Category: Blood Slave

Directly pertains to novel titled, Blood Slave.

Blood Slave- Prologue

Hello readers! Today we have another short story. The prompt is actually the prologue for my book Blood Slave! J It’s not the original prologue that I had in mind, but I think it makes for a better beginning. So, here it is!

            Lisia practically skipped down the trail to the small clearing in the woods. She held the note in her hand and read it again in the dying light.

            “I cannot hold my feelings back anymore. There is something I must tell you and I can’t do it inside the castle. It is too important to tell in a note. Meet me at the first clearing in the woods where the mulberry trees grow at dusk.

Your secret admirer.”

           Anticipation coursed through her veins. She had never left like this before. She reached the clearing and didn’t see anyone but the hairs on her neck raised. She felt a presence at her back and turned to see nothing there. The smile fell from her face and the last rays of sunlight died. She backed up and fell. A sharp crack quickly broke the silence of the forest and a hooded figure emerged from the trees.

           He whipped the hood back revealing his handsome face creased in anger as he held up a lantern to see Lisia’s head resting on a rock. Blood starting to drip to the ground.

            “Now what?” he yelled, frustrated.

            “She’s still useful, Kieran,” whispered the she-demon into his ear, sending a shiver down his spine.

            “I know… but…”

            “You were going to kill her anyway. What does it matter?” she asked.

            “Well… I was… hoping…” He couldn’t finish his sentence. He couldn’t say it out loud.

            “What? Have some fun with her before…? HAHAHAHA.” The she-demon laughed manically than abruptly stopped.

“Here’s something you need to remember. Whether you have fun or not you are following my orders and the faster you fulfil my orders the faster you will learn. If you truly wish to have fun, I can tell you, I am an excellent partner,” she said, with her nose practically touching his and her fingernails caressing his chin.

He looked at her with wide eyes then kissed her, hard. He could hear her chuckling and he deepened the kiss drawing blood from his own lips. She pushed him away while keeping her hand on his chest, and he could see the insanity in her eyes.

“Don’t touch me again unless I say so,” she said through clenched teeth.

She disappeared into the darkness of the forest and he looked at the body of the girl, blood still pouring out of her cracked skull.

“Well, how am I supposed to get her back to the carriage now?”


Intro to Blood Slave

Hello Readers! Today I’m going to introduce my latest book. ? Let’s see, I had this idea two or three years ago because I was frustrated about how all vampire stories make them stay in hiding. Think about it. They are essentially at the top of the food chain and they stay secret. How does that make any sense? They would make great kings and queens or whatever rulers fits your fancy.

So, I realize, now that I’ve started talking about it that I should remind everyone that since these ideas are mine and mine alone, they are under copywrite law. If you ask for my permission to use something I’ve written I honestly don’t have a huge problem with it depending on what you’re going to use it for. ALWAYS ask me first. This paragraph doesn’t NOT give permission. I’m just letting everyone know!

Anyway, back to my story. So, I had this question that formulated into an idea. Vampires essentially rule everything (kings and queens style), werewolves are their bodyguards/military/detectives, and the humans are peasants. That’s the basic run down anyway. As with any monarchy there is a hierarchy within these classes.

The Royalty is like any monarchy with their courts and such. Most all of royalty are born vamps meaning a sex happened and they grow normally until they reach like 20 then aging slows down. There are some vamps with no titles that are the turned ones and kind of act like mercenaries and assassins.  Vampirism and Lycanthropy are mutations in a human’s DNA which can be spread in my book. Honestly, I don’t have all of it figured out yet and it may never be all figured out. ?

The Military is like the US military because that’s what I know and what showed up when I google searched it. Haha. So, you have the General, Lt Generals, Major Generals, Colonels, Lt Colonels and so forth. I will be changing the names to something else but I’m still working on that. There are also the specialty squads that do detective work. They’re kind of my favorite squads cause I am such a geek for murder mysteries and cop shows. (Hello Castle, Bones, NCIS, Criminal Minds… do you want me to keep going?) I can’t give too much away. I do want people to actually read my book. ?

Now the peasants are where it gets interesting. I highest “rank” of slavery is called a blood slave. (Squealing with excitement because I honestly LOVE this and can’t wait to share!!!) A blood slave is the personal slave of any ranking vampire. The higher up the royal is the higher up the blood slave is but the less freedoms you have. They get the perks of nice clothes, regular food, a decent place to sleep (depending on how generous their master is or isn’t) but they always must be by their master’s side unless they’re released. Some masters believe that release is death, others just want some privacy occasionally.

Now my main character, Alana, is the crown prince’s blood slave. They’ve grown up together. She’s also a half breed (half human and half werewolf) which is technically illegal. Well it’s illegal to birth and help create a half breed of any kind so, Alana is an orphan. She doesn’t have too many friends because she doesn’t really have to freedom to. It’s a sad existence really but don’t worry it changes early on in the story. ?

Well I don’t think I can say much more without giving away more than I should. I certainly hoped you liked this little intro and as I write more, I will tell you more about it giving some scenes and such. So next week I will have another short story for you guys and next month along with some more short stories I will talk about how to develop characters (there really isn’t a right way but I’ll tell you what works best for me). Well that’s all for now!