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Another month had passed and the book had revealed a lot to the vampire. It's title was 'Rapture' and it spoke of the return of Bruhn and the fall of all that is good.
It was a doom scenario that spoke of how there would be no resistance against it, and how our happiness would be carried away on the wings of the horned god.
The world would tumble through the vast universe for all of eternity and infect all of those it would come into contact with. It was, absolution.
The book gave no hope and Louie wondered why Tobias had given it to him, he feared Bruhn, the beast from which there was no escape.
He sat by the lake one day when he heard the cry of a young girl. "Tobias?" He shouted, hoping he would hear her too, but there was no answer. It was then he decided to do something he had not done in a very long time.
Louie passed the gate that lead to the village of Greenthorpe and followed the cries until he came to a clearing in which a young girl lay with a bleeding knee.
He moved closer to her to see if she had been hurt, she must have been no more than two years old and he wondered how she had gotten here in the first place.
He picked her up in his arms and noticed two hungry wolves who emerged from the thick bushes up ahead.
They growled at him and slowly moved closer towards their prey. The wolves bent through their front legs a little, making notion to jump until Louie let out a terrifying growl that sent them running back into the bushes.
He picked up the girl and carried her in his arms to the village up ahead.
"Oh, my little girl." A man came running towards him and took her in his arms and held her tightly to his body.
The villagers rejoiced when they saw her and gathered around her and her father.
"Oh, how can I ever repay you kind sir, for bringing our daughter back to us?" The mother asked Louie, she gulped when the daze of glory left her and she noticed his pale complexion which looked far off from the norm on this bright, sunny day. "I, uhm..." The villagers stepped back a little.
"You're welcome." Louie spoke and he walked back to the mansion where he was greeted by a worried Tobias.
They went inside, Tobias had made his famous tea. "That was a very noble thing of you, Louie."
"I could smell her fear, I could practically taste her blood in my mouth. And I wanted to Tobias, I wanted to." He shook his head in shame and anger.
"But you did not." The old man said with a twinkle in his eyes. "And that is what sets heroes apart from monsters."
A stone crashed through the window of the mansion hitting Tobias against the side of the head.
"Tobias, are you alright?" The old man crawled up, a trinkle of blood ran down his face. Louie looked outside, a horde of angry villagers had picked up their torches and pitchforks and were on their way to the mansion.
"You save a life and this is how they repay you, I'm sorry old friend." Tobias felt true regret for Louie, if only they could understand he was different from the true monsters. Then they would surely understand.
Another stone entered the room through the crumbling window and barely missed Louie, instead taking out a small vase on a cabinet.
Louie and Tobias made their way out of the house through the windows in the back of the drawing room that led to the lake, but were stopped by several angry villagers.
"Don't hurt them Louie, they don't know what they are doing." One of the villagers threw his torch at Louie and a patch of his fur was burned away.
"Stand still beast, you will never touch my child again." The father of the girl who had expressed his gratitude earlier now came rushing towards Louie with his pitchfork drawn up, read to impale the beast through his chest.
Louie could quickly jump aside but the villager impaled the weak Tobias with his pitchfork.
"No, oh god, please, Tobias!" Louie screamed at the top of his lungs and sank down on his knees next to Tobias who had been mortally wounded.
The vampire took his mentors head into his hands and begged for help, but the villagers all took a step back. It had never been their intention to hurt an innocent man. They only came here to slay the beast.
"Tobias, please. You are the only person I have left." Tobias grabbed Louie's hand and motioned for him to come closer.
"Don't believe everything you read, my friend. You can still put a stop to the rapture." He coughed up blood and grind his teeth togheter.
"I don't understand Tobias, what are you trying to tell me."
"The end is not inevideble. Find, them. You can not do it alone." Tobias coughed again and reached for his pocket.
"You a... the pure vampire." Tobias spoke in riddles and handed him the dark, black symbol he had used to open up the hidden library. "Take this."
He closed his eyes and with his last breath he spoke a single word. "Hope."
Louie turned to face the angry mob. "Why?" He screamed and he tried to get up to walk towards them, but his legs were to burdened with this sadness he had to bear and he fell down on his hands and knees.
"Why did you have to kill my only friend?" He cried as he felt two strong men pull him up and drag him over to the old tool shed by the lake. They threw him in and locked the door before they lit the shed on fire.
Louie clenched the drawing in his hand and rolled it up in a ball to prevent it from burning up as he felt the flames eat away at him.
The villagers stayed to see the shed burn down because they wanted to make sure the monster had been taken care of.
After the flames had died out, the last ones that had stayed behind left.
And out of the ashes came Louie when he thought the coast was clear.
Opening up his dark fist that would take quite some time to regenerate to reveal the picture that had stayed intact.
He would go down into the library and read every book there was, hoping to find a sign. Waiting for the others of whom Tobias had told him.
One word etched into his mind. "Hope."
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Last edited by The SlaYeR; Sep 5, 2007 at 10:34 AM.
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