Twisted Fate

One cool clear night there was a full blood moon and there is a legend about the blood moon. The legend states that the coming of the full blood moon indicates that the course of the world will be forever altered. The night of the full blood moon was when the small little village of Braedon was attacked by something that was stronger than any human. About five years before the night of the full blood moon night the town of Braedon was awaiting news about the mayor’s first born child. Mayor Lorcan was waiting outside the room where his wife Jevera was while she was giving birth to their child. As soon as Lorcan heard the wailes of his first born he was so filled with joy and when the midwife came out and said that it was a healthy beautiful baby girl, Lorcan rushed into the room to see his wife and newborn daughter. Once he saw his daughter he couldn’t believe that Jevera gave him such a precious jewel.  Protect her my love. Those were the last words that Jevera had said to Lorcan. As soon as Jevera said that Lorcan looked at her and he saw that the light was fading from her eyes and she slowly passed from the world of the living to the world of spirits. Lorcan gave his daughter to the midwife and went over to Jevera and he kissed her forehead and held her as she passed on. A while later Mayor Lorcan then remembered that the entire village was awaiting to hear the news of his first born child. He went over to the balcony and looked out upon his people. My people, I have a newborn daughter and her name is Avira. The people of Braedon all cheered and applauded the birth of the Mayor’s first born daughter. Lorcan walked back over to his wife and looked down at her and he made a solemn vow to his wife that night.  My love Jevera, I, Lorcan hereby vow upon my soul that should I break it I will never be reunited with you. I will protect our daughter till the day that I die and I will make sure that she knows how much you loved her. I will see you again one day my love. As the next few years passed Avira grew up and she was so curious as to what the world would hold in store for her. Lorcan made sure to tell Avira all about her mother and how she passed on the night she was born. Even though she lost her mother the night that she was born she still could feel that her mother was watching over her. The fifth year on the night of her birthday there was a full blood moon. While the village of Braedon was celebrating the birthday of Avira, just north of the village waiting just beyond the treeline was something that the village wouldn’t expect. All the people that were waiting in the tree line looked towards the leader and when they were given the signal to move in they did so with incredible speed.  The village people brought Avira forward to where her father was standing and when she saw the cake she had the biggest smile (well the biggest a five year old could do) on her face. Just before she could blow out the candles her father saw people rushing into the village and when he saw them jump on the village people, he knew that he had to get Avira out of there. As Lorcan was trying to get his daughter to safety, they were tackled but the leader stopped the people from attacking. He walked over and when he saw the look on Avira’s little face he smiled down at her. She crawled backwards and up against one of the buildings. The leader could see all of his people thirst for the little girl’s blood.  Listen to me, my people.  All of the people that came rushing into the village looked to their leader immediately. That girl is not to be harmed. Anywho harm her will have to deal with me. She is mine. Do I make myself clear?! Yes Mi’lord. Avira was not even listening and when she saw the one that had a hold of her father smirking at her, she had a horrible gut feeling. The person who had her father then sank her teeth into his neck, ripping it out and drinking his blood. Avira let out a blood curdling scream and then got to her feet and ran. The leader looked to see what happened that made the girl scream and when he saw that his sister had ripped out the guy’s throat who he believes to be her father he understood. He looked to where the girl was standing and saw that she was gone. He then looked back to where his sister was and saw that she was gone as well.  Avira was running through the forest when suddenly she felt two pin-pricks in her neck. She looked out of the corner of her eye and saw that the same person who had ripped out her father’s throat had her teeth in her neck. Avira fell to the ground and she felt a sharp stick poke her. She grabbed a hold of it and when the girl let her go, Avira whirled around and plunged the stick into the girl’s chest. Avira looked up and saw that more of them were coming so she turned and ran. The leader walked up to his sister and he smiled at the fact that Avira had done that to his sister. His sister looked up at him and she could tell that he wasn’t happy with her for what she must’ve done. What did you do Morella? I bit her and injected my venom into her. She will turn in a month's time. Was she the one who did this to you? No, I just decided to stab myself in the chest with a sharp wooden stake. Of course she did it to me, Dmitri.  Dmitri wasn’t very pleased to hear that his sister had turned Avira when she was only five years old. Avira was in for a hell of a hard life because of the fact that being turned and dealing with the hunger that comes from being what they are isn't easy and it will be especially difficult for a five year old. Dmitri knew that he was gonna need to find her and help her. He was going to have to deal with his sister for disobeying his orders. Morella knew what her brother was going to do. Dmitri walked over to her and he took the wooden stake and put it right above her heart and drove it into her heart.  The second that the stake hit her heart, Morella’s veins started to go black because of the fact that her heart wasn’t beating. Dmitri held his sister as her life left her. Avira didn’t stop running till she couldn’t run anymore and even then she still walked. A couple that were passing by on a carriage saw Avira and stopped. The man went over to her and saw that she was bitten by something. He tried speaking to her.  Sweetie, what is your name? V...Avira Darkmoore. Where do you live honey? I..I...I don’t have a home anymore. Where is your family? The...they’re dead. Oh my dear, please come with us. We are going to our village of Tregaron. We can figure out how to help you there.  T..T..T.Thank Y...Y...Y...You. Of course my dear here let me help you on the carriage.  The man went over to the carriage and helped Avira onto the carriage and got back up on it and took the reins. The man’s wife got a blanket and put it over Avira.  My name is Sithandra and my husband’s name is Malachi. Sithandra saw that Avira slouched to the very back of the carriage and didn’t say anything the whole way to Tregaron. Once Malachi stopped the carriage there was a gentleman standing and waiting for them. As soon as the gentleman saw Malachi and Sithandra, he went over to them. Malachi helped Avira out of the carriage. The gentlemen stopped and sniffed the air when he saw the little girl. He went over to them. Good evening Malachi, Sithandra. To whom do we have here? Good evening Mayor. This is Avira Darkmoore. Hello Avira, how are you doing this evening? I...I’m  f...fine mr. Mayor. Oh please call me Treznor. Where are you from Avira? I’m f...from (sniffs) Braedon Mayor Treznor. Hey it’s ok did something happen? Her Village was attacked and only she survived. She watched as her father was brutally attacked and killed. Oh...Avira I’m so sorry. It is fine Mr. Treznor. Who was your father? My father (sniffling) was...(sniffs) Mayor Lorcan. Mayor Lorcan was your father? Yes mr. Mayor.  I’m sorry to hear that he has passed but at least he is with your mother. Yeah.  Mayor Treznor I would like to take Avira to the house so she can rest. Of course she has had a trying day. I will not delay her from her much needed sleep. Avira I will be stopping by to check on you from time to time. Thank you Mayor Treznor. Sithandra took Avira into the house and showed her to the bathroom so she could take a bath and get cleaned up. While she was in the bath, Sithandra was in the kitchen making something for them all to eat. While the girls were inside, Mayor Treznor and Malachi were outside speaking. How could such a tragedy befall such a young and innocent girl? I do not know. I just hope that she finds solace in her life. She lost her mother the day that she was born and now to have her father taken away from her on her birthday.  Mayor, how do you know her family? The Darkmoore’s are a noble family and they believe in justice and fairness. I know this because I met Lorcan and Jevera Darkmoore once a long time ago. Malachi I want you to look after Avira. She is now the last of the Darkmoore bloodline and must be protected.  I will do just that, Mayor Treznor. Oh, would you like to have dinner with us? I think the more that Avira is around people the more that she will open up and explain what happened to her village. I would love to. Mayor Treznor and Malachi headed into the house and the moment that they walked into the house they couldn’t believe the smell in the house. Malachi saw that Sithandra was cooking and Avira took it upon herself to set the table. The moment that Avira saw that Mayor Treznor was going to be having dinner with them she set another place setting for him. Sithandra came in with dinner and everyone took a seat at the table. After grace was said, everyone dug in. During the whole dinner, Avira didn’t say a word to anyone. Once everyone was done, Avira collected everyone’s plates and took them into the kitchen. Mayor Treznor and Malachi went into the study, Sithandra wanted to help Avira but she wouldn’t allow Sithandra to and sent her to the couch with a glass of water.  Avira was finishing up in the kitchen and when she saw that Mayor Treznor hadn't left yet, she grabbed two cups and poured some bourbon in it. Once she had done that she took the two glasses to the door of the study and knocked. Once she heard a ‘come in’ she went in and handed the gentlemen the glasses of bourbon and then bid everyone a goodnight and went into the room that she was shown by Sithandra. Once Avira was upstairs, Sithandra went into the study and had a discussion with the gentlemen about what they were going to do about Avira. Is she asleep? Yes she has finally fallen asleep. Mayor Treznor, what do you know about Braedon? It is a little village like ours but theirs is just north of the forest. They are a self reliant village that would sooner tell the city to go screw themselves than have the help of the city itself.  Mayor, did you sense anything different about Avira? No, I smelled the air when I first saw her and I could tell that she was attacked by something and it wasn’t exactly friendly. She also had the scent of fear and shock going through her system. I don’t know what happened but I am sure I will find out. What are we to do with Avira? What do you mean what are we to do? Honey, you know that we can’t raise her. She is just a little girl who just lost everything and now you want to send her out all alone to face the harsh world by herself. All of a sudden there was a loud smash and all of them went up to the room where Avira was staying. The window was smashed and she was nowhere to be found. Sithandra looked at Malachi with a vicious scowl on her face. Malachi then realized that Avira had heard every single word that he had said and took off. Mayor Treznor then shifted into a werewolf and went after her. He caught her scent just at the edge of town and saw that she was walking alongside the river. He didn’t want to scare her but he knew that if he wanted to explain things to her that she was going to need to keep an open mind.  He ran over to her and he tried to get her to go back to the house to where she was just at but she wasn’t going to do what he wanted. He decided to shift in front of her. As Avira was walking she heard bones begin to c***k and break and reform. She didn’t know where it was coming from until she looked at the huge wolf that was in front of her. Her eyes glued themselves to the animal that was transforming right in front of her. Once cracking, breaking and tearing was done, there stood Mayor Treznor where the huge wolf was standing just minutes ago.  As Mayor Treznor looked at her, she was blinking repeatedly trying to comprehend what she had just seen. Her mind decided that it was enough and went into a defense mechanism and her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she started swaying from left to right and then she was out. Treznor saw that she was going down so he ran over to her and caught her before she even touched the ground. He looked at her and he picked her up and took her back to Malachi and Sithandra house. Once there, Sithandra ran over and took Avira from Treznor and took her back to the room. Mayor Treznor told Malachi that he would check in on her frequently.  The next morning when Avira awakened she had a headache and she had to figure out if she saw what she actually saw or if that was just some delusion that her mind had drawn up to explain the events of the last twenty-four hours. That night she had hoped and prayed that nothing she saw was real and that her father was downstairs waiting for her. The moment she went downstairs she realized that she wasn’t hallucinating and that she had actually seen what she had seen. Mayor Treznor was there when she went down to the table and she knew that she was in for the talk of a lifetime to which she just hoped that she could get out of. She acted as though nothing happened last night and she hoped that they would catch on and do it to and to her satisfaction they did.Treznor decided that he wanted to speak to her. Avira, may I speak with you in private please? Of course Mayor Treznor. After Avira said that she and Mayor Treznor went into Malachi’s study. They sat down and for a few there was an uncomfortable silence between them. Mayor Treznor was the first one to speak. How are you doing? I’m doing well, thank you. Avira, I want to talk to you about what happened in your village. If that will be alright? I understand that is a sore subject for you but it will help me in discerning what happened. It is fine. I understood the moment you asked. Just as the full blood moon rose into the sky, the village was celebrating my birthday. When I was up by my father to blow out my candles that is when things took a turn for the worst.  What do you mean Avira? What I mean is that is when a whole bunch of people came running out of the woods and jumped on the village people. It wasn’t until my father saw the people rip into the villager’s throats that he had to get me out of there. As we were trying to get out of there, my father was tackled and when the leader saw me he stopped the people from attacking me. He tried to come closer to me but I backed away and while the leader was talking I looked to the one that had my father. She gave me an evil smirk and ripped into my father’s throat right in front of me. I screamed so loud and then I took off running. While I was running I suddenly fell to the ground and felt pin pricks in my neck. I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw that the one that had murdered my father had her teeth embedded into my neck.  What did you do? When I felt something sharp poking into my side I looked to see what it was and when I saw that it was a sharp stick, I grabbed it and when she let me go I whirled around and drove the stick into her chest. I didn’t wait to confirm if she was dead or not for the fact that more of them were coming. Once I saw that more were coming I turned the other way and ran and that is when I met Malachi and Sithandra. Avira, may I take a look at the wound on your neck? Sure. After Avira said that he could look at the bite mark on her neck, he stood up and went behind her. He pushed her hair out of the way and took off the bandage. As soon as he saw that the bite mark was gone he knew that she was going to turn in just a month's time. He put the bandage back on and went back to sit down. Avira looked at him curiously and then she stood up and went out of the house to go do something. As soon as she was out of the house, Mayor Treznor called Sithandra and Malachi into the study to speak with them. I have some bad news. What is Mayor Treznor? Avira is going to turn into a vampire in just a month's time. How do you know? I asked to see the wound and when I did it was gone as if it had healed. Now you both know that a human can’t heal that fast. No, a human can’t but either a vampire or a werewolf can. Well from what she had told me about what happened in her village. A large group of vampires attacked her village and what is worse is that the leader took an interest in her. Now there is only one vampire that I know that could amass such a force. Dmitri? Yes, now he is going to be looking for Avira but he isn’t going to find her because we are going to protect her. Who is Dmitri? Avira was walking down the stairs and she heard them talking about her and she went into the room. At the sound of Avira’s voice, everyone tensed up and looked at her. How long have you been standing there? Long enough to hear everything you said. Take her to her room and keep her there.  Don’t bother. Mayor Treznor looked to Malachi and Sithandra and they all looked to Avira. She went up to the room that she was staying in and didn’t come down for the rest of the day. When it was dinner time, Sithandra went up and knocked on Avira’s door. When she didn’t get an answer she slowly opened it and saw that she was asleep. Sithandra closed the door and went back downstairs. Is she coming down for dinner? She is sleeping and I don’t want to wake her up. Malachi nodded his head and then sat down and so did Sithandra. After dinner was finished they cleaned up the kitchen and went to bed. Later that night around 2:45 a.m, Avira woke up and packed a bag full of clothes and she threw it out of her window. She then proceeded to escape out of the window. Once she was on the ground, she picked up her bag and took off running. She kept off of the roads and she didn’t make too much noise to avoid getting detected. As the sun began to rise she was no longer in Tregaron but she was almost to the city.  A while later when Sithandra woke up she went to check on Avira and when she opened the door and saw that it was empty she hollered for Malachi. MALACHI!!! Upon hearing her screaming for him, Malachi came running. What is Sithandra? She is gone. Avira is gone. Ok...it is ok...maybe she just left early. Malachi there are no clothes in the dresser or in the closet. She took off. Malachi looked at Sithandra and he could tell that she hated the fact that a five year older was out there all on her own. Malachi had to find her that way Sithandra wouldn’t go all code red psycho on him or anyone else. Malachi knew that he was going to have to explain why Avira is missing to Mayor Treznor when he comes to check on her. As Malachi was in his study awaiting for the moment that is going to be completely scary as all hell, Sithandra walked in with Mayor Treznor not far behind her. With one look from Treznor, Malachi could tell that he wasn’t very happy with the fact that Avira had run away.  Hello Mayor Treznor. What happened? I don’t know mr. Mayor. When did she run away? She wasn’t here this morning, so she must have left anywhere from midnight to 5 in the morning.  Treznor headed back to his house and he was not very happy. That night he turned and went for a run in wolf form. He didn’t like the fact that his friend's daughter was missing. Avira had just arrived in the city and she had to find somewhere to stay. She found herself a place in an abandoned rundown house. She fell asleep and was comfortable. As soon as the full moon came Avira was in for an extremely painful night. That day Avira was experiencing some pain and sensitivity to light, especially the sun. She could withstand the sun, she just couldn’t stand the sun for long. She also got an unquenchable thirst. Everytime she would drink water her thirst would just get worse.  The house where she was staying was a local hot spot for parties and the night of the full moon, her house was under siege by people. During the night of the party, there was an accident that resulted in blood being shed. As soon as the smell of blood hit Avira’s super sensitive sense of smell. Avira had a desire to drink the blood and she found it difficult to control the need to drink human blood. She left the house and went further away to escape the pain. Ten years later she returned to the city and she managed to find a way to control her thirst.  She still hasn’t tasted human blood yet but after ten years of restraining herself she is finding that the need to drink human blood is stronger than ever. One night while she was walking, she came upon a woman being assaulted in an alley and Avira couldn’t allow that to go on. She decided that she was going to put an end to the assault. She went over and grabbed the man and threw him into the wall. She went over to him and knelt down beside him and gave in to her need to drink human blood. As soon as the blood touched her tongue, her fangs protruded and sinked into the assailant’s neck. Her eyes turned from circassion blue to black with a red iris. The woman that was being assaulted ran from the alley. Avira left the assailant there and she went back to the place where she was staying. As soon as she got back to her place, she started to get undressed from the bloody clothes that she was wearing. She first took off her blood soaked vest and put it on the floor. She then proceeded to take off her white crop top shirt which left her in her sports bra. As soon as she had her shirt off she then proceeded to take off the daggers that she had harnessed to her higher thigh. Once she had all of the daggers off of her she then took the butterfly knives out of her boots. Once she had all of the weapons off of her, she sat down on a chair and took off her four inch high heel boots. As soon as she had her boots off she undid her bone chain belt and took off her black leather pants which left her in her black lace underwear. As soon as she was in her sports bra and underwear she walked over to her coffin that she had filled with water.  As soon as she got into the water and once the lid closed everything was cut off. No sound could be heard from within that coffin. The next night when the lid opened she saw everything with new eyes. She could see everything in great definition and vivid colors. Once she stepped out of the coffin, every scar, and every wound that she had ever sustained was healed. She kept to herself mainly and she fed on the blood of those who deserved to die. She kept a low profile and stayed off the radar. Over the years Dmitri was going from town to town searching for Avira. When he got to the town of Tregaron, he could sense that Avira was there  at one time. He searched all around the town searching for her but when he didn’t see her he moved on.