I am the Daughter

What Are You? (8)

I look at him as I hear my heartbeat racing through my veins. "There's no way you can be. I mean you were always strong but you're supernaturally strong today. When you pinned me down that wasn't just a 5'6 strength, that was much more. What are you?" He asks me while studying me closely.

"I'm human. Just like everyone else, I may be strong but I work out all the time. You simply were weak today and couldn't handle what I did." I say narrowing my eyes slightly. "Why are you avoiding this?" He asks. "I'm not. I'm just simply stating HQ doesn't hire anything of supernatural blood, you know this." I say as he shakes his head slightly. "But you were born and raised here. What if-" "Stop. For heavens sake I'm just as human as you are." I say as he pulls out a knife and grabs my arm. "What the hell!" I yell at him as I struggle to get out of his grasp.

He lightly cuts me causing red blood to flow out of the wound as he watches closely. I grab my shirt and wipe of the blood as I watch the wound stop bleeding and close up as if it was never there. "Ah ha!" He exclaims as he backs away from me slowly knife raised. "What?" I ask as he shakes his head. "So I'll ask again what are you? Don't lie to me." He says hand on the doorknob in case this is about to turn ugly. "First I'm not gonna kill you. Second I don't know what I am. As far as I'm concerned I'm human." I state honestly.

"Oh you and I both know that's not true. You're super strong, heal fast, what else am I missing? I know you're not a werewolf so that leads one thing behind. Are you a vampire Estrella?" He asks as I laugh. "Now have you ever seen me drink blood?" I ask him. "Well no." He says as snicker at him. Before he knows it I pin him against the door knife in hand up to his neck and I hear his heartbeat instantly pick up.

"Now we both don't know what I am and I plan to keep that between the two of us. I won't hesitate to kill you if you even open your mouth once. As far as I'm concerned I've been raised human, and I will continue to be human. If I meant hard I would've done it already and you would be dead so." I say spitting fire at him.

"I understand." He says in a low whisper as I get off of him and face the handle in his direction while I hold the blade. "Now I'm going to go workout and you're gonna shut up about this conversation." I say walking past him and out the door while I hear my dubstep songs continue to play. I pick up the boxing gloves and wrap them around my hands while I walk to the punching bags.

I tune everyone out and focus on the target in front of me. Before I know it the punching bag is off the hook and my wrists are lightly red from hitting so hard. I pick up the bag and set it back onto the hook, I then take off my gloves. I grab my iPod and walk out into the woods again. "Estrella!" I hear a name being called from behind me as I turn around.

I look at this young blonde girl and her wide blue eyes as she looks slightly frighten by me. "You forgot your headphones." She says holding out the black buds with her hand. "Thanks." I say walking over and grabbing them before she latches onto my arm as I see her eyes go white. "Witch." I whisper as she smirks. She pulls me into a dream like state as I feel my body slump and hit the grass as she stands above me before I slip into whatever vision she's created.

Flashback

"What do you mean she's gone?!" A man around 30 with blue eyes, black hair cut short, sharp jawline, and his canines on full display. I notice he wears a black cloak as it whips around him as he walks around a pink nursery before leaning over the crib. "They took her." A man whispers from the door hiding his face from Dracula. "Who took her!" He yells loudly causing his eyes to flare red.

"Hunters." The man whispers as Dracula speeds over and pins him up on the wall with a choke hold. "And why the hell didn't anyone try to save my daughter? Do you realize what has happened!" He yells. "We did our best. They came here for her. Something about a punishment for you, we won't find her." He says as I hear a sickening crack echo through the room.

Dracula storms out of the room, fire in his eyes as he greets his men waiting in the foyer below the stairs. "Dracula." They lower their eyes at his presence. "Find my daughter. I will not allow them to turn her into a Hunter. I don't care what you have to do, do it. Bring back our next ruler. Kill anyone who crosses you, and leave the name of Dracula behind as you advance. Find Princess Estrella Van Helsing." He yells.

Present

I wake up covered in sweat as the witch looks down at me with her blue eyes once more. "What the hell was that? Some kind of a sick joke? My parents died. I was an orphan, I was adopted and brought into a Hunter family, my real family is dead." I state out as I get back to my feet feeling lightheaded as the vision.

"I don't give fake visions. Wether you choose to believe it or not, I don't lie and create visions. That is against our nature, I was there when it happened. I'm retelling the night everything changed." She says to me as I laugh. "No possible way!" I scream at her as I put the details together. "There's only one Estrella." She whispers before she vanishes from her spot leaving me confused and pissed.

I'm not the daughter of Dracula, he's practically dead, not to mention a vampire who can't procreate. No there has to be another Estrella. I was raised here, human. Impossible, she's playing a joke on me. But witches follow the rules, no she has to be joking. She has to be, I've read the stories of Dracula and his lost daughter, that's not me. I refuse to believe what I've seen. But what Cyprian had said. Maybe I am the lost daughter of the King of Vampires. The one who started it all, the very first vampire is my Father.