~𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒙 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓~

Chapter 1: Apple

Lucifer was once the king of the Moon Kingdom, where people from all around came to visit and enjoy their lives. However, all of that would change when the kingdom was struck by a terrible and incurable illness. People were hurting, becoming too weak to move, and coughing up blood.

Lucifer was heartbroken to see his people in such a state. He looked everywhere for a remedy to rescue his family and his community. One day, he discovered a strange book buried under his old library, written in an antiquated language that miraculously turned into one he could understand. He studied the text and realized that the treatment involved a peculiar apple. The apple offered him the ability to heal his people if he ate it, but it also warned of potential adverse consequences. Regardless of all the dangers, Lucifer was prepared to do whatever to save his people.

He set off on a journey to find the apple, and he ultimately discovered it in a mysterious cave where the last apple was hanging. He took the apple and bit into it. Suddenly, his arms went black charcoal, his complexion white as snow, and his eyes turned blood-red with black pupils.

He returned to his chamber in the palace, got the book, and followed the directions in it. After doing so, all he had to do was add a drop of blood to the medicine, so he grabbed a knife and slashed his wrist. There it was done, he grabbed it and took a taste to verify if it was safe, and it worked. Lucifer sighed in relief and informed his people that he had a cure he first gave to his wife and daughter, later he would handed to the guards the cure first before giving it to the people.

After a cure was found, everyone was cured of an illness. However, as the moon turned red, it revealed their true nature. They all had pale skin and red eyes, and they were all hungry for blood. Although they did not have black pupils or black marks on their arms like Lucifer, they were still consumed by their thirst for blood.

Lucifer was the first to have a hunger for blood, which he quenched by swallowing the blood of an animal. Lilith discovered him in the act and joined him out of desperation, as their infant got hungry. Lucifer felt sorry about what he had done to his people and apologized to them, but they thanked the king and considered it as a gift. Despite their thanks, Lucifer felt bad for producing this outcome. One day, Lilith entered his chamber with a cup of animal blood.

Lilith: "Dear"

Lucifer: "Yes honey"

Lilith: "I know you feel upset, but your people adore you, and if it wasn't for you, Charlie would be unable to grow old and live her life"

Lucifer: "But can she, I read in the book that the other side of impact is everlasting life; she would hate me after discovering I did this to her."

She wrapped her arms around him, expressing her love and assuring him that Charlie would always love him. As time passed, Lucifer developed a method for his people to consume animal blood instead of human blood. However, some vampires would break this rule and consume human blood. To keep this from happening from attacking humans, Lucifer created a curse barrier to guard and hide the kingdom from any harm. Because of the cursed apple's abilities, he was the only vampire capable of doing so. Lucifer never spoke to his family about the cursed apple and its side effects. Such as the pain he felt when he used too much of the curse magic, the nightmares it gave him every night, and the fact that he now has black wings.

The human version of the myth was about a selfish king who was so obsessed with power that he was cursed with demon magic, which cursed his whole country and transformed them into vampires. Although no one has seen the kingdom, some believe it still exists, while others believe it never existed in the first place and that the creation of vampires was the result of a mad scientist testing on humans.

The church created hunters to deal with the vampires, but many of them were not sane and only did the job for money or to escape the system's hold. Criminals and killers were given a curse pill, which would kill them if they made a wrong move. This truth was kept hidden from the public.

Alastor walked inside the tavern wearing a black coat and a scarlet suit and discovered Husk gulping beer down a whole bottle. Alastor put a corpse on the counter, which Husk took before departing. When he returned with Rosie, she was dressed in a stunning red and black gown with a corset and knives wrapped around her waist, and she smiled.

Rose: "Alastor dear how was your hunt"

Alastor: "Lovely"

Rosie: "That's good to hear dear"

Nifty was dressed in a red gown with a black bow and ran into the bar, handing Alastor a piece of paper with written on it, "vampire attack in this distract number###." Alastor grinned before patting her on the head.

Alastor: "Thanks nifty"

Nifty: "No problem but boss are you going to do the job"

Alastor: "Yes"

Nifty: "Then can I come "

Alastor: "Yes if you promise not to go off running when you see another hunter"

Nifty: "Got it no bad boys"

Rose: "Going on another hunt, but you just got here"

Alastor: "Yes, but I'll return shortly."

He stepped through the door and lifted his coat to place the paper displaying his silver weapons and crossbow in his pocket, and Nifty gripped her silver knife, ready to strike while giggling like a mad person. Alastor summoned a carriage to transport them to their destination; it was dark and foggy, making seeing difficult, but with a monocle that can see vampires, it wasn't that terrible, Nifty had glasses that functioned similarly to Alastor's monocle, but she didn't enjoy wearing them.

Lucifer was at his palace working on paperwork. It was a lot after the assassination of his queen a year after receiving a divorce. She was slain by a vampire hunter, but what made him more anxious was his daughter. She had a concept of working with humans and that vampires and humans may be friends. Lucifer did not trust humans after all they were killing his people, especially after believing that they killed Lilith. Lucifer tried to persuade her that it was not a good idea that they were the cause of her mother's death, but she disagreed since she was like him and stubborn through and through.

He glanced at the moon while thinking about how to make Charlie give up on the human and vampire friendship concept because humans would always lie and manipulate just horrible beings, even if he was human once, but that was years ago.

Oh, but he had no idea that he would encounter a human, let alone a vampire hunter, with whom he would fall in love with.

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I hope you guys enjoy this chapter😊🥰 but I have a question should I make a vaggie a normal human or a vampire or that she will be a vampire hunter?