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Guards marched their way over to us upon the pharaoh's demands.
"Please jump us out of here! You'll regret not finding me yourself!" I warned as they marched closer to seize Kai as the higher-class guest stayed out of the way.
"I already do," Kai muttered, focusing on the guards.
"We can change this right now if you take us out of here," I begged. "My time-gap brought me here for a reason. Maybe it's to change this moment in history."
"You can't change the past, my love. Your time-gap doesn't work like that," Kai shared, and just like that, my heart shattered into a million glass pieces.
Head-on, Kai soared to the guards as they unsheathed their khopesh swords from their belts, and everybody shrieked while the little children and the babies cried. He tore the guards apart from limb to limb. His fangs ripped into their necks whenever he drank a few guards dry to the bone. Then, once he was done feasting on one man, he disposed of his dead limped body before bringing down the next guard to graze on.
Blood splattered on the columns to my right, which showed the city from a higher elevation. This way, the pharaoh could view his masterpiece sculptures while he built his Dynasty. Spread all over the brick floor, thicker amounts of blood seeped between the mere cracks like tiny rivers spilling over the bricks. People coward to the walls to my left, and my heart bled as I saw women shielding their children and infants while Kai mutilated over thirty guards.
By the time he was done, the floor to the throne room was covered in blood, and there were body parts everywhere you walked. All over Kai's mouth, on his torso, and down his tight abs, blood glistened on his flawless golden tan.
The Pharaoh's mouth gaped as Kai strode to the throne he sat on.
"Aaah!" the pharaoh screeched when Kai snatched his windpipe and strangled him with one hand. His feet dangled above the floor, and he turned blue before Kai brought him to his mouth. With a bone-breaking chomp, Kai's fangs shredded into his neck, and he drank him dry.
After he tossed the pharaoh's body away from his throne, Kai roared like a King, "This city is now mine!"
He sat upon the stolen throne as I fought my time gap to reach him.
"How could you do this!" I yelled, nearly standing in front of him.
"Now, you'll know where to find me, my love," he responded to me, and the people gawked at him like he was crazy for talking to himself.
"My time-gap doesn't work like that," I said, holding back my tears.
"Waa! Waa!"
Nothing helped my broken heart when I heard the babies wailing as their mothers shed tears with them.
"You'll kill them all," I muttered, feeling heart-sick because not one infant or child lives when Kai eventually destroys the city once he is done with them. Not even the cattle or any animal throughout the city survived.
"Get these noisy pests out of here!" Kai sharply commanded. "I want everyone working!"
Hooded black-cloaked beings walked through me as they went towards the people and their children. They roughly got them to their feet and shoved them around like cattle, forcing them out of the throne room.
Four hooded beings bowed their heads to Kai, then they took off their hoods, and I saw one was Darlene and the other three were also his enslaved minions.
"What shall we do now, Master?" A vampire inquired from him.
"Take over the city. Kill anyone who puts up a fight," Kai ordered, standing from the throne, and then he stripped the pharaoh's jewelry off his forearms and wrists.
"Is there anything else we can do for you, Master?" Darlene asked.
"Only quietness. Now get out!" Kai rudely barked, and then they gave another bow before retreating.
From this high peak, I painfully went between two columns while Kai dressed himself in the pharaoh's royal garments. Screams and outcries soared to the sky as his minions overtook the city. I was too high up to fully see the commotion, but I heard it, and I merely saw people getting separated into groups.
"How could you do this to them?" I whispered once Kai reached my side.
"How could you expect me to wait any longer!" Kai snapped angrily at me, and he punched the column, cracking it.
In a full-on bilious temper, he turned away and started to kick and throw the garnished food tables around. Fruits rolled across the floor, the pottery broke, and the wine splashed all over the place as things thrashed anywhere and everywhere around.
"Stop it!" I yelled at him. "You're worse than a two-year-old having a tantrum!"
He flew to my unseen face and hissed. "I don't expect you to understand! I have to wait for you while you get the easier route!"
"I may not fully understand your suffering, but you didn't have to do it like this. You could tell your father where you are instead of hiding. Chester didn't hide, so your dad woke him every–"
Kai's ferocious growling cut me off. "I want to be alone! I don't want anyone near me. Your time gap shouldn't have brought you here! You shouldn't see me like this. No one should."
"Well, I'm here, Kai, so please spare the city. Tell your dad where you'll be sleeping," I begged, and he hissed.
"Again, you can't change the past. If this is where you found me, then nothing will change in your future," he straight out told me.
"This isn't where I found you!" I lied.
"Don't lie to me!" he spat." You're a horrible liar!"
"Why can't you change your decision? What's the point of traveling to the past if I can't change anything!" I broke down.
Kai snorted. "Haven't I taught you nothing about your gift?"
"You've taught me bits of things, but I'm still human," I mumbled.
"Obviously! To change a set event in your life would cause your brain to hemorrhage because you'd have both memories of what really happened and then the new one you changed it to, so you'd cease to exist. Your time-gap will never let you rewrite the past because it's impossible for anyone to have that kind of power," Kai meanly replied, and I wanted to slap him.
However, I was devastated to learn that nothing from the past could be changed, which was probably for the best if you thought deeply about it. No one should have that kind of power, not even me.
"Besides, the city is dead anyway because they know about vampires!" Kai lastly huffed.
I couldn't argue with anything on his statement since I understood the rules of the Vampire Covenant.