Beast of the Night

Smile - FOURTEEN

He was a small and skinny boy, no more than five hundred years of age, but he appeared seventeen. The top hat matching his suit, lightly placed on the side on the side of his head, had a veil along the edges, hiding his complexion from the rising sun. After years and years of dispersing the Lower Town and causing all the riots and blood baths between the towns, he finally felt a sense of attainment. Thats why he came back. There was one part of his equation missing.

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The door opened, and Ennard Ambrogio winced at the light, groaning as he covered his eyes with his hand, pulling the boy inside the doors by the collar before he could even blink. The large doors slammed shut, and Adriel stared up to his elder brother with wide, almost disappointed eyes, "still can't take the sun, can you brother?" He smiled ear to ear, his pale, lead threatening red eyes looking to the raven's red skin.

The tall male removed the hand from his pained eyes, and showed his fangs, "Why are you here, you are no longer welcome; you have been affiliated with all of the upbringings against me!" He shouted out, his fists clenching, and his nails digging into his own skin.

"Calm yourself, Ennard. Can you show no forgiveness to your own little brother? Faith, I come for no trouble; I have only heard gossip of a human in your home, and I'd like to see for myself." Before the elder brother could decline, the man ran off with his nose tilting to the ceiling, sniffing with determination. Adriel had always possessed the omniscient position Ennard had, as he was associated with many groups, and many rebels

"My sweet Adriel, there is no venial for you in my heart," muttered the man, "and you will do no such thing!"

Adriel ignored the master and stomped through the ivory-colored halls, searching for this... human. The raven hair stared to his younger brother with disgust in his pale red eyes. It had been so long since his beloved brethren had even set foot in the old castle. Almost a century.

...

Vee Elrod was waiting patiently for the pureblood to stumble back to the firmly shut wooden door; to hear the deep, confident, yet so sweet voice, that rumbled through his ears; to feel pale fingers wrapped around his own, the long black nails tickling the back of his soft hand.

Vee shook his head, pulling at the curly peach locks on his head, forcing his mind out of his fantasy. Lorelei stared at the man lying on the mattress as if he was insane, "Sir Vee, are you well?"

The human, now covering his eyes with his tensed hands, nodded quickly and turned his back in shame to face the wall, "miss, is it foul to think of a vampire... as a kind man?"

Lorelei Day knew of the 'man' he spoke of. Even with Vee's back turned away from the woman, she could tell he was embarrassed. Even the man's small soft ears were tinted a rosy red.

"I believe not. If it is the man who brought you to this place, it is wonderful, not foul."

She sat next to Vee, taking him weakly by the shoulders and sitting him up. The woman crawled onto the sheets behind him, and ran her hands through the peach locks, taking out her own ribbon from her hair and braiding Vee's mid-length hair. Vee took his own hands away from his red face, and smiled with happiness, "you do?"

Soon, Vee, who was obediently concealing himself in the adjacent rooms, was sniffed out. Adriel's heart pounded violently with excitement. The small man flung open the doors to Vee's hiding place, and cried out in astonishment, "Ah! Brother, he is beautiful!"

Vee Elrod shot out of the mattress with surprise to the loud thudding of the doors, Lorelei quickly peered to the doors with fear. He knew who this stranger was by the earlier conversation, or more like fight, between Ennard Ambrogio and the servants. The human stumbled back, avoiding the edge of the headboard to the bed by a centimeter. Vee quietly stood in place as the brown-haired vampire strode towards him.

"Have you tasted him yet?" the boy that stood directly in front of Vee asked. "He seems very weak."

The master of the house dashed in, barely being able to keep track of his fast, little brother. He growled at the closeness of the two bodies, but kept his stance by the doors, "move away."

The vampire dropped his top hat to the ground and looked back to the tall pale being in the doorway, "why do you not trust me?" the man looked hurt in his words, tugging at his suit sleeves with glistening eyes.

Ennard Ambrogio neither blinked, nor fell for this form of trickery. "Because I have no reason to give you faith."

This made Adriel furious. Very furious. Were his folding hands, wide eyes, his expression of guilt, and his touching words not enough? He cried out with anger and reached his hands our]t to the human. Nobbling Vee, he pulled him from behind into his small arms and gave a least threatening groan of anger, "you will not speak like that! I left this home on your account!"

"Now, now, my Adriel, calm yourself," Ennard's red eyes went wide and his pale hands raised in security of his possession. "You need not lose control."

"You insist on treating me like an imposter, when it is I who gave you this power!"

"No," the raven hair cut in, straightening his confident posture, "it is you who caused the chaos, to force me into rule."

Adriel screamed a petrifying cry, opening his mouth to bite down on the neck of Vee Elrod, as he knew his elder had a weak spot for losing possessions. Before the boy's teeth sunk into skin, leaving Vee wide eyed with fear and helplessness, Ennard Ambrogio's hand-streaked forwards, black blood running from it. Adriel had taken the hand of his brother instead of the pure skin of Vee Elrod.

Teeth jerked out, ripping the skin to a nasty wound, leaving Adriel gasping, and coughing for air. The same hand, covered in a black liquid, reached for the young man's neck, and yanked him off Vee; Ennard stared nonchalantly at the brother raised above the flooring with one tight pale hand. Adriel cried out, tears dripping down his puffed cheeks as he clawed and pulled at the suffocating grip to his neck.

"E..Ennard! It hurts...!" Adriel whimpered like a child.

The raven hair neither showed guilt or regret, squeezing even tighter until the boy's face had turned a bright purple. One last failure of a gasp came from Adriel, leaving him limp in the stoic man's hands. But Vee finally regained his thoughts. Ennard's crimson eyes filled with hate never changed. Vee transferred his sight from the two brothers, who in all honesty looked nothing alike.

A little scoff flooded from his lips before he threw the vampire down onto the tile with a skidding thud and stepped on his stomach, making Adriel, who was barely live, wheeze for air.

"Never show your face again," is all the pureblood said before stepping over the gasping body and getting close to his possession, Vee Elrod. But Vee could not believe what he had just witnessed. The beast... would kill his own brother because a lowly human was touched? Vampires were truly ruthless...

"Did he hurt you?" the tired figure questioned, his long pale finger lifting with black nails.

"Not to my knowledge," muttered the terrified Vee, noticing the ripped black wound on his hand. He gripped the vampire's palm and examined his hand. "You're injured! But- tis that black blood?"

Ennard nodded, his indifferent eyes peering down at the aching wound. He had never been injured before. This was the first time he had seen his own blood caused by someone else. He was much too skilled to be caught by a spear or any human creation. But he had sacrificed his own hand to save his chattel. "I will be perfectly all right."

It seemed Adriel's entire presence was forgotten when Ennard's stolid face curved into a joyous smile.

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-This chapters quite a long one, so I'll ask a question.-

How do you feel about Adriel in the last few chapters you've met him?

I will add, that if I get more than 6 questions, I will be doing a special wattpad Q&A.