Chapter 1

17 years after the awakening of the tyrant Count Dracula

Having been trapped in the far wing security tower in her father's castle for all the seventeen years of her life, Princess Erinna's only form of entertainment was the stars she could see from her balcony window.

Her only knowledge was what she had found out in the rounded walls of her room in the tower, the only life experiences she knew being the ones in the sappy romance novels that her governess snuck in for her and the only people familiar to her being her father and her governess, Melissa.

It was only natural for her to wonder about the world beyond her tower. But as she stood at her balcony, something caught her attention.

"Is something wrong, Princess?" Melissa asked, brow creasing in concern.

"You remember when I told you about the dark cloud that formed just below the Southern Cross seventeen years ago?" Erinna asked Melissa, her eyes narrowed in concentration.

"The one you received in your visions?"

Ever since she had been born, Princess Erinna had been blessed with the gift of Precognition. The future as well as the past came to her in dreams and visions that even she could not interpret at times.

"Yes. Well, it has seventeen stars now, one has been added each year it seems. Only one is left to fully circle it."

Melissa could tell that there was something that her princess and charge was not telling her.

"Do you think that it has something to do with you?"

"It did appear when I was born. But what I don't understand is why it's completing with eighteen years. And no, I do not sense my death approaching, but I keep on seeing this face..."

Before Erinna could even begin explaining to Melissa her thoughts, the stars in the radial constellation glowed brighter and a bolt of lightning appeared, joining them together before striking down and hitting Erinna square on the head.

The face that had been the subject of her dreams was the last thing that she saw in her mind before being sucked into a vortex of nothing and ultimate darkness.

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Btw, this story is heavily unedited and a rough draft. If you're looking for something you can nitpick details on, you might probably want to look elsewhere. Cheers🥂