Bloodlust: Lost memories PART 1-the beginning
“Oh come on Alice, Michael didn’t get that wasted last night”, my best friend Caitlin Hatsune was telling me as we walked to our lockers at Tulsa High. Caitlin kept babbling while I rubbed my forehead I had a killer head ache. It got worse when I saw ‘It’. By the time I saw ‘it’ my big sister Laura had joined us. Laura and I were practically best friends even though we’re sisters, we both hated home. Our mother Heather Scott had re-married and our new step father was James Marsdin. “Do you think our Step-douche will be angry if we ditch dinner”, I asked Laura.
“Of course he will Alice, he’s always angry”, Laura replied and all three of us started giggling.
That’s when I noticed well ‘it’. “Oh hell!” I gasped as ‘it’ walked over to us. It held its arms out to Laura and then as one of its fingers touched my forehead I screamed as a shock of pain went searing through my temple. I heard Laura let out a similar scream then... black... I woke to see Caitlin looking over me, she had tears pouring down her cheeks, “oh my fucking god why...” Caitlin was sobbing “oh son of a bitch!” I heard Laura shout as she got up.
When we met each other’s eyes we both gasped, I stared at the middle of her forehead, where in a shining bright Cyan was sketched an outline of a lunar eclipse.
Caitlin’s phone rang by the look on her face it was her boyfriend Jason, Tulsa’s star striker. He and my boyfriend Michael Moss were the best players in the soccer team. Yes his last name is Moss, but... He’s the captain of Tulsa’s soccer team and he was drop dead gorgeous.
“Don’t worry Caitlin you go home with Jason”, Laura and I said in unison “o-o-ok call me later”, Caitlin said backing away, then she turned and started to run, her phone crammed to her ear. I was positive she was telling Jason everything, just then I started to cough. “We’ve got to get home”, I told Laura. All Laura did was nod, I adjusted my dark Black hair so that it was over my face hiding my um ‘eclipse’. When I was done I looked at Laura and she had done the same with her bright blonde hair. Yes, her hair is blonde and mine is black, it’s just we have a little bit different genes than each other hence the hair.
“Oh hell”, I mumbled as we got to the entrance, there was our bright red Ferrari not far from, I sighed, Michael, who was talking to a GROUP OF GIRLS!. One of the girls who I recognised as Lana Henricks kissed Michael on the cheek. Michael, MY boyfriend. Anger flared inside of me, she was kissing my boyfriend.
“Alice we need to get home!” Laura said snapping me out of my internal rage, “Right” I mumbled as we walked towards my, oops I mean our Ferrari. “Hey Alice baby!” Michael called out from the parking space about 10 cars from our car. When Laura and I approached, the group of girls broke up, and Laura got into the driver’s seat. “Hey Alice baby come over here”, Michael cooed.
“I don’t have time Michael!” I called to him, Michael stubborn as always hopped into the Ute behind him and then drove over. Michael stood up in the back of the Ute and asked “Why not babe?” . Then I smelt his breath “oh my fucking god, Michael you’ve been drinking here at school are you crazy”, I blurted out. “Crazy about you baby”, he sung...
“Shouldn’t you be at soccer practise”, Laura said breaking the uneasy silence. “Soccer practise, oh no we got today off after the way we crushed Union last Friday”, He cheered and there were more cheers from inside the Ute, I got in our Red Ferrari and Laura drove us straight into hell itself.
When we arrived in hell the Step-douche wasn’t home so that was a bonus, “Alice we should tell mum together...” Laura whispered in my ear. I nodded. We entered through the garage like usual but instead of going to our room we walked into the lounge room where mum was reading ‘The truth’. It’s a book by the ‘Believers in Fate’, a group which our step-douche was an elder of. “Mum” I said. “Hmmm”, she said not noticing us. “Mother” I repeated. I don’t know if it was the fact that I haven’t called her that since she was first Re-married or if it was the tone of voice I had.
She looked at us and gasped “oh my god what have you two done now...” she said in a worrying voice. I just stared at her “Mother we didn’t do anything, this happened to us by that gross looking vampyre thingy”, Laura cut in. “Mother we need to get to the Night in Darkness, the school for newly marked fledgling vampyre’s”,.
“I know what it is young lady!” mum snapped interrupting me. “Now go to your room while I call your father and Lisa”, mother shouted at us.
“Wait you’re going to call James and my little sister, what can they do?” Laura blurted out. I could tell that she was getting frustrated with mum.
“Laura, Alice go to your room now!” Mum yelled, both of us looked at each other but didn’t say a word we just went to the room that we shared.
Lisa my other older sister and Laura’s younger sister was a ‘princess’ to mum and the step-douche. “Grrrrr why can’t she see the condition we’re in”, Laura complained. “I guess it’s because of James”, I answered coldly. Laura and I broke out laughing then I suddenly started to cough again. When I had stopped coughing, I sat on my bed opposite to Laura’s “I’m going to start packing the stuff I need”, Laura said. “What for?” I asked sounding like a clueless dork. “For getting out of here of course”, Laura replied then giggled, I started to giggle as well.
We managed to pack our suitcases with all the necessary clothes and whatnot, I packed my favourite dresses, pants, shirts, underwear and bra’s. My favourite dress is a lovely black dress with patterns of roses and sapphires tracing the neckline I got for my sweet sixteen b’day party, not that it was good with my step-douche around, just thinking about him gave me a head ache.
“Alice, Laura come out here now!” the voice of our Step-douche called coldly from outside our room interrupting my thoughts. “We’d better go out”, I sighed. The two of us hid our suitcases under our beds then with a sigh I opened the door. Laura and I went into the lounge room where the ‘Family’ was. Mum was holding Lisa ‘the perfect daughter’ while the step-douche shook his head and then tried to stare us down but the ‘tattoos’ as he calls them on our forehead distracted him.
“So now Satan has entered this family”, he said not trying to hide the sarcasm in his comment. “Oh James what are we going to do now”, mum sobbed.
“I suggest you let us go to the Night in Darkness”, Laura practically yelled at them.
“No we are not going to send you into that place of hell”, the step-douche shouted at Laura and me.
“Yeah you can stay with us and live in the basement”, Lisa teased.
“Oh shut up fuck face!” I yelled at her.
“This is no time for arguing!” mum said cutting me off before I could yell at the ‘perfect daughter’ again.
“That may be a position we may be in but right now we should gather the others and call Dr. Jones”, the step-douche mumbled.
“Wait you’re going to gather the other Old arse holes who don’t know shit and then call a useless psychiatrist”, I blurted out furious with the idea of being in the basement for the remaining few hundred years of my life which I’m positive that Lisa would keep it going.
The step-douche’s face turned a totally unattractive red “go to your room now!” he yelled so loud that I swear the whole neighbourhood heard him.
“Yes step-do-uh-father”, Laura replied as we turned and went back to our room. I thought it was lucky that I put a spare key to our car in my box of jewels not intending that we’d be running away to a school for vamps. I thought of, at the time sneaking out to see my bf Michael but now I was using it to run away, figures...
“We have got to get out of here”, Laura mumbled as she opened the window and got her suitcase out.
“Good thing I put keys in my box of sparkly things”, I laughed. Laura looked surprised and that made me laugh harder. “Did you forget I put a spare key in there”, I teased, even though it wasn’t an intentional question Laura answered “no I totally forgot”, with a puzzled facial expression. “Ha ha look at your expression”. I giggled.
Laura climbed out the window then I passed her our suitcases and then hopped out myself, literally my foot got caught and I ended up hopping before I regained my foothold. We got to the Ferrari which was outside because my sister Lisa’s Holden was more important than a Ferrari. Seriously! A Holden being more important than a Ferrari, as if. But now I’m glad that the Ferrari is outside because its engine is practically silent so we had no problem loading the boot with our suitcases and silently left what we thought was hell. We started heading towards our new life when we started driving towards grandmas orchid farm.
“Why are we going to grandmas?” I asked. “Grandma would want to know what has happened”, Laura replied. “Oh ok”, I mumbled.
Grandma, she had her own farm near a very small lake which had a bridge over it she said that it was built by our ancestors. When we arrived I jumped out of the Ferrari and ran to the door but stopped. There on the door was a note ‘I’ve gone across the bridge to meditate with a view of the sea if someone shall need me’.
Oh grandma you always had some way of knowing we’d visit I told myself. “Hey what’s this on the door”, Laura said coming up next to me. “Grandma’s not here”, I replied showing Laura the note. “Ok to grandma’s location it is”, Laura said cheerfully.
“Wait you know how unstable the bridge is”, I said with a serious look. I was serious they are dangerous I started to cough again, I felt like utter crap.
It didn’t take us long to get to the bridge it was practically a 5 minute walk away from the grandma’s house. What I was worried about was the 15-50 metre drop if you fell, luckily it’s mainly water unless you fell near the edge then you’d be screwed.
Ha ha I’d like to imagine the step-douche falling to his death that would be a dream come true.
We approached the bridge slowly knowing very well how dangerous it is. Laura crossed first and I followed but before we got over my coughing started again and I lost my balance.
‘I’m falling’ I scream at the top of my lungs. The last thing I see is grandma looking over the bridge and Laura diving in after me....
What the, where am I?
“You are with me and going to talk to me my child”, a sweet and beautiful voice called from behind me. I just realise what I’m looking at, my body was lying next to Laura’s and she was laying next to me on the sand at the water’s edge.
“Child turn around”, the voice from behind me called in the same beautiful voice. I turned around, then my body stiffened, behind me was the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen. She was wearing a black dress surrounded by shrouds, of um I don’t really know what it is but, it was blacker than black, It made her look mysterious and stunningly perfect.
“Are um w-w-who are you?” I stammered.
“My child do you not recognise your own mother”, she replied.
“Mother? Am I dead?” I asked.
“No daughter, Heather Scott was merely the vessel for your existence in this world”, she said with a smile that warmed the insides of my body. “I am giving you the gifts you owned in this realm daughter as well as an old friend, she will meet you at the Night in Darkness”, she smiled.
“So you’re my real mother?” I asked looking more than confused and I felt like my head was going to blow.
“Yes child my name is Dhyana younger sister of the goddess Nyx but you may call me mother or mum”, Dhyana replied.
“Ok mother... um does this mean Laura isn’t my real sister”, I asked.
“No daughter she is in fact your older cousin”. My mouth dropped open. “Yes child she is the daughter of Nyx and no doubt Nyx will gift her as well. That is all for now child go I will come to you again but remember this child, don’t trust that so called Laura”, mum said looking serious.
“Yes mum”, I replied.
When I woke I instantly put my head to the side and puked the water that was in my lungs out of my mouth, I took a few seconds to taking in everything around me. “Beautiful see the stars, the stars draw near, beautiful hear the birds, the birds aren’t feared”. Grandma’s poem rang in my head then I remembered everything Dhyana oops I mean mother just told me. Just then I saw Laura sitting beside me with her ‘eclipse’ filled in a nice shining cyan and her tattoo’s had extended down framing her face and then created patterns on her shoulders, neck and back.
“Do not trust her”, the words echoed in my head, I can’t trust her anymore I told myself and then grinned.
“Why are you looking at me like that?” I asked.
“It’s your tattoo’s”, a voice replied. I looked at where the voice was coming from and was stunned by the view. There standing in front of me were two ladies, one wearing a scarlet blue dress her tattoo was filled in like Laura’s and it had framed her face but she didn’t have the extended tattoo’s like Laura did and she had great boobs.
Wow I wish I had boobs like that, speaking of boobs I was acting like a total boob, boob ha ha, I started to giggle. I looked at the other lady the one that spoke, she was wearing a velvet black dress and she was equally beautiful.
“Huh?” I mumbled. “Take a look in the mirror”, the lady in the blue dress said. I looked at the mirror “holy shit!” I yelled, the tattoo in my forehead had gone violet not cyan, my face was framed with shapes that appeared to be eagles, I looked at my back and OH MY GOD! I had wings that were like angel wings but black as night itself and feathery.
I remembered what Dhyana oops I mean mother had told me. “I’m giving you all the gifts you had in this realm along with an old time friend”, her voice played in my mind.
“Sorry I didn’t introduce my friend and myself, I am Mackenzie La-Luna and this is Jasmine Delacoure”. The woman with the blue dress pointed to herself then to the women in the black dress. “We are the high priestess’s here, I’m Jasmine high priestess of Dhyana, goddess of darkness and Mackenzie is high priestess of Nyx, goddess of the night”, Jasmine said smiling again filling me with warmth.
“We have never had two fledglings come to us in your conditions one with a filled in tattoo and added too, the other with a filled in violet tattoo and angel wings but instead of white they are black”, Mackenzie said.
“Do you know how that happened”, Jasmine asked.
“Nope”, Laura and I replied, even though I knew how my well things happened, I wasn’t going to tell, not even mum’s high priestess. I got up felling a lot better and my wings spread and knocked one of the nurses over.
“Oops sorry”, I sighed; it took me a few seconds to fully gain control of my wings and got them to fold together against my back. Mmmm they completely warmed my back. I guess I’ll have to adjust my clothes so that my new wings had room for me to move. The best thing is that I can fly now.
“So this is the Night in Darkness school”, I smiled.
“Yes it is, do you need any help getting up”, Jasmine asked me. In particular did she know who I really was?
“No”, I said to keep her busy. I stood up and felt a lot better, until I screamed and then fell smack on my butt as two fur balls jumped in the high priestess’s arms, one fur ball for each of them.
I blushed when I realised that they were just cats “oh they’re just cats “, I sighed.
“What’s just a cat?” a voice said. The people, oh I mean vampyre’s in the room gasped as I realised they were staring at me. “Well go on answer me!” the same voice demanded. I suddenly realised that I was talking to a cat, the one in Jasmine’s arms.
“Do cats usually do that?” I asked Jasmine.
“No, you don’t talk human at all do you honey buns”, she replied talking to the cat with a curious glance. I expected it to reply in English instead it “me-ow-ed”, everyone gasped again. I sighed it was already annoying that mum wouldn’t tell me my gifts, so now I’m guessing that she wants me to find them myself, figures.
“Hmm now I recognise those tattoo’s on your head, those were the markings of Dhyana’s own daughter, so to speak”, Jasmine said. I met her curious gaze, did she know? I wondered.
“Don’t worry child she does not know anything”, the voice said. Oh, mum thanks for not letting them know.
“No Jasmine dear, it was Nyx’s child with tattoos like those”, Mackenzie said pointing to Laura.
“Oh yeah right Mackenzie, I forgot”, Jasmine replied rolling her eyes, clearly they were all idiots. “Well it seems that she has the ability to talk to animals and they will reply in human language”.
Jasmine’s voice broke my train of thought “ah yes I can”, I stammered un-expecting that comment.
“Shouldn’t they stay in here for tonight”, grandma asked.
“No they are fine and have already healed fully”, Mackenzie replied, and I was glad too, I didn’t want to spend the remaining 24 hours in here.
“So would you two like to meet you new roommates”, Jasmine asked.
“Yes”, I replied nodding my head as we walked out following the two high priestesses.
“Bye Laura, Alice I will see you next time ok”, Grandma said hugging the both of us.
“Ok grandma”, we replied.
“I Hope you two high priestess’ keep your promise and keep them safe”, Grandma said.
“Don’t worry Diane Heart, All fledglings have a mentor, like a special teacher whom they can come to for help. If it pleases you I will be Alice’s mentor and Mackenzie will be Laura’s”, Jasmine replied smiling kindly.
