Kael Cor: A Vampire's Awakening Chapter 205 Descent Into Darkness X : A Falling Out With Queen

The gate seemed to be automated. However; given how much time has pa.s.sed, the fact that the gate was still standing was a miracle. But now all it was a useless chunk of metal blocking our path into the Black.....well Transylvania. And fun fact about the b.l.o.o.d.y gate, it was made of silver, so we can't touch it, and every attack thrown at it was nullified, which means it was lined with Ionite. We need to run power through a whole lot of circuits and relays to activate the gate, and that was knowledge no body among my soldiers had. We had to go back and get Malek.
"Is there really no way that we can get the gate open?" Kodak asked as he walked up to me and Queen, who was still meticulously inspecting the gate. And it was also her who answered him.
"This gate runs on very old technology and also very ancient vampire magic. Apart from my mistress and a few others, only the Ausolon coven still has records of such methods. But even with that, I'm sure it would no be easy for your scientist to unlock the method to open this gate. But we wouldn't know unless we try, we have to leave for the Ethernalia Leonis immediately! The sooner that scientist gets this gate open, the sooner we'll all get the chance at the honor of getting into our ancestral land."
"Sorry your 'Highness' but opening this gate is not our priority at the moment." I cut her off not at all liking how she seems to think we all wanted what she was after.
"What do you mean?"
"We came to the district for supplies, to get the blood that would feed the thousands back home. We got it, but we lost invaluable friends in the process. We all need time to mourn, fortify our home, and train ourselves to be stronger, so that the next time we come back here, it wouldn't be as tragic. Besides Malek has too many projects to take care of back at the city, and it would be counter productive to have him leave everything behind and come here, spending G.o.d knows how long to study the technology and magic of a gate that's not worked in over 600 thousands years."
"You mean to tell me that the upkeep of your pitiful city is of a higher priority than the rediscovery of our ancient heritage! How can you be so selfis.h.!.+ And small minded!" she yelled at me.
Okay what? I don't understand where this was coming from, but why did she think either me or any of my soldiers had an obligation to 'rediscovering' this so called heritage. Not that it was not something to be excited about, but we had other priorities, and it would be really stupid to just drop everything just to chase a shadow of a civilization that would serve no purpose or render any help to anybody at the moment. But her words seemed to have upset quite a few of my soldiers, as they walked closer with Kodak throwing a challenge at her.
"That pitiful city is our home! The place where we got to be free, and our families get to be safe. It's not perfect, not yet anyway, but that's why we can't just leave it to chase some heritage that never did anything to help us when we were suffering." Kodak said to her pa.s.sionately, with other soldiers nodding their heads in agreement with him.

"I don't expect a half breed vampire like you to understand. Even if you're born a vampire, your bloodline is not clean enough to know and understand the true call of our homeland. For our heritage, our true civilization, rather than a mockery of a city created a rich spoilt kid with nothing better to do, dying would be an honor. Suffering would be a privilege. Our civilization owes nothing to you, but it is because of it that you're here. In the old days, none of you would be worthy of having t.i.tle vampires, the purity of your bloodline is in question, and yet instead of hungering for a n.o.ble quest, a quest that would redeem your filth, you speak as if your true loyalty is to a toy city that couldn't even keep you and your families safe when it mattered. Hah! Pitiful and disgusting." She turned to leave, but she was stopped by someone who hardly ever speaks, it was Black, and his sister was right behind him.
"your so called civilization never kept us safe or fed when it mattered. Before Ethernalia Leonis was born, we died everyday, suffered at the hands of the guards when, stuck-up self righteous b.a.s.t.a.r.ds like yourself; who had the power to do something sat with your hands folded, and fas.h.i.+oned yourselves better than us. Because you think your blood is purer, because you were born from a line of vampires whose blood has never been tainted by any other race since the inception of vampirism by Count Vladimir Dragonov Dracula. Well then allow me to introduce myself and my sister. My name is Revan Sirculus Tepes Dracula, and my sister is Neva Collette Tepes Dracula. The most direct descendants of the dark lord himself, sired from the bloodline of his first son, the one who's name shall not be spoken, or mentioned. As far as vampires go, there's no blood more purer than ours, and by right of bloodline you're supposed to serve and protect my sister and I. You never cared to look down to the mud, so you couldn't see the gold left behind. And we suffered for it, your claim to purity of bloodline is stupid and childish right in front of us. The city you mock, gave us freedom, gave us a home, gave us a family, and the strength to protect that family. It is you who's unworthy of even mentioning it's name from that disrespectful and profane lips of yours."
Well that was a surprising turn of events, and I really didn't expect that Queen actually looked down on us. But it drew my attention back to the battlefield, the time when her brother had been wantonly killing in the name of cleansing the vampire bloodlines. She had never said she disagreed with him, only that I was under their Mistress's protection. Everything she's done so far has been under orders, and when there was no other way to hide, her disdain for what we are was shown.
To be honest I was disappointed, and a little heart broken. After so many years as captives, I expected that the vampire race would be a little more accepting and protective of each other, but Queen and her ilk had grown up protected from the horrors of the pit, and even worse they looked down on their fellow vampires during their time of pain and suffering. I looked up at her and couldn't even muster up the energy to be angry, a person like that must make a lot of effort to be so stuck up, I believed she's bound to leave a miserable and lonely life with n.o.body truly loving or caring about her.
And she was tongue tied by Black's...….well by Revan's revelation. Who would have thought, the direct descendants of the first vampire were actually two of my best envoys, in fact you could say they led the Envoys after me. And they stood behind me, our home and what we stood for. It wouldn't be farfetched to say that I was feeling really good about myself. But I also had to give her a piece of my mind. As a race the vampires were already being discriminated against by other races, of we do it to ourselves, then we've truly lost this battle even before it begins.
"Your Mistress was turned into a vampire, so I want you to ask you a question, is her blood impure and dirty. Is she unworthy, because if that's the case then you're a f.u.c.king hypocrite and the most ungrateful b.i.t.c.h I've ever had the chance of knowing. I refuse to believe that you follow her without respecting her at the very least. She's the only living Dracula, and she had every opportunity to escape, to leave this place and head for other planets that were accepting of the vampire race. She might have needed to hide for a few hundred thousand years as Shearath had not entered the age of Interstellar travel during the vampire war, but she would have been safe. But instead she took in a whole lot you, protected you, raised you, and taught you to be strong. She a human that was turned into a vampire, she; a person who was once a slave to the civilization you so wors.h.i.+p, yet she didn't dwell on it and took care of you. I think she's crazy, insane, and is plotting against me. But at the very least she understands, that there's no pure blood, or half breed. There's only vampire. It's because of people like you we're still here! In the darkness, suffering! If there's anybody unworthy of being a vampire here, it's you. Because if you can't protect your fellow vampires, you're not worthy of any honor or respect. Because in the world we live in now, blood means nothing, only power, and power doesn't come from standing alone, it comes from family. Where is yours? And even if they're there, are they worthy. Because my family is, beyond every reasonable doubt, worthy of being Vampires!"