Romania the location where vampires put their extravagant mansion and castles at.
Vampires are a fascinating part of Romanian folklore, deeply intertwined with the country's culture and history. The most famous vampire associated with Romania is Count Dracula, a character from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula". Dracula was inspired by the real-life figure Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century ruler known for his brutal methods of punishing his enemies.
In Romanian folklore, vampires are often referred to as "strigoi". These are restless spirits of the dead who can rise from their graves and transform into animals, become invisible, and gain vitality from the blood of their victims. The term "strigoi" has its roots in Romanian folklore and has been used for centuries to describe the undead or malevolent spirits. The word "vampire," on the other hand, entered Western European languages in the early 18th century. The transformation from "strigoi" to "vampire" in popular culture is a more modern phenomenon and can be traced back to the increased interest in vampire legends during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The spread of vampire legends in Europe can be attributed to reports of vampire epidemics in Eastern Europe, particularly in regions like Serbia and Hungary, which were widely circulated in Western Europe. These reports described the strigoi-like creatures and contributed to the amalgamation of various regional myths into the more universally recognized concept of the vampire.
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel "Dracula" played a significant role in cementing the modern image of the vampire. While Stoker's Dracula was inspired by the historical figure Vlad the Impaler and Romanian folklore, he did not use the term "strigoi" in his novel. Instead, he popularized the term "vampire," which was already gaining traction in Western literature and culture.
Traditional methods to protect against vampires include placing garlic in windows and around the neck, spreading salt around the house, and driving a wooden stake through the vampire's heart.
This region in Romania is often associated with vampires, largely due to its connection with Dracula. Bran Castle, often referred to as "Dracula's Castle", is a popular tourist attraction.
Vampires in Romanian culture were believed to cause plagues, famine, and other misfortunes. To prevent these evils, people would sometimes exhume bodies suspected of being vampires and perform rituals to ensure they would not rise from the grave.
In a dark gothic castle, the place where vampires usually stay similar to Dracula's Transylvania, is the home of the male oriented faction of the vampires, the Tepes faction.
Inside the castle. Numerous of this "strigois" of different clothes and statuses run rampant.
The Longinus, Sephirot Graal, has seemingly been found and spotted inside of their ranks.
Said possessor of the Graal was said to be someone of lower status, a dhampir, and the younger sister of pure blood Marius Tepes, has ran away with another dhampir, the dhampir of lord Vladi. Now being chased and currently trying to be brought back.
A bat familiar came with a report of having found the girl but not the dhampir. Although being a bastard child, the dhampir is still a child from a noble-blood of lord Vladi's blood.
Hurriedly, before the opposition faction, Carmelia faction, takes notice, a search team with groups of vampires are being set out to search for dhampir and come to retrieve the Sephirot Graal.
But unfortunately, the search party won't be coming back with the male dhampir and even more unfortunate, they won't be retrieving the grail nor will the search group and the retrieval group be coming back.
A delicate girl lay in the grass as she clenched her head tight, a head wrenching headache assaulted her, information that can give existencial crisis was forcefully shoved insider her mind. Her breathing hitched, blood, sweat and tears wetting her body covered by a ragged white dress.
She has just barely escaped her pursuers with her dear friend. They were found by vampire hunters, she tried to distract them and let her friend run away, but they saw through her.
They cut her legs so that she wouldn't run before passing by her to catch after Gasper. But before they could, she felt something awaken inside her being before she was assaulted by an immense headache. She instinctively used that thing inside her to help Gasper.
Now she lays on the grass as she tries to get rid of headache by any means. Head bleeding from the scratching she inflicted upon herself. The information was getting from the thing inside her is too much for a girl to endure.
Secrets of the creation of life and souls are too much for a girl too know, more so Valerie's mind not as broad or fortitude enough for such existential thoughts to be forcefully shoved to her mind. She can only curl herself to a ball to at least dim the pain of her wounded leg and headache as she cries from it.
She doesn't even notice the figure standing beside her.
"...Did you know that somewhere in the infinite expanse of the universe may possibly lay a planet where the stars form a constellation that might look like a penis? ...Girl, you seem to be in pain."
No shit, Sherlock. Great investigation.
The figure spoke to her, but she doesn't even register the voice, she's still at the same position, weeping.
"..."
Sighing, the hidden figure squated down and put their hand on her head.
Light came out of the hand as her injury on her leg disappeared and the headache that she wish to just vanish did disappear.
Her breathing haggard, the after effect of all of the experience almost broke her child mind, she can only cry.
The figure's hand pat her head to comfort her. Seemingly only noticing the hand at her head, she tensed up but shortly accept the comfort it gives.
Shortly after, the comfortable hand disappeared looking for it, she made eye contact with the owner's yellow eyes. Her daze was interrupted with a comforting voice now registered in her head.
"Are you fine now?"
"...Un"
She nods her head.
"Then can you stand?"
"...Un"
She nods her head again.
She tried to stand with shaky legs, she put her hands on her knees for support.
A hand stretched to her to help and she accepts.
"...T-Thank you."
She said her gratitude to the person who helped her.
"U-Um, Mister...D-Did you saw someone ran here? A boy that looks girly?"
She tried to ask the unknown person if they saw her dear friend. Hoping that her friend escaped the vampire hunters. But her hopes were crushed.
"I saw they boy getting caught by a group of hunters."
The girls face fell to despair. But it quickly turned hopeful at his next words.
"But he is alive, saved by some good people."
Her face teared up as she cried. This time with relief.
"Thank goodness. Thank goodness..."
"..."
She wept in relief, at least her friend could escape.
But this moment and her solace was interrupted when another unknown voice shouted.
"I see her! She's here!"
A vampire shouted at his company.
A group of vampires are running to them.
The girl clenched the hand she's holding as her breathing hitched and her face turned fearful.
The person beside her noticed the change and walked in front of her.
The vampires stopped when they are just ten meters away. Noticing someone with her.
"There's a human."
Yes, indeed Sherlock, there is indeed a human. Must you state the obvious?
The vampire's face at the most front twisted in unhidden disgust at noticing a filthy human with the disgusting dhampir at her side.
"Human, I'll be lenient and give you a painless death if you hand us that filthy dhampir."
He put his hand in front of himself as he decided to be kind to the human.
Hmm, seems to me that they are quite the refined and civilized vampires. So the human responded with the same amount of kindness and civilised words at the merciful words the vampire said.
"Fuck off and leave or die, over-sized bats."
The human indeed responded with refined words. The vampire reacted accordingly.
Veins popped and the group's face turned angered at the human's insolence.
"Then die!"
The supposed leader in front made a magic circle and casted a spell of ball of darkness.
"No!"
Valerie tried to run in front to save the human that helped her.
But she was held back as the human stood tall in front.
The dark sphere quickly covered the gap and reached the human.
The ball was strong enough to completely make an entire house into ruins, no human can survive this. The human will surely be dead and the filthy dhampir might be caught in the blast will surely survive, this will be a lesson for the filthy dhampir to know that hiding behind a human means nothing and those that goes against the Tepes faction will be punished! Surely those that goes against the will of... bla bla bla.
The vampire monologues an entire essay on his mind.
Hehe, funny black ball goes zoom.
A simple slap was enough to send the ball back to it's owner.
An explosion made the group of vampires in disbelief.
"Gah! I-Impossible! How could a human do such a thing?! No human could... Bla bla bla."
Villain monologue, Villain monologue.
The vampires were in disbelief.
So anyway.
Ansuz rune, represents holy and Suwilo rune, the fucking sun.
What happens if a holy light that can be substitute as the sun at day and said light be given drugs be beamed at those that are weak to it? The recreation of people turning to powdered dust in avengers endgame.
"AAAAGHH-...!"
Insert Undertale dust sound effect or something.
The light subsided and revealed an empty place where the group of vampires were.
"..."
"..."
Silence was once again given to the forest. The girl's silence is made in her being amazed and at awe at the event that took place. The man on the other hand was thinking of something that might change his world, did he lock the door properly?
The man frowned.
His frown subsided as he turn his head to the girl and asked her a question.
"What will you do now?"
The girl was awoken from her daze as she thinks about the question she was asked.
What will she do now? She did have a plan with her friend, Gasper, but she didn't expect to be alone now. What will she do? What can she do? By herself? Her friend is probably being taken care of by now from the people that saved him. But what about her?
Her head turned to the ground, her face turned sad, her voice turned to a whisper.
"...I don't know..."
"Then you can sleep at my place tonight."
Your social skills is low, word your word properly, it's making some people misunderstand.
Her head snapped to face him.
"R-Really?"
"Yeah, I'll introduce you to someone that can take care of you."
The image of the sacred gear enthusiast came into mind. Although someone that study sacred gears, it's more so of a hobby to that person. They're trustworthy and alright, albeit perverted. But they wouldn't take interest to a little girl.
He place a hand on front of her.
"So, will you deny?"
She found hope and maybe solace.
I hope you find your's too, Gasper.
She took the hand.
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The night of the underworld isn't as the same as it used to be, the night now is as the same as in the human world.
The underworld is as the size of earth, but the difference in it are it's landmass, it does not have any large bodies of oceans, more specifically, it only has lakes.
The sky in the underworld is as the same star lit night in over world. It wasn't the same as it was hundreds of years ago. The night and the day was the same constant purple color five hundred ago, before the rule of current leaders. Even making an artificial moon. All for the sake of the reincarnated devils.
The Gremory territory has areas mostly of hexagonal shapes. The territory is rich and advance in their industry.
In the territory lies the Gremory mansion. The place where the Gremorys live, it is a mansion that's very well taken care of. When you enter the Gremory clan's mansion, you might find camels here and there, as camels are very much liked by Gremorys.
The silver haired maid, Grayfia Lucifuge, the current red satan's wife. The maid walked the hallway of the mansion, just recently bringing the new arrival their mistress's peerage to sleep. It was hard to do such as the vampire was in panic at the new surroundings but for the perfect maid swiftly took care of the situation, it was simple for the silver maid.
She walks with graceful steps as she headed to the office of her husband. Sirzechs Lucifer, the current satan in charge of domestic affairs arrived here at the news of his sister getting a peerage member. Although coming to congratulate and pamper his sister, his stay was rapidly ending as his duty calls.
Sirzechs was going back to Lucifaad, the capital and offices of the four leaders, the very same day he arrived but stayed for today but to go tomorrow to continue his job.
Grayfia arrived at the twin doors of her husband's office, as she was about to knock on it, her husband's voice call out from behind the doors.
"You can come inside, Grayfia."
Opening the door, she saw the piles of paper on her husband's desk as the said person was smiling at her after he put down the pen he held in his hand.
"You do know that you can just come inside without knocking, dear."
Grayfia lift the hems of her skirt as she bowed.
"A maid must always respect the privacy of their master."
Sirzechs can only sweat at the words of his wife. Always the perfect maid is his wife's hobby. Maybe this runs in their blood of servitude.
Standing up from his chair, Sirzechs hugs Grayfia.
"What's the matter, dear? Do you want to cuddle or something else?"
Sirzechs wiggled his eyebrow at her. But was stopped with a smack on the head by a harisen she got from nothing.
"Behave, dear. I have something to let you know about."
Rubbing his head by attack of the harisen. He sat down on the couch in the office, he place Grayfia on his thighs as he hugs her.
"What's the something you want to let me know?"
"I've met the Modern Merlin with Rias when we were in the human world."
Modern Merlin, the title of Caelum. He got this title from introducing new magics and improving some. The attack on the Wizards of Oz demonstrated the firepower and destructiveness of the new spells that he created.
Sirzechs frowned, The Modern Merlin is not evil but not kind either. The assault on the Ozs is well known and the image of the guy was not favourable.
"Are you ok? Did he do anything to you or Rias? Did you get hurt? Do you want me to kill the guy?"
He attacked her with different questions and she answered accordingly. A slap from the harisen.
"Calm down , dear. I'm fine and Rias too. He did not attack us. In fact, he was the one who gave Rias the dhampir."
He got his answers. He sighed, relief to know she and Rias is well.
"But he did ask for a favor from me for the dhampir."
"Only a favor?"
Although having a favor from the wife of the red satan is large, it is relatively small in comparison to the sacred gear of the ability of stopping time.
"It looks like the Modern Merlin has a plan again this time."
He heard that the magician was going around and getting favors from different factions. He heard that Azazel got caught on that guy's favor spree.
Sirzechs can only sigh once again. It seems he's sighing too much today.
He hugs his wife tighter.
"At least you're fine."
He put his head on her bosom.
"...Can we stay like this for a bit?"
Grayfia would remind her husband about his work, but accepted at noticing the tiredness in his voice, she put her hand at her husband's back.
They enjoyed this small moment and forget about the problems they have.
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In a house in America. Inside a room lies a blonde girl on a soft bed slept soundly, seemingly getting a sleep after days of not having rest.
Besides her, a man sat on a plastic chair as his hand was clenched by the girl's own. He crossed his leg covered in hello kitty short. He twirled the object in his other hand as an onslaught of information is forcefully shoved in his mind.
The shine of the grail illuminated the surroundings.
Valerie didn't die after having her sacred gear was taken from her. This Sephiroth Graal is a Subspecies, where there are three grails instead of one. With different spells and more in work, Caelum successfully got one of the part of the Sephirot Graal.
The aspect of "Enlightenment", the ability of this specific cup.