We'd finally rescued the doctor from the rogue vampires. To our surprise, the doctor had the same thought that he was going to help us to create the formula for the synthetic blood so all the vampires in the Imperial Colony didn’t have to drink human or animal blood anymore.
That was the thing very important to achieve to create a peaceful world decent for humanity. That in the end, my vampire children and I could get some rest from hunting rogue vampires or even sleeping eternally in our coffins, to be wakened up later when there was some kind of disturbance in the peace of humanity.
Not for wishing something bad, but I was cursed and built my empire of children only to protect the human. This was my legacy and I intended to keep it that way.
So when we finally found a way with the help of the doctor, though we hadn't found the actual result, we were pretty sure we were closer to our final goal.
I was glad I finally had this thought when we went outside and gathered with Zach and Viktor. They were both standing by at the entrance door ready to report to me. It was so clear that their faces were plastered with anticipation that John, Ezi, and I had finally found the doctor,
“How are the rogue vampires, gentlemen? “I referred to Zach and Viktor.
“If you look up and see the fireworks, my lady. Those are the left of them… “Viktor answered while smirking and gesturing for us to look up. His was-once-brown eyes now turned blue and glowed as they now belonged to the powerful vampire cop he was now.
We stopped to look up so I whispered to the doctor who was standing so tall behind me,
“Those fireworks, doctor, are the left of the rogue vampires.”
The doctor looked up and he looked like he was in awe with his smear shape lips slightly opened. His brilliance suddenly disappeared as he looked like he knew there was more than just a smart brain if you could see the beauty in the world. For a second, he looked stupid and so small, though he was too tall for a mere human.
I could see the reflection of the fireworks on his spectacles. The reflection was indeed a beauty until Zach disturbed me from my daydreaming,
[Not as beautiful as when you killed those rogue vampires. We always love your kind of fireworks]
Zach muttered in my mind that made me smile proudly because my children could appreciate the beauty though we were just a bunch of vampires, the bloodsucker. We could appreciate beauty just like a man did.
As I saw before me, the doctor, a mere human, could be in awe and appreciate the simple beauty of the fireworks made from the burning rogue vampires’ heads.
There was always beauty in each irony. It was an irony of killing other creatures decent enough to be killed to let the Weak with brilliant minds live in peace. They were the humans.
I felt the urge in need to introduce Zach and Viktor to the doctor because we were going to work together and to let the doctor feel accepted in my inner circle. I believed I had to give him the taste of trust so he could be open to me because later we would work together,
“Dr. Lazlo Howard, meet my first horseman Zach, and my fourth horseman, Viktor.” I gestured to them and they nodded like a bunch of cowboys. They worked like cowboys with the vampire horses. They rode and tended the vampire horses as their tools to help kill the rogue vampires.
There was a hint of a flash of light I could almost see in the doctor’s eyes. Admiration was the thing I could read from his expression like he had wanted to meet them. What came next in the remark that he stated, was the proof of his amazement,
“Oh wow… what an honor meeting you all…” and then he just stood there in silence, still with his slightly opened mouth. I’d like to laugh a lot seeing the sight of him. He was astonished by my four horsemen. Like a fan met his idols. But I didn’t laugh trying not to do the same thing when I met the doctor for the first time.
I didn’t want the doctor to think that his queen was inappropriately sassy. Especially when I was about to work with him later to guide him on what he could do with the design of the synthetic blood for the vampires to drink.
“Likewise, doc.” Viktor nodded. He was more friendly than Zachary or short for Zach who was more formal. Zach could never lose his feeling as a military soldier. Once a jarhead, he would always be a jarhead, so he only courteously nodded and replied,
“Doc.”
“It’s been a pleasure, meeting you, Doc.” Viktor shoved his right hand to shake the doctor’s hand while the doctor accepted and added his left hand to close their shaking hands like he was so glad to meet Viktor. One was a big fan – the doctor-, and the other had a hidden intention – Viktor -. I was hoping everything would be under my control.
Viktor looked enthusiastic because I believed he already read a lot through the doctor’s files, or it was his other intention that he was curious about. Ever once Viktor mentioned the possibility of resurrecting my wolf side so that we could be a hybrid, the creature of both vampire and werewolf. It would be so effective indeed if we could work in the daylight to eradicate the rogue vampires.
Peace would be restored in no time. Though there was not much challenge in that. My life so far had been interesting for being a low-life vampire trying to protect the Weak human.
“Viktor is in the Force, doc. He read a lot about you. He might be a fan as well.” I smirked, while both of them widely grinned. It looked like they were meeting their soulmates. Falling in love at the first sight would be the completely wrong suitable term for their moment like this.
“I might be I am, Viktor. I’ve been reading about all of your achievements in the Force, especially when dealing with the rogue vampires…” the doctor seemed excited but he had to be disappointed when Viktor who didn’t like to be on the spot had to spill the secret,
“Oh, that would be this Zachary, Zach for short. He was in the military, so all the field strategies were designed by him. I only managed the right Force resources so we could be effective in dealing with vampires.”
The doctor nodded over and over showing that he understood and looked like he was still admiring my four horsemen. He was indeed a man of few words just like Zach who was only smiling and tilted his head a bit to the doctor. I guessed almost all of my four horsemen didn’t like to be on the spot, except for Ezi.
It’s possible that was because Ezi was the youngest and the youngest human when I turned him. He was still in his undergrad program and found almost died when he hiked. Surprisingly, it was modeling that he took as a way to appreciate his smooth and radiant vampire skin.
“And I, Ezi, the second horseman, and the great rogue vampire tracker as well,” Ezi rudely grinned and showed his vampire fangs. I rolled my eyes.
“Umm… yes, sir… we met inside” the doctor replied instead of ignoring the annoying Ezi. Ezi shamelessly moved his face closer to the doctor and it looked like a dwarf was bravely staring at a tall slim giant. If we could, we would laugh at the sight of them. But, we knew we had to be serious because the doctor himself looked so serious.
It could be seen that the doctor was also a polite one, the one with chivalry. It was quite rare for a scientist to have that kind of chivalry or should I say ancient chivalry. Most scientists with a genius brains would also be arrogant. But not this doctor, I smelled something ancient and something noble, though there was one mist that clouded my judgment. One bad thing was that I didn’t know what it was.
Since there was only one, it was going to be easy to find it.
But one person with a free soul couldn’t stand his rude expression, so John chuckled. I felt like I needed to introduce John, the bravest of them all.
“And this rude gentleman is John, as you knew you met inside, doc. John is good with engines and outstandingly committed to patrolling in this very city to find potential rogue vampires’ nests. Usually, they only travel or hunt in a pack consisting of two or three vampires. Tonight’s ten rogue vampires in a nest is the biggest question that you should answer, doc…” I ended my explanation with a demand for an explanation.
Eye for an eye.
“I…” the doctor was about to speak but I cut his sentence.
“Later in the mansion, doc. You’ll answer that. But before that, you’ll have to take care of yourself to clean and eat well. I don’t want the biggest brain that can help us ends shrinking and can’t do well then the Imperial Colony will be in chaos because of losing its last hope…”
But before I was done with my sentence, the doctor shoved his hand in my direction, to my head, and found something,
“But, my queen, you’re bleeding…” that handsome doctor with the hideous outfit looked so sympathetic to me. I tilted my head because of being confused why the doctor seemed to care. I frowned.
“Never mind, doctor. I’m used to this as a rogue vampire killer. It’ll close by itself tomorrow. I’ll have blood replacement later anyway in the mansion.”
“Mansion or castle, milady?” The sassy John picked me being clumsy in front of the doctor. John was widely smiling mischievously. I frowned.
“Used to be my ancestor’s mansion, now it’s big enough to be called a castle. But it’ll always be a mansion where I sometimes spent my childhood. It might be a castle for you, John, and my children. But it’s always a mansion for me.” Like that answered the so important question annoyingly asked by John. He tested the water if I could have any reaction. This soulless vampire, if we had any soul.
Suddenly the doctor reminded us of his one true intention left behind the silliness of my children,
“My queen, please… let this humble servant mend your gracious war wound…” his expression was so begging, and I couldn’t take my eyes off his perfect brown almond-shaped eyes. His gaze was so intoxicating, like a black hole sucking us whole.
But I laughed because I had the next line,
“Do you mean you wanted to cover my loss of being knocked by you with an iron bar stool?”
Those intoxicating eyes weren’t intoxicating anymore. It changed widened with horror and he instinctively looked to the left and right sides seeing my four horsemen surrounding him.
All of my four horsemen were in sync staring rudely at the doctor, their eyes were almost getting out of their heads. So I tried to calm them,
“No worries, boys. The doctor was just trying to protect himself from the danger and it was a brave thing to do as a human trapped in a ravaging bloodsucker.” I chinned up showing that I was okay so they could drop their threatening gazes at the doctor.
“And how are you going to take care of my wound?” I got curious.
“I have the first aid kit here…” while smiling, the doctor tapped on the box that I didn’t see he had carried since we went down to the first floor and got outside of the building.
“Very well, doctor. Cure me…” I ordered him around. I was about to look for a chair but,
“Here are the chairs, my lady… doctor…” thoughtfully, Zach came with two chairs comfortable enough to sit on. While seeing the lights from the flashlights moved by the Force’s troops who were looking for more clues, I could relax a little bit.
“So tell me, doc. Should I call you Dr? Howard or professor?” I tried to make him relax because I could smell his fear when he tended to my wound. I almost could hear him smiling when he answered my question,
“Just ‘doc’ or ‘doctor’, milady. I’m never good at teaching, public speaking is always a problem for me. I tend to be quiet. So ‘professor’ doesn’t suit me.”
I smiled, as I thought, he was a little bit timid because…
-to be continued-
[ ] this punctuation is used to give a sign that the sentences were said as a means of communication between vampires. These vampires had these abilities because they were from one root of a Maker, Vivienne, who used to be a werewolf that could communicate in a pack and was the descendant of the Empath humans, the mind reader. Since she was downgraded to a vampire because of the Tribrid’s curse, her ability was also lessened to be able to communicate only one on one to her child only one at a time. I use the punctuation because the GoodNovel app for mobile doesn’t show the post to be in italic. It only applies if you open the story using a PC. Happy reading
I asked the doctor whether I should call him ‘doc' or ‘professor’ while he was mending the wound on my head due to his instinct to hit me with a bar stool thinking I was going to hurt him. Though it was unnecessary because my wound would heal in an hour or two. I didn’t take the human blood since I woke up tonight, usually, the human blood would be served around 3 AM or after I went back from hunting and killing rogue vampires. It was supposed to be the blood of the Hungarian pianist tonight. I didn’t ask for his presence, but he came to this Imperial Colony city to offer his blood to the queen. He said that he didn’t have family left, so giving up himself to immortality was his only option. At such young age, he grew tired of traveling around the world playing piano on big stages. Popularity didn’t fulfill his soul anymore so he sought a greater purpose. When he heard that there was a city ruled by a vampire queen to protect humanity, he felt like he needed the urge to participate.
We were going back to the mansion after we rescued the doctor. To our surprise, the doctor asked to ride one of the vampire horses because he liked to ride a horse. Since we weren’t going to hunt for some more rogue vampires, Zach lent his vampire horse, the White Beauty. It had its best figure when it changed into a vampire. Its dull white hair became indescribably beautiful because of the effects when a creature became a vampire. It must have been a struggle for a human to ride a vampire horse. But seeing his tall figure and looked like his strong legs, I wouldn’t be worried. That tall doctor easily got onto the vampire horse's back, and the horse was hissing and neighing because it recognized the rider as a human and it smelled the doctor's blood. The White Beauty was walking in a circle because it smelled the doctor's blood. But I could see that the doctor was an adept horseback rider, he kept on directing the horse to walk in a circle to distract it from the smell of his bl
The doctor told Mr. Tanaka and me how people usually took him for granted, making us exchange a very meaningful look. We meant that finally, the doctor was in the right place where his brain and hard work would be acknowledged and useful for the greater good, to keep the peace between humans and vampires to live to co-exist. The air suddenly became so sad. I might be a vampire who didn’t feel a thing but the Empath cells in my body sometimes gave me hints of how my surrounding felt. Thus I tried to crack the silence. “Well then, Mr. Tanaka. I'm famished. Could you please also prepare the doctor's dinner and show him the way to his room?” “Certainly, milady. Yours is prepared, and I've asked the kitchen staff to prepare something for the doctor.” Mr. Tanaka looked at the doctor and continued his explanation, “Pardon me, doctor. If later the taste of the food doesn’t suit your taste buds. We’re sorry that since there was no one in the Royal Family eating food anymore except for ano
The doctor stopped to walk when he saw me before he got down the grand stairs to the dining room. I didn’t know why he shoved his right hand for me to take. He had the oldest chivalry and even though I wasn’t his woman, he tried to act gentle. A true gentleman he was. So I guessed I had nothing to worry about, thus I reached for his hand and let mine hold his. There was a strange thing that happened when I put my hand in his holding. A tingling sensation came from his hand running through my hand, my arms, my shoulders to my back, to my spine, and down to my core. It felt warm. It was like an electric current. For as long as I remembered, this had never happened when I touched humans. I was supposed to be the one who gave the human this feeling. Not the other way around. Vampires manipulated and hypnotized their targets of blood bags. It had never happened the other way around. Or when a vampire said that he or she fell in love with his or her blood bag, was just because of the d
It was a peculiar thing what the doctor had said. He asked me if I had the will to get sex. What I meant was how in the hell he could get that sassy. Wasn’t having two different personalities including being a timid scientist, and an overconfident lad with a hint of adrenaline junkie already too much? Now there was another personality of his that was sexually rude. “Huh? What did you say just now, doctor? How could you ask your vampire queen such a question? Do you have a death wish or something? “ He frowned upon hearing my questions and I believed he could hear the angry tone in my voice because now he widened his perfect almond-shaped eyes. “What’s the matter, your highness? Did I say something that offended you?” He acted dumb. And I abruptly stood from my chair than in a blink of an eye, my left hand was choking his neck and my fangs were shown were about to rip his throat out. It wasn’t necessary and I never intended to kill him but shock therapy should be shown remembering
I woke up just to see the blue moonlight broke into my room. It was dusk already, and I was surprised I could sleep that long. I wondered how long I had the dream with that tall and handsome doctor. It had always been a rare occasion for vampires to sleep and dream. This added to the list of peculiar things happened since I met the doctor. I checked on the lab design again and prepared the Blueprint on my tab to be shown later to the doctor, along with the list that I needed to ask him about a few peculiar things happened since the day I met him. I breathed in his scent, the scent of ethanol because he had spent too much time in the lab. The disinfectant liquid had blended with his tanned skin so he wasn’t outside the mansion at the moment. I could smell the sun on his tanned skin. I might miss the sun as well. [Wait… miss?!] Vampires didn’t do missing that we were just hollow with purposes and the urges to drink blood. Again. This added more to the list of strange things that hap
The doctor surprised me with his line, "Before we do business, my queen. You need to know who I am." That was the thing I wanted to ask him because I had a list of strange things happened since the moment I met him. Then how did he know I was about to ask who he was? There was no better explanation than he read my mind. This was beyond the castle's members' understanding. I needed to speak only to the doctor without anyone around. At least there must be only two of us in the dining room. If later anyone overheard or eavesdropped, they could hold their curiosity for later I announced the official news. But for now, I had a secret lurking in the doctor's mouth that I needed to draw out. Hence, I signed Steve while saying, "Leave us, Steve. Make sure no one disturbs us." With his vampiric speed, Steve went outside and closed the dining entrance door. I could still feel his presence standing outside the dining door. He was guarding and later making sure no one disturbed me and the d
There was a slurping sound near my core from the lower part of my body. The doctor was drinking the liquid left between my legs. Just like he promised, the doctor sucked it dry till I felt that nothing wet was left there. As if we didn’t do it, I couldn’t feel any leftover after he aroused me to produce what he called Empath's life force juice, the most luxurious cuisine for an incubus like him. While staring at the dining room's high ceiling along with its exquisite painting, I finally got the chance to appreciate the art this dining room had. It had been a while since I laid back and relax like this. Only this was a rare lifetime opportunity that I was lying on the dining table, being the dinner for an incubus, without killing me, the undead vampire queen. I stretched my arms to the left and right sides of my body. I savored the cold smooth surface of the oak dining table with the tips of my fingers. Everything seemed alive in me, even the tips of my fingers. It was indescribabl