Velma the Vegan Vampire chapter two continues from yesterday:
For the story so far, click here 🙂
By the time her friends left it was nearly half ten and Velma was feeling peckish. She added the mugs and plates to the pile in the sink and decided to go for a run. She turned off all the lights in the attic flat, opened her bedroom window, tossed her clothes onto the bed and became the bat as she dropped from the window and flew towards the open countryside. Upon reaching the woodlands, she dropped to the ground, becoming the wolf to run.
Running helped her to clear her head, find peace. The twenty first century was so hectic, so busy. No time to rest, everyone feeling compelled to earn more, buy more, achieve more, have more. Enough was never enough. Added to that was the constant watching of others around the globe, being forced to absorb their pain, their struggles, their mistakes, their shame and their regrets. Those things come to everyone in time, in their own lives, and most would have the strength to weather their own storms if they weren’t carrying the weight of everyone else’s.
There was no point in knowing about things one could do nothing about, but Velma knew there were some things she could help with. Some ways she could make the world a better place, in her own small way. And those were the weights she carried. Those gave her purpose.
As powerful as being a vampire was, it could also be very lonely. She had a few good friends but they didn’t know who she really was. What she really was. To tell them would be to frighten them and then to lose them. It was hard enough to make friends when she couldn’t stay in the same place for more than a decade. Couldn’t stay in the same community long enough for them to notice she wasn’t aging. So when she did make connections, even for a short time, she wasn’t going to risk losing them.
Vampires were not actually evil, as popular culture would have people believe. They were simply creatures who needed to consume blood to survive. You wouldn’t call the tiger evil for killing the antelope would you? He didn’t kill for pleasure or profit. He killed to survive. He had no choice.
So it was for Velma. She needed to drink warm blood straight from the vessel, the living body. TV shows got it wrong when they scripted vampires going to the blood bank or the butcher for sustenance. It couldn’t be done like that. So Velma had to kill. What made her a good vampire was that her killing wasn’t indiscriminate. She chose her prey carefully. Only taking those who killed others, either directly or by proxy, so that she was saving their future victims. Her prey were serial killers. She was The Protector.
On the other side of the woods was an open meadow through which a river flowed. There was a man, sitting on a folding chair at a folding table. Beside him was a fishing rod on a stand, its line in the water. The man had a knife in his hand. He reached into a plastic shopping bag on the table, pulled out a still-gasping fish, and cut off her head. At least that fish’s agony was over now. The innocent had already been fatally injured by the hook the angler had caused her to swallow which had sunk to her stomach and damaged her internal organs on its way back up to catch in her lip.
Velma still found it impossible to comprehend why human beings described this pastime as a peaceful sport. A relaxing way to enjoy the outdoors. The word angling was one of her most despised, not least because those who indulged in it generally considered themselves decent people.
Velma the wolf growled. The terrified angler’s scream was halted when her teeth penetrated his neck and in the brief moments before his death he felt all the pain and horror that he had inflicted, and would have continued to inflict, on the countless innocent victims of his favourite pastime.
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More Velma the Vegan Vampire coming next week – in the meantime have a great weekend! 😀
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