Thunder boomed outside the window as I sat staring blankly listening to all the noises around until a knock on my door pulled me out if my thoughts
"Master, it is time" came the voice of the regent, I simply threw on my cloak and followed after him silently
"There has been a change in your training, from today I would no longer lead your training but the Lord will, he believes you're ready" I listened quietly to each word that left his lips while a thousand possible scenerios went through my mind, but I dared not voice out what was on my mind as I followed him to the special training center.
The training room was a cold, unforgiving space, devoid of any comfort or solace. Lord Aurelien stood in the center eyes blazing with intensity as he assessed me with his eyes, his movements fluid and deadly. The aura coming from him was deadly and I tried my best to stand still without showing any outward sign that I was affected in the least, his gaze was condescending as he stared at me although his face was a blank void, and before I knew it he was gone from my line of sight just to feel a stinging pain at my side as claws pierced through my skin.
"You're slow Lysander," He sneered, his voice dripping with contempt. "A failure waiting to happen." With a sudden burst of speed, he launched himself at me, as I tried to counter each of his movements, he wasn't going lightly as I felt pain coursing through my body from different cuts and blows, my back hitting the wall as I tried to move away and defend each attack.
"You're not even worthy of being called a vampire," He spat, his eyes flashing with disgust. "You're a mockery, a pale imitation of what a true vampire should be. You're nothing but a tool, a weapon to be used and discarded."
My body screamed in agony as his attacks intensified, his blows landing with precision and force. My vision blurred, senses reeling from the relentless barrage. Yet, i refused to yield, driven by a desperate need to survive, to endure, all my life there was no room for failure, no room for weakness.
His words cut deeper than his physical blows, each phrase a dagger to my soul. "You're weak. You're a liability. You're a shame to our bloodline. You'll never be worthy of the name we're born with."
I steeled my resolve, my claws swiping at his face an inch shy away from his left eye, the last thing I saw was a sinister smirk on his face before I felt a hard blow at my back his claws swiping deep from my shoulder blade to my hip bone as I dropped on my knees to the floor, pain racking through my body as blood dripped from my back.
"You're dismissed, ... don't be late tomorrow " he said while walking out . As soon as he was out of sight I crumbled to the ground as Alanis the regent came to my side to help me up to my feet his eyes scanning the deep gash on my back, his face void of any expression as I ambled my way back to my room. It didn't take a genius for me to know the wound wouldn't heal normally and would leave a deep scar.
"Master..." I put my hands up silencing his speech, he simply nodded and walked off
I crouched low to the floor my whole senses overpowered by blinding pain as I tucked my knees to my chest, as I kept slipping in and out of consciousness, it was expected after all I was still a youngling and my healing rate was still slower than normal, but I was still healing slower than my healing pace. Lying there I thought about all the things that have led me to this point and the reason behind my training, my mind reeling back to the prophecy that has been the whole center of my being, this prophecy which has been passed from each generation.
The world's greatest nightmare, a beast created by the forbidden union between valak, the ancestral dragon, one of the strongest gods who had been bound and sealed by the collaborative force of all the gods due to his crazed state, but broke out, weak and vulnerable after millennials of imprisonment and fell in love with Myra the direct descendant of the Luna, who helped him after his escape without any knowledge of who he was. His birth led to the death of his mother but valak refused to give up the only thing that was created by their love, hid him from the council, but as he grew his powers went haywire leading to a massacre of various creatures, due to this valak had no choice but to go head on with his own son but due to his love for him he couldn't bear to kill him, therefore he crushed his core trapping him in a mystic space against the will of the council and used all his vitality to seal him in it, but his core wasn't destroyed neither was he killed, it slowly repaired itself therefore he would wake up, after all valak couldn't keep him trapped for eternity, therefore sandu decided to give humanity a chance their only hope, he would be born under a blood red moon, blessed by the gods, the last hope.