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Hunched over, I walked inside the dark cave, turning on the flashlight on my phone. There was nothing but puddles inside, and it creeped me out.What if the creature lived in here?I decided I needed to get the hell out of there.
But as I turned to leave, I saw an opening on the other side. My curiosity getting the better of me, I continued walking down the cave and came upon another entrance. It smelled so dewy and gross in here. I went to the end of the cave and peeked through the opening on the other side. My jaw fell open at what I saw.
It was like an entire secret city on this side.
I stood there in awe. There were two giant walls of rocks on either side of me that expanded into another horizon if I continued to walk down this road. I could barely see anything in the night as I shined my flashlight around wildly.
Suddenly I felt a hand clamp over my mouth.
“Stop right there,” said a deep voice.
I struggled against him, trying to step on him and punch him with my elbow. He was like a brick wall as I flailed with panic. He started walking me down the pathway leading to an open area with people roaming about in this secret city. It was dark, but I could make out the figures of tall, slender people walking around in nothing but rags.
The hand on my mouth was ice-cold. He didn’t have a smell or a scent to him either. He released my mouth, and I quickly spun around.
My stomach dropped when I realized he was the same creature I had seen the night I was attacked.
The one and only.
I screamed, trying to run, but he had a firm grasp on my wrist. I opened my eyes to see myself surrounded by ten more of his kind. Cold, pale skin and glowing red eyes in the dark as they leaned in towards me. My screams were attracting more of them to me, like an infestation, and I immediately stopped.
They were here to kill me.
“What the fuck?! Get away,” I screamed, plastering myself against the guy holding my wrist. But instead, they leaned towards me, smelling and sniffing me. One looked like the elder of the pack. “You’re not werewolves.”
“We’re vampires,” he said, and my eyes widened. My worst fears and suspicions came true. I knew I'd seen a vampire the night I was attacked, but I refused to believe until I'd seen him again. They weren’t supposed to exist. Vampires belonged in the fairy tales that teachers read to us in school. They were bloodsuckers of the worst kind, preying especially on omegas, who they deemed precious blood.
The elderly vampire smiled, his yellow fangs visible under the moonlight. He sniffed my neck, and I shuddered. Flashbacks of my attack spun in my brain, and my body went into fight-or-flight mode. My heart leaped in my throat, until the younger man who brought me here stopped him.
“Volgriff, no need for that,” he said, pulling me behind him.
Did he want me instead for himself?I thought wildly.
My breathing was erratic, and my pulse was pounding so hard I thought I might faint. They were actual vampires. They had no scent, had fangs, and their eyes were red of various shades. I focused my gaze on the ground, gripping my phone in my pocket. My phone was the only thing I had on me right now. I didn’t dare dial for help while they watched me closely.
“Move out of the way, young buck,” growled the elder. “We can all have a drink and then dispose of her in the ocean. It’s Shadow Hunt's Fest, and she was just celebrating with her people. The day they massacred thousands of our kind.”
I didn’t know Shadow Hunt's Fest was about that. Growing up, I learned that it was just a celebration of our independence. I shut my eyes, taking a couple of deep breaths. They were ready to kill me. To drink my blood and dispose of my body. No one would ever find me.
“Let us wait until the full moon,” said the younger vampire. I kept my eyes trained on the sandy ground, away from the leering creatures. “It’s only a couple of days away, and I can keep her until then. I’ll make sure she doesn’t go back to her people.”
“Hmm, don't let her escape,” said Volgriff. “And the magic in her blood will be more powerful under the full moon.”
“I’ll make sure she doesn’t escape. You know you can trust me.”
The elderly one sighed. “You have a point there, James. Keep her until then. Everyone step away from the omega.”
I didn’t breathe until they all stepped away from me, breaking the circle around me. When they finally left, I let out a long breath. But now, I was trapped with this vampire, who wasn’t any less dangerous than the others.
James gruffly pulled me along, walking me across the small city. I saw betas crawling on the sand or sitting on rocks with blood running down their necks with vacant expressions on their faces. Like they didn’t know why they were there. They didn’t even look at me as I passed by them.
“Oh god,” I muttered under my breath. I was soon going to be one of them.
We walked towards a small hut that was standing on sturdy wooden stilts. The roof was thatched with straw that fluttered from the night breeze. The entrance was marked with a rotting wood door.
He silently took me into the small hut, which was lit up by a single candle on a wooden table. The walls had wooden planks which looked like it could collapse at any time, and cobwebs decorated the corners. In the middle of the hut was a straw mattress covered in sheets. I took in the small hut in one sweep of my gaze. I tried remembering my steps back to the secret cave to get back home, but we had gone in so many circles, and it was going to be impossible unless I traced my footsteps in the sand, which would disappear by now.
“You will sleep here,” he said, pointing to the bare ground in the living room.
