Almost everyone has a curfew, whether it's their parents telling them to come home at a certain time or just a natural time you keep for yourself for some quality time. Well, the Lion's Pride guild also has a STRICT curfew everyone follows and as corny as it sounds….
One must never wander around at night on the 4th corridor where the Sir Xeno's office and quarter is.
No one ever did that after one hunter in the guild attempted this rule-breaking dare only to be in the infirmary. Pale as a ghost and all of his memory of the night's incident disappeared forever. So it remained a mystery that no one dared to find out…
Of course there is one unfortunate person that has stumbled upon the 4th corridor clearly when the sun is already down.
At that unfortunate person is none other than our favorite violent, short tempered and dense Lord Knight.
Julian Douglas.
"That is the last time I am asking Griever to give me directions to the armory!!" She hollered as she threw up her arms in the air with rage and then sighed. The day before in training her sword had broke due to the training battle between Issac, the temporarily white smith. Issac, who felt terribly sorry for what he has done, decided that he would borrow the guild's armory for a day to repair her sword good as new.
There are only several people who visited the armory, excluding the smiths in the guild. One kept their equipment in top shape and kept it closely on them to be prepared for a surprise guild attack. Julian is one of them, she never let's anything ruin her armor or weapon. (She even has a customized case for her twin sword) and never visited the guild armory in her lifetime.
After someone spilled a bottle full of deadly poison on the guild map (three guesses for who he is and the first two doesn't count) she personally had to ask for directions. Of course the happy go lucky assassin was overjoyed to point her the direction.
Only to give her the direction to the men's dressing room where she screamed half of the men in the room to death.
"That damn Griever! I am never trusting him now!" Julian mumbled as she treaded along the stairs wondering if she was ever going to make it to the armory.
Several minutes later she came upon a door. It was a normal door like the other doors in the guild castle. Without hesitation she pushed open the door and walked inside. It was a corridor, fairly dark because the lamps on the walls were low lit. Only her footsteps echoed throughout the empty corridor as she walked down the cold stone floor.
"…Where in the name of Odin am I?……" The blonde whispered as she continued down, the floor was now adorned with a red rug with golden decorations. There were portraits handing down from the walls now. One by one she glanced at the pictures. None of them that she found familiar until her eyes landed on the last one.
In the golden picture frame was an oil painting of man. Thin, gaunt and young face, sitting up right robed in a royal family garment. His hands resting upon the handle of sword along with the crest of the guild pinned upon his chest. Snowy white hair, blood red eyes and skin color of pale peach.
Sir Roy Xeno
"what…" She whispered as she looked upon the picture. "are these pictures……the descendant of Sir Xeno's family?…"
Every picture she saw until this one were all portraits of a male individual. Each of them where different but one thing was the same.
They all had blood red eyes…
"I shouldn't be here…" Julian said as she tore her eyes away from the portraits and turned to head back the directions where she came from.
Only to meet a pair of red eyes.
Stare……Blink…(wait for it……)
There was a scream that could have woken dear Odin from his sleep from heaven as the terrified Lord Knight quickly jumped backwards to be good distance away from whatever was staring at her. She put her hand where her sword was suppose to be…only it wasn't there.
"Curses! Why at all times does my sword have to be out in repair at times like this!" She muttered as she did the only thing she COULD do at this time.
RUN LIKE HELL!!
"SOMEONE HELP!! THERE'S SOME KIND OF MYSTERIOUS BEING ON THIS CORRIDOR!!!" Julian screamed as she sped down the hall having no clue where she was heading.
Only to run in head first into hard shiny armor.
"Ow! Son of a b!" She swore as she stumbled backwards and onto the floor. The blonde knight looked up to see whom she ran into. Although the corridor was badly lit she was still able to tell whom the individual was by the white hair and red eyes that stood out in the dark.
"Sir Xeno!!"
The guild leader said nothing as he continued to stare at the flustered lord knight in front of him. There was something very……unusual about him. No not the fact that he's in his twenties and has white hair.
He seemed…emotionless…hypnotized or better yet he looked at he just got out of bed at the wrong time. (Griever- in other words, half asleep)
"I-I…uh…I apologize for running into you sir!!" Julian said scrambling back up and making herself as dignified as possible. She straighten out her armor and dusted of dirt off from her garment.
"I think I'll…uh…leave now." She said quickly as she slowly turned around and took a step forward to get her ass out of corridor as soon as possible.
Her action was ceased when Sir Xeno wrapped his arms around her from behind.
"Sir Xeno?!" The blonde utterly confused by his action. The white haired lord knight made no response as he breathed softy on her…neck? Which sent an unpleasant chill down her back. She glanced at her guild leader, he seemed to be out of it. His eyes did not have his usual pride or light of leadership in them. And one other thing she noticed that scared the living soul of her.
Sharp…pointy…teeth?!
The math began to click in her head. Red eyes+ Sharp pointy teeth VAMPIRE
"SHIELD BOOMERANG!!!" A heavy metal shield rammed into the back of the vampire knight's head as he collapsed due to its heavy impact. Leaving one scared female knight sitting on the floor, who apparently lost her power to even stand up.
"Julian! Are you okay??!" An individual ran up to her to reveal none other than Oscar Louis, the guild captain of the crusaders and co-captain of the guild. Julian regained enough of her sanity to yell at his face.
"WOULD YOU MIND EXPLAINING TO ME WHY OUR GUILD LEADER IS A VAMPIRE?!?!?"
The purple haired paladin winced at her shout as he put both hands on her shoulder.
"Okay! I'll tell you! So stop yelling!!" He shouted in annoyance and anger, which made her immediately shut up. Never in her life has she seen the air-headed and womanizing paladin so…serious…
Oscar put a hand on his forehead and sighed heavily. He was expecting someone to find out sooner or later but he never expected it to be the only female member in the guild…
Retrieving his shield he motioned Julian to help him carry Sir Xeno. Julian, who just experience an unpleasant event, hesitated a bit.
"Don't worry he's knocked out. It'll at least take him 2 hours to wake up." Oscar said cheerfully, returning to his normal self as he propped up one of Sir Xeno's arm around his neck and lifted the knocked out knight up. Julian, partly convinced that Oscar was telling the truth, went on the other side doing the same action.
First a half incubus priest and now a bloodthirsty vampire…what is the world coming into?
All three of them were now in Guild Captain's quarters where Sir Xeno laid onto his bed still unconscious. The room was fairly neat, books were set in chronological order onto the wooden shelves and their guild banners was hung up on the wall. The furnished wooden desk consisted of several paper stacks of paperwork along with the guild stamp on the side. What could be said of messy in the room was several papers lying on the red rug floor and few article of clothing hanging from the corner of the dresser.
"Okay, before you ask anything I think it will be a lot easier if I explain his whole family history to you." The purple hair holy individual said as he sat on the chair located beside the bed. Julian, who decided to stay away from Sir Xeno until she made sure he was vampire free, leaned onto the wall next to the door. (in case if she need to bolt out the door before another assault)
"The only vampire recorded in history out in society is the Dracula. You know the monster?"
The blonde nodded.
"Well in reality there is one family that has a bloodline of a vampire, The Xeno family. They're not evil or anything, just like us humans. They're human except they drink blood (Julian suppressed a cough as he said that) and have powers beyond a human. They were hunted down in the past so they never reveal themselves and they just blend in like the rest of us."
"Wait." Julian interrupted as something just came to her. "Then…is Xeonhart a vampire?"
"No…well not entirely. He's a half, his mother was human. Xeonhart is the half brother of Roy. But the only vampire power he has is a bit of extra power in magic and that's about it. He doesn't drink blood or have pointy teeth. Remember, he has blue eyes. That makes him a distinct heir of the Xeno family." Oscar explained as Julian sighed in relief.
"Anyway, even though the Xeno family could look and act like the rest of us. They still couldn't survive without blood from humans. This is where the Prontera Church. The church heal the sick and injured so it's easy for them to obtain human blood. So the vampire and the church decided to make a deal. As long as the church can provide blood to keep them alive and avoid any unnecessary assault on humans, the Xeno family in return served under the church. With me so far?"
"Uh……"
"Good." Oscar obviously missing the confused tone in her voice. "Although they do get blood it is really hard for them to resist 'good' blood. Do you get what I'm saying?"
"No." Julian replied bluntly. Oscar sweat dropped.
"Er…well I guess it's hard to understand…I mean history is quite wrong about vampires…"
"Like how they suck blood, can't stand garlic, look at a cross or they die when you put a stake in their heart?" She said as she crocked her head to one side slightly in curiosity.
"Julian, anyone can die when you stick a stake into their heart." Oscar said putting a hand through his hair. "Yes they do suck blood but not just any blood. Each of them has their own…how should I say it…flavor? I mean one can crave for men with pride, or people who has unbearable stress. In Roy's case he likes young women's blood…like a fair amount of members in the Xeno family."
The female lord knight shifted toward the door slightly at his explanation. Seeing this Oscar sweat dropped again.
"Don't worry he's not awake yet."
"Keyword, YET." She emphasized, ignoring her response he continued.
"And the garlic fact. They have really sensitive nose, so anything with a strong smell. Garlic, onion, clovers…can knock them out. The fact that they cannot look at a cross…Julian if that was true I don't think he'll able to stand next to me. Vampires are atheists but they keep it that way because it's easier for them. And also keeps any suspicious away from the church."
"So let me get this straight." Julian said as she just finished putting all the information in her head. "Sir Xeno is from a bloodline of VAMPIRES. Which the CHURCH kept them hidden for the last who-knows-when. Sir Xeno is a FEMALE LOVER (Oscar sweat dropped at that), that garlic DOES NOT KILL THEM and they are ATHEIST."
"Uh…except for the 'female lover' part yeah that sums it up."
"And you never told us this because..?"
"……I didn't think it was necessary until something really bad happened?" Oscar replied hesitantly.
"You mean I was scared HALF TO DEATH and almost ASSAULTED because you didn't think it was danger until I was attacked?! Didn't you think it was dangerous when the hunter was attacked?!"
"Well…the hunter case…he was only knocked out and didn't remember anything because he ran into the wall and had one of the pictures fall onto him."
THE END!
Eep! I know I didn't update for long but I did it now! I'm a senior at high school! COLLEGE APPLICATION!!! I'M DEAD!!!
Attic-window- Uh here Camus! She/he brought you a nice teddy bear!
Camus: Oh boy! Now I can use it as target practice for my mace!
…what?
Camus: I mean…I can add it to my collection of fuzzy stuffed animals!
Helmira- Yes I think everyone is surprised by the fact the cold high wizard is a pervert in the
inside…
Xeonhart: I'm telling you! I'M NOT A PERVERT!
Right……
Steel Heart- Oh we'll see her in that bunny outfit more than once…kekeke…
Filir- Oh I'm planning to make then do something in the future…I am so evil :D
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