The Three Siblings

Julian would raise a eyebrow in slight confusion as he stared at Draven. "Mom and Dad don't usually summon us when they need something from us. Is this a serious matter?" He would ask Draven who just simply shrugged.

"I don't know what this is all about honestly Julian. I'm just doing what I'm told. Ya know how the saying goes." Draven would say as he gave the three of them a calm smile. "It's probably nothing, parents will be parents and parents will be weird"

"Well there's only one way to find out." Aurella would say as she began to make her way inside the manor and towards their fathers office.

Marcus and Julian looked at each other for a moment before following suit in heading towards their fathers office. Walking up the same stairs they had gone up and down hundreds of times. The walk to their fathers office was a quick and painless with each of the siblings quickly arriving within the same time.

Aurella having arrived to the office first. She went ahead and knocked on the door awaiting their fathers response. The siblings awaited for what felt like several minutes before the door eventually opened up revealing a rather short man. Who had balding hair and wore a trench coat almost like a television detective.

"Ello there children." The man would say before making his way through them and going away from the office. The three siblings looked at each other in mild confusion before entering their fathers office to see him and their mother sitting by the desk.

"Hello Mother, Father." Julian would say with a slight tilt of his head as he smiled at them and almost immediately got wrapped in the biggest mother bear hug to have ever been conceived. Struggle to breath he returned the hug, but nowhere near as tight as hers.

"Glad to see you are still hopefully in one piece." Their father would say with a slight chuckle before slowly standing up from his chair. "Let the boy breathe Angelica dear."

"Oh right..." she would mutter as she loosened her hug on her child before smiling sheepishly. "It was to make up for all the hugging that I couldn't be giving you."

"Worry not mother. For you are the strongest thing I will ever know." Julian would say in a polite tone.

"So did the hunt go?" Their father would say obviously wanting to hear how it had went.

"Well it was obvious it was a test that you had set up for me to see how well I could do when put up against several rogue vampires. Most of the others that you had sent with me. They just stood back and watched as I fought them." Julian would say simply in a slightly aggravated tone.

"Well I had to see if you were ready to handle yourself when it came to the real world of vampires. Vampires don't all live out in the country side getting by, by avoiding all of human kind and only going out if we need to earn some form of currency or to obtain some fresh blood. And it is honestly something I should have been having all three of you doing at the same time." Their father would say in a soft and understanding tone of some of the pain he may have caused his own child to go through.

"What do you mean father?" Marcus would ask looking from Julian to Julius with a confused look on his face. "All three of us should have been doing what at the same time?"

Julius would sigh rubbing the back of his head as he searched his mind for better ways to phrase what he was about to say. Yet in truth there really wasn't a better way to phrase it. He just had to tell them the truth. Or a lousy version of it that was.

"Simply, what I have spent the last four decades training your brother for. Was for intermingling with the entirety of the vampire community. By going and introducing him to the...Well I guess the modern word for it would be School for vampires." Julius would say earning the shocked looks of the two younger siblings.

"You want us to go to vampire school?" Aurella would ask confusion more than evident in her voice. "Why are you now telling us anything about it?"

"Father didn't want to burden the two of you with the stress of making sure you were skilled enough to handle having to deal woth other snobby vampires." Julian would say in a low tone as he looked to his siblings. "We are not required to go there for another few months. So getting you two involved in the physical, mental, and magical training depending on how it is done. You two would have some kind of skills."

"But that is only if you two want too. We don't want to force you into it. So only if you guys wish to experience the truth of how our kind can be." Julius would say with a small sigh as he looked to their mother.

"Who was that man that was just in your office?" Marcus would ask as he tilted his head to the side with a slight raise of the eyebrow.

"He was one of the instructors of the Academy. We were talking about where Julian would be placed upon entering the academy." Their mother would say.

"He is also the one who posed the question about you two entering alongside your brother. We talked about it and were quite inclined to talk to you all about it." Julius would say in a soft tone. "It would require you all to take part in the darker parts of being a vampire."

"The darker parts? What do you mean by that dad?" Aurella would ask.

"What I mean by that Aurella. Is that you'll have to learn of the history. And how to take a life, and fight for your own." Julius would say.