Strigoi

Chapter 1: The Future Judoka

Who would've thought I would go this far? So far that I could feel that thing; a horrible thing. The Orgè, a feeling so hard to describe.

It was uncontrollable, it was like boiling water running through your veins, one wrong move and it could set you off.

But, it made you feel so free, so strong. You could crush any creature using nothing but your hands. It makes you so much stronger and it definitely goes to your head.

You use it too much you become insane, you become a Judoka: a shapeshifting creature that kills for pleasure.

My Mother always said that the Strigoi was a gift, but it has been nothing more but a burden.

When she died, she passed it on to me, she said I was ready, that I could handle it. But was she right? Did she realize that she was passing the Strigoi, something so powerful that held plentiful consequence, to a future Judoka?

The Strigoi is a preeminent gene, passed on to certain families. When it is the elder Strigoi of the lineages' time to move past Zoe (temporal or eternal life) the Strigoi gene will be passed down to the next illegable generation.

I was the next and the last for now. The elder's of the Strigoi clan were desperate, they had no other choice. Usually elder's reinforce more strategic selections, with the intention of not gifting the Strigoi to another Judoka.

The Strigoi have been hiding their existence since the beginning of time. We hide in the shadow's in fear of hurting others.

But, the Judoka go against all morals and values of the Strigoi. We don't fear our power, we embrace it. We were meant to do something with all this power. Why else would we have it?

That is why a Judoka with the power of a Strigoi is the elder's worst nightmare. A Judoka means all our ends of Zoe.

In 1844 a young man with the Strigoi gene running through his blood was given the right of the Strigoi. He became the next generation of the clan. Little did the elder's know was that they had come upon the first Judoka, the first mad Strigoi.

That young man became obsessed with power, he wanted everything the humans had. One thing in particular was a woman to share his power with.

He saw other young men like him marrying and being happy, so he thought to himself, "All this power and there is still one thing I don't have".

He would watch the towns people in search of his wish. On a lonely night he found her: a young girl with hair dark as midnight, cheeks rosey pink, eyes so bright they glistened, and a heart so pure and innocent.

She was perfect and she was all that he wanted. He would watch her every night as she combed her long dark hair and sang with such a sweet voice.

He wanted her even more and more with every passing moment. Then he couldn't withstand her not knowing him, not being with him. So one day he decided to let her know him, to charm her into loving him as much as he loved her.

And so they both fell endlessly in love together. But when the girl's father found out about their relationship, he forbid them from being with eachother.

The young man was tired of being miserable due to humans. He was far more powerful and if he wanted, he could marry the girl and finally be happy.

He decided to put his power to use and get rid of the one thing that was standing in the way of his and the girls happiness.

As the whole town slept through the night, the young Strigoi removed himself from the shadows and went into the town. He snuck into the girl's house and into the fathers bedroom.

He stood over the sleeping old man as ideas ran through his mind of how he could kill him. And that is when he experienced his first Orgè.

He lost control, he tore the man apart piece by piece. Its always harder for a Judoka to handle the Orgè than a normal Strigoi.

Then the young girl was awoken due to her fathers screams. She entered the room and she was torn apart too.

The town soon found out what had happened and they were furious. So they found our secret and they called us Vampiros: blood sucker's.

They found the Judoka along with many other Stigoi and they found way's to kill us. They would burn us alive, chop our heads off, or put a wooden stake through our hearts.

The elders in order to protect us, made us all move to the Americas. And this time never allow Strigoi to mix with another species.

To this day there aren't many left of us. Only three elders and a future Judoka.

My father was never chosen to carry on the Strigoi gene, he was always against our ways. He always said he was glad he never got it because our kind are manipulaters and we go against all rules of life.

The Strigoi can live up to many decades. My mother lived 1043 years. We don't age much, we can control minds, we choose when we die, and we can exploit humans.

The elder's though have mastered other things, they can harness human and other Strigoi minds, they have the ability to blend into their surroundings, and they can kill anyone by just thinking about it.

Some humans on the other hand, have found immunity to our abilities. They have discovered some poisonous herb to harm the Strigoi: Pharmaco.

They cover their weapons with it, they drink it, and they kill us with it. Pharmaco in their bodies blocks their minds from our use and stops us from fighting back. It's our true and only weakness.

From the early Strigoi Phonèo: the early Strigoi killings, a group of human hunters; Kynigós have emerged. They are the only ones that have the ability to kill us.

But they are the only remaining humans that know of our existence. The Kynigós would gaurd the town and kill the suspected Strigoi.

We hide from them since then, but they've had greater things on their hands. The Strigoi aren't the only things hunted by the Kynigós.

They hunt something even more dangerous, The Lycanthrope. Known to mythology as a man that can shapeshift into a wolf, a werewolf. Though they've had better luck against the Kynigós, the hunters have discovered wolfspane, a herb deadly to the Lycanthrope.

The Lycanthrope still survive in large numbers. Many live away from humans and other species and some blend in with humans.

The Strigoi and the Lycanthrope have been forbiden to be near each other due to their wild ways and our fear of spawning another Judoka.

They have three stages as a Lycanthrope, the Man, Sinai, and the Wolf.

The Man is the human form of he Lycanthrope, consisting of all human physical features and actions.

The Sinai is a combination of both the Man and the Wolf, they keep their human character and the personality of an animal.

The Wolf is the true side of the Lycanthrope, the wild creature. They only turn into the Wolf on a full moon but in a Sinai whenever desired.

The Lycanthrope live amongst a pack, with Alphas, Betas, and Omegas. The Alphas lead the pack, Betas are the Alphas right hand men or women, and Omegas are the growing cubs.

Decades after the Stigoi Phoneó, the wild Lycanthrope during their wolf stage raided the town in search for a young Omega.

They soon found the wolf dead and in the possession of the Kynigós.

The Lycanthrope are very fond of all members of their pack. So they killed all of the towns children to prove that they can too take what has been taken.

Since then there has been war between the Kynigós and the Lycanthrope. And they both will not stop until there is no one left standing.

After my mother moved on from Zoe, my father took me away from the Strigoi clan in order to start a new life away from all madness. He is convinced that keeping me away from the Clan will keep me safe.

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