Once Defiant

Chapter 3

So, I guess I should really explain what a vampire is. Don't say you don't already know, because you don't. This isn't a Twilight or Vampire Diaries fan fiction, this is what vampires really are. We don't glitter in the sun, and we don't burn in it either. We don't need a ring to survive, and vervain doesn't harm us. Some of it is true. . . others, well. . . not so much.

A vampire isn't a dead person. It isn't a person who is eternally alive. Of course, there is magic behind it, but there's magic behind everything.

Everything started with the Olympian and Roman gods. When Zeus had sent a "savior" to protect the humans from the animals, she had fallen in love with Hades. Hades had a child with the immortal woman, and thus, a demi-god was born, the first Vampire, named Alexei. Alexei grew at an exceptional rate, but she's the only demi-god vampire that was born, for her mother was the only savior able to reproduce, and she was killed by Zeus. When she had grown old enough, Alexei was sent to Rome as a War notice from Hades, after having his love taken from him. Jupiter had the goddess Earth create an equal but opposite copy of Alexei named Iexela, the first werewolf. I don't know much about the werewolves, but I know enough to tell about them.

Anyways, Iexela and Alexei became known as the Sisters of the Imortales, and actually went into Spanish origin, but their story is still deep in the Greco-Roman archives, known as the Hades Children in Greek, and the Pluto Children in Roman, though, they're all different.

Now, a vampire isn't a god or goddess, and in my opinion, within the next twenty-five years, science will have developed far enough to where a vampyrism type of immortality is possible.

A vampire is a human who has been infected with a "disease" that causes your cells to accelerate in speed, causing superhuman abilities to take place, such as extreme speed, superior strength, and even the opening of the third eye. . . or at least, that's what my uncle describes it as. (My uncle isn't my real uncle, but he took me in as a "child" when we both found out we were vampires.)

The Third Eye is basically a mystical way of saying we can control others to our will -- it's just like compulsion from the Vampire Diaries. (See, vampyrism isn't a total failure. It has some fictional abilities.)

By saying vampyrism is a disease is a bit of an understatement. It's amazing, and if we said it's a disease, it'd be saying it was an STD starting with one child, transferred by biting people. Let's just say it is. . . a special gift that few humans posses.

But, along with extreme abilities, we don't age. Our cells are so sped up that the process of aging doesn't effect us unless we're weak or sick. And, though vervain doesn't harm us, another herb does, and it isn't like poison -- it just limits our abilities, and brings out our hunger. It's called Arche, named after the Greek muse of origin, and it simply brings vampires to their origins -- to being human -- and, where we've tamed our hunger, it is also brought back to its origin, unseathing a bloody wrath of hunger. Basically, Arche makes us have mortal abilities, but the hunger of a thousand vampires.

Oh, and about our hunger. Once you've lived long enough without blood, your vampyric body adjusts, and you can eat food. It fuels you so much greater than it does a human, but of course, blood would make a vampire feel so much better. Oh, and that animal blood thing? Yea, animal blood isn't very healthy, considering Ares supposedly put a spell on the animals, making them somewhat poisonous to vampires, unless it's like, cooked animal meat. But raw animal meat is a no no. So the Cullens should be dead.

And finally, for the basics anyways, personal abilities. I've only met two like myself, that have abilities that other vampires don't have. Again, it's also from a fictional point of Twilight -- Edward's mind reading, Alice's future sight, Bella's shield. . .

I have Energy manipulation. Scarcely known as telepathy, I can basically move anything to my will. I can also make anything collapse under its own weight. As I've sorta demonstrated with the water in the classroom, my power is locked within my emotions. Sure, I can control it by will, but it controls itself when my emotions flare. It's not fun to get mad at someone and watch their clothes completely collapse into nothingness. Unless you're really mad at that person.

And basically, that's what  a vampire is. A human with an extreme STD, hunger of a mountain lion with rabies multiplied by ten, and the rare mental capability to read minds or cause a black hole.