The hallway was dark and there was a stinky smell lingering there as if trying to repel anyone who has no purpose being down there.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcd0dbIfwcC
I was scared and contemplating the idea of running back to safety when I heard a loud thud from the end of the hallway. I was frozen to my spot and my heart was hammering in my chest like crazy. I can feel something moving in the darkness towards me but for my life, I can’t move even if I tried.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6psitcoQb
Just then I felt a shadow stop in front of me and a pale hand stretched out. It was about to touch my cheeks when a shrill sound filled the air and I was woken up from my dream. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5vylB13X1j
“Damn that was close” I hit the stop button on my alarm clock and woke up from my bed thinking about the dream.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJuL30djTRA
It was always like that with me in the hallway and the hand reaching out to me but I always woke up before it can touch me. I have been having this dream since forever and cannot clue out its meaning. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9XGZa1PAtt
There are a few others that are like small flashbacks or something I can’t understand. Some give me a really terrifying feeling when I wake up whereas some just confuse me more but they aren’t regular.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoq9K28I9be
One dream, which is a constant along with the hallway one, is where a man is standing ahead of me with his back facing me.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt2MadzKhCh
I get a strange fluttering in my heart by just watching him doing nothing else. I always call out and just when he starts turning I wake up.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQcqR2GSHE
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I glanced at the clock and was alarmed to see that I had wasted my precious 20 minutes of the morning and had less than an hour to get ready for Gurukul. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoRNzTXdx1N
I sprinted to the washroom grabbing my carefully laid out dress from last night and started getting on with my daily schedule never knowing how my life was about to change.
Alaric POV
Darkness...
Loneliness...
These two are one’s loyal companions when one should live as long as I have. They become the only constant things in such never-ending, unfeeling existence. But not at present when I am dreaming and fully conscious of it.
I am running through the woods and there is nothing but darkness ahead, not even a sound. The feeling of loneliness is creeping inside me making me halt and think about this mindless pursuit when the prize at the end is not clear. But I can feel a faint pull towards further north. something was telling me to go ahead yet stay away.
I was still pondering over what to do when I felt a presence behind me and my body froze. My instincts were to turn around but for all my life I can’t even move a muscle. I tried to force myself to move but all in vain. My heart was hammering against my chest and there was excitement in the air around me as if a very important moment is going to happen.
I tried moving again, I could feel the presence behind me watching and just when I moved slightly there was a shrill sound and I found myself in my bed with my alarm blaring in my ears.
ughhh the same dream again and I am totally fed up due to this uncertainty and unknown feelings which always courses through me after waking up.
I was still contemplating the dream when I heard a sharp knock on my door.
“come in”
“good morning sir, the king wants to see you,” said Silas, my right hand and archon of my battalion.
“Okay I’ll be there in half an hour
" yes sir, I will inform the king” he touched his heart with his knuckles in salute and stepped back closing the door.
What could the king possibly want so early in the morning was running through my head as I went about my daily routine and got dressed.
The king and the queen’s residence was a five minutes walk from my condo seeing that I was the captain of their royal guard. Everyone who was walking past me bowed their head in respect. I made my way inside the royal palace and entered the throne room without bothering to knock.
“ah!! here comes my favorite grandson” exclaimed the king. I stood in my tracks and surveyed the king and queen sitting on the throne in front of me who also happened to be my maternal grandparents though you can never say that by looking at them.
“My King and beloved queen,” I said while bending on one knee and touching my knuckles to my head in respect for King Drakon Allectius and then to my heart for Queen Sienna Allectius. “Silas told me that you wished to see me how can I be of service?”
“oh come on Alec no need to be so formal, they are your grandparents after all” came a familiar voice from behind and I turned to find myself gazing into the blue eyes of my mother Serra Wolfie who was accompanied by my father Gregory Wolfie, and my elder brother Aemon Wolfie.
I knelt again in respect of the werewolf royals all the while thinking why my family was gathered here most promptly and why the royals were formally gathering in the throne room.
I walked up to my parents and grandparents and kissed them on the cheeks and gave them hugs.
“take a seat Alaric, there is a problem arising in the kingdom which I want to address and also I want to make an announcement so I want you to call for a formal meeting this evening.
I was taken aback. “A formal meeting? but why Sire? problems and announcements are to be done in council meetings as the law requires. The last time we had a formal meeting was when we had won the war. Is everything all right? Is there a danger to the royal-”
“No Alaric let me finish. Grandson or not you will not interrupt me” shouted the king.
“I am sorry my king forgive me”
" So as I was saying we are having a formal meeting with both the royal families and higher-ranking officials and I want you to join me as my grandson there not as the captain of my royal guard”
To say it was shocking would be putting it lightly. In the past 900 years since I forfeited my royal rights and seat in the council, I never had such a request from the king and now suddenly he is asking me to join him as his grandson.
I had no choice but to agree but I had a feeling that I was not going to like the outcome.
I composed myself and answered,” your wish is my command Sire. I will do as you wish”.
I knelt again in a royal salute and exited the room. Yes, they were my family but I wasn’t one of them. I was different and though I was powerful I had no place among them.
The king and queen and my mother Serra were royal vampires, descendent of Romulus and Egeria the originals while my father Greg was the royal werewolf, descendent of Remus and Nemea the first werewolves. Even my brother was a werewolf with vampiric speed and a few of my mother’s gifts but me......I was the loner, the outcast of the family.
I was the most powerful and deadly warrior of the realm. Even after all these years, my powers were still largely unknown which made me dangerous to everyone even the king. They all separated me from the day I was born as they didn’t know me so they can’t control me.
I was the enigma of the supernatural world-
I was the first of my kind-
I was the definition of coldness, aloofness, and uniqueness-
I was the only supernatural creature who had no possibility of having a mate-
I was half vampire and half werewolf-
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