Magical girls gone horribly wrong.
Last night, I dreamed that I was part of a family of ancestral vampires. We lived in a huge old house, and we only made our new relations into vampires when a) we were sure they were done being human, and b) we were sure they'd survive the process. New vampires were handed out for training by having them sit in a circle while the older vampires 'bartered' for them. When the new circle came up, I 'bought' my little sister, to train her.
(We also had vampire animals, like cats and snakes, that had been chosen because they could survive the process. Adric was a vampire snake, and was still the size he'd been when I first got him, little enough to twine himself through my hair.)
Some vampires were uninclined to follow the family rules, including my brother, who wanted to put the family into power by making vampires out of everyone. He led a group of the littler vamps to attack a boarding house. I screamed at them to back off, and the littler vamps -- who were terrified -- scattered. But by that point, everyone in the boarding house knew what we were.
I broke my brother's neck and went into the boarding house, and closed the door behind me, because I needed to clean up his mess (because he was my brother and I'd loved him), and that meant killing the ones who knew.
And I woke up.
(We also had vampire animals, like cats and snakes, that had been chosen because they could survive the process. Adric was a vampire snake, and was still the size he'd been when I first got him, little enough to twine himself through my hair.)
Some vampires were uninclined to follow the family rules, including my brother, who wanted to put the family into power by making vampires out of everyone. He led a group of the littler vamps to attack a boarding house. I screamed at them to back off, and the littler vamps -- who were terrified -- scattered. But by that point, everyone in the boarding house knew what we were.
I broke my brother's neck and went into the boarding house, and closed the door behind me, because I needed to clean up his mess (because he was my brother and I'd loved him), and that meant killing the ones who knew.
And I woke up.