*** Warning some gore will be in this chapter so readers beware***
"I am a noble and will NOT be owned." I yelled.
I grabbed tightly with both of my hands and pulled with everything I had. The collar pain got so bad that I couldn't see anything around me. The pain started to let up and I could see again.
A red warning sign showed up in the sky and I watched Damien, Claire and Ethan go big eyed and look at me with both terror and sadness. They glanced back at the warning side in the sky and then they turned and started to run away from the area.
I knew something was about to happen, something big. I reached out but then touched my collar. I knew I should get away too but I was on the ground. I had to get up and managed to get on all fours. Just then asi was on my hands and knees the pain I felt seemed to be nonexistent now. I then got up and stood on my two feet. Reaching up I grabbed the collor with only one hand at first and pulled. No pain but I knew this collar can not stay. I felt something in side click and grabbed the collar with both hands and pulled. Magic shot out from the collar and it tore into two pieces fairly easily and fell to the ground.
"I am a noble and will NEVER be collared or owned. My vampires come to be now. Obey your Master now." I ordered in a voice I didn't even recognise as my own.
Cain crawled towards me. I could tell he was weak right now and very drained. I offered him my wrist and told him to drink. He took my wrist and obeying my order he started to drink. Slowly over the next couple minutes all of the vampires in the city came to me and knelt. They had no choice in the matter, they had to obey.
"Bring me the one called Amelia right now." I commanded.
The vampires scattered to find her. One finally brought her to me and threw her on the ground at my feet. The werewolves that were around had fled. I looked around at all of the vampires around me and asked.
"Who are your masters?"
I could feel that they were all alone and homeless. They all had no where to belong. The one who made them had either cast them off or was weak and had died and left them masterless.
"Will you serve me? Those that kneel and serve shall be given a purpose in life again."
I watched all but 5 of them kneel to me. They looked eager to be of some use again and to be owned under a leader again. Very well to those that wanted to reject me I could cast them aside though it bothered me that they didn't obey.
"You 5 may leave if you wish to be on your own."
Cain stopped feeding and stood up. "Master, They are all yours if you will have them. You can either bind them like you have me in a way or you can allow them to serve you willingly. You are the Master of the seethe now. Your will is all our command."
I looked at Cain and he flinched and dropped to his knees. "Master your eyes are solid black with a slight ring of red around the very outside."
I ignored him and looked at Amelia. I gave her a look and then glanced around again with an evil smirk on my face.
"Let me say this here and now. If you plan to swear your allegiance to me and think you will then later leave, disobey and/or betray me. The punishment will be as bad or worse then what I am about to do to her. You can't die even if you are not fed. You will just go mad with the hunger and lose your mind. Her death will be much more merciful then your punishment will ever be if you leave, disobey and/or betray me. Death would be what you will beg for and for a traitor that would be too much mercy. All she did was think she could lead me into a trap and then own and control me. For that she will be punished. I view disobedience and betrayal as far worse offenses."
I closed my eyes for a moment and I could feel every drop of blood in her body. Opening my eyes and looking at her, I held my right hand out and raised it just a touch and I got to watch her rise up and slightly float in the air in front of me. I made my hand into a loose fist and her entire body tensed up everywhere. I focused on tightening my fist and the tightening in her body got worse. I could see her blood in her body at a standstill and when I looked at a part of her body the blood moved as I wanted it to move. Glancing at her face I smiled a very evil grin and then decided to move her blood up towards her head. I watched her head get overfilled with blood and then it started to come out of her ears, mouth, nose and eyes. Focusing on her face I watched as her face start to change colors to a deep red and become overfilled with blood. Her blood flowed out her mouth and I could feel her trying to breath but only breathing in blood. She was starting to drown in her own blood as it was filling her lungs instead of air. Then I pushed the blood away from her face and made it go pale and allowed her to get a slight breath in. She coughed up some of the blood and then I repeated the process of again filling her head overflowing with blood so it again came out her nose, mouth, ears and eyes again. I got a bit fasinated by it and kept going back in forth bringing her close to death and then allowing her to live and breath again. After a while I was starting to getting bored with it all and decided to stop my fun and games. I released my concentration with a thought of wishing that she would no longer exist. Right after that thought I released my tight fist into a completely open hand with my fingers spread wide in a flex and she exploded in tiny pieces. The explosion looked like chunky tomato soup. The smell of iron and death was strong around me. Blood, gore and tiny scraps of muscle, tissue and skin went everywhere but it didn't bother me at all right then and there. Glancing around I saw how the once bedraggled and clean vampires were now looking like they were showered in blood, guts, small scraps of muscle, tissue and skin no bigger than your thumb nail and a small bit of other fluids that make up a part of the human body. I couldn't help smiling what I knew was a downright evil smile and make eye contact with each vampire. I knew the image and thought that I was capable of doing that was going to cause me to have nightmares for a while after this fact but right now it didn't seem to matter to me in the slightest.
Some of the vampires that knelt got up horrified at my ability to do that. While others looked at me with true hope in their eyes. Others wiped their faces to get the gore off them or out of their eyes.
"How did you do that?" asked one of the five vampires that refused to kneel.
"I am Lady Lilith of Netherworld, I am one of the Nobility of all vampires. I can do many things that you have never seen before. My castle still stands and has stood even when we were hunted and destroyed out of fear. No one dared to mess with my family line. We were known as blood sorcerers at one time. That was a time before we gave birth to our first vampire in our line. The power is still there in us but we rarely use it anymore."
I had no idea where this knowledge came from or how I could do what I did or knew what to say or do. I just knew it. Maybe it was a game mechanic that kicked in or something. I sure hoped so at least.
"You have 3 days to decide if you want to serve me forever or be off on your own. I will have you prove your worth to me before I will allow you into my seethe but even the weakest can have a purpose by my side. You will come by midnight to the tavern down that street there that is by the river. Bring with you, at least, a RED strip of cloth or a solid RED cloth with you to show that you are wanting to join me." I stated.
"You are sending us to our death, that is the werewolf pack's territory. We will be killed if we go there." Said one of the vampires.
"Actually if you bring the cloth as you are told to do you will not be touched. Anyone accepted by Lady Lilith will be an ally of the pack. Hello all, I am the new Alpha of the pack, I am a born werewolf and not under anyones thumb. My name is Devlin and my butler here is Alfred. You can request to see either of us and get free passage to us if you follow the orders she gave you. I am an old friend of Lady Lilith's and will be happy to welcome new allies against the Terrans." Damien spoke up. "Hey Lilith, love the eyes there, you should calm back down so you can pass for Terran again."
I nodded and took a deep breath. I did need to calm down.
"Go now and make up your mind soon. Dawn will be coming soon and you need to be tucked in safe and sound for when it rises for now." I said.
"My Lady, Master? I live on the outskirts of the town and it will take me too long to get back before daybreak." He said and then looked down.
"What is your name?" I asked.
"I was called Max before my master died but you can call me whatever you wish to call me." He said to the ground.
There were only 4 vampires still here and they were listening very carefully to what Max and I were saying.
"I can tell you all have the same problem, follow me and I will take you to a safe place where you can stay the night before you wrap up your things here if you choose to join my seethe."
We headed towards the Tavern with 4 unknown vampires in tow. Damien wrapped his arm over my shoulder and chatted with me about nonsense while we were walking.