The Dark Night

The Dark Night Begins

Night, it was dark night. Sun has set, darkness swallowed the city. However, light appeared everywhere. Street light, car light and every other light in the city was on, but there was something wrong. Something was missing, some light was missing. Not only was something missing but whole city felt different. What was different? – it was cold, there was a strange feeling, shudder that turned into fear. Everyone felt it, humans, animals and even plants. They all had a reaction. Sky was clear, not one cloud was seen. Under this empty sky one girl was sitting in a chair with her arms around her body, she was on a rooftop of an abandoned building. This was her favorite spot. It was an abandoned building with a flat rooftop. All sides of the rooftop were covered with walls. She could not see the streets bellow without standing up and getting close to the walls. Walls were not high enough to cover her body, it reached her belly. When she was sitting in the middle of the rooftop she could not see the city and city could not see her. She would often come here to have her alone time. She hated her house, she hated her family, she hated everyone except one person but he was not with her anymore. She always wanted to find a place where she would be alone, where she would be able to get away from the world. She was crying, she was asking questions. She asked him questions, but he was not there to answer her. She asked: "Where did you go? I don't understand, why you left me? You stupid retard where did you go? I hate you so much I- I- I-, answer me you piece of shit, how could you just leave me, how could you leave your family. I loved you, I loved you so mu- "However, her place, her cries, her anger, her sadness, her peaceful place was disturbed. She was cold, she was scared. Something was off, but she could not tell what was wrong. This feeling was like a jolt of electricity, she jumped up and looked around. She was alone, nothing was out of ordinary. Something compelled her to look up, so she did. She found the answer to her question. She could see that the sky was clear, there were no clouds and no …... No stars? Her legs lost strength and she fell down. "There are no stars?"- she said to herself. "It can't be, it is not possible". She tried to look for a star, she really tried to find one, she strained her eyes, but there were no stars. She closed her eyes, her mind must be playing tricks on her. She tried to calm down, after she slowed her heart beat with breathing, she decided to open her eyes. She wanted to open them, she wanted to check but she was scared, she was horrified. She could not. Suddenly she heard something. Sound. Horrifying sound was heard from all directions. It was not a sound that humans could make, nor was it something that an animal could do. This sound, whatever it was, was coming from every direction. It was loud, it was so loud that the girl put her hands on her ears to try to deafen it but, this action did not help. The sound was coming from her, from her insides, from every part of her being, from her blood. This scream continued for some time. Maybe seconds, maybe minutes, but it was over. Girl could not breathe, she was scared, horrified even. However, this was not just fear, no it was terror. The girl could see her death, she could feel her death and she was terrified. She heard the scream again, but this time it was from bellow, from the streets. It were screams of people. People below trying to live their lives. They could not continue their lives, not after the scream. The girl stood up and went to the edge of the rooftop, and looked down at chaos in the streets. Some simply stopped moving with tears coming from their eyes, others screamed and ran, but they did not know where to run and some where clenching their ears as if that sound was still there. But one man, just one man was kneeling, he was kneeling towards the east. The girl could see how that man was not just kneeling, no he was worshiping something. The girl could not understand what the man was doing but she understood that he was worshiping. The man was kneeling with both knees, his hands and fingers made a weird gesture. She could not see exactly what that man was doing with his hands, but she saw something that pushed her back on the ground, she saw something that made her back up crawling, and she crawled until she hit the wall on the other side of the building. She could not even think but that mans figure was still in her mind. The man she saw had red eyes, his face was upside down, but his head was also upside down, he was looking at her, but he showed his back towards her, his teeth were long needle like and whatever was in his mouth was simply darkness. He was talking, she could not understand him but she heard him. She screamed, she cried and she could not stop hitting herself. This continued for hours, she was bleeding, her nails were torn off and broken. Her madness continued until other people like her, normal people, stopped her. Many people injured each other, but some retained their sanity. They helped each other out, this cooperation was weird, not even weird it was supernatural weird. All this different people, they all helped each other, something united them all. Fear united them all. Calming the girl down was hard, they had to restrain her and they had to wait for the ambulance, after all this was not something that normal people had expertise in.

- The whole fucking city went crazy, I mean look at them… shit and I thought I was the crazy one. Hey is she okay? – said the girl with blue hair, in leather jacket. Maybe she is seventeen? Nineteen at most. Even though she is still sane and has everything under control, she can barely keep calm. She is standing at the edge of the rooftop looking down at the chaos.

- What do you think? Where is the ambulance? Did you not call them? She can't calm down and keeps sh.. help me don't just stand there- said middle aged man, with a suit and a tie which has been destroyed by recent events.

- Hey, hey come on dude stop looking at the fucking sky and help me

- They are not answering the fucking phone, lines are busy or some shit

- There are no stars- said young man, who was looking at the sky for quite some time now

- ThEre ArE nO StArs, really? What the fuck have you be- she can't see them, the stars, they are gone. She can't not see anything up there no clouds, no stars.

- Where are the stars? Where are the fucking stars?

- Shut up both of you and help me with this girl, she is-

- Forget the fucking girl the stars are missing, do you understand what this means? We are dead, we are fucking de-

- Calm down, we are still alive and we will help her, I will hold her legs, you help him with the hands.

- Thanks, really needed that help, ahahahaha ha ha ha h a…. the stars are really gone.

- Oh come on not you too. They are not gone, some weird shit happened with weat.. clouds and ther… it is not the apocalypse for fucks sake.

- What about the scream? Hmm? What about the fucking scream ha? Everyone heard it, like everyone in the whole world.

- You don't know that

- I don't? There are fucking videos talking about it from everywhere. Just look at my feed dude, there are videos. Even governments are losing their shit.

- The man- said the girl, half dazed, half scared.

- Wow, hey you okay? Let her go, she is herself now- said the young man. Both middle aged man and the girl with blue hair let the girl go. After which the girl crawls away from them. When she gets far away from them, she looks at her nails and arms, she screams, she feels the pain she caused to herself. But she asks a question, this question is more important than anything else to her.

- Did you see him?- said the girl

- What are you talking about?- said the young man

- You did not see him? He was there, kneeling towards there- and she pointed at the east- but his face, his face and head was upside down, his eyes were red, crimson red and his teeth were needles and, and his mouth, oh, oh his mouth, his mou… you did not see him?- she was crying, she was scared, she was trembling.

-Okay, okay, you must have seen things but after all that I doubt it, calm down, I mean try to calm down, can you stand?- said the girl with blue hair

- I don't know, I – she could not stand up

- It's okay, we are here, nothing bad will happen to you, we all felt it

- The scream?

- Yeah- said the young man

- Are the stars really gone?

- Seems so- said the middle aged man

- Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahahhahahaahhahaah, we are so fucked- said the girl while clenching her head, laughing and crying.

Three Months Later

- Okayyyyyyyyyy, we are finally done- wolf masked man

- Yeah it took two months but our work was done fantastically, no mortal remembers that scream- snake masked woman

- What did our queen say?- bear masked man

- What do you mean?- wolf masked man

- I mean why are we gathered here and now, why did our queen call a meeting out of the blue?- bear masked man

- Maybe we finally finished out missions? Do you even know how many nights I had to work? Do you know just how many people I had to work on? More than a fucking thousand, yeah fucking thousand. And don't get me started about the internet shit. So I am sorry if queen wished for us to have a little fun.- snake masked woman

- Fun? The scream was from dangerous entity and the stars are gone because of the said entity, they are gone and Bleeding Ones are trying to explain that shit, you do realize that sooner or later we are all going to be hunted down right?- bear masked man

- Oh please, the stars will be dealt with, the Moon Coven will fix that. The real problem is that the fucking elders are gone, nobody knows where they are. Some even say that they were consumed by one girl. So if someone is strong enough to fuck the elders than we are done either way, and we get fucked by mortals everyday so nothing new there- snake masked woman

- Dark Mother does not consume us, she is not one of us. Besides if she wanted to kill us, she would have done so already.- wolf masked man

- You think that girl is the Dark Mother?- bear masked man

- Yes, if our elders are truly gone, that means that they have been destroyed and not consumed by that girl. She has to be the Dark Mother. No one else is strong enough otherwise.

- Please welcome, Ekaterina the dancer, The Queen of North America.

Door opens, and a very beautiful woman walks in the room. Everyone looks at her, they all love her, they all fear her and they all kneel before her. The room is filled with people, a lot of people. They all wear masks and are dressed like aristocrats. When you look at them you might think they are dressed for the carnival, but there is no carnival. Just a gathering. There are roughly hundred people here, but something is weird. In this room everything is cold, the room is cold. Some of the people that are attending look like statues, painted statues but statues nonetheless.

- Welcome to my party. Tonight we are celebrating successful operation that lasted two months. Not only our kingdom was successful in our endeavor but other kings and queens tell me the same news. Our society triumphed over Bleeding Ones once again. We are hidden, we are truly hidden. However, the stars… That is a problem that can't be solved yet, without Awakened Ones help. Before we begin our party, does anyone have anything to say about our situation?

- May I speak you highness?- said the man who was in the corner of the room.

- You may speak my young prince.- said the queen

- Thank you my queen. My investigations led me to believe that star disappearance and The Scream is Dark Mothers fault.

This information changed the mood of the people present. Some started whispering, others started smirking and some looked in horror.

- Please continue, you got my attention.- said the queen

- As you wish my queen. My sources tell me that the Dark Mother wished to conduct certain ritual for a long time now. For centuries she tried to create a being, a powerful being, being strong enough to be worthy of her. She searched for a worthy person that she could love. However, her driving motivation for this being is power. She wanted the most powerful being to be her lover, husband, friend. Her heart was broken many times, so she decided to- before he could finish his speech, the queen started talking

- So let me get this straight, you think all this bullshit that we had to deal with, happened because "Dark Mother" wanted a "fuckboy"?

- With all due respect, it is more than that.

- What do you mean?

- Dark mother created a being so powerful that stars are gone, every elder is also gone, the Cursed Ones are in a chaos and we lost control. Every single one of us lost control, we all worshiped that thing. Maybe some of you might deny this, but we all worshiped that thing. We are talking about a power that made ever-

- But this is all just a speculation. I have heard about Dark Mothers obsession with "love" myself. However, this does not mean that she was successful in her ritual. Besides if she was we would have heard from the Order Of Arcana. But they are silent.

- They are silent because they are dead. With all due respect, what in the fuck is strong enough to make us its bitch if it was not her "fuckboy"?

- I don't like your tone boy.- without saying anything else the man fell on the ground.

- Please forgive me, I was out of line, I will not disrespect you again my queen, please forgive me.

- Ahhh this is why I love you, you know how to beg, good, good. Now enough with this subject, it is time for celebration. Let's get this party started.

One Year Ago

Alarm goes off, one boy sleeping in his bed wakes up from the sound of the alarm. He is angry at the alarm, he did not want to wake up so soon. But he woke up in spite of that. He has to go to school. It's monday his least favorite day of the week. The boy is looking at his clothes, but he does not like them. In his school it is forbidden to wear anything other than the uniform. He wants to dress more punk like but he has to wear tie and whole suit. There is nothing he can do about that. He "almost" always follows the rules. There are times when he has had enough and "rebels" but he always gets "put down". He takes his school uniform and towels and goes out of his room. He is greeted by his father. The only part of his family. He has no mother or siblings, not even a pet. It's just the two of them in a large house. This family is not poor, but they are not rich either. They are normal family, they have everything they might want. However, they are not happy. Father and son love each other but something is missing. They are alone.

- So when are you going to introduce your girlfriend to me ? - says the son

- Oh come on Alexander it's 8 o'clock in the morning, let's at least eat something before you start nagging me.

- Actually it's 8.15 and you wound me father. Is your favorite son nagging you? Am I nagging you when I just want to have fun talk with my father.

- Ha ha ha ha yeah right, we don't have much to eat today. You said you were going on a party after school right? Can you eat there?

- Yeah actually I can, but it will be junk food, I mean that like legit junk food. We will be drinking so I don't know what kind of food will be there exactly.

- Do you have condoms?

- Really? I am not going there to have that kind of fun. I am just meeting my friends, that's it.

- You will never lose your virginity I am sure 100%. Okay listen, if you will find some good looking girl just try, you know. Who cares if you fail son, we all fail time from time. I will give you some condoms but be sure to at least try ok? Don't be that scared.

- Okay, okay, but i am not promising anything. When I will fail come pick me up or I might just-

- Hahahaha okay, ah my boy is becoming man today, they grow up so fast.

- Oh shut up Dante.

- Ugh, call me father please, you know I don't like when you call me by my name.

- Okay ..... DANTEEEE

- Oh you little... come here- Dante tried to capture his son, but Alex was too quick for him

- Too slow old man, ahahahah okay I am gonna go take a shower. Do we have food now at least?

- Yeah some sausages, how many do you want?

- 2 and a slice of bread please

- Okay son, have fun in the shower

- Ugh disgusting, see ya

Alex went to take a shower. He loved showers, he was alone with himself in the shower and he could just let his imagination run wild. Sometimes he would think about school, sometimes he would think about life and sometimes he would just think that he had everything in life. But today was different. When he woke up he did not even consider that today might be the day he loses his virginity. After his father talked about it, he could not get this idea out of his head. He smiled at the idea but than he frowned, he got scared. "What if I fail, what if I can't get it up, what do I do, it will be fine yeah it will be fine, don't over think this Alex, come on dude calm down so what, even if I fail so what, it does not make me less of a man, but it does, oh fuck this bullshit man, I am not gonna do shit". With this final idea-speech he gets out of the shower. Gets dressed, he wears the uniform that he hates and gets to the kitchen.

- Don't chicken out- said Dante, as if he read his sons mind- we have all been there. Women are a headache yeah, we get that but you will never find happiness if you will not at least taste the warmth that women can give and I don't mean just sex. They can give you something that will fill you up. Don't be scared of them. Yeah they are scary but don't be scared. But if you are still scared, than face your fears. At least try.

- I will try

- Okay now let's eat. Here is you two sausages, bread and glass of water

- I want coffee

- Okay, but make it yourself, I am too lazy for that, okay?

- Okay ,do you want one too?

- Yeah hahahaha

- Oh father you are such a-

- Such a what?

- Good father

- Oh, what did you do? Did you break the shower or something?

- Oh shut up yo-

- Thank you son

- So about your girlfriend, what is up with her? When will I meet her and tell her all of your dark secrets?

- In three days

- Oh I did not expect that it would be so serious, will you marry her?

- That, I don't know. First things first let's see how she will act around you. If you will like her and she will like you than maybe I will consider it.

- Good luck, I am really tired eating your shit cooking.-

- Hahahaha good thing you will be eating outside today, if not for that I would really make you a shit meal

- Okay, whatever. Will you drive me to school?

- Yeah finish those two sausages.

Loving family, just father and son having normal conversation which is followed by awkward silence. There is nothing more to talk about. They finish their breakfast and get their coats. It is winter, snow is quite large but they both love snow. Maybe son loves the snow more, after all it's the father who has to drive in this weather. School that Alex goes to is 15 minute drive from home, but the snow makes that half an hour. Alex is late. Father is not angry about this or anything, it happens. Maybe Alex likes to shower too much but Dante is not complaining, at least his teenage son is getting in the shower in the first place, unlike many other teenage boys.

- Give my kisses to your hot English teacher

- Are you a horny dog or something, you have a girlfriend

- Are you my mom or something, get to the class, you are late

- Goodbye father, see ya

- Bye, go get them tigerrr, Rawr

- Ugh

Alex gets out of the car and runs in to the school. He gets to his class.

- You are late Mr.Giovanni, can you please stand in the corner? - says an old math teacher.

- All due respect teacher, I ran all the way here, I am that interested in your lesson and when I am in the corner I can't quite hear you. Please teacher let me sit in the front, I really want to listen to your math lesson

- Okay, fine sit in the front but don't be late again or I will call your father.

- Thank you teacher

This exchange was not well received among the students. They whispered, they frowned, they mocked him.

- Since when were you into grandmas? - said one of the girls in the back. She was a bad girl, well that was the rumors anyway. She was hard to control and she broke rules of the school so many times, that many teachers wanted to expel her. But the same could not be said about Alex, he liked her. He liked her freedom. He wanted to be like her as well. So he got very embarrassed when she made fun of him like that, but he did not keep silent and answered her.

- Since when were you interested in what I was into?- WOW he really said that, he could not believe that he was so quick in a comeback, the class was also quite in a chaos. He talked back to her, he was proud, he was satisfied.

- Would you look at that, little kitten can bite

- Woul- Before Alex could say anything else teacher "roared"

- Both of you get in the corner right now, I will not hear another word from any of you.

- Yes teacher, sorry for disturbance.

- Whatever

Both of them stood in a corner, but they were quite close to each other.

- Wanna get out of here? - said Alicent

- Really we are getting punished because of you, what more do you want?

- Punished? ha ha ha this is more like a reward. Here let me help you get out from here- the second she finished talking she started laughing out loud

- Stop tickling me, ahahahahaha, stop pleas-

- Okay that's it both of you out of the class right now.

- Yes teacher- said Alicent as she dragged him from the class.

- Mission successful, so wanna get on the rooftop?

- You want to climb on the school rooftop?

- Actually no, I have a special place that's where I go went I want to be alone

- Why are you taking me there?

- It will be fun

- Okay let's go, so we are gonna skip school? and than go to the party?

- Yes and nah

- Oh why not it will be fun, let's go to the party tog- "wait are you asking her out, just like that? damn Alex you grew some balls, but she will refuse and think that i want to fu-"

- Hahaha haaha, okay let's go it will be fun alright

- No way did she agree to go on a da, ugm did I just say that outloud?

- Yes you did, and I know that you did that on purpose.

- Soooo?

- Want me to change my mind?

- No no no no .... let's go to your sp.. rooftop and then let's go party.

She shook her head grabbed his arm and they both left the school to go to her favorite place. When they got there, they talked nonstop about school and their bullshit rules, games, movies, everything except the party and what would happen after it. Alex wanted to clarify and Alicent was getting awkward around this subject. She was not like her usual self, maybe she really did like this boy. Hours went by as if nothing and hour of the party came. So they left her "special" rooftop and went to the party. They went in easily, but Alex was getting nervous and Alicent was teasing him about it. In truth she was nervous too. Many kids sized them up and gave them "couple stares" which made Alex and Alicent blush like tomatoes.

- Do we even know anyone in this party? - Alicent

- No ahahahaha, well we do know one guy, George remember hi- Alex

- Drug dealer- Alicent

- What?- Alex

- Yeah he is a drug dealer, you really have no idea what is going around in this town do ya?

- Well excuse me for trying to live normally

- You are excused, now do you wanna get high?

- Hell ya, let's do it, umm how do we get drugs exactly? I mean, I am broke. The onl... One of the reasons I came here was to get free food.

- Well I could get them now for free but than we would have to pay, I mean pay later with fucking interest sooo? Wanna do it?

- Yeah okay let's do it.

- You just stand there in the corner okay, I will get it on my own. OKAY?

- Yeah okay geez, calm down

So just like that, they separated. He did as he was told, he stood in the corner and waited for her. This is it, this is the day he will lose his virginity and with a woman that he likes? What is going on? Something is weird, he feels weird, he feels hot. At first he thought that maybe he is getting nervous about Alicent but after he thinks about his condition he realizes that, that is not the case. He is looking at someone. His attention, his thoughts, his mind is taken by a stranger. He is looking towards a tall, dark haired, woman. She is so beautiful, so stunning, so mesmerizing, that he forgot everything else. This woman is standing right in front of him. He is lost in her beauty. She appeared out of thin air. He can't do anything else but just stand there and look at her. No one else in the party is looking at her, only he can see her. As if she is not there for anyone else, she is there only for him. She is getting closer to Alex. He feels how he is so close to her. His legs are giving out, his heart is beating so fast, he might die here.

- Hello darling, are you waiting for someone or would you like to keep me company? - This woman spoke in such a seductive voice, that Alex was fully consumed by her aura. Her body, her scent, her eyes, everything was too much for Alex and he forgot about Alicent or whatever her name was.

- YES I- I- I am I would like to keep you com- company

- That's wonderful, let me introduce myself, my name is Lily

- Hel HI hello Lily, I a- am Alex.

- Don't be nervous Alex, enjoy this moment, enjoy me

- What do you mean enjoy you? But there are people here we can't do th- There are no people, they are alone in a bedroom. Before he could even say anything she pushed him in the bed. "Where am I, what is going on, I was at the party in Jessica's house, am I in her bedroom now? Who is she? Why can't I talk? What is going on?"

- Ah my darling don't be scared, you will feel ecstasy, you will feel unimaginable pleasure, you will be mine from this day forth, forever. Your appearance and you power is not good enough for me, but we will change that.

- What? Let me go, please let me go, why are you doing this to me?

- Let me show you true pleasure- after she said what she wanted to say, she started doing somethings to Alex. It was not just sex, no it was beyond that, this affected his soul. He was stripped of himself, he was stripped of everything that made Alex be Alex. She took all of it and gave it back a little changed, a little altered. He felt pleasure that could not be described. But suddenly this pleasure, changed into pain. At first it could not be noticed, but after sometime the pain became unbearable. This pain made Alex lose his mind, his sanity, but every time he lost his sanity, she brought it back. She made him sane again, and again, and again, and again. After sometime he felt pleasure again. Pleasure and pain played with his body, mind and soul until he took the shape that Lily wanted. But he was not Alex anymore.

The Night Stars Disappeared

Darkness is all he can see, feel, taste, smell, hear. All of his senses are devoured and fused with darkness. He did not know that darkness could be so endless, so unending. He and darkness are one. They are the same being. They can't move, they can't speak, they can do nothing but be. So they were maybe hours, maybe days, maybe years. They are not sure anymore.

- Wake up Vlad, my darling, it is time to wake up

Said a voice in the darkness. This voice divided him and the darkness. He was an individual again. It was a sweet voice which made him angry. Why was he angry? Why does he recognize this voice? He forgot the reason but he obeyed and did what he was told to do and woke up. He thought maybe he would see the light but, he did not. He is in complete darkness. But now he can feel other things. He can hear other things, he can smell other things, he can taste other things. Such sweet taste he has in his mouth. He can see now. In this complete darkness he can see. He waits, and thinks. He tries to understand what is going on so he looks around. He is in a box, which is laying horizontally. This box looks like a coffin. He is naked and right on top of him is a naked woman. Not only is she on top of him but he can feel that he is inside of her, well small part of his anyway. The woman is dead. Her neck has been damaged. Looks like a bite. He tries to get her off but he can't move. He tries to scream but he can't. He wants to breathe but he does not breathe. Even though he can understand what is going on inside this box he still can't move. Is he dead? No? Maybe. He is paralyzed for sure. He tries to move with all his strength but something else moved. Something moved inside of him. He can feel that thing move. He felt it. This scared him but he got interested, he wanted to see exactly what was this thing. He closed his eyes. Tried to focus on that thing. That thing did not want to hide, oh no it did not. It wanted to get out of its cage. He realized that he was the cage and that thing was the monster, the monster that would tear him apart the second he got close. He realized that he made a mistake. The creature got excited when he focused on it, so it charged at the "gate". He felt how the beast was tearing him apart from the inside. The monster easily got out of the cage and now it was free. He looked in horror as his body started fucking and eating the corpse of naked woman on top of him. He wanted to throw up, he wanted to die, he wanted to stop but the monster was in control of his body now. He wanted to cry but he could not. Instead he heard a laugh, inhumane laugh. The beast was laughing at him, from his own body. The beast was enjoying this. It liked the pain it caused. So it did not rush it. No, it took its sweet time. It mocked him, it made fun of him and tempted him. When the monster was done with its meal, it looked at a new meal. So the beast started "eating" him. He realized that part of himself was disappearing and fusing with the creature. He begged, he apologized, he asked for someone, anyone to help him - don't let him become the beast. His begging was answered.

- See? My darling, you can't live without me. Let me help you with that.

She appeared inside the coffin. She appeared where that woman was earlier, on top of him. She was also naked. The coffin was not large so he was surprised when she just "appeared" right on top of him. He was thankful, she would help him take the beast out from him or at least restrain him and the monster that was inside him. But she did not restrain him or anything else. No, she indulged the monster. The monster noticed her, so it stopped "eating" him. Now creature was excited once more so it started eating and fucking this woman. But this woman enjoyed it. Every time beast teared her flesh, her body healed. Every time it killed her, she came back to life, almost instantly. The beast was euphoric. It had its fun for a very long time. He looked at the disgusting scene for who knows how long. This two things were doing so many things, so many times that he thought this was his reality now. Endless eating and fucking. However, the woman was not healing anymore. So the creature devoured her completely. And finally it calmed down. It went back in to it's torn cage. He could move now. His body listened to him now. It was over, it was finally over. He could not stay in this cursed box anymore. He punched the coffin and completely tore it. So he tried to get out from it. He was in the ground, so a lot of dirt and soil hit him in the face. But he did not care. He pushed up. He had to get out from here. He went up. It was not as hard as he thought it would be, until the beast started moving agan. The beast was right behind him, he looked back and saw nothing, he then realized that the monster was inside him and the monster was part of him, like second personality, alter ego. He digged his way up. He punched the soil and finally he was out. First was his right hand. He used his right hand to get higher. So he did. His face, could finally breathe? The monster was right behind him, but out of the blue the monster was gone. So he got out fully. But he was scared so he looked around. What he saw, was horrible. Bodies, there were hundred bodies all around him in a ritualistic circle, there were 10 circles and in each circle were more bodies than in the previous one. All of the circles where inside of each other and in the very center was he. Around him were 13 bodies, after this circle it was difficult to guess how many they were, maybe 30 or 50. He could not guess how many dead people where around him but he realized that all of them had some kind of symbol on their chests. When he realized this, the monster took over again. Same thing happened. Same thing happened to every corpse, male and female, young and old. All of them. 40 days passed until the creature ate and fucked everybody. There was nothing here. Only horrifying monster. The creature standing right in the middle of the 10 circles. The monster heard her voice again, her moans, but this time from inside of him. The second he heard the moan he started to see how all of the circles started moving. They changed shape and turned into some kind of a symbol. And from this symbol she rose up. Naked and bloody. Her eyes, her eyes… he remembered her eyes, he remembered her.

- It was you

- What do you mean dear?

- You did this to me

- Well of course, I wanted you to be like this so of course I did it

- Change me back

- My sweet darling, you are mine now. We will have so many children and we will rule this world with our family

- What are you talking about, have you lost yo- he remembers now, who he was

- I am Alex? I a…. I AM ALEXANDER GIOVANNI, I AM ALEX, I AM NOT YOURS

- No you are not and yes you are mine. You are Vladislaus Laumino Alukahr Dracula, shortly V.l.a.d.. Hehehehe I named you, you are my Vlad, my sweet darling.

- Die

- What?

- Die, die, die, die die die diei di DIEEEEEEEE

He wanted her to die, he wanted her to explode. So she did. She exploded right in front of him. All her blood, all her flesh and all of her bones went different directions. But after all of it landed on something, they all levitated and forcefully entered his mouth. After he drank and ate all of her, he finally got full control over his body. He stood there in the middle were circles were before her appearance. He was not thinking, he was not breathing, his heart did not beat, he was dead.

He could not take any more of this, not anymore, it was enough, he had enough, so with all of himself

HE

SCREAMED.

The Dark Night Continues

- Hello Alexander- Alex did not look around for the source of this voice, he did not care, he simply listened.

- It seems you have calmed down, I did not mean to intrude, but I figured someone should fill you in and explain all this chaos that you have experienced, and who better than the daughter of the person who started all this chaos.

- Daughter? What do you mean daughter?

- Yes I am her daughter, Lily, that is what she told you I guess. I am her daught- before she could say anything else he was chocking her with his hands. He appeared before her and started chocking her.

- Why should I not kill you?

- Because I can explain how can you move like that, how can you make someone explode with just a thought, I can explain why you don't breathe, why you heart does not beat, I can explain what is that beast you have in you.

- Why do you want to do this?

- I am not evil and I am not my mother.

Alex looked at her with hatred but let her go. He did not trust her but he wanted to understand his current situation. So he listened and observed. The girl was stunning, but not as beautiful as her mother. She was in her twenties maybe younger. She wore normal clothes, nothing out of ordinary. She looked normal.

- Okay I think, I should start from the very beginning and I mean from the very start

- What are you talking about? What do you mean from the very start, I am not asking you that

- But you are, you want to know what is going on here, and for that you need to know everything

- Okay I am listening

- Monsters are real.

- What do you mean by that?

- This world is infested with monsters that hide among mortals, there were many of them in the past and now only five species exist. Well nobody knows when or how but only five are left.

- What ?

- Yeah, they are real. This five species are: Cursed ones, Awakened ones, Fors-

- Wait wait wait, this is too much, I am naked in the fucking forest, talking to the daughter of the bitch who fucked me over, what even … the fuck is going on, I don't care about all this shit, what happened to me, what even am I? If I am not a fucking human, than what am I?

- Vampire

- What?

- You are a vampire, well to be exact you are Alukah. That is the term for you.

- What?

- Yes you are a vampire, blood drinker, pale one, cold one, nightwalk…

- What? Why? I am just a boy? Why me? Why?

- Because my mother wanted a lover, strong, all-powerful man who would be her lover. And she was into vampires, so she turned you into one.

He fell down to his knees, he tried to cry but tears would not come out of his eyes, he was lost in this forest, he did not breathe, but he needed to breathe, he was naked but he was not cold, next to him was this normal girl, but he was all alone.

- Leave me

- What?

- Leave me

- Okay, Alexander I will leave you, but before I leave, let me tell you this: You need to drink blood to keep the the monster, Wogful at b-

- LEAVE ME ALONE

She left him as quickly as she appeared, he was alone now, he was truly alone. Hours went by, he tried to calm down, but every time he tried he would lose his cool again. Sun was coming up. At least sun was coming up. He was hopeful, finally this cursed night was over and he would finally see the light. But sun was not as warm as he remembered, no it was not warm, it was burning, everywhere sun touched his body, he felt agony. He felt as if he was burning alive. He roared and tried to get away from the sun. He was in the forest, so finding cover was easy. He was burning but his burned skin healed instantly, when he was in the shadows of the trees. He needed to run, he needed to somehow survive the day. He tried to run, but he did not just run. He was where he wanted to run almost instantly. He teleported, but the sun rose even higher. He did not know what to do. He was in the forest but sun did not let him rest. He needed rest. He thought maybe he should dig in the ground. Maybe he could enter the ground and rest there. He tried to do this, but he did not dig down, no he went into the ground. Just the thought was enough, he was in the ground. It would be more correct to say that the ground and him became one. It was just the ground now. They were finally resting. They were one for, who knows how long. Days went by, weeks went by. The Wogful was hungry now. He felt that the Wogful was waking up now, the Wogful was getting excited. Blood, the Wogful needed blood. The Wogful forced him and ground to separate. They were not one anymore. He needs to get out of the ground, so he got out of the ground, there was no hole in the ground, because he did not dig out of the ground, no- he simply was not ground anymore. He did not care about all of this. Blood, he needs to find blood. He looked around, he could see everything around him but he could not see blood, however he smelled blood. He needs to have this blood, he needs to drink this blood. He started walking in the direction of the blood, he was picking up speed, until he was too fast for human eyes, he teleported to the source of the smell. He was standing before a human boy, before human boy could say anything, before Alex could say anything, the Wogful bit the boy in the neck and started drinking blood. But this time, Alex was strong enough to beat the Wogful. Alex did not kill the boy, he stopped drinking blood. He finally calmed down. He was in control now. He remembered what that girl said. He needs to drink blood to keep the Wogful in check. Now he could look around and finally he could think rationally. The boy was in ecstasy. He has soiled his pants. The boy could not hold anything in, he was in so much pleasure. Alex did not want to harm the boy. Alex wanted to help him, but he did not want to risk losing control over the Wogful so he moved back and simply observed situation. He was on the field of some kind. He looked around and he could see buildings in the distance. Now he looked at himself. He was naked but his body was different. His whole body was covered by black veins. His hair was dark as always, but now it was long. Hair reached his abdomen. He has no hair except his head. His ears were now pointy. He looked at his hands and saw long sharp claws, he had long sharp claws on his feet as well. These claws had some sort of black smoke coming from the whole individual claw. From this dark claws came black veins that spread all over his body. He realized something interesting while he was looking at his hands and feet. He can hear, smell, see, feel and taste almost everything. He can hear how little insects moved around in the forest. He could smell the humans in the buildings. He could see humans in their windows. He could feel how micro organisms moved on his skin. He could taste the blood in all of those humans. He could do so much more but he did not lose his mind over any of it. He should have gone mad from all of the information but he did not. No it was natural for him. He felt as if he has been in this condition for centuries. Last thing he wanted to look at was his back, so he did. His neck turned completely, and he was easily able to see his back. He was surprised by his neck. However, after everything he saw and did, this was nothing exciting. He looked and saw that his back had far more black veins than any other place on his body. He could feel something in it. Wings, a lot of wings. He could feel each and every one of them. Before he could take them out, the boy started talking.

- Whe- wha- wh- who ar- WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT IN THE FUCK ARE YOU- he started screaming and backing away from the horrifying monster. Interesting fact is that the monster did not look scary, but if someone saw it they would be scared. As if the fear was injected in a person, without reason.

- I wIlL nOT HuRt YOu – he was surprised by his voice, he did not realize this when he was talking to "her" but now he can hear himself and his voice is horrifying. His voice sounds like many creepy voices are layered on top of each other and each one sounds as if he was inhaling and exhaling at the same time, but also he can hear the beast. He can hear the beast in his voice, which terrified him.

- STAY AWAY YOU MONS-

- SILENCE- the Wogful roared. Alex felt how Wogful took over for just one second. But he was in control. The boy did not say anything, he did not even move, he was frozen and completely silent.

- Okay okay, calm down and breathe normally, sorry about earlier don't be silent hahahaa….. - said Alex. And the boy did just that. He calmed down and started breathing normally. He was not silent anymore.

- What are you?

- Hmm I think I am a vampire, I think

- Oh okay

- What?- Alex said to himself: what is going on here? He is too calm. Very calm. Wait, why does he do everything I tell him to do? It has to be a coincidence right?

- What is your name?

- My name is John

- John don't be calm

- Wha? What what is going onnn, what are you, please don't kill me, I am so yo-

- John be calm

- Okay

- John why are you doing everything I tell you to do?

- I don't know

- John act natural

- Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh leave me the fuck alone, stay awayyyy get away from me you monst-

- Forget about me, you never met me, you passed out an-

Before Alex could say anything else, John started screaming and hurting himself. He tore his own skin and started hitting himself. Under his skin was different skin, pale skin. Alex looked at this scene and tried to stop him but the Wogful stopped Alex. After five minutes, what stood before Alex could not be described as human. It was not John anymore. It had no face only mouth, the mouth was full of sharp fangs. It had four limbs, and each limb had four finger-claws. Claws were large and dark. It had no other features. It was pale humanoid creature that simply stood before Alex.

- What the fuck man, what in the actual fuck man? Every time I think this shit is over again, again, again, again, again and again, LET ME FUCKING REST, I CAN'T DO THIS SHIT ANYMORE, I HAD ENOUGH, I AM DONE , YOU HEAR ME YOU FUCKING WHORE I AM FUCKING DONE, I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME YOU, YOU PIECE OF SHIT, YOU WANT ME TO BE YOU LOVER RIGHT? GO FUCK YOURSELF, I WILL FUCKING KILL MYSELF, I WILL NOT LIVE ONE MORE FUCKING SECOND IN THIS HELL.

He wanted to kill himself so he tore his own skin, his own flesh until he got to the heart. Or whatever that was. Without any hesitation he broke it. However, the it regenerated and in one second everything was normal. He started screaming and tried to tear his own head off. He managed to do it, but he regenerated again. He tried many other things to kill himself, for hours, but nothing killed him, he always came back. Until sun arose. The sun, the sun could kill him. He ran towards the sun. He started burning, screaming and in the end laughing as he turned to ash.

The Council

13 beings sit in a 13 different chairs, around a round table.

- Do we still don't know what happened ?

- There are some theories but for sure? Who knows

- It was in Germany

- What was in Germany?

- The source of The Scream

- Why Germany?

- We all were kneeling in the same position, but towards different directions

- So?

- So it was easy to figure out where the source was. We were kneeling towards the east. Ahmed was kneeling towards north, Lee was kneeling towards the west. So when we tracked everyone and their direction we came to very easy solution. That thing was in Germany.

- I assume it is gone now?

- Yes

- But what was that thing?

- The Usurper

- Usurper? Did one of The First Ten betray others?

- No, The First Ten has been devour-

- The First Ten have been devoured?

- Ye-

- All of them? We are talking about thousand Alukah here. And each of those Alukah has devoured and consumed millions of human souls. They are Gods, They are our fathers and mothers. This is absur-

- Don't try to deny the truth, do you feel The Awake Ones? Do you feel The Kin Devourers? WE HAVE ALWAYS FELT THE KIN DEVOURERS, THEY ARE OUR MAKERS FOR FUCKS SAKE, BUT NOW THEY ARE GONE, WE DON'T FEEL SHIT, THAT THING KILLED THEM ALL !

- Do we have a plan?

- We have to kill it

- AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA, kill it? That thing is an Usurper, if it devoured The First Ten than it is the most powerful Alukah in the world. We are nothing compared to such a monster.

- Yes The First Ten have been devoured and we can't kill it but, we can still use it

- How?

- It is not a person, if he truly consumed and devoured The First Ten than that means that it Consumed billions of souls. There is no person that can handle so many souls, and still be the same person. The Wogful would have consumed the person.

- That means we can control it

- Exactly, we can't kill it but we can control it. To be honest this is good for us.

- AHAHAHAHAHAHA, you want to use it to kill all others don't ya?

- Yes, it will be easy to do. All other supernatural entities out of the way and we can enslave mortals.

- You really think it is possible?

- Yes

- Umm, I have one question

- What is it?

- How do you think we can control it?

- I can control The Wogfuls

- HAHAHAHAHHA, I knew you could, I fucking knew it, do you think after saying that you will be able to leave this room alive?

- I have plan, I will give you all this power, I will share it with you. We will control that thing together.

- Hmm that can be done. But If it does not wok out, The Council will lose one of its members.

- I am willing to take that risk, if we can achieve paradise.

- AHHH ALUKAH PARADISE, I WANT IT SO BADLY. WELL THAN, LET THE GAMES BEGIN, AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHH.