Kareen The Vampire Queen
Chapter 1
Dimly, sunlight trickled into my coffin as I awoke from a 100 year slumber. Through my dreams I regulated, monitored, and kept control over the human world. The vampire tribe defeated and enslaved the humans 500 years ago. An elderly man with gray hair tied in a ponytail dressed in purple garb walked into the room as my coffin opened.
“I take it you already know why we have awakened you,” Charles spoke.
“So it’s finally time?”
Charles smirked, resting the tea on the glass table next to my coffin. The scent of blood wafted from the teacup. I took a sip and regained my senses fully. The dream duels. The human population had dwindled over the past century. A farm was created to create human-plant genetic mutations which would live forever as feed for the vampires. The farm was referred to among the vampire aristocracy as The Academy. Charles stood there in silence as my physical body processed all the events of the previous century.
“I see,” I began, “The Academy’s student body has achieved enough sentience to demand independence in a mere ten years?”
“They wish to partake in a process previously exclusive to only vampires,” Charles sighed.
Vampire genetic makeup was also blended into the new humans who fed through photosynthesis. The new race of humans were literally created from plants through eighty years of genetic experimentation. A select group of elderly vampires referred to as “staff” oversaw the experiments and the academy’s development.
Deeply, I sighed. The room’s light was dim. It was a brownish orange and filled the empty, pale white apartment room. Vampires needed very little sunlight to survive. Dream duels.They were hardly duels, psychological battles through dreams which vampires sipped tea, negotiated, and clashed with magic to move higher up in the rigid hierarchy society. It was a silly seldomly used process anymore. The chain of dream duels were about to go underway.
Chapter 2
The first challenger’s name was Kim. He was an impossibly bright specimen. I slipped on my glass red heels and entered the tube. The apartment was an elaborate, towering structure which loomed over the academy. My coffin had been moved to the empty top floor in the apartment. An emerald, electric light surged around the tube.
I clicked my red heels together. Bright red sparks flew. Calmly, I closed my eyes and gean my dive into the dream, when they opened again I was sitting atop a mountain. Kim stood before me, calmly sipping the red tea.
“Kareen, I presume?”
I sighed. This one was going to be a headache. I sat in the chair across from Kim and began to sip “tea” with him. For a time, we sat across each other in silence.
“Form ‘rain’,” Kim chuckled.
The landscape changed to raindrops set against. Infinitely, we descended. I sat in silence and continued to sip my tea. Kim had formed his own undoing. Hours, weeks, months, years, centuries we sat in complete silence in the dream descending further and further towards an earth we never reached. Slowly, Kim decayed into madness.
Kim panted and wheezed on the ground, “alright, I admit defeat.”
He awakened from his “daydream” in his classroom desk or so Charles reported to me. I returned to my coffin for a pleasant day’s slumber.
Chapter 3
Her name was Sarah, a specimen plucked from the earth. Spliced from onion, human, and vampire DNA. Again, I dived into another dream.
When I awoke we were on a farm. Carefully imagined, etched out crops littered the fields. A girl in a bright blue skirt and dark blue vest and shirt stood before me sitting in a rocking chair. She must be Sarah.
I smiled. Sarah’s smile was bright and warm. Dream duels were not strictly always psychological battles. Casual conversations could be held through them. A wooden stool sat next to Sarah which was where I sat. There was a calm breeze in this dreamscape. It was not fully formed. The space into the distance was completely blank. We simply sipped our tea and enjoyed the sounds of nature together.
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