Vampire
of the Gods
Taken from Novel in progress
by
Nick Manix
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Nick Manix
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As he lay on the floor, the life slowly slipping from his body, I chuckled at how I had come
to this point. I held his head in my lap and stroked his hair; all the while keeping my blue eyes
locked with his brown ones. My back was up against one of the many bookcases in his
study and curiosity got the better of me. Using some of my new found powers, I caused a
book to fall before me and open to the very page I sought.
“Cool,” I muttered as my gaze traveled down the many words listed in the dictionary. I
found the word I was looking for and smiled. Looking at the worthless heap before me, I
noticed that he had once again closed his eyes as if to die. “Hey,” I said, slapping the side of
his head. Those brown eyes that I once looked into with so much love and complete abandon
snapped open.
“I’m not done with you yet. Listen to this, Vampire, noun, 1: A reanimated corpse that is
believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people. You’re not
sleeping, are you? Good. Now, 2: A Vampire bat. No bats here, wouldn’t you say?”
He winced. A lone tear began to run down his right cheek, “Ahhh,” I said as if talking to a
child who had just been hurt. I licked his tears as they continued to flow. The salty taste
sweeter than the blood I had been slowly drawing from his neck over the last five hours. But
with dawn approaching, I knew I had to hurry.
“Now I want you to pay close attention because this is about you. 3: A person, such as an
extortionist, who preys upon others. Well,” I said, making the dictionary slam shut and fly
back to its perch, never to be touched by his hands again. “That cleared that up. You know,
I always wondered what the exact definition of that word was. I mean, was it always based
on folk lore and legends or was there actually something as real as a vampire? Now I know.
Well, hell,” I smiled and showed what had become of my teeth, “we’re both vampires. You
had your actions, I have fangs…Boo!” I thought it was funny but I’m sure he didn’t find it
amusing at all.
I noticed that the wounds on his neck had closed. I bent down to rip them open once again.
This is for my dignity you son of a bitch.
I sat up, still holding his head in my lap, turned my head and spat out the blood. It was as vile
as the man I held so close to my now silent heart.
“I know this must totally suck for you and it probably wasn’t the way you thought you
would die but I must say I’m having one hell of a time. Still, it’s much nicer then the way
you got rid of me. Tossing me out of your life in the middle of winter a thousand miles away
from my friends and family was nothing short of a crime. You had everyone fooled. Hell,
you had me fooled and I thought I had been mind fucked by the best. But nope! You had
them all beat.”
The wounds had once again started to close. He was healing fast. I wan't to go deep, but I
couldn’t. I just couldn’t do it.
This is for my pride.
Once again, I didn’t drink a drop. I didn’t want his blood. It wasn’t the need for
nourishment that I was after and I made sure to feed before I sought him out.
“Let me tell you what happened after I left here. God, you know, I never thought I’d come
back to this disgusting city. You know, I could have learned to like this place if you hadn’t
gone and screwed everything up. That’s right you arrogant bastard, you screwed it up. Hey,
arrogant bastard, your initials, A.B.,” I started to pick at his wounds to make sure they kept
bleeding. “Anyway, I left here, and as I waited at the train station freezing my ass off, I
wondered if you would come by, at least to tell me goodbye. Once the conductor yelled out
to get on board, I realized at that very moment, that I was worth a hell of a lot more than
anyone ever gave me credit for. More than I gave myself credit for. So I decided to become
a force to be reckoned with. And I did. Only, I got back to nothing; I tried to start over
again and I busted my ass working long hours for little pay, trying to get back on my feet but
you know what? It never happened. I never fully regained my footing. I never regained my
pride, my dignity…and oh yeah,” I bent down to bite him once again. This time, I spit the
blood back in his face and I held it to mine. Ours noses touched as a fury began to rip
through me; a fury so great that it transcended everything human and natural. The human coil
I’d shed only several nights ago gave way to the monster I had become.
“I never regained my ability to love! Remember what you told me? Do you! You told me
that you saw me as someone who was full of so much love and compassion and that you
saw me as someone who could be easily controlled and manipulated. That you wanted to
make me fall in love with you and hurt me the way you had been hurt. Well tell me this you
Arrogant Bastard! How do you see me now? I sought out the demons of vampire legend that
so many think are only in fairy tales and I made deals with forces I had no idea even existed!
I promised my soul without ever thinking it would really happen and now look at me! LOOK
AT ME!” I shook his head so violently, that I was almost sure it would snap his neck.
Now it was my turn to cry as I ran my hand down his face. The tears were unstoppable
much like the sun whose warmth I could feel slowly creeping over the snowy hills. “Look at
me,” I whispered.
My lips met his. This time, the wound on his neck didn’t close. I pulled back, turned my
head, “You son of a bitch,” I whispered, and slowly twisted his head until one by one, the
bones snapped. I couldn’t even look at him; part out of anger and part out of love.
Love…
I still loved him. But I had made a deal with the one who gave me this gift; the gift of eternal
life. I made a deal and I had completed my part of it, only, where do I go from here? I was
no longer human, but I had to have some part of my former life still left in me. Somewhere
in my soul, there had to be something left.
But as I watched the last drop of blood leave his body, I felt one of my last abilities that made
me human go with it; my mercy.
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to this point. I held his head in my lap and stroked his hair; all the while keeping my blue eyes
locked with his brown ones. My back was up against one of the many bookcases in his
study and curiosity got the better of me. Using some of my new found powers, I caused a
book to fall before me and open to the very page I sought.
“Cool,” I muttered as my gaze traveled down the many words listed in the dictionary. I
found the word I was looking for and smiled. Looking at the worthless heap before me, I
noticed that he had once again closed his eyes as if to die. “Hey,” I said, slapping the side of
his head. Those brown eyes that I once looked into with so much love and complete abandon
snapped open.
“I’m not done with you yet. Listen to this, Vampire, noun, 1: A reanimated corpse that is
believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people. You’re not
sleeping, are you? Good. Now, 2: A Vampire bat. No bats here, wouldn’t you say?”
He winced. A lone tear began to run down his right cheek, “Ahhh,” I said as if talking to a
child who had just been hurt. I licked his tears as they continued to flow. The salty taste
sweeter than the blood I had been slowly drawing from his neck over the last five hours. But
with dawn approaching, I knew I had to hurry.
“Now I want you to pay close attention because this is about you. 3: A person, such as an
extortionist, who preys upon others. Well,” I said, making the dictionary slam shut and fly
back to its perch, never to be touched by his hands again. “That cleared that up. You know,
I always wondered what the exact definition of that word was. I mean, was it always based
on folk lore and legends or was there actually something as real as a vampire? Now I know.
Well, hell,” I smiled and showed what had become of my teeth, “we’re both vampires. You
had your actions, I have fangs…Boo!” I thought it was funny but I’m sure he didn’t find it
amusing at all.
I noticed that the wounds on his neck had closed. I bent down to rip them open once again.
This is for my dignity you son of a bitch.
I sat up, still holding his head in my lap, turned my head and spat out the blood. It was as vile
as the man I held so close to my now silent heart.
“I know this must totally suck for you and it probably wasn’t the way you thought you
would die but I must say I’m having one hell of a time. Still, it’s much nicer then the way
you got rid of me. Tossing me out of your life in the middle of winter a thousand miles away
from my friends and family was nothing short of a crime. You had everyone fooled. Hell,
you had me fooled and I thought I had been mind fucked by the best. But nope! You had
them all beat.”
The wounds had once again started to close. He was healing fast. I wan't to go deep, but I
couldn’t. I just couldn’t do it.
This is for my pride.
Once again, I didn’t drink a drop. I didn’t want his blood. It wasn’t the need for
nourishment that I was after and I made sure to feed before I sought him out.
“Let me tell you what happened after I left here. God, you know, I never thought I’d come
back to this disgusting city. You know, I could have learned to like this place if you hadn’t
gone and screwed everything up. That’s right you arrogant bastard, you screwed it up. Hey,
arrogant bastard, your initials, A.B.,” I started to pick at his wounds to make sure they kept
bleeding. “Anyway, I left here, and as I waited at the train station freezing my ass off, I
wondered if you would come by, at least to tell me goodbye. Once the conductor yelled out
to get on board, I realized at that very moment, that I was worth a hell of a lot more than
anyone ever gave me credit for. More than I gave myself credit for. So I decided to become
a force to be reckoned with. And I did. Only, I got back to nothing; I tried to start over
again and I busted my ass working long hours for little pay, trying to get back on my feet but
you know what? It never happened. I never fully regained my footing. I never regained my
pride, my dignity…and oh yeah,” I bent down to bite him once again. This time, I spit the
blood back in his face and I held it to mine. Ours noses touched as a fury began to rip
through me; a fury so great that it transcended everything human and natural. The human coil
I’d shed only several nights ago gave way to the monster I had become.
“I never regained my ability to love! Remember what you told me? Do you! You told me
that you saw me as someone who was full of so much love and compassion and that you
saw me as someone who could be easily controlled and manipulated. That you wanted to
make me fall in love with you and hurt me the way you had been hurt. Well tell me this you
Arrogant Bastard! How do you see me now? I sought out the demons of vampire legend that
so many think are only in fairy tales and I made deals with forces I had no idea even existed!
I promised my soul without ever thinking it would really happen and now look at me! LOOK
AT ME!” I shook his head so violently, that I was almost sure it would snap his neck.
Now it was my turn to cry as I ran my hand down his face. The tears were unstoppable
much like the sun whose warmth I could feel slowly creeping over the snowy hills. “Look at
me,” I whispered.
My lips met his. This time, the wound on his neck didn’t close. I pulled back, turned my
head, “You son of a bitch,” I whispered, and slowly twisted his head until one by one, the
bones snapped. I couldn’t even look at him; part out of anger and part out of love.
Love…
I still loved him. But I had made a deal with the one who gave me this gift; the gift of eternal
life. I made a deal and I had completed my part of it, only, where do I go from here? I was
no longer human, but I had to have some part of my former life still left in me. Somewhere
in my soul, there had to be something left.
But as I watched the last drop of blood leave his body, I felt one of my last abilities that made
me human go with it; my mercy.
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