Chapter 9

*Krul Tepes' bed chamber*

Krul is playfully hugging her bat, Arucanu when a man entered her private chamber. She's humming merrily when she thought it was her beloved dog, Mikaela Hyakuya. Her mood soured in a blink of an eye when she saw none other than Ferid Bathory. The seventh progenitor fabulously strides to where she is sitting.

"My~ Oh my~ if you frown like that, your wrinkles will increase~ did you miss me~ of course you do!" His Cheshire grin is still flustered across his lips. He halted when he is an arm's length across the vampire queen.

"Get out" Krul ordered without a heartbeat, Arucanu glared at Ferid as its master is contemplating on how to throw the younger vampire out of her domain. Before she can even sprout another word, Ferid lean too close to her. "What the hell FERID?!" She yelped in surprised when his cold hands encase her petite form into a hug

"Don't be so rude to me, Kururu~ I went here on my own accord to tell you something~ Am I not sweet~?" Ferid was about to sprout another nonsense when Krul pushed him from her gorgeous body.

"Get out Bathory boy" Krul once again tried but now, her anger is visible like the moon outside the vampire city. "You have no right to enter my private chamber"

"Is that so~? Who has the right to enter your room? Don't tell me your dog has all the right to visit you~? You've changed a lot Kururu~ you are a lot colder and heartless now~ I wonder what happened to my sweet little patron~? Ah let me guess~ she is gone, gone with the wind. Gone along her beloved brother~" venom is leaking with his every word. The playful façade is no more than a dust of hope. "Kururu, I want you to rid of yourself the burden of being a walking blood bank for your pet whenever he do not wish to drink human blood. Get rid of him before it is too late" He once again lean closer to her, his hand caressing her pale cheek, his eyes staring into those ruby eyes that he loved and adore most.

"Why would I, a queen will have to listen to you, mongrel? You are not worth anyone's trust Bathory boy" Krul hissed under Ferid's touch. Yet again she pushed him away.

"Why do you have to live up with your name so much my cruel queen? My cold hearted patron?" he pursed his lips and he lay his body down into her fluffy queen size bed. "Krul, you need to get rid of Mika before Lest Karr can sniff off your secret or is your pride more important than your life~? Even m'lord Stafford is not as suicidal as you"

"Truly, Rigr is yet your lord again? Here I thought your loyalty is with me. You are a magnificent liar Ferid"

"That is so rich for someone who left everything behind just to follow her power-hungry brother"

The two vampire progenitors glared at each other with intense hatred directed towards one another. Krul sigh and she look away; she is getting impatient about the deal she set with Mahiru Hiragi. All she wants is to see her beloved brother once again, to be with him for all the next centuries of her life. Yet again the fate is cruel. She sighs once again when she felt the younger vampire's fangs prodding into the crook of her neck. Ah how many centuries had passed since the day she lost interest in anything; a moan has escaped her lips when the offending fangs mercilessly sink its way into her soft skin. Ferid gulped a few mouthfuls of her blood albeit to soothing her back. The younger vampire left without a word upon satiating his hunger.

"Ferid, Ferid, Ferid what have you done to yourself?" She shake her head as she watch the non-existent light outside her window.

Shinoa is watching her master with mild interest once he went out of the queen's bed chamber. This man is always unpredictable and that is what she noted to herself. The seventh progenitor has different personalities hiding within the man named Ferid Bathory. Most of the time he will be the playful bastard who will annoy the living hell out of you, sometimes he will act as a naïve child but no matter what kind of face nor emotion he is showing the others, Shinoa knows they were no more than facades. Ferid Bathory is like a snake, he can change his skin in different occasions for his own advantage. Shinoa Hiiragi knows that this man is a dangerous monster hiding under the façade of eccentricities. In a short time with him, she saw all the atrocities and crimes he committed for his unknown goals. Shinoa is sure of one thing; his patriarch will betray anyone for the sake of fulfilling his own goals.

"Are you done talking with the queen?" She has no plan to act nice. She doesn't care if she is rude to her own patron. She will never give him the satisfaction. Never in her accursed life will she bark for this progenitor.

Ferid stare at her for a good few seconds before he put on his one of many facades "Curious aren't we~ Is my precious daughter jealous~ My~ you don't have to~ you are my precious child after all~ Oh! Could it be that you are thirsty~? I can always give you a blood if you beg for it~ Shinoa-chan must say 'papa I need your blood~' then I will give it to you~" His useless banter was rewarded with a snarl from the half breed.

"Never in my life I will beg nor will acknowledge you, vampire!" the purple head vampire snapped into her own master

"Vampire~? Are you not one of us~ or do you want your precious cherry boy to save you~" Ferid tease the girl before he pat her head. "It was a joke. Let's go back to our house~ I need to talk to you about something~" The duo went back to Ferid's mansion. They vanish into the darkness of the alleyway.