The young girl woke with a start, something was moving around near her. She had no idea how it was possible for her passive abilities to not pick them up, they usually have no trouble noticing any dangerous life forms around her. She could tell she was being watched, but from where she couldn't tell.
She new it was best to keep moving, confrontation would not be helpful, and given what she had done there is no way it wouldn't end in violence. She moved quickly and quietly through the ruined village, hoping to make it to the nearby forest where she could lose the observer.
She unfortunately was not known for having the best of luck, and came around a corner only to slam right in to what felt like a large metal wall.
"Oof~" The cute sound the only response she could formulate as she fell on her butt.
"Ah!" After noticing the rather imposing armored figure she had run into she scrambled to get away. When her legs not working properly, she crawled back around the corner she had just come around, hoping to get clear of the person obviously sent to hunt her down.
Her mounting terror made her start to panic, the heavy plodding footsteps of whoever was following just adding on to her fear. She didn't make it far, her strength was spent and whoever was following her was able to take long strides to reach her and was quickly able to tower over her small and trembling frame.
"Please, don't hurt me!" she cried out, begging for some form of mercy from this ruthless hunter following her.
"Identify." The deep voice of her pursuer terrified her, and it took her rattled mind a few seconds to look past her hands that had been put up in a feeble attempt to block any hits.
"Identify." The monotonous repetition made her question just what kind of being was standing over her. She spread out her senses, hoping to grasp what kind of being it was that stood over her. When she finally figured it out she was shocked. It was a golem! And a very expensive and unique golem if she had to guess, the only ones she had ever seen were status symbols for organizations or the very rich, and usually made of wood.
As she got closer look she was able to tell that it was obviously a well-made, meticulously crafted golem, and no doubt made to be able to fight. Her fear was starting to return, most of her skills and abilities would be completely useless in a fight against it, her only hope was to do everything she could to not fight it. "Ke, Keeno. That is my name!" She was finally able to stammer out.
"What is your race?" It asked, its voice obviously neutral and devoid of emotion, bet that just made it all the more terrifying.
"I, I'm a human? No, not anymore." She whispered, completely distraught. "I'm a vampire now. Please, I don't want to hurt anyone."
"Vampire, mythological undead from human history. Important features being enhanced speed and strength, a need for blood for sustenance, and some form of vulnerability to sunlight." Came its factual and bland response.
"Hey! I'm not mythological!" She retorted angrily, her stubborn streak surfacing for a second before receding in terror after she realized what she said.
"On what Concordiant world are we located?" It asked, completely befuddling the young vampire.
"I, I don't know? What is a Concordiant?"
"You stated that you were previously human. All human occupied worlds are under the Concordiant of Man. Any exception to this is a rebel or break off colony the should be aware of what the Concordiant is."
"I don't know what you are talking about, but this area is part of, no used to be, the Kingdom of Fasris. How do you not know where you are?" She had no idea what was going on anymore, this was a golem, something that wasn't able to talk usually, and it had no idea where it was. She was just confused beyond belief, and all she wanted was to get out of this situation and away from the clearly dangerous and uncontrolled golem.
"Where is the nearest city? It may have more pertinent information to my query."
"The city of Euline is about five days walk northwest of here, you can follow the main road that is on the other side of the hill."
"Will you be willing to assist me in my search? I still have many questions and inquiries into the events and circumstances of this area. There are many oddities that I have been unable to explain."
"O, okay. Only if you are willing to protect me. Please! I have nowhere else to go and I don't want to get hurt."
"Understood, please lead the way, it will take some time before I have a better bearing of my directions and relative location."
Keeno scrambled after the golem as it started to head off towards the main highway. She very quietly fell in step beside it, always having to push to keep pace with it. The land and time started to blur together as they marched through the wasted land, they did not stop to rest or sleep, as the golem didn't need it and she wasn't about to complain when she could keep going due to her constitution.
While neither were aware, that day saw a fateful meeting that would create a dou that would save the world many times over, but never remembered in history as these two ageless beings marched through time.
Rigrit stood atop the castle wall, looking out upon the sea of low level undead that used to be the citizens of a bustling city, now the last remnants of a dead nation.
"What happened here? This doesn't look the same as attacks by the evil deities we've been fighting." A masculine voice asked. She turned to look at the armored knight who approached her. To any other human they would have cried out in shock and fear, the imposing form of a minotaur too unexpected and hazardous to view apathetically. But for Rigrit, for the barest of moments a smile graced her features at she looked upon such a trusted 'friend' as him.
She quickly schooled herself though, the situation too dire and tragic for further tangents of thought. "Vampire, and a powerful one at that. No idea how or why it showed up here now, but we need to clean up its mess, and track it down so we prevent this from spreading further."
"I just got a few reports from the other members, all of the out lying villages and towns are deserted, and the major cities in the area are the same as this one. It seems a path of destruction carved through the whole country, we will have to rush if we want to catch up with the vampire to cut it off at the next city."
"I don't like it. So much death, and for what?"
"Can't tell ya, but we need to hurry. If we waste time on hunting this vampire the demon gods' rampage will wreak to much havoc for the area to recover from."
"*sigh* I know. I'm just so tired. We haven't rested in months, and with Mirphous gone it will just get harder to keep going."
"Come on, lets wipe out the large hoards before nightfall so the army can clean up once the get here, and we can leave."
With a job to do, the two heroes turned away from the depressing scene and moved to start clearing out the town of undead. With their strength and the undead trapped within the city walls, the heroes who had bested rampaging demons had no trouble cleaning up quickly. In the early morning a group of knights from the neighboring kingdom arrived on horseback, scouts for a main column of troops sent to clean up and wipe out any undead. With their job done, the heroes rushed off to try and beat the vampire to the next undamaged city in its path, Euline.