Their Sins

Chapter 34

Aria sat in the hospital waiting room wondering how everyone was. Her father had gotten shot in his side while she was upstairs raising hell. Lucas,Issac, David and Cameron were in surgery for the broken limbs.

Luke and Stephen were on a breathing machine at the time. They both had slight concussions and couldn't really breathe on their own. The doctors said everyone would make it but she was scared. She didn't know what to do. All she could do was hold onto her mother and cry.

Her mother started humming a song. The song was so familiar to her and that song was.. the song her mother sung to her as a child. "Aria I didn't raise you to sit and cry. I raised you as a solider. Yes it may sound harsh, as if I was invalidating your feelings." Her mother said while rubbing her back.

"I'm not invalidating your feelings. You can cry, just not now though. Someone tried to kill your family, that's not something you should let go of easily. The same way they came into your home , is the same way you come into their home. Accept this time, you can kill every one of them.. I taught you how to use almost every gun in the book. Now you can do whatever you want with that information." She rubbed Aria's back smiling. It wasn't a happy smile but more like a sinister smile.

Aria listened to what her mother had said. She knew she had to get revenge for her family and she knew who sent them. Though it hurt her because at the end of the day that man was the father of her brother who is now dead.

He didn't care about them though, he didn't give a damn about her mother either. Aria stood up and kissed her mothers forehead. "I love you mom" she said while looking at her. "Don't say I love you to me as if your not coming back. I will tell you I love you later" she said and released Aria. Aria smiled and walked away from her mother.

Aria knew what she had to do. Even if it meant putting her life on the line. Aria walked out of the hospital and walked to her car. Not only was she gonna raise hell but she was gonna show people that she was worser than the devil himself.

"It was late 21st century.
Goodness how the years have passed from .. those brutal brutal years.
Goodness,  it was so long ago too ..
Claude had been .. losing track of time to some degree .. everything that he had been through even if he was born later as a vampire.. it was just too much for him to bear .
The gentle breeze on this spring morning , that still slightly cold breeze took him back to the day he took his first victim .
His first victim was a woman , but .. he didn't kill her , he sucked her dry of blood because at the time , he was still developing so bloodlust was a thing .
And with that day forward , he continued to take victims .. some deserved it , he didn't just kill innocent people , oh no,  he too killed people who were a menace . Following his father's dark path.
Carrying the name 'vampire in red' caused a lot of rumors.  Not that many knew how he looked like , oh no , he kept his identity hidden from the world .
It was winter .. around there . Maybe late winter . And on The 20th of November .. he took his last victim before a few months later .. The French War broke out . He had been killing for 37 years .. not all of the time of course .
But when this bloodshed spilled .. one would think he would join , because he is a vampire,  no.?
No .. no that was not what had happened.
In that very moment when he saw people killing each other because of conflict .. he stood there as if .. he was frozen in his tracks . Unable to move .. he watched and observed everything on that day
From then on he had swore humans off . Though that will soon change like the heavens had dropped it from above for the young male . As a child she was sick...
The doctors didn't understand why nor could they figure it out.  It's normal for babies to cry, but she didn't.
The doctor found that very abnormal and decided to run multiple test but they couldn't figure anything out.
As she grew older she began to become weak.. She didn't wanna play with the other kids because she was always so tired...
She didn't eat big meals and she would always get full quickly. Some days she would eat and other days she would not.
Her was pale.. almost as white as snow.. her eyes didn't shine like they should.. she was pretty skinny but she could survive off of her weight alone.
Her mother had died when she was younger so it was just her and her father. Her father didn't know what to do and he couldn't afford the medicine or the treatments. He tried making his own home remedies but it wasn't working either.
The doctors told him that it would be better if she just died.. so she wouldn't suffer but.. how could a father do that to his own child.. he made a promise to his daughter that he would find a way to get her some help. He would have done anything under the sun to get his princess some help. He started looking up remedies in old books, asking the elders of their village for medicine, plants and certain stuff that he knew could probably help him. He even started taking her outside for walks so she could get some sun... it seemed like it was working but one day he died.
She was left alone needing to fend for herself.. she couldn't go on walks because she didn't have the motivation, she barely ate anything, and all she could was sleep.
Though one day she suddenly got motivation and started to do all the things her dad would do with her. Though she still felt weak..
One day she went strawberry picking and she started to feel lightheaded though she ignored it..
While she was picking strawberries she pricked her thumb on a thorn.
She still ignored it but as she walking home she couldn't ignore it anymore..
She fell to The ground and everything went dark. Was today her final day alive ?"
              Even despite their differences they were perfect for each other. In more ways then you can think.!!
             -Written by Stella Rodriguez
1st Place in the Northern County Middle School writing conetest