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『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ꜱᴇᴠᴇɴᴛᴇᴇɴ + •*.』 ~SATURDAY, 3 DAYS LEFT... Scarlett woke up to a rather bright weekend morning. It has almost been a week in Pastonville. And after one whole night of emotions, discovering that Vampire genes ran in her DNA all along, and that her mother and uncle were once humans from the 15th century, Scarlett somewhat felt a sense of...relief. Oddly. It wasn't a feeling she should feel in the shit she's going through right now. She's already felt fear, shock, anger, sadness, and but mostly bewilderment - now, she didn't have those feelings anymore. She felt... a little numb. The clouds outside her bedroom window continued to plague the skies but the sun's rays were still strong. But then Scarlett realised; there were still holes of her origins that were felt to be covered. She still doesn't clearly know who Jagger is or why he wants her. There's a whole lot that she doesn't know about herself, or the world that she never noticed. 'I wonder what I can do now that I'
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. EIGHTEEN—METEOR SHOWER.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴇɪɢʜᴛᴇᴇɴ + •*.』 ~LATER THAT NIGHT; It was the meteor shower night with Scarlett, Shawn, Kairos, and the geeks. "Wow, the stars are brighter this time around." Sitting on a dry log - closer to the grey sandy shores of the lake was Maddie, wearing a large woolen sweater than matched her frizzy maroon red hair. "It's like I can touch the heavens..." she consciously whispered as she looked up at the clear skies, holding out to the night sky with her petite fingers as if they were in her reach. "They're alright, I guess." Scarlett boredly shrugged beside her, watching the same view of the cosmic sky. While still contemplating the thought, she didn't know whether she should say something. She was still thinking about her Vampirism, afraid she might have a sudden thirst. And her friends could be in imminent danger. Her uncle said it was fine and that her thirst wasn't predicted to be any time later. He said Gadiel and the others will be nearby in case something happens - lik
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. NINETEEN—AN ALPHA WITH A SUDDEN CONSCIOUS.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ɴɪɴᴇᴛᴇᴇɴ + •*.』 ALL KAYLEY SAW WAS DARKNESS. She couldn't see anything beyond the point of her own frozen pale hands. The young sorority leader felt cold and barren. She still wore her skimpy short dress from two days ago. Her neck was extremely sore, poked with pricked holes and dried blood. Oftentimes, very itchy. It's only been over 12 hours since Zayne last fed on her red body fluids. Kayley had never felt this sort of suffering before. He left her lying flat on a wooden floorboard of a cabin he found and took refuge in, struggling to move and stricken with bloodloss and neck pain. Her back was against the empty wooden cupboards of a kitchen that picked up perhaps years' worth of dust and cobwebs. Her legs were tainted in dirt, splinters, and blood. Zayne had never done anything intimate nor never once violated Kayley, she was just his snack that he decided to keep after almost being caught by Werewolves the other night. That's all. A thin blanket was left to her
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. TWENTY—THE HALFLINGS.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ + •*.』 ~MEANWHILE... Scarlett and Shawn both stood completely silent in front of Kairos Finnegan, her rare-looking eyes shined as bright as two suns whilst staring at the roaring campfire. "Don't even try to deny it. Trust me I know." Scarlett was shattered with astonishment. Her heart rate dropped but not by much, this whole 'Mythical Beings existing amongst humans' thing still had that bit of a screeching turn-table effect on her. But then again, her uncle did inform her that the Mythics populous, mostly the Dark Mythics, still roam the world. Werewolves, Serpentine, Minotaurs, Mermaids, Goblins, and even Ghosts. However a few existed in an other-worldly dimension - created by Merlin but ruled by the Vampire King himself, or so he illiterated. She didn't ask about that. Scarlett darted her eyes next to her, she saw Shawn's happy-go-lucky aura quickly turn tense. His head cautiously turned back at Dorian, Zack, and Maddie, who were still preoccupied with the te
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. TWENTY ONE—AMBUSH.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ᴏɴᴇ+ •*.』JOSHUA LOVED WATCHING COOKING CHANNELS ON A QUIET SATURDAY NIGHT.It wasn't particularly his favorite hobby but he enjoyed the cuisines the 21st century has so far offered. Pizza however still rivaling all things. One of the perks of being a 300-year-old Vampire, he imagined.He followed the human's instructions on the television screen precisely, while whipping another culinary masterpiece. "Too easy." He proudly scoffed. If he wasn't a guy that builds houses for a living, he would've taken off as a hot shot sue-chef. Even Scarlett would agree.He was very comfortable with her and her friends by the lakeside during their meteor shower party. And according to Gadiel and the Betas, no Alpha Vampires were spotted or sensed in the area. In fact, they were none sighted the day before yesterday. Which Joshua had to admit, was a really strange pattern.'What is Jagger up to?' He thought. Josh knew the Vampire King wouldn't regroup his disciples just like that. Th
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. TWENTY TWO—IGNITE THE DEMON FROM WITHIN.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ᴛᴡᴏ + •*.』 "THE CRIMSON...BRIDE?" "Scarlett...?" No other words came out of the two Halflings as they were both stupefied with jolting shock. Scarlett stared at both of their expressions, both in mute horror. Especially Shawn. She didn't really like that look of surprise on his face. Was he disgusted? Repulsed? Did he hate her now? There could be a million things running through his mind right now. The secret was out, the cat out of the bag. Scarlett was a Vampire, his kind's worst foe. And Shawn just said he loathed them to the depths of his core, with no exceptions. Scarlett wasn't originally the one to care about what people think about her, she's been scorned at for her abnormal features since childhood. That was back in El Paso. But now there's Shawn. Her heart started to beat every time she said his name out loud or in her head. He was the first outsider to ever make her smile, to give her reason to laugh. He was sweet and caring. She could sense the kind
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. TWENTY THREE—EMOTIONS.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ + •*.』 "HEY...WAKE UP..." A quiet voice whispered out to Scarlett, but all she saw was the enveloping darkness surrounding her. 'Where am I?' Her voice echoed out into the abyss. "Hey, hey...wake up. Sister, wake up." Scarlett somewhat struggled to do what the voice instructed. She felt restricted, caught in some invisible string. She felt uncomfortably wrapped around it like a tangled marionette. Her beating heart thumped as her anxiety began to skyrocket. She couldn't recall any event before when a gang of snake hybrids ambushed her and her friends. She began to stiffen as she remembered Shawn being stabbed by that blonde serpentine woman. What happened after that? Where was everyone? Did she actually get nabbed by those snakes? She didn't remember herself getting taken, so where was she? The voice that kept calling out to her somehow felt...recognizable. "Aurora! Get up else I will face our King's wrath by my own self." Scarlett's eyes stalked wide an
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. TWENTY FOUR—THE MEETINGS.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ ꜰᴏᴜʀ + •*.』 AFTER A MINUTE OF RECOVERING FROM HER HAZY COLLAPSE, SCARLETT REMAINED STAGGERED ON HER BED. Her mind had to re-adjust from the previous vestige she just had. It was an intriguing yet strange memory of her mother's past. And it washed over her like some fever dream. "You alright? Do you need anything? Water maybe?" Joshua asked with a worried parental tone. Her body flinched just hearing his voice, when she had previously heard it in a merciless and evil tone, like the devil. It made her question if his sight on humans was different today "No. I'm...fine. What time is it?" "2:00 am. You were out for a very long time. You even had a human fever. But..." he reached his cold hand in to check her temperature from her forehead. "You seem up to normal, well...for a Vampire." Scarlett consciously scooted away from her uncle and knitted her hands together. Shawn and Kairos pondered at the scene before looking at each other. "I...had another vestige of Mom's
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『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ꜱᴇᴠᴇɴ + •*.』 SUNRISE WAS ALMOST YONDER. Henry Garrix and Kairos Finnegan were the first to arrive at the location. The petrichoral air peppered around them with wet dew and needles of late autumn pine falling over their heads. The nighttime was losing its haunted flare. The creeping star was about setting out from the horizon, but lucky for the Alpha Vampire since the trees and steeps of Palisade Hill made a dry comfortable shade over him and the old wooden cabin. A quiet breeze brushed over their hairs with brown leaves swept away elsewhere. A door was kicked open from the inside and Zayne walked out of the cabin to the porch. His blood-stained shirt was filly unbuttoned but he didn't care, the side of his fangs pricked the spongy end of a cigarette. He raised his signature devil grin as soon as he caught the Wizard and Nymph-let Halfling. But faded when he realised his gingerette mate was nowhere in sight. "I don't see her." "Where's Kayley, you bastard?!" Ka
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『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ꜱɪx + •*.』 "V-VV-VAMPIRE!" THE GEEKS SCOOTED AWAY IN COMPLETE FRIGHT AS FORTUNE MARCHED CLOSER TO THEM. Maddie and Dorian used Zack as their shield while the red-eyed Beta sterned at them coldly. "Take Zack first. I don't want my blood sucked out," Dorian negotiated. "Some friend are you?!" The geeky blonde scowled. "You're the one who brought us out here, you had it coming!" Maddie countered. "Besides, I'd rather be a Werewolf than a bloodsucker! N-no offense!" She stuttered back at the Vampire until their backs were met by a tree trunk. "Please don't suck our blood." "Maybe I will..." Fortune smirked, she could practically hear the pumping of their hearts from the soles of her sensitive feet. "You know all our secrets. So we can't have any human witnesses." She licked her fanged lips savagely as the aroma of blood wavered into her nostrils. Maddie looked like she was going to cry, Zack was shaking in his pant-peed onesie, and Dorian yet couldn't pull a ge
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『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ꜰɪᴠᴇ + •*.』 "ARE WE SERIOUSLY DOING THIS?" MADDIE REPEATED. Wearing her woolen maroon red sweater and early morning air brushing on her frizzy hair, Maddie tucked her hands within her sweater away from the morning autumn cold. Dorian wore a dark blue gown with his pajamas inside. As he yawned passively, he was beginning to contemplate that he shouldn't have done what Zachary has just told him. He would've been better off in bed, with his imagination picturing a rather fantastic dream. But instead, he's outside near the forest downhill, at 2:00 am. But that's what Dorian is, a good friend. "What's t-taking him so gosh darn long, my body is f-fr-freezing!" Maddie shivered, the sweater didn't seem to justify against the lower cold air. She was beginning to regret not grabbing her blanket at the last minute. The two have been out for almost 20 minutes. It usually takes Zach 30 minutes to reach them past Palisade Hill, but their patience was running a lot thinner. "H
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『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ꜰᴏᴜʀ + •*.』~ONE HOUR EARLIER...ZACHARY JOLTED UP SOON AFTER HE AWOKE TO THE SHATTERING SOUND OF HIS WINDOW SILL."Woah! What the heck was that??" He laggardly got up from his bed and yawned without control. He thought he heard something outside just before he awoke. A loud shrill of some kind must've caused the windows to crack.He opened his bedroom window to peer out at the street. He expected everyone to be alarmed by the cracks and shatters in their windows. Zack grabbed his phone and tried to dial Dorian. While the phone was left ringing, he peeked out at the streets, it was completely deserted. With only the street lights still operating and luminating the pavement road. The nerdy blonde touched the pane but then saw what he thought he couldn't believe with his very own eyes.The cracks, suddenly repaired themselves and vanished - as if they never existed. His eyes stalked with absolute bewilderment.The cracks! The cracks fixed themselves in his bedroom wind
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『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ+ •*.』THE RED AURA AROUND SCARLETT'S SKIN LESSENED INTO A FAINT STRAWBERRY GLOW.She manifested a pleasant smile from the scrunched look of hate she displayed on everyone before. The destruction around them ceased at a standstill. The debris had fallen back to the ground as soon as Shawn returned the same soft gesture at him. He remained floating in the air under Scarlett's control. It was like the hurricane came and suddenly just dissipated away on its own."Okay?? What's going on?" Danté intruded."I...have not the slightest clue." Nicolai retorted."Scarlett? Is that you?" Joshua walked forward, but as he did, her red eyes flared at his presence. Her hair rose alarmed before growling."Woah there! That's your Uncle!" Shawn held her shoulders back. Scarlett softly grasped onto Shawn and melted into his embrace. He could help but imagine what he heard, he might've heard her even...purr like a cuddled-up house cat. "Do you see that? It's like Scarlett only want
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. THIRTY TWO—YOUR ONE, YOUR MATE.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ᴛᴡᴏ + •*.』"SCARLETT!" AURORA HURRIED TOWARDS THE EDGE OF THE GORGE.Once she reached there, her breath hefted with relief, seeing her daughter latching onto a vine, with a lot of strength she got. "Uhh...first time for everything?" Scarlett quipped."Hehe...you have your father's joking habit," Aurora chuckled before kneeling on the grass to reach out to her."No, I got it!" Scarlett ensured and sunk her fingers against the hard rock, clawing it deep with power and climbing her way to the top."You were close. But you'll get there. It took me a few years to learn my Vampirism."The teen sighed, dusting the soil off her trousers and between her fingers. Aurora casually sauntered to the nearest pine, as she waited for her daughter. "So you said you wanted to show me something?""Come on. We're not far." The two dashed into the forest once again.After a while, they stopped and opened to an old-timey village, that looked like an old Dutch country town. The villagers on
Scarlett: The Crimson Bride CHAP. THIRTY ONE—AURORA.
『.*+ •ᴄʜᴀᴘ. ᴛʜɪʀᴛʏ ᴏɴᴇ + •*.』 PEPPY WAVES OF LAUGHTER ECHOED IN THE CLEARING. It was a beautiful sunny day in the forest. Two bodies lay against the softness of the grass, dandelions whisked away into the Spring seasonal air as they rolled around together. The man and the woman enjoyed each other's side, happily in love. The woman wore an oversized flowery dress, while the man in a casual buttoned blue t-shirt and jeans. Scarlett watched the couple from afar, she didn't know how she ended up there. She couldn't remember the events before or wearing the red spaghetti strap dress. Her ginger red hair moved with the direction of the wind as she was lost in confusion. The couple looked awfully in love, yet nostalgic. Especially the woman. "Woah, careful now. I don't wanna squish you under my weight," the man chuckled. "I'm fine." The woman pressed her lips against his one more time before he prepped her body up onto his lap. Her arms lovingly wrapped around his neck their noses fain
