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Chapter 1
The mortal, the vampire they have been enemies for centuries being that one thinks he is the highest on the food chain and the other is in truth but does not like to brag about it. The jealous mortal is a ferocious creature when let loose alone or in pacts. They should consider themselves fortunate. It is rare, the possibility of the predator being killed by the prey. Technology works with the mortal to catch the undead but they haven�t prevailed over many. This is the way it has been since the beginning of time.
Almost another summer gone by reflected the busy year since Casey�s big decision and Arden was just glad about enlarging their dwelling. There were two of them now and the seven feet squared hole in the ground wasn�t big enough. Arden spent the cold winter in the warm geothermic dwelling with his new love and the dwelling turned into a twenty-five feet squared home for two, possibly three in the future. The only way it could expand was to dig it and that�s exactly what Arden did. Casey, with a little help from Garrick (who now excepted her as his own creation) stole the perfect coffin from a nearby funeral home. She adored it. It was a small white newly made casket with a red interior and it clashed with Arden�s black light home. But after a little paint it looked as if Arden had designed it himself. It mostly glowed in the dark with spirals on the top. Arden was proud of it.
Though they were not married, they lived together in the dwelling like they were. To dig a new dwelling would have been a waste of time and energy. Casey also helped out by catching moths for Octavious. You would think a vampire could never get married lawfully but the law was nothing to them and Victor proved that and his love for Ana with the ring. She accepted it even before he got all the words out. He didn�t need to remodel his house. It was a shack, but the size of an empty schoolroom and twice as dark to lure a nosey snooping meal into it.
Part of the city park was closed after midnight as a law to cut down on vandalism and it made the perfect hunting ground for Arden and Casey. Not everyone saw the sign that proved the law. Arden had a tendency to throw it in the lake. The unfortunate many who journeyed into that area after midnight helped carry on the legend of the Midnight Ghost of Campus Park. Arden and Casey loved it when couples took a night stroll. It gave them both a full meal. They hid in the oak trees until the humans were in sight. Tonight, it was a young couple, the boy was about twelve red hair and too many freckles to count. The girl was about ten with very short brown hair and a good Hispanic tan. They walked together hand in hand catching glimpses at each other and sighing. Arden could remember young love in his days even though it was so long ago. Casey snickered at the couple, puppy love never worked out. They were whispering something to each other and giggling, but neither Casey nor Arden could make it out. They kissed and that was when they decided to make their move. Casey and Arden jumped out of the trees and ambushed the two, grabbing their own sex of a prey. The couple both screamed, but it would do them no good. The park was deserted except for the four.
�Well what do we have here?� Casey sneered looking at her victim�s profile. The girl shuddered.
�Who are you?� The boy asked his captor.
Arden laughed at the question. �Your �midnight ghost� mortal!�
The boy stuttered over his words. �You�re not a ghost, you�re a vampire!�
�How clever you are, but you should know better, there are not such things as ghosts.�
Casey laughed with him, �You first love.�
�No, ladies first.� They laughed together and as if in unison bit down on their victims concurrently. They loved sharing a meal together. Their prey screamed as fear and pain twisted their insides like malleable metal that would soon harden that way. The young boy tried to get away, but Arden kept his grip and finished his meal, crushing his skull when he was done. Casey asked Arden to finish off her meal for her, she never could get used to crushing heads. It was too messy of a job. Arden didn�t mind it, he actually liked crushing them, and it gave him a sense of accomplishment.
The immortal couple was full for the night, ready to go home and spend the day in their coffins. They kissed, their bloodstained tongues touching and caressing each other, stepping on their meals� corpses to get to the other and they stood on the remains of the girl. Arden grabbed Casey�s hips and Casey put her hands behind his neck. They floated into the air, slowly spinning and in their lip lock of love, dodging each other�s fangs. Time seemed to stop or slow to a leisurely speed. For a moment, they thought about nothing but being one body, one soul in that kiss. They felt weightless even when they landed back onto the ground. Casey let go of Arden�s lips and tried to roll her eyes back in her head. �Oh, I love being a vampire!�
Arden heard police sirens and they rang all too well into his mind. He looked all around for the car and spotted it coming from behind them. Two men were in the car and they were ready for a shoot-and-run-down situation. They beamed their lights onto the couple and they both hissed, running from the car out of the park and onto the street. One thing Casey missed about being a mortal was that her lively skin would absorb the sunlight instead of just burning it. Arden didn�t want to look back, but something told him to. As he did, he recognized the officer driving. It was the cop from that unforgettable night he and his friends were run down. He had aged for the time. He had gray hair and wrinkles everywhere on his face but Arden could recognize that face even in death. That cop had devoted his life, like the rest of them that had seen a vampire, to killing them. Arden stopped, jerking Casey back with him, realizing he had her hand he let go. �Go back to the dwelling, make sure no one follows you. Go!� Casey didn�t want to leave him, but she did. It was better if one of them died than for her to try and persuade him not to stay and they both were killed. She knew he would be all right, she just knew.
Arden stopped in the middle of the road and waited for the car. With no fear in his body he let the car come to him. It sped up and the driver�s eyes widened for his goal. They were the same crazed eyes Arden could not get out of his mind. He gave the cop his cunning eyes, looking up with his head down as if inviting the car to come closer. The cop in the passenger seat couldn�t take the suspense. He opened the car door and jumped out running for a nearby doorway to hide in. As soon as the car got to Arden, he jumped on the hood obscuring the cop�s view. He had no choice but to stop. He wasn�t expecting Arden to do that; he wanted him to run so he could be victorious. Arden knelt down on the car, keeping balance. He cracked his knuckles, punched through the glass and into the cop�s chest. A quick pull and the heart came out easily. After taking the heart out with one hand, Arden punched the glass a second time getting the cop�s gun. Pulling it from the glass he showed the cop his heart and then shot it in front of his eyes. Stunned, the cop sat there still until he finally died. Arden didn�t let his face fall on the steering wheel waking the town with the sound of the horn. He grabbed his head by the hair and dragged him out of the car and down the road, laying him onto the street about fifty feet from the car. Arden walked back to the site and got into the car eagerly. He had never driven before but he knew how. Starting it up, he clenched the wheel.
�Let�s see how you like it.� Arden talked to the corpse lying in the street as if it could hear him and slammed his foot onto the gas pedal. The cop car squealed tires and raced toward the lifeless body about to be unrecognizable even with dental records. Arden felt a rush go through him, speed and false adrenaline. Revenge was upon him and he could taste its sweet satisfaction served in a frozen glass with ice. Just when it was about to hit the body, Arden slowed down, little by little grinding each inch of his face into the pavement. He could hear the bones crunching underneath the...