Rapunzel, Princess of the Vampires (Coming Soon)

Setting Things Straight

Let's set things straight.

This is not a fairytale. I may or may not fall in love (and I hope not) but this isn't some damsel in distress story. I'm my own knight in shining armor. As weird as that sounds, I am a very independent person.

And to also make it clear, this isn't old-fashioned. We don't wear big Victorian dresses anymore - we're modern too. We wear the same clothes you do. In fact, we're much modern than you.

Forget everything you know about vampires. We don't have an eternal companion for life. None of those 'my Beloved' stuff. We have the freedom to choose whoever we want to be with. We don't turn into bats, so don't get your hopes up. That also means we don't live in caves. That's gross. We don't die because of garlic, we are only repulsed by its smell but we can resist the smell of it. And we most do not love biting humans. We hate it too. But it's the only way to live, we can't force ourselves. Animal blood is a great alternative, but we use our own blood that we create in labs. It's around the taste of human blood but it's not out of human blood. You can thank us later.

When I was bitten, there still weren't labs. Vampires hated animal blood before. Yes, it was a very long time ago. I'm nearly 150 years old. That's actually still young, I'm one of the youngest vampires. I can feel your sarcasm about how young I am but we started using the labs to create fake blood so vampires never bite humans anymore. Like we need any more vampires. We could occupy a whole country with barely any space.

We live in harmony though, we barely have feuds between covens.

Except for two.

My coven, and another. We've been at each other's throats even before I was actually born as a human. They sabotage us and say that they're the real kingdom of vampires. But honestly? I'm sick of it, and I'm sure others are too. We have equal numbers and we're both kingdoms, so what? Csn't we live in harmony? Don't get me wrong, I may have dyed red hair but I'm not violent like that! Wars every single year? Come on!

One thing I forgot to mention: We do not sparkle in the sunlight. We only avoid sunlight because of the harmful UV rays. Yes, we are very protective of our skin. Don't laugh. But we can stand under the sun without getting skin cancer but we choose not to.

My coven is one of the biggest. We have over 100 vampires so we sort of view our coven as a kingdom.

And I'm the princess.

Now, don't wonder why I'm a princess. It just happened okay? As the only daughter I have no choice.

Honestly I'm not very princess-y. I don't like rainbows and butterflies. I actually despise them. I'm not like those pure-of-heart girls. People call me rude and arrogant, but I think they mean to say I'm confident and out-spoken.

I once had beautiful golden hair but I dyed it red with the tips pink, sort of like an ombre. At first my parents didn't approve of this but what's done is done. My pin-straight hair is now as red as my eyes and pink as my lips. Just recently I chopped my hair up until the middle of my butt. Walking around with über long hair is really difficult.

About those stories you heard, Rapunzel? Apparently my parents had this brilliant idea to name me after the princess. Which, by the way, is the total opposite of me.

So I usually confine myself to my room and paint. That's about the only coincidence the stories have with me besides my blonde hair.

I paint anything I see. When I see a sunrise, schools of fish swimming, whatever. I even paint rainbows but that doesn't mean I like them. It's like my hands have a mind of their own painting all day long. My entire room is filled with paintings. I even painted the outside of my door! So when you come looking for me, look for the most colorful door. (But don't come looking for me, really)

With the ability to choose who we want to be with, I'm taking my sweet precious time. At least that's what I told people, but really I don't bother to look for someone. I hope whoever he is won't even come into my life. My parents keep sending me on blind dates with guys who I just brush off and he ends up giving up on me. It even got to the point whereas my parents were paying guys to date me. When I found out I was enraged. I don't want someone to be in my life forever. I want to be with myself.

Of course I'm not always alone. I have constant people with me, either hooking me up with someone or just really climbing up the social ladder. I don't care about popularity, I'd just like to be myself. So I've never really had a proper friend.

The reason why I've never had friends is because of an incident mainly involving some teens, snowballs, and anger.

It was a snow day and people were milling about outside, throwing snowballs at each other.

I was out in the street going out to buy some new paint. A boy threw a girl a huge snowball. The girl got mad and hurled a much bigger snowball at the guy. The guy was in front of me and he ducked the snowball at the last minute. Then of course, the snowball hit me.

You can only guess what happens next. Here are some hints: Using my supernatural speed and more snowballs with a crying girl and boy.

After that people pretty much avoided me. My parents became disappointed of me and I locked myself up in my room. My parents hired a private tutor to be my teacher but I just ignored whatever she was saying. And when I celebrated my 100th birthday I dyed my hair.

I mentioned before that my eyes are brown. This is not because I always drink blood. It's because of genes. It comes from my father and his genes are very strong. This is why I look like my father more than my mother. I did get my mom's almond-shaped eyes and straight hair.

I don't live in a tower. I'm not locked up by some evil stepmother; I lock myself up. I like being alone.

Vampires are about as human as they can get. We don't change forms, we have the same bone structure, we think the same. We only have some advantages.

Speed.

I don't think I need to elaborate that, just that we're around three times more faster than an average human.

Sight.

We have slightly much more better eyesight than humans. It's like looking into a telescope. Yep, that's how we see. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's a pain.

Smell.

We have much keener noses. That's about it.

Immunity to Drastic Sickness.

We don't get sick, except for the occasional cough and colds and fever.

Natural Good Looks.

Yes, I said it. Vampires are more or less good-looking, and that's putting it lightly. With pale (sometimes) flawless skin and sharp features, vampires are mainly hot people. I'm not vain, I'm just telling the truth.

Our stupid need for blood.

I think why we need so much blood is because the energy we use to sustain our speed, sight and etc. Sort of like humans. Those thin girls who eat a lot but don't grow fat? They probably use up too much energy so the food they eat doesn't go to the whole body, only where energy is needed. Vampires are more or less the same.

We don't age on the outside.

In short, we're immortal. I look to be only barely sixteen but truth be told I'm 149. Yep, I was bitten when I was around sixteen, so my physical apprerance never changed, except that I got more fit.

Powers.

This is the most rare among vampires. Some vampires don't even have powers. These powers range from mind reading/controlling to tracking and just about everything you can come up with.

Other than those, vamps couldn't get more human.

Although humans don't know anything of us, except for a few. Those few people help us live. Most of them fell in love with vampires, so they were turned. But the last vampire that was turned was about a hundred years ago.

Humans think we're myths, ways to scare children into coming home early and be scared of what's under their beds.

Well guess what? Everything you thought were myths - they're all real.