Stranger Things Happen

Chapter Twelve

Alex's POV

I shot up. I must've fallen asleep on the lounge. I got up and felt lumps through my socks that came with a crunching sound. I looked down and saw all the popcorn from earlier covering the floor. The bowl lay on the ground in the middle of the mess.

Crap.

I immediately started picking up the popcorn and putting it back in the bowl. After I was finished, my knees hurt and my fingers ached (do you know how hard it is to pick out popcorn from the carpet, ouch.), I took the bowl to the kitchen and emptied the popcorn into the rubbish bin and placed the bowl in the sink.

Phew.

I walked through the arch and around to the stairs and stepped up them. I reached the top and saw that Maddy's door was open. I'm pretty sure it was closed when I left. I gave the area my most confused, but curious, look. I stepped inside the door and found Zayn sitting next to Maddy, her face was red. I looked a little bit closer.

"......moment of weakness..........not weak..............rip.......head off.........disloyal......got it....." I could hear distant talking coming from down the hall.

"Arrrrrhhhhh..........got it..." It continued.

Then I heard the door slam. I walked closer to Maddy and saw that it wasn't just redness, it was blood.

I gasped and jumped back and hit my back against the wall.

I backed out the door and fell over something.

"Arrhh!" I shrieked. "Oh my god Louis. What happened? Who did that to her?" I asked, frantically, about Maddy.

"It was Niall." He said with disgust.

"What!!??" I yelled.

"Yeah, he lost control everyone was unconscious, except you."

I looked at him with confusion.

"What the hell? Tell me everything!"

"Everything?"

"Everything."

He smiled getting up and he walked me to my room. I walked over to his bed as he closed the door and locked it.

"So, where do you want me to start?" He said as he walked over to the bed. His little, black, lace-up shoes echoed on the floor of my bedroom.

"I want you to start with the abilities. Niall can, what, read minds?"

"Well it depends on your family, what kind of vampire you are, like how you're made. There are a lot of vampires that have all sorts of powers," he said sitting down next to me as the bed sunk a little under his weight. "Zayn can turn invisible. Liam can read emotions. Harry can influence your mind, kinda like a lesser version of Niall. Like a lot lesser. And last but not least, Niall can read your mind, control your mind, enter your mind and even blow your mind apart or kill you."

"Wait. You didn't tell me about your ability."

"Well that's because I don't have one. Do you remember when I told you that I was sort of a vampire?" I nodded. "Well that's because I'm only half a vampire. It's complicated."

"Oh no you don't. I want to know everything, and you said you weren't gonna hold anything back."

"Fine. My dad is a vampire and my mother, my mother was a, a witch."

"What?!!? So now you're telling me that...witches are real?"

"You said you wanted to know everything. Anyway my DNA is impure, so my power disappeared when I was 3."

"Back up. You said your mother was a witch?"

"Yeah, she passed away when I was 5."

"I'm so sorry, Louis. So who's your dad?"

"Arh, I don't think you want to know. Maybe some other time. What else do you want to know?"

I sighed in frustration but I didn't want to argue. I wanted to know as much as I could, as fast as I could.

"Where did it all start. I mean vampires, how did that begin?"

"Thousands of years ago, a family, a royal family, travelled here to this country. This might make you more shocked but, there were lycanthrope, werewolves, where the family set up to live. They lived peacefully alongside the beasts, until one full moon when one of the youngest family members and his older brother went to watch the wolves shift from human to beast. They returned to their village, the younger brother in the arms of the older one. He died in Raphael's arms. That was the older brother's name.

"The mother and father were grief stricken. Although their sons had disobeyed orders and left to see the monsters, they had always thought that the lycanthrope were a peaceful species. They knew then that they had to do something to protect their family. The mother, Jessica, looked everywhere for a solution until finally she found a women who claimed she could protect Jessica's loved ones, at a price. Jessica would have offered her the world. She kindly accepted and they both returned to the village. Little did she know that the price would be to change herself and her family into monsters greater than the lycanthrope.

"The woman, Alery, was a witch and created a spell, using the blood of a very special woman. Jessica later laced her children's cups with the blood, ensuring that they would drink it. Because the blood was spellbound it became a sort of venom changing a human's DNA. Raphael, Alicia, Benjamin, Kaol and Phillip all became monsters that night along with Jessica and her husband Christopher. The first pure bloods.

"The laws of the pure bloods are a lot more controlled and powerful than the rest of the vampire population.

"They are the only ones that can have kids, turn other vampires and rule the vampire kingdom.

"Once the first pure bloods were turned they made their way across the country, killing and draining people of their blood, along the way.

"Raphael, Alicia and Benjamin made quite the reputation for themselves. They were the ones that spread vampires across the world, turning humans everywhere they went. Phillip and Kaol spent most of their time with their parents.

"They are all still alive today. Kaol, being the youngest of the family, is 5017 years old."

"You're joking?" I said. This was so overwhelming. How had they stayed a secret for so long.

"No. It's all true. Now Niall--"

"Wait. How does Niall come into this?"

"He's part of the royal family. Or was."

"Niall? Part of the royal family of vampires that originated over 5000 yeas ago? Why is he not sitting in a throne?"

"Yeah well. He shamed the family."

"What did he do?"

"My mother wasn't very honored among vampires. She disgusted them. The way she practiced magic was forbidden and she had done horrible things using her power. Niall was drunk one time and they both got talking and before they knew it, were in bed together."

"What?" I asked confused. This doesn't make any sense. Doesn't that mean...

"Niall is my father."