Angel, I'm Blood Thirsty

Chapter 4| Turning the Angel Into a Vampire

Since the Angel had been banished from the heavens, she’s been stuck in the pile of rocks that were once the infamous Mountain of Red Waters. 3 days and 3 nights had passed, her wounds had become infected, her immune system was faltering and her stomach had given up on growling for food.

She used up what was left of her energy to stay alive for longer. It was only out of hope. Someone might just come along to rescue her, she believed.

Over the days, Halo had made a companion in a friendly bat. Their relationship started off rough when the bat registered her as an unwelcomed intruder. However, Angel Halo managed to get the bat on her side. The little seeds it brought along for her, surely helped her through those devastating days.

“Someone is coming!” Halo grabbed the bat and clenched it to herself while the loud, heavy footsteps got closer. She freaked and panicked. The wrong people shouldn’t find her there. She wouldn’t be able to fight them off. She was too broken, literally.

“Quiet down, you little bird! You will get us caught!”

“Correction, I am not a bird.”

“Wait you can talk? I knew it!”

The footsteps had stopped for a while. There was that suspenseful silence. Even Halo wondered where the stepping man had gone…

“BOO!”

“Ahhh!” Halo yelped and screamed. A scary man, with fangs and blood red eyes, had jumped out of nowhere. He was now at her face, very close like that. Invading her personal space.

“Stand back you evil kind!” Halo had to compose herself and protest for her own safety. “I wield a power that can destroy your entire empire! Do not test me!”

An awkward silence as the two stared at each other—the angel mostly glaring at the tall man who was towering above her and the man was only wondering if she was being for real.

“Lady, look at you,” the man finally said. He fixed the tone of his voice to sound less scary for her. He pitied her to some degree, “…what can you do?”

“I wield a power that can destroy your entire empire! Do not test me!” she had said and that time the man repeated after her but mockingly, “I wield a power that can destroy your entire empire! Do not test me!”

He then laughed while bending down to reach her on the ground, “It looks to me that you have lost your so-called power.”

The bat had flown out of Halo’s arms a long time ago. Now, it appeared and rested on the man’s shoulder. “Oh, Tito.” The man was addressing the bat, “My dear friend. You have truly betrayed me. I sent you here to get rid of her but instead, you fell in love.”

The man then looked at Halo, staring at her eyes—which was kind of uncomfortable for her, “I did hear that Angels have that irresistible charm.” His eyes had that sexy slant and his red pupils hovering to the upper lead. “We, vampires, are taught from a young age to be careful of you, lot. Apparently, you can lure a man to his death while flaunting that blinding halo above your crowns. Is it true?”

Halo only glared at him. The intention was to give him a death stare, scary enough to intimidate him but the man was the King Of Scary. He was not the slightest bit of scared by her. In fact, he found her delusional and a little cute.

“Well, if that was true, I’ll have you know that you have no effect on me. In fact, I find you…” he was studying her with his dead pan eyes meanwhile looking for a word in his head, “distasteful. I could never guess what made Tito fall in love with you.”

Halo was starting to feel her soul pulling out of her body. She knew her time was running out. Her body had been tensed and clenched up the moment he showed up, but she loosened up. She didn’t have enough energy to be on guard anymore. She was faint and slowly dozing off.

“Are you dying already? You should’ve died long before I came here—”

CLICK! CLICK!

The bat was berating the man.

“Okay, fine, Tito. I’ll save her life.”

“Well, hurry! Had you come earlier she wouldn’t have gotten to this state!”

“A vampire’s bat shouldn’t be this nice. You’re too nice. Don’t you know how deadly her kind is? We save her life now; she will come with her lot and kill us all tomorrow.

“Not her, Duncan.” The bat said, “She’s the reason you’re alive today.”

That, instantly, shut the man up. He hesitated for a while but then he saw her slowly start to glow—this only meant that she was truly dying. Her body was preparing to dissolve to spirit and then float to heaven. The bat wouldn’t let that happen; it started clicking even lower to rush the man into saving the dying Angel.

The man then pulled out a fat pouch of herbs from his large coat. He grabbed a pinch and then held it at the Angel’s nostrils. She had to inhale—which, naturally, she did. Then scooped some mysterious balm from a small packaging. He parted the Angel’s dress at her chest area—just enough to expose where her heart was. He then smeared the paste down to her sternum.

It took less than a minute for the balm to embed into her skin and it sent an electric shock through to her heart. They saw her chest pop out a little as if suddenly pumped. Then a moment of stillness. Slowly, they saw life flow back into her. Her heart restored to a normal beat.

“My heart had stopped,” Halo lamented as soon as she caught her breath. “You brought me back.”

“It’s your fault,” the man said—trying desperately to show no concern for her. “You seduced Tito and then he made me bring you back. I would rather you die.”

He then handed her a flask. “It’s soup,” said he.

Tito—the bat—could see that Halo would not take the flask. She was very warry of the man that handed it to her. Tito encourage Halo, “I had asked him to bring you medicine. Please, drink some. It should give you some strength.”

Halo couldn’t trust the blood sucker, but she could trust her new friend. She gulped all of the soup in one go.

Duncan—the scary man—then started lifting some of the giant rocks. He was lifting them off of the injured Angel. Those giant rocks had been compressing her wings for days bow. She felt a great sense of relief when she could move again. However, she couldn’t feel her wings anymore.

Her wings were supposed to be excruciating the moment he freed her but she felt numb. Terrified, the tiny Angel. She had to brace herself before she could reach to her back to inspect her wings. Her eyes began to glisten with tears. She knew she had lost something. She was hoping to have been jumping to conclusions. However, when a limb lost sensation in many cases, the solution would to amputate it. Halo’s wings lost…

Halo’s wings were…

She…

“You’re still too weak,” Duncan was more worried about her health that he did not realize that she may had been grieving the wings that she suspected were dead. He went down to her to try and stretch her out to allow blood circulation around her body. She had been stuck in the same position for days and nights—she had to stretch.

As he casually moved her around, Halo felt a pulse shoot straight to one of her wings. It was painful but she cheered.

“Pain had never felt so good!” She cheered, “My wings! My wings are alive!!!”

“You need to stay calm,” Duncan said to her. “Preserve your energy. You might not make it through the night. I’m only now realizing how far the damage has gone. It’s more than broke bones or a heart that has bled dry. I’m scanning through your internal organs… I don’t know much about angels’ body anatomy but I’m pretty sure we are kind of similar. There’s an overwhelming presence of abnormal tissue and fluid all across your body. You have an infection…”

“What does that mean?! What does that mean?!” Tito was worried.

“She’ll join the dead by night.”

“She cannot die! Do something! Isn’t there something you can do?”

There was a knowing short silence where Halo and Duncan shared an eye contact. Almost like they both knew something.

Duncan then confessed, “I think she knows what needs to be done—”

“I’m not letting you bite me!” Halo cried. She was very firm and clear. Tito and Duncan attempted at changing her mind, “With such injury, you’ll die! Let me bite and turn you, for once and for all”, but she chose to trust the medicinal soup.

At first, she did not know what it was until she tasted it. She instantly recognized all the ingredients and herbs in that soup. That was one lesson she never forgot. That was the strongest medicine there was discovered by those on earth. It was believed to heal everything, even infections.

It was very hard to come by, even she wondered how the man came to have it in his possession. He was likely of some high rank to have had a medicine of such quality and prestige.