Love for the Heart

The Dracium

I opened the door to my house and looked in. My mother, of course wasn't home yet. She worked late shifts as a nurse at the hospital. Sometimes I was glad so I wouldn't have to hear a lecture or something about my grades. I was also pretty sure she heard about Jeffrey's death on the news, and I definitely didn't want to hear anymore about that from anyone else. I through my backpack on a near chair and slumped down on the couch. My head was hurting from all the crying I had done. My head always hurt when I cried a lot. Soon I had fallen into a deep sleep withought realizing. I woke back up when I heard a noise at 7:30. It startled me. It sounded like a growl, but very low and threatening. I walked outside my house slowly. I saw nothing. But of course it was dark and if it was something, like an animal, it was probably hiding from me. I shrugged and turned back to go inside but heard the sound once more. I turned back around and looked into the tall dark trees again. Suddenly my eyes caught a large dark figure in the shadows. I tried to focus on it but I couldn't make out what it was. Suddenly I jumped out from the shadows and charged at me. I screamed for now I could clearly see what it looked like. It looked exactly like a large bear with a curved back with a coyote like face. It was massively terrifying and dreadfully ugly. I ran as fast as I could back to the house but I tripped on a rock and fell to the ground. I looked at me knee and it was cut very deep. I screamed with fear, and agony. The dark creature continued to charge at me, but I couldn't walk or run because of my knee. I felt completely hopeless. Suddenly a human figure came running and knocked the creature out with one blow. It fell to the ground and snorted with anger. It got back up and charged at the figure with all its might. The figure stood still and waited as the creature neared. Once the creature was close enough, the figure striked with an enormous blow, and the creature finally fell for the last time. The figure came racing over to me. It leaned down and I saw its face. It was nick. He looked frightened and quickly picked me up from the ground. He took me inside the house and stared at my knee." Did it scratch you?" he asked. I didn't answer. I was a little weirded out. First a strange creature came and tried to kill me, and then nick came and rescued me. What was going on?! " When I was running away from it, I slipped, fell, and I cut myself pretty deep. It never touched me." I was scared and so was nick. For a minute we just looked at eachother and he started to release the fright a little from his eyes. " Well, it's a pretty nasty cut. Where are your towels. I need that, alcohol,and a bowl." I pointed out everything to him and he got to work fast. He dipped the towel in the warm water in the bowl, and put it on my cut. After he put alcohol on the towel and rubbed it on my cut. Then, he tore off part of the towel, and wrapped it around my leg. That felt much better. " What was that thing?" I asked. He looked up at me as he wrapped. " It's called the Dracium. It feeds on any flesh to make itself stronger. Of course it only follows its master, which are evil vampires named the Vanders. They walk among this earth threatening to destroy every human being until there is nothing left but themselves. I............I am a protector of the humans. An Ashner. A vampire protector. I pick two humans to protect my entire life, and I chose Jeffrey Olsen, and Maria Jones. You.