The Brotherhood- Tempted Book 1

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The start of this story doesn't go once upon a time, nor does it go there was a prince in shining armor. This story has a past and a future...none of them even being close to a happily ever after, it starts in a place that is common yet so different from your own. Yes, there is electricity and pluming and yes there is houses and nice little families...but this place is not like yours because the families are not consisting of humans...in this realm all the monster you thought up when you were young, all those nightmares of creatures under your bed...well this is their home.

This realm is named Haven and it's a place for all monsters as we call them to live... not in peace or harmony, it's far from anything like that. This realm was created apart from the human world to give safety and freedom to the vampire race and any other species that hide within its plains. This place may seem a bit dark and air may seem eerie but it has a kind of simple beauty to it...as long as you're not in the city that is.

Where this actual story beings it's beautiful and simple. It beings in a beautiful castle that hides in the canyon of two huge mountains. The castle at first glance is terrifying and has an old Victorian gothic feel to it, it's built of grey stone with beautiful arches and pillars, each window is huge and made of dark red glass which matches the giant red door that didn't give such a welcoming feeling. There is no mote but what surrounded this castle is hundreds of beautiful red and black roses, but this story isn't about what is on the outside of this beautiful gothic castle as much of who resides in it, this castle has seen many vampire royals come and go, many generations grow old, however before you know this story you must know the begining...how exactly the vampires came to be.

Far before the vampires came to be there was a brother and sister, twins. They were of a god status, each with their own special gifts, living in a realm together sharing darkness and light. As time grew on and the two grew older they grew no longer as siblings but as sworn enemies. The female was called Sky keeper, she was to keep the souls of the ones who passed safe and the male was Kraven he was to punish all that did wrong, both for the species that were not human, but as time grew on the sky keeper realized she wanted children of her own she wanted to feel the joys the dead spoke of the joys they missed so much. She took a piece of her soul and created life. Something stronger than human and most other species, giving them the strength to sustain on something stronger than human food and to bond them to each other, to make them move fast and powerful. She blessed them with immortality and some of her own gifts each getting their own little twist of it. As her beautiful children were born she blessed her children to live amongst the humans but for the the most beautiful females she kept them as her own to live in the white realm with her.

Kraven grew furious with her ability to give life when all he could do was take it...he wanted power and strength as she had, so he stole the humans and ate their heart holding a piece of them inside him and then giving them a piece of himself where their hearts use to beat, linking them together so that they had his strength and power, but as he created his handful of children the Sky Keeper was disgusted with his creation they smelled and looked of death, their insides nothing but black darkness. Their eyes and blood black and the endless night and as empty, unlike her children who only grew stronger with time and more beautiful. She told him to get rid of his abominations or she would, but he refused and she did as she said and killed them off.

Kraven was furious with what she had done and took the hand full of her children from her and cursed them to never walk in sunlight, their skin would burn and if they stood in the sun for to long they would burn in a firey death. Each Twin had a power over the sun and moon, the light and darkness each, Kraven the power over night and darkness and the Sky Keeper had the power over the Sun and light. Sky keeper was devasted when she found what her brother had done to her children and tried to reveres it but couldn't, so the Sky keeper named her children Vampires her night walking children.

Kraven bent the will of human's life yet again and created his children again, he called them Reapers, giving them a life mission to kill the Sky Keepers children until they were gone...extinct.

Over time Kravens Reapers killed so many of her children that the Sky Keeper was fearing extinction of her children so she banished her brother to a place she created calling it the Wasteland where all that follow Kraven was to go. The wasteland was a perfect name, nothing grew, fog always covered the ground, because of the Reapers and Kaven himself the air smelt of rotting flesh it truly was a rotting wasteland.... But Kraven did not stop he created managed to make only one who lead his mindless creatures, leaving its human heart intact, but still adding his essence to it... creating something truly evil...

The sky keeper thought that over time her race would grow abundant again, yet the Reapers still pushed on and was killing her children, she had realized that she loved her children to much to keep letting this happen, so with her growing aching heart she created a new realm covering the realm she created for her children and all so called monsters that needed a place to hide, she hid it from the human world, after saving what children she had left she thought like her evil brother and created a stronger faster breed of her children.

She made them all males and they were to be purest of vampire blood meaning they had more of her ablilites and more of her blood than any other, their skills were beyond anything on the earth. They were stronger, smarter, faster, each one could fight like twenty of her other children, then she blessed them with so many of her own gifts they could protect their race and to show who they were she placed a marking; a tattoo over their heart and down their left arm, it was of their lineage from her and would grow over time showing the purity of their blood, A black rose over their heart to show what they fought for. A Black rose to show their undying love for their race, to show revenge and mourning for their fallen and protection and devotion for their kind, to bring rebirth and purity to the new world and to always remind them. That they are always going to have a dark side...a side that was born to fight and kill, but upon this new kind she blessed them to fill more than any other. That every emotion was heightened to a much stronger level, which helped them fight better but also helped them love stronger, she named her beautiful new vampires the Black Rose Brotherhood and they are indeed her most precious of children.

As the blood lines grew they began making more and more mixed breeds with other species, so the Sky Keeper made it a law amongst her children that the Brothers could only join and gain brotherhood status by being a pureblood vampire and must only be males. She also claimed that the brothers were of royal blood something the other vampires had never thought about, she named 17 pure blood lines for brothers to come from each being a leader, each a brother, but the purest was her first child the leader of all the brothers and king of every vampire in the realm.

This bloodline is where our story begins... time had passed as this bloodline grew...it was down to the last member, but with hope she shall not be the end of their line.