The Dragon Empire
Chapter 3
Drachen was striding towards his masters throne with a frown on his face, the reason for this frown was the middle aged woman called Elizabeth in front of him. The reason for him hating this woman was not very obvious but if you looked closely you would know, she was a vampire. The pale skin and the way she looked at him as if he was a piece of meat was what gave it away. Oh he hated the woman and her annoying attitude. As he kneeled in front of his master with his head bowed he could get rid of the frown that marred his face.
"You summoned me, milord?" asked Drachen as he knelt beside Elizabeth, Drachen waited for a moment before he heard his master speak but the way he spoke unnerved him, he spoke in a dark voice. "Tell me Drachen, have I ever wronged you?" as he was saying this, Elizabeth sprang into action as she grabbed him around the neck and smashed him against a nearby wall. "You think I wouldn't find out about how you let that Veela go when you were ordered to kill every single one of them and yet you disobey me….why?" Grindenwald asked in a dark voice as he looked at his apprentice with anger and disappointment in his grey eyes, he then looked at Elizabeth, who was grinning crazily with two very sharp fangs, and nodded his head slowly.
Drachen barely had time to widen his eyes before he felt two fangs bite into his neck, his mind went blank as he screamed, after a while he felt something shoved into his mouth and something was flowing down his throat. Acting out of instinct he started to suck on it, as his senses came back to him heard Elizabeth cooing in his ear. "That's it baby, keep drinking" Drachen realized what was happening and tried to spit out the blood but the woman just held it in his mouth while he struggled, Elizabeth though just punched him in the stomach to force him to keep drinking her blood. Eventually he started to fall unconscious and when he was about to black out he heard his masters cold voice saying "I am disappointed in Drachen Kaiser.
Drachen woke up hours later with a headache that could level a mountain, he noticed that he was in chambers but his arms and legs were tied down with thick rope. When he started trying to break them his arms broke the rope as if he was being held down by grass, as he started to break the binds that held his legs down he heard the door to his chambers open and the bitch, Elizabeth, walked in. By her surprised expression on her face she did not expect him to break out of the binds yet, when she was about to start speaking she was flung across the room by a powerful wave of magic from a very angry Drachen. As she picked herself up, Drachen got up and immediately started yelling in fear and shock because sprouting from his black were a pair of sleek, black wings.
Elizabeth, who had picked herself up, began laughing at his predicament before she to sprouted wings from her back and grinning with her fangs bared. "So you have discovered those gifts have you?" she said as she looked at him with amusement in her dead eyes. Drachen knew what she had done as he knew only one creature with wings like these, Vampires. Reality hit him like a sledge hammer to the chest, he was a vampire now, the one thing he hated because of their need for the blood of others. He knew that there was no cure for this so he made himself a promise, he was going to different than these blood thirsty monsters, and he would find a way to survive without blood. He knew there were potions which would give a vampire sustenance but he knew they had harmful properties which damaged the mind. Think Drachen think thought Drachen thought as he searched his mind for a solution before an idea hit him, he was connected to magic like no one else he knew, he knew he didn't have a core because he was completely made up of magic, it was everywhere inside him. Maybe he thought as he started to manipulate a part of his massive amount of magic to give him sustenance. His efforts paid off as he felt a burst of energy hit him.
When he looked up at Elizabeth his Violet eyes were gone and replaced with them were violet orbs which completely filled his eyes. Elizabeth could feel the power coming from him and felt awe, fear and many other things as he began to advance on her, when he got to her he spoke in a quiet, calm voice which sent shivers up her spine. "Where is Grindenwald?" she only gestured him to the door before she passed out with fear. Drachen left his chambers before he went off in search of his master, when he arrived at his master's throne room he blow off the massive doors leading in to the room. As he entered the room he immediately saw his master sitting on his throne smirking at him as Drachen advanced towards him, when he stopped in front of his hone Drachen spat at the thrones base earning him a scowl from Grindenwald.
"Was that really necessary my apprentice? You should be thanking me for this gift. And I find it ironic; a man who saved a veela whore becomes their species arch enemy, a vampire." Said Grindenwald as he looked at Drachen who was looking at him with hatred but knowing he couldn't do anything against because he had sworn a magical oath of loyalty and that made sure he could never hurt him. That didn't stop Drachen from being angry at his master as he glowered at him.
After a few moments of silence Grindenwald sighed before he spoke with a voice that demanded you listen. "Drachen, your new orders are to train under Elizabeth, learn everything you need from her about your new gift and then when you are done report back to me so that you may receive your next assignment, now go". Drachen did as he was told and bowed his head with a sigh of resignation as he knew the day he swore his oath was the day he sold his soul away to the devil, he turned and left the room vowing that as soon as he had his freedom he would be nothing like his master, there was only one thing he agreed with his master about. The world needed to change and it was time for magical kind to stop hiding from their non-magical brothers and sisters.