Flash back

We were led into the brick building we had passed, it's outside incongruity hid the building well. The inside was a complete contrast. Every wall was laden with heavy gleaming jewels that reflected each others spectacular colours which made it seem as if you were inside a rainbow. There were wooden chairs- 20 in total, that formed a large circle in the middle of the room, each chair was carved with symbols that were foreign to me but seemed very old. Only one chair was different, that chair was also made of wood but resembeld a throne due it's hight and granduer. I was instructed to take the seat a quartre of the way around from the throne. Adeptus slid into the throne then crossed his legs and clasped his withered hands on his lap with a look of smirk enjoyment peaking through his wholesome smiling mask. All the rest of the group took their seats, Daren stood alone in the centre of the circle facing me. When all was quiet Daren began to speak in a calm voice. All eyes were trained on him.

" When I was first made into a vampire in 1212 my creator was weak, he lasted only one more year before on a hunting trip he was murdered by a mob of local towns people, he was not a killer because he like us insisted on only eating animals but the people only saw him as a monster. I was left alone. I didn't see a reason for sparing the lives of those who would murder an innocent man so I began to hunt humans. It made me stronger and faster. Also I found that I had a special ability, I could control fire. I could summon it out of thin air. So in time I became more ambitous, instead of just killing people I would kill a town by making a ring of fire around it so no one could escape. At the time I was one of the most natorious monsters the humans had ever seen. I was feared then when I learn't of my influence, adored..." Daren was staring past my head back into a time long gone.

"By 1300 I was master of a whole continent, no one dared challenge me, the other supernatural creatures fled. In 1312 I met Adeptus. He was like me. He ruled another continent and had a raging hatred of humans. We decided to work together to conquer the rest of the world, we ransacked and pillaged. We took what we wanted when we wanted. No one said a word against us. As the human empires came and went we stayed in power. For three centuries we were undefeatable. But in 1612 we visited a town on a raid, Adeptus gathered all the town together. He picked a person at random to die because we had only the day before been hunting, usually no one objected to the death of one person. He picked a woman. She stepped forward with all eyes on her. As she walked forwards a girl ran out of the crowd." A flash of pure pain ran across Darens face. But he continued.

"She was beautiful, and young. Black hair, innocent grey eyes and flawless skin." When he described her I stopped breathing for a moment.

"The girl threw herself infront of her mother and begged for him to kill her instead. It was clear that she was terrified but not for herself, for her mother. The most couragous thing I had ever seen anyone human or otherwise do. Adeptus pushed the girl to one side, by the way his power is to move things with his mind, and he forced the girl to watch him kill her mother. That was when I was reminded of the humans potential for good. Just as Adeptus was about to kill the girl I charged at him, I threw him out of the way and saved the girl. I took her to another town. She was still crying when we got there, but as I turned to leave after giving her some money and apolagising she stopped me. The girl grabbed my arm, turned me around and said the three words that truely made me regret all my actions for so long..." For the first time since Daren started his speech he stopped.

With numb legs I stood up to walk towards Daren- who was stood like a cold stone. Putting one slim hand on his muscled arm I whispered.

"I forgive you."