I wanted to post something because it has been a while.

This is a little flashback scene. The rest of the chapter will follow later.



Chapter 23: Embracing death.

The Earian marketplace was filled with life during the festival of the moon.
Louie Greenthorpe and his good friend Wallace Parker were dancing ecstatically in the midst of the enormous crowd.
Wallace's father was a good friend of mister Greenthorpe and thanks to him Louie was allowed to leave Greenthorpe for several days.
Rabbits from all over the planet had gathered in Earian to celebrate the festival of the moon, which was the start of a new year.
Street artists were playing joyful music as the sun slowly sank behind the horizon, shining the last few rays of sunlight of this year over their faces.
They had met with several people in a bar a few hours before the countdown to the night began and ran down the streets trying to soak up as much of the atmosphere as possible. Every little street was filled with rabbits from different parts of the world, all of them dressed in the garments of their own culture, different kinds of music fed they’re souls building up the inner excitement.
The sun had gone down a little while later and fireworks were lighted over the docks, colouring the dark sky.
"I think you have an admirer." Wallace said with a smile as he nodded to a girl standing behind them.
Louie turned around and looked into the face of the most gorgeous, young rabbit he had ever seen.
She must have been close to his age and her eyes had the sparkle of a diamond to them. They seemed to grab him and lure him closer towards her.
He set a few steps in her direction and she walked towards him, Wallace's eyes were fixated on her beautiful face. A faint and warm glow seemed to surround her as she gracefully moved her feet over the cold, marble pavement.
Louie took her small hand in his and placed a soft kiss on the palm of it, not breaking away from her breathtaking eyes.
"My name is Louie Greenthorpe, miss." He spoke softly.
"I am Estella Bane, it is a pleasure to meet you, Louie Greenthorpe." She replied.
He asked her for a dance and but a moment later they were dancing on the shiny marble, she had her arms wrapped around his neck.
Louie was usually a very shy person that did not know his way around women, because he had never really met too many.
The only ones he had spoken to were the stiff upper lip girls that he had seen on one of his fathers parties. This girl was so much more different then them.
So much more alive, friendly, beautiful. "Would you like to go for a short walk?" She suggested when the musicians started to play a more cheerful tune.

They walked along the shoreline, the water softly rippled as they entered it with they're bare feet.
The beach was calm and almost empty, save from a few youngsters that were sleeping in the soft sand. Drunk and fulfilled.
"Look at them, hollow caskets, death could come and claim those mortal fools whenever it's ready for them. And yet they think the life they lead is so beautiful and perfect." She said with a macabre tone to her voice that made Louie's body shiver.
"Surely you must see the beauty in life my dear." He whispered into her ear.
"I have, I’ve seen you. But until you see everything in the same way that I have seen it, you do not know what true beauty is." She said as she slowly licked his cheek.
"You’re such a pretty boy." She said followed by a soft sigh. "And I’m the lucky girl that gets to keep you for all eternity."
Louie looked down in the water at his reflection and a shock went trough his body. He could only see his.
Estella had no reflection, he looked up and his eyes met hers, they were blood red.
His head filled with irrational thoughts, voices screaming at him that he should leave. A perfect pandemonium.
Her smile was wide and her canines had grown several inches. The last thing he could hear was the crackle of fireworks high up in the sky above him.
Before she sank her teeth into his neck, sucking him dry of life. He imagined the pain would be horrible. But all he felt was a unification of two souls.
A perfect bright light filled him up on the inside. And then there was nothing as his body sank into the salty water of the sea.

He woke up several months later, veiled in darkness. It seemed like he was unable to escape from his dark grave until his lust for hunger got the better of him.
His two hands smashed trough the wooden lid of his coffin and after several more punches it gave away.
Louie tried to crawl out of his coffin and fell down to the ground. He had a hard time standing up. His legs didn't want to hold the weight on top of them and he fell down to the floor a few more times, crawling towards the exit of his crypt.
He had not used his strength in months and his body was asking more from him then he could give. He stopped to take a breath, but his lungs had died along with him.
He managed to grab the door handle and the door slowly opened with a creak, the sun blinded him and he pushed his head into to sand, trying to scream, but no sound escaped from his rotting mouth.
He managed to reach the pond and slowly let himself sank into it, he couldn't breath. He didn't have to but he felt the urge to inhale.
What was happening to him? He took a few sips from the water in the pond but it hurt as it found its way trough his body and he threw up, salty and burning tears in his eyes.
His eyes slowly adjusted to the bright and fresh world around him and he saw Estella sitting on the porch with the body of a young girl near her feet.
"Hello baby. You must be starving."
His mind he had lost, but his unstill stomach ached for a drink of the young virgin. And he gave in…