Black Rose Curse!

Who is after me?

While I slept Darek spoke with Elder Mike and Richard about what I told him earlier in the night. I was laying in bed and couldn't sleep so I listened to the discussion that they were having.

"So 'Ria said that when she feels like she is being followed; she feels like she is envolped with this softness but to where its suffucating her. Then she feels pricks like thorns are pressing into her back." Darek explained to them.

"She says that she feels pricks along her back?" Richard asked.

"Yes."

"Hmm on Viktor and Trisha there was wounds on their back like they were pricked by huge thorns along their back. So what I am getting from this is that its like a rose following then and envolping them with its soft petals and the thorns from the stem is sticking into their backs. Mike does that sound the same to you?"

"It does but I don't understand how that could be. Maybe we should test the drinks that we still have from Viktor to see it they contain some form of flower or rose?" Mike agreed.

"I will do that tomorrow. Maybe we can ask Maria to look through the library or the private section of their books or diary's that might contain more information from them that they didn't tell us before." Richard suggested. I am guessing that they nodded in agreement because the next thing that I hear was Elder Mike leave for the counsil housing.

I finally fell asleep shortly after I heard Elder Richard and Darek went to bed. The whole night I was getting nightmares of my dad and mom dieing in front of me. Seeing a huge rose capture them in its petals and hugging them into their thorns. I have seen vampires die by sunlight, stakes, and other things but I have never heard of a rose killing people. I woke up multiple times gasping for air because of how scared I was. I was thankful my little sister wouldn't go through this, but if she wasn't home tonight who was after me?

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Now back in the present.

Back to what I am doing now. I spoke with Richard and Mike about looking into the books and diarys that my mom and dad had kept. I have been looking through these every night since I inherited the library five years ago. There was so many transcripts from the family over the years; so I started there in case there was a chance that this had happened at any point before most of our clan passed from hunters, witches, or personal reasons.

My grandpa who lived for two-thousand years before he passed. He wrote of a witch clan that had found different types of poison that could be used to kill vampires. He had a few written down that he had gotten from someone that was close to the clan. I have been looking through his notes but I still didn't know who his informent was. Elder Richard was coming over to look through them too. I was closing up the library while I was messaging Mary to see how she was doing. She had just graduated the year before and I was invited. Thankfully it was indoors so I was able to attend.

Mary had been working really well at her job that she got in the human world. She was a scientist that worked in a lab to find cures for different deseases. She was really good and was going to college for that same subject. She was also looking more into her family that was on her dads side of the family and on mom side. She sometimes sends me some findings that she finds about her dad so I could look more in depth on his history.

*Hay Mary how is everything going*

*Its going ok. I just got off work. I have some things to do tonight so I will talk to you later. Thanks for checking in 'Ria* She replied to my message so I left her alone as usual. She was a private person and never spoke to much but we were on better terms after Mom died.

I have found out some about her Dad. His name was Jamel Donner; he grew up in the area that mom and him lived in. They had Mary late in their marriage. Though I can't find too much about his past; this worried me about the whole situation about Jamel. I had a friend that worked in the archives of the town and had her working on trying to find him in there. She was supposed to be getting back to me soon about her findings.

I was getting blood warmed up for Elder Richard in my small kitchenet and setting up everything I had digged up on my dad and my grandfather. By the time that the blood was warmed up I started feeling off. I was feeling the softness and the prickles. The pricks had gotten worse and I have noticed on my back bruising from something pushing on my back. I was really getting scared about the situation. Richard walked in while I was leaning on the table trying to catch my breath.

"Maria are you ok?" he asked as he rushed to help me set down. He raised the back of my shirt to see how my back was. New black and blue bruises were back. He checked my wrist and my veins were getting darker. It had been a month since I had had an episode with the curse.

"Im ok now. Thanks for helping me. Try and get my mind off the pain by telling me how Darek is doing?" I smiled up at him.

He rubbed my back a little bit to ease the pain in my back. " Darek is doing well. He has finished his schooling and talking about coming back soon. He has asked about you. I have told him small updates but I know that you don't want him to know too much. He was worried about you because you had pushed him to go to school instead of staying here with you."

"Richard I know how you feel about that I really do and I do love him very much but I am scared. If I fall in love with him and I loose this battle it will kill him. Now can we please get to looking at these manuscripts?" I asked guestering to the paperwork that was on the table.

"Of course we can" he replied as he set down with his drink and looked into the paperwork. He had his own paperwork to compare with what I had.

We went through the manuscripts and writings of my grandfather. I was reading them and I seen a name that shocked me. Jameliah Mikel Donner. What in the world was going on? Jamel, could it be Mary's father, but how could that be. These manuscripts were made two-thousand years ago. I went back into the study that had more writings from that time period.

"Richard?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you know this Jameliah Donner?"

"I do remember that name. He was apart of the witch clan that your grandfather had an informant in. He had a family in this area and I believe later in the generations he had a grandson by the name Jamel that was named after him. We looked into him because he was married to your mother, but in records he was dead."

I looked up at him in shock. Jamel is Mary's dad and he was in the witch clan that practiced spells and other ways to poison vampires to kill them. "Richard that is Mary's dad. I told you that I was very wary about Mary when dad died. She was the one handling drinks and supplies for the meeting that he was in. Is Jamel really dead? Do you know if they ever found his body?" I asked Richard as he looked at me then back at the papers. We set there looking through the papers and more and more the witch clan came up. Who the Hell was coming after my family and me?