The Immortal | Prequel Story |

Chapter 28 ~ The Wedding

The wedding took place a month later. took out to the forest, distracting her with training while Mallen made her wedding dress. Iérti taught Írásom how to shapeshift, demonstrating his ability. He taught her valuable sword fighting skills, since the vampire overlords planned to create weapons to use against Tavaly and his vampire allies.

It was Ardai who suggested they create silver swords and daggers. Of course, they had to be extra careful handling them since silver weakened them.

Then Krystyna suggested silver bullets from a werewolf novel. Cyllen thought pointed wooden bullets would be more effective. Tyvek disagreed, saying neither was a good idea.

Stellan wanted to plant garlic and blackthorn shrubs around the cities and settlements, to repel vampires, but Blaise complained, saying it would be counteractive since it would repel them too.

Vajir suggested making a bomb since it was a surefire way to kill vampires all in one take, but nobody agreed to that proposition, saying it would be even more counteractive than the vampire-repellent plants idea. Eryxa thought Mallen and were the best weapons. Ardai still thought silver swords would be best.

And so Ardai and Blaise went to the human settlements in search of blacksmiths who would be willing to forge silver weapons for them, since silver weakened vampires.

A few human blacksmiths didn't mind, eager for the work, knowing vampires wouldn't be able to come near during work. Others refused, too prejudiced against vampires. The human blacksmiths who agreed to forge silver weapons for the vampires were allowed to work at their own leisure, so long as they provided them with weapons once they were done. The vampires promised not to feed on them in exchange for their help, excluding them from the barracks since they were providing vampires a different kind of service.

While Iérti's vampire overlords helped the human blacksmiths as much as they could in their weapons production, trained , and Mallen set time aside to plan for his wedding. Mallen worked every day, Iérti giving him suggestions and advice. He stayed in the tower room long after dawn, working on putting the finishing touches.

When the wedding finally came, Krystyna and Eryxa helped Írásom by lacing her into her wedding dress, putting on makeup, doing her hair, among other things.

Iérti watched Mallen in the mirror as he smoothed his hair for what seemed like the hundredth time. "Should I tie it back or let it stay loose? I can't decide." Mallen's voice was unusually restless and unsure, alerting Iérti to his nervousness.

handed Mallen his satin olive green ribbon, a thin cream white ribbon appearing in and out of it down the middle. "Tying it back gives a more professional appearance. You want to look official on your important day. Do you need help with that or you got it?"

"I got it," said Mallen, carefully tying his hair back with the ribbon. He looked at himself in the mirror again, looking over every detail.

He was dressed in formal black clothing with olive green details on his stylish knee-length jacket. Mallen's jacket and pants were black. The long sleeve shirt underneath was black with cream white, periwinkle blue, and olive green flower details on it. The jacket partly opened to reveal his shirt underneath. It was slim and elegant, as were his pants. The shoes were entirely black leather.

Iérti's reflection in the mirror, standing behind Mallen and to the right, was just as elegantly dressed. Iérti looked fancy in a maroon red and cream white knee-length jacket over a cream white long sleeve shirt and dark red pants. There was dark red and cream white stitching on the jacket and shirt. He neatly tied his hair back with the maroon red and cream white ribbon Mallen made for him from leftover jacket material. Iérti's shoes were made of black leather.