Author's Note

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Betrayal

"Blood....................So much blood"
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The walls of Dracula's castle shook from the noise that came from the throne room.
The battle between Dracula's forces and the invading forces of Styria raging on, and I was caught right between it.
I had been one of the three humans that Dracula had selected to be his forgemasters.
I had met Dracula a few years ago when he was traveling, he had listened to my tales of pain and wrath that I had suffered from the humans and how I despised them.
He was fascinated with my different applications to the forgemasters...."profession".
The longer he and I spoke together, the more I respected him, and the more he trusted me.

About a year ago, he had come knocking on my door during a horrible storm, asking me to join him in exterminating the human race.
I had been hesitant at first, thinking of my own life, but I had made a deal with him.
I asked him that at the end of it, if I had helped, that he turn me into a vampire.
Then every human would be extinct.
He had agreed without hesitation.

When I had arrived at his castle, I had firstly been surprised with the presence of two other humans. I did not immediately trust either of them, but I had heard tales of their skill in forgemastery, and I respected them.
I would work with them, but never informally socialize with them, either of them.
Ever since we launched those attack on Tragoviste and Gresit, I mainly kept to myself and Dracula, and it was simple. Until she showed up.
Camila of Styria, traitor to Dracula's war court. She had betrayed us, she led us to believe that we had been preparing to attack Braila, but ambushed us with Styrian Soldiers waiting on Braila's boarders. She invaded the castle with her soldiers, and attacked. We had no choice but to attack as well.

I was armed with my forge tool, a black spear with a long, large head, and a short handle that ended in a round pomel.
I was hacking and slashing away at hoard's of invading Styrian Soldiers. Their armor was fairly strong, with large layers of steel and little to no exposed points in the armor. If it were not for the fact that Syria betrayed us, I'd have been impressed.
I was more focused on aiming for the few exposed points in the armor than the craftsmanship at the moment, tearing through their throats, slashing at their knees and swiping out their eyes to inhibit their mobility.
with the constant attacks from the ever increasing invading force, I had come to a conclusion....we didn't have enough soldiers.
"Isaac!" I call out to the Nubian forgemasters, he was on the other side of the room, fighting off the Styrian's to protect Dracula. He looked up from the soldier he had stabbed in the neck and looked to me.

"Our numbers are running low!" He gave me a short understanding nod.
He quickly yanked the dagger from the dead Styrian's neck and cauterized it with his dagger which had a glowing red aura around it. He poured his manna into the blade and plunged it into the vampires corpse. With a flash of red light and some sickening cracking noises, the vampire corpse turned into a seven foot tall goblin, Isaac gave it an order that I couldn't hear, and it joined the battle. Nodding to myself I proceed to do the same as Isaac, I pour my mana into my spear and plunge it into the soldier I just slain.
Unlike Isaac, after I plunged my tool into my material, a green light encompasses both me and the corpse. It only took a quick moment until it fully turned into a six foot tall Minotaur that had a mostly human build.
"Take up a weapon and defend the castle, the ones in white armor are our enemies" I say, pointing to one of the corpses of the invading horde.
It nodded then picked up a sword and shield that the vampire it used to be, dropped after I slit it's throat.
I started turning a few other corpses that I could find and use into more night creatures, as did Isaac.
We were slowly gaining our footing, but we still lacked in numbers. I looked around, hoping to see Hector (Dracula's third forgemasters) but he was nowhere to be seen.
"Isaac! Where's Hector!?" I shout out to him
"I'm not sure!" He shouted back
"He may be hiding in his forge!"
I gave a dry laugh at that "of course he is" I couldn't be more wrong.

I was about to turn a vampire that was stupid enough to sneak up on me when I felt the castle shake, not from the noise and damage that was ensuing from the battle, but from the very top of the castle, from the engine control room.
I slowly realized something as my eyes darted around the room.
"She's not here..." I say in slight fear
The castle shakes again, this time a bit more violently than before, and I swear I could hear the castle groaning as well. In a rush, I turn the vampire (who was also distracted by the small quake that shook the castle).
I command the newly formed demon, as well as a goblin and the one minotaur I had forged to follow me to the control room.
I lead my squadron up the stairs, fending off attacking soldiers along the way.
Rushing up the stairs, I stop before Isaac and Dracula
"The control room is under attack!" I shout to them over the noise.
"Permission to sease the siege on the control room!?"
Dracula looks to me and simply nods. I nod in return and take my squadron to the top of the tower, to the control room.

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Camila was running through the castle, Hector following along beside her.
"Camilla! Camilla slow down!" Hector called out to the vampiress.
"Where are we going!?" He asked in concern "what's going on, why are we running!?"
Camila growled in annoyance.
"Shut the fuck up Hector!" She barked.
He flinched and slowed to a stop Infront of the engine control room doors.
Causing Camila to stop as well, to her annoyance.
"Not until you tell me what's going on!" He shouted back. She growled at that, how dare he! Raise his voice to her! A lowly human, she would have killed them there and then, but she needed him Alive. After taking a moment to calm herself down, she stayed quite, thinking of a lie for a second, then responding when she thought of one that Hector would buy.
"My soldiers have betrayed me, and with how things have been between me and Dracula, he'll probably think that I betrayed him" she was a pretty good lier when she was under stress. Hector gave her a small look of pity as she continued.
"And since your close to me, he'll probably assume that you're working with me as well" a look of pained worry stretches on his face.
He was about to protest until Camila brought a finger to his mouth.
"Probably Isaac as well as Abrem" she had assumed that the other forgemasters had recently been catching on to her plans after Godbrand went missing, and she didn't feel like waiting for the two to go looking for her.
"It's not safe for either of us now"
Hector was saddened by this, he never wanted it to seem like he would ever betray Dracula. He drooped his head in grief. She saw this and knew that she had hooked him letting out a quick devious smile before she hid it and lifted his head
"Come with me" it was a simple request, but it still managed to send him into a shocked state.
"Come with me, we can both be safe Hector" she said as she held out her hand to him.
He thought about the proposal for a moment, he had admired Camila and her eagerness, but it would mean betraying Dracula, the only one who showed him kindness and respect, the one being that gave him a home and a purpose....but....
Dracula had been acting strange ever since the first assault on Wallachia. He was distant, and cold. He lost the spark that he once help during the start of his crusade. He was violently, almost irrational, he did nothing but grieve.
Hector had found out from Camila that Dracula had been lieing to him, and wanted to exterminate every human, instead of herding and controling the populus. He was hurt, and still was hurt. Dracula, the master he was loyal to, lied to him, he used him just as the humans of this world had.
He didn't fully trust Camila, but she was honest with him. After a long quite moment, he had his answer.
He stretched out his hand in preparation to meet hers when a shout echoed through the hallway
"TRAITOR!"