11 The Hidden world

A blurry figure in Armour standing near him. Vague glimpses of corpses and broken weapons. Overhead dark clouds and the fast wind blowing in the area.

The smell of blood and flesh wafted in his nose. He tried to speak, but his tongue refused to move. His eyes had blood in them therefore everything he sees is blurry and not clear.

The blurry armored man walked and placed a hand on his shoulder. It was at this time he realized he was shackled in the chains. The hand was large and heavy sinking his shoulder but also very warm.

He leaned forward towards himself. He blinked furiously to see the face of the man but everything was still blurry including his face and body. And the blood in his eyes was not helping him.

The Armored man began to speak something in some foreign language, he tried to listen hard to what he was saying but all sounded gibberish to him. He could not even remember the words spoken by him.

Then suddenly the man yelled,

"Fhsi..eke....WAKE UP!"

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Orion woke up with a start. It was a dream, the same one of those which weekly, periodically comes to him since his childhood. Once he had asked about it to his father who replied that 'It was his mind, his imagination so he had to live by it.'

Then slowly his mind stabilized, he felt losing memory of his dreams, and real memories flooded in from before when he lost his consciousness.

' Home…..., Murder...., Vampire…..., Ed.... Death!'

Soberness came with shock as he looked around. He found himself strapped with handcuffs, bound with the couch chair.

The first person to come into his view was Ed who was eating popcorn with butter while watching TV on his couch.

He observed he was in his room strapped to his chair with his hands cuffed. And after some movement, he realized he was mostly fine with a small pain in the back of his head.

He was checking his neck for some scar of the puncture wound when Ed spoke up,

"Come on Dude. If I had done that you would be dead already."

Fear has already left his mind, as Orion discovered that he was unharmed and obviously seeing Ed seated so…..normally. Probably he had some other plans for him but still, he is alive and in his hands so he should better accept that.

He turned to look at him,

"So, you want to make me your Servant or something?"

Ed scooped another popcorn from the bowl and replied,

"Making Drudge requires quite a lot of power, time, ritual and not to mention it is illegal to hold someone without his consent."

Orion who was trying his handcuffs chuckled at his statement.

"So How much time has passed?"

Ed turned to him stunned,

"What do you mean by that? Only two hours passed hardly? Are you alright…."

Well, that was a surprise thought Orion. He thought his dream was too long or his sense of time was too long in a dream.

"So you wanted to say something?"

"What?"

"Any explanation about how you murdered an innocent man!"

"Oh, you saw! I guessed that. He was not a man but a dead like me.

If you don't believe I can prove it to you I still have his cold body in my flat.

Orion thought with a clear head, if he had to kill him he would have already done it. So going with him will probably provide some answers to the riddle.

He nodded as Ed quickly removed his handcuffs and closed the TV.

He opened the door but stopped,

"First promise me you will not try to run outside, otherwise I will have to knock you out again to bring you in. "

After seeing Orion nodding he led him to his flat. He led him to his bathroom where the body was thrown to the one side.

He gestured to Orion to check by himself while he was munching on the last of his popcorn he had with him.

Orion slowly walked to the body and turned it around. He was horrified but also amazed. The two sharp fangs were outside his mouth as well as his deep red eyes were also prominent.

But the most distinctive feature was his black churned wound on his shoulder and stomach. The flesh around that part was totally turned into ash.

He curiously pulled the fangs, trying if they are implants or something like that. But they were totally feeling real. He observed the wound where the Silver bullet was lodged in his shoulder. He could visibly observe as small pieces of silver were burning like charcoal, melting the skin of the corpse.

He turned to Ed and said,

"So you are a Vampire?"

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Now in the flat of Orion, both of them were sitting on the couch with another bucket of popcorn in their hands watching the late-night conspiracy documentaries.

These last two hours were a hell of a ride for Orion whose viewpoint of the world crumbled bit by bit from all-knowing to knowing nothing at all.

And for the next hour, it was a hell of a ride of Edward. He was the centuries-old powerful vampire but here had to answer his most basic and ridiculous questions to him.

Several times he was tempted to knock him out and play out like it was all a dream and imagination of Orion. But he stopped himself, just in time.

" 'Are there werewolves?'

'Yes'

'Can you die from sunlight? But I saw you roaming the day before?'

'No, living Vampires can resist corrosion of sunlight on them, although it will weaken us considerably but not enough to kill us but if you throw the dead body of a dead vampire he will vaporize into ashes. '

'Can you eat food?'

'Am I not eating it now? Well, it will pass without absorption from our system but we can eat to savor the taste. Booze is Same, although I personally like getting drunk.'

'Are there other mythical creatures?'

'Not all like unicorns but definitely more wide known myths have some reality behind them.'

'Are there gods?'

'Yes. And No further comments. Seriously, dude, you are asking a vampire this question. We have some serious beef with them…..'

......…..

"

In the morning, Orion went to his College. Although he hadn't slept for the whole night, his mind was still excited, processing the details of the hidden world from the common people.

He first saw the world minutely hoping to find any other abnormalities. But to his disappointment, nothing was discerning to him from the usual dull world.

Edward watched from his car as Orion went to his college. He was not stalking him just making sure if he was one of those people who could not accept drastic changes to their mindset thus, ended up going to the police.

After making sure he was fine and accepted the truth but in rather a weird way. He sighed,

"Should I tell him about himself? Nah, it is best as long as he can live this normal life. I have a huge doubt about how long he can live as ignorant. Considering what is coming next? "

He thought as he closed his mobile, with an app on-screen where several news headlines were popping out in seconds. But the surprising thing was there was Name Orion somewhere in a large number of lines but was soon drowned in new updating news headlines.