Don't Go Into The Woods

Chapter 50

I stopped for a second to see who it was. To my horror I saw Claude chasing after me up the stairs. His eyes darting from one section to another as his body moved swiftly up that spiralling staircase. He was laughing hideously like this was all just some cat and mouse game to him. I was obviously the mouse and he was the hungry and ferocious cat or probably tiger! I fastened my pace kicking off my shoes and running the rest of the stairs barefoot. I reached the top, stormed inside and swung the door shut behind me. There was no key. I didn't know how I was going to keep Claude out of this room and away from me. I rushed over to the corner and dragged the arm chair over so that it sat in front of the door. My heart was racing. My mind was a mess. I was freaking out here while trying to figure out a way to save myself. I had to think. I scanned the room at least half a dozen times in search of a weapon of any kind which I could use against Claude in order to protect myself. The top of the bedposts had pointy sharp looking tops. It could probably penetrate his heart if that was even the way I could kill him. But how the hell would I even be able to break them off with only seconds to spare?! It was impossible! I was doomed! Just then, there was this loud bang at the door as it was kicked open. The arm chair went skidding across the floor, out of the way. I stumbled, falling backwards in front of the window on the floor, pulling the one curtain right off of its railing during the process of my impact. The sun was done setting so I knew that there was not even sunlight left to protect me from the evil that was about to intrude on me. Claude came walking into the room ever so slowly. His eyes immediately fell on me the moment he was inside. He had this tremendously evil looking grin on his face which made me tremble from fear.I was not strong enough to hide my fear from Claude. Not when I was face to face with my killer. Claude took a step further into the room towards me. I remained glued to the spot. Paralyzed from the fear that had taken over me.

"I know you are scared Savannah, but I promise you that this will only hurt for a moment." Claude said.

He took another step towards me. I kept thinking that this could not be happening to me. That Dimitri or his father or sister were going to come storming into this room and save me from this nightmare any moment now.

But no one came.

I was all alone here.

All alone with a monster.

"If it makes you feel better, it will only be one bite. One bite to infect you. 24 hours for the transformation to become permanent. Than a lifetime together, ruling over our food source, the humans." Claude stopped right before me. His eyes gazed downwards, almost burning my flesh with its powerful gaze, but I could not bring myself to look up at him. "Your body will have 24 hours before the change is complete so I will protect you and teach you about all your weaknesses. In time you will learn that you will be literally nothing without me as I will be your creator and if I am killed so will you be. Perfect plan to ensure the guardians do what I want them to do. Perfect plan for the rebellion to be victorious. And I still get the girl." That peaked my interest. He would be my creator and if he dies, than I will too. But I would still have 24 hours before I would be fully transformed. Maybe somehow I could make this work for me? But I had no clue on what exactly I would be doing. If I allowed Claude to infect me, what would happen? Would I be able to use it against him to save myself? Or would I become something similar to Cherry? Someone completely infatuated with Claude? Than there was the obvious factor that I wasn't going to survive this if I didn't try to fight back. There was no escaping my fate. This was the only way even though I was going into this absolutely blind with only my knowledge of years of watching horror movies to aid me in my time of need, remembering something about a woman returning to her human self after her boyfriend had killed the vampire who had tried to transform her. Well I didn't exactly have Dimitri here to assist me, but that didn't mean I could just give up. I had to do this. I had to fight back. I could not give into these monsters without a fight. I rose to my feet and looked up at Claude, straight in the eye. My behavior and sudden action seemed to have caught him off guard. If he could infect me and give me the power I need to destroy him before the 24 hours is up than maybe I could just save myself somehow from this nightmare. I had to try, but I had to be believable.