Vampire World (VAMPIRE WORLD #1)

Vampire World Part 3 The Pit

THE PIT

The witch walked away.

I tried to think about my parents, but I couldn’t remember a damn thing about them. The accident must have really messed me up.

A muffled cry of distress reached me; it was coming from behind the wall to my right. I put my ear up against it in an effort to hear better. As the screams and moans continued, I thought it sounded like a young boy, but there was no door leading into whatever horrible place he was trapped in.

At lunch I sat with Sally and Jennifer and had a decent conversation.

“So, are you saying you don’t even feel like a vampire?” Sally asked. “Wow, you must have bumped your head real bad.”

I agreed with her, then gawked at my food. Bloodballs and noodles - some sort of meat in the shape of a ball and snake-like noodles, both absolutely swimming in blood. As before, the food repulsed me at first, but then I became mysteriously drawn to it. I took one of the balls and nibbled a little. The blood trickled down my throat and felt pretty good. After that I swallowed the rest of the ball whole, and ate another two.

Sally smiled. “You go, girl!”

On a run now, I downed my entire cup of blood in one. Energy and power surged through my body.

Jennifer looked on, also smiling. “Now you’re feeling it!” she exclaimed. “That’s what blood will do for a vampire.”

“Yeah, you’re gonna need it,” Sally added. “After lunch we’re having a standoff.”

“What’s a standoff?” I asked.

“It’s when vampires interested in adopting an orphan come to check us out. We all stand behind these bars and the vamps look at us. If they see someone they like, they take them. It gets pretty crazy.”

“You've got an advantage,” Jennifer told me. “You’re tall. And you’re pretty.”

I felt better, knowing that I at least had a chance of getting the hell out of here.

With more blood entering my body than ever before, I felt incredible, like I was on top of the world. There was an extreme energy in my legs that almost demanded to be used somehow.

Momentarily losing control, I leapt up perhaps three or four feet into the air and landed on top of the table alongside mine – a table filled with vampires busy stuffing bloody meatballs into their mouths. Though I didn’t actually step on anyone’s food or blood, I was blasted with laughter and taunts. I quickly got off the table, apologizing to everyone as I did so.

Before I had a chance to sit back down, I found myself staring at Alexis. “You freak,” she said. “You’re a damn freak of nature.”

“What did I ever do to you?” I fired back, surprised that I had the guts to respond. I guess my blood high certainly helped.

Her midnight eyes grew round as quarters. “Get away from me,” she growled.

Worried that Bitemore would come and find me, I backed off.

An alarm sounded.

Instantly, there was a mad scramble. I followed Jennifer and Sally and the rest of the herd of screaming vampires toward a pair of double doors. Panting, we burst into a huge room where I immediately saw the bars Sally had been talking about. They stretched from the floor all the way up to the lofty ceiling, completely segregating us from the small bunch of people on the other side. Their eyes were scrutinizing us, trying to scope out who they might want to take home.