Prologue: Lumen

1517 Italy

I jolted out of my sleep, noticing the setting around me and the dank smell that seemed to come with this place. This was so not looking good. Damn it! I screamed out into the darkness, yanking and struggling against the chains that bound me. I would be the one stuck in this predicament, but hey it's not the first time, but then again I should listen to my father for once. Ugh… I really do always have to be the hardheaded child.

I pulled at the chains, once more this was by far one of the most uncomfortable positions I've ever been in. Also the most embarassing. My arms pulled apart, hanging in mid-air, legs spread and chained. I am so going to kill whoever is responsible for this. I screamed again, the weakness of my body finally overtaking me. I sighed my breathing heavier than usual. I really am going to kill the asshole who thought it was fine to do this. I pulled at the chains again, hoping they would magically break somehow. I groaned these chains had to be made specifically for me since I would have broken out any regular old chains.

I than heard a creek, and a blinding light followed. I squinted trying to see who or what was coming in. My eyes adjusted, and bore into those eyes. The eyes of a man I swore to kill one day, the same man that managed to take my grandfather from me. "You!" I growled it ripping from my throat with utter disgust. All of this made sense now; he has been after me since the day I was born. He smiled at me his cold black eyes lighting up with joy. "My dearest Lumen." He cried happily. "So, nice to see you again, and you've grown so beautifully I might say." I growled, baring my fangs. I jumped at him, but the stupid chains held me back from ripping out his throat.

He walked closer to me but stopped a few inches away, being stopped by an unseen force. I grinned. "You can't touch me." I sung.

He frowned at me. I beamed inside, I absolutely loved causing him displeasure. He turned his attention from me, picking at my chains. Ugh… I really wish I could just be unbound right now. "Do you like your chains." He asked me all of a sudden breaking the heated silence between us. "I had them made with you in mind."

He turned his gaze on me, and I rolled my eyes. "Figures." I mumbled, trying to think of ways to get out of these chains. "What do you want anyway?" I asked rather bored with all this.

It was a constant process he captures me by some streak of luck, we go over on how he can't touch me. Then he pouts, and I ask him what he wants, then he tells me his schemes, I escape we fight, and somehow he finds a way to get away every time. I was so sick of this. He stepped away from me, starting to pace the floor.

"Well for you to be dead since I cannot possibly make you mine. You see you, and your family are getting rather bothersome, trying to stop my plans and all." He explained, as if I really was the problem. I mean he is the evil one.

I groaned, stupid pestering vampire. "And, how are you going to do that you and your followers can't possibly touch me or my family for the matter." I sighed. He was wasting my precious fun time. He stopped pacing, and smiled it full of malice. He was indeed a devil set upon this earth.

"Well you are quite right my pretty little Lumen." He said his tone amused, but it soon darkened. "But they can." He looked to the door. Two men entered with long blonde hair, and I instantly I smelled them, the blood, the scent it burned my nose. Fear filled me for the first time in a long time. The two men had identical eyes and features, most Eversors did. "How?" I gasped out. This isn't possible they were supposed to be practically extinct.

It is impossible to find one let alone two. He walked over to the two men, who seemed to stare at me with intent to devour. "Please be brutal." He ordered softly. They nodded in union. He turned his attention to me, grinning. "Now since you're going to die I will let you die honorably and fight." At that the chains broke, and I fell to the ground. I looked up the bastard was gone, and that left me with them.

I stood backing up to the wall, wanting to be as far as possible from them. I watched them carefully, and they stared at me with greyish-purple eyes that freakishly resembled mine. One of them stepped forward. I whimpered. "Don't" I choked out. I was afraid I knew what one bite could do to me, what their venom did to my kind. They smiled showing jagged rows of mangled teeth. Their beautiful faces now altered, into their true forms. The ugliness of it mind blowing. They both lunged at me a scream ripping out of me. I tried to put up a fight, even though me winnig against two was against all odds. One bit down into me, and at that moment all I could ever wish for is death.