Chapter 8: RAID

THERE I STOOD SEVEN FEET FROM MY BELOVED THEN I SUDDENLY HERE'D A EXPLOSION IN THE NEXT ROOM AND SHIT WAS ABOUT TO GO DOWN AS THE LIGHTS BURNED TO CRISP IN THE LIVING ROOM OF THE COVEN . RADU GOT THE WORST OF IT THEY DISECTED HIS EYES FOR EVIDENCE OF OUR ENCOUNTERS AND PRIVATE MEETINGS WE'VE BEEN HAVING THESE PAST MONTHS IN HINDING IN THIS FORSAKEN SANCTUARY. I MYSELF SAW THIS DAY COMING AS MY OBSERVATIONS HAVE BEEN QUITE SECRET BUT ODD THINGS HAVE HAPPENED IN THIS PLACE AND I HAD MY DOUBTS ABOUT IT AND I THINK I KNOW WHO THE MOLE IS IN THESE CORRIDORS RELAYING EVERY SECRET AND PLAN THAT WE HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT. iT WAS MY COUSIN VORGEN LOCKE THE DAY WALKER . HE HAS BEEN SPYING AND FOLLOWING OUR SCENT FOR DAYS AND I NOTICED A PIECE OF HAIR SNAGGED ON A BRANCH OF ELMWOOD AND AT THAT MOMENT I KNEW THAT WE WERE IN GRAVE DANGER. YOU SEE VORGEN IS A WEREWOLF BORN OF VLADISLAUS FIRST SON Of VLAD OF DRACULEA FROM THE HOUSE OF BALARAZ . HE WHO CURSED HIS MOTHERS OTHER FAMILY WITH LEPROSEY AND IN RETURN SHE CURSED HIM WITH A BLOODMOONS DAMNATION A CURSE SO HORRIBLE NO ONEW DEAR SPEAK ITS WORDS OF INCANTATION. hIS MOTHER CURSED HIM IN FROM OF THE FULL MOONS LIGHT WITH THESE WORDS SHE SHOUTED WITH THE BLOOD OF A WOLF IN A PENTAGRAQM CARVED ON THE DESSERT FLOUR THE WORDS INSCRIBED IN NORDICT TEXT AN UNBREAKABLE CURSE WAS BORN WITH VORGENS DAUGHTERS HEART AND THE BLOOD OF THE WOLF BURNED IN A POT OF A DEAD MANS REMAINS. THERE SHE CALLED LILITH IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE FOR THE CRIMES OFF HER SON. BUT LILITH REQUIRED SOMETHING OF HIM , A HAIR THAT WAS GREY . AND IN HIS SLUMBER SHE TOOK A HAIR AND GAVE IT TOM THE GODDESS. sHE THEN CURSED HIM TO BE FOREVER MORE A CURSED MAN WITH THE POWERS TO TRANSFORM AT WILL AND FEAST UPON THE FLESH OF HUMANS AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE HE BECOMES A MONSTER AND ON THE MOONS SWAY HE FEAST FOR THE FLESH that FILLS HIM UP WITH THE BLOOD OF HIS VICTIMS.

i FOUND AN ESCAPE ROUTE AT THE END OF THE CASTLE THERE RESTED THE DESEASED AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE VLADISLAUS CLAN AND THERE I FOUND A DOOR THAT LED ME TO MY ESCAPE. I SWAM DEEP AND CAME UP TO THE OCEAN OF BONES WHERE THE REST OF MY COMPANIONS WERE WAITING BUT THERE SEEMED TO BE A CREATURE HIDING BEHIND THE DARKNESS.

VLAD SCREAMS IN DELIGHT: ITS YOUR ANCESTOR SILAS EVANDERA THE FIRST AND ONLY VAMPIRE TO SURVIVE FOR A THOUSAND YEARS IN THE SHADOWS OF TIME. AND YET HE STILL LIVES ALIVE AND WELL FROM THEIR CRUELTY AND RUTHLESSNESS.

SILAS : WHO ARE YOU ALL? THATS MY FAMILY CREST ON YOUR SHOULDER? ARE YOU MY FAMILIARS?

VLAD: YES IM VLAD AND THIS IS YOUR GRANDSON VISUVIOUS WEVE COME TO SEEK SANCTUARY FROM VANHELSING HORED YOU SEE SIRE WEVE BEEN AMBUSHED OUR HOME HAS BEEN DESTROYED.

SILAS : COME TO MY CAVE AND I SHALL KEEP YOU SHELTER!

THERE WE HID IN A CAVE AND REACHED A UNDERGROUND CITY LONG BURRIED IN TIME AS WE HID WITH MY ANCESTOR AND ENJOYED HIS HOSPITALITY.