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A gray, dry smoke lay thick in the air, obscuring your view. All you can are bars of steel, they looked to be like giant cages, no, more like jail cells. In a cell on the right a couple of cells away from the door is a sad man, feeling like a caged bird. This man has been charged with the murder of their king, only problem was is there was no evidence, everyone blames him because he is a vampire. He sentence is to rot away in his prison cell to the day he may die. Today the new king was crowned and claimed it would be the beginning of a new era.

The man in the prison cell sits on a gradually deteriorating wooden chair that sat in the middle of the room, to his right is his bed, to the left a table in the same state as the chair. Sighing out angrily, he places his arms on the table and lays his head on his arms. He wrinkled his nose, he needed a bath, but who cares about a prisoner. Let alone one that killed their precious king, angrily he muttered, “Precious indeed.”

“Hey! You! New guy! I hear you’re the one that killed that oaf of a king, what made you do it?” The man in question lifted his head, it was the man in the cell across from his own. Sighing aloud again and looking down at his shackles, he replies, “I am an innocent man… well… vampire.” Fast footsteps were heard and the first man looks away from his shackles, in search for the man to which he was speaking. Only to find this man had ran to the back of his cell, apparently in fear, he whispers, “Are you really a…” The second man gulped, “A vampire?” The one accused of killing the king gets up from his chair and it creeks eerily, he walks toward cell’s bars so he may see the scared man more clearly through the smoky atmosphere.

“Yeah, I am… Why do you ask?”

He asked sharply, eyeing the man wearily. The man slinked fearfully back to the bars of his own cell and stares at the vampire in shock. “I was… Well, I was just wondering…” The man began. The other man, the vampire stares at him and cocks on eyebrow, slightly out of annoyance and slightly out of curiosity. “Wondering what prey tell?” He gingerly asked. The man hesitated to ask at first, half out of fear, half out of, well half out of he didn’t know what to ask first. There are so many questions unanswered to normal humans, “Can you really not go into sun light?” The man finally asked. The vampire stared at his hand then at the man. “Not unless I feed that day.” The vampire said, bearing his fangs. The man seemed unfazed when he saw the vampires teeth, now that he knew he had a weakness. The man simply yawned, almost as if he were un-impressed. “If that’s as scary as you get then you are a pathetic and… well hopeless vampire.” The man said laughing at the vampire.

The vampire did not take to this comment to well, in fact the now enraged was ready to, what would seem break right through the steel bars that held him captive and looking quite ready to slit the man’s throat. They heard foot steps, “Do you hear that vampire?” The man across his cell taunted. The vampire just stared blankly off into the distance of his cell as if concentrating, listening for the foot steps. “That’s the guards coming to kill you, then throw your body into the bright, warm sunlight!” The man laughed cynically. The vampire retired to his wooden chair now and waited, but the wait wasn’t long.

“Prisoner 010634, you are to remain seated, until I have given you permission to move. Are we clear?” A guard in a suit of heavy armor said. The vampire made a twisted smile and said in a somewhat sadistic voice replied, “Okay.” The guardsman, once he got conformation unlocked the cell door and obviously thinking nothing of the tone of the vampire’s voice entered. The vampire saw this as his one true chance at freedom, he also knew he had to jump on it. “010634, stand up and come with me to the clothing department.” The vampire thought sarcastically, ‘Wow and they were actually going to care enough to give me new clothes. Heh!’ The guard adjusted his sword, then his shield and the vampire rose to his feet.

The vampire walked slowly towards the guard and at the last minute struck the guard, knocking him out cold with a swift punch to the stomach. Looking at the guard he called out, “Do you want to be next?” The vampire slowly looked toward the man across from him, the man in question snapped out of shock, shock of what he just witnessed. “N…No…I want to live… Oh god! Please spare my life?!” The man begged. The vampire, then loots the knocked out guard, leaving him with only his undergarments. The vampire clothed himself in the guards clothes which were only slightly small, but not noticeably. He grabbed the weapons and the shield and told the man, “If I spare you, you must obey me, even if threaten your life, even if I dangle you over a cliff. You. Must. Obey. Me.” The vampire practically bit out and waited for his reply.


The man stared at the vampire for a couple of minutes and finally said, “Okay, I will…” The vampire smiled, “Good.” And then bent down towards the guard, pulled the guard up toward his face and bit down, red liquid began to seep from the wound on the guard’s neck. “Wha? What are you doing?!” The man asked clearly freaking out. Once the vampire was done he wiped away the remnants of blood and turned the corner of his lips up into yet another sadistic smile. Then turned his attention back to the guard and scowled, he grabbed the sword and drove it through the guards head. “Why did you do that?” The man asked, quieter, no longer freaking out.

“As to your first question, I’m feeding. It’s dark now, but it will soon be sunrise, as for your second question. I don’t like killing them, but I don’t want him to suffer the transformation or dieing from lose of blood, which ever happens first.” The vampire checked the guard for a pulse, which there was none. “Vampires only drink enough blood generally to dull our need for it, we don’t like to kill people. We only drink enough blood to live in the sun as a normal person. That’s all we do, but there are vampires who kill their victims for pleasure. I’m not one of them… at least… anymore.” The vampire said bowing his head slightly. The vampire then walked out of his cell and went to his to his new companion’s cell gate. The two men locked eyes for the first time and then smiled. One was a very tentative smiles, the other one was slightly sadistic.

The vampire then undid the lock to the man’s cell and the two men made there way to the stairs. Slowly for just outside the door it was silent, to silent. “I sure won’t miss this rat hell hole…” The man said. Then both he and the vampire made their way up the stairs and to freedom in silence. The men never even glanced around until they left the holding area. When they came to the door at the top of the stairs the man tried to open it, but alas was unsuccessful in his trying. His face had turned red from a mixture of exhaustion and anger. The vampire rolled his eyes and pushed the man out of the way, punched a hole in the door and undid the lock from the other side. “Show off.” The man mumbled. The vampire looked at the man and snorted, “I want to live, but more important, I was to escape now while we have the cover of night still.” The vampire said. The men then walked through the door way. Everything about this rang wrong though, heck he could smell the metal this early morning and it was too silent. No sooner then they walked out the door there were arrows aimed at their heads. Swords coming from every direction and one of the guards screamed angrily, “NOW GET ON YOUR KNEES! Place any weapons on the ground and push them away from yourselves!!!” The guard in question must be the commander of the archery task force.

The man scared out of his wits tossed his body down, ‘So much for obeying me.’ Thought the vampire as his facial features twisted into something akin to a dark and menacing smile that went from ear to ear. “If you want me…” His muscle bunched visibly, “Then you shall have to come and get me, fight for me!” The vampire jumped and sliced one of them men clean in half. “For I am NOT going to go down without a fight!” The vampire waved soldiers to attack him. The guards then shot a army of arrows at the two men, the vampire dodged them easily. The other man wasn’t so lucky, he was barely missing them. Just at that moment a man rushed through the door and commanded the soldiers to stop attacking. “Who the hell are you, mate?” The man on the ground asked. “Shut it or I’ll slit your throat right here and now you coward!” The vampire picked the man up, raised his hand and poised it at the man’s throat. The man that rushed through the door smiles and approached the vampire with a confident air. “It’s been a while Josh… Been what six years, but looks like it’s only been one day…” The man said to the vampire.