"AAAAAAAH!" I screamed while waking up and putting my hands on my face.
Tears were in my eyes. I was scared of a vampire. For the second time.
Lucy woke up with me and she got scared by my scream.
"A-Alex!!! My love, are you okay?!? Why are you crying?" She then embraced me, putting my head into her arms and starting to caress my hair.
Such a gentle pleasure.
That was the first time in years where i was scared for a nightmare and having someone like Lucy to calm me was... strange.
"Here, here...! Don't cry, my dear Alex. I will always be there for you" She said while passing her hand trough my hair, like a mother does with her child.
"Don't worry, Alex... Your future wife Lucy is here with you. She loves you with all her heart and she won't leave you." She added before kissing my cheek.
I felt safe into her arms.
"I will protect you... forever." She said while stroking my hair.
I looked at Lucy's eyes. She was looking at me with so much affection.
"Thank you... Lucy..." i barely whispered.
My eyes were still wet but i began to calm down.
"It's fine, Alex. I'm here for you." She said while hugging me tighter.
We stayed like that for some time.
"I love you, Alex." Lucy whispered while kissing me on the lips.
The last time I cried in my life was when i saw a vampire murdering my mother with his claws.
In two days i met the queen of vampires , i made love with Lucy and i cried. What is happening ?
"Are you feeling better, Alex?" Lucy said while still stroking my hair.
"Y-yes." I said, getting up. "Thanks".
"Let's get back to sleep then, shall we?" Lucy replied while smiling.
"Yes." I said while closing my eyes and laying down.
Lucy then closed her ayes and snuggled her head into my shoulder as she clinged to me, placing her leg on me and her arms around my neck.
It was such a pleasant feeling but for some strange reason my senses started to awake. I felt like something menacing was going to happen.
I felt something was watching us and that "Something" was surely not good.
Even though i closed my eyes with Lucy sleeping peacefully on me, i started to sense some danger into the inn.
I didn't want to wake up because i didn't want to leave Lucy alone.
I decided to stay still , while being on alert.
I slowed down my heart beat since vampires can figure out if you're sleeping or not.
Suddenly, a little noise of footsteps caught my attention.
"Not now." I said to myself, with my eyes still closed.
The noise of those footsteps was growing , moving around me in circle.
I could sense danger.
I focused my mind. My heartbeat was still relaxed. The sound became loud.
And then... i opened my eyes and i stood up from the bed. There were no lights in the room, so i used a magic to make my eyes see perfectly in the deepest dark.
A disgusting night creature was standing in front of me, totally silent, with blood dripping from his mouth. I could only see its monstrous face.
I was still naked. I had no weapons.
The creature kept staring at me. Showing its sharp fangs.
I casted a magic spell on Lucy to make sure that she wouldn't wake up even for the noisiest thing.
"Haha... You... I finally found you... Hunter... Hahahaha!" The creature whispered.
My sword was under its feets. I couldn't use it.
I didn't speak. I kept looking the creature right into its demonic eyes. It didn't even care about Lucy.
The creature only wanted me.
The necklace around my neck started glowing.
"T-That... pendant... the legend is true..." The creature said, with its voice shaking a little bit.
"What...? Legend?" I said with a cold voice.
The creature didn't even speak.
"The pure ones are always my favourite... i will devour you. HAHAHA!" The vampire said. Saliva and blood were dropping on the floor from its mouth. From the smell, i could say that the vampire already devoured three people.
I kept staring into its eyes, trying to read its next movement. A lot of tension was in the air. I was still in the bed with Lucy sleeping right next to me.
The second later, the creature disappeared and i couldn't feel its presence anymore.
"W-w-what..." I said to myself.
I looked around me, thinking from where the vampire would've attack me.
"Breathe, focus, relax, breathe , focus, relax... *Inhale* THERE YOU ARE!" I looked up and i saw the vampire attacking me from the above with its sharp claws.
"YOU'RE DEAD HAHAHA!" He screamed.
"DAMN! HE WILL HIT LUCY!" I tought. "I have no choice".
I used magic to jump towards the vampire , throwing him a head butt directly to his stomach and sending it flying, breaking the roof.
I was way faster than him, so its attack didn't hit me... or so i thought.
I managed to throw the vampire outside the inn to keep Lucy safe.
Well, it was a great hit and Lucy didn't wake up, so i tought that my magic worked.
"Ouch..." The vampire managed to leave some scratches on my shoulders and a little bit of blood was spilling from them.
I managed to grab my pants and put them on at the speed of light. I then picked my sword Xanderyl from the ground and pulled it out from its sheat.
I then jumped outside to fight the vampire, putting a magic barrier around the sleeping Lucy to keep her safe.
It was the middle of the night. No people were around. Everyone was asleep.
*In the city of Lungi, there was a sort of curfew where at night, you couldn't go out even if there was danger around. Everything died at night. It was as if there was no one left in the city, and because of this, there were no more crimes.*
"This isn't over yet, Hunter..." The vampire said while jumping on me with his sharp claws.
"No." I said, keeping my guard up. "You will die tonight."
"HAH! You think you can defeat me?" The vampire asked while showing his fangs.
"You'll never win against me." I said with confidence. "You must have some big guts to come here in Lungi just to search me." I added with an evil grin.
"I know everything about you." The vampire said.
"Everything?" I said in an angry tone, raising my eyebrow.
"Yes. Everything." The vampire said while laughing.
"He's probably faking. No vampire survived to tell who i was and where i lived." I thought.
"Tell me, vampire. What do you know about me?" I asked.
"Everything." The vampire said with a wicked smile. "I know that your name is Alex, that you're a powerful warrior, and that you are the chosen one of the gods. That's why i came to kill you. You're a threat to my lord." The vampire said.
"What are you talking about? Who is this god you speak about?" I asked.
"Oh, don't play dumb with me, Hunter. I know what you are. You know... about the prophecy... The gods..." The creature said. It wasn't lying. But...
"Phrophecy?" "Gods?" What does it mean?!" I shouted at him.
"Don't play stupid with me, Hunter! Don't act like you know nothing!." The vampire shouted while showing his fangs again. "I know that you know what i am talking about! You are the chosen one of the gods! FEAR US! YOU ARE THE ONE ! YOU ARE A THREAT! YOU MUST BE ELIMINATED!" The creature said with a furious voice. It was about to attack. I raised my Xanderyl up, preparing to his attack.
"I'm not the one who should be afraid, vampire." I said with a cold tone. "I'm the one who is going to end your miserable existence." After hearing those words, the vampire charged directly towards me, with a direct attack.
"This is too predictable…" I said to myself.
The vampire attacked me with its sharp claws but I managed to block his hit with my sword.
"Haha… Is that all you've got… Hunter?" The vampire said, while slashing with its claws trying to hit me.
I managed to dodge and block all his hits, trying to understand its movevement.
The vampire was fast but not as fast as me.
"You're not as strong as you think you are…" The vampire said while he managed to land a kick into
my left leg. That hit surely hurt me a lot.
I fell on my knees, trying to recover from the pain while still blocking the attacks of the vampire.
"He seems strong… but not as strong as the other ones I killed." I kept thinking to myself.
I was waiting to finish him off to see if he would have something more to say.
"YOU'RE FINISHED, HUNTER HAHAHA!" The vampire jumped back and started charging some kind of strange blood magic in his right hand.
"So… do you have anything else to say to me? Can you tell me something about this prophecy or
your lord?" I asked while standing up. The pain from my leg was gone.
"I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY TO A HUNTER" he said.
"YOU'RE DEAD!" He added while launching me some blood arrows.
"So… that's it…" I said with my rutheless killer tone, smiling evily.
In the blink of an eye, i managed to land a slash to cut this vampire's legs.
He fell on the ground. He didn't even realize what happened.
"Wha-" he said, still trying to realize what happened.
"IT HURTS! MY LEGS!!!!" He screamed in pain.
*
Usually vampires can regenerate their body parts and they don't feel any pain but if they get wounded by Xanderyl, this law automatically changes. They won't heal rapidly and they will feel a lot of pain. The only way to kill a vampire is by using sacred swords blessed by the gods or the church. That's why every city in this era has a church with an armory. Priests bless weapons everyday.
*
I looked the vampire in pain with a really cold expression on my face. The same i used when i killed all those filthy creatures.
"What's wrong, monster…?" I said with an evil grin.
"Y-YOU! JUST LIKE THE PROPHECY!!" He said, with terror in his voice.
He was then started begging for his life.
"PLEASE! MY LORD DOESN'T KNOW THAT I'M HERE! SPARE MY LIFE!" He said with tears in his eyes.
His legs were still bleeding and the floor below him started to wet with a dark red.
"If you tell me what is the "prophecy" i promise that I will spare your life… and I'll give you my blood…" i did a small cut on my finger , letting a little drop of blood fall on the ground.
The vampire looked at it with a lot of hunger and desperation. It truly was ridicoulous. Disgusting.
I then pierced his belly with my Xanderyl making him scream from pain even more than before.
His screams were like music to my ears. It felt so good.
"THE PROPHECY… YOU ARE THE ONE WHO… WHO WILL KILL THE QUEEN AND DESTROY OUR
RACE!" He said.
After he said "Queen" my eyes widened and i thought about Maria.
"Queen…? You mean… Maria?" I asked, while perforing my sword even more into its flesh.
"AAAAAAH ! PLEASE STOP!" He said. "YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS DESTINED TO KILL THE QUEEN!"
He then added.
"Oh…. Unexpected." I said. "Now tell me about your leader"
"I CANNOT TELL YOU!" He said.
"Do you really think that you are in the position to refuse, you disgusting monster?" I angrily replied while making Xanderyl go even deeper.
"THIS IS TOO MUCH!!! STOP!!" The monster started crying from the pain.
I started laughing.
"MY LEADER… MY LEADER IS-" the vampire stopped talking and gave a look at me.
A cold look but with a lot of fear and desperation.
He stayed silent while looking at me, like he wasn't feeling pain anymore.
"I'm sorry… my lord. Forgive me. I've failed you" Said the vampire. His tone of voice changed to a really calm one.
After whispering these words, the vampire suddenly turned to dust.
I didn't care about what was happening. The only thing that i cared for was the death of this vampire.
"A vampire… in Lungi… Even this city is not safe anymore… i must keep Lucy safe." I said to my self, with a little bit of anxiety in my mind. Then i put my sword into the sheath and I went back inside.
There was a huge hole on the roof.
The strange thing was that nobody in the city or in the inn woke up. I don't know how they still managed to sleep.
"What will i say to the owner now…? Oh my…" I thought while entering the in from the above, right where the hole was.
*
I had too many questions in my mind: How that vampire knew exactly my room? How did he actually knew my name and who i was? Why was he so sure that i was the one that was supposed to destroy his race?
These questions were a constant buzzing in my mind.
I wanted to ask him more but i'm glad he's dead.
If even Lungi is a risk... that probably mean that i should go away from here. I cannot let Lucy be hurt.
*