Hoshi no Senshii - Meta Knight's pain

Prologue: Dawn

There was no hope left. 

What before was a beautiful scenery full of life, love and harmony, now it was a scenery of death, pain and despair.

The war lasted years, and despite all of the Star Warriors Brigade's effort… There was no one alive left. Except for one warrior, the leader of the male squad, Meta Knight, also known by many as "The Vampire Knight".

The survivor watched the twilight while sitting on the edge of a cliff, having as environmental decoration mountains and mountains of corpses both from his fallen comrades and the demon beasts created by Nightmare, the enemy all had in common. 

- … How did all of this happen...? - The knight asked himself, carefully studying his sword still stained with the blood of his enemies. Before and during the War, there were plenty of winged humans, like himself. The winged humans are a human kind subspecies with different powers depending on the kind they belong to, longer life expectancy (100 winged years = 1 human year) and with different kinds of wings depending on the hour of the day they were born.

The Day ones, born during the day, have white angel wings.

The Twilight ones, born during twilight or dawn, have eagle or butterfly wings.

The night ones, born during night, have bat wings. There is a variant in this kind of winged humans. There is a 50% chance of being born with a strange condition called "Dracula's Syndrome". This condition makes the affected ones to be virtually identical to a vampire:

-Superhuman strength.

- Allergic to garlic.

- Extremely photosensitive and photophobic. Direct prolonged contact with sunlight can cause serious burns or even death if the necessary measures are not taken.

- Cannot consume anything but blood from animals, winged humans or normal humans.

-Even greater night vision than a normal night winged.

- Have a both auditory and visual function they can voluntarily activate called "Heartbeat detector". While having this function activated, their hearing amplifies enough to easily hear the nearest potential prey's heartbeat. In this state, they can only distinguish between different tones of red. If they feel extreme hunger, this state activates automatically until they have succeeded in hunting and killing a prey.

The main differences with a traditional vampire are:

-They can not transform their victims into vampires.

- They are mortal (They are actually alive) and they have the same life expectancy a normal winged human would have.

-They can not transform into other animals.

Meta was one of those vampires, and this was really useful to him in the war against Nightmare.

 However... It wasn't all perseverance and bravery in his being. On the inside, he was practically dead, not wanting to be still alive simply because there no longer was any reason left to keep living for him.

He lived, saw and had to do hundreds of horrible and unforgivable things that would have broken any other mortal's sanity. To think this all started with the mysterious disappearance of his older brother, a day winged human who was one of the strongest star warriors, and the death of his mother by the hands of a demon beast. But there were two events in particular that especially scarred him. 

The first of those two events has everything to do with Galaxia, his sword. 

He met a human lady called Garlude, leader of the female squad, who decided to join the Star Warriors league in order to gain back her kingdom, Shiver Star, from Nightmare's power, the responsible behind everything. She also was a Star Warrior because she wanted to protect her 5-year-old daughter, Sirica, and because she wanted to avenge her husband's death, who also was an important star warrior who was found dead at the end of a fight with a demon beast. She was his partner in the mission of getting back the Sacred Sword Galaxia, the most powerful sword in the whole Universe, stolen by the demon beast Kirisakin, who also was the same demon who killed Meta's mother. Only a few could hold the sword, and Meta was one of them. Garlude knew about this, and with immense pain, she yelled while holding the sword, feeling intense electric shocks: