"We should toast," the vampire holding Eisha announced. "Our youngest sister has come home," he added.
"What is going on?" Eisha asked him. She was more confused than ever. No words ever uttered had confused her the way that the Legacies did.
"I'll explain but after we get you changed," he said dragging her along away from the group. Everyone watched him take her away, still shocked by what was happening.
"My name is Kastor Starvenger, Nonek Starvenger's sixth sired vampire," he introduced himself.
His words fell on Eisha like ice-cold water. The more he spoke, the more he confirmed that Nonek Starvenger was the first ever vampire.
"The tree is tethered to our bloodline, it was how we all found each other. It has always been incomplete, without roots," Kastor explained. Eisha tried to keep up and listened attentively. "We always thought that the tree was incomplete because father was missing in the picture but it was missing you," he added.
Eisha couldn't understand, how the tree proved that she was a direct descendant of the original vampire. Yes, the tree was tired of the blood of the first vampire but she wasn't a Starvenger.
"His bite doesn't just turn you into a vampire but also alters your blood to match his. So that you become just as he was," Kastor went on to say.
Eisha got her question about the blood answered. If that were true then her blood was no longer that of the Sallow family. She was a Starvenger.
"Nonek always spoke about you in the years before he vanished," Kastor informed her. "That was why Yulvar was shocked when you introduced yourself."
"Oh," Serena said.
There was no manual on how one should react to finding out that her genes are the most powerful in all the vampire race.
It explained the changes that she was experiencing, being able to see the future, and all the other cool things she could do.
Still, Nonek never told her that he was the original vampire and was never too close to her to talk about her years after they parted ways.
"What did he say about me?" She asked curiously.
Kastor glanced down at her and spoke, "I have a princess, she is the only one who carries my grace with her balancing it with my ruthlessness."
Eisha smiled.
Now that sounded like something that Nonek would say. The man always told her that every day, reminding her to never forget those two qualities.
"In life, one must be graceful and ruthless, it is the way of a survivor," she whispered mirroring his words as he used to speak them.
"Father used to say that," Kastor said. "You were his favorite daughter," he added.
Eisha raised her eyes to look at him surprised by his words. Nonek was the father that she never had, he loved her but she wouldn't say that she was his favorite.
"The girls and boys fought so hard to be everything he always said you were. To prove to him that they could be the child that he imagined having," Kastor said with sadness in his eyes. "At that time no one knew that you were real. So we always fought to match the image he held of you," he explained.
Eisha's eyes moistened, hearing such things about Nonek was making her emotional. The last time she saw him, it was to bid him goodbye, she wanted to go out and see the world.
"It was a fierce competition. Each time filling to impress father, it broke most of us," Kastor informed Eisha. "We all thought he was mad to imagine a child when we were all here. 'My Eisha Sallow is my sweet youngest,' he would always," He stated to her.
They searched the world for someone with the same name but with no luck. No one knew the name everywhere they turned.
Until they reached a land of the forbidden, a land that now stood on the outskirts of the city. The place had been burnt down and all the witches, vampires, and werewolves of that place had been burnt to death.
Their souls whispered one name before they whispered away, "Eisha Sallow."
So they settled there, with the hope that it would bring peace to the original vampire. But not long after they settled in the land, Nonek Starvenger disappeared.
He woke up one morning and went out and never returned. And there they stood, several centuries later, in the same land where they had lived for as long as time had stretched.
Waiting for their father to return. But instead of him, Eisha, the girl they spent a decade looking for arrived at their doorstep.
"Where have you been?" Kastor asked.
They had looked everywhere for her and missed her. She couldn't have evaded them for so many centuries.
"I have been asleep for many centuries. Cursed by a witch," she let out.
Kastor's eyes darkened, and his aura took a turn for the worst. "A which cursed you. Tell me their name and I will eradicate their descendants from..."
"I asked her to curse me," Eisha uttered. "To save me from the wrath of all the three races. Let's just say I pissed off a lot of people and all of them we're more than ready to come together to kill me. So I asked the witch for help."
Kastor nodded. It made sense, it explained why they couldn't find her. They were looking for someone awake it never occurred to them that she could be sleeping in a curse.
"I woke up a few days ago and I have been just making sense of this weird century," she said getting it out.
It felt nice to talk to someone about everything. Waking up in an unfamiliar place, was scary but finding someone who was like her. Brought her some comfort.
"I'll help you with that, when it comes to the 21st Century, I happen to be an expert," Kastor said excitement oozing out of him.