It was just another day in the cave, Luciel came back after hunting and Violet was preparing food for herself the raven.
The echoes of droplets were slow and loud, the sound of deep river Nyx.
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Violet's PoV
It's been a year and half, so much has happened.
But this habit of Luciel to hunt like a beast didn't change, if only I hunted myself today.
"Mr. Raven! These horns on these rabbits! They are broken! Can't you just ask Luciel to stop being rough on them!" I said and mr. Raven shook his head in disappointment.
"Ah! I need this horn to make medicine! Mr. Raven what should I do now? Do you have any alternate recipes?" I sighed.
The recipe mr. raven told me for the pain I experience now and then.
This weird illness, I don't know what it is, but it was affecting my body and mana, that's why I can't use spells properly.
Mr. Raven has told me a few recipes that help in pain but I still can't use many spells besides minor ones.
I was slowly grinding the rabbit horns, the an unknown voice reached my ears.
"Are you sure that brat is here?" It was a voice I've never heard before, someone has came inside a cave.
Present time... When Violet was found out by
Their eyes met mine, they were staring like they knew where I was before even coming here.
Their appearance was no different than a monster we've seen, they were huge bodies, one of them had red skin with two horns and long sharp hair, the other one had one horn with green skin and mane-like hair.
They had black and red uniforms, their eyes were bright red with slit pupils as of lizards.
Their mouth slowly opened with long needle-like teeth with drool dripping on the ground.
"Well...well...well what do we have here! A human! A human in the Realm of Night!" One of the mouth sides was stretched ear to ear in the grin.
My heart was beating fast with sweat sticking on my skin, my mouth went dry and words were stuck in my throat, I wanted to scream but I couldn't.
"What should we do Malao? Should we play with her here? Pull out her limbs and then sell her as a slave?" The excitement on their face was palpable.
"What good a limbless slave would be? I don't know how to get you in guard lines! Well, we do have something that'll pay us in carts." The other monster spoke.
My tongue was trembling but if I let my fear take over me now, I'll be dead before they kill me.
"Who- who are you?" I spoke, then they looked at each with a blank expression, for a few seconds you could even hear the winds around, then suddenly they broke into laughter.
"Who are we? The audacity of this girl! Oh the curses! Are you listening to her Sieom? Who are we!" Their laughter felt like the barks of a mad dog, scratching my ear and the wall of caves.
I was slowly trying to pull my nocked on my arrow while imbuing with a minor spell of paralysis.
But then in just a moment they stopped laughing,
"Enough jokes... Get her Sieom!" The monster pointed at me and the red skinned monsters jumped at me.
In the blink he closed up to my face with his almost capturing my head, but then a strong gust of wind made me close my eyes, and when I slowly opened them, I saw the face of Luciel.
I felt his hands around my arms and thighs, I was in his arms, he saved me before he could grab me.
"Luciel..." The relief felt like my chest was released from tight bands.
Then a realisation dawn on me, now he was in danger too.
"Luciel... Why? Why didn't you run away?" I spoke to him, he looked at me and then just like his usual cold tone,
"Run? Me?"
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Luciel held Violet with his eyes locked up with the two monster-like creatures, he slowly helped her stand up and then with breaking eye contact with them he spoke.
"Go and hide..."
Violet was staring at his eyes standing still.
"GO NOW!" Luciel yelled and Violet jumped on her place, she doesn't want to abandon him, she wants to fight with him but she knows, she will only be a deadweight.
She turned her eyes away and tried to run, but then those monsters in uniform spoke again..."oh no you don't!" The red monster leaped towards Violet, but Luciel grabbed his wrist and threw him against a wall.
The green skinned monster was still staring at Luciel chuckled and then spoke, "Oh my, the excitement after seeing the child of light made me forget why we were here." His claws slowly came out and face was twisted in anger.
"How rude of me, acting so brashly... Accept my greetings last of the house of D'Nocthera, Luciel Oren D'Nocthera.
Your house of the Noble of Nights has been ruined, you are just a flickering amber." The monster was grinning ear to ear.
He struck a nerve in Luciel and suddenly dark aura started pouring out of Luciel like clouds of ink.
"I guess this will be you last words!"
( Burning Blossoms )
The cave was covered in many red flowers, it felt like the seedbed of blood.
In moments the red blossoms sprouted with crimson petals blooming, then slowly the petals slowly started flying around with slowly burning and then, chain of explosions filled the cave.
One after another, the cave shook with wall rattling and parts of it falling around.
In the corner of the cave, far away from the active battleground Violet was staring at them...
"Noble of Night? What- who are they? Are they talking about Luciel?" Violet was still thinking about anyway she can help Luciel.
Then a gentle touch slowly sunk on her shoulder, Violet was about to scream but a soft white wing covered her mouth.
It was the white raven, but air around him was changed.
"Don't scream, if things get bad we need to make sure that don't find out escape route..." He was talking about small opening that in the river, that lead to another part of cave that can give them time to get out of there.
"Mr. Raven! Where were you? We need to help Luciel! And what is this Noble of Night? The realm of Light and Realm of Night! Who are they?" Violet whispered slowly with sweat dripping like hails.
"Forgive me princess, I can't go out infront of them, some eyes don't watch for the person that's holds them only." He said,
"I guess silence will only comaplicate things from now on." The White Raven closed his eyes and took a deep breath...
"Princess, the world you are in is called Realm of Night, and you are not from here princess, you don't belong here..." He spoke in cold calculated tone.
Violet heart dropped in her gut, he lips trembled in disbelief with her eyes screaming to say it was lie.
"I am not from this world? What are you saying? Just because I don't remember my past-"
"It has nothing to do with it, you are human... Human don't belong here, in this realm... Realm of Night three major races rule...
The Guardians of Screeching Abyss, that live deep within the forests of abyss,
The Nobles of Nights, the race who commands the balances in this realms.
The Heir of Darkness, the race that fills every part of this world."
The raven spoke but Violet was still in whirlpool of questions,
"These are titles of ancient race Dark Elves, the noble Vampires and the raging Demons." The white raven sigh, the truth of the dark world around Violet was in front of her now.
"The Dark Elves, Vampires, Demons?" Violet was trembling and then without missing a beat she spoke, "who are they?"
The obliviousness on Violet face shook him, the realisation sunk in... She had forgot everything.
"Forgive me, I guess I was protecting you from something that you didn't even existed.
It's better if you don't know about them, but I'll tell you this...
A human shouldn't appear before them, for them you are not better than a low life or animal." The white raven spoke.
"But why? Luciel is kind to him? He- he is... Noble of Night... But he didn't-"
"In normal circumstances, he would've drained every drop of blood in your body princess, He is the Noble of Night, the Vampires with Golden Blood.
The Golden Blood that means royalty of this world." The white raven tone was grim.
Violet stared at him, she didn't know what was going on, who were vampire, what does it mean to be human everything...
Then she heard a loud explosion then she saw Luciel dropping on ground with blood pooling under his body...
suddenly it felt like head was exploding with bells ringing in her ears, her eyes were getting blurry.
She started squirming in pain, then a voice echoed in her head...
"Violet..." She screamed "MAMA!!!"