Ethan
“What are you planning, my lord?”
I scowled at Rudolph as he walked into my palace. His voice had always been loud but I didn’t know it had always been this loud. It was giving me headache and I cringed as I rubbed at the sides of my head.
What was wrong with me? Headache? I had never had headache. Everything had been strange since I had fallen on that slope and hit my head on a rock. I was supposed to have healed immediately but apparently, I hadn’t. I had reportedly been unconscious for four days, something which had never been heard of and gotten my people worried.
I was a vampire and should have healed fast from the fall. I shouldn’t have gone unconscious if I had had my head bashed open by a rock, it was embarrassing that I had done that because I hit my head against a rock.
I had been weak. I still felt weak at times. I could feel the fatigue of the other day in my veins but the doctor had said that it was going to go.
Rudolph was still talking and the more he talked, the more my head banged with pain.
“Ah!” I groaned out loud and held my head in my hands.
I thought the doctor said I was fine. What was still wrong with me? There were days I felt good and on other days, I felt like crap.
“What happened to you?” Rudolph rushed to my side.
He was my best friend and also my most trusted advisor in court. At the moment, he didn’t seem like any of those job descriptions. His eyes were flashing at me with rage that I had no doubt that he would have loved to get my head off my neck if I wasn’t his friend. Rudolph was a fierce fighter and he didn’t give a damn about consequences. He didn’t care if I was the king of the vampires at the moment or not, which was why I liked him and became friends with him.
Growing up as the vampire prince was hard on me. Everyone knew that I was going to take over the throne after my father and were never sincere. I had a lot of fake friends and hypocrites by my side that I misbehaved for kicks and everyone would still laugh about it. Rudolph was the first person to yell at me and tell me that I was being ridiculous. At first, I had been annoyed and tried to intimidate him by reminding him of who I was and what I could do to him but he wouldn’t budge. Later on, he stopped being an annoying person and I found him refreshing. I made him my right hand man when I became the king of the vampires because I knew that he was always going to risk his life to tell me the truth he believed in, just as how he was planning to do at the moment but I didn’t want him to.
I just needed peace.
“My head aches.” I groaned.
“Again?” He frowned. “I thought you were fine.”
“I thought I was so too but it seems like the trip I made has taken an adverse toll on my health.”
“Which is why I am angry and marched up here in anger as soon as I heard. What were you thinking? I heard that you took some soldiers and went to raid the house of the silver moon pack werewolves.”
I frowned. What was I thinking indeed? I didn’t know. The werewolves didn’t know me and I didn’t know them. Going to fight with them just felt like the right thing to do and I had done exactly that.
“Are you declaring war on the werewolves? Is that it? Do you want war for your people? What do you want? What were you thinking?” He shouted.
I winced. “You are shouting at me, Rudolph.”
“When have I ever not shout at you?”
I sighed. He was right. “I’m having an headache so cut me some slack.”
“Did you cut anyone some slack? Did you tell anyone of the court officials before you decided to go to their lands? Weren’t you worried that the men you took with you might be killed in a battle?”
“That was why I took enough men with me and they were trained ones. No matter how strong the werewolves were, the three of them can’t fight against the fifteen men that I took with me and win.”
He sighed, looking at me as if he couldn’t believe his eyes. “How did you know that they were only going to be three werewolves that would be there?”
“I just know.”
“What is that thing outside that you brought with you?”
“Albert. A werewolf turned to stone.” I gasped as the words escaped my lips. How had I known that?
Rudolph looked at me like I was crazy. “You even know of the artifact in their house. When were you going to tell us? Since when have you been planning to fight with the werewolves and we didn’t know of it?”
“That is not an artifact but a real person.” I gasped again, wondering where the information was coming from. How did I know these things? This wasn’t possible. I didn’t know the werewolves, read anything on them or had any interaction with them. We were a different species, divided for our own benefit. How did I know what I knew of them?
Rudolph was right. What was I thinking? Now, as I sat there on my seat and listening to him, I didn’t know what I was thinking but at that moment, it had felt like the right thing to do.
“How do you know it’s a person?”
“I just know. The guy is my enemy.”
Rudolph barked out a laugh. “Your enemy? Are you kidding? Let’s even agree that the statue is a real person and a werewolf as you have said. You have never met a werewolf. How can that be your enemy? Just how, Ethan?” He shouted at me.
I frowned. He was right. How? I couldn’t tell but I could feel it in me that the statue was my enemy. I could feel the hate I had for him brewing strongly in me and I was confused with my emotions. What was wrong with my brain? I must have had a rough fall. I would have another brain scan tomorrow. Even though the doctor had told me that there was nothing wrong with my brain, I would insist on another scan. It was possible that he would find what he hadn’t found the other few times he had run the scan.
“I just felt he was.”
“How did you know the way to his house?”
“I just knew it.”
“Come off it, Ethan. You are being ridiculous.”
“What do you plan to do?”
“I don’t know but I would when the werewolves are here.”
“The werewolves?” He gasped. “You want them here? Are you crazy?”
“No, I’m not but they would be the crazy ones if they came here. How would they think that they would get their father back if they come here? They can’t fight all of my men.” I suddenly started to laugh.
I noticed Rudolph looking at me like I was crazy and sobered. “Now, you know the statue isn’t just a real werewolf but has kids. How do you know that? How do you know his children would come here for him?” His lips turned downwards in a sneer. “Let me guess. You just know that.”
I sighed. “Yes.”
“You know what?” He shook his head. “You have been acting weird ever since you hit your head in that fall but this is the height of it. I can’t stay here with you. I’m afraid I might lose it and go crazy if I have to stay here and listen to you tell me that you did something because you just knew it or felt like it.”
I watched as he walked away but I didn’t feel bad as I was meant to be. I felt an insane urge to laugh and I did just that. I started laughing without knowing why I was doing so.
Maybe I had indeed gone crazy but this felt too right for me to be.