Renan's eyes opened, but he didn't see the room. He didn't see Luna. He didn't see anything familiar.
Instead, the world was smoke and flame.
A scream echoed in the distance—inhuman, sharp like broken glass. His body moved, but he wasn't in control. He was watching through his own eyes as if he were trapped inside his own skull. This wasn't reality. It couldn't be.
But it felt real.
There was fire everywhere. Buildings crumbled like paper under the weight of a immense power. The sky was red, like it had been bleeding for hours. The streets were painted with blood, some of it human, some of it something else entirely.
"Fall back!" A soldier in white and golden clothes shouted. He held a weapon that looked part machine, part ancient blade. Behind him, more people in similar uniforms ran, shooting at shadows that moved faster than Renan's eyes could track.
Then he saw them—vampires. Not like him, they looked older, and stronger.
And on their side were these twisted, deformed monsters.
Some of the monsters looked like wolves, others like winged bats with long arms and glowing red eyes. They howled as they charged, tearing through flesh and metal alike.
Renan blinked and the scene shifted.
Now he was above it all, floating somehow. A city had turned into a battlefield that stretched out for miles. Drones flew in squadrons. Blinding lights marked strikes, and giant shadowy glyphs hovered in the sky, pulsing with energy striking with magic anything that it could.
He heard voices. Not just one. Dozens. Hundreds.
Those were screams of humans. Both soldiers and civilians trying anything to stay alive amidst the pandemonium.
"They have breached the safe zone wall!" A captain screamed trying to mobilize his troops
"They're using blood-magic, we weren't prepared for this!" One of the soldiers screamed with fear in his voice.
"We need the Purebloods. Where are the Purebloods?"
Renan could see the humans cowering under their tents, and running underground to the metro system, some were trying to hide even in the sewers. The world had fallen into total chaos.
His vision shook. Another shift.
Now, he was in a dark room. Underground. A war council? A group of vampires stood around a blood fountain. The blood was being molded by magic and displayed Ravenport.
That city was the first territory reclaimed for the start of the vampire kingdom.
One of the vampires leaned over the map. A woman with pale blue skin and silver eyes. Her voice was cold.
"The humans fall so easily."
Her smile was twisted, just like the short, provocative clothes she wore.
"Mira, control yourself," an older vampire said calmly. He seemed to be the one truly in control within that council of elder vampires.
"Send your abominations to continue the assault on the human soldiers, but we need prisoners."
"As you wish, my lord." Mira nodded and vanished in the blink of an eye, like a blur of shadows.
The other elder vampires also knew their roles and quickly left, leaving the older vampire alone in the castle chamber.
He sat down on a throne made of human bones and formed a sickening smile on his lips as he let out a loud, unsettling laugh…
His plan was unfolding perfectly.
Once again, everything was consumed by a cold and lonely darkness…And when the boy finally opened his eyes, he was back in the candle-lit room with floating flames. He was terrified, his heart pounding hard, and his head rested on Luna's soft thighs while she gently tried to soothe him, running her fingers through his hair.
Her fingers danced softly between his locks.
"That was way too intense…!" the boy said, breathing deeply.
"Shhh... Relax. It's over now," she whispered, placing a kiss on his forehead and then another on his lips.
He kissed her back, finally beginning to calm down.
"What was that?"
"A vision," she explained. "It's the same vision I had a long time ago, when I started my training as a witch... I know what the vampires are planning, and I need your help to stop them."
Renan clenched his teeth. All the death and destruction he had seen in that vision… it was too much. Any sane person would fight to prevent such a massacre.
"So… that's really why you turned me into a vampire?"
Luna nodded.
Everything made more sense to him now.
He didn't understand why she hadn't shown him all of this before, but the truth was he knew too much now — and there was no turning back.
"Yes... But if I had told you earlier, you wouldn't have believed me. Or you would've been too scared…" she said, feeling a bit guilty for truly believing it. "I'm sorry."
"No, you're probably right."
Part of him knew he would've reacted just like she said.
"But now I'm motivated to protect the world. I won't let that vision become reality."