A new predator

"Good evening young man , I would like to know what is the reason for your car to be standing in this lonely area in the middle of the night , is the car at fault ?"

I heard muttering a man who seemed to be in uniform , but my eyes between open did not let me confirm his physiognomy and neither his identity unknown to me . I tried to stand up quickly and I succeeded , I felt that my body was taking a strength I had never experienced before .

The uniformed man frowned and moved the small flashlight he held in his hand towards the inside of the car , examining any suspicious traces . While I tried to figure out what had happened earlier . And why he was so close to my car, remembering that when I set out to follow that old man I had left him miles behind.

I suddenly realized that my sense of hearing was sharper than usual, I could hear the precision of the heartbeat of the officer I had been able to quickly identify after getting on my feet. His pulse was calm and relaxed , and for some reason unknown to me I knew it perfectly , the scent of his skin and blood began to tempt my nose .

"Oh sorry , I didn't want to leave my car here abandoned , but it has a major fault and I think I'll have to call a tow truck ."

I said in a polite way , as I looked closely at the officer's jugular and the desire to drink his blood increased . I tried to get those thoughts out of my confused head and tried to understand what was happening to me.

I don't know how, or when it happened, but I took a violent leap at the officer's jugular and attacked his bloodstream so fast that I imagined myself as a wild predator enjoying his prey. As soon as I emptied every liter of that man's blood I felt my whole body fall into a staxis I never thought to experience , all I wanted was to keep drinking his blood until the end . I did not hesitate for a second despite the deafening screams that this person was emitting , I was only interested in my own pleasure above the damage I was doing without caring about the consequences of my actions .

Later I tried to bury his body in a far side of the forest , the least I wanted was to be discovered the first time I committed a crime , I must say that burying the dead body of a stranger was not as pleasurable as drinking his blood completely , but I guess that's how this business was and I had to adapt to pleasant and unpleasant situations .

I was trying to walk normally but the quickness was something that emanated from every pore of my skin . As if my body was adapting in unimaginable ways more and more to being strong, impulsive and hopelessly fast .

After burying the police officer several meters underground , I returned to the place where my car was parked , took my belongings and headed to my parents' new cabin , just as the original plan . But things had certainly changed forever and I still couldn't tell if it was for the better or for the worse. I no longer needed GPS to find my parents' cabin, it was enough to smell the cold wind of the dark forest that brought the different aromas of all the creatures that lived there, and among those creatures were my parents. I meditated for a long time to approach them, the questions in my mind were tortuous. What would happen when they saw me? They would realize that I was no longer the young man whose head was full of science and who questioned everything. I was their son without a doubt although I was no longer what I used to be a couple of hours ago , I was their son , I don't think humans can realize that they are in the presence of a strange creature at first sight , let alone in the body of their own family . Still, a recurring question came to my mind: could I control myself when I had my parents around me? Could I myself accept the fact that I had killed a person for the first time in my entire existence and that I had drained them completely for my own satisfaction, without caring about their pain and terror while doing it, to the extent that I was capable of going to experience that satisfaction again.

Was I capable of killing my parents, or at some point being a soulless beast I had some degree of reasoning when it came to hurting a loved one? Confused in my thoughts , I stopped for a moment to contemplate the blue moon , and remembered when I saw it a few hours ago when I was just a kid who did not take his nose out of a science book and who questioned everything , even the very creation of the world . No doubt our own disbelief can drag us into a bottomless pit , in which even if we swim we can easily drown , wrapped in a reality we thought impossible . I remembered the brutal deception of that old man and when I saw that the mask of goodness fell from his face, all my doubts went down the drain, I knew that there was little goodness in this world but I would never have imagined that all this could happen to me . And that the darkness would cover me in such a way that I would become a murderer.

A long sigh came out of my mouth, thinking about my new reality and the things that I was about to face and that were irreversible, while the night was getting darker and it seemed that I had no way out but to get to my parents' house and risk hurting them.

I noticed that my senses had been sharpened in a perfect way , everything was more real , more direct and somehow increased a hundred times more than the senses of an ordinary human . My sense of hearing also seemed to have increased , I could hear my parents voice from a radius of more than thirty kilometers away , which meant that I was already close to face one more tragedy or joy in my life .

I walked as fast as I had ever walked before, and quickly reached the fence that divided me from the life and death of my parents, in case I wanted to devour them to deliberately satisfy my senses. I stood in the doorway less than a meter away , and watched carefully the movement of my parents through one of the wooden windows , I listened to their innocent voices for a long time before I approached the door to knock .They talked about trivial things , my father was a sports lover and mom was a lover of cooking , so they both discussed while tuning the TV to one of their favorite programs .

"Magical , isn't it , to see how humans live so carefree that they don't predict who is lurking in their fragile lives" .

I heard muttering a rough and mysterious voice I had heard before .

"You again, what are you looking for from me now? Stay away from my parents! I spat

As I tried to put myself in a position of self-defense , maybe before I was a helpless human being ,but now everything was different I could defend myself from any creature that approached me , even more if it was the same man who had made me such a misfortune to turn me into a soulless beast .

"Do you think you can face me , just because you are fast and devoured the police officer? The truth I admire your bravery , but the prince of vampires is not defeated by a neophyte like you , you have so much to learn and I am willing to teach you and turn you into one of my best warriors" .

The man approached me , and surrounded me in a stalking way , as if he wanted to dominate me and had all the strength to do whatever he wanted with me . However one thing that all this experience had taken away from me was fear , I was no longer afraid of anything or anyone .

" I know you no longer fear me , I can decipher it in your thoughts , and in your self defense pose . But I don't plan to hurt you , I only plan to teach you the advantages of the world you will start living from now on , if I didn't devour you completely in the forest it's because I have a better plan for you . Don't think I made you who you are now just for your pleasure , you owe me your life and now you will serve me whether you want to or not "

" i am not your slave , and I would never obey orders from a beast like you , stay away from me and my parents because I am capable of fighting to the death for them !" .

I shouted loudly , without thinking the string of nonsense I was saying at the time I thought that my parents would pay all the consequences of my recent actions , and the trick that fate was playing on me .

" You are so impulsive you have no idea of the things you say , you have no idea of the gift you just got and how great you are going to make for my clan . Don't go out of your way to fight me now , you will come out at a disadvantage . I won't hurt your parents as long as you decide to obey me , but I won't force you to do anything you'll just come and find me to learn more about your new skills , meanwhile , I'll let you play house with the humans for a while ."

He murmured suspiciously as if he knew the future of my actions and everything that would happen with my life , apparently he thought he owned me and would fight to fulfill his will in my existence .

"Do what you want but disappear from here , I will not risk the lives of my parents for nothing in this world "

When he heard my words he smiled in a macabre way and vanished in the middle of the night , as if he was never approached me .I tried to regain my composure after that unexpected episode , and looked at my parents were lying on the couch , mom had her head resting on my father's shoulder and he looked sleepy with the TV control in his hand tuning a sports channel , I guess this time he won the dispute .

After mulling it over for a while I decided to wait until they were both completely asleep, I watched my mother lift her head from my father's shoulder , she put her right hand on the back of her neck and gently rubbed herself , then decided to slowly walk to her room . My father looked at her and then pressed a couple of buttons in the direction of the TV screen and it turned off , I watched as they both headed to the room and all the lights go out , everything seemed to rest at that moment , even the forest was in a deep silence within a gloom to which I should get used to , because now the darkness and mystery would be my company .

I waited for the right moment to slowly force the door and finally enter the house , although I did not expect to feel relief when I entered and my feet stepped on the entrance that seemed very familiar to me , since I spent half my life living in a cabin as a child this cabin was different . More cozy and quiet , my parents were always into farming , farm life was their thing which I never shared . I wanted to explore , see the world , I didn't want to be left alone planting vegetables in the village and listening to the stories of the countryside . But I guess it was not my destiny to be a man of science because now I was back and recent events prevent me from returning to my human life .