Chapter One: Under Pressure

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The Beginning

We came into existence when the first blood drinker befell the earth. A brother and sister, identical in power, as well as looks. They hold place as the first twins to walk this world.

The woman, The Celestial be the one true mother of our race. She shall be the first and last of the Protector women that shall bare children.

The man, The First Firstborn. The true beginning of our kind, the Protector of The Celestial.

The two found humans that possessed  extraordinary gifts, together they easily marked them with the mark that is known as the mark of the Guardians. They and the freshly created Protectors built our race, teaching our kind how to defend the weak from death itself, the cold ones.

Their reign lasted for over a century, they were all but worshipped until they both met their ends. They shared the gift of life, as they reached the age of thirty years, they stopped aging, living long enough for our race to thrive for when they stepped into The Shadow World. Together they chose the first four women to become the leaders when they became of age.

The Celestial created The Shadow World as the afterlife for her race as a way of communication for our kind. For all the generations of the dead to continue passing on their knowledge to the young that still obtain life. When the living reach their eighteenth year of life, they shall unlock the gift to talk to the dead, but only the dead can choose when to share their knowledge.

She knew as she created it, it would end her life, though it was her destiny to her people. She sacrificed herself, leaving behind everything she loved to achieve her destiny—her brother, her Kindred, her children, but most of all her Protected.

Evalon Alkina left this world at the age of one hundred and two.

The First Firstborn created the bond of Kindreds as a way for our race to find the ones who complete us completely, making us stronger. The bond is formed with the humans who have the greatest ability to pass on the Protector bloodlines.

The First Firstborn be the one who taught our kind how to fight the blood drinkers, to keep ourselves hidden from them as well as the humans, he taught our ancestors the ways of compulsion. He was the Guardian of the Protectors until both his Kindred and Protected left this world, leaving his children to be the Protectors of the leaders.

Soon after, he followed The Celestial into the afterlife by creating more bloodlines. He traveled the world to find more humans with special abilities, marking them with the mark of the Guardians. He chose six male humans that he taught our ways, explaining our importance in the world and their new purpose. Doing so, he knew it would end his life without the help of his sister, though he knew it had to be done, it was his destiny.

Zalec Alkina left this world at the age of one hundred and thirty.

But they possessed no fear of death, as they knew they shall be reborn.

Their new life will be full of challenges that none of our kind will have fathomed; they shall be unstoppable.

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Svetlana

I gently close the old book with a sigh after reading the first story. I ended up forgetting about the book all summer. The only reason I remembered it, is because I was woken up late last night from a text from the reclusive Elijah. Dick. Sebastian and I still haven't met the Russian stalker, but that doesn't stop him from texting us when he pleases.

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