Natalia

Chapter 9 - Videric's Plan

The king walks across the stretch hallways and was greeted by some bystander who knew him.

"Denize is ready, my king." A woman bows to him and opens the door. Videric walks in and smiles at the woman in all-black attire.

"Ahh. Videric. Come in, come in." 

Videric watches as she shoves a man off the bed and asks the maid to lead the man out.

"Another victim?" Videric asks and closes the door behind him.

"You can say that. I need to feed. What can I do for you, my king?" Videric doesn't know if it was meant for him. 

"I need you to do some investigating regarding an army facility." Denize gave the king a look.

"You want me to infiltrate a heavily guarded army facility? For you?" Videric nods.

"I want you to wipe everything from their database about legendary creatures such as yourself, a demon." That caught Denize's attention.

"They have records about me?" Videric nods.

"Every single one of your clan as well. You do need to live in secrets Denize. The Andromache family is quite famous in the government secret department archives." Denize makes a ‘tsk’ sound before walks out of her room followed by Videric.

"Come on Denize. Help me," Videric said behind the demon.

"Before that let’s have a little drink shall we?" Denize walks by series of human that was being straps on a medical table. 

Videric raises both eyebrows looking at the demon as she points at a young man. Her maids nod and started to drain his blood to a champagne glass.

"Want some?" Denize offers. Videric shakes his head.

"I rather suck on someone's neck rather than treating them like human stock." Denize laughs.

"So classy for a vampire.” Denize took a sip and lick her bloody lips.

"Sweet sacrifice for such delicious liquid red." Videric looks away from looking at the humans and followed Denize out to the garden. 

"Do we have a deal, Andromache?" Denize sighs before taking another sip of the blood.

"Beside wiping out every single detail about my family in their archives, what other things you can offer me?" Videric was glad when she asks him. 

"Ruzgal death. Don't you want to avenge his death?" Videri places his hands on Denize's shoulder from behind.

"General Chandler's army kills him in a chase, am I right? Don't you want to wipe out his army as many as you can?" Videric said into her ears. It’s almost enchanting.

"Don't you want to taste Chandler's blood runs through your veins, flowing down your throat, giving you such euphoria like you never feel before? You'll do Ruzgal proud," Denize turns to face Videric.

"I do love my father. And his death was the end of me," Videric nods. 

"It's time to show everyone how powerful you can be. Your wife will be happy as well as Andromache." Denize eyes lighten up when Videric mentioned her wife.

"Well. She does sleep in the dungeon for a very long time." Videric places his chin on Denize's shoulder. 

"Let's wake her up... and tell her the good news. Let's do it Denize. Let's wake Juliet up," Videric leads the demon towards the dungeon but stops halfway through.

"What if she's angry at me for waking her up? What will she do to me if she is?" Denize asks. 

"No one will harm you nor be mad at you, while I'm here, Denize Andromache. How many years had past since you were my beloved mistress? Nothing's gonna harm you when I'm around." Denize shoves Videric away. 

"I was your mistress because you used hypnosis on me. I was never aware of what I'm doing but you do have a point there. You never let me in harm's way. Not even a vast vessel in the sea could harm me when you're around." Videric smiles while flicking his hair.

"Believe me when I say I won't let anything harm you. Now come on. Juliet is waiting for us to wake her from her slumber," Denize leads the way to the dungeon door. They stroll down a series flight of stairs. 

They walk past the jail cell where Denize kept her prisoner that double-cross her or commit treason in her presence. Some cell was covered in magic just to hold some of the most wanted criminals in the realm. A series of cursing and spitting happened when Denize walks by. They stop when they notice Videric’s in the vicinity. Some even bow to the king.

"Here lies Juliet Andromache," Denize said before opening the double doors. The door groans as cold air escapes from the room. 

"Hmm. Humid. How many years has she's been asleep?" Denize snaps her fingers and instantly the room was lit.

"50 years." Videric nods.

"Right after the Akeldama war?" Denize sighs.

"She was injured badly. The queen helps her healed by restoring some of her flesh and bones." Videric looks at the pale face of the notorious princess.

"She looks like a porcelain doll,” Videric leans in and examines every detail of Juliet's features.

"Wake her," Videric said and let Denize do her ritual. Videric chuckles when Denize leaning into her lips.

"Ahh. True love's kiss will wake the princess." Denize rolls her eyes and kisses Juliet's pale lips. Juliet's eyeshot up opens and grabs on Denize's neck with her hands. She shoves her wife back and got up to a sitting position while one of her hands still on Denize’s neck.

"Why are you interrupting my precious slumber?!" Videric waves his hands in front of his face and took a deep breath. 

"Hail Satan! Your breath smell like a rotten corpse!" Juliet glares at Videric.

"What is it you need?" She releases Denize's neck who then gasping for air.

"I need you to create a scene at a place you hate the most, the army secret facility. The same place where you were captured and do all sort of experiment on you." That got Juliet's attention. 

"For a second there I thought you will ask me to do something else. But when you said that, I am happy." Juliet turns to Denize.

"And if you will excuse me, I need to regain my strength back. Denize!" Denize went on top of Juliet and started to have s*x. Videric slowly backs away from the room and close the door.

"Well, one problem solved,” He tapped his foot on the floor before he went back upstairs. 

***

Videric brought Natalia to cathedral ruins and smiles at the newborn.

"I’m sure you know where we are, right?" Videric smiles and twirls in front of Natalia who beginning to question the king’s sanity.

"Why are we here?" She asks. Videric walks inside the cathedral while Natalia follows. Natalia waited for him as he walks towards the twin staircase to a ruin glass mural on the first floor.

"Welcome, to the place where humans come to pray to God. Well if he exists, he might shot us with his lighting stick." Videric laughter echoes in the huge abandoned building.

"Come here newborn." Natalia obliged and walks up the stairs.

"Do you see this ruin mural?" Natalia looks around and nods. Videric turns his back to Natalia.

"Do you see that altar?" Again Natalia nod.

"Have you ever pray to God?" 

"I never pray." Videric turns to Natalia with a smile.

"You never pray? Ever?" Natalia shakes her head no.

"I have no time for it." Videric laughs again. 

"Do you know why humans afraid of us?" Videric asks.

"Because of they afraid we might kill them for blood." Videric shakes his head. "No newborn. They are afraid we might be more superior to they are. Humans can be very selfish." 

"I have no idea why are we here. Is there any reason?" Videric turns to the newborn.

"I want you to see how evil humans can be." On cue, a group of guys drag two women in the cathedral and start to strip the women off without their consent. 

The guys were laughing and start to slap them repeatedly. Natalia was about to help the two women when Videric beats her to it.

"I am really curious about one thing," Videric said while he walks towards them.

"I thought a human being is far more intelligent than creatures like us." The guys turned to Natalia who still on top of the stairs, watching them. 

"What I don't get is... why do you people treat women like they are trash?" Another two guys drag a man inside and they look at each other before throwing the man near the naked girls.

"Let me rephrase that. Why do you all being a monster to your kind?" 

The guys grabbed for their guns before aiming them at both Videric and Natalia. 

"Do you think guns have any effect on us?" Videric opens his arms wide and said something under his breath before watching the guys letting their guns down and kneels in front of the king.

"Good little maggots you all are," Videric turns to the naked women and the man who nows watching him with his eyes widen. 

"You may go." The women pick up their clothes and help the man up before leaving the cathedral.

"Natalia, get down here. We have guinea pigs to experiment with," Natalia walks down the stairs and looks at everyone who's kneeling. 

"What are you planning?" Videric shushes her from talking. 

"Watch and observe how this man will confess his wrongdoing. Behold... the truth of mankind.." Videric leans into his ear and whispers. The man's eyes widen and he starts talking about everything that he had done. 

Natalia was disgusted before turning away from looking at their faces. Videric snaps his fingers and asks the man to lay on the ground.

"You see, for a person who has sinned, its best for them to die in this sacred place." One by one of the guys who knelt lays down. 

“May God have mercy on your poor souls … is what I want to say but I doubt it. My father's goons will pick you up before you could even see heaven’s gate." Videric turns away from the men and walks on a wall.

"Are you hungry?" Videric asks when he's hanging upside down from the cracking ceiling of the cathedral.

"If so, drain them to the bones. You need a lot of energy to kill. And this might be your only chance to eat." Natalia licks her lips when the taste of iron came into her nostrils company by the melodious sound of their beating heart. She could almost hear as the blood flows deep in their veins, calling her to drink it up.

"Eat up," Videric said before Natalia starts to feed.

The struggle for a bit but soon giving in to the power of seduction. She tortures the soul of the person she drinks from as they did to others. It’s at least she could do before they all die. Videric smiles as his newborn is now a full-pledge vampire. 

"ENOUGH!" Videric screams before jumps off from the ceiling and faces the fully pledge vampire.

"Wipe those blood from your face and kneel to your king." Natalia did as told before placing her head on the king's foot. 

"Don't do that. You're not that lowly vampire anymore. Plus Arika will kill me,” Natalia chuckles and looks up to the king. She's exhausted from her last kill.

"Keep this up and you will be the best among the best. Keep this up and you will be in the devil's favorite side."Videric helps Natalia to stand up. 

"Do this well and you might be promoted to join my army,” Videric smiles as he caresses her face.

"Perhaps you might not be a problem to me anymore now that I can see your potential," Videric places his finger on Natalia's forehead and smiles when her eyes turn red from his touch. 

"Oh, you indeed will be exceptional." 

***

Natalia turns the knob into Ramsey's apartment and closes the door as quiet as possible. She remembered everything that Arika and Ivy had brief her. Natalia heard Ramsey in the showers and she decides to wait for her in the room. 

She took the liberty to look around Ramsey's room. She was brought back to reality when she heard the door being turned. She stood up and keep a smiling face. Ramsey was so surprised she didn't even notice she let her towel down. Ramsey was completely naked in front of Natalia. Natalia looks at her victim from head to toe and she's not hating the scene at all.

"What are you doing here?! How did you get in?!" Ramsey asks as she grabs the towel that's on the floor to cover herself up.

"I walk in from the front door." Ramsey was legit scared of what might happen. She remembers it clearly how she double lock the front door before going to the showers.

"Sit down. Let's talk about us for a change." Ramsey was baffled.

"Us? What do you mean?" She asks. Natalia sat down on the bed and crosses her legs. 

"Us. How you destroy my heart like Liana and the others did. Oops. Sorry. I mean the late Liana. May your God have mercy on her sin soul." Ramsey's eyes widen.

"What did you do to Liana?!" Natalia smiles.

"I'm just being Natalia Ambrose. The new and improved version." 

Ramsey tightens her grip on her towels. 

"Relax Ramsey. Let's go back to our high school moments, shall we? How you commented on my weight. How you would snatch my food away from me when I'm hungry. You know how hard it was for me to get all those lunch money you took." Natalia stands up and took a few steps towards Ramsey. 

"You, easily finish them all without the slightest care about me. I have no idea how I could even fall in love with such a b***h. And one more thing. You should just say no rather than broadcast your rejection to the whole school. It's humiliating and I live with the embarrassment for my whole high school life." Ramsey kneels.

"I'm sorry Nat. I didn't mean to do all those things to you. I was an awkward teenager and I just want to be accepted. I didn't think straight about my action towards you. For years I feel guilty about what I did," Natalia suddenly grabs Ramsey by the neck. 

"You have no slightest sense of guilt in your cold heart. Don't you dare lie to me about your feelings because I know you're not being sincere," Natalia turns Ramsey's body around and shoves her hard on the bed.

"When I was kidnapped, the memories of me being bullied came to picture in my head." Natalia wipes Ramsey's tears from her cheek. 

"I saw how Liana's doing scars me for life. I saw how you affected me on so many levels. While you both had a successful career, I  am stuck being the person in debt and was constantly living in fear because you all manage to engrave that feeling in me." Natalia caresses Ramsey's cheek lovingly. 

"That's when I question God's judgment. Does He care for His subjects? Does He want the best for us on this earth," Ramsey shakes her head?

"You have no right to question Him. He's superior to all of us combine. We came from Him and when we die we will come back to Him," Natalia laughs. 

"When I die, I didn't go to heaven and see God. I went to hell and was brought back to life by the devil. God didn't help me at that time. He let me being torture even in death!" Natalia took a deep breath and leans in to kiss Ramsey's lips and proceed to her neck slowly.

Ramsey was in trance. She can't think straight as her minds feel nothing but ecstasy. Natalia hot breaths send shivers all over Ramsey’s flesh, making her a slave for Natalia’s seduction. 

"Too late for this. You broke my hear!" 

Natalia bite into Ramsey's neck. She screams as the pain washes over her but it quickly turns to moan when Natalia gave her a sense of pleasure. As she was being driven to darkness, Natalia leans back and takes the opportunity to grabs on both sides of Ramsey's head before pulling it as hard as she could to dismember her head from her body.

Because of this, blood squirts making some kind of art form in Ramsey’s bedroom. Natalia licks Ramsey's chest before leaving butterfly kisses to her stomach. Ramsey's head was placed on the bed. Natalia hands rubbing on Ramsey's tone stomach before stabbing her whole hand into Ramsey's lower abdomen, grabbing her intestines and pulls it out with force.

Natalia gasps for air with all her anger inside. She didn't stop there. She threw Ramsey's intestine on the floor and stabs it again through her chest and grabs on her heart. She yanks it out and devoured Ramsey's heart. 

If Arika and Ivy didn't stop her, she might end up eating her whole body. When Arika pulls her away from Ramsey's body, Natalia was shaking. Arika tried calms her down, whispering lovely words in her ears, telling her that it's all over. 

"Shhhh... it's okay... it's okay.. she's gone... she's not going to hurt you anymore.." Arika calms her down. Ivy grabs Ramsey's head before telling Arika they need to go now since heard series of footsteps coming on their way. 

Outside of Ramsey’s apartment door, the landlord decided to unlock her door with his spare keys when she doesn't respond. Ramsey's neighbor call for him when she heard a series of screams coming from her neighbor's apartment. 

When the landlord enters, the vampires manage to jump off from the windows before the owner could see them. The landlord didn't even think twice to call for the law enforcement when he came face to face with Ramsey's headless body. 

When the police arrive, the chief sighs when he saw the state of Ramsey Addams's body. He waves for his officers to call for the general.

"Call Chandler. We found our second victim with the same MO." The officer nods and informs General Chandler about their findings. 

"What is happening to this town?" The chief asks no one in particular.