((Sorry for the long post ^^ Hoping that another vampire will join in...hell whoever wants to can, just someone, reply ja...?))
Damien awoke slowly, odd fragments of sound and memory returning first. He could hear the trickling of water like tinkling bells, and then the soft rise and fall of the sighing wind. Next came the cheerful chirruping of songbirds, those round puffy balls of fluff that he despised with all his being for being so happy.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up!!!" He yelled into the dense forest, his voice painfully loud to his already sensitive eardrums. After his voice was swallowed into the trees, there was silence for a few seconds before the noises of the forest began to resume their daily workings.
Groaning, he clutched his head and stomach, doubling over as he coughed up something wet, slimy and sticky. He lifted his fingers to the meagre light, and saw that they were wet and sticky with something dark...blood. It had been...a day ago...he should've healed by now.
The damp nutty smell of the earth was in his hair, his beloved golden hair. The smell from his long wavy locks penetrated his mind, helping him to think clearer. To remember why he woke up lying face down in the loamy forest.
The sounds of war cries rose up all around him as he took that first step into the light. After concentrating all of his energy for so long, he had finally gained enough power to walk in the light. True, it made him such a weak vampire, ever so weak and easy prey, but they had all been oh so wary of him for as long as he could remember.
The last of his bloodline, his maker had burst into flame on embracing the sun with those final words, "Be strong for both of us, my sweet, be the one I never could be! I know you will triumph and bring forth the secret from within, the secret of our bloodline! Farewell Damien, and I hope to meet you again in another life."
And with that, the man had dropped from the stone window ledge, shrieking as he balled up into flame, to only land in the bonfire his servants had prepared for him earlier. Damien had screamed and cried, for he had only just been made, and he couldn't even approach the window for the sunlight hurt him so.
Why, Hades, why did you abandon me so? Why did you curse me with your dark magic? Was it enough that you took away my family, my life?
Moments of madness overtook him from then on, which lasted for moments, or even years. He'd wake up one day with so much blood on his hands, so much slaughter, and curse himself again for being such a monster. It was the depreivation of blood that spurred on his madness. Oh, and his self-inflicted torture, his self-hatred, his loathing. Those were the only emotions he felt, the absence of any heartfelt tender feelings alienating him even more.
And then, finally, he'd accumulated enough power to be able to move about in the day. is first trembling step under the warming rays of the sun brought blood tears to his eyes, a faltering smile, and centuries of joy unlocked from his icy heart. He wiped away the tears and shook his golden waves of hair, which, caressed by the sunlight made him feel almost as human as he'd been all those long years ago.
But with him good things never lasted. Local villagers sensed what he was, too scared and frightened they sent waves upon waves of men out to slughter him, men with magic, men with arms. Heck, even the bloody vampires were after him. The ones that walked by day knew who he was, and like it always had been, the mysterious secret he possessed which he knew nothing of was enough for them to see him as a threat to everything. And so, the threat had to be eliminated.
He came back to here and now with a start. Stupid! Senses alert, he felt the presence that had been there for a very long time. Why did he always fall into memory and lose track? Things like that got you killed, and surviving was something Damien had a very keen sense of, no matter how much he hated himself.
((Once again, sorry for the long post, but I haven't got my stats up for Damien yet, so this will have to serve as his history for now!))