CHAPTER THREE

"Here Scarlett" Gabriel said handing me a bottle that had a red fluid inside, I took it slowly feeling how cold it was and how delicious it looked. Now that I tasted blood, I have felt hungry in the past three hours. "Are you still hungry?" He said again, smiling. This was my tenth bottle now, I just could not stop and the truth was that I liked it so much that all I wanted was suck and suck more of that liquid.

They dressed me with a vintage-like dress, it was white when I put it on, but with all that blood drinking it was now dirty. My mouth and hands were red now, my head was spinning for the hunger, and my body was shaking, telling me to have more.

Another bottle was empty, and with the last drop swallowed I felt myself as stopping. Not because I was not hungry anymore, but because my whole body was now tired.

"Why can't I get full?" I said in desperation. I looked at myself in the mirror; I wasn't the same person as before, everything changed. The hair, the eye, my skin color, my weight and my height, I wasn't Scarlett anymore.

"Take it easy Scarlett, this is normal" Gabriel said putting a hand on my head, I just stared at him.

"When is it going to stop?" I said licking my hands until they were completely clean, then I felt ashamed. For the first time in my life I felt weak, weak as a baby who needs food, a mother that who care of it, and a heart that tells him/her how healthy he/she is. I did not have any of that, which is why, I felt prepotent.

"Soon" He said handing me another bottle, my hands wanted to take it, but my head wanted to stop.

"I am tired already" I said sighing.

"But you are still hungry" He said opening the bottle for me, some of the blood fell on his hand and I quickly took the bottle. Then as if something moved me I licked his hand until I cleaned all of the blood of it.

"See what I mean?" He said in a serious tone.

I nodded and said sorry, then again I started to drink of the bottle until it was empty. A tear fell then.

"It is okay to feel dependent Scarlett, you will get used to it" He said taking the empty bottle and putting it with the other empty bottles.

"How do you know?" I said staring at me, he smiled and took his white long hair to one side and showed me what looked like a scar.

"I am a vampire myself, but I am not pure as you" He said not staring at me, as if he felt ashamed. I stood up and stared at his eyes, I would never imagine he was a vampire, he looked so human and filled with joy that it felt almost impossible.

"How can you be a vampire and hunt them at the same time?" I asked him, and the truth was that I didn't expect an answer.

"I didn't choose to be a vampire, and they cannot choose my will" He said serious, then he bowed at me and left the room quietly.

I also didn't I said to myself as I walked out of the room. The rest of the building looked as if it was made by 1875, everything looked old and expensive just as the room I left an hour ago.

"You should be in your room" A manly familiar voice said, I stared back to see the same boy I saw before. He looked mad in some way, and I hoped it wasn't because of my fault. Then I heard a big scream, an inhuman scream.

"What was that?" I said scared, it came from a door on my side. The boy walked to where I was and pushed me back slowly.

"Go to your room now!" He said yelling, I blinked in surprise but did not move at all. "Aren't you listening?" He said as another scream came out of the room.

"What is that?" I said again, he didn't respond at all so I forced myself and opened the door. He did not stop me.

I gasped then, it was that woman I heard in that room that looked like a morgue. She sounded different as before, and looked like a complete monster; her right arm was completely destroyed, her eyes were both covered, her extremities were all tied, and her skin looked as the skin of an old woman. She was screaming so loud it didn't even sound humane, she was also moving violently in pain.

"W-what?" I said scared, the boy behind me covered my eye with his hand and put his lips on my ear.

"This is what happens if you don't cease your hunger" He said, I could still hear that woman's screams. Then it stopped and the boy took his hand of my eye.

The woman was now calmed and somehow looked young again. Her skin looked soft and her eyes were not covered anymore, she also, was not moving, but she was breathing.

"What happened?" I asked, he stared at me and stepped closer.

"I already told you, a vampire has to drink blood. Otherwise you die like this" He said pointing at the woman lying on the floor. "You get crazy until you find a source of blood" He said.

"Why didn't they just give her blood to drink?" I said quietly.

"Because they gave it all to you, they want you to be alive until you kill that motherfucker" He said, I stared back at the woman who now was slowly opening her eyes, her mouth was bloody and there was a bottle on her side. I felt guilty, but the truth was that it wasn't my fault to be here or just to be that hungry.

"I didn't know" I said whispering.

"I know you didn't, but now you know" He said staring at the woman, she was getting up slowly as another man helped her up. I guess he was the one who gave her the bottle.

"Is she a vampire hunter also?" I said curious, another vampire wanting to kill her own?

"Yes, but as many others in here, they didn't chose to be one" He said. "We fight to extinguish them, but many of them are dirty vampires who chose a good will, including myself" He said pointing as his neck. He also had a big scar that went all down to his chest.

"How come that many of you are vampires?" I said staring at his scar.

"Spectrum vampires always drink blood from humans who have a special material on their blood, for them is called Hidden Cells, which are the ones who make them beautiful and powerful" He stepped back and then nodded to the woman who was now standing. She nodded back and went out of the room.

"Not all humans have this cell, and not all of them know about it."

"Only you, The Cobus" I said as he nodded.

"Many of us lost their families because of them, we are like the ones that survived and now want revenge."

"So, all you want is that?" I said but he shook his head.

"We don't want more humans to go through this" He said as they brought a person to the room. He somehow looked as the woman that just left, he was violently moving as the man by his side put chains on his arms and legs. "We go through so many experiences that we don't even know how we survive." He said looking away and taking my hand with his, we left that room filled with sorrow and screams.

"Everyone hates me now don't they?" I asked him, he was still holding my hand.

"I don't think so, they hate Gabriel and his stupid decisions" He said opening the door that lead to the room where Gabriel and I where time ago. I nodded and entered to the room, the first thing I saw was four people standing aligned like if they were waiting for something.

"You are their only hope anyways" He said standing by one of them, I stood in front, staring at them. They looked sad and tired.

"Welcome to the Cobus Hunting Organization" The woman that I saw like a monster a moment ago was there. All of them bowed at my direction.

"We are at your service, leader" She said, I didn't move. Not because I didn't know what to do, but because I was scared.

I also didn't choose to be a vampire… Then, here is where I am supposed to be?