The rescue

===Vlad===

He had finally found the whereabouts of one of them.

It's been over 30 years since he started the search and finally had a result. It impressed him that the humans could keep that location a secret for so long. He could have found this place sooner if the 8 Magical Races were working together.

After the King of Vampires fell to a comatose state, even if he left the Princesses in his place, some were working on taking over and raising their power on the Ranking. The Princesses were nowhere close in power to their Father, but they could persuade most of the Council to keep things as they were. Still, there were a few that were working in the shadows.

His people had selected the replacement for the council to represent them—or so it seemed. The majority didn't seem to like his way of dealing with things, but there was nothing they could do.

Vlad had left his clan looking for clues about the Vampire Princesses since the humans had become a real danger to them then, but their Leader did nothing about it.

He had a few men who trusted him more and would follow him, even if doing so meant being exiled from their people since their Leader ordered them not to do anything against the humans.

But the humans had attacked them and killed or imprisoned their people and the other Magical Races, so how could they just stay doing nothing?

The human base was huge and had many defenses, but Vlad's source of information contained a secret way to enter the base and how to reach the main energy core, which would disable most of its defenses.

Still, they had to fight humans and their pieces of machinery, but with the element of surprise, they dealt them some severe damage and reached the room in the base they aimed for.

It was one of the labs, and in the middle of it, there was a large glass tank filled with greenish liquid containing a single female humanoid. In different parts of her body, there were tubes that, on their other end, connected to a piece of nearby machinery that seemed to be there to monitor her vitals.

Vlad ran towards the control panel near the tank and brought out a piece of paper with instructions.

He followed them by pressing the different buttons and switches on the panel.

Finally, an opening appeared at the bottom of the glass tank, letting the liquid drain, but it wasn't big enough for the figure to pass through.

When the glass tank drained entirely, Vlad punched the glass to get the person outside.

She was pale, but Vlad knew this was her normal color. The paler a vampire was, the purest their bloodline and this was one of the Princesses, who, other than the King of Vampires, were the only ones with a completely pure bloodline.

Vlad used his cloak to cover her naked body, as he used his innate ability to turn into a gigantic wolf. Then, with the help of one of his men, he had Pyre tied to him and started running outside.

He had ten people for this operation, and the other eight were causing a distraction. They were destroying whatever they could to weaken the humans for a time, as the humans would recreate what they destroyed. They didn't have enough time or workforce to destroy the base, but this wasn't the reason they were here.

As Vlad and his man got outside the base, they let a loud howl to let the rest of their people know that it was time for them to retreat.

The operation was successful; fortunately, they came out unharmed, other than a few minor injuries.

After a day of traveling without a break and making sure that nobody followed them, Vlad and his people made a camp and took a rest. The place they headed wasn't too far, fortunately.

But since they were safe for the time, Vlad checked how the Princess was.

She wasn't the Princess of his people, but he respected her and her sister. Unfortunately, he wasn't old enough to have met the King, as it was over five and a half centuries since he had fallen into a coma, and Vlad hadn't even reached the second century of his life.

He didn't hear a heartbeat from her, but that was normal since Vampires didn't have one. He had to check her breathing, which seemed to be normal.

He moved up a little one of her eyelids to check her eyes and noticed that the iris was red, meaning that this was Princess Pyre. Her sister, Princess Aella, had light grey irises.

As he kept thinking about what else he could do to ensure her safety, he noticed her eyelids moving as she opened them and looked towards him.

It seemed like she wanted to say something and tried to move but was too weak to do so,

"It's okay. You are safe now. We will be back home soon, so rest for now," he said as he tried to calm her down.

She closed her eyes to rest. Vlad knew Vampires didn't sleep like humans or most of the other Magical Races but were in a similar state called Trance. The only difference was that they were aware of their surroundings during this state, making it harder for someone to ambush them.

He gently put her on the ground and used his Earth Element to soften it as much as possible to make it comfortable. His people had the chance to be born with the ability to use multiple Elements, but he could only use the Earth Element as most of his people.

He was more of a fighter and had his magic to help him with simple tasks.

What he said to Pyre about them getting her home was true, and he wasn't referring to his home.

They headed towards the Castle of the Vampires.