Chapter 2 - Waking up

I woke up and immediately felt the fluffiness of a mattress, I felt the coziness and warmth of the blanket. But then it dawned on me, that damn stranger had abducted me.

Opening my eyes, I was shortly blinded by the sun shining through the windows. I was somewhere in a bedroom, a fancy one at that. Gold lined the walls and furniture which seemed fairly expensive and of high quality. Standing up I quickly felt the cold floor against my bare feet, a shiver ran down my spine. Thank God that bastard had just removed my shoes and nothing else. What a pervert! I quickly grabbed my shoes, which were laying right next to the bed. Moving towards the window, I halted for a minute, to take another look at the opulent room. That bastard just had to be some rich vampire, just my luck. As I looked out the window, I was taken aback. There wasn’t some beautiful landscape or bustling city, instead there were clouds, many goddamn white clouds. That bastard took me back to an airship, at least I wasn’t a prisoner. Not yet.

I of course wanted to leave the confines of the bedroom, so I grasped the door handle and tried opening it. As I suspected, locked. But that simple door wouldn’t do much to stop me, it was time for me to use some of my powers. Since I hadn’t used them in ages, they would for sure be rusted and probably hard to control, but who cares, what could go wrong?

Feeling the power within me was the first step, afterwards it was just a matter of releasing it or rather using it. I felt the blue flames from within me. It was nice feeling those powers again. I pointed one finger to the door and concentrated my power on one spot. A blue flame quickly formed and seconds after that, an explosion followed. I had used too much force. The door quickly flew a couple of meters until it loudly crashed into a wall. I had tried to be silent, but now the whole ship was in uproar.

Sirens were blaring as I ran out of the opulent bedroom to escape yet another airship, using the same method I had utilized prior. Simply jumping off. Easier said than done, first I had to find a way out of these near endless steel corridors. I ran by a couple of mechanics, seemingly hurrying to where I had just caused the explosion. They didn’t seem to question why I was coming from exactly said direction and probably assumed I was fleeing from danger. Continuing forward I finally reached a steel door with a red sign above it, clearly stating “Exit”, which brought me upon another realization. We were no longer in France. As I hastily pushed the door open, a gust of wind blew directly into my face. Forcing me to momentarily squint my eyes. I had always hated the wind, my eyes were extra sensitive to wind, forcing me to often release tears during windier days.

Just as I was about to step outside, an arm slung around my waist, firmly pulling me against the person behind me. “I leave you alone for a minute and you try to jump of another airship, seems to be a habit of yours.” he said laughingly, I recognized the voice immediately, it belonged to that rich vampire bastard who had dragged me here in the first place. “What is it to you? Since you haven’t handed me in to the authorities, why won’t you simply let me go? As far as I am concerned kidnapping is also a crime and to my knowledge illegal.” I said mockingly with a slight grin on my face. He answered “It’s not too late for me to turn you in, so the question is rather not, why I didn’t turn you in yet, but why I shouldn’t do it now.” That bastard was becoming more annoying by the minute, “Cause otherwise, I will personally report you for threating a member of high nobility!”, most vampires got too scared to do anything after I had said that to them, but this one didn’t even budge. “Well then, I guess that makes two!” he replied, I should have figured. Gold, opulent bedroom, his clothes, every aspect of him screamed nobility. “Well then, if you would finally let go of me, I could introduce myself.” I exclaimed, slightly annoyed by his firm grasp around my waist, still pressing me against his muscular body. He relented only after pulling me completely inside and positioning himself against the door, the only exit within reach, there was no escaping this time. I extended my hand for a handshake and introduced myself “I am Charles de Altonis, I would argue that it's a pleasure meeting you, but I think that we can both agree on the fact that it is not.”, still unfazed he replied “And I am Duc¹ Damien de Bordeaux” he proceeded to take my extended hand and kiss it. I was baffled, my hearth began to beat faster and my face was filled with redness, I was blushing hard, which seemed to visibly please him. “I find that very funny, I thought that you would use another houses name for sure, but using the name of her majesty’s house is beyond ridiculous.” he said laughingly. “What if I am using the right name?” I replied with a grin, to which he answered “Well if you are right, then I would have no jurisdiction over you and couldn’t keep you here, but you could still stay, if you wanted to, which I very much hope so.” Before I could even answer, he continued by saying “There is an easy way to test, whether you are saying the truth or not. Either way it’ll be fun, for me at least.”, before I could even react, he was already using vampire magic, dominion as it is called, is the power of vampires belonging to nobility to force other vampires of lower standing into submission, which would easily show Damien, if I was truly a noble of equal or even higher standing. Red flames formed around my neck, forming a collar of flames. Suddenly sparks of blue flames consumed the collar of red flames, erasing his magic completely. Damien must have known as soon as he saw my blue flames, since he was now bowing in front of me.

All vampires possessed magic, red flames were a sign of this magic, the brighter and bigger the more powerful was the vampire. Nobles always had more power by birth than the common folk, so it was easy to see the rank of a vampire when he was using his magic. But among all those groups there was one exception, the royal family. Their flames were an azure blue and the strongest out of all.

“Please forgive my insolence, my prince.” Damien said, still bowing.

¹Duc = French for the title of duke    

"Quick update on the publishing schedule, I have decided to post when I want to or rather when I have time to. Meaning you might get a single episode in 3 weeks and then there is a week with like 5 episodes. So yeah ... I am terribly sorry but I can't consistently write two series at the same time." - Louis