Dimitri
The journey to the lower city was long. It was interesting at first, watching the scenery as we drove down. But eventually one gets bored from watching the different houses pass by. The more out of the kingdom we drove, the smaller and cheaper the houses became. I honestly never noticed this before since, I usually used my vampire speed to get places. Speaking of which, I really don't understand why Damien and I couldn't just use our vampire speed to get to where we had to go. It would have been so much faster and easier than driving a car. But dad said something about getting into the human character and all. Anyways, so after existing the kingdom, all that was to be seen was grass, and more grass. I don’t know what came after that because Damien had to wake me up when we arrived. Yes, I fell asleep. But then again, I only got over two hours of sleep.
I was glad my family was awake to bid me goodbye at least. It meant that they would miss me as much as I missed them. After all, this was going to be the first time I was away from them for so long. Usually, I leave for a few weeks and I never go alone. It is usually me and my father. He always took me with on trips to teach me the ropes of how rule a kingdom. I honestly never paid much attention on these trips. I always spent the time drawing things I found fascinating on the trips. When I turned 50 however, I had to start taking things seriously. My dad would delegate work for me and I knew nothing. Luckily, Ellie always paid attention to dad. So, I had her teach me everything again. She is way better a teacher than dad I must admit. But I would never let her know that because then I would never hear the end of it.
Damien is my most trusted friend. He was the first friend I made and he was human back then. We became friends when I was sent to school. My parents had me sent to a normal school. They didn’t want us to become snobs. Anyways, I was rather small for my age due to all the vampire slow aging. So, in essence when I was 6 years old, I looked more like a 4-year-old kid. Vampires aged slower than humans. We then stopped aging when we reached 25 years old. Well, not stopped, but slowed down greatly. So, from birth until I turn 25 years old, I look on average 2-3 years younger than a human my age. After, I turn 25 years of age, it gets longer. For every ten human years, I age one year only. So, I am currently ninety-nine years old, but I look like the equivalent 29-year-old human being. Then when I turned 100, I would age twice as slow. That means every 20 human years, I would age 1 year only. And so on and so son. In essence my aging slowed the older I became.
Back to the story of Damien and I. Basically, I was an easy target to pick on at school. I also didn’t have any vampire abilities yet. Those only came later. Luckily, while I was being man-handled by the bullies, Damien was still waiting for his parents to come get him. He heard my cries, came to my aid beat my bullies to a pulp. Unlike me being extra small, Damien was much larger than the rest of us. He looked like he was 10 years old or something. So, I was honestly terrified that he was going to kill the bullies. Yeah, I ended up feeling sorry for the very people that were beating me up. I am an odd vampire accept it and let us move on shall we. Damien and I eventually bonded over that incident and well, all the other bullies he would beat up for me since that day. It was true “pity” at first glance for us.
During the Vampire War which Selene had begun, Damien's family had been killed. Yes, unfortunately the war took many innocent lives. Most of which were human lives. Normally, we evacuate the humans before there is war with some random excuse like a hurricane or something. But with the Vampire war we were blind-sided. I had found Damien crying over his mother's bloodied body. He had blood all over him as he had tried to keep her from bleeding out.
It broke my heart knowing that the war had caused him such pain. My father had me and Ellie in a carriage to leave the kingdom as soon as possible when I saw Damien out the window. I took him with me that day and since he had no other family, my parents raised him like their own. I had never seen Damien more emotionless than the few weeks following that. Even until today, He is still very guarded and emotionless. It’s like the joyful side of him died with his mother.
When I turned 20, it was ritual for my father to kill me which would trigger my vampire abilities to fully kick in. Yes, my dad had to snap my neck. It would end my human life. My heart would stop beating and my beast would come alive. It is another special occasion for us. Just like how humans celebrate an 18th birthday. When I woke up from the dead, I had the strongest craving ever. It felt like my body was feeding off itself as if my intestines ate each other up.
With my heightened sense of smell and hearing, I heard movement in the forest my dad had placed me in, so I went for the kill. My first feed was a deer. It tasted so divine. The metallic taste was electrifying and addictive. I wanted more and more and more. Unfortunately, Damien had witnessed my rather inhuman moment as he had been in the forest that night too. I nearly fed on him. See, human blood smells sweeter than any other creature. Especially if it is O-blood. Luckily my dad was keeping an eye on me during my first feed feast. So, he pulled Damien far away from me before I devoured him in my rampage. I would never have forgiven myself if I did.
The next day, I went to apologize to Damien about it and explain to him what I really was- A Vampire. I was so scared of losing my best friend. But instead of freaking out and running away, he asked me to turn him into a vampire as well and I did. My dad was pretty pissed about it when he found out but oh well, what's done is done right?
I no longer needed Damien to defend me as I had eventually become rather very powerful after the vampire shift. I am an Original Vampire after all. But that didn't stop Damien from always fighting my battles for me still. He was loyal to a fault. I mean, here he was with me on this journey simply because Ellie said that since he was my best friend, he should accompany me. Damien agreed to endure these four torturous months with me as I lived like a human without arguing back with her. I know that I wouldn't have agreed to it had things been the other way around, despite him being my best friend. I loved him, but I loved myself more.
DimitriI had been working as a postman for almost a month now. Let me tell you that it was not easy at all. I had to walk to deliver these messages. I had to deliver each message to the owner and have them sign the package. I was not allowed the car we came in with because, I had to buy my own one with money I had earned. I can’t believe my dad really refused for me to keep the car. So, Damien had been taking the car to wherever he went during the day. Thus, every day for the past week, I would come back home with extremely sore feet. My legs couldn’t handle walking for so long.Then, I also had to live in an area filled with constant temptation. Kena is filled with humans. I think I only saw 3 vampires since I got here. I guess it makes sense since this is the furthest city from the kingdom. See the closer to the kingdom, the more the supernatural creatures there are. After all, it is not easy having to control the urge of slipping my fangs into
Dimitri"Well, Mr. Postman where is the letter you came to deliver?" she asked pulling me from the task of admiring her spacious house. We had just passed a corridor that had been lined with countless paintings of many men and a few women. In fact, I had only seen three female portraits amongst the dozens and dozens of men. Each picture was distinctly divergent from the next. But even a blind man could not deny the one stark similarity all the portraits on the aisle shared. They carried an air about them. I cannot exactly tell you how I could tell this from mere paintings, but I guess it had something to do to do with how they held their noses up in the air as if the oxygen a millimeter above w
Dimitri"Well, for someone who just finished their first month of slaving themselves, you sure are happy," Damien said. Even though his voice was void of any emotion, I knew Damien well enough to read the sarcasm undertone of that sentence. Damien always did have an odd sense of humor. Or rather an odd sense of sarcasm in this case. This trait of his resulted in him not making many friends which meant that I was his closest friend too. Anyways, this odd sarcasm was the only kind of fun Damien ever displayed since that fateful day. For his own sake, I hoped that when he falls in love someday, he would reconnect with that joyful side of his again. Lord knows he deserves only the best that this world has to offer. After all, his serious face was starting to make him look much older than he actually is.Damien was not lying though. I should have been happy. I had just finished a month of slaving myself off successfully. I had actually worked a normal job with normal hours
DimitriDespite my emotions telling me to go tell Destiny everything and win her heart, I actually left her behind. Yes, Damien talked some sense into me and I made the logical decision. I am to be king and I can’t be making decisions based on emotions. Honestly, speaking Damien would make for a better king than I. He had all the traits of a king now that I think of it- kind, firm, logical, intelligent, understanding and so on. You name it and his got it. I mean I couldn’t deny the logic that Damien used to argue with me so, I had no choice but to leave Destiny behind.It was currently two weeks since that fateful day that I met my precious mate. And what an encounter that was. But I had to be strong and finish the task at hand. I couldn’t let my emotions overtake my work ethic. I felt dead inside without her close to me. I hate this feeling so much that I wish I hadn’t even met her. Then I would be happy. Ignorance is bliss after all. What was
DimitriI honestly wasn't even a bit surprised. My mate had made it pretty clear that she was just after money. But I at least expected her to wait until after meeting me again. She was looking for me so why couldn't she wait until she found me before proceeding with her plan of marrying this guy? Did I really not mean anything to her? I mean even if she didn’t pick me which hurts, she still needed me to have children. So, why was she rushing to get married despite not having me agree to her horrific terms? Damn it, woman are frustrating! The one second you think you know them, the next you realise you were lying to yourself all along."Now, I know of everyone who lives in this shitty village and your face is one I haven't seen before. Who are you...Mr Postman?" a female's voice spoke out of nowhere breaking my train of thought. I was really annoyed right now and even more so pissed at the opposite sex for the sins of my mate and now some female dared speak
DimitriWhen I finally got home, it was sometime close to midnight. I really did spend a lot of time in the human bar. Because of the time, I would normally sneak into the house such as to not wake up Damien. But being a vampire and all, he would hear me no matter how sleek I was. It was the thought that counts anyways. But today I had no energy to do so, besides in the past Damien has always been up waiting for me to return. So, I decided that I would just walk in the front door. Before opening the door, I mentally readied myself for his overload of questions on my whereabouts. Damien was sort of like my father. He would want to know where I where I was, with who, and why.Surprisingly, though when I got into the house, Damien was nowhere in sight. I could not even smell him. This fact put me on edge so, I quickly did a full sweep of the house as I was under the impression that something was horribly wrong. Damien was never out at such a late hour. Besides, he always
DimitriThey say that the brain functions 24/7. That even when you are sleeping your brain is still busy working. It is said that the brain consolidates memory when we sleep. Thus, to remember things better, one needs to sleep enough to give the brain time to consolidate. Sleeping enough, also has many other health benefits but that applies only to human bodies. For some reason after Damien's words registered in my mind, it seems that my brain decided to finally take a break from all that working. After all, it has been working for almost a hundred years now.I expected there to be so many thoughts running through my mind all at once in this moment. Like I said before, I have a degree in overthinking and all. But somehow just like a computer, my brain had frozen. I could tell that Damien was still speaking, but I could not comprehend the words that he said. My brain could not process the first words that had just come out of his mouth. I was stuck on that very statemen
Dimitri"The Lunar pack is our safest spot to hide Dimitri," Damien argued. I looked at Damien and had to admit that he has looked better. He was pacing up and down the tiny lounge area as if on a mission. His hair was extremely disheveled which is due to the fact that he kept running his hands through his hair in frustration. But then again, I am certain that I looked way worse than Damien. I mean he still had time to shave while I had let my stubble grow. I cannot recall ever putting a brush to my hair and the dye I had was starting to wash out. I also cannot recall taking a shower in the past few days.I just could not believe that my best friend was actually being serious right now. He wanted us to live with werewolves. Now, I have nothing against werewolves. But to live in a pack is totally absurd. Yeah the werewolves are strong, so if we get attacked they could totally help us out, but for all I knew they could be working with this damn Seneca who killed my famil