Chapter 4 2 B

"Do any of you have something to say?" He asked enigmatically as he used his tongue to wipe off the remains of King Luke blood on his face.

They all lined up before him, they had known of the Vampire Prince that would resurrect back to life after hundreds of years, they had read it in books and had now seen it in reality. Only that, none of them had ever imagined him to be this way, this power that he could defeat King Luke in a single move.

They knelt before him and bowed their heads to show their total submission. "Welcome back to life, King Ammar! Praise the Vampire King Of Phaya Empire!" Ammar closed his eyes and relished the taste of power on his lips, and the first order he had given as the king of Phaya Empire was to bring 50 slaves to him and after they were brought, he made sure to suck all the blood in their bodies, but he was still not yet satisfied.

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Esmeray stared at Jezebel that was trying so hard to close her shop but her hands kept trembling. "Give me that, I'll lock it up." She said and locked the shop before she turned to look at her, "But Jezebel, you've never closed your shop at this time, what's wrong? Are you sick?" There was a time Jezebel hadn't open her shop for two days and Esmeray was forced to find her house all by herself because she had never been there, and when she found her terminally ill, she nearly lost her sanity. And she feared if she was going to be sick again.

Jezebel chuckled and took the key from her hand, "No, I'm perfectly well. The King calls, we all have to appear at the royal palace now."

Esmeray chuckled and slowed down her pace, before, she thought that she was going to escort Jezebel wherever she was going but now that it had something to do with the King, she wasn't interested. News had all reached them that the 500-year-old vampire prince had resurrected, killed King Luke and had throned himself as the King and no one ever dared to defy him. She hated him for making her hear the sound she wasn't meant to, for coming into her nightmares and scaring her even though she had never seen his face, for making her able to now see the Fangs and all the traits of vampires and for being such a cruel king everyone was terrified of even though it was only five days since he got back to life.

"You all, not we. Bye, I have an assignment to write at home." She turned to walk back home when Jezebel held her hand and she turned with a pout on her lips. "Jezebel, we both know I can't go there."

"But why? It's not like he only called on vampires, he's our king so everyone will have to attend."

Esmeray rolled her eyes exasperatedly, "At this point, I don't even know what I am, and it's all because of a damned 500 years old vampire." She said through gritted teeth and Jezebel closed her mouth almost immediately as she stepped closer to her.

"Hey! You have to be careful of what you say about the king, Esmeray. And you can't go back home, the royal guards will be searching for the ones that haven't answered the King's summon and we both know the punishment will be severe." She rolled her eyes, it was tempting her to curse the life out of this king so he will go back to being dead and if he wanted, he could stay dead for another five hundred years because she didn't care!

They walked together with Jezebel as she told her stories of her childhood to make her forget about where they were going and the thong of people they have met in the humungous palace compound was what made Esmeray even more uncomfortable. Because before, she could sit amidst thousands of people without being able to point a finger at a vampire and a human because they all looked human to her. Even when Jezebel told her that Dewhurst was half-vampire and half-human, everyone in Dewhurst seemed to believe that but her. But now, she was terrified of the things she saw, of the sounds she heard and touches she felt.

They stood under the shade of a tree and Esmeray grumbled, "I'm so going to kill this King if he dared make us wait for long. What did he think of himself? He should be thankful that he got back to life not to be some cruel King already."

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King Ammar walked out of the front porch and the people that stared at him almost made his heart lost a beat, almost. He had never stood before a throng of people this much, his father did. He began to scan through the faces of the crowd, to see if the vampires they once had in Dewhurst had doubled or lessen. But when their number didn't please his eyes, which meant the female vampires had been marrying the male humans and hence producing human babies with very little trait of vampires, he knew he should make a change to that.

"Welcome back King Ammar! Praise the King of Phaya Empire!" The whole crowd echoed in unison as they went to their knees but as he looked farther to where the people had once blocked his vision from, there was someone still standing with hands at akimbo and he could see, the disgusted expression she had on her face and one could tell she was in no place interested in what was going on there.

For a moment he stared deeper, and his heart lost a beat when the person that turned at the same time to look at him was none other than Enyo Demonblood, the Queen of Trinnuiven Dynasty, his sworn enemy. He closed his eyes to make sure he wasn't hallucinating but when he opened them back, she was no longer standing where she was and the whole crowd were back on their feet that he had all the power in his eyes to scan every face in the crowd but he couldn't find her.

He had to find her!