CHAPTER TWO NOT ALL THAT MERRY
1559 Words
Year 8 A.P. – Autumn
I woke up in my round big bed, not really needing any sleep and yet tired nonetheless. Yawning I stretch, open the window, and whistle away in my apartment, programming my day once again, as always.
Today was cold, so I choose a Switzerland hot crème chocolate, warming it up and putting some marshmallows on top, mixing until it melted so I could lick the spoon clean and drink it all in little sips, hugging the warm mug with my hands.
Uhm, uhm. Delicious.
Warmed up I put my gym clothes and ran through the city, gathering once more some runners to join in the fun.
One of the perks of being in the middle of a big city is that it’s never lacking zombies to deal with, ha, haha. Yeah…
By midday I had taken off a map of the place, planning where I would secure next, after already freeing the shopping mall; which kept me occupied for a very long time I may add; and planning on making a farm.
Yeah, a Vampire Farmer, sounds very weird, like… like the name of a porn movie.
Ok, now my mind went too far and I’m imagining bad things related to farming “animals”; by that I mean humans, just to clarify. I passed my tongue behind my fangs, thirsty, yet not as eager for animal blood. That thought stops me on my tracks as I keep looking emptily at the map in front of me.
Humans hm… when was the last time I saw one of them? Or rather, other things than prey and zombies?
Hell, when was the last time I spoke to someone?
I shake my head. It doesn’t matter, and I like this way, after all, I have all the city to myself, have a generator working, lots of gas and movies, books, clothes, anything at all! Who never looked outside the window to the overgrowing city before them and thought of owning it all? Or going to a shopping mall and wanting to simply pick up what you needed, without worrying about paying it?
I had that access.
To hell those novels with rich vampires, I own a city! All on my own!
Beat that romance writers, ha!
Who are probably dead by now. Ops, what way to lighten up the mood uhm, hehe.
So, farming. Yeah, first, I found a book about that, then I went in the tedious task of finding out how to plant, where to plant and, mostly, what to plant in this permanent shaded and toxic cloudy place.
I started with berries; and a lot of them, from strawberries to raspberries, blackberries, cherries and even some pear so that the wildlife could munch on.
Aren’t I nice?
Nah, not really, just securing a fat income of honeyed blood, uhm uhm.
Then I prepare the place, cleaning a square from weeds and garbage, closing the place from the wild life and only allowing my cows in there, as I wanted my supply of milk secured… for my drinks, of course. Cow milk expires really quickly I discovered.
Then I get tired and just throw the seeds all over the place, not really looking at the paper to know which ones I was opening and planting.
So much for my previous research right?
The day was still going but I was already out of things to do hum… oh, I know! I jog around until I reach the shopping mall, going directly to the male clothes section. Just because is the apocalypse doesn’t mean I have to dress badly now, does it?
I try on some expansive suits; from the classy all black to a velvet bloody red, a blue one with a silver tie, but something was off, none of them felt… vampirish enough. I look at the mirror, pushing my black hair up, smiling smugly and winking at myself.
Thank God I still have a reflex though; I would lose sight of all this beauty!
I hold up my hair up in a high ponytail, giving me a clear view of my face and a samurai vibe to my sharp gaze, showing off my pointy eyes and black raven hair from my Asian mother, as my father’s Caucasian blood made me tall and bulky, adding the dark blue deep eyes, like a lagoon.
Sad that I still need to find a good movie with an Asian vampire in it, not an easy feat since I cannot find many not American movies around here and less even with Asian vampires in then, pity. I miss the internet.
Oh, I know, even better! There was a museum close by with an exposition of old clothes and other stuff, I could always have a look, no harm done right? Is not like someone would miss them now would they?
I clap to myself; alright, new goal settle, let’s try some fluffy sleeves and high collared white shirts! Is easy for me to get there, but not as pleasant to walk around with those annoying stinky zombies.
So one more week cleaning up the place, yaaay…
Why so many people were inside the museum anyway? Gosh, so troublesome… but totally worth it. As I am standing at the section of “The evolution of clothes throughout the eras”, debating if smashing the glass would damage the attires or not, I found the very interesting section of “Weapons from all ages”.
Oh baby, yes, yes! Here we go: Templar swords, mace, bows, axes, curved swords, shields, cannons, old firearm, even metal silver armor with the horse version included!
Shit, I don’t have a horse, will need one now hum…
After choosing a katana, a Japanese sword, of my taste; thought to be very fitting since I’m Asian; I went back to the clothes section, looking the Asiatic part with the kimonos – probably would use only at home, difficult as hell to move around in those – some medieval clothes with strips made of leather or fur – too simple and barbaric, but good outside – I settle with two parts for now; the military ones, with the funny hats and full of golden trinkets, and the royal ones, of course.
Got to love some red cape filled with white fur and golden threads forming patterns all over it, right?
Cannot forget the crow too, hehe. Sigh.
Seems I will be making more travels this way now, doesn’t it? Where the hell did I put the keys to that truck I used to bring the cows and other animals in? I think as I tap my finger on my chin.
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After filling in the three gigantic walk-in closets from my apartament, I was now sitting on the porch of the closest house to the park with an incredible view of the animals and the lagoon, feeling tired of the same routine I have been having the last months…
So, as my territory grow so did the problems with maintaining it, especially with the Hunters that now had the balls to invade swipe away my animals, having irritated me enough to the point of trying new methods to keep them at bay; though I soon realized that I couldn’t be everywhere at the same time.
I ended up installing electric fences on top of the walls, as well as making pits with spikes on the other side of the wall, and, since gasoline wouldn’t last forever and I would rather use it for my own apartment, came the problem with maintaining the electricity on.
That was resolved with solar panels in all rooftops, and a lot of cables, and a lot of trouble to carry then, link then, learn how to install, install, see if it works, then put the fences up.
I don’t want to even think about all that work, without even starting in how many spikes I had to make, how much digging…
Ugh, why did I want to make my territory this big? Like, oh no! I see a mall there, how about building a wall over it? And, no! There is a park there too, how about another wall? Sigh…
So, I’m on a break today and want to do something fun.
But what was the question…
I already hunted a deer these days but they were easy and my usual prey, so I went for the wolves, taking some sips here and there and scaring the s**t out of them, but otherwise nothing new really.
So, as I looked upon my kingdom, passing my tongue over my dry lips, I thought of exploring the zoo once more.
Last time I went there only the giraffes remained, been able to jump the fence and munch the trees around, but who knows, it was at the very beginning, maybe other creature survived…
Actually, I simply didn’t have anything better to do, so why not have a walk in the park hehe.
But, of course and as expected, everything there smelled of death; And as the smell suggested, everything was dead.
I ended up finishing my free day watching movies once more, but only one feeling grow day in day out inside me, covering all others…
Boredom.
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