XII - Arung

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She just laid there looking dead, and then I looked at the Changeling. He looked scared and I knew it was because of me. Astrosphinxes were mostly known for eating Changelings but I wasn't like that. He would learn that soon. After all I only ever really truly ate my clones and the occasional meals.

"Go get Thomas Mills, I still have some spells I need to perfect." I told him, before I focused back on Beau. I then stopped her heart and made her smell slightly of death, before I cooled her blood down. I then moved to stand next to the door, before I spelled flies to fly around her body. Shortly after Thomas came storming in with the Changeling who looked terrified.

"Fuck!" Thomas growled, before he looked at the two of us. "Wait twelve hours, I want to make sure she isn't faking this."

We nodded and he stormed out of the room.

"What are we going to do?" Percival asked me.

"She can do this for 24hrs, she's stronger than her people." I told him, before I wrote a letter and sent it out by crow.

It was to a friend I had made when we were briefly stationed in Wallachia. A Vampire named Vlad Tepes, I didn't really know much about him, seeing as he could have been any Vlad Tepes. That Voivode never showed his real face. As far as any of us knew he was the oldest Vampire there was. Except the strange thing was that he used to be an Elf, no one knows what happened.

After 13 hours had passed, I went and informed Thomas that she didn't wake up.

"Go bury her body far from here, it will be too suspicious if she's found dead near me." He ordered and I nodded, before leaving the room. The guards out in the hall nodded at me and I walked past them and when I reached Beau's room, not her room in the medical wing, I looked around before I slipped into her room and packed up the things I knew she considered important. I was looking under her bed when I felt a presence in the room. It wasn't dangerous so it was someone I knew, but I summoned a knife into my hand, as I pulled out the set of nesting dolls she kept hidden. China, Japan, Russian. I could feel the magic that they possessed even before I touched them. I got to my feet and there stood Vlad.

"Arung old friend." He greeted, hugging me.

"Vlad, we can't leave innocents here."

"My most trusted men are getting them out, and are feeding from your clones." He told me, before he grabbed my arm, and took me to Beau's room in the medical wing, as we could hear shouts and screams.

The Changeling relaxed when he saw me, but he tilted his head when he saw Vlad.

"Voivode," He greeted, bowing his head before he focused back on Beau.

Voivode? Prince. I looked at Vlad, as he started packing up medical supplies. He was the real Vlad Tepes. I shook my head. I had to focus; picking up Beau. I let my tail out and used it to support her on my back, as I shifted. Percival and Vlad got onto my back; Vlad holding Beau. I ran into shadows and it took us out into the familiarity of my home in the jungles of Indonesia. I let my magic out and the veil on the ruins disolved as I began to walk again. I didn't stop until I got to the parlor. They got off, Vlad holding Beau, so I could shift back. We were going to be here for awhile. I still had to check in with the Alpha King.