“Tell me Sera, what do you want to know?” He asked with a smirk on his face. He took a chair from the other side of the room in the blink of an eye. Setting it in front of me, he sat on it, staring right into my eyes. Something was so different about him, so weird about him.

“Who are you?” I asked after remaining silent for about a minute.

He sighed. “I am Blood Devil.” He shrugged. “My real name is… I think you know it already.”

“Benjamin Daniels,” I remembered it from that dream. It didn’t feel like a dream. After I recalled that dream, I suspect there is something more to it. “That dream… that was just not a dream, right?”

“You are right,” he said simply. “It was a world created by me that was shown in your dream.”

“A world created by you?”

“An ideal world where you would simply fall in love with me without much efforts from my side. That was unsuccessful though. When you woke up, your affection for me was not as much as I had wanted.”

I gave him a confused look.

“There is one thing I will tell you. I’m sure it will really surprise you.”

“I’ve been with you for one year and two months not as Blood Devils but as Vladimir Summers.”

What?! Blood Devil was Vladimir. Let me get this straight. After I had been turned into a vampire, the person I thought was Vladimir was actually Blood Devil. But who was the Vampire king then? Was it Vladimir, who was actually Blood Devil or was it Blood Devil who was… what?

This is confusing.

“I am the Vampire King and I have many enemies too. You see… I’m not very popular. I had bitten several humans and other supernatural creatures to expand my army. I wanted to make as much vampires as possible. But you see I have only two. Every wonder why?

“Everyone here says that in my entire history, I only ever made two vampires. And that’s true. Though I tried to make many but my venom was too much for them and they died.” He shrugged. “There were hundreds of them who died. Humans, werewolves, witches. I didn’t make any exception.”

“After several hundred years, I gave up thinking that I could transform anyone into a vampire with my venom. So I had started injecting my venom into them only to watch them dying in pain, as you had already felt.”

I remembered that excruciating pain I had felt when he had bitten me. That was so horrible. I wanted to die. It was slow and really, really painful. It sickens me to think that he was doing something for his enjoyment.

“A few years ago, I came across a warlock. A weak, pathetic warlock who was on the verge of dying. I thought of prolonging his death. I sat there, watching him thrashing around in pain, waiting for his death. I was surprised when he didn’t die. I was very much surprised when he woke up as a vampire. Not only that, his eyes had also changed from blue to green.”

Wait! Is he talking about Vladimir? But Vladimir is Blood Devil. So does that mean that Blood Devil is Vladimir?

“My hopes went up again. I had made a vampire and that too from warlock. You know… vampires can only ever make humans as vampires because their weak blood can be dominated by vampire blood. But the chances of survival of those vampires are very less. But I was able to turn a warlock into a vampire. That vampire was powerful and smelt different. I thought I had created a new species.”

“I tried to bite more warlocks and witches but they all died. I wondered why there was only one creature I could turn into a vampire. And then I came across a werewolf. What was his name? Ah! Harry Wayne Osborn.”

My eyebrows shot up. Daniel’s father?

“He told me a very interesting thing. Let me tell you something.” He reached behind his back and fished out a notebook. “These are his notes. His researches. It tells all about certain species known as ‘The Royal Bloods’.”

My eyes widened and he chuckled at my reaction.

“I’ll give you a summary.” He opened the notebook and started reading. “The Royal Bloods are special supernatural creatures that are capable of enduring the blood of three supreme races- vampires, werewolves and witches. They are originally born in one of these races. When infused with the blood of another race, they acquire the qualities of that race and become more powerful.”

“The first royal blood is a boy born to strongest race on the hundredth lunar eclipse. The second royal blood is a girl born to the strongest race on the hundredth solar eclipse. New royal bloods will be born after another hundred eclipses.”

Now I remember… the day I was born was actually a solar eclipse. It was just another day. I had never paid any attention to it.

Blood Devil then looked at me. “When you were born, werewolves were the strongest races. It has always been either werewolf or witches. The numbers of vampires were reduced over the years because now humans have become weak due to pollution and all that crap. Their blood can’t endure vampire blood. Also, the quality of their blood is also affected. On the other hand, warlocks and werewolves became stronger.”

“If this goes on, Vampires will become extinct one day. I am the Vampire king and I cannot allow that to happen. So I was wondering-,”

“Who is the other royal blood?” I asked interrupting him. He looked a little displeased by that.

“It’s Vladimir. The original Vladimir, the one who has been posing as the Blood Devil since last year.”

“Why did you…?”

I didn’t need to voice out the whole question.

“For you,” he smirked. “I wanted you to fall in love with Blood Devil.”

“But why?”

“That’s something I can’t tell you right now.”

“Did you know I had royal blood before you changed me into a vampire?”

“I didn’t know exactly but I had my suspicions. That night I was going to another werewolf pack in search for the royal blood. I only happened to stumble across you. Our meeting that day was a mere coincidence.”

“Why do you think that I will fall in love with him?”

“It’s natural… to fall someone from same species.” He answered vaguely.

“If you knew I was royal blood heir then why did you send me to my pack to search… myself?”

“I wanted you to find out that you are the royal blood. Also, I wanted to test your loyalty. You betrayed me though. My mission to make you fall for me was falling apart when you decided to lie to me.”

“Why did you bring Kyle between all this?”

“That was his choice. He came to me. Told me that Werewolf King wanted you. I was not surprised. After all, you were his son’s mate.”

I knew it. I knew it.

“Even though that werewolf wanted you to himself. When I decided to go with you too, his plan failed. That’s when he called your mate.”

My mate. When I think of Daniel,i think of the time back in Moonstone and Blue Moon pack. I wanted to ask another question.

“Why did you save me?” I asked. He knew what I was asking about. He saved me when I was still in Moonstone pack. He was the one who had saved me from fire that day. He saved me in Blue Moon pack also. I don’t think he did that because he loved me or anything. He had his own agenda.

He grinned at my question. It was so dangerous. I gulped when he clapped his hands.

The doors creaked open behind me and footsteps of a vampire echoed inside the room. A human was thrown in front of me and blood devil. Then the vampire left.

The human looked around with wide eyes. His hands were tied behind his back. He was scared. The boy looked around fifteen or sixteen years. His mouth was sealed with a duct tape.

“You have to change this human into a vampire.” Blood Devil told me. My eyes widened. What?

He stood up and pulled the human with his hand. He brought the boy near my face.

“Come on! Bite him!” He ordered me.

I turned my face away. No way. I won’t do that. I have fangs but I never used them to pierce into someone’s flesh. I won’t do that.

“DO IT!” He screamed but I still refused.

“If you don’t do it, I’ll rip this boy’s body into little pieces. I will torture him and give him a slow painful death in front of your eyes.”

My heart thumped loudly inside my chest. No, no, no! No!

“Well then,” Blood Devil said and twisted that boy’s finger. It bent to an odd angle as the crack was heard. The boy’s muffled screams echoed in the room. I wanted to just shut my ears.

“Sera, look at him.” Blood Devil taunted. “Look how he is crying. Does it hurt, little boy?”

He was psychotic. This is his trued form.

Now that I think about it, this behavior won't come as a surprise from previous Vladimir, that is original Blood Devil. He always had it in him. The psychotic look in his eyes. The sadism. But where does the Blood Devil, the original Vladimir fit into this?

“Are you doing it Sera or should I break another bone?” Blood Devil said. The boy thrashed violently. He was trying to escape and at the same time trying not to move his broken finger.

I nodded reluctantly. “Good Girl!”

When I bit into the flesh of that boy, I really wanted to throw up. I didn’t know how to inject my venom in him. But I could feel something was shifting from me to that boy. When I pulled away, the boy thrashed in pain. His broken finger was already hurting. I had given him more pain.

Blood Devil threw the boy on the floor and watched him with cunning eyes.

That boy was just a human. I had felt immense pain even though I was werewolf. I didn’t know what will happen to him.

Will he even survive?

I closed my eyes shut and tried to break the chains. Nothing happened. They must be laced with some spell. This should not happening to me right now.

For some reason, I know where this is going. Blood Devil is using me… he wants me change humans into vampires.

But there are still so many questions that are unanswered.

For now, I have to expect this human dies. It is a cruel thing but if he doesn’t die and becomes a vampire then more humans will be subjected to the same fate. They will become vampires. The vampires who need human blood to survive. It will turn into a chaos.

I have to get out of this place soon.