Moonlight was reflecting on Albert's face as he transferred the blue energy to the blood flies to keep his rain. His opponents were still alive; he had his scent. Currently, he is hiding inside a cave after running for a while.
"He is getting exhausted." Albert smiled at his plan's success. The rain's effect was everywhere on the ground, with smoke coming out from decaying plants, animals, dirt, and rocks, all melting under his cloud of stings.
"?!" Albert felt a wave of uncomfortableness, and his flow was disrupted. The bloodflies began to buzz in numbers, trying to run away. Winds were getting slower, Albert felt a strange force pushing him towards the cave where he was concentrating his attacks.
"No..no..no!" He wanted to say that his eyes were deceiving him, Albert learned that he could sweat too. Something was coming. He jumped towards the ground and dispensed his flies immediately to save them, but it was too late.
Blast
The earth exploded, like the winds moved more powerful than a thunderstorm to all sides, Like, a carpet rolled, the trees with their roots overturned on each other. Dirt piled up over the decaying things.
While coming down, Albert felt three waves coming from below, so powerful he couldn't hope to stop them. Nonetheless, he brought his fangs to defend against the attack.
"..."
The winds passed so fast and strong that he didn't release his flesh, his clothes torn apart and his skin peeled off. "What?" His body was sliced into the two parts from the torso, which slowly drifted away.
He used his hands to keep his body together and healed the two parts, but he was more scared of what was behind him.
"No." The light above was not red anymore, like a lion striking a wound, the fangs had carved three large spaces in the cloud of bloodflies. The middle one was so big that the moon was visible now, but the lake of blood from the dead fireflies in the sky was more significant to Albert.
"I was too late to dispense the fireflies."
Albert could sense 2-3rd of fireflies had already died, he saw one fly falling in front of him. Soon, droplets of blood with the pieces of dead flies began falling, the lake of blood fell on top of him. Like a bath his naked body was covered in red, the stings of dead fireflies got inserted into his body while he stood there.
Smash
The lake of blood dropped on the floor filled with trees , land and dirt in red, mixed with corpses of the dead fireflies.
Albert was standing in the air lost somewhere else in the past, with his past and his present. He tried to reach something in the air that wasn't there, tears began to swell after that and so did the past wounds.
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In Naus's family, there were two treasures, one was the mirror that they bought with their hard work and the other were the family's dolls. Each member had two dolls of every other family member.
Everybody in Naus's family had dolls of the other family members, although Naus' tongue didn't work his family knew he loved them, but he also loved his insects. Butterflies and fleas in his hair were always with him.
One burned alongside family members on their death, and the second was kept in their memory, which could have any name.
The village where Naus lived was a small place near the intersection of the Forest of Forsaken and the Dynasty. Filled with warriors who could stop by for food, water and entertainment, they only dwarf slaves the place had.
"The labours of a dwarf are never seen, only his mistakes. Humans were evil, cruel but powerful, dwarfs could never stand to take a chance against one." Naus's father had told him before he was killed because he added enough sugar to the commander's tea.
Naus didn't cry when they burned him, their owner only gave wood on specific days or when they needed to burn the dead. Young Naus sat by father's burning corpse, feeling the warmth of fire with a smile while his elder sister and mother cried.
"I can't take it anymore… Those humans are monsters." That was what his beautiful sister said before he took her life, because everyday some human would carry her to something where and one day she refused to go, so they made her naked and cut her body to pieces.
Then again, he didn't cry. Humans were cruel and pain was needed to survive, his mother was sitting beside him holding the dolls on his father and sister.
His mother was very different,
"Dwarfs can only watch, there is nothing we can do about it." That was what her mother used to say when she would be in their half broken space in the sewer, with lashes on all her body.
Naus loved her the most, she brought food two times a day, even taking fast to give him water, he always was confused about something, but he couldn't ever ask.
She used to accept the pain like it was nothing, but also cried clutching the dolls of her family. His mother once gave him a necklace of the three dolls to wear…she died the next day and then young Naus had to start working for food.
Naus was unlike his family, he was strong. The owner made him work at the forge alongside the smiths, his arms were strong like his legs. The place made him happy, it was warm and the food was better than ever.
He also realised that his family were all lying to him. He had three friends with all the three humans he worked with Albert, Edward were two men and Wettin was a woman. They never beat up, they just put some hot rod on his back to make sure he was staying strong and used to touch him everywhere to make sure he was clean everywhere.
Although, it felt difficult, the warmth of the fire at night, and the food three times a day. He looked at his family's necklace and named them, Albert, Edward and Wettin, his new family. In Front of the flame, he made a designation, but in front of that very flame he killed each of them one day.
He burned the dolls, after he tore open their skulls and offered it to the devil. He abandoned his dwarf flesh for the cost of blood, there was thirst of blood in him it made him different. It gave him power over humans…
But now he was flushed with blood once again, the blood was his subjects, "My dolls, my family, my name…" Naus cried out, looking at his hands, he looked at the blood and corpses on the ground.
"What..??!!" He realised he was naked, he covered his body, there were flies in the sky, they were looking at him, the red eyes, thousand of them. He turned into fog and ran into the trees far away from all the blood, into the sky and far.
"I can hide there !!" Naus jumped into the root cluster of trees, filling the trees with big leaves. He broke them apart and folded them, trying to wear them on his body, but everything was cut by his fangs.
"Go inside!" He screamed aloud and then released what he shouldn't have, his fangs went back into his skin and he wore a leaf to cover his upper body, then he left somebody touching his shoulder.
"AAA!!" He turned around to see it was just a tree branch. He pushed it away and sat down hugging himself. He was naked, in front of everyone, the fireflies saw him, Mercy would have seen him.
"Lana told me, I would never feel like this!" He remembered his wife, who she lied about not having anymore pain. She was a liar unlike her mother, she was right. Humans are cruel, they never leave anyone…" Tears rolled out from his face and he began to cry loudly.
Mercy was standing far away, the fangs were in his hands and the sword on his back. His long lived years had taught him what a vampire was going through. He walked closer and closer to the vampire lord who is more like a boy now.
"Ach…" The vampire jumped back and his back was against the tree and his hands were joined together, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry it was my mistake. Please don't hurt me , I'll give you everything you want? "
"The only thing I want right now is you." Then Mercy dropped his fangs and pulled out his sword.
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