Chapter 12: It's A Killing
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More freaky wierd monolouges that come straight from lirpa's twisted psyche. Be afraid, be very afraid. ;) Just kidding. Enjoy, and, as always, I love feedback.
Mystic Circle (12/12)
Chapter 12: It's A Killing
by lirpa
You made it this far? I'm impressed. Most people run screaming long before they reach me. There's a reason I'm last, I want be to be the nightmare people leave with.
I was born during the Middle Ages, and like all God-fearing people I was a good little Catholic. I did what teh Curch told me to, fearing for my immortal soul. I've damned it though.
My father was a duke of some prestige in France and I remember our castle was drafty and cold, always drafty and cold. There was a man that worked for my father as treasurer and scribe, he had no name, he was a commoner, but he became my best friend. Why? Because he was the wisest man I've ever met, He'd seen the pyramids, and the ruins of Greece, he didn't tell me until after my change that he had seen them both during their glory years, when they were more than relics of past civilizations.
I was riding in the forest alone one night, I don't know why, a dare perhaps, and I was attacked. But not by many men, only one, single, solitary man. Only he wasn't a man at all. Rather he was a vampire. He turned me, as I lay bleeding to death on a patch of moss besides the wheel ruts they called a road.
I came back to my father's castle, racing the dawn the next night, and Matt drew me aside. He told me he knew what I was. Then he had to explain how he he knew, then what he himself was. We left the castle the next night, and never looked back. I haven't seen that castle in 850 years and I can still remember every stone in the place.
We ran for centuries, from so many little things, from villagers who looked us the wrong way, pretty women, the Inquisition. They would have derarly liked ti get their hands on me, to find a real, live vampire to torture and then kill as a sign of piety. As you can tell I have very little respect for the Catholic faith now.
We wandered, meeting many of the people here now, and parting from them again. Some I was sad to see go, others less so. Still the people I met became part of my life too.
There are people I remember better than others, I will never forget Jeff, nor the demon behind the mask. I won't forget to remember the shapechenger or the pixie or the mortal. Others are already slipping into the beack of my mind. The werewolf, the imp, the siren, thay aren't threats. even the sorceress, who hates me, isn't a threat to my power. There is only one threat to my power, the witch.
She's right, I have no considerable power in the workings of the company. My power comes from intimidation, from angee, from resentment. She doesn't realize the extent of my power.
There are threats, of course, there is Lucifer's son, as Matt calls him, who possesses great magic and ability. He could be great, but he is not.
There is the shapechanger, but he has no power, only Matt would tell you differently.
There is the pixie, who is too happy to try to cahnge how things are going. He doesn't even realize that I'm taking all his friends from him and making them loyal to me.
And finally, there is the human, who poses the least of all threats. He can do nothing to mw, he has no power, even if Adam says he is somehow specail.
Eventually I will have all the power and there will be no one and nothign that will be able to syop me. And that dau I will have my faerie by my side and I will laugh in Matt's face. He, whjo thinks he knows me so well, he will be crushed by my betrayal. And I will laugh and laugh and laugh.
It will just be life, he will understand that. Eventually I may even forgive him.
I am the reaper of the dead, the claimer of lost souls. You, who are wandering around and listening to our tales, how long will you survive? Knowing what you know? And whenyou can't take it anymore I'll be there, the last thing you ever see. I'll be your Undertaker.
