Serpent Twins: The Fall

The Mirceas

Alexander’s POV:

I was on private jet to go back to my castle in British Columbia when Nicholas called.

“Nicholas, have you returned to Germany?” I answered.

“No, I’m in Bologna. Do you know that Adriana sending Elizabeth to your place? That’s why I left earlier. Were you with Adriana’s plan, Brother?” he angrily accused.

I sighed, our little sister, Adriana tried to match Nicholas with Elizabeth, our cousin, ever since we were teenager.

“No, I know nothing about it, Nicholas. She has returned to Australia,” I replied, getting annoyed. I actually met her for few minutes only to be left alone in her hotel room, blatantly telling one of her human slave made an error that night so she had to go back earlier. She is the only in my family to have the nerve toying with us.

That little brat.

“Please, call Adriana for me. She won’t listen to me ever. I don’t want to f*****g date with a girl who was madly in love with you,” he rudely said.

“Nicholas. Are you ordering me or requesting? And I have never f*****g dated her,” I scolded him.

“Come on, Brother. Please do this for me for once,” he sounded hopeless.

“Fine. I’ll call her,” I told him.

“Thanks, Brother. One more thing, was there anything particularly happened?” he almost muttered.

I carefully replied, “What do you mean?”

“Well, I could definitely feel something, it’s been a very long time ever since we were just sixteen,” he continued.

Well, he sensed it.

“No, nothing particular, Nicholas,” I ensured him in firm tone.

“A human stabbed your heart,” he stated.

“A wooden stick wouldn’t do any harm to us,” I reminded him.

A silver would.

“But he did stab you,” he emphasized the did word.

“I let him because, Nicholas, sometimes we had to minimize casualties. It has started getting harder to get footages disappeared and human wouldn’t stop talking if we took the life of their police,” I told him calmly.

Well, Andrei’s subordinate was trying to grab that human before police patrol and other humans started to come, swarming around the site, so I told my guards to leave me there.

“We weren’t supposed to be too discreet, Brother. If the truth came out, it’s their downfall. We would have nothing to lose but being true rulers, not secret ones,” he commented coldly.

“Were you questioning my judgement, Nicholas? If father wanted a ruthless one like him to keep ruling, he might just choose you for the crown over me. I remembered exactly The Council asked him to rule in more discreet, which he almost failed three hundred years ago,” I felt rage started to build up.

“Nah, I’m just talking, Brother. So, how about your experiment so far? Cameron said he came to see you while uncle was visiting, but you have never returned to your castle. Are you still in New York City?” he asked.

Cameron Mircea is our cousin, brother of Elizabeth. He was appointed to rule Inter-America and South America. Thomas Mircea is our uncle, father of Cameron and Elizabeth. He was ruling middle-East until Southern Africa-Indian Ocean.

“Yes, I still have things to do. We’ll meet another time. And I got report from Georgia’s and other labs, same problem, still clot.” I said, diverting the topic.

“Just because you have scientists to do the job, doesn’t mean that you have to stop being one, Brother. I’m not the one, so please finalize this,” he responded.

“You sound like father,” I told him.

“That was actually what father told me, Brother. I’m just a messenger,” I could feel he was grinning.

My mood turned sour, “Okay, is that all? I must go.”

“Yes, Brother. That would be all for now,” and I hung up on him.

Father has been always into Nicholas, he rarely summoned me. Not like I want to be summoned, but ever since a little, I knew his favorite son is Nicholas, not me. But since I am the first born, he had no other option to put me as his next successor. Nicholas, even when he made so many troubles since little, father always forgave him. I rarely killed humans, but Nicholas, along with Adriana, killed humans even for fun. We used to have many human slaves in our homes all over the world, but ever since Nicholas killed them one by one, we started to use more of our kind to do housing’s core. The only odd thing about him that despite he despised human so much, he kept taking degree in countless universities, as if he couldn’t get enough with universe. As we have put our kind in strategic position in human world, I think what he did was pointless and careless. So basically, he was living in more freedom way than I am, only living to try to please father.

My father, Marius, is our king. He is the first son of our very first kind, living for over two-thousand years with her sister, my mother, Marian. It was said that pureblood vampire could only breed by engaging incest or mating with the mate, while turned vampire couldn’t breed at all. The first kind was Radu, practically my grandfather, and his mate is Amalia, his own sister. They had three children, Marius, Marian, and Thomas. The only proof that a human mate did exist is Veronika Frumos, she is my uncle Thomas’s wife, his mate. While other older vampires aren’t born vampires, they were turned by either Radu, Amalia, Marius, Marian, or Thomas.

As a king, father is also member of The Council, along with Radu, Amalia, Gregor Frumos, Victor Boyar, and Lilith Martel. The Council, except for Radu and Amalia who are The First Ones, resides in my father’s castle in Romania for over seven hundred years ago formerly for witchcraft hunt. They previously lived with The First Ones in South Pole. The First Ones aka our true ancestors had their children after turning Gregor, Victor, and Lilith who were turned few years year earlier than our parents. They were all royal families or clan leaders since being humans. The Council kept turning selected humans until our population reached barely a million, scattered in every part of the world, and they have no choice but being loyal to us, because turned vampire can be mind-controlled by pureblood who did the turning.

Nicholas have started requesting to father to let me to use human subject for the experiment as we kept losing sixty-seven of our kind for failing the experiment. But since I am still in charge of the blood substitute project, I have sent objection of the idea, as we just don’t need subject that many. Turning human is prohibited, no longer allowed by The Council because each of turning must be approved by them first. The reason wasn’t for the sake of humanity, but merely to control our submissive population and they wanted to maintain abundance livestock, instead of hunting for food just like their very first era.

Turning human into vampire isn’t an easy task, simply because of three reasons. The first is more technical reason as the human subject must be alive and we have to suck them dry, but stop just before the last breath and put our venom into the subject’s system. The reaction was almost instantly, taking only few minutes. But if we failed to follow the procedure, either we decayed for sucking dead body or the subject just withered and died or even worse, becoming senseless vampire who cannot be controlled. Only old meticulous vampires knew how to measure the last heartbeat, for inexperienced vampires, it would be just better to rip off the subject’s heart to prevent from turning, if accidentally giving venom while sucking too much blood. The second reason is because we need a consent for the subject to turn, otherwise the turned vampire becoming mad one, only after for bloodlust and uncontrollable. Lucky for us, most humans had tendency of wanting to be forever beautiful, rich and powerful. Things that The First Ones had offered, as return for lifetime loyalty and tribute for us. The last reason is we have to do it during the Full Blood Moon occurred, when the moon is undergoing a total eclipse, appeared in reddish, which definitely isn’t annually occurred.

I came up with project of human-blood substitute, but not only the taste was still bad, fatal side effect occurred to some of the subjects, causing them to turn greyish, slowly decaying. On contrary, for humans, our artificial blood was working well for them, but we didn’t make any efforts for a hundred years for humans, although the long effect will be great for them because we would no longer harvest theirs and living co-existence for good, but I don’t want to take a risk by contaminating human blood if eventually putting us in harmed when consuming theirs. This blood substitute was originally my idea, but sometimes I got fed up with all those same failed experiments and for years the scientists I appointed didn’t make any progress either. That was the main reason I went to Dawsonville’s lab early morning, to create another serum for scientists to test as we nearly approached a positive result.

I decided to dial Adriana. She picked up at the first beep.

“Brother, what the rare opportunity for you to call,” she answered in sarcastic tone.

A-hundred seventy younger than us, but she was closer to me rather than Nicholas.

“For Ancestor’s sake, Adriana. This Elizabeth thing must stop. You know how Nicholas despise her because of you,” I scolded.

“To the point as always, Brother. Forgive me, but he didn’t find his mate yet until now, so Elizabeth is probably our last chance for our family to have another born one,” she replied calmly.

“Well, we all don’t know whether the mate thing really exists for us, also Elizabeth is merely cousin. We don’t know if that even works,” I told her.

“As you said, we don’t know, Brother. We won’t, unless we try,” she insisted.

“Well, why don’t you try with Cameron, instead of pushing Elizabeth on Nicholas?” I asked.

“I can’t,” she replied, a pregnant pause for two second, “I’m in love with someone else,” she told.

I c****d my brow, “Really, who can he be, Adriana? That’s good news. Can he be your mate?” I enthusiastically asked.

“I can’t tell you now. I’ve just realized the feeling, but the feeling isn’t mutual, I wanted to expose my feeling, but I had no courage to tell,” she told, there was sad tone in her voice.

I got a little confused as that wasn’t like her at all.

“Tell me, Adriana. I’ll get him headless if he dares to break your heart. Who the hell is he?” I angrily asked her.

“That is why I won’t tell you, Brother. You don’t know love, sometimes even when the love was hurting you, you still want to let one you loved happy, even without you,” she said.

I was surprised, she suddenly sounded like those weak humans.

“That’s not really you, Adriana. So not you,” I honestly told her.

She was actually ruthless, just like Nicholas, she likes to soak in human blood just like Amalia and mother. How could a vile person be that selfless was confusing me. Unless…

“Were those lines from Korea Drama you have watched, Adriana?” my tone was indeed accusing.

Suddenly she burst out laughing, hard.

What the actual f**k.

“You caught me again, Brother,” she finally spoke after long laugh.

“You and Nicholas are hopeless. I won’t call you ever again unless to summon you when I’m being your fuckingking, Adriana,” my voice was low and threatening.

“Oh, come on, Brother. It was fun, I haven’t been laugh for years,” she responded, still laughing.

“You hear me now, Adriana. If I ever hear Nicholas whining on me again because of your stupid matchmaking trick with Elizabeth, I will use all my power and will, to wed you with Cameron, once I became your king. That will be the very first thing I will do,” I told her and hung up.

I gave my sign to Kristof who was sitting behind the cockpit to ask the pilot if he is ready to take off, and he whispered to the stewardess in red tight mini skirt and light blonde hair standing next to him, the human stewardess gave me a low bow and swayed her hips in seductive manner into the cockpit. Apparently, this Russian stewardess is newly assigned for me, she kept thinking filthy things from the very first time seeing me, unfortunately for her I just don’t fuckhuman and only drank from selected humans. Funny thing, my throat was feeling just fine. Normally I would get blood thirst if getting seduced.

I sighed and looked at the window, seeing that we started moving to the runway. It was gloomy evening in the outside, matched with my mood. My little sister needed a threat to stop messing out with me. Adriana was ruling Northern Asian Pacific until South Pacific, I heard once she was into some Japanese and Korean drama. She is f****d up just like Nicholas. They despised human, but always making direct contact with them, even engaging their cultures and having human slaves in their castle and human workers in their other homes. As for Nicholas, he was ruling for Euro-Asia, Inter-Europe, part of Trans-Europe, and I was ruling for North-America and part of Trans-Europe. We might not openly rule like humans, but we did have place our kind in every organ, for preventive measure and also for our interest to conveniently live among humans.

Adriana and Nicholas are like fire and water, they are seemed to hate to each other and compete to each other, literally. When they were little, if Nicholas killed one slave, Adriana would kill two. But Adriana listened to me better than to Nicholas. Mother dearly loves Adriana, she often to visit her castle in Queensland, but never once to mine or even Nicholas’s. I have never met my parents for over fifty-six years now, occasionally communicated only through letters or telephone calls. As for Nicholas, he maintained routine visit each year to my parents at The Council in Romania. Adriana stopped visiting my castle for fifty-six years ago and I rarely visit her unless for the work thing, she is no longer my cute baby sister after reaching the age of maturity. We, born vampires stopped aging at the age of twenty seventh. As for turned vampire, they wouldn’t get any younger, but the vampire venom indeed enhanced their physical appearance, strength, speed, and senses.

The thing is, Adriana was probably right, we should try every possibility to produce offspring, since only the born vampires carried supernatural powers and abilities, while turned vampires could only do hypnosis, an ability that we all born vampires have it after the age of a year, but for turned vampires, it was very rare gift for them, and moving out fast also required years of practice to excel. All turned vampires wouldn’t instantly get fangs, their fangs would grow to replace the fallen teeth after few couple months and could be trained into retractable.

As for us, the pureblood, we all have different powers. My father has abilities of telepathy, tele kinesis, gravity kinesis for floating or flying and power mimicry, to absorb and temporarily mimic other’s powers. I have telepathy, tele kinesis, invisibility, electronics kinesis, gravity kinesis, teleportation and serpent control. Nicholas has telepathy, tele kinesis, power mimicry, gravity kinesis, serpent control and shapeshifting, temporarily mimicking into another living form by touching. As for Cameron isn’t pureblood but born vampire, he has telepathy and the ability to forcibly absorb energy from surroundings to weaken his opponent, while his father, Thomas, has telepathy, gravity kinesis, bio kinesis and powerful healing. Our first kind, Radu, said to have omnipotence and omniscience, unlimited power and capacity to know everything infinitely.

All females of our kind unfortunately have less supernatural powers than the male ones. Amalia has telepathy and psychometry, to read the history of an object by touching it, and she is monolingual, be able to speak and to understand all languages. My mother has telepathy and pre-sentience ability, to sense events long before they happen. Adriana has telepathy and aura perception, be able to see other’s feelings or emotions in range of colors. Madeline has telepathy and the ability to control human’s dream. Elizabeth has telepathy and atmosphere kinesis, to control and manipulate weather as her mother, Veronika, was turned vampire, she has no supernatural power, but at least she had proven to miraculously conceive born vampires with different supernatural powers.

Deep in my cold heart, I was longing for a child too. I still remember how hugging Adriana, Cameron, and Elizabeth when they were just babies and watching them growing up, warmed up my heart. If Kimberly is willing to be vampire, which is probably a very tough task because she is a human with humanity, still my family and all will turn against us, resulting only death for the both of us.

And why would I start thinking about her that far?Did I start to fall for her? Would I even want to give up my long life only to live shortly with a mere human? What for? Whatever I did or will do only hurting her. How can I make sure she is my mate?

I intentionally wounded her both physically and mentally to hate me, yet here I am, thinking about to have her. I closed the window and rested my eyes with troubled questions in mind. A glimpse of Kimberly smiling face appeared, then changing into feared, fearing of me, then hurtful expression. I couldn’t stop thinking about her, my mind kept drifting to her soft moan when I kissed her, moaning my name. It felt so real even now, kept ringing in my ears, getting mine harder. I fisted my palm to suppress my desire. I need to immediately talk with my uncle Thomas, so I teleported to my castle.

Nicholas’s POV:

I was still smirking when my brother hung up the call. This is the second time I caught him lying. There must be something very big happened to him. He should know that I could feel it too. I scrolled up my phone contacts and called Adrian. I knew he is in New York City, I couldn’t ask Andrei because he is the most loyal dog of my brother.

“Adrian, are you in New York City?” I asked, soon after he picked up.

“Yes, Your Highness,” Adrian replied.

“Well, did you know or involve into the incident related to Andrei’s subordinate?” I intentionally didn’t refer to my brother.

“I was being summoned to supervise after the laundry team did their core, Your Highness,” he sounded careful when selecting his words.

“And what was your core, Adrian?” I asked.

“To make sure that there isn’t going to be any leads in the hospital,” he answered swiftly.

“Ah. You did attend some medical school before,” I muttered the reason, “So, was there anything unusual happened after? You have to be careful answering to this, I expect an honesty,” I continued with warning tone.

“No, there wasn’t, Your Highness. Everything had been well taken care of,” he said, “Well, unless...” he hesitated to continue.

“Yes?” I started to get excited.

“There was this one doctor human, she came to the morgue the next morning and asked around about one particular body did not supposedly exist,” he said a bit whispering as if there was someone else he didn’t want to be listened.

I c****d my brow with confusion, “Surely she found the bodies there, I heard there were three?”

“Yes, Your Highness. But she specifically asked about the body with green eyes and chest stabbed with wooden stick,” he replied slowly.

He knew it was my brother.

“Have you told Andrei or others?” I asked, sipping the blood from the crystal chalice.

“No, I haven’t, Your Highness. Since the footages and all have been cleaned up, I did not think it was going to be an issue, but I will report this to Prince Alexander or at least let Andrei know,” he said.

“No need. I’ll handle this for you. I’m going to call my brother anyway. So, what’s the name of this doctor again?” I asked.

“Kimberly Vanderwood, Your Highness. She is a surgeon,” he answered.

“Okay, just keep doing whatever you’re doing right now, Adrian,” I hung up before he replied me back, put my chalice on the desk, and got out of my study room in a flash to get dressed for travel.

My, my brother was keeping a secret.

I smirked and laughed, even if I have to spend another fuckingboring hour to go there, it’ll be all worth the fun. My brother would be quite occupied in Canada for some time, there is no other perfect time to recheck whatever it was than now. I called Peter, my guard, to prepare the jet for me right away. The rage I felt to Adriana has been evaporated, now I felt a bit sorry for her as my brother would scold her good. I smirked slyly.

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It was nearly dawn when the plane landed, the city road was nearly empty as most humans were still sleeping when I was at the back seat in the car with Peter driving to my condo at Tribeca.

“Peter, I need you to get me an info before noon. But do it secretly, don’t let anyone know your action on my account,” I ordered him.

“Yes, Your Highness. May I know what you need?” he asked.

“It’s about what you said yesterday, incident related to my brother and those humans, I want to know who is this Kimberly Vanderwood,” I informed him.

“The doctor, Your Highness?” he asked for confirmation.

Yes.> I told him through telepathy and he nodded.

“Andrei is still here, Your Highness,” he told me.

“Don’t let him get suspicious,” I reminded him again.

“Yes, Your Highness,” he answered.

This was getting more interesting, my brother almost never parted with Andrei. I assumed he took his second man, Kristof. I was about to rest in my condo before seeing the mysterious human myself. I closed my eyes, feeling content after having fresh blood on the plane earlier. Human blood tasted so much better from direct vessel. I licked my fangs, my mind wandering to the last time I visited my place, it was two years ago. I hope Peter had made arrangement to clean up even in short notice because routine maintenance would never be enough.

My mind went to the woman with light blue eyes flashing for just a second when I was closing my eyes during the flight. I couldn’t see her face clearly, but those eyes were beautiful and smiling at me. I have never experienced something like this, but wondering of who was she and how could I get such strange vision since we just don’t fantasize nor dream and unlike mother, I have no precognition power. I touched my chest lightly, no heartbeat, but I was sure I could feel the warmth in that particular area after her appearance.