7 The vampires coven

The present time:

The moment my father escorted me inside of the hall, I started by having that sort of déjà vu feeling.

Same as with five years ago, the hall was full of dozens of vampires that were dressed in expensive breath-taking suits, and outstanding dresses. Instead of the golden dress I was wearing from last time, I'm wearing the breathtaking red dress chosen by my father.

The music, the drinks, and even the food – it all reminds me of that night, and the restless feeling I was having doesn't make it any better.

"You're Majesty!" Greeted Aeron while bowing to my father, then he moved on greeting me after he received an approving nod from my father.

"Princess Tiana! It's an honor to be able to meet you for a second time."

"The pleasure's mine." I greeted him back, not meaning any word out of my speech. I wasn't pleased with all by seeing him again.

His irresponsible attitude towards me was about to cost me my life which could've endangered the entire kingdom. Like any other immortal vampire that has lived through thousands of years, my father needs rest. He needs to sleep at least for about one hundred years, the rest he would have would ensure him to be more powerful after waking up, renew his youth, and also make him wiser than he ever was since he would be more relaxed.

Of course, if anything happened to me that day – my father wouldn't be able to have his fair share from the sleep. Note that the last time he was asleep was about three hundred years before my birth.

As the young vampire, I am, I still don't need to sleep, not the same for my father. You can't imagine how ruthless a vampire can be after escaping the sleep.

I've never seen one, but I've heard stories about such an incident.

Five hundred years ago, vampires used to have a coven that rules instead of one king. My father used to be the youngest among five mighty vampires that gather together in order to create a regime for vampires. I mean, there was that time when humans used to acknowledge the existence of vampires, which was never a good thing to our kind.

Knowing about our existence caused many damages in our lines, note that even with all our gifts, strength, and superpower – we had a lot of weakness that overcomes the sun lights.

Of course, garlic and holy water have no effect on us. Still, there's silver that causes immense pain to a true blood vampire and kills a common one. Also, Vervain and some specific types of werewolves' bites have the same effects as silver. Not to mention that we can't get inside of a private territory without invitation.

The worst thing that any vampire might face, true blood or common he was - is the White Oak Tree (Quercus alba). A White Oakwood is able to take the lives of even the strongest true blood vampires if it's aimed toward the heart.

With such as mighty weapons, humans decided to change the game by creating some hunting groups that were mostly close to causing the extinction of our type. Humans were indeed able to change from prey to hunters, which wasn't doing us any favors as predators.

This was the reason causing Arnold, Celeste, Emilia, Damian, and my father – Luther to create rules to keep our world hidden and safe.

By forcing each and every vampire to apply to these rules, and punishing those who refused to apply by death – they were able after centuries to erase our existence from humans' minds.

Humans now don't believe in us, they think we're just some mystical creatures that were invented only to entertain them. They have no idea about how real we are, and what they might go through whenever the sun goes down.

The first and only coven created by vampires started as an idea made by two sisters – Celeste and Emilia. When Celeste met Arnold for the first time, they imprinted on each other immediately; it was then when the three first coven members created the team.

After Celeste, Emilia encountered my uncle Damian who turns out to be her imprint, and this is how my father joined the coven – by following his old brother.

Only fewer of the very lucky vampires can find their imprint, note that a vampire cannot spread by birth with any other partner rather than the imprint. As my father told me, the imprint is more than just a match to a vampire; it is more like a soulmate that you can't live without once you both met each other. Which got me to wonder most of the time if that wolf I met that day was my imprint. Still, it's impossible - never heard about anything like that between a werewolf and a vampire.

Each and every of the five has its own special gift, but siblings have a similar gift to each other. I'll explain more, Celeste controls the water while her sister controls fire. My father can read minds while my uncle can miss with minds by creating illusions. Still, the strongest among them was Arnold, whose power was to get intangible whenever he wanted. He was able to walk through walls or let things like silver bullets pass through him harmlessly.

This wasn't a worthless power and can be invaluable when it comes to defending yourself in all sorts of fights. Not to mention the fact that all the five vampires were true blood vampires, meaning adds to their gifts – they were able to compel both human and common vampires.

Well, the first and only vampire coven didn't last as it was wished, one of the vampires decided to betray the all. Since they couldn't all rule together because of not having thoughts and attitudes.

They agreed on ruling individually by order. The first ones to lead were Celeste and Arnoldo, as the others were asleep. The second to rule were Emilia and Damian. The last one to rule was my father, and the circle kept that way for each one hundred years. Of course, this was all happening a while before he met my mother.

Well, until one day when my father started doubting his brother after that some of his creepy thoughts slipped into my father's mind. My father tried to warn Arnoldo and Emilia, but they both refused to believe him, claiming that he was just being out of sense.

My father then used someone else's help since his claims were not to be taken as proof. He hired Lorcan a vampire that he trusted the most for a one and only one mission. To be his eyes and ears, and to wake him up if his brother is up to something.

As my father expected, Damian was up to many things that had nothing good to come after. He only wanted the thoron for himself, so he killed both of Celeste then Arnoldo while sleeping. When he decided to reach my father, he was surprised by not finding him in his coffin.

A battle happened between them both, and my father was the one to win over his brother. Emilia was nowhere to be seen after the incident, and my father, of course, wins his rightful throne.

This whole story explains the reason why my father can't trust anyone but me to take over his place, and if anything happened to me that day – the whole vampire kingdom will have to suffer my father's anger.

Lost in my thoughts I was when Aeron decided to speak. "I'll toss a coin only to know what's in the mind of yours."