NEVER SAY VAMPIRE

BY: Raven O'Knightley

Transylvania, 1563

            Slowly I opened my eyes, afraid of what i might see. My worst fear has come true. Standing with a pole up my back, my hands and feet were bound together behind me. I couldn't move, couldn't speak. They made me weak; carving blood of a dead man into my perfect pale skin. I looked down and saw six piles around the bottom of the pole. I struggled to free myself. Opening my mouth a pathetic sound emerged. I forced myself to talk, to ask them;

             "W-w." I tried again, "Why?”A group of men and women turned to look at me.

            "What?" asked a man, probably the leader.

            "Why?" I asked again regaining a bit of my vision.

            "Because you are the one who terrorized our lives, kill us all just to please yourself!" He took a torch from a nearby woman and lit the sticks. The flames burst into a roaring fire in a matter of seconds, catching the bottom of my skirt, and made it sway towards my legs. I opened my mouth to scream but soon I was engulfed by the flames. The men and women called at me over the crackling. Then a voice I recognized so clearly I didn't have to think who it was.

            "Susana!"

            "Danny, help me! Please don't let me–"

            "Susana! Susana, wake up!"

            I opened my eyes to a dimly lit room. Drenched in sweat, my head pounding, i sat up. Danny was at my side, his eyes wide with fear. John and Isabelle were also standing around the bed.

            "Danny!" I cried, throwing my eyes around his neck. He flinched back a bit as my fangs grazed his shoulder.

            "Susana, you had a nightmare. Everything is fine, but you must learn to control your thirst. We must not be caught."

            "Danny, we've lived in thith village for over a thentury. Thumbody muth have had a clue why we're thill 17 yearth old." I said trying to bring my teeth back in. John came and stood behind Danny.

            "The sun is out. We must go while we can." John said to Danny then turned to the rest of us. "We need to leave now in order to return before twilight." They all left and I changed into my clothes.