Beyond the north-west border of Fye Empire, the northern Elanore mountain was situated. This mountain acted as a natural barrier and protected the Fye Empire from any sudden attack from the neighbouring empire. The rich vegetation that covered the whole mountain like a exquisite green blanket, created the infamous elanore forest. In the lower part of the mountain it was mostly consist of aspen, ash like tall tress. As one climbed higher in the mountains they would notice the visible change in vegetation. Up in the top, the mountain was coated with white snow all the year around which is accompanied by the pine, balsam fir like trees.
In the whole mountain you could notice little springs and shallow mountain rivers here and there. As soon as you step a foot in this gorgeous forest it would feel like you had left the mortal world and entered in the world of magical spirits. The sweet singing of birds, the rhythmic sounds of insects, the soothing sound of the always flowing water of spring and the playful illusion between the light and shadow would give you the feeling of such peacefulness which you had only felt when you were in your mother's embrace in the distant childhood. Unlike dream forest it didn't contain any demonic energy even in the night. It was like heaven on earth.
But such a beautiful forest was completely off limits for the humans as it was solely reserved for the Vampires and werewolves, although because of the extinction of the vampire race the forest was completely monopolized by only the werewolves for more than ten years. Also the werewolves living in the wilderness shamelessly occupied the large palaces of vampire king.
But never in their dream they had thought that one day the Vampires would come back.
The vampire palace, gorgeous beyond description, elegant and luxurious beyond comparison was an unique architecture surpassing any palaces of any race in existence. The inside of the palace was as gorgeous as outside. Starting from curtains to the carpet, covering of every furniture to the gems decorating the chandeliers, everything was blood red. The valuable artefacts and antiques that were gathered throughout the long life span of the royalties was decorated in every corner of the palace. But in the hand of of the werewolves, the gorgeous palace as if, had gone through a hurricane. The gorgeous chandeliers were shattered, carpets and covers were torn apart, invaluable antiques were completely broken. The palace was now in a very critical stage. It had become the playground of wild royalties of werewolves.
But at one particular day when the entire Elanore forest was in deep sleep, nerve wrecking screams were continuously coming from the half destroyed Vampire palace. From it's entrance to the main hall it was soaked with fresh blood and countless huge wolves were lying haphazardly here and there. Each one's eyes were still wide open in horror even after death as if they had seen something unbelievable. In the large bedroom arranged for the Werewolf king and queen, stood a almost two meter long tall man. Well, calling him a human would be wrong.
His glowing blood red pupils spoke for him that he was a Vampire. Cause besides vampires, no race in humanoid form have this unique characteristics. In the dim candle light his unhealthy face combining with the cold indifferent gaze could cause a cold shiver along the spine even in the hot summer night on the onlookers.
His face was like a sculpted masterpiece. His dark black hair merged with darkness. Although his Physique was not that of a muscular man, it was firm. He looked condescendingly on the kneeling werewolf king. His blood red sword was being placed on the Werewolf's neck. The Werewolf king's eyes were filled with anger, hatred, fear and above all astonishment. He looked at his beloved queen who was lying in the pool of blood, next to him already embraced by death. His hatred deepened. He said venomously to the man.
" So you are still alive, Vampire prince Zachaeus?" Then he looked at all the other vampires surrounding the man or the vampire prince. Just by looking at their indifferent face, elegant postures and aura he could tell that all of them were of royal lineage. He mocked, " Or, any of the vampire royalties have actually never died?"
The Vampire prince, Zachaeus silently watched. None of the surrounding vampires never spoke a word either. The Werewolf king was stared at by countless pairs of cold, unfeeling red pupils in the dark, feeling immense pressure. He gritted his teeth and shouted,
"What's the meaning of this? We just occupied your palace in the absence your presence. But that doesn't mean, you can just exterminate our whole race!!!!"
"Why are you silent?!! Say, why are you doing this?!!!!!"
Finally, Zachaeus opened his mouth and calmly said, " You know exactly why are we doing this"
The Werewolf king stammered, " Wha..what do you mean?"
Zachaeus looked at him deeply and said after a while," Twenty years ago, it was you and your race, werewolf king, Ernouf, who spread the wrong rumours about our heart stone towards the humans, when our heart is indeed useful for you werewolves but they are completely useless for the humans. It just took us a day worth of time to capture one of your important subordinate and read through his memories to ensure the truth. For the past twenty years we were only recovering our strength...So, now let me ask you.... why had you done that back then?"
Ernouf stared at Zachaeus with wide eyes. He was at a loss of words.
Zachaeus spoke again.
" But don't worry, we, the vampire race are not as lowly as you. We won't exterminate your whole race. The younger generation that doesn't know anything will still remain."
Then to his horror Ernouf felt a sharp pain in his neck and the world began to spin. After, with wide eyes Ernouf watched his own headless body still in kneeling position as darkness soon covered his eyes. Ernouf breathed his last breath.
There was not a ripple of emotion in Zachaeus's eyes while killing the sworn enemy of his race - no happiness, no satisfaction, no achievement..... nothing. He looked at the left and asked the vampire in elegant tuxedo, " Rufus, Where is lady Alessia?" As he spoke his voice softened. There was now a hint of emotion in his red eyes that spoke for deep love.
Rufus, Zachaeus's personal guard reported dutifully, " Prince, the lady is currently chatting with the king and queen in the throne hall."
Zachaeus," Then, let's..."
He hadn't finished his sentence when he perceived the quick footsteps of Alessia, his wife, followed by his parents.
Zachaeus's wife, Alessia was a human whom he met after being seriously injured in the unified human attack. She rescued him and gave him shelter at the moment when he lost his trust in anyone. Afterwards he gradually fell in love with this heroic lady. They had a daughter out of love. But the child turned out to be a human. Zachaeus could still make the child into a Vampire by giving her his own blood but he wanted her to grow up in a normal circumstances, rather than be with him where there was no guarantee of a secure life. He wanted to create a safe heaven for her first then, when she grew into an adult, he would let her decide which life she wanted to choose - a human or a Vampire?
When Alessia was pregnant with his child she had to drink Zachaeus's blood one day in every month. In the very first month she turned into a Vampiress because of his powerful bloodline. As, both of them didn't want their child to know about them so soon, they decided to leave her into an orphanage.
Happiness rushed through his forever cold heart when he thought that he could finally bring his daughter home. As Alessia's hurried footsteps neared the room he also woke up from his daze. Just at that moment the door opened up with a bang and three figures rushed in. If one looked closely they would find out that Scarlet had a close similarly with the middle gorgeous lady.
Zachaeus noticed the anxiousness and anger visible in their eyes. He frowned. Even his forever calm father's eyes were glowing more brightly than before. He knew, his father was angry, so angry that he was almost on the verge of loosing reason.
He hurriedly brought out three white stones and gave each of them one. soon the stone turned a little bit of red.
This white stone is called 'calming stone'. Just as the name suggested, it was used to extract the extra amount of demonic energy that was produced during extreme emotions, thus calming the vampires and helping them to remain sane.
After seeing that they had calm down Zachaeus asked, " What's the matter?"
Alessia said with a grave tone, " Zac, our daughter's life stone had turned red. She had turned into a vampire...Zac...."
After a while Zachaeus brought out another 'calming stone' and this time held it himself. The stone immediately turned into blood red. He asked, " When did her life Stone turn into red?"
" I had checked it two days ago, it was alright then....this two days because of the preparation of the attack I couldn't check it. But now...Zac, someone killed her..... We have to hurry and find her.... what if someone killed her again.....no..no.. Zac, we have to hurry... hurry...."
Alessia begin to grow restless again. Zachaeus held her shoulders firmly and said, " Don't worry, I am leaving immediately. I will find her and safety escort her in our palace. Trust me, you will see your daughter in front of you in no time."
Then he looked at his father and mother. His mother was holding Alessia's hand to calm her down. Like Alessia, she was also a human previously. Thus Zachaeus could leave his wife to his mother.
His father nodded at him and solemnly said, " Go, I will handle things here."
As Zachaeus was about to leave through the door he heard his father say," And son, Remember to kill every single one of them who has directly or indirectly dared to harm the only grand daughter of mine, the Vampire king."
Zachaeus nodded, his eyes was like a bottomless red ocean glowing intensely with malicious light. He said, " of course, that's a must."
Then he thought,
'Scarlet, my dear daughter, just wait a little bit'
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In the dream forest Scarlet was very troubled as she looked at the innocent little white Rabbit. The rabbit also didn't feel a tiny bit of fear and stared at her with it's cute gem like red eyes. Then it hopped with large strides and touched her bare feet with it's soft little pads and then stared back at her red eyes. It was as if the rabbit had found it's distant relative with the same red eyes.
Scarlet covered her eyes with one hand and thought, ' Ah...if you continue to sell so much meng points how can I drink your blood. '
Scarlet was really thirsty for blood. She hadn't drunk a single drop of blood after the stormy night. She again looked at the rabbit which still hadn't escaped. Scarlet sighed.
" So cute. Can't.... can't eat."
Scarlet suddenly heard a soul frightening roar of a wild animal from a small distance away. She smiled in her mind and thought, " Ah, my food has arrived."