The Immortality Doctrine: Bred To The Blood Prince

Chapter 4

I loved the human's world, although I was not a part of it. I considered myself as a pure vampire, because I grew up living in our world. If you really lived a very long time in a place that's certainly not your home, you'll slowly get used to it. Until you learn to love the place. Until you will be devoted to that place. And then more and more until you will also be one of the beings who live in that place. But I had just left it.

We got to an ordinary forest, walking by foot for miles. Naturally, there's no road. I took off my jacket because I felt sweat coming out of my pores. But my description changed when we got to the real place, after wrestling with a forest that was apparently a place of maze. We zigzagged for the twelfth time. But there was something really different and strange here when we got farther, away from the highway.

"I'm getting dizzy now," I informed them. It seemed like this was fake.

"Chris, are you sure we're walking the right path?" Alex asked, now slowed down. Yeah, 'cause I know that we're lost.

"Do you think I still have the perfect knowledge of the place? All I could recall is that there's supposed to be a clearing here in the forest. Be patient, we'll find out the way soon."

Apparently, this was the biggest forest. If we're not really losing the true path, or getting lost. But when we got farther—this was true—we glimpsed some lost animals—deers, elks, and other strange-looking kinds of them I couldn't name.

The three of us stopped—obviously because Chris was leading us—when he stopped. He was the only one who knew the way. Apparently.

"This must be it," I mumbled. This was the only time I noticed the absence of trees. We were in the clearing. But nothing special at all.

Chris just took a deep breath, resembling a feeling you show to a special person you haven't seen in ages. "Home," he whispered. He took a step—just a tiny step—forward, and in a millisecond he was gone. If you ever blinked, you missed the moment.

Alex and I quickly looked at each other, our jaws dropped. "Someone tell me what the fuck just happened," he said, his eyes wide open.

"You didn't see that? Just for once when you were small?" I curiously asked.

"Well, that was ages ago," he defended. "When I was small. Just like what you said."

I slid my arm in his elbow. "Let's just go. I can't wait to enter that enigmatic thing."

We entered that 'enigmatic thing', no strange feeling at all. No pain at all. And then before our eyes was the exact same place. It was still the blue-filled forest. My body quickly reacted to the temperature. I wore my jacket. Still it had the same oak trees, the forest floor full of dead, noisy leaves when your shoes step on it. But it was unexplainable to tell that you just teleported.
 
"Where's dad?" I asked. It was impossible for him to leave us all along.

"He might've left us. You know he went first," he said, grunting as he fixed the bag his back was carrying. "Know what they call 'excitement'?"

I put my hand on his biceps. "What if something happens to him, huh?" I asked with pure panic and worries. I leaned my head. "He's a human!" I whispered to his ear.

He removed my grip on his biceps and held my face. "Selene. There is nothing that's gonna happen to Calux. To Chris. Understand?" He kissed my forehead. "Nothing will happen."

I hoped he was right. I always believed him. Like there was no time that I didn't.

For the first time, I had seen the bravest deer in my life. He saw us walking toward him, and know what he did? Just stared, chewing and chewing. Because usually they would run because they're scared of humans, (which is we're not) right?