A/N: THIS STORY REVOLVES A GREAT DEAL AROUND MY ORIGINAL CHARACTERS AND HAS A LOT OF RANDOM FLUFF BETWEEN FAMILY. IF YOU DO NOT ENJOY A LOT OF OC'S THAT COME WITH BACKSTORIES AND FLUFF, AND LONG ROUTES TO THE ROMANCE PART, THEN DO NOT READ THIS STORY AND CLICK THAT BACK BUTTON. THANKS.

Pairings: OCxLazark and OCxFrankenstein(much much farther into the story)

Prologue

Aerei Skyel was nothing like your average pure blood noble. She would not be the successor to the Skyel family, as she knew ever since she was just a child. Not because she was weak, or too outspoken to be a family leader. Rather, similar to Rael Kertia's situation, Aerei Skyel had an older brother.

Now Aerei was raised as any pure blood noble should have been raised, if that is to say there is a specific way nobles are raised. An air of beauty, elegance, mystery and power seemed to be what humans might think of when encountering a noble, or rather "vampire" as they are more widely known as in this day and age, if not for the gripping emotions of fear and surrounding superstition regarding "vampires". Yes to a point Aerei had these traits simply because she was born a noble. When her mouth was devoid of words, her argent-grey locks daintily hanging over her left shoulder and her ruby red irises focused on gazing into the far distance beyond, might be the time she presented the most beauty, elegance, mystery and power for herself, keyword being "might".

Aerei was merely one hundred and eighty years old, still quite young for a noble, patiently awaiting her coming-of-age ceremony. She acted more like a human if anything, that is not to say that all humans do not possess beauty, elegance, mystery and power. Though not requiring sleep, Aerei would often get caught in daydreams during her free time, or she'd feel "tired", because of her life in Lukedonia? Or because she'd simply just felt tired, a feeling that seemed like nobles did not feel or understand. Her eyelids would flutter close and she'd fall into what seemed to be the human unconscious state of sleep.

She often dreamed of the human world, ever changing, fast paced, never stopping. So unlike Lukedonia where it seemed as if life and time were frozen into place. A second passing in the human world might be like five hundred years passing in Lukedonia. The Skyel family merely did not trust Aerei to go into the human world, yet. She was too reckless, playing around too much with Karias, along with her happy-go-lucky personality. Aerei freely showed her emotions, a stark contrast to the Skyel family who were so far against presenting any emotion in most situations. For so she stayed and toiled her days away training in the Skyel combat style. If Aerei could not go to the human world she hoped to at least meet a human and befriend them. She had heard of a human who was staying at the noblesse's mansion and served the noblesse, who went by the name "Frankenstein". She had longed to meet this human. Aerei frequently asked around her family and other nobles about this "Frankenstein", though nothing positive really seemed to surface about him. According to the information she had received he was deemed "powerful", rivaling a family leader's power, and "arrogant". Most of all she had heard about the length of time he had spent on Earth, which was nothing at all like the human's lifespan she had been taught about, and somewhere among the stories from the nobles, she had heard Frankenstein had committed atrocities against humans, his own kind. Nothing into detail, for the nobles were hush-hush regarding those stories when near the children, since they were rumors that had been passed down from humans through many generations, except for the fact that the humans were after his blood.

Rather than scaring Aerei Skyel, this piqued her interest. She wanted to meet this man called Frankenstein. Though she had not even met the noblesse, Cadis Etrama di Raizel, before nor had she even seen his mansion. She fell deeper into thought about this human and wondered until she was fully satisfied.

And so begins the story of myself, Aerei Skyel.

Chapter 1

I endlessly jumped from branch to branch, narrowly avoiding the smaller branches that stuck out from the larger branches, their purpose seemingly to get caught on my clothing so as to make me stumble and rip my clothes. The purpose of this mind-numbing training was to increase my agility and dodging ability to move in quick succession in tight spaces.

Similar to the Kertia family, the Skyel family specialized in stealth and speed. The Skyel family members were trained to be more skilled in either close or far ranged combat depending on preference. Some members were more competent in close combat, and others in far distanced combat. Though in contrast the Skyel's used throwing knives, needle-like metal stakes and short swords, which are considered the most notable tools of use of the Skyel family. In modern day terms, the Skyel family may be described as "ninja-like". The family heirs were trained to be competent in both types of combat.

I immediately stopped my movement and listened into the quiet summer forest. I sensed a nearby presence and several projectiles aimed in my direction at pin-point accuracy. I sighed outwardly, expressing my annoyance, the assailant none other than my elder sibling, Kairen Skyel. I used the branch I stood on as leverage to flip myself in order to the dodge the projectiles. I quickly grounded myself and hid behind the trunk of the tree. "What is it Kairen," I said flatly. I was not in the mood to tolerate his playfulness today.

He landed gracefully beside me and cocked his head to side. His short argent-grey hair gently rustled by the slight breeze, scarlet irises trained on my being, and his lips turned up ever so slightly. "Ohh, the usually happy-go-lucky sister of mine sounds upset." He placed a hand on his hip and looked at me questioningly.

I rolled my eyes, arms crossed against my chest, returning his questioning gaze with a glare.

"Ooo, that's a scary look you got there."

"You're not one to usually show your happy side." I shook my head in disappointment. "I thought the future family leader would be more competent in regards to controlling his emotions."

"So I can't even act like this comfortably around my little sister now? That's cold," he continued to joke around as he kicked a pebble from under his foot. "Anyway, what are you doing here. Still wanting to stumble across that human on 'accident'?"

I turned my body so I was directly facing him and began stammering. "N-No! That's none of your business! And aren't you supposed to be training, why are you even following me around like a creep!" I snapped back.

"Ouch." He feigned a teary-eyed, heartbroken face. "I miss my cute little sister who'd chase me around the house calling me 'older brother, older brother', asking me to carry her on my shoulders." He wiped a tear from his cheek that never even existed.

I swiped at him with my hand. "Y-You! Stop bringing that up! That was a hundred and thirty years ago!" At this point my face was a painted a bright red, my heart racing in embarrassment and fists clenched, ready to sock him in the face.

"Oops too slow!" He twirled in a circle away from my fists.

I turned away angrily and stomped my foot on the ground. I heard his innocent laugh chime in the background.

"You really can't control your emotions can you? I was just teasing, sorry about that." He smiled and reached out and placed a hand on my head. "You really are like a human aren't you, lacking any form of elegance-"

I attempted to trip him, though I knew it was futile and he'd just dodge it. "Oh will you shut your mouth. I know you didn't come here just to make fun of me especially when you're so busy right now." I glanced at him from the corners of my eyes and watched him expectantly.

He gracefully landed again, much farther than his first position. His smile faded and his voice took on a much more serious tone. "Father wishes to see you, he's currently with the lord. He asked to see you in the audience hall."

I unclenched my fists and examined my hands. There were clear nail marks embedded into the palm of my hand. "Oh." I pursed my lips and stared blankly at my hand for a few moments until Kairen took my hand.

"Let's go." He gently tugged my hand and smiled at me lightly before we both took off in the direction towards the castle at break-neck speed.

Author Ramblings: Thanks for the reviews, I'll edit according to your reviews. Other than all that, this is my first time in this community as I never really used this account beforehand, as well as this being my first fanfiction posted on this website. I honestly wrote this fanfic mostly for myself. I've been debating or not whether to even share this with anyone, I may or may not upload the rest of the chapters, or may even delete this story depending on feedback. Since this story revolves more around my OC's, especially during the beginning, I didn't and still don't think anyone would or will be interested at all. /I feel like absolutely no one will enjoy or read this story so whatever c: Apologies for any grammatical and spelling errors, I'm not good at English. Also the main character's name is pronounced "EhRay" (Not the pronunciation of the Canadian way of saying "Eh", but if you were just to read it the way it was written. If that makes any sense. If not then just read her name however you like.)

Background Story Information

Details: AU because of some changes to the original story-line, but still has Lukedonia, Korea, Nobles, etc. The story mostly contains a lot of interaction between my OC's during the beginning chapters of the story. Other characters in the manhwa do make appearances, but will do so later on. There are also romance elements, but much farther into the story. I've written this assuming nobles do not normally sleep unless they absolutely have to, such as to recover from injuries (like when Regis got beat up by Lazark and knocked out on the floor after Rael said he would train him in his brother's stead), or I guess if they just really want to, like my OC.

Setting: This is set quite a few years before Seira and Regis were sent to Korea, but instead I've had Rai woken up before that and currently they're staying in Lukedonia, later on the characters (Frankenstein, Rai, Seira, Regis) will all be in Korea attending school. Just to make it easier, let's just say that Frankenstein already has the school set up there, but has someone else attending to it.

POV: First person omniscient. Omniscient parts are bolded. - I most likely incorrectly used this POV, but please keep an open mind. The way I intended to use this POV was to explain some of the other character's thoughts, feelings, and actions, specifically for the reader, and not the main character herself.

How I intended the POV to work: I've used this POV in a way that only I can understand how I used it. By that I mean, the main character doesn't necessarily know other characters' exact thoughts and intentions. The omniscient parts are mainly to provide more depth into the feelings of other characters, for the reader. It's like there's a version of her looking back on/watching her actions and those around her (or an external version of her, who is a spectator), knowing the other characters' thoughts and feelings, who explain how the other characters felt, what they thought, or what they did, for the reader. - So you kind of know the idea I had as I kept writing. It makes sense in my head but is difficult to explain so others understand. This probably doesn't help you to understand what I'm thinking, but I'll leave it here.

Try and imagine if there was a version of you that existed in an alternate universe (that you have no way of interacting with, and didn't know existed), who can see your actions and the actions of those around you (spectating), knowing the thoughts and intentions of those who are (or will be) involved/have interacted with you.

Important additional POV info: When I started writing this, I didn't specifically plan for the story to be written as first person omniscient. I've found that it's sketchy to be writing a story in this POV and I'm sure I'm using this POV the wrong way. I don't feel like going back and changing the POV to third person omniscient as I am already 30k+ words into the story. I hope you'll understand. This bummed me out and now I feel like scrapping the story. I'm very tempted to remove this story now that I've noticed this fatal error. A reminder to please keep an open mind about the POV. Thanks.