Another Vampire

Subject: Another Vampire Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:19 pm

Just another Vampire

“Robin, dear! Wake up; you’ll be late for school!”

Came a female, soft call, from outside a bedroom door.

The inhabitant of the ‘dark’ bedroom was hanging upside down, from his rarely-used bunk bed.

His black hair framed his pasty-white face. He had soft features, all a ghastly-white colour, apart from his eyes. They were black. He had obviously put contacts in.

A red and black cape lay on the black bunk-bed, about to be used.

Robin ignored his mum, but opened his eyes.

After a while, his mother sighed, and knocked on the door.

She detested Robin’s choices. His bedroom door showed the type of person Robin was.

There were skulls and red-eyed wolves staring back at his mother. A name-plaque said, ‘Robin- Vampire Prince’.

Every morning, his mother had to look at Robin’s door, and every morning, she would let a sigh escape. She knew how Robin was old enough to make his own decisions; she couldn’t have a hand in it.

“Robin, don’t make me have to ban you from using the downstairs T.V!”

His mother called.

Robin held his breath, a look of horror on his face at this threat.

Video games were one of the reasons why he showed his face to his family. That and dinner times.

Robin peered through the gap between the black fabrics of the curtains.

The sunlight made him wince slightly. That was when his mum burst in, Robin yelled and instinctively let go of the bar on the bunk bed. Robin fell to the floor with a clunk.

The door opened and in came his blonde-haired mother, tutting disapprovingly.

“Robin. You’ll be late fo—“

His mother glanced out of the window. Robin lay, sprawled, on the black-carpeted floor.

“Mum?”
His mother’s eyes seemed to glaze over, and shine.

Robin got up off of the floor, waving a hand in front of her face.
“Wakeo upio!”
He announced, in a magician-like way. His mother snapped out of her trance, and she looked at Robin, blue eyes coming into focus.

“Now... Where was I?”

She pondered for a few seconds, but Robin interrupted her.
“What were you looking at, mum?”

He asked her, peering out the slit in the window, trying to see what she could.

His mother just shook her head and paced around Robin’s bedroom, dragging a finger along his desk, a film of dust showing on her finger. She tutted again, disapprovingly.

“Just that some really strange neighbors have moved into the castle.”

Robin narrowed his eyes, and saw the castle, which was hidden through a film of grey smoke. It seemed to be coming from one of the crumbly-stoned turret chimneys.

“Now, hurry up Robin, or you’ll definitely be late for school!”

His mother called, as she left the dark and mysterious bedroom.

Robin smiled eyes wide and glittering.

“Cool, time to meet the neighbors!”
He whispered, rubbing his two pale pasty-white hands together.

“Oliver, get out of your bedroom. Stop looking so glum.”

The boy called Oliver sighed, staring out of the grey, moss-covered window.

“But think of all the friends I’ve left behind.”
His mother sneered and laughed loudly. Miley joined in.

“A vampire doesn’t need friends.”

She hissed to Oliver.
“But we still have time. We can go back.”

He whined.

“And have the angry mob chase us out again?! I think not!”

His mother seemed to have drifted off again.

“Err... Mum?”

Miley waved a hand in front of her face. Her mother woke up with a jump.

“Miley. You get the other room. I’ll see to my accommodation.”

Miley walked out with her mother, and passed one evil, grudging, look before slamming the door.

Oliver whooped.
“Finally. I can be normal.”
He smiled contently, and looked out of the slit-arrow window.

The Okens had a perfect view of the whole town of Stokely.

Oliver was short, very skinny, and quite pale, with black, unblinking eyes.

Crunch...Crunch...Crunch...

“Zoltan!”

“Yes, young master?”

Zoltan, the stuffed wolf appeared, munching on a biscuit covered in fluff.
“Eurgh... You almost scared me.”

“Sorry master Oliver. Truly—“

“I NEED BLOOD!!!”

A roar throughout the castle was heard, making the ravens hark and leave the battlements.

“It seems, master Oliver, your mother is in need of blood.”

Oliver moaned and put his hands through his hair.
“That’s exactly why we left.”

Suddenly, a bell rang throughout the castle.
“Somebody get that!”

Mrs. Oken yelled.

Oliver stayed put, and sure enough, he heard the main doors creak open.

“What? You scrawny little...”

Miley said, leaning against the door, black eyes glittering mysteriously.

Robin froze, but before he could get lost in them, he smiled and said,

“Hi, I’m Robin. You must be our new—“

“In fact...” She cut him off. “You’re too scrawny... So scram!”

She slammed the door in his face.

Robin smirked.
“I guess that’s a way of saying, come in!”
He whispered to himself, producing a pair of ropes and a hook.

He was going to go round the other side. He was finally going to get into the castle he had always loved since becoming a vampire geek.

“Zoltan. I just want to be... Normal.”

“Shall I leave you to your normal thoughts, master Oliver?”
Oliver sighed and rolled his eyes as he paced up and down the room.

“It would be nice, yes.”
Zoltan, the stuffed wolf on wheels, rolled out the bedroom, and the door closed behind him.

“Why me?”

Oliver muttered under his breath.

But before he could answer himself, there was a crumbling, crunching, sound from outside the window.

Oliver ran to the window, as he saw a great silver hook fly up through the air and latch itself onto the stony window sill.

Oliver was about to peer over the edge, breathe held, but he saw someone clambering up onto the sill.

That ‘someone’ was Robin.

Oliver stared at Robin, wide-eyed. Robin looked up, and Oliver’s eyes met his.

They both yelled, Robin almost let go.

“I’ve got you. Don’t worry..”
Oliver said, heaving Robin up by his cape.
“Thanks. My name’s—“

“Now’s not the time.”
Oliver said, finally pulling Robin in.

Robin stood up and dusted himself off, pulling the hook and brightly-coloured ropes in after himself.

Oliver stood, momentarily stunned.
“Who are you? And what ARE you doing here?!”
Robin gave Oliver a low look, as he sat down on Oliver’s bed, thought not invited.

“As I was saying. Name’s Robin Branaugh. I’m your new neighbor, and I came to say a ‘friendly’ welcome to the ‘cheerful’ neighborhood.”

Robin rolled his eyes at the word ‘cheerful’. His parents said he didn’t have enough ‘cheer’.

In fact, his ‘cheer-factor’ was so low, they had even got suggestions to send him to Happy-Camp, by all his teachers, at parent’s evening.

Oliver spluttered, bringing Robin back down to Earth.

“Couldn’t you’ve knocked or something?”
He asked Robin.

Robin nodded, wide-eyed.
“I did. But this beautiful girl slammed the door in my face.”
Oliver sighed, folding his arms.
Being a vampire, Miley had her perks. She would be irresistible to every boy on the planet.

“Sorry, that was my evil sister, Miley.”

Robin nodded, his hands on his knees as he stared at the un-packed boxes.

“I know what you mean. My sister, Chloe, she’s so evil, that she tries to out-smart me by calling water ‘H2O’... I mean... I haven’t even learnt that yet!”
Oliver laughed.

“So, what’s school like around here?”
He asked, hungry for knowledge, like a vampire, hungry for blood.
Robin shrugged.
“Same as any school. I guess.”
He said in an off-hand way, not being interested in school since everyone thought he was/is a weirdo.

Oliver wanted more information, he begged and pleaded Robin.

“Well. It’s like any other school.. You’ve been to one, right?”
“Err... Left..”

Oliver stammered.

Robin rolled his eyes, clapping sarcastically.

“Now. Have you been to one or not?”
Robin asked, looking serious.
Oliver cleared his throat, making an excuse up in his mind.
“I used to be. Err.. Home schooled?”

Oliver asked it as if it were a question.

Robin narrowed his eyes, as if examining Oliver. For one moment, Oliver thought Robin had sussed out they were vampires.

But Robin suddenly grinned.

“Cool.”
He said, getting up off of Oliver’s bed.

“OLIVER I NEED BLOOD AND I NEED IT NOW!!”

Came another roar, which echoed out over the castle.

Robin blinked, staring at the door.
“Did she just say.. ‘Blood’?”
Oliver quickly shook his head, laughing nervously.

“No no no no no. She said. Err. Mug! She wants her favorite, pink, fluffy-bunny mug.”

Oliver almost laughed at the thought of his mum demanding a pink mug with bunnies on it.

Robin raised his eyebrows, and nodded.

“Look. If my mum catches you. You’ll be in dead trouble.”
Oliver wondered over to the window sill, and stared out across the small, village, of Stokely.

“So I think you should—“
Oliver halted in his words. He gasped in horror, a hand to his mouth.

Robin had left the room.

While the panic was going on, Zoltan wheeled in, chewing on a moldy bone.

Oliver ran over to Zoltan, kneeling beside him, wide-eyed and panting.
“Have you seen Robin? A boy with black hair, black eyes. Quite tall and wearing a cape?”
Zoltan dropped the bone from his mouth to the floor, and searched his mind.
“No master Oliver, why? Have you met a friend? You better hope he’s not a breather, or that your mother doesn’t find him first.”
This made Oliver panic even more.

“Whatever Zoltan. No time. I hope you’re joking about!”
And with that, Oliver slammed his bedroom door behind him.

Robin was breathing hard, as he hid behind a pile of boxes. He peered out from behind them, blinking rapidly.

“Now, Miley, you have to wait. I really can’t afford for you to switch rooms with Oliver. It’s just not right, once he’s moved in officially.”
“But mum..”
Miley whined, but Oliver’s mum stamped her foot, and the light and sound of thunder hit the room.

“But nothing. I..”
Oliver’s mum suddenly cut herself off, and took a deep sniff, closing her eyes.
“...Smell a breather..”

Even at a word he didn’t know, Robin trembled.

Oliver’s mother took an even deeper sniff, as if trusting her nose. She took several steps towards Robin’s hiding-place, where he was breathing heavily.

One more step, she took, and Robin crawled to the side, quivering with the fear of being caught.

Subject: Re: Another Vampire Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:44 pm

Vampire yey.