ST chapter 8

Finally! The transition chapter is done! And now I can start posting the ending of ST, my favorite part! Enjoy! :)


​I continued to run for a long time, thoughts running through my head with no end to them in sight. ‘How could he… Matthew..' ‘How could I?’ I couldn’t make sense of my thoughts, Valentine's laughter overpowering everything else in my head. A sound crossed between a sob and a scream escaped my mouth as I tripped on a rock and fell to my hands and knees. I really needed to focus myself; it had been 97 years since the last time I had tripped on something. I stayed on my hands and knees, willing myself not to cry as the moon rose further into the sky. I waited that way for several hours until Valentine was completely gone from my head, screaming in pain as his presence was ripped from me; which I know he did on purpose. He wanted to remind me of his power and of what he could do to me. As if I needed that reminder after Tramden.  I didn’t know where to go next. Anywhere I went Valentine would haunt me and kill anyone close to me. My mind tried to bring up a picture of Matthew's lifeless body but I didn't let it. I hit my head against the ground, forcing the picture away. I knew what I had to do. First, sleep to gather whatever strength I had left; then I had to turn into a nomad. Everywhere I went, I couldn't stay for more then a couple of days, a week at the latest. I had to keep moving and hope that Valentine would be too lazy to follow. I also had to learn to fight, to learn how to defend myself so the next time Valentine came around, I could stop him; or at least put up some sort of fight and not just lay back and take it like a coward. I dug a shallow grave and slept until my body didn't need sleep anymore.

For the next several years I went town to town, sometimes staying close, sometimes going hundreds of miles away. Everywhere I went, I never talked to anyone unless it was to learn a fighting style. Because of what I am I was able to learn things quickly and efficiently. I picked up many different fighting styles, becoming masters in them all, training in them all throughout the years. I become stronger in my other skills as well; erasing people's memories of me if I visited a town or city more then once and being able to always stay in the shadows without anyone ever noticing me. The only time I weakened was if I found a girl by the name of Celeste. It was my only human memory and I clung to it. That name meant something to me and even though I didn't know exactly what, I wanted to cling to it, to that human part of me. I never fed on humans, only animals and when I started to hear of children missing or found dead, I left the town, assuming it was Valentine coming after me. I never stuck around to find out if Valentine did anything to the Celeste's I found, but I never wanted to know. If I found out he had killed them all that would just mean the human part of me had died too and that was the last thing I wanted.

After fifteen years of constantly moving I was finally tired of it. Valentine hadn't bothered me or any town I had been in in over five years; I thought it was time for me to settle down again. There was one town and one Celeste in particular. It was one that I kept going back to over and over again. The first time I got to this town and went to the bar, all I cared about was drinking and no one bothering me (it never mattered to me that I couldn't get drunk or taste the beer, I enjoyed the cool liquid down my throat). When she sat down next to me, all I saw was blonde so I thought she was going to be a other dumb blonde I had to make think scary thoughts so she'd leave me alone. But then her smell hit me. It was the most intoxicating thing I had ever smelled. It hit my like a load of bricks to the face and I almost fell off my chair. I had to use all the willpower I had in me to not grab her then and there and either drink her up or kidnap her and take her to my place and have my way with her. When she told me her name was Celeste, I knew I had to have her no matter what. I put the thought in her mind and just like that she had to have me too. The whole time I was in this town of Coopersville I thought of nothing else but her, and all the times after that too. She made me weak when I should've been strong and she made me feel human. She made me feel love again. And then I would remember I wasn't human and I'd get angry and leave, protecting her from death and me from more pain. But now it was time for me to stop, to settle down and to stay with someone I couldn't get enough of, to stay with Celeste.