Chapter 001 The Vampire's Academy

This evening, the academy was silent as graveyard because there was night class for the students.

Mistress Cordelia at first was unaware about the absence of a certain student among her students.

"Viruses depend on the host that they infect in order to be able to reproduce." She was saying as she wrote on the board before she noticed, the class was silent like a spooky grave.

"Where is Douglas?" She usually called her students by their first names, her eagle eyes scanned quickly over the fifty students in class, this was the vampires' class, she knew what they were capable of.

"He might have wandered off the master's garden again." Came a voice.

"What?" She knew what he would be doing there, like last time, he was caught sucking the blood of a poor cow.

"That little blood sucking demon" She cursed under her breath, her hand on her waist, she was a beautiful woman, with fiery red hair, she seemed to be in her early forties, she was among the first set of students in Alexandra Academy and one of the bravest students, and she had been here since over a century, still young and full of life.

"Two people should bring him here, this instant" She said with tight red lips.

Douglas was a student, who was still quite new, he arrived in the academy three months ago, yet he still couldn't control his blood-lust. In the master's garden, was livestock and poultry.

The two kids left immediately to call him.

Suddenly, Mistress Cordelia noticed the absence of someone else.

Her heart beat doubled. Master Alexander, that is the principal, must not learn that this girl was not in this evening class.

"Um.." She cleared her throat. "And where is Roseanne?"

The students looked around.

"She never came for this class." Came the reply.

"Oh God, this class is over, I have to find her myself." Master has entrusted her with Roseanne, the only human in the academy.

She could have roamed off to where she could be bitten. She knew lots of people especially the vampires had been eyeing Roseanne since she was so flawless and beautiful, just to taste her blood, but she was the so called Master Alexander's daughter, everyone knew she wasn't his daughter, Master Alexander only had three sons, the most skilled vampires in the school, and most good looking.

Before she could finish her sentence, everyone had dispersed, but a boy came up to help her with the books.

"Thank you Sebastian, take them to the teacher's quarters. I have to go somewhere."

The boy was blond and his blue eyes was shining this night, he smiled, he was known for his charming aura and of course act of decoy.

"Can i go with you, mistress?" He said with unaltered Brits accent.

"No, I don't want to inconvenient you, just drop those into my room."

"Please, you know I can help" He said with pleading blue eyes.

The woman hesitated for a while, before she finally nodded.

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The night was silent and the cold air was biting her skin. Yet she didn't mind, she used the large shelf of books as her prop, while on the ladder, reading a novel, she was deeply immensely into. She knew she could read stories on online platforms but she just loved the smell of books.

She was all smiles as she brushed back her blond hair, biting her fingernails absentmindedly. She was wearing a soft brown dress, with tiny pink flowers imprinted on it, She also had a black head tie in her hair.

It was Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. She was already imagining a scenario with someone, who would be her Romeo, no one in particular.

"Oh Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo, deny thy father and refuse thy-" Just then, a cool breeze blew in, that means, the door must have opened.

She slowly turned her head to the direction of the door.

"..name" She finished hoping it wasn't Miss Cordelia.

The door creaked as it opened, she was a little farther away from the door. The visitor's shadow was cast on the floor as he walked in.

The librarian?

But his cloak was flowing in the light wind, neither Miss Cordelia nor the librarian dress so extravagant, and the air became colder.

Finally, the lamps on the wall by the side of the entrance illuminated his face. She gasped in horror, the book fell off her hand and she lost her footing on the ladder, the intruder just stared coldly at her as she fell and landed hard on the wooden floor.

He was really handsome this night, like a shining Christmas knight, and his green eyes shone under the reflection of the lamps. His sleek long hair partly covering his eyes, and his slender brows slightly raised in surprise seeing this frail looking mortal here.

"What were you doing up there?" His deep voice rang across the large  room. Roseanne tried to stand up but her left ankle had kind of dislocated.

"Ah!" She knew Vigor would never help people, he could easy catch her from falling, but instead he chose to watch her fall. She wondered why he seemed to dislike her, though she came to the academy since she was thirteen, yet Vigor never seem to get older than twenty something. She had grown to be nineteen now,  while every other student in the academy remain stagnant in appearance.

He had only spoken to her once, to welcome her,  and that was all. But now he was speaking to her again.

He squatted down to speak to her, she was sitting, holding her left ankle, her face twisted with pain.

"So what are you doing here this night?" His eyebrow creased together a little.

"I was only reading." She groaned. Vigor picked the fallen book, saw the title and smirked.

Roseanne wished she was found by Angelo instead, the last brother, even though he was a vampire, he was friendly and nice, and she was closer to Angelo, who taught human beings are fortunate to live a short life. Conrad the eldest was just open minded, they were not close, but they regarded each other.

While Vigor, the second son was arrogant and indifferent, yet the most handsome, he was known for being elegant and maybe hated humans.

"Weren't you supposed to be in class?" He stared down at her.

"Please Vigor, don't tell Ms. Cordelia, I'd do anything to pay back your kindness, huh?" She knew she would be in dire problem.

"How will you pay me? You have nothing to give me, and I'm not kind" He huffed, eyeing her from head to toe.

She looked up to see his proud green eyes, of course she knew he was not kind. "I will give you the marble ring master gave me on my last birthday."

She raised her pinkie finger, there on her finger was an expensive marble ring.

"What if you give me a spoonful of your blood?" He smirked. "I'll keep your secret for a few days till when everything dies down,  then I can tell her later when you'll receive less punishment."

Rosé opened her mouth to speak but then heard fast footsteps approaching the academy's library.

She started shaking visibly.

"Please help me up"

"Deal?" Vigor remained calm and collected, his smug smile never leaving his face.

So he had always eyed her too? But now she had no time.

The door was about to be opened,  she recognized Ms. Cordelia's voice and Sebastian.

"I think I saw her coming this way,  on my way to class."

"..deal!" Rosé whispered fiercely.  In the twinkling of an eye,  Vigor lifted her up in a bridal style and swiftly hid between the hundred shelves in the library, just in time when the duo opened the door and walked in. Rosé knew Ms. Cordelia would search the whole area in less than two minutes.

Ms. Cordelia and Sebastian came in,  but Cordelia noticed a shadow just leaving a certain area,  Sebastian noticed too, he ran to the ladder and saw a book lying on the floor.

He picked it.

"That little brat was here." Cordelia couldn't help it.

Sebastian walked further to check among the shelves.

"So that means she's might still be around somewhere." He supplied.

"Why are you even helping me search for her?" Cordelia said,  she wasn't the kind to receive help from people.

"I felt like it." He shrugged,  now they were closer to Vigor and Rosé.

"Or you like her?"

"No, just felt like helping." He smiled and ran his fingers in his blonde hair.  He could smell her scent now,  like faint roses.

He turned to another row of the shelf and saw them kissing.  He recognized the black flowing cloak.

Vigor.

He gasped. Who was the lady?

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