Vampire comes to India(#YourStoryIndia)

Chapter 7 - Nethan's Son

Day 7

Vampires don't dream, they just can't. Yes, they sleep and the older they are the more likely it is that they will be found sleeping in their coffin. Ravina loved her beauty sleep, especially now when she can smell roses. Roses!

I open my eyes and throw open coffin case and gasped. The entire room was filled with roses, no corner no wall was even barely visible.

"What the hell?"

There is a light buzzer, alerting that her slide door to the office will be opening. She gracefully steps out and flips the coffin case closed, folding her arms across her chest as she waits to meet Suraj.

"Hey what the fu**?" he yells till his eyes land on me and sees my raised eyebrows.

If Suraj didn't fill my secret bedroom with roses..then who did. I must have muttered my thoughts out loud as Suraj began reassuring me.

" We will find out, give me a minute. We have CCTV cameras installed everywhere, even in this secret room...Come on don't give me that look.How do you think I can protect you, if I can't even see you?"

"Ya sure and yet you don't know who or when my room became a garden?," I ask.

"Look Ravina...the way you performed..sang last night there are bound to be many fans of yours. Still, no one apart from you me and Nethan knows about this place." He says as he plays with the mouse to retrieve the required footage from the screen.

He rewinds it to 4 am, I remember that was the time I informed him that I need some blood before I hit my coffin. There were no flowers or any hint of their scent then. I go to sleep around 4:30 am.

A hooded person appear in the office exactly at 4:45 am. He leans over my table and presses the hidden switch opening my secret room. One by one he places each and every flower himself. When he is done with the last placement, he takes off the hood and looks directly into the camera, smiling and waving. He is very young, hardly 18 years old. His raven hair and dimpled smile make him appear very innocent, it's the red glow in his eyes that give away his true identity. He is a vampire a new hatchling.

"Do you know him?" I ask and get no response. I glance at Suraj and notice that his face is drained of any color.

"Suraj...you okay? Do you know this guy," I nudge him this time as he continues to stare in shock at the paused smiling face on the monitor's screen.

"That's Nethan's son..Vikram..."

"Oh my you mean he is original..but then his red eyes..and why are you shocked? Shouldn't you be happy?" I ask him, too confused by his reaction.

"He is original but we saw him die..turning into ashes," he broke off and played the footage again.

Vikram gives a thumbs up sign and blows a kiss into the camera and is gone.

"Are you sure it is him?" even I could hear the slight waver in my voice. My nephew's son ...this is as close as I will come to having a son of own...again. Charming smile and curly hair, the enchanting face of my 10 year old girl beckons me. Oh Sara...No no I can't go there. Not now...maybe later when I am alone. I shall dwell on my past..past where I loathed to be alone past which made me the hardcore queen I am today.

Focus Ravina..your nphew and his son need you.

The glint in Vikram's eyes was proof that he is an original. Yet there has never been am occurrence of a phoenix vampire. It is completely unheard of.

"Yes I have no doubt," he says firmly, forwarding to see what more footage he can get. There was no more than my waking up moments ago. He hits the rewind button and pauses at the scene where I had fled to take on the Vampire spies. Sure enough minutes pass and a female vampire appears. He face is cloaked, she makes a call and fiddles with the door lock of my hidden room, checks it and sure enough it is not locked. She checks the surroundings, ends the call and heads out. Suraj and I enter the office hours later and its just the repeat of what we had seen earlier in the footage.

"Who is that girl?" I ask.

"How is this possible?" he shouts and I shake my head. Seriously? Shouting can help him?

"So you don't know?"

He shakes his head as he fingers his dark hair in frustration.

"Okay tell me from start...what happened to Vikram?"

" ...Remember 50 years ago when Nethan came to your aid. His son got into some trouble with new hatchlings, which he had created. She was some crazy bitch who had seen too many vampire movies and had amazing fighting skills. Karisma, was her name and she loved to experiment every now and then how vampires like herself reacted differently to different myths. Garlic, holy water, Hindu God's statues, Jesus Christs Cross and what not... It was competition night. The winner was to be awarded free meals along with the right to get a choice of their person to be turned. Vikram was her only match that remained to be beaten and in the battle of power instead of using normal bullet laced with garlic she had used silver and had aimed right at his heart.." I gasped and looked at him. Silver bullet..he could never survive that.

"...Nethan had rushed instantly the second he caught that devlish glint in the silver bullet, but it was too late. We saw the bullet pierce, his body turning into deep shade of grey and then black and finally only ashes remained..." he pauses sighs deeply and continues, his hand placed over mine.

"... Karisma had shrieked and said she aimed for his hand and not heart. She claimed Vikram told her to do this. Nethan had wringed her neck and took her heart out to let het meet the same end...He has been lamenting Vikram death ever since. He felt that Karisma was perhaps Willaim's spy though we never got any confirmation or any proof on that..." I grip his hand tight.

"This is why he is building the army...to take revenge?" I hoarsely say.

"Partly that and mostly his vow..to not let you or him be killed by a fake vampire..." I let out a bitter laugh.

"100 years..for 100 years I did not know that my Nephew has a son..an original like us. He had promised that I would be there at his marriage at the birth of his son...how could he lie?" I bare my fangs at Suraj. Hunger and anger don't go well with me.

Suraj takes a step back and raises his hand hoping that it might calm her a little. It doesn't and she grasps him firmly from his throat, her eyes becoming blue, glowing ominously.

"Ravina..I am here to help you..I didn't know Vikram was alive..I am not hiding...aah," I loosen my grip and take out the red bottle from the pocket of his jacket and hastily gulp it down, before I smash it on the floor. I am ..was his only family.

I point my finger at paused Vikrams image.

"Find him..find him fast...else I will no longer need your freaking bottle of blood..You have only seen my good and hunger....you have no idea what I am capable of doing when in anger...Move! You have till dawn to find him. Use this bloody army...use your witch contacts...and if he is not found...I promise you I will kill you all" I glare at him as I shout out orders.

He nods fervently and makes a small yelp like sound as he scurries off. I watch him from my office as he gathers everyone in a minute and leaves.

The club is closed...till I find Vikram. If he is Nethan's son and is alive...there is a possibility Sara could be too.

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