Prologue

Somewhere in Draiwen kingdom in a house stranger than the owner himself two people were playing hide and seek.

One guy was busy running away from the claws of his hunter. The house was more than a dark dungeon but he still managed to find the doors to various rooms.

Despite the intense darkness, he still found his way to the secret escape exit. After all he not only designed the house but also participated in it's construction.

Therefore, he knew his way through the house than he knew the back of his hand. What else could be expected after living there all his life.

He opened the door to his secret underground room and locked the door behind him. He had built that room to serve him in moments like these.

The smell of blood reached his nose. He placed his hand on his left thigh and felt the warm liquid on his hand.

The blood was coming from the cut he had received from the predator looking for him all over the house.

The pain in his thigh gave him the urge to scream at the top of his voice but he suppressed his groan in order to at least delay the inevitable a little more.

From the rate he was loosing blood, it was clear that he must have left blood drops on the path he followed.

The guy hiding in the secret room knew that it was only a matter of time before his Hunter traced the blood to the secret room after which he would be a thing of the past.

However before that happened he would do everything in his power to prolong his lifetime. He was prepared to fight till the last drops of his blood.

He first needed to take pain relieving potion and an energising potion in order to be in a position to fight his killer.

His vision started getting blurry and he could no longer support himself on his legs. He leaned against the wall as a slight groan escaped his lips.

Time was closing in for him and if he failed to get the potions fast enough his killer would find him already a corpse.

He walked towards the shelf where he had kept the potions but lost his balance. He fell on the table and dropped a vase.

He got up fast and aimed for those vital potions. Maybe there was a bloodline bad luck that the guy inherited from his forefathers.

He did make it to where the potions were but unfortunately for him he fell on them sending them crashing on the floor.

You can imagine how you would feel loosing the elixir of life when it was just in your hands a second ago and relate to how the guy felt.

The guy felt his heart crash into a million pieces when his last hope crashed into a hundred of pieces.

He was filled with despair knowing that his time here on Earth had come to a painful end. Yes. He had only a few seconds left to live.

On the other side, the predator stopped in his steps when he heard the crashing vase followed by other crashing glasses.

His eyes caught sight of the red spots on the floor illuminated by the lamp in his hands. A weird smile covered his face when he saw the blood spots.

He crotched and the scent of blood filled his nostrils. He touched the blood with his middle finger and brought it to his tongue.

He licked it from his finger and concentrated on the taste. A sinister smirk crept across his face after he was done.

' This human sure is impressive ' he thought. It was the first time in his life a prey had escaped from the claws of his ruthless hands.

He crashed the lamp in his hand since he didn't need it as he could see clearly in the darkness. His eyes glowed in a maroon color and his nails grew into black claws.

His heightened senses enabled him to track down his prey easily. He followed the smell of blood till he was standing before a staircase that led to an underground room.

He went down the stairs till he was at the door that led into the secret room. He tried to knock it down in a jiffy but it was too strong.

" Just open the door and we will have a little chat . I promise you that it won't be painful and before you even realize it it will be done with" the killer said excitedly.

" I am not stupid to open the door for you. I don't even know why you want to kill me. I am not what you guys think I am" replied a trembling voice from the inside.

" Fine then. I will make sure to make your death extremely painful. Don't blame me for not warning you in advance" he threatened with a chuckle.

His right hand got covered in a maroon flame and he raised it ready to reduce the door into subatomic particles.

Back inside the room the guy was still struggling to remain standing. With the last potions on the ground, he was determined to take anything.

Anything that could relieve him from the pain he was feeling or end the pain once and for all. Even if it meant what he dreaded the most.

He got hold of the remaining potion. The only remaining potion with the ability of siding him but with adverse effects.

With that potion if things went wrong and it proved not to be compatible with his body the least that could happen to him was die.

He held the potion with trembling hands. The mere thought of consuming the forbidden potion was scary enough to make him shake.

However, he didn't have many options. It was either he took the potion and died or failed to take it and still die. In anyway he would only be delaying the inevitable.

He swallowed hard before staring at the potion for the last time. He closed his eyes and gulped it down.

His throat burnt as the potion travelled to his belly. It felt as if a hole would form on his throat.

The effects of the potion set in immediately. The wound on his thigh healed on its own and the pain he was feeling disappeared magically.

He was about to rejoice but the burning feeling stopped him. He began steaming a dark smoke. It seemed as if he would vaporise and leave behind not even remnants.

Strangely, it was the best feeling of his life. The guy even began laughing heartily because of the amazing feeling.

He could never have imagined that his death would feel that good. Maybe choosing to die in the effects of the potion was the best choice after all.

He even forgot about the danger he was in. Everything else vanished and he was left feeling on top of the world.

He was startled when the door broke open and lay on the ground as it reduced to ashes. His killer was staring at him with a wide grin on his face.

" Finally we meet again after sometime. Let's make this quick, shall we? And as I promised, I will deliver the extra pain" the killer spoke in a hyper mood.

Without any further warning he slammed the guy against the table. The table crashed leaving his victim lying on broken pieces of wood.

Immediately he lifted the guy and slammed him against the wall. Before his victim could recover he held him by the neck and pinned him against the wall.

He modified his claws and made them elongate some more and became sharper. "See you in hell bloody folk" with that he lifted his hand ready to pull out the heart from his victim's ribcage.

He was shocked because instead of penetrating through flesh his claws landed on a hard surface. The flesh around his neck also became hard.

' What the f**k just happened?' he asked in his mind. " Did you..." he could not finish his statement because of the fear that overcame him.

He watched in fear as the body of his victim got covered in blue scales. His figure started getting taller.

In no time the strange creature had grown taller than the killer and had glowing eyes plus sharp green claws.

The killer had always thought that there were no creatures powerful than his kind but turns out he was wrong.

" Let's make this quick shall we?" the strange creature said sarcastically. The killer pulled out two swords that got covered in maroon flames.

" Growing big doesn't make you strong" the killer tried to be brave but fear could be sensed in his tone.

He started striking the creature with the swords. He slashed and slashed till he was left panting.

The scales were actually more than rock hard. Even after a whole year of slashing his efforts would still result into a huge fat zero.

" Are you done fooling around?" the strange creature thundered. " See you in hell bloody folk" with that it lifted its hand and gripped his head.

The skull squeezed like some tomato and his brain seeped out of its place. By the time the creature was done his head looked exactly like a squeezed tomato would.

I suppose you don't need to be told that the guy was already dead by then. Unless you expected to meet a guy somewhere walking with a deformed head.

Back to the creature, it was slowly turning back into a human being. The scales reduced as the figure grew shorter.

Once it was back to a normal man he was staring at his hands in disbelief. What he had just done no normal human being could.

Then again he was no longer normal. That was if he was a human to begin with in the first place.