Hi y'all! Legends of Hoia Baciu Forest: Dracul and the Snow Queen was inspired by a friend on mine, and I hope they continue to love the story! This is an AU set around the Middle Ages based on the combination of the history of Dracula, Bleach characters, and our imagination. The Hoia Baciu Forest is a real forest located in Romania, and it's supposed to be the world most haunted forest! What better place to have a vampire story start? Anyway, on to the story! I hope you all enjoy it! Please let me know what you think! By the way, if you leave reviews/comments, I do answer them. If you are not signed in, please look at the bottom of each chapter for replies! Thanks!
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Prologue
In the forest near the city of Seireitei, a fearsome warrior glaze out his castle. His keen senses picked up traces of humans in the air with the faint smell of demons on the wind. The humans knew better than to pass through this forest. For hundreds of years, Hoia Baciu Forest has been filled with horrible and mysterious deaths; yet, travelers continued to brave the forest seeking short cuts or adventure. Why did they not heed the warnings? Did the towns people forget the legends of the three evils and demons already?
Soon, blood curling screams were heard for miles around. The demons had finally cornered the humans for their blood and souls. The ancient warrior used to pity the humans, but now, Dracul felt nothing but indifference. Centuries had hardened whatever little shred of humanity that was left.
Humans were too stupid for their own good. They tried to be heroes, but they never succeeded. It didn't matter how long you lived because you would always see yourself become the villain in the end. The warrior sighed. He was once an idyllic soul, but time, death, and blood changed him. Now, he was Dracul – warrior, ruler, and a vampire.
He was a death dealer. His favorite victims were criminals when he left his castle to feast on the blood of humans. To survive, he required blood from a living, breathing heart. Gradually, taking lives became first nature to him. It was such a rush to feel the essence of a human slip away. The fear in their eyes, and the knowing that they'd breathed their last breath. But even a creature of the night, abided by rules. Dracul was careful with the lives he destroyed in case humans would question his prey's demise, unlike the demons of his forest.
Dracul, or rather Ichigo as people called him long ago, felt relief as the screams finally stopped. Judging by the sound of the attack, the demons successfully destroyed a caravan taking a short cut, but their battle lasted longer than usual.
"Hmm… If these humans put up that much of a resistance, then they had something worth protecting with them. I wonder what that could be?" Dracul asked himself.
Shortly afterwards, the highest-level demon arrived shortly after the end of their battle to offer Dracul a tribute. He was still the most fearsome warrior/demon in this forest after all these centuries. His forest to be precise. The area his family once farmed and trained was now a playground for creatures of the other world.
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