Prologue

prologue

It was peaceful and wonderful in Angel’s empire, trumpets were singing, clouds were dancing and angels were peacefully resting but a sudden appearance of Kram, stopped their calm and peaceful empire.

Kram, was the Archangel, highest above all angels. His wings were like billion of stars when it shines, too stunning that you couldn’t turn your eyes away, it was heavenliness that could warm one’s heart in just one glance.

 Kram came near them with frowning eyes and lips, all the angels immediately stood up for they knew that there was something bad that happened the moment they looked at the Archangel’s expression. They slowly formed a line before him and bowed down their heads as they knelt one knee above the ground, as a respect for their superior.

 “What’s the matter, Kram?” Xhagreb asked, one of the male angels, an old man around 2000 years old, who was guiding the little angels, his face was wrinkled but it was smooth and white as snow.

 Kram faced everyone and deeply breathed slowly, worried and restless.

His wings slowly went down as he sighed in fear and worry, “A vampire was awakened in the human world,” he said, loud and clear for everyone to hear him. All eyes looked at him in horror; the angels looked at each other at the same time, some got worried and some began to panic. They were not expecting the news, and what’s worst was it was an unexpected predicament, something they never heard for too many years, something that they never wanted to know at all, something that they never wished to encounter.

“Sorry to ask you this, archangel, but how certain are you that it is true? That a vampire is wandering around the human world when we all knew that no vampire existed already in the past thousand years,’’ Abu asked respectfully, as he opened his wings and sauntered toward Kram, bowed his head and knelt one knee before him and after few moments he lifted his eyes to Kram, serious and somewhat scary.

 Abu was one of the great grim reapers, in fact the head if the grim reaper's empire, who collects the souls of the deaths, a male who has long white hair, full white eyes that you couldn’t even tell where he was staring at; he always wore a bright large black cloak, has a long scythe with blue flames around it, and most of all a huge black yet stunning wings, sometimes you found it creepy but his wings were unique compared to what we commonly imagine, it’s maybe dark and scary but some of them found it beautiful, lastly, there were always some black butterflies flying around him, they were the souls who were punished because of their sin that cannot be forgiven, and as punishment, they were turned into creepy black butterflies and became as the grim reaper’s slaves.

 Kram’s face shifted in disappointment, as he announced the news to them, he knew that it was them, he and his men were the ones to blame for keeping everything about the only one vampire alive. But he only did it for the empire to avoid getting panic until they confirmed that the vampire was alive and do really exist, and that time came, he was indeed alive.

 “It’s been thousand years,’’ he said in a weak voice, yet he seriously looked at them as he continued explaining, “There was a female human who married a vampire, who still managed to survive after the battle between angels and their pack and gave birth to a half human-half vampire, she saved her baby and left him into a human’s possession before we caught her. We tried all our best to find the baby, we even let some angels to become humans and searched the whole Earth, but we failed, we couldn’t track the one who adopted him, we didn’t even know if that human knew he’s a vampire. We waited for how many years to find if there was human sucking blood reported, but after searching for hundred years we never heard of him and thought that he might be killed by the human who adopted him or maybe he didn’t survive. And just today, after a thousand years of searching, we never expected that we would finally find him, there was a human died and we found out that he was killed by a vampire,’’ he clutched into his hands as his heart squeezed that he could hardly breathe, letting a vampire into the human world means danger between life and death for all creatures living in the Earth.

 “What are we going to do now? He’s immortal, Kram, grim reapers would never have a chance to collect his soul, because we all knew that he will never die, NEVER!” Abu asked and all the angels stood quietly, still in surprise and desperately waiting for the Archangel’s answer.

He let out a heavy breath, “There is an only way to kill the vampire, Abu. You knew that there’s a way, don’t ever forget that,’’ he frowned and Abu gulped in fear, clearing his throat and stood up, he knew that only way, and he was against it. As a vampire, angels were also immortal but of course, there’s also a way to put an immortal to the fire of death, there was always a way to kill them no matter how immortal you knew they were.

 Only an angel could kill a vampire, but to slaughter them also means putting their life to death as well. To kill a vampire an Angel would be thrown into the human world as a human being and kill them with their own blood, they need to let the vampire suck their blood or drink it. And since killing any living creature was forbidden to Angels, the punishment would be their life.

  Although they were vampires and they only execute them to save humans, they had nothing to do, whether they like it or not, it’s like a curse in their blood. If an angel kills a living creature, they will soon go weaker and weaker each day, until they lose their breath, and no cure could save an angel from their death, NO CURE at all.

“That one way is too much, Kram. Don’t tell me that you are going to sacrifice an angel to kill him? They are innocent, Kram, and who would you send?’’ Abu asked and all angels were speechless, they were waiting for the Archangel to announce the name of the one that would be sent into the human world as a sacrifice.

After a moment of silence, Kram looked at the skies and sighed, “Then, what do you want me to do, Abu? We live to protect humans, we will do whatever we could do to save them, and I have no choice,’’ his low and trembling voice showed him some weakness. Abu knew that they really had no choice, that it was the only way that was left for them.

Abu’s heart pounded in pain as he gripped his scythe tighter.

 “The decision was been made hours ago before I came here. I talked to the ones above about it and we came to the decision that Evangeline would be the one we will send to the human world…’’

All of the Angels and grim reapers widened their eyes in tremor when Kram proclaimed that he would send his own daughter to the human world to kill the vampire. They didn’t expect him to sacrifice his own blood, especially that Evangeline, was one of the greatest angels among them, a beautiful young lady, has a pure heart just like her father.

“Evangeline? Why her?” Zanea suddenly popped out in front of them, he was the one who loved and cared for Evangeline.

“Why not her?” Kram added to his speech as he turned his face to Zanea.

“It would hurt me if I am going to sacrifice other Angel and put my daughter in safe, it was selfish of me, besides my daughter agree as well instead of picking one of you,’’ he tried to explain but Zanea was trying to convince him to put him into the human world instead of her.

“I’m sorry, Zanea, the decision was been made, and also I will not put back my words to the ones above,” Kram explicated and frowned… he saw the pain in Zanea’s eyes and approached him, smiling with both worries and thankfulness to how Zanea felt for his daughter.

“Zanea, I know that you love my daughter, but she’s already in the Grim Reaper’s empire, I’m sure she would be in the human world minutes from now. Don’t worry she agreed with her future, it’s hard for me too, Zanea. I loved her more than you do, remember I am her father, I love her so much and she knows that,’’ he added and they had no words to say anymore, even if he desired to plead the above ones, he knew he was too late after all. He bowed his head and tears ran down his cheeks.

“I wonder what your daughter was doing to our empire, I saw her there before I left and went here, and I understand now… What if she didn’t remember anything before one hundred days and what if she didn’t find the vampire?’’ Abu asked in worry as he took a deep breath.

“I’m sure she would, Abu. She has a moon tattoo behind her neck it will light up when she’s near the vampire, she might not see it but she can feel it,’’ he explained.

“What will happen if she didn’t remember who she is?’’ a voice from Zanea caught Abu’s attention, he faced the guy and explained, “That’s a nice question, Zanea. To be thrown in the human world, you are given 100 days to remember who you are, and when she failed, she won’t have the chance to come back here, even after fulfilling her duty after a hundred days….” Abu paused and despite his serious glances, behind it was worried and fear…

“To kill the vampire, her body will feel weaker and weaker, and she will spend all her last breath in the human world and not here, only if she failed to remember who she was on time,’’ Abu explained it as slow as he could, and reading Zanea’s face he could scent something on him.

 Kram was exhausted as he stood up near his window, watching the angels outside, he was frowning and felt broken, at the same time Evangeline needed to remember who she was. To be sent into the human world, all memories of an angel will disappear, it was the GOLDEN RULE of the empire. They only threw angels below when it committed a great sin, but Evangeline’s case was different, she was thrown there to saved human creatures yet it won’t save her to keep her memories. But Kram knew that his daughter will surely remember who she was. Although he was afraid that there might be a possibility that she won’t, yet he was still confident that she would and praying that there will be no more drops of blood would shed around the human world. And also, he hoped that the vampire won’t build an empire of his own, they won’t let that happen, that’s why he wished, that he gets killed as soon as possible or else many angels would need to sacrifice their selves.