Dracula: Patient zero

Chapter: 13

The almost perfect plan

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«Kiara» See the sun?? Is that even possible?

«Vladus» Of course it is... Thanks to her. Vladus snapped his fingers once again which was the signal for Magdalena to make an appearance.

From a dark corner of the room, she slowly walked forward toward Vladus. With her black hair, black eyes and small stature, she wasn't ugly. Actually most would categorize her as a beauty but the entire atmosphere surrounding her was one of creepiness...

There was no way to know her age for sure, but if it was to be estimated the number should be between 5000 to 7000 years old. A few centimeters shorter than Vladus, she looked to be in her mid-twenties. There was a dignified feeling about her that could also be translated as coldness.

She was wearing a dark feathery black dress and had numerous venomous snakes crawling all over her. She walked up to Vladus and enveloped him in her arms before throwing a patronizing look to Kiara full of disdain.

«Magdalena» Hihihihi The little kitty became an elder I see... The look on Kiara's face showed that they knew each othersvery well.

«Kiara» M.m.m.Magdalena ??? Urrg... Kiara took a few steps back fearing Magdalena reaction.

«Magdalena» I have been kept in a box for thousands of years... And since I was kept by one of your children, there's no way you didn't know where and who I was.

«Kiara» I.i..I was... .Just...

«Magdalena» Doing your job as an elder... I know... Don't be so scared, you weren't among those who forcefully bled and stuffed me in a box. Also, my lord needs you, so I won't rip you to pieces...

In the past, Magdalena was the queen of a small country. Her people and her husband, the king loved her. One night, a vampire had infiltrated the castle slaughtering his way through the guards and servants. It was only due to bad luck that Magdalena had ended up crossing his path.

The vampire had immediately attacked her and sank his fangs into her neck. Magdalena had struggled as mush as she could and bit him as hard as she could resulting in her accidentally drinking a few drops of her assailant blood.

The guards luckily arrived before he had the chance to finish her forcing him to flee through a window. A few days later, the queen had recuperated from her injuries but was still bedridden, struck by an unknown sickness.

The king who loved her more than his own kingdom had summoned the best healers with no positive results... Eventually the king ended up summoning a powerful witch living in a nearby swamp, desperate to save his beloved wife.

The decision was controversial and many of the kings followers questioned his ability to reign. The witch had accepted to help the king's wife, but her price was very high. She would help only in exchange of a few newborn babies for her to use in order to extend her lifespan.

The witch entered the queen's chamber and began her treatment. The witch habit of using their own blood as catalyst to their spells was once again going to play against them. Like what had happened to Vladus, as soon as the witch cut her finger to collect a few drops of blood, Magdalena was gone in a feeding frenzy.

The queen's room had became a slaughterhouse and when the king entered, he was shocked by what he saw. His wife was holding the witch heart in her hands and was sucking on it as if it was a juice box. The king's love was so strong that he covered for her, built her a windowless 'dungeon' and directed all the prisoners sentenced to death into her room.

Gradually the queen had stopped appearing in public prompting many rumors about her and the king. What happened later was only to be expected, the king's men ended up assassinating him and then went to do the same with the queen.

The men were apprehensive due to the many rumor of the queen being a crazy monster feeding on criminals. She had even earned the title of 'mad queen' from the country citizens. When the soldiers entered her room, what they saw made some of them puke, and others faint.

The room was filled with body parts, some skinned, other scorched... Some human skins were placed on drying racks that she used to make dresses and other leathers accessories. Teeth necklaces, fabrics made of women human hairs... What they saw couldn't be unseen.

Grieving her husband, Magdalena ended up slaughtering all the people involved in his betrayal and fled from the country never to be seen again. She would later discover her ability for magic and by practicing on her own ended up attracting an old witch’s attention.

The witch knew vampires very well and was very intrigued and curious about Magdalena who could use magic despite her being a vampire. She eventually ended up taking her under her wing, teaching her magic and even laying the anti-sun spell foundation with her.

The spell demanded a mind-boggling amount of sacrifices and would work only on the caster's bloodline. Meaning that only Magdalena, her child, and her child's child would be immune to the sun. Obviously the elder council wasn’t happy with the idea of having only a 'select few' vampires immune to the sun while they remained vulnerable to it.

Then ended up seeing her as a menace to their power and decided to set a trap to capture and imprison her. She was kept that way in the vampire council vault for thousands of years until somehow ending up in Markus possession.

«Vladus» Now now... Everyone relax... What about we calmly discuss my plan and what is expected of each of you. Since the spell affects the target bloodline, that means that if I am the target, all vampires without exception would be immune to sunlight. So even the elders should now be willing to partake into the project.

«Magdalena» This would place vampires as the supreme race. Even those wolfs wouldn't stand a chance.

«Kiara» .... Indeed... The sun has been our biggest weakness throughout the ages... What do you need from me, my lord?

«Magnus» My biggest weakness is your beautiful little ass mwehaheh

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«Vladus» Cough cough!...... Very simple, the council must have many spies and human accomplices. I need you to use all the means in your disposition to locate covens and capture their leaders alive. To do that you shall use this. Vladus showed a flask of poison he was hiding behind his back.

«Vladus» A drop of this will put them to sleep for 48 hours. Don't hesitate to give them a dose everyday to make sure they won't wake up. Then you will transport them to our base of operation.

«Magnus» ..... I could easily find other uses for this poison... At this point everybody was already ignoring him.

«Kiara» Sounds feasible.. And where is that base of operation you speak of?

«Vladus» In a city called Daorsi. It is located in Illyria country southeast from here. For now I need you to locate these coven leaders and keep an eye on them. I will use that time to select a few humans worthy of becoming my children. When everything is ready, I will inform you via a maker's command. Then you will capture and bring these coven leaders to me.

«Kiara» Understood. I will go relay these information immediately to the other elders. Kiara gave Vladus a bow before vanishing into the darkness.

«Magnus» Awww I already miss her sweet little prepubescent ass...

«Magdalena» Is that ok?... Such an old and big organization is bound to have traitors among them...

«Vladus» Guhuhuhu... I'm counting on it, my dear Magdalena. Let's prepare ourselves for a long trip.

[Six month later]

Vladus and his acolytes had made their way to the city of Daorsi and with Magnus’s money and influence had managed to purchase quite an expensive mansion in the middle of town. The mansion was maintained by 20 humans servant to avoid bringing suspicions.

These 20 humans were slaves, criminals or simply people who Vladus had saved along the way there. Vladus didn't care much for them, he just wanted their loyalty and simply have them know how much they owed him for everything they now had.

They were the candidates to become Vladus's children and needed to prove themselves worthy of such honor. After all Vladus was offering them power, immortality and even was going to get rid of the sun 'curse'. This was a gift from God not all deserved.

With the perfect carrot dangling in front of their nose, the humans had become the most perfectly loyal little servants. Vladus was in the basement, sitting at a table with Magdalena and Magnus. Velthur was standing up behind Magnus like his shadow as usual.

At the end of the room was an old white haired naked woman, tied up in the air upside down by her feet. Her wrists were cut open and blood was slowly dripping down into two wooden buckets.

«Vladus» Is the circle completed?

«Magnus» Hehehehe yes my lord! It is really big and will undoubtedly include most of the citizens. It cost me a shit load of money to get it dug this fast but I must admit, your plan is truly genius hehehehe.

«Magdalena» And as you can see my lord, my part has just been completed as well. She should be empty now don't you think?

«Vladus» Guhuhuhu Then I guess it's time... Are you ready to be reborn my children? Said Vladus while turning his head toward the other side of the room. Immediately, ten dark cloaked figures moved forward and bowed their heads.

«Cloaked group» Yes Master!

Vladus walked up to them and bit the right arm of each one of them. Then gave each one a few drops of his blood to drink and went back to sit in his chair.

«Vladus» Now go take a rest. When this room start smelling delicious to you, come back to me.

«Cloaked group» Yes Master!

The group then left the room using a hidden tunnel leading to a deep underground room. Magdalena walked up to the dead old woman hanging from the ceiling and grabbed the buckets filled with her blood. She placed them on the table and started filling a few wooden cups.

«Magdalena» It won't take long now... One month is enough to teach them the necessities.

«Vladus» Yes, I’m contacting her right now. Vladus then used a maker's command on Kiara that said “BRING ME THE WITCHES”.

Now it should take the vampires one month at least to capture ten coven leaders and bring them all the way to their hideout, so this was how much time they had to get ready for the ceremony.

[One month later]

Under the bright moonlight, a cortege of around a hundred humans and vampires was making its way toward Vladus's mansion carrying ten coffins looking boxes with them. The group discretely made their way inside the mansion walls, moving in perfect silence to avoid anyone attention.

Once inside the mansion, Velthur escorted the group to the courtyard situated in the middle of the residence. Kiara and three other elders were also among the group and upon arrival, sent most of the vampires to keep guard in the surrounding areas.

In the courtyard were now only the three elders and a few humans organizing the boxes in a big circle. One elder was a silver haired man who looked to be in his 60's and the other was a bearded “baron” looking character who seemed to be constantly frowning.

He looked to be around 40 of age. Then there was Kiara, still looking like a little doll and this time wearing a black frilly dress. It is then that Vladus made his appearance, wearing his black cape and badass leather armor.

«Kiara» I have returned my lord.

«Aldherin» It is an honor to make your acquaintance my lord. My name is Aldherin Berthel.

«Josher» I am also honored, my name is Josher Hyodhu.

«Vladus» Glad to see you here tonight. Today we are making history my children. Are these the ten coven leaders I asked of you?

«Kiara» Yes my lord.

«Josher» Many have died in the process but we succeeded in our mission. The elder seemed irritated.

«Vladus» These are the ten children I have selected to become my children. At that moment, ten of the twenty humans saved by Vladus entered the courtyard and walked toward the center of the circle formed by the coffins. The human servants brought by the elders then backed away on the outside of the circle.

«Vladus» These children have been turned and are now ready for their first meal. Let's proceed... Open the boxes!

Then suddenly, the boxes opened on their own and the ten witch coven leaders crawled out of them. At the same time, some of the human servants executed the other servants and started attacking Vladus's children with magic. Vladus felt the vampires all around the city dying one by one.

Vladus used a maker command on the three elders that said: “FIVE MINUTES TO LEAVE THE CITY”. The infiltrated witches immediately murdered Vladus’s children and before they even got to them, the elders were gone. As for the ten coven leaders, they were already prioritizing Vladus and had formed a circle around him, preventing him from running away.

Vladus was all alone in the middle of the courtyard, surrounded by witches and sorcerers. Eventually, more witches started appearing from everywhere, there must had been 200 of them coming from all directions slowly filling the courtyard and surrounding Vladus. Then all at the same time, the witches started chanting a spell destined to seal Vladus forever.

«Vladus» Is this all of you? Guhuhuhu that's more than expected. He said with an arrogant smile on his lips. Then Vladus simply vanished into thin air.

«Sorcerer» What?? There's no way he could have left the prison circle!

«Witch» GNAAaa!!! Illusion!!! It was an illusion created with magic!!! GNA!

«Witch» ....Trap?? IT'S A TRAP!

Then all of a sudden the witches fell to the ground, incapable to move, completely drained of their strength.

«Sorcerer» GUWAaaaaaa Such powerr!!! ARGggggg

Right under their feet in a 70-meter down underground room, a group of 11 cloaked figures with orange glowing eyes were chanting in a circle surrounding a man with red glowing eyes. The red-eyed cloaked figure was obviously Vladus, and the 11 figures surrounding him, his children and Magdalena.

Vladus had Magnus dig a circular tunnel surrounding the entire city with this room as its center. Everyone above them and in the giant circle was going to be used as energy for the spell. It was in Vladus plan to let people think they needed ten coven leaders to create ten vampires with magic abilities, but the truth was they simply needed to drink a few mouthfuls of blood for it to work.

He had Magdalena look out for any signs of magic, then tracked and captured the leader of the coven herself. They then had one coven leader and by using her blood economically, had turned ten loyal humans into witch vampires one month before the elders arrival.

Magdalena used the one month time needed for them to arrive to teach the newborn vampires how to use their magic, and the knowledge they would need for the anti-sun spell they were currently doing. Magdalena and Vladus knew that even with the twelve of them, they would need even more magic.

So Vladus used the other ten 'rejected' humans as bait to attract as many witches as possible in the center of their giant spell circle. They would become the power-source used for the spell. After being completely drained of magic, the witches were condemned to die.

Not only the witches, but the entire 500,000+ citizens living in the city as well would be used as sacrifices for it to work. The eleven Witch vampires were concentrating on the spell, draining every-bit of energy available to them and applying the anti-sun spell on Vladus.

All of it lasted 15 minutes that felt like hours. They waited a few minutes, waiting to see if everything was in order. Nothing wrong seemed to be happening. The twelve of them then went back upstairs and inspected the aftermath.

All the witches were dead and the city was perfectly silent. Eerily silent... Only the wind and cicada could be heard. Vladus then sent a maker command to Magnus and the elders saying that it was over. They now needed to wait for sunrise to confirm if it had worked.

The witch vampires including Vladus slowly walked around the city and confirmed that everyone was definitely dead... Hundreds of thousands of humans, all that energy had been used, but was the spell correctly performed...?

A few minutes later the three elders came back followed by Magnus, with a look of astonishment and a bit of anger on their faces.

«Josher» What the fuck was that?? It looked as if all had went to shit yet you say it has been successful?

«Kiara» Why did you hide stuff from us? Is it that you don't trust us?

«Vladus» You have rats among your organization... By using so many humans it was obvious that you needed a hard lesson. Never, trust, humans.

«Kiara» Sighhhhh... Did it really work??

«Vladus» Only one way to be sure. We just need to wait for the sun now.

And they didn't have to wait long, a few minutes later the sun rose and at first everybody was hiding indoor. Then, with resolve in each of his steps, Vladus walked outside. The sun violently shone upon him for the first time in thousands of years.

He was there, his arms in the air and his head high up. Nothing was happening. Vladus wasn't burning. Astonished, the rest of the group followed Vladus' example and walked outside.

«Kiara» Sniff.. sniff... My lord... I..I..I..I am standing under the sunlight... And I am not burning.... sob*sob*sob.. Th. Thank you my lord!!!

Every single one of them bowed and cried at Vladus's feet. They were dancing, bathing in sunlight and showing expressions of joy they couldn't remember showing since they had became vampires.

[A few hundreds meters away, outside the city]

«Unknown man» Look like the witches have failed...

«Unknown woman» TTSssss Useless... Now these leaches can live under the sun... UNACCEPTABLE!

«Unknown man» Doesn't matter... They haven't become stronger. MEN! TIME TO CLEAN UP THIS TOWN!

Thousands of men slowly started coming out of the forest, joining the two mysterious figures. Then screams of pain could be heard from them. They were contorting their body in strange ways, their eyes glowing of a bright orange. They all seemed in incredible pain. Then the two people who seemed to be the leaders started doing the same, except for the fact that their eyes were glowing crimson red.

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!

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Many thanks to gcman01 for proofreading this chapter!

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