Chapter 27

"I haven't seen you before, newbie here?" That's when I finally looked at him.
"None of your business, so fvck off." As I said that I quickly left in front of him. But I was surprised when I suddenly realized that he was startled in front of me. Fvck! He's not a human! Why didn"t I feel that. I was slightly taken aback because of what happened, I can now sense danger, no one could notice us here because of the dim light and this area is far from the crowd.
"Who are you?" But he just grinned and in a flash he took my hand and took me to where no one could see, notice and know.
"I've been searching for you, this is the only place I can find you." There's a hint of danger and venom on his voice that made me stop breathing.
"You're a wolf?" He laughs devilishly as he steps forward.
"Stupid! Of course I am not!" Annoyed he shouted in my face and immediately changed the color of his eyes, crimson red.
A vampire!
"What do you want from me then?" I forced myself to calm down even though my whole system was screaming because of the danger I was feeling.
"I want you to die, simple as that." and he quickly approached me and grabbed my jaw tightly, I gripped his hand tightly holding it and gradually my nail sank into his skin I struggle to be free but when I have to fight then I feel weak , familiar weakness.
I do not know what misfortune befell me tonight because along with my weakness I then again felt the familiar heat like fire that burns the body and even my soul, familiar pain and anguish that bites in the depths of my body.
I screamed in pain and even though my vision was blurred, I could still see the formation of a smirk on his lips and the fangs that could have killed my life at this very moment.
My previous attachment to him was gradually widening, I felt my tears streamed down as I struggled to breath.
"Looks like I am in a good timing mcdemort, do you want me to help you end your sufferings? I would be glad too?"
"a-ah !! h-help ... !!" Short of breath I cried, I could hardly hear a voice from myself that seemed to be my voice and giving at the same time as my body I knew was also tired of repeated pain. I gasp for air and heart hammered as I felt his sharp dangerous fangs touch my skin.
I struggle to be free from his plan.
But I am too weak to even harm him.
Gradually I felt two sharp objects sink into my muscles delivering extreme pain. This kind of sucking is the deadly one, we have our different type of it, First when turning a human into a vampire, second for sucking blood to prolong life and have the infinite power and strength and lastly to terminate our kind.
My body was suspended from moving, All I can do is to scream using my cracked voice.
It was accompanied by a series of howls of wolves that I did not know where they were.
In the moment of struggling to breath and to endure the pain, an image flashed in my mind that made my tears fall.
"S-sage .."
I feel like he was shocked because I mentioned that name.
"come on," I heard him whispered while his fangs are still on my flesh. But I no longer have the strength and the will to understand that.
When I was about to faint because of unbearable pain that mixed up.
I heard a loud bang and rattle on the door of this room where he had taken me.
"Hage open this fvcking door you fvcking son of lucifer! Don't touch her! Don't fvcking hurt her! I will kill you! I will fvcking kill you!"
I could clearly hear her muttering, the anger in the voice that I was sure was threatening, the anger that said any moment she would kill.
Immediately what was buried in my neck disappeared and he slowly released me, I slid down and my neck was sore while still fighting the pain I was experiencing. The familiar seeming veins made of ink that release black liquid, the deadly disease I can barely cope with. Impit moaned and struggled to find strength.
"S-sage ... h-help ..."
My voice became like a whisper. Exhausted and weakening.
I heard the man infront of me curses and in just one snap he's now holding the door knob. He quickly opened it and at the speed of events I could no longer follow how the familiar figure grabbed the man who had just wanted to kill me.
"Fvck you! You promised me! You promised me you would never dare to hurt her even to touch her! And you fvcking broke it! I'll kill you!"
I don't know which of them is attacking each other the most, I just closed my eyes and I can only hear their crashes and fights.
"I just did you a favor! Will you stop this shit ?! I won't fight you back asshole!"
I heard a loud crash as if something had pushed and hit the wall.
I made my eyes half open to see whsg happened and even fainting I was able to keep an eye on them.
I saw the man named 'Hage' if I'm not mistaken leaning on the wall with blood oozing down on the side of his lips and on his cheeks which also immediately healed. He immediately wiped and stood up as if nothing had happened. Now I just saw their resemblance, I looked at the man standing infront of him.
Sage. No, it can't be, is he his brother? That hage ... is he his brother? h-how?
"Why the heck are you here ?! and why did you fvcking do that?"
"I just confirmed something and I am right, are you insane sage? You know who she is! And now? Your reaction says it all. She will gonna be the reason of your downfall!"
"You're out of that shit, so just back off Hage and don't ever touch again what is mine."
"Oh shut up Sage and just thank me for saving her, she was about to be captured by wolves while stupidly stalking you with your shit when I got her first and brought her here to execute my plan! So shut your ass up! And be thankful . " Sage was immediately stunned and the act of facing me, the door immediately opened and selene, zeus and katelyn entered one after another. Katelyn immediately approached me and forced me to talk but I could not speak again until I drowned in nothingness.
SELENE
I was busy in my office when Zeus hurriedly entered without even knocking.
"What the hell zeus? Come in" I sarcastically told him. He remained serious and seemed to have a problem with it so my face was immediately serious.

"Sit down and tell me what is it?"
"Do you know what date it is today?"
"November 29, tss! What? Isn't there a calendar in your house and did you rush here to my office?"
"Its not that! Come on selene have you forgotten what is scheduled to happen tonight?" My forehead immediately wrinkled and later it seemed as if something suddenly entered my mind.
"November 29, hunting night. This is our night of hunting for this month!"
"No..no ... its not only that, there is another problem! Tonight the moon is set to turn red." I immediately stood up and looked at him.
"Fvck! Reign is in danger!" I quickly left my office and so did zeus who I knew also left what he was taking care of because of it.
I tried to contact my brother but his cellphone turned off. I went home and was a little surprised to see everyone busy.
"Dad what's up?"
"Your older brother is coming back."
"What?" I was suddenly nervous at what he said, he can't be here! not now that reign is in danger.
"I also don't understand why he suddenly found out he decided to come back today, only Sage can talk to him."
"I can't believe him," I said goodbye to dad, and quickly left the house.
Tonight will be our hunting night, the night most long -awaited by vampires, the night where the moon will turn red. This is the night where we will be stronger as well as the wolves and will feel the longing for human blood. Because human blood this night will brought too much power to every vampire and we have no control about it, we have no control of our impulses. It will not be traumatic for humans because we will not kill them, whoever we fall victim to will just be put to sleep and then drink blood and make sure that in the future there will be no trace of events and they will not remember anything. That's our way of drinking blood from them. We don't kill humans if not necessary we are not monsters as you think we are.
Other than that, this will be the night that Reign will lose all her strength otherwise she will be completely weak and poison will swallow the whole of her body that will suspend her body from making movements. This will be the most dangerous night for her and this is what I fear for her.
What a danger I was thinking especially when I couldn"t find Reign.
What if the rebel wolves find him, the rebel wolves know when we are strong and when we are weak, but the more I know they know when reign will finally be weak and tonight that is so I know tonight they will do a step to find him permanently. Reign can't handle them in a state where his body is at a disadvantage! she can't be caught.
Where is Van now?
I was even more nervous when I remembered that the eldest of us all was here.
Hage, don't ever hurt her. You can't just hurt her.
I texted reign several times, I even called her, but she didn't answer it and she even turned off her cellphone and I was worried.
I was startled by the sharp change in the wind.
Too quiet, threatening danger.
My chest throbbed even more when I saw the moon turn red.
I can feel the immediate changes of my breathing. All my senses became more active and the loss of my impulses seemed like a portal to open. I am craving for something cold, sweet and metallic, I am lusting for blood.
I immediately dismissed that in my mind, I needed to find reign. Its not the time for me to hunt, I need to make sure reign is safe. While busy searching I could already hear every howl of the balloons, the sudden movement of the wind that seemed to have passed quickly. vampires. They are already in the city. Wolves must be already here too.
Not that I was wrong, I heard their howls and based from it they are near from ...
I immediately followed the direction it was coming from and it took me near a bar.
I entered here and I smelled the trail of wolves, I immediately followed you but suddenly you disappeared.
I tried to sharpen my hearing and from it I heard what seemed to be two creatures fighting. I quickly followed that when zeus and katelyn stared in front of me.
"Selene!"
"Where are they, do you know?"
"We're following the sound. I know he's there."
"Let's go" We ran quickly to follow the noise that made my hearing even louder when I heard the weak beat. Shit its reign! We were taken to an abandoned house also near the bar. When we saw an open door, we immediately entered and the sage and hage seemed to have just finished waving.
Katelyn immediately ran towards someone and when I turned around I then realized that it was reign. I followed katelyn and forced reign to wake up but her body seemed to give up completely and she couldn't take it anymore which caused her to lose consciousness.
I can't even recognize her face now, it's full of traces of black liquid, there are still veins that look like wounds that fill every part of her body.
"We have to hurry any time the wolves will find him here, we can't fight them yet, reign needs to be healed more than to fight!" Confused, I shouted, Sage immediately pulled us away and he quickly picked up reign then quickly disappeared, Zeus and katelyn immediately followed. I would have been next to look at my dead brother who was also maliciously looking at me. I quickly grabbed his tshirt and accompanied my quick departure.
-
Its been 2 days, and reign is still on a deep sleep. We could hardly see the finger on him. I don't know what to do anymore.
I just stared at him, while standing here at the door of Van's room, and remained standing there without taking my eyes off Reign and pretending he was awake.
I heard voices, seems like they are talking. I immediately unfolded my arms and followed their voices that leads me at Van's garden. They were standing side by side and from here I could see the backs of the two of them. The two have always had a lot in common, you would even think that they are twins because of the great similarity of their faces and even their height, if the only difference between them is the more mature feature of Hage.
He's the oldest after all.
They are almost both fond of fights and trouble, our youngest Van is more cunning. Of the three of us, I was always in the middle, whenever they reached out, I was the one who often begged. Those two don't often get along but there are things that only the two of them understand. I stopped worrying about how they would treat each other as it gradually became clear to my hearing what they were talking about.
"You knew her Sage? But why still protecting her?"
"She's my mate."
"You told me you already cut the knot?"
"But I can also tied it up."
Hage laughed sarcastically.
"You can fool anyone around you but you can't fooled me lil bro, She's not just your mate,"
"She's my mate, I need her in order for me to take over the throne, something you've forsaken."
"Because I am not like you." hage was silent at what he heard.
"If it isn't because of our family I won't ever accept that shit Hage, so forget that damn crap inside your mind cause it's not what you think it is."
"I hope I'm wrong in the suspicion and I see Van, because when it happens that everything I'm saying is true? You'll both be ruined."
When he said that, he turned in my direction and was a little surprised.
"I thought you wouldn't show us again Hage?" his lips slightly curved.
"I miss you too Selene." I just rolled my eyes at him.
"I'll leave you first, I'll be back here tonight, because I know you missed me. I'll just visit the house."
"Tss." He just laughed at my reaction and faced the van again and then gestured.

The van left us silent but I didn"t last long and spoke.
"I heard everything, I hope it wasn't true Van." He didn't answer so I just gasped.
"She will gonna be your wife after all, so I hope you really didn't mean any of that words you have just said."
"By the way, so are you going to accept her as your mate again?"
"I don't have a choice, if I don't do that I won't be king."
"Is that all really?"
"What? I am just stating the fact, isn't that really the reason? I just punished her for not accepting the contract and dad knew it, so he just gave me mild punishment for my decision not to fulfill the marriage. it had to happen on time, but I didn't follow through. " I was just shocked by what he said, half of me believe it was true and the other half believe it wasn't. But I just don't want to interfere with what his plans and decisions are. I know my limitations and my boundary, he's the heir after all. Sooner or later he'll be the king and I will just become his subordinate.
But the other one that he just said is true, that's part of the condition to be a king, you need to marry your mate to take over the throne of being a vampire king, and as long as the marriage doesn't take place you will never be absolutely king. And I am afraid that it was all just his reason for doing this. That he might just be doing this to finally get the throne that hage had abandoned.
I woke up feeling a severe dryness in my throat.
I could feel a figure approaching me. And I was surprised not one of the people I knew a to.
"Finally you're awake from a long sleep."
"What are you doing here?"
"Hey isn't it rude to treat your brother-in-law that way?" I turned to him and he just gave me a goofy smile.
"I'm Hage Zendrex,"
"I'm not interested"
"Ow I thought you wanna know my name."
I was about to hissed when someone suddenly appeared behind him.
"Hage, you can go out now."
"Sage, I thought you're going somewhere?"
"I change my mind, so go, get lost."
"So rude, bro but yeah I will." He just tapped sage on the shoulder and looked at it meaningfully then finally left the room.
"W-what happened?" I suddenly asked looking at him, he looked down at me and came closer.
"The poison makes you weaker, anytime from now, it will drained you until it becomes fire the will burn you down."
"W-what should I do?"
"Nothing .." immediately some hot liquid dripped from my eyes.
He sat beside me and wiped it.
"But I could do something for it."
"What is it?" my question seemed to come alive and I went to face him. He held my hand which I immediately recovered from the shock and he was surprised there.
"I-I'm sorry ... its just that ... I became like this ... a-afraid of other people's t-touch .." he sighed as he slowly touched my hand again I stiffened at what he did but I didn't expect what he did next, he kissed my hand caressed it to his face as he looked at me with full of desires in his eyes, is what I see right? why does another Sage seem to be in front of me now.
"I will ask you again for the last time reign, Are you going to accept the life contract now?" I stared into his eyes now hoping that my answer would be yes.
"If I accept, will you be willing to accept me again?"
"Of course because that's the only thing I could do to save you from that poison. You have to marry me"
"Then fine, I'll accept it. I am a vampire's mate and I am under the life contract with you." His eyes twinkled and I was shocked when his lips quickly touched mine. It was just fast but it had a strange effect on me. Then he immediately pulled me to sit next to him which slightly warmed my cheek.
"You need my blood, I'm giving it to you now." He tilted his head slightly so that I would have more of a chance to observe his neck, I swallowed one after another and my throat seemed even drier. I felt his arms snaked around my waist as he pulled me closer to him.
Gradually my head dropped closer to his neck as my fingers grip on his messy hair while my othee hand remained knotted on his shirt.
My lips were not yet touching his skin and I could already feel his gentle kiss on my neck. I bit my lips because of the pleasure he's giving me. I seem to have forgotten everything that happened and have been replaced by what is happening right now.
"Come on reign, drink." As if on cue I immediately suck his neck and I felt a kind of liquid touch my lips. Liquid fills my thirst, it tastes sweet like a mixture of cherry and strawberry yet cold and metallic. As it flowed, I felt a strange strength, as if I had never been weak. When I heard his groan I immediately withdrew my fangs from his neck and looked up. I shut my eyes tightly as I still feel a kind of power that gives me too much strength.
I also felt the movement of the tattoo on my back and seemed to be gradually losing what it was that had already eased my feeling.
As I looked down to sage, he was just staring at me, I could also see the gradual disappearance of the trace of my bite on him as if nothing had happened.
"You're now sealed and no one could ever make you as their possession, cause from now on you're mine reign mcdemort." and after he said that he grabbed my neck and brush his lips against mine.
To be continued...