THE VAMPIRES

KILLIAN'S POV

We did it. We were victorious with our attack on the werewolves. I didn't think it was going to be possible. I didn't expect my men to bring back the fifteen humans I was promised. And to make things better, they brought back a werewolf too. An apparently, he is a werewolf of high caliber judging from his attire. He must have been pretty close to Alpha Damon.

Once my soldiers arrived with the humans, one was offered to me and I completely drained her o fall her blood. My skin lighted up with the color it lost and my neck healed completely. The blood only helped to completely heal me but I still haven't regained even half of my strength.

The alpha started tracking us immediately after the raid but now, we have a hostage. If this werewolf we have captive means anything to him, then he will heed to my warning and stop tracking us. That should buy us some time for a while.

I won't kill him, I'll interrogate him and try to find out if he knows how the werewolves overpowered us. I will break every bone in his body if I need to until he fesses up.

If I know how the werewolves were able to defeat me, then I'll know how to stop them and rise to power again. For three years I have lived like a peasant inside of a filthy cage. For three years I have been suffering, having to feed on disgusting animal blood, but now I have hope.

The few humans that were captured should be able to keep us strong for a while until we gather enough information on the werewolves.

I slowly get up from my chair as I stand up to make my way over to where Reece, our new prisoner is chained up and guarded. He was drained of half of his blood when he was kidnapped to weaken him. He's useless now and can easily be killed if he tries anything stupid.

I nod to one of the guards guarding him. He punches Reece in the face hard making him loose his balance and fall to the floor.

He spits out blood and turns his gaze towards me offering me a death stare. Now he knows how it feels to be kept as a prisoner. The werewolves have never known any suffering in the entirety of their existence. Humans have been kept as slaves, vampires are currently been kept as slaves. It is their turn now.

"Tell me how the Alpha was able to defeat me." I demand.

"Did you ever stop to think that maybe you're just a weakling. Just accept the fact that you were overpowered by the werewolves." He answers me with hatred seeping from his words.

My guard lands another blow to his face making him cough up some more blood.

"If you don't want your face to be permanently redecorated, I suggest you give me a proper answer. We both know vampires are the most powerful creatures in the world. So quit stalling and tell me the Alpha's secret." I question him again.

He struggles to find his balance on the floor. His wounds aren't healing as quickly as they should since he has lost a lot of blood. He can't fight back.

"You'll never be able to defeat him. You can try if you want to, but you'll fail and this time you won't have anyone to put that head of yours back together." My guard hits him again sending him flying against the wall.

I pace back and forth in front of him as I start to think. The alpha does not have witches at his disposal. Those creatures wouldn't dare leave the forbidden forests. The only thing he has are werewolves and vampires. Vampires..

According to what my spies have told me he keeps vampires locked up in cells and only uses few of them as slaves. We can't go out in the sun so we're not much of a help as slaves. What is he doing with the many other vampires he captured? I think to myself as I pace back and forth.

Is he just keeping them as trophies? Why go through the trouble of hoarding that many vampires in his nation? Why not just kill us all? As I think, realization washes over me. Long ago, when the witches were still here, there were rumors. The witches used to say hybrids could be created under particular conditions.

A merge between werewolf and vampire blood, but the theory was dismissed as a myth. Could it be possible that the Alpha found a way to use vampires to make him stronger? That is the only explanation to how he defeated me. I wonder why I didn't think of this sooner.

It all makes perfect sense. I should have figured this out ages ago. The alpha is using werewolf gene to make him more powerful. That's why he can't kill them. That's why he keeps humans as slaves too.

I smirk and turn to look at my prisoner. "Your Alpha isn't as smart as you think he is wolf!" I say to Reece with a devious smile.

"So that's what he's been doing all this time huh? Using my kind to make himself stronger." I state making Reece's eyes slightly become wider.

I can hear the sound of his heart beating faster. I burst out laughing evilly. His reaction proves I'm right.

"So it's true." I say to Reece till chuckling. "How ironic."

"You don't know what you're talking about. The alpha would never put your filthy blood into his system." Reece defends desperately.

"Oh but I do know what I'm talking about wolf. Your alpha has been using my people for unnatural experiments. And the fact that he still has tons of vampires at his disposal means he hasn't found a way to make his little experiment permanent yet." I state.

"That's a lie." Recce defends.

"Oh there's no use denying it. I admire your loyalty, but it all makes perfect sense now. I am pretty curious though, how did he pull it off? He must have a very intelligent being at his disposal, which makes me wonder what would happen to your dear Alpha's source of power if this person were to go missing." I smirk at Reece making him look at me with disgust.

"Go to hell." He utters.

I burst out laughing. His reaction is only proving that I'm right.

"Well, you haven't been much help. I had to figure this all out by myself. You're useless now. Tell me, how would you like to die. I have been starving for years, I could use some strong werewolf blood." I say staring at him as my eyes turn red with hunger.

"You can't kill me." He says.

"Oh but I can. The alpha won't stay quiet for long. Sooner or later he'll realize he can't trust my word and he will come looking for you. But before he does, I would have disappeared to a place he would never find me. A place only the vampires know about. And now that I have humans and I have figured out his little secret, what exactly is stopping me from killing you, wolf?" I speak to him with hunger in my voice.

He swallows in fear as the red in my eyes scare him.

I walk closer to him, knowing he's too weak to fight me. I grab his neck and sink my nails into his skin, making blood ooze out of his neck. The smell of his blood makes me even hungrier.

"Your lucky I'm killing you now. I'll make it fast and painless. Consider it mercy. You won't be alive to see the downfall of your Alpha." When I finish talking, I sink my teeth into his neck in a swift motion and feed hungrily on him until I drain every last bit of blood from his being.

I drop his limp and unresponsive body on the ground. He's dead. The blood I just drained from him added a bit to my energy.

"The alpha will be coming for us soon. Start preparations to move to our new hideout." I say to the two guards present and they quickly dash out to inform the others.

Now that I know there werewolves' secret, I can come up with a plan. I'm coming for you Damon and this time, I won't lose.

I smirk mischievously as I think of all the ways I will make him pay.