Curse of a warrior

The end of my beginning

~I was only a child. I couldn't of dreamt of it ending this way. ~

I sat in the rather dark basement with the child staring at me, She wasn't really a child but at my age she might well of been.

"How did you become like this?"
The question buzzed in my head, Not many people had bothered to ask, 'Rosa' the name kept stirring in my mind creating a deep anger within me.

"It's a very long story, Are you sure you care to hear it? It will surely bore you"
I let out a deep breath self assured she'd politely decline my offer, Not that the child, May, Would care to hear what I had to say, Or that she actually wanted to know the story of a stranger.

"Yes! I'd love to know!"

She beemed up at me excitement clear in her eyes. It amused me. Not that I would say it out loud.

"Well, That was a very long time ago you see when I was a child myself, nearly 32 million years ago. Yeah, I know i'm old, but anyways, I was exploring the forest not to far from my home, In the underworld. I remember walking through looking around at the branches of the tall trees and how the sun seemed to dance about them I still somehow managed to shiver on a such a warm day. The birds sang and I felt as if I could really find my way. After a short while of my walk I came about a cabin, There was nothing new or different about it, But for some reason it stood out to me, Like an ugly nail rammed into a soft pillow."

I told her picturing it all in my mind. I couldn't help but look at her, She seemed content listening to me ramble which by the most part took me by surprise.

"I walked up to the cabin, As I peered inside - I looked on the most beautiful woman I had ever seen, But at nine that isn't to hard to believe. You see, She ended up seeing me, Actually she most likely sensed me watching. Before I could react she opened up her front door inviting me in, Without a second thought I followed her inside."

Shivering I felt the girl hug on to me seeming shy. It made me chuckle to myself. Humans.

"Why did you follow inside? You didn't know her"

May asked as if she regretted the words before they could even leave her lips as embarrassment played on her face

"I don't know, I just couldn't help it. As I entered the cabin I took in everything, And then my eyes were pulled to her, She gracefully sat on a wooden chair by the table, Sitting across from her I couldn't help but ask her name, 'Rosa' she told me"

And I could feel the venom in my voice as I spoke her name.

'I know now I should of walked away, But if I could go back I wouldn't change it because I know this is what was meant too happen, No matter how much the memory hurts'

"She convinced me she was my mate, And I believed her because I knew my mate was one of her kind, a succubus, And I was more than willing to help her because I didn't want too her in the pain she had me fooled into believing she was in. She told me how she had been starved for quite a bit, And I became so willing to help, She is the reason why I no longer allow for others or anyone to use my name because now I know I do not deserve it. I lost that's right because of her"

mumbled the last half but from the way the girl stirred by my side i'm sure she heard me, Of course.

"Why what happened to you and her like if she's you're 'mate' why isn't she with you know?"
The sadness was clear in her voice, But I decided to ignore it.

"She enslaved me you see, Succubus-es when they, 'Claim a lover' they take bits of the soul from their partner, that's how they feed. How they use you. I became less willing as the years past but I still had no choice, She would punish me for not behaving by making me stay away. Now that might not seem so bad but, when you become enslaved to one of those things you start to crave to please them, Being away starts to make you sick and it hurts badly because it kills you. And for a while I didn't know."

She hugged me. I could feel her little hands wrap around my vessel, It was warm and felt as if she meant it, It bothered me but I couldn't bring my self to make her stop.

"I'm glad you're okay"

She said letting go of me slowly too remove the bright blue hair from her face and I couldn't help but cover a stare at her.

"It became rather bad around the time I was fourteen, She was angry with me, She banished me away from her side, Almost a weeks had pasted and I became deathly sick. And there was nothing I could do. After the fourth day I became bed ridden, Around then my brother noticed something was very wrong. I wish he hadn't."

The gravely words felt like ice on my lips as I looked at the wall. My chest became heavier. Concern washed over the girls face which troubled me.

"Why, What happened Cain?"

"I was forced to tell my parents, I remembered watching the cold look on my fathers face as my mothers rage grew. They were never this cold towards me and I knew I screwed up. Before I could finish explaining what happened my mother, Who was almost ready to give birth, took off - Without a doubt to find her. My father and I followed her after our moment of shock. My mother being part bear or 'gavelta' She was fast and we were too late."

My body began to slightly shake as the images flashed in my mind. 'Why was i so foolish?'

"We made it in time to watch my mother fall, Never to rise again, Taking my unborn siblings with her. I could hear the anger in my father rise, And I was help less. I watched him lung at her, and the other man in the room, Little did I know the vampire was just another of her slaves, I watched as my father brought him down and went for Rosa. My heart began to race and the color left my face. I remember the sound of her words trying to get me to help save her, 'don't you love me!? How can you allow this to happen to me!? You're mate!' she bellowed And I caved. Grabbing a knife I lunged and my father, The wooden floor creaking under my feet."

I could only thank myself for losing. The girl, May looked at me, sadness fulling her young eyes. Seventeen, So little, Why did she care?
"I'm so sorry that's awful, Was he okay?"

She hugged me tight again, This time making me relax, A little.
Her stormy blue eyes seeming to know all my secrets.
Breathing out hard I ignored her statement.

"Luckily my father knocked me to the floor and the knife went crashing out of my hands." I went on.
"I banged my head, The world around me became hazy, I could only sit and watch as my father ended Rosa, And the book shelf near by came down from all the sudden move meant and fighting, After when there was nothing but my father and I left, I watched as he picked my mother up. He planned on making a grave for her, I couldn't bare to watch. I ran, And before I knew it I was in my room at home, Breathing heavy, angry and yet so hollow inside, all I could do was lay down, I was almost a sleep when I noticed the tears hot and wet on my face. Instead of making them stop I fell into a empty dream-less sleep."

I stopped, Looking at the girl who after an hour of me talking still seemed so content. I'll never know why.

"How about we go out for a smoke?"

The offer was bliss and I took it without a second thought. Hoping it would calm my already buzzing mind, Man, I fucking hate not being able to smoke inside. Human bitches.