Chapter One

Year 2125…

Rie woke up with a rushed breath. She quickly scanned her surroundings. She was still in the school's library and not in that nightmarish dream she just had. Rie leaned back in her seat and closed her eyes. She forced herself to erase that nightmare from her mind. She could feel the rustling of the wind outside and she clasped the bracelet on her wrist.

Calm down, Henrietta. Calm down. She told herself that again and again until her breathing slowly came back to normal and she could no longer hear the rustling of the wind outside.

Rie turned her gaze back to the book she’s reading. It was the historic account of the war that happened a hundred years ago. Before the world, as everyone had known it, ended. In the year 2025, the third biggest war in the history of mankind happened. But it wasn’t between two countries or group of countries. It was between vampires and werewolves.

That’s right, vampires and werewolves. 

When nobody believed in such beings, they suddenly appeared and changed the course of history. That was followed by the appearance of witches, wizards, even fairies and all types of demons. Every being from myths and legends suddenly became real.

Rie couldn’t imagine just what the humans living at that time period had felt. They must have been all frightened to death. Beings from their worst nightmare suddenly coming to life. Slaughtering and killing them.

Nobody knew what really started it all. Why these beings made their existence known after millenniums of concealing themselves from humans. Some said that it was because the werewolves revolted against the vampires. Everyone knew how werewolves had been the vampires’ slaves for the longest time. Maybe they got tired of being slaves, so they revolted.

There had been many sightings of enormous wolves fighting against beings that has inhuman speed. Many had said back then that it was only a rumor made up by those die-hard supernatural fanatics. But when news of those sightings appeared again and again, from news to different social media sites, many people wondered if it was really true.

What really sealed the deal, though, was the legendary fight at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.

The humans who were there probably thought that it would only be an ordinary night for them, they couldn’t be any more wrong. People started turning into enormous wolves attacking an army of immortal fanged beings. Many people witnessed it and there were also a lot of casualties. World leaders started talking with themselves, planning the best course of action. But nothing could really be done because they didn’t know how to contact these beings.

The war between werewolves and vampires continued. And every time they fought, they left hundreds of human bodies in their wake. The humans tried to interfere with this war, the US government was very enthusiastic in stopping the war between the two beings. But every time they tried to interfere, they all ended up dead or worst, turned into vampires.

What could an army of humans do against those huge werewolves and powerful vampires? Despite their advanced weapons, in the eyes of these beings, they only considered them as ‘prey’.

When humans realized that what they were doing had no effect, the world leaders reached out to the vampires. Their wish was granted, and seven purebloods from the seven noble vampire clans talked to them. And they reached a decision. If the humans helped in eradicating the werewolves, the vampires promised they would once again attain peace. So, the humans allied with them.

An idiotic decision, in Rie’s opinion.

But things didn’t end there. Because witches and wizards also joined in with the ‘fun’. Many of them helped the werewolves. And just like how it started, no one also knew how it ended. The fighting suddenly stopped. All werewolves suddenly disappeared. But despite the end of war, the lives of those humans couldn’t possibly go back to normal. How could they, when they already knew of the existence of these supernatural beings?

It must have been really hard to live in that era. 

Rie stood up and picked up the book. She read it for her assignment in her history class. Rie must have read too much. That’s why she had that nightmare. She returned the book to the bookshelf where she took it.

While walking outside the library, she couldn’t help but think back to the things she just read. After that war, some vampires killed humans. It was no longer enough to just take blood from them. They started killing people indiscriminately. That’s why Rie thought it was such a stupid idea to ally with those bastards.

The world leaders voiced their complaints, but the purebloods turned a blind eye to everything. So, in retaliation for that, the word leaders created the Hunters Guild. It was a group of humans highly trained to kill supernatural beings.

It took years and years before they achieved peace. And that was only because of the current head of the Vampire Council — Regulus Maximillian. He agreed with the humans, saying that they could kill any vampire they found to be killing humans. They wouldn’t retaliate as long as they will let them feed from humans who would willingly give them blood. There were so many things that were fixed, so many things that were agreed upon, until they reached a balance of power. Or at least a semblance of it.

Every faction has some sort of government. The vampires have their Vampire Council, the witches and wizards have the House of Hecate, the fairies have their Courts, even the demons have their own sort of hierarchy. Each country also had their own Ministry of Supernaturals which dealt with these beings.

Oh, what the world had become. Rie was sure that people who lived before the 21st century would think so. They would probably wouldn’t have thought that the world would become like this. Then good for them.

Because they didn’t have the chance to live in this kind of world.