The World of the Primary Eyes

Chapter 6: Luke

I have never seen my mother in flesh. I have seen my father till I was five. And then in a war, he died. But before he died he married a woman. Her name was Martha. And Martha was a Vampire. That to a very wicked one. She already had two kids when she married my dad. A boy of my age and a girl a year younger than me. Martha had married my dad for money because he was the human emperor in disguise. That's how we got all the money. And I was a prince. After dad died, I was the one in the line for the throne but Martha wanted it. She gave her all to get the throne but to sit on that throne required votes. Votes from the other emperors. Vote from Sebastian and Julius. And they never gave her their vote. Especially Sebastian was deeply in touch with my dad. After his death, he knew Martha would do this. So, Sebastian took me as his ward. Looked after me as if I was his child. Julius also cared for me. But Julius couldn't beat Sebastian. Sebastian was always number one for me. I idealized him. When I turned 18, the terminal illness that ran in our family struck me. And I died. Or that's what I thought so.

Sebastian turned me into a Vampire. When I opened my eyes I could see tears in his eyes and Julius comforting him. But there was only one emotion in me. Hunger. Instead of getting a human, Sebastian gave me his blood. The blood of the descendants of the first kind of vampires. It was the royal blood. And I drank it. It gave me numerous powers and gifts. It is always known as special when a vampire gives blood to another vampire. It's not something our kind likes to do.

But with all the love Sebastian provided me with, he was a cruel, heartless, ruthless monster to all life. Numerous humans have died because of him. His anger can bring destruction to all. But no one dares to stand against him. Sebastian has a gift. The gift to compel. So he always manipulates everyone the way he likes. Julus was an exception. He knew going against his brother will only bring everything down. Julius always listened to Sebastian but when Julius said no which was like never Sebastian would stop. There was this unknown bond the brothers had even though they weren't each other's blood.

Sebastian had a massive hatred toward hybrids. He always found them threatening. Even Julius disliked them. I didn't care so much. One day, Sebastian told me that my mom was killed by the witches. I lost my mad and went on a rampage. This was exactly what Sebastian wanted. He hated the witches too. We slaughtered millions of witches and won the war. My thoughts were calmed after that.

And that's when I saw her. The pretty little girl who always looked confused. She smiled at everyone but always had a sad face when no one was around. I always wanted to talk to her but I couldn't. I was scared that her existence would alert Sebastian. She was always living for her family. Whatever she did was for them. It was like she never cared what she wanted. More like she never thought if she ever wanted anything. But I liked her anyway.

And then the worst happened. Sebastian was chasing the hybrid Trixie but ended up feeding on the little girl's parents. I couldn't do anything. Sebastian didn't even bother to erase her thoughts. He wanted to torture her. And it did work. The girl never lived for herself. And when her parents died she lost the reason to live. She tried to drown herself to death. Her thoughts were so negative. I had to stop her. And I did but suddenly I could no longer read her. She hates me. She hates my kind.

But she did like me. The same way I liked her. Her eyes always roamed whenever we met. She wasn't trying to ignore me but was looking at all of me. But she hated me at the same time. She hated that I worked for Sebastian. I couldn't betray him. She knew it. But we both liked each other.

There was a curse set on me by the witches. They hated me for ruing their clans. I couldn't use my vampire strength when I had to protect myself. I could only use it when my blood is flowing in someone else's body too. Like Sebastian.

That day, Sebastian called for me. He wanted me to go to the woods. He wanted me to check on the condition there. But something about Sebastian's behaviour was odd. I couldn't read him because he had compelled me to forget to read his thoughts.

I met Ivy there. What was she doing there? In the forest of ruins. I was mad. What if something bad happened to her? What if a Warewolf attacked her or a Vampire bit her? She calls us supernaturals monsters. She would hate herself if she turned into one. Which would then trigger her to kill herself again.

I let my emotions take over me and made Ivy sad. I felt bad about myself. But we cheered up soon. We had a date. She was so cute. She wanted to see my real eyes. I worried she would be afraid of my red eyes but instead, she loved them. She kissed my eyes. I got startled. I didn't know she had it in her. My startle worried her. I wanted to assure her that I liked it so I kissed her. And stopped. I didn't want to force it on her. I realized I didn't ask her permission to kiss her. I apologised. But she liked it too. We kissed a little longer but blood. I felt the taste of her blood. It was sweet as hell. And then I lost my mind. I bit her. I choked her. And I got smacked by someone.

When I opened my eyes I saw Ivy on the ground. Trixie panicking. I realized what I did. And I hate myself for that. I rushed towards them. Trixie tried to attack me again but I escaped. Ivy was constantly blinking her eyes. Her green eyes constantly changed to black as she blinked. I saw her arm. I held it and tried to figure out how far was she in transition. Thankfully my venom had just begun to move through her blood vessels. I quickly found a sharp rock and washed it with the water Trixie had and cut her wound deeper. Blood rushed out of her body like a flood and so did all my venom.

There are two types of bites a vampire can have. One is that helps you drink blood and the other way you drink blood but also turn that human into a vampire. Certain essence gets released that turn human into a vampire. No venom can be extracted. But there is this mystery that we don't know. The descendants of the first kind were the only ones that could turn humans into a vampire but later on, whoever had their blood could turn humans.

Now that the essence was gone we had to stop her bleeding. I took my coat off and tied it tightly to the wound. We took her to a hospital. The doctors did their thing and Ivy woke up. As a human. Thankfully God was on our side today. Trixie was still under shock.

Ivy opened her eyes. She looked at me and turned away. She hated me. I look for her. She was crying. I hurt her deeply. I don't know why I did that. Why would I do something shitty like that why?!

"Was it Sebastian, Luke?", Trixie asked. Ivy turned towards me hopefully.

"Possible.", I said. Sebastian was acting suspiciously. He knew that I liked a human. He must have compelled me to kill her when I taste her blood. That is surely something Sebastian would do.

"I'm sorry, Ivy. I'm sorry you had to go through this because of me.", I said kneeling and holding her hands.

"Please don't do this to me again.", she said crying. The doctor called for us.

"We have dressed her wounds but we are not sure about the marks on her back.", said the doctor. She showed Ivy's bareback. It was filled with burn marks of the demon flower. How did she get that mark? What happened to her? This explains the Fyn herb. But who the hell did this to her?!