Ten: Heroes

VICTOR

There are exactly two things I fucking hate: turning into a beast every night and arguing with my father. And honestly, I’d take turning into a beast over arguing with my father any time. Because that man loves to be right, and he will not stop the argument until he’s right.

“You could have been killed!” he yells at the top of his lungs as he sits behind his desk, we’re in his study, where he handles the affairs of the kingdom. My dad is a bad father but he’s definitely not a bad king. He’ll do anything for the people of Drakorya.

“Well, if I hadn’t been there, then you would have been killed as well.” he waves me off, as I said, he’s a narcissist who believes he’s always right, he’s never wrong.

“I’m sure we would have found a way to handle ourselves.”

“Oh, really.” I fold my arms and raise my brows at him, and he looks me straight in the eyes.

“Yes,” he’s so sure. “Those idiot guards may have been weak, but you forget, son, we had werewolves with us, and you know werewolves are stronger than rogue vampires, and you know what their bite can do to them.”

I want to argue some more but then I hold myself because, for once, my father is right. And he loves that I’m mute because that gives him power. I hate it when he does this.

But yes, I completely forgot that a werewolf’s bite is very lethal to rogue vampires, very lethal. That means Sofia could have protected herself, even though she can’t shift like other werewolves. She’s always been as fierce as other werewolves, even when she doesn’t turn into a wolf.

It’s what I’ve always admired about her.

“Now, I’m only going to say this once, and I’m not going to say this to you again because there will be severe consequences if you don’t listen. Stop going to look for rogue vampires to kill, you might get killed, and then who will be the air? Your brother?”

I also hate when he belittles Chris; it’s not his fault he cheated on my mom, and he’s stuck with a half-human, half-vampire child.

“Christopher will make a great king.”

My dad starts laughing, something I hate. He doesn’t just belittle Chris, but he does this to everyone else, just that he does this to Chris the most, and he doesn’t deserve it.

“You must be joking,” he says.

“No, I’m in fact not joking, I think Christopher will make a great king.”

“A half-human, half-vampire. Yeah, I'd rather rule from the grave,” he looks down at his paperwork and continues whatever the fuck he’s doing.

Well, you shouldn’t have fucked a human if you didn’t want to have a hybrid son.

Is what I’m about to tell him, which will definitely get a rise out of him, but I stop when we both hear a scream.

“What the hell was that?” I say.

“Guards, go see what’s going on,” my father orders, and I walk out of the study, following the guards.

I find the guards violently crashing towards the wall. I look at them in shock and confusion, and a scream makes me flinch; it’s the same scream I heard earlier. I move forward, and I see Sofia fighting off a bunch of rogue vampires.

Fuck!

“Don’t come any closer to me, I will fuck you up!” she warns. And God, I actually forgot how fierce she is. But she can’t fight these monsters alone. I have to help her. So I destroy a table to get the leg because wood kills them easily.

I forcefully throw a stake toward a vampire, and it goes through his chest, and he falls to the ground, turning to ash. The other three vampires look at their fellow member in shock, and they look at me. One of the vampires has their hand around Sofia’s neck, and the vampire looks at me with so much anger. Sofia looks at me with so much fear and shock.

The other vampire hisses at me and then runs toward me, kicking me on the stomach so hard I go flying toward the wall. I hit my head hard. These rogue vampires are pretty strong.

The vampire jumps on me and begins to hit me over and over again. His hands are made of steel, and I’m stuck on the ground; he’s not even letting me move. And the more I stay here, Sofia is going to be in trouble.

These vampires may be super-stronger than I am, but I’ve trained and mastered how to defeat them. They use muscle, but one has to use their brain to defeat these creatures. And that’s what I’m going to do.

“I said, let go of me! You’re going to regret touching me bitch!” Sofia yells and then slaps the vampire holding her hostage, pretty hard. The vampire winces, holding her cheek in pain. Sofia quickly takes the wood from the ground, and she stabs the vampire with it; the vampire falls to the ground and turns into ashes.

“Sofia!” I call out her name as the vampire on top of me continues to punch me over and over. The next thing they do almost makes me pee my pants. He opens his mouth to bite me. And I almost peed my pants.

Sofia quickly runs toward me and stabs the vampire. He screams viciously and then turns to ashes.

Sofia and I are breathing heavily. Sofia leans on the wall, and I stay on the ground. The wounds the vampire caused heal quickly.

“You!” Sofia points at me, leaving the wall. I look at her with a furrowed brow. “You did this?”

“What? What are you talking about? Are you saying I sent a bunch of rogue vampires to attack you?”

“I met your exes earlier,” she says, and I’m even more confused, so confused that I get up from the ground.

“What?”

“Don’t act stupid, you sent them to hex me.”

“They what?”

“Apparently, they don’t like the fact that I’m married to their ex, so they hexed me.”

Whoa, what the fuck?

“How do you know this? That they hexed you.”

“Well, remember my best friend, Marissa, who is a witch.”

How can I forget her? She’s threatened me a few times to leave her best friend alone when we were in high school.

I nod.

“Well, she told me how to know you’ve been hexed is that you’ll get nosebleeds all the time.”

I look at her nose, and she does have a sign of nosebleeding.

“And also, they said they were going to hex me. No thanks to you.”

“What’s the difference between a hex and a curse?”

“I don’t know! I’m telling you your stupid pick me witch bitch exes hexed me, and I want you to fix it.”

She walks over to me in slow motion; she does not look happy; she’s angry as hell right now.

“If you don’t fix this, there’s going to be a problem. And you know I don’t back down from a fight, and you know what I can do.” She looks me up and down, her eyes covered in so much hatred. She walks away.

Okay, I need to figure out how to end this and fast.