My Dark Blood

This story is copy righted 2005. It took me a long time to write this, so please don\'t judge too harshly......

My Dark Blood!

He stood there as the blood pooled around him. He started to laugh maniacally as his victim died slowly. Sirens sounded in the distance and he looked up grinning. As the police came to investigate the screams, they found a mutilated body. As the sun came up the body disappeared never to be seen.

\"Do you see this!!! This is an outrage!!!! How can we be sure if this is a slayer or just some crazed vampire......\" Said the older man sitting in the chair with his head in his hands.
\"We are trying as hard as we can Sir! We will protect her from whoever this is!\" The young man saluted and walked off. As he was walking out he saw a beautiful young girl. She had bright red-green eyes and had long black hair. She was wearing a black skirt that went to her knees and a small black t-shirt. She watched him as he left then when he was gone came out of the shadows and stood beside her uncle.
\"I wanted to know what was happening.....So I came down, but that man was here. Who is he? And what\'s going on?\" He looked up at her with his vivid blue eyes.
\"That man is your new body guard. There has been some interesting murders, some of them vampire. I wanted you to be safe.\" He watched her sadly, both of her parents had died by the hands of a former Slayer. She believed that they had died in an avalanche.
\"What do you mean my new body guard?\" She asked kind of angry.
\"You are to either have a body guard or not go out at all!\" He new it was coming, the teenage rebellion that always got in between them.
\"WHAT!!! What if I don\'t want a body guard!!!\" She fumed, she was seventeen and a vampire! It\'s like he thought that the boogie man was out there and was searching specifically only to get her!
\"What is going to kill a vampire!!!?\" She gave him that i dare you to answer look.
\"Your only a half vampire.....and not that strong yet. Remember that time you went on a hunger strike and almost killed that man on the street! We had to pry you off him! Then tell the police that you came from an insane hospital and that normally you stayed inside, and that we thought you might be getting better! But you hadn\'t yet!\" He looked at her with a frustrated look that said I love you, but you have to behave.
\"That was terrible wasn\'t it.......\" She meant well, she didn\'t like taking the life of others but being what she was she had to, to survive. She was sad about that day and remembered it well, she had locked herself in her room and refused to come out, she spent that time crying for the most part and sketching people on the street for the other. She longed for company but neither the vampire nor the humans would befriend her. The humans where to afraid and the Vampires too disgusted. The only friends she had where her Uncle Layne and her servant friend Lisa. Lisa was a house maid and had come upon her one day when she was crying alone in her parents room.
~Flashback~
\"Little girl why are you crying?\" Lisa walked forward toward her but the little girl flinched and moved away as if scared.
\"I won\'t hurt you!\" She held out her hand and when the little girl grabbed it she helped her up into the light. The girl blinked for she had been sitting in the dark. When Lisa looked into her eyes they where bright red-green. She had been shocked and dropped her things. The little girl looked as if she was going to cry but she was silent.
\"What is your name?\" She asked wondering, when she had been shown the house that she would work in she wasn\'t told that a little girl lived there. The little girl had her long dark hair down her back tied in a black ribbon. She was wearing a long black skirt with a long sleeved black sweater that had a little white bow at the collar. She wiped her eyes with her sleeve.
\"Everyone calls me Dark child.......\" The little girl looked strange in all that black with her bright eyes and pale complexion. She was serious and polite but her voice was small, like she hadn\'t talked in a while.
\"Shaylawna! Shaylawna!!! Where did you get too!\" The owner of the house Sir Layne Xzalling called out to her. She looked up as he came over.
\"What where you doing in there my dark child?\"
\"I was looking for mother and father\'s pictures....\" She answered truthfully. With her eyes watching her feet there she stood a child that was smaller than most, standing in front of her guardian who was bigger than most.
\"Oh Shaylawna.....You know your not allowed in there anymore.....Come on, we\'ll get something good to snack on.\" He held out his hand but she didn\'t take it.
\"Uncle! Can i stay with Lisa?\" She asked softly.
\"How did you know my name? I haven\'t told it to you yet!\" She stared at the girl in disbelief.
\"Maybe another time my dark child!\" He said nervously as he grabbed her hand and led her away.
\"By miss Lisa, I hope we meet again!\" She waved quietly as she left with her uncle.
~End Flashback~
\"Miss Shaylawna! i brought you some tea and some sandwiches!\" Lisa came in and put the tray down on her desk, as she did she saw her sketches, among them was one of her. She picked it up and saw her own reflection as if in a mirror.
\"Miss Shaylawna? Is this me?\" She looked at the young miss in awe.
\"Yes, that is a picture of you i drew a little while ago... i haven\'t finished it yet though\" She was looking out the window with her chin on her hands. She was smiling slightly as a shaft of sunlight hit her dark hair showing it\'s real colour.
Lisa looked at her with her eyebrow raised. If it looked anymore like her she would look like the copy! She laughed to herself at that.
\"Would you like to come with me to the book store and library after you eat?\" She smiled as the young girls face lit up in delight. It wasn\'t that she never smiled, it was just that the girl was usually so deep in thought all the time.
\"I would like that Lisa!\"
She walked over to her desk and ate some of the sandwiches and had her tea as Lisa tidied things up. Lisa never had anything to complain about cleaning the old mansion. It was always so clean, especially in her young mistresses bedroom. it almost looked as if someone didn\'t live there! If it wasn\'t for the sketches scattered everywhere then it would have looked empty but well cared for. She finished her tea and got ready. She put on a turquoise tank top with a black blouse over top. She looked through her clothes and selected a nice medium blue skirt that came down to her knees. She went to her mirror and proceeded to brush her hair and tie it back in a ponytail then tied on her favourite sky blue ribbon. She walked down the main steps but stopped and crouched down to see if anyone was down there. As she came down the stairs she saw Lisa waiting for her. She followed her to the door but when they got outside there was a man standing there.
\"Hello miss Shaylawna! i am your new bodyguard, you can call me Xzander!\" He bowed.
He had short cut kind of spiky hair that seemed to stay that way no matter what he did. He had blue eyes and was a dirty blonde. He wore simple stretch jeans and a black body builders t-shirt. He laughed as she looked him up and down and didn\'t look happy at having someone follow her around. She put on her dark sunglasses and walked beside Lisa as they talked about things, more like Lisa talked and she answered with a nod of the head or a hmm.
As they walked some people watched her as if she was a superstar or something. They got to the library and while Lisa talked to the man at the desk she wondered around to the fiction section and smiled at the vampire books, she opened one called The Origin Of The Count! She closed it and walked to the fantasy books. She opened one and read the first few pages then felt someone watching her. She looked up from her book to see Xzander watching her carefully. She took the book and walked over to where Lisa was and asked the short woman if she could take out the book.
Lisa held up the book and read the tittle then gave the woman her library card. After they finished with the library they went to the book store. They seemed to be going to a lot of places with books he thought as they entered the shop. They purchased a few things then went to the mall.
\"Miss Shaylawna!! look at that dress! you would look beautiful in it!\" She pointed to a bright-dark blue dress that looked to be her size. She looked at it as if it where nothing while other girls looked like they wished they had enough money to buy it.
\"I would rather not......\" Even though if she asked her Uncle Layne she would have got three of them but she didn\'t like fancy things, she liked simple styles and simple living. She looked around and saw a children\'s clothing store. She walked over and talked to the store manager while the woman Lisa looked at the other dresses. He walked over just in time to overhear part of there conversation \"..........A generous contribution! Who may i say it is from?\" \"You can say it is from Lady Xzaling....\" He watched as she went around the store selecting a lot of children\'s clothing in a lot of different sizes most of them matching suits of pants and shirts or shirts and shorts.
\"Your bill is seventy-three dollars and fifty cents!\" She handed over the money and walked out of the store.
He followed at a distance and watched her walk into the Salvage Army. She asked for the head volunteer and when she came out she handed her the children\'s clothing. telling her that it was Lady Xzalings contribution to them.
She was walking back to Lisa when an older woman stopped her and said loudly.
\"You know that man has followed you around for some time now!?\" The older woman pointed at him and she looked in his direction. He casually walked up near her and she looked back at the older woman.
\"Don\'t worry miss, he\'s my body guard!\" She said it softly yet politely. the older woman walked away eyeing the man with a glare. He quickly caught up and walked a little ways behind her.
\"Miss Shaylawna!\" Said Lisa looking worried.
\"I thought i lost you! Where did you go?\" She had her hands on her hips and looked happily frustrated.
\"I was just looking around.....i took my body guard with me!\" She said it calmly looking down at the woman with smiling eyes.
\"Alright as long as you where safe! How about we go to a nice restaurant and eat lunch!\" She said happily.
\"Alright Lisa........as long as you call me Shay! i don\'t like it when people stare at me when you call me Miss Shaylawna......\" She said looking at the floor. He watched her and noticed that the only people she seemed to obey and be sorry to were her uncle and Lisa.
They walked to the restaurant and ordered. Lisa ordered a salad, Xzander ordered a steak and Shaylawna ordered an ice-cream. Xzander again noticed how strange that was. Lisa didn\'t seem to care although she seemed to be her nurse-maid. When they headed back to the house it was dark and a car was in the drive way.
\"Shaylawna!!!!\" A woman came running over and hugged her.
\"Auntie Carol!!!\" She hugged the strange woman back and she smiled a truly happy smile. This was the first time he had seen her smile happily! He walked over to where her uncle was and talked to him about where they went and what they did.
When they were inside they sat in the parlour and had tea as they talked about the recent murders.
\"I am terrified! they happen in my area after all!\" She looked terrified, after all her aunt was human.
After they talked way into the night they all decided to go to bed. As she walked into her bedroom she saw that Xzander was there looking at her sketches. She walked over and stood behind him.
\"Excuse me!\" She said with a forced yet kind voice. He looked up his eyes bright in her dull lighted room.
\"Your excused!\" He said as he started to leave. As he passed her he stopped and looked into her eyes. He kind of smiled as he brushed some of the hair out of her face and laughed when she was shocked. He left her room and closed the door behind him. When he was outside her room he heard a voice.
\"What where you doing in there?\" Layne Xzalling came out of the shadows of the hallway and walked up.
\"Making sure it was safe sir!\" He looked into the face of his employer and for the first time felt fear. Layne did not look happy, he looked stressed, frustrated, and angry. Which didn\'t look to pleasant. He smiled and walked down the hall as he did he heard him say one more thing.
\"Make sure you keep a reasonable distance between you and my niece!\" He walked away after that.