Chapter 1: The Renaissance

Jasper Whitlock was born in a small cabin in the heart of Texas in 1843, in the middle of a storm that foreshadowed the turbulence that would mark his life. His first days were difficult, and orphanhood embraced him harshly when his parents died in a tragic accident when he was just five years old. Since then, he has been forced to survive on his own, fighting for every meal and shelter. The rain-soaked streets and street violence shaped his character, giving him unwavering resilience.

However, Jasper's life would take a radical turn when the American Civil War broke out in all its glory. At the tender age of seventeen, he found himself enlisted in the Confederate army, where he would soon prove to be a skilled strategist and fearsome combatant. The battles molded him further, hardening him with the steel of experience and forging a brave soldier.

But it was in the heat of the conflict, amid the roar of the cannons and the clamor of the wounded, when Jasper crossed paths with a being that would change his destiny forever: Maria.

He was a being of ethereal beauty, his pale skin standing out in the gloom of the battlefield. Her eyes, red and hungry, burned with inextinguishable desire. Maria was a vampire, a creature of the night, and she had seen something more than just a human in Jasper.

"Would you like to live forever, Jasper?" —Maria asked with a sinister smile, her eyes fixed on him like a predator stalking its prey.

The offer was tempting. Immortality shone like a beacon in the darkness of his existence. Jasper didn't hesitate much and accepted his offer. In that moment, with a bite to his neck, his human life ended and his new life as a vampire began. Meanwhile, on our planet Earth a young college student Marcus was spending time reading Twilight fanfiction when From one moment to the next and for no apparent reason his eyes closed, and as soon as they opened again he found himself lying next to the hay in what he could assume was a barn and not knowing what had happened and wondering where he was.