Unknown Feeling

Annessa was currently being hunted down by vampires. They could smell her, hear her. But at first she was determined to get away. But unlucky for her she has ended up to a dead end and no where to go. When a vampire decided to help her, her world changes

Annessa hid in the pine tree sheathed in a thick layer of snow, as she closely examined the two vampires remotely. Letting her shimmering, pear green eyes trace their acute stench, which smelled of fetid copper and archaic blood that’s been rotting in the sewer for myriad years.
    “Did you find anything to eat?” one vampire asked.
Her ears perked at the sound of their voices. So velvet, so smooth. That harmonic sound that dares to flow out of their mouths into the facile ears of a human. So inane not to see the lethal words practically dripping from their bottom lip, splashing onto the ground. But who could she blame? That’s why they were made the way they were, to feed off the taintless, innocuous human flesh.
    Annessa shook her head in disgust.
    “Yes, but only a bear, no humans. I do smell something though. Do you?”
Her heart sped up, increasing the her risk of getting fed on. She tried to slow it down; she did, but it would not calm. If anything she’d beg it to stop, for only enough time not to get caught.
    “Yes, I do smell it. It smells of human. Search for it.”
That word.
    It.
She was not an it. She was a person, I simple person in a simple world. Well, almost.
    Annessa knew that if she stayed in that spot, the vampires would find her.
She took a deep, low breath and began to remove herself from the hollow, thorny tree.
    If I weren’t brave, I’d be dead by now, she thought.
Reluctantly, she ran to the nearest hill as silently as possible. It wasn’t as easy as she thought. The snow nearly drowning her feet to where the ground lay below it. The crunching sound didn’t held much either, as it took everything in her not to relinquish into staying here and dying.
    “I’m almost there,” she whispered under her breath.
Yes, she was. Annessa had made a big slipup into coming here. As for her, this little stride was to think within herself, and to solve personal problems, or to clarify many things that have been pestering her.
    But no.
She magically discovered a couple vampires out “possibly” on their hunting trip.
    Oh yes, my life is dandy right now, she thought sarcastically.
As Annessa forced her fingers into a heap of snow, she yanked her body forward, constraining herself up the steep hill.
    She grunted lowly, as she pushed herself over the hill and onto the other side.
She was safe-for now.
    Annessa clenched her eye together tightly, trying to get moisture back in them from the dry, brisk wind. She flexed her muscles forward in her fingers, attempting them to thaw out from the icy snow.
    Her body trembled, as her nose began to run.
    I hope I’m not getting sick.
She ventured a low sniffle, peering around her, taking in her surroundings. Mainly checking for life, or dead life.
    Bloodsuckers.
    
“I think I’m getting closer! The smell of it is getting stronger!”

Annessa’s heart pounded against the thin layer of skin on her body, as they became closer.
    She couldn’t move. The snow would make noise, and it would give her hiding place away, and maybe, just maybe, they wouldn’t find her.
    “Over this way!” the voice said again.
The steps of the vampire were near, and she knew their was no surviving when she was in this situation.
    She was going to die. Not peacefully, but tormenting in a way no human, no mortal pain could compare to. Annessa has not felt the pain before, and pretty sure she’s never felt anything close to it either, but as weak and queasy she was feeling, her brain would not work anymore. She was no longer determined or willing, for she knew there was nothing she could do from preventing herself from dying.
    Annessa cracked her eyelids closer to each other, leaving them slightly opened to see the Earth’s landscape and environment one more time. The massive coat of sleet layered on the ground, the ice frozen on the tips of the thin pine leaves, and finally the frigid, winter air. Just to smell it for one last time.
    She inhaled heavily, as it ran throw her nostrils into her body.
    This was it.
She closed her eyes, as the footsteps came nearer to her. Not exactly by her, but to the point where her smell was much stronger, and insatiable.
    “Get up!” A voice said in front of her.
Her eyes popped opened, starring at the creature in front of her.
    “Vampire,” she whispered.
She backed away, as the vampire’s face was right in hers. It’s one thing for them to drink from her, but another if they want her to go with them. She doesn’t want to be welcomed to where they come from, or wherever the heak that is.
    “Hurry. Before the others find you.”
She shook her hastily back and forth, trying to convince herself to just die. It wasn’t worth it.
    He’d take you, drink from you, and then rape you, she thought.
    
    “Manny! Do you see the human near you?” another voice said.
He gawked down at her swiftly, before looking up to meet the eyes of the other two.
    “No! But I could smell her near the lake!” he shouted.
The two vampires nodded, trekking along to the lake, where he had said she’d be.
    As soon as he could not see them anymore, he gripped Annessa’s waist, throwing her over his shoulder swiftly speeding to a near cave.
    
Annessa was aghast. She wanted to kick, scream and knock his head off his body, but she couldn’t. Her muscles were too limp, her hands numb from the snow, and her eyes to tired to keep opened.
    “Stay awake,” he said shaking her lightly.
Grudgingly, she obeyed, though her eyes were encumbering. So heavy.
    
Manny ambled into the cave, laying Annessa down on the hard ground.
    His heart thumped against his chest as he discovered her eyes were closed.
No.
    He wouldn’t let it happen. He wouldn’t let her die.
Lightly, Manny tapped the side of her flushed cheek, causing her eyes to flinch opened.
    “Vampire….I….got….this,” she said between gasp.
Manny panicked, trying to figure out a way to help her.
    He had never been around a human like this before. It was all very new to him. Sitting up close by one, sniffing them, looking at them. He had just attacked them, not caring about their frantic expression, or their loud, vexatious cries.
    Why did I save her? She isn’t special, he thought.
He should suck her dry now. Now. At this very moment, just to give it over with.
    He would try.
Manny reached over her body, bending her head to the side baring her neck out to him.
    I can do it now.
He revealed his fangs, letting them get closer to the thin skin on her neck. As he got closer, his body urged him to pull away.
    “Why can’t I do it?” he said allowed.
This caused the girl’s eyes to opened. Manny flinched at the sight of them. Illuminant and profound. He peered into them while they held something blithe in them for a few seconds, and suddenly twisted into enmity. Hatred again them.
    “Vampire!” she shrieked finally realizing her ambiance.
He swiftly placed his hand over her mouth feeling the dryness of her lips.
    “Listen, I won’t hurt you. I saved you, and your okay now,” Manny said.

Annessa brought her hands around his wrist and tugged them off, letting them dangle at his sides while he kneeled in front of her.
    “Stay away from me! Your not helping at all. Seriously, why can’t you just get it over with? Just suck me dry. I don’t care,” she said flapping her hands around dramatically.
    The truth is, is that she did care. A lot. Annessa wanted to live, spending her life to finish medical school, become a doctor, get married and have children. She wanted that. She didn’t want to die.
    “I won’t do that to you. Half of the reason is that I can’t,” he said.
Annessa grew wearisome sitting next to a vampire, as if he were talking to her like they had been friends for ever. Telling her bluntly, and truthfully.
    I didn’t need to know that, she thought.
    “Why did you save me?” she wondered allowed.
Once again he bore his eyes into her green ones, letting him travel through her memories and the most crucial things that have happened to her.
    “I don’t know,” he answered honestly, “I really don’t.”

2

Annessa forced herself to stand up, but it wasn’t completely simple. Her legs trembled, sending a draft of frailty through her body, causing her to use her hands for more support.
    Finally, she was standing up straight, not really salutary, but she was standing. Annessa let her eye roam the body of the vampire standing in front of her. His skin was surprisingly a light tan color, while his eyes glowed a vibrant light purple color with a yellow fierce ring around the iris. His muscles barging out his long sleeve, black shirt. The black hair hanging over his forehead, above his eyes was cut perfectly, and seemed like it could have been much longer.
    As handsome as he was, she didn’t want to be anywhere near him. So distant, she can’t even see his face, or detect that he was there. Any of it.
    “I understand you are letting me go, but I can’t expect to be saved by someone every time I’m in trouble. But thank you,” she said showing her gratitude.
    He winced at her apathetic words.
    Oh, but at least I get a thank you, he thought.

He nodded his head showing he understood, as she brushed herself off and turned to walk out of the cave.
    Manny watched as she left, going back to her home.
    I have to lead the others away.
As much as he just wanted to stay there in the little, tenebrous cave, but he had to go and protect her; conveying them away from her.
    He ambled out of the cavern, and scurried to the nearby lake they had roamed to.
Manny appeared there seconds later, peering around for them.  
    “Cassia? Tainn?” he shouted.
His voice echoed into the mute, nippy air.
    “Yes, we are here,” Cassia said.
He recognized her voice instantly, turning around to meet her tall, fine figure. Cassia’s dark, Venetian red lips tilted to the side, revealing a smirk. Her hair flowed down to the middle of her back, dark brown with bright teal highlights at the fringe of her bangs. Her skin pale, unlike Manny’s, and her mien much more fatal then his. But she meant everything to him.
    “Where’s Tainn?” he asked.
Seconds later, Tainn was in front of them blurring as she ran.
    “Present!”
Tainn had a athletic, spry figure, the models of Vogue magazine would envy. Her blond hair was cut to a short bob with a shade darker of highlights. Her dark, golden eyes shimmered with glee, and her attitude always precise at the right time.
    But for this moment, instead of her white, gleaming smile, blood stained her teeth from former grub. All of them were used to it, besides it would fade away in her saliva anyways.
    “You guys can go back to the house, I still need to seek food,” he said.
They nodded, while Cassia quickly pecked him on the lips, and went back to their house.

~

Annessa lye on her bed in her condo, wrapping herself in thick blankets defrosting under the heavy silk.
    Her bones ached while she snuggled deeper into the mattress.
As her eyes closed, she started to drift off to sleep when her phone rang. Annessa’s favorite tune played as someone was calling her.
    She groaned, reaching over to grab it off the nightstand.
She flipped open her phone and slowly brought it to her ear.
    “Hello?” her raspy voice whispered.
    “Annessa! Oh thank goodness Annessa, your okay!” her boss yelled.
    “Yes, I am fine. Is there a reason you are calling me?” she added.
A loud sigh came through the phone, signaling she was either tired or really pissed.
    “We are busy, and I need you to come into work today,” she said.
As much as Annessa wanted to release her wrath onto her boss, she couldn’t
    She moved the phone away, as she breathed heavily with anger, biting her lip to keep from screaming.
    She wanted to sleep, to get up and have a new day with a new start, but then this happens.
    “Okay, I’m coming in,” she said moving the phone back to her mouth.
Annessa could see her smiling smugly over the phone, as she spoke her last few words.
    “Alright, I’ll see you at work.”
Without any other words, she flipped her phone closed, and removed the blankets away from her body.
    She was going to work.

3

    “You don’t honestly believe that stupid story do you?” Cassia spoke flipping through the Book of  Nonce. “Besides, it says nothing about it in here anyway.”    
    Tainn straightened her posture from her uncomfortable slouch, and let her eyes narrow to the Book.
    “Well, I think it’s legit. Plus, who would take time and sit there to tell lies, and let it be passed down for eons. I doubt no one really waste their time on that stuff.”
    Tainn continued to stare at the blank television, while placing a popcorn kernel in her mouth, situating them between her molars and crunching down separating it into a thousand tiny pieces. Cassia glared at her for her lack of noise, considering she was trying to read an extremely significant story, maybe oracle but no one really cared to know - yet.
    A few minutes later, Tainn’s beautiful, golden eyes were replaced with a shady indigo, signaling her want for sleep. She closed them, everything turning silent, including Cassia’s page flipping.
    Minutes into resting, a sonorous crash came from the other room of the house, causing Cassia to immediately stand up heading towards it. Her reflexes were subtle and hasty as she scurried there. Her heart pounded deep within herself, as she turned the door knob to enter the vacant, putrid room.
     When she found out who had burst into their home, her heart ceased completely.
    “Nile!” Cassia exclaimed bowing her head immediately.
Nile Caust stood there, his head held high and his body brawn and perpetual. He maintained short hair, light and brown formed into a buzz cut. His muscles abnormally massive, and his face square and supremely chiseled.
    “Cassia! Have you found another vassal? This place is filthy, and it smells of demoded blood! What have the three of you been doing? Don’t you want to come back to live with us?” Nile said.
    Frustrated and drowsy, Cassia shook her head.
    “No. We would like to be on our own. We understand we will have to come back to the manor someday but it will not be soon, sir. Not to be impertinent, but Nile, what are you doing here?” she asked bluntly.
    His smug he had came there with suddenly disappeared, turning into a scowl.  Nile reached into his pocket and pulled out a picture. It held a small water stain on the side, and a brown tint followed over it, as if it were primitive.
    “Have you seen this girl?” he said holding the picture to Cassia’s face.
The girl had long dark, brown hair and pear green eyes that could glow in the pitch darkness. Her face was shaped superbly. Her body was thin, and laudable.
    “No sir, I haven’t. Why? Is she relevant?”
He tucked it back into his pocket, leaning into her.
    “You will find her soon, and you will bring her to me. Do you understand?” he questioned.
She nodded, as he turned to leave back to his manor.
    I wonder what’s so special about her, she thought.

~

Annessa sunk into the deep, tepid water of the porcelain tub, letting her nose go below the water’s surface resting there until she can’t hold her breath any longer.
    For Annessa, it felt good to be compacted by the heat after being out in the cold winter air. She felt insouciant, and that’s all that mattered to her right now.
    A low creak made Annessa eyes open, and stare at the bathroom door in horror.
    Is somebody in here? She thought
She stood up from the warm water, wrapping herself in a white towel that was currently hanging over the shower pole. Her eyes were on the brink of tears, scarred for her life.
    I don’t have any family! And especially not any pets!, she apprehended.
Annessa grabbed a thick, black pony-tail from off her granite bathroom counters and threw her hair in a bun hastily, trying to observe what was out there - fast.
    She doubted someone would be there, so no weapons were needed, besides she could not find any near her.
    Her feet trudged along the floor, letting a low screech run through the house from her dry feet.
Annessa walked through every room, every closet, every single inch of her condo and found nothing.
    Nothing.
Going back to the bathroom, she snatched a little towel from out her cupboard, displaying it onto her bathroom countertops.
    She went to the bathwater, to let it down the drain and turned back to the mirror, grabbing the small towel to wipe of the dew currently staining it.
    As she wiped, she focused her attention on the shower drain hoping for it not to pump the water slowly.
    “Damn, drain,” she murmured allowed.
Before turning back to see herself in the clear mirror, a hand covered her mouth forcefully.
     Annessa’s heart began to beat faster, while her eyes were the size of coconuts.
Her hands latched onto the arms of the thief, trying to pry them off.
    She screamed into the rough hands of the man.
    “Shut up!” he said pushing her body against the white, stiff wall.
    
    “What do you want?” she managed to say throw his sinewy hands.
    “Tell me - tell me about the vampire you met today!” he spat.
Annessa’s mind was in a trance. Honestly, she couldn’t remember one bit, but if it meant lying, that’s what she would do. “And don’t lie, because if you do there’s no telling how I can get the information.”    
    He drew closer to her body, while silent tears flooded down her cheeks.
    “I don’t remember,” she murmured.
He laughed wickedly, bending her head to the side unveiling her pulsing neck. She screeched, as his hand still held her mouth.
    Then, he bit.
Her eyes were wide opened, surprised at how painful the bite was. It sent waves of paroxysm and shock through her, while she was not able to move. She stood there, the pain so intense, it wasn’t even worth screaming.
    She felt tingling come from her lower body, signaling that she  was loosing blood, and very quickly.
    Reluctantly, the vampire stopped feeding, throwing her body into the bathtub, while the water continued to drain slowly.
    Annessa lye in the uncomfortable position while the water turned a hue of red from her blood.
Dark, black spots started taking her vision, and a few seconds later she swooned.


4
    
    “This is the plan,” Cassia trailed on “We need to find this girl soon. Nile said bring her to him, so that’s what we have to do,” she said.
    Manny nodded sleepily, and Tainn seemed to be engrossed in the conversation.
    “Description?” Tainn asked.    
    “Long dark, brown hair, skinny, and light green eyes,” she said.
Manny shot out of his daydream, and was startled at the girl she was describing.
    He listened into the conversation from that point, hearkening the plans, the ambushes, the tracing.
Manny hoped it not to be her, because an unknown feeling has came  across him dealing with her, and he loved Cassia. Although, he still had to repeat that to himself.
    But he did love her. Everything, and nothing would change that.
    “Where do we find her?” he said.
Manny was surprised to hear that come from his mouth, he truly was. He wasn’t supposed to care, but it was for Nile. If he wanted to be a part of this, he had to act attentive and negligent all at once. And they didn’t need to know.
    “Good question. Nile didn’t say, but obviously she is close,” Cassia said.
    “Did he give you a scent?” Tainn questioned.
Cassia and Manny shot Tainn a moronic look.
    “Are you serious? We aren’t werewolves, Tainn! You know what? Nile should’ve done this. He’s a werewolf! He can sniff! We might have a more definite sense of smell, but that doesn’t mean we can detect only her. We sniff all humans! Am I right?” Cassia fumed.
    Tainn shrugged carelessly.
    “I don’t know. I mean, there must be a reason he wants us to do it.”
Cassia starred ahead of her, pondering deeply.
    “What about you, Manny? Do you think we should get Nile to do it?”
The first word Manny wanted to say was No!, but he knew that if he did, he’d give everything away.
    He starred at her, faking to think. He knew his answer.
    “No. We shouldn’t abdicate so conveniently. We are adamant and shrewd. The last thing we need to do is give Nile our victory. We find her, we compromise. We get what we want, and hand her over to him.” The lies spilled through his mouth like the River Flow, and Cassia and Tainn were shocked by his omnipotent, inspirational words.
    After a few seconds of silence, Tainn spoke.
    “He’s right! We are strong! And besides, I’ve always wanted my own house!” Tainn said, turning her fierce attitude, into a new, joyful one.
    Cassia scoffed, starring at Tainn inanely, while Manny sat there smiling.
    “No, you dimwit! We could have power, a royal status in the BlueBlood Shadow Counsel!” she said wickedly “Meeting the King and Queen! Finally seeing Prince Vance!” she trailed on.
    Manny cleared his throat noisily, placing sense back into her head.
    “Why do you care about that sort of stuff? We have money, and eminence. Why do you want more?” Tainn spat.
    “By eminence are you talking about all the attention your dumb clowns give you! You never think about anything other then being blissful and enthusiastic! Ever since you’ve became my friend, you think about other people, and not yourself! And- and you almost died from anorexia, because you were afraid to feed off of animals! Do you hear me? A human disease! You believed that they deserved to have a life to! Yeah, they do but we have to feed! We have to survive! But my point is, is that you have to think about something other then happiness for others!”
    Tainn was on the brink of tears. Not because she of how stricken she was but how raging she is.
    “You selfish, ineffectual witch! You know what? Since you want to be in the spotlight so badly, then you can do it by yourself! Manny and I can do it alone! Right Manny?” she asked.
     Manny was stricken by the outburst. He felt as though Tainn was right, but Cassia is his girlfriend. How could he pick? He has to choose between the person who is right or the person who he loves. But he choose to pick none.
    “I don’t want to pick sides, so I’m on my own. And Cassia…” He looked over to Cassia, who had tears in her glassy eyes. “You’re not the person I thought you were. You’re greedy and selfish, and all you want is people to bow down to your toes and kiss them. And Tainn…You were a good friend, but it looks like we are all in split teams now,” he said rubbing his eyes.
    Manny was to tired to care that he just left his love, and his group. All he wanted to do was be  alone.
    “You a*****e!” she shouted.
Manny neglected her foolish comment, and went for the door.
    “I’ll be back to come and get my stuff tomorrow,” he said.
And after those words, he left and went to search for the girl.

~

Annessa opened her eyes, and couldn’t move one bit.
    She peered around her surroundings and gasped in horror.
Bloody water remained in the deep creases of her body, as her legs swooped over the bathtub, and her body pressed against the hard wall.
    “What happened?” she murmured to herself.
    It looks like someone died in here.
As she got out of the tub, her body stung with pain, and she had no memory of what happened the night before.
    Did I get robbed? Did someone get murdered?  
A bunch of thoughts ran through her mind and she scanned her house for anymore blood or missing necessities.
    “Anny! Anny!” A voice called.
Annessa jumped, later recognizing the voice she heard was her best friend, Jada.
    She scurried into the room, wrapping a towel around her loose body while making her way there.
Jada stood in her doorway, her black hair hanging above her chest, her bright grey eyes starring frantically at Annessa.
    “Annessa! W-What happened to you?” she said getting closer.
Annessa wasn’t aware of it before, but blood stained her white towel from her body. Her hair pervaded in it, and her body dripping with the red juice.
    “I - I don’t remember,” she said.
Her pupils became elliptic, while she starred ahead trying to recap what happened. Her brain pressured, and her hands clenched from frustration.
    “Come on, we have to get you cleaned up.”
Reluctantly, Jada lead Annessa to the bathroom, to shower the blood off of her body.


 

 

Reviews

[H]

I'm not big on vampires, but this caught my attention and held it.

The details work to a certain degree. Pear green eyes, copper, archaic blood-- it's all lovely, but you lay it on too thick, and some of the descriptions are questionable (i.e., "low screech" (a screech is a loud, high pitched sound) and nobody's eyes can trace a stench, unless of course, they smell with them.) It needs to be trimmed down and read over.

[DeadlySoul]

i like it