Valkyrie - The Vampire Princess

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 21

I stayed in the school library, making a summary to be delivered the next day. At the library exit I noticed it was already night. The sky was cloudy and hoping for the right moment to rain.

Then I advanced my steps, hoping to arrive home in time, before the rainfall. The street was deserted and silent and I began to hurry to reach my destination, as I felt a constant danger.

Later on, I saw Eros was standing at the end of the street and he looked like he was waiting for me to approach. However, his apparition was strange. He was just waiting. Certainly he perceived I was frightened.

"Eros!" I exclaimed, surprised.

"Come with me! I want to show something to you," he said seriously in a determined voice.

I said nothing. I just went with him, without thinking what it could be. The fact I was in his company made me secure and intrigued by what I was to uncover at the same time.

We walked silently to our destination. I thought the place was far, but his company turned our journey into a pleasant one.

The place was deserted and obscure. It was a hiding place amongst the woods. It was similar to the landscape from the dream I've been having for some time.

It was an antique and dispossessed house for somebody to dwell in. It had no electricity and a minimum of comfort that was claimed by a half-witted person.

We stopped walking in front of a wooden door. Eros pushed it and entered the old house. I remained exactly in the same place. I was really afraid to enter into it.

He remained in silence all the time. His unfriendliness intimidated me. For a moment I thought he would hurt me.

"Are you going to stay outside?" he asked, after having crossed the threshold.

I decided to go ahead, since I had come there. I should take that risk. I thought of my mother and knew she was protecting me, somehow. That feeling encouraged me before I entered the house.

Inside it, there was nothing, just a huge room and a large mirror in the corner of the room. There were also dark curtains on the window.

Eros sat on the floor as if he were meditating, with his back to me. I remained standing and was motionless, just watching him with his back to me.

"Did you want to know where I live?" he asked, with a chilling voice. "So, here is my house."

He remained with his back to me.

All I could do was to stand in silence. All the words fled from my mind. A huge rat ran across the floor and I screamed out at the top of my voice.

"A rat! I want to go back home!"

My hands started to shake. My heart accelerated. I didn't feel safe there. Everything sounded strange next to me. I wanted to run away.

"Not before you see something!"

He said that and stood up quickly. I didn't have any time to get out of that house. He was quicker than I'd imagined and my arms were stuck in his cold hands. He glared at me, with a supernatural stare in his face.

I had never seen any person with such features. His face was pale, with a strange gaze on it. He suddenly changed his expression.

His eyes became gray. Around them there were dark rings. His lips were red and between them there were big, sharp teeth.