A long time ago there was a pureblood vampire who had no place to call home. He had lived his life alone for the longest time. Walking. Walking. Walking. He kept walking without a destination.
Until one day he, Siegfried, met a young man with piercing blue eyes. He looked like on his mid-teens, probably around 15 years old. His face was cold and emotionless.
That time, Siegfried was surrounded by a group of vampire bandits that wanted to eat Siegfried. Maybe around thirty to forty vampires.
That young man was wearing a dark hoodie. It contrasted very well with the pale skin and icy eyes. He was watching from above when suddenly he decided to jump down from the cliff to help Siegfried. He landed effortlessly. Siegfried could sense this person was a pureblood and quite a strong one.
But above that what Siegfried felt when he saw that person was an attraction. This person was an omega. Maybe it was his instinct as an alpha. Siegfried liked him. This person was totally his type.
That young man quickly pierced his hand into one of the bandits. And the bandits switched their attention to him. "Another pureblood!?"
The bandits jumped to attack that young man. Siegfried knew that the young man could easily defend himself, but he still jumped and protected him. Then the fought protecting each other's back, even though there was no need for it.
The bandits' attack were repelled. Their numbers were going down quickly and by the time only six left, they decided to flee. Killing turnbloods were awfully easy. They ran away in fear of being killed by the pureblood monsters. The bandits weren't even able to land a scratch on the two of them.
Siegfried looked to that young man. He was licking the blood on his right hand. And Siegfried felt that was quite a view. Beautiful. The young man was certainly enjoying the taste of blood on his hand. Then he glanced to Siegfried, realizing that he had been watched for some time.
Siegfried wanted to talk to him. But he was alone for his whole life. All he did was traveling. He never had any meaningful communication with anyone. He didn't care about it before. Now he wished he had higher communication skills. Siegfried was sure that asking him to be his mate as his first words was a very bad choice. So Siegfried decided he should introduce himself first.
"My name is Siegfried, a traveler."
Young man responded with his name as a word. "Karna." He said. Karna wasn't even a bit interested with Siegfried. He did help him, but it was for another purpose. Karna walked to one of the dead bandits. He knelt and he sank his fangs into the shoulder of the corpse. He was there for food.
Siegfried watched as he swallowed his own saliva. Not because he was hungry or anything. There were so many bodies beside him, he could just grab one if he was hungry for blood. If he was hungry for anything, it was for Karna. Because he looked very sensual as he bites.
Siegfried thought he could be close to him. He walked a few steps to Karna. Then maybe they can talk more. But he was wrong. When Siegfried raised his hands a little bit, that alerted Karna. He promptly attacked Siegfried.
Seigfried had to jump back to avoid being beheaded. That would be very bad. Thankfully Siegfried had the speed to jump back in split second.
But it didn't end there. Maybe Karna felt threatened because Siegfried's behavior wasn't neutral. Karna wasn't the most social person in the world. And he certainly didn't get it that Seigfried was interested in him in that way. Plus maybe he was still a bit too young.
And they entered a fight. At first, Siegfried thought he could just defend himself and let Karna attack. But he underestimated the abilities of the young pureblood. Karna was strong. Siegfried had to fight back. And Karna could handle Siegfried's attacks very well.
Two of them fought for hours until the sun was setting. None of them actually managed to land a punch. Though Karna's fighting style was mainly crude and unpolished, he had good instinct. He could predict Siegfried's next move.
Siegfried tried to land a punch, but Karna grabbed on the arm, thinking to throw Siegfried away. Which was a bad decision. Because, in battle of sheer power, Karna was certainly losing. He got thrown instead.
And Karna got thrown hard. His back hit the cliffs and they started to crumble. The cliff broke down and completely buried Karna.
Siegfried was worried if Karna was fine. "Sumanai, I didn't mean to hurt you!"
But his worrying was not required. Karna coughed a few times under the rubbles and he got up again. Forcing himself out. Like he just raised up from his grave. And he was perfectly fine. His back got wounded but they healed almost instantly.
His hood fell off though. That hit totally destroyed it. And Karna looked unhappy with that. He picked up his hood, and spread it out with his hands and looked at it. To see if he could fix it. He could patch some parts of it.
Then Karna looked back at Siegfried. Both of them stared at each other in silence. Siegfried was thinking hard how to start a conversation. Thousands of question flew inside his head. Should I ask him his age? Or where he lived? But that sounded like I'm trying to eat him.
Karna looked at Siegfried. He sighed and he started to walk away.
"Wait!" Siegfried tried to reach for Karna. Then it the idea hit his head. Wait, I can just ask him to be my friend! It was true Siegfried wanted something more than that. His thing was interested in Karna in a different way. But Siegfried was a gentleman, he wouldn't just go straight to that. And he wouldn't force his way there.
Seeing how Siegfried tried to reach for him, Karna stepped back and started to run away. That alerted Siegfried and he started to chased over to Karna. Both were running in fast inhumane pace. "Wait, Karna!" Siegfried tried to call him.
Karna ignored him as he kept his distance with that huge man.
"Listen to me!"
But of course he didn't listen. Karna had no reason to listen to other vampires. He might be young but he wasn't dumb enough to stop when other vampires told him to stop. Karna wasn't that trusting towards other vampires mainly because all of them just either want to bite or eat him alive. Some of them wanted his ass. Siegfried totally fell to the third category. And Karna didn't need another problem maker in his life. He kept running as fast as he could.
"I just wanted to talk to you!" Siegfried said as he got to Karna side. He was stronger and faster than Karna after all. Not because Karna was weak but it was because Seigfried was way older and age had refined him well.
Karna was startled to see Seigfried right next to him, so quickly gripped his fist and punched him away as strong as he could. Sending Siegfried a few meters away and his back hit the stony ground.
"I really mean no harm!" Seigfried desperately said as he chase over Karna again. He quickly got back into appropriate distance with the young man. Not too far, yet not too close. "I am really sumanai for what I did earlier!"
Karna gritted his teeth and he sweated cold. He got scared. He never had someone who chased him like this in his life. And Siegfried kept talking to him and apologizing. He's trying to make my guards down. Karna came to a conclusion.
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They ran for 3 days straight non-stop. And their pace had gradually slowed down. Now they were pretty much doing a marathon. Siegfried tried to talk to Karna but all of them fell to deaf ears. But Siegfried kept talking anyway. He started to tell stories about his journey on their run.
"I once traveled to a place called Sahara desert. It was so hot here." Siegfried said while he was 3 meters behind Karna. He kept his distance like that for the whole time so that Karna won't feel threathened. "But there was a lake there. It was beautiful."
Siegfried looked at the unstopping figure in front of him. He could hear Karna's heavy breathings indicating him to be tired. And his heart was beating so fast. "You should stop and rest." Siegfried advised.
Though it sounded wrong to Karna's ears. It made him even more uneasy. But Siegfried was right. Karna was at his limit. His legs were getting numb, but he was too afraid to stop.
But Karna didn't want stop. He didn't want to be eaten. He kept running until he fell down and his face hit the ground. It's over. He'll eat me. Karna thought as he closed his eyes.
Siegfried was also breathless, but if in any case he still needed to run. He could still do it for another 12 hours. But Seigfried was thankful Karna stopped.
"Are you okay?" Siegfried asked as he picked the young man, and help him sit up.
Karna was even more confused why Seigfried has not bitten him. He stared at Siegfried with a puzzled face. But weirdly he sensed no evil intent from the huge man. "Aren't you going to eat me?" Karna asked as he looked up to Siegfried.
"Of course not." Siegfried closed his eyes and shook his head. "I just want to talk to you."
Karna's jaw dropped in surprise. "Why?" He asked. Karna just didn't understand why Siegfried wanted to talk to him. Even going as far chasing him for days and telling Karna stories of his journey in the process.
Siegfried's tensed up a bit. Karna could feel it clearly because he was still being held by him. Siegfried then said, "I want to be your friend."
"Friend?" Karna was dumbfounded. He knew that word. He had heard it many times but he never had a friend before. He lived in the forest and only went out when he started to feel hungry.
"Yes," Siegfried nodded awkwardly. "Will you be my friend?"
Karna took a moment. He stared at Siegfried's determined face. Then he nodded. "Ah." It felt weird to have a friend. Karna thought.
Siegfried's face brightened up into a smile. "Thank you, Karna." He thanked. "Can you stand now?"
Karna nodded. "No problem." He got up back on his feet. They were a bit numb from the long run but they were okay.
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Karna took Siegfried to his home. A small old cabin in the woods. It was a one-room 2x2 meters room. And it was empty inside except for Karna's little stuff. "You can rest here tonight." Karna offered.
"Thank you." Siegfried thank and he sat down on the wooden floor. It creaked when he sat.
It was a good place. It could shield them from the rain and the sun. And that was enough. Siegfried and Karna were modest people. They don't really need luxury.
"Drink this." Karna handed him a water bottle.
"Thanks." Siegfried took it and drank the water. He returned it to Karna, and Karna drank it next. It took Siegfried a few seconds to process that he just had an indirect kiss.
Karna noticed Siegfried had been staring at him ever since he drank the water. "What?" He asked in a cold tone. Clearly no understanding Seigfried's thought.
"No, nothing," Siegfried smiled. "How long have you been here?" He said as he looked around the walls and ceiling. The building itself was older than Karna so he must be new here.
"A couple of years," Karna said. "I was wandering around before that." He added.
Then they talked for hours. Mainly it was Siegfried telling stories about his journey again. He talked about the Mongolian Plateau. How he met the travelers' group. They were so good at riding horses and they taught Siegfried. They also had amazing weapons and armors. The food was unique compared to other humans' food. Siegfried really enjoyed his time there. "Those were good humans. I like humans like that."
"Ah, I like good humans too." Karna smiled a bit at the story. "My parents were good humans."
Of course, when Karna meant parents, he meant his foster parents. "Where are they now?"
Karna shook his head as he frowned a little. "They died by illness when I was a kid," Karna said as he remembered how the plague attacked and his parents caught them even though they lived in the forest. They must have caught it when they went to the human town to sell the firewoods.
"I don't spend much time with them." He added. They were a couple of old man and woman, childless, they raised Karna until he was five and both of them died. Karna had been alone since then. But then Karna smiled. "But I remembered, they were good humans."
Siegfried smiled sadly. "I wish I could have met them."
Then they spent a few days together. They slew more vampires that lurked in the way of human merchants. They laid at the grass together and looked at the night stars together. Siegfried explained the star system he learned from the Greeks. Karna was amazed at Siegfried.
Then after a few weeks, Siegfried returned to his travels. "Why don't you travel with me?" Siegfried asked as he readied all his stuff.
"I like this place," Karna answered. Then he bid Siegfried a goodbye after they exchanged their blood.
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Though it wasn't a long goodbye. Siegfried returned to Karna in every few months. With gifts of course. It was actually courting gifts only Karna didn't realize it.
Siegfried was a very patient man. Maybe it was a virtue of a long lived pureblood. Siegfried didn't want to force his way to Karna. He wanted to wait for him to grow some more. From vampire standard, Karna was still very very young.
"You've grown a bit taller again since the last time I saw you." Siegfried said as he patted the white hair after he tied the new scarf of Karna's neck. Siegfried smiled proudly because Karna looked so cute with that scarf he got from the French town.
Karna touched his own head after Siegfried stopped patting him. "I don't feel like I've grown though."
"If I'm not wrong, you're about 18, right?"
"Ah," Karna nodded. "Maybe," He added. "I used the calendar you gave me. But I didn't know my exact birth date."
"It's fine. Most vampires forget their own birthday." Siegfried chuckled. Siegfried didn't have any of his own as well. Talking about birthday led him thinking about childbirth. Humans usually started to have children at age thirteen, but they weren't humans.
Siegfried liked children but he didn't any any of his own. Mainly because he didn't want to cause any pain if he will have a mate. But deep down inside, it was because Siegfried had experienced the loneliness from a long life. It was painful and full of sorrow.
Though Karna wasn't exactly his mate. They were still friends even after these years. And Karna didn't seem like he was interested in Siegfried in sexual ways. Karna wasn't that interested in sex in general. Maybe because the vampires attacked him for that reason. For him, his body was a liability. He never liked being born an omega. But that time, he was yet to experience heat. Heat came when vampire reached adulthood. In human age, that would be around 25 to 30 years old.
But it would be a lie if Siegfried said he never had the desire to bed the young vampire. In fact, that passed his mind a lot of times. He might be a kind and patient man, but he was still an alpha. In his long life, Siegfried had bedded many people. Humans, Vampires. Women, Men. But whom Siegfried wanted to bed the most was Karna.
Every time Siegfried visited Karna, he would stay with him for weeks. And Siegfried would tell him more stories about his new travels. The humans he met, the vampires he met, new things he learnt, and then he would leave again.
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That night, Siegfried was attacked by Gilgamesh. Apparently, he was in Gilgamesh's area and that pissed off the king. So the king personally had come to punish him with death. There was another reason for that though. Gilgamesh would want to feed him to Enkidu and their newly formed child. Two birds with one stone.
But a fight with Siegfried had been proven hard. All Gilgamesh's men were scattered on the ground. Dead. And Gilgamesh himself had got a few good piercings.
"Sumanai ga, I can't die here." Siegfried glared to Gilgamesh as he spoke. The hole on his chest was regenerating while stood tall and strong. Siegfried would visit Karna more after this. There was no way he would want to die here.
Gilgamesh was very pissed. He had fought Solomon before. He was strong, but still considerably easy to fight. But Siegfried was on another level. Siegfried was too durable to be killed. Not even Gilgamesh had this level of durability.
Gilgamesh had lost count how many times he wounded Siegfried, yet he was still far from his limit. Gilgamesh also got wounds, he healed perfectly, but he felt his healing factor had reached its limit. Another wound would be dangerous. I might not be able to heal instantly anymore. Gilgamesh thought.
"Die!" Gilgamesh yelled as ran towards Siegfried.
Siegfried easily pierced in Gilgamesh's heart. But that was Gilgamesh's aim. After the hand was stuck inside him, Gilgamesh punched on Siegfried's head. Destroying half of his head. And then Gilgamesh cut off Siegfried's hand.
Gilgamesh jumped back as he held onto his wound. As expected I can't heal anymore. Tch.
Siegfried fell on his knees as he screamed in pain. This was so painful that he couldn't take it. His hand was growing back, his head was regenerating while the blood kept sprouting out from his brain.. "AKHHH! AKHH!"
Gilgamesh looked at Siegfried in disgust. "Monster..." he said. Gilgamesh was a pureblood but he wasn't as monstrous as Siegfried. Siegfried was just too hard to kill. Gilgamesh realized he might die if he continued the battle. "Fine. I'll withdraw this once."
Gilgamesh left with a bad taste in his mouth.
"UKHHHHAAAAAA!" Siegfried's hand was on the left side, the undamaged part of his head. He pulled on his hair as he screamed and screamed. His head was half gone. My brain! It hurts. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts.
I am fine.
I am not dead. I'm still alive!
I can still go on. I can still visit him. Him...
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Who?
Who is he?
What is his name?
What does he looks like?
What does his voice sounds like?
Where is he?
Where am I supposed to go?
Where is my home!?
I don't want to forget!
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Siegfried's head healed and his brain's half was grown anew. The pain in his head had stopped, but now it was replaced with a pain in his chest.
Siegfried's tears poured down as he frowned down.
He couldn't remember.
All Siegfried remembered was this person was his treasure. And Siegfried wanted to see him again.
I love you.
Who are you?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
There was nothing Siegfried remember about this person.
No name, no face, no sound. Nothing.
All left was this feeling of longing. This lonely feeling in his heart. Nobody could replace him.
All he knew was that he loved this person more than his own life. He was the place for Siegfried to return.
Siegfried screamed more as he punched the ground. No! No! No! Please remember! Remember! Remember!
But he couldn't remember. No matter how much he tried that person's existence inside Siegfried was gone. And it left a big hole in Siegfried's heart. A hole that would never be filled for the rest of his life.
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Karna bit his own finger and draw some blood. He used his own blood to mark the calendar. It had been four months since Siegfried's last visit. He would come soon.
Karna couldn't help but smiled as he remembered his time with Siegfried. I wonder what things Siegfried will bring this time. Karna thought as he closed his eyes.
He walked out from his cabin. The moon was high. Then Karna remembered about Siegfried saying the moon's position would be different if he looked at it at different places.
I wonder. How does your moon look, Siegfried?
Karna was very happy when Siegfried's visit coming close. Karna missed him. He breathed deeply to the cold night air. It was refreshing.
Karna was all alone before Siegfried came to his life. And so was Siegfried. Karna couldn't describe how much he want to thank Siegfried for being in his life.
Then Karna decided. The next time Siegfried came, Karna would go with him and they would travel together.
It would certainly be fun. Karna at first wasn't interested in the world, but after Siegfried had told him so many stories, Karna couldn't help but want to see them with his own eyes.
Karna wondered, what kind of face would Siegfried make when Karna told him, that he will go with him.
So Karna waited.
A day and a day passed. Soon it turned weeks. Then months. Karna was still waiting. But Siegfried never came.
When Karna heard noises he thought it was Siegfried. He ran out only to see it was some wolves.
And soon years passed by.
Siegfried, my calendar has ended.
Siegfried never came.
Karna was still waiting. But he had waited for too long. The cabin had turned into rumbles. And humans were starting to enter the forest.
Karna stopped waiting.
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Siegfried continued his journey. This time not aimlessly. He was searching for that person, his home.
Siegfried never stopped walking. Even when he was tired, he didn't want to waste a second. He needed to keep searching for this person whom he couldn't remember.
Siegfried fell down. He was too tired, he wanted to sleep.
No. Siegfried wanted to give up. Seigfried had spent hundreds of years as he searched for him. He went everywhere he could. Storms were not ones to stop him.
Was this person a vampire? Or a human? If he's a human, then he would be dead by now. Did I ever tell him my feelings? Did I ever tell him that I love him so much?
I am very lonely.
I want to go back.
Siegfried looked at the group hyenas. They were watching him from afar. Waiting for him to die so they could eat them.
Should I die now?
Siegfried looked up to the moon. Siegfried remembered that he once talked about moon with him. How does your moon look like?
Siegfried smiled. Not yet. I can still walk. He forced his exhausted body to get up.
And then he continued his long search.
I want to remember you.
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