I am the Daughter

Prologue (1) (E)

I was sitting with Dracula under the night sky, the stars twinkling overhead and my thoughts swarming in my head. "Elizabeth." He ghostly calls to me. "Hmm?" I respond looking at him lying next to me.

"I have something to tell you love." He tells me picking up my interest. "What is it Drac?" I ask. "What if I could hold all the power of the world in my hands? What if I became better, faster, and stronger?" His eyes sparkling with excitement. "I would call you a mad man; there is no way to gain such gifts." I respond easily.

"But there is my dear." He says as he sits up off the blanket stretched below us. "How so?" I ask as his smile grows. "By joining the darkness, becoming one with night." "You make me laugh." I say lightly. "Why would I joke about this with you?" He asks as his smile fades.

"Drac, I love you but this is mad. You speak as if there is such a thing to gain you those gifts. There is not." I tell him as I sit up rubbing my tummy. "I do hope we have a boy. Someone to carry on the kingdom." He says glancing down to my round belly. "It won't be long now." I say looking down. "Yes and by the time you deliver I will be a new man." He states.

"Stop speaking madness." I almost yell at him. "You will see, now come we must get you back to the castle." He says grabbing my hand and helping me up.

2 Weeks Later...

I hold the baby in my arms as I watch them lower my wife's body into the grave. I feel the tears go down my face. Such a young fate to face, I should've turned her, I should've done it. My beautiful daughter rests in my arms as I walk away from the makeshift funeral.

So young to lose her mother, very much human but there has to be something different about her. I fed her mother my dark blood, there has to be some effect on her.

I may be a vampire now but my daughter is more human than what I am. Maybe when the right time comes along I'll turn this little one into a Vampire Princess.