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"The best feeling is when you look at him..and he's already staring back at you."
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"Are you sure no ones there?" I asked again skeptically, seeing Amelia and the rest of the pure blooded vampires stand behind her in secret, with Elijah hugging my legs to conceal himself while he was peeking here and there in an adorable way.
"All the humans are in the lounge part of the caves. I can't smell anyone in there. But I can hear the other normal vampires and humans downstairs." Amelia assured with a firm nod while pointing at the door on the other side of the corridor I was standing at, with Elijah becoming my cuddle bear in a very short amount time without a reason which I'd I didn't mind at all, so he refused to leave me alone.
And I will go insane if he says he wants to cuddle my belly for the umpteenth time.
"Stay quiet okay?" I cooed at him softly with a smile, as he nodded in understanding with a cold expression, creating a completely new side of him in front of me, shocking me to the brim to think a kid that young could pull off the same expression as Lazarus would, making me roll my eyes a with a small huff.
He eerily acts like Zari too, oof.
'Go save them.' I mouthed to Amelia cautiously who was ten feet behind me hiding beside a rock, giving my a thumbs up before guiding the other vampires with her in a specific direction, concealing the other vampires with her thanks to her speed and compulsion.
I sneaked ahead carefully with Elijah behind me, knowing just a few rooms ahead there are humans hanging out and chattering way too loudly while talking about golds and riches, before stopping immediately after hearing something bang against the wall beside my figure.
I frantically looked around to hear loud and shameless moans coming from afar, erupting from the other side of the door, causing me to groan in annoyance and cover Elijah's ears to conceal his eardrums from this monstrosity, while walking ahead the room where two humans were having sex like there was no tomorrow, before approaching the rusty metal door in the middle of the mine shaft with limited amount of light available.
"Were they having intercourse?" Elijah asked all of a sudden while frowning, while I choked on my spit after hearing him say that.
"No." I curtly replied with a vigorous shake to my head.
"If they were, that's completely okay. I've even seen people have intercourse many times in the years I've been here, they even sometimes did it in front of us, and it looks so weird! My main part isn't like that of the big boys at all," He commented with no remorse after looking down to his almost torn trousers, while I debated in my mind whether I should laugh or cry right now with a constipated face.
So God help me from this kid.
He's a child Diana, don't laugh.
Fucking stop, don't laugh. He's too adorable, you're going to get him killed if you flip.
"Aren't I also a boy DiDi? Why don't I have one..stick like that? They even have two big sack—"
"You're a small boy now baby, when you become big and strong like a King, then you'll have one, okay?" I tried not to laugh so much with a small snort, still not forgetting about the mission, and doing a shimmy past the door.
"Will you give one stick to me one day?" He gushed cheerfully.
What have I got myself into.
"I'll buy you one. Now let's go." I rambled with another thought while unlocking the destination door softly and pushing him in, before looking behind me to see no one and happily go in too, shutting the door shortly after that.
"So dirty." He gagged beside me while closing his nose in disgust, as I inspected the shabby room with numerous potion ingredients that smelled horrible, before walking ahead and kneeling down to Elijah's level.
"I know," I sighed deeply while ruffling his soft blonde hair to cheer him up, and he flashed a toothy grin to my face, brightening my mood instantly.
"Okay baby, he's what we have to do. We'll make a nice slimy goo and create many water pops out of it, and as I promised last night, you can throw it on the humans magic people while surprising them. Then we'll go outside and go home, and after a small fight you can have a cuddle session with my belly, I haven't forgotten about that, don't worry. But you need to promise me something, you can't bite me when I make myself bleed okay?" I instructed seriously.
"Of course! I promise I won't bite you, my control power is amazing! Dada taught me many times before during farming." He smiled showing his broken front tooth, making me look at him in awe before kissing his cheek tenderly.
I swear kids are my weakness.
"Good boy, don't touch anything while I make the goo, or else you will have cooties!" I warned with a dramatic gasp, making him gasp at well.
"What are cooties?" He frowned.
"Cooties are...human germs."
"Ewww! I won't touch anything."
"Perfect."
I quickly scanned the room from an empty glass container before spotting one on a crowded table surrounded by many knifes and cutters, along with a few poisonous berries and what not, taking a small one and then gathering all the ingredients to make humisita.
"Got that, got that, sleaze balls I can't forget this," I scolded myself with a kid friendly curse while learning safer curse words around a child in my spare time, before mixing all of it in the flask and taking the cutter.
"Are you ready Elijah? You promise you won't bite me?" I asked again while positioning the cutter on my wrist, as he stood at the furthest corner and hugged himself in obedience.
"I'm ready." He nodded, before I took a deep breath and made a small incision on my arm, causing me to hiss as the scarlet liquid oozed out of me and started to moist my skin.
I looked at Elijah to see his newly turned red eyes staring at my arm hungrily, licking his lips in secret before his baby fangs were starting to grow, making my eyes widen at the sight of his tiny beast emerging before gulping my spit down my throat, but he kept his promise and stood his ground with a clenched jaw.
Guess he wasn't lying about the control part.
I quickly made drops of my blood fall into the flask carefully, immediately shoving the cutter into my pocket for maybe future use of a defence weapon, before clearing my throat and stepping a foot back.
"Convura de cellio tovare le sucrila etu mijcijo." I chanted aloud without a stutter after remembering the words correctly, causing the contents in the flask to sizzle and burn together, continuing to drain more blood slowly after stopping to see the satisfying purple end solution.
"Okay, I'm done. I need a bandaid—"
I immediately stopped myself from talking as Elijah teleported himself in front of me abruptly, and grabbed my arm roughly, planting his lips on my wound and making me shit my pants, really feeling my heart pound on my chest in fear.
"Elijah! You promised me! You can't drink—"
"I'm not drinking," He growled softly while licking the wound, causing my skin to seal shut in a matter of seconds and not leave any scar, while he savoured the last drops of blood in his lips and pulled away.
"Vampire thuthu is healing." He pointed out sheepishly, making me sigh in relief while squishing his chin.
"You scared me, but anyways, come on. Let's go and get these people back."
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"Ready?" I whispered to all the pure bloods with small handmade pouches of humisita smoke, after grabbing the handle of the metal door in the next corridor with all the villains talking among themselves inside.
Lulu strikes again man this guy is the literal best.
Tell me more secrets in the future babysitter, thanks.
Amelia told me that the humans and vampires were liberated in a matter of literal minutes because these stupid humans were dumb enough to all rest together without anyone on duty to look after the prisoners, seriously not believing the vivid details all of them told me about the things they did to them.
I've lost faith in humans.
Why oh why.
But the good thing was, some pure bloods volunteered in taking them to the nearest kingdom and not Stormania since utter chaos might be happening here, already finishing half of the plan because they are finally free after God knows how long, and now for the fun part.
"I'm excited." Elijah giggled below me after clapping his tiny hands, making me smile at him in affirmation before everyone else nodded with Amelia at me, watching the background of our surroundings for intruders, finding none because of only hearing water trickling down the ravine like place.
"Three," I started nervously.
"Two," They all took a predatory stance.
"One."
And within a fast second, I opened the door with a bang after it jarred with the wall behind it, and all the vampires teleported in respective positions like a circle to surround all the culprits in there with ease, before I heard a round of screams coming from all the now panicking humans, making me inwardly smirk.
"No more intercourses in front of me stupid humans!" Elijah laughed aloud, making all of us finally snort before I entered the room with a pouch in my hands to see more than two dozens of bad witches and wizards shoot a gasp at my direction after seeing me alive.
"What the fuck?! How are you alive—"
"You messed with the wrong girl and her man. Lazarus Rey gives his best regards." I winked playfully before throwing the pouch into the floor, creating a mass of purple gas erupt into the air and holding my breath after everyone else threw their own pouches in every corner of the room, before a massive hit of cacophonous screams of pain and agony flooded all around us.
Shortly after that, I could hear the vampires around me circulate around the whole cave system, throwing and planting the poison pouches like they were a toy, creating hundreds of shouts erupt in the echoing ravine, before we all could already smell burnt flesh engulfing the atmosphere with a hug.
Amelia smiled beside me after having a taste of one of the vampires for her own satisfaction, licking her bloody lips to taste the last bit of scarlet liquid to savour it, while Elijah was tugging at my attire with a bright grin.
"Take that you bad cootie beans! I will have a bigger stick than all of you when I grow older!"
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"Please don't tell me it was that easy." I exclaimed while throwing my arms in the air after staring at Amelia who was controlling her laughter, as we stood out the caves in less than ten minutes after finishing off the last remaining people in the evil liar, walking a little ahead before greeting the broad daylight with a warm hug.
"It's true, no one else is here. We checked all the places around this area which know are of her territory, and we finished off literally all 234 humans. No one lived to see us dust ourselves." A man commented.
"Are you kidding me?! I was so excited to be in this super cool mission of fighting humans and being a badass but now I am so offended. I can't believe I'm a part of humans!" I growled a whine after face-palming hard, while Elijah tugged my arm impatiently.
"Go home go home! We want to cuddle!" He insisted while jumping up and down in one spot, making me sigh in relief after seeing all of them safe after God knows how many decades, happily kissing the top of his head to see him all nice and comfortable with me now.
"Do we know the way back to Stormania at all?" I questioned with confusion lacing my voice while looking around the clear fields which I've never seen before.
"We wouldn't know, we are not from Stormania." All the vampires mumbled.
"I don't remember the way back." Elijah frowned after them.
"Just great, so the aftermath of the great fight is the toughest bit of this adventure huh? God I wish someone can just fly in and be like 'hEAd ThAt wAY miSsY!'" I groaned in a weird voice, before hearing a very loud screech high up in the air, causing everyone to shift their eyes up in the sky, and my eyes twitched in response.
"I jinxed myself didn't I." I murmured to Amelia again.
"You sure did." She laughed brightly, before I turned around and waved at the friendly bird once again.
"Axel! Hey there boo! Come back to your foodie best friend!" I giggled gingerly while seeing the mighty shining eagle descend from the air with a happy roar escaping his impressive beak, before he flapped his wings very loudly and landed on my shoulder in style.
"Scary bird!" Elijah panicked in a shriek while hiding behind my legs, while Axel eyed him suspiciously.
"Don't worry baby, he's a good bird. He even claims to be a foodie just like us—"
• SOMEWHERE IN THE WORLD •
"You dared to even cross me again." Lazarus boomed ferociously after seeing a floating vampire in the air with a nefarious smile, who finally revealed her real face after uncovering her facade with her magic, showcasing her decaying hair and rotten teeth, while her claws like nails were the size of a spoon, making all the royal guards hiss in distaste.
"Did you miss me darling? Don't you want to give me a welcoming kiss after my resurgence?" Jacqueline teased with a menacing laugh that sounded torturous to everyone in the girls, while Lazarus transformed into his own true form with a thousand vampire soldiers all armed behind him, with the remaining royal family following his actions and standing beside him.
Lazarus now was having red and black veins surfacing in his pale skin like a true beast, growing his own powerful fangs that were known to kill someone in one single taste, while his eyes turned almost jet black instead of his crimson colour, causing everyone to reveal their own beasts shortly afterwards.
In came with the pure blooded monsters all humans feared with their creators in royal attire, standing loud and proud after seeing Lazarus take a step in front, already using his compulsion powers to manipulate the soil he was standing on, making it surround the nearby fields like barrier thanks to yet another speak he had learned from his true wizard friend, causing Jacqueline to look impressed after knowing she was not the only vampire who knew magic.
Shields were placed, swords were sharpened, armours were clashed and boots were unclean with the newly heard lightning surrounding the whole castle, making Stormania's crest come into view from the glass of the topmost floor of the home of the royals, while the village men and women scurried back into their houses in fear of enduring a storm.
Luther transformed into his own beast that was almost as strong as Lazarus, baring his teeth with a sly smirk after tilting his head, inviting every single witch and wizard on the castle grounds to flash their bright wands at the demonic woman hovering, making Jacqueline chuckle with delight.
"Aww, is this the welcome I get after almost a century? I'm very touched. You guys still love me so much like little puppies, I'm sure you remember that, don't you?" Jacqueline giggled while producing black seizing sparks from her venomous veins, creating a circle of what looked like a black smog beneath her feet, emitting a disgusting looking trail that followed her everywhere.
"It's over Jacqueline, you can't win against us, even with the help of your toxic magic, you will die in the end." Cynthia snarled loudly after showcasing his rare burgundy eyes, displaying her deserving name as the angel of death, being the most powerful female vampire out there, making Jacqueline clap her hands playfully.
"Ah Cynthia, always the dangerous woman of the family. But I must say, you became badly replaced with your new daughter huh? Too bad for you, I already won." Jacqueline laughed in an evil tone after shrugging casually, causing Lazarus to twitch his eyes in anger.
"You will never win with me breathing everyday, you tried to ruin me, but you failed. Because you know why? You're a failure in everything you do, your plans, your spells, your tactics, your life, everything is a failure." Lazarus pointed out while displaying his Dracula fangs to her as a threat, while she frowned with a pout.
"Did I really fail darling? Because last time I checked, I saw your real mate all dead and lifeless when I took her from here. She's quite a beauty I must say, sad that she didn't live to hear that."
"YOU'RE LYING. GET HER—"
"Diana! Look at me!" Amelia screamed in a panic while shaking my figure vigorously, making me blink and squint my eyes at the sudden sleepiness greeting me that started to fade away, and came back to reality after breathing heavily.
"You went all blank for a few seconds DiDi, are you okay?" Elijah frowned worriedly while holding my hand.
"Oh my God...I had a-another vision.." I stuttered with parted lips while almost loosing my balance, before a fellow vampire helped me up and made me stand properly.
"Woah, easy there. What do you mean with another vision? What did you see?" A woman gulped while looking at me.
"We need to go back to castle really quickly."
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"Why the hell is Lucien still not here?!" I hissed angrily at Axel while concealing myself in the thick bushes after a whole palm sweating marathon to the castle grounds, hiding beside the whole fight occurring in front of me, while everyone else followed quietly behind me, making sure their scent is not recognisable by the bloody guards.
Oh my God this isn't just a fight, this a whole war.
I panicked after seeing the skilled guards fight a huge gush of black energy coming from a certain direction that spawned in wild demonic beasts into the atmosphere, making my eyes widen at her attempt to spawn evil creatures as her army instead of using her human army now, while the whole battlefield was filled with growls and scratches, making me wince.
I can't watch this.
Axel screeched in distress his beak towards the sky while preparing his wings to fly as soon as possible, catching my attention back to him and I looked up at his signal.
"GO BRING LUCIEN QUICKLY! This is getting out of control! We need to stop her! He's the only person who can do it! We and Lazarus will delay her powers as much as possible, go!" Amelia ordered Axel with her own royal voice, before he flew into the air in a flash and took a good amount of speed to head towards the direction down the royal hills, before me and Amelia chattered our teeth nervously, pushing a gawking Elijah behind her figure.
"W-Why...are they.." Elijah trailed off with a small tear escaping his eyes after seeing brutal violence happening, making me tsk and cover his eyes with his hands.
"You stay with Amy Auntie okay?" I whispered in comfort, wincing at the sound of multiple creatures having their necks getting broken into two halves, noticing a familiar roar of vengeance coming from the other side of the battle field, making me get up abruptly.
But the Amelia grabbed my hand and stopped me.
"Wha—"
"Whatever fucking happens, you can't go in the middle of the battlefield." She warned.
"No! Why not?! I can fight with you!" I hissed.
"Bitch, you are human! A human in the midst of bloody angry vampires, fucking demon animals and a raging royal family is not a good mixture! If you get a single scratch, all of them will be after your blood including us! We can't kill you! So do yourself a favour and stay—"
"Oh my God no!" I screamed in horror while grabbing the small cutter from my pocket in a reflex, and threw it perfectly into the direction of the evil woman who tried to creep behind Micheal in a panic, hitting her right on the arm with a clean cut, causing a gush of black blood to ooze out of her veins across the whole grounds before she stopped and turned to my direction.
"ONE THING DIANA! I TOLD YOU TO DO ONE FUCKING THING." Amelia scolded like a parent while a I glared at Jacqueline with not even one ounce of fear in my body.
About time I meet this imbecile.
You dared to touch my Zari!
She at first widened her eyes at me after seeing my living figure, looking at me nicely breathing and sneering at her with a clenched jaw, before her lips turned into a cynical smirk again, while Amelia guarded my figure with her body with all the other pure blood vampires standing in front of me for protection.
"Don't you dare move—"
Before Amelia could finish, a fast flash of light appeared in front of my eyes, making me cover my head to squint my eyes to get back my vision, before I was pulled somewhere to teleport in a different location than the concealing bushes.
I was instantly grabbed from my back with my arms tucked behind me and my head got yanked toward to my left, exposing my neck completely to showcase my vulnerability, causing me to thrash, or try to trash against her vampire strength, before feeling her mouth fan my ear with her breath.
"STOP FIGHTING OR I WILL KILL HER."
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