Chapter 9: Meeting Dr. Lazlo Howard

We were saving the doctor when we finally met him, Ezi was doing something out of his mind. We could say that he was a bit crazy, I was pretty sure he didn’t inherit that from me. Ezi shoved the edge of his machete to the doctor’s neck while threatening,

“Do you dare to propose for marriage to our queen? Are you out of your mind?” Ezi gritted his teeth and rudely showed his vampire fangs.

John, the doctor, and I suddenly was in awe looking in Ezi’s direction with our slightly opened mouth.

Suddenly, Ezi laughed so hard. Then John and I realized that Ezi was joking so we finally chuckled and laughed as well, while the doctor was still on his knees and in awe. I realized that I needed to explain to him what had just happened.       

“Forgive Ezi, my second horseman, Dr. Howard. He was sometimes out of his mind, but he’s a great tracker to find rogue vampires. Are you okay, doc?” I shoved my hand for him to reach so he could stand on his feet instead of kneeling like that.

And to my surprise, the doctor grabbed my right hand with both surprisingly beautiful hands behind the scars made as a result of years of working in labs. Then he kissed my knuckle. He acted like a true gentleman.

The next thing that happened was he arose on his feet towering Ezi because he was as tall as Viktor. Still, he gazed at Ezi from between his spectacles hanging low on his perfect Roman nose. His chin was too low, almost touched Adam's apple. It was a sign of a reserved personality.

Being towered and acknowledged as superior at the same time, made Ezi stop laughing.

Confusion was written all over Ezi's face. If I could read his expression clear, he'd say: Are you taller or shorter than me? Taller in height but shorter in experiences of killing rogue vampires.

Not even a second we could see that he was arrogant. He was a true definition of 'humility comes with true wisdom'. Maybe because I saw that he was a little bit timid. His figure might be tall, as tall as his knowledge. But thank Moon Goddess_yeah it had been hundreds of years I still felt like a werewolf believing the Moon Goddess_his personality wasn’t rotten.

I still could feel the power of my ancestor's Empath human, it was the ability to feel emotion and to know the personality. It was true I was a good judge of characters.

And from between the frown of his perfect shape eyebrows along with his lower gaze, he muttered almost whispered,

“Mm… my queen, I've been wanting to meet you in person… “ he still has his lower gaze like he was shy.

Unconsciously, I frowned trying to read the doctor's intention of saying things like that. But I tried to hide my confusion by raising my eyebrows telling him that I got what he meant. Though I didn’t get what he meant by saying that. He truly was an eccentric one and an exception.

So I asked,

“Oh… what might be the reason you've been wanting to meet me? You’re a lucky lad I came and rescued you. Before I state my intention, do you care to elaborate on that line you've just said?” I tilted my head, chinned up, and showed my fangs as a way to tell him not to state any weird intention that could get him killed on the spot.

Though it was the last thing my kingdom and I wanted. I had to intimidate him and kept everything worked in order.

But he didn’t feel intimidated, instead, he moved his legs wider so the positions were in line with his shoulders. He wanted to look shorter. He knew for sure that against his Queen’s will would put him in an even worse condition than being kidnapped by a bunch of rogue vampires.

Either his shoulders were too wide that he needed to balance the way he stood on his feet or his legs were too small because he didn’t spend much outside the lab. The white lab coat got in the way. If only I could make him naked…

Wait… why did I think like that?

Thank Moon Goddess I could seal this weird thought from my horsemen.

It was strange that something happened until I saw him move his hands to meet both the thumbs and his forefingers in one unity. It was a classic gesture when someone was thinking seriously.

He might have spent his entire life in the labs, even his gesture seemed ancient. I was waiting if he also would state an ancient line, this must be fun…

“I might be able to help you formulate a synthetic kind of blood for the vampires to drink. We could design the best blood so vampires don’t need to drink from the willing human donor or animals' blood. In the end, we could put rogue vampires for good because there'll be none of them, and the peace for humanity could finally be perfected. How was that, your highness? “ he was waiting for my response who was clearly in awe along with Ezi and John on my sides.

Then I heard their voices,

[Is this happening, milady?]

It was John’s voice.

[Indeed, John, my child]

[Shit! This is happening!]

That was Ezi. It was because he was the youngest when I turned him from his miserable abyss of broken bones amidst his love of hiking and his undergrad program, his language was unbelievable even worse after his freedom of being a strong vampire. Still, I had to calm him down. Though there wasn’t any history of someone could come down when he or she was told to calm down, I had to try…

[Language please, Ezi. And yea it is! A dream come true, eh?!]

In a blink of an eye, the doctor smirked on only one side of his mouth. It was like he could read our minds. I flinched my left eyebrow feeling like he was suspicious. But I had the urge to gain my composure and made sure that the doctor didn’t see that we were shocked because we were on the same page.

What a great coincidence, though there wasn’t any coincidence. Everything was arranged in spider webs to meet each other and created what they called destiny. I didn’t care so much about that. Because I was the victim of what they called destiny. The Tribrid curse us, and I was the one who bore the burden.

I was just glad my family was smart enough to create a purpose for me to live. From the lowest class of a vampire, they made me their protector when they decided to leave their lives as werewolves, the creatures made by Moon Goddess to protect the human from the ravaging vampires.

And how brilliant my grandpa was to create a noble purpose for a low creature like vampires who fed on the fear of humans, to be their protector. Then this was my legacy to find ways to be able to co-exist with humans without hurting them. It was through Dr. Lazlo Howard that finally I could put my hundreds of years of wondering what I should do to be able to make a peaceful system in my kingdom for both humans and vampires. And I needed to say again to my children, John and Ezi, sooner Zachary and Victor from the outside of the building, to tell them, we would finally succeed in creating peace,

[Children, this is it. We have finally found the one solution to our biggest problem.]

I send the thought like a one-on-one broadcast because I couldn’t talk to them in a pack just like in the days when I was a werewolf. Finally, to the doctor I said,

“How fortunate is that, doctor? We’re on the same page…” I smiled widely and proudly showed my fangs then I carried on, “So you have the formula?”

My last question put horror on the doctor’s face. I knew that the dream was too good to be true which meant he didn’t have the formula yet. It was just still theoretical. But it’s worth a try, so I continued,

“Very well, doc. You can go home with us and we’ll set up a lab for you. You need me, the descendant of Crane billionaire who will fund you to discover the biggest invention of all times. A solution for the bloodsuckers like us, the low life leveler, vampires.” I turned my back and shoved my right hand into the air signing John and Ezi to escort the doctor to our mansion…

-to be continued-