Vampire-Walkers

Sania was lying on her bed. She had just taken the dose. Her body was still for a while. Then she started shaking around uncontrollably. She felt her head ache. Pain shot into her nerves.

The whole room was moving in front of her bloodshot eyes. Her veins were visible in her neck. The blood was slowly being drained out of her body. She screamed a deafening scream that echoed through the whole house. Her eyes closed slowly. Then she fell asleep.

‘’My head…’’ Sania groaned.

She stood up holding the side of her head. She was somewhere else. Her eyes gazed in horror at the new landscape in front of her. She stood in the middle of a road overlooking Martyr Town.

The sky was covered with dark gray clouds. Lightning bolts shot from the sky in several different places. The air was thick with fog. It smelled like charcoal. Suddenly, a lightning bolt shot from the sky some inches away from Sania.

She backed away, falling backwards in the process. The road had cracked where the bolt had struck. A tall figure rose from the smoke. Sania recognized the man at once.

‘’Owais?’’ She asked with terror.

‘’Surprised to see me?’’ Owais asked.

He wore a black-colored long coat over a similar colored T-shirt and pants. He ran a hand through his short ginger hair. A wicked smile crossed his face. His green eyes flashed against the sparks emitting from the clouds.

‘’Y-you’re supposed to be dead.’’ Sania murmured.

‘’Actually I am dead.’’ Owais explained. ‘’But you stored my remaining life in your nightmares. So I became a part of your subconscious.’’

Sania started walking in a circle. ‘’This is just another one of my freakish nightmares.’’

‘’Take a look around.’’ Owais said pointing his finger across her.

She turned around. There was a gigantic wide screen in between two clouds. She saw the view inside it. The view was slightly blurred. Two hands came into view. Then the view shifted and it seemed like looking through a camera lens.

The view stopped at a mirror. The reflection seemed like a portrait of horror as she stared at someone familiar in the screen. The reflection smiled back and ran fingers through long dark-brown hair.

Sania looked over her shoulder at Owais. ‘’Who’s controlling my body?’’

‘’Your ex-nurse.’’ Owais said widening his grin.

‘’Nayyab?’’ Sania gasped clapping a hand over her mouth.

There was a knock at the bedroom door. Nayyab, who was in Sania’s body, walked over to the door and opened it, Aunt Robina stood outside.

‘’Dear I know it’s the weekend.’’ Aunt Robina said. ‘’But that doesn’t mean you have to sleep the whole noon off.’’

Nayyab grinned uncomfortably. She wasn’t used to people checking up on her. ‘’Sorry Aunt Robina. My bad.’’

She walked back to the dressing table mirror. She pretended to be admiring her new look as vampires had no reflection. Aunt Robina had never seen her niece act so narcissistically.

‘’Weren’t you supposed to go see Hassan some hours ago?’’ Sania’s aunt asked curiously.

Nayyab froze in place. She had forgotten Sania’s discussion with Aunt Robina last night. She turned to face her ex-boss’s aunt.

‘’It must’ve slipped my mind.’’ She gently pushed the middle-aged woman out of the bedroom. ‘’I’ve got to change.’’

‘’What’s Nayyab doing in my body?’’ Sania asked Owais.

‘’You mean Belladonna.’’ Owais said.

‘’Who’s Belladonna?’’

‘’That’s her real name, Belladonna Smith.’’ Owais explained. ‘’While we were stuck in your not so luxurious subconscious, we sort of got to know each other.’’

‘’You’re bluffing.’’

Owais laughed. ‘’Why would I?’’ She’s an illegal immigrant from Pakistan. She was going to get convicted of drug smuggling. But escaped the country before anything serious had happened.’’

‘’’That liar.’’

‘’Hey, people do crazy things when they’re desperate.’’

‘’’That group includes you as well.’’

Owais looked down at the ground grinning. Sania was out of patience. She ran towards him then leaped. Owais caught her punch with one hand and struck a blow in her stomach with the other.

She fell down. She felt the pain in her gut.

‘’Your vampire powers won’t work here Dr Ashraf.’’ Owais told her. ‘’That green liquid you took woke us up. In this world, I’m more powerful and smarter than you could have ever imagined.’’

‘’What does Belladonna want?’’ Sania asked.

‘’She wants your life because you couldn’t save her Dr Ashraf.’’ Owais explained.

‘’You’re the one who killed her asshole.’’

‘’She doesn’t care. She blames you because you never told her about your transformation. You never trusted her.’’

‘’My family and friends will figure it out.’’

‘’If they survive that long.’’

Belladonna, previously Nayyab, opened the door of the room where Hassan was staying in. A woman sat beside Hassan on his bed. The woman looked over her shoulder at Belladonna. She had scarlet hair arranged in a bob. Her face had a white complexion. Her lipstick was the same shade as her hair. She was young and exceptionally beautiful.

‘’Sania!’’ She got up from her seat and hugged the possessed doctor.

‘’’Samiya what are you doing here?’’ Belladonna asked after they finished hugging each other.

‘’Nothing special, I was on my way to Raven City. You know I have these meetings and all.’’ She explained sadly.

Belladonna nodded her head. She knew who Samiya was. Sania used to tell stories and show pictures of her when Belladonna was her assistant. Samiya was her best friend in high school. Once Samiya’s father got rich from a huge investment, she was shifted to a high-class high school in her senior year. Now she had inherited her father’s fortune after his tragic death some years ago.

‘’So you were checking up on Hassan?’’ Belladonna asked.

‘’Yeah, I kind of missed him.’’ Samiya replied. ‘’I wasn’t expecting to find him in this condition.’’

So she and Hassan were really close, Belladonna thought.

Sania had never told her that Samiya knew Hassan. Maybe she had concealed that part of the story.

Belladonna moved her face closer to hers. She tried seducing her with lustful eyes. She kissed her cheek.

‘’You know I always had a thing for you.’’ Belladonna whispered in her ear.

‘’Sania, how did you find out that I’m a lesbian.’’ Samiya asked with surprise.

She started kissing Belladonna on the lips. Belladonna kissed back then rubbed her nose on her sexy neck. She could smell the blood passing through the veins inside. She could feel it pulsing inside her neck. Her vampire senses were awakened. Her eyes suddenly became bloodshot.

She licked her fangs. She was about to dig in when she heard the doorknob rotate. Belladonna turned around to see Inspector Mirza holding the door open.

‘’Ahsan, what a pleasant surprise!’’ Belladonna tried to act like Sania.

Inspector Mirza stood in the doorway paralyzed. His eyes studied Belladonna. She approached him with a sultry smile. Unknown to her, other vampires could see who she really was.

‘’You!?’’ Ahsan exclaimed in shock.

Belladonna kicked him on the balls. Then she ran away through the open the door. The detective knelt down in pain. Samiya rushed to his side.

‘’S-she just kicked you on the balls!’’’Samiya exclaimed.

‘’It’s complicated.’’ Ahsan said holding his balls.

Belladonna drove on a deserted street in Sania’s dark blue Santa Fe. She saw Ahsan’s silver Mercedes in the rearview mirror. She called him through Sania’s cell phone.

Inspector Mirza picked the phone up.

‘’You better stop following me.’’ Belladonna warned from the other end.

‘’So you don’t like playing cat and mouse?’’ Inspector Mirza teased with a smile.

‘’I do. It just depends on who’s the mouse.’’ Belladonna said then hung up.

Ahsan stared straight ahead. He pulled the brakes and the tires skidded loudly on the street. He saw Belladonna getting out of her four-wheel drive. The investigator left his car as well. They walked over to each other until they were face-to-face.

‘’That chick in the clinic said you were Sania Ashraf.’’ Inspector Mirza declared.

‘’Who do you think I am?’’ Belladonna asked raising a sexy eyebrow.

‘’I think you’re a body snatcher.’’ He told her. ‘’Where’s Sania?’’

Suddenly, Belladonna seized his throat and lifted him up in the air. ‘’With her body and my mind, I’m unstoppable.’’

Inspector Mirza was choking. The woman holding him was stronger than him. He could sense her amazing power. She winked at him then threw the investigator hard on the windshield of his Mercedes. He lay in between the front and back seats. The vampire detective was out cold.

Inspector Mirza entered the Fancy Flower-shop. There were no customers and the reception was empty. He walked over to the back door and slammed it open. The image in front of him was a portrait of unimaginable horror.

There was blood on the walls. All of the flower pots were broken. The place reeked of blood. He searched for Mr. and Mrs. Tahir in the mess. A wooden stake was lying inside a deformed corpse. Another deformed corpse was lying in between the broken flower pots.

I’m too late, Ahsan thought sadly.

He saw something suspicious on the new table. It was a small-sized sticky note. He picked it up and read the words: MEET ME IN THE CLINIC AT MIDNIGHT

Martyr Clinic was filled with the dead bodies in the main hallway. Ahsan Mirza ran through the main hallway until he reached the comatose ward. The receptionist lay dead on top of her desk. He ignored the gruesome sight and walked over to Hassan’s room.

He hesitated. Then he turned the doorknob. A blonde nurse was lying on the floor in front of Hassan’s bed. Fang marks were clearly visible on the side of her neck. Blood was splattered all over her white uniform.

‘’I’m glad you could join us.’’ Belladonna said.

She had a hand over Hassan’s throat. She stood proudly next to his body.

‘’I have a surprise for you.’’ Inspector Mirza said calmly then he whistled between two fingers.

The door opened. A 30-something year old man entered the clinic room. Belladonna’s eyes almost popped out of her skull when she saw him.

‘’Bilawal?’’ She gasped.

‘’Inspector Mirza explained everything.’’ Bilawal declared. ‘’Let go of her Belladonna.’’

‘’Her body is mine to keep forever!’’ She exclaimed angrily.

‘’What the hell is Belladonna doing?’’ Owais asked looking at the screen. ‘’She had to free me.’’

‘’She has to free you?’’ Sania asked in surprise.

‘’Yes by killing someone you love. I will be transferred from your useless subconscious to your boyfriend’s body.’’

‘’’No!’’ Sania yelled.

She walked over to him. Owais started laughing at her.

‘’You’re not a vampire here Dr Ashraf.’’ Owais told her.

‘’Oh yeah, but I am in the real life.’’ Sania said.

‘’What-‘’

Owais screamed in agony as Sania plunged her teeth into the side of his neck.

Belladonna suddenly lost control of Sania’s body. She revealed her razor-sharp fangs then plunged them into Hassan’s neck. His eyes suddenly opened up.

‘’No!’’ Inspector Mirza and Bilawal exclaimed in unison.

They pulled her back with great force. All three of them fell backwards with a loud thud.

‘’Belladonna are you still there?’’ Bilawal asked helping her stand up.

‘’No, she’s gone.’’ Ahsan declared.

‘’It sure feels good to be back in your own body.’’ Sania said checking herself.

‘’You could say that again.’’ Hassan said sitting up.

‘’You’re awake!’’ Sania exclaimed rushing to her boyfriend.

They hugged then started to kiss each other passionately.

‘’Isn’t it strange?’’ Bilawal asked the detective.

‘’What’s strange?’’ Ahsan replied.

‘’That we both saved the day and he got the girl.’’

Sania relaxed herself on the sandy ground in her skin-tight bikini. She was at Martyr Beach with her friends.

‘’Hey!’’ Samiya called. ‘’Don’t you want to play volleyball with us?’’

‘’No, thanks.’’ Sania replied. ‘’Just taking a long-needed rest.’’

Samiya nodded her head. She tossed the ball over the net to Hassan. Sania watched her friends play joyfully.

‘’I was also thinking of taking a long-needed rest.’’ Inspector Mirza said taking a seat beside Sania.

‘’I didn’t know that detectives took a day off.’’ Sania teased.

‘’’Same with doctors.’’ Ahsan said flashing a toothy grin. ‘’So are your nightmares and sleepwalking nights over?’’

‘’Yeah, I finally managed to take control of my mind and body permanently.’’

‘’You know there’s just one thing I can’t figure out.’’

‘’What’s that?’’

‘’Hassan was bitten by you last night. Isn’t he supposed to be a vampire by now?’’

Sania suddenly stood up. She saw Hassan sinking his fangs into Samiya’s neck. All her friends started running away from him in fright.