Chapter 8

I got up and examined my body more I don't have any bullet holes in me. I begin walking around looking at things it's nothing but endless woods. I began to hear water nearby and my throat was a little dry so I jogged to the river. I saw on the other side of the river another man looking right me. He seemed calm but ready for a fight with a handmade flint machete at his side. He looked serious. I spoke up "where am I? What is this place? I just woke up in the ground last thing I remember was being shot." He smirked and said "Welcome to Purgatory. The place where monsters go after they die. A place where you don't find fights they find you. So keep quiet someone might hear you." I felt a bit of shock. Purgatory? A place where I can't trust anyone? This has to be a nightmare. Purgatory is a place you go to work off sins. Not a place full of monsters. This is the last place I expected to end up. I spoke up again, "is this real? I thought Purgatory was a place where people went to work off sins from life." He chuckles "only according to the Purgatorio story. Dante only heard of Purgatory through rumors and word spread and that is what came to be in his story." I begin to understand and ask him one last question "can I trust you?" He simply replied "sure but that don't mean u shouldn't sleep with one eye open at night. Sleep too hard and something might kill you whether it's nature or another monster. Personally I don't trust you. I been here for six years you won't age in Purgatory but your body still needs all of it precious needs from life. However no matter what monster you are it won't take silver or anything unnatural to kill you. You can die same as anything else can But, when dealing with certain monsters beheading is the best way to go otherwise they don't die." I ask "is there a way over to you so you can teach me how to survive out here?" He chuckles and said "your putting a lot of trust in me and you don't even know what kind of monster I am or my name." I ask "what are you?" He replies "vampire." "Well I'm a werewolf. Aren't we supposed to be like mortal enemies?" I ask him. He says "Biblically yes. Cain was the first vampire and passed it down from him we all inherited the curse. We were doomed to walk the earth forever bearing the Mark of Cain until one of Noah's descendants was given the ability to turn into a beast at night to keep the vampire population down by killing them." I ask "can you promise you won't try to kill me now that you know what I am?" He says "well do you promise not to rip my heart out and eat it?" I say to him "I need to keep a diet of them but if we can stick together and share each beast's body I'm sure we will do fine. You get their blood and I get the heart. Sound like a deal?" He grins and says "deal! Now follow me I'll show you to my place of operation and a way to cross the river where it is thin."