Thanks for the reviews. And here's the next chapter of Our Bloody Memories.
Summary, Rated, Warnings, Genres, Pairing and OC Profiles are in Chapter One if needed.
Disclaimer: StarlightAngel101, DOES NOT own Beyblade, and OCs that belong to any authors I mention along the chapters. StarlightAngel101 owns story plot, Jess (OC), and other OCs that belongs to me and mention along the chapters.
Chapter Two: Understanding
"When looking for answers, find a source to help you out."
FLASHBACK
Brooklyn tidy up some things, since his family was done telling fortunes, giving charms, and potions.
He and his family were gypsies that they travel through countries, across Europe and Asia. It was then that when they arrive to Japan, many people look to see if they will have wealth, fame, love, and recovery, and it was decided that they would settle in.
From helping his mother and father, to telling fortunes, he was busy. A lot busy to notice some girls trying to flirt with him.
Finishing the cleaning, he head to the door to go outside after he call his mother.
"Mother, I am going out for some fresh air."
"Okay, just be careful," her voice replied.
The door was shut silently, as Brooklyn had left.
"Good-bye my son," she said in pain, "Be careful in your new life…"
It was about forty-seven minutes that Brooklyn lay on the hills' grass, breathing the fresh air. It was relaxing to him, laying on Mother Nature's creations.
He got up, standing on his two feet, thinking it was time to go… but not aware that some group was watching him.
He walked along the empty streets of the neighbor hood, with the stores closed and the windows showing the dim light of the rooms.
Without warning, something had push Brooklyn forcefully down on the ground in an alley way. Groaning before getting up, he saw three silhouette figures in front of him. They seemed to be males on how their body is outline to Brooklyn.
"Well, well, well…" began the first, the tallest of the group, "Looks like we have what we needed."
"What are you taking about?" asked Brooklyn.
"We have come to take you to our elder," the second one replied, who have some hint of an accent in his voice.
"All we need is your co-operation," the final one said.
The first was to charge at Brooklyn with his hand forming a fist. His hand faced forward about to hit Brooklyn's abdomen, but Brooklyn manage to duck in time. As the first miss the shot, Brooklyn hit his back using his elbow, knocking him down to the ground.
Brooklyn stared at the other two, as they just stand there to see their member knocked by some stranger, especially in their view a mortal, their prey. Brooklyn charged at the other two, this time knocking them down with a kick……
…Which haven't made any contact at all. Instead, the last person to spoke caught his foot mid air. In a split second with some strange source of strength, Brooklyn was slammed into a wall so hard drifting him in the darkness…
Returning to consciousness, he opened his eyes to see his vision cover in black.
'What's going on?'
He tried to get up, but couldn't as he was for some reason pulled down by something. Where the heck is he?
"I see you have come out of unconscious," said a voice, Boris.
"What going on here?!" yelled Brooklyn as he struggle to get free, but it was no use.
"Well you see, I have been watching you for a while now, and for what I saw I want to make a deal with you."
Brooklyn stopped his struggling, as he heard what he said. Deal?
"The deal is that I give you something that everyone is dying to have. A deal of immortality, as you'll live longer and become something so powerful. The price however, is that you'll serve for us, once you accept the deal."
"And what if I say 'no'?" asked Brooklyn.
"Is that's the case, then you'll die," he answered.
"So, looks like I have no choice and you win no matter what."
"Precisely, so, are you interested in this deal, or ready to be in a graveyard?"
Live immortal, or die? Living immortal, would mean being stronger than any one who goes in his way, yet what about his family. Never to return, as he'll be serving to this stranger who offers him this deal. To die as a choice, well, he'll die young and his family will be mourning at their son…
He eventually made the choice…
"It's a deal."
"Excellent," a chuckle was heard after what the voice said.
Brooklyn heard footsteps come near to his side, thinking of freeing him from his restrains.
"Am I to be free from my bindings?" asked Brooklyn.
"Yes, but I need to do the Dark Trick on you."
With Brooklyn wondering what he was talking about, something pierced his skin on his neck, opening his mouth to hear his scream. His scream gotten weaker as his strength was fading away, darkness covering his mind. With the last breath that he took, his body went limp.
END OF FLASHBACK
Brooklyn stared at the ceiling of his room, his arms behind his head resting on the futon he slept over the months that he was a fledgling. To him being in Blood Trillium it was boring.
He thought being a vampire was easy, and all vampires do is drink blood and fall asleep when the sun rises. Boy, he was wrong with vampire paradise.
According to the rules of Vampirism from Boris, who is the elder of Blood Trillium, a fledgling can't practice defense, can't hunt, and can't drink animal blood. Although, when he first become a vampire he was stricken with many things. However as he get older in vampire years, you get more privileges, better status and more respect.
As a fledgling, he's in the lowest part of the vampire rank, with vampires to ignore him or bully him around, just because he's fresh meat.
With that he had some training, to learn and harness his senses that made him a vampire and immortal, and doing some chores. From cleaning bottles empty of blood, to the laundry and cleaning the floors.
Brooklyn sat up from his futon, wondering what to do to kill the boredom from getting worse. It was soon to be to late for him to go out, since the sun will be rising in about three hours.
Just then, a thought hit him. He wondered how this phenomenon of vampires and clans all happen. He remembered that while he was toured around the place, there was a library. Getting out of the futon, he got his boots and head out of his room to the library.
Candles lit the huge room, but it wasn't enough to look at all books if he was a human. With a help of seeing things bright and in detailed as a vampire, Brooklyn looked for a book to help answer his questions. He trailed his index fingers along the surfaces of the books, seeing the many titles written in gold and silver.
One book caught his attention, it was red, the cover was velvet and the title on the spine was in silver saying, 'Leader of Vampirism: Kouichi'.
Brooklyn removed the book from the shelf, and found a spot to read it. Placing the book on the table, he lifted the cover, turning the pages till he found the beginning. Sitting down on a chair, he began reading, his eyes scanning every word, sentence, paragraph and pages of the book…
A long time ago, thousands of odd years ago, there was a man named Kouichi. He felt that he didn't belong in Japan, so, he decide to explore the world. It was in Russia that he met a gypsy named Anya, who was to believe to be his true lover. But Anya was a vampire, her lineage unknown.
So, she changed Kouichi. However, the vampire powers were a curse on Kouichi as he could not control the power. Anya saw the monster she had created and try to stop him from hurting the innocents, but in the end she was killed instead by Kouichi who had driven in madness.
It was a sudden grief over the woman who had brought him sane. So, returning to Japan, Kouichi started a coven, for he believed that if he dispersed his power then he would no longer be a monster. The coven grew over the years till it was too large to be one and so, it split into three clans. Black Rose, Blood Trillium and Dark Lillium.
Each clan had a leader and a way of life. But it was their differences in their lives that caused conflict so to settle the feud, new leaders also known as the elders were appointed. Boris, with his leadership skills is chosen as the elder of Blood Trillium. Voltaire, who follows his Japanese traditions, is chosen as the elder of Black Rose. Lastly Amber, who was the first to be change, was chosen as elder of Dark Lillium. Each elder was chosen by Kouichi, himself.
Death suddenly fell upon the clans as Kouichi died of suicide by tearing his heart out of his body. A year after that Amber's clan vanished and it was never seen or heard from again.
"I see you are reading the history and life of Kouichi," Brooklyn looked up to see Boris, who was the one to speak. Brooklyn nodded as a yes.
Boris grinned at this, walking toward a shelf, staring at titles of books, till he spoke again.
"You see, when Kouichi changed many people into vampires, his bloodline was form and it was the purest of all. There were other bloodlines that were in his blood but they were mixed. Anyway, over the decades that conflict came to the three clans his bloodline became weak. Meaning those who were changed from him have past away, but only three were left of his bloodline. And those three were chosen to be elders."
"So, you have the bloodline of Kouichi?" Brooklyn asked.
"Yes," Boris replied, "And you also have his bloodline."
Brooklyn was shock about this. What did it mean to him? Does he have the pure bloodline of Kouichi?
"According to Kouichi," Boris began to explained, "If any of us were to change a person for the first time, will have the pure bloodline pass down to them. Those with the pure bloodline are very strong than any other vampires. But if you, Brooklyn were to change someone, after reaching a certain age to be able to change someone, into a vampire, although they have the pure bloodline pass to them, it won't be strong when you were changed."
"Do you understand what I have told you?" he asked.
"Yes Boris."
"Very well then, I'll be leaving you at peace." With that he exited out of the library leaving Brooklyn alone.
Brooklyn peeked at the page he was reading before closing the book, done reading for the night.
It was then that his stomach growled in hunger.
"Looks like it blood time," he said, leaving the library and heading down to where the other vampires were.
It was going to be a long twenty years for Brooklyn…
Done another chapter for this week, hope you guys can review and thank you. Stay tuned for Chapter 3: Kai.
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