Chapter 1: The New Lieutenants
~~~Sanctuary of the Clans~~~
Kain sat on his thrown awaiting the arrival of his lieutenants. It had been only a day since he had found the tomb and bred the vampiric life into the corpses. They usually only awake after a few hours, but not in this case. It had taken them a whole day to awaken, but during that time, they had regained their powers and strength, without the use of blood. Kain found that they were incredibly strong and that during their wait to awaken they had evolved further than even Raziel had in his entire vampiric life, in only a day. They might as well have been his first born, lieutenants. Though Raziel was now the Soul Guardian, he had realized that Kain was not the Balance Guardian, since Raziel, was killed, and brought back as a vampire. It was the one known as, Kean, who made the sacrifice and righted the Balance Pillar. The pillars had disappeared from the sanctuary and reappeared in the Sanctuary of Nosgoth. Kain then noticed that Raziel, Dumah, Turel, Melchiah, Rehab, and Zephon enter the room. Raziel was the first to speak, "Kain, why have you called us here? What foul deed do you want of us this time, Kain?" "Nothing much Raziel, only to introduce four new brothers." Then Dumah intervened and said, "What a new brother, but how Kain? You already raided our tomb and made us vampires! Show them to us and we'll see if they're worthy, to be apart of our brethren!" Kain then said, "Very well Dumah, have your guards bring them in now!" Dumah then said in anger, "Fine Kain, but I warn you if I don't see them fit, I won't consider them my brethren!" Kain then shouted in such a fury that it shook the chamber, "Quite, Dumah, I don't want to listen to your excuses for not being the strongest! Now be quite and don't ever speak to me like this again!" When Kain, finished every fledgling in the sanctuary had left and went into hiding. Then a group of Dumahem entered the room, escorting the four new vampire lieutenants. Kain then said, "My lieutenants meet your new brothers, Melchiah you are no longer the youngest. My new children introduce yourselves, from eldest to youngest." The first to speak was Kobra who said, "It is a privilege to meet you my brethren, I am Kobra, 7th born of Kain's lieutenants. I am told I am the most impressive out of all my brethren." Then Malek came in and said, "I am Malek, 8th born of Kain's lieutenants." "Malek, but how? You are supposed to be in our tomb!" Then Viperadar cam in and said, "I am Viperadar, 9th born of Kain's lieutenants. I am twin to my brother who is right behind me." Then Dinoador came in and said, "I am Dinoador, 10th born of Kain's lieutenants. Twin to Viperadar, we both awoke at the same time." Rehab stepped forward and said, "I am Rehab 4th born of Kain's lieutenants. I will test your strength against water. For vampires it will burn like acid, except to me and my clan, also with the exception to Raziel, the eldest of the brethren." Rehab walked over to bowl of water, scooped four cups out, took one over to Dinoador, and said, "Take this water and pour it on your arm." Dinoador took the cup of water and poured a little bit on his arm. He roared in agony as it burned his arm, but Rehab quickly dried the water before it did too much damage. The water would only leave a medium sized scar on his arm. Then Rehab moved to Viperadar to test his resistance to water. He poured some onto his arm and it burned his arm. Viperadar roared in pain, but Rehab quickly wiped the water away, leaving only an average sized scar on his arm. Rehab moved on to Malek and grabbed the third cup of water and poured it all on his arm. Malek screamed in pain and agony as it burned his flesh. Rehab waited a moment after he started screaming and roaring in pain, before he wiped the water away and off Malek. A large scar was-left on half of his arm, preferably the upper half of Malek's arm. Rehab then moved over to Kobra who swatted the cup away and said, "Get the bowl of water and dump it on my chest." Rehab did as Kobra requested and grabbed the bowl of water and dumped it on his chest. The water merely poured off, of Kobra and onto the floor of the Sanctuary. Kobra was immune to the effect of water on vampires. Then Raziel stepped forward and said, "Beware, there is one law you must follow or it will mean what happened to me." Kobra was the first to speak after Raziel had said what he did and he said, "What happened to you Raziel and what is this law we must not break?" Raziel then said, "Simple little brother, you cannot evolve before Kain, or you will be cast into the abyss." After they finished the formalities, they needed clan territories and their first clan members. Raziel and Turel were-assigned to help Kobra find a clan territory and help him with clan members. Dumah was-assigned to help Malek find a clan territory and clan members. Rehab was-assigned to help Viperadar find a clan territory and clan members. Melchiah and Zephon were-assigned to help Dinoador find a clan territory and clan members. They left the Sanctuary of the Clans and went off in search of clan territories for their new brothers.