The next day Orpheus 'woke' up brimming with energy and immediately began preparing himself for the day. As a Vampire he had little or no sleep but he had to still lie down just like humans did. It was useless but fascinating in a way.When he was done he went to the dining room where his father and Selene were already seated. Breakfast was roasted lambs with cucumber sauce. There were three bottles of blood beside the plates of food. They were labeled, 'Humane'."Good day father," Orpheus greeted as he went to take his seat. He blatantly ignored Selene."Ah, you're awake," Viscount Luther said. "How was your sleep?""Inasmuch as I didn't fall asleep I'd say it's good," Orpheus said.Viscount Luther chuckled as he said, "That's how it feels trying to imitate how another specie behaves.""Uncle, you can sleep at will and so can I," Selene snorted. "He's just being useless.""Hey..." Orpheus wanted to retort but Viscount Luther waved his hand, stopping them.Rubbing his temples with his

The lair was filled with corpses, the whole floor littered with bits of flesh and black blood which were already dried lumps. An unbearable stench wafted the atmosphere, causing every sane person to turn sick. In the middle of the lair was a very young child stripped naked and hung by chains fettered to his hands and legs. He was suspended in the air between the ceiling dripping with an unknown liquid and the floor littered with corpses.A man stood before the child, his hands fiddling with the silvery needles on top of a wooden desk. The needles were of varying sizes and lengths, the longest being as long as an average adult's arm."I need to get through with this experiment," he muttered to himself as he took one of the needles and walked towards the child.Seeing him approaching, the child began crying as he struggled to break free from the chains but his efforts were fruitless. He could only fearfully await his doom.The corpses in the lair all belonged to the children who had bee

Cough! Cough!Daniel coughed as he walked through the yellow puff of smoke, waving his hands. His brown hair was dishevelled as if it had not been combed for some months now, his brown eyes dreary. He kept on walking till he came out of the puff of smoke."What's this place?" he asked himself as he looked around. The whole place was desolate and barren. If there had not been scraggy skyscrapers drooping down like an old man and the vehicles caked in rust and dirt Daniel would have thought that he was in another world.Isn't this Earth? Daniel asked himself as he looked up into the sky. Where's everyone gone to? What happened here? Why are there no living beings?So many questions were left unanswered as he kept on staring in the sky. The sky which was supposed to be blue or white or red (or whatever) was caked in a kind of haziness he couldn't describe. No it wasn't right to call it haziness. This was literal nothingness!Abyss? Daniel was shocked as his pupils dilated. Wasn't this th

That night Daniel was sprinting across the street in total freedom, moving along with the wind. He avoided places he was likely to bump into the cops or Special Cops and moved through places he would pass undetected. He didn't care if his mother would discover that he had been leaving the house every night. What was more important was becoming more powerful so that he could protect those he loved.As Daniel ran he suddenly remembered what had been happening between Felicia and Orpheus throughout that week. Those two had gotten so close to each other that Felicia even began treating him as if he was non-existent. He was greatly shocked about the outcome of everything as he saw both of them become even closer. Was that how Orpheus was getting back at him?—by snatching his girlfriend? For God's sake they had not even visited each other for once and a total stranger had just appeared out of the blues and snatched her away! It was totally unbelievable!"Felicia has been having a major cru

That Monday all the Grade 10 students were gathered in the assembly ground to listen to the Principal's announcement. Everyone except Orpheus and Selene was aware of everything so they weren't clueless about what Miss Pinmaker had to announce."So it has always been a norm for this class to embark on an excursion some few days to Halloween," Pinmaker said. "On Sunday is 31st of October, the day which we're supposed to celebrate Halloween."Orpheus who heard this couldn't help but narrow his red eyes. Why would humans celebrate something that was gory? He had interacted with humans and knew their culture like the lines on his palm so it was natural he knew what Halloween was."You embark to some gory place to celebrate this Halloween?" Orpheus asked Felicia who was standing beside him, her right hand locked in his left hand."Yeah," Felicia replied. "Last time we went it wasn't even gory. It was easy to see through the props set up to scare us. Only a few weak-minded people were scared