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I walked through the fields of grass and corn and corn and stuff. They were growing plentiful this year, far more plentiful than anything i could’ve possibly imagined. I haven’t seen this much crops ever in my life, though mama says that before the war everytning was this full of crops always. I hope some day i get to see that.
I swiped the sweat off of my forehead and looked up. You could barely see the moon, partially covered up by the pure gray walls that surrounded pitter and penetrated the horizon. One of the hard parts of being a vampire farmer is that the only time you could really actually do any farming is during the knight time. Sure there were some vampires out there who could walk during the day for whatever reason but here iw as, stuck to the darkness of night. It’s not like i HATED it. But i do wonder what it would be like to see the sun for once.
I walked bakc inside the pathetic little wooden hut. Dad had built it before he left and mama didn’t really know how to upgrade it. As if we had the money to upgrade it. Still, it was home. I walked over to the doorside table and lit the candle onthere using my fire magic. Finally, i could see.
My name is Saphire Moonlight God Spell and i’m 14 years old. I’m a vampire, in case you couldn’t tell. I have bright turquoise hair and pale white skin and bright red eyes, like my mama. I don’t go to any school because there’s not a school for me to go to anymore. I live in a place called Pitter. It’s a nice place. A simple place. But apparently it used to be so much more.
I sat aside on the table. I could hear my stomach growl. I was hungry for blood. Mama would be back soon. She was currently in the middle of a show, i’m pretty sure. Maybe if we were lucky she would bring some home to us. I could use a little bit of luck right now.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door.
Mama??
I opened the door excitedly and was then let down. It wasn’t mama. Instead it was a man. Some sort of creature i’ve never seen before. He was a small man, only slightly shorter than me, with one eye and filled with scales. He looked nervous. He was shivering up and down.
“Sapphire?? Is that you??” he said in a shaky voice.
“Uh, yes,” i said. I glanced him up in down. It was hard to get a read on him. “May i help you?”
“Oh thank the Gods,” he said. “Look, m-may i please come in? It’s so cold out here and who knows when the… inquistors are gonna get here.”
“The inquisitors??” i squinted my eyes. “You’re not from around here, are you?”
“No, i’m not! And you gotta help me! If you don’t help me, i’ll die and all of this will be for nothing!”
I looked him up and down. Mama might be mad if i let a stranger into the house. But… she might also be mad if i didn’t help a person in need….
I opened the door wider and stepped aside. “Okay, you can come in.”
“R-really? Oh, thank you! Thank you so mu- AH” On his way in, the figure has slippd and tripped on the table next to the door, causing one of the legs to snap and the whole thing to lean and bend over. He picked up the table leg. “Oh geez i’m so terrible terribly sorry”
“It’s fine,” i said, trying to figure out how exactly i was gonna fix that without mama getting mad. He held the broken off table leg in his hands.
“Do you mind if i take a seat?” he said as he took a seat.
“Uh, not at all. So, uh, can i get your name?”
“Oh!” he jumped up, almost startled just by the meer suggestion. “My name is Teb. Tebethy, for long. And you must be Sapphire?”
“Yes. How do you know my name?”
“Do you hae a cup of milk of somehting?? I’m so thirsty from my travels”
“Oh, uh, ‘yeah sure” i said as I went to the kitchen. We had at least bottles of elemental milk. Mama and i couldn’t drink it because if you give a vampire milk they’ll die of human fluids. But it was good to stockpile it for those who are needy. I poured some into a cup and handed it to him.
“T-thank you very much,” he said as he took a small sip of it and set it down. He was still carrying the leg of the table. Poor thing. Looked so nervous.
“So, how do you know my name?” i asked again.
“Oh, yes, well.” he took another sip from the milk and then wiped the mustache off of his face. “Us nothics, y’know, we have this weird insight thing adn it told me.”
“Oooookay,” i said, taking a seat across from him at the table. “So… .why are you here, Teb the Nothic? Why are you so interested in me”
“Yes yes well, you see, i’m less interested in you.” His eye widened and then he quickly added. “Uh, no offense.”
“None taken.”
“But yeah, i’m not interested i n you. rather , i’m interested in that… gem you found.”
I gulped. I could feel a bead of sweat run down my face again.
“Gem?” i said. “What gem?”
“Did you not find a gem while going through the fields the other day?” he squinted his eye at me.
“Uh, i mean, no” i said, lying like a liar.
“Don’t lie to me, Sapphire,” teb said, extending the hand of his that wasn’t holding the table leg and putting it on top of mine. “I understand why you’re nervous. I would be too, in this scenario. But you can trust me.”
I felt his weird scaley hand on mine. It wasn’t an… uncomfortable feeling? His hand was shaking still, but it was still a bit calming.
I looked away from his eye. “... what do you know about the gem?”
He retreated his hand. “Oh, lots. My friends and i tried to find all of them like it when we were kid. I guess you can say it was our FATE to find it.”
Weird how he said it like that but ok
“Do-do you know what it is?” i asked.
He rasied his brow. “Do YOU know what it is?”
I looked at him. I wanted to lie but found myself unable to. “N-no.”
“I figured as such…” teb said, his voice shaking. “Oh dear, then i’m glad someone like you found it. If someone who knew of its power got a hold of it, gosh, that would be terrible…”
“Its power?”
“Oh yes!! Yes yes yes!! That orb is extremely dangerous!! Too dangerous!! You shouldn’t have it!!”
“W-why shouldn’t i??” i said. I was starting to feel just as scared as teb was.
He leaned in close. “Something like that is bound to be pursued by powerful men. Powerful men who will use it for dangerous, dare i say, maybe even deadly purposes.’
I gasped. “You don’t mean…?”
He solemnly nodded. “It’s why the moment i heard that the gem was found, i knew i had to do what i could to sneak into pitter and try to make sure it hadn’t fallen into bad hands.”
“Am… am i bad hands?”
“What??” he yelled. “Oh no no no no no dear, no. i’m so sorry. Of course it’s in good hands with you. Although…”
He paused. I looked at him, raising my brow. “Although..?”
“Although, i must be honest with you… i was sent here for reasons other than just inspection….”
He looked away, beginning to look sad and even more nervous. “What’s wrong?” i asked him . “You… you said you came from out of pitter?”
“Yes!! Yes teb does!! Let’s just say… i’m working to try to end the war.”
I jumped up. “You’re with the resistance??”
He nodded. “Indeed i am. And i’ve been told by my superior that if we could get our hands on the gem, if we had that power… maybe finally….”
“The war would be over…” i said, trailing off. Imagine. A world where we weren’t always at war. Teb snapped me back to reality.
“I’m sorry, dear girl, but you don’t mind… if i… look at the gem, do you?”
I blinked. It took me a second to register his request. He wants the gem?? I mean… it shouldn’t hurt to have him just look at it, should it?
“Hold on just a sec,” i said as i walked over to my bedroom. I lifted up the mattress pad that had been placed on the floor and grabbed the gem. It was an okay looking gem, i guess, one that looked primarily like basic rock except for the glowing green emerald parts inside of it.
I walked back in, the gem behind my back and stood in front of teb. I slowly, nervously, placed the gem in front of me and rested it in both of my hands. Teb’s eye widened.
“Oh yes, yes yes yes yes,” Teb said, looking at it with bright glwoing eyes. “Oh it’s so shiny… and uncut…”
“I’ve never met a resistance fighter before…” i said. He wasn’t really paying much attention, i could tell. Too distracted by the shiny object. figures . I continued anyway. “Must be a hard job…”
He finally noticed and snapped out of it. “Oh, uh, yes. But y’know what they say. There’s nothing worth doing more than the right thing.”
There was something about that phrase that was… familiar. Where did I hear it from?? And then it hit me.
“WAIT!” I yelled. “Do you kno-“
My question was interrupted by a large knock on the door. Frighteningly large. So large I was thinking the whole door would break down.
“Oh geez, oh man,” Teb said, somehow shaking even more than before. “I told you the inquisitors would find us soon…”
“The inquisitors??” I said but then Teb shushed me.
“They can probably hear us through the door,” he whispered. “Sapphire, do you know how to use that gem there?”
I looked at the rock I held in my hand. I couldn’t lie to him. “Uh, no.”
He looked at me with his eye and held my hand with his free hand. “Dear girl, we can get out of this together. If you hand me the gem, I can use it to take them out…. you trust me, right?”
I looked at him. I had just met this man, did I trust him enough for this? I mean… he was a resistance fighter and he apparently knew…. The knocking continued, interrupting my train of thought.
“Dear girl,” he whispered. “If the inquisitors come in, we’re dead regardless. This is our best chance. Don’t you wanna see the wall come down?”
I looked him over. He was shaky. I could tell he was just as nervous and scared as I was. I felt bad for the poor thing. Could he really bring himself to take down the inquisitors? But he was right… there was no better option
“Okay….” I said as I put the gem into his free hand.
He held it up to his eye and looked at it closely. “Thank you, Dear girl.” Then he took the table leg in his other hand and impaled it into my chest.
Oh god oh god oh god oh god
I fell onto the ground with a sharp thud. I looked down and saw the blood spewing out of it, the leg halfway into my heart. I tried to pull it out but I wasn’t strong enough. Eventually I lost the use of my arms all together…
Mama… I’m so sorry…
Teb stood up straight now, a different air about him. One of confidence and reassurance. The door finally opened and two inquisitors, tall golden rock men, stepped into the wood cabin.
“What took you so long?” Teb said. “God, I had to distract the damn girl for so long.You’re lucky I didn’t break.”
“Sorry, sir,” one of the inquisitors said in a small voice. “The tunnels took us even longer to get through them we thought.”
“Whatever,” Teb said, rolling his eye. “Did any of you bring my coat? It’s fucking freezing.”
“Oh, uh, yes sir,” the other inquisitor spoke up. He tossed a long black leather jacket to Teb, who put it on effortlessly.
“Thank you,” Teb said. He looked over at the other inquisitor. “Now you, you have a special mission. Run back to the castle and tell Grand Emporer Corka that we have the gem but he best prepare his best jewlerrs. The gem is uncut.”
“As you wish, Chief Inquisitor Tebetby,” The inquisitor said with a bow as he rushed out of the room. I tried my best to yell and scream but all that came out was a gurgle. The other inquisitor walked over and kneeled over me. He placed a hand in front of my mouth
“It appears she’s still breathing, sir,” The inquisitor said.
“Ugh, what fucking ever,” Teb said. “Just use your hammer or whatever the fuck you rocks use.”
The inquisitor nodded and stood up. He pulled what appeared to be a stone hammer. He lifted it over his head and began swinging it down
Mama… I love you… I love you so m