The Guardian

Prologue: The Beginning

At the beginning of time vampires ruled the world, a dark and evil world. They would bring terror and panic to any town or city. Having mortals as slaves and using them for sport no one would ever dare to cross paths with a vampire, unless it was a death wish. But one day, a pack of werewolves began hunting in their feeding territories. Being territorial the vampires attacked and the werewolves were killed. After their deaths, the news traveled quickly to other werewolves and more came to revenge their deaths, and soon they were in war against each other.

The war went on for a thousand year and then something happened that no one intend to have happened. The prince of the vampires, Lucid, got badly wounded and was near death. He was rescued by a young wizard named Merlin. Merlin knew what Lucid was and how dangerous he could be, but he didn't care at the moment and healed him. From that day on and for the first time ever a vampire and a mortal became friends. They were best friends and for the payment for saving his life, Lucid created a blood bond. A blood bond that if a vampire ever gets rescued from a life threat situation by a mortal then their soul would be returned and they must served and protect that human until death. With the blood bond there became two types of vampires. There were the regulars that continued to terrorize people and the new group who calls themselves the Guardians.

Almost a hundred years went by and the war was still going on. The vampires were losing and they were in desperate need of help. The werewolves were attacking them in the day time when they are the most helpless, so they had no choice but to ask help from mortals. But no mortal would dare to help them and began aiding the werewolves. So Lucid went to the person that he trusted the most, Merlin, and began begging for help. Merlin couldn't make any promises, but told him to wait for one more night. When the next night came, Merlin came to Lucid and brought him a king called Arthur. The king agreed to help. So with the protection from King Arthur's knights the vampires where able to sleep in the day and fight in the night.

But on one hot summer day Arthur's knights were gone, and the werewolves attacked and killed most of the vampires. That night Lucid came to Merlin and asked what had happened to the knights. Merlin was shocked to have heard that the knights were gone and quickly went to Arthur. When Arthur was confronted, he just simply smiled at the wizard.

"You're such a foolish old man," said the king. "Your friendship to the monster is ridicules."

"What did you do?" asked Merlin.

"I did the right thing," said the king. "Those vampires are a plague to this world and should be destroyed."

"You gave them your word and they trusted you."

"Merlin how many years have us mortals been slaves to them?" Merlin didn't answer. "It's been going on since the beginning of time. Well no more." The king went over to his desk and pulled out a piece of parchment. "It's all here in black ink."

Merlin looked at the parchment; it was a contract: a contract made by the pack-leader, Gawain.

"You-you're with the werewolves. How could you help them?"

"It's well worth it. You see they destroy the vampires and leave us in peace," said Arthur. He grabbed the parchment and stuck it back in his desk.

"The werewolves are just as evil as the vampires. We could be slaves to them," said Merlin. "They could change us all to wolves."

Arthur didn't listen to his wizard and told him to leave his bed chambers. That night Merlin sat on his bed and began to think on what had just happened. He was furious at the king for what he did and Merlin knew that he would never forgive Arthur, and so the wizard packed his belongings and left Camelot. He found Lucid and the rest of the vampires in the mountains and stayed with them. After a few months went by the small clan of vampires agreed it was best to leave and find a new home, but Lucid, being a Guardian, stayed with Merlin and they began traveling across the world.

-Five Years Later-

In a small village in Wales, all the towns' men were armed with weapons and were standing outside from a small cottage screaming.

"We know you're in there!" yelled one of them.

"Come out you monster."

The wooden door slowly opened and a young boy about 16 stepped out and behind him was a tall, muscular, and handsome older man.

"People please leave us alone," said the boy.

"Get away from that monster Dante. He's killed two girls."

"That's impossible. He's my Guardian and he has blood promised me not to harm anyone in the village," said Dante.

"We don't care. He's a vampire, and their blood was taken from them."

The mob was moving closer, so Dante reached in his robes and pulled out his wand. He quickly did a Memory Charm and all of their memories were erased. Once the charm was completed he and his Guardian went back into the cottage.

"Xanatos, you are my Guardian and as your master please tell me, are there any other vampires here in the village?" asked Dante.

"No there's not. I'm the only one," Xanatos answered with a smile.

"I was afraid so," said Dante. He had gripped his wand tighter, but before he could cast a spell Xanatos grabbed him and pushed him to the wall.

"I must say, you're a very cleaver wizard," said Xanatos. "But you should know that wizard magic cannot stop me."

"Why did you kill those girls? You made a blood promise to me and a Guardian can never break a promise to their master," said Dante.

"Well let's just say I found a loophole and now I'm no longer your Guardian," said Xanatos. "So all your promises I made no longer exist and now that I'm not a Guardian I can do this."

Xanatos opened his mouth and Dante could see his teeth changing to a point and then Xanatos plunged his teeth into his neck. He began sucking his blood, and once he had his share of blood he'd tossed the body to the ground. Xanatos whipped all the blood off from his lips and began walking to the door. His hands were almost to the doorknob when the door opened and two men came through. They looked at Xanatos and then at the body.

"Xanatos what have you done?" asked the first man.

"I'm relinquishing my title of Guardian Lucid. Do you have a problem?"

"Yes I do. No Guardian can do any harm to the person they are guarding," said Lucid.

"Rules are meant to be broken," smiled Xanatos.

"With every broken rule there are always a punishment," said the second man.

Xanatos looked at the second man and sneered at him. "I am a vampire. No wizard magic can harm me Merlin."

"No but vampire magic can," said Lucid. "And so because of your crime you will be banished in a stone prison to endure a life time of loneliness until it's time to live up to your title as Guardian."

"A Guardian is only a Guardian until their mortal is dead or their blood line is spent. Dante is dead and without a living relative," smiled Xanatos.

"Oh you will see about that," said Lucid. He then snapped his fingers and two vampires walked in and took Xanatos away.

"Lucid what are we going to do with the body?" asked Merlin. He went over to it; he then bent down and touched it. "Oh my God he turned him. He turned him into a vampire. I wonder if he knows."

"Oh he knows,.a vampire always knows when a mortal is no longer a mortal," said Lucid. "But what he doesn't know is that he is still his Guardian. Even though Dante is no longer a mortal, the blood bond between them cannot break. Dante can still control Xanatos.

-Present Time-

It was July and the hot sun was setting. Hermione Granger sat in front of her house trying to cool off.

"I am so bored," she said to herself, "and I won't be going over to the Burrow till next month."

She got off from the ground and sigh. She then went over to the front door and yelled," Mum, Dad I'm going on a walk."

Then she headed off. She walked about a block and stopped when she reached a park. She went over to the swings and sat down. She swag there for a moment, but stopped when she heard a voice. She looked around and saw no one. She continued on the swing for a moment longer until she heard a voice shouted," Ventosus!" A big gust of wind came over to her and blown her right off of the swing. After she cought her breath, she quickly reached for her pocket hoping to find her wand, but to her dismay was not there.

"Damn it. I can't believe I didn't bring my wand," she said to herself.

Not knowing the danger around her, she quickly got up and began running home. She was almost out of the park, when her foot caught onto something and she fell.

"Help me," came a voice.

She looked towards her feet and saw a teenage boy laying on the ground. He appeared hurt.

"Are you alright?" she asked. She slowly went to him and that's when she notice that his right foot was in some type of animal's trap

"Help me please," he cried again. He looked around franticly as if someone was about to attack him.

She kneeled down and began studying the trap. She notice that it was made out of pure silver.

"How do I get it to release your foot?" she asked.

"I don't know and besides you're a witch. Why don't you use magic to open it?"

"First off I can't do magic over the holiday, and second I left my wand at home."

She looked around and saw a thick branch near by and so she grabbed it. She stuck the branch by the guys leg and began trying to open the trap.

"Can you hurry up please," said the guy. He kept looked over his shoulder as if to see someone.

"I'm trying as hard as I can," said Hermione. She got the branched into the trap and began slowly opening it and when it was opened wide enough, the guy pulled his foot out.

"Are you okay?" asked Hermione. She looked at his foot and his ankle was bleeding. "Your ankle looks really bad. I should take you to the hospital."

"No. No hospital. I can't go there."

"You have to go. You are losing blood and you will need stitches."

"I'll go any where but the hospital."

"Do you have a place to go?"

"No. I'm visiting from Wales."

"Then I'll take you to my house."

Swing one arm over her shoulder, they slowly began to walk.

"Thank you. You know a lot of wizards wouldn't do what you have just done," he said.

"What do you mean and how do you know that I'm a witch?"

"I mean now that you are in a war with Voldemort not that many wizards can be trusted."

"So you're a wizard. Do you have a name?"

"You can call me Donny."

"Well Donny I'm Hermione and my house is coming up and I'm sure my parents will let you stay till your leg gets properly healed."

"Thank you again. I'm in your debt."

"You don't owe me anything."

"Oh but I do owe you something," he whispered.

They reached the house and Hermione opened the door and they slowly walked in.

"Mum, Dad I'm home and I need your help."

She walked him to the couch and then her parents came in.

"Oh my God what happened?" asked Mrs. Granger.

"I'd found him at the park. He's bleeding and needs our help."

"Honey, go get some towels and hot water," said Mrs. Granger. She went over to Donny and took a look at his ankle. "And get a needle and thread. Oh Hermione, why didn't you take him to the hospital?"

"No hospital," said Donny again.

"Okay then. I'll try my best to heal you."

"You're a Muggle. How are you going to heal me?"

"Well first I'm going to clean your ankle from infections and then try to stitch it up. Then your body will heal itself."

"That will take too much time. Your daughter is a witch. Go and tell her that she just needs the Cordeu plant," said Donny.

Hermione walks in with everything that her mother had asked for.

"Hermione, sweetie this young man wants you to heal him with the Cordeu plant," said her mother.

Hermione looked at him," I'm sorry but I don't have that. I don't have that many supplies in my Hogwarts trunk. I'm sorry."

There was a bit a disappointment in Donny's eyes as Mrs. Granger began cleaning his wound. When his leg was stitched up, Hermione brought to him some blankets and a pillow.

"Sleep well and I'll see you in the morning," she said.

"Good night and Thanks again."

Hermione turned the lights off and everyone went to bed.


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