Tempest is Chosen

It was 4 am. The ocean waves were at high tide pushing and pulling gently. There was a light breeze. In the distant were the glowing lights of Covens Keep, a port town at the point of the chanel. The island has always been desired, as it sits in the middle of the vampires' and werewolves' main capitals. The people of Coven's Keep lived in constant fear of being livestock. The witches of the town the only source of income coming in. It is 35 years after the nuclear explosions that caused the great reset of this planet. Technology is now rare and a symbol of wealth for those able to use it. People now live day-to-day like in the medieval times and vampires, werewolves and magic, something that used to be in stories. Was found to have some truth. Until one day, every living creature became united under one coat of arms. We will start at the beginning.

Tempest was up meditating above the water. It was a way to control her chaos magic of water to just around the vicinity of her body. The surrounding area had electric blueish waves growing faint as they came away from her body. She loved doing this exercise on the shoreline and had made camp here last night just to meditate here before arriving in her village today. She loved the sound of the waves hitting the shoreline. Meditation every day makes for great chaos is what her coven always preaches. A witch is only as good as their control of chaos. It is what helps us be more successful than humans. In this day in age, humans make money as laborers or just being cattle. Tempest would never stoop to be livestock. She breathed in slowly, and the water slowly pulled, raising Tempest into the air. She swooped her arms. Her ebony hands glowed as they cupped the clear water. She had ice-blue line tattoos that went up her legs and down her arms dramatically in contrast to her dark skin. They were etched into her skin the night she had been purchased, and the tattoo was a reminder not to trust anyone. Tempest felt a ripple. It was faint at first but grew in intensity. She breathed out and opened her ice-blue eyes slowly. Her full lips were in a frown and her razor-cut eyebrows arched. She looked behind her, "What is that disturbance?" She saw a steam and witch-powered boat with a Romanian royal symbols etched into the hull. The ship was heading toward the keep of her coven. Tempest had an odd feeling. The vampire clan of Romania has ruled over them for the last 10 years. Ever sense, her father turned tail like a coward and ran when he found out it was the Romanian clan of vampires that had come to conquer this area. Werewolves and vampires have been in a constant struggle for power as of late. Doing the same thing, they accused humans of, unfortunately, which was destroying the earth with violence.  Vampires and werewolves will say it's different cause there's not any catastrophic technology any more like nuclear bombs causing massive explosions. So many explosions had happened that day. It has wiped out most humanity from this world. This is what allowed the vampires and werewolves to conquer large portions of land. Claiming humans were idiots incapable of responsibly managing dangerous weapons. The explosions had got rid of most tech and the original vampires burned any books to do with it. Causing a complete start over for humanity, tipping the scales, vampires and werewolves easily overpowered us with their natural abilities during the wars 30 years ago. The world was never the same either. When all the explosions happened back then, chaos seeped into this world, making humans even lower on the totem pole than witches. People with chaos mutations started emerging making money as mercenaries and contractors because of the growth of chaos-powered technology. Tempest was a mercenary. She had just got back with a hefty bounty for the rogue vampire that was feeding in the daylight. There was a top dollar bounty on him. Because if a vampire can walk in the daylight. It is a vampire from a main bloodline. The scandal. Vampires' whole call to power is the stupidity of humans and how barbaric they can be. So having an old blood vampire in the daylight killing humans. The upper vampire counsel never has an argument about what to do about that. So, Tempest got paid to silence him quickly by putting two holy water ice spears in his chest. She smiled as she thought about that killing. They seem to be coming to her easier now. Tempest had thrown up on her first one. Sister Esther will be proud of her. Tempest needed to bring her earnings back anyway, and she had a weird feeling about the boat. Tempest hopped out of her meditation pose and swam toward shore. She removed her wet clothes. Her ebony skin glowing vibrantly as her body absorbed the water through the skin. Tempest's chaos was water causing her body composition to rejuvenate when exposed to non-polluted water. She has been able to rejuvenate this way since she was a child. She could always stay underwater longer than anyone. She smirked as she looked at her skin. The marks from her fight had completely healed. She dried her body with her towel. She changed into her mercenary riot gear. She grabbed her tactical boots and socks from by the fire. She loved it when they were warm. She put out her fire. She packed up her camp and took off on her black horse, Icesess, toward her coven's keep. In these parts, traveling by horse or motorcycle was easiest. The rural areas they lived in often had narrow and unable to be traveled paths by anything larger. That is why most people travel to it by boat. That is why the coven's keep is a focal point of this area. If you rule it. You can take anything else around it. She had lived with her coven since she was 14. The night before the invasion was supposed to be her awakening and when she had powers of chaos instead of a wolf. Her father sold her to the coven. They were tough on her, but the head sisters were like her mothers. She raced toward the keeps main gate, her hair in long jet black spirals and locs flying in the air behind her. Tempest did not know at the time. She had been seen on that shore.

Tempest arrived at the main gate. There was a large amount of survivors trying to buy their safety. This was a common occurrence. Living outside the walls can be treacherous. Alchemists who weild the power of puppet magic rarely discriminate between controlling someone dead versus alive. Their puppets are nothing but monster henchmen. Then, of course, you have to worry about vampires and even the rejected. Rejected are like golums. Humans that were bitten and drunk from a vampire. Two things can go wrong if you swear allegiance to a vampire not strong enough to turn you. The second, the human's body was too weak to endure it. They often serve a master, but stragglers are common in most parts and are known for f*eding on survivors living outside the wall of a keep. A vampire spotted her. He whispered something to the gate keep. The gatekeeper pointed to her, "You! Come pay your f*e." Tempest did not question her luck. She paid the gate f*e and raced inside. There appeared to be a commotion. Everyone seemed to be in a panic. Everyone appeared to be gathering near the town center. Tempest checked out the area curiously. She then felt herself being pushed into the rest of the crowd gathered in the main circle. In the main circle. There was a stage put up, and 2 people put on the stage. They had black hoods over their faces. Humans. It must be blood sacrifice day. Tempest did not know. It seemed like it was coming too soon. People have to choose who will be drained to the point that they will be in the hospital for weeks. Unable to provide for their families and clinging to dear life. If you survive it. You nor anyone in your family can be picked for 50 years. You get paid in coins. Enough coins that your family can be settled for life. The only rule regulating it is no child sacrifices. They thought it was too barbaric. Tempest was caught in the confusion. When Sister Esther quickly grabbed her and said, " I thought I told you to come straight back. Now, I do not have time to hide you. Put your hood over your head, Tempest." Tempest saw the concern on Sister Esther's face and quickly complied. She whispered to Sister Esther, " What is wrong? I have never seen you look like that." Sister Esther saw a man walk on stage. He had on royal armor with the Romanian coat of arms on it. He was a chevalier. These are humans whose bodies are capable of merging with vampires' blood. Creating a stronger than normal human, capable of wielding vampire's magic. Chevaliers are loyal to their masters and are said to die if separated too long from them. The chevalier introduced his masters, " I present Master Alucard and Master Anton. Tempest looked at the stage as 2 men walked onto the stage. They were both pale. One had blond hair so fair it was almost white. His eyes were a beautiful yellow, like amber. They looked uninterested in the situation. He appeared to be looking through the crowd for something. The other man had dark brown hair that was in a low ponytail and piercing blue eyes. He walked with his arms behind him. He had a bad aura about him. His teeth showed through his sly smile. He took no time snapping the man's neck back and biting his neck. The vampire with the brown hair, after a while, he offered the human to the blond vampire. The blond vampire shook his head. He still appeared to be combing the crowd with his eyes. What is he looking for, she thought. That did stop the brunette vampire. He continued eating till the man's complexion went pale. He released him and people ran to his side and rushed him to get emergency care. His wife followed him crying. The vampire with the brown hair spoke. " Your sacrifice pleases me. I thank you. My name is Anton. I will be in charge of this port territory for the meantime. First order of business, the werewolves are planning to blockade your seas. They are doing this in the hope of weakening forces and slowing up income and making transactions difficult to compete. We are here to prevent that. We will fend off any blockade ships and run off any rejected making homes outside your walls, and we will be conquering any non-peaceful werewolf settlements nearby. In the meantime, you will want to rev up farming and prep blood giving for your vampire soldiers that are here to protect you. As well as food for your chevalier knights. Any questions?" Everyone was quiet. No one would dare object, but they were not happy about being occupied. Vampires can be greedy, especially when healing. Esther spotted the rest of their coven in the crowd. She quietly pulled Tempest to join her with the women. Tempest was surprised when Anton brought his attention to them. He asked, irritated,"Where is your scout as we paid handsomely for them to get intel. We haven't heard anything from you. So send 2 of your leaders to sacrifice. We will be draining them so 2 leaders you don't need." The girls cried as the guards took two of their elders. Esther put her hand out quickly. She said, " I can explain, it was the hellbeasts. It was an impossible mission for jus those few chaos wielder. Have mercy." Tempest held the youngest new orphan by her side. Her eyes cold. When she noticed the blond man staring at her. He whispered in the vampire named Anton's ear. Anton then looked at her. His eyes widened. He spoke to the elders who were brought up to be sacrificed. "Is her chaos elemental?" He looked from them to Tempest. The elders slowly shook their heads. They wanted to live, but a person with elemental chaos magic is rare, even more so water chaos. They made so much money from her earnings. Anton continued and pointed at Tempest. " In exchange for your lives. We will take that woman. In exchange, we will make your coven the head lords of this land. How does that sound?" Tempest looked shocked. Why would they want me, she thought. Anton gestured to her but spoke to the elder sister. "Have her remove her cloak. " The sister who were up for sacrifice, nodded to her in hope. Se would comply and save them. Everyone was staring at Tempest and she felt nervous. The vampire who she assumed to be Alucard raised his hand to tell her to stop, " Let's discuss this somewhere else. Our men are setting up their encampment on the shoreline in case of attack. You will send people to help with that and wall night guards as well. My sire and I will settle in the castle for now. You and your ladies follow us up here. We have a lot to discuss."