Somewhere,
There was a large room, expensive from the look of it. Abstract painting hung around pristine dark wall, golden lamps hung over walls giving the room golden glow,
Even torcheres shone with glint, suggesting that it was made of gold, just like the frames of all the paintings.
There was eeriness to the room despite being lit enough to make everything visible.
In the center was a golden table, intricate black patterns making it appealing to naked eyes. And chair in accordance to accomodate the owners.
There were 7 chairs, and 5 of them were occupied by shadowy vampire masters. Their faces were visible but nobody even glanced at each other. Their uglyness was simply unbearable to even their own kind.
" I heard that fake ass lizard died, Good riddance... Haha... Wouldn't you say nathan." A fat man with ugly face and ugly gleam spoke, his words held sarcastic rythm to it.
" Shut it fatso." the man named nathan was annoyed beyond reason, he held everything at arms length but he was especially vexed by this man's words.
" But it is better, Now we can recruit someone more...sane." Another vampire spoke, his words bursted the room in fit of laughter.
" Sane?, Look who's talking?" Ugly fatso spoke, disregarding the honor or shame.
" You wanna die max??" The one who spoke of sanity threatened, his eyes and words alike, sharp. He was ready for blood, he wanted blood. So what ugly max had said was not just sarcasm.
" You ain't got the balls tony."
Tony didn't say further, just jumped at max.afterall that's what he wanted from the beginning.
But then suddenly room was shrouded in cold aura.
And Instant that they felt this, they formed a line and bowed with their head touching the floor. And as to their plead, a godly presense gently walked upto where they lowered their head.
His face was covered by a mask, different mask from how regulars wore. It had wooden mask, painted red to appear like that of demon. Simple, ominous and unable to see through by anyone.
He looked at those growling at his feet, unmaired by their power and presense. This spoke of masked man's authority, loud and clear.
His white clothes were noble that shone golden in radiance of lamp , and he walked like one, a noble, in utter confidence.
" Two of your rank has died, That means not only our guest for overseas are alive but doing quite well. Now who shall be responsible for this fuck up." Hie voice showed youthful freshness mixed with laziness, and despite this, he seemed to have no sympathy or care for this loss.
Nobody answered, they did not even lifted their heads up, pressed down by fear.
" Well, nobody gonna answer me, is that it?, but know I'm gonna get my answer even if I have to pull your tongues out." His threat unnerved everyone to sweat profusely.
And such reaction made clear that His words weren't for show, and everybody knew that.
" Master, maddog is the culprit of this situation. He rushed on thoughtlessly, by the time reinforcement arrived, Situation had turned." The vampire who remained outside of their earlier squabble spoke with sincerity in his voice. This maddog he spoke of was none other than madman.
Ashe said,so far he maintained his composure, or atleast he tried, rolling sweat over his head was evident enough of his fake bravado.
" Situation turned you say?" The masked man asked with hint of smile under his smile, assessing his words for deeper understanding, his voice held subtle amusement.
" Yes, Maddog fought them but despite his brute strength, he was outmatched by numbers. In desperate attempt, he initiated experiment evo on enemies rashly.
In doing so he forced enemy to self destruct.
We suspected that nobody would walk out from blast of that calibre.
So our einforcement didn't waste time in charging in without considering that they might've survived and lost their life." He paused once, " We suspect that one of them has survived, And from Intel we get she seems to be in aston as of right now."
The masked man stood unmoved,
" It seems there is an misunderstanding jessi." Masked man walked upto Jessie who still bowed, praying to God he believed for luck.
" When I said fuck up, I meant what the fuck were you all doing while maddog was fighting alone. They signaled the red code, didn't it? That means, all you motherfucking cunts were asked to join the fight. Then why the fuck?" He didn't finish his words, and burst of energy fluctuated in the air. Energy conderese below his feet, giving him immemse strength and with that, he trampled Jessie's head to splash of gore.
His dark clothes and shoes remained rooted in mush of Jessie's brain for a moment as he shifted his fierce gaze to every other shivering growlers.
" Why do you think I killed him, nathan?" Nathan who was closest to Jessie was painted red on one side, fearing for what his future.
" I-"
Zip.....Crackle..
Before he could even mutter, room flashed blue. Thunder crackled as it shot towards natham, instantly incinerating him on spot.
And what remained was nothing but black ash.
" Killing two of you has already dampaned my mood, So I'll kill rest of you tommorow." Masked man yawned as he talked and started walking. And sound of his steps getting fainter implicated his departure, Relieving all those on their knees.
But just by the door, masked man halted.
"Oh and by the way, New red code. For this city." Saying so he left and behind him yellowness of room vanished.
Room darkened before, all the lamps glowed red.
************
The same time eren regained his consciousness,
" What's in the dinner?" the vampire who sat on dinner table with his uniform on, asked in deep yet grumpy voice. He was annoyed by the sound of it.
" Fish curry and rice with salad." Cecilia answered from another chair, her voice unusually cheery. And such change was immediately noticed.
" You seem happy?, Did something happen?" The vampire asked firmly, His eyes shifted between Amelia and Cecilia, who sat side by side, opposite to him.
" Nothing dad." Amelia would've scolded her but she was no better, her face too failed to hide the gleam of love. They were smiling all day long, even at work. This Obviously put everyone at suspicion for what all the fuss was about.
Amelia's father looked young, It made a point clear that he was an cultivator. He was handsome vampire with sharp features, And he would naturally attract attention if he walked out in open.
Not because of his beauty, but by the scars over his face, by roughly honed body and sharp killer eyes.
He wore a black uniform of the police and judging by quite a few silver on his chest and shoulder, he looked high ranking officer.
His face was clean shaved and scarred, with short styled hair.
His eyes narrowed in question once more, As ideas of what could be wrong quickly formed in his brain. He was a policeman afterall.
' There are only few thing women want, And even fewer for my daughter.' His jaw tightened in anger, yet he held it back. It was only assumptions for now.
But his assumption through analytical skills somehow always turned out to be true, this was the same feeling of uneasiness.
' I need to confirm.'
" You know Mr. Ludwig, his son has returned after finishing his martial training. And he's thinking of joining navy by end of this year." Amelia and Cecilia didn't care for what Mr. Ludwig or his son are upto, but when their father spoke they listened with utmost caution.
" He'll be turning 30 next month, And his father is thinking of marriage." He didn't let their eyes wander, " It would be an honor, wouldn't you agree Amelia?"
His intensions were more than clear,
" But father-"
" Did I give you permission to speak Cecilia?, where are your manners?" His voice was loud, authorative and demanding, that of police.
Cecilia immediately felt her heart tremble, avoiding her father's gaze.
" I'm sorry father."
Amelia looked at her sister pressing her shaking legs firmly, She was afraid of their father.
" I should marry you both to him, Since you're so inseparable anyway." There was no regard for emotion in his voice, Sarcasm aside he simply thought of this as a deal and nothing more.
Amelia looked at her father, unlike her sister who barely held her head up before him.
" I..No, We are old enough to make our own decisions." Amelia held her sister's shaking hand, " Besides We already love someone else."
And just like that they fell into his trickery, wether he really wanted to marry them off or not could only be answered by him but mention of such topic, evidently pulled the truth out of their mouth.
" As I feared, Some motherfucker is taking advantage of you."
Cecilia's eyes trembled, she looked at Amelia for answer to this weighing problem.
Amelia grabbed her hand firmly as he stared back at her father, both of their eyes gave a clear answer.
" WHO IS IT?" he slapped the table hard and stood up, his eyes were burning with rage.
" Since when do you care?" Cecilia squeezed her eyes shut and pulled what little bit of strength she needed to stand against her father. She feared her father but she feared even more for her sister to stand all alone in this situation.
" Now you're even talking back." His hand rushed like wind that grabbed Cecilia's hair, pulling her violently.
" Guahh.."
" Are you out of Your mind?" Amelia shouted, holding her father from acting rash but her strength was not enough.
Angry brute slapped her down,
" It seems i've been too lenient lately."
SLAP
SLAP
Without grain of sentiment he violently struck Cecilia, And Cecilia was unable to resist.
Amelia felt her body numb yet she struggled as he picked herself up and charged head on with only one thought, to save her sister.
But her attempt failed miserably, again.
Her father was strong enought swat her away like swatting a fly, he struck her sending her flying, her body faced the brunt of such strike. she collided to wall and coughed up blood, metalic taste of blood and pain made her even more afraid, paralysed with fear once again.
Yet with weak, trembling knees, she stood up once again.
" For what fucking mongrel-"
RING..
RING..
RING..
His phone rang,
Saving the poor girls on time, he threw Cecilia on floor and picked up the smartphone.
" What is it?" His annoyed tone was conveyed through telecom, so even the person on other end heistated for a moment.
" Get on with you motherfucker."
' Sir large numbers of peoples have started disappearing in the city within half an hour, It seems only few have witnessed this kidnapping but judging from CCTV footages we've reviewed, numbers of kidnapping exceeded 500.'
" THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR?." phone in his hand showed a crack, his eyes burned with rage even more, " Dispatch all the patrolling units on streets right now, have techies to analyse all the footages from all places and have them trace the kidnappers, inform all the station and have them do the same, Immediately." He glanced once to the girls, clenched his teeth and walked away.
" I'll be there in a minute and by the time I do, I want you to give me leads on this fuckers. Otherwise it's your funeral."
'Yes s-'
Beep..
He didn't waited for reply, he simply dashed off in the heavy police vehicle that was parked outside his house.
Emergence of loud siren grew distant as he drove away.
" Cecil." Amelia cried as tears rolled down her cheeks, cecilia lay disheaveled and beaten. But more so she was sad by the fact that what last bit of respect and love she held for his father was lost. She felt as if she had no family and It hurt, more than she ever imagined.
" So this is the house of the commissioner, Nothing special I see." A voice filled with malice crept up in their ears, instantly allerting all of their danger sense.
Their eyes hurridly searched the man who spoke, and he was casually stroding a way to them. His belly sprawned out and his face ugly, and more so he held lecherous ugly grin.
" Don't worry, I won't hurt you."
*********
Bright light flashed in marco's living room, notifying arrival of someone. They were Evelyn and eren.
Marco and jasmine were surprised as well as relieved, They wanted to scold eren but situation demanded otherwise.
There were another two people present in the room, other than jasmine and Marco.
One was Elizabeth, undisguised as Emily.
Evelyn looked at her and asked,
" What happened for you to make yourself known." her tone relaxed or rather she tried appearing in such way.
But Elizabeth was too confused too reply her, her eyes shifted between eren and Evelyn.
" Why are you two together?" She asked, her voice on verge of breaking in anger. She had already imagined all sort of worst scenarios.
Evelyn could feel this change, but she wasn't sure why,
" As you've found yourself a man, I too didn't wanted to get left behind. So I married him." She didn't hide anything, and smiled to Elizabeth for fun of it, not being aware of the whole situation.
' She's my subordinate, Might..no.. I know she also shares blood-bond with you. But don't you dare try to lay your hand on her, I'll kill you even if it cost me my life.' Evelyn's voice rang in eren's head, her words shocked him. But even more so he was left speechless, By the sight of Elizabeth's apperance.
Eren's head pulsed in doubts, But he already had all the answers, as if pieces of puzzles fell into place and his mouth was left agape.
' How ironic, Evelyn is spy as well and now.' His eyes shifted between Elizabeth and Evelyn, his mouth distorted into awkward smile.
" Enough with the jokes, He is the one I was talking about." Elizabeth was always irritated by evelyn's pranks.
' Just my luck, she found out that Eren's my boyfriend, somehow. Now she's having fun playing games with me, that's also why I couldn't find eren.' Elizabeth was not at all convinced in her words.
It was because that her mana sense failed to locate eren.
" When I couldn't find him, guess where I expected him to be?"
' With me, ofcourse. With your exceeded senses, only few can escape.
Cause she wanted to check if eren was really with me, shee posed herself, k owing full well I'll come. But how does she know where eren lives?' Evelyn quickly analysed her strategy.
But Elizabeth was still hung up on prior matter, Misconception of such idea that evelyn was joking was somewhat acceptable, she had that personality but when Elizabeth spoke, Evelyn didn't doubt for a second that she was lying or joking.
Evelyn's face instantly twisted to eren for explanation, and he only showed a awkward smile.
Marco and jasmine were in their own fantasy of illusions,
" Both of them?" Marco asked whispering, Bewildered by the unraveling details.
" Four of them." Jasmine wispered back, her face showing unusually high excitement.
Ofcourse Elizabeth, Evelyn and eren, all three were left shocked. Their eyes simultaneously shifted on jasmine,
' What?, They know about Amelia and cecilia?' thought eren, jolted by this revelation.
' She knows about elizabeth?, is it really the truth?' Thought Evelyn, making an conclusion of the situation.
' Four?, And they know about evelyn so is it really truth?' Thought Elizabeth.
Suddenly eren was center of attention from all the side, cold tension slowly started weighing on his shoulder.
Meanwhile he looked at marko and jasmine with question,
" How?" words slipped out on its own.
" So this is the scumbag who has brainwashed my daughters?" Suddenly a deep, growling voice laced with hatred broke the stillness of awkward silence.
Eren immediately felt the chill run down his spine, his body instinctively backed away from threat.
Eren choked, Feeling palpable killing intent strangling his neck. He turned to face the last presense he had ignored till now.
Suffocation made his eyes bulged out, reddened and blurry, eren could not make out his features. But it lasted a moment and all the pain vanished, his eyes once again regained clarity.
He could breath again, he could see again and he saw the man he didn't knew, kneeling on another corner, pressed down.
" How dare you?" Eren traced the voice to Elizabeth who looked ready to snap the man's neck.
" Wait Eli, He's Amelia's father." jasmine's word jolted Elizabeth awake from her sudden outburts. She retracted her power back and looked at eren, sighed with a relief seeing that he was okay.
" Eren, Amelia and Cecilia had gone missing for an hour?" Eren looked Marco who seemed worried, And then he looked at Amelia's father who picked himself up angrily.
He looked young, despite being a father. And judging from his earlier display of power, he was a Cultivator, stronger than Eren at that.
He was dressed in formal black police uniform, making a very clear statement of his position.
" You have hexed my daughters, otherwise this wouldn't have happened?" The guy was ready to snap and break loose, he didn't care for consequences even after seeing Elizabeth's power.
He pulled out the short knife out of his pocket, and took the battle stance. His eyes and blade pointed at eren even when he knew he wasn't a threat.
" Matthew don't be rash, This is no time to dawdle on insignificant details." Marco jumped between him and eren.
" Insignificant details?, My daughter who has never raised their voice to me, attacked me. You call this insignificant?"He held the knife pointed, his eyes even more sharp than knife.
" What I mean is that right now our first priority should be to find your daughters."
Matthew growled, not findinng his words unreasonable.
DING DONG..
Just then, doorbell rang.
The first thought of everyone centered around the hope that person standing beside that door would be Amelia and cecila.
Matthew opened the door almost immediately as he ran straight to it.
" Is eren here?" The voice was filled with desperation, hurry and anxiety.
And eren knew that voice,
" Jensen??"
Matthew gave a way to Jensen, Despite his reluctant, frustrated ego.
" Eren, Lucas has gone missing." Jensen dashed at Eren, his words putting even more tension in the room.
" But Mr. Nolan has taken fredo's phone and sent me to you, saying he's tracking them and you can help him." Thought Jensen couldn't quite understand what this meant, but he was eased a little, knowing that he wasn't all alone.
" Who is this fredo?" Matthew asked loudly, as he walked upto Jensen in hurry.
Jensen's chest choked with pressure, with fear for what he would do, for all he saw in matthew's eyes was rage.
" He's a noodle shop owner around the corner."
" Do you have his number?"
" N..no."
Matthew grabbed his coller, rendering Jensen pettified with even more terror.
" don't you realise why we need it?"
" Let him go." Eren grabbed on matthew's hand, squeezing with all his might yet that earned him no responce.
His words annoyed Matthew to great extent, and being so close surely enticed matthew rip Eren to shreds but he knew better.
He looked over his shoulder to where elizabeth stood and let go of Jensen, begrudgingly.
He clicked his tongue in annoyance and was about to dial a number as he was walking out of house but then,
RING..
RING..
His phone rang, he expected his colleague but it was unknown number and this made his nerves even more rattled.
Beep
He picked up,
' Turn on the TV commissioner if you want to see your daughters.' Husly voice spoke through, laced with sadistic pleasure.
Matthew didn't waste any time as he hurridly searched for remote and turned on the tv, his actions making it obvious whose call it was.
The kidnapper.
Arranging his ideas in action, Matthew switched it to news.
" It's chaos, with what's going on out there. So many of children, men and woman have been kidnapped by unidentified masked men,
This kidnappers, they show no fear of law and justice. Is this really democracy cause so far what we've been seeing is nothing but a lawless rule by coward emperor.
Even watchdogs of government seems to have no sense of duty,.... hold on... We just got a breaking news. Putting on screen right now." The news anchor spoke and image on screen changed,
Before the anchor was roaring his lungs out in his studio, stomping on floor, showing his utmost sincerity and compassion for well being of vampire society and people.
But now scene had changed, Now a masked man sat on chair and behind his was all black, only a dim helogen light on his head made him visible.
Elizabeth ane Evelyn recognised that mask, much like they had killed before.
" Citizens of ravenvale." Masked man chuckled, his deep voice similar to that Matthew heard on phone.
" We're an organisation named Red veil, our sole objective is to liberate the peoples of this country from dictator named liam reaper....." Then he paused unusually for a long moment and then broke out laughing,
" Hahaha..." his maniacal laugh made everyone who were watching this, aware of his insanity.
" You people seriously, That was some bullcrap cliche and you fell for it...tada..haha..." His gestures of that naive child playing prank, His face would've showed same mischievous smile if only it wasn't covered by mask.
" We're doing this purely for fun, But it's no fun if we win too easy, right?, So we're taking all the hostages to central plaza on street 6, aston city. Am I forgetting something?" He muttered to himself as he searched through his pockets and pulled a script that he was reading.
And as if reminded of matter,
" Ohh yeah, And we're gonna kill all of them within 5 minutes., See I knew I was forgetting something."
And the news channel once again resumed on its earlier program. Anchor once again gritted his teeth, clenched his fists and abused the police and government.
And his outburst was somewhat justified, The situation was nothing but a nightmare. Terrorists kidnapping and killing for just fun and that too making it seem like game, this was lawless. Lawless because government had failed to anticipate or to avoid or to counterattack in any possible means. This was an outright failure, displayed on international news.
' Yeah, That is where all the regulars are being held or will be killed, your daughters on the other end, they seem to be breathing their last breath, come and see for yourself or maybe not, they'll die till then afterall.. Haha.'
Beep,
Crack,
Cracking of matthew's phone was like a thunder in stillness of silence.
Everybody here had good hearing, they had naturally heard what terrorist had said.
Matthew glanced one last time at everyone, untill his eyes fixated on eren. His jaw tightened and then he left.
Eren chased after him, but his speed was beyond Eren's capabilities. Jensen who had petrified too followed behind eren, his heart beating loud in his ears with fear.
" Eren?, Where are you going?" Jasmine appeared before the door from which eren was just about to walk out.
" Matthew is a commissioner, he has responsibilities as well as target on his head, that is why they have kidnapped Amelia and Cecilia.
This also means whatever this is bigger than us, if this people are ready to fight a government itself then there is nothing people like us can do." jasmine held sterm expression as she jolted eren's shoulder, to make him realise and to certain extent she did.
But eren had Elizabeth, who had instantly suppressed Matthew and on top of that he had Evelyn, who seemed no less weaker than Elizabeth.
He had more than enough power, believing they would help.
" They are not on central plaza eren." Said Elizabeth, stating as if that was normal.
Central plaza was few kilometres away yet she had analysed it from this far, that was just absurd to everyone, except Evelyn ofcourse.
" What do you mean they're not there?" Asked eren, his voice getting desperate. The situation was finally rattling in his heart, disturbing it.
" It means all the other anductee's are there but not the twins, You know what that means?"
Eren knew what that means, they were seeking pleasure in misery, playing pranks with other's life, Torturing Matthew and so many others.
" Can you find ame and cecil?"
Elizabeth shook her head.
Eren looked at Evelyn and her eyes said the same thing.
RING...
RING...
Then another phone rang, this time marco's. He saw an unknown number, and accpeted the call putting it on speaker.
" Hey Eren, it's your old friend here."