Loyal to the End.

Beeping came from the door, and it opened a crack.

A face peered through, a face, pale and beautiful, alongside curled hair of red and orange. "Beloved?" Her sweet accented voice called before her eyes met yours.

She stepped inside, her Blue eyes resting on yours, her voice speaking "Dragon's Breath: Candlelight, extinguish."

The Pain went away, it vanished faster than you were ready for, and a crashing wave of relief filled you. but you did not move, you did not speak, You merely sat in the dark, letting it's comfortable touch hold you tightly like a mother's womb.

"Are you okay?" She asked, sitting beside you.

You nodded slowly, unaccustomed to the lack of pain that any movement had usually brought.

Rose frowned "Beloved... something has happened, an emergency, something that You need to see."

You felt like you should have felt panic, but you felt nothing, the Light had burned it away, scorched the feelings away. You looked at your Rose, feeling nothing, wondering if this is how the Upir felt, empty and hollow. and You spoke, "Show me."

You moved through the woods with you Rose, holding your hand tightly, the cool air overly cold on your skin. the Night invading your mind and sparking the six sense that you forgot that it would bring. You arrived at the Manor, tall and dark, where all of the Noxium had gathered at the gates before the driveway.

A body collided with you, hugging you desperately as she wept "MASTER. MASTER, WE HAVE TO GO. WE HAVE TO GO NOW, IT'S MARIA'S PATISAREE! THERE WAS A FIRE, COME ON!!!" Belle **** tugged at you and you followed, though you gestured to the Noxium

"Follow me." You whispered, a hundred bodies zipping after you as you vanished into the night.

You all flew across the rooftops, your face blank as your burst eyes looked absently. "Are you alright, My lord, you seem, different?" Cleo asked as she jumped alongside you.

You nodded coldly "I am fine. Come."

A Numbness seeped into your bones. Vlad was silent, as He had been for a while... without his beastly voice, you were nothing and in this haze that the Candlelight had brought, you were numb. Numb to the rooftops as they passed under your feet, numb to the whistling of the wind as it swept past your ears, and numb to the hundreds of Vampire's that followed you, seeming more like tools strapped to your hip, than the family that You had known once before.

You saw the smoke in the air, rising amongst the concrete jungle as Belle's face twisted with panic "Please no no no no no!" She yelped like a wounded animal, you held back a snarl... actually annoyed by her worry.

And as you slid into a smooth stop at the hem of the rooftop before the blazing scene, you looked to Belle as she ran her hands through her hair in anxiety, the few hundred Vampire's behind you pausing in waiting of your command.

"Why are you afraid?" You asked, in a cold tone.

Belle grabbed your shoulders tightly, her eyes blazing red "M-Mantas might be in there, charlotte texted me! We have to go in there!?"

Your eyes settled on the scene below. Maria's patisserie, a place that Your sister loved and that your father owned, it's windows shattered, the front blackened and charred as a hideous flame erupted from inside, hissing in protest as the Firefighters blasted it with their water cannons... the Red and Blue light bathed the lockdown street, the sirens screaming every so often as the firetruck stood resolute in the middle of the street.

"Your step-brother is in there?" you asked in a frosty tone.

Belle pleaded with her eyes "...Please... we have to go down there... I-I have to know... Mantas is a chubby bastard but... H-He's my brother, Master..." You looked at her blankly, eyes shimmering "Please... Charlie." She whimpered, bloody tears running down her cheeks.

You turned back to your clan, a hundred shadows looking on with awaiting gazes. Casting out a beckoning hand, you called to the Noxium "Go forth... Mesmerize all that stop us, clear the way for Lady Belle." You hissed, eyes flashing as your clan began to rush forward, dropping down like droplets of rain.

Belle kissed your cheek tenderly "Th-Thank you... I love you." Belle tossed herself over the edge landing with the other as they swarmed upon the humans down in that street, following your command as they took hold over the minds fo the mortals, Belle's panicking form that looked ant-small as she gestured in terror as the Nox went to quench the flame.

Claws ripped into the nearby fire hydrants, the waters erupting up into the air, until Huginn's blonde form shoved a recently removed manhole cover into it, redirecting the blasting stream into the Patisserie, that hissed as its blaze was calmed into a drenched heap of blackened wood and broken glass.

Belle disappeared inside, and it took only a few moments before her screams and wearing could be heard echoing from inside.

You merely stood from above, looking down as your spirit was crushed by the fire inside, that outclassed the blaze below twenty fold.

It was less than the blink of an eye before your feet touched the road bellow, and the shadows of your Family gathered around, following your steps, leading you through the scorched frame that was once Maria's Patisserie, your sister's favourite cafe, owned by your father prior and now you... with your Beautiful little Bella, crouched amongst the desolation, many burned bodies around her, though an especially chunky one in a torched suit, his head burnt bald where brown hair once was.

Belle clutched her Step-brother''s corpse tightly, so tightly that she broke the bones in his lifeless body, screaming and crying as she desperately tried to hug the life back into him. "No... no no no no... please... no...." She wept.

You watched, you listened, you walked around the ruined cafe, checked the bodies as Your girl crumbled with grief.

"GUNSHOT WOUNDS."

This one was riddled with them, the next was a woman, she was slashed at the next, someone had opened her throat... this was not just arson.

You followed the corpses, around the grim of it all, towards what was once the counter... where the shining till and it's POS system were left... oddly untouched by the flames.

The Screen was on, against all odds, and on the white screen where dotted words in full caps "A Gift for a Monster, and a preferred abortion... Yours truly. IA."

Belle jolted as You appeared beside her, still clutching her brother as You looked at her coldly "You know who did this?" it was more a rhetorical question, and Her eyes widened blazing as she began to fall into a deep seething rage.

"Why... Why would He do this... His own son?" She hissed lowly.

"How did you hear about this?" She shook her head painedly "Isabelle... Tell me." You pressed.

"Charlotte... s-she text me that they were here... and then Dad came... and He... Attacked Mantas when He defended Stacy... Ch-Charlie... Charlie, We..."

You with shaking hands, you brushed away the red tears from her face "Time to cash in, on that Promise."

Bella's burning eyes looked up at you in that scorched place, the flashing lights of red and blue casting the dancing shadows of the Noxium who stood outside at your command, their forms dancing along the already blackened walls. And Bella nodded, muttering a simple, although deeply grateful: "Let's go."

Crossing the city in your state was difficult, you felt askew, ajar, something up in that dark noggin had cracked in that chamber, and though Vlad was silent, it was his neverending pool of hungry wrath that now ensured you senses, rendering you a cold shell of the exploding star of **** inside.

Belle erupted through the shadows, **** in her eyes as she bared her teeth like a hungry dog. When You came to an abandoned building just down the ways from the Alexandrov mansion, the Nox gathered at the top of an abandoned building, the sky looking earthwards as Belle rocked with agitation as You stared out of the cracked window at the Mansion... and the guards outside of it, carrying large weapons as they paced.

"Master. What are we waiting for, I need to kill, I am going to tear them all apart." Belle growled as her eyes burned.

"Be quiet for a moment." You commanded though the brunette didn't seem to hear it.

"I NEED TO KILL THEM NOW-eUGH" the roaring in her voice was cut out by your sudden appearance in front of her, a titanous shadow with glowing red eyes, the darkness oozing from your aura and lapping the air wildly as you oozed with murderous intent.

Belle's face went pale under your gaze, everybody seemed to be swallowed by your hideous Ire "Listen to me very closely because I will not repeat myself." Everybody shivered "I am not quite in my right mind, no... not even close, In fact, I am still not convinced that I left that chamber, but before the day is done, I will taste the blood of my enemy, deliver retribution to my greatest foe... or die trying." The Shadows spiralled in an overwhelming flux, it made the dark darker, the shadows thicker, blacker, it made the space around you shake and pierced into realities most sinister imagination.

The Nox looked around in a panic, lost in you abyssal power, a power that filled the very sky with black clouds, snuffing out the light of the stars.

The Moon was high in the sky tonight, and it's pale continence began to blur under you shaking power, standing the forlorn silver, with a deep and insidious scarlet.

"B-Blood moon!" Cleo cried.

"H-How *Buzz* is this happening!?" Muninn stammered.

Everything rocked and waved, became distorted, the sea that was nestled inside of you flooding outward and spilling into reality.

Your Black hair flowed in the breeze, the red moon bathing the city in red.

"M-Master?" Belle whispered "What... What happened to you?"

Grinning deeply, you held out your arms as you seeped with darkness "I've got no strings, To hold me down, To make me fret or make me frown... I had strings but now I'm free. There are no strings on me..."

They looked afraid... You didn't like it when they looked afraid "Oh calm down, I may be a little cracked, but we have work to do-"

"How did you do it!?" Cleo cried, rushing up to your and pointing to the bleeding sky "How did you summon the blood moon!? That hasn't happened since... since..."

"The D-**** of Dracula," Muninn spoke, making the Nox burst into roaring whispers.

"BE SILENT." You growled, forcing your brotherhood to immediately quiet. "Good... now I realise that this is slightly unnerving, but I may or may not be the reincarnation of Dracula... it's not a big deal but-"

"Are you fucking serious!?" Barnabus cried stepping forward "That is a fucking massive deal!?"

"Why didn't you tell us, Boss?" Huginn asked.

Looking upon them all, you grinned "It's like I said... I am not quite in my right mind. Whatever these powers are... I cannot fully control them, I might lose it again soon, so we really need to get this done. Ivan Alexandrov spat in our faces, a fucking Human, dares to defy me, to defy the Nox, we aren't just going to kill everyone in that Mansion... we are going to have fun doing it. For Me, for Us... For Belle." Your eyes settled on the Brunette, who's pain was still painted on her face "If you want to hide like a coward then fine, but if you want to show these vermin how the Noxium repay ****, then Stick close... and listen well to my instructions."

Your fellows seemed uneasy... but none went to leave.

"Loyal... to the End."

Nodding curtly, and smiling coyly, You gestured your Clan closer "Okay then... listen close, this is the Plan."

They listened, faced scrunched up in confusion at first, a few oohed and aahed, many laughed however, and by the time you had finished, they all stared with dark gins.

"That is fucking diabolical!" Huginn chuckled.

"Just remember, Kill only the Mafia members, there is a good chance that Belle's Stepmother and sister are in there..." You explained.

Belle rocked up, you could practically smell the spit "What about Ivan." She snarled.

You grinned "Like I explained... He's all yours."

Belle nodded "Thank you, Master."

"Alright folks. Claws and fangs at the ready, Masks on- come on Glade hurry up, that's right... Cleo, you ready? good. Right. Let's Raise some Hell!"

Make pact with the Night. And let the Hunt begin.