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Toasty returned to the Inn late that night, not knowing that Aaron had run off with Nero a few minutes before he arrived to the boy's room. The Terrennial dropped in the Guild to talk with the other Terrennials, planning to do something for Aaron and keep his mind out of Lucian. That afternoon they came with the idea to make him go to the ruins in the North, then, they would make the boy go to the Guild to stay there with Bea, Ernest and Kay. That will keep him occupied the entire day.
The Terrennial found it weird that the boy wasn't already there after his visit to Acuna's library. Perhaps he got really interested in a book and hasn't finished it yet, staying there until he read the last page of it. Toasty decided to wait up for him on the messy bed from early in the morning, but when hours passed and Aaron hadn't show up, Toasty begun to worry. Where was Aaron? Did he go to patrol, even if Ernest told him not to go? What if a vampire run into him and now the boy is several injured? Toasty floated in circles around the room, thinking where could be the heritage of Trinity. He flew outside the room from the window and went straight to Acuna's library, finding it closed. Maybe he just came out of the library and was his way to the Inn? Toasty though, flying in the usual path that Aaron takes when he goes from the library to the Inn. If the boy had taken it, then he will run into him, eventually. But he never did.
Already in the Inn, the sunflower asked the owner if the boy had returned.
"Yes, he did.", answered the man. "He was with a book from the library and went directly to his room."
"Did he come downstairs?"
"No, he hasn't showed in the bar since this afternoon."
"What time did he return?"
"Mm, about half past four in the afternoon, I think."
"Thank you."
Then, the boy had escaped! But, where? Where could Aaron go? Could have been to New Culiacan, to meet up with Ernest and the other gunslinger to patrol? The sunflower groaned. The kid was just too impatient in becoming as good as his father was. There was no choice but to show up there and look out for Ernest.
The Terrennial arrived to New Culiacan in a few minutes. The once city ruled by Dumas was now dull, empty and obscure. No humans lived anymore there but monsters had made it their new home, and now it was the work of the gunslinger to eradicate them all from the city and make it a good and nice place for humans to live again. But the city was big, and Toasty didn't know where to start looking so he went directly to the Dark Castle. The front doors were ripped apart and he spotted a lot of different kind of hounds sniffing the floor in look for food. He floated high enough so the dogs couldn't sniff him, see him or catch him, and went trough the lonely halls of the castle. All was destroyed, ripped apart. There were rooms missing entire walls or part of their ceiling, looking if as the structure would collapse anytime. Toasty made a mental note to look up for those and not find himself buried below a ceiling or a wall.
The more he looked around, the empty the castle looked. There were no sings of the gunslinger, and Toasty though that they might have ended the patrol time ago, but the moon was just rising into the night sky. Perhaps they haven't started the patrol yet and were in the Headquarters. The Terrennial flew from one of the windows and went in a straight line towards the Guild, not so far from New Culiacan. He made it just in time. Ernest was about to leave with a group of gunslinger. The man stopped when he saw the Terrennial come back a few hours after he left.
"Master Toasty, what's the matter? You look agitated.", said Ernest.
"It's Aaron. He went out to Acuna's library, came from it but he apparently escaped from his room, since the owner hadn't seen him downstairs after he returned.", explained the sunflower.
"Could be that he escaped to came with us and patrol?"
"That's what I wanted to ask you, but looks like he hasn't come here either."
"That's weird.", Ernest narrowed his eyebrows. "Besides, there aren't many places Aaron can go and like being there."
"Then, where?"
"And if he went to look up for Lucian?", came Kay's voice from behind. The canine-human creature came, putting both of his guns into the holders of them, one on each leg. "You said that if Aaron knew where was him, he would go to see him."
"Shit!", cursed the Terrennial. "I bet it was Nero who told him! I bet anything that that fucking cat told him!", Ernest was surprised to heard the sunflower curse like that. "I shouldn't have let Nero visit Aaron."
"No, you did well.", said Kay. "If the kid didn't have any news of Lucian, he would go and look for them by himself which it's more dangerous than letting Nero lead him to Lucian."
Toasty sighed heavily, still angry with the dark Terrennial.
"Where should we start looking?", asked instead of keep cursing the black cat.
Ernest shrugged.
"They can be anywhere, and I don't know what places Lucian likes to be alone.", he looked up to the moon. "Besides, the waxing gibbous phase will start in a few minutes. Vampires will be more aggressive than usual. I worry that he might run into one and end up wounded."
"I thought it too.", said Toasty. "I just came from the Dark Castle, but it seems as empty as ever."
"Even then, we should look there too.", suggested Kay, sending to one of his group to get Bea and talk with her about the situation. "They can hide in one of the chambers near the top."
Ernest sighed. The kid was just problems.
"I will go to New Culiacan with my group and search there.", he looked at the canine human. "You and your group will go to Thirteen Street, and Bea's to the Aqueduct."
"Understood. Come on guys, let's move!", he yelled to his group, walking away from the Headquarter.
Bea came moments after and Ernest told her about Aaron and his runaway. She called her group and went to the Aqueduct, while Ernest, Toasty and the rest went directly to New Culiacan. Once there, they divided in small groups and started searching the abandoned city.
Toasty remembered, four years ago, the problems that he and Aaron went through in the infested city. Lucian was always steps forward from the boy, and the poor kid had troubles keeping the dark swordsman's pace. The sunflower never liked Lucian, but the more Aaron and he spend time together, the more they were getting better. In the end, the light Terrennial noticed that, even if Lucian didn't show his feelings that much, he knew that the dhampir cared about the young boy. He demonstrated it when both of them fought against Polidori inside the Byron and outside the planet, in the space with the help of the Laplace. During the fight in outer space, Lucian wasn't that demonstrative towards the boy but, inside the Byron, he used all of his strength and agility to protect the young one from the Immortal's attacks, traps and tricks. It might take a little while to tell that the dark swordsman was too attached to Aaron back then. Now, it looked like without the boy the dhampir would inevitable die, or at last not survive.
After defeating Polidori's image at the Vambery Tower and knowing that Perrault had revived his master, Lucian started training hard the first three months, not caring about anyone around him. The notice of Dumas being alive once more made the dhampir built in rage. He was ready to strike him down when he disappeared besides his Terrennial. Toasty remembered that Lucian, once they both came back to the room they shared in the Inn, he went to Sheridan's mansion to know a way in where he could upgrade his weapons to their maximum level, bringing from them all the dark powers they held sealed inside. It took to the dark swordsman three months to control Vanargandr's full powers, five with Jormungandr and two with Hel. During the training, Aaron didn't stop visiting his partner, bringing him food, drinks and joyful company in the free times he used to rest from the training, and Lucian was more than pleased with the young's presence besides him.
It was during that time, where the effects of the eyepatch started to decrease. Since Lucian had to summon his vampiric powers in order to fully control the Dark Matter that filled each of his three weapons, he had to take his eyepatch off to let his vampire half flow freely in his body, to have enough space to infiltrate Lucian's being and start corrupting him from the inside out without him or anyone notice while he trained. They all knew that something was wrong with the dark swordsman when Lucian started having aching when staying outside under the sun, preferring to stay in the shadows to prevent his now sensible skin to burn. But he didn't pay attention to it, saying it was only because he trained for almost a year during night time and in time, his body will start getting used to sunlight again, but it never did.
Toasty also remembered how Aaron helped the dark swordsman in sickness. Lucian started to reject food very often, and he could only drink water based foods like soups, juice, tea, among other things. After a few weeks he would be completely healthy but a few months later, he would start to have the same symptoms. Toasty sat down to talk with him and Sheridan about that and the alchemist suggested that Lucian was finally transforming into a vampire, something that the dark swordsman didn't take well even less with a proper explanation before, and Sheridan said that those ten months without the eyepatch let the dark powers to start consuming his human body and change it to a vampire's body. With this, the sickness for food and the high sensibility he had walking under the Sun had their reasons, but Lucian didn't want to accept the news. He wasn't becoming his most hated thing.
After that, the dark swordsman was the arrogant bastard he always been but with Aaron was more gentle and caring, enjoying the boy's company anytime and rejecting the others, not wanting to even see them. Lucian was trying to find a way to tell Aaron his fate without the boy freaking out or hating him for the rest of his life for it. The almighty swordsman was afraid of losing, once more, an important person in his life and asked the help of Toasty several times, not knowing what to do or say when Aaron asked what he talked with Sheridan. Toasty haven't spoken with the boy neither unless Lucian wanted him to, but not even him was sure how Aaron would react at the news. Fearing that he would lose him, Lucian keep the secret from the boy like Toasty did, and lived as nothing had happened. Four years passed and now, the vampire powers were back again, claiming the still human body of Lucian.
"Mm? I notice you are worried, Ernest, and is not for Aaron, I assume.", he said interrupting his memories from the past.
"I fear of Lucian, too."
Toasty blinked.
"Why?", he didn't hide his surprise.
"He is a dhampir."
"Yes, and?"
"Some dhampires react towards moon's phase. It's rare for a half vampire be affected by them, but there have been cases like this, and I fear that Lucian's runoff was because he started to feel the reaction towards the current phase.", explained Ernset shooting against a hound that yelled in pain, before running off. "And is a bad time to start reacting to the moon, since we are at only two nights to vampire's mating cycle."
"I thought waxing gibbous only stated for one night."
"It will depend on the moon's position towards the Sun and our planet. Since this year it takes two nights, the mating cycle will least for about... three nights, I think."
"Wait, are you saying that Lucian is reacting towards this phases?", said the Terrennial in loud voice, just getting what the man said earlier.
"It's possible. He might have runaway because he didn't want anyone of us see him in that state, you know how proud is he, or didn't want anyone of us to be his next mate. Vampires can't control their instincts during these phases and will try to mate with the most attractive one.", Ernest stopped, sighing. "It's going to be dangerous for Aaron to stay out in the night, especially with no one to look after him."
"That's why we should find him before anything happens to him."
"What if...", started Ernest, not really listening to the Terrennial anymore. "What if Aaron found Lucian, and he is trying to get Aaron to be his next mate?"
"Oh fuck...", whispered Toasty at that. He didn't think of that. "And since Aaron has feelings towards Lucian and vice versa, he might get carried away and end up copulating with him on full moon."
Ernest sighed again.
"We will be screwed if Lucian finds us out in his territory looking for Aaron, you know."
"Doomed is the correct word for this, Ernest.", corrected the Terrennial not believing the situation that Aaron has put himself into without knowing, or perhaps he did. "Just a question; is there a book talking about vampire's behavior in Acuna's library?"
"Yes, there are several editions of a now dead author that was an expert in vampirism. If I remember correctly, he wrote a book about each moon phase and how vampires react towards them.", Ernest closed his mouth and looked at Toasty. "You don't think he found it, right?"
"It's the only way Aaron could find out about vampire's mating cycle. He might have done this on purpose to get that close to Lucian."
"Are you sure? I don't really think that Aaron could do that."
"That means you don't know him that well.", said Toasty, turning around and leaving Ernest's side. "Come on. New Culiacan would be the last place where Aaron and Lucian would come to hide."
The gunslinger man shook his head and followed the Terrennial.
"Then? What do you suggest?"
"Nero will tell us."
"How? He is with Lucian right now."
"I know that.", spat Toasty. "But he comes every day to tell Aaron how Lucian's doing. He will come to the Inn today or tomorrow without fail to tell us the news."
"So, we just wait for Nero to show up and tell us?"
"No, we will keep searching. If he comes before we find them, then I will interrogate Nero by myself."
Toasty kept floating away and Ernest feared that Aaron would never come back.
The next day the Terrennial stayed all day in Aaron's room at the Inn, accompanied by Kay, Bea and Ernest. He woke up early and wandered outside for a while before coming back around five in the afternoon to wait for Nero to come, but the cat never came and Toasty knew he wasn't coming when the clock's bells announced midnight. The gunslingers left the room, leaving Toasty by himself, thinking deep in thoughts. It was half past midnight, and Toasty laid on the pillow, looking at the ceiling.
The kid sure was full of surprises, but the Terrennial wanted Aaron to think before doing something. Going outside, in the middle of vampire's mating cycle, it was suicide, especially if he went to one of the most active areas, which were the mountains. The forest there is perfect, since vampires could go anywhere, fight anywhere without harming other creatures or future preys.
Then, it hit him.
Lucian was a dhampir and if Ernest was right, he was surely hiding somewhere he couldn't harm anyone, especially Aaron. But Acuna, the Thirteen Street or New Culiacan where places gunslinger patrolled to kill the monsters out there and might end up mistaken him as an enemy and end up killing him, so they were big no's to Lucian. Any other populated area was not in Lucian's list. What better place than the mountains? There, he was free do to whatever he wanted and act as he wanted, but there was also a high chance that Nero wouldn't be enough to stop him for copulating with a vampire or held down his dark powers. Lucian must have a companion that is not human or monster. That companion was a vampire, a vampire that knows how to control their own power and instincts. But the question now was, who? Who will accompany Lucian in this time of the month? Who will be friendly enough to help him out in this? All vampires he knew were dead and Lucian surely didn't know anyone besides the ones he fought four years ago. Sheridan wasn't even an option, since he disliked vampires and finding that Lucian was half one… No, definitely the old alchemist wasn't an option.
Who, who, who?
Toasty groaned. Who could be Lucian's companion? Even if Nero knew about vampires than anyone else, he didn't have enough powers to hold his partner down nor did he know how vampires used the Dark Matter or how their instincts worked. It must be a vampire! Toasty breathed out heavily and started floating in the room, going from here to there.
It was Rymer, then Virginia and Edgard, then Stoker, then Dumas… They fought them all, they beat them all. They fought Polidori, they beat Polidori. Polidori revived and hid in the Vambery Tower, along with the regenerated bodies of the once death vampires. In the floor sixty was Rymer, in the seventy the Poes, in the eighty was Stoker, in the ninety was Dumas and in the one hundred was Polidori. They beat them all, again, and reached the roof, finding…
"DUMAS!", screamed Toasty, stopping in mid air.
It must be him! He was the only one able to fully revive thanks to Perrault's help! He was the only living vampire that Lucian knew! But, he didn't think that the arrogant swordsman would step that low to actually ask for his once most hated enemy, wouldn't he? Toasty put himself into Lucian's place, trying to think as Lucian did. He was the dhampir now. The moon's phase was near; his dark powers reacted to it. His Terrennial was worried, so was he. They found out that the mountains where a nice place to stay so he wouldn't harm other humans, especially Aaron. Nero will suggest staying there for two weeks to see if the dark powers really reacted towards the moon, Lucian accepted.
Where could be the time he asked for Dumas help? Unless Dumas was already hiding in the mountains... That would explain how quickly Lucian left the Inn. But, would Dumas really help Lucian out? He wasn't the type of creature to think in others, he was a self centered bastard after all. How did his piece embed in this? There was no way that Dumas would end up helping him, unless Lucian gave him something in change. What? His three dark weapons? His blood? His body? What? Maybe Dumas wanted Perrault's missing half; perhaps he wanted Nero to fuse once more with his Terrennial. But Lucian would have rejected the deal; he wasn't going to give Nero just for the former Duke's help. Something didn't seem right. What was missing? Was he imagining things the wrong way?
Either way, Lucian must be in the mountains. Where? He didn't know. That night would be dangerous to go out, even for the gunslingers. Tomorrow daylight will be the perfect time to go. He could also ask for the other's Terrennials help to go out for Lucian and Aaron too, since if the boy found the dhampir he would stick with him all the week.
Then, something else came up. What if, after the eyepatch had lost his powers, Lucian's dark blood controlled him complete, transforming the dark swordsman into a full vampire? But in order for a human to change into a vampire, he must drink the blood of fresh human, of its first prey. But Aaron was with him! Lucian might lose control of his actions and end up drinking Aaron's blood! Toasty panicked. No, no. Aaron would not let Lucian drink his blood even if was the last thing he did. He wasn't letting his partner change into a complete vampire, was he? Toasty wanted to go out right now to find Aaron and keep him away from Lucian, at last until the mating cycle ended. It was going to be too dangerous, he told himself. Even if he cared about the boy, he feared of the aggressive vampires out there. Besides, his night sight was horrible and would end up fighting a tree, thinking it was an enemy. Well, not like that since the moon's light would help him to find a trace, but it was something close to a possible way for him to end up.
Alexander was an owl, and his most active time was during the night. Perhaps asking for his help wasn't that much. The Terrennial was also attached to the young boy and might offer his help. Toasty nodded to himself and flew outside, shivering in cold for the wind that just blew. He floated directly to the Vambery, Alexander's favorite place to go since it was very high and he could sit and watch everything under him. Toasty found the purple and yellow owl sitting on the roof, with his wings folded against its body to keep himself warm in that cold night. He looked up, blinking in confusion upon the sight of the light Terrennial.
"Toasty, what brings you here this late at night?", asked the owl worried.
"Oh, a lot of things. But, could you do me a favor?"
Alexander narrowed his eyes, more confused.
"Sure, what is it?"
"I need you to go and look for Aaron in the mountains."
"What could be doing the young one up there?", said the wind Terrennial amused, but also worried knowing that that was the place of reunion for vampires in heat.
"He went to look for Lucian."
"Excuse me?"
"What you heard. Come on, I need you to move quickly. Aaron can be anywhere in the mountains, and my sight is not exactly the best in the night.", explained Toasty, getting irritated.
"Is because of the swordsman's runaway?", the sunflower nodded. "Alright, I thought it was because you and he fought."
"If it was a fight between him and me you wouldn't do it?", Alexander shook his head. "Why?"
"Because there was a high chance it was your fault. Sometimes you can be too harsh with the boy without noticing.", the owl stood up, walking to the edge of the roof. "Besides, I wouldn't worry too much about Aaron. If he went looking up for Lucian, the dhampir would have already found him or at last Nero."
"I want to bring him back because he could die out there!", yelled in frustration Toasty.
"See? You are harsh with him. You want to protect him too much you end up hurting him! Aaron is more capable of things then you think. He can take care of himself up there.", said before leaving. Alexander opened his wings and let himself fall and took flight from the fall, letting the wind pick him up. He flapped a few times, disappearing in the horizon.
Toasty stood there, watching as Alexander flew away. Was he hard with Aaron? He didn't know, since he thought what was doing it was right. Perhaps he acted the wrong way during those four years. He remembered not letting Aaron go to Lucian's training place alone, saying it was too dangerous for him. And when the boy returned with scratches or wounds he would reprimand him for being careless. Those arguing would end up in nasty fights between them, and in Aaron not wanting to return to the Inn or wanting to see Toasty in a few weeks after the incident. Maybe he really was being too overprotective with Aaron after all. What would Trinity do about it? Would he snap at the boy too, or would be flexible in their relationship? Toasty knew there was a high chance of Trinity to be flexible since it was Lucian what we are talking about. He would not let anything happen to his son or Lucian either. If that so then, why he wasn't nice with Aaron and helped him in it?
He needed to talk to someone. He wanted to talk to Trinity again.
"Fuck! Why did you have to die?!", cried the sunflower in the silent of the night, no one out there to hear him. "Fuck... ", he sniffed. "Why did you have to die, Trinity?", he let the soft tears run his face and drop on his little leaves and on the floor.
He missed him so much. Toasty was too attached to him and when he watched him die, he broke completely. His best friend just died before his eyes! And he couldn't do anything to save him, because he gave his life to save Sartana. To him, to no one else, to Sartana. Toasty remembered how injured the purple haired gunslinger was. Death was almost there, was just knocking his door, to claim his soul and bring him to the other side, but Trinity stopped Death to come. He offered Death a deal. He would give his life in order to save his friend's one, and Death accepted. A soul was a soul, after all, and Death would care less about it. How Nero slipped from Perrault was still a mystery than even he couldn't answer, but thanks to him and Trinity, Sartana survived.
Toasty remembered the moments Sartana awoke as a half vampire. He didn't know where he was, he didn't remember himself. He only knew he was in absolute pain, and could smell the scent of blood and war all over the place. Toasty didn't pay attention to him; he was crying Trinity's dead over his body, which laid down on the mud, lifeless. That night was as cloudy as ever and in the silent of it, the cry of glorious victory from Dumas echoed in the city.
"Trinity?", said Sartana with rough voice. His right eye was now bright red, his skin lost color, looking paler than usual. Sartana could also notice how his sight, smell and hearing improved. Things he couldn't hear when he was human, but he didn't care in those moments. "Trinity....", repeated the fallen gunslinger crawling to his dead friend. "Fuck, no...", he cursed.
"Yes, he is dead.", said Toasty in a whisper. "All because of you.", the sunflower looked up to him, with tears running down his face. "All because of you."
In those instants, he knew that Trinity gave his life to save him.
"Shit... that imbecile, always doing things without thinking.", talked Sartana back, gasping for air. His lungs cried in pain with each word and sentence he created. It will take a while to heal him up.
"You don't think twice if you have to save a close friend.", said a new voice from the shadows.
Toasty looked as the silhouette of a black cat formed between him and Sartana, now feeling better and sitting on the mud. He was small, with two little red wings from his back. He had a x shaped scar on his forehead and his tail tip was fussy and white. His big, bright red eyes looked at Sartana and then, to Toasty.
"He made a deal with Death, and he gave his life to save your own", explained the black cat. Sartana griped his fists, closed his eyes and started to cry in silence. "I'm sorry for the lost of your friend."
"You shouldn't talk about Trinity like that, slave of vampires.", spat Toasty, narrowing his eyes. The black cat looked offended.
"No, I am not. You are wrong."
"Then why the hell you made Sartana share your dark powers? Why you make him a half vampire now?!"
The fallen gunslinger didn't understand. A dhampir? It must be a joke.
"What?", managed to say Sartana, coughing up blood.
"He was a half of Perrault, the Duke's Terrennial, and the only way to keep you alive was sharing his own life with yours, thus, sharing his dark powers too.", said Toasty looking at Sartana's red eye. "Look on your Bomber.", suggested the sunflower at seeing the gunslinger expression.
Sartana grabbed his gun and looked on the clean and shiny metal, gasping when he saw the red eye glowing in the dark. It wasn't happening! It must be a nightmare, a bad dream! He wasn't going to become a vampire!
"Bullshit!", he cried looking at the black cat. "I don't give a fuck who you are, but remove this from me now!! I'm not letting you do whatever you please with my body!"
"I can't.", answered the cat. "If I do, you will die and that's not what Trinity wanted."
"I don't care! I rather be dead than transforming in something I hate!"
"And you will make Trinity's death in vain!!", shouted Toasty back. "Are you letting his death be that insignificant? That... unworthy? He fucking saved your poor ass, asshole! Be grateful!"
Sartana was going to reply, but he noticed how right the sunflower was. Yes, he was too damn right.
"Fuck...", he cursed again, putting his hands on his face. "I can't face the others like this."
"Do what you want, I just don't want to see you again.", said Toasty.
Sartana snorted and stood up, feeling more and healthier than ever.
"That shouldn't be a surprise. After all, you never liked me."
"And never will. So, hurry up and disappear from my sight unless you want me to kick your ass.", said the sunflower in a harsh tone, not caring to look at him. He only cared for the dead body of Trinity lying in front of him.
The black cat jumped in the air and flapped his wings, floating near Sartana's head.
"Where should be going?", asked the once strongest gunslinger.
"First we have to find an amulet to stop the transformation.", explained the Terrennial. "It will be helpful for you to control your dark powers."
Sartana looked back, one last time to Trinity.
"I'm coming for his funeral, regardless what you want.", he told Toasty, even if the light Terrennial wasn't listening to him. He turned to the black cat and started walking away. "Tell the others that... I have been taken by Dumas."
"Alright.", answered Toasty.
"What's your name, cat?", said the man to his new companion.
"I'm called Nero, since I'm all black.", he sat on Sartana's shoulder and smiled when he let him do it. "And you?"
Sartana thought it for a moment. He didn't want to be recognized as the most famous gunslinger than now was a half vampire freak, nor start fake rumors inside the Guild. It would bring problems to Ernest and the others, and he didn't want that. But even like that, he was going to bring light to the world once more, to let the sun shine once more in that endless night that just started.
"I'm Lucian.", he answered. Nero lifted his ears and head.
"Light? Why would you be called light?", asked the curious cat.
"Because I'm going to, not only get my revenge on that damned Duke, but also I will bring the light to this world once more, all by myself.", he looked at Nero and smiled. "Will you help me?"
"Of course!", said the cat excited at his new partner. He knew they will become close friends in the end, despite of Lucian's appearance.
Toasty opened his eyes and, instead having Trinity's body before him, he saw the emptiness of the Vambery Tower. So lonely, so quiet, so full of nothing. He sighed. Sartana didn't have the fault that Trinity died. The man just saved his closest friend from Death's claws and the Terrennial just blame his lost into Sartana, since he never liked him. Before becoming a dhampir, he always had pale skin and his eyes; that beautiful brown, shining in red when the Sun decided to light him up, looking as a real vampire of sorts and Toasty was afraid of it. And when he and Sartana crossed paths again because of Aaron, he didn't know how to react, so he acted as he never saw him before and Lucian did the same, but both of them could sense the intense atmosphere in them, especially when Lucian spent time alone with Aaron. Toasty never liked that.
But now... Now it was so different from before. Now, he admitted that Lucian was more than meet the eye, even back then, when he joined the Guild for the first time and quickly made friends with Trinity. He noticed how jealous was from the old Sartana and the new Lucian, jealous of the good relationship Trinity and Sartana had, and the good relationship Aaron and Lucian have. What a fate... Toasty snorted at how things ended up.