Chapter 1: Alone.

Alone was all about who I was. I had been alone for more than a hundred years since the day I decided to leave my werewolf life behind. A life that passed down to me from my werewolf ancestors.

It wasn’t their fault that in the end, one of their descendants would have to bear to be cursed by the accidentally killed Trybrid that had the chance to blow its last magic before it died.

"I, Vivienne, am a vampire now."

A curse descended to me, to be the immortal enemy of my own ancestors, the werewolves. Thus, my whole family chose to leave their lives of being werewolves and lived for the rest of their lives as mere humans.

They loved me. They wanted me to be the protector of humans, their protector, so I could have purpose for my undead immortal life. The vampire queen protected the humans in the Imperial Colony.

This damned curse. If only there was none, I could live my life as a hybrid. To walk in the daylight vampire. But then again, just like grandpa, I always thought that I wasn't born werewolf. Hence, it becomes obvious when the curse happened.

It, I called that creature. The one attacked my great grandmother until she couldn’t shift into werewolf anymore and died from a cancer as a mere human. She was the protector of this old city, alongside with my great grandfather who was an Empath, a powerful mind reader human who was killed by another kind of night creature. Not a werewolf, not a vampire. An ancient one that I am reluctant to say.

The IT blamed my great grandmother who only normally killed the dangerous enemy who loved to massacre the humans. Humans were supposed to live the future because they were the living, werewolves were supernatural, and vampires were the undead.

As I was one of the descendants of a strong werewolf clan which now already had been extinct, the moonlight still affected me in an unearthly way.

I mourned for my ancestors from this very balcony. From this used to be my great grandfather mansion, now my castle. I had a crystal ball under the direct moonlight. The only thing connected me to my ancestors.

I ran my fingers to the glowing crystal ball. A ball that could see anything. An inheritance from my grandfather’s sister. A legacy to help me protecting the humans. It dimmed then it was brighter back and forth uncontrollably. This meant I had my doubts, so I started asking questions…

"Am I bored? Am I even allowed to be bored O… dearest great-grandparents?"

I called to the remains of my great-grandparents that used to live in this mansion. The crystal ball could catch the memories lingered in each material plastered on the walls, the floors and the ceilings even in any part of the mansion including the parks and the mazes. Talking about the walls have ears and eyes, it applied literally for the crystal ball.

So, I declared who I really was to be clear for the crystal ball.

"I, Vivienne, the protector of the future of the Imperial Colony, human will thrive just like what we've seen in grandma Crystal's crystal ball. This is my legacy, right?"

The crystal ball now became brighter, which meant I was asking the right questions. Soon, it would reveal the images of the answers after I was done asking questions.

And I couldn't complain to be alone. It had been more than a hundred years but I'm still learning to be a vampire.

No one taught me as you all already dead as humans for leaving phasing into werewolves.

Indeed, it had been a hundred years, but I still learned to be a vampire. You left me no choices but to embrace this vampire life, and yet…

You left the legacy of protecting humans to me.

I need someone to tell me how to live this life correctly. I'm the oldest of them all in the Imperial Colony, yet I still doubt my own way of living as a vampire. The only thing I know right is only humans have to be protected from predators like us.

"Yes, I need someone…"

This wasn’t the era of werewolves fighting vampires who fed on humans anymore. It was the era of the predators, we the vampires, protected the living, the preys. We, the vampires, had been living from the blood of animals and the homeless humans who were willing to be our blood bags as exchanges for warm bed and three meals a day.

But they couldn’t survive long because of years of they were living in the streets without proper nutrition to swallow. Though we tried to supply them with vitamins and nutritional foods, they easily withered. At least we could be in peace knowing that they died in proper care.

We could see the smile they brought when they were buried six feet underground. Therefore, I asked the crystal ball…

"We will extinct if we don't find a way to live not depending on humans. Humans can survive without us, the undead, but we will extinct if there's no more blood to drink. I have to find a way to preserve our food without depending on humans."

Then the crystal ball glowed so bright. From the thick white mist, it was gradually disappeared and changed into an image. A man with glasses. He wore white lab coat. The face wasn’t clear to see yet.

"A doctor?"

"So now I have to find a scientist. Ok, what would be next, crystal ball?"

Another mist appeared and changed into another image. Blood synthesized in a bottle. I saw a factory of synthetic blood with lots of bottles contained blood. After that, I saw many vampires drinking the blood from the bottles and sit side by side with humans in a bar. They looked in peace.

"This is what I've been searching, vampires can live side by side with humans without being afraid we will make the humans extinct that in the end, we'll starve ourselves for there isn't any living creatures with pulses and blood to feed."

The ball changed appearance. Now the face of the scientist became clearer. I was shocked because he didn’t look like a scientist at all.

Indeed, he wore glasses and white lab coat. His hair tousled and he has black bag under his eyes. He must had been working so hard all the time. His facial hair was untidy.

Beneath the hideous appearance, I could see how gorgeous he was. He must be a timid one, and didn’t realize how charming he was.

"Is that it, my dear friend?"

I asked the crystal ball, then the mist disappeared. Left only an empty shiny surface sphere on its base. It looked perfectly round under the blue moonlight. Grandma crystal always said that the moon goddess would always shine her light through the blue moonlight to the crystal ball.

As long as I did it for the goodness of mankind.

Afterall, the werewolves had been the protector of human kind since even thousand years BC. But today, it was my turn, the vampire queen and her kingdom’s turn.

Suddenly, I alerted.

There were two knocks on the door…

-To be continued –