The Purge [I]

After ordering the death of the entire Faction, little Mara was eating her breakfast, when a Maid came running into the dining room.

'Not again!' Shouted little Mara in her mind.

Because the last time a maid came running in to inform her about something, was when someone had found her mother's right hand-man's body chopped up and his pieces of body split and displayed in several villas close to the Main Mansion, and then she saw Rochester's past.

Sighing, she shouldn't complain out loud, so she did it in her mind and rolled her eyes. But the one who heard her and saw her is Heinrich. To which he just gave her a snort.

'Serves her right!' If Heinrich had eyes, he would give the little girl a glare for being so lazy.

When the maid arrived in front of little Mara, taking her cup of blood as her dessert. It was at that moment she stopped from talking.

"Did something happen?" The sweet voice of the Little Leader, so melodious that it made the maid go into a trance. Plus, the beautiful, tender smile on her face.

If they weren't vampires, the maid would doubt it and think that the Leader is an Angel.

If the little girl knew her thoughts, just roll her eyes. Because while she smiles tenderly, inside she is cursing. Because the same maid who came running to inform her earlier is the same maid. She has in front of her right now.

"Well?" asked the little Mara to bring back the maid's attention, who seems to be lost in her weird fantasies, to her.

"Oh, it's because in front of the main gates, two factions have raised banners demanding your presence..."

"My presence? What for?" A small frown adorned her short forehead.

When the maid saw the Little Clan Leader's expression, she sweat it out. And stammered nervously, "The... They... Want... to..."

Little Mara impatiently raised her hand and said, "If you won't speak a full sentence, you'd better not report anything next time. I'll have to see what you couldn't even finish to report." Giving the maid a smile, little Mara got up from the chair and headed toward the entrance of the mansion.

Leaving the maid pale, not knowing what to say or do.

Little Mara stopped before walking out the door. Without turning around she said to the maid, "Go, and report yourself to the Council's Elder, Elder Dumas, I don't want to see you again, I don't need the weaklings serving me, even worse near me."

With that the smile on her face remained, and strode towards the door, and opened it.

**

Being now in front of all those who supposed to have called her, and she felt it was unnecessary to show herself, since Ursula was dealing with them. That means that the maid did it on purpose. But that didn't matter to little Mara, because when she realized it, she left a blood strand which was embedded inside the maid's mouth.

Being a vampire, the maid didn't notice, but that's because little Mara awakened a new ability, the control of blood, which she can make colorless and tasteless.

Little Mara didn't know how she could understand each ability she awakened, but it was as if her instinct was telling her how to control it.

This morning she woke up sleepy with several strands of blood around her, but she didn't panic or felt surprise. She just... Accepted it.

Heinrich and the Guardian told her nothing. She asked nothing, either. It was like a tacit understanding about her new abilities.

**

When she was at the entrance she did not hurry back, but stayed to observe how the clan members behaved with Ursula, and how the latter made use of the newfound power and ability that the Mark of the flame granted her.

'Heinrich...' with nothing else to do. Little Mara had doubts about the mark the flame bestowed upon Ursula.

'HM?'

'If it is a secret for all to know about the flame's bond with the leaders of both the Vampire and Lycan clans, how is it possible to know about the mark and the oaths to it?'

'That is something you must find out by yourself...' Heinrich, reluctant to answer its little Master's queries, just told her that and then fell silent.

Little Mara was about to say something else when she saw the leader of the Somber faction raise his hand against Ursula.

"Oh, he dares to do that?" little Mara raised her little eyebrow as she saw what was happening.

The faction leader dares to raise his hand to one vampire under the direct command of the Clan Leader.

Just as little Mara was about to move, Ursula did.

Being the Housekeeper of the former and now the new Clan Leader, she is not weak per se, but she has always been weaker than any guard. The only reason she could have the position she holds until now is because of her loyalty to the late Leader Lana.

And she still holds it because of the recognition of a part of little Mara's soul.

Ursula lifted her leg and gave him a kick that sent the faction leader flying.

From the force plus the inertia, the leader fell into the water fountain in the center of the square, where everyone gathered with displeasure.

Seeing how one of the two leaders could not stand against Ursula, it startled everyone.

The water fountain broke, leaving the Somber faction leader unconscious.

The first to regain his temper was the other Usurpation faction leader, who denounced Ursula.

"YOU! A mere housekeeper dares to take the leader of one faction off guard! How dare you?!"

Hearing what he said, the other faction members understood what happened and looked with disdain and scorn at Ursula.

"How dare a lowly vampire do such a despicable thing?"

"If, this is the kind of vampire that follows the Clan Leader, then she can't be any better than the Housekeeper..."

"We're fine with wanting to change Clan Leader to Miss Sonia then."

"Hey, it's no longer Miss Sonia, but Clan Leader Sonia from now on."

"True... Ha-ha!"

They all said about the change when they can't even fight Ursula, but it threw their reality into a drift to be crashed with what will happen next.

Ursula paid little attention to them. She was more focused on what kind of power she had drawn from herself, not being able to believe where that strength came from, but it was at that very moment that...