A/N: Sorry for the wait and sorry the chapter is a little bit smaller than the last I kind of got side tracked because I was reading The mortal instruments City of glass and practice was just making me super duper tired. Thank you guys so much for all the comments and votes I really appreciate it. It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside lol!! I also apologize if this chapter sucks I was trying to get it done and I needed inspiration I'm trying to be as descriptive as I can. So I hope you like it.
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I could see the flames rising above the tree lining as Anton carried me away from my home. The home I've always taken for granted by saying I want to leave it and never come back. I saw the smoke rise up to the sky like the essence of that house and whoever lived it was now leaving this earth. Leaving me. All I had left of home was the clothing on my back and I was certain that I wouldn't even home this for long. I felt abandoned and lonely and although it's been ten minutes I already feel home sick.
Anton lead the way through the forest with me slung over his shoulder like a freshly killed deer and his guards following suit. As I dangled from Anton's shoulders I noticed that the rest of the guards were looking at me like I was in fact a freshly killed deer and that they'll eat me in a second and I didn't like it.
"Anton." I said as innocently as I could muster.
"Yes little one?" Surprise leaking out with his words.
"How much farther?" I say like a little child. This made Anton smile.
"Why?" I could practically hear the smirk on his face as I bounced back and forth on his shoulders.
"Because the sooner we are there. The sooner these men of yours will stop looking at me like I'm a piece of meat!" I said harshly. Anton broke out into laughter.
"Little one I'm only carrying you like this because you would get sick at the speed we vampires go and you can't possibly walk that fast." Him and the others men laughed.
"I don't care if I get sick. I just want to get this over with and have that fucker kill me already. For him to know that there's absolutely nothing interesting about me!" The men stopped laughing at that but they still held their smiles.
"As you wish little one." Anton said with a smile tugging on his lips. With that he took off in a flash speeding past tree after tree after tree. The men followed Anton with perfect movements like his own. Anton's legs look like they weren't even moving they were moving so fast. I now was starting to feel nauseous looking at the fast moving ground underneath me.
So I closed my eyes for short second but that just seemed to make things worse! After a ride I thought would never come to an end. Anton abruptly stopped and dropped me onto the path way. I felt like I was going to throw up. I ran to a bush and tried puking but I haven't eaten this morning so all that came out was acid and bile.
I heard the men breakout into fits of laughter and Anton strolled over to me.
"I told you little one that you would become nauseous but did you listen to me?" He smiled showing his pristine white teeth.
For a creature who only drinks liquids that are crimson red you would think his teeth wouldn't be so white. I looked up at his face. I hadn't really noticed it before but he actually looked attractive. When I think of a vampire I remember all the myths and legends my mother told me about the vampires and the werewolves. That they looked like Satan's spawn.
In the legends the vampires had two rows of teeth and the were all razor sharp and they could take on two people at a time. Draining people's blood in a matter of seconds. They're eyes black as night. So black that there are no pupils. They're bodies deteriorating and cold as ice. Legend also says that these ugly creatures possess a power to hypnotize people and that's how they lure their prey in for the kill.
The legend of werewolves are pretty much the same except they aren't deteriorating but they aren't just a man becoming a wolf they're a wolf-man all mixed together and it says that they have more strength than the vampire and that they can take a human and rip them in half. They thirst for the kill like a vampire thirsts for blood. The only human that would be able to calm down a werewolf when it's in it's man wolf state is it's mate. Mates are apparently their soul partners. I don't know if vampires have soul partners especially since they don't have souls.
"Come little one it's time to go." He says while holding a hand out to me and that's when I noticed the markings on his arm.
I wanted to tell him that my name wasn't little one and that he was pissing me of but I knew that would be just useless. "What's with the markings on your arm?"
"The markings they symbolize the years I've been a vampire and how many people I've killed." His smile made my stomach twist.
"So you've been a vampire for five years? Since there are six bird looking things on your arm."
"No they are not birds they're bats and I've been a vampire for sixty years since the bats go by tens. Stop stalling it's time to go meet your new master. " He pulled me up with ease and pushed me towards a path that led into a small village.
The village was full of people. I couldn't tell if they were human or not. I walked past this little girl looking as terrified as I probably was holding an old raggedy bear. She was shaking so violently that I wanted to go back and comfort her. But Anton kept pushing me forward.
"Is she human?" I asked becoming even more worried for the child.
"No. She's a hybrid. Half human half vampire." He said blankly.
"How is that possible? I thought vampires couldn't breed?" I asked panicking. Thinking of what this vampire prince would want from me.
"We don't know how. We thought all our abilities to reproduce were gone with our souls. But I guess not."
We walked out of the village to a huge draw bridge that was connected to a huge black castle towering over everything in the forest. I could feel my heart beating with each step I took towards the draw bridge. I stepped onto the draw bridge stopping and looking back at Anton.
"Please don't make me go." I pleaded with tears in my eyes trying to use anything to my advantage. Even my tears.
Anton gave me a pitied look and I could have sworn I saw something flicker in his eyes but it fled as soon as it came. Until he pushed me forward again. We made our way inside the castle walls. I expected to find bodies laying everywhere ,vampires bathing in pools of blood , slaves stalking around waiting to be drained or summoned for their next orders.
When we walked into the castle walls the air smelled foul like rotting bodies and rust but it wasn't at all what I expected. There were no bodies piled on the ground and no vampires bathing in pools of blood , no slaves there was actually hardly anyone there. The ground was actually clean. Well clean enough for cobble stone.
The villa walls were covered in red and black tiles typical vampire mentality. There were gargoyles everywhere with there nasty snarls on there faces. They looked so real that if I touched it. I would be gobbled up in seconds and nobody would know the wiser. But in the middle of the villa was a statue. The statue was of a monster a horrific looking thing with sharp teeth and wings and the eyes were big gaping holes that looked like they would steal your soul if you stared to long. In the arms of the monster was a woman.
The woman's clothes had been torn to shreds and she looked like she had been drained of all blood and was dying in the monsters arms. Her long flowing hair dangled past the monster's arms. The monster's mouth was open like he was shouting a victory screech after killing the woman. A cold wind went through me realizing that could be what the vampire prince looked like and what exactly he plans on doing with me.
Anton pulled me toward a staircase that led up into the castle a shiver went down my spine as we ascended the steps. The steps to the door had two staircases winding down to the villa floor. My heart was now racing trying to put together a way out of the situation I was in. I thought of flinging myself out of a window or drowning myself or even just pissing off one of the guards so he would snap my neck. But none of those things would work. Think Tara think!
There's got to be a way out! We soon reached the door of the castle. The door was gigantic and knockers alone were bigger than an infant. They were of snarling dragons with ruby eyes and the ring of the knocker in there nose. As soon as Anton pushed the doors open I knew that my time had come. My mid went absolutely blank there was no getting out of this. I realized it was time to face the music. When I came face to face with the vampire prince.