Chapter 1
This is a story of horror, convince me otherwise. I am aware of the light that I'm meant to be descended from, but I also know of the darkness that I am presumably drawn to. I am perfectly misaligned in this realm of angels.. and the evil it tries so desperately hard to bury as if this pitiful world was nothing but a miserable grave. "Merilica." My mother calls out, "Darling, it is time for the masquerade." I roll my eyes, this is the same thing we do every year to mask the start of something terrible, the year before was my girlfriend's reluctant break up, last year was her tragic death, god forbid it get better than that. My parents had no respect for Valysia, they don't care at all about who I choose to love as long as it's the opposite gender, luckily I'm not limited to girls.. what? I'm bisexual. My bad, it's not like me to be distracted, I guess I'm too used to the pain of corsets and ball gowns that now it numbs instead of burn to realize I got off track. "Hey princess." Kalix says. Kalix is my idiot twin brother, if only he were the older twin. We don't even look like we're from the same family, but it's me who stands out, I don't have a trace of holy blood in me even living in a kingdom of pure angels. "The frick do you want, Kal?" I ask him. "Just wanted to say you look great Meri, but my advice? Don't make any sudden moves or I swear to fricking God.." He retorts, but I interject with, "You'll threaten me with something you don't actually have the guts to do?" Kalix storms off, slipping on his mask while a familiar face I enjoy to see more than the previous one comes along from around the corner. "Hey Merilica!" They exclaimed. "Erin.. Why are you here?? Look at you all dapper.." I tease. "Yeah yeah, shut the heck up, I came to support you of course, my bestie!" Erin claims. "Can you not call me that, just because I'm human and you're younger than me, it doesn't mean I am not willing to take you down." I tell him. "We're only a year apart! Jeez!" He argues, "That was mean.. I'm already short." I giggle, saying, "I think you should head out, before my family sticks their noses up my butt." Erin laughs softly before nervously walking away, blushing. My parents, the King and Queen, I despise them both with a burning passion, sadly its something me and Kalix have in common. They both hit their glasses of champagne while I stood by glaring at them rejoice, the same calm before the storm moment of every single year. "Hello there," An unknown voice shyly says behind me. I turn around to see a young man in a black and gold suit, wearing a red mask asking me with his gloved hand extended, "May I have this dance?" I typically decline to waltz with anyone, especially after Valysia, but there was just something about his silver eyes behind that mask that made something in me shift, a peculiar dark aura I felt while standing in front of him that made him impossible to resist. I take his hand in perfect sync to the piano, and we begin dancing. Kalix's sapphire eyes narrow, staring from the other side of the room. "Attention citizens!" My father, the King shouts. Everyone stops to turn toward him and the man who asked me to dance had completely vanished, it was like it never happened, like he was a hallucination I conjured up in my damaged mind, but maybe I'm a little morbid. "Though we have thrown this big, extraordinary masquerade tonight, we bring unfortunate news." The Queen says. "The Dark Kingdom has been threatening us with war for years, but now the corruption has been unleashed onto our home, into the forest that protects us from their evil, so we fear that Alysheria may be destroyed by the end of the year." The King explains. The audience gasps. Even I do. Of course this is happening now as soon as the new Vampire Queen takes the throne of the Dark Kingdom, she is probably the biggest threat we have ever faced now, now why do I get the suspicion that the man from minutes before this isn't what he seems.. I may need to find out for myself.. Maybe this pathetic life is interesting after all.. TO BE CONTINUED..