THE HYBRID THRONE

Chapter 4: Vampire Layer

Akeldama Delacruz

Remove the robe hood cap gently and walk with confidence, moving the shoulder side to side. When getting to the front of a big candle, I stretch my hand towards it, and it brought light to all the candles inside the dark room.

Slowly remove the black mask I used and flip my short black hair. Then bring my face close to the candlelight! Eyeballs are red, eyebrows were flurrying curved above each eye with a thin pointed nose. A smile can melt the heart and make someone fall in love instantly.

Looking around the layer, the paint is black color with different animals drawn on it. Then look straight at the golden shining throne, match towards it and sit down confidently.

A flash from my past kept disturbing my head, as I remember when I was just ten years old having a good time with my father, Adreana Delacruz in our big black mansion.

My father loves bats so much, so he made a garden for them, we're both inside the garden playing with the bats. That moment filled with joy and also beautiful because my father was telling me jokes about bats, which made me so happy.

In a blink of an eye, the atmosphere changed. Two of my father's servants sped like the wind to the garden we were, their canine teeth are out with red eyes.

“What's going on!” My father glanced and raised his brows at his vampires and hid me behind him.

“We're under attack by a powerful werewolf! She's strong, we can't face her!”

My father's eyebrows lowered and pulled close together, his eye's lid became squint and his lips tightened. When he opened his mouth to scream, the canine teeth on both sides came out long and his eyes were blue.

He used his fingers to slay the two vampires on their neck without moving closer to them, and they both vanished into the air as their body dust ashes on the floor. The werewolf just came from nowhere and put her hand into my father's heart and pulled it out.

My father's lips were trembling with his tightened face. I can feel the pain, the werewolf ran off after pulling my father's heart out, but my father ran faster than the eye can see and followed her.

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“I know you're not among those that I killed yesterday at Tagaytay! They said the prophecy tells them that you will be powerful to the extent of destroying and killing me, but that it's a lie! Because I won't even let you live to fulfil the prophecy before hunting and killing you for good! I will not die like my father!”

My eyebrows wriggled like ugly caterpillars. Here comes my beautiful daughter Jessica, walking in confidence and swinging her pink lace flurry gown dress without missing a step.

“Hello, My darling daddy! Tell me, did you miss your little, beautiful angle?” Jessica stands in front of me, smiling her beautiful face out with a dashing dimple.

“Why not, come closer to papa!” I smile towards her.

I was about to carry Jessica on my lap when my two servants sped in like a wind, holding a boy of age fifteen.

“Highest!” Both of my servants bow together.

I sped faster than the eye could see to their front and hid the young boy on the neck. He did not struggle to save himself. Then I dropped him off the ground, asked my beautiful daughter Jessica to go ahead and suck his blood because this is my gift for her.

Jessica giggles and runs towards the boy then bite him on the neck to suck his blood while the boy screams and starts strangling to defend himself, but trust me, Jessica won't leave him because she enjoys the blood.

My hands folded and all the veins in my body showed, then I screamed louder that this world can only be controlled by me alone!

So all the werewolves should be ready for me because I will wipe them out from the surface of this earth! Including their powerful prophecy child!”

“Aaaah!”

After twenty years…

Luningning POV

Sun was about to rise in a dark forest with a damp moss rain smell, a young guy of age twenty-six with long black hair and V-shaped chin, also with his pointed nose and brown eyes. His height is 1,75 m.

A physical confrontation was happening fast with Alarick at a short-range, as both of us were exchanging punching and kicking legs. Alarick would hide into the air, by disappearing, and asking me to find him as fast as he could.

Alarick was fighting me without been

visible by scratching my body with his fang fingers anyhow. I paused and closed my eyes, took a deep breath then relaxed, to sense how Alarick was moving inside the air and attacking me.

I discovered that anytime he scratches me, I feel the wind blow past my ear. Then I waited for him to scratch me again, before the wind could blow past my ears I sensed Alarick closed to me, then I grabbed his neck.

Pull him out from the invisible air and smash his back on the ground. All the wounds that did not penetrate deeper into the layer of my body have tiny drops of bloodlines on them.

“The future king, I'm sorry for causing you much pain because of the way I scratch your body. Sadly, you haven't gained any power yet, and we need to move into the city.”

Alarick said as he stood up from the ground and dust his clothes off. He never aged, still looks like the same Alarick twenty years back.

“Are you certain, I'm truly the future king? Because I don't know why I haven't obtained any power, thought my powers you claimed will come out the day the blood moon appears in the sky, but it didn't! I'm still powerless!”

I put my feet together and pull my knees to my chest.

“I'm sorry, future king for saying something that will break your heart! Please forgive me.” Alarick dropped to his knees and begged.

I am not angry, I just feel disappointed that I don't have power yet and my parent's death has not been avenged! This is sad, can't believe it's twenty years already and no power except turning into a werewolf!

“Ah! That sucks! Alarick, you haven't seen any prophecy for the past twenty years that we've been together, tell me, are you still a seer? If yes, then do whatever it takes for you to see the prophecy of a powerful werewolf child again.”