"My Lord", Tête entered the room and bowed her head, "There is a letter for you, sir".She presented the envelope that she was holding in her hands. "On the table", the master of the house muttered, without looking her way, continuing his gaze into the unknown outside the window, sitting in his recliner. "Anything else?", when Tête didn't leave for a while, he finally asked."My Lord, I am but a servant of your family, like my father was and his father too. We've served your noble family for generations and now, I find it in me to ask you about the fate of your daughter that I raised with my own two hands"."You've served us", he looked her way, uninterestingly, "Your job has been fine. And this is the only time any member of your family has questioned a decision made by the family of Vlad. It is perhaps my own failure that pests like you have gained a mouth. But since you've presented yourself to me with that miserable fate of yours, let me tell you".He began."Vampires cannot hav
"Master is back, girls! Come on up and get to the kitchen, all of you", the head maid came waltzing in, clapping her hands, scattering the group of maids chittering the day away."Madame, who is going to tell him? Will you?", one of the girls approached the head maid and asked slowly."Tell him what? Mistress would tell him herself, is it our duty to give such news to the head of the house? Of course not! Don't forget your place now, go get the stew started already!""Oh, she's not half wrong, Madame. Mistress is what, only 18! And you know how cold their marriage is, good heavens, they don't even talk to each other", another one opined."Goodness, you girls!", the head maid herself wasn't too old, but with all the young ones scampering around, the middle aged woman felt many a wrinkles coming, "Can't you keep your heads in your work? Now get to work and stop idling around".In fact, if there was one place in the huge Valentine mansion that was lively and seemed to be inhabited by any
"It is nice to see you", the old woman stepped in through the door to find Faye in a reclining sofa, "My Lady".Faye turned her head slightly toward her and smiled weakly before closing her eyes and looking away."I had a feeling he'll send you. He'll probably not be well off himself though. Right, Tête?", Faye replied."Barely. My Lord has banished me from his sight ever since you left. It would hardly matter if I was there", Tête answered."Is that right?", that was surprising for Faye, though she didn't demand a reason."I am not the only one he sent either. There's also this young man", Tête said as a young boy entered the room, "He's Cassius, from one of the branch families, the last of his family, quiet like you, my Lady".Faye opened her eyes and examined the young boy who was probably somewhere in his early teens."The last of his family? Are you a Dhampir, kid?""No, my Lady. I'm a vampire. Lord Magnus performed the blood ritual himself before sending me here"."My father did
At first I wasn't sure what had occurred when the wall broke down and I was dragged outside. When I looked back, that dungeon where I had met Deli was gone and I was in some sort of a garden, with a glass roof. It was beautiful but scary. And at night, it was mortifying. I held my breath as I looked around for whatever had brought me out. I couldn't see very well, the moon was hidden once again in the embraces of the thick dark clouds and it only occasionally came out teasingly. Drops of sweat rolled down my face despite the chilly night. I clutched Ebony tightly as if my life depended on it. Soon I heard a brush in the nearby bushes which was followed by the footsteps on the stony path. I kept my eyes peeled for whatever was headed my way. But before I knew it, it seized me and I'd have been impaled if my reflexes hadn't made me duck out of the way of the chained dagger that was headed my way.My arm did get slashed but it wasn't something I couldn't handle. I looked sternly at the
The garden grew darker and darker under that glass roof and cloudy night. Still, it was strangely enchanting as if something was calling me to sleep. And I might just have caved in and slipped into its embraces if it wasn't for this unexpected intruder.I felt like I had lost my consciousness but in fact I wasn't half gone yet. I noticed Albus's face twisting into the most terrifying expressions. "What an unpleasant way to enter. Who might you be, sir? A friend of that dying guest over there perhaps?""Yeah but for someone as half assed as you to have done the number on him, I'm rather disappointed in this friend of mine", he said with utter disgust and a familiar voice that brought nothing but relief to me."Oh? Aren't you one to be forming opinions so quickly even before we have met in battle?"He chortled, though I couldn't see his face."I barely need to do that. That is one of the cursed weapons of your master, I presume. The only problem with these trinkets though, is that they
I lay there motionlessly as Albus and Chopper engaged in a battle that was too hectic for me to keep the track of. I did consider moving out of the way but for some reason, I didn't. Chopper kept shielding me from all the destruction they were causing all around them. Chopper held Ebony between his teeth and switched with Ivory occasionally. I had almost forgotten that Ebony and Ivory had curse imbued in them, they weren't some ordinary weapons. Chopper was right, I had been wasting Ebony's potential.If I remember it right, Ebony can cut through anything and Ivory causes things to disintegrate. I hadn't even thought of using Ebony to cut through a lot. I began to imagine all the things which could have been easily sliced through if I had been using it right. Nosferatu, for one, was what I began thinking of. I wondered if Chopper had met Felix on the way. Actually, I didn't even know how Chopper got here in the first place.Albus was keeping up rather well with Chopper. It seems he ha
"I'm sorry that I couldn't do enough. I've never told you enough, but I'm grateful to you for both of them. And...for you...too", his broad back and faint smile as he left came to her mind.Deli opened her eyes, she had another guest.She summoned a weak smile, "Hello Cassius"."It's been a long time, my Lady", he replied with a similar smile."You've changed...but not as much as me, I suppose"."I can barely tell its you. But you are as beautiful as you used to be, my Lady".She chuckled painfully, "In all this blood?" *****************"Seraph!", I heard a familiar voice as I was heading down that corridor. "Felix?!"He joined up with me and we went on."You made it, huh?", he was looking well, though a little torn up here and there with his boots muddied and bloodied.I wonder why I took notice of that so keenly, maybe because it reminded me of my own shoes."So you took down that Nosferatu, I presume.""Yeah, th
"Felix, how long is it going to take?", I grew restless with every passing moment."I'm trying my best. Well, actually...", he removed his hand from the door."Wha...Felix! What are you doing?""Seraph, we probably shouldn't remove this barrier", he answered calmly."Well, we have to go ahead, don't we? Are you chickening out or what?""That's not the point. Look, thing is-"He didn't have to explain as we were able to witness a rather violent demonstration of what he wanted to say. The door swung open all of a sudden and an explosion ensued which wrung us pretty far back. We were saved by the door itself, else we'd have been scorched. Felix and I fixed ourselves up and looked at the doorway where clouds of smoke rose, blinding our vision."What...", I cleared my throat, I think I tasted blood...or guts, "was that?!""Seraph, you alright?", Felix got up, helping me as well."Oh?", we heard a voice from beyond the smoke, "Boy?!!!"That sure was a familiar voice. He appeared out of the