The Nightwalker. -Complete-

Chapter 11. (End)

The return of the Nightwalkers.

A book by Kelone Sebastian Rondel.

"Alucard and Lenari. The two vampires who got seperated because of the humans in this awful world, finally met again. That day they stayed at the campfire until the sun came up. Two friends, finally united.

The human Lenari brought helped everywhere he could. His parents panicked everytime they heard a new story from Lenari and Alucard. They were affraid that their son would be the next one to get killed, but at the same time they knew that Lenari wouldn't let that happen.

She grew attached to the boy. When Alucard was out killing and getting some food for the three, she shared stories about other times with the boy. Darien knew how to listen and enoyed every word of the stories.

Ofcourse, eventually, he had his own stories to tell. But when the night came and Lenari and Alucard had to go hunt some humans the boy came to me. Lenari didn't want him to witness such horrible things as killing ever again, so he crashed at my place.

He most of the time, told Lenari's stories to me. I already know all of them, but I let him speak. Until one day Lenari and Alucard where out again and the boy started a story about his old friends, his family.

He ended the story crying in my arms. He missed them. His two best friends, his parents, he told me that he even missed the man that sold the fish at the market at the place where he used to live. 

I started pitying the boy. He was dragged along on an adventure with a murderous vampire who- in the first place- only needed him to get away and not be followed. Dragged to numberous places where he saw people he had never seen before.

And this vampire that once took him. now didn't want to let him go. 

I know Lenari for a few hundred years now, and she always craved a child. Alucard always told her that it would be foolish to get one, because it would only be a burden and the great world would be too dangerous for it. 

And now, Lenari finally has someone to look after. 

A lot of vampires are saved from the humans by these two. Although I have to say that a lot of those humans got killed in the process. Alucard and Lenari are a great team.

They know exactly what the other thinks and what they want to do next when they are having their Blood Rushes. 

But we were talking about the boy, Darien. I want to help him get back to his parents, but I know that when I do Lenari will probably set me on fire or something. 

The boy decided that after a few weeks he wanted to go with the two when they were killing. Lenari disagreed, but Alucard though it would be for the best. They took him and the next day he was back with me on the couch, saying that it was a mistake to go with them.

I have a feeling that he started seeing the vampire as a mother over the years. The Nightwalkers found each other four years ago now, and they are still saving other vampires. 

Darien isn't the luckiest kid in the world. Not at all actually. In his first house his parents were always gone, and now it is happening again with Lenari. She and Alucard only come back in the morning and then leave again after two hours, saying that they have work to do.

He is more my kid, than theirs. 

Only he isn't a kid of us at all, and in times like this I wonder if his parents miss him as much as he misses them. I wonder if they still think about him and fear for his life.

I wonder if his friends still think about the great times they had with Darien, and if they still watch a movie every saturday and cry because he isn't there. 

Today Lenari knocked on my door when Darien was already sleeping. We talked a bit in the dusty room that I call my living room, but she got silent when I said:

"You know that the boy is going to die one day, don't you?"

She looked at the ground, fighting away her tears. Her green eyes closed again as she ran a hand through her long brown- almost black- hair. "I know." Was her answer.

"Bring him back. You need to. He misses them, Len." I told her. At this statment her eyes bolted open and she jumped up from her chair. "No. He stays here, with us to protect him." 

I sighed and stood up myself, a little slower then she had. "Len, he keeps telling me stories about his mom and dad. His friends, Will and Josh. About the house he used to live in and the streets he always walked."

She shakes her head, trying her best to avoid my eyes.

"Bring him back." 

She ran out of the house and Darien walked down into the living room. A smile was on his face, but at the same time his eyes showed a great sadness.

"Let's go buddy." I told him as he sat down in my car. We took of, riding back to his former house. 

When we arrived there, he was crying. Happy and sad tears at the same time. The grown up man got out of the car and walked to the front door slowly. I waited in the car and sat up a little when the door opened and an old man hugged Darien.

His mother was nowhere to be found, and later on I heard that she had died from a horrible sickness. Alucard and I forbid Lenari to ever see the boy again, and she agreed that it was the best thing to do.

The Nightwalkers are back on the street, but one of them has a broken heart.

A heart that is never going to be fixed.

A heart, that misses a boy. Her boy."