After my disappearance, I quite often thought about what would happen to my family. Together they could barely support the barricade of emotions trying to overflow them and make them lose their balance. Their emotions tried to drown them but they we...
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**Aurora's POV** (Luna in above pic ^^)
It has been two years since I decided to step foot on the road by myself for the first time. I never looked back. I didn't want to die in a 5 x 7 tree house where no one would ever find me. Being out in the open is more dangerous but what am I gonna do about it. I had been going north to try to find a safe village. I stumbled upon one a few weeks ago, but then I found out one of the women were harboring and torturing a vampire. I agreed but disagreed. I think they should be killed. Not tied up in a well with the top opening and closing and getting burned by sunlight, and holy water. This was legitimate torture.
I left that town faster than you could say Addios. I wandered for weeks maybe months. Resting maybe an hour or two at a time. I was too nervous to full stop for one night. I didn't want to die in a 5 x 7 tree house and I especially didn't want to die alone. I, Aurora Fury was going to make it to two decades of living. I also feared and dreaded sleep even though it refreshed my skills and mind, I dreamed of my twin and everything that was going on back at the tree house. My father raising Archy and Luna by himself. They made a new tree house just a few blocks down in my dream trying to protect themselves. They all believed I was dead. That I got kidnapped and turned into a slave.
I would wake up cold sweats, panicking that I should go back and at least tell them "I'm alive." Personally though I wouldn't be able to find my way back even if I wanted too. Not that I want too. I'm better off on my own. I was in the forest trying to find a good spot to rest when I heard rustling in the tree above me. I looked up to see a pair of eyes staring back at me. I was about to scream when he dropped gracefully and landed right in front of me.
He wasn't a vampire. I wanted to cry with relief. Then I heard them coming. The whispers in the trees. The snapping of the branches. I saw the markings on his neck. We both bolted up the tree. Thank the lord he wasn't actually bleeding right now or we both would be so fucked. I sat perched on a branch realizing I never thought I would be reliving this moment. Standing there in the tree waiting for my mother but I couldn't do anything to protect her. All I could do was wait and hope for the best. I was about to grab for his hand but then I thought he's not Archy. He's not my brother. He will react differently. So I grasped my hand with my other hand. Knuckles turning white as I watched the demons pass by underneath us.
"Xavier!" Many of them yelling "We know you couldn't have made it far with your injuries." I looked at the man crouched on the branch next to me. Where is he injured? He didn't seem injured as he gracefully jumped from the tree to save my life back there. "Come out come out wherever you are." A few yards away I could make out a body being dragged by two brainwashed guardians and a vampire escort behind them. The body was limp defiantly female still alive I'm pretty sure. "Alexander, don't do it please...." She said murmuring "I'm almost dead don't give up your freedom for me." She made a grunt of pain. Clearly from my position I could see that she was dying. She was the oldest human I've seen by far she had graying hair and all.
Xavier looked at me and looked at the women. He stared intently at her, his feet parted as if he was about to jump. I shook my head trying to grasp at his clothes but he just shrugged me off. "Xavier don't let go of your freedom." She said with her last breath. The man who seemed in charge of the search immediately flew to the old lady's body and smacked her hard across the face. "You shall not die now! Not until the boy has returned to us." He hit her again and again, over and over until he realized she wasn't coming back. He snarls in disgust "Pathetic humans!" He stomps her body and kicks her into the ravine that was near us.
We watched and waited as the search party disappeared. We sat crouched upon the tree branch until the sun rose once again. "Xavier, that's your name, was that your mother?" I asked gently knowing how it felt to lose your parent to a bloodsucking mongrel. He turned his head slowly at me, sadness holding his eyes "Yes but no." he said quietly keeping his head down not making direct eye contact. A few moments of silence passed by and I couldn't take it after being on my own for two years I had to at least try to talk to him before continuing on my journey.
"I know this emotional and that it took me two years to cope and still am trying to cope with losing my mother, but you owe me an explanation after i sat crouched in a tree with you for over 12 hours. " I said kinda angrily. I was mad because this reminded me of my mother's death. I wanted nothing more than to comfort Xavier but I couldn't even comfort myself. He looked at me startled. I was about to burst into tears. I just broke him didn't I. He finally lifts his head up and looks around. He jumps down from the tree yet again gracefully.
He holds his arms up to signify me to jump down. I put a little weight on where I was crouched and sure enough I slipped and fell right into his arms bridal style. He sits down and motions for me to do the same. "That lady who died back there wasn't my mother." I looked at him quizzically "Who the hell was she then, she obviously wasn't your sister!" I said getting a little mad that he was stringing me along. "She was the women who raised me, as a child both my parents were murdered by vampires and they stole me and the nanny the two that didn't retaliate. Her being too old too and I was too young to fight off a full grown vampire." I looked at him sad again that I fucked up. I seriously just yelled at him.
That lady was basically his mother. I can't take my anger out on him. He doesn't deserve this. He doesn't deserve an Aurora meltdown. "I'm sorry, I didn't know." He nodded his head stiffly. I should just go I already upset him enough, I can let him grieve properly. I stood up and managed to walk 5 feet before a hand was on my shoulder. I turned around and he immediately said "Can I come with you? She just died for my freedom and I don't know where else to go."
"You can come with me till I reach my designation then your on your own." I said abruptly and coldly to him. I stride a few feet forward with him close on my heels "And if I may ask where are you going in a world over run by vampires." he said whispering into my ear. I shrieked "Don't do that, your making me paranoid! That is none of your business!" I said exasperated, I didn't want to grow attached to the boy. I was scared to. I didn't want to lose anyone else. Little did he know I had no clue where I was going.
I may have been a tough bitch for the past two years but that is because of me being smart, not being suicidal. If I had made a move last night I would have gotten us both killed. But now that were on the road if I see a stray nearby I will not hesitate to kill them. These scumbags deserve to rot in hell for all eternity.
