.. The Archipelago…Candles lit around. But the light couldn't do much. Only shadows on the rocky walls could be seen with much clarity.The place was a mess. The confines of the cave were filled with murmurs and silent gossip.Cold bodies under cloaks gathered before the stone podium, on which the leader, Caius usually stands to address the coven. As Caius had said, there's a fang glow.But they have waited for hours, still no signs of Caius.Inside the inner rooms, lined with cold rocks, was Caius. Bones-the-old was there too with some other vampires of high order in the Casal coven.The place is almost dark. With so little lighting.Caius was apart from them. He was standing before the Northside wall of the stone room. His mind faraway.His eyes were on the image sculptured on the stone wall by fine hands. The dexterity says it all. The image was that of a female with fangs, a vampire. Beautiful, that's the first thing that would come to your mind when you see the female's image.
Greenwich, New York City suburbs...Sarai's safehouse..His eyes opened. It closed back as his face crumpled, pain evident on it.A groan escaped his lips as he grimaced. He felt his head splitting. It felt like a thousand ton hammer is pounding on it. He feared it would break. Yet it didn't.Every part of his body felt like a thousand needles are thrusted into it. It felt so painful that it's become numb.Where am I? His mind flashed as he gazed at the stone ceiling. Red like clay and somehow glinting with the dim light that a source he can't see right now gave the space. The stone is definitely not normal. He thought.The place was warm, so unlikely of a room with stone ceiling but he heard no crackling of fireplace. This made him even more confused.Where is this place?"Hey, Kylian."A voice called and his mind clicked. That's my name. His face turned and he saw the person. Square face. Crimson eyes with a tinge of brown. And finally a beige cloak hung on the person back.It's
.. The Archipelago…Located in the deepest parts of the Night Hills, the place is a definition of thick trees, tall and towering. The space dark and haunting. The ground all covered in crawling plants that seemed to writhe and slither in the dark. And finally, the large rock that extended deep into the ground, the entrances into it shrouded and obscured by the crawling plants.The insides of the rocks was the lair of the ruling vampires in New York city. Chilling stone walls, air damp and dark, the only source of illumination being the handful of lit candles.The place seemed not to be inhabited as only shadows could be seen.But then a figure appeared, it was moving fast, urgency dripping from its movement.It moved past a candlelight and then into the shadow of the darkness again. But one would see its' face. It's Bellerin.Bellerin strode into the central rocky hall.Caius turned from the wall. "Where is Adrian?"Bellerin hesitated. "That will not be good for you kid," Bones-the-o
Continuation.After several days of mourning, he buried his mother's body and mass buried that of his villagers.But he was confused. Anytime he stares at his bloody long fingernails, he questions his legitimacy. Like how the hell had he transformed into this overnight? From a warrior who fights for his people to a killer. Like how?The more he stays around his village, the more he's haunted by the mountain formed by the corpses of his tribesmen.The change is too abrupt. The cause, the reason behind the change, he ruminated as he walked away from the now desolate village.But when he seemed to be in too much darkness, a little light shed itself at the far end of the tunnel.His mind flashed back to the creature he killed a week ago. Everything was normal until he met the creature. Everything was……Then he made a decision. He would go back to the creature's body. Maybe he might find an answer.He had gone deep into the walnut woods but he turned back. He went around the village not
Apart from Sarai the witch, someone else had the gut feeling that the vampires were gonna find them.That was Kylian.Even though he tried to stop himself from thinking such a thing, he still knew they were gonna find him. He just hoped that it would be a little longer.And he hoped that it wouldn't be bloody. For his friends. Heald, Benzo, the witch and any other person that wants to stand by him. He didn't want it to be bloody for them. As it had always been for the ones who stood for him in the past.But he knew the moment he told his past and no one of them left, that they would never go even if he tried to push them away.Nothing else could have chased them away other than his dark past."We have to hold them off," Benzo said. "I and Benzo would do that but we need to get Kylian outta here, because the two of us cannot defeat Adrian, he's a strong naturally born vampire." Heald suggested."I will get Kylian out of here." Sarai nodded. "Mei Li will help you guys."Benzo took a g
Heald narrowly dodged a claw swipe and grabbed the Vampire's collar. He lifted him off the ground and slammed his back on the stone wall.A blade sliced through the air in front of the Vampire's neck and the head was decapitated, splashing a line of pale red blood on the crimson wall of the corridor.Heald dropped the body and sped into the midst of another group of vampires.Slash! Slash!! Slash!!!Several heads flew into the air. The necks only released a thin drip of pale red blood before collapsing onto the ground.Flames burned on some of the vampire's skin and they growled in pain as they writhed, crashing into other vampires, igniting them in the process too.The trio continued exterminating with ferocity in utmost accord.By now, decapitated heads, headless bodies, some with burns on the flesh and finally, pale red blood that had accumulated on the ground to form a pool, all formed a gory sight in the corridor.The vampires had reduced drastically and the number of the ones co
The portal opened. The place was dark. But one could see a female figure stepping out. The light from the large circle that made up the portal did a little illumination after all.After the female figure. A male figure fell out too. He wasn't on his feets, he literally fell outta the portal.The circle began to close up. The light began to gather at one point.The female hurriedly held up the male figure and supported him.Her face flashed around, the light from the closing portal shone on her face.It's none other than Sarai.And the male she's supporting is Kylian, who's apparently not in good shape right now.He's unconscious. Barely holding to life.Sarai looked around. A building should be here.Her eyes flashed up, a slum was at the extreme end, on the elevated side of the street. She could see the dim lighting on the little windows on the building from where she stood. So she's right. As in, she's at the right place. But nothing is here.Just a stale air, seemingly stagnated
The crescent moon hung high above, barely shedding light onto the chilling damp night.A figure under scarlet cloak emerged from behind an alley and stopped before a building squatted between other normalcy.A snort erupted from the figure under the cloak- the person living inside is not normal at all.Adrian careened into the duplex. His red eyes scanned every corner from under his scarlet cloak and hoodie.He got into the living room and stopped. It was dark but he could see clearly. The red rug under his boots threatened to swallow his feets but he's not shaken in any way."I know you're in there. It would be better if you come out to me." Adrian said, with a growl."What do you want again?"Adrian turned to the door leading to other rooms in the house. Behold, a man with a sinister staff emerged.The staff had a snake head on the top and it released a sinister aura.It was the wizard of the Casal coven.The wizard continued. "I don't want the coven and the administrators knowing t