Page 4 of Mad Hatter Vampire Prince

“Oh wait!” I said as they circled her and halted at my command. I held a gong and for theatrical suspense waited before I hit it. Couldn’t miss an opportunity for flare. As soon as I hit it the vampires pounced. My heart would’ve beat frantically in anticipation if it hadn’t stopped doing so long ago. I was exhilarated to see her fight.

She swung her sword at the first one, forcing them to step back. They didn’t, instead, they glided their hands down the blade to grab it and fling it away. She let it go to avoid being pulled along with it. With unexpected speed, she jabbed her second sword into the woman’s stomach and sliced it along. I laughed as the vampire’s guts fell onto the floor. Her weapons were sharp and perfected to fight against vampires. A perfectly thinned silver blade, that if used correctly could easily kill our kind. The vampire shrieked and collected her guts from the floor.

Sasha skidded through the blood avoiding the advancing two that had already pounced towards her. She was fast. I furrowed my eyebrows. Too fast for a human to be able to match their pace and track their movement. Was she predicting their movement, is that how she was gliding through them so effortlessly?

The second vampire hammered down a sword over her; she protected herself with the might of one arm, her leather producing a small blade on the side of her extended arm. She was strong, too strong for a human to be able to match a vampire single handily. “Hmmm,” I hummed to myself. Looks like my caged bird just became a lot more interesting.

With her other hand she sliced at its ankles in a swift movement, dropping it to the ground. She flicked its sword away and slit its throat open as it dropped to its knees. Blood splattered across her face. She flicked her piggy tail over her shoulders and there it was; what was once her brown eyes now entirely black, frenzied in a killing spree. Now that I wasn’t expecting. For all that control and steely tongue of hers, it seemed that this little mouse was a killing machine and far from an ordinary human.

With rage and inhuman strength, she grabbed a dagger from her thigh and harpooned it towards one of the vampire’s chest. It narrowly missed and pinned it to one of the nearby trees. Very not human strength. Had it been any closer to the heart she would’ve killed that vampire and I wasn’t entirely certain she missed on purpose.

One of the vampires jumped on her back and held her in a choke hold, had it been under other circumstances they would’ve already bitten into her neck. But under my command the woman was not permitted to do so. The last standing man lurched towards her while she was pinned.

Sasha flicked the woman over her shoulder, crashing her on top of the man. She pulled a thin chain of silver out from her back sleeve and wrapped it around the woman’s throat. She cleanly and precisely sliced it through the woman’s neck beheading her.

The woman’s head rolled onto the ground and her corpse slumped and began rotting. The other vampires paused momentarily. “You killed her!” The man behind her decaying body said. He flicked its dead weight off and charged Sasha. She wasn’t coherent. She was on edge like an animal instinctually fighting to survive.

So technically she wasn’t allowed to kill anyone, and it was an issue. But personally, I found it rather entertaining and liked the ending. Either way my little pet just caused me some serious issues. “Okay that’s enough, Sasha Darling,” I said clapping my hands together. I had seen enough. There was mystery behind the girl who wasn’t entirely human. She held a lack of restraint like a wild dog. No wonder her father hadn’t brought her to meet my brother sooner. I had never noticed her amongst the city before but how was such a creature living amongst us. My curiosity piqued, if not human, then what was she? I had never come across such an oddity.

She went to jump on the female vampire that was still attempting to collect her guts from the floor. With lightning speed, I grabbed Sasha by the throat and hung her in the air. She kicked and tried to thrash at me a few times, but my arm was extended far enough for her to do any real damage. She snarled at me, and I was immediately aroused. Watching the swirl of her darkness so evidently was like watching a painting develop. I knew she would be a masterpiece. Those blank black eyes that couldn’t focus on anything at all was like gazing at the stars that held millions of possibilities of a world outside our own.

“Sasha,” I growled huskily, entirely turned on by the situation. None of the other vampires stepped forward. She was my pet and no one was to interrupt how I treated my mouse. This was now a monster talking to a monster as I tried to call her back to her cage. “Unless you are trying to seduce me and want me buried inside of you, you need to control your shit.” I clicked in front of her face. I didn’t know if her eyes were following the movement because there were no pupils tracing my steps. But her thrashing slowly ceased. Just like a wild animal. I continued to click until I saw the brown come back to her eyes and her pupils returned. She took a gasp and I realized that she couldn’t breathe while I held up her by the throat. I dropped her onto the ground and turned my back on her. She was no threat to me.

I turned to face the others who were pacing back and forth wanting to attack her again. When they walked in here they wanted to kick her ass. Perhaps her abnormality was general knowledge amongst the soldiers. There was communication between both human and vampire guards. Had they known who or what she was already? “This match is done,” I said wiping away a smudge of blood that was on my suit. I had dressed up just for this occasion.

“But she killed one of our own!” One of them exclaimed. “There are rules against that!” I peered down on him. My presence alone cloaking and choking any further words he might say.

“I makethe rules,” I growled. “And no one is to touch what is mine. Understand?” I continued to look down on them so the distance grew wider between our superiority. No one was to defy me. “Clean this up,” I hissed at the carcass that was melting and decomposing of rotten flesh.

“And where do you think you’re going?” I demanded of Sasha as she packed up few of her things and went to leave the room.

“I have to go,” she said hurriedly.

“But that’s boring,” I said stepping in front of her and blocking her path from the door.

“I showed you what you wanted to see,” she seethed. Despite her steely demeanor her body reeked of fear. I took a step back baffled by the human emotion. Gross. So sensitive.

“But I have so many questions,” I chimed trying to lighten the mood.

“I need to go,” is all she said and she pushed past me.

“If you don’t stay here under my protection, they will come after you for killing one of their own,” I said behind her. She continued to walk away. I had no doubt she was already aware of that. Despite my warnings and threats they would come for her. A part of her probably hoped they did. With my entertainment gone for the day I decided for the first time ever to hit the library and records room to see what information I could muster on this far from human woman. The librarian had a near heart attack at me imposing on his sacred space. The fact that it was me of all people entering caused him concern. I had never stepped into this place. I wanted to see if I could find any records or description of this little mouse’s past. Something was certainly amiss.

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