Stranger's Deal

The Past

Vampire king's pov

"Brother," I smiled.

Amol seemed shocked at hearing me call Zar my brother. Yes, He was my brother whom I had loved with my everything. But he left me all alone when I needed him the most.

Decades ago we lived a very happy life. We were orphans but we had each other. As a big brother, he took care of me and I did the same but one night something happened that changed our life.

While I was walking home something strange happened to me. Something came in like thin air and stung me on my neck. At first, I didn't know what had happened to me and then it started to burn me. That's when I ran home screaming Yugal's name.

"Yugal, Yugal," I screamed in pain as he came out of the house. He had worry written all over his face.

"What happened?" he asked me coming towards me but stopped right away when he understood something wrong had happened to me.

"It... hurts, Yugal. It hurts," I showed him my neck from where blood was coming out.

"Something came and bit me here. I don't know if... I am hungry or thirsty," I looked at him begging to be saved but he didn't even say a word.

"Please, help me," I begged him.

It was the time when he was learning to be a wizard. I knew somewhere that he would find a way to save me.

"Just stay here," he said as he ran inside. He came out with a bag in his hand. I thought he brought something to help me but I was wrong.

"I will be back after I find some help," 

I wanted to tell him to hurry up but I couldn't speak a word.

"Lock the door and stay inside and whatever happens don't come out," he told me.

I was confused as to why he didn't help me get up or even touch me. I was smelling something that was making me more hungry but I didn't know what. After he left the smell left too. I did as he had asked me to do. I locked myself inside the house. I drank water and then ate food but it didn't quench my thirst. I waited for hours for him to come back but he didn't.

As it became unbearable more and more I ran out of the house, towards the forest. I screamed in pain. Later, I saw someone standing in front of me. I didn't see anybody coming. Maybe I was in pain and that's why I didn't notice anyone.

When the figure kneeled down before me I realised It was a woman. Without saying a word she picked me up. I felt like walking into the air for some time then it stopped. She took me inside the house. The indoor was all black and maroon. She laid me on a sofa and left. I was still restless.

She walked towards me and handed me a glass.

"Drink this,"

There was something red in it.

I smelled it and realized it was blood. It made me more thirsty. I liked the smell too. Without thinking anything I drank it. I quenched my thirst by drinking one more glass of blood. I was confused about what was happening and then the woman who had saved me told me about everything. That now I was a vampire. That some vampire must have bitten me.

The woman was very beautiful and made her even more attractive in my eyes when she saved me. That's how I met my wife Anima.

Anima saved me and was with me when even my brother left me alone. He ran away when he found out what had happened to me. He was a coward.