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Chapter 119: Chapter 61: One Rain, Two Storms (Part 2)

An hour passes. Two hours pass. The rain doesn't stop. It only grows heavier. The darkness of the clouds makes that rain grow sadder. The instances of the storm that were seen before disappear and the raging winds silence themselves. Two men with storm raging within their hearts had silenced themselves. But then,

Abgere: "Why are you still here in this rain?"

Abgere asks as he looks up towards the sky.

Bronzer: "I was wondering if the raindrops would be enough to quench my thirst."

Abgere: "Ha!"

He chuckles and says,

Abgere: "What answer do you have after all this time?"

Bronzer too looks up as he answers,

Bronzer: "They only made me thirstier, greedier and more flawed."

His hope is being lost.

Abgere: "I see. They made me sadder, I think."

His death comes near.

The rain tells it all, who will live, and who won't.

Abgere: "What is the cause of your despair?"

Abgere asks with a serious and terrifying voice. Bronzer replies in a serious and terrified voice, but not terrified of Abgere, terrified of fate.

Bronzer: "There are some people who want me to lead them in a war, and make them win it. They are so weak in that it's almost pathetic, and pretty much impossible to accomplish."

Abgere does not interrupt. And so, Bronzer just continues,

Bronzer: "They want me to somehow make that impossibility possible."

He says, and then stops. And so, Abgere asks,

Abgere: "Why not tell them it's impossible and that you all should start running away from whoever you are supposed to fight this war with?"

The fact that a war is waging that is keeping Vermillion busy is a good thing for Abgere, yet he finds himself giving such an answer to Bronzer, for an innate reason he may never really understand himself.

Bronzer: "I want to run away. I really do. But,"

The rain doesn't just fall from the sky; it falls from his face as well.

Bronzer: "But whenever I look at them, those poor creatures who could do nothing but feed on human blood for their survival, I feel compelled to give them a victory."

Abgere stays silent, for he has never felt like that for anyone.

Bronzer: "I feel compelled to show them that we are not just postponing our end, but we are conquering it."

Then, the two stay silent. They stay silent. They stay silent. They stay silent and then,

Abgere: "Looks like the rain is going to end,"

He says as he takes out his mask and bathes his face in the rain,

Abgere: "Because the storm is coming back."

The storm gives no signs of returning, yet Abgere says so. And so, as he hears this, a smile surfaces on Bronzer's lips.

Bronzer: "Yeah, the storm is returning, and it is going to take the rain away."

No matter how small storm is, it is still a storm, and it will overpower the rain.

Bronzer: "I have spent enough time here."

He says as he gets up from the bench.

Bronzer: "I should go now. The rain needs to be stopped after all."

Abgere nods.

Bronzer: "And so, I should go back to them, and tell them that we are going to win this war. I should tell once again, but this time, say it from the heart."

Abgere: "Yeah, as long as you have a heart, don't ignore it. It becomes really impossible to hear it after you lose it."

Abgere, the man whose heart died the moment he took his first breath, says in a calm voice as he too gets up.

Abgere: "The rain needs to be stopped, alright? And if that can give one's life significance, then why not do it ourselves?"

Abgere turns to the direction Bronzer came from and starts walking. As Bronzer looks at him, Abgere waves his hand and says,

Abgere: "Adieu!"

Bronzer chuckles at that deliberate use of outdated term and says,

Bronzer: "Yeah, goodbye."

Bronzer turns to the direction Abgere came from and starts walking.

They move in different directions, away from each other until the point that they can only see a speck of the other if they look back. And at that point, they stop. The both of them stop and look at the sky.

And they see the storm finally approaching.

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Near a house, no, near a wreckage of a house, many men and women in black suits are present. They are all just plainly looking at the wreckage that this house has become. It used to belong to a person named Julius Rome. But now, it has been destroyed. Julius Rome is dead and buried under the rubble that this house has become and his daughter and the prostitute he was with have met the same fate. Since they have been buried like that, it will be pretty hard for the authorities to find out what happened before this house was turned to rubble. However, for these men and women in black, it won't be that hard. They can smell blood, because it is their food, and the ones who have trained themselves can even smell cut marks on a skin.

Bronzer: "I see you all are already here."

Bronzer says as he walks towards them with hands in his pocket. Hearing so, without even turning back, the leader of the many vampires present there says,

Reid: "Yeah, all of us arrived here before the guy who called us here did."

Bronzer smiles a bit as he hears that response and says calmly,

Bronzer: "I apologize for the tardiness."

Reid: "Tsk! What were you doing in the first place?"

Reid asks as he looks at him from the corner of his eyes.

Bronzer: "Having a chat with death!"

Reid: "Ha?"

Reid scoffs at his response.

Reid: "You and your bullshit!"

Bronzer smiles at that.

Reid: "You remind me so much of him, just that you are even worse."

Reid says as he turns back to look at the rubble.

Bronzer: "Do you mean Barry?"

Reid: "Who else would I mean?"

Bronzer smirks and,

Bronzer: "Yeah, fair point."

They stare at the rubble, and from their sides, Darcy joins them as she says,

Darcy: "You probably already know this somehow but this house belonged to Julius Rome, a Hellfire."

Bronzer closes his eyes and replies with a smile,

Bronzer: "Yeah, I do know. I also know that he is only second in the line of the bodies that are going to pile up soon enough."

Darcy and Reid look at him, not in surprise, but asking for why he's so confident about that.

Bronzer: "It's because that man has nothing that holds him back, nothing that stops him from fulfilling his 'purpose' in life."

His smile grows wider.

Bronzer: "The fact that his chains were loosened when Ro Garland died, the fact that the one who killed Ro was Ethan, the fact that we saved Ethan's life back when he was a kid, I think you all should know by this point that our karma isn't going to betray us."

He says as he steps forward, opens up his arms and looks back at the two of them.

Bronzer: "We are going to get what we deserve!"

From the bottom of his heart, he says what he truly believes,

Bronzer: "We are going to win this war!"

And as the two in front of him hear him say that,

Both: "Of course we will!"

There is no room for doubt or uncertainties anymore. The Vampire Kingdom will fight and they plan to win.

And then, the storm and rain both disappear, and the sun shines through.

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Chapter 120: Chapter 62: Homecoming (Part 1)

To have travelled in a private jet is supposed to be something pretty awesome, a luxury that many only ever dream of. Yet, I don't feel all that impressed as I get off one. Is that because I can practice Levitation and become able to fly myself? I guess that could be the reason. When I know that I can have something if I just try a little, I don't feel any urge to try for it. Believe it or not, I have never once wondered to myself about how nice being able to fly like a bird would have been. It's like, I can fly higher than them if I want to so why would I possibly wonder that.

On the opposite side, a normal life in a normal family without any supernatural occurrences is something I always wanted, something I never got. When you look at me from this angle, there's nothing really special about me, is there? I am just another person who doesn't appreciate the natural abilities he has and desires what he doesn't have. I am a pretty normal human being in that regard.

Ethan: "Done talking philosophy with yourself?"

Ethan asks with a deadpan look.

Kais: "Do you have a problem with that, good sir?"

I say sarcastically but,

Ethan: "Yeah actually, we need your help right now."

Because he says 'we', not just I but Sona, Sneha and Ro also turn to look towards him.

Ethan: "Someone is keeping an eye on us."

He reveals the reason he said 'they' needed my help and as he does so, both I and Sneha start reading auras in order to find out what he is talking about. But, before we can do anything,

Sona: "2 o'clock, 240 meters, one man in a Vermillion uniform."

She says with an uninterested face. Well, I guess it means she doesn't consider whoever this guy is to be a threat. That's good to know.

Ethan: "I don't really appreciate how bored you look, Sona."

Sona only frowns in response to his sudden remark.

Ethan: "The guy who is keeping an eye on us might not be that amazing but he could be working for someone who is. You did say he has a Vermillion uniform after all."

That's a good point, though I don't know how good of a decision it is to try to pick a fight with Sona.

Sona: "Tsk! Fine, you might as well interrogate him and find out!"

She says with irritation clear on her face as she raises a hand toward the direction that man is in. While the rest of us interpret that as a signal to go there and start preparing ourselves for a fight (just in case), we see a large number of sparrows fly toward us with a man attached to their small legs.

Sneha: "Ha?"

Sona: "My new spirit, Les, can control any flying object, be it a living object or a non-living object."

So that means that the sparrow she just made a contract with, who was also our pilot in this whole trip, is the one doing this. That spirit is actually pretty cool then.

THUMP!

And there comes the sound of a heavy object, living object, being dropped on ground from a height of 10 meters. While Ro does his best to decrease the impact of the fall, it still would have hurt a lot. Which is why, it is pretty cruel to interrogate him right now. So,

Kais: "There's no reason to interrogate him."

I say something that is a fact, whether those around me realize it or not. In reply to that, the first answer I get is in a sarcastic voice.

Ethan: "Why? You have a crush on him or something?"

Kais: "Shut up! I just mean that I can read his mind directly and there'll be no need to interrogate him."

I crouch down to my knees and touch his forehead as Ro holds his hands behind him so he can't move much.

Ethan: "Nice. Why didn't you ever use mind-reading on the island in all this time?"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

The poor man who is getting his memories read yells in pain and as he does so, I look at Ethan and he shuts himself up because of the 'loud and clear' response he has been given.

Back to the topic though, I find the memories in this guy's head to be something pretty troubling. As I remove my fingers, I tell them.

Kais: "Vermillion is looking for us."

This was going to happen one day or another but it is a bit troubling because it's happening just as we have come back. But even seeing the troubled expression that comes on Sona's, Sneha's and on Ro's faces, Ethan still asks with a smile.

Ethan: "Who exactly in Vermillion told this guy to keep an eye on us?"

Kais: "A guy I like to call 'loser', but he goes by the name Gabriel Washington."

I say quite frantically, and an equally frantic reply comes back,

Ethan: "Oh, that loser? Well, then it's probably an order from the Phoenix himself or he wouldn't do anything like this."

Kais: "While I do think he is the type of loser who wouldn't do anything by himself, you seem to bee more confident in it than me. Any particular reason for that?"

I know Ethan enough to not be expecting any reply, but I do get one.

Ethan: "Well, he got engaged recently. He's probably more worried about getting to know his fiancée than dealing with Vermillion's problems."

So if he wasn't given an order by the Phoenix, he would probably not be doing this. Yeah, that makes sense.

Sona: "Hah!"

Sona sighs as she hears all of our conversation and replies in an irritated tone,

Sona: "What are we going to do?"

She is quite scary when she wants to be, enough to give me, Sneha and Ro a shiver. Well, if there's anyone who can – not get intimidated – by her, even occasionally, it's probably Ethan.

Ethan: "We-well, we are going to meet-up with that loser and get to the Phoenix."

Okay, after seeing him lose composure just now, I have to take that back.

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Gabriel: "Tsk!"

He clicks his tongue in annoyance.

Gabriel: "He got taken down that easily!? These Embers and Flares really are useless."

Embers and Flares, the two lowest-ranking positions in Vermillion, are obviously no match for people like Kais or Sneha. However, the fact that his proxy was taken down by just one spirit that Sona was controlling irritates him a lot.

Gabriel: "I should probably get to them myself."

He says in irritation. The sight he saw in his fiancée's house hasn't left his mind at all. In fact, it continues to anger him more and more. Therefore,

Gabriel: "Sorry Rosevelt, but the first thing I am going to do when I have these four with me is going to destroy every Vampire Kingdom scum I can find and especially kill that asshole of a strategist they have!"

He mutters to himself as he bashes a hand on the wall near him. Right now, he is standing just outside the hangar Kais and others are on.

Gabriel: "That man, Bronzer, is going to pay for what he has done!"

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Reid: "Now that you have gone and done something like that to Gabriel Washington of all people, you do know that you have a target on your back, don't you?"

Reid says as he sits on rubble left after Julius Rome's house was destroyed.

Bronzer: "I know that all too well."

Bronzer just shrugs as he says that and seeing that,

Darcy: "Before Gabriel Washington does anything, we are going to kill him."

Reid sighs as he hears that. He looks at the woman of 5'7 height with a round face and round-brown eyes, red hair and a pair of D-Cups. He thinks she is quite suitable for a woman of East Asian origin. However,

Reid: "Your attitude is so different from the vibe your appearance gives."

He says plainly and in return,

Darcy: "Good to know. At least every single one of my personality traits can't be discerned just from my appearance."

Reid: "It's good to have loyalty on your face."

He says with a proud smile.

Bronzer: "Are you two fighting or flirting?"

He asks rather curiously but gets two sharp glares in response.

Reid: "We're fighting of course. I think it's pretty obvious she is all over YOU anyway."

He says the second part in a sarcastic manner which causes Darcy to go red and try to start denying it. However, Reid stops listening and turns back to look at the vampires working to clear the debris.

Reid: "Why isn't any human showing up here?"

He asks Bronzer with a serious voice.

Bronzer: "That would have caused problems for us so I decided I'd ask the four generals to use their illusion abilities on this place and make it seem like there's nothing here."

Reid: "So that is why those annoying assholes aren't here. Good to know!"

Reid stands up and looks back at the working vampires.

Reid: "How long?"

He asks with a yell and the answer comes with another yell,

"5 more minutes!"

On hearing that, Reid looks at Bronzer and Darcy,

Reid: "Looks like the deed is about to be over. Where's the queen?"

Bronzer sighs exasperatedly and replies,

Bronzer: "Taking care of some … personal business."

Bronzer just simply repeats what Valdis told him as an answer. Reid immediately understands that that is all he knows. And so he moves on to the next topic as he turns around,

Reid: "Hate is increasing in the aura around here."

Bronzer and Darcy understand immediately what that could mean, yet Reid spells it out just in case.

Reid: "You might have a visitor."

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