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The Corvinus Legacy.
When he discovered his immortality, he never pictured his life becoming like this, where he was tired of the never-ending fights and the same self-appointed task he had set himself, to clean up after his immortal children as their descendants fought.
As he sat at his desk on his ship, the Sancta Helena, Alexander Corvinus glanced at the recent reports. He grimaced as he thought of the amount of work needed to keep the violent battles between the Vampires and Lycans a secret. Always it was the same. Some people had to be killed and the bodies were disposed of quietly and silently while making sure there were no clues that would lead to the discovery of the immortal species, others were bribed or threatened.
Since the war began and Alexander had seen for himself the monsters Marcus and William had become after being bitten by the rabid bat and the equally rabid wolf, cleaning up the mess was something he had been forced to do since, and he had lived with that burden for centuries, and in all honesty, he had a feeling it would go on for a longer period, perhaps until the end of time itself. Alexander cringed at the thought; ever since his body had adapted that damned plague and he was made immortal and he had passed it on to his twin sons, he had never suspected they would become this, and that he would be cleaning up a war between the species they spawned because William's rages had gone out of control.
That thought of doing this for centuries to come... Oh, well, he'd cringed at the thought before, and he suspected he still would, but it was also mixed with apathy.
Once he had discovered he was not ageing and that he was immune to illness, and his healing had greatly repaired any injury that was fatal to ordinary human beings, and because he had been a warlord of the 5th century, Alexander knew of many fatal injuries, Alexander had held high hopes that his immortality could allow him to travel the world, enjoy the richness of the new times as history unfolded before him, but he hadn't expected that he would be forced to fight his own children indirectly and form an organisation to prevent their war from getting out.
Alexander groaned mentally as he remembered the pain caused by William's transformation and his rage when he discovered he could never again regain his human form, to say nothing of how desperate Marcus had been to try to help him even if Alexander, Amelia, and Viktor, the two Vampire Elders whom Marcus had sired, had the more realistic view and what Marcus had always failed to accept the reality of, the William he had known, the boy whom Alexander had played with as a baby, taught to fight as a boy, and be proud of as a teenager and young man, the boy whom he had loved equally deeply with all of his children regardless of whether they were immortal or not, had died when the rabidity of the wolf that bit him drove him mad with rage.
And it resulted in a thousand years of pain and death.
So many had paid the price for what his son's legacies had led to. Alexander glanced at CCTV pictures they had pulled while burning the system of all other data that would reveal the species. Many Cleaners over the years had often asked themselves, and even to Alexander to his face, why he bothered cleaning up the war when ordinary humans deserved to know. Indeed, a popular idea was to simply stop and let the vampires and the Lycans see for themselves what their war was spilling into.
If the human race discovered the immortal species and the harm they had caused, from William's rampage to the modern attacks Lycans inflicted while controlling their own savagery, they would slaughter them. But while Alexander was tempted, he couldn't. He could not bring himself to destroy the other immortals, even if they did deserve it for all the harm they had caused, and all the messes he had been forced to clean up over the last millennia after Viktor's insane plot to take the newly evolved Lycans, who happened to be a considerable improvement over the monstrous abominations William had spawned, and transform them into a slave race to keep the two races from fighting again before he had gone too far and put his own child, Sonja, to death simply for falling in love with Lucian.
Thinking of Viktor made Alexander grimace. While Alexander had been a warlord in his prime, he had never taken it to the cold-blooded extent as Viktor had, but at least Viktor and indeed Amelia had seen the dangers of Marcus getting the chance to unleash William out there again. Alexander was also relieved the two Vampire Elders had managed to keep Marcus from making that mistake, but after hunting William down for so long and seeing what Marcus's priorities were and that they weren't in the best interest of the Coven's agenda, it was a miracle they'd kept William confined for so long although Alexander would have preferred it if Viktor had put William to death.
Death was a merciful release, if there was a sliver of a piece of the old William in the albino werewolf, then surely he was screaming for his torment to end. A torment he had been cruelly forced to endure for millennia. With the remaining werewolves, it would have been simpler all around if the former warlord had taken that step instead of making a mistake that would cost them. Then again, Viktor was never accused of being logical.
A photograph caught his attention. The grainy image of a CCTV screenshot of a tall woman with short black hair, dressed in a black trench coat and a leather bodysuit. Alexander recognised Selene, an infamous Death Dealer who had spent the past six centuries avenging her family for a Lycan attack which had never even happened. He knew the truth, of course, it was the century where Viktor and Amelia's plans to properly imprison William came to an end; for years before that, the two Elders had been looking for a prison for the deranged werewolf Elder, they'd had to move him constantly from place to place, using their Blood memories to tell the other what they had achieved, but the Chain which had been put up to keep Marcus from gaining too much power and to keep William confined for all eternity, but that method was chaotic and it caused enormous problem's where the two Elders would need to move William from one place to the next.
Alexander had to admit, the Chain was an impressive piece of thinking on Viktor's part; outwardly to the rest of the Vampires, it was to give the three Elders the chance to reign separately for a century before passing on the reins to the next Elder while keeping the other two Elders asleep in hibernation.
In reality, the Chain was to give both Viktor and Amelia the time they needed to keep William confined and discover a more permanent way of keeping the werewolf Elder locked up for all time and stop Marcus from gaining the power he needed to find his twin, and make the inevitable stupid mistake, that would force him to seek out help once again.
Sometimes Alexander wondered how Marcus had been forced to agree with the notion of the Chain. His Vampiric son was not stupid; he would quickly see what Viktor and Amelia were up to, but their control over the Coven had forced him to agree, even if it meant he would need to adapt his plans to look for his brother, but the thought of spending two hundred years in hibernation must have been terrible since it meant Amelia and Viktor would have the time to find a way of keeping William confined.
It was during one of his reigns that Viktor ultimately succeeded. He had found a craftsman, a mortal human and commissioned him to construct a prison in a remote mountainous region of the country. That craftsman was Selene's father. For years the human had known what was there, and Viktor had immediately become fearful of Lucian finding out where William was even though only a few people knew of the werewolf in the first place. But in Viktor's mind, Lucian was likely to unleash William out of revenge. To make sure that didn't happen, Viktor murdered the only people with knowledge of where the prison was.
Alexander had always had doubts about the Lycan even being aware of where William was, or even the full history of the Corvinus family although it was possible he had picked up on enough later on. Yes, he could have discovered William was still alive, but whether or not he would have been bothered to release him was something else, but if he had picked up enough, later on, he would have recognised the dangers of even looking for William and there was no telling what William would do against a Lycan who was similar but more evolved than a werewolf. Alexander had shared Viktor's concerns despite his doubts, but over time it became clear to him that the Vampire Elder had slaughtered a family and lied to a young naive girl who had been turned into a soulless Death Dealer for nothing.
But Alexander was grateful for Viktor and Amelia gaining the time needed to separate his twins, otherwise, the world would be drowning in werewolves by now.
But as he took a look at the picture of Selene shooting the Lycans, he couldn't help but be worried something was going on. From what his agents were telling him, Kraven's policies were making the Coven weaker and weaker; it would not have been difficult for the Vampire to do that, given how Viktor had given him a great deal of authority over the years before he entered his hibernation cycle and let Amelia take the throne, although the female Elder was tasked with expanding the Vampire's realm of influence to America, and she had stayed there ever since because the work had taken up a good deal of her time. But Amelia was soon due to return to awaken Marcus, and yet Alexander couldn't help but fear something was going to happen, although he didn't truly care what happened to either races since he'd expended so much attention and tried to keep the human race from discovering the truth. If something did happen, he would then clean up the mess.
And that was the true legacy of the Corvinus family, for him to take the duty of a father, a parent, and clean up after his children.
It might not be the future or legacy he would have wished for, but it was one he had realised he had no choice but to see through. Whatever happened in the next few days before Amelia returned, and what happened after, he would make sure the Cleaners were kept on full alert.