Echo 's POV
I didn’t know how they took me back. When I woke up, ALL I felt was sore. My legs were scratched with thousands of brambles, big and small. I was locked in the dungeon, which I knew fairly well. Here once held a beast of prey which I finally subdued. From then on, Castile the Elder had shown the preference for me, hoping that I could become the future heir one day. Yet now I was here, being imprisoned by my people, my trusted family. What an irony!
TAT-TAT-TAT. Someone was approaching. Now I never got anything more to wish for as to be rescued from the dungeon. On the contrary, memories of my cold and cruel family crawled into my mind and made me shudder with disappointment.
The dungeon door was opened and a stranger entered. In the darkness I could make out only the side of his face. The bridge of his nose took up most of it, followed by two very thin lips. His eyes were so deep at night that they were indistinguishable, like a pool. The next thing I know was my severe choking.
"Are you the abandoned huntress of the hunter family?" Those two eagle eyes locked me. And this face, this beautiful face, with fangs full of hatred, was taking a look at me. "I want to bury you alive for Jenna!"
His wrist just lightly pressed, and I began to cough violently until I couldn't breathe. My consciousness went fuzzy. Just at the moment I felt my body suddenly rushing out an ineffable strength to break away from the man's bondage.
"This was impossible!!" The man looked unexpected. "You…you kept Jenna's Vampire powers? How did you do that? !"
The moon shone down into the basement, lit up the floor and showed me his face. Out of surprise, his fangs gathered. It was the most handsome face I had ever seen, with features so delicate. Even if he looked pale and bloodless, there was no doubt that the face seemed to have been carefully calculated and sculpted. But I couldn't be distracted by his face. He was Jenna's fiancé. A strong hunch in my heart told me so. I could even feel the great pain in his heart.
"Dear respected Duke Elliot, our majesty invited you to the reception room for negotiation!" Someone came to report it, interrupting my almost losing myself.
"Hum!" He suddenly looked at me and said, in a angry voice."Wait for it! You will pay! I won't let you off!" With that and by the light of the moon, he moved out at a Vampire-special speed, leaving me in this dungeon sighing.
I sighed for my fragile friendship, for my weak family affection, for not knowing where my future lay!
Leonardo's POV
Something must have happened to Jenna!!
In my chest, the heart that should never have beaten again suddenly become restless! It was a special CONNECTION between me and her, and it made me uncomfortable. So something must have happened to Jenna!
I stood up, ready to use our "CONNECTION" to find her. But I had just walked down the stairs when the pain in my chest hit me hard to the ground! The truth was that, Jenna DIED! The woman I loved most, my Vampire Princess. She was dead, going away from this desolate and disgusting world! Because of her, I can control my bloodthirsty paranoia and live well in the world. But now, my one and only spiritual support was collapsing!
Louis carried my favorite Boston wine into my room. Every day at this time, I would take a drink and go to sleep with my Princess Jenna. "Your wine, your Royal Highness!" He did nothing wrong, but I still got no trace of compassion. I opened my mouth and let my sharp teeth rip into his neck. Finally, I got his blood sucked entirely! Watching him fall to the ground silently and his body losing its color from extreme ischemia, I felt my brain so excited that it could hardly contain itself!
The moon was perfect. I was going hunting out there. Not many people went out at night in Sinpal. They seemed afraid to meet me, although no one had ever seen me before. After sucking the blood of six men, I knocked on the door of the hunter family.
In the dungeon, the damnable woman lay slumped on the floor, exhausted and weak. Her ragged clothes sold her sufferings out. Casstile the Elder told me that she had stolen the hunter's most precious treasure- the Heart of Moonshadow ring and made Jenna be her scapegoat. In that case, I would kill this woman myself to revenge for Jenna's death!
But the closer I got to her, the more uncontrollably soft my heart became. I didn't know why. I kept trying to adjust myself. When I put my hands around her neck, something familiar rose up inside her, rebelling against me. That was not right! It was Jenna's power! I couldn't get it wrong! Once, when we trained our speed in the Dark Forest, I had felt her power! I couldn’t get it wrong! But why did she keep Jenna's power? Was it because of the ring- the Heart of Moonshadow? I couldn't kill her, so I went back to the Elder, and to my surprise, he ordered me to take the damn woman back to my castle and did whatever I wanted to her.
Right! I would do everything I could to let her die under my torture, paying for the death of my favorite Jenna!
Echo 's POV
The guard took me to Casstile the Elder. The man was there. I was too weak to stand. Most importantly, the two powers in my body were still intertwining and fighting, which made me so sick!
"Your Royal Highness, Echo was yours. Please take her home at your disposal!" With these words, Casstile sat down, rotating his chair and turning his back on me.
"Your majesty......" My voice was hoarse, as if ONLY I could hear it. Then I looked at the handsome carved man, who was looking at me with malice.
"It is a rare measure of justice for you to hand over your people so generously." The man nodded slightly, which was regarded as a salute. "In that case, I won’t decline all this. Just in time, I need time to interrogate, well interrogate. Then will I learn how exactly she stole the treasure and plant evidence to frame blame!"
Obeying his order, his men blindfolded me with a black belt and dragged me out of the house. If I left here, I would become homeless because of the abandonment of my people. Maybe Jenna's curse on me was getting closer and closer...
We pulled up in front of a huge castle. The driver honked to open the gate, and I heard the sound of countless bats flapping their wings in the air. The man took me out of the car like a piece of garbage and threw me into the dirty, smelly basement. It was a place that almost a hundred times colder than my family dungeon! I couldn’t help shivering.
"Feeling cold?" The man only lit a candle. In the dark basement, that small flame seemed to be my last hope.
With the dim light lighting up his face, his facial features gradually displayed in front of my eyes, more stereoscopic. His face was so close to me that I could take a really good look at him. Vampire-specific white skin made his features more luxurious. Beneath the flaxen hair were a pair of blood-red eyes. I couldn’t feel temperature of those eyes. Right there, they seemed to be about to freeze at the moment.
"Before you die, you damn woman, I want to hear from you. How did you steal the treasure yourself and frame my Jenna? Say it!" He clutched me around the neck. I saw his pupils expanding and shrinking with anger, casting an inscrutable stream of shadows.
I should have been in a lot of pain, but as his hand rested on my neck, I could feel his hesitation for a moment. And then, suddenly, the pressure on me that I should have had was lessened a lot. I didn’t know the reasons of it.
He looked from his hands to my face, his thin lips drawing in a cold arc of disgust. He sneered, with redicule, as if the hatred in his heart would never vanish. He opened his mouth slowly. With those sharp Vampire fangs digging deeply into my neck, I closed my eyes in despair, only to feel about the uncomfortableness on my face from his thick hair...
Leonardo's POVDamn the hunters!From the day we Vampires rose, the hunters should never have been left alive! Otherwise, today, I should be married to my beloved Jenna and live together happily for the rest of my life! However, it was because of her, this pretentious woman who had ruined all this!Without hesitation, I bit her neck and blood ran down my lips. The smell was so familiar. It was Jenna's smell. Oh! That sweet smell! My mind was confused and I was totally mistaking her for Jenna! I turned the bitting and sucking at the beginning into a gentle kiss in the end. How I missed the time with Jenna!All of a sudden, a voice of groaning softly came in my ears. "Ughm!" The strange voice pulled me back to reality. No! She was not Jenna but that fucking disgusting huntress."You seemed really easy to fuck, right? What a disgusting bitch!" I recovered myself and spat a mouthful of bloody spit at her side. Then I took out my handkerchief and wiped my hands and lips.Every time I was wi
Emily 's POVI never thought I'd see the huntress once saved me in our village! Even though she saved my life, I won’t thank her! Because she drove out all the Werewolves that had ruled the village for years, which she stated as life rescue of us human race. Yet since the Werewolves disappeared, our village had been overrun by a clan of Vampires headed by the Duke Elliot. And now, I was becoming a blood slave of Duke Elliot, feeding him my blood every day.Now, the huntress who had been hated and spurned by the villagers was standing in front of me. I should, ought to revenge for my poor villagers, many of whom had been cruelly sucked every last drop of blood in their bodies by Vampires and turned into corpses with just flesh and skin!"Bitch! That was all because of you! If you hadn't turned up in our village, they might still be alive! "The huntress spoke, and I could stil recall her name, Echo, which was what she told me after she saved me, and she said that if I ever got in troub
Leonardo's POVI admitted that I couldn't help noticing the tears in her eyes, even though I rarely saw them in Jenna's eyes, so I was totally unfamiliar with Jenna's tears. But this moment, I did not know the reason why my heart was full of this inexplicable pain when I saw her tears."Hold your tears, Huntress! I will not pardon you for those little drops of salty water! With me, you will always be guilty! YOU, get up!" I kicked Emily, the dying blood slave next to me, "Go to Luise and ask for some blood-filling medicine. Take it. The huntress still needs you to interrogate her."Emily struggled to her feet. "Your Royal highness, You've drunk up Luise's blood. I can't go to him.""Oh, yes! I forgot that!" I smiled, pulling over the chain nailed to the wall, and bound the huntress's hands firmly. I was afraid she should be too cunning, and escaped while we were gone!She struggled a few times, but because of the wound, she could not succeed. "Save it, dear huntress! You will never ev
Echo 's POVPain! Pain! Pain! I'd never felt pain like this before. It was ten times worse than the lash soaked in salt water whipping on my body!"What's wrong with me? I pulled my feet back out of the light. "What happened? What did you do to me? !" I looked at the Vampire in anger.Surely, he must have done something to me! Is the whip in Emily's hand to do with it? Or... I looked at the Vampire with a puzzled face, and he looked at me with a smile and a hint of defiance."Perhaps your great Moon Goddess is punishing you! Aha!" Even Emily chose to stand aside, saying and doing nothing, as if hoping that I would be burned to death by the sun!I lifted my heavily shackled hands and stroked my burned feet. How strange it was! There were no scars on my feet as if I had just been dreaming! "How did this happen?" I checked carefully to make sure it wasn't my fantasy."That's a good sign." The Vampire stopped his smile and squatted down. His eyes were at the same level with mine. I saw hi
Leonardo's POVThis woman was acting like a Vampire! Did it mean that after she absorbed Jenna's Vampire power, she was going to be a Vampire, too? But we Vampires had never been like this before! No one could be a Vampire unless we suck blood and then resurrect them! Could a hunter's ring hold all that power? I chose not to believe that the heart of Moonshadow could do this, nor would I. However, I DID watch her wounds heal immeasurably."You keep questioning her. I need to taste some new blood." I motioned to Emily for another round of torture and quickly left the dungeon myself.Back in my room, I lay on the bed. Memoeries about the hunter came to me like tide hitting the shore. Her beauty, her dignity even in the face of torture, were deeply imprinted on my mind. To my surprise, Jenna's image was fading away in my mind,being replaced, step by step, by another shadow, and her image just vanished bit by bit!Thinking of this, my body was suddenly attacked by a flow of dry heat. I kn
Leonardo's POVWhat did I do? Making out in bed with this fucking huntress? This was definately betrayal, a betrayal of Jenna! Emily's screams woke me up. "Your Royal Highness, I... I'm sorry, I didn't know you were..." She apparently choked back, not daring to continue. I got up, found the bathrobe lying on the sofa and wrapped it around me. Then I turned my evil eyes on Emily. She dared to disturb me when I was in the heat of desire. She was now on her knees, trembling, and in my anger I kicked her hard."Get out of my room!" I was furious.When I turned around, I saw the stunned face of the huntress. Her hands around my neck were still frozen in mid-air and she could not lower them. She must have been woken up by Emily's cry, too. Seeing my eyes resting on her half-open collar, she hastily sat up and pulled her ragged clothes aside to cover them a little, but the more she did so, the more attractive she looked!"Huntress, listen to me!" I grabbed her by the scruff of the neck and c
Echo 's POVKindness in this world went in cycles, and I never thought that the people I had saved by accident would now return my kindness. I picked up the keys on the ground, unshackled the handcuffs and anklets. Then I began my directionless journey through the Illusion Fog. The Thorn Jungle was made all the more terrifying by the mournful cries of countless crows flying overhead. Although I was a tough hunter with all kinds of brutal training, I was also afraid when my heart iwas weak.The weakness of my heart came from the abandonment and betrayal that followed when I thought of my family and friends, which made my heart cold to the extreme. I might as well stay put because I was not sure if there was anything else chilling in the forest waiting for me. For safety, I chose to stand where I was now. As an old saying went, standing where you were was the safest option while losing direction."Roar!" Not far away from the depths of the jungle came the roar of a male Lion. Why would
Leonardo's POVThis woman, this crazy little woman, should spend two days in the Thorn Jungle! It was incredible! Not even the most powerful Alphas Werewolf could do that! And she was only a little huntress.I put on my defensive cloak and entered the Thorn Jungle at dusk. Only then could we Vampires be protected from the attack of The Illusion Fog. She was about to faint, and my heart was trembling! "You were really tough, aren’t you?" I couldn't help saying those ironic words to her. The next second, she was crawling up to me with her exausted and battered body, dragging me at the corner of my cloak and weakly said those words. "I didn't kill Jenna, I didn't..." Then she fell down and did not wake up."Hey! Hey! Wake up!" I squatted down and tried to wake her up, but she was probably hurt too badly to wake up in a short time. I picked her up. As she curled into my arms, I realized how tiny she was, almost a head shorter than Jenna. Now she was like a sleeping kitten in my arms. Her