Retribution.

(Beginning of a New Era)

For the very first time Lucian's eyes were up at her, at that female vampire that made him experiment a strong nostalgic feeling of joy, the joy he shared six hundred years ago back on his servitude days with the elder's daughter. His bride to be Sonja…his precious dead Sonja. Agony engulfed him as he gazed that other vampire that reminded so much of her, and, regarding the soon to be all dead Corvinus descendent on her pleading grasp, he choked down the oblivious words respecting her perfect resemblance of the dead woman Viktor condemned.

As the silver nitrate invaded and digging deeper and deeper unto his nervous system, scratching his veins and exploding them under his sweating flesh, he continued to stare at the beautiful vampire named Selene when she didn't notice him, to busy crying over the demarcated features and blue tainted veins that crossed his skin's face of Michael Corvin, as the only thing that came out of his open mouth was death air and his almost closed lids saw nothing but darkness and his last thoughts vanishing to perdition.

From Selene's dirty cheeks tears went down like the beginning of a rainfall of desperation, of all her hopes of happiness that laid in that Michael's existence now were fading with him forever. When those emotions truly were at the brink of explosion, Lucian opens his lips, his flesh shivering of the uncontrollable agony that his body couldn't contain much longer now, "Bite him"

Selene spun her face unto him, and his heart lost a beat. He never expected her to have her same eyes, neither her gaze. Regardless of that he still was onto Michael Corvin's short lifetime. He had to fuse with the vampire. It was the only way to save him. He wanted this, because he too was losing his last ray of hope with that Corvinus descendant's death.

Selene stared at him with thoughtfulness, and returned to Michael and then again to Lucian. His life time was too shortening; he realized as the silver tainted his flesh and coded it with the death virus that will bring him down to death sentence. As he whimpered in agony Selene sank her daggers into Michael's neck, breaking his skin. A line of blood went down from Corvin's neck side as she swallowed hard his tender blood. So thick and cold it was unbelievable it was human's, or, as second thought, lycan's.

Lucian grinned as he trembled more when pain almost blinded him, "This is the beginning of a new era" he said when more footsteps were herd behind him, "A hybrid has born…"

And I shall finally die triumphal, with this as a legacy…

. . .

Lucian's coughed hard as his eyes hurt with a shimmering ray of light hitting him hard. He closed them tightly before opening them once again with effort. His image was blurry before he could even define things around him.

He was between four green yellowish walls and a ceiling. They were clean and cozy. No. He was lying on a smooth bed with white sheets, and what it seemed like a wall was nothing but a curtain that matches with the color of the wall. He crossed his stare around him. A small table lay beside him with something that seemed to be a black leather jacket and an ancient crest-shaped pendant.

Just when he took the sheets away from his body, Lucian planted his feet on the cold floor and the curtains shoved aside. Lucian lifted his face to the newcomer, to his fortune, was someone he was very familiar to, unlike this place.

"Raze" he said, surprised, but anxious, "Where am I?"

"Calm down, Lucian" Raze voice was as dull as a forceful dragon, "We're safe. You've been in coma for a month"

Lucian frowned, "A month you say?"

"Selene and Michael Corvinus brought you up here and healed your wounds" he continued, sitting on his side, "Lucian," he said deadly serious, "Do you remember what happened before you fainted? Do you remember anything?"

Lucian triggered his shoulders, "Did the Corvinus descendent survived?"

Raze sighed, lifting his body to walk to the curtains once again, "Yes" he just said, "But that's not the matter he- What're you doing?"

Lucian took the black leather jacket from the small round table and put them up on his shoulders as he incorporated his neck, "What does it looks like I'm doing. I'm getting out of this place to reunite the lycans again", he pointed out before he took the crest shaped pendant over his head to his neck, "Where are they? I need to speak with them"

"No, Lucian" the lycan froze in place before he could even get pass Raze, and, puzzled, he looked at his tall black fellow lycan with an arched eyebrow, "It is I that need to speak with you"

Lucian frowned with expectation as Raze proceeded, "The fusion with the vampire was successful, but there's a lot that'd happen while you were in coma. A lot of other concerning things."

"I'm listening"

Raze said, "There's been a new order of Elders on the vampires. One that will awaken in three night's time."

"What?" cried Lucian, "A new order? You mean they are more?"

Raze nodded. Lucian stupefact was left in silence with his panicked thoughts. Although the news about the successful fusion with the Corvinus descendent meant a new chance of hope, the fact that the strength of vampires was rising once again with more of Viktor's kind was even a greater treat. This crushed him completely. He needed more lycans if he had to stop the eternal war with vampires, and now this goal seemed even farther away now. He would trust vampires any more. He had to now resign on trust and now rely on the Hybrid and, if God knew, Selene as well.

"So be it." He snapped, walking through the green curtain unto down the corridor, followed by his trustful comrade "Let the new era begin"