NICHOLAI VLADE
I quickly left the square and ran back home, Mikolaj had sent word that an attack was imminent. When I got home, I saw bodies scattert everywhere. "Mikolaj! Vladaia!" I screamed as I got there.
"Don't worry, we are alive," Mikolaj said as he came out of the house holding his sword.
"What happened?" I asked studying the corpses on the ground. "They are humans?" I said disbelieving.
"I'm not sure if they are humans, they could have human bodies but they were not humans." Mikolaj said squatting next to me.
"How do you mean?" I asked turning to him.
He looked from the corpse to me, opened his mouth and no word came out. "I really don't know how to explain it, but they seemed souless, hold on now, let me explain. There was no life in their eyes, they seemed like people who were being controlled." He spoke looking grimly.
"Glava Klaus," was all I could say. Just as we were speaking we heard footsteps and saw more souless coming at us from our flank and most people from the square in front of us. And I knew this was the beginning of the end. "Vladaia, come to me now." I called to my wife. "What of my children?" I turned to Mikolaj.
"Damian sent each to different parts of the earth with a Peacekeeper and a Forerunner following your instructions, but I don't know if they made it out alive." Mikolaj was still speaking when I heard a familiar voice.
"Papa! help me!" I looked up and saw two of the souless holding my daughter Nina. And then they suddenly froze, like they were status or some molded creatures. I slowly got up and saw Klaus and the rest walking towards me.
"Well, well, well Nicholai, this is the end of the road for you." Klaus said stepping forward. Vladaia saw our daughter and instinctively ran to meet her, but didn't make it far when five arrows pierced through her heart and she fell while reaching for Nina, one of the souless moved to severe her head. "Hold it!" Klaus shouted and he froze.
He spread out his hands in pride. "You see Nicholai, you are outnumbered and outmatched. I must admit that I like the fact that you sent your children away but know this, I'm going to hunt down and kill each one them until I purge our kind of your bloodline. You are a disgrace to our kind." He finished speaking and nodded his head and in the twinkle of an eye, Vladaia and Nina were killed by the souless.
I smiled with a heavy heart, and turned to Mikolaj. "It's been an honor Mikolaj, should our paths crossed again, you'd still be my most trusted friend." I spoke softly and he nodded.
"It's been an honor Czàiya Vlade, we shall meet in the after life." He smiled and spilt his sword in two.
One thing Klaus didn't know, was that the moment I became the Czàiya, I set in motion a sequence of events that would correct the wrong my bloodline had made, we were the very first werewolves that the gods created but we allowed greed and selfishness to corrupt us. We were cursed and lost our place, becoming the Czàiya started the process of redemption, maintaining peace and serving the weak continued the redemption process, it made my bloodline find favour in the eyes of the gods and proved that we were capable of doing what we were created to do. And now, I knew it was time to pay the ultimate price for the mistakes of the past.
I closed my eyes and started speaking in a foreign language. "Valoria jhalanar, alyndor zhavrenth, vhirythir khalen'dor!!! Zhalathar vi'rion, athendar shal'khanthor, thryzarkh xal'zyndor!!!" A sacred text that was passed down through my bloodline.
Mikolaj shook me and I opened my eyes. "What are you doing Vlade, don't go crazy on me now. We can take them." He said but I saw fear in his eyes.
I smiled at him. "Worry not my friend, I'm making an atonement, whatever happens, don't engage until I tell you to, Mikolaj." I said to him and continued. "In the name of redemption, cleanse the soul, and grant forgiveness!!! And by the ancient power, ignite the sacred flame, and awaken the dormant magic!!!" I kept repeating and gradually, the clouds began to change, the sun got swallowed up and the day became dark, and a mighty wind began to blow.
"The Czàiya is the one doing it!" Viktor said, stepping forward to stop me and just as was about striking me down with his sword, a bolt of lightning struck him.
And suddenly, everywhere became calm, the sun came back up but Viktor was dead and so was all the souless. I smiled knowing I'd been found worthy. "It's a good day to die Mikolaj," I turned to him drawing my sword and together we charged towards Glava Klaus and his gang, which seemed quite large. As we did, the other werewolves who had not been bought over by Klaus joined in. Some Peacekeepers and Forerunners joined in too and together we charged at Klaus.
GLAVA KLAUS
The battle was intense but brief, we outnumbered Nicholai five to one and it was over before it began. "Finally, you realize you were never meant to be Czàiya." I said looking down at him while he knelt before me, I had never seen him fight but I was really impressed with what I saw, it had taken more than thirty men to put him down and even at that, he killed twenty of them.
I looked down on him with a new found admiration. "Life is a battle, a constant struggle Nicholai, you either win or you die." I said and ripped off his neck with my claw.
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We gathered at my house later that evening in celebration, I was crowned the new Czàiya immediately. Gradually the evening decended into an evening of debauchery, lewdness and sexual orgy. But while we were at it, we heard a great sound that made all the fire go off and suddenly came back on, and when it did, a little girl in white was standing right there in front of me. When she spoke, it was the voice of a man that vibrated through the room.
"Glava Klaus, your actions have been noted, and in due time a recompense will be demanded.
'For twelve thousand turns of the sun, Selena and her beloved shall be bound, and held captive by the merciless rule of Mørke.
Alas, on the eve of the forty-first appearance of her lupine, when his spirit reaches its peak, the Czàiya shall summon his Qaddaray Jacayl.
In that moment, when parallels shall meet and blossom,
Two rivals shall bond, their souls entwined.
To dismantle their kin and forge a new realm,
Uniting their kind in harmony's embrace'." She said and collapsed and her mother rushed to her as well as others.
"Why are you all looking at me like that," she said when woke up in her little girl voice.
I looked around and saw fear in the eyes of everyone, and rose up to address them. "A new age has started, the age of werewolves and men, we shall control this lands as we were meant to, we can live a thousand years and never die. Make merry, for we have come into our rest!" I said and the all cheered and the night resumed from where we stopped.