Queen of Darkness

Chapter 12 - Royals

Chapter 12 - Royals

Alex: "So let me get this straight... Robert is the Vampire king right?, because I haven't heard of any King named Robert recently"

Me:" Yes... A Vampire king, not Thé Vampire King, One of a few Vampire kings."

Alex:" So how does that work, how many kings are there and why are they able to go out in sunlight and move around without people noticing?"

I can't help but laugh at Alex's questions. It is very clear he still doesn't believe me but that's why we are here.

Me: "Okay first of all, you watch way too many movies because vampires are not at all the way you think.

People's interpretations of vampires are based on movies, TV shows, books, and I guess... In some aspect it's probably not a bad thing, because vampires use to be seen as demons or some kind of demonic serial killers.

In short, when the first books were written Vampires were depicted as monsters, and later movies also portrait vampires as killer's lurking in the night but in the modern day it all took a romantic twist and now it's all happily ever after love stories with teen heart throbs. Vampires have become fairy-tale character.

Don't get me wrong, the situation is beneficial to vampires, but unfortunately not true to character. We definitely don't sparkle for one.

Most of the things you think you know about vampires are exaggerated, half-truths, fiction bent to entice curiosity in such a way to make money off the idea but yet just scary enough for people not to go snooping around, or just obscene enough not to be believable.

For instance, vampires stalking humans like pray, attacking them and then draining them of all their blood and leaving them for dead. That's what people believe, it is after all how you see it in the movies or read it in the books, but the truth is vampires don't attack people.

One of the council rules are that vampires may under no circumstances take blood without permission. When they do take blood, it's not a lot, never enough to kill a person. Blood is very filling. It would be nearly impossible to drain a person of all his blood. And to drain a person each and every day... it would be the same as telling a person you can't eat just a piece of steak, you have to eat the whole cow. A cow a day. Considering how many vampires exists, that would leave a hell of a lot of drained bodies around.

The only time a vampire could possibly get that dangerously close to draining and killing a person is if the vampire was very badly hurt and in desperate need of blood to survive, in that moment he might not be able to control himself... That's what happened when Robert bit me. He couldn't help it, the instinct of self-preservation always wins. The other possibility would be if the person was already very sick and weak or had already lost a lot of blood than they may not be able to cope with the blood loss.

But make no mistake, vampires prefer not to feed from the sick and weak, it's the life force we are after, why take anything from someone that has nothing to give. It would be like eating food that was already busy to rot. In the animal world it would make sense for a preditor to target the weak and injured but a vampire effectively feeds off the life force of another not the flesh. Best blood is healthy blood and yes we can smell the difference.

The only other time a vampire will take a lot of blood, is when turning a person and even that involves rules. For some reason it so happens that only a Royal can turn a person into a vampire and it's not a decision vampires take likely.

When they do turn someone, they don't kill that person either, again not like the movies. They drain their blood yes but stop before the person dies. So the whole vampire killing people, burying them to awake as the undead is utter non-sense.