Eternal bondage (Book One of the Eternity Series)

Chapter 18 | Part 1

My parents almost immediately began to ask me about my past.

"We thought you were gone. What happened to you?"

I told my parents of what had happened since I had last seen them, though I left out the past months I had spent with Jayda.

That would only make my Dad hell bent to kill her.

"And what of you?" 

I asked them. My father looked up from where he had been eating.

"After your mother and I killed that vampire that night we left. With the help of others along the way, we made it here with a group of about 30. We started the free colonies that live here, and we help all who can make it to us."

My parents and I spent the day catching up on what had happened over the past ten years before it was finally time to go to bed.

When I knew they were asleep, I quietly left the bed and made my way into the living room.

I found the keys to an off roads vehicle that my father had and made my way out the door.  

*

 Hayden walked through the little town to the building where the men had taken Jayda earlier.

He opened the door to find the building seemingly unguarded, but he still proceeded with intense caution. He backed up against a wall, holding one hand against the cold wood, clasping a metal pipe in the other.  He breathed deeply before quickly turning to look up the stairwell.

Nothing

The stairs creaked as he bagan to walk up them, with every step another creak, in the daytime, the sounds aren't so big, but when one is trying to be silent, every small noise is agonizing. 

He stopped, but the creaking didn't, the sounds continued moving through the hallways above him, away from where he was now, but towards what he assumed to be his final destination.

He began to move up again, attempting to go silently, but each step just seemed to magnify the small sounds that he was making.

He had reached the top of the stairs. He quickly looked down the hallway to the left, nothing but shadows looming across the small portions of the dark hall that were lit by the old lamps.

He turned the corner to my right, just poking his head around the corner.

This was where he had heard the footsteps.

Again looking around the corner in front of him, he found nothing.  

This troubled him, did they know nothing of vampires? They were too strong to be held with no guards, especially in a prison made for mortals. She was a royal, she was much stronger.

He ran through the hall, peeking in every door that he passed, seeing nothing until he reached the end.

He stopped for a split second at the corner, wondering if the mysterious footsteps had stopped just arounf the corner, but the necessity to find Jayda drove him forward.

A man stood right outside the door.  The man saw him and began to say something but Hayden hit him on the head with the pipe, not hard enough to kill him, but hard enough to keep the man unconscious and out of his way.

He opened the door to find Jayda, slumped in a chair hooked up to a machine that was dragging what blood was there from her body.  

Suddenly everything clicked, of course they would need no guards, this was an extremely effective form of detention.  

He ran in the room, her eyes opened groggily, and she loosed a weak hiss in his direction.

He reached her and looked at her weak form, she had been nearly drained of all the blood in her body, and it was killing her.