Chapter 11

Orpheus Bathory.

"Salute! Salute!"

"Salute! Salute!" 

An ascendant mumbled as they all stood up as Vladimir walked in. I was seated at the lesser throne as the son of the king. He had lifted up his hands and as he brought it down we all sat down. 

Elders and high ranked ascendants had assembled as they all took their respective seats in rank. 

"What do we have for today??" Vladimir muttered. His face was blank and his eyes were like a burning inferno. 

"The Red Devil's Dynasty Coven wants an alliance with us." One of the ascendants spoke up as he stood up. 

"An ally??" Lawst snorted, bellowing in anger. 

"That's an insult to the Lethal bloodsuckers. They do not deserve an ally with us after all troubles caused by them in times past." Jezebel cursed. She was the high ranked witch in our coven. 

She had watched me grow after my mother died. She embraced me like her own because I was naturally loved by dark magic. 

Every coven had a witch who intervened for them. They were hybrids, a vampire-witch hybrid which was believed to be able to communicate with the supreme deity, Hecate. 

They were highly revered in each covens as they could see incoming dangers and wave bad spirits from the covens. 

"They seek an alliance and vow to pledge all their loyalty and be at your mercy my king!" Klaus mumbled. "And in every full moon nights, werewolves would be sent to us as slaves." He muttered. 

Klaus was the oldest ascendant in the coven and we both had trained under Lawst. He was well skilled in archery and a swordsman of the king. He led major missions as the swordman. He knew nothing about magic and depended solely on his vampiric strength. 

His body was always clipped with hot clippers that has been overheated on every of his victory which made his body filled with so much clips. His aura was completely dark and he was the favorite student of Lawst. 

"Their coven received a brute attack from the immortal fangs. And they fear that they would be enslaved by them if you do not intervene." Klaus muttered as he sat down.

The hall became noisy again as they all grumbled. Immortal fangs were the most powerful vampire hunters in the vampire realm. They were rogues who came together in brute force to increase their strength until they get to control the vampire realm. 

"Order!!" Klaus thundered at the order of father.

The hall grew silent, a deafening silence that made it possible for one to hear a pin drop. 

"We shall vote. Whatever the highest votes agrees to then we shall go with it." Father muttered as he looked at the council members.

"Vote??" Lawst aggressively cursed as he stood up from his seat. "We do not have anything to vote here. Shadow moon coven has always had plans to revolt against us and now you want to consider their appeal??" Lawst fired in anger. 

"We should not consider them!" Some elders grumbled making the hall get noisy again. 

I sat down mute because it wasn't my concern. 

"Lazarus failed. He do not deserve to have the peace even after death. I will not be part of any vote to the favor of the Red Devil's Dynasty Coven." Lawst bellowed angrily. 

"The vote shall proceed!" Father sighs as he adjusts his black cloak.

The vote was against the Red Devil's Dynasty Coven. 

"The council are getting tired of the long waits." Klaus stood up again as he read the second appeal. "The ritual must be conducted on the twelfth full moon night and we're left with ten full moon nights. Our most revered coven, the lethal bloodsuckers would be forever stuck in the doom of losing our most precious and strong members." He sighed as he rolled up the scroll.

The moment he dropped the scroll all eyes were fixed on me as I could hear indistinct chattering. 

"Orpheus??" Father called out as I stood up. "You've heard Klaus. You volunteered to carry out this mission to get the blood of a vampire-werewolf hybrid. Yet we're left in the shadows as we slowly get to our doom, son. Do you have anything to say to the council?" He asked with a long blank face. 

"I need more time to sought things out."

"Sought things out??" Lawst bellowed angrily. "You might be forgetting that you haven't reported to the regional secret house in Los Angeles." He snarled as he fumed with rage.

"The human world is a bustling city. It's complicated and rigid to bend."

"Orpheus??" Jezebel called out to me. "What do I hear about you getting so mixed up with humans ever since the attack??" She sneered in her lowliest tone.

"Mixed with humans??" I scoffed. "How then will I get the hybrid if I don't understand the human world better??" I snarled angrily. "I am the only fittest one for the mission because I am a transcendent and I can not be killed." 

Lawst chuckled mockingly as he stood up. "Do not forget your place here Orpheus. We the elders of this coven can't sit back and watch you bring ruin to our coven. We strive and we left trails of blood with our fangs just to get this coven to where it is today." He cursed in rage. 

"I couldn't keep hunting after I got attacked few days back. I have a sister to protect." I snapped in anger.

"And how about the coven. The coven is your family and every good done is for the betterment of everyone of us. We're running out of time." Jezebel scowled. "The third full moon night is few days from today." She mumbled. 

"Silence!" Father growled as the noise died down immediately. "Instead of arguing with ourselves is there any suggestions that would lead to the success of the mission??" He asked as he watched them whisper to themselves. 

"Hell no!!" I growled as I heard what they were whispering. I could feel my inner demon burn in rage. "I will never be in acceptance with your suggestion!!" I fired.