Malachi

"Mel what's wrong?"

"Mike, it's him. I swear that's him, he's the one in my visions; we have to help him, do something quick." pleaded Mel

"Are you sure?" asked Mike swirling his beer.

"Yes I'm sure, it's weird Mike, I can sense his aura."

Mike sighed in resignation and agreed to Mel's request as he walked over to the bar casually and said to the manager "I am really sorry, we'll be out, he's just a puppet, he was charmed by his sire to pull this prank, we'll be out."

Mike's hand gripped Malachi's shoulder with the strength of iron, Malachi wanted to react but Mike whispered into his ears and said, "I want to help you, if you do not want to die, then follow me."

Malachi sensed no hostile intent from Mike, even though his shoulder was under an iron grip. Malachi knew full well that right now he was weak, so he resigned himself to Mike's advice and the duo went out of the tavern into an alley, where the shadow of the roof covered them.

When they arrived, Malachi noticed that a girl had been waiting for them, seemingly nervous from the way she was tapping her foot on the ground.

"What are you doing? Are you suicidal or trying to start a war?" Said Mel frantically.

Malachi looked at the two people before him, still baffled about all that had been happening to him, from his exile out of the palace to his perplexing curse and now this.

"Why do you care? Besides you are mere humans." replied Malachi with a hint of arrogance.

"And you're a dark dweller." said Mike sarcastically.

"I've been having visions about you, and why can I sense your aura, vampires don't have energy." asked Mel " What are you?"

"I am about to feed on you " said Malachi.

"No you're not, look, we are here to help you" said Mel.

"You know what Mel, this was a bad idea" said Mike balling up his fists. Mike could tell that Malachi wanted to feed on them, though he seemed to have the body of a human, the look in his eyes and his hair said otherwise.

"Listen, we don't have much time, you can trust us, you have energy, you're human" said Mel, although she didn't even fully understand what she was saying.

"No I am not a mortal" replied Malachi with annoyance in his voice, barely having the strength to argue.

"Yes you are, you have energy, dark energy. "

Malachi was feeling weak, he knew he could not fight in the state he was in, he had to feed.

"I need to feed, now!" Demanded Malachi as he barely held on to his consciousness. His staggering figure made Mike relax his guard a little bit, but only a little.

"No you need food, you're weak cause you haven't eaten and you're dehydrated. Let us help you." pleaded Mel. There's something about him, he's different. She thought to herself.

"Fine, I don't care what you do just do it now." Said Malachi with the last of his strength.

"Mel what are you going to do, you will have to help him cultivate a little, humans our age don't have grey hair, only the elderly do. Not to mention his eyes are gold and freaky," Mike said looking at Malachi.

"Okay give me a minute. I know the perfect spell for cloaking appearances."

After breathing in and out slowly to focus her mind, Mel walked over to Malachi pulled him out of the roof's shadow into a corner where the sunlight was shining, she looked him in the eyes chanted something Malachi could not understand, however the results were instant. His eyes became brown and his hair became a wave of shiny, thick jet black hair, making him look mystical.

"What kind of cultivation is this." asked Malachi curiously as he touched the strands of his hair. An energy he had never felt went through his body and changed him in ways he could not understand. It also gave him strength to support himself. Malachi had been a blood cultivator for centuries, but he had never felt so....alive.

"It's human cultivation, we cultivate using energy, Helios is our source of energy."

"How is that possible? Half the sun has been eclipsed," said Malachi as he eyed Mel suspiciously.

"Yeah no thanks to your kind," said Mike agitated.

Mike grabbed Mel by the elbow and pulled her aside.

"Okay so now what?" whispered Mike whilst eyeing Malachi from the corner of his eye.

"We have to take him with us," replied Mel.

"No way we are bringing a night creeper into our clan" Mike argued.

"He's weak and needs a place to lay low, besides I have a strong feeling; we need him as much as he needs us," said Mel.

Mel had a weird feeling when it came to Malachi, she didn't fear him. She felt connected to him in a way. Mike looked at Malachi who looked like a fragile human and said to Mel.

"How ironic, the Darkness needs to hide."

...

The trio arrived by an outstanding white brick wall that was obviously meant to keep unwanted guests out, it had a silver iron gate, that looked antique yet very potent. Which only created a curiosity within Malachi; what exactly is being protected. No sign of any form of life was evident from where the trio stood. This was Malachi's first time in this city called Ndalo, he had always desired to come to this city, his father always spoke about how it was full of life and that soon the Van Locke family was going to conquer it. He always prepared for that day seeing it from a distance but up close standing next to this outstanding wall and iron gate, he was more ecstatic to know what this city had to offer.

In the land of Sahyun there are two grand cities, each populated with human tribes. The first city is Goudstad; the city of gold. Even though it is primarily known as the city of gold, it is also rich in numerous minerals. This is the city where Malachi and his coven was from. All vampires from every rank live in this city but at the same time there are a few human tribes that dare reside in Goudstad, it has been said that some of the human tribes and wanderers have made a treaty with the vampires to cohabit in the city of gold, exchanging a taste of blood for a taste of power and mineral.

Then there's the Ndalo city, where nature thrives abundantly, hundreds of years ago the first humans chose this city as their home for their cultivation. This is a city of chaos there is always war within Ndalo because every tribe wants to protect its own and have enough land for survival, the humans want to be surrounded by nature, even though most humans have lost the ability to cultivate like their forefathers, their cultivation now at minimum level because half the sun has been eclipsed by powerful vampires.

The humans in Sahyun are constantly being attacked by vampires because their blood makes vampires euphoric, their blood is a drug to vampires, a drug that is on demand. Sahyun is a dog eat dog type of world, where only the fittest are worthy of survival.

"I'll use my pass so we can get through the gate." said Mel nervously, her hands were shaky as she took a metal pass out of her black backpack, she inhaled a deep breath to try calm her nerves down but it proved to be fruitless, she eyed Malachi who somehow through all this still managed to remain composed, and godly, he had a smirk on his face, a curious look in his eyes, his face always showed his feelings, it must have been a side effect of him not being able to control his emotions, he couldn't hide them either, so as dark as he was, he was very transparent.

"Just follow my lead," she instructed to Mike and Malachi. Mike nodded with a look of uncertainty whilst Malachi still kept his attention on the antique gate. Mel began to walk closer to the gate and the other two followed right beside her. They reached the gate, and Mel put her pass inside a slot and an identification screen appeared, she pulled her pass out of the slot and touched the screen and pressed on it, then on the screen popped up a man who looked directly at her.

"Melissa, are you alright, you pressed The Code. What is going on?"

"Y-yes Sir Chad, I'm with Mike, we're fine. We found a human in Goudstad, we need to help him, he was attacked by night creepers..."

And before she could finish, the gate began to open

"Get in Melissa, all three of you, go to security to get cleared" commanded sir Chad

They walked through the gate, where a group of armed men were waiting for them, all dressed in black. One man grabbed Malachi, whilst Mel and Mike were instructed to walk through a scan where they disappeared. Malachi began to get anxious, he had no idea what was going on he began to feel like an unwanted guest. He was led past a similar looking scanner that Mike and Mel went through; when he walked through he was put into a white small room and was forced to sit on a chair by the man who had grabbed him.

"He cleared security sir," said the man on a walkie talkie. A minute later the man on the screen walked in together with Mel and Mike.

"This is Malachi," said Mel a she walked towards him.

"Thank you Melissa but let me talk to him," said Sir Chad "Malachi, welcome to Alfaan tribe, you've cleared security, anyone that wants to enter our walls has to go through the security scan, it's a quick yet effective process, I am Sir Chad, the leader of Alfaan tribe, where are you from Malachi?"

Malachi fixated his gaze on Sir Chad, he didn't open his mouth, or even move a muscle, he sat in a tense position.

"Okay then I understand you're probably shaken from the attack on your clan but I'm here to help you since you've come to seek refuge here. " said sir Chad.

Malachi's wit knew that he had to give a good impression in order to be accepted with this clan, he had to think fast what his response will be.

"Sir Chad , I'm not from any clan, I'm a wanderer, from Yohan town in Goudstad city. I was with my brother when a night creeper attacked my brother and I, we separated and I've been looking for him ever since" Just the thought of using the term night creeper made Malachi sick to his stomach, and now he had to say it, it made his very being quiver with anguish, such a derogatory term placed upon superior beings.

"Oh Goudstad, that explains why you seem a bit different. I hear you young man I'm sorry, you can stay with us, however you must adhere to our way of living, I understand that Goudstad is very different from Ndalo, it's almost as if we're worlds apart, just try adapt to our system and we'll do our best to help you adapt. We've hosted many refugees. We'll give you food, a place to sleep and in order to earn your right here, you must work, but I'm sure you're exhausted so we'll discuss all that tomorrow morning. Malachi I'll assign Mel as your keeper, she's like a daughter to me, she'll help you with anything that you need. "

Malachi looked at his surroundings, and nodded indifferently. Mel took Malachi and they walked out of the white room.

"You see, that was very easy" whispered Mel with a smile on her face

"Oh yes that's why you were shaking uncontrollably throughout the whole time, I almost thought you were going to faint." said Malachi rudely

Mel ignored his comment, feeling rather proud of herself.

"So I've been instructed to show you around but first you'll have to go clean up and get dressed. Also Mike you don't have to follow us around"

"Well I don't trust him enough to leave you alone with him, Mel have you forgotten what he is" gritted Mike

"Keep your voice down, and stop talking like that, or else we'll all get into trouble, just chill okay" said Mel as she pushed Mike aside.