Elijah couldn't shake off the mysterious voice that had rang in his head. "Meet me in the east wing at midnight. Come alone."
As he lay in bed, Elijah's mind raced with possibilities. Who could be behind the voice? What did they want?
Lucas and Alex slept soundly, oblivious to Elijah's turmoil.
Finally after a few hours of shuffling around his bed, it was finally midnight, Elijah slipped out of the dorm room, making his way to the east wing. The corridors were dimly lit, casting long shadows.
Elijah tip toed around the academy and then finally arrived at the designated meeting point, his heart pounding. A figure emerged from the darkness.
"Welcome, Elijah," the figure said, revealing a hooded face. "I've been waiting."
"Who are you?" Elijah demanded.
The hooded figure stepped closer. "Someone who knows your past, Elijah. Your parents' murder... it wasn't random."
Elijah's eyes widened. "What do you mean?"
"Ha!" The figure laughed. "Do you think that their murder was random? You were supposed to be killed together with them but you were lucky that you managed to escape."
"What happened? Who wanted them dead and why?" Elijah asked as tears were dropping down his face.
"The Valois family were involved in something big. Something that threatened the vampire hierarchy."
"Something big? Something that threatened the vampire hierarchy? What was that? As much as I remember, my parents were respected and looked up to in the vampire society."
Elijah's mind reeled. "So what did they do?"
The hooded figure hesitated. "I'll tell you more, but you must prove yourself trustworthy."
Elijah nodded, desperation creeping in.
"Meet me in the old library tomorrow night. Come alone."
"And before I go, be careful. Don't use your family name again. Forsake the name Valois otherwise your life will be in danger and you won't be able to take your revenge." The figure said.
"The higher authorities of the academy already knows who you are and your name so it doesn't matter anymore. But among yourselves, don't reveal your family name again because you don't know who is a spy or not."
With that, the figure vanished into the shadows. While Elijah stood rooted confused about all what the mysterious figure said.
'What the hell is going on here? Who was that? I thought the voice sounded familiar but why couldn't I recognize the person? What were my parents into that got them killed and for what?' Elijah thought as so many questions were reeling in his mind.
'So many questions and no answer. What do I do now? Where do I start? How do I even start?'
'I know where to start from. I will start by getting strong, strong enough that I won't have to fear that assassin or whoever he is.' Elijah thought with his fists clenched.
Elijah returned to his dorm room, his mind racing. What secrets lay hidden? Then after a bit of struggle, Elijah fell asleep although vampires could go on for long without needing sleep, when they are tired, they would go to sleep.
Especially the young vampires, they needed to sleep more while the older vampires needed less sleep. As the young vampires evolve, they would require less sleep too.
The vampires had their ranks divided by the evolution of each vampires.
With the lowest being a vampire. Then after evolving which practically takes years, they would evolve to a vampire noble.
This rank was quite respected as it came with strength. Elijah suspected that instructor Kael was also a noble vampire and the way to differentiate was through their sense of smell.
Vampires had different smell compared to the other.
After the noble rank, came the knight evolution. The strongest nobles were always chosen by their leaders to become a knight for them.
The leaders were the next rank. And to get there, it takes ages to get to the lord rank in order to become a leader of a family.
Elijah's father was also a leader, the leader of the Valois family and in order for someone to best him, it means they were of equal rank and strength.
Then finally at the top of this all, is the King rank. The king of all the vampires and the most respected among all the vampires.
These were the vampires hierarchy and ranks.
So after a few hours, it was finally the next day, the day for their first class. When it was the morning, Alex, Elijah and Lucas finally left the room after taking their bath and they headed for their first class of the day.
And there was happiness in the air as everybody couldn't wait for their first class which was going to be a history class about the history of vampires.
Elijah struggled to focus on his class. Professor Lilith taught them about vampire magic, but Elijah's thoughts drifted to the mysterious meeting. As he couldn't wrap his head around what was going on.
And then after a few hours, it was finally the next class of the door; combat class and the one that Elijah was more excited about since he wanted to learn fighting as he was fascinated about fighting.
Now he got to learn fighting from the best academy.
Getting to the class, they were all surprised as they saw who
was standing in front of them and planning on taking their combat class for them.