Deep within the central region of Romania lies a sleepy little town called Transylvania. Known for its mountainous borders, medieval towns and timeless castles lies a force so powerful that not even the most bravest of men will not venture. Castle...
Standing in the vestibule of what was once my beloved home filled me with a sense of nostalgia as I looked around the place. How my heart broke to see the damage from the inside. Time and money were two things that one could never have enough of, unless of course you were a vampire like me. The door shut behind me as Nathan walked ahead and headed for the bottom step. But I stopped him before he could go any further.
"Where are you going?"
"Upstairs for a minute. There's just something I have to clean up first."
"I'll come with you."
"That's okay. Feel free to look around the place if you want, I won't be long."
As he started to climb, I watched as his fingers slowly slipped from my grasp. I didn't like it whenever he left my side. It made me feel sad. I followed silently, moving without thought that is until I reached the top of the landing and came face to face with the hole in the wall. It was here that by a stroke of luck that Nathan's blood awakened me from my centuries of slumber. I remember the night it happened as I stumbled out of my stone coffin and took my first breath of air.
Even now, the life force of Nathan still lingers in my own blood as my sense of hearing tracks him to a bedroom just down the hall to my right. When he returns a few minutes later I point to the opening in front of me.
"What's in there?"
"Uh, I'm not sure," he lied.
"Mind if we check it out?"
"After you."
As I squeezed myself through the narrow opening in the wall, it occurred to me that I was a lot slimmer when I first escaped from the tomb and now my body was close to getting stuck. When I finally came out on the other side, I felt my lungs expand with great relief. After Nathan caught up with me I led the way down the tunnel into the chamber where my stone coffin lay open with its lid pushed to the side.
I listened to the nervous rhythm of Nathan's heart as he looked around scared. I approached the coffin and reached down inside as I pulled out the sword and gently tapped the blade against the side as a fine layer of dust fell to the floor revealing a fine, sharp metal blade.
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"What are you doing?!" Nathan asked as he walked up beside me. "What in hell?"
"What's wrong?"
"That's impossible," he muttered. "I saw him."
"Who Nathan? Who did you see?"
"It—It was during the renovation process that a worker found the entrance to the tomb. So the head contractor and I decided to investigate. When we got here and found the coffin I decided to go ahead and open it out of curiosity. When I pushed back the lid and looked inside there was a man. Well, a sunken skeleton of its former self. And now, the body isn't here."
