5. Blood disease

We go back in time.

In the year 1900, we look at this big mansion placed in Santorini where the brothers Milanio live with their parents Romano and Eleonora.

It was a quiet time where the father was a respectful man that was loved by the community. He did everything for his family and was a very loving parent to his sons. The mother was an at-home mother for the boys to make them two respectful men that will grow out as men that will be loved by the whole community just like their father. But everything didn't seem like it really was. Their oldest son Firius was a hand full, he never listen to his parents and did make a lot of mess of himself and outside on the streets. His father didn't know what to do anymore about his behavior.

Then there was Xandros was a sweet little boy that always did what his parents did ask of him. He had a beautiful life with a lot of friends and he was very respected, just like his father was In the community. He helped his mother when she turned out to be so sick on his tenth birthday, Xandros did most of her tasks for her and didn't even care about his own birthday. Later that year she passed away and Xandros stayed behind with Firius and his father Romano.

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Life was great for Xandros and he did more and more for the community and their church. Firius where he didn't get along. And not for sure when he was sixteen and having rumors spread about him and some girls he had attacked at that time. Xandros was just thirteen and was a smart boy for his age that already knew what his brother was doing he wanted attention. Firius is an attention-sick person everything must be going around him. After the death of their mother, he even gets worse.

And then it happened one morning. Xandros stood up and felt sicker than he ever had felt. He thought it would get over around the day, but it even get worse. He was throwing up a lot and felt so weak. That he was sleeping all day. His father was so worried because this started with his mother also before she died after three years of pain and fighting it.

Xandros was so scared of being this sick as his mother was. His father even called a healer to come to look at him, the same healer his mother had. The man is looking at Xandros and looking at his eyes in particular. And then he gets the prediction he faired the most.

"Your son is very sick. He has the same blood disease as Eleonora had. You can't treat this, you only can hope he makes it till he's eighteen.

Xandros fell into a deep put of emotions, and fear. He was only fifteen years at this point and he didn't want to suffer, as his mother had. His father was devastated that his favorite son was also sick and his other son he had thrown out when he had burned down a house.

Days passed by and some days Xandros felt not even sick and could even go outside and to church to pray and hope his mother will help him to past this. But none of his prayers helped with the pain he felt on his bad days. And now that his father lays also sick in his bed made it even harder for Xandros he was losing it from pain sometimes and lay on the ground when he came out of one of his blackouts. Later he did even throw up blood and looked so pale that his brother that did come back from where he was that year to piss him even more off.

"What happened to you? And where is father," asked Firius who stood there as nineteen old men all healthy with his warm skin tone and a body that looked more muscular than that he when he left. Sometimes did Xandros think of what would happen as Firius was sick and not him?

"Dad had locked himself in his room and don't want to be disturbed. And if you didn't burn that house down you would know that I'm very sick and will not last long." He told him almost spitting the words out of his mouth.

He took off again and later came back to his room to sleep all day what Xandros thought was very weird? Why would he be gone for the whole night?

Firius was one day gone again and Xandros was again alone with his father. Till one day father stood up and did again what he loved to do, being into society to be the big person he was before. He had even found another wife a year later.

Felice was her name a real witch if you asked Xandros. He was eighteen years old when she came into the house and commanded him to do all sorts of things for her. At this time his disease was the lowest and Xandros could do a couple of tasks but she was not convinced that he did his best, and not more could work to bring money into their home. They had a beautiful house and a huge landscape Xandros didn't get why she wanted him out of the house so many times.

Later he did know, she was cheating. That was the reason why she wanted Xandros gone most of the time. They did not know at first. His father found out later when he had caught her with the butcher.

At that time Xandros was almost twenty years old and was sicker than he ever had felt he know he would die. Xandros couldn't hold it any longer. He was throwing up blood almost every day and his body was so thin and pale he could not do anything at home or outside anymore. Xandros lived in his room where he stayed in bed for most of the time. Their dad became again the person he was after their mother died. But he did care for Xandros and he even hired a maid to help him with all the things that he couldn't do anymore. What was absolutely everything.

Finally, Xandros turned twenty and he had lived longer than predicted. But he was still chained to his bed where he read and talked to his maid Luciana. Xandros did lose his virginity with her, she was the only woman he ever had loved and that loved him back.

One day Firius his brother stepped into the room. Firius hardly recognized Xandros anymore. Firius looked still the same age as Xandros what was weird because he was already turning twenty-four and looked so trained off and he had even a scar on his face. Where had he been all of this time? Asked Xandros to himself.

Firius looked at Xandros and Firius is looking shocked at Xandros. He hadn't thought he would be this sick as Xandros really was. He was a believer maybe he thought Xandros would be better by now.

"Xandros you look awful! What happened?" Xandros could hardly believe his brother asking him this.

"I am sick I told you years ago. I'm going to die Firius." He didn't like what Xandros told him he even left the room and Xandros heard a noise downstairs and Firius even screamed at their dad. That he had hidden this all these years but our father did know Firius didn't want to hear this. Not about sickness and death.

Sunday night was the night that Xandros thought he would die. That night he had again thrown up and was going to his bed again. But there was Firius standing with Luciana in his arms. She looked scared and he let her lose when he saw me looking he comes at me. Firius pushed him onto the bed with the fall Xandros did could break his back.

And then Xandros saw what monster his brother was. He had fangs and bite into his arm and pushes the arm on his mouth where the blood is streaming into Xandros mouth. Xandros heard Luciana screaming in the background and still felt the blood of Firius going into his. And if that was not creepy enough he then put his fangs into Xandros neck and blacked out. When Xandros came back he sees Firius sitting with Luciana into his arms capture.

"Oh brother, you are back. I have a surprise for you." He said laughing putting his fangs by her neck only scratching it.

The moment Xandros smell her blood he lost it and took her out of Firius's arms and bite her sucking her dry till the last drop of blood.

Firius is laughing when Xandros finally saw what he had done. He had killed the woman he loved like the monster he is now.

He is a vampire! Xandros from that point made the deal with himself to never fall in love and one day he would kill Firius for what he had done!