Saya the last Vampire (beginning part I)

The Beginning (Part I)

It was an autumn morning.

Saya was playing hide-and-seek with her younger brother, Per.

Her mother was weeding in her garden, where she loved to spend hours.

Her older brother, Terry, was spending time in his girlfriend's field.

Now Per was supposed to search, and Saya was supposed to hide. She kept changing places. Finally, she ran past her father's laboratory. He never let anyone near him. Yet, Saya went in. She always had to win; she loved it. She always schemed and cheated just to win.

She quietly entered and hid in an empty closet. She waited and waited, but Per didn't appear. She knew he wouldn't come because she was terribly afraid of her father. However, she hid and waited for him, so she could share her impressions later.

When suddenly her father entered the lab. He had a broad smile on his face. He was holding a box in his hands. He placed it, or rather threw it, on the table. He tore open the top and pulled out five test tubes containing some red liquid.

Saya leaned out of the closet to see what her father had in there.

Mr. Freek began pouring half of the liquid into each glass, marking them from 1 to 5. Then he added a green and white substance. He heated each separately, and finally added half a black tablet to each. The substances began to turn a very intense red, but very thick.

Mr. Freek stirred the first glass and took a sip.

The very thought made Saya feel nauseous. She covered her mouth to keep from vomiting. She thought her father was manufacturing the tablets here. He always said he was trying to find a cure for leukemia. What was he doing here? You can't drink something like that... that's supposed to be a cure for leukemia. A sick person has to drink it, after all. Or maybe he is sick? Saya wondered.

After two minutes, Mr. Freek, very angry, threw his glass against the wall. He began cursing under his breath. He drank another glass, doing the same as with the first. When he arrived at 4, he was already very angry.

However, when he took a sip of the fourth substance, he put the glass on the table and smiled brightly. He began to shake all over. His eyes turned black steel. He knelt on the ground and began to whimper. His veins began to stand out.

Saya sat shaking in the closet. She didn't have the courage to go out and help her father. She covered her ears with her hands and went deeper into the closet. She didn't want to hear her father scream.

After 10 minutes, Mr. Freek got up from his knees. He started laughing so loudly that Saya became even more frightened. Her father put his hands in his pockets and left the lab, still laughing loudly.

Saya quickly ran out of the house and started running. Her heart was pounding like crazy. She tripped over a rock and started sobbing.

"Saya, what's wrong?" Terry asked, approaching her with a sack full of harvest.

Saya stood up and hugged her brother. She decided not to tell anyone.

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The next morning, when she entered the kitchen, she saw her surprised mother and brothers sitting at the already set table. Mr. Freek was bustling around the cabinets, serving food to the steel.

"Hello, my daughter, please sit down."

Saya sat down obediently, saying nothing.

"He must have gone crazy," Terry said quietly.

"Shh," her mother shushed him. "Don't talk about your father like that."

When everyone had finished breakfast, Mr. Freek stood up and raised his glass of red wine, as he had said.

But something about it didn't sit right with Saya. The wine has a different color, it's not as thick, and it's not as red. She swallowed.

Father ordered everyone to drink it down.

They did this so as not to offend him or make him angry.

Only Saya sat hunched over the glass, observing the drink.

"What's wrong? You have to drink it immediately!" Father shouted furiously. "Don't you want to drink to your old man's health?! Drink!"

Saya, despite what she saw in the laboratory flashing before her eyes, raised the glass and drank it down. The drink had a very strange taste. Sweet, sour. Although at times it seemed as if it had no taste at all.

She looked at her mother and brothers. They began to choke, and their ears turned the color of black steel. They fell to the ground, their bodies convulsed with pain and shivers.

After a moment, she realized she was also lying on the ground... she felt like she was dying. She was shaking. She felt cold, and then as if she were burning inside.

*** ***

When she opened her eyes, what she saw terrified her. She saw everything clearer and better. When she looked at the table, she saw not only him, but also something more. She couldn't understand what had happened to her vision. Only after a moment did she realize it was night. And she saw as if the sun were shining.

She stood up and began to sway on her feet. She felt strange. She felt neither hot nor cold.

She heard voices coming from the porch at the back of the house. Still swaying, she decided to go there. When she reached the porch door, she saw her father sitting in a rocking chair. Next to him sat Saya's mother in a chair, and her two brothers sat cross-legged on the ground. Everyone except her father had their heads down.

"You're finally here," said the father seriously. "We are the undefeated and immortal people." He smiled to himself. "Sit down next to your brothers, and now I'll tell you what happened to you. Well, I found a dying man in the mountains. He was all scarred up and had two holes in his neck. I asked him what happened, and he only stood up on a stone near us. I went to him, but there was nothing there. He told me in a barely audible voice to pick him up. When I did, I found a box in the hole with five test tubes inside. He whispered before he died that one of them contained vampire blood, and that if I drank it, I would become one of them." The Cursed. You probably know what I did. That same day, I drank test tube no. 4. Of course, I had to clean the blood with my own preparations first. I wasn't 100% sure it was blood. I had to protect myself, as if it were acid or something. And in the morning, you drank blood, just like me. We are the Cursed now. We will live forever.... However, we are half-vampires and daylight doesn't kill us. Fangs appear when we feel thirsty.

*** ***

Days passed.

Saya became increasingly distant from her family. She went her own way. She avoided people. Unless, of course, she was hungry and needed to eat.

Mrs. Freek withdrew into herself. She neglected the garden. She sat in a rocking chair all day.

Terry was away from home all day. He began stealing and killing for fun. He went completely crazy. However, no one knew he was the one killing. No one ever caught him.

Per was the only one behaving as he always did. He laughed and played with the animals. Maybe because he drank their blood, not human blood.

Mr. Freek... grew gloomier every year. Sometimes he beat Mom and Saya because they wouldn't drink blood. They'd rather die than do it. However, their psychology always won out. When they saw the arteries in people's necks, they couldn't resist.

*** ****

Year after year passed.

Finally, Mrs. Freek became angry and complained to the law enforcement officers, telling them that her husband was beating her and the children.

Despite unpleasant rumors circulating about her family, she wasn't afraid to go to town every day and ask the mayor to help her get rid of her husband.

Finally, she prevailed, and they put Mr. Freek in jail. Although he could easily escape, he preferred to stay in prison. Because he was a famous chemist, he was allowed to use the laboratory. He could no longer sit at home and look at the grim faces of his family. He regretted having brought them into being.

From that moment on, the family somehow got back on track. Saya managed to convince Terry to stop his bloody murders. And Per started drinking human blood. Even Mrs. Freek began to tidy up her former "garden" a bit.

However, the happiness was short-lived.

One morning, Saye was awakened by a noise coming from the living room. She put on her white dress and went downstairs. She stood in the doorway to the living room. She saw the Demon tearing out her mother's heart. As she fell, she looked at Saye and said,

"Run, child."

The Demon looked at Saye, threw out the heart, and charged at Saye.

When Saya felt a threat, something awoke within her. She was shocked by what she had just seen, but for the first time she felt anger. She frowned and made a threatening face. She clenched her fists and, before the Demon could approach her, punched him in the stomach and eyes. She stepped back and saw a large kitchen knife. She took it and, before the Demon could turn to her, Saya punched him in the stomach. However, the Demon didn't even react. He punched Saya in the face. She hit the edge of the table. However, she got up quickly. She punched again, but it was to no avail. However, with the next blow, the Demon's opponent was horizontal. He howled, fell, and turned to dust.

Saya didn't even get tired. Thanks to her psychic abilities, she heard her younger brother's cries for help. She quickly ran to the field. She saw Terry impaled in the distance.

Two Demons surrounded Per. One grabbed him and sank his teeth into his stomach. The other began digging his fingers into his eye.

"No!" Saya screamed, slicing the Demon in half as it bit into her brother. However, she missed the Drogoum, who impaled Per.