The world is a big place, no it's a HUGE place , huge in all caps and bold. But for Harry it always started from the basement and ended in the small basement too. A small dark room where humans like him were filled like sacks on top of each other. There was rarely place to even spread legs or opening arms wide, but it was better. There was this humidity and stale smell always in the air, it used to affect Harry earlier, make him nauseous and sick but after years it just felt the same, it was better. In winters, the cold was unbearable, goosebumps and shivers. Numbness to the core. In times like those their flimsy torn clothes gave no warmth, but they were at least happy to just huddle together and the overcrowded basement didn't feel that overcrowded anymore, it was better. There was no source of light other than a small ventilation window on the sidewall of basement, that maybe provided bare minimum light for 4 hours day. but it was better ?

It was better ?

Better than what?

Better than the light that would flood in everytime , the door was opened. The heavy footsteps that would break the silence and peace of scared breathing humans . sometimes they would just grab the nearest unfortunate ones and take them . But there were days when every single one of them had to be taken out . This usually happended on the auction days. He has heard others talking about how beautiful the room is but its beauty can't erase the sins that occur in that place. It's been decades since vampires have taken control on Europe and Egypt.

Selling humans wasn't rare these days. Vampires had an upper hand in this matter. They could just get any human they want. But after decades there were none left on the streets. Those who weren't captured and killed slowly just ran away . But only few were fortunate to escape the clutches of magic and vampires. So here they were , trapped in the lowly basement of a grand mansion that was home to Vampire mafia, that was the biggest in Human trafficking.

Humans from all around the world were brought and trained here by the Vampires themselves, so they could be sold to the rich and royal Vampires. There were believed to be more than 30 basement as same as this that were filled with humans .

Harry doesn't remember how he got here, his memory is limited to the time that he spent in the basement. He doesn't rember his parents or friends or anyone before coming here. If there were any in the first place. His memories are just about these dark basement and trainning room above.

They were all trained in different ways, to cook, to sing , dance and most importantly to be a slave. The rules and thoughts related to Vampires being God were drilled inside the Humans until The Human was nothing but a lifeless doll that believed that Vampires were god and they just a lowly slave.

He has seen others breaking, slowly, daily , as each training session sucked all that was left of feeling inside of them. Has heard every single one of them crying at nights to no end for days until there was nothing left to cry for.

Harry didn't like the auctions at all. Cause they made him feel things that he tried so hard not to feel. Fear, terror and weakness. A sense of hopelessness. Even though the training sessions were hard and basement wasn't that good. Auctions were the worst. It was like a Vampire party every month, when all the rich and wealthy vampires gathered around to buy some new blood source that is human slaves. The concept of human slaves started when the Vampire king really liked a certain prey's blood and didn't kill him on the spot. Instead, he kept him with him and fed from the human whenever and wherever he wanted . Against the popular belief, Vampires really didn't need much blood. Yes, Blood was necessary for them but it wasn't the only thing they needed. They had to eat and drink like normal humans too. But the vampires just liked the Idea of killing.Vampires realized it was more convenient way of feeding and more useful, if they make humans their slave. More humiliation and good blood .

In the beginning only the vampires of royal council were allowed to have human slaves. But gradually the wealthy vampires adopted the idea too. And so now humans were used as live source of blood by the vampires.

The humans in the basement were divided in three categories. The one that were going to be auctioned were dressed nicely and groomed . Their age would be around 18 to 19 .They would be displayed one by one after the event begin. The second one were soon to-be-auctioned, the one that were around 15 to 17 , they were made to serve and entertain the guests by dancing, singing and working as servers for the night. And the last were the ones that were kept in cage. Just for the display, as they were to be auctioned in later years . They were between age 10 to 14.

Harry came in the third category , he hated the long hours that he had to be tied and stand for all the hungry vampires , locked in the age. Put on show as if he was some meat. Which wasn't far from truth but rubbing it on their faces everytime didn't feel nice. The cage basically was to protect the younger ones as thier body was still fragile and didn't survive even few bites. So it was useless to vampires but that didn't mean that it stopped vampires from attacking the ones that were caged. There has been instaces when the vampires just broke the bars of the cage that was just few weak bars held together, to take a taste of young humans . What was worst was , that no, it was not vampire instinct, Vampires didn't need blood like air . But they liked the fear and control that they had.

Their skin was softer and that alone tempted many vampires towards the small human slaves. Harry dreaded the hours that he would have to spend there. Holding his breath and praying every time any Vampire passed by too close or stood to look at him.

This time the auction was even more bigger and grand than Harry had ever seen. As he and others scrubbed twice and thrice every surface of the mansion ,they watched the other Vampires fretted on making everything perfect. They made them work extra hard and trained them even harder.

Of course they never mentioned why were they doing it. But a few Humans that were to be auctioned had heard them discussing about Vampire King. It was a rumour that he was visiting the auction this time to choose his next slave.

The thought alone was enough to spread shiver down Everyone's spine. The Vampire king was the strongest creature alive . And There were numerous stories about him, and the fact that none of them were happy or even normal was distrubing. All of them just talked about blood, killing and cruelty.

If the Vampires that were holding them hostage were cruel then the Vampire king was the cruelest. There was no chance that even any of them would survive in front of him . His magic was the darkest of the all. It was said that if he even as much looked at a person, he could kill him in a second without any effort, just like that.

The sounds door banging broke Harry's chain of thoughts. It was time. He felt Casey's grip tightening on his hand. He squeezed her hand once again before curling into himself , trying to look smaller and weak as to not ignite the Vampire in any way.

There were more than 100 Vampires in the mansion daily. It was hard to identify of recognize any of them as humans weren't allowed to raise their head or make eye contact with Vampires. Even when they are being sucked out of the blood by the vampire, they are tied and blindfolded. There were 3 of them that took care of their training. Mark, Shawn and Leonard. They were the ones who would usually come and escort them out of the basements and into the training halls where they were always taught by different vampires.

" Today Is a very Important Auction ! " The Vampire's voice echoed around the basement as he looked at all of them with the permanent glare fixed on his face, "I don't want any type of Mistake. Not a single one. Cause if anything goes even slightly wrong ,you'll all regret it , the punishment would be something that you don't even want to think about. So behave yourself. Understood?" It was Shawn, Harry realized, he was always angry in front of them , while he laughed a lot with his other friends.

All the 50 heads moved in a syn, eyes downcast and body hunched .

" Get ready and wear whatever you are given , you'll be showed your positions and works in an hour" with that the Vampire walked back up. Muttering something like 'Dumb slaves ' under his breath. As soon as he was out of the door, 2 other Vampires were entering and escorting all the humans out as usual. Throwing and shoving them with sticks and hand and they fell and crawled their way up the basement.

Hours passed in a blur, a painful blood. They were thrown in ice cold water to clean the dirt and then given flimsy clothing that barely covered their bodies to dress it.

As Harry was being tied in the cage with both his hands tied to the pole above his head and one leg tied to the pole, he kept his eyes downcast , letting the Vampire manhandle him in any way that he wanted, which was just uselessly being ruthless. There was no way that he would be able to fight him anyway.

Once the cage was locked and Vampire walked away, Harry slowly raised his eyes to look around, trying to be as discreet as possible. This time the auction was really more grand.

It was like Christmas celebrations with even more lights. It was completely empty now , but the hall would be filled in an hour .

Harry watched as the same Vampire tied Casey ,just as much ruthlessly in her cage a few feet away from him. He had to bite his lips to and fist his hands to control himself.

The auction was going on in full swing when it happened again. A old Vampire was suddenly getting too close to Casey's cage. Harry has kept his eyes downcast and head bowed all night but he never strayed his eyes from Casey.

He was immediately alarmed when the Vampire touched one of the bars and it broke in his fist. He laughed , "this one looks extra soft, I like squishy toys , you know" he turned towards his partner before snapping another bar.

He extended his hand to reach for Casey and Harry knew he had to do something.

There were not many things that could make Harry loose control, there was actually nothing that Made Harry loose Control,except Casey. She was all he knew. All the love, friendship, comfort and love. He remembers her staying up all night and hugging him,shushing him up even when they were of same age and in same place.

He remembers her giving her portion of little food to him saying she wasn't hungry, until Harry realized that she was just as much hungry as him and just did it so he wouldn't have to face the pain of hunger.

It didn't bother him when he was hurt or beaten, but if something happened to Casey.....he would do something unbelievable. But no one knew that.

So imagine everyone's suprise, when a small human slave , screamed at a Vampire in the middle of a Human auction that was being attended by many Vampires, in a Mansion that was ran by Vampire Mafia , in a Vampire dominated country. And oh Did I mention, he wasn't allowed to even look up much less speak?

Stupid ? Idiotic ? Brave ? Foolishly brave ? Or just plain ridiculous?

Well, whatever it was , it was going to cost a lot to Harry. The next second the same Vampire was on him breaking his cage and grabbing his neck , " You Flifthy creature!!! How dare you !!"

All the veins on the Vampires hands were visible as he seethed. If someone wasn't paying attention earlier , now surely everyone was. The Vampire guards were there immediately trying to calm down the outraged Vampire.

" Sir, Calm down . Sir please, He is new untrained rascal. We are sorry for the troubles, we will punish him and put him in his place." Said one of them as they pulled away the Angry Vampire away from Harry. Harry coughed and coughed. Trying to get oxygen in his lungs. Still tied to the pole and now hanging limply with no energy in his body.

"No !! " Roared the Vampire. "Punish him here , kill him right here , He disrespected me and he will have to Pay. "

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