Like many births, mine wasn’t any different. However one thing was for sure, I wasn’t like most children. Most people claimed I should have never been born. I sometimes agree to those claims.
For what made my birth unnatural was the fact I was born onto this world a vampire.
It was in a field somewhere near the great city of Amsterdam at the time of the Spanish invasion. My father Johan van Oudenheuvel was on a crusade to England by the king of Spain Philip II. Who was trying to overthrow the Queen of England. Her catholic half-sister had been executed the year before my birth which didn’t help the mad king from stopping his Crusade.
However near the great city of Amsterdam I was born in a farm home of Mieke Watersloot. Hilde van Oudenheuvel and her sister Mieke Watersloot who birthed me saw that I was no ordinary human. Mieke was to take care of me and raise me as her own and named me Oscar since my mother Hilde became pregnant after Johan had left to England with the fleet.
Most wouldn’t agree on the birth of a bastard child, plus my mother would have been called a harlot, and been cast out by the church. As soon as she found out she was pregnant she made her way to her sister explaining her situation. A Spanish priest that came along during the Spanish invasion took advantage of her. He had her Husband Johan sent off to England and made his way with her.
He claimed if she told anyone he would have her decapitated. And if anyone would find out of his impurity the same fate would apply.
Most wouldn’t agree on the birth of a bastard child, plus my mother would have been called a harlot, and been cast out by the church. As soon as she found out she was pregnant she made her way to her sister explaining her situation. A Spanish priest that came along during the Spanish invasion took advantage of her. He had her Husband Johan sent off to England and made his way with her.
He claimed if she told anyone he would have her decapitated. And if anyone would find out of his impurity the same fate would apply.
By the name of Oscar van Oudenheuvel Mieke and John Watersloot took me in as one of their own. They knew of my disorder and didn’t treat me like anything abnormal.
So in a way I was a farm boy together with my 2 older cousins we played in the farm fields. They didn’t like me for a long time due to fact I wasn’t actually human. But when I saved one of them from drowning in the big Ijsel Lake they respected me. I pulled my weight around.
So in a way I was a farm boy together with my 2 older cousins we played in the farm fields. They didn’t like me for a long time due to fact I wasn’t actually human. But when I saved one of them from drowning in the big Ijsel Lake they respected me. I pulled my weight around.
One black day my mother came by to tell the horrid news about her husband who had been killed by a storm at sea. 24 naval Spanish ships have been wrecked at the coast of Ireland. It took several years before the news came to her. I was about 9 when I heard the news, and the news took that long to reach her.
She fell apart when she received the news late knowing that all those years he would never return.
She fell apart when she received the news late knowing that all those years he would never return.
Many many years later when I became around the age of 20, a witch hunt for a foul named creature called Vampires emerged. Signed by the hand of the pope Paul V he doomed the birth of children with my disability. Their entire family would be executed and the child burned for everyone to see.
The people in the village nearby helped the religious party locate my whereabouts.
They made sure lies had been posted everywhere about what we actually are to scare the humans to give up the children with the symptoms of vampires .
Such as demon spawns, night hunters, murderers, immortal, fangs, bloodsucking, bat like and also other things such as “The purity of the Sunlight would burn them alive.” They didn’t tell the part when they place the boys and girls on the pedestal in the market place set for execution right before dawn they pour oil right underneath them that they set aflame as soon as the sun hits them. And thus creating the illusion to the simple minded Christian folk that they actually were everything they said we were.
The people in the village nearby helped the religious party locate my whereabouts.
They made sure lies had been posted everywhere about what we actually are to scare the humans to give up the children with the symptoms of vampires .
Such as demon spawns, night hunters, murderers, immortal, fangs, bloodsucking, bat like and also other things such as “The purity of the Sunlight would burn them alive.” They didn’t tell the part when they place the boys and girls on the pedestal in the market place set for execution right before dawn they pour oil right underneath them that they set aflame as soon as the sun hits them. And thus creating the illusion to the simple minded Christian folk that they actually were everything they said we were.
Cleverly they mentioned we were night crawlers because when the parents or people who loved the children would travel through the night to escape from the madness. A curfew was set, and every house checked every night to find out if someone would run from this idea.
They treated Children who were vampires as an infection that needed to be dealt with. Everyone was in quarantine.
They treated Children who were vampires as an infection that needed to be dealt with. Everyone was in quarantine.
It wasn’t long before they were appointed to our direction. They checked all through the house until they found me, a 21 year old boy.
Five men came into our home with the Priest from Amsterdam. One of the men told us all to line up as we were to be inspected. They checked all of us and thought we looked alright.
They thanked us for our cooperation and almost made their way out. Until the priest yelped as he grasped his bible close to himself.
“Didn’t you forget to open their mouths?”
One of the men was a good friend of Mieke. He thought it was unnecessary since he knew who we were. But the priest insisted.
“Check the Youngest one first!” He yelped again.
The man opened my mouth to check my teeth. He looked down and closed my mouth again.
“Why didn’t you tell me Mieke?” he said to her.
“He is just a boy! He’s not sick. He’s just different! He’s my sisters son.” She said in panic knowing what they thought.
Five men came into our home with the Priest from Amsterdam. One of the men told us all to line up as we were to be inspected. They checked all of us and thought we looked alright.
They thanked us for our cooperation and almost made their way out. Until the priest yelped as he grasped his bible close to himself.
“Didn’t you forget to open their mouths?”
One of the men was a good friend of Mieke. He thought it was unnecessary since he knew who we were. But the priest insisted.
“Check the Youngest one first!” He yelped again.
The man opened my mouth to check my teeth. He looked down and closed my mouth again.
“Why didn’t you tell me Mieke?” he said to her.
“He is just a boy! He’s not sick. He’s just different! He’s my sisters son.” She said in panic knowing what they thought.
The priest pushed the man aside.
“Let me see!”
he opened my mouth viciously and his nostrils flared with anger.
“You were hiding a spawn of satan? You raised this abomination?” He yelled at Mieke and John.
“You know what to do.” He continued as he walked out the door. The men dragged us all ouside and killed John in front of us all. My cousins were crying, Mieke was next, then the two boys next to me. I held one of their hands and told them they were going to heaven with their parents.
The priest turned to me and told the men to tie me up. However I stood up and suddenly time seemed to go very slow as I made my way to the sword in one of the men’s sheaths. They seemed as if they were not moving as I pulled out the sword and stabbed one of them in the chest. After that time seemed to catch up and they were shocked to see me with a sword covered in warm scarlet.
The priest ran for his life and demanded the other 4 men to gaurd him as he made his way back to his carriage to head back to the city and call the vampire hunters.
I swore to avenge the deaths of my family.
“Let me see!”
he opened my mouth viciously and his nostrils flared with anger.
“You were hiding a spawn of satan? You raised this abomination?” He yelled at Mieke and John.
“You know what to do.” He continued as he walked out the door. The men dragged us all ouside and killed John in front of us all. My cousins were crying, Mieke was next, then the two boys next to me. I held one of their hands and told them they were going to heaven with their parents.
The priest turned to me and told the men to tie me up. However I stood up and suddenly time seemed to go very slow as I made my way to the sword in one of the men’s sheaths. They seemed as if they were not moving as I pulled out the sword and stabbed one of them in the chest. After that time seemed to catch up and they were shocked to see me with a sword covered in warm scarlet.
The priest ran for his life and demanded the other 4 men to gaurd him as he made his way back to his carriage to head back to the city and call the vampire hunters.
I swore to avenge the deaths of my family.
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