《Kael Cor:A Vampire's Awakening》Arc I:under darkness: Chapter 8: Secret
Advertisement
I shot up with a start, scared and covered in sweat. I had to bite back a curse as my brain felt like it rattled in my head from my abrupt movements. I was a little bit confused, but that was mainly because I could not remember passing out.
I took a look around my friend unfamiliar surroundings and felt my unease grow. My first thought at that moment was where the hell was Nisi, I desperately hoped she was not found out by any guard. Though there was not much they could do to her since she was a gnome and an original inhabitant of the caves, but still I felt anxious for her safety.
The room I was in was huge, it was about half the size of a standard tower in the pit, and it was decorated with various red and purple silk curtains. I was laying down on what could only be described as the most comfortable bed ever created. Not withstanding this was the first bed I have ever laid on in recent memory. The old memories does not count.
The bed spanned an impressive five meters wide and five meters long, I couldn’t help but imagine how many people slept on it each night. It was covered with soft satin sheets that were a deep shade of red, and a very thick blanket made of grey fur.
There was a scent in the air, it was more like a perfume really, but to my sensitive nose I could smell the one component that really made it pleasing; blood. There was a musk to it that I have never experienced before, of course the blood given in the rations was not as fragrant as this. But this scent had something every other drop of blood I tasted since I woke up a vampire didn’t. Life. I was not stupid, or at least I had a general idea of what I was perceiving.
I was drawn out of my thoughts by the sound of someone walking towards me. The curtains functioned as a partition and gave a strange feeling of a maze as it blocked the approaching figure of the owner of the footsteps. It didn’t take long for her to come into view, and my what a sight she was. Purple skin so dark it was almost black, her three inch long ears rose out of long silky strands of silver white hair. And her eyes, her eyes were very familiar. It was the blood red glare that all vampires had. But the fact that it was on an elf made her even more exotic with the assortment of colors that made up her biology.
She had an impressive figure, and she was tall, taller than what I probably guessed to be my 185 cm height, putting her at a 190 or above. She was clad in an assortment of leather cloths that clung to her voluptuous figure in more ways than could probably be explained with any word in my vocabulary. Her long legs seemed to go on forever and her eyes had such intense focus to them, that I was almost sure she could read my mind or see beneath my cloths; though I hope she liked what she saw.
We stared at each other for seconds, minutes, hours I was not really sure, but I was struck and enamored with the beauty in front of me in such a way that, I would have stared at her forever if she’ll let me.
“you are not what I expected.”
Her voice was not what I expected. I thought she would sound like an angel you know, soft and smooth like a summer breeze. Instead she sounded like a lioness, hard, brutal and straight. There was an edge to her voice that added a layer of mysteriousness to her image and a hefty doze of power to her words.
Advertisement
“Well what were you expecting?” I asked her back with a tone more subdued than I thought capable.
She smiled, it was more like a smirk as her lips curved upwards in a lazy tilt and she brought the full brunt if her gaze to mine. Eye to eye.
“I expected you to be handsome, fair skinned, tall and heavily muscled. The only thing you got right was the height, though not as tall as I fantasized but it’ll do. Your dark skin is passable it matches well with your eyes. But your looks are mediocre I will rate it below average or just average enough. You are not built like a mountain but like a stalk of corn. You are muscled but not like a god. All in all you are a disappointing sight for the man who has been the fantasy sweetheart of every elven and vampire maiden for the past five years. So please pardon my disappointment.”
At that moment I did not care how beautiful she was, but I was upset. Something in me would not accept such a description from her. She was completely wrong in her assessment of me, she was maybe mostly right…… or half right…….. OK she was completely right, but that did not give the right to just say those things out loud and look at me like I was some jewelry she was going to buy from a market.
“Listen lady, j don’t know who the hell you are, but did your parents ever taught you any manners. You are much to rude for my liking.”
“my parents are dead, the were killed by a previous warden when I was only five years old. So no my parents never taught me any manners, they were busy being dead.” She replied nonchalantly and almost emotionlessly, if not for the sexy grin she had going on.
But this whole conversation got odd real fast. She seemed rather eccentric and her bringing up of her parents death had put a damper on the special round of scolding I had prepared.
“Uhh…. I’m sorry.” I apologized with a whole less sincerity than I put in my words.
“its okay, I believe this misunderstanding is partly my fault, I never should have said those things about you. Even though they were true, it was still completely discourteous of me to say such things out in the open.”
My anger seemed to rise. This woman had not tact, and was brutally honest. It seemed she lacked a common sense of how to talk to people you meet for the first time. But the fact that she did not think she was fully responsible for the while misunderstanding, or that she absolutely really had no iota courtesy in those extra large breasts of hers that were almost ripping her vest to shreds.
“Who are you?” I asked with a sigh
“Ahh, my name is Xaseah Lis Sarvit the 233 moon priestess of the dark elves, future high queen, and the nineteenth elder vampire of the house of Daesol.”
“Uhh…. What?” I asked, massively confused by the strings of titles.
“Basically I am your queen, or one of them at least so you should respect and fear me.”
“right. Okay then. It was nice meeting you your highness. But I think I should be on my way now. I left a friend back at the mine so I need to go check if she is okay.”
No one could blame me if I thought she was crazy, but I really wanted to stay under the radar of any figure of authority, regardless of which race they came from. I did not know much about dark elves apart from the fact that they are allies with vampires, I have come to understand that both races share a bond that’s thick and deeper than expected. It was not surprising though, some if not all of the greatest bonds are forged in the heat of hardships.
Advertisement
Xaseah was living proof of that bond. She was half vampire half dark elf, but she was strange. Beauty or not she was something I needed to avoid at all cost, at least for the moment. I also needed to get Nisi and get the hell out of here. I had no idea how long I was passed out, and I still need to properly understand how I was able to weave a rune when my mental energy was not enough.
“your gnome friend has been sent back to your tower with some supplies, after I refused to release you into her custody, she was quite adamant about returning. She said you would be able to understand.”
Xaseah interrupted my thoughts as she gave an explanation of Nisi whereabouts, the fact that she knew I was worried about Nisi showed that she might have noticed that Nisi and I had a relationship that was a little bit unusual. I have been made to be unbalanced understand that gnomes are what passed as higher goblins in this prison.
The higher goblins were known as a race of immense greed, with a penchant for over pricing and under pricing whenever it suited them. This race of goblins were a lot smarter than their typical counterparts, taller too and always usually merchants.
Gnomes as far as the prison was concerned were people who only cared about making a profit. No one was spared from this, as both prisoners, guards and wardens were all subjected to the prices the gnomes decided on.
So much like I mentioned before, having a gnome to survey and mine for mineral with a vampire or dark elf was so expensive that I was sure to draw attention to my self. And I think I just did.
“thank you for sending her back safe. I will remember this favor and pay you back in the future. I will now take my leave.”
I thanked her for her help, at least that was a show of common courtesy, but I really needed to get away from her. I did not think any of my secrets were safe anywhere around her. What makes the matter even worse is the fact that I have this overwhelming urge to spill all of my secrets and more. She had a weird aura(not that I could see it)that just seemed to scream dominance, and every cell in my body was screaming at me to submit.
“You owe me more than just a favor, I saved you life and not to mention I know your secret.”
My eyes widened in fright at that moment. Teluna and Nisi had no knowledge of me being a weaver, and that was mostly on my part to keep them safe. They could very well already be in danger just for the fact that they mingled with me. But should they have to carry the burden of my secret, that somehow me, a vampire that was barely a year old had the abilities of the men and women that sat on top of the mountain and overlooked of Shearath. That was a perfect recipe for them to loose their young lives after endless hours of torture.
“I thank you for saving my life, anything I could do to relay you please tell me. But about this secret of mine you say you know. I have no idea what you were talking about.
I was so nervous that my voice croaker, and that tell tale itch that I have come to know and become familiar with for the past year made an appearance. All this interrogation made me hungry, and my frayed nerves had made my fangs poke out of my mouth to rest snugly on top of my lower lip.
“You must be hungry, well let me take care of that for you.”
She clapped her hands three times, and I could hear shuffling beyond the maze of curtains, or were those veils, can’t really be sure they might be the same thing though. My nervousness seemed to hit an all time high as my thoughts wandered all over the place. I was a little relieved that she did not press me for my so called secret. But it still did not make me any less nervous.
Two women appeared from beyond the curtains dragging a man in between them. I payer no attention to both ladies, but to the man who was being dragged between them. He was dressed neatly, in pure white robes like some sort of cleric or a sacrifice. He smelled like he had been bathed in the same perfume as the one I perceived when I woke up in this room. But on him that scent was a whole lot more intoxicating.
He was thin, thinner than normal. He looked so emancipated that single gust of wind could very well blow his body away. The women dragged him over and placed him at my feet, assaulting my senses with that tempting musk and a sound that I have found irresistible since the first day I opened my eyes; the sound of a heartbeat. Or more importantly the sound of a human heartbeat. My fangs ached as my hunger began to rise, it pushed aside every other thinking faculty I had currently working in my head and goaded me to go for the kill. To sink my fangs into that very visible vein that pulsed steadily at the crook of his neck. I felt Xaseah lean against me and breath softly into my ears, coupled with my hunger I could not help but be aroused.
I felt her lick me, if it was in a different situation I would have reacted differently, but her seductive moves only added to the intensity of my hunger. Then without standing on ceremony I pounced, I sunk my fangs deep into his neck, and I felt it flow. Gods it was wonderful, such taste, such texture. It tasted like nothing and everything. Like immortality in an endless pool of ecstasy. This blood, his blood, human blood was divine, I felt it fill me up, strengthen me. My sense were sharper and the pleasure I felt at that moment was so much more than should be possible. I felt and heard Xaseah whisper into my ears.
“This is just a little gift as a commemoration of our meeting. There’s nothing you want here that I won’t be able to provide for you. All you have to do is say the word, and I mean this from the bottom of my very black heart. It’s an esteem pleasure meeting you my lord Kael Cor, the first Vampire WEAVER of Shearath. I look forward to working with you.”
Somehow in my haze of pleasure I knew I had been played. Human blood was just so addictive that she knew I would definitely be back for more. I had no idea how she procured the human, or the fact that she now had more cards to play with in her hands. But I didn’t care, I just lost my self In the frenzy of my feeding, in the euphoria I felt as his heart began to slow down, steadily and surely. Until all I had left was a filled stomach and a cold corpse.
Advertisement
Aurion: The New World
The VRMMO, Aurion, has been released. Created by the company Axion Industries, that created epic and censational VRMMOs such as Starline 66, Eros: Land of Gods, and Rubilax United, this has been said to be their best game yet, featuring a massive open world capable of adapting, evolving, and having a level of permeance. A massive lore filled story that will make the world litterally feel alive. New state of their art neural connection that will let one feel as if one is really a part of the world. Adaptive NPCs and questing, a new overhauled crafting system, and plenty of room to grow. A great and promising experience for new players to feel free and capable of doing anything, while still allowing the stronger more powerful guilds to feel a sense of accomplishment for their hard work and achievments. A promised way to escape the dreary tumroil and boring idiocy of everyday life by letting you go to a new world full of wonder and adventure. With millions registered in the first day coming online to play this hit new game, supported by an AI Assist System, little did anyone suspect about what would happen...and how this world would become their new home. This will be the story of a boy, the friends he makes along the way, as he and everyone else make their way in this new world...in Aurion: The New World. (Cover came from pintrest, posted by Joe)
8 85Eros Libera
A boy blessed by the heveans suddenly met a twist in fate, which led him in a situation he never even dreamed of happening.
8 163Divine Intervention Online
Vin is an ex-slave who wields sacred knowledge to demand freedom for his people. Seth is a reluctant player stuck in a game that is set to last 200 more years. When their paths converge, even the false gods will take notice. * * * Hello and thank you for giving Divine Intervention Online a chance. This is not my first book (that honor belongs to The Flock by Chris Sauter- available on Amazon). This is hopefully going to become my second book, the first of a planned LITRPG trilogy. This is a labor of love, dedicated to my absolute obsession with the LITRPG genre that has held me in its grasp for over 3 years. There will be dark situations that perhaps only adults should read including: slavery, violence and the results of war. There will be no harems, little profanity, but possibly some triggers for people who don’t like torture, violence, and other dark stuff.
8 191Progenitor - A GameLit Campaign by Zero77
Progenitor is written by an Overlord admirer who wishes to put his own spin on the tired concept of a VR world turning into reality. The story follows Rein, a loyal fan of the DMMORPG Phantasm, as he finds himself in the New World, where much of what he has known of the game is no longer the same. Though, he may not be the only one desperately searching for his place in the hierarchy of this world. Accompanied by NPC's, who now are sentient and free from the constraints of computer programs, Rein slowly but surely unveils the many secrets hidden deep under thick layers of the New World's history. In case you skipped the first line, I like Overlord very much xD.
8 190Unforgivable ✔️
Sage has been haunted by her past for years. She has been able to run away from it for a long time but not anymore. When Sage crosses Night Shade's territory there is no getting out of it. The one thing Sage fears is being taken back to confront her past. What Sage didn't expect was finding her mate, the Alpha of Night Shade. Shayne is connected to Sage's past and she'll soon find out exactly how. Sage will cause ties to be broken between families, and fights that will end any truce between two strong packs.
8 132Julia (Zarry MPreg)
Harry Styles has always been secretly in love with his band mate, Zayn Malik. Little did Harry know, Zayn felt the same. Once they finally express their love to one another, they become a happy couple. But, there's something that shocks both Harry and Zayn; Julia.
8 162