6 (End-Intro) Darkness and Light
Suddenly, in the entire space filled in the gray mist, a silhouette of a being started to form. The forming wasn't rushed, seemingly adding some suspension to Vlad's thoughts.
Vlad was curious about what entity could get inside his conscience or where he was now.
'This feeling that I get from the morphing mist, is close to when I was killing people in the wars I had with the Turks. Could it be related to those killings I did, it would be funny if I was to be judged for those things now that I don't even know what I am.'
'And also what's with that forming speed, isn't it slow? Is it doing intentionally to scare me or what?'
'For sure is not the Lord or his son appearing in front of him, unless all I've learned is just stories to let kids sleep.
"Enough with all of this suspense, just show yourself, do you want me to wait for you an eternity?"
There seemed to be some response from the sarcastic question of Vlad. The grey fog started to morph first with ahead. It looked to be a male's head. The hair began to appear on the head. It had a long one. His eyes began to morph after his hair. You couldn't tell what color they had because of the grey fog that made his body, but they started to release some dark light from them.
Slowly all his body started to morph. All Vlad could see was the monotone atmosphere this weird interaction had.
Meanwhile, the entity seemed to be still pissed by Vlad's comment and held a glaring glare at him.
"Mortal, why do you want me to hurry? Do you feel that you have better things to do?
Maybe in this dimension, all time is almost stopped, and the rest of the world doesn't feel a single second, not passing. You should understand that here every concept you knew from your world doesn't apply?"
Vlad was shocked by what this unknown entity just blabbered. The time doesn't flow here? How can it be possible for such a thing? Is he God to be able to do such feet? Curious, Vlad apologized for rushing him and asked in curiosity.
"Lord sorry for being unable to understand your grandness, but I hold one question dear to me that I would like to ask you if possible." Apologized Vlad to this strange entity
"Sure mortal go ahead, we have all the time in this universe to talk about." said the strange entity with a smile on his foggy face.
'Ah, yet again I heard some unknown term from this being, universe, does he refer to the world of gods? Forget it, don't bother with this for now.'
"Lord are you by chance the God, the creator of the world, the one that give life to Adam and Eve, the father of Jesus Christ?" asked Vlad in awe that he was able to talk with an unknown entity to him.
The entity's smile got even more expansive and answered Vlad in simple terms. "Mortal you are right in one aspect I am a god, but not the one you're referring to, my dominion and respective powers lies somewhere else."
"Then how I'm not in the realm of God the Heavens that was described in the holy book?" continued Vlad with a hint of what was to come.
The God before him stared for a while and started to open his mouth. It released some dark fog instead of the gray one that Vlad was used to see. He seemed to sigh finally. To Vlad, all of his actions were just confusing. Why would a god sigh before him?
"Mortal, do you know that even I can't help you in that regard? I hold power over another realm. To be said in simple jargons for you, I'm the God of Death. Probably you know of me by other names, the most famous of them being Hades."
Vlad was barely able to comprehend what he heard, he wanted to fall or take a seat, but there was nothing in that space, only him and Hades. The dark god noticed Vlad's situation and made out of the fog some chair for them to sit. Vlad saw his gesture and could only sigh and leave appreciation under his breath.
"Lord, you're saying that I can't ever go to Heaven? But why, I only did what was preached in the holy book and defend his faith, why would he abandon me?"
"Sigh. Mortal, I will tell you the truth about why this happened.
From most of your battles, the people you have slain with your own hands left in you a part of their fears of Death. Their pent-up resentments and hatred at that last moment in combat, sticking them to you like a curse as they cladded around you into an armor of fear and Death. You fought with valor and abandoned, sometimes even the fear of getting killed. I know this because I watched you with great curiosity, the Mortal who could reach so close and touch the domain of Death.
All the killing you did only serve to walk you more in my domain, and so it happened that you strayed from the path the creator god had for those that want to reach his domain. Making it impossible for you to reach his realm. At the same time, you can't go to hell because you don't deserve such treatment. In the grand scheme of things, you did what was asked of you as a believer of faith but could only blame yourself for getting too used to the mark of Death." ended the embodiment of Death.
For Vlad, all that was coming from this being was simply unheard of. He couldn't get to Heaven because he killed too many people and got used to that feeling. Who would believe him if he told this to an average person? Vlad wanted to ask if there was a way to change this, but God seemed to guess what he wanted to say and answered before asking his question.
"No, I can't do anything to solve this problem. I don't have powers over the domain of the living. I can only influence some aspects when my powers approach the apex. Furthermore, I have to relieve some of my powers unless I overdrive.
I'll even tell you a story about how I came to be. The real story of how a real god was formed, isn't it awesome Mortal?
Back to my story. Everything started with the forming of the universe that we live in. To explain to you what the universe is, compare it with the entirety of the sky you see but multiplied by numbers, you can't even spell. This formation was caused by the clashes of light particles and death particles, creation, and destruction. Or in the future, it will be understood that this clash was to the scale that you can't see with the eyes of things called matter and antimatter."
Vlad was looking at him with confused eyes. Still, he continued.
"Haha, look at me explaining this confusing stuff. What you have to remember about this story, is that I lost that battle and so stars formed from all that energy of our clash, later after stars started dying and exploding planets formed and so in a special situation even life started forming, which means you mortal, because of that clash that I lost you, humans and other life forms started to spawn out."
Vlad was shocked and wanted to confirm again what he heard. "What you say is true, that humans formed because of your clash with the other Lord?"
"That's true, mortal, but the fun part starts now. Creation really took interest in this new species that formed in some places scattered in the entire world. Some managed to form conscience while others didn't develop this unique ability. However, as he took interest in this new species, me who was weakened all this while, suddenly had something about me changing.
I, ruler of death and void, from my lethargic state, started to recover first my powers at a snail pace because through me the one that manages Death and all of the life forms, have to pass my check. They are judged first by light, and if they deserve to remain in his realm, they will stay there while those deemed not worthy will continue their circles of life.
Still, the powers that I started to gain were nothing compared to life. However, you little monkeys began to evolve. You became smarter and started fighting with each other for survival, land, prestige, and later for domination. But also their fears to escape Death and not dying fueled me. All those people dying desires overcharged me so many times that I regained powers compared to my peak. However, the world rules were already set when I recovered, so I couldn't fight back or interfere with life itself, but I started seeing some windows opening for me.
In fact, I could bypass some of those rules ingrained by the world, so plagues started to form as a manifestation of my power. This was my power spilling into the realm of the living. Maybe when the world gets destroyed, I will have a second chance at being the board controller." Ended Death saying with his eyes starting to spill vast amounts of dark energy.
This outbreak scared Vlad for a short while, but soon he regained his cold composure when feeling that dark energy.
He got the idea Death wanted to transmit and said. "And so this is where I come around. I can't say that I didn't kill people but I did it, ahem with some brutal fashion, you could say? And from what I understand, you get fueled by those fears of men who don't want to die and when you're at the peak you would manifest in the living realm."
"Indeed Mortal, you can't be more right than that. And so comes the problem of what I should have out of little you.
You are quite special, mortal, just like Orpheus. You are someone who didn't have a great chance of greatness, but I could also see some interferences from the light that stopped your influence, turning you into the shape you are.
It is quite sad actually, mortal. You clearly are great, for even touching upon my domain, something not many mortals could do, and I'm thinking of giving you an opportunity to something. I can't just have you like Orpheus, seat around my throne and sing, so because I have my powers fully charged I might do something. Let me think a little bit."
As Hades said that, he all of a sudden disappeared from Vlad's field of view, and left Vlad standing there, surrounded by a barely light world.
Time passed for him, he felt it like years. It was so strange that he couldn't feel the passing of time in this realm, he could count the time it passed in his mind, but slowly after he reached the year, he dropped doing this. He tried to call Hades so many times, yet he got no answer back.
Finally, after what seemed to him an entire lifetime, Hades made his appearance back, still in his shadowy figure that had a dark cloak on his body, while this time, he could see a bit his face. Still shadowy, but he could see that he was a handsome middle-aged man who had long hair.
"Ohh, you adapted to the realm of death, this fast? I think for a mortal time, you only seat here 100 years. Well, sorry for this mortal, but I had to do some thinking, which is quite strenuous even for me, a god."
Vlad opened his mouth, but it felt like there was a delay in his words, he felt a bit weird, but kept staring at Hades.
"Don't worry mortal. This is something in your head, you can still talk, just that your mind doesn't let you. Ahem, anyway. I have the perfect solution for you without interfering with the laws of this world."
When Vlad heard this, his eyes started to scatter out lights out of them. They seemed to contain small amounts of dark light. However, compared to Death, they weren't even noticeable without focusing much on him.
After some time, the sitting Death suddenly rose and looked at Vlad, who was looking at him expectantly, and finally gave him an evil grin.
"Mortal I can't break the rules of this world but who says that I can make a small gap in other world walls for a small fragment of time to send you there. But here comes the problem for me, It will require of me to use huge amounts of my power and I might have to sleep for centuries or until I recover my powers." said Death, still grinning at Vlad
Vlad could only nod his head and accepted his offer, bowing deeply to Death, he could, at last, said something. "Lord, you're too kind to me, forgive me for having to use your powers over little me, also I will not reject it."
"Good, mortal, very good, I will try my best to send you to a place fitting to our tastes." said Death laughing like a dad to his son before preparing to channel his powers.
The realm he was in, full of gray fog, finally changed and turned into pure darkness. Still, Death focused on unleashing all his powers, turning slowly smaller and smaller than his previous morphing. He was a joke compared to his first form but still unleash his powers. Finally, the dark realm cracked a little bit leaving a small area where one could see rays of light entering the darkness.
At that point, someone from the other side screamed in a fury. "Why are you doing this over the world I govern? You will get yourself destroyed by doing this."
Death could only sneer and lifted Vlad from where he was and compressed him to fit the crack. While doing so, he only said to Vlad.
"Little Vlad, take care of yourself out there, I will not be able to watch over you but I only hope you do things out of your own desire and will, not coerced by anyone to do anything. Always remember this, to be yourself." Ended Death
Finally, he threw Vlad inside the crack. He still could hear Death's voice and the word 'Remember' continuously.
Meanwhile, Death was smaller than before he threw Vlad and could still hear the roars of the creator over the other side. He sneered and stopped unleashing his powers over the other side. The crack slowly started closing up. It was unknown what Death did after he threw Vlad.
As for Vlad?
The situation was weirder. He started to fly in pure darkness. He could see one bright ball of fire that was circled by seven orbs. The feeling he had was unimaginable awe for catching all these magnificent sceneries.
He finally started to get closer to what seemed his target. Slowly but surely, he approached a blue ball that possessed some green spots in almost all directions and a continuous line in the middle. He soon reached closer, his soul descending at fast speed until he reached an island and entered the body of a child lying on the ground, not sure if dead or alive.
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A/N: Progression of this mini-arc 6/6 chapters.
Hope you liked the way I've written this introduction to my character. Some of you might know him better, others not. However what I want to add to the end, is that this will be my interpretation of Vlad Dracula, you people who probably watched Hellsing, Fate series, and other stuff that has Vlad, it's done using those respective authors' own interpretations.
Probably you will feel mine similar to those other authors, but I will take him in a more balanced manner, a bit crazy, but no so much to go psychotic, like how he was described in history.
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