'Vampires' - creative writing.

Kashif Hussein

Coursework

English

Mr Wiltshire

‘Vampires’

It was a bright day until a storm was starting to brew; I was on my way home to New York in my carriage with Eddy the cart controller in the Texas farmland. As we were going to set off an intrepid man stepped out of his cart. he came up to us and advised us.

“Beware of the north winds, be back by night fall and have a pleasant drive madam.”

I asked him what he meant; but he abruptly turned and walked away. I was confused, I asked eddy what he meant, he uttered something in Spanish and whipped the horses violently until they sped away. I sat there wandering what the immense bald man had said; he spoke in a low and grumbling voice. We drove by a dark and gloomy alley that led to a cemetery. It was dark, murky and uninhabited. I wasn’t even sure it was a cemetery. This looked interesting to me so I told Eddy to stop. He stared back at me fearfully and slowly went on. I jumped out of the carriage and on to the ground with desperate intrigue tried to look down the alley. Eddy stopped and gestured to say not to go down the alley. A strong wind hit us and eddy was on his way. The horses became flustered which caused the cart to turn over. Eddy was terrified. I asked him what the problem was. Trembling, he uttered the same words as before but clearly he alleged

“la subida del muerto”

I asked him what he meant but he couldn’t reply because of his poor English. I held him by the shoulder to get some sence out of him I tried to argue with him, but it was difficult to argue with a man when I did not know his language. The advantage certainly rested with him, for although he began to speak in English, of a very strange and weird kind, he always broke into his native tongue - and every time he did so, he looked at his watch. At this point he grew very pale, and looked around in a frightened way. Then the horses became restless, he suddenly jumped forward, took them by the bridles, and led them on to about twenty feet. I followed and asked why he had done this. He crossed his chest and pointing to the spot we had left, he drew his carriage in the direction of the other road, indicating a sign.

‘BEWARE OF CEMETERY’

He then said “parasites are rising”

I asked him what he meant he turned and towards the road and said “come with me if you want to live”

I said to him “no, I want reasons for this nonsense of yours.

“Farewell my friend, I have warned you” said eddy in a cautious way.

He took his horse and was on his way vigorously. I thought to my self he is an immense coward. I walked down the isle; there were about 50 ancient graves or so, the whole lot were trembling. Then the wind blew ...

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‘BEWARE OF CEMETERY’

He then said “parasites are rising”

I asked him what he meant he turned and towards the road and said “come with me if you want to live”

I said to him “no, I want reasons for this nonsense of yours.

“Farewell my friend, I have warned you” said eddy in a cautious way.

Looking upwards I noticed that great thick clouds were drafting rapidly across the sky from north to south at a great height. There were signs of a coming storm in the stratum of the air. I was a little chilly, getting chillier as the snow began to fall. The sky grew darker and darker, and the snow fell faster and heavier, till the earth around me was glistening white. My feet sank deeper in the grass and moss. Then the wind grew stronger and blew with ever increasing force. The air became icy- cold, and in spite of my exercise I began to suffer. The snow was now falling so thickly and whirling around me in such rapid whirls that I could hardly keep my eyes open. Every now and then the clouds were torn with vivid lightning, and in the flashes I could see ahead of me a great mass of trees coated in snow. Then of a sudden every thing stopped, the atmosphere was as usual as if there was nothing wrong. I stopped, for there was a sudden stillness. The storm had passed; and my heart seemed to cease to beat. But this was only momentarily; there was an object before me it was a great massive coffin of marble, it had a gold plated scripture on to it that read.

‘La Reina De Vampiros’

‘1065-1886’

I was shocked, now I knew the real reason why Eddie had been so frightened and ran away. I began to wish, for the first time, that I had taken Eddie’s advice. Here a thought struck me, which came under almost mysterious circumstances and with a terrible shock. This was la subida del muerto! It was when, according to the belief of millions of people, when the vampire’s rose for their final destination, but every time they did they were defeated, but this time the cemetery was empty. It was like the army was being controlled by the arising vampires or just somehow forgot about this day. The coffins opened up. I was in shock. The vampires rose up heading towards me! I screamed helplessly. As they drew nearer I tried to move but was powerless, although I could see and hear all that went on around me. Some Indians came beside me with bows and arrows. One of them raised his arrow ready to shoot out. I then fainted,

When I awoke some brandy was poured down my throat; I saw some red Indians rushing through to the vampires. They drew together, uttering frightened exclamations, when the further ones came close to us; those who were around me asked them.

“Entonces los caballos llegaron a ser inquietos”

This meant

“Go away from us please.”

The reply rang out hurriedly,

"Nunca, que se atreve pararse en nuestro hogar será matado en al añicos.”

This meant

“Viene conmigo rápidamente, esto no es lugar de permanecer, y en esto de todas noches!" said one of the natives.

This meant

“Come with me quickly, this is no place to stay, and on this of all nights!"

I was told the vampires were going to kill me.

The Indians explained everything to me. And all the deaths that hard occurred and how a beautiful town was shattered in to a dozen houses.

I turned and said to my self; I’m not a coward. With my previous martial arts skills from young age, I should be training just for a day or two. Later that night I called my homeboys from the hotel I was staying at. They bought me some weapons like shotguns, machine guns, spheres and a bazooka. I left the homes of the Indians for my quest.

The coffins opened as soon as I entered the road, there weren’t many left; I had to take down about thirty vampires. Seven of them came to me; they seemed weak and hungered for my blood. I had kicked their butts, I then lost some of my confidentiality because they weren’t easy, I was now covered in blood but I was as fit as a monkey. I went to fight some more until I were exhausted, so I returned to my cart and said to my self lets see some action. I pulled out some shotguns and got my spheres ready they were fairly heavy but I managed. My aim had decreased, but I got them all. One after the other, there was blood splattering everywhere ‘splish splash’. When I got them I forgot everything and thought it was over. I staggered on to the floor screaming in pain, something had kicked me, I was nauseous terrified. As I turned I saw an ugly creature covered in purple clothing waiting to suck on my blood. At this point I felt useless because my back was seriously damaged; I said to my self why am I a jinx. I looked around for some weapons to defend me, there was nothing? The goddess came down to me, she picked me up, I tried to fight her but was immobilized. She was heading towards a hill; there were some vultures on a branch soon as we passed it I held on. Since it was dark the vultures couldn’t see me because of the shadowy area and because I was under them. They poked at the goddess. The goddess was paying attention to them only so I bit her legs and she released me. I fell on to a pile of leaves. I had fainted.

When I awoke I were blindly looking for the goddess, I wondered why I was still in the same place. I saw that I was in a shadow where nothing could be seen. I looked out a head and saw the goddess searching for me. She was about a few hundred yards away; this was enough for me to get away. I got my self ready by closing up my wounds and ran to a distance that I didn’t know of, at this time I were hoping I were heading the right way, after minutes when I were breathless I saw my cart, I ran furiously to get to the destination before the goddess saw me. I reached my cart and thought that I’m one lucky bit**, woooo hooooooo. But not for long when the goddess was right behind me. I pulled out the bazooka vulnerably and ‘boom’ missing her, I dropped the bazooka and showed her my skills, after a while I had got her down. She had flown back to her cart, I wondered why. I thought this was the perfect chance for me to shoot her. I got my aim right and strike, boom whack; I hit her forehead damaging her. A storm started to brew in, I got in to my cart and unbelievably she started to melt with the rain I was shocked an all.

I had returned to my hotel, I did tell the folks the adventure but they just laughed and called me a clown that was the end.

The end

Kashif Hussain