"you know the price for failure Jade. You only get one second chance. If you ever fail another mission again you will become an exile.
When you become an exiledcone then you will lose all family ties, and you will also have all accounts of your name blacked out". My father said to me through the main communicatior of my ship.
"Yes Father I will do whatever it takes to make our family a proud one to be in".
"Since we are here together I need to tell you that you must return home soon. I have prepared a social gathering that will allow you to meet with any possible future vampires that could be your husband".
"Father I do not need any husband at this time". I said to him very seriously so that he knew that I was not in the mood to get hitched at the moment.
"I do not care what you think you want. You will be here now that you have completed your mission. That is an order from your father.
Your pettiness about being different no longer matters to me. The only thing that is crucial at the moment is that we get you married so that our family legacy can continue".
As soon as he finished speaking those words I noticed that the communicator on his side deactivated, and that I was now alone.
"All right now that we are alone I need to give you an actual name. Your human name will no longer matter in this world since you are now among the undead". I then spent a few moments pacing around my ship trying to decide what I wanted to name her now that she was among the undead. "I will name you Victoria".
As soon as those words left my lips I saw a set of markings with the name Victoria in black become engraved on her neck as my speech patterns waves made contact with her flesh.
"I will cherish my new name Victoria forever". She said to me as she bowed her head.
"Now that that is done we will set off for a journey that is homeward bound". I said to Victoria as I punched in the coordinates for my homeworld.
"Also master when are we going to be doing the turning of the Demetra that we captured?".
"I will take care of that at a later date. For now we have to get past all of this family drama on my homeworldc".
It did not take more than two hours to return home with the use of our ship by flying at mark five.
When my ship exited hyperspace I felt a rush of anxiety, stress, and a homesickness course through my veins because of what was about to occur.
There was a massive blockade that was of five ships orbiting around our world. Those ships were all colored silver with a bit of a dark maroon red color on their sides.
The first type of ship and that I saw was a massive ship that was shaped with a y-shaped skeleton with the main body sticking out and the thrusters above the ship and branched out at about a 45 degree angle from the main section of the ship.
In between the y-shaped ships there were two circular vessels of a much smaller size that ended up being about half the size of the other ships.
The blockade stopped and did not allow us to pass, and as soon as we stopped moving one of the smaller circular ships came closer and started to scan us.
As the ship came close and I felt the dark green beam rushed through me I felt as if I was being scanned by multiple things at once which caused me to tense up.
"We do apologize for the inconvenience of this, but we had to make sure that you were not a member of another species trying to invade this world". I heard a snarly female voice saying through the communicator.
As soon as he spoke the blockade separated into two different sections and left the middle part completely open for us to pass through.
I then flew the ship through the atmosphere and then landed my ship through my family's private hanger.
When the ship landed and I cut off the engines I turned around and started to speak to Victoria.
"Now when we are here I want you to stay by my side for as long as you are able, but before sunrise you need to ensure that you go back to the servant headquarters and get the sleep that you require".
I then made my way out of the ship and I was immediately greeted by my mother.
My mother was wearing a long black dress that did not have any sleeves. On her hair she had a pair of hair pins that separated it into two long strands.
"I am glad to see that you are finally home. You are not going to believe all of the different men that have come to this world just to have the chance at becoming your husband". She said to me as she waved her hands at me to follow her.
As I walked behind her on the journey home I was able to notice that all of the other vampires seemed to stare at us as we passed by them.
"Mother all of this staring is making me very uncomfortable".
She turned around and started at me with her eyes that seemed to put me in a trance.
"Oh Jade you must not be so worried about it dear. The fact that they stare is a good thing. This means that they believe that we as women can do our job of making a strong and worthy family for them".
"But mother I do not care to do such a thing at this time".
"Oh darling, the truth is is that no female is truly ready until it happens. Whatever it occurs it is like all reason and logic leave your body and you are engulfed by two main urges. The first urge is the urge to procreate and make a new family. The second urge is to protect them at all cost".
My mother started to cry as she said that last part.
I did not know exactly why, but I must have possibly had more siblings and something occurred to make it where I was the only offspring that she had nested.
We continued to move forward as we left the hanger I was able to see the garden that I had entered clearly due to the light of the full moon and the clear sky that was above.
When I made it through the garden and two my house I could feel the dark presence of my father.
The door was opened, and I was greeted by a variety of undead butlers and maids.
"Welcome home mistress". They all said in unison as they bowed to my mother except for one male Butler who bowed instead of kneeled since he was the head butler over all of our other servants in butlers.
"I need two of you to take my daughter to her room and prepare her for the event of the night".
"Yes mistress". The head butler said.
Then as soon as he spoke I was dragged by two of our female maids to my room at the upper level of the house.
My room was quite massive in size. I had my bed centered against the rear wall. It was made of a rare metal that I did not know the name of, but it was painted into a dark red color. To the right of my bed I had a stand, and against the left side of my room I had a closet.
The final item in my room was a wooden desk with a mirror above it that was positioned against my right wall.
They started to go through my wardrobe, and they came out briefly with a set of five different dresses.
I observed the dresses that were available to me. They were each colored differently. Since I did not want to match my mother I chose to wear the dress that was made of a dark red material.
"Please put this one on me, and put all of the other dresses back". I told them as I walked over to my mirror and set right in front of it.
The maids then helped me fit into the dress, and after they put on the gloves that came with it I put on a white beaded necklace. The final item was a pair of white wedges that were put on my feet.
My hair was tightly braided together to where it was tight and I had multiple braids that went all the way down to the center of my back.
After I was completely dressed I stood up and walked out of my room.
I went to the other side of the house by walking along the rails of the upper level until I was only about thirty steps from the main staircase that went down to the party.
As I stood still I was able to hear my father speaking to the crowd below.
"Well let us get to the main event that you all have come here for. As you all know my daughter is of the appropriate age to begin procreation, and that means that she is eligible to be married by one of you.
The man who ends up being chosen by my daughter will be in my humble opinion the luckiest vampire in the galaxy, but of course my opinion is slightly bias.
Let us see if anyone here is considered worthy enough for my daughter on this night".
Whenever he finished speaking I started to walk down the stairs and I got the same feeling that I did when all of those men were staring at my mother and I, but this time it felt more intense since my mother was not there to absorb part of those stairs.
The room was filled with tables that contained a variety of food and all manners of vampires from different backgrounds.
All of the men actually kneeled at me as they approached me offered me their hands after lining up into a single horizontal line.
"Well my daughter do you see any men here that you would want to take as yours". My father said to me as they all lined up for me to examine them.
Now I wanted to just get this over with, but since I knew that this was going to be a crucial decision I decided to take this seriously despite my hatred for all of the politics and the obsession with tradition that came with being part of one of the pure-blooded families.
I walked up to them in gave them the first passing by. On the second passing by I chose to stop by the third person that I made it to.
"I would rather die than accept a man who is so pathetically weak". I said to one of them as I put my hand around his throat and started to choke him until he fell to the ground.
"If any of you are as weak as him; I will not allow any of you to take my daughter's hand". My father said very seriously as he stepped up and walked in front of all of the men who would possibly be my husband in the future.
Whenever my father spoke all but five of the men bowed to me and backed away.
Since they were now only five men left standing I chose to examine them more closely, and I instantly noticed that I recognized the fifth one that was lined up.
"What are you doing here?". I asked him as I stopped in front of him.
"Well I am here just like the rest of the men who are currently here without a wife. I am the very last of my household, so I do not have a choice but to represent it in this circumstance no matter what our history is". He said to me very firmly.
As he spoke to me I began to feel an odd sensation throughout my body as if it was a relief to hear his voice.
The other men started to surround me and I instantly pushed them all away without even allowing them to speak to me.
"So have you chosen your future husband my daughter?" My father asked me as he walked to my right side.
"Yes Father I have chosen this man here". I said despite my urge to not state that it seemed that my mouth started to move on its own as if what my mother said about our two main urges as a female of our species were true.
"Who is this man that you choose to take as your husband?" My mother asked as she walked around and came to my left side.
"My name is Nathan, and I am the last male of the house of Aushin. Our secondary vision stems from some form of psychic abilities.
Also if it is monetary things that you were worried about for your daughter's life you do not have to worry when it involves me. I have my own private business as a bounty hunter that allows me to move freely around the galaxy". I saw him say as he bowed to both of my parents.
The thought that I was going to be mated with him sent shivers of both excitement and stress throughout my body. Was this as a result of what the god of our race said that we were connected, or was it just by mere chance only time I would be able to tell the truth about that.