The weekend passes by rather quickly, it was uneventful, but incredibly calming. So, when the time comes when I have to go back to school, back to reality I really really don't want too, over the weekend Felix had left me to go pick up my car from school,
"I wish I didn't have to go", I whisper as he Gus me tightly,
"You don't have to if you don't want to", I look up at him,
"Of course I do, I have to graduate",
"Well not really, at least not at that school you don't have too", he states,
"What you think should move schools, because the guy I was dating got a little handsy?", I question,
"No of course not, but if you don't like it there", he looks at me concerned, "I'm just saying there's a school hidden away specifically for our type of people, if you wanted to go there you could", the idea of going to a school full of supernaturals is intriguing,
"Wait if there's a school specifically for supernatural beings, why the hell does my pack go to Deadwood High School?",
"Pretty sure they only went there to get closer to you",
"Do you go to this supernatural school?", I question,
"Yea, I have too, I have too graduate to become the next leader, if I don't it will fall on someone else", he explains,
"Well, maybe I should take a tour of this school", I grab his shirt bringing him down for a kiss.
"When?", he questions in between kissing me,
"Well, today?", I say a cute innocent smile crossing his face, he looks at me a little shocked,
"Are you sure? Won't people be worried about you?",
"Let them be, lets go have some fun at your school", I say as I skip towards the car,
"Okay but we will be taking my car", he states as he grabs one of my arms, pulling me too his side, as he walks us towards his car in the garage. It's the same car that he took me too school in that one time, it's a black Chevy corvette, with red leather interior, it's and amazing car. We climb into his car, I hold his hand as he drives us to his school, it's in the opposite direction from Deadwood High, 'the further away the better'
"So where is your school anyway?",
"It's over near the sea lion caves", it's a small drive unlike to Deadwood High, he lives on the cliffs near Heceta Head Lighthouse, fair enough away from the light house so he is out of view of anyone driving along the main road. It takes about 15 mins before we arrive at his school, it lays amongst the trees in the forest, covered by some sort of magical barrier, as we drive up to the school, it is surrounded by large iron gates, and stone walls. The school is large, with tall towels and castle like features, an old medieval like feel comes from the school. The school is made from cobblestone, with gargoyles sitting atop some of the roofs.
"What the hell type of school is this?", I question as I look at him, he looks at me, there's large fields in front of the school, students sitting around talking waiting for the bells to ring, some running up to the car as Felix drives in,
"Sorry about the entourage, a lot of the vampires like to try and suck up to me, get on my good side and what not", he says embarrassed,
"It's ok",
"Welcome to Daemonium Academiae", Felix says as he squeezes my hand, he pulls up to what I guess would be the main entrance, coming to a stop, he puts his car in park turning it off and hoping out of the car, he immediately gets swarmed by a bunch of students, mostly women, as he makes his way around to my side of the car,
"Get away from me", he growls, he opens up the door for me, the crowd slowly backing away, as I step out of the car, he holds out his hand for me to grab, helping me out. He continues to hold onto my hand as we walk into the academy's halls, you can hear the whispers from the group of students following us,
'Is that his girlfriend?'
'How dare she be dating him'
'She's not worthy of him'
'She smells like a werewolf'
You can tell he can hear them too, he wraps his arm around my shoulder, letting go of my hand, he pulls me in close whispering into my ear,
"Don't listen to any of them, if they knew who you were they would be kissing at your feet", he comments,
"Would they though?", I question, holding onto him tighter, "I may be from two royal bloodlines, but they're different species and both betrayed their respective clans, if anything I would be surprised if they didn't want me lock up like my dad",.
"I'm not going to lie to you", he comes to an abrupt stop, "there's a few people who would probably want you locked up, a rival clans would probably want to get their hands on you, it would be risky you coming to this school, but ultimately I think it would be good for you, to learn the laws and ways of both your people", he gently grabs my chin, guiding me to look at him, "I wouldn't let anyone hurt you, I promise", He pulls me in tightly.
We continue on walking through the grand halls of the academy, he shows me all the different classrooms, study halls, libraries and all other facilities, they have classrooms for learning alchemy, positions, different vampire skills, werewolf transformations and gyms to help species work of some anger. They even have training grounds, apparently royal bloodlines don't use them as they're not supposed to fight but be protected.
"What do you think would happened to me if my vampirism is activated?", I question as we continue on the tour of the school, the groups of students that were following us as dissipated into a small group of three or four girls, "do you think I would lose my wolf?",
"I'm not sure what would happen", he responds, "from what I know there hasn't been a similar situation, but we could look into it", he tightens his grip on my hand and starts running down the halls pulling me along with him. He takes me up a few large flights of stairs and through a large wooden door, the room we enter has a curved roof, with illustrations painted into them, with a similar style too the paintings done by Michelangelo, but these painting depict a war, a war being fought from three sides, all leading to a horrible death of one person in particular, with hundreds more dead surrounding them. The room is completely bare otherwise, no furniture except for a sitting nook under a window, no pictures on the walls, just an empty room, with a graphic painting on the roof.
"What is this room?", I question,
"It doesn't really have a name", he states, "no one really knows what to call it, there's a old tale about the painting, so no one will come here", he brings me over to a large window on the other side of the room, sitting down on the window nook, pulling me onto his lap,
"What's the painting supposed to mean then", I question as I turn my head to face his, wrapping his arms around me, he laughs a little as he knew I would end up asking,
"Well you little history nerd", he jokes, "supposedly thousands of years ago, a vampire with the powers of premonition painted it, her family owned this castle, she predicted that a female werewolf with a wolf half black and half white would end up being the destroyer of all the species, there would end up being a horrible war because of this wolf and she would end up dying in the end, but that's all the information she gave anyone",
"But my wolf…", I murmur,
"Yes, your wolf is half black and half white, but it's just an old wife's tale", he says as he gives me a kiss on the cheek.
"Well do you at least know that name of the vampire?", I question, concern flooding my mind,
"Yea, I think it was Prudence Aeternus", he says as he plays with my fingers, "You don't have to worry though, other than that one premonition, there's no documentation proving she had such a power, most believe she was trying to feign unstable so she didn't have to Marry her husband to be".
"Who was her husband to be?",
"I don't know, someone from the Draculea family I think",
'Draculea family? Wouldn't that be my family?' I think to myself, "If your really interested in the whole prophecy and stuff I'm pretty sure there's books on it in the library", he states. I nod at him, getting the hint that he wants to change the topic of conversation,
"So, why did you bring me up here anyway?", I question,
"No reason, just thought it was quiet here, I come here all the time when I want to be alone and be able to think clearly", I relax back into his chest bringing his arm tighter around my waist,
"You brought me to your spot", I tease, "but don't you have to attend your classes", I nudge him gently in the side of the ribs with my elbow.
"I have the first period free, but you should join me in my others, only if you'd like?", he suggests,
"I kinda want to explore, is that ok?",
"Yea of course, I'll get you a visitors pass", we spend the next hour sitting cuddled up in the room talkng about whatever comes to mind, sometimes in just silence as we peer out the window, our conversation is calm and polite, is was nothing like the times I would spend with Damien, with most of those times turning into sex and arguing, yes when it came to talking about me being a werewolf we could have civilised conversations but any other time we would be arguing, and having sex.
"Amaris", he whispers into my ear, "I'll wait for as long as needed until your truly mine", he kisses me on the forehead, lifting me out of his lap and placing me on the window nook, "I've got to go to class, I'll have one of the staff bring up the pass, so just wait here for about 10 minutes. Oh, just don't go outside of the grounds, you won't be able to get back in if you do", his says as he waves me goodbye, closing the door behind him.
After a few minutes, an elderly lady comes stumbling into the room,
"Here's you pass young lady, next time please come down and grab it from the office", she scoffs as he she hands me the pass,
"No problem, I was just told to wait here, I'm sorry", I say apologetically,
"Yes, Mr Nex does enjoy bossing people around", you can hear the condescension in her voice,
"I'll make sure to tell him that I have a perfectly good pair of working legs", I say snarkily, she scoffs as she leaves the room.
I sit around for a few minutes figuring out what I should do, this castle is huge, with so many different rooms, 'I probably shouldn't explore the classrooms, I guess I'll stick to the libraries and other such types of rooms, maybe I'll be able to find some information on my families', I think to myself as I make my way down the stair cases heading to towards the library I saw on our tour. As I walk into the library, a middle-aged woman walks up to me, she has a fit figure, with an off tanned colour to her skin tone, and short hair, one would say a pixie like hair cut,
"Welcome young lady, is there anything specific you were hoping to find?", she says her voice lush in a hummed tone,
"Oh, um I was kind of hoping into reading up on some Royal families, specifically the Reika's and the Dracul's", I reply in a hushed tone,
"Ahhh the Reika's and the Dracul's they were some very high, very prominent Royal bloodlines, a lot of property belonged to them and most other bloodlines were afraid of them", she says quietly as she ushers me around the library, "it's really a shame what happened to those families, I mean the downfall didn't start at with that traitor of a vampire leaving his clan for that werewolf, it started long before that", she stops at a bookshelf, the books lined perfectly in alphabetical order, she's grabs a few book of the shelf, a few really large books with ease. She hands them over to me the weight of the books makes me stumble a bit,
"Was there anything else you were looking for?", she questions,
"Um what about the Nexs'?",
"Uh the Nexs' also a highly prominent bloodline, the most prominent of the vampire clans now after what happened with the Dracul's, as you are looking into these bloodlines, you should also look into the Aeternus' line and the Diavolo's which is a witch bloodline, it will be quite the read", she comments,
"Yea ok", she finds all the books I should read through and brings them over to the thick wooden table I sit at, a tall pile of books sitting a top. I glance at all the books I need to read and the sheer size of them, a small sigh escapes my mouth as I grab the first one on top, which happens to be about the Reika bloodline. The book shows all the members of the bloodline spanning back decades, plus those who have married into the bloodline, unfortunately the records from the earlier generations do not include those who's' family the woman married or were married off into, just that they were married and bore children, if they bore children. While the lineage of the males were chronicled immensely, even going into the details of how many man and or woman they killed on battlefields, and more. The books chronicled the immense power the Reika family had, including all the land they owned and how it started to fall apart when one of the Alpha males fell in love with a human and started baring children who could not transform. This was the first form of betrayal the Reika family bestowed upon the clan, this consequence affected many generations to come and the power of which these generations should've had dissipated over the years. It was a blessing when my mother was born as she was born with immense power, due to her being born on a strawberry moon which just so happened to have a full planetary alignment. It does not go into detail about her being with my father, it seems that she was written out a few years before I was born, and her father and mother were killed due to her betrayal. However, before they were killed, they were able to write in the footnote that my mother had mean on a blood moon with a full planetary alignment, 'Our daughter, had a baby our beautiful grand baby on the night of the blood moon a full planetary alignment was high in the sky, I hope this beautiful baby will bring the greatest of gifts to this world, to our clan, we hope our grand child will be loved and protected by those in her life as the child will need protection', either they did not know I am a halfbreed, or they were keeping it a secret. I close the book and pick up the book depicting the Dracul family, the book is written similar to that of the Reika's, depicting all the family members within the bloodline, 'The Dracul bloodline is one of three of the descendants of the Draculea's, the Dracul bloodline was prophesied to bear a child, a female child of wolf descent who would destroy all that is known, if this child is to ever be born she has to be killed, Prudence Aeternus prophesied this, she was married to Alexandros Dracul, first of his name', the prophecy is first written about in the early 1500's, with years and years of the prophecy being interpreted differently and the same. 'This child needs to be protected, it is her death that brings on the war', 'This child is blasphemous, and the whole line will be destroyed', 'This child will bring the downfall of this family', I come to the last written generation, I guess my fathers, 'Nikolas Dracul, married to unknown, betrayed and left the family, supposedly now a werewolf turned, must be captured and killed.' Again, his parents were killed and any other living Dracul had been locked up and starved, but the same has my other grandparents, these ones wrote in the footnote as well, 'My son had a child before he turned, the child was born under the blood moon, on the night with the full planetary alignment, this child was proposed to be married to the Nex family heir, this child must marry Felix Nex, the heir to the family, the child will be protected by him, this child will need to die under the next blood moon, on the day of the child's 19th birthday. All will be relieved following the child's death'. I put the book away and bury my head in my arms, as I consider what is supposed to happen to me. I cry a little as I realise, I'm probably going to die on my 19th birthday. I'm destined to die, after eighteen years of living I'll die the day I turn nineteen. I decide to continue looking through the books, all have the exact same information, the family members, information about them and some rambling about the prophecy, there were a few passages I took note of, one in the history about the Aeternus family,
'she will be the down fall, but the greatest gift to all of our species, many will die, but more will thrive', and a passage in the Diavolo's family, 'she was born both and both were concealed, once they all die she'll be whole , she needs our blood to truly become herself, immense power she will hold, be careful though as problems will follow'.
"I wasn't surprised at all to find you hear", Felix says as he pulls up a chair to sit next to me, "what are you reading?", he questions,
"I thought I would do some research on my family and yours", I respond, "Did you know I'm a descendant of the Draculeas the family which Prudence married into?", he wraps an arm around me,
"Of course I know where the Draculs descend from, but its just and old wife's tale, it's not important what those ancient people said", he replies,
"Did you look into the prophecy at all?", I question, "People from my own family want me dead, while others think I need to practice, but they still say I need to die, I'm supposed to die on my 19th birthday and you don't think I should know that?", I look at him, my face is stained from the tears that I've been crying,
"No, I haven't, aside from the initial prophecy I haven't looked into it", I book to him,
"Look here, it says, she was born both and both were concealed, once they all die she'll be whole, she needs our blood to truly become herself, immense power she will hold, be careful though as problems will follow", I point at the passage, "this was writing in the family book of the Diavolo's what do you think it means? Is there any Diavolo's still alive?",
"From what I heard most of the Diavolo's were killed many years ago, I'm not sure what it could mean though, I'll look into it though", he says comforting,
"Felix people want me dead, I can't tell anyone here who I truly am, not really can I?",
"No one will hurt you, not with me protecting you", he says as he pulls me closely, "Did you end up figuring out if you wanted to go here at least?",
"Yea I guess it wouldn't hurt, I'll need to talk to my arm, it will be a longer commute, but I think it will be good", I say a little unconvincingly, "I don't think I should tell anyone who I really am though, I'll stick with my name from birth Amaris Esme Richard",
"Well, if that makes you feel more comfortable", he says giving me a quick kiss, "and the commute would be a lot shorter if you just moved in with me", he states, I abruptly turn to face him,
"What?", I blurt out loudly, jumping out of my chair, he grabs my hand guiding me down to sit on the chair, as he pulls it back in place,
"I'm just thinking, it will allow us to get to know each other more, you won't have to drive 40 plus minutes to get to school, and then I'll also be able to protect you", he says confidently,
"It seems like you spent more than one minute thinking about this", I enquire,
"Well, honestly, I've been thinking about it for years, and then when your mum died", he pauses, "I wanted to swoop in straight away and bring you to live with me, but I couldn't do that, you didn't know me, and then you moved in with your aunt who isn't too far from here",
"Yes, my aunt, my only known living relative, I can't just abandon her",
"She can't protect you Amaris, she's a human, she has no ability to protect you". I stand up from the sit and walk away, leaving the library and heading outside of the school.
"Amaris, you can't just walk away", Felix yells after me,
"What! I mean seriously, my world has been flipped upside down many times in the last few months, and you want me to leave the only stability, the only link to my normal life behind to move in with you", I yell continue to walk away from him,
"I just want you to be safe, Amaris", he uses his supernatural speed to run and stand in front of me, "even if that means I have to go to your aunts house to protect, I will, I don't care where you live, I was merely making a suggestion", he says calmy as he gently holds onto my wrists, "I will do anything to protect you, even spend every waking free moment in that town". I pull him into a hug,
"I'll have to talk to my aunt first, get her opinion, find out what she knows". I say as I wrap my arm around his waist, and we head to the car.