The library
In my dream I am drowning in darkness, I try to run away from it all, I try to escape, but it only drags me down deeper. I don't think that I will ever escape from it, this darkness that covers me, that has covered me for my entire lifetime. So I simply allow it to drag me down, and I wait, and I pray, for some sort of escape.
I woke up into darkness, my body dripping in a cold sweat, it had been years and years since I last had that dream. Its return could only mean one thing, that something terrible was going to happen.
I turned to the night stand, and switched on the dim lamp. I don't know how long I sat there trying to adjust my eyes to the light. For that matter I don't know how much longer it will take. I swung my legs over the edge of the huge four poster bed and slid off, smiling slightly as my feet hit the cold floor.
This castle, I did not know what I would do without it, it had been where I had dwelled for so long, even though it had only become a home in the past few years. I walked quietly over to the door and opened it with equal silence, something that had become nearly second nature over the centuries. I usually loved the silence, but right then it seemed to only hurt my ears. I drank it in however, and became a part of the night as I used to do every evening as the sun dipped below the horizon, and the last bits of blood-red sunset faded to deep magenta then to violet.
I exited the castle as the wind would, through the window high above the courtyard and closed my eyes, I could almost feel that I was a part of the mist. I opened them once more. I was standing in a forest, surrounded by the sounds of the night, no more silence. I drank in the subtle noises searching for one in particular, one that I knew would be here. Then I heard it. The howl of a wolf. I smiled, and made my way toward the sounds of civilization that danced just on the edge of hearing. I blurred through the forest, seeing everything as I passed it. Then suddenly it ended. Not as it would have when I was young, no those days are gone. This forest ended abruptly, with no warning, as if some giant hand had taken a huge chunk of trees away with it. Also there was the light.
I looked up just now noticing that I was again shielding my eyes away from the light. What I saw there was a huge beautiful somehow familiar, but... my stomach lurched. I nearly doubled over in the pain. I realized dully that I was starving, I walked toward the house, carefully, now my entire body was hurting, and my lungs were trying hard to breath. I turned with the last bit of my sanity and ran as fast as I could away from that place. Something was telling me that I could not go in there.
I soon came to what seemed to be a large open park, couples were walking hand in hand, smiling, staring up at the stars. The stars... I looked up at them, and they seemed to spin and swim in my vision, then the darkness started to close in. I couldn't breath, I couldn't...
I don't remember what happened after that, the next thing I do remember is waking up lying on a park bench shrouded by bushes, and a strange mechanical wailing sound. I looked out through the trees, instinctively wiping my mouth, almost how a cat would. I knew what was there. Blood, I was simply not sure who's.
The mechanical wailing it turned out, was coming from the strange cars with the flashing lights, there was some sort of yellow ribbon surrounding a nearby area. I pushed a stray lock of my blue hair out of my eyes as I listened to some uniformed men speaking in whispering voices.
"It doesn't appear to be homicide," a blonde man said.
"Yes, but the bite marks don't quite look right for any animal attack that I've ever seen," said an older gray-haired man.
I watched them with growing horror, not hearing any more of their words. I did not do this. I looked up at the sky, at the stars, and tried to regain some of the carefully held control that I had gathered over the past few years. When I had it, I blurred again, and was running again through the forest, the wolf howled again. I stopped to rest near the forest edge. I did not have much time, I would have to return indoors soon. I leaned against a large oak tree and slid to the ground, closing my eyes. I opened them again abruptly, people in the large house were yelling. Familiar voices. Something about a wolf. I reached out my senses and sure enough, it was there, I used my power to try to call it, but in trying that I became dizzy. I had not used the power for so long. I felt the wolf's mind jerk away, and he ran into the forest again.
Tomorrow I would go to that house, I would speak to them, I would warn them. Right now I needed rest, even with the meal that I had consumed earlier. Two nights in a row. I frowned at myself, at my loss of control. I could not let the others know this, I would have to become strong again. I stood, taking one last glance around myself before closing my eyes, and becoming like the wind once more.
The darkness is what I am, there is nothing that can change that, I have tried. I wanted to be normal, I wanted to be human, but I am not. Sasaki Kujiirou died long ago. I am Anubisu, Yami Masho Anubisu, and I am a vampire.