Ascension Of The Blood Throne by Mikel Wilson (red scrolls of magic .TXT) 📗

or dying like the rest of the cattle,” Lillith answered with a sinister smile. “It will be left up to them though. Our parents are going to freak, but we both have to talk to them. Hopefully, for their sakes, they will become one of us. And to think, until now, we never even knew there were vampires!"

Mackinzie, still somewhat shocked by the entire thing, took a deep breath before saying, "He wants me to be his queen. That’s a little creepy, don't ya think? I mean, he hasn't even asked me out yet."

"He did give you a mean hickey though." Lillith burst into laughter.

Chapter Two

After a long day of waiting out the sun in the subway, night finally fell, and they were free to walk the streets again. They arrived at Mackinzie’s home first to find two angry parents.

“Mackinzie Lee Ann! Where on earth have you been? And you too, Lillith Michelle, we are calling your mother right now!”

"Guys, before you do that, we need to talk to you. Please," Mackinzie said, holding up her hands to stop them.

Her father looked her over and noticed the blood on her shirt. “Baby, what happened to you girls? Are you okay?”

“I’m okay, Dad... Well, for the most part,” she explained, pulling back the collar of her shirt to expose the two bite marks on her neck.

Her father ran to her aid as her mother dropped the phone in shock. “Were you bitten too, Lillith?” Mack‐ inzie’s mother asked.

“Yes,” Lillith responded, showing her neck as well. Mackinzie’s mother was visibly shaken. “Go home to your mother right now. Keep your neck covered and go home.” Her voice trembled unlike anything Lillith or Mackinzie had ever heard.

“Mom, what is it?”

Mackinzie’s mother embraced her as her father stood watching in stunned silence, unaware of exactly what was going on.

“Sweetheart, years ago, we escaped our small town in California. There were creatures we had believed were only nightmares, but they exist. Vampires. No one knew where they had come from, but they came down on our town like a plague. Nothing we had could kill them or harm them, they were completely unaffected by bullets. They just laughed at us as they slaughtered hundreds. All we could do was run and even then, I was nearly bitten, but I was saved by a slayer. That one young woman stood against them, so powerful and strong that she turned many of them to dust and single handedly caused them to run away. Your mother was with me, Lillith, she knows how lucky we were to escape those beasts. Go find your mother quickly! I can't believe this is happening again!”

“What's happening, Susan! Talk to me,” her husband demanded, shaking her shoulders.

"It's happening again. They are coming here to slaughter us all. Death is coming for us,” she answered but would say nothing more.

Lillith covered her neck with a scarf and walked a couple houses down to her own home. When her mother saw her neck, she knew exactly what was happening. She fell to her knees, crying.

"How did this happen?” her mother asked.

Lillith had never seen such weakness. Her mother was the strongest black woman she had ever known. She kept her athletic build by working out three times a week without fail. Whether she was sick or not, she trained. She took excellent care of herself. Her long braids were always shiny, her skin was nearly flawless, she had never looked her age, and she’d never shown so much as a sliver of weakness. As both a mother and a nurse, she faced everything head-on. Being a single mother had never been easy on her. Lillith had learned as a child never to ask about her father, whom she had figured had aban‐ doned them because of her. Even when Lillith built up her courage to ask for any information about him, the answers were very vague as her mother always spaced out while speaking about him.

“Mother, we were attacked by a vampire. He said something about being an Elite, and he wanted Mack‐ inzie to be his bride while I serve in his court. I'm not lying, Mother, I swear, it really happened!” Lillith sobbed as the darker side of her transformation receded at the emotional reactions from both Mackinzie’s mother and her own.

Her mother, Alisha, took a deep breath and rose from her knees to slowly sink into a chair. She got her breathing under control and was able to explain what she knew.

“I know, baby, I know it’s real. When Susan and I were young, something similar happened. The vampires

invaded our small California town, and if it weren’t for a young girl they called a slayer, or maybe it was a hunter, we would be dead... Or worse, maybe even one of them. My parents and Susan's parents fled that town and came here, hoping it was just a bad dream. But now, twenty years later, it’s happening again.

"Mom! What's going on? Why is this happening to us?" Lillith inquired, her hands trembling.

“I don't know, I didn’t understand it then either. All I know is that there was a lot of bloodshed, deaths, and the papers and everyone just covered it up. All the missing people and unexplained deaths. Those creatures came and tried to destroy everything we held dear. They said it was a plague, but we knew it was something not natural.”

Lillith’s anger grew as she listened, and her eyes slowly turned to nearly an amber-red as she asked, "Why didn't you tell us about this? Maybe we could've been prepared! Why did you keep this from us? Did they kill my father?"

“No, sweetheart, they didn't kill your father. I promise, one day you will know about him, but now is just not the time.” She spoke with such emotion that her entire body trembled. Lillith knew it had to be something to do with this, but she couldn’t figure what exactly could cause her mother