A Joyless Memory

Chapter 3: Shadows

Blinding, that's what my eyes opened to. The blinding white light of a medic wing. The white walls around me feeling like I was closed in by the threads of silence that left me empty.

"I see you are awake little girl"

My frail body froze to the voice that had just spoken. My small body moving till my eyes fell upon the stranger in the corner. His large lean form tilted gently against the open door to the room I was currently occupying. My eyes wondered over his body from his muscular arms to the wide brimmed hat that casted a shadow over his pastel like face. Even though his face was hidden I could still make out the wide grin with pearly white fangs hanging from the side. His face reminded me of a wolf in a strange way how they looked before they leaped to kill their prey.

"My Master has a strange interest in you, and to be honest so do I" his said tilting his head up showing me his red orbs that felt like a blade piercing my soul. He was a vampire, a legend of myth and a demon to hell. His grin somehow grew wider as if he could smell, taste my fear and was drinking it up savouring it like you would to wine.

He unfolded his arms, slowly taking long strides till he was at my bed side, towering over me and casting a shadow over myself.

He's a vampire Seras, why let such a shadowed creature intimidate you. You are the Queen of death, something unheard of yet something so … Dangerous a voice that was not my own whispered to me, I looked around the room with my eyes but found nothing but white walls and a locked door.

"Who are you taking to" the vampire said with his eyebrow raised in question. I looked at him before looking back at the door, my lips sealed in a thin line of silence. I heard him growl within his throat but payed no attention to it, my only focus was getting out of here and getting out alive. If this was the servant I would hate to meet the master behind the plan.

My silence seemed to aggravate him even more for his hand snatched my chin till I face him, his breath grazing over my face while his lips pulled back into a snarl.

"I believe I asked you a question little girl, I expect an answer" he replied for his voice was ruff and full of venom. I opened my mouth but it was like the words had died in my chest, like I was no longer in control of my body or my voice. I felt a cold chill course through my veins, a darker power gaining control over my mind and the very essence of my soul. I felt my eyes close before once again waking up trapped inside my own mind.

I could see what was happening around me through the small window in my soul. I saw the vampire's shocked face as my eyes opened to reveal only black where blue had been only moments ago.

"And I believe I have no entitlement to give you an answer" I said, only it wasn't myself who said it. But rather a demon who now occupied my body, filling it with darkness an innocent soul should not be opened to. I saw the vampire step back before his hand slipped into his jacket, pulling out a loaded gun. Though this gun was like non I had seen before and I could make out the fine script that was in scripted within it….

The Jackal

It said as the barrel was pointed at me. The vampires grin came back to life but faded as my expression didn't change. His lips pulled back to show me his fangs in dominance and yet my expression still did not change.

"That gun will do you no good, I'm afraid" my demon spoke to him, her voice sharp and playful knowing the gun would not hurt her in the slightest.

"And why is that" he said raising a slender eyebrow up in question. My demon began to purr at the uncertainty on the vampire before her; she began to raise my body till my feet hit the floor before taking slow steps to the door. The gun's barrel moving with her as she walked.

"Because that gun was made to kill vampires, and I am no vampire my dear" she said as I watched in silence. The vampire took a step towards her, his gun never moving as he did so before firing a single shot into my body. I could feel the slightest amount of pain but other than that it was non- existent. I watched in horror as my body began to stich itself back together, only leaving a bloody hole in my clothes.

"Please be more careful next time for this is my mistresses body, and I would hate to get my future Queen angry" my demon purred as the vampires face became emotionless before me.

"Future Queen? Of what" he said his voice becoming darker than most. Some would have ran hearing the threatening tone but my demon was not one to be threated. No she smiled in the face of danger, welcoming it into her grasp.

"The dead" she whispered to hear the whole room go silent, even the vampires master froze at the door hearing those words leave my demons lips.