die sooner or later.

  “I prefer to die now,” I said, in an outbreak of panic.

  Eros stood in front of me, trying to protect me from them.

  “You won’t get what you want. I won’t let anyone hurt her,” Eros said and his face was very grave.

  Eros fought the six men. He didn’t use his vampire powers as he struggled like a human being. For a few moments he dominated the fight, until he was beaten and fell on the ground.

  “Run! Go away!” Eros yelled, in panic, looking towards me.

  “I can’t leave you alone here with them,” I said, fearfully.

  “Go way!” Eros vociferated.

  I had no choice and did it as he asked. I ran away.

  I heard shooting from the doctor’s gun. I stared back at them, alarmed, and I saw Eros lying on the floor. His eyes were shut… he was dead.

  I tried to go back and die with him. I realized those men were pursuing me and then I ran even faster.

  I reached a street with several exits. I moved quickly towards one of them and saw a giant tree. I climbed it and stayed hidden on a branch. They walked from side to side but didn’t find me.

  Then they walked away.

  “We’ll catch her,” the doctor said aloud.

  I listened to everything they said.

  I descended the tree hours later, when I was sure that they weren’t close to me and I wasn’t in danger anymore that night. During my escape I had lost my shoes. My dress was torn to shreds and I was dusty. My hair was untidy. I didn’t care about that.

  I realized that Eros was really dead when I climbed the roof of a house. I stayed there, sitting and looking straight ahead the darkness in that horrid night.

  Eros was dead, that was all I could think of. I remembered again the noise of shooting and Eros’s body on the ground.

  I cried in a deep despair. First I thought that in my life I just depended on my mother to survive. Now I realized that Eros had become a part of my world too.

  What would I do without him?

  I figured out I would never see his face again, nor would hear his voice. Wouldn’t touch his cold skin, wouldn’t feel his gelid touch on my skin.

  My thoughts were interrupted when I heard footsteps on the roof. I looked slightly to the side and saw his image, standing in front of me, with three wounds on his chest.

  “You’re dead! I saw them killing you!” I said and my eyes were wide opened, shocked.

  I thought I was talking to a ghost.

  “Did you forget I’m immortal?” he asked and leaped over, in a unique, double jump and came quickly in my direction.

  I stood up quietly and verified the shooting holes on his chest. I touched his dark T-shirt; pressing my fingers against the three wounds in his dead flesh.

  His blood was dark and thick. He didn’t bleed like humans. His blood was gummous.

  I was sure he wasn’t an illusion. He had really survived, he was an immortal. It would be impossible for a human being to escape that ambush.

  For the first time I understood that being a vampire had some pros and immortality was one of them.

  “In a few hours I’ll be totally recovere,” he said, while removing the three bullets from his chest with his fingers. He contorted his face in pain after removing the bullets. The bullets fell on the floor, clinking.

  When I looked into his dark eyes, they changed color. Now his eyes became light-gray and there were dark rings around them.

  His teeth sprung slowly. He needed to show his true nature by doing that.

  I faced his light grey eyes without fear. It occurred to me that his supernatural look was even more irresistible than his human face.

  How could a creature from the darkness be dreadful and beautiful at the same time?

  I interrupted my thoughts after I heard him say something.

  “You’re in danger!” He was so worried.

  “What should I do? They’ll certainly come after me, and you’re also in danger,” I deduced, watching his face.

  I hadn’t realized that I was very concerned about him, instead of myself. I wouldn’t forgive myself if something bad happened to him again.

  “You’ll have to come with me.” He stared into my eyes. “You might behave like a human, but you can’t do all they do,” Eros warned me, with a harsh voice.

  “Where will we go?” I stared at him, confused.

  “We will go to the place from where I came,” he communicated, looking up at the stars in the night sky.

  I watched his gloomy face.

  “We will go to our planet,” he said and turned to face me.

  “Your father is there. I came to Earth to take you to him.” His voice seemed almost indifferent. .

  “All this scares me,” I confessed and closed my eyes, shaking my head.

  “Neptune is our planet. There’s no danger for us there. And if you stay here… they’ll try to kill you,” he said, afflicted.

  “I can’t leave my mother,” I said, looking down at the floor.

  “It will be just for a while,” he insisted.

  “She needs me,” I insisted.

  “Your father needs you too.”

  “Why didn’t he come to see me instead of ordering you?” I asked, and saw his face which was very serious.

  “When he figured out about you, it was too late. Your father, by being our master, needs to recover his energy and the only way he managed to do that was to be asleep for a long time.”

  “Can’t he come back to Earth as soon as he wakes up?” I asked.

  “He wants you by his side… in ‘Neptune,’” he softly said, touching my cheek with his hand. “As long as you’re with him, your mother won’t be aware of anything, she will be sleeping profoundly.”

  “What will you do to her?” I was frightened.

  I panicked, afraid that something crucial could happen to my mother.

  “Trust me,” he said in a friendly manner.

  It was impossible not to trust him.

  After a few seconds of silence, his supernatural vampire aspect metamorphosed into an owl and it flew away.

  I looked at him, surprised by with his transformation.

  Then I realized that it was him all the time, the owl that stood almost every night on my window. That was him protecting me.

  Now I could understand why he was fond of owls, reading books about them. I remembered that day in which Douglas tried to burn that owl.

  That was him; he was there, not in a human form, but in a bird’s aspect. And so he had came back to school, the next day, with his hand bandaged, due to the burn on his hand.

  Every time he surprised me more with his mysteries. When everything seemed revealed and clear to me, something unexpected always happened.

  CHAPTER 29

  My mother slept with her window open. She never imagined that she would have a visit in her room. Eros entered through the open window as he always did in my room. Then he watched her sleeping. He walked to her bed with the utmost care, avoiding waking her. He put his hands over her face, in a ritual that made her imprisoned in a deep sleep, until my return to Earth.

  ***

  The owl flew over the town before it returned to the spot where I was standing. When it flew over a street, it saw Christian’s car parked in front of Mirta’s house.

  By that time the rock and roll concert had already ended and he left Mirta at her front door.

  He kissed her sweetly on her lips. Then she walked in and he turned back to his car. When he opened his car door, he got scared with the hedgehopping of the owl over his head.

  “Creature from hell!” Christian murmured.

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nbsp; Before getting into his car, he saw Eros standing around him, all in black. He didn’t know how Eros appeared out of nowhere.

  “You, what are you doing here?” Christian asked and his face was sober.

  “It’s nice to see you again,” Eros said and his voice was tremendously sarcastic.

  “I don’t like boys, my business is girls,” he said and got into his car.

  Eros dragged him out of the car with the strength of a bull, letting Christian feel frightened and unprotected.

  “My business is girls too,” Eros said clasping his neck and looking into his eyes.

  “What do you want from me?” Christian looked scared.

  “You have always bullied me in school.” He stared at his eyes again. “Your insults and unfunny jokes made me very angry.”

  “I was just kidding,” he said, trying to defend himself.

  “But I was not,” Eros said and tightened his throat.

  “Do you want to kill me?” Christian asked, coughing a lot because of the choking.

  “Not yet,” he whispered.

  Then Eros strangled Christian hatefully.

  “Now you know who you’re provoking, and if you keep chasing me, I’ll do worse things to you.”

  He threw him on the floor and assaulted him, kicking his face.

  “Stay away from Mirta or be considered a weird dead guy,” Eros threatened him gruesomely.

  A drop of blood ran down Christian’s nose. His blood’s smell incited his enemy.

  Eros quickly left the place before his predator instinct could command the situation.

  He could have murdered Christian right there. Eros wouldn’t take the risk of being easily surprised by any person.

  Then I was wrapped up into the smoke and vanished.

  Even far away, he couldn’t control his lust for blood. He was in the mood to go back to suck Christian’s blood. He pressed his hands against each other, twisting his whole neck, trying to control his predatory bloodthirsty instinct.

  A huge dog, with dark hair, was coming in his direction. Eros threw a cryptic glance at the animal. After it had been mesmerized, it came towards him.

  After having sucked all the blood out of his prey, there was nothing left of its body except bones and its head.

  CHAPTER 30

  Eros came back to the roof, where I was waiting for him in big anguish. I didn’t know the right decision to make.

  I could go away with him to Neptune and would leave my mother alone, or I could stay in Earth and I would lose a big chance to meet my father.

  That was something I had waited for my entire life…

  “Are you ready?” he asked and stared into my eyes again.

  I didn’t answer him, seeing that I was still disturbed.

  Being prepared to go away with him was something I hadn’t set in my mind. Both sides of the coin were rough to measure. My choice became very difficult.

  Eros reached my hand. I remained still, sitting, frightened by his reaction, watching him with my cautious eyes….

  Maybe it was the last time… maybe I wouldn’t see him anymore.

  “Come”, he begged and his voice was soft. Then he came closer, opening his hand slowly.

  I stood up and then lifted my hand in his direction.

  He held my hand between his, pulled me to face him and hugged me tightly.

  For the first time our embrace represented a lot in my life.

  I was sheltered by his body. All the bad feelings disappeared from inside my bosom.

  I was doing the right thing by going with him to finally see my father. Even being a monster, he was still my father.

  Eros stared up at the sky at the same time as he was waiting for the right time for our departure.

  Strong winds emerged around us. When I looked up at the gloomy sky, a “symbol of Neptune” arose in a dark blue color. We were dragged by some invisible force coming out of that symbol.

  Eros and I were still embracing and then both of us disappeared into the night sky, with a few scattered stars.

  The symbol went out of sight and everything came back to normal. The wind headed towards another route.

  Eros was the connection of all that had happened to me.

  Soon I would be in Neptune, beside my father…

  THE END

  Excerpt from

  Valkyrie the Vampire Princess 2

  Valkyrie

  The Vampire Princess 2

  A NOVEL

  By

  Pet Torres

  SYNOPSIS

  Valkyrie arrives on the planet Neptune.

  She finally meets her father, the master of all vampires.

  Her life will be laced with blood...

  What she most wishes, she will never have because she has become an immortal...

  Chapter 1

  Neptune is the last planet in order of distance from the sun.

  It was named after the Roman god of the seas. Its symbol is a trident of the Roman god.

  It is the fourth largest planet in diameter and its interior is composed of ice and rocks.

  It has the strongest winds in relation to other planets in the solar system, due to its great distance from the sun.

  Its temperature is about 7000 ° C.

  The sky is covered by misty clouds.

  The sunlight does not reach its surface...

  Chapter 2

  My journey to the planet Neptune was very long, due to its extensive long distance. I arrived at the strange territory in Eros's arms. However, I was unconscious.

  I had no energy, not enough to take my trip from end to end even though I was completely awake. I closed my eyes from the beginning of my travel and I opened them towards the end.

  After all, I was still human.

  We were in an enormous living-room that could accommodate hundreds of families. That living room was dark. Clarity was possible only through lit torches on the walls. These walls were made of rocks.

  Eros walked slowly with me in his arms, as if he was taking a trophy, one which he would deliver to my father. He did not need to make any kind of effort for me to remain in his comfortable arms.

  Besides Eros, there were two more people in the hall and they stood, watching Eros approaching them.

  They were my father's servants. Their names were Valeska and Bizak.

  I had been carefully put on a smooth stone. The stone was dark gray and it looked like an antique marble. I remained there until I had woken up completely.

  “You managed!” Valeska said to Eros as she looked at him in surprise.

  “She will stay this way for a few hours,” Eros said and stared cautiously at my face.

  “She is beautiful!” Bizak said as he was enchanted at my beauty.

  Eros stared at Bizak with his narrowed eyes. He thought that was no time for stupidity.

  “She barely arrived here and you're coveting the girl,” Valeska alleged with a twinge of jealousy.

  “Well, I think he forgot whose daughter she is,” Eros said. His voice was insensitive and then he turned his back to them and stepped out of the living room, leaving me under the curious stares of two eccentric figures.

  Chapter 3

  Eros walked slowly into the huge corridor. He was going toward my father’s extensive bedroom. He looked excited to communicate to Vincent about my presence in the interior of his castle and prove to his master he had not failed in his mission.

  He stopped walking in front of a huge wooden door and knocked on the door announcing his arrival to his master.

  “Come in!” a voice coming from inside the room ordered him.

  Then Eros opened the door and entered the room. He closed the door behind him.

  Taking a quick look, he saw Vincent sitting on his armchair. His armchair had been sculptured especially in favor of him. This armchair had been made of stones.

  “You’re back!” Vincent said as he looked at his loyal servant.

  Eros stopped, standing still in the m
iddle of the bedroom, seeing him sitting still on his usual seat.

  ***

  My father was in his rough-cloth robe, in a wine color. It was huge and when he walked his robe’s fabric would drag on the ground.

  “I just arrived now,” Eros informed his master.

  “My daughter?” Vincent asked inquisitive.

  “I brought her with me,” Eros answered.

  Vincent rose from his armchair and he looked vibrant at the news.

  “I always knew you wouldn't disappoint me! It was not by chance I chose you for this. No one would do it as well as you.” Vincent praised him.

  “She is still unconscious, but soon she will return to herself,” Eros supposed.

  “Where did you put her?” his master asked.

  “I put her in the great hall. Valeska and Bizak are with her,” he explained.

  “I'll wear appropriate clothing to receive her,” Vincent said, walking forward.

  “I'll rest. It has been a long time that I have not done this, Eros said and exited his master’s bedroom.

  Chapter 4

  When I opened my eyes, I saw two bizarre creatures looking at me with their curious eyes, as if they had never seen a human being in their lives.

  A young girl approached me first. She was the owner of an explicit sensuality. She was in her provocative tight dress, in an intense red color and her make-up was as heavy as her dress. Her appearance made me remember my friend Mirta.

  Her fire-red hair flowed down her neck. Her huge eyes were gray and her mouth was fleshy. Her skin was pale. In fact, she was a beautiful vampire.