The Human Bride

Chapter 2

Mikhail ran to his room. He jumped up over his bed to grab the mobile that lied on the top of the set of oak draws, he fumbled with the device. His fingers mover almost mechanically across the mobile phone. He scrolled through the names of everyone he knew to find Natasha's phone number. Mikhail sighed in relief when he saw her name lit up on the screen, with an urgency he clicked on the highlighted number and held the phone up to his ear. The phone began to ring. Once. Twice. It was about to ring a third time when the haggard, but gentle voice came through the speaker

"Mikhail, what have you done this time?" The old lady over the phone asked, Mikhail couldn't help but smile

"Nothing nana" he chuckled

"What do you ring me for? You only every ring when you have gotten yourself into a mess" she stated firmly

"Actually Natasha, I have a girl here" he licked his lips before he continued "she has an abnormally high percentage of RH228, she needs training and I have looked after the girl most of her life and I only trust you to train her and keep her alive. I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important. Would you take her in nana?"

Natasha was silent for a long time, thinking over what her charge had asked of her

"Mikhail, what was her percentage?" Natasha asked

"84.6%" he replied. A sharp gasp came from the receiver

"Mikhail bring her here straight away, no detours. Do you understand me?"

"Of course nana"

"Mikhail you promise me! Promise me!"

"Nana I promise" Mikhail smiled "I will be there in a few hours nana"

Rosalind sat on Mikhail's bed as he rushed around her, collecting things they needed. He quickly grabbed her hand and pulled her up and clasped her shoulder and then looked over her face. He leaned in and then kissed her forehead and picked up her small body.

"Hold on okay?" Rosalind nodded

Mikhail held on to the small girl. Mikhail slipped almost silently through the halls of the compound. The only thing to be heard was Rosalind's small, shallow breaths.

"Hey! Where are you going with that girl?" A guard shouted. Rosalind's heart plummeted. Mikhail turned and said, "what matter of it is yours?"

The guard paled and stuttered out "no Prince Mikhail" the guard turned around and let the two go. Rosalind looked up at Mikhail confused at the prospected that her only friend was royalty.

"Not now Roz, I will explain when we get there okay?" Rosalind just nodded to tired to argue. They were off into the woods.

Once Mikhail and Rosalind reached the edge of the forest he placed the tired 14-year-old girl on the floor. Rosalind gently rubbed her eyes with her pale freaked hands and yawned. Mikhail just stood and stareing at her deep in thought. After he let out a deep sigh, he offered his hand out for Rosalind to take, she looked up at him and gave him a lazy smile whilst slipping her small hands into his seemingly huge ones. They began to walk away from the dark, soulless woods and toward the small flickering of street lights.

“Mikhail” Rosalind said quietly, he replied with a small hum “who is Natasha?” Mikhail look down at her and smiled “Natasha is one of the very few female vampires left in existence” a sad look flashed over the vampires face “she was my mother’s best friend, when my mother was alive Natasha helped care for us” Mikhail looked at Rosalind who wore a somber expression “you see when I was a child my mother and Natasha were the only people who I really sore until I was twelve then I met my older brother, the current king, who tried to kill me” Rosalind gasped loudly and Mikhail just laughed “Rosa it’s normal for him to do that. If you think about it, vampire are very in touch with their animal instinct, because he was the oldest and the heir to the kingdom and he thought of me as a threat” Rosalind looked down at the ground trying to understand what Mikhail has told her “anyway, my brother and I became really close and we still are incredibly close but when my mother died of the illness that wiped out nearly all of the female vampire my father broke because my mother was his beloved” Rosalind eyes widened

“Mikhail, what is a beloved?” She asked dumbfounded

“A beloved is a person who completes the other half of a vampire, like a werewolf’s mate almost however it is so much more than that” he replied with a wide grin

“Mikhail do you have a beloved?” She asked with a blush that’s coloured her face a deep pink. Mikhail bellowed with laughter

“Is it that obvious?” Rosalind just nodded “His name is Noah he’s not much older than you, he lives with Natasha so you will meet him, well enough talking we need to get to Natasha’s home before dawn”

The two walked of into the dark of the early morning smiling as they went.