Chapter 1: Duke the Enchanting Sloth~

In a white european castle, flickering candles with eerie red glow continues to light the empty dark halls.

Occasional dark laughter and abrupt whispers could be heard.

The whole castle was gloomy and empty, based on the accumulated dust, moss and vines surrounding the castle it was obvious that this place was deserted.

But at the highest point of the castle a brightly lit room was making noises, making known that there was a living person—or perhaps not?

Opening his eyes, Duke found the room brightly lit with glaring red scented candles. Lazily propping himself from the fluff of pillows, his shirt slipped and pale white skin immediately contrasted to his black pajamas.

Messy white silver hair irritated him but he also find it troublesome so he left it be, doing a little stretch, Duke yawned showing sharp and long pointy teeth, evidence that he wasn't a human.

His eyes blinked, making his crimson eyes glow, forming such an enchanting picture, too bad there was nobody to appreciate such scene.

Duke lazily waved his hand a thud immediately sounded, a dark looming figure appeared beside his bed. It was a white coffin standing horizontally.

A slip of paper was pasted on it and Duke doesn't seem to be surprised, stretching his slender fingers, and avoiding tearing the paper into pieces with his sharp nails that seemed to glistened with metallic sheen.

“ Lord Vladimir....” A murmur escaped Duke's lips as he read the writer's name.

Slowly reading the contents, Duke finally revealed a small smile that seemed to light up the surroundings.

“ Permission granted...” the small smile turned into a grin that revealed an evil and enchanting charm.

And then a manic laughter sounded next and echoed throughout the halls of the gloomy castle.

“ Temporary eternal sleep...finally..” Duke tossed the feathery sheets up in the air and hoisted himself up and stepped unto the cold marble floor.

The coldness doesn't seem to bother him as he happily skipped towards his dresser to change his clothes.

Duke Mephistus, One of the Vampire Counts of the Vampire King Lord Vladimir III, His birth and Age was unknown to all and even to the Vampire King, what everybody knows is, he is a Half Vampire, Half Archangel. A hybrid.

That's right an Archangel. His Wings were Raven black, almost identical to an Archangel's. His Wings is everyone's terror. He also has the signature Holy Flames that Archangel uses and because he is a hybrid, some questioned his seat as a viscount, some even rebelled and took him as a soft persimmon. The next day after that, those people was beheaded and burnt into charcoal.

But Duke, through all those years of battle, blood and screams of terror, he was tired of it all, He had no friends, no relatives, no lover, husband, or wife so he had nothing to worry about. So he requested a Temporary Eternal Sleep.

(Knight_Shade: Eternal Sleep is the same as Death to vampires.)

Ever since the Vampire Kingdom had their own realm closed because of the threat of Humanity, Peace gradually enveloped the Vampire Kingdom. Every single Vampire lived in a more civilized and united way, the unnecessary bloodthirst was also being dissipated by this peace little by little and began to enjoy the woes of life.

However, Duke who's whole being was meant for war, was tired of this Peace, he grew tired of holding himself back, but he was also tired of being an unfeeling war machine, his thoughts were contradicting each other so much and his frustrations kept accumulating as the time goes on.

The Vampire King saw this and tried to help him both secretly and openly. However, everything seemed to fail and bore no results.

The only thing that Duke could think of was for him to he put into a temporary eternal sleep.

This King didn't agree at first, but several push and pulls and finally Duke made the King agree, with a promise that he will awaken if the King needed him.

With Just that Duke got his well deserved rest.

After changing his clothes which was an aristocratic black attire, Duke snapped his fingers suddenly and with a ' Swoosh ' a pure white coffin came in sight.

The coffin was pure white, its edges was silvery and gave off a very ancient and holy feeling.

Duke smiled a little when he saw the coffin floating lightly against the gravity. he rested his hands on top of the cover and slightly caressed it as if seeing an old friend he sighed.

“ It's been so long...” Duke said with a nostalgic expression on his face, still slowly caressing it back and forth.

The coffin slightly vibrated, humming, responding to Duke's nostalgia.

to Duke, this coffin was like his friend and his family.

This was his origin and companion throughout his entire journey, untill today.

“ We'll get a little rest and be done with everything..” Duke asserted and patted the cover of the coffin lightly.

And the coffin hummed in response as if agreeing. Duke smiled and opened the coffin, and jumped in with no hesitation nor scruples.

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