Dominick exited the crowd and came to me. "Chris is it still you in there." He looked me deep in the eyes as he had done before. "It is still me." He started untying the ropes well the rest of the crowd stared in disgust. "Dominick is this what you have chosen her over us, we are your family." "And she is the love of my life, damn me if you will, I already am damned you shunning me does not make a difference."
Dominick held my hands in his and raised my chin so I stared him in the eyes again. He had such a look of fear in his expression. "What Dominick, What's wrong?" "Your eyes, there, there red, blood red. No pupils, nothing." "But it is still me Dominick, don't let my appearance fool you; it is still me in here. For how long I don't know but I will fight it, I will fight it for you."
Our romantic moment was obviously not going to last long with Ivy and her followers watching. "Dominick we will give you and Christina 3 day's head start, when time is up we will come to find you."
We both turned towards the crowd and walked through as they separated, I stared Ivy down as we walked past her. "Be ready when you come Ivy, I am not ready to die." "Just watch your backside sweet heart, when we come it will be in silence." Dominick and I darted off into the forest and moved as smoothly and quietly as the wind.
We moved fast and swiftly through the branches and rivers as fast as we could not even thinking about stopping. Until the quiet wind whispered around us, we slowly halted cautiously thinking that possibly Ivy was not going to hold on to her vow. Gentle voices blossomed around us from everywhere. As if a private audience was talking right in front of us. Then I caught something, these beings represent death, death is what we shall give them. They will bring too much trouble for our kind. Somehow I thought if I spoke back it would make a difference, "we mean no harm, we do not represent death, we are what we are and only plan on passing through. No disrespect!"
At that moment the winds ceased to even exist. Then a glowing light came from within the bushes, a tall man stepped out. He had large white wings that expanded twice the size of his body; his chest was bare and wore a type of grass skirt. There were markings of some sort of tribal intertwining all over his body. So beautiful it made me feel UN easy to look away from him. Then his voice was so lovely I could sway to the changing tones "what do you seek here? Why do you bring death amongst us?"
"We do not bring you death, we do not even plan to stay here we are just passing through." "But the stench girl, I can smell death off of both of you, not the smell of a human." "Well human we are not human, Dominick is a vampire and I'm a well, I'm a witch." The angelic man just stood staring down Dominick and I. "I am Keanu, I am leader of the forest fairies, we are the oldest and most ancient fairies in existence. We stay hidden to keep peace in our forest land, and over take those who try to ruin that. You are welcome to pass through but you are not welcome to stay!" I pondered to myself how many times I may hear those words again today or anything like them. We bowed our heads to show respect and then took our leave.
As we left that patch of woods lights began arising from everywhere behind us, glowing colors of blues, pinks and yellows. It was so beautiful almost like fireworks going off in the sky. Eyes watched down on us from trees as we moved out of the forest into fields of grass and mountains for hills. I could think of only the lie I had just told, a witch I'm no longer just a damned witch. Then Dominick protested my thoughts "you are not what she wants, you will not bring about the end of the world, you are stronger than that and you know it. We will fight through this. After all I have the rest of my eternity to help you and enjoy your deliciousness" He gave such an evil smirk but yet I couldn't help but melt looking at him.
We continued on at a fair pace, not what we could do typically but fast enough we still had plenty of time. I knew Dominick hungered I could see it in his quivering lips, I didn't quite realize if I were hungry as well or what was going on with me, I hungered for meat, I lusted for blood and the temptation that was taking over my body was nauseating. Letting go of Dominick's hand I dropped to the ground. "You need to eat my love, if you don't eat you cannot make this impossible journey we are embarking on, and you will not have the strength to fight." Dominick need not say more my senses had caught the scent of a bear.
May not be gourmet but it was blood... We had subconsciously agreed because no sooner after my thought we were both tracking down the bears scent. Finding the bear was not hard but taking it down was going to be. It was a mother with her cub. I felt bad at the thought of killing the bears mother but at the point I was at it was me or the bear. The bear and Dominick both stared each other down pacing back and forth waiting for one to make the attack. I went to get the cub out of the way but as I grabbed it the mother pawed my shoulder and split me open in a few areas.
But due to my interference Dominick was able to attack the bear from behind and take her down. My arm had 4 huge gouges out of the shoulder, it hurt but for some reason I wasn't really bothered by it. It seemed to be almost healing instantly. The cub had run off when I looked back for it, part of me felt guilty but a bigger part of me didn't. I could feel the darker sides of me coming out more and more every so often. The feeling didn't scare me but the thought of all the things that I am capable of did.
As we fed Dominick kept his eyes focused on me with so many questions filling them. I knew this because I could hear his thoughts and all the questions he was thinking. It was hard not to snicker to myself with how many times he could jump to completely different subjects and so fast as well. I was beginning to feel urges to jump over the bear and kiss him but before I could he launched himself at me spinning to his back to pull me onto him. The rush still sent butterflies to my stomach vampire; witch whatever I am those butterflies still feel just as fabulous. I kissed him so harshly I split his lip, the combination of his blood and our passion was driving me insane. I raised my arms up and pulled my shirt off, then ripping at his. No matter how cold our bodies truly were, there was such heat and warmth emitting from us. And no matter how hot it got neither of us intended on stopping….