Friday, February 25, 2005

chapter 9
We are traveling east, toward Wiinda and the Bluiundeiera Mountains. This is most likely the most color I have seen in ages. Right now we are flying over a meadow with gold-green grass and flowers of dark blues and red oranges and bright yellows. “Does everything always look like this in the day time?”
“Why wouldn’t it. Oh, yes, you don’t go in the day at this hour very often do you. Well, yes, it is.”
The sun is pounding on my head and my light brown skin is starting to get a sun burn, not because I am a vampire, but because, just like humans, I was not made to get this close to the sun without some sort of protection. I look over at Tyrea and realize she is suffering the same fate, but worse.
“We must stop to get Tyrea and I some sort of protection from the suns rays. Your skin may be made to handle this light, but we aren’t.”
“All right, let’s go down by that lake.” We land beside the lake and I look around. I think a while, and then I grab some of the long gold-green grass from the meadow beside the lake. I weave it together and make Tyrea a hooded cloak with my magic faster then any manual weaving could do. I grab my pack and get my black cloth cloak that I brought just in case I had to stay out early to get there and put it on. After my cloak is on I transfer Tyrea from Destina’s back safely to the bed of long grass by me. I put on her cloak, got her back to Destina, and we are off again.
We fly for some hours, then the sun starts to go down and a rosy pink and orange fills the sky. My head pounds so hard that it seems the blood is rushing out of it. No vampire, no matter how strong, is supposed to be outside in direct sunlight when the sun is setting. It is alright when it is rising, but not setting. This is because the rays from the sun are strongest then, though humans do not realize it. There is a legend among vampires that says that the biggest reason why we cannot go out when the sun sets is because the first vampire killed his first victim at that moment in time and the victim’s father put a curse on him saying that if the vampire would not be allowed in the sun at all. The vampire killed him before he finished though, so that is why we can go outside with only a headache from our eyes being so sensitive at other parts of the day. I did not believe it until today, at this moment. I do not know why I am still alive, because I can feel in my bones that this time of day should be giving me more than a piercing headache.
“Maybe we should fly down for dinner.” At that moment I am reminded that I cannot eat here, for vampires have a secret. That secret is what our only weakness is. Every species has a weakness. Not a soul aside from the vampires know it, but vampires can only feed off of human blood, not any animal other than a human can give blood weak, but strong enough, to sustain us. I can feel that we have passed into the land of the elite. This is where dragons, and most likely elves, live. Witches live here too. Everyone thinks that vampires were driven out of this land, but we actually left because no humans can come in here, and after the first day, the first vampire, after feeding off of his first victim, and killing his father, ran away in search of something that could sustain him, because the thing he fed on was too strong, it only made him weaker. Luckily, e made it out of the Land of the Elite before he starved to death and made sires, making more vampires.
All of these thoughts rush through my head in a second, and Destina answers in her gurgling yet musical voice “Yes. We should. I see a spot over there where there is sure to be game.” We head for the spot and land. I shall go hunt. When I am done catching my meal (I do not want her to know that I cannot eat here because it is a weakness, and a secret) I will catch something for her and cook it. When I get back you should go hunt for yourself. You look starved.” She agrees, and in seconds I am in the woods. I hear a heart beat. Slow and steady, I teleport in front of it and startle it. The rabbit’s heart becomes the beat of a snare drum, and it darts for the bushes, but I always catch my meal; I head back to camp.
When I get back Tyrea has woken up and has started the fire for me. Destina is already gone. “Here. I guess you can cook it since you’re awake. I am going, I don’t know, somewhere. I will be back in the morning.”
“You don’t have to leave. I know vampires aren’t the people type, but it would be better than you having to find another good place to sleep.”
I look her in the eye, and I almost turn around to leave anyway, but ten my amulet points to the north and I know I should stay. “Thank you, I shall stay then.”
“I know what that amulet is. It has many powers, but one of them I have heard is that when it points to the north, one that is deceased and was dear to you is giving you their knew found wisdom. I am sorry if I am being nosy, but who gave you this very special gift, and who cares enough about you to worry about your fate after they are dead?”
I almost snap in her face, but I look at her and see pain and honest curiosity. She has lost someone too. “My sire, Faradon. He gave this to me when he died, and he is the only one in the world who cares for me enough to give me hints in life. Now, since I have told you, who is the person who you have lost that cares for you?”
She smiles, “You could tell from my face, hhhuuhhh, my father. He was the most pleasant man alive, but his live was cut short at the young age of one hundred. He died fighting in a war, and he won it single handedly, but now he is gone because of it.”
“Oh, he sounds like a powerful and wonderful man.” My amulet glows. “I miss you Tyrea, but now you must help Brea, you are on the same side, and will need each other.” My face goes pale, and clear blue tears roll down her cheeks. “I didn’t say that, I promise, I don’t know”
“I know you didn’t say it. That was my father, my father. He cares for me too. I knew that, but that was his voice…”
“Maybe we should get some sleep, after you eat. Everyone else has eaten, I will talk to you in the morning…I am sorry. Maybe one day he will say something in this thing again, maybe one day, when you’re old, and then you die, you will be together again. Good night.” I sleep, and as I drift off I think to myself, what am I becoming a creature that SLEEPS at night now, but then I see the sun rise in my last moment of conciseness.
I wake to the slightest headache I have felt in the day since I started my journey. It must be before 8:00 a.m. I look around and se that Tyrea is asleep and the cloak I wove for her is now decorated with those beautiful flowers we are traveling over. I look at my black cloak and it turns emerald green. That is a bit better; it is more camouflaged than black in the daylight. I go to the stream and drink deeply. Vampires can live off of water for a few days when they must, and I know for some reason that I must stay here, I cannot teleport to the real world to get food, not yet. I don’t know why, only god and Faradon do, but I must.
Destina is lying asleep curled on the long gold-green grass. I am sure there will be a permanent indent there from it, or at least long lasting. I sit sown and wait for them to wake. Never before have I been surrounded; completely engulfed, in color like this for such a long period of time before, or at least not since I turned.

i not sure if this chapter is QUITE as good as the last, but give me ur input kk?
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