Prologue
Once upon a time long before claims that Jesus walked the Earth there were vampires, one whom had it all. This man-be fooled not by his boyish features became the strongest, fastest, most skilled, educated, had all the humans he could want, women and men filled his bed every night, equally feared yet respected. A man once honored as a god. Now here he is on top of a hotel roof surrounded by billions on billions of stars. Godric stood alone. Eric had been commanded away to the confines of their room just minutes earlier. Crimson tears stained his child's pale cheeks when pleads for Godric's reconsideration of this crumbling cobblestone path landed on deaf ears. Moonlight hugging his 5'8 stature. A conscience weighed down by centuries of guilt caged in a diseased mind. The Fellowship of the Sun became a catalyst for this chronic cancer. Living only for the sake of his children and a dream that one day vampires and humans could live together peacefully-futile as it may or may not be. At one point in his life he died to live, now he lives to die.
"You mustn't leave, your time has not come, you still have much left to offer my dear boy." Rezhal murmured, her ghostly appearance betrothed to the slight wind. Night remained victorious over aerial territory. Her presence causing nothing more than a cock of the head.
Blue-Grey eyes unable to pinpoint her exact form. Godric began to think he was going crazed- still he replied " My existence has caused nothing but everlasting pain. Death is all I have left to offer...and maybe forgiveness is what I shall receive." giving such a painfully sad smile, it broke her heart. This man's former glory seemed but a myth.
"Tsk Tsk, oh how wrong you are Godric. This solace that you attempt to gain will not be found in death, but rather life." she chuckled at her own joke. " Now go. Leave now. The sun shall rise soon. But if you must stay, it will be in vain. Loved ones will be put in harm's way. I see. I saw, there will be loses. But no chance to protect because you Godric. Chose the coward's way out."
A Growl rumbled throughout his chest as he tried grabbing her neck. Anger bubbled from within imagining his family being hunted down. Rezhal bled through his fingers. "You dare threaten what's mine?"
He could barely feel her fingers caress his cheek. "I wish no harm upon them. Even if I did, what could you do to stop me? In a few minutes the sun you desperately seek out will turn you to ash...maybe not even that.". Putting back to back, Rezhal looked towards the moon with a sigh. "You give up the right to claim them when you so willingly forfeit the role you have played in their lives...have you forgotten the promises shared?" She whispered the oath of a progeny and maker in his old tongue so quietly it almost escaped his ears.
"What have you seen witch?" No longer were his eyes filled with despair. " Tell me or I will end you." Fangs refusing retraction. Pissed off because he was unable to take hold of this thing, witch, women, whatever the hell it is.
Materializing herself as much as possible slyly grinning "You can not end what has already been ended." she placed her palm on his chest. No Beat.
His growling voice almost incomprehensible "I have no time…"
" You have plenty of time!" growling back "Time you choose to waste on a false notion of honor and redemption. Now either I shall find you alive at nightfall or you will die never knowing!" Before he could reply she had vanished as did he-right as the sun hit...into the darkness of the hotel...unable to die not knowing if those he loved would be safe.