#vampire's tale

Thanks and Credits go to my best friend who actually started this story and which I continued.

In hindsight, I should have known that using that forest road was not a good idea. But still, if I could go back a couple of hours in time, I would do everything in that situation just the same down to every little detail. Or well, maybe all of them. 

I am the son of Aaren Matthias and this is my story. It was quite normal for me to help my father and take his products to the townspeople. In fact, I was a little forced to do as my father wanted me to, because otherwise I got a punishment that would sting me for a long time. I still remember the only time I tried to get my father to take one of my younger siblings as a messenger. He had only coolly asked if I wanted so badly to get rid of my siblings that I would put them in danger in the hills surrounding our city. 

Some of our clients once lived quite far outside the city limits. So I was used to running around town with my dad. One day I had to run a lot more than before because a big party was coming and everyone wanted to celebrate it with the delicacies of the merchant Matthias. The last transports of the day were in my basket in my arms and my feet were cooling down the street as if the fire had been under my tail as I finally wanted to get to rest before the next day’s rush. I had just arrived at the house of our last client on the other side of the forest next to the city at sunset and the lady of the house asked me to stay in the house for the night. She didn’t want to drive me out against the night and explained something about the superstitious beasts lurking in the woods. 

Confident and stupid when I was, I said I would survive a couple of losses, because the trip home would not be as long as the lady imagined in the end. Besides, the losses did not come to the outskirts of the city except in the face of coercion, with the greatest famine compensating for their guts, which usually happened only in mid-winter. Otherwise, they would catch at least some little rodents in their prey. Well the lady reluctantly let me go and when I turned to look behind me for a moment after driving, she was still in the doorway with a lantern in her hand. I waved my hand confidently and continued my journey home. 

However, on the way home, something happened that I could not have expected. I had gotten without a hitch on the road through the forest and set out to walk along it. But as I said at the beginning of the story, I should have avoided the forest road.

The edge of the forest was already visible far in front of me when I heard a peculiar sound. It was as if someone was singing in a quiet voice. There was a special accent in the voice and the words were not insanely clear, but equally all the singing enchanted me so that I turned to go deeper and deeper towards the center of the forest as the singer invoked me irresistibly to her. 

After a little eternity, even though in reality I only walked a couple of hundred meters, I finally reached the edge of the opening through a bushy forest.

 Roughly in the middle of the opening, I saw an absolutely incredibly beautiful young woman standing. 

Her hair was black like ebony and her skin was like white marble. Her old-fashioned clothes only accentuated her grandeur, but there was something on her face that bothered me. It bothered me a lot, even though I couldn't determine the reason for it. 

The woman smiled sadly at me and a desire arose within me to remove the sorrows of this lovely maiden. I approached her cautiously so as not to scare the maiden. As if the mouse could scare the lion, I have to add to my story afterwards.

"Why are you so sad?" I asked the maid. "I'm chained to this opening with witchcraft, and I'll never get out." this answered. These words made me overwhelmed with outrage. Who had declared to be a witch for such a sweet girl forever a prisoner of the forest? "Is there any way to get you free?" I asked. Now afterwards, it’s easy to tell a woman to control my feelings very accurately. “There is a way to get rid of my curse that originally bound me here. I have to drink a couple of oral bloods from the voluntary victim, but who would now consciously agree to turn into a monster?”, the maiden replied, looking up sadly at the ground. 

 I was wary of hearing these words a little backwards, which made the look of the woman even sadder. At the same time, I decided that if the woman’s release didn’t require anything else, then I would be willing to make the sacrifice she asked for. Maybe I should have thought about it more thoroughly, but I’ve always acted a little hastily. Admittedly, I would regret this decision of mine more than others. I stepped a few steps closer and was already a fair arm’s length from the woman. 

 "A few drops of blood is enough?" I asked and the woman raised her head higher in her eyes in disbelief. I still don’t know if it was genuine or fake. “That’s what I was told when I was cursed. Would you be serious about helping me? ” "It's a pretty big price to pay for your freedom, but I see no reason not to do it." I said and took the last steps, coming right in front of the woman. 

 The maiden grabbed my shoulders with both hands and pressed her mouth against my neck. 

I felt a sharp pain and soon after that I started to feel weak. So I wanted to delve into the long-lasting lawn mat, I wanted that woman to be with me for a while longer, even though I knew deep down that she was leaving the open after regaining her freedom. 

I had to go lying on the open lawn, because when I opened my eyes, I noticed I was lying on the ground. Miraculously the pain had completely faded, in fact I no longer felt anything. I didn’t even have the softness of the lawn against my skin, even though I lay on it my entire length. Everything looked very clear to my eyes, as if it had been the brightest day instead of being in the middle of the night. Anyway, my senses seemed to intensify as I heard and smelled my hometown, even though it wasn’t right next door. Instinctively, I wasn’t alone in the square and I turned my gaze a little to my right. There I saw a woman figure who looked sad. 

“I’m so sorry I had to do this to you, but there was no other way to get rid of the curse. Now you, in turn, have to be a prisoner here, only the animals of the forest with you. Unfortunately, you can only be released in the same way as I am, by destroying the life of someone who is helpful. ” 

Having said that, the woman left me alone in the open and instinctively before I heard her leave for my hometown. 

I got up at the same time and rushed after him, but when I reached the edge of the opening I felt like I had run towards a sturdy wall. From where, as a human being, I had been able to pass freely, some force prevented me from passing. The thing was, as he had said. I wouldn’t get out of the open before the help of some bona fide fool. 

 I shouted loudly into my rage, but only the echo responded.