[sam_lakes]

Chapter 3

Peter had some friends over including his girlfriend Angie. Angie is in my humble opinion another name for babe. We were all watching a movie when I felt an urge.

I'll be back later," I said getting off the couch, "This movie is boring and I need a bit of fresh air. I've got a math test and I need to think over some of the possible questions and answers."

Yeah go for a walk - I was no more going for a walk and think than the clock was. I had to feed at least that's what I thought I needed. I didn't discover the real reason because it was a fleeting base impulse that I didn't know how to interpret. Possibly, if I had had an older vampire explain the changes I was going through it would have been easier.

I kept to the shadows because I was hunting for the right situation and it wasn't long before I found a situation I had to fix. Three teens had drug an elderly man into an alley. One was holding a knife to his throat while one held him and the third was searching his pockets.

Instantly, I flew into action I grabbed the teen with the knife and drug him back into the shadows some twenty-five feet away in less that a half second. In one second, I had drunk half a litter of warm delicious human blood causing him to faint; grabbing the second boy who had the man's wallet in his hand and drug him back to where his fainted friend was lying repeating my actions. He collapsed on top of his friend.

The third boy released the old man being startled by the fact that his buddies who had been there a second before where gone and nowhere to be seen - he met with the same fate. Taking the wallet still in the hand of the second teen I placed it in the man's pocket and in less than a second place the old man back in the safety of the dimly lighted sidewalk and whispered in his ear, "You have been saved by Vampire Boy go home now and later do a good deed for someone."

I return to the shadows out of sight but within striking distance of the three teens lying on the ground. They came to within a short time. When they were conscious I spoke in a cold raspy loud whisper, "You have done a misdeed. I have taken a taste of blood from each of you. The puncture marks will be gone shortly. BE WARNED! With each misdeed you commit I will take more of your blood until I take your life. I do not wish to take your life but I am sworn to rid the world of evil...YOU WILL give 10 hours each week of your life to doing good for others. Do you understand?"

There was silence and I smelled fear. I extended my fangs fully, let some of their blood trickle from my fangs, and stepped out of the shadows.

"Do you understand?" I said loudly, then stepped back into the shadows, "BE WARNED THE VAMPIRE BOY OF NEW BOSTON WILL BE WATCHING YOU!!!" and with that I was gone from that location and ran to my lair in Cambridge.

I was euphoric as I for the first time assailed the outside face of my building to the rooftop. I felt great about my actions and what I had said - I had save an old man from harm and attempted to correct three misguided youths. I had voiced my deep-seated purpose. It had surfaced; it was as if my destiny was now set to follow the route of ridding the world of evil. Of course, at that time I didn't realized the enormity of that purpose, or what it would mean for the life that lay ahead of me. Nor did I understand the problems that would beset me in keeping true to my purpose. I was sixteen and somewhat naive as any sixteen year old would be.

My senses had increased yet again and I was too engrossed in playing with them and learning to use them than to give any more thought to purposes.

I found I had somewhat of telescopic vision and my hearing I could tune into conversations filtering out other noises. I could switch from one conversation to another - from one sound to another it was as if I had a million channels to select from. It was 5:00a.m., so I also got a lot of snoring.

Sitting with my legs dangling over the building I was sort of flipping through channels getting somewhat bored when suddenly I heard a scream that made me jump and I almost fell of the ledge. I didn't hesitate going into action and descended the 15-story building and running though the tunnel then towards where I heard the scream.

I realized I was too late as I stood over the dead woman will multiple stab wounds staring lifelessly at the ceiling and lying in a pool of her own blood now just beginning to congeal. I reached down and closed her eyelids when I heard someone behind me.

I whipped around to find myself confronting the man who had brutally taken the woman's life. There was a moment of fear as I saw his insane eyes and the butcher knife he thrust into my abdomen. I leapt towards his body as the knife pushed its way further into my body. My mind momentarily blocked the pain as my fangs torn in to the left carotid artery but moments latter the pain caused me to drain the blood at an accelerated rate and my sucking so strong it caused the collapse of the artery his body drop convulsing. I crawled off him with the knife still in me. I pulled it out and for a second saw my blood oozing rapidly out of my own body. I collapse to the floor. My body was shutting down. I crawled to the phone and called the only number I could think of.

"Hello," said a sleepy voice at the other end of the line.

"Doc...I've been...stabbed...help me doc..." the phone fell from my hand.

Chapter 4