Sitting by my small campfire, I watched as Julius and Jane exchanged blows in their fast paced fight. The both of them moving faster than any human eye would be able to follow. But my eyes didn't miss a thing, from any wasted motion, or mistaken foot placement, my eyes could see it perfectly.
As I watched, my mind started to drift.
It had only been a month since we turned Jane into a vampire, and let me tell you, "holy shit". The girl was a firecracker, with some serious anger issues, mostly towards humans, and the volturi. Human because of the fact that her village almost burned her and her brother to death for the simple fact that they thought they were witches.
'I know, how medieval of them.'
But to be fair, witches and demons were a real fear in our current time, causing people to do some pretty stupid stuff while in a state of mass hysteria.
Second, she hated the volturi for leaving her to die, and taking her only living family.
And I didn't even need to try and persuade her into hating them.
She hated them for the fact that they left her behind when they had the chance to save her as well.
Allowing me to mold her into a better person, and to add wood to her fire of hatred she had for the volturi.
Even though she still had some serious issues with humans, I try my best to show her the best in humanity.
Even though our current time isn't the best era to try and show someone the good in humanity.
I mean if I was to go to any village or city the odds of finding a starving person on the side of the road begging for scraps, was very high, oh and just finding a dead body on the side of the road was also high…so yeah, not the best time.
And the fact that England was in constant wars with itself, with self proclaimed kings, I think 7 in total, who massed army's, to go to war with each other on a yearly basis as proclaimed kings chosen by God, causing the death of thousands of people every year, which also didn't help.
So…yeah.
But I was working on it, because even in the worst of times, there is still good, at the moment Christianity was starting to grow in England, slowly becoming the biggest religion in England, causing people to become more caring to the less fortunate, but only slightly.
Just then Julius landed a hard kick to Jane's chest, rocketing her back, where she hit a tree, causing chunks of wood to break from the tree.
Clapping my hands together I say.
"Nice hit Julius, go check on her, I think we've had enough for today, once she's up, take her hunting."
Julius nods his head at me, then zooms to where Jane landed, and is now slowly sitting up.
As Julius helped her to her feet, they began to talk, I ignored their conversation, and delivered back into my mind as I waited for them to come back from their hunt.
Something new that also happened, was that Jane and Julius became almost inseparable, they were constantly in each other's company, either talking, reading or just enjoying each other's company.
Which I guess is good.
I'm just happy that they were taking it slow.
Because I knew from that first day when they were locked in each other's eyes, that they were destined to become each other's mate.
I had a few conversations with Julius about his feelings towards Jane, and all It ended up doing was making him blush and avoid the question, I didn't even know vampires could blush. But just the way they talked or looked at each other told me their feelings for each other quite clearly.
The only guess I could come up with for why they weren't already together was because of the fact that Jane was still trying to get used to her new life as a vampire.
And knowing Julius and his compassionate side, I knew he was willing to wait forever for Jane.
Often when seeing them together would send my heart to aching for the lack of love I felt.
Of course me and Julius care for each other like brothers, and that helped numb the longing I felt, but it could only do so for so long.
But something told me, "just a little longer".
It was like a voice in the back of my head, that would whisper those words, whenever the feeling would bear it's head.
Helping me manage the feeling.
Pushing that train of thought to the back of my mind, before I got consumed by it.
I started to think about my next move.
Now that the volturi had Jane's brother Alec, they should be ready to finally fight the Romanian coven, with Alec's abilities and the army of vampires with abilities under the volturi's control, they would be getting ready to fight, the only thing keeping them from doing so now, was that they still needed to train Alec in fighting as a vampire and how to use his abilities.
Just like what I was doing for Jane.
Something I found out about Jane was her affinity for combat, which surprised me.
In the movie, she only relied on her mental ability to cause extreme pain to others, but from what she has shown in her fights with Julius was that she could fight, and fight well.
Of course she still couldn't beat me or Julius yet, but she was getting better every day that her and Julius fought.
In her training I had given Julius the lead, allowing him to train her in most aspects, from fighting to self control lessons.
With me watching from the side to give him instructions on what he could do better, or what he should teach her first.
Me doing this also caused Jane to underestimate me.
In the first week, Jane thought it was a good idea to challenge me to a fight.
I can't blame her for her confidence, which she seemed to lack none of, causing her to be overconfident.
To her I was just a human with certain abilities like my ability to run as fast as a vampire.
Which at the time was the only ability she had seen me do when I went with her the first time she went hunting, but she also saw my need for human food, as well as sleep, and she could hear my beating heart, causing her to think I would be an easy opponent, that could just run fast.
I guess the idea of a human with abilities wasn't that outlandish, in a world where vampires exist as well as the shapeshifters.
To her great dismay, it only took me two moves to nearly kill her.
Which also surprised me.
All I did was kick her in her side, causing her to go flying, then unconsciously, I chased after her, catching her mid air then throwing her to the ground.
My kick and my unconscious actions nearly broke Jane into Pieces, surprising me and Julius.
Never before had I done something I didn't consciously do, as well as the power I had put behind my kick and throw was stronger than I even thought I was capable of doing.
But I also remembered that I was getting stronger the longer I lived. And the last time it was obvious was almost 500 years ago.
By my guess I was a little over two times stronger than a regular vampire, maybe as strong as three vampires.
Making it hard for myself to train with Julius.
It was no longer a challenge to fight him, because now he seemed to move slower to me, allowing me more openings to hit.
Switching subjects in my mind, I thought of Jane's powers.
It didn't take long for Jane to use her powers for the first time.
It was actually on the first day of being a vampire that she used her powers.
It was by accident, when she was telling us the story that led to her and her brother being burned alive at the stake, and the pain she felt.
When she said the word "pain" and the memory of the pain she felt ran through her mind, she was looking right at Julius, and the pain hit him hard, dropping him to the ground, writhing in pain, the feeling of being burned alive washed over him.
It answered a question I had, and that was that she had the same powers that she had in the movies.
For the next week we tested her powers, on a few really bad guys me and Julius kidnapped to be our own little test mice.
We never killed them but by the time we were done, they were nothing more than shells of their previous selves.
It might not have been the most ethical thing to do, but we took the worst of the worst that me and Julius could find, which made it easier when we made them live through a mental attack that felt like you were burning alive.
It was also a way to help Jane deal with the anger she felt towards humans.
But if me and Julius weren't there to keep her from killing them, every last one of them would have been torn to pieces, Because of her pure blood lust she still had when around normal humans and just her pure hate she currently had for humans.
Something we found out is that Jane's power doesn't work on me.
My guess is that any abilities that are supposed to mess with my mind won't work on me, just like when the volturi tried to make me loyal to them by using mind manipulation that one of aro's vampires can do.
Any mental ability that might mess or interfere with the computer chip that was embedded in my brain, by an alien civilization that travels different multiverses wouldn't work.
The chip blocks any interference from mental intrusions.
Like Jane's mental fire. Or any abilities that mess with the mind.
And it should also be able to block Jane's brother's ability.
Which should be some sort of sensory illusion.
Where he can take away all of your senses, like touch, smell, vision, and hearing.
Making you a perfect target to attack.
Just then I could hear the fast footsteps of Jane and Julius returning for their hunt.
Looking up from the fire, I had been staring in while lost in thought.
I saw the both of them joking with each other, and for the first time since I had met her, Jane had a smile on her face instead of the cold look she tended to have.
The both of them walked side by side to the small fire I was sitting at, where they stopped and looked at me.
"Are you ready to go or what?" Julius asked me.
I looked up at him.
"Not yet." I said, as I used a stick to move some of the burning logs around in the fire.
Not looking up at them I say.
"The both of you should take a seat, I need to talk to the both of you."
Looking at each other Julius just shrugs and takes a seat on the other side of the fire from me, Jane following a second later.
I didn't say anything for a moment and continued to stare into the fire.
After a few more moments, I look up at the both of them and say.
"I think it's almost time that the both of you come with me to meet the volturi."
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"Wait, you want us to meet the volturi?" Julius asked.
"Yes I do, but not yet, maybe in a few months to a year, preferably when Jane has more control over herself." I say, pointing the stick I was using in the fire at Jane, who just raised an eyebrow at me, her smile gone, and the cold emotionless mask back in place.
"Why now?" Julius asked.
"Well, if the volturi were willing to come here, where they knew I lived, and practically take a shit in my garden while looking me in the eyes, then run away, means they are getting bold, and if they are getting bold that means they are getting stronger, and are at a point in power where they believe they can start applying there power to do as they wish, without the fear of repercussions, which means they are about to get ready to fight the Romanian coven."
Julius slowly nodded his head, with a thoughtful look on his face, as he went over my words.
Julius opened his mouth to ask a question, but was cut off by jane.
"The Romanian coven?" Jane asked.
"Yes the Romanian coven" Julius says in an offhand manner.
Then he opened his mouth to ask me another question, but was cut off again.
"Who is the Romanian coven?" Jane asked, this time looking at me.
"The Romanian coven is the current ruling vampiric coven."
"Vampires have rulers," Jane asked, tilting her head to the side slightly.
It was my idea to keep Jane away from the political world that the vampires have.
In an attempt to keep her mind more focused on her training, because the first year of being a vampire. They tend to be very unstable, mentally, and in their ability to control themselves around humans and their blood.
things were starting to move in the vampire world, and fast, and now I had a choice either to tell her or not.
Of course I told her about the volturi, but I didn't tell her about the other covens spread across the known world. And now that the war with the Romanian coven seemed to be coming closer I had no choice but to tell her, to prepare her for what to expect and what will likely happen.
"Yes, the vampires have ruling covens, at the moment it's the Romanian coven, and the volturi are about to go to war with them in hopes of taking the throne for ruling coven."
Jane looked past me, With a thoughtful expression on her face at my words.
"The Romanian coven are the worst of the worst, they kill humans in cold blood and for no reason, other than the fact that they think that they are gods among men" I say looking back down at the fire in front of me, the memories of the people I tried to help flashing through my mind.
"The Romanian coven doesn't sound like such a bad coven to me," Jane said, in an uncaring tone.
Julius froze at her words and so did I.
Julius's eyes flashed to me as he watched me, looking to see if I would do something to Jane.
The anger her words caused in me was like an ocean of hate and rage, unleashed from the depths of my mind where they laid chained, to break free and come flooding to the surface.
They didn't even see me move.
Unconsciously my body reacted, and before I or the others knew what was happening I had Jane by the neck, and lifted almost a foot off the ground, by the neck.
I stared Jane dead in the eye, the normal jovial spark to my eyes was gone, now they were as cold as ice, as I looked into her soul.
"How heartless have you become." I said in a cold tone.
"Where the people who murder innocent people "doesn't sound so bad"." I asked Jane, daring her to answer.
"They have killed untold thousands of innocent people, for the fact that they wanted to. Entire villages, massacred to the last infant, because a group of vampires wanted to." I said my voice slowly rising, as my grip grew stronger on her neck.
"You hate humans for what they did to you and your brother, and you have a right to hate people, but only hate the village that tried to kill you, not the entire species, because of a group of people who will be dead in a few decades while you stay the same." I yelled at her.
Jane's eyes were now round in fear, as my anger increased.
"I tried to save some of them once, you know" I said, now in a quieter voice.
"And I managed to do so a few time, moving a few villages to the far north, but once the Romanian coven found out what I was doing they amassed a large group of vampires to track me down, and kill me, there was to many of them to fight so i ran, of course they couldn't catch me, but they made me pay for my actions, buy killing a whole village of innocent people, as I watched from a distance. back then I was weak, and afraid, and I couldn't save them because of it, and even now there is only so much I can do on my own, that's why I need the volturi, but for you to say the death of innocent people is "okay" is disgusting and so hypocritical it make me sick" I said to her.
"you stand on your high ground, acting like they were in the right for killing them, like their lives never mattered, because your life almost came to an end by a group of villagers who were afraid, which you thought gave you the right to hate every breathing person to exist."
"Adam, you need to calm down." Julius said, zooming to my side and placing a hand on the arm that was holding Jane up.
I looked over at him, causing him to flinch at what he saw.
What he saw was the part of me, I was able to push down, far enough to forget.
Using my emotion dampeners, I was always able to push them down and away, but never able to destroy them, with Jane's words she was able to bring them to the front.
And now I looked at Julius with the eyes of a person who has seen more death than any living being alive, a man who has seen the collapse of nations, wars, plagues, and thw constant death of his friends, one by one.
The real immortal.
Julius took a step back at my stare, he knew, if I was to attack him, I wouldn't hold myself back like I normally did.
Looking back at Jane, I saw the fear in her eyes as she stared back at me, with her half gold and red eyes.
"You have more than a right to hate that village for what they did to you and your brother, but that doesn't give you the right to hate all humans, I am thousands of years old and I have seen the darkest side of humanity more times than I can count, giving me more of a right to hate them then you, but I have also seen the good in humanity as well." I say my voice almost a whisper.
By this point I was able to get my emotions pushed back down and under lock, at least enough to where I wasn't going to kill the both of them.
And after taking a few more calming breaths, I slowly lowered Jane back to the ground.
And something happened to me, for the first time, I could remember since I came to this world.
Tears began to slowly fall from my eyes, and run down my face.
At first I was a little shocked to feel them fall, bringing my hand up to my face, I wiped away the tears that continued to fall freely.
[ALERT]
Recalibration of emotion inhibitors needed.
Self diagnoses activated.
[Loading…loading…loading…ERROR.]
[Overload of emotional dampeners detected.]
Said a robotic voice in my head.
Recalibration needed.
Loading new parameters for recalibration.
[Loading…loading…loading…ERROR.]
New parameters for emotional overload not found.
Self calibration activated.
Activation of basic self AI readjustment parameters activated.
Starting adjustments now…
With those last words, everything went black and I became weightless, floating in a black abyss.
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This is where Jane is going to change from the cold uncaring person, to a real person with compassion.
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