The Dawn Of The Dark

by Elsa Ghosh

  Strange—she had put a certain wall to her statement that even if I had wanted to ask her a question I could not. There was a certain hanging back.

  While walking I noticed our path, the huge buildings vanished into barren lands, the cemented roads and walls turned into mud roads and brick walls. There was something stinky in the air. It was strong and it made me sick.

  Soon I realized it was the outskirts of volterra and after walking for few more minutes I saw a huge castle shaped demolished building. There was a toppled name plate at the entrance which was covered with so much dust...it seemed the house was decades and decades old.

  The more I entered the house the eeriness of the place grabbed me even more. The stairs were half broken, rats and cockroaches everywhere and then the woman in front of me opened the creaky door.

  “Ewwww...”, I couldn’t control saying it. In the inside the smell was even more rotten and foul. I felt like puking. The air inside was very heavy and dusty. Cobwebs, dry leaves, dusted furnitures, broken walls was all that I could see. And now I realised that the woman in front of me was smelling like a damp moss.

  She turned towards me. This time her eyes were lively.

  “He is upstairs”, she gave me a crooked smile and disappeared in the darkness.

  I looked at the stairs and the only room up there. I closed my eyes, left a sigh and started climbing up the stairs.

  After reaching the room I saw Damon, finally

  Standing in front of me, wearing formals, he waiting for me just as a gentleman does for his lady.

  For a moment I forgot everything, I forgot his disappearing, the blood stains, the crackle of laughter, katherine’s warnings. All I did was hugged him tightly with my eyes full of tears and asked

  “why...why did u do this to me"

  He took my exhausted face in his icy cold hands. His deep intensive blue eyes were trying to tell me something, something that I failed to connect with.

  His grip was hard and his face was serious

  “We need you, I have loved you since thousand years"

  He came closer to me, very close, I could feel his cold breath...and then I got tempted to this charismatic man all over again. I leaned more forward and felt him stiffen as my warm breath touched his neck. A think trickle of blood slid down my throat while he kissed me. He had bit my lower lip. It was wild and passionate..I couldn’t resist..I wanted more but then he pushed me away and said,

  “We will be in touch”,

  He gave me a not so pleasing smile and suddenly a sharp bright light hazed my view...everything went numb...my vision got blurred and at once I could hear the sound of my doorbell.

  It was ringing very loudly and from a very long time.

  I opened my eyes and saw myself on my bed.

  ‘ I was dreaming!!???’

  I could see that I had missed my flight because it was half past four in the evening.

  I got up from my bed, my mind still not stable with the fact that I was dreaming. Though I had slept for a long time but my body was aching and my face was fatigue.

  I could see a small blister, a sort of cut on my lower lip, exactly where Damon had bitten me while kissing

  I was confused, nauseous when I realized someone was banging the door loudly.

  I hurried towards the main door, opened it and was taken by surprise

  It was my mom!!.

  I was going through mixed emotions. I was meeting my mom after three years. As soon as she saw me, she came inside melodramatically and hugged me and kissed me, checked if I was ok or not and asked me what took me so long to open the door.

  I was happy to see her but I asked her the reason of her sudden visit.

  “What could I have done girl, you scared me yesterday by saying those bizarre things, so I couldn’t help but came here to see you"

  “Ok mom...go take some rest, else fresh n up. Do you want me to make you something?”

  “No dear..I had food..you carry on with your work"

  “Hey, wait...is that a blister..what happened!?”

  “ Mom...mom please calm down, I am fine..it’s just a small cut", my voice was high this time.

  She sniffed and went inside

  I felt so bad...my mom was just caring for me...why did I raise my voice!? But deep inside I could not cope up with the fact that all I saw...all that I felt was just a dream. I never went to volterra. I never net Damon. If this was a dream then why such a horrendous dream? Damon was the loveliest chapter of my life then why did he come in the form of a nightmare?...

  First let me get hold of katherine the next day I go to office. She has to give a lot of answers to me.

  I made my mom’s favorite dinner and apologized to her.

  I felt so warm and comfortable after my mom came home that I decided to keep Damon aside for sometime.

  I took a week's leave from my office and started sending time with my mom

  ‘Life is so good and happy when she is around me'

  After a week I rejoined the office, on reaching there I saw no one.

  My fellow colleagues, office staff...nobody was there...I looked eveverywhere

  Our new boss Mr.Chris..even his cabin was empty.

  Drop dead silence

  Suddenly the air started to smell like rotten eggs, exactly the same that I had felt in my dream inside the house.

  “ Cait....”, the masochistic voice called me out again

  For once I thought my heart has stopped beating. I didn’t want to look back, I shut my eyes closed, sweating and trembling, I wished it was not what I was thinking.

  An icy cold hand touched my shoulder and I knew this was my end. I opened my eyes and could feel that my body was getting numb and my hands were turning pale. I could feel I was freezing from inside.

  ‘No no no.......I cannot let this happen..’

  I removed the hand from my shoulder with anger and turned around.

  As expected, it was Damon.

  ‘ Was I dreaming again!?’, I thought

  “What happened...why are you so angry!?”,

  “Damon what’s wrong with you...what has happened to you?”

  “Nothing that concerns you", his eyes burning glow

  It was for the first time that I looked into his eyes and got scared.

  I wanted to run away but he was in my way.

  “Please let me go...”

  He smiled sternly

  “I need you...remember...how can I let you go!?”

  I noticed that Damon’s face was more alive, he had a very vibrant glow on his face but still he had a certain paleness in him.

  His lively face was much different from the Damon that I had seen in my dream.

  “Come with me..”, said his arrogant voice.

  My heart said to me that this was my end but my mind said, ‘run for your life’ .

  Gaining all my strength I tried to push him away and run but he got hold of me and banged my head up against the wall so hard that all I could remember in my semi consciousness was , Damon dragging me towards his car...throwing me on his backseat and then my vision got completely blank......

  After a long time when my senses started to work again...I slowly opened my eyes...my hands and mouth were tied...I tried to look outside the window, the place looked familiar to me--- I was in volterra.

  He pulled me out from his car and dragged me towards the darkness of his evil home. This time the house haunted me even more.

  Struggling to get out of his grip was useless. He took me to his room upstairs and threw me on the broken wooden floor and rushed towards an opened coffin.

  The room was shabby with huge slit drapes on the windows and was awfully stinking.

  ‘ Was he going to bury me alive!!!...but why.....’

  Suddenly I felt a nourishing touch on my head. With my hands and mouth tied, it was very difficult for me to move but I managed to look up.

  It was katherine!

  For the first time ever I was so happy to see k
atherine...

  “Sshhh....”, at once she started speaking

  “We don’t have much time...listen to me carefully. Years ago our family adopted Damon, but soon we realized that he did something to our mom. People said he infected her but soon afterwards I realized that he has turned my mom into a vampire. In order to save Chris I sent him far away for studies but he got hold of me. I died a very painful death. He wanted to kill me because I was a pure soul and then take my blood and give a new life to his lover

  ‘ K A S D E Y A’

  And he did so but it was in vain... along with a pure soul he needed a look alike of his lover which I was not but you are Cait

  I heard him say that he has waited for this day for thousand years.

  Cait...he is going to kill you. He needs your blood, your soul, your life.

  And he needs to make Kasdeya alive before the first ray of sun touches them, else they will be condemned to hell forever.

  It’s half past five...please Cait...fight till your last breath...fight till dawn...don’t give up your life before the first ray of sun touches Damon....because once Kasdeya is alive again...she will bring darkness forever.... she will destroy the entire mankind. She is over powerful...nothing can stop her.

  This was the reason why my soul kept warning you.

  So tell me...will you fight Damon till the dawn?...”

  Katherine’s eyes looked at me with immense hope.

  In my front I could see Damon preparing the weapon to kill me and give Kasdeya a new life

  I blinked both my eyes in assurance.

  “You are indeed your mom’s brave girl", smiled katherine

  She vanished in the darkness

  I was all alone with this evil now.

  I searched here and there for something that will help me to cut my ropes.

  My hands felt broken pieces of glasses

  I took one and tried to cut my ropes, also keeping an eye on Damon. I looked towards the backdoor of the room

  Slowly I stood up and started walking, making sure I make no sound.

  While moving I accidentally stepped on a broken glass, crying with pain and fear, keeping it low, I managed to escape through the backdoor.

  It was a closely shuttered room with the dust that clings and the dirt of years.

  I was in deep agony, my body started to collapse, I have lost a lot of blood already. With blurred vision, I managed to grab a corner under the table to hide

  I just have to hold a few more minutes and everything will be changed. Damon and Kasdeya will be condemned to hell forever

  After several minutes I heard footsteps. Bashing the door, comes Damon.

  ‘Shit!..’, he has traced my blood drops.

  I shut myself under the table as inside as I could.

  Damon dosen’t have much time, he is in a rush...rashly throwing things here and there, he is looking for me.

  “WHERE ARE YOU CAIT!!......”

  He left the room

  I was shivering with terror, I closed my eyes and tried to remember my mom...I wanted to go back to the warmth of her love.

  “I told you to be a good girl....”

  I opened my eyes... it was Damon

  Chills went down my spine.

  He grabbed me by my leg, I screamed in fear and he choked me on the floor.

  “Be nice, and it will hurt less...you don’t want a painful death....do you!???...”, threatened his fiendish tone.

  He picked me up and dragged me back to the room where Kasdeya lay waiting, waiting to be alive again.

  While he threw me on the floor, the bangles on my hand got entangled with the drapes and as I fall down, I see the drapes dropping over me....

  He pulled me out from there...I kicked his face and tried to escape, but he stabbed my leg.... I screamed in utter pain

  He turned me over...nothing was left in me to fight him more..

  With another deep breath, and ferocious look, he ran his thumb down the jagged edge of the dagger.

  In one shot, he slit my throat and stabbed the dagger in my heart.

  It was getting blank.....my vision was turning black....everything was going quiet, numb and still. I saw katherine’s hand in the dark calling me out, I wanted another moment but that was my last breath......

  Cait's body lay quiet on the floor soaked in warm blood. She was finally relieved from all her pain and fear.

  Damon injected a syringe through her chest.

  In the background we can see it’s happening ....

  From amidst the mountains, the sun was rising

  Damon had no time now, the sun was gradually rising, strong and bright...engulfing all the darkness on it’s way...

  Damon rushed towards the coffin and as he injected the syringe back into Kasdeya’s heart, the first ray of sun engulfed his evil soul...ruptured him along with his lover

  Damon turned into ashes...the monster was condemned to hell forever.

  Under the bright sunlight, we can see Kasdeya's pale body rupturing..........

  But soon it stopped

  ‘The syringe!!!’

  ‘It was empty!!’

  Cait's blood had already mixed in her venom before the first ray of sun touched her.......

  Silence everywhere...

  Cait’s dead body lay still, along with Damon’s ashes, and inside the coffin lay Kasdeya, her pale body now bright white

  Her pale brown hairs rejuvenating

  AND that’s when......

  ‘ She opened her eyes !..’

  THE DEMON IS BACK.......