Feeling all of my lifeforce flow out of my body
Along with my blood
Then everything started to go black
I've was always afraid of the dark as a child
My brothers used to torture me with stories
Stories of demons and bogeymen who came out after dark
And snatched naughty little girls from their beds
But, then I entered my teens and became less afraid
Until talk started up in our little town about a monster
Who stalked the lonely, dark roads at night
Preying upon whoever came along
My father didn't let my mother, my sister and myself go out once the sun had set after that
Then, one night my brothers didn't come home
They had been at our neighbors house, not but fifteen miles down the road
Helping raise a new barn
But, they left late that night for some reason and didn't come back
Their bodies turned up a day later, behind our barn
My little sister found them
I was helping my mother preserve our winter supply of meat in the kitchen
When we heard her screams
I got there before my mother, because my legs were longer
Their throats had been ripped out and it seemed their bodies had been drained of all their blood
My father decided he would wait in the shadows, behind the barn to catch and kill the creature
That was his most foolish idea ever
He died that night.....
My mother heard his yells and ran out to help him
She died ten feet from our kitchen door
My sister slept peacefully through their cries of pain, until it came for her
I can still hear her to this day in my sleep
She didn't scream, only whimpered and cried for me to come and make the bad dream go away
Then, she stopped speaking
She never made another noise after that
Finally, the creature came for me
I never saw what it was
It glided into my room, like a thick black cloud, swallowing me in the darkness
I don't recall screaming in fear, only anger at the loss of my family
I fought it until it whispered something in my mind and I felt my body relax
The minute it's teeth dug into my throat I broke out of my reverie and struggled against it
You know when you fight something that is draining all your blood, you can actually feel your heart slow down and every pulse of blood run out of your body, until your heart stops
It hurt every minute I resisted until finally I passed out
I was swimming in a sea of darkness, adrift on my own thoughts
When the darkness was replaced by a bright light
That slowly took the shape of a human face
A man
He extended his hand to me
And showed me the gift he had given me
Immortality...
So you see I'm no longer afraid of the dark
For it is a part of my world now and it follows me wherever I go...................