Have I fallen in love with death?
That's what I asked myself when I heard the council's words. The vampires in the council are mostly made up of those who have the gift to see the future, and they told me that with the destruction of the vortex, there's no way I could travel again into different dimensions like I used to before. There will be one slight chance where I could slip through time dimensions yet that would be just one and would be too risky.
"It's not of the past, High Lord, but to the future,"
The council told me.
"I don't care what era will it be as long as she's there," I replied.
The council fell quiet.
"What?" I inquired.
"Traveling to the past is just easy for you already lived that time, and you already know the patterns of circumstances, but traveling to the future is challenging. It's unknown," the council said.
I shrugged, " Well, I don't care how hard it will be."
Yeah, that's correct. I wouldn't have spent many years in my study room, calculating, studying, experimenting, and fixing the vortex lock just for nothing. And I would take even the slightest chance to be able to travel into an era where my beloved's existence is promised.
"The vortex lock, my lord, though you have fixed it still it does not guarantee---"
"I said I don't care!"
The council lowered his head. Clearly, the High Lord did not call him today to listen to his advice.
"I'm just worried you'll get stuck in time," said the council.
"I'm a mathematician, and I'm an immortal vampire. I can solve the puzzle of the cosmic dimensions, much more I'm invincible that time cannot even find a sting to kill me!"
I reasoned out.
"Yeah, but I'm afraid my lord, you'll be heartbroken again," said the council.
"Heartbroken?"
"Uhm!" the council nodded.
"All of the time dimension in the universe follows the same setting, the same circumstances, except the future. It's uncontrollable. It's unknown. But the love of your life is not!" said the council.
I raised an eyebrow. I'm confused.
"What do you mean she's not?" I asked.
The council sighed.
"Her name is Thana right?"
I nodded.
"She's exactly what I saw. The future dimension does not have the same pattern but your love does have. Though she's promised to exist in the future, she will still live in the circumstances like she had in the past. She will still die."
The council explains.
She will still die.
Those four words hit my attention.
"Thana, her name means death. Her destiny is inevitable."
The council added.
Sh**! Couldn't there be any good news?
I was lost for words in a moment.
"I will still go there, and I will prevent her from dying!"
I muttered after with a decided tone.
" Things now are complicated for you, High Lord. The other clans want a piece of you. You don't know how things with them will be in that era," the council warns him.
"I don't care about them."
I replied. I was just stubborn and in love.
My reputation even soars higher after that incident concerning the vortex lock.
Amdis Dale, the immortal vampire mathematician who defies the time dimensions, and now fix the vortex lock.
He's one big thing, yet he's one crazy idiot for loving a frail human who's not even destined to live longer.
If he's just wasting his immortal life span then, it would be better if the other clans would benefit from it!
Those were they always say. The four clans -- vampires, sirens, demons, and gods, said that they wanted to benefit from my infinite life span since I am living my life like I don't care about it. I heard that the sirens wants to have children with me, thinking that their offspring might inherit my immortality. While the demons wants to extract my soul, for they believe that it is where my immortality was imbedded, while the other vampires of my kind wanted to experiment with my blood and drink from it. Good thing, the gods were still silent and decided not to mingle with our chaos.
The councils suggested I should make peace even with just one clan and that would start with giving them what they want from me. So, they suggested the siren's demands since it's harmless, they just want offspring from him.
"What? Why would I do that?"
I blurted out one time they open up about their suggestion.
" I cannot have children with the ones I don't love!"
"But, My lord, it's better not to be traditional this time. It's for the peace of--"
"I said I don't!" I yelled.
The other council interrupted, " My lord don't you think it's better to have an offspring with sirens? Imagine the generation you'll be creating! Powerful. Hybrid! On the other side, we already know what are the offspring of vampires and humans!"
My crimson eyes glistened as my temper went up with what I heard. The last thing I want is for my beloved to be insulted. I reach to the council's neck and strangled him.
"The next time I will hear you ridicule how frail human life is I will make you taste how it ended quickly,"
I warned him, growling in my fangs.
The council begs for an apology.
I slammed him on the floor as I let go of him while I left the rest of the room stunned and scared.
"Don't mistake his nice guy next door type of face. He becomes different when his fangs are out!"
"He's a mathematician but he isn't the weak nerdy guy. He's a crimson-eyed beast! Careful, he even becomes illogical when it comes to his human love."
I heard the council whisperings about me as I leave the chamber throne.
The day came.
Now I'm all set to go. I put the vortex lock in my pocket as I get out of my car.
This place must be waiting for me. I think while observing the surroundings. The woods where I am standing at the moment is filled with trees rich in fractal patterns. Beyond what humans usually know, these pattern lines here are what have given us access to the human world. Before, vampires like us lived in a separate dimension from the mortals, but then, these patterns in the nature of the human world attracted our forces like magnets, until our very first ancestors learned to live with the humans, until the next generation of us have found this human dimension their home as well. And now, here I am using the same principle in the time travel attempt which I will be doing today.
Thana...I will find you.
I whispered in my thoughts, as my crimson eyes manifests, as I stare as if being sucked in by the swirling lines in the vortex lock.
"There he is!"
I got distracted for a while when I heard footsteps thudding my way, and based on their sounds I could tell that it isn't good.
Suddenly I smelled salty ocean air which could be odd because right now, I'm here in the heart of the forest.
Sirens! That could be them.
And when I turned I saw a beautiful enchantress standing behind me. I stepped back. When I looked at my side, I saw another group rushing towards me. I snarled at them. Yet, their eyes just lit up, glowing bluish-green.
"Who said you're going to leave, High Lord?" one of them muttered.
I run.
They chase me.
Good thing their feet are weaker when on land. Running was my advantage at this point. But then they suddenly hummed an alluring song, in a language I don't even understand. I wrestled with its charm.
No! You can lure me in!
I groaned.
"You...s--stop singing bitch!"
I shouted while I scratch the face of one of them. The song stop. They stop singing. I took advantage of their little distraction. I jumped high as if flying unto the tallest tree, but then before my skin even landed on it, I was taken by an enormous blinding light.
Silence.
Emptiness.
The next thing I felt was voices were calling me.
"Professor...here's our paper!"
Huh? I wake up in a classroom.
And I am a professor here?
"Hey, what year is this?"
I asked one of the students who were handing his test paper to me.
"Sir?"
I saw how his brows furrowed.
" Where have you been in your dream? You fall asleep while we were taking an exam," said the student, chuckling.
" Anyway, this is year 3000, the third-millennium era as they say."
Third millennium? Have I traveled that far?
I thought to myself.
I look at the test papers handed to me.
North Adams University.
Amdis Dale - Math Professor.
So, this is how my life is in here. A math professor in the human world.