A/N: So I wrote this for english and it hasn't been turned in yet, so reviews are a great way to help me get a good grade!

Amarande and Altair

Long ago in the Underworld, Hades and Selene had a beautiful girl. They named her Amarande, meaning ‘immortal one’. The girl was pale as the silver moon with hair as dark as night. She had eyes the color of a dark red rose, was tall and lean and was more graceful than any god or mortal could hope to be. She had a strange aversion to the sun, and lived at the palace of her father during the day and went hunting on Earth by night. Amarande was a strange child with an even stranger appetite. When she was little, Selene had taken her for a ride in her moon chariot, but Amarande had fallen off and spread out her long black cloak to slow her fall. It would have killed a mortal, but Amarande landed on her feet. When she went up to the Earth at night when she was older, she was there to hunt small animals and livestock, bleeding them dry, needing only their blood. She was the goddess of all night animals and dark forests and her symbol was a bat. Because of her aversion to the sun, Helios, Selene’s brother, cursed Amarande to be a night-walker, one who would burn if the sun touched her.

One night when Amarande was hunting, she saw a mortal man, Altair, walking on the edge of her hunting ground. She flew to stop him, baring her fangs, then immediately sinking them into his neck. Altair screamed as he felt her start to suck out his blood. Soon his screams lessened and he could only whimper. She looked at him, blood running down her chin, and she took pity on him. Amarande bit her own wrist and held it over his near-dead mouth, dripping her blood into his mouth. He unconsciously swallowed some of her blood, turning him into an immortal. Because her mother was not an Olympian, Amarande never really reached more than minor goddess, if even that. Therefore, she and her newly turned companion were the first vampires. The roamed the earth, feeding on animals and people alike.

Years later, in the 17th century, they entered the legends of the European peasants. Altair even disguised himself as a Transylvanian prince named Vlad Dracul, also known as Vlad The Ipaler because he impaled Turks on wooden stakes. Amarande took the guise of Erzsébet of Transylvania, who bathed in the blood of virgins to make her skin look younger and more beautiful. They were persecuted, then eventually all the covens, about 500 vampires total, were thrown down to Hades, to live there, lead by Amarande, until the day when fires will consume the Earth and they can once more reign.

A/N: So? You likey? You review? I cut your head off if you don't?