It is a dark and stormy night; the power had gone out recently so all of the residents in the studio complex lit their giant rooms with candles and battery powered light fixtures. On the top floor lived a beautiful young woman who had only moved in a month ago at the tender age of nineteen. Standing at a mere five-two, styled red hair that fluffed up and hung down to just tickle the top of her shoulders, her eyes an ocean of deep blue anyone could be forever lost in. It was this night she feared the most, now realizing the problem of living on the top floor, in thunderstorms the poles above her head were often struck to help power the generators in the basement.
With each strike she often heard and felt their rumble and power, adding to her childhood fear of thunderstorms. With it happening every so often she could not sleep to save her life. Knowing it was pointless to try she lays down on her couch and grabs a book, a bottle of water sat on the floor just below her right hand should she be thirsty. With the soft light she felt a little secure as she picks up in her book. The heroine of the story was finally getting the man she wanted, in a very explicit and descriptive way.
Twenty minutes pass slowly, just as she feels herself begin to enjoy what she read a very powerful lightning bolt comes crashing down onto the antenna overhead. A surge she had yet to feel before courses through the whole building, her own clothes become electrically charged. This causes her to physically jump a couple inches into the air losing her place in the book. As she lands she looks up to see a man covered by a hooded robe. She would have screamed but somehow her voice refused to work. She locks her eyes on the figure but as soon as she does he is gone, a hand touches her shoulder from behind and that was all she knew.
Many hours pass by; she slowly wakes to find her in a fantasy princess' room. She is still fully dressed but a royal gown was laid out for her as was everything to go with it. On the pillow next to her is a single note. She picks the note up and looks at it 'Welcome, most honored guest, don this dress on and come to the royal dining hall, all of your answers will be answered there.' She slowly rises and glances at this dress to find it breathtaking. She removes her city clothes wanting answers, and slightly afraid to go against whomever kidnapped her. It takes her nearly thirty minutes to get dressed and done on her appointed shoes.
Finally she walks out to see a butler waiting for her; he bows to her and says, "This way milady, the Lord is patiently awaiting you to join him."
She looks at him and says, "Where am I? Who is this lord?"
The butler says, "I am not permitted to tell you anything about that milady. My name is Bernard should you require anything else. Please, this way."
She continues to follow for a couple minutes then stop at a very large set of doors.
Bernard easily opens the door for her and says, "I shall return for you soon milady."
She walks on in then hears the great door shut soundly, she gulps slightly realizing she was now trapped in here. She approaches a magnificent décor with a succulent feast splayed across the table. There are only two chairs at this table, on far ends at that. She goes to her left for a reason she could not fathom and sits down. Her eyes become glued to the food before her for a minute or two. When she looks up a very handsome man sat across from her.
In a voice like that of an angel he says, "Welcome milady, please, you are welcome to anything you see here on this table. For now all I ask of you...is...your...name."
She feels a sudden feeling of calm spread over her; she smiles and says, "Lindsey Reeves."
A servant appears almost from nowhere and loads her plate with plenty of food. It escapes her notice that the servant never gave him any food. Lindsey enjoys her fill of food and conversation with her generous hosts.
Once she is finished with her glorious meal she says, "Forgive me kind sir, you have given me such hospitality and yet I do not even know your name."
A peculiar smile strikes his lips before he says, "You were famished Milady, manners can only go so far when one is of need. My name is Rubio Draken."
All of a sudden her vision begins to blur, she grips the edge of the table in an attempt to stabilize her world but it didn't seem to help. She glances to him finding him gone; a dark presence appears behind her.
With a deep exhale he says, "It has been too long since I last had my dinner, you shall be a treat."
His hand jerks her head to the right exposing her slender neck to him. A flash of white explodes across all of her senses in an instant. Inside her mind she screamed for her body to move but it was if she couldn't control it, she could feel her grip slipping away slowly.
After a long minute she faintly hears the butler Bernard say, "Shall I place her with the others or in the special cage sire?"
Rubio says, "In with the commoners, let her start from the lowest of low."
Bernard says, "Yes sire, right away."
She feels a pair of powerful hands grip her, her vision is quick to fade but the last thing she sees is Rubio licking his lips of something red, her last thought being it was blood, hers.
The next thing she knows is she feels her body moving, but she wasn't controlling it, a massive darkness held a veil over her mind to shield it, but she could make out other figures in the darkness. One hisses at her, a girl even younger than her. She feels her body hiss back then strike out slashing into the face of the girl sending her into a rock wall.
She watches in horror as her own fist and nails dig into the girl's frail body ripping her apart, and then feel her mouth latch onto the dying girl's frail body and biting deep into her. Suddenly everything goes black again, for several more times she experiences this, each time someone else like her, a victim to this being's cruel game. At the same time each time she could feel her body getting stronger and stronger. She was even taking on males with the same affliction as her and beating them. Many cycles of this pass by before this veil is slowly peeled away and she is left in full control of herself again. She passes out one last time.
