Kings of Awakening Vampires and Purebloods (18 page)

              A half smile crept into Dmitri’s face. “Don’t tell me that’s all the power you have, Master.”

Aleister gave him a look, as if saying if you continue you might be next. Dmitri knew when enough was enough; the last thing he wanted to do was push Aleister.

“This place will be the death of you!” Aleister started walking towards Sonia; he had no more energy to teleport, or uses his Reawakening, just enough to kill her.

Angelione wanted desperately to help, but there was nothing he could do now. Maybe if her fear had not taken control over Sonia, this fight might have been different. 

Aleister looked at her with hate in his eyes. “Last time I tried to kill you someone interfered, this time no one will save you.” As he was about to grab her, once again, his hand froze. He was not able to kill her. His head started to hurt again, as if someone has taking control of him. His heart started to race faster. Aleister put his hand over his head and screamed. A vision of Albedo started to appear before him.

“Master, are you alright? What did you do to him!?” asked Dmitri.
I’ve seen this before, Aleister losing control of himself. What does it mean, Aleister? Does it mean you have a weakness after all
?

              Aleister began screaming, “Dawson!”

Angelione and Sonia wondered who this Dawson was.

Dmitri ran towards Sonia, to finish what Aleister started.

“Dmitri, stop! That’s enough!” shouted Aleister.

“But master,” said Dmitri.

              “We’re leaving now,” said Aleister. He looked back at Sonia and wondered why he couldn’t kill her? Anyone else would surely be dead by now.

Sonia stared into Aleister’s eyes and was glad once again that she cheated death. Fear had taken control of her, and she almost paid for it.

              He looked at her and said, “I guess my message to Dragan won’t be delivered after all. But I’m sure I’ll see him again one day.” He now was looking at Angelione. “I may not be able to kill her, but as for him, that’s a different story.” He walked over to Angelione and stood in front of him.

Angelione lay very still on the ground while Aleister was tormenting him dangling and twirling his sword.
Angelione stared at the sword, not even fearing for his life. Aleister was swinging his sword. He lunged at Angelione and went in for the kill with his sword.  The sword was inches from Angelione’s head and Sonia yelled.

“Noooooo!” Her body was in agony from the electric shock.

Angelione didn’t even flinch.  The sword was so close to hacking into Angelione’s head that it slivered pieces of his hair off as it stabbed into the ground.  Aleister kneeled over top of Angelione grinning. He grabbed him by his throat and stared into his eyes. 

He said, “Shattered!” It looked as if Aleister had stopped moving for a few seconds, his body looked frozen. His eyes didn’t blank at all, it wasn’t till a few second had pass that his eyes started moving. “Could it be, yes it is.” Aleister realized something. “I knew there was something odd about you when you release that massive force of lightning against me. So tell me, does she know?” They both looked in Sonia’s direction. She was slowly breathing.

How could he know
, thought Angelione.

Aleister got up and gave Sonia one last look. He smiled and the pair left, leaving Angelione and Sonia dumfounded.

“What just happened, are we still alive?” asked Sonia. She walked towards him, still badly hurt.

Angelione said, “Why didn’t he kill us? And who’s Dawson?”

She didn’t say a word. She was still frail. She slowly helped Angelione to his feet; but with the hole in his stomach, from Aleister’s blade, it was going to be hard. She grabbed her medicine out of her back pocket and closed the womb. “Are you all right?”

Angelione looked as if he wanted to faint; using this ability drained him. “Sonia, I’m sorry about what happened.”
If I had continued on using the lightning, she would have died
.

“I’m fine, don’t worry about me. I only got it with your
lightning for a second or two. We should leave now, our work here is done,” said Sonia. She wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.

“It would be wise to go see King Henry. We don’t want to leave any bad blood behind,” said Angelione.

Sonia helped him out the cave. Once outside they saw torches as the town’s people were approaching. Sonia and Angelione hid themselves and watched.

The town’s people were told of what happened by the guards who fled for their lives. News was sent to King Henry. Samuel was still alive when the people got to him, but barely. They dragged his body outside of the cave, took him in the middle of the city and hung him.
 

       “My apology for the trouble we put you through. I hope you don’t think badly of us,” said King Henry. Now that Samuel was found guilty and the Black Reapers’ names were cleared, they had his permission to leave.

“
Thank you for your hospitality lord Henry, but now we must leave,” said Angelione.

Sonia let Angelione do all the talking; all that was on her mind was home. She wanted to see Albedo.

“Please go see one of our healers,” offered the King. He noticed Angelione was badly hurt from fighting Aleister.

“Thank you but I’m a Pureblood. My body will heal itself in no time,” said Angelione.

“So tell me something. Is Aleister as strong as they say he is?” asked the King.

Sonia answered this time. “He’s stronger than you think.”

The King wondered. “Hmm, interesting.”

Sonia and Angelione bowed and took their leave.

Enter the Councils

(Past)

King Victor was not pleased when he woke up just a few hours after his Black Reapers went looking for Aleister. He sat on his throne, got up, and then sat again, getting fidgety waiting to be called by the high council. On this same morning great confusion and excitement prevailed in his head. He had sent out two of his best warriors in King Henry’s territory, Odeon. His father had died leaving him to rule and there were none to succeed him as ruler of the Kingdom better than Victor. Even the high council acknowledges that, but he hated each and every one of them who tried to tell him how to rule.  It puzzled the high council when he made a decision without their consultation. He wondered if he had made the right call by sending the Black Reapers after Aleister, or about getting Albedo ready for what’s coming.

“My Lord, it’s time to go,” said a man with great pride in his voice. He was the King’s most trusted servant and adviser; this was one of the only men he could trust. This man was not afraid to tell him when he was making the wrong decision. Dory was his name. He was a short man with a short temper. His voice barely reaching the King as he was thinking of all the decisions he had made lately.

“What do they want from me now? When will they all stay in the shadows where they belong and let me rule as King! Every move I make they want to know. If it wasn’t for my late father we wouldn’t have a council,” said the King with an angry tone. It always boiled his blood when he had to face them. They would always tell him his father would have never made such a radical decision.

“My Lord, you know you could always lie,” said Dory.

Victor smiled and they both laughed, it wasn’t in the King’s nature to lie. The council would find out eventually, they had spies working for them within his army. He walked toward Dory and patted him on his back, saying it was time to go.

The chamber was located just outside of the castle, up the mountains, inside a dark cave.  King Victor walked steadily to the high council’s chamber. The closer he got, the vaster the darkness grew.  King Victor knew who the members were, but they preferred to hide their faces behind the shadows. The King stood in the middle of the chamber. He looked up; all around him were men hiding in the shadows. There were maybe fifteen, no twenty-five he counted. The sudden quiet hit the chamber and a man started to speak.

“King Victor, it has come to our attention that you sent out the Black Reapers into foreign land. The Black Reapers are the most powerful warriors that we have. If something would to happen to them the consequence would be severe.”

King Victor recognized this voice; it was the head of the council, Viper. He was at least two thousand years old. He had been head of the council for a millennium. Second in command, next to Viper, was
Jarvis. He was the younger brother of Viper. Not much younger than him. They had long gray hair and gray eyes. The King sometimes thought of them as Siamese twins.

The only way to distinguish those two was by the length of their hair. Viper’s hair was very long while Jarvis was shoulder length.

The King now responded, “It was necessary to our survival that I did what I had to do! The one known as Aleister has come out of the shadows and made his first move! He sent out one of his companions into Inferno, Vincent. So I retaliated and sent the Black Reapers after him.”

One of the men yelled out, “Why should we care what happens in Inferno! We have been protecting these humans for thousands of years. How much longer are we going to risk our lives for them?
!”

The others applauded him; they had felt the same way.

“Enough!” said Viper. One thing King Victor and Viper agreed on was protecting the humans and this land. “Victor, rumor has it that this boy Aleister is one of the five Kings of Awakening, is that true?”

              A great silent passed. The Kings of Awakening had been the world’s greatest enemy for as long as anyone could remember. The King nodded. Viper started running his hand through his beard thinking.

The same man’s voice shouts again, “What
preposterous thoughts are these! It’s been fifty thousand years and no one has seen a sign of them! If Aleister is in fact one of them then where are the others?! ”

The King thought to himself,
it’s him, Absolute
. This man had much hate towards Victor. “They’re not just anyone, Absolute. They had promised their returns into this world.

Their powers even surpass the power of the Elder.”

Absolute jumped down from the balcony, coming closer to the king. The small light revealed his face. He was wearing an all blue outfit, a scarf around his neck. “So ladies and gentlemen, are we just going to let him put our greatest weapon in the hands of the enemy?” He pointed his finger at the King “This man is not fit to be king, his father I respected, but this man is not even a fragment of the late king!”

They all said rest in peace to the late king.

Absolute continued, “Now don’t tell me you all forgot what happened with the Corpse,” with a grim on his face this time looking at the King.

“That was different!” shouted the King with anger. Hearing about the Corpse had put a chill into the King’s spine. He had never wanted to hear their names again.

“You told us you could handle them by yourself! And we all remember what happened, they nearly destroyed this kingdom, do we really want another incident like this!?” The room was filling with approval, all on Absolute’s side.

“Yeah! Yeah! Absolute,” roared the crowd.

“And that’s not all my fellow people. A few months ago our King sent Sonia to train the son of Dragan.”

Viper jumped down as well, he had heard enough. 
He started to speak, “Dragan did many services for our kingdom that you will never understand Absolute. If he feels his son is ready to carry on his legacy then so be it. As far as Aleister, King Victor will do all he can to bring him in if he is truly one of them.  We have to believe in our king, if you cannot trust your king then this kingdom will fall!”

Absolute stood there with much anger on his face. Viper was the only man who could bring order to this room. The meeting was cut short. Viper told them there was nothing more to discuss. Absolute was still angry that Viper had let the King do as he saw fit.

King Victor invited Viper and his twin Jarvis to have dinner with him. They had been good friends of his father. “Thank you Viper, I don’t know what would have happened if you weren’t there.”

Viper took a small sugar cube and dropped it in his tea. “Tell me something, Victor, that boy that you have your eyes on, Albedo. Can he really be ready in time to join the Black Reapers?
Time is not on our side.”

The King sat quietly, his loyal friend Dory was sitting next to him. “Sonia told me his physical training was going faster than she anticipated. Just like his father Dragan, he awakened the power of the Elder at an early age.”

“Somehow I’m not surprised.” Viper closed his eyes with disappointment; this was a blow to their preparation.

“Maybe I can give the young lad a couple lessons,” offered Jarvis. Jarvis loved to refer to young ones as lad.

“So it’s done, my brother will train him until Sonia’s return,” said Viper. “What about Dante and Axil? They’ve shown much promise, at such a young age they surpass most of your Purebloods.”

King Victor had always wondered if they were ready to join the Black Reapers. It’s true that they were one of his most powerful Purebloods.