

A rare blood...

A guardian...

A curse...

A forbidden Love...
GUARDIAN FROM NEPTUNE

PET TORRES

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GUARDIAN FROM NEPTUNE

ZEAL

Book 1

IN THE SERIES

GUARDIAN FROM NEPTUNE

BOOKS IN THE SERIES

"We always watch what we really love..."

Guardian from Neptune: Zeal, Pet TorreS

Every little girl has dreams and grows up with fantasies and desires, even though being a daughter of vampires and carrying in her veins a rare blood of her descent.

Being a vampire princess, on another planet, it requires a guardian, especially when she discovers a day that her powers are not enough to help her follow her own path in an unknown planet...

GUARDIAN FROM NEPTUNE...

The new series of romance with vampires that promises to enchant you...

Dear PettieS

I thank the vote of confidence for you to read my stories that are written with so much love and caress.

When I started writing my first novel at the age of ten, I never thought I would have so many readers in my life around the world.

And now I see how my stories thrill, distract and entertain the public at different ages.

In fact, I have only to thank you for this wonderful conquest.

I can affirm that I am Pet TorreS with very happiness and I'm prouder still to be part of a fantasy world that's entirely ours ...

Thanks

To God,

Because he gave me the gift of writing and the opportunity to continue my work every day ...

To my parents for being everything in my life.

To my family, that is also part of my life ...

To my dear readers who appreciate my work and make me encouraged to continue writing wonderful stories.

Bloggers who interact in some way with my work.

The Theatre of Tragedy band

Because I heard its melodies to compose this series.

Prologue

ENZO

I do not know if everybody knows my story.

When I was a little boy, I became stony to be a lure or a cure for a Vampire Princess called Valkyrie.

After the daughter of the king of the vampires could take me with her to her gigantic castle in Neptune, I had to concede 99% of my blood to Eros, a vampire who was the brother of my great-grandfather.

This is a complicated story and the listener probably will not believe in it. Except those who believe in legends and vampires.

But the narrative does not cease there. Because I've become an adult vampire, about 100 years of existence.

The daughter of Eros and Valkyrie was born and a new Princess in the eighth planet arrived.

But the little girl, the daughter of two vampires from Neptune, has a rare blood and automatically she will need a guardian for certain situations or perhaps all of them.

That's where I come again in this story.

Because eighteen years after the birth of Princess Vær, I became her guardian.

So being convoked as GUARDIAN FROM NEPTUNE.

Synopsis

The curse that devastated the love life of Eros and Valkyrie can be back after 100 years. Precisely because they had a daughter, the Princess Vaer.

They do not know yet the curse remains among them, but this curse is from the cradle and much more powerful than the last one.

Know the history of Vær, the newest princess from Neptune.

Since the tale of impossible love happens again with the curse that still plagues the family of Neptune vampires.

A romance with vampires that will enchant you as well as the Valkyrie the vampire princess Saga managed to fascinate thousands of fans fascinated with the impossible love of vampire Eros and the vampire princess Valkyrie.

So do not miss this newest love story involving vampires, humans, and a forbidden feeling kept the seven keys in a caste of vampires from another planet.

Chapter 1

VALKYRIE

THE BIRTH OF MY LITTLE PRINCESS

Dozens of years later, I was sure that I had generated a beautiful being inside me. The same being was the fruit of the love between Eros and me.

Now I was sure of it because this little concrete part of our love was now in my arms. Sculptured by flesh and blood and was wrapped in a dark mantle, all embroidered with silver threads. She had wide gray eyes and her hair was bluish black and straight. As a cradle princess, my daughter was even carrying a small brilliant tiara on top of her head.

On this occasion, I fed her with a special baby's bottle containing blood mixed with milk that had gone out of my breasts minutes before.

For my comfort and my daughter, I was lying on the marble bed as I was in my sleeping costume. That is a long and comfortable nightgown. My hair was pulled back into a massive bun on top of my head. There were some loose strands of hair on the sides of my face. My face was pale and exhausted because the birth of my daughter was required of me excessive consuming and some sleepless nights because I only thought of her and her well-being after coming to the universe as a 'small vampire'.

So my skin, hair and some parts of my body had been changed without my permission. But having my little princess in my arms, I realized that all this was worth it. I would be horrible for my whole eternity to stay with my little daughter in my arms forever.

At that instant I stared at the beautiful face of my daughter while my father, Eros, and Enzo were standing around the bed, watching the most beautiful scenes of the only females in that castle that could shelter hundreds of us, but there were only two female vampires so similar and so special. My daughter and I.

"We have to choose a name for her."

I uttered still feeding my little girl that drank all the milk while freezing her gray eyes on me. She seemed to comprehend that I was her biological mother and that she had left my womb after seven months of pregnancy. Because of it, my baby was born prematurely and very feeble.

"Yes, we have."

Eros affirmed. Then he scratched his head, wondering which name would fit so well with the personality of our daughter.

And she could never hate her name, when she grew up and realized that a name was for whole life, in our case, for all eternity.

"Can I make a suggestion for my little princess?"

My father asked, looking at his granddaughter wrapped in the dark manta. The little girl was almost closing her eyes in vast sleep.

"Sure father."

I responded, raising my eyes and looking at his image. My father never took off the wine cloak from his body for centuries.

"Well ..."He stammered. "I ... I thought of 'Vær'."

Eros and I looked toward my father and compressed our faces in his direction. This was a short and different name. Easy to pronounce, but there was still nothing special about it that made it worthy of the name of our daughter.

"VAER?"

We questioned together. Enzo ended up sitting on the bed. He was still a little boy. But his body phase change would occur in the near future.

"That name is beautiful!"

Enzo exclaimed, looking at the baby in my arms.

My father began to explain us.

"Yes, Vær would be the combination of the names Valkyrie and Eros."

Eros gave me a smug look and then a smile. After a cohesive explanation of my father, we ended up agreeing with that name that the King of Neptune had invented by himself. No one in the universe had that name. My daughter would be the first and perhaps the only one to be called Vær.

"Yes, the name is perfect."

We talked together and Eros sat beside me and began to smooth the bluish black hair of our little girl with the cold palm of his hand. He seemed afraid to hurt her, by imagining that Vær was so small and fragile.

"That name is perfect for our little princess of the vampires."

A desire of doting father broke into his thoughts and he made me a particular petition.

"Can I carry my daughter a minute?"

At that moment, I smiled gently at him and removed the feeding-bottle from the lips of my daughter. She had taken all the blood mixed with milk. Then I adapted her little body to the huge arms of my husband and father of my daughter. Eros now represented two fundamental roles in my life. 'My husband and father of our little girl.'

"I never thought we could make a creature so small and beautiful as our Vær."

Eros confessed, holding her cold little pale hand. He added a kiss on the hand of our sole heir and smiled in the direction of her eyes. Vær returned a sincere and sweet smile to her father. There was in her lips, two canine teeth that were growing. After all, she was already one of us from her act of birth.

Vær was a vampire by birth. She was the daughter of two vampires and because of it, her transformation was immediate, already through her birth. She was considered a very rare species of vampires and her class was called molecular species.

Her powers could go to extremes or not. But that we only would know when she completed twelve years old. There was a test that would detect the dimension of her power and her capacity as a molecular vampire.

But for now, we could only live with expectations about it.

"Can I also carry her in my arms?"

Enzo asked, feeling a bit excluded from that moment so magical. The vampire boy, who was the only boy in body shape, wanted to feel useful and special in the life of the newest heiress from Neptune.

"Of course."

I stated and Eros looked to Enzo and the little boy sat beside him, opening his short arms to hold the baby. Eros put our daughter in the arms of Enzo and he looked at her with surprise. The little vampire had never seen a baby before in his life. Then he thought that child was the cutest and sweet little creature in our universe.

"She has such small hands!"

Enzo exclaimed, holding Vaer's little hand.

"Yeah"

I nodded, smiling and imagining we had put a little sister in the life of Enzo. Probably they would live as brother and sister in that castle. They would share many wonderful things together.

"Will she grow up one day?"

He asked.

"Yes, she will."

Eros answered and rubbed the boy's hair, right at the top of his head. Enzo stood looking at Vær in his arms and began to utter his oaths without anyone had imposed him them while in the corner of his right eye, a tear came down and reached Vær's face. She ended up getting agitated with that tear and her arms began to show unquiet movements.

"Dear Vær , I promise you that we will be inseparable in this castle. When you're my size, we will play all the time. I will protect you from any danger! Because I'm strong as vampire Eros!"

We all smiled, hearing these words, except Enzo who remained looking serious on the little girl's face that would change our lives.

Chapter 2

VAER

BLOOD TEST

I should go over it.

Yes, I should and that so important moment in my life had arrived.

In fact, I was a vampire of a molecular species and that would be added to me full powers or not.

Nevertheless, that night would be proven this.

My grandfather Vincent was in the main room, along with my father, my mother, and Enzo. I came to the room shortly after, holding my fingers. Because these were the parts of my body more accessible in reason of me at that so hopeless moment.

I was twelve years old and had become a teenager in a general way. My physiognomy portrayed this period of my life. My face was changing according to time, taking me to the pubertal stage. My breasts were like two lumps of some fruit with its gravelly interior.

"Vaer, come here, dear!"

My grandfather exposed and extended his right arm in my direction. His smile showed on his face a few seconds later, while I remained to walk in his direction. My being was devastated on that occasion I brought in my mind the weight of the revelation that could change my life that night. After the test that would identify me as strong or weak in our caste of vampires.

I knew everyone there secretly cheered for the test could classify me as strong.

But I also wished for it in my deep being. Or I would be condemned to have a guardian after me for the rest of my life.

Really I didn't want it.

What good would I be the daughter of vampires and not have full power to claim it?

Maybe I'd rather have not been born and go through this humiliation if it happened actually that night.

"Dear, don't be scared."

My mother uttered while she was dressed in a long dress in ruby color. She was as beautiful as ever. My mother had hundreds of years and was a young man of nineteen. Her skin, her long black hair, nothing had changed in her body through the centuries.

"That's just a test, my daughter."

She continued saying, trying to make me more relaxed. But I believed that it did not work because my answer was completely contradictory to everything she said seconds ago.

"This Test will decide my destiny, Mother."

I looked at the face of each one there and I felt like an idiot vampire princess in a luxurious princess-style dress in the eggplant color.

There was a tiara of dark jewels on top of my head. My mother also wore one that was much more decorated than mine. But her tiara honored its owner, but my tiara was unfounded. Because I should not carry a diamond tiara on my head, if my blood accused blue.

"After this test, you will know what molecular species I am ..."I paused. "... If simply I am weak or strong."

I looked down and stopped in front of my grandfather. I wanted to be like him. So strong and courageous to decide everything in my life. To decide my future and what to do to it.

But not, I was always submitted to the orders of my grandfather-master, father, and mother. They always decided everything in my existence and my mother resolved always what clothes I should wear and what hairstyle to do each day. I did not feel the owner of myself. I felt like a doll that should receive specific cares.

"Vaer, It doesn't matter what your test accuses this night." My father affirmed, laying his great hands on my shoulders and approaching me with all zeal of a benefactor protector.

"You will always be our dear daughter, regardless of your abilities."

"Yes, darling."

My mother said as well and joined us. She touched the side of my face and tried to fix a lock of my dark hair that came to the front of my face. So putting out of order my arrangement for that ceremony that was expected since I came to exist there after giving goodbye to my mother's tight womb.

"We Love you very much, regardless of whether the color of your blood will be blue or red."

I remained silent and Enzo looked at my back. He realized that I was unhappy on that occasion. Maybe he could comprehend what I was really feeling, but I could not say and show all my fears that were not even finished inside me. I could never stop them indeed.

"Let's start the test."

Vincent ordered and so my father and my mother walked away from me and opened a way for me to give one more step further and stop in front of the master of the vampires.

The Neptune's King , with his long dark hair became one of the most beautiful vampires in the Eighth planet. But it was funny, because my father, my grandfather, and Enzo were the only vampires that lived in that orb. The three of them had formidable beauties.

"Dear, give me your right hand."

Vincent asked me fondly. His voice came out softly across his pale lips. Even so, I hesitated to put my hand in his and let him do the rest.

When my hand extended in his palm. My grandfather looked at my palm and saw the four lines of life as perfectly in the shape of a 'M'.

Then he lifted his gray eyes and looked at my scared face. I refused to relax in the moment like that. On that occasion, I wanted to believe that there was no blue or red blood. No Sabbath could evaluate the quality and color of my progeny.

"It will hurt a little."

He warned me and soon after, his nail of the index finger had grown to a certain size and the tip of his claw slid down one of the lines of life in the palm of my hand. I ended up closing my eyes and releasing a soft moan. A lamentation of discomfort and pain.

"Mmmmrrr"

Everyone, there was looking toward my open palm between my grandfather's right hand and this very moment, they saw precisely the succinct moment when Vincent's sharp nail tore softly one of the lifelines in my palm and along with it, the blue blood appeared on the surface of my palm.

I ended up opening my eyes, looking directly at it and seeing the blue blood in the middle of my hand. My canine teeth pointed out my eyes from gray became neon blue from that moment.

My mother covered her own mouth in astonishment and released an extensive groan in scare.

"Ooohhhh"

All were silent and motionless. No one could say anything. Only my eyes that released a misfortune tear of blood in the blue color.

I had just discovered what my molecular species belonged to and what I would be classified from now on.

That was lamentable to say, but I would need a guardian after me for the rest of my life.

Because the answer came from my grandfather's lips at that second.

"I'M SORRY TO INFORM YOU, BUT VAER IS BLUE BLOOD."

He paused his pronunciation as he was feeling a little disappointed with the result.

"She is from the weak species."

Chapter 3

VAER

CONVERSATION WITH MY MOTHER

"Don't be sad, dear."

My mother advised me while combing my long bluish black hair with a brush made of stone. On that occasion, I was sitting on the edge of my bed. After I put on my nightgown that hid even my ankles. Feeling almost ready to rest and try to wake up the next day with the molecular test out of my mind. That moment was terrible for me.

I felt a vampire unable to take her own steps and say all I really wanted to.

All around me offered me danger. I could not even take a walk through the forest, or feed in the CITY OF THE PRE-VAMPIRES under my own ability. Or saying better 'ALONE'.

Always I went there, I should be in my father's company, or my mother's or my grandmother's or even the vampire Enzo's, but never helpless.

"Your molecular test cannot make you unhappy because of the result."

"But it can make me weaker than any creature of my kind."

A tear of blue blood rolled down my eye and fell on the ground.

"See, Mother, even my tear is different from yours or my father's tear, or from my grandfather's tear." I paused. "You can cry real blood, but I cannot. I feel so different and excluded from this family of vampires."

"Enzo also does not cry tears of blood."

My mother informed, and I ended up shrugging.

I didn't care about Enzo at that moment.

I was not speaking of his tears. I was pondering about my earrings-of-princess. Exposing my damned weakness.

"I never saw Enzo crying. So I unaware of his tears."

I affirmed with a bit of rebellion.

Valkyrie continued brushing my hair with enthusiasm while admiring me by the back. Taking into consideration I was her daughter and looked so much like her. Even the rebellious way of seeing my own purposes as a very young vampire. Even without knowing many strategic things about life.

"But I have seen him cry several times."

She confessed almost smiling.

"Enzo ever cried for several reasons. When you were born it was one of them."

My voice sounded ironic, as I crossed my arms over my chest and my legs removed my feet from the frozen ground. I needed now a more commodious position.

"How cool! I remember perfectly that day!"

I rolled my eyes, imagining that I was just a baby for twelve years ago and did not know anything. I not even knew there were tears.

"You talk just like your father that way."

"I'm his daughter and something I have to resemble my father. Since I cannot be an exact copy of him."

"Wow! Vær, today you are very bitter, daughter!"

I looked to the side and stared at the face of my mother and she looked at mine with a vast silence.

A neon blue tear went down from my other eye again.

"Please Mother, try to comprehend my situation. Yesterday I was an almost perfect vampire. But this molecular test today turned me into a poor thing! I feel a shattered vampire! Unable to take a step toward my bedroom window and see everything through it."

I shook my head and wiped my tear with the palm of my hand.

"That Test made me an unproductive vampire. Providing I don't be useful not even to be called a princess of Blue Blood!"

My mother hugged me and closed her eyes against my shoulder.

My words had cut her mother's heart.

"Do not talk that way, dear! Your suffering is mine."

She reminded of my human grandmother, which I could not know.

"Now I understand my mother and the why she always said me 'mother's love was so immense. "

A tear of blood pointed in the face of my mother. She was suffering along with me. But I made her open her eyes and look at me in the face. Thus, I ended up wiping her tears with benevolence and calm.

"I'm sorry, mother."

She kept staring at me with her suffered eyes.

"I don't want to see you suffer because of me. This is my life. This suffering is mine and belongs only to me. Please, do not shed these tears because of me."

But my mother shook her head and looked down, informing me.

"I cannot Vær ... That's stronger than me."

Her hand touched docilely one side of my face and she looked at me as if she was watching me for the last time in her life.

"When you're a mother, you will know what I'm talking about."

Then she removed her hand from my face and held my hands rested on my lap.

"A Mother always absorbs the suffering of her child. Even if she does not want to do that."

I looked down and saw our hands interlaced together. As a knot almost loosening.

"Have you ever regretted having become a mother? And have had a daughter so unable like me?"

"Never, Daughter. She answered quickly and kissed my forehead." Before I thought my complete happiness was abbreviated only in the love I felt for your father, but after your birth, I saw a child just adds and fortify even more that love. And you fortified the love Eros and I feel for each other. And without you in our lives, this love would be corrupted."

My mother shrugged and remembered something that tormented her at certain occasions.

"In spite of that after you were born, the discussions between Eros and I have increased because of you. Because sometimes you do things I disagree or else your father diverges and we both do not always agree with certain things that happen to you."

I hugged her tightly.

"Mom, I don't want you and Dad to argue always because of me."

I stared into her eyes. They were so gray.

"Do you promise me that? You will not argue anymore with Dad for me?"

She shook her head gently.

"I cannot promise you that, Vær. The promise of a vampire must always prevail. And sometimes your father and I also discussed for jealousy ..."

She shut up and then blushed.

"Jealousy, Mother?" I was amazed. "But why? In this place, there are no other vampires to threaten the love of you two."

"We discussed for jealousy of things that can happen in the future. If some day I or he, need to return to Earth."

"Planet Earth?"

My brow furrowed.

"What is there?"

"Humans."

"Humans?" I made another face, not understanding anything "What are humans?"

My mother delayed saying. She looked very confused.

"Human are people like us, but very different from our species. Your father, your grandfather, Enzo and I were all humans in the past before we became definitely vampires."

She paused with a barely audible sigh.

"We carry human DNA in our bodies, but you do not, dear."

She touched a side of my face with her hand's cold palm and smiled admiringly at me. Because I existed and were a vampire of origin. Fruit of love between her and my father.

"You are a vampire from the cradle."

Chapter 4

ENZO

MY ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF EXISTENCE

Just as Vær, I also had to go through a defining moment in my life. Hers had probably been five years ago when she was twelve years old and had to be submitted to molecular test before us all and prove her weakness among the vampires of our species.

Today was my particular day and how I had been turned into a vampire when I was still only a little boy, I was awarded a distinct category. That is, I had a pure, innocent soul, my hierarchy as a vampire would also be another.

I came to the special ceremonies room in the castle in Neptune, as I was walking slowly and then stopped in the middle of the saloon. I looked ahead and saw Vincent sitting on his stone throne. He was waiting for me, as well as all the members of his family, those who lived in the Eighth planet.

Eros was standing next to his wife Valkyrie and Vær got a little away from her parents. The years passed quickly by and the beauty of my friend Vær was shaping up with more perfection and sweetness. She was seventeen, already about to turn eighteen. Her height and physiognomy had changed to more proportions and she was really more beautiful every day. Her face was more mature, her breasts were rounder and her lips were also outlined and adorned with a dark lipstick, in bluish black tone.

She was much similar to Valkyrie and incredible as it seemed, I was a lot like her father Eros. Sometimes I had the impression that life had adapted younger clones of these two vampires.

"Enzo." Vincent began to speak with a trained voice to utter words of honor, worthy of a ceremony."Today you are completing 100 years of existence."

At that moment I remained silent and agreed with him, only using the smooth movement of my head. Having one hundred years of existence was something strange. I was old at age, but I didn't feel like an ancient. However, at the existence of a vampire, 100 years was like having 18 years at the human counting. I had not yet lived more than a thousand years as the master of the vampires.

"How you became a vampire when you were still a child, it was certain that when you completed one hundred years, your category as a vampire would be changed."

Everyone was attentive looking at me as they were standing in the middle of the room and I was looking suspiciously to my master. I was not even aware of what really would happen to me from that ritual.

"Changed?"

I questioned, frowning.

"Yes."Vincent rose from his throne, took a few steps forward and stopped at the edge of the altar's ground.

"From today, you will become a creature with wings."

He affirmed. I stared at his face full of satisfaction. It was an honor for him to have loyal vampires and with different specialties in his cohabitation. At that instant, I felt like a trophy for my master.

"You will be an angel vampire."

He confessed. I kept staring at him in amazement. Vincent or no one had never revealed me it before. So I really had been caught by surprise.

"Angel Vampire?"

"Yes." He stated aware of everything about my newest category of vampires. "Now you belong to the angel vampire category."

"What will change in my life after that?"

"Not much thing."

He sat back on his throne. He relaxed for a few seconds, looked at my image as a vampire, with the physiognomy of a twenty-one, in dark clothes, a long black cloak over the body, open at the front part. I was not used to wearing an undershirt under my cloak. So the Neptune symbol was visible on the right part of my breast.

"But you will be able to fly with the wings of an angel and will have more human feelings than the other vampires. Your inner coldness will be a little shaken. Generally, the angel vampires are designated to be guardians. Only that."

I lowered my head and looked at the floor.

When I raised my head and looked toward my master, I asked him another question that just ended up coming in my mind.

"When Will this transformation happen?"

"It will occur within a few hours."

Missing exactly one minute to midnight and finally break the date of my birthday, I kept standing in the middle of the hall while Vincent remained sat on his throne. Valkyrie and Eros were standing over the side and Vær was standing on the other side, looking more isolated from everyone there. They were faithfully looking at my image.

Suddenly there was a strange silence and then the Neptune symbol in blue light shone on the ceiling of the great hall, emitting rays over the whole room. The ceiling of the great room moved in a circle by itself and then broke up, making an opening in the middle of it, in round shape.

With that entire spectacle, we seriously looked up and saw the night sky through that hole in the roof. Seconds later, thunder and lightning appeared in the sky and one of the rays hit my body and then several of them reached me with more frequencies. I received those electrical discharges at once. My body curved down and I got on my knees.

Everyone stood there stunned at my image, except Vincent, because he should know exactly what would happen to me. How the process began and how it would finish.

But one thing was certain. I felt stronger and knew it would not cause my destruction; on the contrary, it would avoid it for more time.

Vær, as always so fragile, soon puts her hand to her lips and released an innocent cry with my name.

"ENZO!"

She imagined that the lightning or the electrical discharges could destroy me that night, which I had completed one centennial of life.

At the exact moment, Vincent raised his hand and prevented Vær from running toward me, just making a good use of his invisible power.

Vær wanted to protect me with her own fragile body, through her embrace, but her grandfather knew what he was doing. As his granddaughter was a weak vampire, perhaps she could not endure the electrical discharges of the lightning. And this also was part of the ritual. It was necessary for me to be transposed to my new vampire category.

Still bent and on my knees, I felt something itching on my back, just on the two sides of my lungs. Suddenly two dark points emerged in the directions of my lungs and they began to grow inordinately.

Within some seconds, two huge dark wings, in the format as the angel wings were molded after my loins. I stopped getting bent when I lifted up and another lightning touched my body. My wings began to sway and I went up to the ceiling. Then I went down and stood in the same place. Everyone there began to smile at that splendid image.

This was a very beautiful and unforgettable ceremony for the Neptune vampires. After all, I was the first vampire among them who had the wings of an angel and had reached this category by being such an innocent vampire.

Vær and Valkyrie seemed very surprised and admired at me even more. Valkyrie had turned me into a vampire when I was still a little boy and if it was not her, I would never have this experience in my life.

At the end of the ceremony, Vincent stood up and said with a haughty voice for everyone there to knew and including me.

"FROM NOW YOU ARE AN ANGEL VAMPIRE!"

After this beautiful consecration, a banquet was served in the dining room. We occupied our seats as always. I always sat next to Eros and facing Vær and she always sat beside her mother. The master Vincent occupied his chair at the right end of the table. The most special seat for the vampires around the food table.

We raised our steel glasses and began to drink the special wine of the vampires. This type of wine was more used on very special occasions.

Vær smiled at me, still impressed with my newest category. Her mind was still bringing the exact moment of my mutation and my acquisition of flight organs.

"How do you feel by carrying two wings on your back?"

Eros questioned me with an affable smile.

"I feel a little strange. I still feel them on my back, even though they are not here anymore."

At that moment, I had hidden them with the power of my mind. That was a matter of mental power; I hid them and freed them when I thought I should.

"It might be nice to have wings!"

Vær muttered soon after touching the glass to her lips. Her mouth released a mischievous smile in my direction. I always loved witnessing that smile.

"If I could lend them to you, I would do it for you to have a pleasure of feeling them on your back."

I affirmed with kindness and then drank some from my drink too. I felt Vær continued watching me with a taciturn look and full of enthusiasm.

"But I cannot do that."

Finally, I completed, staring at her across the table. The Princess said back.

"But you can carry me with you when you are flying on high."

She offered her simple-minded suggestion. Everyone there laughed and even me. Sometimes her thoughts were like the aphorisms of a little girl, full of innocence.

"Vaer, you should have waited for me to ask you this invitation. Don't you think?"

She blushed and looked at everyone around the table. I realized her shyness and added.

"Relax, Vær. I'm kidding."

She raised her glass and threw all the wine contained in it in my direction. After that, the Princess said with humor.

"You're very cruel' angel vampire '!"

I looked at all the wine slipping down my face and falling towards my chest and also the collar of my dark cloak. I just ended up compressing my lips and looked in the direction of Vær with a look disappointed at her. She should have moderated her sense of mockery.

"Daughter, this is no joke to be done, dear."

Valkyrie affirmed putting her hand on the shoulder of her one and sole heir. Vær looked at her.

"Mother, we always played that way."

"But it's time for you to play with more maturity, my daughter."Her father advised."After some time, you will complete eighteen and will have to act with more maturity."

"I agree with your father, my granddaughter."

"Relax. I just poured wine on my friend! I did not do anything to hurt him. Enzo and I comprehend each other and it would be different with our plays."

She parked her neon blue eyes in my image.

I removed my gaze from her countenance and looked at my own chest and muttered, looking at myself, covered with the dark liquid of the special drink.

"Yes, Vær, but you'd never spilled wine on my clothes before."
{0>Capítulo 5: ENZO<}N/A{>

Chapter 5

ENZO

RIDE IN THE HEIGHTS

"As promised, I will take you to walk with me on high."

Vær looked back in the direction of my voice and saw me standing a little behind her. My long dark wings were open behind my back and I smiled at my friend, reinforcing, even more, my friendly invitation.

She bit her lip and smiled too, so turning to the side to try to face me without compromising the nerves of her neck.

"Finally, you remembered me."

She put her hands on her waistline as if she was charging me some debt.

"I am dying to know how it is like to travel through the wings of an angel vampire."

Vaer smiled again and walked toward me, imagining she was ready for the supposed ride on high.

"Sometimes I'm envious of your wings and would like to have wings identical to yours."

My head inclined to one side while one of my eyebrows arched in a purposeful way. I had never said that Vær, but sometimes I felt sorry for her. Because she was a vampire princess and had no power of vampires. She was an abnormal vampire.

Completely different from all our species.

"You do not need to be jealous of my wings, because whenever you need them, I'll always be around to share them with you."

My invisible power pulled a small stone from the ground, held it in the palm of my right hand and started playing with it. Throwing it up and catching it soon after. Sometimes my supernatural look accompanied the animation of the small stone.

Vær paid attention to all my movements and got silent for some time. She missed it, missed powers and many tricks that the vampires could do except her.

At last, the princess remembered all this and ended up crouching on the ground, lamenting her deficiency inherited from the cradle.

"I feel like an invalid that way." She confessed, looking at the ground covered by snow. "I cannot do anything. In addition to observing everything you, my father, my mother and grandfather can do."

I wept in silence her comment embittered by her suffering. Vær stood up and walked in my direction. The extremities of her long wine dress touched the snow and the soles of her dark boots left soft marks on the white snow.

The Neptune's Princess stood before me and looked me in the face. Her debilitated look contested something.

"Enzo, do you think I'm not good for anything? Even I do not have the powers that you have? Be honest with me."

I shook my head. I thought that question was ridiculous. But my answer should be loyal as well as our friendship was, since when Vær grew up and had knowledge about a respectful relationship between two friends.

Quickly I looked at her beautiful face. Her eyes were neon blue because they could never be gray again.

"I think you were born for many things." I touched the tip of my own chin. "I am happy because I have you as a friend."

Vær seemed convinced of it and released a smile, thanking my sincerity and my gratitude regarding our friendship that should perpetuate along the centuries. She seemed to feel happier after those words.

"Thank you, Enzo."

I circled my waist with an unexpected hug.

"I think I feel more useful now after knowing that our friendship is very valuable to you. That way, I can see myself less useless in this planet where the vampires have super powers. Except me."

At the end of the sentence, she released my body and walked to one side, still talking to me.

"If my molecular test had been red, everything would have been different. I would have super powers and would be stronger than everyone here, except my grandfather. He is the master and no vampire in Neptune could be stronger than him.

"But you would not need a guardian."

She lifted her head and stared at my gray eyes.

"Why should I need a guardian?"

She put her hands in waists.

"I do not need a guardian. I need powers, autonomy, and some freedom."

"I think you better try to think differently."I looked away."I do not want to discourage you. But I think these three things go far from you."

"I know that."She looked down. "My parents redoubled the care with me after they knew that I have blue blood."

"Vaer, reflect with me. You have a wonderful father and a magnificent mother. They only wish your well-being. Your grandfather also cares a lot about you, because they love you very much."

She looked at me.

"They also care a lot about you and love you too, Enzo."

"I know that. Eros and Valkyrie raised me. And they are very special to me. Your grandfather also always treated me with great respect and admiration. I would have no better family here on this planet."

"Yeah, of course, here in Neptune there is only this family." Vaer smiled gently. "I'm just kidding. Actually, they know your value and everything you represent in our lives 'angel vampire'."

Vær looked at my wings and remembered something.

"Can we continue our conversation later?" paused, "Because now I want to fly through your wings."

"OK."

I nodded and stood behind her.

"Be prepared to go up the heights, Your Highness."

On that occasion, Vær felt my hands gripping both sides of the line of her thin waist. She panicked for a moment. Her eyes widened as she suddenly felt her feet leaving the ground while her body was raised along with mine. The princess was in front of me and I was behind her, flying with my huge dark wings.

From the top, we could see the roundness of Vincent's Castle. Its towers were huge. The lake of dark waters and the forest of dry trees. Everything was right there, right under our eyes.

Vær was enraptured with so much emotion. Her long bluish black hair flew with the wind speed against our faces. She smiled and closed her eyes at the same time, feeling that those feelings were so perfect and exclusive. The taste of freedom had reached her being, thanks to my huge wings.

Ecstasy made her release a shout on high.

"I'm flying really! Enzo, I can badly believe it!"

By far, Valkyrie and Eros were standing in front of the main room window. Even from a distance, they could see us flying through the gray sky. The clouds seemed melancholy that day. In fact, they seemed to like that every day, through the sky in the Eighth planet.

Valkyrie leaned her head on Eros's shoulder and smiled at us. She was proud to know that her daughter and I had an admirable coexistence.

"Enzo and Vær look so much like both of us! It seems that Enzo came out of my womb and is our son too!"

Eros looked at the face of his wife, thus giving her a look captivated by his wife's love.

"But it's as if he was our son."

"Yeah."

She nodded and looked back at us flying into the sky. Even from a distance, she could hear the excited cries of her daughter.

"I also have that thought."

Chapter 6

VAER

DAMNED BLUE BLOOD

That was two days before I would turn eighteen, and my mind could not stop thinking about it. Years ago, I was still a little girl who needed my parents to carry me on their laps and now I had grown enough to not need their arms to carry me to the places they wanted to be in my company. I had acquired voluminous breasts and an almost adult beauty. Everything in me had changed, even the way I saw my life, the castle of my grandfather and all around me.

But at this time I lowered my gaze after I looked to the side and saw Enzo, sitting on the balcony railing. He looked thoughtful as looked away. I was sitting differently from his way. My legs were hanging down while they were covered by the gigantic skirt of my long dark pink hue dress.

"Tomorrow I will turn eighteen."

Informed, looking down from the balcony and watching the snow covering part of the floor.

Enzo remained staring away, but he could hear everything I said to him. He seemed to comprehend that the next day would be a very special night for me and for my family.

"Yes. As time passed by to everyone in this castle." he looked to one side and stared at my face. "I have a hundred years and you have not even a third half at my age."

He returned to watch what he was looking before.

"Yes," I smiled gently. "But I consider myself a mature vampire. Not with so much life experience, but I think I'm ready to make my own choices."

Enzo gave me a repressive look. I looked like saying nonsense.

"Excuse me Vær, I do not want to detonate your little girl dreams. But I think you do not have a lot of choices."He back to looked in front and saw the region closest to the castle while he remained giving life to his masculine voice. "You're a vampire princess who is destined to live in this castle in Neptune for the rest of your existence."

He looked down.

"Not to mention that..."

He paused, but I insisted, looking at his image in profile, all in dark suits.

"Not to mention what? Continue talking!"

Soon he took courage.

"Not to mention that you are a blue-blooded vampire and will always need guards."

I looked down, feeling very fragile. Sometimes I hated feeling like this. Imagining that I should be protected by someone all the time.

I really wanted to feel freer to breathe relieved, not believing that I was always unprotected and in danger because I was carrying blue blood in my veins.

Cursed blue blood!

"I think that after tomorrow night, my life will not change many things."

I confessed him, a little disappointed at my own destiny.

"I'll just get more increasing numbers at my age. Only that."

Enzo's head got a slight movement while he agreed silently with my words.

Soon I looked to the side and saw him looking at mountains very distant from the palace. It was already night and the shadows of the hills were visible to us. Giving us the certainty that the night would be long.

"Enzo."

He looked to one side and stared at my image again. He knew I wanted to ask him something serious.

"Do you not feel tired of living in this castle with so few creatures?"

His brow shrugged. He seemed not to comprehend my question correctly. What really I was asking him.

"What do you mean?"

I bit my lip and looked at the lower part of the castle. Feeling a little confused by my feelings and my words.

"I want to ask if you do not feel like going out of this place and try to know people. To know the humans? Or to know a girl who can become your mate for your whole eternity?"

He looked down and kept a mystery with his silence.

"If I answer that 'no'?"

He asked lifting back his head and looking at me. His gray eyes carried arcane clouds within them.

"Are you going to think I'm an idiot for thinking this way?"

"No ..." I shook my head. "Of course not."

I took a light sigh and looked ahead.

"I thought you had already had this desire sometimes. To have the desire to find a girl who can love you and you love her, just as my father and my mother really love each other."

After a few seconds, Enzo made another confession. Exactly when he started to wrinkle his forehead and look at the horizon leagues from the castle of his master.

"I'm happy with the little I have here."

He paused.

"I have wonderful creatures beside me."

I smiled at him.

"I am glad you reflect that way and feel happy with the life you have. Not all creatures in the universe are satisfied with theirs."

"I do not need much to be happy."He affirmed. "I like this place. The planet Neptune is tranquil and I feel at peace with myself."

"Don't you miss the planet Earth?"

His lips shriveled.

"I do not remember it."

Enzo confessed.

"Don't remember my life there. After all, I was kidnapped by your uncle Valmont, when I was still a child."

"It is true. You were still just a little boy who should have vague memories of your family."

His eyes pinched and he tried to remember something. Perhaps his past that was locked from years ago.

"I cannot remember anything."

He shook his head, looking down.

"Not even as the faces of my biological parents looked like."

"I'm so sorry."

We remained silent. After that, I wanted to break that melancholy climate. Enzo seemed scattered, trying to remember his memories next to his biological family. But even with much effort, he could not do this and bring to his mind the beautiful memories of his human lineage.

Then I looked down and threw myself from the front, so falling from the balcony height of the castle. I had no power to stop my fall and I probably would fall sprawling in the snow. But I did it on purpose and it worked.

Soon I felt huge dark wings approaching me. My body was raised on high when Enzo also threw himself from the balcony and his angel wings made him fly freely. His arms held me carefully and I got imprisoned in them, in total safety.

"Do not do that anymore, Vaer! You almost scared me to death!"

He flew with me in his arms back to the balcony of the castle and put me standing on the balcony. He also landed there and stood on my side.

"I do not like when you play that way."

I stared at him calmly, keeping my countenance away from discussions or insults.

"I did it because I knew you would hold me with your angel wings."

Angry, he just ended up shaking his head and taking my turn to speak.

"When you want to take a walk on the heights with me, please, talk to me! I hardly deny any of your desires and you know it."

I walked over to the side and stopped in front of him. I put my hands on the shoulders of my friend and smiled at his still angry physiognomy. Enzo looked like a big kid. About to push away his playmate.

"I'm sorry. I did not want to scare you. I just wanted to feel a bit of adrenaline and also, break that bad climate in our conversation. I realized that you got a little sad for not being able to recall your biological family."

He pulled his body to one side and gave me his back, so speaking with a sarcastic voice.

"OKAY." He began to walk towards the opening that made a connection to the inner room of the castle. "Next time, do not count on my angel wings, or you will end up falling scattered in the snow."

After that, he disappeared through the opening.

Chapter 7

VAER

MY EIGHTEEN BIRTHDAY

The great and awaited night for the celebration of my eighteenth birthday had arrived. This moment was very different from my other birthdays. This one would mark my passage to the beginning of a more mature age. From that moment, I should get more responsibility and I believed that I would have more powers to make my own choices in my life.

Differently from many people, I did not think that becoming older at age was something bad and frightened, on the contrary, I felt more secure about what I should want for my future and my present.

To commemorate this special day, the hall of ceremonies at the castle was arranged with a special decoration, which had been organized by my dear mother. She had taken care of every detail to make that date a memorable occasion in our lives.

In the large room, there was a huge table with specific food for my party. The tablecloth was black with violet. In the center of the table was an eighteen-story cake, in violet and black color. Right on the top of the cake, there was a princess similar to me, made of carved rock. It looked like a miniature of a statue representing my physiognomy.

The ceiling of the hall was decorated with violet and black fabrics. The lit torches helped to make the decor of my party even more beautiful.

The guests were few. At the beginning, there were only there, my grandfathers Vincent, dressed in his festive dress. Dark cape, white shirt with ruffles around the neck and also the wrists, dark trousers and long-barreled boots in black color.

My father also was already in the hall. He also wore elegant clothes. Black cape, navy blue shirt with ruffles around the collar and cuffs, black pants and black boots.

Enzo was also together with them. He wore a black cape, neon blue colored shirt with ruffles on his neck and wrists, dark pants and black boots.

My mother came to the big hall after she had helped me to get dressed up for the party. She, as always, made sure to do my hairdo.

When she reached the hall, soon walked to the cake table and watched it for some instants. Checking everything, to make herself sure she had not forgotten anything.

My mother was beautiful, wearing an elegant long dress in ruby red color, princess style. It was made of silk and there were some gold embroidery on the edge of the skirt and also in the regions of the low neck in horizontal style. Her long black hair was pulled back by a hairstyle at the top of her head above her head was a crown of ruby red stones. The Red lipstick on her lips made her the most beautiful vampire that I had even seen in all my life.

Realizing that my mother still admired the birthday cake, my father came to her and ended up hugging his wife from behind. His embrace showed that he was proud to be at the side of the creature he most admired and loved as his mate. They really loved each other so much.

"Our Princess is growing up."

He affirmed, also looking at the cake still intact on the gigantic table.

"Yes," Valkyrie said, touching the region of her abdomen. "Vær barely came out of my womb and now I see her like such a beautiful girl."

"She looks like you."

My mother smiled and leaned one side of her face on the shoulder of my father.

"She looks like both of us."

But my father said back with sweet words.

"She looks like me in personality."

At that moment, they looked at the castle's main door and saw Uncle Valmont arriving there, accompanied by his wife Aphrodite and their triplets Valmek, Vafro and Valtaigner.

Uncle Valmont was dressed in a full festive dress, navy blue cover, white frill shirt, black pants and dark boots.

His three children were like him. They had long, black hair, their eyes were gray and they were twenty-one. Their costumes were identical to each other. They wore capes, red frilly shirts, black pants and black boots. The children of uncle Valmont were the blood of red origin.

Aunt Aphrodite was wearing a long dress in plum color. Her violet hair was pulled back by a braid. She looked very beautiful too.

Everyone there were standing in the big hall and while waited for my arrival there, and minutes later, they looked toward the central door of the hall and saw me coming through it, as I held the ends of my long dress skirt, made with silk Its color was violet, embroidered with silver threads. My gloves were dark and made with lace. Above my head was a tiara of diamonds in a dark color. My makeup had followed the tone of my dress. So leaving me more special visually for that moment.

At that instant, I walked up to a stone throne and sat slowly on it. After that, all the guests, who were only members of my family, came to salute me as they brought me gifts.

First, I received my grandfather's congratulations, after my father, my mother, Enzo, uncle Valmont, Aunt Aphrodite, Valmek, and Vafro and for last, my cousin Valtaigner.

After it all, we were forced to sit in around the huge table that served our banquet. My grandfather sat in an exclusive chair on the end of the table and my parents, Enzo and I sat on the right side of the table, and on the left side were all the whole family of uncle Valmont and including him, as they had occupied the seats that were empty.

I figured Uncle Valmont was a lucky vampire. He had had three heirs and the three of them had 'red blood'. That is, they were useful vampires.

We began to eat during this and the converse gained forces with the male voices. The women only paid attention to everything they said and also to their loud laughter. The highest laughter around the table was triplets cousins'. They seemed to have tested and ready laughter to suffocate the others there.

With the end of our dinner, a melody to the sound of a harp, guitar and piano, began to sound through the big room. The instruments played alone. My grandfather had used his vampire power to present that moment with a music associated with a classical dance. Typical of a celebration like that.

Within instants, my grandfather took my hand and we started to dance a dance, a kind of waltz of the vampires. We were surrounded only by the male vampires. We were surrounded by a ring made of vampire bodies. My mother and aunt Aphrodite remained sat around the table as they were watching the dance. They seemed satisfied with the performance and proud of me. Because I was the youngest vampire there and brought with me the happiness expression to be the daughter of whom I was.

During the dance, my father was solicited and he asked me to dance. We danced for some time and then it was the time of my uncle Valmont. I danced with him and then with Valmek, Vafro, Valtaigner and finally Enzo.

All they danced well the dance with me. I followed their steps without stumbling or getting confused by the course of the choreography. But in the turn of Enzo, he purposely stepped on my foot and smiled at me with an ironic air.

Suddenly he stopped dancing and went out the room hurriedly, going into the other room of the castle that had several huge and rounded shapes pilasters. At that minute, I held the skirt of my long dress and saw myself running after him. Everyone there realized that we were in one of our plays.

The years had passed by, but my spirit of the little girl had not abandoned me and I had even more sure of that, whenever Enzo provoked me, instigating me to play with him.

"Enzo, Come back here! You stepped on my foot on purpose!"

I exclaimed as I ran with haste, trying to reach him. He was beyond me and walked toward one of the pilasters. I ended up holding one side of his dark cloak and pulled him to me.

"Come back here! You almost crushed my foot!"

I said smiling and he turned to face me, smiling too, but removed my hand from his cloak and turned me around, since so, putting my back to a pillar that was closer to us.

Our giggles discontinued and we remained stopped in the same place, one facing each other. Behind me, I just felt the pilaster supporting my back and in front of me, I saw the mystical image of Enzo. He was so serious and his gray eyes looked at my face with circumspection. The palm of his hand slid down one side of my face and he kept staring at me with a strange gaze.

All my existence, I had never witnessed that look. It looked fallen asleep for centuries and it was awakened at that moment, just on the very day of my eighteenth birthday.

It was strange because at that moment I could not see him as my friend...

Then I felt his face close to mine and his lips would win right destination, but Enzo thought of us for a few seconds and raised more his head. Then he removed his palm from my face's lateral and walked away, as he walked backward. He gave me a silent and disappointed look. Something had almost escaped from our reason. From the good sense of our family.

After that, he turned around and walked back to the hall where everyone was in. I turned to the side and ended up embracing the gigantic pillar against my body while I seemed numbed to what could have happened between us if Enzo's lips met mine in fact.

Because actually, I did not know if that would be a gift or a disillusion.

Chapter 8

VAER

THE REQUEST

The next day, I woke up with a few dark circles around my eyes. He had slept badly that night. Some facts of my eighteenth birthday were still in my mind and between them the cursed scene which I felt strange before the hypothesis that I could be kissed on the lips for the first time and by the creature that all this time was just my friend, my almost heart brother.

I felt more relieved because the kiss had not happened in fact and I did not carry within me the weight of conscience for having been part of a thoughtless act.

However, everyone was in the dining room, enjoying breakfast with foods compound with raw meats and juices prepared by the pre-vampires.

On this occasion, I pulled a seat, next to my mother and I stayed facing Enzo. He was sitting across the table, beside my father's seat and my grandfather was sitting on the edge of the table, as usual.

"What a miracle, dear! You woke up so early today!"

My mother affirmed, helping me put my food on the plate. She always did that to facilitate my meals. She felt happy to serve her sole heir who had the physiognomy almost identical to her.

"I did not sleep so well last night."

"Why?"

She insisted, still filling my glass with a dark liquid.

"For nothing."

"Vaer, you did not comb your hair!"

She exclaimed, looking in the direction of my face and seeing my head covered with long disordered hair and full of curse knots at the extremities.

I looked at my mother, and I could not hold back my thud air with her critical observation at my face in the morning. Enzo rested the back of his right hand on his lips and hid them, as he remained with his head bent and he did not seem interested in the conversation during our breakfast.

He looked so serious.

"Mother, I forgot and I am also accustomed to you arranging my hair every day."

"Daughter, I think it is time for you do it alone. After all, you already are eighteen, dear."

I kept silent and tasted the dark juice, reminding me of some scenes of my eighteen-year party.

"Uncle Valmont should re-build his heirs! My cousins are insupportable!"

I confessed, rolling my eyes and feeling just annoyed to talk about them.

Everyone looked stunned at me. I stopped my accusations and questioned innocently.

"What's up? Did I say something wrong?"

"Daughter, they are your cousins."

My father contested across the table.

"Yes, they are. But they do not stop implicating on me. They do not tire of reminding me that I have blue blood. I am a weak and useless vampire."

"Don't listen to them."

Enzo advised me, looking at me. I lifted my eyes and looked in his direction as if we had a very serious secret.

Finally, I kept silent for a while and my anger at my cousins made me break the silence again. I ended up insisting on the subject.

"What a good they live on Venus! Far away from us! I could not endure living with my triplet cousins every day of my life!"

"Vaer!" My mother exclaimed, looking at me with her face of astonishment. "I did not know you hate your cousins so much, dear!"

I tried to explain her.

"I do not hate them. I just want distance from them."

My grandfather made a noise with his throat, informing that he did not like the direction of our conversation. Soon everyone began to have breakfast in silence, including me.

After our breakfast, I looked at everyone around the table and then I took that opportunity to try to tell them about something very important regarding me. And that had nothing to do with uncle Valmont's heirs.

"I want to make good use of it as you all are gathered here because I wish to inform you something very serious."

Everyone there looked at me with astonishment. Enzo stared at me with alarm, thinking that I would reveal about the last night, what almost happened between us. Feared, he ended up descending his gray eyes and staring at the tablecloth.

"What something serious is this, dear?"

Vincent questioned, looking attentively toward my seat. I looked at each of them again and I began to make my confession with soft words.

"Now I'm eighteen, I know I have the right to make a request. Request which I could not do yesterday for lack of courage. But this morning I woke up determined to make this petition."

I looked first in the face of my grandfather, then on the face of my father and for last in the face of my mother and forgot Enzo's countenance. Yes, he was part of our family, but I had no obligation to be obedient to him.

"I hope you concede me this request."

"Please, just say soon what request is it!"

The master of the vampires ordered, already looking impatient with so many detours. My grandfather used to be direct and objective in his conversations.

I prepared my lips and informed with tameness. Because I knew that my request would shock everyone there.

"I want you to let me live on the Planet Earth with the humans."

My father choked on his drink and began to cough nervously. He closed his right hand and brought it to his lips, trying to control his cough from last minute. My mother took her hands to her lips too, keeping her frightened eyes toward me.

During this, Vincent tapped his fingers on the table marble and continued staring at me seriously. Nevertheless, Enzo stood looking down.

"What is this nonsense, Vær?"

My father questioned, resuming his breath and removing his hand away from his lips.

"Where did you get this idea, dear?"

My mother reinforced, smoothing one side of my hair.

Soon, I began to explain with a weak voice.

"I always wanted to meet the human, to go to planet Earth and know how it is like. How the people live there. What they do or what they do not do."

Enzo, even silent, shook his head, seeming not moved by my words. I seemed to be saying a lot of stupid things in our early hours in the day.

"Honey, forget this nonsense! You cannot go to Earth and find the humans!"

My father informed.

"Grandfather! Please! Say something! You're the one who order more than anyone here and your word will be everyone's."

I cast a pious look at him. Trying to make him agree with me, with my letters. But before his response, my mother put her hand on her heart, looking to feel bad about that conversation. Her malaise would only contribute to something against my request.

My grandfather continued serious as looking towards my seat, keeping his silence, which still was occulting his answer and his opinion about my absurd request.

But I insisted on as any creature or person who believed in their dreams and desires.

"My dear little grandfather, please, grant me this request."

There was tranquillity in the dining room. My father's face from pale got red. He was very angry with my petition. I had disappointed him with that desire.

"Vincent, Please, do not authorize my daughter to go..."

His master and father in law raised his hand highly and my father got silent. Now he wanted to speak and did not want anyone to intrude on the conversation until he finished speaking.

The Neptune master looked at his nearly empty plate and saw only some raw meat pieces. A sigh slipped from his lips. He raised his gray eyes and found my face with neon blue eyes in the direction of his seat.

"No, Vær, I do not authorize your departure to planet Earth."

Everyone felt relieved with my grandfather's response. Except me who immediately wilted at the table. Then I rose up and threw my glass of juice in any way on the table. Some dark red liquid splash hit part of Enzo's body. He looked at himself in silence but remained calm. Although I realized that before all that discussion, he had been the only one to pay with his vest.

"You cannot deny me this request!"

I exclaimed turning around.

"That is not fair!"

I turned my back to them and walked toward the palace corridor. All around the table were silent, listening to my footsteps running away from there, and giving them the assurance that no way I could go to planet Earth.

Not even through dreams...

Chapter 9

VALKYRIE

SERIOUS CONVERSATION WITH MY PRINCESS

I entered my daughter's room and closed the door behind me. I looked toward her bed and did not see her there. Since then, my gaze ran to one side and there she was, standing at the open window of her bedroom. My daughter looked through the window-pane, with her arms crossed on her chest. She felt that I had entered her room and decided to allow me to approach her as she had done many times when I always approached her for a conversation between mother and daughter.

Before I said something, her hands touched her triceps and she remained with her back to me, as looking at everything out there.

"Honey, understand the decision of your grandfather and ours. We do not want you in danger on the planet Earth."

Vær remained silent, swallowing her anger after her request had been denied by the master of the vampires. Even if she counted on this hypothesis, but did not believe it could prevail in her destiny and chase away her crazy dream of living a life alongside the humans, simply on the planet Earth.

"I understand you want to venture into something you do not know yet. This is part of your age."I smiled by recalling my jovial time. "After all, I had ever had your age and I was impulsive as you show yourself to be now, my daughter."

"I just want a request."

Croaked still watching the scenery outside the window. Her Neon blue eyes sought all around the castle and she saw a lot of snow and a bunch of lifeless trees, over and above a gray sky during the day.

"See, Mother. I'm tired of living in this castle and see only snow and thousands of dry trees, rocks and a sky that just lives cloudy during the day."

She turned to me and looked me in the face confronting me as an adult person and with choices settled in her mind.

"At my grandfather's castle, there are only five people counting with me." She looked down."I want to know the humans. I want to meet people."

Her eyes met with my gray look.

"I want to fall in love like you and Dad is in love with each other."

She left the window, walked towards her bed and sat on it. Keeping her hands rested in her lap. Thus, showing herself to be a very young and well-bred vampire.

"If I continue in this castle and do not go to Earth, this will never happen to me."

Vaer closed her eyes and a blue tear ran down her pale cheek. My daughter's tear moved me deeply. Vær was my life and her suffering was always my torment.

Soon I found myself forced to walk to her and sit at her side, sheltering her hands in mines. While my mother soft voice, came out of my mouth with a heartfelt message.

"Daughter, Not everything that we wish for must be realized."

I raised my head and looked in front.

"Sometimes we have the power to do petitions that do not suit us, in fact. We are blinded by lack, need, passions and we forget that sometimes the reason must speak louder at certain occasions of our lives and I think that today is one of those moments. You should consider about your contradictory request."

She lifted her face and I stroked the side of her countenance tenderly.

If we deny your request today it is not because we want to keep you only here, close to us."I paused staring at her in the eyes. "But to keep you safe and defend you from the threats that the universe offers you."

My hand lost force and ended up abandoning the face of my little girl.

"The vampires also run a risk!"

I affirmed.

"And in your case, that care should be redoubled, after all, you have blue blood, you are a very rare species of vampire and literally fragile to any attack of enemies."

I swallowed my saliva of anxiety and fear, by imagining that I could lose my daughter to any slide in her life. Vær had very different protection from ours and her resistance to danger as well.

"I'd been human, dear, and I can affirm that the humans never are our friends."

Another tear rolled down Vær's face. She ended up burying her face in the line of my bust. Her voice came out choked by the fabric of my dress.

"Mom, I need to take that risk!"

She supplicated.

"I cannot stay in this castle for a long time, or I'll end up debilitating of so much tediousness."

Her head lifted and the contours of her eyes blurred with her tears confronted desperately mine.

"When I was a kid, I saw a small little world of the vampires, in this castle or in its surroundings. But now, I grew up and realized that life is much ampler than I imagined. We have opportunities, the power of choices. Various sensations that allow us to dream of a future in another atmosphere."

She paused.

"I realized that Neptune has become too small for me ...it became the prison of my dreams ..."

Vaer shook her head.

"I cannot remain in that chain of repressions imposed by my grandfather, my father and you."

I closed my eyes for some instants. This was one of the most difficult conversations I had even had with my daughter. Now she did not want to follow my advice because she already had her opinion formed about the matter at hand. My daughter was no longer the girl that shook her head while agreeing with everything her mother said and recommended to her.

"Vaer, understand that the humans are a threat to our species. We cannot live in their midst. This has been proven by me, by your father, by your grandfather and any other vampire who has lived much longer than you and gone to planet Earth to evidence it."

"I'm not afraid of danger I will run if I am among the humans." She stared at me in the face."I'm afraid to never have the opportunity to live this experience."

"Vaer, stop it!" I hugged her desperately. "That way you destroy me in disgust, daughter! I and your father did not create you to see your destruction! That would be the end of my existence! I cannot bear to lose you."

Chapter 10

VAER

MY FATHER'S GIFT

"Where's my little girl who has just ended up becoming an adult?"

I looked to the side and saw my father coming through the door of my room and keeping his arms back. He seemed to hide something from me. The vampire Eros always did that when he wanted to approach me with some surprise. Although I continued motionless, sitting on my stone bed and watching him approach me. I realized that my father and Enzo looked like each other so physically. It seemed that Enzo was his firstborn. I knew they had a degree of kinship since Enzo was the great-grandson of Enric, the only human brother of my father.

After walking a few meters in my bedroom, my father stopped in front of my bed and sat down beside me, and still keeping secret what he carried in his hands since he got there.

"I brought your birthday gift. Yesterday, I forgot to deliver it."

Justifying it, he pulled his hands from his back and raised them up in front of me. I looked down and saw a tiara with dark jewels between his palms. It glowed with acumen and was as beautiful as the feeling that my father carried for me, just for me being his daughter and sole heir.

"A new tiara, Dad?"

I was fascinated by the design of it and I felt so enchanted by this magnificent jewel. My benefactor always did that and gave me a diamond tiara on every one of my birthdays.

"Yes. A pre-vampire jeweler manufactured it especially for you. At my request, of course."

He approached me even more and put the tiara on top of my head. My hair was loose and my tiara with dark precious stones suited my moss green dress very well. There were some dark details in them, the embroideries, the laces, and the ribbon ties.

Finally, I ended up hugging him tightly. As I was feeling eternally grateful for him to exist and I being proud to call him father or Dad...

"Thanks, Dad."

He allowed himself to be embraced by me and after a few seconds, his hands began to stroke my hair on my back.

"Daughter, your mother, your grandfather and I love you very much. And we want you to forget the idea of wanting to live away from us, away from this castle, even if only for a short period of time."

At that instant, he ceased to embrace me and stared me in the face, remembering that I was the most precious jewel of his life and no diamond would steal my place in his heart. No one.

"You are very fragile, dear."

He gave a pause in his speech.

"I'm sorry you have no vampire power. But we cannot change that. Your vampire hierarchy is an exception in our family. So you cannot give yourself the luxury of thinking that you can do everything and will never hurt."

I descended my eyes. Sadness had stolen my animation to be at my father's side and have just received one of his special gifts. But, I realized that his hand began to smooth out my crestfallen face, by the time he confessed.

"I swear daughter if there was a way I could change it if I could transfer all my vampire powers to you ..." He stared me in the face and spoke with a soft voice. "I would do it ... with no regrets ..."

I ended up hugging him again, knowing that my father really loved me. He and my mother loved me in a way I did not know which of them loved me more. Not even a thermometer could measure their love for me.

"Vaer, I would never forgive myself if something terrible happened to you on planet Earth."

We continued embraced and I looked in the direction of my bedroom window and saw the curtain swaying gently with the wind strength that came from out of it.

"And what should I do with my dream, Dad? My fantasy of living a time on planet Earth?"

He responded prudently, still clinging to me.

"Guard it with you."

He kissed my shoulder while I was still entirely comfortable in his arms.

"The humans do not have much to offer us, in addition to fresh blood ..."

He paused, looking away with his gray eyes.

"I think you'd better live with this dream locked inside you than you get lost in it ..."

His words made sense. Maybe my destruction was assured with the consolidation of this reverie.

Chapter 11

ENZO

FRIEND ADVICE

It was an absurd, Vær continuing with the idea of wanting to live a time on planet Earth. Having the possibility to connect with the humans and try to live their lives. That kind of existence did not belong to us and we should not covet it in any way.

In fact, I was not her grandfather, father or Vær's mother, but I was her only friend and like every good friend, it was essential his role of trying not to put his companion in stuck.

"Vaer, we need to talk."

She looked in my direction after I exclaimed her first name.

Uncrossing her arms, the princess remained before the balcony, looking at the landscape that was very distant from us. The afternoon had brought another kind of scenario to the horizon that was far, far beyond us.

I felt Vær remained to wait for me to start talking to her. More or less, she knew the reason for our conversation in that moment and then the newest princess of Neptune wanted to know what I had to say her, after her request of aberration during our breakfast in the morning.

"Vaer, Please, stop this idea of wanting to come to Earth. You do not know how it looks like there. How the humans are like and how they will behave with your presence."

I ended up touching my hands on the balcony railing. Compressed my lower lips for a few seconds and then kept saying.

"Listen to what your grandfather and your parents say. They just want your good."

She looked to one side, staring at me in profile.

"Do you really believe that my good is eternally living in this castle without a mate?"

During her insurgent question, I ended up frowning at her.

"What do you mean by that?"

Vær walked toward me and stood at my side. She wanted me to feel her presence close to me while she wanted to clear things up. What really was passing inside her.

"Enzo, I do not blame if you do not pursue ambitiously a companion for you."

Her neon blue eyes confronted my eyes narrowed at her image. Her words were getting the shape with an air of affront.

Nothing interesting for a creature like me who always enjoyed civility.

"But I covet a companion to me."

In a premeditated mode, she turned to the side, put her hands on the balcony railing and looked away. Her long black hair began to fly back with the wind force that was coming against our bodies.

"I want to fall in love and be loved like my mother is loved by my father."

At that minute, she turned her gaze away from the landscape and looked at my image standing next to her. My eyes continued still cold, narrow and somewhat angry in the direction of her figure.

"If I continue here, I'll never get it."

I just ended up shaking my head.

"That's foolishness!"

"Foolishness ?"

My voice lost the volume control and it elevated along with my anger.

"Yes, you cannot go to the planet Earth just to try to fall in love with someone and mainly with humans!"

"Yes, I can."

She shot back, already with a justification concentrated in her mind.

"If this happens, I will spare no effort to try to bring him to this castle and make him one of us with the consent of my grandfather, of course."

"That's craziness, Vær!"

I scratched my chin nervously. My friend was being naive, foolish and obsessed with something that could never work in her favor. We were from another species, from another planet and we had very different habits of the humans.

But I was also afraid that Vær could get hurt with that story.

"You should take this story of your head because your grandfather and your parents will never allow you to go to planet Earth without them."

'I will not give up this desire. Enzo, it is not fair. I've always been a vampire princess who never displeased my parents or my grandfather. I've always been an excellent friend and I think you should be on my side in this moment and support me in that decision. This is the least you should do for me."

I shook my head with more force. Already aware of my decision.

"Not even. I'm not crazy yet to support such foolishness like this!"

I paused and after continued talking without looking at her physiognomy in a long dress in wine color.

"Vaer, I have a hundred years and enough judgment to not put you in dangers."

"Great."She looked at me with anger. "Maybe as a guard you can show yourself very well at my side, but as my friend, I realize that you already present faults!"

The princess tried to walk to the side, but I held her by the forearm and she turned to me again and looked at my bare chest under my black cape. I hated wearing shirt under my cloak. In fact, I liked always feeling the freedom of my chest because that was the body part that I liked the most in me.

"Why are you saying that?" Soon I stared her in the face."Do I no longer serve to be your friend?"

She looked around; looking confused and stopped staring at me at that minute.

"Forget it."

She shrugged her shoulders and made herself ignorant.

"I said it without thinking of."

Vaer seemed sorry to have told me such words. But, I reminded me of the day of her eighteenth birthday and the moment that our lips almost shocked.

"If it is because of that day ... I ..."

She soon interrupted me, whereas knowing exactly what I was talking about.

"No, it's not because of that day."

We were silent for some instants. She looked down, looking a little bashful, wondering what would be of her or me if that kiss had won life through our lips.

"Because nothing happened between us ..."

Her voice sounded very weak and with discomfort. That seemed very embarrassing for her or for me to talk about it.

To kiss Vaer on the lips should be like kissing a child and practicing pedophilia. Probably this mistake I would regret for the rest of my life as a vampire.

"Yeah, nothing happened and will never happen."

I soon declared then. But Vær got a little thoughtful and for a moment she hugged herself, feeling unprotected in my presence.

"Enzo, I need you to understand my situation and support me."

"No, Vær, you already have my answer referring to your madness to want to go to planet Earth and try to live with the humans."

I paused, closing my eyes for an instant. I needed to calm down and pretend that our conversation was pleasant and there were no discords.

"If you love your life and especially your parents, you will not do such a crazy thing like this. Or you will be anticipating your own destruction."

I turned my back to her and tried to leave there, but Vær remained in the same place and thoughtful with my warnings.

But, I stopped walking in the division of the passage between the balcony at the castle high and the opening to the other room in the palace. With piety, I looked back and saw Vær motionless, with her back to me, her long black hair was still behind her.

"Don't forget that you are a blue-blooded vampire and have no power to defend yourself and this is a very serious aggravating for your journey on another planet."

After that, I walked to the other great hall, after leaving my advice engraved in the mind of the useless-blooded princess.

Chapter 12

VAER

CONVERSATION WITH THE KING OF THE VAMPIRES

Even if I tried, but I could not untie myself from the idea of living on the planet Earth for some time. And to have the opportunity to meet humans and maybe fall in love for real. In fact, I needed to have that in my life. Because everything I had at hand could no longer make me so happy, like the time I was a little girl and saw I having the life I had that season, it was just enough for me to stay in the same place without trying to seek alternatives, new dreams and a taste of freedom which I would feel only if I could live on another planet that was not Neptune.

Through this, I tried to resolve this situation and I went to look for the master of the vampires. I wanted to have a serious conversation with him. From granddaughter to grandfather. Maybe he could comprehend my situation and grant my wish, so going over the will of my parents.

"Grandpa, can we talk for a second?"

Vincent turned around and looked at me while he was holding a silver cup. Before he answered, the master of the vampires made a smooth face what I figured out in my way. My grandfather seemed to avoid our dialogue because he knew what would be the main topic during it.

"Vaer, if this issue is about your petition, forget it!" He pronounced and then drank a little more from his drink.

I looked at his wine cape, hiding part of his body. My mind wanted to be like it and dominate the thought of my grandfather as well as that mantle dominated a great part of his body.

"Please, Grandpa, you need to listen to me!"

Soon I lamented, walking ahead and approaching to him. My grandfather was much taller than me and because of this; he looked me from the highest part of me with his narrowed eyes.

"It's all right."

Finally, he declared and searched to sit in one of the individual armchairs in the living room. Logical, taking with him his cup between his long fingers.

After that, I did the same and sat on a seat in a position opposite to his chair.

A brief silence came over us and soon after I started talking with my fragile voice and somewhat appealing.

"I know your decision about my petition, but Grandpa, I need that you put yourself in my place and concede it to me."

I looked to the side.

"I know perfectly that I'm a fragile vampire and I have no power to protect myself from every danger ..." I raised my head and looked at him."But it's not fair that you try to keep me confined here as if I were unable to do anything."

Vincent kept watching me with his serious face. He did strike of his smile. On that occasion, my gaze fell down and I looked at my long dress skirt, at the moment I wanted to continue with my speech.

"Grandpa, I need to have this experience in my life! I need to meet creatures different from us. I need to feel stronger, even knowing I'm so fragile and weak like a cockroach."

The King of the vampires looked down, seemed to feel sorry for me. I always knew he always wished I could be from the red-blooded category instead of blue blood. But that was already defined and there was nothing anyone could do to change it.

"Vaer ..." He started saying, after raising his gray eyes, looking toward my seat and seeing a young vampire in a luxurious dress in rosy color."You're still a very young vampire, you have not lived long enough to get maturity and make judicious choices."

I kept looking at his grandfather's face and master of the vampires.

"On the other hand, I comprehend your stupid dreams. Because your mother when she was your age, she was just like you. Valkyrie was very stubborn and often never heard me when she repeatedly was determinate to fight for your father's love."

He sighed, not because he seemed tired of his narrative, but for some motive that tormented him inside.

"But my granddaughter, in your case, this is very different. Your mother, at the epoch, always had many vampire powers and even so I always worried about her." He stared at me with fear; his alarmed gaze could not deny it. "But, you do not have any power, Vær."

There was a break in his voice.

"You're as unprotected as much as the humans on Earth."

His eyes grew larger as he looked around, trying to describe what his mind was imagining.

"The humans are not charitable with our species."

He shook his head.

"I don't need the charity of the humans, grandpa."

I shot back stubbornly. Vincent stared at me with a thump.

"You don't know what you say, dear."

"But I know perfectly what I want.

We stared at each other for some time in silence. But the master of the vampires removed his gaze from my image first and just ended up staring at the cup between his pale fingers. It was no longer so filled up. If that red liquid could have an audition, it would be taking part in our conversation and maybe judging me as a creature without judgment.

"Okay."

He whispered. My eyes shone and I almost jumped for joy in my seat.

"Will you allow me to go to planet Earth?"

"Not yet."

My posture lost energy on the other side of his seat. I came back to feel sad again. Imagining that every conversation with my grandfather had been in vain and I had not even the talent to try to persuade him with my words.

I ended up descending my eyes and staring at the floor. That's all what was left me to do after a failed conversation and filled with denials against my request.

My only request.

Vincent took the opportunity and looked at my image in front of him, sitting so sadly in my seat. He sighed while feeling guilty for my momentary unhappiness. He had always been a great grandfather to me and had always agreed with virtually everything I did or asked from him and my parents.

But why not at that moment?

I was just asking to live a short time on Earth, and not for the rest of my life.

Was it that too much to ask?

Suddenly my grandfather rose from his seat and walked to one side, trying to get away from me and my sadness. He needed to ponder and longed to do it alone. Without my presence.

Chapter 13

VINCENT

RELEVANCE IN THE REQUEST

I thought, thought over again and spent the day thinking about the sad face of my granddaughter while she was talking to me in the palace main room. I hated to see her like that, like an unhappy, even carrying such a splendid legacy like ours. Vær was a little bit of my daughter Valkyrie and this little bit also filled my life with wonderful moments. The feeling of being a grandfather of wonderful grandchildren was splendid and especially a sweet granddaughter, so soft and as fragile as Vaer.

Part of what I had become today as a figure more than paternal, I thanked my granddaughter who was always by my side. Now the time had come for me to thank her for all h tenderness for me.

The night had come faster and hours after dinner, I requested the presence of Eros, Valkyrie, and Vær in the meeting room. I was sitting on my throne, my daughter and Eros were standing in front of my seat and Vaer stood further back her parents. She was still feeling very hurt with her request denied by every one of us.

She automatically felt excluded from our lineage.

"I summoned the three of you here because I need to say something very serious in this moment."

All remained anesthetized by me, looking toward my giant chair. Vaer's neon blue eyes still shone with sadness, but she insisted on hearing everything I had to declare.

"I spent the whole day thinking about my granddaughter and her bitterness ..."

I paused, looking at the face of my princess.

"By means of it, I decided that I will grant her request."

Valkyrie and Eros despaired with my pronunciation while Vær gave me a bland and full of thanked smile. She or her parents were not waiting for it.

"Dad, you cannot allow my daughter to commit such nonsense like this!"

"I agree with my wife!"

"I have not finished talking yet..."

Both were silent and joined to each other with an embrace, they seemed very afflicted by the news. But I had even imagined that Eros and Valkyrie would act like that when they knew Vær could live sometime on planet Earth after my permission.

"I said I will let my granddaughter live temporarily on Earth, but on one condition."

"Condition?"

They questioned together and Vær took a step forward, looking alarmed by this restriction. Really she did not wait for it.

"On what condition, grandpa?"

I looked at her face; my granddaughter continued staring at me with a stunned face. As she did seem to fear what could come out of my lips.

"On the condition that you will have a guardian all the time with you."

My finger raised in her direction, as I stated.

"You will not step on another planet without having someone to protect you from dangers."

Vær shook her head, looking dissatisfied with the decision.

"That is not fair. I want to have the opportunity to live my life without having someone commanding me all the time. Without me feeling protected by another vampire."

"If it is not that way, so forget the idea of living with the humans on Earth. Because this is my condition and if you are not up to it, so I also do not agree with your request."

I affirmed severely looking at my granddaughter's face; she was voiceless for a moment. Her lips were anesthetized and not entirely opened. At that instant, Valkyrie looked at her and felt more relieved, thinking that Vær would not be absent from that castle.

"It's all right."

Vær ended up responding.

"But who will be my guardian?"

Seriously I replied.

"Enzo will be your guardian from Neptune."

The head of Vær shook again. She seemed more indignant by the news.

"No! I do not want Enzo behind me! I want to go to the planet Earth alone! That is my desire, my request and it is not fair for it to be shared forcefully with a guardian that you are putting behind me! Trying to watch me like I was a creature that was about to commit nonsense or suffer the worst cowardice in the universe!"

She shook her head, turned her back and walked away from the big room, however affirming something with her rebellious voice.

"I will go to the planet Earth alone! Please! No guardian or without my parents to try to control my life!"

Then Vær disappeared in one of the hall openings. Valkyrie and Eros stood there before me. They looked at me disapprovingly. Maybe they did not wait for my decision at last minute.

"Please, Dad, go back on your word and again forbid my daughter to commit this craziness! I beg you!"

"Vaer does not know how to defend herself, Vincent, if my daughter goes to the planet Earth, she probably will not come back, because the humans will destroy her."

Eros reinforced with anger. Valkyrie despaired even more with the words of her husband. Her tears started to loosen from her eyes and she ended up telling me full of resentment.

"Dad, if something terrible happens to my daughter on planet Earth ... I can never forgive you."

Valkyrie turned her back and left the place with hurried steps. Eros looked in my face and uttered something as well.

"It will be two because I also will never forgive you if my daughter is destroyed in the planet of the humans. What you're doing is craziness! My daughter has no structure to live away from us. She barely knows how to defend herself from an insect! Her blood is blue. She has no power to protect herself from danger."

But I faced my son in law as I was still resolute in my decision.

"I know well what I am doing."

My voice assured with authority.

"Vaer will have a guardian to protect her!"

Chapter 14

ENZO

THE WAIVER REQUEST

Not expecting it, I came to the meeting room, walking slowly toward the throne of my master. I had been out of the conversation between my master, Eros, Valkyrie, and Vær. And it had happened to the petition to the own King of the vampires. But now the time had reached to the point that I would have a private conversation with the master of the vampires and that occasion had come up to his request.

Vincent was already seated on his throne, probably waiting for my presence there. His gray eyes looked in my direction and he saw me walking with my cape, in no undershirt. I wore black pants and black long pipes boots.

Soon I stopped in front of his illustrious seat. I made a short bow in his image. He still remained silent, waiting for the right moment to start talking.

Even holding the tip of his chin, Vincent began to utter.

"I want you to be the guardian of my granddaughter and protect her for no harm to happen to her."

Hearing this, my neck made an unexpected moment. I felt a discomfort in hearing that order.

What did he say?

Guardian of his granddaughter?

Why was he ordering me this?

"Did you authorize Vær to go to the planet Earth?"

I questioned surprised. Vincent maintained his firm and centered posture while he still remained seated on his throne.

"Yes, I authorized the request of my granddaughter, but on this condition."He looked at me with a verbal petition. "That you're at her side, to take care of my granddaughter and protect her from danger. Vær does not have intellectual and physical conditions to defend herself alone. She was always created in this castle, far from danger and people who could threaten her. But from the moment that my granddaughter is on another planet, the things change from the figure."

"Why did you authorize her to go? If you master know that the planet Earth is not the appropriate place for your granddaughter?"

Vincent got silent and pondered for less than two seconds.

"That does not concern you. I make my decisions and choices. My servants only obey me."

"Pardon."

Soon I said as curving my face before my King.

"Now go and be prepared to fulfill your mission on planet Earth."

"Okay, sir."

I assured him with confidence in myself. I was enthusiastic to give my best to protect the princess Vær. Although, I hated the idea of having to reside on the planet Earth and among the human race.

VAER

Later...

Walking through the castle, I looked to one side and saw Enzo keeping his back leaned against the corridor wall while his arms were crossed on his strong chest and partially uncovered. Even without looking at the sides, he could feel that I was approaching him more and more.

As soon as I stopped almost beside him, my voice started our first dialogue after I was informed about my departure to Earth.

"Do you already know that Grandpa gave me permission to go to planet Earth?"

"Yes. I do."

He responded looking in the direction of his arms cluttered on each other. Enzo seemed upset with the situation and its amplitude. And the worst that he was also involved in this up to his neck since he forcefully would have to be my guardian and take care of me as if I was a child at the stage of starting to walk and give their first steps.

My throat sounded an anemic noise, accompanied by a strange nervous.

"Do you also know that you will have to be my guardian in the land of the humans?"

"Yes, I do."

His voice sounded ruder, it seemed like that was the worst part of the news. So we both ended up staying silent for some instants. Without one of us having the courage to look at the face of each other and protest something in our favor. It was a very strange situation. I felt committed to Enzo's destiny with regard to him going to Earth just to protect me.

Everything would be easier if I could guarantee my own protection by myself.

"Enzo, I do not want you to do it for me! I do not want you to go to the planet Earth behind me and run the risks that should be the only mine. It is me who want to live that dream. This desire is mine. I want to live it alone, in my way, without having someone on my feet, to be taking care of my life and of my steps."

I paused, looking up.

"I want to live my life alone, in my way and without having creatures next to me to give me as much protection and make me remember all the time that I do not serve for anything."

I looked down now.

"Not even to defend myself from danger."

I ended up looking to the side and seeing him in the same position. With his backs leaned against the wall, his arms still crossed over his chest and he sought to look to the fore and never to me or to the sides.

"So Enzo, I ask you to not go with me to Earth, invent an excuse for grandpa and say him you cannot go with me. He cannot oblige you to do this."

But Enzo kept himself resolute, his back unglued from the wall. His arms buckled and went back to get straight down. He started walking tame and full of sensual movements and so he stopped in front of me. Unintentionally, I looked at his strong bare chest, beneath his black cloak that was open at the front.

Enzo ended up gazing at my neon blue eyes and his pale lips moved, so forming words.

"I'm sorry, Vaer..." his voice sounded ironical to my ears. "But I'm here to receive and fulfill your grandfather's orders and not yours."

After that, he began to walk to one side, that way purposely dashing one side of his shoulder on my face. His gait showed irritation. My friend Enzo seemed to be very angry with his mission, after him having to dedicate to me as my guardian, on a planet that he did not want to be part of anymore.

Chapter 15

ENZO

MY CONVERSATION WITH THE VAMPIRE EROS

An owl was flying from the sky and landed on the parapet of the castle balcony. In a few moments, it had been losing its shape with dark feathers and gaining another format, which revealed the face of a vampire with legs, arms and head. He stopped at my side and we both stayed there, side by side, looking at the horizon distant from us. It was not a well-rehearsed scene, but it seemed so perfect for two individuals who looked like each other in the external contour.

"I know how you must be feeling now."

Eros began saying, after having rested one of his hand on my right shoulder, thus demonstrating his camaraderie as a friend, a companion for all the time and especially as a father that I had not after I was kidnapped by Valmont.

"I also lived it and was forced to fulfill the mission of being the guardian of Valkyrie. The difference was that she was still human and I did not know before..."

He smiled; trying to face at things with more naturalness, but despite the fact that I felt that he was the father of Vær and was so worried about his only heiress.

"But you know my daughter so well. She grew up with your presence. So you know her almost better than anyone. You will know how to take care of her."

"I still think it is craziness Vær wanting to go to the planet Earth."

At last, I ended up shaking my head.

"I think so too, but Vincent has authorized her and no one can pass over his order. He is our master. He rules this place and all the vampires who reside here."

"Yes. I know."

Soon I lowered my head after Eros's words.

"In fact, I'm not comfortable with this situation. I do not know if I will know how to take care of Vær so well like this. As you may know, she has an impetuous temper. She is stubborn and obstinate when she wants something."

"Yeah."

Eros shook his head, agreeing with my last pronunciation.

"Vaer is just like her mother." He smiled away, remembering his wife. "Valkyrie was also very stubborn and never gave up my love. She did everything to get it and ended up getting it."

At that instant, I remembered that Vær also was looking for a true love like the love of Eros and Valkyrie and if she had the same luck as her mother, she would end up getting what she was going to look for on the planet Earth.

"Vaer put in her mind that she desires to be loved as you and Valkyrie love each other."

Eros smiled at my words.

"My daughter is very dreamy. This is another characteristic that she inherited from her mother."

I ended up threading my hands into the front pockets of my cloak.

"Do you believe Vær really can fall in love with a human?"

Eros looked at the horizon and leaned against the stone railing. The vampire was in no hurry to answer this question. It still sounded vague in his mind because it was dealing with the uncertain future of his daughter.

"Everything is possible."

I got a little stunned by his response as I imagined the vampire Eros would affirm the word 'no'. That is, Vær would never have true feelings for a human being.

"What if this happens? What will happen to the lucky human one who will win the heart of your daughter?"

Eros sounded practical.

"She'll just have to bring this human here and convince Vincent to authorize her to turn him into one of us."

Soon I questioned him.

'If this really happens, Vær will be allowed to live with the human here for the rest of her life?"

"I believe so." He sighed and wondered more details of the future of his little girl, who was the little girl only in the loving way to be treated by him. Because actually, Vær had become a young vampire with a reputable beauty. Her splendor was easy and worthy of extracting suspirations of any guy who looked in her direction. "The human will have to become one of us so he will live beside my daughter and make her happy."

At the end of this sentence, I lowered my head and looked down. I began to imagine Vincent, Eros, Valkyrie, Vær, the human who was a blurred image and finally me. The six of us staying at the castle and living as a united family thus having a blessed end.

At last, I got out of my thoughts and came back to shake my head, thinking it was absurd. I still could not believe that Vær would be able to fall in love with a human guy.

"I don't think that's really possible."

I stated and Eros looked at me in thump.

"Why not? Vær is a beautiful vampire and I believe that he will dazzle many human boys on Earth and I know my daughter very well. She will choose the one which has won her heart first."

My head vibrated softly. Eros seemed to say nonsense and being forced to believe in each of them. Just to try to seem prudent to the happiness of my friend Vaer.

"What should I do when the human boys approach your daughter?"

"You should keep an eye on them."

His hand squeezed one of my shoulders and he advised me.

"Take care of my daughter as if she were your youngest sister."

"Of course."

I nodded at him and after that; I looked down, then biting my lower lip, by containing within me something secret and never revealed to anybody in that castle.

"Vaer will hate me for this, but I have no choice."

Eros removed his hand from my shoulder and pressed her lips with longing.

"I believe that your mission will have no failures."

"Why are you telling me this?"

I questioned, looking at him, and seeing him in profile.

He shook his head and did not want to go into details.

"For nothing" smiled with camaraderie. "Forget what I told and focus just on your mission to protect my little girl."

Chapter 16

VALKYRIE

THE REVERIE WITH MY MOTHER

In the middle of the night, I ended up opening my eyes after listening to a very soft and distant melody. Music which was not familiar to my tympanums. Violin and harp sounds sounded in my ears with a soft insistence. I looked to the side and saw Eros asleep, turned to the other side. He seemed not to hear the same sounds that I was hearing on that occasion. Soon it made me confused.

Since so I had no alternative but raising my bed and walking toward our bedroom door. The song was still coming to my ears the same way as I was lying on my bed before.

Seconds later, I began to walk through the huge hall of the castle. The flames of the torches formed shadows without exact shapes on the walls. Apart from the noise of the melody which insisted on being present to my ears, the rest of the castle was as silent as a stone stuck in the same place because all they should be sleeping.

On the other hand, unexpectedly I stopped in the middle of the way when the melody silenced by itself and I saw a white shadow forming softly, getting curves of an appearance. I kept staring at it until it got an exact form and there was someone I knew.

Soon I screamed her name.

"Mom!"

I ran in her direction, feeling that my long nightgown with a light and slender fabric moved together with me.

My mother was in a light dress. Above her head was a garland of white flowers. Behind her back were huge clear wings like an angel's.

"Mother!"

I smiled at her, seeing her so perfect in front of me. It looked like she was alive and had never died some day.

"Daughter!"

She ended up opening her arms to receive me in her so affectionate hug and adopted by a maternal love, which could never die within her. Not imagining the soon after, I ran and leaned my face into her chest. Now I was also a mother and gave even more value to mother's love. The only love that united a mother to her child.

While we were embraced, her palm stroked one side of my face. My mother looked at the end of the corridor. Her mind was seeing my future and the future of my family.

"I miss you a lot, Mother! Please, do not leave me again!"

I confessed, lifting my head and staring at her face. My mother examined my vampire face and kept silent after that.

"I'm sorry I never told you what happened to me. What really I became, mother."

She shook her head, not caring about my cowardice to not have told her anything about my vampire lineage.

But she responded with a voice from beyond.

"I always suspected everything, my dear ..."

Finally, we got silent and I began to weep with remorse, longing, and much emotion to see my mother back in front of me had neutralized my movements. I knew just to embrace her with more force.

"Don't cry Valkyrie!"

She advised me as wiped my tears.

"I'm always around ... Even if you cannot feel or see my presence in your life."

This left me more relieved when she affirmed it. So I smiled and reminded of great news.

"I have a daughter," I smiled at something that was not part of our conversation. "You have a beautiful granddaughter. She is called Vær."

At this period, we both walked into my daughter's room and stayed there. Vær was asleep, wearing a long nightgown in the light color. Her face was reposed over her arms crossed. She seemed to sleep deeply. My mother sat on the edge of the marble bed and I sat on the other side. Both of us were admired with the sleep of my daughter. Vær looked like a grown angel and completely asleep by her deep sleep.

"She's very beautiful, daughter! And she looks a lot like you!"

"Yes," I smiled as watching my daughter with more admiration. Everyone always affirmed that she seemed to me a lot and it made me so proud. "Eros has the custom to say that she is my copy."

We smiled and suddenly I got serious and could not smile anymore. Something tormented me on that occasion and I ended up confessing her, with my eyes sitting on the image of my little girl.

"Vaer is with the crazy idea to go to the planet Earth and try to know the humans. I am very afraid that they might harm her."

My mother touched the side of Vær's face and smoothed it out as she said with her soft, weak and beyond voice.

"It is not the humans who will destroy your daughter but something very strong in her."

Then the appearance of my mother disappeared from the bed. I looked dumbstruck around Vær's room and did not see my mother anymore and even so I kept exclaiming over and over again for her.

"Mother! Mother! Mom!"

In that second, I opened my eyes and kept screaming for her. Due to this, Eros awoke from his deep sleep and saw me awake as well, as I was sitting up in bed and still shouting for my mother.

"What happened, Valkyrie? Why are you screaming like that?"

I passed my hand in my loose hair as I made myself sure that I had just had a dream.

"I dreamed of my mother."

I jumped into the arms of Eros, begging him a sheltering embrace with my frightened gestures. The images of my dream were still all in my mind and what else had left me impressed, was the last sentence that my mother told me before she disappeared from my daughter's room.

Eros hugged me stronger and kissed the top of my head. I was still clinging to his cold, naked chest. He transmitted me so much comfort and safety and just the moments that I needed him the more.

"My mother said It is not the humans who will destroy your daughter but something very strong in her."

I closed my eyes and I was more afraid of it. Eros ended up feeling my insecurity through my arms glued to his body during the moment when I refused to open my own eyes.

"Be calm, Valkyrie. Nothing bad will happen to our Vær. We have to think positive about her life. Our daughter will not be alone when she has gone to the planet Earth. Now that Enzo was designed to go with her, I confess I'm more tranquil and want you to be too."

Another kiss covered the top of my head and I ended up opening my eyes slowly. Sometimes Eros could choose the right words to make me calmer. So I ended up agreeing with his optimism.

Everything was going to work well during the trip of our daughter to planet Earth and Vær would be so safe under the protection of her loyal guardian, so as I was in my husband's arms at that time.

Now it was a matter of confiding only on the good things in favor of Vær.

Only that.

Chapter 17

VAER

THE SECRET ROOM

Everything seemed so silent in the castle of my grandfather in Neptune. That was early in the daybreak and everyone was asleep. Except me who sought to find the best opportunity to leave my bed, even though barefoot and dressed only in my long nightgown in light tint.

I needed to get rid of my traditional night clothes and put a costume that made me feel safer to walk out of the castle.

Soon I walked to my stone closet and grabbed the first piece of clothing I saw in front. At a fast pace, I started pulling my nightgown down and put on a long, black dress with embroidery in silver. There were flower prints on it as well. Its fabric was black velvet.

After that, I took a pair of high boots and put on my feet. I could also not forget my pairs of gloves and my tiara of precious stones.

After feeling appropriately arranged to leave that castle, I opened my room door, walked hurriedly through the huge corridor and went adjacent to a closed passage that was in another hallway. Stopping at the door still locked, I looked to one side and saw the silent, empty corridor. Only the flames of the torches made noises in that space that seemed so abandoned by its owners.

When I forced the door handle, it opened and I walked slowly into a secret room while I was having the sensation that I was defying the orders of my family and especially my grandfather, who was the king of all of us there.

What I was doing was not right, but I needed to ally myself to the wrong thing to maybe get the right thing in my future.

As soon as I stopped in the center of the giant, empty room, I ended up looking up after my feet had taken me into a circle molded on the ground.

My neon blue eyes reached the Neptune symbol in the middle of the ceiling. In a few moments, it lit alone. Blue lights irradiated the entire room and strong winds appeared there. During this, I felt my body being pulled toward the figure in the ceiling and I ended up being absorbed by a confidential passage that had become visible through it.

Now to what place my body had been transported, I would not know to say.

Because everything was still a mystery, that is, it was a new discovery for me that had never entered that room before and never been other anywhere else that was not the planet Neptune.

Chapter 18

VAER

MY FIRST DAY ON PLANET EARTH

Suddenly the Neptune symbol disappeared from the sky when I looked up and saw the sky back to normal. Since then I looked to the side and remembered that I was standing in the middle of the street. Some cars circled around me. The drivers seemed astonished by my presence in the middle of the highway.

Some of them put their heads out of the window and shouted at me with such rudeness.

"Get out of the street, you crazy!"

I looked scared at them and continued motionless. My eyes were not neon blue and my teeth were not sharp. I had hidden my true vampire traits to try to ensure my safety in a place which I had never been before and I was barely starting to know.

Still not knowing what to do in fact, I held the skirt of my long dress and started to turn around myself, trying to get out of that track that kept traffic with cars in all the styles and colors. The sounds of car horns were annoying to my ears. Thankfully in Neptune, there was nothing of that.

Minutes later, when I managed to run out the track and reach the pedestrian walk, I restrained my heavy breathing in my chest and started to walk in only one direction. Soon after, I discovered a square where there were some homeless people. They warmed up with old blankets and gigantic pieces of cardboard.

Immediately, I approached them and sat on the floor. Since all benches, there were already occupied by some beggars. One of them looked in my image and after in my clean clothes and recognized that I was not one of them.

"You're a real princess?"

One of the men asked me while looking at the tiara shining on top of my head.

"Yes, I am."

I replied innocently.

"But in our country, there is no monarchy. Where are you from, girl?"Where are you from, girl?"

I ended up squeezing my shoulders and reminding that I should hide the truth about my origin. It could be very dangerous, the humans know that I was a real princess and I was the daughter of vampires.

Vampires from Neptune.

"No, I'm not a real princess."

Now I responded oppositely, trying to convince them of my hidden identity. I looked at the beggars and imagined that the humans lived in precarious conditions on the street. Things there had their good sides and their bad sides, their beautiful sides and their horrible sides. It was sorrowful to see that scene and know that the humans lived that way. Without a home and without a bed to sleep in a tranquil sleep.

Then I rose up and ran away from them. I was afraid that they could force me to tell them all the truth about me.

So I tried to find a quieter, safer place and away from people for me to spend the night.

At Dawn, I awoke from my first sleep on the planet Earth. After I had slept under a tree on an abandoned square. In favor of my luck, there was not homeless individual or people who could share the same space with me.

Minutes later, I began to walk along the pedestrian walk and saw many humans walking around it.

First, I saw an old couple trying to traverse the street while one of them sustained on each other. Then I saw a man in suit and tie, holding a black briefcase and going to work. Then I saw a girl walking on the sidewalk with her dog caught by a dog-collar.

Later, I observed a girl at my age. She was walking beside a cute boy. Both were going to school. They passed me and made faces at me as they seemed shocked at my clothes and also the tiara on my head.

Then I heard the boy saying to the girl beside him.

"That Girl is already arranged for the Halloween dance?"

The girl laughed. "The Halloween is still in October."

He laughed too and looked back at me.

"So she must have mistaken the date."

Hearing this, I continued on and stopped in front of a showcase with clothes for women at my age, costumes for human girls. After that, I ended up going through the Store glass door and entering the site that was empty of people and full of attractive dresses.

In fact, I had been a little amazed at so many clothes hanging on plastic hangers and some plaster mannequins looking like real people. Not very long after, a store saleswoman came to receive me. She looked at me from head to toe, made a slight grimace when her eyes stopped at the top of my head and saw my diamond tiara.

It was strange for her to imagine that I could normally walk through the city center with that costume that sounded old-fashioned for its time.

"Do you wish something, miss?"

"Miss?" my forehead wrinkled. "My name is Vær."

The fire-colored haired saleswoman soon gave me a friendly smile. "Vaer? What a different name!"

Her eyes ran again on my image and she ended up scratching the tip of her chin. As she was looking very intrigued by my strange physiognomy in clothes that were already out of fashion for centuries and were designed for members of a royal family?

"Why are you walking around the town in these clothes? Have you come from some fancy dress ball?"

I looked at her innocently.

"I only have these clothes."

"Do you want to buy new and more modern clothes?" asked as she surrounded me with curiosity regarding me and about my purchasing power as a consumer of clothing and accessories.

"Yeah."

"Do you have money to do this?"

"No."

The saleswoman looked at my tiara and raised her hand toward my head. Soon she asked.

"Allow me to look at your tiara with more detail?"

Looking at the jewelry in her hand, the clerk realized that my tiara was legitimate and extremely valuable. The same one was composed of gems that worth a fortune.

Just hours later, I left the store with hundreds of shopping bags. I could barely go through the glass door with many colorful bags suspend from my arms and hands. The saleswoman walked me to the glass passage and gave me a hand wave with much satisfaction. After all, she had never sold an entire store for just one customer. All mannequins were naked and the hangers were pure. That is, I had taken everything with me.

So I left the store with the same dress, boots, and gloves I had left Neptune, but the diamond tiara was no longer in my head.

It had been left with the store saleswoman, as a form of payment.

Chapter 19

VALKYRIE

THE BEGINNING OF A MISSION

The next morning, I realized that Vær did not sit at the table to share breakfast with us. She should have awake to perform her routine tasks. Waking up, combing her hair, changing clothes and making company to her family.

Well then, this morning, something seemed different. The routine in the castle was not like the habit of other past days. Since then, I rose from the chair and uttered to all sitting around the table.

"Vaer still did not get up. I am going to call her to have breakfast with us."

Vincent grimaced, thinking Vær should already be there and his daughter did not need to remember her from her morning obligation.

"Vaer is beginning to behave improperly in this castle." My father looked on the face of Eros. "She barely turned eighteen and already thinks she governs her own world."

He sighed.

"Imagine when she has a hundred 100 years!"

All were silent and Enzo scratched his chin, thinking that his master was totally right. Vær was not any bird or any butterfly but had sprouted wings so early.

Minutes later, I returned running down the center corridor, shouting desperately.

"My daughter is not in the castle!"

Everyone sitting at the table looked in my direction. Eros was the first one to rise from his chair and stare at me with alarm. My statement had stolen his father's tranquility.

"What have you told, honey?"

I ran to him and leaned my hands on the collar of his dark shirt.

"Vaer is not in her room! Her nightgown is lying on the ground. She not even slept in the palace."

"It cannot be!"

Eros whispered, shocked by the disappearance of our daughter.

Vincent looked around and made one of his orders already foreseen by his subordinate vampires.

"Make searches around the castle! It may be that she is nearby! Also, you go to the town of the pre-vampires! Maybe she went there alone and without our permission. The rebelliousness of my granddaughter does not make me discard any of these hypotheses."

VINCENT

Hours passed by and all searches were made. Eros and Valkyrie looked for Vær throughout the vicinity of the castle, while Enzo was in charge to go to the town of the Pre-vampires to look for my granddaughter.

I was in the main room, sitting on my throne as I was awaiting the return of Eros, Valkyrie, and Enzo, in the hope they could bring news of the whereabouts of my granddaughter.

Eros came alongside Valkyrie; both had sought together for their daughter. They approached and were standing in front of my throne. Their faces did not bring any good news. They have already stamped on their faces that something was still out of control.

"And my granddaughter?"

I questioned, seriously looking at them.

Eros looked down and scratched his forehead, Valkyrie hugged him and began to lament almost in tears.

"Vaer is nowhere."

I tapped my fingertips on the arm of my throne. I was still waiting Enzo return from the town of the Pre-vampires since I still had the hope that he could bring good news, or rather, he could bring Vær with him.

Soon after, he came into the main room, walking with his head bent through the dark carpet. His hands were thrown back his back, after his wings of angels had been hidden so sudden.

Enzo also did not seem to bring me good notices. After all, Vær was not with him.

In the course of this, my suspicion was confirmed when my servant stood before me and lifted his gray eyes in my direction.

"Your Granddaughter is not in the town of the Pre-vampires as well."

Everyone there lamented this statement and Valkyrie clung to her husband with despair while she was imagining Vær was in danger.

"I want my daughter! I want my daughter back! Eros, bring our daughter back!"

Automatically I cried on the spot.

"No!"

Everyone looked at me with amazement and the tears of Valkyrie contained at the same time. My daughter was still looking with the thud in my direction while I kept saying.

"Vaer went to the planet Earth. She did it hidden from us. This is fact."

I just lifted from my throne and took aim for the vampires there, all before me.

"We gave her our word that we will not go behind her on the Earth. Does every of you remember that?"

Valkyrie and Eros shook their heads slowly, agreeing with my words.

At that moment, I walked in the direction of Enzo and stood before him. I looked in his serious countenance and informed him, from master to servant.

"But Vær knew she would have a guardian to protect her." So I cast a look at Enzo's image again. "And that she may have yet."

There was a brief silence in the gigantic room.

Soon, my hand touched the shoulder of Enzo and he stared me in the face. During the moment when he knew, he should embrace my orders.

"Enzo, go to the planet Earth now! Go behind my granddaughter and only return to this castle when you can bring Vær with you."

During this, I faced him with seriousness and threat.

"If you fail for some motive and my granddaughter does not return to Neptune with you, I warn you that you may be considered a destroyed vampire! Because I will not save your life after you have not been able to protect my descendant."

Enzo looked down and gently shook his head, agreeing with my notice. He understood the weight of my words and the weight of his destruction if he failed in his mission on Earth.

"Okay, master."

Finally, he whispered, slowly raising his gray eyes on my face. I compressed my lips and removed my hand from his right shoulder.

"Give me your arm here!"

I ordered him.

Confused, Enzo lifted the part of his body in my direction. I held his forearm and my invisible power rolled up the sleeve of his cloak and uncovered his pale arm. During this, my eyes observed his forearm and a power in blue color came out of my gray eyes and hit his fragile skin. On it were engraved in dark letters the numbers below.

365

Enzo murmured in pain for the period of this, smokes came out of his skin, exactly from the place which was traced the numbers. I released the arm of my servant after that.

Valkyrie and Eros stared at us blankly.

But I only had eyes for Enzo's image on that occasion. All responsibility for my granddaughter had been placed in him.

So I took aim with more authority and ordered a few words at him.

"You have only 365 days to complete your mission."

After this advice, I turned my back to my servant and walked back to my throne and sat down again on it. I looked at the picture of Enzo, standing, holding his forearm as he seemed very impressed with the numbers written on his pale skin.

"I want my granddaughter back to this castle before the 366 days." paused my speech for a few seconds, "The counting has already begun at that moment! Then go and fulfill your mission as a guardian from Neptune!"

Chapter 20

VAER

ENROLLMENT IN SCHOOL

I got a small, isolated house, which was farther from the small town.

In that place, I felt safer and could act more naturally without reminding me all the time that I was not human, but I should behave like one.

That was in the evening. I'd just arranged the house in my way. The rooms were not huge, but for only one person living inside it, I thought it could be classified as a micro-palace.

All rooms and the piece of furniture were fabulous, but what I identified even it was with my bedroom. In it was a small single bed, two round cushions on the bed. Next to it was one bed-table with lamp shade in black tone. On the wall beside the bed, it had a picture of a princess. The curtains on the window were violet with dark ruffles.

On the other side of the bed, there was a dark armchair.

Oh, I could not forget my four-door wardrobe was full of clothes. Garments which I had acquired with a value corresponding to my diamond tiara.

I really was very happy in that humble house, while I felt more responsible for my actions and my attitudes away from my real family of vampires.

For a while, I sat on the bed and held one of the round cushions on my lap. So I started thinking about Neptune, about my family and especially about my parents. I was already missing them a lot and believed they were feeling the same regarding me.

My absence at the castle should be martyrdom for them.

That same day, I asked for information on the street and came to a school in the town center. In high school housing office, I asked all the information for me to join the school for young people at my age. The school principal was a robust woman wearing eyeglasses and a blue shirt, containing the school name, her name and also her function was mentioned in a white square identification on the left side of her chest.

As soon as I sat in the chair facing her desk, she asked me professionally things as she was used to getting students or parents of them in her office.

"In which grade do you want to enroll, young lady?"

Confused, I could not answer.

"Grade?"

"Where is your school record?" –she insisted, after realizing that I was silent. "I believe that you came transferred from another school. After all, the school year has already started a few months ago."

"School year?"

That phrase slid from my mouth. The principal looked at me suspiciously, realizing that I was shocked by the words 'school year'.

"Could I come back here tomorrow?" I got up from the chair in a hurry. "Actually, I did not bring the necessary documents to my registration, ma'am."

"It's all right."

She also stood and looked in my costume and realized I was wearing strange clothes. That is black long-barreled boots, fishnet stockings pants, and black dress with white ruffles at the knee height. Lace gloves and a huge black lace at the top of the head. In fact, I looked like a doll, decorated with so many exaggerated accessories.

Then, I turned my back and left her office.

Leaving school, I saw a girl at my age. She was walking down the sidewalk as was alone. Her hair was red and long, she had dark skin, her eyes were dark brown.

She was wearing her school uniform, pleated black skirt, seven-eighths black stockings, black shoes, white shirt with lace tie in bowknot format, black vest, and black beret.

"Hello!"

I exclaimed in her direction. She looked back and saw me moving hurriedly to her.

"Hi."

The strange responded bland and looked me from down upon.

"You're new at school?"

"In Fact, I'm still not registered in it."

"Why?"

"I am to go back to school tomorrow to do so."

She gave me a friendly smile. Already looking used to the idea that soon I would also be a student of her school and that maybe we could be partners or real friends.

"I hope you get it! I wish you good luck!"

"Thanks."

I made a noise with my throat and watched her in silence. I was starting to enjoy having contact with the humans and especially with that girl with red hair.

"Which grade are you in?"

"I'm in the high school the last grade. Soon I will have to go to college." She rolled her eyes. "It will be tedious me having to study a few more years in my life."

I shook my head in agreement.

"Nice."

"What about you?" She looked at me in profile. "You are studying in which grade?"

"The same as yours."

"Wow" That is great!" she smiled. "I hope you get a vacancy in my classroom. I think it would be cool me and you studying together this last year."

"Yeah..."

I responded, imagining that this would be possible. But I should first enroll myself in that school. But, I did not know how to do this. In Neptune, there was no school and I did not need to have to attend one because I already knew everything.

The other day, I returned to the school office and took a school record that I had achieved with my own methods. I was smart enough to do this without raising any suspicion. The principal held the white paper and analyzed it superficially.

"You'll attend the last year at high school?"

"Yes. Soon I will have to attend college and study many years of my life."

I rolled my eyes.

"It will be boring for me to have to study a more lot of years."

The principal made a face as staring at the paper in her hands.

"Your school record shows that you only take 10 on the tests in school." She stared at me. "By chance, did you cheat at examinations in school?"

"Cheat at examinations?"

My eyebrow arched.

"Yes, I thought you liked the studies. But I see that you hate, young lady."

"No, no ... I do everything right, principal. I like the studies."

She looked me over and said nothing for a while.

"I hope so. You are young and beautiful! Do not try to waste your youth with things that will not bring you a brilliant future."

She approached her face over mine and began to give me notice of conduct with her soft voice.

"Forget the cute guys! Dances during the weekends! Cellular phone and focus on your studies, girl!"

Through this, I was even more confused with those warnings. Because I did not do anything of that. That is, I did not think about the boys. I never attended dances out of the castle of my grandfather and not even I have a cell phone.

"I've already got a brilliant future at my family's side on... Nept..." the director looked at me for not understanding anything. "... But I'm in this school in passing ..."

"All students are at the school in passing."

The principal said back and turned her back to me to start doing my school record.

Chapter 21

ENZO

MY ARRIVAL TO PLANET EARTH

I got to the planet Earth after the orders of my master in Neptune, and at the moment, I walked through a center of a small town. That was the daytime; many cars were circulating in the streets and people walked on the sidewalks. They walked quickly and did not have any time to look at the sides or back.

But when I passed by them all of them looked at me and at my different costume from theirs, that is, my long-barreled boots in black color, black pants, no undershirt as I was wearing only a black cloak that was up to the ankle.

The women widened their eyes in the direction of my bare chest and some of them stared in my face. So they saw gray eyes and dark straight hair. It was inevitable not believe I drew the female audience's attention and they were drawn by me at first glance.

I also imagined that Vær was not near there. She should not be in that city.

Soon I figured I should dislocate of there, going by car that was parked on the roadside. So I stopped next to an old vehicle, in black color and soon opened its door with just one pull. The car alarm sounded loud, but I did not care for it.

Some people stopped to look at me going into the car and turning on after using only the power of my mind. Then the car started to move at high speed, almost flying over the track without having wings.

I was driving on the main street more than 180 km per hour.

Quickly I passed trucks, buses, motorcycles and smaller vehicles. Everyone on the track was amazed at my ability at the wheel. But in fact, the vehicle was driving alone. Yes, because I was just having the control of it using just my mind's force.

Within minutes, I heard the siren of the police car. I looked in the rearview mirror and saw two cars coming behind my dark vehicle. My car kept moving faster and soon it entered into a further corner and the two cars came after me.

On that occasion, the noises of the siren were increasing even more and the distances between the cars were losing force, they were almost reaching my car back.

Until I looked back and saw one of the cars forward and hit the bumper of my car. I looked at one of the cars and made the power of my mind pull one of the wheels to the left, and at that moment one of the police cars ended up capsizing in the middle of the track. So I stepped deeper into the throttle lever and my car moved on and went into another street. But this street was an exit end and I ended up colliding my car suddenly upon a wall. The car slammed into the hard wall and crumpled the entire front of the car.

I got off the vehicle, a little dizzy after the blow at my head. There was a deep cut on my forehead. Due to this, my dark blood downed my face.

When I looked back, two policemen came down from their car after they stopped behind the car, which I was driving before the collision. One of the uniformed police took the little radio and began to communicate with the central police.

"We caught him."

He affirmed and the two came walking towards me, pointing a gun at my figure.

"Hands up and stay still!"

I stood with back my back to them as I raised my arms up. One of the policemen began to search me and the other started to check the car I had stolen in the city center.

"Show your documents, boy!"

I was silent.

The police officer who was investigating the car looked at each other and said.

"This car is stolen."

"Oh, we caught a little car thief!"

Then one of the policemen descended my arms and handcuffed them behind my back.

"You are arrested!" He exclaimed on my back. "You were caught in fragrant!"

They gave me a nudge in the face and my dark blood began to go down one of the holes of my nose. One of the policemen passed a hand in my blood and examined it more closely.

"Your blood is dark!"

"Go to shit!"

I told him. And the policeman struck my face with the tip of his gun. I closed my eyes and bowed a little, feeling my face burning after the violent hit of the police. After that, they threw me sitting in the back seat of the car. They shut the door with impatience. After the two men walked around the car and sat in the front seats and we followed towards the police station.

Halfway, I was still sitting in the back seat. The policeman looked back and saw me sitting there, staring at him with my nose still bleeding not much as before. Seconds after, he looked again back when he heard a noise of a bird singing and when the PM looked in the direction I was sitting, he did not see my body anymore there. Just in my place now was a black bird in the middle of the iron handcuffs.

"Where's the boy?" He looked desperate at my absence. "He disappeared!"

When the other officer, who was at the wheel, looked back, they saw the black bird flying toward them, thus disturbing them with the wings and flights. The policeman tried to defend themselves from the attacks.

Seconds later, the car lost its direction and ended up capsizing several times in the middle of the track. During this, the blackbird flew out of the automobile that had four wheels up and the policemen were with various injuries for their bodies.

I regretted having done it, but they prayed for it after having crossed my path and preventing me from going on with the stolen car. They even attacked me physically and were trying to detain me in a cell for bandits. <0}

Chapter 22

VAER

MY FIRST CLASS DAY

"Folks, this is Vær, the newest student in the class."

The teacher said when I stepped for the first time in the classroom. All students were looking at me and the boys seemed impressed with my image. On that occasion, I was wearing the school uniform. That is a pleated black skirt, black seven - eighths stocking, boot long pipe in black color, white shirt lace, tie and a black beret on my head.

Right now, I looked at the desks and saw one of them unoccupied behind the girl with red hair, who had given me information about the school a day before.

"Hi."

She told me after I sat on one of the chairs behind her.

"Hi".

"I am glad you got a place in my class!"

"It was nothing hard!"

I smiled quietly.

When I looked around, I saw some boys and some girls looking at my figure again. Since so I went back to look ahead and ignored their eyes in my direction at that instant. This made me more secure in my post as a new student at the school. As it was still very strange and frightening for me, become part of a place that I had never been before and it was only frequented by humans.

"My name is Erina and hers?"

"Vaer, I call Vær."

"Vaer is a different name! But I liked it!"

She smiled gently, still sitting toward the back of her chair.

"My Grandfather chose that name."

I remembered Vincent and his fundamental role in the choice of my name.

"Your Grandfather has good taste, Vær!"

I smiled proud of him.

"Yes, he has..."

Then we turned to sit correctly in our chairs and began to pay attention in the class of the teacher of Portuguese. She spoke looking toward her students and demanded silence from everyone there.

At the end of class, I and Erina stopped in front of the school gate and she smiled at me, so giving me the assurance that she seemed very pleased with my company, and because I become part of her school and also her class.

"I hope you like this school!"

Then a car stopped in front of the school's main entrance and Erina said again, after removing her eyes from the car parked near there.

"My mother came to fetch me. Someone comes to get you?"

I shook my head, stating that not.

"Do you want a ride?"

"No, thank you."

"Are you sure?" she insisted another time.

"I am."

"Okay." She turned to the side and said after that. "See you tomorrow."

Then Erina ran to the white car and entered it. She waved to me and the car went down the main street. I kept stopped watching her departure from school. Erina looked like a cool human and I was starting to like her as a human friend.

Since I had no car and no one who could take me home in a vehicle with four wheels, so was obliged to walk with my own legs to my humble home that was far from the town. I took more than an hour on foot and the roads were earth. The asphalt had not gotten there. So I imagined that the rainy day would probably make the streets horrible to circulate.

But I did not care about that since I was accustomed to walking on the snow, so it would just be fun while I was living on planet Earth.

After some time, I entered the house through the front door and threw my textbooks on the couch in the living room. Slowly I sat on it and started to remove my boots from my feet and threw them near the sofa. My toes were throbbing. I stroked them even they being inside of my stockings and it helped me feel relieved to try to step on the floor, after all, walking an hour without stopping, no foot would bear so much sacrifice.

After that, I looked to one side and felt the presence of someone in my bedroom. Soon I lifted up cautiously and started walking through the house, starting through the narrow corridor. I was a little stunned, thinking I had heard a different noise, coming toward my room and when I opened the door to my bedroom, I saw all was locked. The window was closed and my bed was organized. No one was there.

Then I left my room, walking back and pulled the door to me, so closing it again. After that, I turned to the side and went through the hallway again. Afterward, I stopped towards the passage of the kitchen and saw everything was in place. Nothing was out of the room.

Nevertheless, I walked onward and stopped in the living room over again, I held my elbows with my arms crossed and got thoughtful. At this moment, I felt a strange energy as I conjectured I was not alone in that house. It looked like someone was there with me, but I could not see its matter.

"He cannot have found me!"

I mumbled confusedly.

{0>Capítulo 23: VAER<}N/A{>

Chapter 23

VAER

SECOND DAY OF CLASS

In between classes, the students always had a break for lunch in the internal area of the school. Some students preferred to stay in the classroom, others in the refectory and many boys preferred the sports court while the girls had a tendency to stay in the schoolyard, talking on the phone or so talking to girlfriends.

I preferred no place but kept doing company to Erina. She walked beside me in the center of the schoolyard. Before long, a very beautiful mulatto girl approached us. She was dressed in clothes in fashion and hardly wore the school uniform. But as she was the daughter of a teacher at the school, she had the teaspoon to avoid school uniform and thus parading her successful singer- style clothes.

"Hello, girls!"

She waved to us and walked forward, with a gait as a catwalk model. The young woman was wearing red high heels that made her even more elegant. At that moment, I stood looking at her and Erina realized I admired her somehow. Something in her had betrayed my silent gaze.

Then Erina stepped forward to explain.

"That is Yolanda. She is the daughter of the teacher Yonah. She is also drum queen of a samba school in the town. And because of it, she feels she is the goddess!"

Erina rolled her eyes after her own words.

"Drum Queen? What is it?"

"Have you never been at a carnival?"

She questioned me with astonishment. I shook my head, stating that 'NO'.

"Oh my God! On what planet do you live, Vaer?"

I got red and confused by her question. Erina was just playing with this question, but for a moment, I took it seriously and thought she knew I was part of another planet, which had not this event called Carnival.

"Vaer, do not get me wrong, but I think you need to know more about our world. Apparently your parents are nothing liberal and at least they do not let you go to the movies with friends."

At that moment, I remembered me that my parents were extremely zealous with me and if I lived on Earth with them, they probably would be just as Erina had described them.

"Yes, they are very concerned about me and do not let me make my own choices."

"Where do you live?"

"I live..."

At that second, a boy from our class approached us. He came up to the Erina and exchanged a gentle kiss on the lips. Then I remembered me that they should truly love each other. Because my father and my mother sometimes exchanged that kind of kiss on the lips and they loved each other so much. My parents were the most beautiful couple I had ever seen in my life.

"Vaer, this is Gaboh, my boyfriend."

"Happy to meet you."

The boy affirmed, extending his hand to me and touched it with fear. The dark-haired young man with dark brown eyes made a slight grimace as he felt my hand a little glacial between his.

"Your hand is very frozen!"

Soon he exclaimed without thinking. I ended up pulling my hand from his. Erina ended up nudging the ribs of her boyfriend with the tip of her elbow.

"Gaboh, Be more polite!"

"Excuse me." He scratched his head. "I did not want to offend her."

He spoke, apologizing regretfully. I forgave him with keeping me grudges. He had the reason, my hands were very frozen and I or he had no fault for it. I also could not see coarsely by part of his comment. But Erina thought Gaboh had been impolite to me. So I figured she had exaggerated in her oppression against her boyfriend.

"You're new at school? That's not it?"

"Yes, I am. And today is my second day of school."

The boy smiled and hugged his girlfriend from behind, his arms were crossed at her waistline and we continued there, trying to hold a conversation to three.

"Where are you from? You do not seem to be from Rio de Janeiro."

"I came... from..."

They were looking attentively at my face, waiting for me to finish speaking. But another student from our class came to us and called Gaboh for a football match at the school court. So Gaboh forgot about his question done to me and soon affirmed.

"Girls, I have to give up the company of you for a few minutes. I'm going to hit a little ball with my companions."

I felt relieved for not to have to say them where I come from. That unknown boy had done me a great favor by calling Erina's boyfriend for a football match.

Soon the two boys walked out toward sports court and I stayed with Erina in the courtyard. She looked at her boyfriend as she was holding a smile on her lips. That scene showed she seemed to admire him a lot.

I arrived at my home and did the same routines as ever, i.e., I passed through the front door, threw my school material on the couch and sat down to remove my boots from my feet. But, I stayed sat on the couch for longer, as I began to remember the kiss on the lips of Erina and her boyfriend and then the kiss on the lips between my father and my mother. They looked so happy while doing it.

Probably the feeling that this kiss gave them should be very good. Or they would not smile at each other and look into each other's eyes after they had pulled away the lips from each other.

Without thinking, I just ended up touching my lips with my fingers and silently lamenting the absence of that kind of kiss on my mouth and also in my life.

I had eighteen and had never tried this experiment. My lips had never faced other lips of the opposite sex. Since then, I waited so long for this day, for this moment which should be memorable in my life. But I was in need of a partner and I lacked to fall in truth love for this to happen the softer, real and exciting way.

To conclude, I realized that my reality was another. I was on planet Earth, alone and up to that moment, no boy in my school had enchanted me. My heart had not accelerated for any of them yet.

I just sighed heavily, imagining that maybe it would never really happen to me. <0}

Chapter 24

VAER

THE MEETING AGAIN

The feeling that I was not alone in the house began to surround me again after I left the shower and had put on a loose dress in a dark tone and in the length of the knees.

I was barefoot and my hair was wet and without combing.

Then I passed through the bathroom door, walking in slow, robotic steps, as I looked intently toward my room. Soon I saw a black bird flying through the window of my living room and entering the house. It seemed agitated and ended up landing on the wood of the window. I kept watching him and within moments, it flew into the corridor and disappeared from it. I still was apprehensive and walked towards the hall, after I heard another noise coming in the direction of my bedroom.

Promptly I stopped at the door of it and opened it very carefully. When I looked toward my single bed, I saw a dark image, covering the entire length of my mattress.

I entered my room as I was stupefied with the scene. Enzo was lying on my bed, with his belly up, all stretched, his arms were above his head and his legs were so long and barely fit the mattress. So they were supported on the bed frame. As he crossed his feet on each other, the vampire was awake and stared at the ceiling, even though I had discovered him there.

"What a soft bed!"

He whispered.

"How did you find me here?"

I ignored his stupid praise.

"Did you think I would never find you on this huge planet?"

He asked looking at the roof and making himself as absent.

"I thought you would no longer come after me. My purpose was that."

"You thought wrong."

He said after sitting on the edge of the bed and looking at me with disappointment.

"Vaer, how had you the courage to run away from the planet Neptune that way? Your grandfather had already agreed with your coming here. It was not necessary for you to act that way." He paused, "As a fugitive."

"He agreed, but not within my conditions." I looked at him with annoyance. "I did not want a guardian behind me."

He raised his eyebrows, realizing that the word 'guardian' was referring directly to him.

"It has not advanced anything." raised his arms into the air. "I'm here anyway."

I looked down and felt like an idiot. My plan was starting to go wrong. It was not for Enzo to have found me there.

It was not!

At last, he gave me a quick glance and saw me in a shorter dress. My legs were always covered by my long princess-style dresses when I was in Neptune.

Immediately, his gaze stopped on my pale bare feet and at last the length of the skirt of my dress.

"What clothes are these?" frowned on my image. "Do you go out in the streets that way?"

I ended up holding the skirt of my dress and turned around myself.

"What's the problem?" Soon I faced him with irony. "That's just a dress! A little shorter compared to the dresses that I usually use in Neptune, but only that."

I ended up smiling to see the serious face of Enzo in my direction. He seemed to take seriously my clothes. And that model seemed not to please him at all.

"Relax my guardian! This dress will not change my personality."

"But it is already corrupting it." He alleged, looking to one side while looking nothing satisfied with my routine life there.

So I tried to change the subject. To discuss on my clothes was the least thing that mattered at the occasion.

"How are my parents? And my grandfather?"

"How do you think they are? After their daughter and his granddaughter has fled Neptune without giving an explanation? I think you're asking a question as stupid as your rebellious act."

He looked away and I stood in the same place, holding my fingers at the time of my thighs. I felt resentful for having left my planet that way and disappointed my parents and my grandfather, who had so much confidence in me.

"I really regret what happened ..." raised my eyes. "I did not want things had happened that way and I have hurt my parents and my grandfather."

Enzo just got up and stood before me. His eyes stared at my face with anger and he ended up raising the sleeve of his cape and showing me three numbers engraved in his skin of the forearm.

"Because of you, I'm here! Against my will! Carrying with me those damn numbers!"

I looked at his arm and saw 365.

"What does that mean?"

Soon I questioned stunned, raising my eyes and looking into Enzo's face. His gray eyes were very angry in my direction.

"That means I have 365 days to be on this planet with you. We cannot exceed one more day beyond 365 days or I will be a ruined vampire."

I looked down again.

"I'm so sorry,... Enzo."

He stared at me with more audacity and his face got closer to mine. Our eyes were faced from different perspectives. So Enzo pursed his lips with more hatred and mine relaxed with a thump. He continued saying.

"If you really regret this whole situation that yourself caused, then give up it and return with me to Neptune now."

I shook my head and went out of his way. I ended up sitting on the bed and staring at the floor. As I was trying a small escape from the image that always made me stunned. I really did not want Enzo to be there, in that house.

"No, I cannot do that."

The vampire shook his head too.

"So you're not really sorry for all the chaos you caused in our lives and especially in mine."

He turned his back to me and left my bedroom after that. Enzo walked into the other room of the house. But I stayed in my room, sitting on my bed. I am feeling very bad with the presence of Enzo and all his repression.

Minutes later, I still stayed in my room and realized that everything was quiet in the house. There was no noise or traces that I was still accompanied in the residence. Automatically I figured I was alone again. Maybe Enzo had left the house after our conversation full of contradictions between the two parties.

Since then, I left my bed and started walking down the corridor of the house, looking at all the sides there and when I stopped in the middle of the living room, I felt the presence of someone. Immediately I looked toward the open window and saw Enzo sitting in the middle of it, looking out through it. He stood to the side, with his feet leaned on the wood of the window.

"I thought you were gone."

"I'm not leaving this house." confessed looking at the starry night sky.

"How so?" surprise and confusion came over me. "I thought you would stay at another place. After all, I got this house just for my survival. As you can see, there is only one bedroom."

He glanced at me.

"That's the least of it, do not worry. I sleep in the living room or yard if it is necessary."

I remained silent for some time.

"All right, you can stay in this house."

Enzo looked at me.

"I cannot, 'I must'."

"Okay, you must stay in this house. So I hope you collaborate with our good living here."

He rolled his eyes.

"Do not worry, Vær." He jumped from the window and stopped in front of me. His affront gaze covered up my face frightened by his so fast, unexpected approach."I will follow all orders of your grandfather and nothing will escape from my control."

After that, he turned back and walked to the open window again. At that moment, his body turned into a black bird and flew through the unlock window.

Chapter 25

VAER

THE RECONCILIATION

That was the first night I shared a simple dinner with Enzo, sitting at the table. I had cooked a strange food. Nothing compared to what we both were used to eat in Neptune.

My guardian was sitting across the table and ate quietly. He did not seem to want to talk with me since he still showed himself to be very upset with me. Nonetheless, I felt mad at the thought that I'd carried discord to our friendship. Enzo was my best friend and I did not want him to wish to see me out of his life or continue to ignore me as if I did not exist during our dinner.

"What did you think of the planet Earth?"

He looked at me after my question. Afterward, he chewed a piece of meat and after answered me.

"Do you even want to know what I think?"

I shook my head, after having filled my mouth with the food that was on my fork.

"It's boring!"

He looked around and decided to dive into the details of his arrival there, without I had forced him to do so.

"Soon I got to the planet Earth; I stole a car and was arrested by idiot policemen. My luck is that I have many vampire powers and they could not keep me stuck with them for long."

Hearing this, I began to chew my food with less appetite. Enzo had barely arrived at planet Earth and was causing all this chaos. I could not imagine what he would ready in 365 days.

"What happened with the policemen?"

He shrugged his shoulders across the table and looked at his plate of food.

"I think all have died."

My eyes were alarmed. I could not remain silent and control my disappointment with his cruelty of taking human lives. We were there to learn to live with them and not to destroy them.

"You still speak it naturally! Do you know the gravity of it all?" I shook my head with great rejection. "I cannot believe you did it and hurt the humans."

"They hurt me first! The policemen gave me many blows in my face! My blood went down and one of them still got surprised because my blood was very dark and dense!"

I was even angrier with those details and soon I rose up, taking my plate with me, so putting a severe end on my dinner.

"I cannot believe that my grandfather put me in the hands of a guardian who has arrived at Earth already making a lot of nonsense!"

I put the plate in the sink, intending to wash it with soap and water. But Enzo stood up and pulled his plate from the dining table too. He stood beside me and pushed me to the side, using the power of his own body.

"Do not worry about the dishes." He warned me, "I myself wash it for you."

I remained silent and agreed with his initiative. Then he opened the faucet with his vampire power and the water began to fall down. The cutlery began to be washed and soaped with soap without Enzo needed to touch them.

During this, he turned back to the sink and continued with his hands resting on it. At the moment, the dishes were still being washed by his invisible power.

He looked in my direction and saw me cornered in one of the kitchen walls.

"And then?" scratched his forehead with nervousness. "Have you even found any interesting human here on Earth?"

"Not yet." I looked down. "At my school, there are some guys. They are beautiful and smart, but still none of them managed to attract my attention to them and make my heart beat strongly within me."

Enzo smiled, letting his anger aside and forgetting that I had ruined his life during our stay on planet Earth. Now he seemed to have gone back to being that Enzo I was used to living with and that he was my friend since I started to distinguish life and friendship.

"But I bet you attracted many of them."

He smiled again and I ended up smiling too. Still a little shy, I had the courage to reveal it.

"Yeah, I realize that some guys look at me differently ... but not enough for them to approach me and ask me for a dating."

At that point, I raised my neon blue eyes and ended up just staring at the gray look of Enzo. He was a little embarrassed and ended up looking at the other side. His emotional imbalance made his power neutralize and a plate dropped in the sink and ended up shattering. The loud noise startled us and we both look at the sink.

Enzo was crestfallen after the accident.

"I'm sorry, I lost my concentration."

"Do not worry."

I walked to the sink, trying to remove the crockery shards from the sink. But Enzo did it first with the speed of his invisible power and the pieces were all taken away without he had put his fingers on them. I watched it all a little astonished and at the same time a bit unfortunate because I had no power to do the same.

Enzo knew me very well and realized my frustration before my deficiency. Soon his hands rested on my shoulders and he told me with kindness.

"Don't be like that." The end of his finger touched the tip of my nose. "I had even told you you're a very special little vampire, even without any power."

We stared at each other for some time. Enzo held a smile on his locked lips and me also. Finally, I could not resist and ended up hugging him with emotion. My arms almost crushed his ribs and he touched the tip of his chin on the top of my head. In this way, surrendering himself to my caress abruptly.

"I'm glad you're here."

I confessed, closing my eyes and feeling his presence closer to me and while was idealizing I was more guarded in his presence.

"In fact, I feel more protected with your presence."

Enzo got thoughtful as he slid the tip of his chin from one side to the other, above my head, thus rubbing his pale cold skin against the firm dark texture of my hair.

{0>Capítulo 26: VAER<}N/A{>

Chapter 26

VAER

CARNIVAL PARTY IN THE TOWN

I arrived at Carnival party at Erina and her boyfriend's company. She insisted that I could accompany them at this event and knew how is to be part of it. But, before, Erina took me to her house and lent me a fancy dress. She was also dressed up in a costume of a mermaid. I was dressed as a ballerina while wearing a black swimsuit, tulle skirt in black color, seven-eighth butterfly-lace stocking in fluorescent green color and black high sandals. She made a bun on top of my head and put a black pompom to highlight my hair. Erina also helped me put an exaggerated makeup, typical of Carnival.

Her boyfriend was dressed as a pirate.

In carnival event, the people were content and danced to an animated song, they also jumped and some of them dance the samba to the sound of drums, batteries, and other instruments I did not know. Before these men who played the song for people to dance, there were many dancers and had doors flags and Yolanda was among them, with a costume that made her body almost uncovered. She wore a bikini full of brightness, high sandals, and brilliant tiara on her head and also behind her back was a huge workmanship full of colorful feathers.

In her tan body, she also brought the drum queen ribbon. This was a merit for her and some girls envied her position in Carnival. Erina had explained to me that this was a much-desired post in a samba school. But the samba school was still small in that town.

In the first moments there, I felt a little lost, confused and nothing accustomed to the excitement of the humans.

Did they celebrate what actually?

Very color animated the party. For people used the minimum and so colorful clothes. There were some pierrots and masked people.

Yolanda danced the samba nonstop and never seemed to lose her breath. Even though her skin was wet with her own sweat, but she did not lose the glamour over her stiletto sandals. The people there admired her with astound. She really deserved all those looks.

"Are you enjoying our Carnival?"

Erina asked me as approaching her face to my shoulder.

"It's cool."

I tried to talk louder than the deafening noise around us.

"Let's dance!"

My hand was pulled by the hand of my friend and we ended up walking to a place where some people were dancing as well. There was more space for us to dance without colliding with each other. Gaboh decided to stand still next to a tent that sold alcohol drink.

I tried to follow the footsteps of Erina but she danced very fast, as according to the rhythm of Carnival dances and I ended up losing myself in my own steps and smiled embarrassedly to the ground. That kind of party was not for me. I was used to dancing only classical music during the festivals in the castle of my grandfather, only that.

But I remained convinced that I was having fun anyway, although I had never seen before this kind of festival and also all those people.

Hours later, a noise arose in the height and people looked upward and saw huge black wings. A young man in a black cape, dark trousers, high-barreled black boots and angel wings came down from the heights and stood behind me. All were surprised at his landing and when he grabbed me by the arms and took me to the heights with him.

Yolanda stopped dancing the samba and looked in our direction. She looked at Enzo and got impressed with his image, with those huge wings and all his personal magnetism. He looked perfect to her eyes.

The Carnival stopped for a moment while everyone watched the scene, an angel of black wings had come to take me from the event.

Suddenly we disappeared from there and everyone went back to move to the sound of drums that started again.

In the meantime, Enzo went with me on the boardwalk side and we followed walking down the deserted road. The whole town was at the event and there was no one on the street.

Except Enzo and me.

"Why did you do that?"

Irritated, I questioned, crossing my arms in the season when I walked at Enzo's side. He hid his wings and his face returned to normal.

"You ruined everything! Now, what everyone will think? They saw your wings! They saw you flying on high with me!"

I despaired again, but Enzo was little caring about it. He seemed to want everyone to go to Hell with their suspicions about him.

"I just went there to protect you."

I shook my head and stared irritated at him.

"I'm already tired of your protections! Damn time that my grandfather made you my guardian!"

I mumbled with my eyes about to let a tear invade our conversation. Enzo looked at my body and saw me just in a black swimsuit, tulle skirt in black color, seven-eighth butterfly-lace stocking in fluorescent green color and black high sandals.

"Have you perceived the ridiculous clothes you're wearing?"

I yelled back at him.

"That's not clothes! That is called carnival fancy dress!"

"It does not matter!" Removed the cape of his body and got with his chest exposed to the weather. "You are naked anyway! Put on this cloak to hide your subtle nudity!"

Soon he extended his coat in my direction.

I got annoyed even more.

"I'm not naked! I also will not wear this crap cape!"

Affirming this, I turned to the other side and crossed my arms on my chest. I refused to go ahead and leave the place while walking next to Enzo. I felt that he stood behind me and avoided looking at my body with that costume he thought it was vulgar.

At last, his thumb rubbed his lower lip and he uttered with his weak and timid voice. He looked a little sorry to have embarrassed me so much in front of all those people.

"Vaer, please put this cape! Your parents and your grandfather would not like anything to know that you expose your body that way here on planet Earth."

I closed my eyes and held back my tear of disappointment. But I ended up turning around and stared Enzo in the face. He saw my eyes filled with tears as I was about to cry with anger and indignation.

"I just wanted to have fun." I looked to one side. "And I was managing to do this until you come and ruined everything."

"Okay." agreed and made a quick retreat back. "Excuse me."

He spread his cloak again in my direction, thus offering it to me.

"But, please, accept the protection of my cape."

I looked at the cloak in his hand and thought for a moment. I wanted to keep me firm and not to accept anything that came from him at that moment, not even a request for forgiveness. On the other hand, I realized that Enzo was my guardian and should do anything to protect me.

My grandfather had demanded this to him and I should collaborate with his mission if I wanted the good of my friend.

"It's all right..."

I held out my hand to touch the dark cloak, but Enzo pulled it back to me. I looked up at his face and did not comprehend why of that sudden retreat. He had offered me his cape so insistently and why had he given up on giving me it after I had finally accepted his protection through a piece of clothing?

I did not understand really.

Nonetheless, he took two steps forward and stopped in front of me. I looked at his face instead of looking at his bare chest. The Neptune symbol was engraved in his left chest. That tattoo was always there in his body like mine was in me but in a very different place.

Softly I felt his cover slip over my shoulders and cover my body from backward. My legs and the curves of my body were no longer visible to him.

Enzo seemed to feel relieved that I had accepted his cloak and had hidden my body from his eyes and all the stranger's looks. Finally, I shrugged my arms and held the collar ends of the gigantic coat, thus joining them a few below my throat.

I was not feeling cold because the weather was agreeable. However, my body asked for that kind of retiring. Because on that occasion, I felt that I should keep my frozen body safeguarded within that cover in format f a colossal coat.

"Thanks."

Finally thanked him, looking down and not letting it become visible that Enzo was right.

"Feel more relieved seeing you are less exposed."

He muttered, looking ahead and starting to recommence his steps down the sidewalk. But I delayed mine and started walking slowly and more behind him.

"Why do you concern a lot with the exposure of my body if you expose your own chest all the time?"

Enzo stopped his steps and looked back. I ended up breaking mine too. During this, I looked at his face casting bullets of fury at me.

My luck was that they did not hurt really because these were abstract reactions.

He pressed his face and answered rudely.

"I'll pretend I did not hear what you said."

After that, he turned his back to me and began to walk faster. His steps had won just forces with the forces of his anger. He ended up forgetting that I should walk in front and not behind him.

After all, he was my guardian and it was he who owed me protection from the back.<0}

Chapter 27

VAER

THE CAR RIDE

A few days later after the holiday, I went back to attend school normally and soon I was importuned by a bunch of curious students that always asked me the same question.

WHO WAS THAT GUY WITH WINGS?

WHAT TRICK WAS THAT?

DID HE MAKE THOSE WINGS FOR CARNIVAL?

Modestly, I had to lie and say the version that could not harm Enzo. After the quiet period, the classes began and at the end of them, I found myself ready to leave that school for a day and try to walk quietly back home and try to have a little peace, without having to hear many people asking me the same kind of question about my guardian.

But when I got to the school gate, I was approached by Yolanda. She wanted to come to talk to me after the episode of Enzo, flying in full carnival party in the town.

"Hi, Vær."

She stopped at my side.

"Hi, Yolanda."

She was not used to talking to me at school, but that day was an exception and I ended up just frowning with so many suspects. Her approach required something from me.

"Who was that young man with enormous wings?"

I looked around as I was so tired of narrating the same story to a bunch of Gossips students.

"He's my brother ..."

"Brother?"

I perceived that her eyes brightened at this news. Yolanda seemed excited to discover more about Enzo. She ended up screwing finger on her curly hair and made a bold little pout with her lips. Her mind seemed to sustain Enzo's image within it.

"Wow! Your brother is extremely handsome!" she smiled. "But tell me! What were those wings? For a moment, I thought they were real."

I smiled, containing an internal nervous within me.

"No, no!" I started to explain, holding my books before my breasts. "My brother made those wings just for that. He loves to dress up as angel- vampire at the carnival."

"What a maximum!" she sighed, looking even more enchanted by him."But tell me! How he managed to fly in the height with those wings? Wow! I confess that I was dying to be in your place and travel with him in the highest! This should be the maximum!"

I just shook my head, totally annoyed. I did not know the reason, but the attractive and easy way of Yolanda irritated me. She lacked a little to say she wanted to devour Enzo's lips with hers.

"If you excuse me! I need to go!"

"OK." she agreed. "Bye dear and tell your brother I asked for him."

"OK," I affirmed, shaking my front. "He does not know you, but you can let it up to me I will give him your message."

After that, I kept walking in the direction of the school gate and stopped in the middle of the sidewalk, facing the street when I saw a black old opal, stopped at the sidewalk's side and Enzo was standing next to the driver's door, with his arms crossed on his chest as he was waiting for me. I got shocked by the scene and surrounded the car, not believing what I was seeing with my own eyes.

"Where did you get this car?" I doubted. "Do not tell me ... you did other nonsense?"

He interrupted my speech with a cynical smile and then a spontaneous dialogue pointed from his lips.

"Relax!" he opened the car door. "I just went to the town center and robbed a cash machine to buy this old car."

I was red, purple with rage and concern.

"Enzo! I do not believe you have done other nonsense!"

I stood next to the vehicle. Enzo entered it and sat before the steering wheel.

"I'm just kidding." touched the steering wheel with both hands. "This time, I did not commit any nonsense. I just went to a cemetery of old cars and resurrected this one!"

I frowned.

"Could you explain this better? Cemetery of old cars?"

"OK." he agreed as opened the car door for me, using the power of his mind. "Get into the car and I'll explain it better!"

I looked toward the school and saw some students coming in towards the gate.

"Enzo, Please, do not use one more of your vampire tricks near my school! If any student witnesses one more of your tricks, I'm lost!"

I threw myself with force against the car seat and Enzo grimaced during that.

"Steady! This car does not have any car spring!"

I slid my hand across my forehead, feeling impatient with that circumstance.

"You do not know the aggravating situation you got me after you arise in the Carnival party in the town, with those huge wings and flew with me in his arms across the sky."

I sighed.

"Half of the students at the school came to ask me: What was that? Who was that guy? What were those wings?"

Enzo laughed, turning on the car like a normal person. At that moment, he did not use his vampire trick, because he had received my supplications.

"Wow! I got so famous like this at your school?"

The car left the place with an unexpected advance. With that, I went forward and then backward with it agitation.

"Put your safety belt!"

I was looking for what it was and Enzo, being practical, made the belt encircle my body while using his vampire power. I looked at him with aversion and even driving, he responded.

"Excuse me, but now I had to abuse a little bit of my vampire trick to do it."

He pressed the car accelerator with his foot.

"Keep calm! We are already a lot away from school! No one is watching us!"

In the end, he crossed his arms on his chest and the steering wheel was moving alone. I widened my eyes and held my books tightly.

"Stop this!" I looked forward and saw the car speeding down the mud road. The trees shook as the car passed by the road. "Enzo, steady!"

Finally, the car reduced its velocity. Enzo seemed satisfied with the car.

"In Neptune should have one of these ones! It would be fun to take a car ride on the snow! What do you think?"

"I never stayed in a car before and I confess that the experience has been a disaster!"

He laughed.

"With the time, you will be used to it!"

"When that happens, it's time for us to go back to Neptune and say goodbye to this old car! As you said."

The vampire gave me a smart glance.

"Maybe I can take this old car with me."

"I do not believe you're really serious!"

He laughed with his index finger traversed between the teeth.

"I'm kidding. Up to this moment, nothing has fascinated me on this planet!"

I looked down and reminded me of something. Yolanda came to my mind. Maybe she could fascinate him like nothing else on Earth or Neptune.

"I said to people that you are my brother."

I looked to the side and stared at him. Enzo continued driving without looking at the sides and much less to my face, which had a pair of eyes watching him in silence.

"And they believed it?"

"Yes," I responded, looking at my lap and seeing a stack of books with covers in different colors and sizes. "Yolanda seems very interested in you. She asked a few questions about you and said that I should tell you that she asked for you."

During this, I faced him with alarm.

"She was fascinated with you and your wings."

Enzo released a grin while he seemed to have enjoyed this part of our conversation.

"A human girl interested in me?"

Soon he accelerated more the car and his eyes got a different glow. The vampire seemed more excited to be in the world of the humans.

"I think it is not a bad idea!"

He stared at me with repression.

"Maybe I know someone who really fascinates me here on Earth."

At the end of his sentence, we got back voiceless and Enzo continued driving without worrying about our sudden silence.

Chapter 28

VAER

THE STRANGE SHINE IN THE EYES

History class

The students were in class with their heads bowed toward their textbooks. The teacher had ordered lessons to be completed in the classroom and we would have very little time to find exact answers for more than ten issues that should be extracted from a reading on the previous page of the current exercise.

However, the room was completely silent and the teacher took the time to rest on her chair beside her desk. But a noise at the classroom door made her get up from her chair in that instant. She needed to check what noise was it. Opening the classroom door, she saw a young newcomer, who looked a little lost there.

They talked less than three minutes, talking quietly to not disturb the concentration of students in the classroom. After a while, the teacher opened more the wooden passage and the young man entered the room as holding his books under his left arm. He wore black pants, sneakers, white shirt and black vest, in addition to a bowtie. This was the uniform of the boys at school. The boy had long hair to the neck height, in dark brown. His eyes were honey color and his skin was ruddy. He also wore eyeglasses with frames in black.

At that instant, everyone looked in his direction when the teacher stood beside the boy and spoke to us.

"This is Wendel, the newest student in this class."

After that, he sought a vacant place to sit and found an empty chair in the direction of mine, but, on the other side, after two rows of students. His desk was on the side of the wall to my right side. As he sat at his desk, the young man placed his books on the small table. He looked to the side, toward me and removed his glasses from his eyes. At that moment, I was still looking at him, watching his every move. Nevertheless, when his glasses were away from his honey eyes, I saw a different glow in them. They shone intensely in my direction.

Through this, I felt a strange chill and removed my eyes from his direction and after this; he also looked back on his books on the desk and put back his glasses in his eyes.

From that moment, I could not concentrate on something there. Soon I started writing all the answers with a blurred and unrecognizable letter.

"Shit!"

I whispered and everyone heard what had escaped from my lips. Since then, the teacher looked at me seriously and questioned.

"Some problem, Miss Vær?"

"No, Mrs."

I responded, raising my eyes in her direction

Almost ending the classes, the teacher ordered us to make a double work and the names of the doubles were selected by herself. As the double were being announced, the students were picking up their things and leaving the classroom after that.

In the end, there was only me, the teacher and the novice student.

She looked at us and affirmed.

"There is just the two of you now."

I looked towards him and he looked at me at the same time and the teacher went on to say us.

"You two will form double and want the work done on coming next Friday."

Then I picked up my things and left the classroom. Before long, Wendel came after me, running awkwardly as holding the heavy books below his left arm. Soon he began to walk beside me, trying to follow without fail my steps that were softer and slower.

"Hello!"

"Hello!"

"I hope you're not upset by having to form double with me to do the school job."

"I see no reason to be upset with you because of it." I continued walking in front and without looking around. "This is just a work in twosome."

He smiled and stroked one side of his hair with the hand.

"I hope you're smarter than me and can save our note on that work."

I stopped walking and looked up at him, staring him in the glasses, of course.

"Are you serious?"

Wendel realized the seriousness in my voice. I was not in the mood for jokes. In fact, his presence bothered me since he entered the classroom for the first time. The brightness of his eyes when he took off his glasses was still very alive in my mind. In conclusion, I ended up staring at something, to my left and gave up facing him in the face. The new student released a sheepish smile and started walking with me in slow moves.'

"I'm sorry. I realize that you do not like jokes."

"I'm sorry, but I do not know you enough to be so friendly with you. In fact..."

I got confused at my words and I gave up talking to him. Wendel smiled at the side with a provocative smile. He seemed to realize that I was a bit bashful in his presence as I was not acting naturally. I was forcing a little bar to not be myself and feel like a girl with no talent to conquer the boys of my generation.

"So we see later to discuss the school work?"

He asked, stopping at the opening of the school gate. Many students had already gone to their homes. And we both stood there, standing across from each other without saying anything.

Until Wendel perceived that there was nothing else to do besides to say goodbye and go to his house and me to mine. But, before that, he raised his hand and shook mine gently.

"You have not told me your name yet."

"Oh yeah, I call Vær."

He looked into my eyes, feeling my cold hand between his that was warm. After all, he had the hand of human and hot blood ran in his veins.

"So, Vær, see you later."

Just released my hand and walked towards the sidewalk and at that moment he pulled the car keys from his pants' pockets and walked towards it. I looked up to my hand, at the occasion, I still felt the warmth of Wendel over it. It was so strange that feeling again while I felt my body shudder at the touch of his hand over mine.

Chapter 29

ENZO

REVELATION DURING DINNER

"I made our dinner."

Put our cutlery on the table and after I placed raw meat on our plates and filled our glasses with animals-liver juice. Vær sat across the table and delayed to touch her food since she seemed very thoughtful.

At last, she tried to test the food made by me, perhaps, to try to please me because I had taken the initiative to prepare our dinner without her having had this idea or forced me to do such thing.

In fact, I just wanted to pamper her and apparently it was not working because Vær did not seem satisfied by this dinner as I wanted her to.

"How was the class today?"

She watched my face and responded nothing.

"Hey!" I stopped eating and looked down, trying to find her face on the side of the table. "I asked how your class was today."

"It was ok."

"Vaer, you don't need to hide things from me. I know you well and know something is tormenting your mind at this moment. If you do not tell me in this exact second what's going on, I will be forced to use my power of the mind to try to guess what you're thinking of right now."

Across the table, she despaired and began to signal with her hand.

"No! Don't do it! Please! I'd hate to know that you can read my thoughts!"

I stared at her suspiciously.

"Why do you feel so afraid to know that I can do this?" I faced her with more seriousness. "Are you afraid because I can discover your secrets?"

She smiled and looked at her plate on the table.

"You silly," Vaer smiled more sheepishly. "I have no secrets."

One of my eyebrows arched and I took the juice.

"I hope so."

Vær remained confused on the other side of the table and decided to open her heart to me.

"I'll tell you what happened at school today."

"Yeah, tell me everything."

I smiled, wishing to be friendlier, as possible. She had to trust me and always remain confiding me since we became great friends.

"Today a new student started to attend my school..."

She looked to the side and gave up continuing talking.

"And what else?"

After that, Vær looked in my face across the table and realized that I needed to hear everything that she had to say me. I was disposed to offer my ears to her confession.

"And when he entered the classroom and took a seat up in his place, he looked at me and removed his glasses. And at that instant, I saw a different glow in his eyes. I never saw a shine like that. I confess that I got covered with goose bumps."

My eyes descended and I analyzed my plate of food involuntarily. Vær also looked down, while she decided to remain quiet.

"Please, continue talking."

I begged in a weak voice.

She bit her lip and continued narrating with her head curved. It is missing yet another part of the story, part which I was a little afraid to listen to.

"And when we left the school, he held my hand. His hand has strange warmth."

I lift up my gray eyes and looked in the direction of Vær.

She continued confessing.

"Human heat..."

My throat got stuck. I could not say a word. It frightened me to know Vær was beginning to have an interest in a human in truth. Soon I lifted from my seat and pulled my plate from its place. Since so I walked to the sink, with the intention of giving my back to the table and mainly Vaer.

She looked at my back and realized that my behavior had changed so fast. My conduct had been strange. To conclude, she also abandoned her food and rose from her chair. He walked to one side and stopped behind me.

"Are you alright?"

She asked with a fearful voice. Now she seemed worried about me. At that moment, I turned to face her in the eyes and a loud noise sounded from my right hand. Vær looked at my right hand and saw the plate turn into fragments after I had compressed it in my palm. The crockery fragments ended up wounding my hand. However, I did not mind about this.

The princess was startled and then became desperate by seeing my injured hand.

"Let me help you!"

"It is not needed!"

I made a retreat back and pulled my injured hand to me before even she could touch it.

"I am fine."

I looked around, trying to find something to clear my dense blood.

"Why were you so irritated to know about that?"

I sighed and then held the sides of Vær's face, forgetting that my dark blood would dirt her skin so pale and soft.

"Vaer, I fear that you hurt with the humans."

I looked at the wall aside.

"I still cannot believe that you can be happy, loving one of them."

But she tried to calm me up with her words full of hope.

"Enzo, one of them can be one of us one day."

I released her face after that and turned my back to her again. I felt dolorous inside for having to hear those words. I was the guardian of Vær. Her grandfather had deposited in me a very risky mission to be accomplished.

But I feared that I could fail it.

As a final point, I sighed looking up, almost losing my control again.

"Why do you complicate things so much? Would not it be easier, we return to our planet and forget this shit world? I still wonder how you can feel happy with this place. Attending a school that is not for your kind! You run the risk of being discovered and go into the hands of the human predators."

I turned to face her again and stared her in the eyes.

"And All because of a stupid dream!"

"It is not a stupid dream!" she looked irritated. "If you are a monster and do not have a heart of truth! I'm sorry for that! But I have mines here and it is disposed to carry the feeling of the humans within me! Like my mother and my father carry theirs within them! Even though they are vampires."

We got quiet and then Vaer broke the silence there.

"I thought you were in favor of my happiness."

She turned to a side, feeling very disappointed at me.

"But I think I was wrong. I realize that you want me to be a hundred years of my life without having known Love. Without having fallen in love just as you arrived in one hundred years without knowing how it is like the heart racing by someone. Sorry, Enzo, but I don't want to get to my centenary feeling myself as empty as you feel yourself now."

She walked into the other room of the house, exclaiming.

"I don't want this end for me."

Chapter 30

VAER

DOING SCHOOL WORK

Wendel had agreed with me that we should do our school work in his home. I had agreed with him regarding this possibility. Even more, I could not take him to my house. I had fears that he could end up distrusting everything and especially Enzo. One thing would be to see Enzo from far, being named as my older brother and another would be someone next to him, being so familiar.

A minute after, Wendel opened the front door of his house. It was late afternoon, the sun was losing its shine and my vampire vision looked satisfied for this moment.

When I looked in the direction of the passage, I saw him there, standing, with prescription glasses covering his eyes. He looked a little embarrassed for receiving me in his home so humble. The residence was not very big. It was smaller than the house which I was currently living on planet Earth. But, I was not there to monitor sizes of rooms or pieces of furniture. I was at my school mate's dwelling, just to execute together, our school work that should be delivered next week.

"Please, don't repair my house. It is a bit small."

He said pulling a cushion from the sofa, thus freeing up space on the small couch in a dark color. I still remained standing, holding my books at the time of my chest and looked around; trying to see discreetly the other parts of the house. I was looking for more people besides Wendel. That was the truth.

"Where are your parents?"

He returned to stand erect and gave me a sheepish smile.

"My parents do not live with me."

He showed me the sofa for the second time.

"Please, sit down!"

"Thanks."

Slowly, I sat down, taking the books with me and depositing them in my lap. At that instant, Wendel sat in a chair beside the sofa. We stayed a while in silence and then I remembered me from our school work because that was real motive for what I was here, in his house.

"We can start?" finally, I uttered to him. "I cannot stay long here." affirmed as I recalled Enzo's orders.

"OK."

He agreed with me and was soon seeking his school materials in the next room. His home was a bit disorganized. He did not clean his home recently and so the pieces of furniture were dusty. Thinking that way, I looked up and saw cobwebs on the ceiling of the living room. But, I went back to watch my books as soon as Wendel returned to the site, bringing his books with him.

The young man returned to a comfortable position in the chair. In this minute, he opened his book on this page four and began to explain the work with aplomb. He seemed to be a very smart human.

Finally, I got loose at his explanation and I started to pay attention to the gentle movements of his rosy lips. I began to imagine that those lips were somewhat attractive by an almost unknown one. I hardly knew my classmate and I already felt attracted to him.

However, I shook my head in the middle of his explanation, trying to get rid of this secret desire that made me wish strangely that human.

Wendel noticed my distraction during his speech and also saw me shaking my head without logical reason for it.

"Did something happen?"

He questioned me, looking at me through his glasses with a dark frame.

In a similar way to not clarify the details, I had camouflaged what was really happening to me. Immediately my hand slipped through my forehead and I tried to concentrate on the pages of my book.

"No. Nothing happened." I tried to explain him. "Sorry, but sometimes I get so distracted during the reading or conversation and when I realize, my thinking is very far from my reality."

He smiled, looking according to my explanation.

"I realize that some people tend to have this kind of behavior during the conversation. And this usually occurs with the girls that are accustomed to daydream."

Soon I stared at his face for a moment. Wendel seemed to comprehend me and understand that I had just ended up dreaming about his attractive lips seconds ago.

"Yes ..." I looked down. "I think you're right."

At that instant, I remembered me of Enzo and how many times he affirmed before me that I was very dreamy and had stupid dreams. But raising my eyes after that, I saw Wendel's image sitting in the chair. He was in worn jeans, clear mesh shirt with a picture of a guitar on the front.

"Where is the bathroom?"

He looked in my direction. "Bathroom?" looked surprised with my question so abruptly.

"Yes, the toilet?"

"Oh, yeah." he pointed his forefinger toward the narrow corridor of the house. "It is the first door on your left."

I just lifted me up and smoothing down one side of my dark chess dress skirt. Wendel quickly ran his gaze on my silhouette and saw me like a doll. As I was in that round dress, those seven- eighth socks in the middle of the thighs, long boots and lace gloves on my hands, in addition to a small tiara on my head. It was not from real diamonds because I could not walk with a jewel like this in the middle of the town. That one had been a miniature jewel that I had bought at a fair near the school.

"Excuse me."

At that moment, I walked slowly toward the bathroom door and entered it, locking myself in it with agility. So I stood behind the wooden passage and remained there for a minute.

I had no physiological need to be in the bathroom on that occasion, but I needed to hide within it to try to get time and make an effort to feel myself safer in the house, next to the boy that always confused my mind and took my tranquility.

I still did not know what really was happening to me. But that seemed to be good and frightening at the same time.

A few minutes later, someone knocked on the bathroom wooden door. I took a slight fright and pulled away from it, still watching it, then immediately the voice of Wendel declared on the other side of the locked passage.

"Vaer! Please, open the door for a moment."

I got apprehensive.

Why he wanted me to open the bathroom door even with me in it?

Soon I felt insecure and for a few minutes, I did not know what to do in fact. But I had to show my confidence in him and opened the toilet entrance slowly.

Looking ahead, I saw him standing before me. A modest smile tugged on his lips and he uttered, raising a toilet paper roll.

"I'm sorry. I forgot to put the toilet paper in the bathroom this morning."

I looked stunned at the paper and held it with shyness.

"Thanks."

In a hurry, I pulled the paper through the opening passage and quickly slammed the bathroom door in his face. Wendel frowned at that occasion, thinking my behavior looked totally strange.

Chapter 31

ENZO

THE CONFESSION

In the night start, Vær finally came home. The first thing she had done, it was to come through the front door and then closed it. After that, she threw her books on the living room couch. And in the meantime, I approached her with a purpose that was fixed in my mind since Vaer had left home to go to do school work in the house of such human.

Even without understanding anything, the princess pressed her forehead, looking at my image before her. I held the tip of her chin and began to critically examine her face, her ears and at last her lips.

Soon I was sure that they were the same away. Everything was intact.

"What are you doing?"

I removed my hand from his countenance and answered.

"I was checking if everything is 'ok' with you."

She shook her head, looking indignant.

"Have you thought Wendel did me any harm?"

"Everything is possible." I turned my back and put my hands on my hips. "Everything is permissible here on Earth."

I turned around again and put my forefinger in the direction of my lips as I looked at her and I declared.

"Don't forget that I am your guardian and I am here just to protect you."

After that, Vær sat on the couch and looked thoughtful for some instants. I looked at her, resting my hands on my hips.

"How was there?"

"Everything ran well."

She responded quickly. But I felt she was very strange. Vær seemed stunned by something. Her school work could not leave her so tormented that way. There was something very, moreover, that made her look at nothing and forget even my presence there in the middle of the living room. Before long, I sat on the couch arm and stood beside her.

"Tell me what really happened there."

She looked at me from the corner of the eye, making a shocked face.

"Do you want me to narrate all the details of what happened at Wendel's house?"

I crossed my arms on my chest and seemed logical as possible.

"If this is possible, yes, I do."

She shook her head and rose rapidly from the couch, tried to walk toward her bedroom while muttering in a voice that still came much clear to my ears.

"But I'm not doing it even! You're starting to invade my privacy!"

The princess kept walking forward, but I made her paralyze in the same time with my invisible power. Vær got silent while I gave a jump in height and stopped in front of her. She could not even move in front or to the sides, so I could dominate the situation and especially the conversation.

"If you want to hide the facts from me, it is a sign that something abnormal happened there." I inclined my face and looked into hers. "And that worries me a lot, Vær."

She tried to move her arms and legs but felt them stuck by something she could not see but just to feel.

"Stop it, Enzo! That's extortion! I will not say anything you while you keep me stuck that way!"

"Great!" turned my back and threatened to walk toward her room. "Then you will stay the entire night stopped in the same place, until you finally decide to tell me everything that happened in the house of that such W-e-n-d-e-l."

Vær sighed, seeing that I was not kidding. I was really disposed to leave her there, planted like a tree submissive to its roots attached to the ground.

"It's all right" Finally, she agreed, looking down. "Let me free, please, and I'll tell you everything."

After her affirmations, I came back and stood before her. I aimed at her with suspicion, but I imagined that Vær gave me her word and she would carry it out without my need to gag her with my invisible power again.

"You are a good little vampire," I said sarcastically, looking at her face. "I like when you behave well before me."

During that, I snapped my fingers and Vær felt free again. She looked at her body and then moved to one side, trying to sit on the couch for the second time.

"What do you want to know?"

Before everything, I pulled a chair and sat facing her.

"All."

Her eyes widened in my direction.

"All? Do you want me to narrate it from the moment I knocked on the front door, entered the house and up to the last instant I said goodbye to Wendel and finally left his house?"

I scratched my nape.

"I think you could skip these parts." I stared at her. "I'd rather you tell me the most abnormal situations for you."

"OK." she agreed and I crossed my arms after my back touched the seat frame behind me. Vær looked down and began to narrate with a fearful voice. "We were talking about our school work and suddenly I felt the urge to hide in the bathroom."

He frowned and she continued narrating.

"I needed to stay there for a while and then Wendel knocked on the bathroom door and then handed me a toilet paper roll."

I shook my head and after started laughing to one side. Vær felt irritated with it. The princess wondered that she had told me that just to extract my laughter. Soon she felt like an idiot.

"Why are you laughing that way?"

I tried to get serious again and ended up laughing through my fingers close to my lips.

"You lock yourself in the bathroom and the human offers you toilet paper?"

I vibrated my head, looking annoyed at that.

"Do you see how the humans will never know how to take care of you?" I stared at her. "If I were in his place, I would force the bathroom door to make sure that all was well with you."

She rolled her eyes.

"I would hate to know that you broke open the toilet door during my presence there. That would only make things worse."

I hit my hand on her knee while smiling at her.

"I'm just kidding. I would approach the door and ask you if everything was okay with you."

We stared at each other for a brief moment and then Vær put a lock of her hair behind her ears, she still seemed stuck with something.

"But I ran to the bathroom after I felt strange in his presence."

She lifted her head, stared into my eyes and then my lips below my nose. It made her remember something very important.

"I felt attracted by his lips."

After this confession, I closed my eyes and scratched her with a tempestuous look.

"I think I was scared because deep down I wanted him to kiss me on the lips."

I just sighed and rose from my chair. I looked in the direction of Vær and gave her a necessary warning.

"Slow down. Vær." I kept saying. "The humans can hurt you. They are not trustworthy people."

After that, my body turned into a black bird and flew towards the living room open window, Thereby leaving the site.

Chapter 32

ENZO

CONVERSATION AT DAWN

It was dawn, after giving a stroll in the town, I returned home. Just as a dark bird and went through the open window, so getting to the living room too. In split second my body molded to the body of a vampire in black clothes. I stood in the middle of the living room for a while and after that, my steps inside my long black led me toward Vær's bedroom door. I stopped in front of the wooden passage and stood there for a few seconds.

My concern with Vær had doubled after that human had entered in her life. I always thought she and I would never be on another planet and live that kind of experience, one beside each other and with completely different purposes.

In Neptune, everything seemed so perfect between us. There were no other friendships and not even approximations of other guys who could win her heart. But now, I was before this truth and sooner or later it would end up happening.

Thinking about it, my hand forced the door handle and it ended up opening soon after. The room was with lamps turned off, but the lights of the stars and the moonlight in the sky were in charge to illuminate the bedroom.

For minutes, I stayed there, standing and leaning against the wall beside her bed. With my arms crossed over my chest as I watched Vær still asleep. She could not even imagine that I was present in her room during her precious sleep. I had never done it in Neptune because there were never reasons and opportunities for me to do so.

As incredible as it looked like, the Eighth planet, I felt watched and there I felt like the watch.

I never tired of watching the princess's sleeping and saw her more naive. With so idiot purposes to fall in love with a human.

Seconds later, I tried to walk in meekness in the direction of her bed and ended up sitting on the tip of it, while my eyes still watched Vær's pale face. I could try to waste my time trying to analyze her body in a long nightgown with a clear, soft fabric. But that was not the correct.

But all this feeling of taking care of other people's sleep had detached from me when Vær's eyes suddenly opened and she ended up sitting up on the bed, after seeing a dark shadow sitting on the edge of her bed.

Her heart raced and she held back a terrified look in my direction.

"What are you doing in my room?"

"I'm sorry. I did not want to scare you."

She retreated to bed and stayed embraced with her knees stuck together at the time of her breasts.

"I'm leaving now!"

After that, I tried to get up from her single bed.

"No, stay a little longer."

The princess pleaded with meekness. I ended up respecting her will that also molded mine. She just lit one of the table lamps and stared back at me with sweetness.

"Enzo, something is happening?" looked me in the face and forgetting the other parts of my body. "You seem strange."

My eyes descended and stared at the square body of the mattress. My cheeks became flushed and I got confused.

"Vaer, I care about you a lot and this is independent of I am or not your guardian."

She kept staring at me and listening to all my words. Her room was silent and only my voice dared to make noise, by the way, a modest noise.

"I never told you this before ..." looked up and stared at the ceiling in this instant as I thought my words would flow better from my lips. "But you're the thing I care about the most in this life."

During this, her hands gripped my arm. Vær released a sincere smile in my direction. That one which did not reveal all her front teeth, but it came from her heart and full of recognition.

"Thank you for you to care about me so much."

She stroked my arm and then joined to me with a big hug. Vaer closed her eyes and began to confess me with her soft voice.

"I know that sometimes I'm a little rude with you and make you become disgusted with my contradictory attitudes." she raised her head and looked into my gray eyes. "But I want you to know that I have nothing against you, and at first, I hated the idea of knowing that you would be here on Earth with me."

She smiled and leaned her face in my chest, shrinking in full.

"But now I like to have you here and know that you are always on my side as you have always been in Neptune."

I closed my eyes and protected her with my strong arms. Vær continued feeling comfortable in them, at the instance what she heard weakly the beat of my heart against her ear.

"I know what you're doing all this sacrifice for me."

The princess whispered.

"I also know you do not like staying here, but remain in this place because I'm here."

Soon I smiled by listening to her sweet voice.

"Sometimes you are very stubborn. Your father said me you look a lot like your mother."

"Yes. He also told me that." She opened her eyes and looked away, still with one side of her face still leaned against my chest. "My mother did a lot of madness while she fought for my father's love. She never gave up his love, even though ..."

"... THERE WAS A CURSE ON THEM..."

We speak that phrase together and I and Vær ended up smiling because our voice sounded in a chorus, citing the same words.

Then Vær lifted her head from my chest, grabbed the sides of my face and looked into my eyes, thanking me with her astonished eyes because I existed really in their life and hers as well.

"But you were the cure for this curse!" gave me a smile and remained to say. "A gravelly boy! If it was not you and your blood, my parents would not be together today in love. They could never have me as their daughter and this curse would never have come to an end."

I held her hands and removed them from me. I looked down, feeling martyred for something. Not always Vær's approach was well received in my day to day.

"Do you believe that this curse really broke?"

"Yes, I do," she smiled with hope. "My parents live happy until today and could have a daughter, one fruit from that love."

After that, she stared me in the face.

"Why? Don't you believe?"

"Yes, I do." held the side of her head and kissed her forehead. "Now go back to sleep or we will dawn with our conversation."

She pulled back a little, settling in bed.

"It would not be a bad idea, seeing the sunrise while we converse."

"Another day we do it, okay?"

I said, going up and walking in the direction of the room entrance. When I touched the doorknob, I looked again at Vær's direction still sitting on the bed. Sweetly I cast a silent kiss toward her and soon after left her bedroom, thus closing its door again before me.

Chapter 33

VAER

THE MYSTERY OF THE SYRINGE

Friday

I came home from school, as always, I left my stuff in the living room and walked in the direction of the bathroom because the door was slightly ajar. I entered softly the place as soon as I saw something dark standing at the sink, and his back to me. Enzo was in front of the sink while holding a syringe in his right hand.

I could not see the color of the liquid that was in the syringe and what really it was. The vampire was without his black cloak as he wore only his trousers and boots. Because of it, I was approaching him slowly and even so he had not noticed my presence there. Enzo seemed so distracted by what he was doing in that moment and it made him not remember the rest of the world.

At that instant, he looked up and released a few groans, seemed to feel a lot of pain after receiving the strange liquid that was contained in the glass syringe. His eyes turned indifferently and he closed them then as he was still trying to contain his insupportable pain.

Immediately I worried about him.

"Enzo, are you sick?"

I asked at his back, trying to touch one of his arms, even though he was keeping his back to me.

But hearing my voice and making sure that I was there; Enzo tried to hide the syringe from me and remained in the same way, keeping his back to me and thus hiding his arms and the frontal of his body.

"Get out!"

Bellowed a little uncontrolled.

But I insisted, trying to get closer to him.

"Get out! Damn it!"

Another scream at me and I felt that he threw an invisible power against my body and it cast me out of the bathroom. With the thump, I hit with my back against the corridor wall with full violence. After that, the bathroom door locked alone.

Still feeling very saddened, I ran down the corridor and locked myself in my bedroom also.

Minutes later, as soon as Enzo seemed calmer of his fury and free from the bathroom walls, he tried to walk to my room door and stood before it, tapping on the wood for a few times.

"Vaer, please, open this door!"

I heard his voice but did not answer. He insisted and forced the knob with his right hand. So he realized that I had the locked it. Since then I looked at it.

At the moment, the door key turned to one side alone and the passage ended up opening. Enzo had used his vampire trick to invade my room without my authorization.

When the passage opened widely before him, the vampire saw me sitting on my bed, with my feet still put on my boots and their soles touching the bedspread. I was really very sad as holding a tear in the corner of my right eye.

The vampire stopped in the doorway and rested his right elbow on the wooden frame of the door. Soon he looked up and sighed with immense regret by being so rude to me.

"Excuse me. I lost my control."

I remained silent, simply by showing that I was not disposed to receive his apologies in that instance.

My long round salmon dress had done enough volume on my bed. I looked like a rag doll, sitting there in my place and waiting for her owner to pick her up in her arms.

"I swear I did not want to act that way, but you invaded the bathroom without asking permission."

I looked at him and still saw him standing in the entrance way.

"I worried about you and just asked if you were sick."

I looked down.

"What was that you were applying in your vein with that syringe?

But Enzo delayed to respond and remained to look up.

"That's no big deal."

"How it's no big deal? You threw me out of the bathroom with so much violence because of it! What you're hiding from me, Enzo? Tell me! You're sick?"

I looked at him with pity. It hurt inside me to imagine that he could be sick or vulnerable to some kind of danger.

By perceiving my anguish, he ended up approaching my bed and stayed sitting at my side. Enzo slowly lifted my face with his hand and wiped my blue tear in the corner of my right eye.

"I don't like seeing you crying."

His voice came out broken and very weak.

"My question was not about me but about your health."

His hand came down and he pulled it away from me. His gaze ran by the extension of the bedspread and Enzo just compressing his lips before anything.

"No, Vær, I'm not sick."

During this, I stared him in the face, still doubting of his declarations.

"So what was that? Why you're applying that strange substance in your blood vessel?"

Facing it, his head descended and he looked at the gap there was between us in bed. I loyally watched his bowed face before me.

"I still cannot say what it was." His hand smoothed one side of my face and then my hair, and my guardian ended up looking into my neon blue eyes as his voice affirmed.

"Don't worry. This is nothing grave." Soon he smiled in half. "It's just a whim on my part."

After that, he lifted up and got away from the bed with a slow walk. The definitions of his lungs moved along with him.

"Only that."

He ended up smiling, trying to inform that all was well with him. But I still could not believe that all was really well with my friend. Only his words spoken up till that moment was not sufficient to prove me that.

"Enzo, promise to me that all is really well with you and you are not sick or under physiological problems?"

"Yes." shook his chin. "I promise you."

After that, he ended up crossing on his lips his two index fingers while forming explicitly an X with his fingers.

So he turned his back and left my room, taking his secret just with him and no one else. Now I realized that Enzo hid a mystery from me.

That made me even more worried about him. Before I thought I knew about everything that had happened to him. Things that afflicted him, that tormented him and that also made him happy.

Chapter 34

ENZO

PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FIRST MEETING

While Vær was arranging herself in her room, I stood beside its passage, watching everything through the open door. She had already left the bath and put on one of her round short dresses and with length above the knee.

I had not yet gotten used to seeing her in different clothes from which I was accustomed to seeing her in Neptune.

Sometimes, she seemed to be the Vær who grew up in my arms and rejoiced all in Neptune after her birth.

At that occasion, she seemed so distracted, looking at herself all the time and looking a lot euphoric with the commitment that night.

Still wondering she should not forget anything; Vaer combed her long hair and tried to hold back part of them at the top of her head, fixing some dark threads with a hair ornament that was a miniature tiara, indeed.

Soon, I figured out she had left back hundreds of them. All was real on her planet, just to play a princess in a world that did not belong to her and did not belong to us.

But what bothered me really was that she seemed happy there, even she being not flattered by her true creators. Every time I looked at her, I feared Vær had the desire to never want to return to our planet. I feared that she wanted to live on planet Earth forever among the humans that were nothing of her.

Moments later, she sat on the bed and wore her long dark boots, over her seven-eighth dark stockings. Her fingernails were painted in neon blue. After being ready, she wore a make-up as she was looking at her face before a round mirror suspended on one of the walls in her room.

Vær as was a blue-blooded vampire, she had this advantage and could see her own dimly representation in the mirror. Her image was a little blurred, but through the mirror, she had the guarantee that she existed and could look at herself.

When finished everything, she left her bedroom and saw me standing beside her room door. I ended up looking down at the floor, realizing that she saw me there and at least imagined that I was watching her for some time.

"How am I?"

She stood there, looking in my direction.

I lifted my head and looked first at his round short, black dress with dark pink polka dots. There was a frill of lace at the edge of its skirt. Its neckline behaved and its sleeves were short and puffed.

Before answering her question, I walked toward her and stopped on her way. She continued with her head raised up, trying to follow my countenance, since I was much taller than her.

"It is blurred here."

I affirmed, raising my hand and touching the tip of my thumb in the corner of her lips and removing the excess from the dark lipstick between her skin and her mouth. She understood my careful gesture and ended up smiling shyly.

"I always blur myself when I wear lipstick."

She confessed and looked away. So I removed my hand from her face. But we still remained to stand, facing each other and again silence escorted us. Just in the minute our eyes met, not on purpose.

I did not know what to say and Vær less so. She was going for her first ride beside the human and this day should be very special for her.

Finally, I broke that confused climate, as I took aim to one side and tried to convince myself that all would be well with Vær during that damned ride together.

"Vaer, be careful. I will not be around. But I ask you do not confide fully on that subject and please, do not come too late home."

I stared at her one more time.

"I'll be here waiting for you."

Promptly, I realized she smiled at me when I said I would be there waiting for her.

"Do not worry; I will follow all your recommendations."

But I turned aside, feeling a little annoyed.

"If you really followed all of my recommendations, you would not be going out home tonight to meet with a strange idiot human."

Now I turned around to face her in the face, Vær just rolling her eyes, a little disappoint with me.

"Please, Enzo, we should not argue now. This moment is very important to me."

She walked over and held my hand at the time of her chest.

"I will have my first date."

We got serious.

A few seconds later, I ended up ducking my head. As soon as I realized that she would have her first meeting at eighteen years and I had never had mine even after completing one hundred years.

Maybe I would never have it for lack of self-interest.

The human women were very beautiful, attractive I would say so. But until that moment, none of them had aroused my interest to be beside them as we could walk on the streets or take an ice cream.

"Good luck."

I ended up uttering. Vær let my hand go, removed the heels from the floor and placed a respectful kiss on one side of my face.

"Thanks."

Then she walked to one side, in the direction of the front door and before she could touch the handle, even I keeping my back to her, used my vampire trick to open the passage for her. Vaer got startled by seeing the door opening alone. After that, she looked over her shoulder and saw me with back to her and even so she thanked me again, with a smile demonstrated in her lips.

"Thanks."

"Traverse soon this door, before I regret this madness and do not let you go away from this house tonight."

I warned, still keeping my back to her. Vær pursed his lips, looking at my black cape and after that, she turned to the fore and stepped through the open doorway, thus leaving the house with her divided chest.

In it contained a part of her happiness to be going to meet a real human and on the other hand, she carried with her the bitterness to leave me at that house, waiting for her return from the first dating of her life.

Chapter 35

VALKYRIE

MOTHER AFFLICTION

I stood before the castle balcony as was looking at the night sky and keeping my thought distant from Neptune. My mother's heart was restless.

Yes, because I was very worried about my daughter.

For months, I had not seen her and was missing her a lot. I had never stayed so long away from Vær. And I also in no way imagined I would go through it and have the horrible feeling of waking up every day and know that I could not look into the eyes of my daughter, or comb her hair. More than that, I was dying to miss her hugs and her company. Even with the absence of Vær at our castle, I still insisted on visiting her room always in the morning, imagining that she could be in it. Sleeping like an angel.

But all were just desires of a mother with her heartbroken by the absence of her only daughter.

After I had pondered all this, I realized I was not alone while I felt so comforting arms encircling my waist and crossing at the time of my abdomen. Since so I looked at them and recognized them.

"What are you doing here, my love? Why don't we go to sleep?"

I looked in front and stared at the dark region in front of the castle.

"I'm dying to miss our daughter."

Eros ended up depositing a soft kiss on my left shoulder, as he still remained hugging me from behind.

"I'm also crazy to miss my little girl."

He smiled to imagine our daughter's face in his mind.

"But what can we do? She chose it for her life. Vaer decided to try to be a little owner of her own navel."

I ended up turning in front of my husband and hugged him, still with my afflicted heart.

"I still am not conformed to it, by living away from our daughter."

I stopped and reminded me of my past.

"When I stayed away from my mother for the first time I come to Neptune, my mother did not experiment the pain that is inside my chest at this moment." paused, "Because she was in a deep sleep. You did not allow her to feel this agony I'm feeling now regarding our daughter."

I raised my eyes and stared at him in the face.

"Eros, I do not want to continue feeling this agony in my chest." Soon I left a sigh. "I wish you could make me fall asleep until our daughter has come back. Fall into a deep sleep as you did with my mother the night I came to Neptune for the first time."

But my consort shook his head and denied my request.

"No, Valkyrie! I do not have sufficient powers to do this with you and even if I had them, I would not do it." He kissed my long dark hair. "I could not bear to see my wife asleep the whole time until Vær returned to this castle."

I hugged him tighter.

"I try to believe that all is well with Vær, but I cannot. When I remember that she has no power and has no way to defend herself ..."

At this moment, I left Eros's arms in a hurry and started walking quickly in the direction of the castle corridor.

"I have to go to Earth and see my daughter."

Eros jumped on high and stood before me, preventing me from continuing my steps. He knew the consequences and had his thought more considerate than mine at that instant.

"No, Valkyrie! You cannot do that! None of us here can go after her."

He looked around.

"We promise her that we will not go after her on planet Earth."

Now he stared me in the face.

"We gave her our word." his hand touched one side of my face and stroked it for a moment. "Do you remember it?"

"...Yes, I do."

My answer came suffocated by my anguish. I was about to cry, to scream and ask back my little girl.

But Eros pulled me to him and received me in his strong arms. He looked ahead and saw an optimistic future for our daughter, perhaps away from dangers.

"Do not worry, honey." He began to utter. "Our daughter is secure."

Then he stopped hugging me and held the side of my face again, making me face him in the eye.

"Enzo is with her." continued affirming. "I'm sure he's protecting our jewel from all danger."

I closed my eyes and held back a sob that was stuck in my throat. In fact, I wanted to believe that Vær was protected beside her guardian from Neptune. And no danger could wound her flesh and shed her blue blood.

Chapter 36

VAER

RIDE AT THE AMUSEMENT PARK

We arrived at the place called amusement park. There were so many giant colorful toys. Gas balls were at all the places and I had never seen so many children in the company of their parents. There were also some couples who preferred toys for grownups.

Wendel walked tranquility beside me because the invitation to go there had come from him.

He was elegant as wore a light shirt, plaid shirt opened in front, light jeans and light sneakers. His glasses did not unglue from his eyes, but even so he looked so beautiful.

"Which toy so you prefer to ride now?"

He asked, holding his bag of popcorn with condensed milk. At that moment, I walked beside him, holding my colored little bag and eat that popcorn slowly. After all, I had to pretend I was enjoying eating it.

"What do you prefer?"

I questioned back after we had ridden by many toys intended for the public of our age. My first encounter was a lot of fun, although I never thought it would be this way with so much fun and no hint of romanticism.

I and Wendel were like two friends trying to have fun in an amusement park. So I figured I could do it in Enzo's company and it would be the same thing.

"Let's ride that one!" he pointed his hand containing two tickets in the direction of a huge Ferris wheel. Its seats were one of each color. Some were red, blue, yellow and green. "I think you'll love the wheel!"

At that instant, I stopped before it and saw some people leaving their seats when the toy stopped functioning and others were beginning to occupy the seats for just two people in each chair.

Immediately, I and Wendel sat side by side on a chair painted in yellow. An iron was crossed horizontally, up to our waistlines.

"Hold tight!"

Wendel told me, almost smiling around.

Our popcorn bags were already empty and both ended up going into the trash can next to a ticket-office.

Slowly the giant wheel began to ascend and spin. Its chairs began to gain increasing movements, going up more and more. The feeling of butterflies in my stomach broke into my body when we finally arrived at the on top of the Ferris wheel and after that, it descended slowly. This process occurred many times on one same turn.

"You're enjoying our ride?"

Wendel asked looking down and seeing everyone so small under his eyes.

"Yes, I'm having a lot of fun. Where I live does not have that kind of thing."

He stared at me naively.

"Where do you live?" insisted. "Countryside?"

After his question, I got confused as I could not tell him the truth. I thought Wendel was not yet prepared to comprehend the whole truth hidden behind my origin.

How would I reveal to him that I was the daughter of vampires?

And I lived in the planet Neptune with my grandfather, my parents, and Enzo.

"I do not want to talk about it now." my head shook as I was looking down as well. "Maybe another day..."

"OK. I understand ..." placed his hand over mine, which was holding the giant wheel protection against our body. And suddenly he became surprised. "Wow! What a frozen hand!"

Facing this situation, I got even more nervous.

"I'm sorry, but I live frozen all the time."

He smiled, seeing no problem with that.

"Do not worry. Someone will warm you one day."

My face turned red when I stared at his face. I figured out this one could be just him. At last, we remained soundless and then a noise came from the giant wheel height. Just our chair loosened from the steel cable, our seat was inclined to one side.

I ended up getting suspended as I was holding Wendel's hand. He was safer than me. In fact, it was only me who ran the risk of falling to the ground from a big altitude. At that instant, the Ferris wheel stopped moving and people were panicking, looking at my body hanging down. I was about to fall down as I felt my hand slip by Wendel's hand. His eyes enlarged, realizing that my fall was so close to occurring.

That would be an immense tragedy.

"Vaer! Hold tight my hand!"

"I cannot! My hand is slipping!"

Very nervous, Wendel slid his palm through his hair and over his eyes widened, even more, when he felt my hand came off of his and I fell down with a violent impact. Soon he cried, looking in my direction.

"Vaaaaeeeer! Nnnnoooooo!"

In fear, I ended up closing my eyes and suddenly I felt my body being supported by two arms. Rapidly I looked up and saw two huge black wings. Finally, my gaze confronted the face of my guardian from Neptune.

"Enzo! What are you doing here? Don't tell me you were watching me?"

"Please, no questions now, Vær! You are in danger! I am trying to take you out of it"

After that, Enzo flew over the heights and everyone looked at him and inclusively Wendel that was secure in the chair. He continued looking stunned in the direction of us and all the people in the park did the same. They could not believe what they were seeing in the midst of the sky.

A boy pointed his little forefinger at us and exclaimed highly.

"Look up, Mom, an angel!"

The mother protected her son with one arm like she looked still frightened by the scene.

The woman did not expect to appear an angel with dark wings in that place. Someone who had supernatural characteristics.

Even with a rain of astonished glances in our direction, Enzo continued flying with me in his arms and going away from the park. At that second, I looked back, trying to see the Ferris wheel and especially my colleague. I was unsure about the well-being of the individual who had made the invitation for that ride.

"Wendel! I need to get back there and know how he is!"

"Do not worry! He'll be fine."

Enzo informed still taking me away from the place entirely illuminated with lamps and colorful toys. I closed my eyes lamenting that catastrophe which had ruined my first date. But, I felt relieved to feel Wendel was fine and out of danger.

Chapter 37

VAER

THE SERMON

We entered the house after Enzo had traversed the open window of the living room, still with me in his arms. After that, he put me standing on the living room floor and then his dark wings were hidden. However, I stood there, looking at the skirt of my dress. I remembered the horrible scenes by having almost experienced the taste to fall on the hard ground after an unforeseen fall from the top of a Ferris wheel with more than 70 meters high.

It was lamentable my first meeting had been a disaster and submitted to the unexpected help from my guardian.

Enzo seemed satisfied that I had come home more rapidly and still had been saved once again by him. That just gave us the assurance that my grandfather was right by having the brilliant idea to send him there to perform his mission and take care of me.

"I do not need to ask you how your first meeting was."

He whispered with back to me as removing the black cape from his body. I kept looking at the floor by still feeling sad because of that episode that had ruined my ride at the amusement park.

Everything had started with fascination and had ended with bitterness.

"I think it is much clear that you are in danger to try to live and have fun like humans."

He affirmed, turning to me and looking at my motionless image, after feeling a defeated. I had no vampire powers not even to firm myself on an iron chair in the middle of the heights. This feeling was terrifying. Soon I thought that if this had happened to Enzo, he would have found a way of leaving that chair without going through so many dangers. At least, he would neutralize his fall and all that shame.

"That was just an accident."

I tried to convince him, but Enzo pulled out a chair and sat on it, consequently crossing his pair of boots on the sofa arm. His arms crossed at the time of his stomach and he started with his sermons ever, acting as an older brother, who always had better sense than his younger sister.

"Vaer, it just shows you that you run danger among the humans. Even if is only by accident."

He got up and stood in front of me. His body grew before me in one such way I was forced to make a retreat toward my back. Really I felt more scared with his approach with an iron chest.

"You were in danger at that damned amusement park and if it was not me, the human would not save you."

He moved away in a purposeful way and turned to the side with nothing to do.

"That human is unable to even to defend an insect."

Now he stared me back in the face, with a troubled look and his thought looked doubtfully.

"What did you see in that guy?"

I lowered my head. I also did not know how to answer that question.

In this instant, Enzo went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator and took a drink prepared with an animal liver. Its color was so red. So he filled his glass and began drinking it, bit by bit, without great effort. After that, he made his way to the living room and saw me standing in the same place, maybe in shock. Because nothing had gone the way I wanted to, the way I imagined and dreamed during the night.

I left home wishing a kiss on the lips during the ride and came back to my temporary residence without it.

Could the human girl have the same luck like mine on the first date?

Or was it just me? Who besides being a blue-blooded vampire, had not even lucky in love?

Chapter 38

VAER

OTHER EXCUSES

The next day, I arrived at the school gate and was soon approached by Wendel. He approached me while removing his glasses from his eyes. The boy looked very distressed about what had happened at the amusement park.

"Vaer! How are you? Wow! I was so worried about you! I thought about calling you on the phone, but I remembered that you have no telephone ..."

"I am fine."

My foreheads condensed a little with the clarity of the light over my eyes. Wendel was still standing in front of me, waiting for me to say something.

"I was also worried about you. I wanted to get back at that amusement park and know how you were, but I could not go back."

He smiled at me kindly.

"Do not worry! I was well. Some park servants helped me get off the chair in safety." He stared at me. "At that moment, I only thought about your safety."

I ended up smiling to the ground. He had said words as sweet as his eyes in my direction, demonstrating really he cared about me.

Nevertheless, his palm slid behind his head and he changed the subject regarding my safety.

"But tell me one thing! What was that one with huge, black wings? People in the park affirmed that it was an angel with black wings."

I just smiling apprehensively to gain time and try to convince him of my version.

"Well, that was not an angel with black wings." I paused. "He's my brother."

"Swear?"

His eyes widened as he was looking very surprised with my confession.

"How does he do to fly at the heights that way? Wow! Those wings seemed so perfect! He also wears lenses?" frowned in my direction. "If I'm not mistaken, his eyes were light gray."

During that, I scratched my head. My version was starting to get complicated to carry out. But I had to continue with it, or would put it all down with my confession. In no way, I could reveal the truth to Wendel at that moment.

So I had to be more efficient with my apologies.

"Yes, my brother wears lenses. In fact ..." I rolled my eyes. "He has a neurosis for years and ended up creating those wings to try to look like a ..."

Wendel did not let me finish talking.

"Angel with black wings?" he quipped. "Only if it is the reaper! Don't you think?"

"I do not think anything."

Soon I began to feel annoyed with our conversation. Next to no time, I tried to seek refuge away from his presence.

"Wendel, we talked later, now I need to go in because the class will start within a few minutes and I do not want to be late."

Informed him civilly and walked in the front. But I felt he came running after me and started walking on my side while holding his books under his left arm.

"I do not want to be late to class."

He spoke at my side. I looked at his picture in profile and remained silent. So we proceed to the classroom without saying a word.

Chapter 39

VAER

EIGHTEEN YEARS BIRTHDAY RECALLS

"What place is this?"

Surprise, I questioned Erina while she walked beside me and her boyfriend and Wendel walked behind over us. They talked about a subject of boys. Erina began to shake with the sound of music from the Theatre of Tragedy band, melody named Samantha. At that instant, she began to stomp her feet on the floor and shake her hands up, feeling really infected by the agitated music.

She stared at me, bringing her face closer to mine and gave me a contagious smile with her lips adorned with a blue lipstick.

"Pay attention to it, friend! We are in a nightclub!"

At that second, she began to dance, turning sideways. The four of us stopped at the dance floor and Gaboh and Erina started dancing facing each other. They were shaking their heads to each other as well as smiled a big fun.

Not knowing how to behave like them, I stood in the same place, imagining I only knew how to dance classical music in period dances at the castle of my grandfather, where just five creatures were present.

Only on the occasion that Uncle Valmont went with his family, then the number of beings increased in the dances organized by my grandfather.

But coming back to my realism, I perceived the agitation in the club was interesting. There were many humans and a lot of fun by the way. Because they danced all the time and never seemed tired or willing to have a break in their movements.

Wendel stood beside me and he like me apparently could not dance that kind of music. In this point, we both seemed perfect for each other.

It was not long for this to happen, the lively music ended. And another melody started then. It was the same band, Theatre of Tragedy, but the song was named 'A distance there is'.

Soon I realized that people also changed their rhythms of dance and couples invaded the dance floor and started dancing this tune more calmly and in a gentle, serene and so beautiful form. I looked at Erina and saw her dancing slowly glued to her boyfriend. They formed a so beautiful couple.

When finished thinking about it, immediately I felt my hand being held in soft form and I looked in the direction of my hand and I recognized the hand that was holding mine. Then I lifted my eyes and stared a little surprise at Wendel's face. He gave me a timid smile.

"Can we dance to this music?"

"Yes ..." I responded a little confused. "Of course..."

He ended up pulling me closer to the center of the dance floor and stopped in front of me. His hand held mine while his other hand gently touched the side of my waist. We looked at each other, under purple, blue and white lights that changed the color of our skins and clothing.

As a magic charm, I felt I was being led to a slow dance. It was not a waltz, but sometimes our footsteps mingled with it.

Within a few seconds, Wendel also tried to focus on the dance measure but ended up stepping on my foot.

Then he looked down, towards my foot and offered me pardons.

"Excuse me."

I stared at him in the face and reminded me of my 18th birthday and the dance scene in the castle came back to my mind. Like a scene on TV, so clear to the spectators sitting on the couches of their homes.

Flashes of my eighteenth birthday

But in the turn of Enzo, he purposely stepped on my foot and smiled at me with an ironic air.

Suddenly he stopped dancing and went out the room hurriedly, going into the other room of the castle that had several huge and rounded shapes pilasters. At that minute, I held the skirt of my long dress and saw myself running after him. Everyone there realized that we were in one of our plays.

The years had passed by, but my spirit of the little girl had not abandoned me and I had even more sure of that, whenever Enzo provoked me, instigating me to play with him.

"Enzo, Come back here! You stepped on my foot on purpose!"

I exclaimed as I ran with haste, trying to reach him. He was beyond me and walked toward one of the pilasters. I ended up holding one side of his dark cloak and pulled him to me.

"Come back here! You almost crushed my foot!"

I said smiling and he turned to face me, smiling too, but removed my hand from his cloak and turned me around, since so, putting my back to a pillar that was closer to us.

Our giggles discontinued and we remained stopped in the same place. One facing each other. Behind me, I just felt the pilaster supporting my back and in front of me, I saw the mystical image of Enzo. He was so serious and his gray eyes looked at my face with circumspection. The palm of his hand slid down one side of my face and he kept staring at me with a strange gaze.

All my existence, I had never witnessed that look. It looked fallen asleep for centuries and it was awakened at that moment, just on the very day of my eighteenth birthday.

It was strange because at that moment I could not see him as my friend...

Then I felt his face close to mine and his lips would win right destination, but Enzo thought of us for a few seconds and raised more his head. Then he removed his palm from my face's lateral and walked away, as he walked backward, he gave me a silent and disappointed look.

At that moment, I had a thump and unfastened from the memories of my past in Neptune. My eyes were a little alarmed at Wendel's image.

I ended up comparing our dance that second with the day of the dance on my 18th birthday in Enzo's company. This all after Wendel had stepped on my foot and had brought me the recall what Enzo had done this to me in Neptune. I thought only Enzo did it and stepped on my foot during the dances. But not, I was wrong.

"Excuse me." removed my hands from his shoulder and stared at him with my eyes full of lamentation by my past. "But I cannot continue this dance with you, I am sorry."

Giving this explanation to him, I pulled away and walked to one side, rubbing my forehead with one hand. Really I felt stunned by it all. To carry within me the feeling of my 18th birthday, and exactly the moment what Enzo stepped on my foot and I ran after him, our stop at the pilaster and our lips almost warming each other...

These memories were not allowed and welcome in my brain...

I always wanted to erase them or keep them much away from my mind...

Chapter 40

VAER

STRANGE BEHAVIOR

Wendel said goodbye to me at the gate of my house, depositing only a dry kiss on my forehead. After that, he turned back and began to walk along the earth road. In the deserted street had no illumination or nearby houses from mine and that made the region so abandoned and forgotten by humans.

But my classmate seemed to walk peacefully without fearing the deserted road and its darkness. I kept watching him for some time before I looked back and see the shady house. My house was so quiet and uninhabited. It seemed to have no one there.

But when I opened the front door of the house, the silence followed me. I ended up looking at the couch where Enzo used to be asleep and it was empty. He was not lying there. Soon I worried about his absence in that house.

"Enzo!"

I started walking through the residence and there was no sign of him. There was only the sound of my own footsteps reflected by the heels of my long pipes boots and the sound of my voice that insisted on calling his name in the middle of the house.

"Enzo!"

I stopped in the hallway and saw the bathroom door slowly opening. Enzo came out of it a bit confused. He seemed a little lost in his actions. The vampire still was in his cloak as he did not seem to have fallen asleep before that.

"Why have you delayed to answer my calls?"

I questioned looking at his face and seeing him more red-faced. There were traces of sweat on his forehead. Since so I frowned still looking at his countenance.

"Are you sweating?"

It was strange. Hardly the vampires transpired so easily.

But he shied away and walked to the side, trying to leave the corridor firster than me. The vampire walked towards the couch and I was behind him. When he turned to face me, I gently deposited my right hand in the middle of his chest and felt his bare skin. Enzo never wore a shirt underneath his cape.

During my unexpected action, his eyes widened at my image and I did the same on his face.

"You are hot!"

I mumbled confusedly. His temperature should be cold. After all, he was a vampire. I had never felt his temperature to looks tepid. As if he was alive in nature.

"What's going on, Enzo? Can you explain me why of your elevated temperature?"

He turned to one side and shook his head, resolute in believing in my statements.

"You are going crazy! Me? Warm?"

He turned to me again and looked me in the eye as he affirmed with his supernatural eyes. The apples of his eyes were burning. His eyeballs had an uneven brightness.

"You had some hallucination! What have you been drinking?"

He asked looking at my countenance more closely.

At this minute, he affirmed.

"Some humans have the habit of using some substances to have hallucinations. Do not tell me you have let them get in your head?"

"No!" I shook my head. "I felt your warm skin! I swear!"

He held my hand and led it again in the middle of his chest and my palm felt the cold temperature of his skin. Now it was back to normal. I ended up feeling stunned by the coldness of it at that moment.

"I'm frozen."

The vampire alleged, realizing that I had perceived that at that instant. Enzo let my hand go and I pulled it back to me, still feeling the sensation of having experienced the hot and cold surface of Enzo's torso. He looked in my figure and saw me in my dark pink dress and said something related to the time.

"You arrived a little late today! Next time I'll have to put an alarm clock in your body, so you will not forget the time to came back home."

After that, he threw himself on the couch, keeping his belly up and crossing his arms on his chest. He was trying to sleep in my presence. But I stood there, watching him in silence. I hated when I wanted to extend more our conversation and Enzo fled it, thus making himself a vampire cynical and almost nonexistent.

"You're very strange lately!"

I mumbled and he looked at me with one eye partially open. But not contested and waited for me to continue talking.

"There's something wrong with you, Enzo. First, I witnessed you the other day, injecting something in your blood vessel and now you transpire because of the heat."

Enzo pretended not to hear my suspicion. Soon he turned aside on the couch and ended up turning his back to me, as he was not disposed to continue listening to my rant. But bad luck for him because I kept exposing my opinion anyway, about his strange behavior.

"Enzo, I'll find out what's happening to you. I will not rest until I know everything."

He simulated to be dead for a few seconds and then raised a hand in the air, as ordered me with an ironic air. I imagined he had learned that type of thing with my father.

"OK! Carry on with your incumbency, and after you will perceive I am right because I'm not hiding anything from you. I'm telling the truth and if you do not believe me, do not believe that everything is ok with me. Then feel at easy to think what you desire really to consider regarding me."

He paused and descended his hand, crossing it on his chest.

"Now let me sleep!"

We got in silence.

Enzo remained laid with his back to me. But I kept there, standing on the couch, staring at the object serving as a bed for a vampire who was beginning to make me strongly suspicious against him.

My grandfather had ordered a guardian behind me to protect me and be an example and mirror of my safety. But during that night, I had the impression that something was wrong with Enzo.

Better saying, maybe the Guardian from Neptune needed help...

*END*

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About the author

Pet TorreS is the pseudonym created by the author with the initials of her real name and surname.   
The author is a young woman who was born in the interior of Rio de Janeiro. She attended the Fashion Design faculty.   
However, Pet TorreS has been writing novels since she was 10 years old. In 2008 alone, she decided to pursue her career as a self-published author and expose to the world her beautiful love stories.   
One of your dreams is to be eternalized by her works.

Pet TorreS is also a porter of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus. She came to discover it just a few years ago and these illnesses have shaken up her daily routine to continue writing beautiful novels.

Books by Pet TorreS

Valkyrie the Vampire Princess Saga

Valkyrie the Vampire Princess

Valkyrie the Vampire Princess 2

Valkyrie the Vampire Princess 3

Valmont the Vampire Prince Trilogy

Throne of blood

Heir of blood

Reign of blood

Guardian from Neptune Series

Zeal

Lapse

Trim

The Black Wolf's Mark Series

The Black Wolf's Mark

The Black Wolf's Mark II

The Black Wolf's Mark III

The Black Wolf's Mark IV

The Black Wolf's Daughter

Tear of Princess

The Spell

The antidote

Tiger's Obsession Series

Tiger's Obsession

Robbed Virginity

Ardent Affection

Forced Penitence

Renascent Soul

Illusory Love Series

Illusory Love I

Illusory Love II

Illusory Love III

Illusory Love IV

Black Owl Trilogy

Owl Eyes

Owl Kiss

Owl Flight

Wolf Academy Saga

The Oath

The compassion

The revelation

The sacrifice

The purification

The unification

The rupture

Love or friendship Series

Love or friendship

Love or friendship II

King's Wife Trilogy

The Nail Crown

The Iron Crown

The Metal Crown

Club of Virgins Trilogy

Club of Virgins

Club of Virgins 2

Club of Virgins 3

Pact of Witches Series

Pact of Witches

Moon

Sun

Star

Other books

Arranged Marriage

Princes Shadow

Vampires Adversaries

Ornella

Illusionism Obscene

Leione's Diary

Blood Moon

Emengarda

Destiny with Blood

Violet

Love Wave

E 2000

November Rain

Lost Diary

