Redemption

Part 1: Death of Simeon

So this is it, this is the end. I broke so many things I wish I could mend. The many hearts I broke, many lives I damned. All I needed was a friend to help me walk away from pretence. Alas I'm at my bookend.
At deaths door, my life has been spent. All the time I had but I still wish I had more. I hid from Gods sight, in bad morals I let my soul ferment. How I wish I could repent.
Without a doubt hell is my destination. There's no walking away from this, a punishment of my own creation. Oh Lord please save me from eternal damnation.
My heartbeat slowly loses its rhythm. I lay in a pool of my own blood. The fear of death overtakes my mind like a flood. My eyesight becomes blurred. So this how it feels to be murdered.
My soul ascends from my body. A dark shadow appears before what's left of my existence. I'm dead but I weep and shiver, for I'm in the presence of the grim reaper.
"Eternal suffering awaits you mortal; it will be nothing but pain and sorrow." He says, he then turns and opens a portal. So suffering will be my new normal? If only I had kept my morals.
The agonising sound of tortured souls surrounds the doorway. I turn around screaming at the top of my lungs "I don't want to go there," I'm just way too scared. "Is there a way I can stay?" I ask, "if staying is what you desire, I can make it come to pass but be warned for it comes at a price.
A pact with the dark lord you will make, your life shall be your own but your soul will be his to take. To hell you will return if the pact you forsake" he says.
I agree without haste, not knowing I'm being cursed. "Life I restore, death will hunt you no more. Like a river, your life shall forever flow, but bound you are to the shadow. In daylight you will never walk, unless you kill one of your own flock. Blood will be your sustenance, among the mortals you'll be a menace. I bestow upon you the power of an emperor" he says, but to me that sounds more like a vampire.
Everything fades to black, next thing I know I'm back, yes I'm back, I live again. But at what cost is my gain? But I think of it no more, with joy my heart overflows.
My wrongs I can rewrite, finally do what is right and return to God's honoured light. I must let my light shine bright.
As my adrenaline fades, the hard truth finally hits. I almost went to hell, I made a pact with the devil, the purest of all evil. Oh what have I done? My soul is damned again because I was too afraid to face my judgement. Why didn't I just repent?
What's done is done, regrets won't turn back time. I have to face my mistakes and pray God will have mercy on me, hope my stupidity will be clear to see.
Dawn approaches, I must find somewhere to hide or my skin will turn to ashes. With haste I race for the nearest building. "Being burnt by the sun seems a bit farfetched. What sunburn can be that great" I think with a smirk on my face. I'm here, I must find somewhere to rest. The sun rises as I slumber, dreaming of how my flesh can burn like ember.
Hours go by as I lay rest. I finally awaken, "oh look its already night, how long have I been out?" I say to myself. I fall to my knees, what is this? Why am I this wea.. Before I can even finish my sentence, I catch a whiff of a delicious scent that sends my heart pounding faster than it never has. My mouth drawling like a deranged wild beast, "what is this, what's happening to me?" I ask myself. My entire body is over taken by this overwhelming thirst.
I must have this, must taste what's pushing my senses to their limits. I follow the scent down an abandoned alleyway, I find a man who is being beaten by some robbers. "Who are you? Whoever you are you must leave before we kill you, don't try to be the hero" says one of the three robbers"
Unfortunately I cannot understand a word they say, the thirst has robbed me of all my humanity. Like a beast stalking it's pray, my finger nails turn to claws. Frightened by it, one of the robbers fills my body with bullets holes, which heal as quickly as they came. My mouth now dripping with slobber grows fangs. With one pounce, I grab one of the robbers by the neck, I hear his heartbeat, his blood rush. I impale his throbbing vein with fangs, such a delicate but yet arousing taste, he struggles but it's of no use, he dies within seconds. This delicious taste, oh I must have more with no time to waste.
The second robber is next, he tries to plead for his life but all I can think of I that enticing taste. He suffers the same fate as his friend, it's time for the third to meet his end. I grab him by the throat, I smell his fear. "Don't be afraid, your death won't be of waste, it is of high importance because you have provided me with substance." The demon is me says to the robber.
Alas my thirst has been quenched, my fangs and claws retreat for they are of no use. "Monster, monster, someone please help me" screams the battered man. "Monster? Where? I ask with the at most confusion. "you you you killed those men, you bit them and sucked their blood, you are the monster, get away from me" screams the man. I look down and see the bodies of the three robbers, "Did I do this? Did I end their lives? No not possible. I'm no monster" I say out loud.
I then feel something running down from my mouth, "what is this? Wait this is blood, but whose blood? I have no wounds on me" I say to myself. I look at my hands only to see they are covers with blo"I did this, I'm a monster, what have I become?" I scream out with tears in my eyes.
I start running, frightened by the monster I've become. I run as far as my feet can take me. "You tricked me, you turned me into this beast so come see. Damn you, damn you and all the fools that follow you. I will have my vengeance." I scream out into the nothingness of the night.
So this is the cost of immortality, a fate worse than death. I would have been better off burning for eternity. Cursed to feed upon the living, I'm but a shell of my former being. Made a deal with the devil, but I'll be a rabble. Oppose his will and turn his followers to rubble. This I vow, my vengeance starts now.
First things first, if I'm to exact my revenge in daylight I must walk. I must track down and kill one from my flock. This means I must go back home, see the people I haven't seen in five years. Last time I visited I left them all in tears. Brings back memories, memories I tried so hard to supress. Well to hell with them, I've survived on my own for so long. None of them care, my pain none of them have shared.