The Vampire Princess

Chapter 5

Brooke smiled at her friend and sighed.

"We were waiting to go to the new world, Uncle Markus took longer than anticipated and dad was barely surviving on the person he had found to drink from. So, I did what I thought would be the right thing to do and used my child like presence to get him someone of more substance."

Brooke was sitting on the sidewalk crying. Her mark was making her way toward her. She knew the woman had a soft spot for children and was using it to her advantage. She was a bigger woman and Brooke hoped that she would be of more use to her father than the frail old man he had been feeding from. The woman walked to Brooke and placed her hand on her shoulder.

"Child why are you crying?"

"I lost my daddy and I can't find him." Brooke said.

"Where did you last see your daddy?"

"He was headed this way. Will you help me find him?"

"Of course, dear girl."

Brooke gripped the women's hand and lead her toward the tunnels. Lucian was standing out of her view in a doorway and when he heard Brooke's childlike laughter he stepped out and smiled at the woman.

"Brookie there you are, I have been looking everywhere for you."

"Daddy, this is Mina, she helped me."

"Hello Mina," Lucian said staring her directly in the eye, "You want to come home with my daughter and I and have some food."

"Yes, I would love to come home with you and your daughter."

The woman blindly followed Lucian and Brook down into their cave. The old man was decomposing, and Brooke carefully drug him from the cave. She buried him deep in the ground and then went back home to her father. When she entered, he was drinking deeply from Mina's wrist and Brooke was over the moon that he finally had something to give him some life.

"Is she sufficient daddy?"

"Yes, that was a good idea you had, my darling. Now I need to get some sleep. Let me chain her up and we can go and sleep for the rest of the day."

"Okay daddy, will you tell me about Uncle Mike?"

"Your uncle is a little unorthodox he is a werewolf and is a little bit of a pain, but I think you and he will get along great."

"What does he do for a living?"

"He owns a bar, and it has not been doing well, but once we get there, we can help him turn things around and make the bar very profitable."

"Good I like to do things like that, I am really good at that kind of stuff. Will I be able to hunt for you when we get there?"

"I think you will be the best at hunting. You can hunt and you can help find a new way to bring in money."

Brooke nodded and curled up in the child sized coffin Lucian had, had built for her. He was so proud of the way she just accepted everything he had shown to her and how well she was at fixing everything for him. Now he had to show her how to hunt without even trying, but her mind worked well at doing that already.

Lucian carried the sleeping Brooke onto Markus's slave ship and smiled at the people staring at him. Markus had chosen this ship because it was carrying a load of slaves to the new world and Lucian would be able to feed when he needed to, without Brooke having to find him food. The captain was a good man with a good heart and understood that the slaves would rather be dead than go to new owners.