Dracula's Munchkin.

FOUR.

Vlad POV.

You’d be surprised about how much the world changes over the years, you’d be surprised to what the other countries hold for you. Vlad Dracul, at your service, I’m now a dealer, Evan is my employee, we are traveling around the world, we started with Europe, the war died down, we had the option of seeing most of the different countries.

We slept during the day and went out during the night, Evan still had the power of walking in the sun while I couldn’t even the slightest hit of the sun would burn my skin and hurt me. I needed time to heal, blood to live, blood I took either from Evan or some random human.

I don’t kill, I stopped killing, I just take what I need before leaving the human be, most of them don’t even remember what happened. I was finding out some of my new talents, I could hypnotize someone, not that good at it, but I could make them forget what happened.

I also had the power of flying, yes flying, my whole body would simply turn into wind and bats before I fly off. It’s a weird trick, especially when it happened the first time, I also found out that I could talk to bats, they obey me.

Evan said I’m a creature of darkness, they are the animal of the night, we are connected, if I try my best to connect with them, I could hear them talking, understand them, see through their eyes.

Our exploring took us longer than simple Europe, we were one of the people who went to the new world, to America, it was weird seeing the world changed in front of our eyes, we also noticed we never age, not me nor Evan. Being dealers, that made us good money, we used our money wisely, we’re building a fortune, us being immortal means we need the money to help us with our life.

It was just another day, the horses have been changing, new machinery are starting to emerge, we are no longer in our old world. People are also changing, the clothes, the words, everything is changing, but here I am stuck in time, watching the world around me turn and move.

Our work took us now to England, it must be one of my favorite countries to stay in, the people, the land, this is my favorite. I was walking around the streets alone, many years have passed yet again, here I am still looking like I always did, dark black hair, black eyes that reflect the emptiness in my soul, my skin have lost off color of it, I’m not as pale as a ghost.

Thankfully London weather can be trusted to always be raining and cloudy, no sun ray in sight, giving me the option of walking out in the day time, I don’t always need to sleep during the day. As the years pass, I became stronger, the sun didn’t hold the same threat it did when I first became a monster.

Walking around the busy street something caught my eye, not something, some eyes to be exact, the same shade of grey, I knew those eyes anywhere, they got me to stop in place, to look at them with longing emotions I thought I lost long time ago.

“Watch it!” a yell got me out of my trans, I look around to see the gray eyes have disappeared. I took off after them, looking for my princess eyes, I knew those eyes anywhere.

Did the lord finally showed me some mercy, did he send me Milena back? I’m ready to fall on my knees and thank them for what they just gave me, a second chance. I found them, the owner of the eyes was a young lady, her hair was brown unlike Milena strawberry hair, her skin was a fair color, and her smile.

My unbeaten dead heart did a quick beat, looking at the girl with the grey eyes, I couldn’t help but smile, she smiled back, I felt like taking a step toward her, I felt like hiding her in my arms and never letting anyone touch her again.

“Milena” I couldn’t help but say her name, her smile dropped when she heard me calling her.

“I’m not Milena” she says with disgust, “I’m Ava” she says her smile getting back on her face, it wasn’t the innocent smile of Milena, this one was different but I couldn’t let it go.

“Ava” I say the new name tasting it, it’s new, weird, but it wasn’t a bad name, I could keep up with this.

“And you?” she asks, I haven’t told her mine yet.

“Vlad” I reply with a smile hoping it’ll sound familiar to her except it didn’t, I try to offer to walk her to her destination, a way to find out where she’s going and where I need to go to find her.

“How about I walk you home my princess” I say unable to hold back calling her princess, she was my princess, always would be.

“Walk me home, your homes, anywhere you want” she says with a smile that’s anything but princess appropriate.

“Let’s go” I say offering her my elbow, she held me there except she had it in a tight hold, forcing her body against my body but I tried to pull back. Walking Ava toward the house she said was hers, once there she landed a kiss on my lips before leaving, she wasn’t my baby girl for sure but she felt different.

Walking back toward home I couldn’t stop thinking about Ava, about how she have Melina’s eyes, I had to have a talk with Evan, he’s the one who knows best about these kind of things. About reincarnation, about the possibility of her being back, if she did, I’m not letting her go, not ever, this time I will protect her.

Evan listened to my story, to the eyes that I’ll recognize anywhere, even after all these years I will, Evan said he’ll have to search this through, he’ll have my answers soon, for now I turned to my bats keeping an eye on my princess.

“Sir I found it!” Evan says around midnight, he’s been busy most of the night searching for my answers.

“It’s her?” I ask, I was sure it was but I needed to know, to make sure.

“Reincarnation, exist, the secret is in the eyes, you could find the princess eyes but that doesn’t mean it’s her, she left this world and came back so many times, only the lord knows how she’d be acting now” Evan explains, the eyes, the one I know by heart.

“But how do I save her?” I ask, I wouldn’t let her go, not again.

“Bite her, share some of your blood with her, in three days she’d either die or become your eternal bride” Evan says.

“I go around just biting girls?” I ask lifting a brow at him.

“You’ll know the one my lord, you’ll just know it” Evan says.

Later that night, I should’ve known it’s not her, I should have found out that she’s not my princess, but my desperation is having the best of me, I knew but I had to try.

I tried and I was mistaken, biting into Eva neck, it was easy, all I had to do was lean in for few kisses, she didn’t mind me touching her, I knew time was different. When my teeth sank in her neck she moaned while most other people would scream with pain and fight, I drank some of her blood not knowing what to do next. I pulled back and bite my own wrist offering her some of my blood, she didn’t hesitate licking my wrist clean.

That was her ending point, her face and smile fell, the seductive look she had left her face, she clutched her heart before falling on the floor, dead…