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Like the last chapter, this one will be mainly focused on the shadows themselves. Altair, Sarah, Julius, Lindsey, there will be a few flashbacks as well. Probably how they met, in more detail than the last chapter. Also some fictional things I made up for the story

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Julius POV

I was not in a good mood. Altair had woken me up AT 3 AM!!! But that's not even the best part, no, he splashed a bucket of freezing cold water, that came directly from the Antarctic ocean. And he added ice.

So it was pretty damn cold, and I HATE cold. I think he did it on purpose, I have to start training Harry and Ginny today. He probably wants me to work them till they drop, or something close to that. And I will. Currently I am standing in the middle of the training room, waiting for Harry and Ginny to show up, if they were late I will be pissed. They're supposed to be here at 3:30, no later. They had exactly seven and a half seconds to get here.

I started counting, when I got to 1 and a half, Harry and Ginny smoked into the room. As soon as they saw me, I think they almost pissed themselves. I didn't think I looked that pissed, but I guess me standing there with a stopwatch in my hand, eyes glaring at the spot they just appeared in, not to mention the dark circles around my eyes. Which leads to another reason I was pissed. In total, about fifteen minutes of sleep. Then got doused. Oh yeah, did I mention that Lindsey pushed me out of the bed once Altair splashed me, and her. When I left, she went back to sleep. Figures. Back to Harry and Ginny, they were standing in front of me, nervous as hell.

"Alright then, on the treadmills, your gonna jog for ten minutes, sprint for five. You will continue this for the next two hours, ill come back after two hours are up. And if one of you hasn't run at least ten miles, then you BOTH will continue this until you have both run thirty miles."

I smirked and smoked back to me and Lindsey's room.

Our room was very simple, it had a TWIN bed since me and Lindsey prefer having to sleep near on top of each other. The rest of the room consisted of a large dresser, for my clothes, it also had a mirror on it. Then in a corner of the room there was a walk in closet with a very large mirror, all for Lindsey's clothes, most of which she never wore. In fact, half of her closet was bikinis and very revealing outfits. There was also a bathroom attached to the room. I walked towards the bed, looking at Lindsey I tried to think of the best way to wake her up. Smirking a pulled back the covers to see her. She was as usual, in bra and panties. She curled up into a ball immediately, I was just so tempted, so I slowly grabbed her ass, caressing it if you will. She slowly opened one eye and said in a sleepy voice.

"Sweetie, I love you and all, but you gotta get over this obsession with my ass." she smiled at me.

"Yeah, I know. But at least its not an obsession with your tits like that one week before dad died." I smirked.

"Yeah, that was bad. Especially that day when he walked in on us…you know." she raised her eyebrows a few times to imply something.

"That was embarrassing," I bit my lip "I miss him though."

My father; Julius Caesar, had passed away some centuries ago, I cant even remember how long ago, I think it was around five centuries ago. And before any of you Caesar nerds correct me, he didn't die from being stabbed god knows how many times in the back (23 times, just to let you know =] ) he actually died of old age. I mean seriously, what kind of idiot would believe that his BEST FRIEND would allow him to die, the guy stabbed was a decoy.

Dad was tired of being emperor, and he knew my mother was pregnant with me, he wanted to raise me without worrying about my safety. So he figured, if no one knew about me, no one would hurt me. In a way, he as right. But, I met Lindsey, and EVERYTHING changed. In my opinion, for the better. Here's how it happened:

Flashback in 14 year old Julius POV:

I had done it! Finally, I had managed to sneak out of the coloseum, the place where my father had raised me in secret, everyone believing I didn't exist, and he was dead. It was late at night, around 1 in the morning, I just wanted to see the city, I didn't think about doing anything else.

While I was walking around, I saw a small rustle of activity in an alley. I turned to look towards in and saw a girl, looked younger than me, surrounded by five other guys. She was in the middle, they were shoving her around, it looked like she was bleeding. My anger growing, I moved closer to hear what they were saying.

"Ha, no one to stop us now you little bitch, I'm going to rape you slowly and painfully…"

One of the guys was saying to her. Forgetting all peaceful methods of breaking it up, I started sprinting towards them, in a few seconds I was getting closer to them, I saw the girl look up at me, when she saw me, her eyes lit with hope. In another few seconds I had closed the original 50 meters in between us. I launched myself at the nearest would be rapist, driving him into the side of the building. He was knocked out immediately, and I grabbed him and threw him towards the another two.

The one that originally threatened the girl stepped towards me, he threw a fist at me and caught my left eye. My head knocked into the building and I shoved myself off he wall and used the momentum to swing my left fist into his jaw. He smashed into the building and I looked the last guy, he rushed at me and I stuck my elbow up and he couldn't stop himself so his neck smashed into my elbow, it snapped his neck.

The two I had thrown the first guy at both stood up. They looked at me, looked at each other, and then took off. I crouched next to the girl who had curled up into a corner, she looked bad. There was a scratch under her eye, and bruises all over her face. She looked at me, and slipped into unconsciousness. Deciding dad could help her, I picked her up bridal style, and jogged back to the coloseum.

Originally furious, not at me, but that this had happened to the poor girl. He was also pissed about my new black eye. He stitched her cut up, and applied some cream to her bruises. This was all done while she was passed out. I stayed by her side the whole time. After a few hours, she still didn't wake up. My father approached me and sat with me. He looked at me and said in a low voice

"I think we should leave."

I was shocked, my father loved the coloseum, he loved secretly teaching me and the gladiators how to fight.

"Why?" I asked him confused.

He chose his words carefully, seeming not sure himself

"I saw the way you looked at her, I can tell you wont leave her. And if this is going to happen, I don't want either of you to be here. We need to leave, as soon as possible."

"But where would we go?" I asked glancing at the girl, irritated that I couldn't think of her with a name.

"I'll send a owl to my grandfather, Dracula. I believe I've told you about him?" he looked at me waiting for my reaction.

"Yeah, guessing he'll come take us with the teleport thing?" I knew all about Dracula, he was the first and only vampire currently in existence. Someone had seen him feeding on a human, and from that, people started a cult, claiming to be vampires, and feeding on people, no one knew how the sun thing popped up, but it did. Either way, anyone claiming to be a vampire, really isn't one. Unless Dracula lied to us. And he wouldn't. I had only met him once, but he was a kind person, never cruel, unless someone truly deserved it. I knew he would take care of us, all three of us.

"So, do you agree?" my father looked at me, already knowing my answer.

"Owl him." it wasn't a request, it was an order.

Dad left to send the owl, leaving me to sit with the girl. I barely knew her, but I was already too protective of her to let anybody hurt her, never again will what happened tonight happen to her again. I took her hand, and promised her exactly that. After that I squeezed her hand, and her eyes opened.

"Where am I?" she asked weakly, looking at me with gratitude in her eyes.

"Deep underneath the coloseum, my father treated your wounds. We'll be leaving to go to live with my great grandfather. You're coming with us." I was very blunt with the last part.

"Thank you." out of all the things she could have said in response to what I said, that is one that I didn't even consider her thinking.

"What's your name?" I asked her softly

"Lindsey, what's yours?" she looked at me closer, her eyes widened when she saw how I looked like my father.

"Julius Caesar, the second." I enjoyed seeing her eyes widen in recognition, then she remembered that I was the one that saved her.

"You…you were the one that saved me." her eyes seemed to look admiring while she said this "It was five against one, and you still fought them, and won."

" I did it for you." I smiled at her. She smiled back. She clutched my hand tighter and fell asleep.

The next day Dracula came into our little hideaway and smoked all three of us back to his home, a large castle in some other country. He heard about what happened to me and Lindsey, and started teaching us to fight. He was subtle about it first, telling Lindsey she looked like she could throw a knife, coaxing me into learning to fight with some monster sword. Then he really started training us, for what, we didn't know, but we didn't care. For all the time he was training us, we were falling deeply in love with the other.

Eventually Dracula told us that he was being hunted for, and he was trying to get us prepared. He chose us to carry on the vampire gene. He told us that the only other of our kind was two other people, a man and a woman, who we later met, but you already knew that. He turned us both, performed the Crimson Blodhren, and taught us everything we knew about being vampires, all of our abilities, all of our talents, all of our changes. My father stood by and helped us along the way. When the people hunting for Dracula found him, dad went out on his own to avenge him. Lindsey and i tried to follow him, but couldn't, so we stayed at the castle. Dad eventually came back many years later, he had killed the people that killed Dracula, and was wounded. He made it and lived with us for five years, until he eventually died of old age. Later, a new cult hunting vampires showed up and captured us in our sleep. You know the rest.

End flashback

Still Julius POV:

"Love, you there?" Lindsey poked me.

"What, oh. Yeah, I was just…thinking." I shook myself to rid my brain of the memories.

"Dad?" Lindsey asked quietly, she always knew what I was thinking.

"Yeah. Oh yeah, I set Harry and Ginny to work, they're on the treadmills, about half of what Dracula had us doing at first." I said

"Really, I thought you would be working them twice as hard as Dracula worked us after how Altair woke you up." She gave me a funny look "You ok?"

"Yeah, I decided to be nice, and I'm fine." I smirked at her and laid next to her on the bed. She immediately pulled my arms around her and cuddled into my chest. We slept for a good hour and a half. Then we both walked down to the training room, we were five minutes early, and checked how far they both have ran so far. Harry ran 20 miles, Ginny ran 19. I felt myself crack half a smile.

"Alright you guys can stop now." I almost laughed at how they both just fell off the treadmills.

"Ok, you guys have an hour to eat, I would recommend grabbing some pepper up potion, or going to feed. Come back when your done. Then we start the hard stuff." Lindsey grinned at the look on their faces. Harry finally found his voice.

"Why would we want to feed?" He asked, exhausted.

"It gives you energy, we only need to feed once a month, but we can whenever we want." Lindsey told them. They both nodded and smoked away. Lindsey looked at me and said

"Wanna go take a nap till they're done?"

I smiled at her.

"You know it." we both smoked to our room, stripped down to our undergarments and snuggled into each others bodies before sleep took us.

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