ASIAN BEAUTY

Well, it seems that I have; finally some new readers. It’s been awhile sense the old ones

Read any of my work and it makes me fairly disappointed. I can see your curious eyes wondering up and down the page and the one next to this, wondering, when it’s going to get good? But if you haven’t learned, every story must have its prologue yes?

Well. Let me start by introducing myself. I am the Vampire Daniel Le Ceil. Your ordinary, French, gorgeous, typical Vampire from what seemed like a European country, in which I know realize. It is most certainly not!

How wrong we were to think that the only true earth existed was ours. All this talk about aliens, when you humans don’t even realize, that you are aliens to yourselves. How idol you are to each other.

But you know every detail about the other. And no, I don’t mean your next-door neighbor, or your aunt. I mean people countries away! People who live in America

Find the rather small, short people from Japan very odd. Heaven for bid they have skin tone!

People from England, Damn those Canadians are weird. Gothic’s and Christians only love each other without giving it the benefit of the doubt. The supernatural aren’t even glanced at. I wouldn't so much as call the vampire “supernatural”. Because, there’s nothing that “super” about us! I laugh at this. In my old time I’ve gone everywhere and done everything but I don’t know a soul on the planet.

Which makes me sad sometimes. What if I could find someone? Someone that I could trust, give new life to. Someone that wanted new life, was this possible to find? No, don’t be stupid Daniel. That’s impossible. Anyways, let me get back to this world that we thought was the only one.

Until you’re pathetic human minds wondered to space and the god-like stars above. Wondering, “what’s out there?” Let me tell you exactly what’s out there. Stars, planets, things that orbit, if it’s a good day supernovas, get real people!

The other world, the other world that you do not see, wakes at nightfall.

I remember it as clearly as I had woken just about an hour ago. And decided to tell the world what I saw. I rose out of the shadows like something from an Anne Rice novel.

I love Anne Rice, her books are wonderful, so I will use her as an example, don’t like it? Tough.

I moved the hair out of my face being European it was blonde. You’d expect my eyes to be a calm green or a gorgeous blue. I laugh at you, because they are neither. They are a very bright hatefully distinct full orange, It was a cold winter night which made me hungry, but I was old enough to know that I could live without it and I had to meet -someone- on the flat. Someone that I was rather interested in, in our long journey of life together as companions.

His name was Gabriel but I always persisted in calling him Gabe, I don’t know if he necessarily liked it or not but he tolerated it just the same. I walked down the sophisticated street, not having a clue that the world was shifting into something new.

I smiled as I thought about him.

He once told me in a fluster that he liked my French accent. As I had stayed in France for five years, I gained the accent and was then turned over to the land of the dead. Something caught my eye, amidst all my wonderful thoughts about Gabe.

I looked over to where I had seen it, that brilliant blue, like water.

And then his eyes met mine. Some Asian beauty as they all were, but I couldn't tell if this was a man, or a women! it baffled me, a wide brimmed hat, long black hair hung to the persons mid back. Wearing a red silk button up shirt and a pair of black leather pants. Rather stylish for where he was. I smiled.

And then he, she.. Whatever it was was gone! I hadn't the time to blink before the being disappeared. My mind swarmed with the image of the being by the brick wall all night.

Falling, falling, threw the colored brick sky. I gazed out into the world and was suddenly shaken back to reality. "Daniel," I heard my name and was quite still for a moment until I felt the familiar touch on my shoulder. "Daniel." I blinked, and looked at the boy before me.

"What's gotten into you Dan?" he whispered sorrowfully, I hated when he used that tone and he knew it. "Nothing,” I repeated assuring both of us there was nothing wrong. His eyes gazed at mine with curiosity. You'd swear he was a big cat come to life in a human form. We were alone in a hotel room he had reserved for me.

"What's wrong?" he said and his arms wrapped around my neck, I embraced him in return.

"You usually tell me everything if I want to hear it or not." Gabriel finished his sentence quietly. I smiled, I had no intention of troubling him, if it was a possibility, and then I fled. Left him for months at a time, but he always waited for me in the same exact place.

Back in the day, some odd hundred years ago, most of my companions would give up on me if I left them in fear I would hurt them. This past couple of months had been a wonder to me.

I met him at the Irish pub, I was originally going to kill him and then his presence seemed to ward me off as he smiled at me from across the room.

It scared me! His smile terrified me! And I fled I hugged him tight. The room was vast and it was an inside room to which there were no windows. I could stay here during the day in peace. "You told the cleaners not to clean this room during the day yes?" I questioned. Hopping he did all I asked. He nodded.

It's not fair, what I was doing to him. At the time I thought he was mortal! What did you think I was going to do? I lied to him a great deal. Somewhere in this country, was a person who was falling and then I heard a voice in my head and it screamed for help. I closed my eyes tight. It was very clearly a mans voice.

Someone’s hand reaching in my mind, reaching towards the black sky above. Falling, into the depths of his voice. It was a gorgeous voice. "Daniel!" I heard him again and opened my eyes we were on the floor, I on my back and he on top of me as I held him still. "Gabriel?"

I had no idea what was happening to me. Gabriel looked terrified, as I should have. He hugged me in relief that I was conscious. "You just... You just fell." he whimpered, I could hear it in his voice. I fell? I thought, I was perfectly stable a moment ago.

It felt like we lay there for eternity, but in reality. In the real world, it was only a few seconds before Gabe set me up. He took both of my shoulders in his hands, "Daniel you’re scaring me..."

His voice was soft his brown hair was softer.

His eyes seemed like pools; they fascinated me I came out of the world that I was in, and the reality I once new as a fairy tail in my early days stopped again. As I heard the footsteps, echoing loudly in my head and I grabbed it as if pulling on my hair would do anything any good.

“Daniel.” Gabriel’s soft voice eluded me I closed my eyes tight and prayed under God to save us both from this stalking thing, as what I thought was coming down the hallway

Of the hotel get closer they got louder.

Thump, Thump, Thump.

The clash of metal boots on carpet and then occasionally hitting a break in the runner (runner being a long strip of carpet covering the bare wooden floor several of them ran down the long hallway) and staggering into the wood, Gabriel sat silently; on his knees hands on mine as I sat what American’s call “Indian style” “Dan.” His voice spun violently in my head.

I stood up quickly leaving him on the ground. “I’m going.” I said quickly “What?” he sounded highly irritated by this very understandable because he probably spent over $70 for this room he’d been staying here for two nights waiting my arrival so you add it up.

I often wonder where he came from, his ethnicity of all things! Was what popped in my mind and I began to wonder, (you must excuse me but I am telling this how it was and I don’t intend to leave anything out. Especially something stupid like this.) He stared at me dumbfounded lost and confused.

“What did you say?” his face was rather narrow as he was nicely tanned with his bobby curls, his eyes were a dark green and he wasn’t tall but he wasn’t short I shot him a smile and he threw it to the curb with a glare. “Daniel Le Ceil I don’t make reservation for them to be vetoed.” I blinked at this statement. Vetoed was a rather unusual word for him to use, he had a rather wide vocabulary and vetoed didn’t exactly fit.

But let him use what he will, “You’ve been gone for months and.” He began to trail off

“I’ve been waiting here and now you just going to leave?” his voice went low and then high as if he were singing a song.

Something like Amazing grace or what not. He folded his arms and stared at my blinking face awaiting an answer. Something seemed to shake me as the footsteps disappeared

Knowing something had only taken a moment’s pause what could I tell him to get out of it this time? “Look, Gabe,” I insisted stepping close to him and he backed away.

With that warding glare, nothing like the smile he showed me not months before, truth be told I haven’t seen that smile in some time, what was he thinking? I couldn’t tell you because I couldn’t like most other mortals, break into his mind. I really wouldn’t even call it breaking into sense they threw their thoughts at you with no care at all.

More or less just read them like a book, but not Gabriel. He was completely shut off, to me, and the rest of the world. “Something’s not right.” I said running my hands threw my hair, “And that gives you the right to just leave?” he raised his eyebrows and opened up those green pools.

A scream in my head, who was invading my mental space like this? And why the hell me and not someone that could –do- something about it? That didn’t matter now, for some reason I had something more important to take care of and it was this boys trust in me.

“Gabe, I have to if anything ever came to hurt you.” He gave me a scowl of disbelief

“Just go Le Ceil.” He turned his back to me walking towards a desk in the main room

Putting his hand on it I was shocked by the last name. Nobodies called me Le Ceil in centuries plus.

Breathless words, someone being choked as he looked at me over his right shoulder, chin bowed in the softest ways he appeared as if he were going to cry over some great loss, ‘I’m falling’ I heard, but I didn’t know where I was hearing it form and I scanned all the other tenets in the building. Nobody, nobody sounded such as this.

“See the dark Daniel.” Gabriel said, “Live in it.” I looked at him with the most absurd look, “I do!” I shouted out “Gabe, I do live in the dark, don’t you understand?” I questioned him with a fluctuating voice. “That you not just quite right?”

He stumbled with his words running the tips of his finger across the wood on the uneven desk that had been warped by water or some such thing. “Your true self not woken from the sleep yet?”

He was speaking more to himself than to me because my true self could never be, what it is, is what it is because I am a vampire.

“Gabe” I walked towards him and he did nothing to prevent it. A saw a crystal tear fall from his eyes and onto his hand that lye on the desk, I wanted to embrace him as I did early before I landed on the carpeted floor.

But something stopped me then. Something made me stop, “Go if you going to go.” He said his words, for some reason, hurt me. “You’re a wicked man Daniel.” He added to what he said, I scowled at this.

There was a meaning for it all that I was doing, and have done, but he didn’t know any of it, his pure heart would be shattered if he knew I was one with the devil.

Or so I thought at the time, I had no idea how horrific the devil really was, he like to any body else and even God himself is only a figment of the imagination.

Something to believe in, when you wonder how in the world you got here in the first place? How had everything that happened in the past come to pass, until the theory of evolution was passed it was God who rained over all and all the people were righteous and good and everyone would go to heaven. But what about those who lye in the dark?

I looked at Gabriel and the room suddenly seemed to turn pitch black leaving him the only being in the room.

He wasn’t the only being in the room because I was, and so I was a being. “Your still hear.” He whispered not taking his face from the wood so many rings, so many rings of life was just stripped without a second thought to make that.

I stepped towards him until I was right behind him and then I wrapped my self around him.

Only a single crest fallen tear had dropped to the wooden desk. “I’m sorry Gabriel. I won’t leave you, I’ve been cruel and rude to you for all the nice things you’ve done for me.” I whispered into his ear my lips touching them ever so briefly with every spoken word.

He didn’t move he just stood. “I’m always the trumpet card aren’t I Dan?” he whispered and I told him differently giving him a cold kiss on the cheek, “It’s dawn.” He muttered,

Like I said before there were no solar lights from the sun so I wasn’t affected.

Shut out, dark. Just like he felt, but I wont get into that because then you see I feel this great deal of guilt. My cold hands tightened around his stomach, close to his pants

And he finally collapsed and leaned against me. I didn’t hear anything out of the ordinary.

For the rest of the night, “Get sleep.” Gabriel said quietly now into my ear I felt his lips brush against my chin in the softest of kisses. For the rest of the time I lay there, in bed wondering about the man I saw early in the night. The Asian beauty, that I might see again one of these very next nights.

He turned around wrapping his arms around my neck and I held him minutes went by, flying like the jet stream in the sky,

“What are you?” he whispered to me.