Present Time.
It is 16:45 PM, in the second floor of the mansion, Cade is still sleeping in his luxurious bed room with his bright-red pajama, hugging a huge-soft pillow and waiting for the sun takes a rest from its duty to shine the world, it is still too bright for him to wakes up and walk outside with that scorching sun glaring down to his white-soft skin. However, as the vampire that followed the development of this era, he could walk outside like those people does during their daily activity by using sunscreen that developed well since 1944 or wearing something that could protect his skin like he used to when he become a hunter. He only walks outside if there is something necessary and if it were not to important for him to go out, Rose will go by herself.
Meanwhile, in Rose's side, she just wakes up from her sleep and prepares some dishes for her master. She always goes outside to buy some fresh meat and blood from a slaughterhouse right nearby the mansion, it is estimated about 1.6 till 1.8 km from the mansion, and the one building beside Cade's mansion that people will see around the great Kalasta mountain is the slaughterhouse. The owner of the slaughter house is a 40s adult man, his name is Doren Miron, the fifth generation of Miron family. He is continuing his family businesses in slaughtering house. The first generation of Miron family, Roberto Miron was helping Cade to fulfill his feeling in need of blood. It crafted well on the surface of an antique wooden boxes that Roberto Miron write by himself, it said "I shall be forever indebt to Caderyn Von-Dwerva". Roberto has passed down this antique wooden box through the fifth generation of the Miron family, and now this box is in the last but not least generation of the Miron family, Doren Miron. Doren does not have any wish to stop what his great-great-grand fathers has passed down to him, the thing inside the box has told him everything if Cade's has helped his Great-great-grand father escaped from the death. Doren is sitting on his office while holding the antique wooden box. Imagining if Cade was not came to helped his great-great-grand father escaped from his death, he knows if he will not able to breath the fresh air in this beautiful world. Until, someone knock on the door.
knock… knock…
Doren takes the antique box to his drawer, he looks at the clock on his wall it shows 17:35 PM, he rushes with excited to open the door as if he knows if it was someone important has come to knock on the door. He grabs the door's handle and opens the door. The one who knocks on the door is a smiling beautiful girl. Doren knows it, if it is the time for Rose to comes here to get the meat and blood. so that's why, he rushed but excited when he heard someone knocked on the door at this time. He asks Rose to come in and wait for him to prepare the order.
"My Lady Rose, please come in,"
"Please wait a moment, I will take the orders in no time"
Smiling while he was welcoming the distinguish customer. Doren knows Rose's well, as the one who directly serves his family benefactor. He treats Rose as he treats Cade, he knows everything about these two important people existences, their origin and their need of blood. Doren's father, Jagger Doren has told his son about Rose existence, he tells everything about lady Rose that could make his son understand his position in front of lady Rose and did not make any mistake in front of her as he behaved when meets Cade. Doren takes the order in the freezer, it is the fresh one as fresh as a newly-harvested fruits, he comes back to the place in which he asks Rose to wait
"my lady Rose, this is your order,"
"Please checks it first, I pick the freshest for my important costumer."
He gives rose the order with his two hands, he does not want to see Rose face longer. For people who does not know about Rose when they see her beautiful face that never getting aged the longer she lives will make those people could not blink their eyes, staring like a human statue looking at the angel that has come down to the earth to gives them bless. A beautiful woman that they will think as if they only saw it for the first time in their life, a beautiful woman with dark color and shine tied-low-braided-bun hairstyle that gives a fragrant of a pearl-white jasmine when you passed it by. Her full-crimson thin lips that looks soft apparently making people doomed on desiring to touch it and looked at her well developed body, a pair of long leg that she uses for walking around accompanying her lovely master, the skin that does not covered by a piece of cloth shows the smooth thing without any scratch that bothered the look. Doren knows if he is only human being who has strong desire for something, he could not see longer towards the face of beautiful lady Rose. However, some people may admire it and dazed away did not anything as if they know they will not have it for their own and other people will comes to pursued it and going crazy about having something that they never see in their live. Doren knows it, some people who tried to pursued her and do something ill towards her ended tragically, such losing their hand when they tried to touch her maiden body or the worst losing their life.
"Thank you Doren,"
"it's my pleasure to serve master Cade needed." Bowed to her.
"I know it.. By the way how's your father condition? Is he getting well?"
Rose asks Doren father condition, Doren's father has getting old and old. He was not an immortal being like Rose and Cade, his body only contain of a bunch flesh and blood like human being. He could not get up from his back because of that common disease for a mortal being "aged".
"yes, he is getting better now since master Cade came to visit him a week ago"
Doren and Rose talks to each other, Rose talks nicely looking on Doren face with her beautiful smile showed on every sentence she spoke. While Doren lower his head, he looks toward Rose face only to shows his respect without glaring for a long time caused it only will make him stunned of the Rose's charm and forget who Rose really is.
"alright Doren…"
"nice to talk with you"
"I will be back for tomorrow"
Rose's say her goodbye to Doren and picks her umbrella that she just took it in the umbrella bucket when she came to the slaughter house, she walks toward the car she parked in the parking area that slaughter's house has prepared, with her umbrella that covers her skin from the sun that still rising in the west, she has gone back to wakes up her noble, glorious and mighty prince. Doren wave his hand smiling toward Rose's car as if he just gets blessing from an angel that has come to his slaughter house to listen to his pray. However, that face also has another meaning such being grateful after success on throwing away his desire for looking toward Rose's face.
A few moments later.
Rose has arrived at the mansion; she parked the car and gets into the mansion. She walks around the corridor looking around thinking her master probably has been woken up, but he has not. She walks to the kitchen to takes a pair of plate and glass; she unpacks the pack that she just bought from slaughter house. Rose can smell it, the fragrant of fresh blood from the meat that spread out after she unpacked it. her fang starts showing its form, it is small but could pierce through human skin once stuck in. her salvia falls down from her beautiful mouth, it falls down toward the packed that she just bought. She swiftly moves her hand toward the packed with an amazing speed and respond, she has saved that pack from getting wet because of her salvia.
"it is not like this is my first time smelling a scent of blood.
"damn..."
"Later, I should eat first before preparing master's dish"
Yes, it was not her first time, but it is the millionth times. She actually forgot to feed herself and ended making her do something that will ruin his master's dish. She continues on preparing the dish, continuing on unpacking the pack, when the packed fully unpacked, it is raw meat and a bottle of red liquid. Rose is smiling as if she understands what just Doren said about the fresh one when he went to take the order in the slaughterhouse, the meat that he gives now is bloody-fresh meat that still has bleeding veins all around the surface's of the meat. It was from some mammalian, looking by it size and texture that was come from an adult bull, the most favorite dish for Cade. If there were not an adult bull, Doren replaced it using goat and cow meats. A Vampire drink from the animal's blood was a bit strange since they are famous for being a predator for human kind. But for the peace of the world, Vampire need to walk alongside with human kind to hide their existence by drinking the animal's blood. They have to do it, since their species almost extinct because of the hunter organization that human has formed since a hundread years ago. For Cade and Rose who has get used to it has forget how human's blood tasted like, they have done this since a long time ago. For a vampire who wants to lives longer, they need to replenishes their body cells by drinking either human or animal blood. although, human blood could replenish their body cells faster than animal's blood and taster than it. they have to choose the animal blood because it was the easier way to avoid being noticed by the human society. But that reason will not make them forget about the way to hunt, as long as people who meet them showing their good intent, they will be replied it with their smile. But, if some people who meet them showing a morsel of ill intent, they will not refrain to showing their sharp fang to whomever they meet and forget about the extinct of their species. Rose has finished preparing the dishes for his master, she grabs it and bring it to the dinning room. After she took all of the dishes on the table, she goes to the second floor and stand in front of Cade's room.
Knock.. knock..
"Master I'am coming in"
She walks in to the room to wakes up her master, looking around the room and finding her master stands behind the window staring to the moon that just shown up after the sun set in the west. He looks at Rose direction with his lovely smile triggering something inside the Rose's body interminable pounding furiously, she hides her turning-red face making Cade does not noticed how she feel happy for him smiling towards Rose, her fingers folded together and moving them back and forth in front of her body as if it likes a daughter that asking for something to her mother but she shy.
"Master, I have prepared your food" Blushing does not do an eye contact while talking.
She could not get used to Cade's smile. Every time Cade smile to her, she always replies it by showing her childish behavior.
"why…
"I couldn't get used to master smile, but…
I want to have that smile, so bad" whispering Rose.
"alright, let's eat together now, you promised," said Cade.
"wait… what???" Shocking inside Rose.
Rose shocks as hearing her master saying if they will eat together, her heartbeat pounding furiously as if it will be exploded in no time. Actually, she could not do that, because it will make her could not see her master face while eating those food which has become her schedule every day. But, since she has promised it to her master, she could not avoid it for now. They get down from the second floor and goes to the dinning room. Rose's swiftly prepares the sit for his master, but Cade grab the chair and make Rose could not pull it out.
"Rose…"
"I have told you, never do it anymore,"
"Just act normal, okay?" said Cade
"But… master… if I do not do such this little thing, what should I do to make you happy?" feeling a bit sad after knowing she even could not do something so simple to make her master happy
"You stay here with me… that's it" smiling Cade
Rose dazed, the atmosphere became weird, she did not move her body as if the time suddenly stopped, everything become quite all of sudden. Rose bowed her head, she could not show her red-turned face in front of Cade. It was a word that she could not resist if Cade were said it. she exhaled, there is a hope bloomed inside her, she want to said something instead of kept hiding what she felt inside.
"Ma-"
"Alright, what did Doren gives us-, do you want to say something? Said Cade, after unintentionally cut Rose's word.
"No… nothing master, Doren prepared good one today" she opens the moveable food cover to gives it to Cade.
She gives up her intention to talk about a thing inside her that she has hide it from the first time she met Cade. She knows her place, Cade never wants to make Rose become a maid from the first place, it was all of her decision. She knows if she asked more than letting her living here will be too much for Cade. But it was all of her belief, while Cade think different. Cade was accepted her as the one who he will try to protect the most and keep trying. It started about nine years after Cade saved Rose in 1903. Both of them traveled around the world, Rose has followed Cade for almost ten years, she has grown to be a mature woman that should be stayed at home with her two or more children, playing a game with her children and mixing some ingredients in her kitchen to make a food for her work-still husband coming back to home. However, for her those thing were a fake happiness for her, the absolute one was in front of her, riding the horse with double sword on his back, and that face hide behind the mask that she has knew what the secret it hide since she has been together with him more than a year. And yes, she could picture it even though Cade was hide it behind his mask that smooth oval face and pair of crimson eyes that she could not stare it longer, the longer she looked the harder her heartbeat. His crescent-of-moon eyebrows were thin and narrow. His hawkish-foul-nose that could smell the scent of vampire from far distance were pointed down to his attractive-thin lips; it made him looked more mysterious but elegant by wearing the black coat with a hood covering his black-gleamingly-smooth short hair that will fall short through the windswept.
For those people who first time saw them were thought if they were a couple that will bring something awful to them such robbing or thieving. A masked man with a hood that covered his identity from getting leaked, and indeed, with his double sword on his back that implied a bloodthirsty, hostile and aggressive roamed around their village with a masked woman. In those people mind, there were only one thing for sure, people who hide their identity either has no good intent or hiding something secretly. However, if Cade were taken off his scary-unexpressed mask and hide well his double sword, they certainly will ignore seeing a girl wearing a masked veil with a small dagger hanging off on her waist. Many people has tried to pursued and asked them about their intention, but Cade always gave them a good answer that make those people felt a bit relief. Sadly, some other people also tried to pursed them and did something harmful to them such robbery or murdering for fulfilling their pleasure and Cade always ends them with they become a dead meat waiting for nature to process them back into soil. When the night comes, those negative idea about Cade and Rose shattered like a glass. All of people who had a doubt about Cade and Rose saw it, if the people that they thought will bring the awful day to them has helped them to fight something that has been haunted them at all night. The masked-man and the masked veil woman swung their weapon slaughtering the vampire making those doubted become admired. This cycle always repeated when Cade and Rose visited a new place, doubting, admiring, doubting, admiring, doubting, admiring. Until, both of them become a famous hunter. The strongest hunter that will stand in the front people who in need a hand, those people who admire them called Cade and Rose as "Bloody Countess Bathony". The hunter bravely walked at the dark night when that time was the lovely time for those vampires to get out from their nest filling their need of blood. The Hunter who would make a quite-securely night for those vampires to hunt become bloody night with their weapon pierce through those vampire body which resulted the blood spilled on the ground, swinging their weapon without realizing if they have changed destiny of the grass greenly growing on the ground turned into warmly-blood-soaked-red grass, stepping their foot on that ground as if they were dancing on the red carpet that making the sound of weapon crashing as its instrument. Those people who saw it will dazingly amaze, they will not think if what they just saw was vicious-bloodbath from slaughtering the vampire. Every time Cade and Rose finished killing all that madly vampire, those people who saw them will raise their hand and gave them big claps as if they just saw outstanding-talented dancers performed by freely roamed around the city to show people the meaning of art.
1901
Somewhere, near the abandoned ruin. The sun still shone in the sky like a blazing celestial-fire ball that splashed tranquil and gorgeous-yellow-brown beams onto those trumpet vines that grew taking over the ruins. In place, wherein those plants that grew from the cracked ruins seemed to be glowing like an eternal-fire, the nature sent those people who see it a message if it has reclaimed its crown. Cade and Rose look some save spot for them to gave their horse a time to calm their muscle after taking a long-walk. They found a good spot for it; it was a small abandoned-old hut that has a horse tie stall beside it. without waiting for the sun went home cause of tiring after a long time shining its light. Cade and Rose tied their horse and giving them some water that they took from the old-almost-dried well. Showing how the responsibility owner should treat their belonging. The good herdsman who loved their cattle as their own child. Short while later, after taking care their horse, they came in to the hut, looking around the surrounded area thinking if there probably were some traps and deadly insect hiding under those dead leaves. Rose who saw Cade were used his hand to help clean the hut rushed toward him grabbing his hand and said
"let me clean this for you, master…"
"I will call you if I have finished it"
"okay…"
"…I'll try to find something for you to eat"
Although they have been together for almost ten years, they seemed to still showing awkward moment, Cade who always went alone slaying those madly vampire could not act normal in front of Rose who called him as a master. He actually could not reject when Rose offers herself to him, hearing her story leaving her comfortable home to look for him. he did not want to make Rose disappointed for rejecting her offers, but he could not get used to her calling him master. However, Rose was a human, as long as the time kept flies, one day Cade will get his lonely time back. Cade did not want to stay longer on this awkward moment, he makes an excuse to escape from that situation by looking for food that nature has prepared for them.
"the longer we stay together… I feel like something grow inside my body…" moved his right hand to his chest
"its hurts.. I don't like this" punching a tree
"how long I should bear this- ruins?" walked toward the ruins
"so its only the ruins… I though there were some village around here" when he looked around something moving
"…." Something moving around the bushes, Cade came nearly to the source of the sound.
"It has not that smell (refer to vampire's smell), i think… a rabbit" said cade look forward the bushes.
He took one of his swords from his back, He eagly showed the stance that ready to jumped and swung the sword over the bushes. With a blink of an eye, Cade has slashed the bushes into pieces
"Slash"
The bushes slashed into two pieces, he looked at his sword and found if there was not a drop of blood left after that swung, his sword clean as clean as the other sword on his back. He looked over the bushes and found nothing.
"what the- did I hear wrong?" looked into the bushes
"yes, I did.."
He continued to walked around the ruin, hoping to find another resources for both of them to eat. He kept exploring the ruins until he found there is a rabbit's burrow near the piece of the old-chunk ruins, it was a big one, it could fit a couple of rabbits and their five children together.
"I hope… there is no twice (refer to the fail on before)"
Cade came closer to look into the rabbit's burrow, when he has observed it, he realized if those rabbits were not in their nest.
"I knew it"
Feeling disappointed a bit, he continued looking through the surrounding area of the abandoned ruins trying to find another burrow. He looked, he inspected and he watched every inches of those ruins but he could not find the one he looked for, what he found was the big hiding-cave behind the walls. It seemed like someone intentionally hide it from people, it can be looked at how well it covered by the stone. The cave also seemed to be old, older than the ruin itself, those annoying plant grew closing the entrance of the cave. Cade saw it and said
"Why did they try to hide it…," walking towards the cave
"This place… is perfect one for their nest," stopped his walk, taking off his mask and removed his hood that protected him from the sun.
"I felt like something is waiting in front of me…" cutting all the plants that block his way using his sword.
He walked forward exploring the cave deeper, he could not reach the end of the cave, what he only saw before was a bunch of growing overwhelming-plant and now, only those big-wall-stone cave, chalk, and gypsum rocks that slowly dissolve in the presence of water with a slightly acidic tinge. He kept moving forward, until a few moments, he felt something wrong in front. He rushed to the front with his weapon ready on his hands. And a few moment later…
"I didn't see anything here-, what…"
What he saw was a big-magnificent door blocking his way, a two handled-heavy door that was made by unordinary being, for sure with that 66 feet high and all of the material it used is from heavy stone. In this era it should be impossible for human made this kind of construction with no technology, and indeed enough space for them to come in together with amount of people since it was in the cave's belly. The door told him something as if it hide a big secret inside. Cade look at it and found if there was something written on the door. It written using an ancient alphabet "?????????????"(should be used Atlantean font) . Cade realized something wrong with the door.
"know yourself?... what does it means…," touching the door.
"why this language appears when people had been buried it a long time ago" wondering about who create this great door
"and… how do I open it?"
Cade got stuck in front of that two handled-heavy door. He tried to opened it with his two bare hands, but he could not. He tried again using all of his strength, the atmosphere become chill, the needlelike-fangs that was hiding silently behind his mouth stricken out as if he smelt the scent of blood spilled on the ground. Those veins that popped out behind his eyes and the sound of his clenched jaw were describing how he used all his might. The door moved a bit
Sound stone rubbed
"come on..!!!"
He almost has reached his limit, he could not continue to make the door moved further, he tried to hold the door through the gap that he just made using his leg, trying to take some breath before he continues it. Holding the movement of the door from getting closed using his leg was a mistake, the door closed again and crushed his leg into pieces.
Sound Stone crashed
"argggghhh…" scream him in pain and fell to the ground
"how stupid… shit!!!"
That was worse movement that he has ever made and indeed, he could use his swords instead of his leg. But that swords only the weapon he had that has accompanied him through all miserable pain on his journey, the swords that became a witness that how much vampire's life he has taken and the sword that has drunk a million strew of blood from those vampires that got their body stabbed by this double sword. He did not care for losing a part of body since he is a vampire that could repair the losing limb in a minute. Within a short period of time, Cade has recovered. He stands from the ground and said
"forget it…, isn't like its important for me - or maybe" walking back towards the exit way
"…." Rumble
When he just wants to come back to look for the food, there was a sound of something moved from the door. He stopped his walk and turned back
"what- I thought you did want to let me in.." the door opened slowly
Making area around the cave fluttered as if there was an earthquake. The cave's sky seemed want to fall down to the ground, resulting those bat that hanging on the sky were flied away through the exit way of the cave.
"sound of bats"
Despite Cade stayed still on his spot, those bats did not attack when they passed by him, as it were they did not see cade was standing there. However, for vampire this kind of animal was their family, they will approach it as long as they saw a vampire stand near them. For them to did not approach Cade was because Cade's smell, drinking his own tribe blood, making those bats avoid him as if they were able to smell the amount of vampire's blood Cade has drunk over the year he lived and seeing Cade as a disgusting thing to be ignored. After a few moments, the door completely opened. it was so dark inside, triggering Cade's crimson-eyes to lighten in the dark. he clearly could saw everything inside since the darkness is the dearest thing for vampire. He walked inside and suddenly…the torch hanging on the wall burned alone brightly making Cade dazzled after his night-vision-like eyes stretched its nerve because of the dark environment.
"…damn" covering his eyes using his right hand
"what kind of cave is this" looking around normally after he recover from the temporary blindness
He looked around making it sure, if there were not any trap that hidden behind his sight. He kept going inside after knowing if there were not any traps with those torches burned around the passage way.
"This… where will you lead me?" walked deeper inside the cave
After a few minutes of walking, he found another door. It looked from far away smaller than the first one he encountered before. It also was not made from a bunch of heavy-black stone, it has a dark yellow color on it, perhaps a dark yellow color stone. He tried to reached and closely looked into it, it has a half of the first door height, and indeed, the dark yellow color was not from stone, it was gold, the pure gold.
"Where… where did I ever see this door…." Look at above
"....." surprised trembling-