"GIVE HER TO ME!" the brown haired girl- Veronica- shouted, her crazed red eyes pleading.
There, at the feet of three royal thrones, lie her twelve year old sister, Chelsea.
Two of the three towering statues in the chairs looked on with bored, dead expressions.
Perhaps, they have seen the begging and pleading too many times. They have grown old of the repetitiveness In their lives. These two simply wish to get on with their work in Volterra.
Just another day. Another death. Though to be honest, they did find some small satisfaction in each one.
However, the third being peeked out from under her hood- amused. For the woman has been at this work a far shorter time than her brothers. She enjoys dragging the process out.
She peered down at the helpless children. The one turned, she noted- looked about sixteen. If that.
"Please.. Please. Kill me instead.. Not her. Oh god, oh god. No. Please don't be a spiteful woman. Please!" Veronica shouted from the grip of Felix.
Veronica clawed at his hand with her sharp nails, though this did nothing but frustrate him. He hissed in annoyance and gripped her tighter.
She closed her eyes in defeat and let her body go limp. Her body rocked with the occasional dry sob.
Veronica shamed herself for telling her sister of her current state.
The woman rose from her throne, looking down at the children with a blank expression. Her pitch black cloak covered her facial features.
The voice that sounded from the woman was calm, humorous, and strong.
"Child, what a crime you have been convicted of. And as of me..Not be a spiteful woman? I am known as Urlo di Morte to my enemies. Scream of Death. And here you present us with the idea of sparing this creature"-she points to Chelsea- "and offing you! Ha! To what devotion? She is just a human, You are a monster. Just like the rest of us." The figure glares at Veronica from under her hood. Silly child, she thinks.
The figure closes her eyes and bows her head for a moment. She then opens them in an instant and smiles. Her two brothers look at her with curiosity. one even raises an eyebrow in confusion.
"Very well then. Alec, take the young brat to my study. I will be there shortly." The woman had a blank expression on again. Her face, still not visible due to her hood.
"Yes, Master." Alec replied.
Alec carefully made his way from the right side of her superior throne to the battered girl on the floor.
The human tried to crawl away, to no effect.
He looked down on the girl with little interest. Her shoulder length black hair covered her face and she made little wheezing noises as she started to hyperventilate.
Alec suddenly scrunched his nose in disgust and uncaringly scooped her up in his arms. Alec carried her like a rag doll she started to kick and screech. He was almost to the door when the woman called after him.
"And Alec? Be a 're being held responsible if she is in a worse state when I arrive. I suggest you make her... comfortable." her voice was like a child's. But laced with venom.
Alec gripped the girl more loosely and gulped. He then nodded and left for her study. Closing and the door behind him.
Veronica let out a sigh of relief and looked at the lady by the throne again. She addressed her boldly this time.
" Do with me what you will. But have you know. You're twice the monster I ever was" She spit on the ground next to Felix and glared at the royal woman.
The woman who sat previously in the throne bit her lip. She then carefully lowered her hood.
Everyone in the room gasped, except for her two brothers, who still sat on their thrones.
The woman gave Veronica a tight lipped smile and glared down on her with hatred.
"Such a patriot, are we? Monster I am. But I'd have to argue, sweetie. I'm easily five times the monster you are...Were. You spit on my floor? You insult my gaurd? You are an idiot!". The woman snapped. She hissed, and marched down-getting in the vampire's face.
She grabbed her by her hair and pulled their faces close.
The royal lady whispered in her ear so quietly no one execpt herself, the girl, and Felix heard. Veronica's eyes widened and she screamed.
She pointed at the woman screaming, "DEMON! GOD WILL PUNISH YOU. JUSTICE WILL BE GIVEN YOU, D-"
She was cut off as the woman snapped her neck, pulled her head clean off, and started her on fire. In a matter of seconds.
"Well, You handled that pretty well. May we execute the human now?" Caius mused from his throne.
"All in good time, brother. All in good time." The woman giggled and headed to her study, concealing her face back into her hood.