by E. R. Willis
“So it’s unknown? Wait, Nyx is married?” I asked, surprised.
“Yeah, I guess? Yes, and he’s a good guy. He learned how to fight from me. Ah, the 80’s. I wonder, what did happen to that era? I liked that decade. They had good music and cars. I wish I could go back in time,” Blaze said, getting off topic.
Did Blaze just say wish? That’s it! I got up from the table and stood in front if Lord Erebus. “What is it, Starr?” Lord Erebus said, rubbing his head with his fingers. He must have a headache over all the commotion in the room still.
“I know what I want to wish for,” I said, excited.
“Oh? Tell me,” he said, intrigued.
“Do you think you can make everyone that is not a lord vampire into one?” I asked. I had to make sure if the wish would work first. The chatter in the throne room stopped. They heard what I said. All the attention is directed at me now.
“Are you serious?” Lord Erebus asked, shocked.
“Yes. Why not? Can you do it?” I said.
“Yes, but why?” he said. “It’s your wish, so why use it for everyone?”
“I get along with everybody, and Lord Obsidian has a point. Everyone here deserves to be one, and we might have a winning chance against the upcoming war,” I answered.
“This is a great gesture. Do you really care for everyone that much?” Lord Erebus asked.
“Of course. I can’t imagine any of us gone forever, and I don’t want to. I could ask for no war, but wouldn’t it just come back? Sooner or later, they’ll remember that we are vampires, and start a war again. There is no way avoiding it, so I want to use the wish on us,” I said, confident.
Lord Erebus looked around the room, and then back at me. “Very well. If that is what you want, then let it be,” Lord Erebus said.
Lord Erebus stood up from his throne. He waved his hand slowly in front of him with his palm facing outward. A light purple mist filled the room. A warm sensation came over me. I feel so calm, yet full of energy. “There, all full-fledged vampires will become lord vampires when they wake up in the morning,” Lord Erebus said, sitting back down. “Now, that we will all be lord vampires, I have a plan.”
Everyone listened with relaxed faces and minds. I know I’m still feeling it. That spell Lord Erebus did for us to be lord vampires wasn’t harsh, but soothing. It might be telling us to go to sleep, so that when we wake up, we’ll be lord vampires! I can’t wait, and I’ve only been here a little over a month.
“Thanks to Starr, we will all be unstoppable. We have a huge winning chance! We will stand our ground, but I want to warn the people about something. Tomorrow morning, I’m going to send out a few vampires to deliver the message, after that, we will prepare for war,” Lord Erebus said, smiling. “For now, let us all rest.”
Everyone in the throne room left to their rooms. I made my way back to my room. I walked in, and was about to close my door, but a hand stopped it from closing. “Blaze? What are you doing?” I asked him.
“Oh, my mother told me that you saved her yesterday. She told me to give you this,” he said, handing me a basket of different types of chocolates and muffins in it.
“Thanks, do you want some? I can’t eat these myself,” I said, letting him in.
“Sure, and I brought you these,” he said, handing me a vase of flowers. Not just any flowers, but the purple passion flowers from his garden mixed with other flowers to match.
“Oh lovely!” I said, taking them.
I put the flowers on top of my nightstand. When I turned away from the flowers, I bumped into Blaze. “Sorry!” I said, nervous.
“That dress you’re wearing…I never paid that much attention to how it brings out your hair color,” he said, reaching for my hair. “It’s dark, like a black hue, yet in the light it shows a bit of brown, and your eyes are the same.”
“Thanks! Which reminds me. Is that white streak in your hair colored in, or is it natural?” I asked while opening the plastic wrap on the basket.
“Natural. It’s like a birthmark. My father had it,” he replied.
“That’s nice. I like it,” I said, handing him a muffin.
He took it, and we both began to snack on the goods. We were having a great time talking and eating, that I didn’t notice how late at night it was. I was telling Blaze on how happy I was that everyone gets to be a lord vampire. Blaze just kept staring at me, and then after a while, he kissed me. Not on the cheek, but on the lips. He didn’t stop either. He kept going, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I was too seduced by him. He held me in his arms, kissing me on the lips, and then on the neck.
“Do you trust me?” he whispered, still kissing me gently on the neck.
“Yes,” I answered back in a low voice.
He kept kissing me, then he stopped, sighed a soft romantic sigh, and then he bit me. I felt two painful spots on my neck, but I didn’t mind.
Chapter 21
Lord Erebus sent Blaze, a few other vampires, and me to talk to the public. We broke into a news station, and interrupted what they were announcing. I think they were talking about the power outage? That didn’t bother us. We had generators. “Listen closely, humans. I am Lord Obsidian, and I want to warn everyone. We have grown powerful, and I will assure you that the next attack directed to us will not be a pretty one. We will kill and destroy everything. I honestly don’t know why we are being attacked? All we know is that Ravine Katz has you all in the palm of his hand. We tend to keep to ourselves, and we don’t kill people for the fun of it? Why would we want to take over the planet? We could’ve done that years ago, but we chose not to. Heck, I’m 800 years old, don’t you think I would’ve already done that? Why wait now? This has gone far enough. We will no longer hold back anything. That is why I’m here. The military will strike us, and we will kill them to defend our family. Look, we don’t want to kill, but if we have to we will. That is why I’m asking everyone to do themselves a favor. Tell anyone you know that is in the military to surrender,” Blaze said, looking directly at the people in the news room.
“We are not murderers like you humans. We have been kind to people. Why? We don’t try to start any trouble. If we win this war, I don’t want people that knew, or that are related to military people, to say that we killed their loved ones. That they fought for nothing and died all because of one greedy person who wants to eradicate us. Open your eyes! We’ve been living among you for thousands of years, and we have not started anything to drive extinction to humanity. You’re doing that by yourself! If you want to save your precious military people, the planet, and your lives, stop this now. Stop listening to Ravine Katz and his lies. He’s the one killing off your people, your friends, and your family. Not us. Do this, and you will have no trouble from us. If you don’t…well we warned you. We are not going to go easy on anyone,” Blaze said, finishing up his speech.
All of us left and went back to the fortress. We confronted Lord Erebus at his throne. “It’s done, and we had no problems,” Blaze said, bowing.
“Good, now we wait and see what happens,” Lord Erebus responded.
Everyone departed to do other things. “Starr, why don’t I show you some fighting techniques while we wait,” Blaze said. I nodded, and we began training.
Chapter 22
Blaze and I spent all day training. I learned a few tricks, and I can now say that I know how to defend myself better. Lord Erebus watched us closely, but I think his mind was elsewhere. Other vampires would should up at the throne room, and have a small chat with Lord Erebus. He’d just shake his head, but continued on watching us.
“Lord Obsidian, it is night time. I need you to round up a group, and scout out the whole city,” Lord Erebus said, getting up. “I’m going to take a walk in your garden. It might help me clear my head.”
“Understood,” Blaze said, bowing as Lord Erebus left.
“Come on, Starr. I want you to join me,” Blaze said, putting up his sword. It’s quite interesting. His sword is inside his cane.
I put up my hammer, and we both went around the fortress. Blaze gathered a few vampires. We turned into bats and flew to, and around the city.
We didn’t spot anything. That is until we reached the other side of the city. We landed on top of a tall building, and changed back into ourselves. Right outside of the city limits, we see a massive army. There must be hundreds of tanks, thousands of soldiers, and over 200 aircrafts waiting on the ground for an order.
“This is all crazy! It’s 100 times bigger than the last battle!” a vampire said, nervous.
“I know. They are moving slowly into the city. No wonder the streets are empty? They must’ve ordered a curfew to the city of Vile. Hurry, let’s head back and warn Lord Erebus,” Blaze said.
We all returned to the fortress, found Lord Erebus in the garden, and told him about it. Lord Erebus caressed a flower in his fingers before responding. “Then there is no other choice than to attack now,” Lord Erebus said.
“Now?” Blaze asked, confused.
“Yes. If we wait until the last minute to attack, we will have troubles defending. Imagine thousands of them versus 701 of us? Attack now, even in the city, but avoid homes of the innocent. If they are too many homes, wait at the edge of the forest to continue the assault,” Lord Erebus said, sniffing the flower he was caressing.
“Very well. We will spread the word around. I already have everything planned out. I’m going to send some vampires out under the command of Mr. Pixy to the city. I, and some others, will wait at the edge of the forest, while you and the rest are here,” Blaze explained.
“Yes, do that,” Lord Erebus said.
Blaze and the others departed from each other to tell everyone the news. “Starr, I need you to stay here for a while. I need you in the kitchen. Help out the rest of the vampires there to make food, and save food that will lasts us for a while. After you are done, you can head out with the rest,” Lord Erebus said.
“Okay, that’s not a problem,” I said, heading to the fortress and entering the kitchen.
I began to work. The vampires and I sorted everything we have in the kitchen. We got all the canned foods, dry foods, instant foods, and meats separated from each other. We also made sure they are still good. If they were expired, we threw them away.
“I hate to say this, but we are low on canned foods. Some of them were bad, so now the number of cans are reduced,” Mrs. Pixy said, recounting.
“How much do we have?” I asked, looking at the small pile. I mean, it’s big, but to feed us all it’s small.
“Roughly around 200 cans,” Mrs. Pixy replied.
“That’s not a problem. I’ll take my truck to the nearest supermarket and get some. Nyx and Starr can join me,” Rose said, getting her keys from a hook near the kitchen door.
“All right, but hurry and be safe!” Mrs. Pixy said, getting back to work with the others.
Rose, Nyx, and I rushed to Rose’s truck. We got in and drove off to the city. We past the forest, and went to the closest supermarket we could find in Vile. Nobody is around, and the store is empty. We parked the truck at the entrance, lowered the tailgate of the truck, broke into the store, and commenced to go for a quick shopping.
Chapter 23
Rose, Nyx, and I separated inside the store. I pushed the basket and started putting cans that we needed. I know Rose and Nyx went for other things. Might as well since we are here. They put me in charge of the cans.
My basket is full. I began to wheel the basket to the entrance, but something stung me on the neck. I hope it wasn’t a spider. I’m horrified of those! I reached for my neck, and felt something odd. I took it off my neck, and looked at it in my hand. A dart! Someone’s in here! I reached for my hammer, and looked around.
“What? You didn’t notice that the alarm system didn’t go off?” a voice said, coming towards me. Damn. Why didn’t I think of that?
It’s a man, and he’s got four other people with him. “Who are you?” I asked.
“We are hired guns. Ravine Katz has us scattered around the whole city, hiding, and waiting for your kind,” he replied, nearing me. They are all dressed the same. Black and silver uniforms.
This isn’t good news, plus I’m not feeling too good. I’m beginning to sweat, I feel hot, I feel weak, and nauseous. “What was in that dart?” I said, falling to my knees.
“Poison. It’ll kill you if you don’t get it out, or get the cure. It slowed you down, didn’t it? Well, I might as well kill you now that I got you in my sight,” he said, aiming his gun at me.
I’ve got to do something! I gripped my hammer, and swung it at his hand. His gun flew out of his grasp, and landed far from his reach. “Shoot her!” the man yelled at the others.
“Not while we’re here!” Nyx said, standing in front of me. She made a shield, and shielded us from the bullets. The bullets bounced back and hit all the hired guns.
They didn’t die, but they were injured. Rose appeared from behind them, and began draining all of their blood. After she fed on every hired gun, she decapitated them with her claws. “It’s been a while since I’ve fed on someone. It tastes so delicious!” Rose said, wiping her mouth.
“Are you all right, Starr?” Nyx asked, kneeling beside me.
I told them what happened. Rose looked through the pockets of the dead hired men. “Look! I found this needle! It says cure on it,” Rose said, rushing over to me.
“Inject it!” Nyx urged.
Rose did, but I know it’s going to take a while for the cure to work. Nyx and Rose helped me get up and walk to the truck. They sat me down. I waited for them to load everything into the bed of the truck.
They got back into the truck after they were done. “We have to let everyone know that there are hired guns hiding,” I said.
“Yes, this is dangerous,” Rose said, speeding up.
We didn’t stop until we got to the fortress. The three of us went to the throne room, and told everything to Lord Erebus. “That is smart, I will admit that, but we can’t let our vampires get hit with those. How are you feeling?” Lord Erebus asked me.
“I feel better. I think I can walk it off. I’m ready for anything, Lord Erebus,” I answered.
“If you say so, Starr,” Lord Erebus said.
“What should we do?” Rose asked.
“Rose, I need you to go to the city, meet up with Mr. Pixy and the others, and tell them about the darts. Stay there if you need to. Nyx, start telling everyone here about them. Starr, I’m going to send you to the forest to tell Lord Obsidian and the others,” Lord Erebus commanded. “Starr, if you need to come back, do so.”
I nodded, and three of us went our separate ways.
Chapter 24
I walked through the woods, and found myself being surrounded by wolves. One of them walked up to me. The wolf transformed into Blaze. “What’s the matter? You look a bit sick?” Blaze said.
I told him what happened. The wolves listened. “I didn’t expect this. We have to be wary of them, or they can get us. Keep an eye out when the fight gets here,” Blaze said to everyone.
“So why are all of you transformed into wolves?” I asked.
“No one will suspect a wolf to be a vampire,” Blaze answered. “It’s simple. When I howl, everyone will attack, or if we hear a howl, we go to it and help out the vampire in trouble.”
“May I join?” I asked him.
“Yeah, if you’re up to it,” he said, grinning.
I nodded, and we both transformed into wolves.
We waited, but all we could hear is the battle in the city, echoing all through the night. We’d walk back and forth, lay on the grass, and check up on the others spread out in the forest. I heard something in front of us as we came from checking up on the others. Everyone is spread out about fifteen feet away from each other. Blaze heard it too. He let out a growl, warning anyone to back off.
“It’s all right. It’s just some wolves,” a woman said. The woman and a small group of people walked past us. They look famili
ar? Wait, the uniform they are wearing! It looks similar to the ones that the hired guns had.
I growled at the people. I felt my hair stand on end, and the eagerness of wanting to kill them burning inside me. Blaze must’ve seen how angry I was, because the next thing I knew, Blaze turned into himself, and attacked the people. Blaze touched the ground, and made that dark mass show up. It went towards the unsuspecting people, cloaked them with them screaming with fear, and disappeared with them. There is no trace of them left.
Chapter 25
A couple of hours later, we heard the screams of the soldiers in the war. The ground is beginning to shake, and bright lights of gunfire is nearing the forest. We waited behind the trees and in the shadows. The war is moving into the forest, and all the vampires fighting are still okay, some are injured, but they are curing themselves when they get a small chance. I can see them, licking their wounds, and going back into battle.
The fight got closer and closer. Blaze lifted up his head, and howled a loud, ear piercing howl that echo above all the other sounds, including the war. Wolves came out of nowhere, ran into the battle, and jumped on the ground soldiers. They tore at their faces and throats. They kept going until they knew it was time for them to turn back into a vampire. The vampires in the forest helped slow down the war a bit.
“Blaze, look!” I said, turning into myself, and pointing at a strange dressed person in front of the whole army. Blaze turned into himself, and looked in the direction where I had pointed.
“It’s a warlock! He’s casting spells, and fighting my mother, Mr. Pixy, and Dar all at the same time! He must’ve been the one that put the spell on the tank the other time we had a battle? That’s not the warlock I want to kill though? It’s a different one, but no matter. He must know the other warlock, so he should die as well,” Blaze said, taking out his sword from his cane and joining the fight.
