The Immortalized Heart (Book 2 Original version)
The Cursed Clan

Kira made a point to prevent Vale from having any fun.She would enter an area first, not even kill anyone, but did not stop thePureblood from having his fill. A mutual agreement: stay out of each others'way. Unlike most of her comrades Kira had a certain way with her former-kin,she asked politely, only asking what was necessary then hid their presenceuntil this was over. Adam was in the lower levels, but given how they spoke ofhim, he did not sound as tho he was imprisoned.

Vampires and humans alike weredying left a right; tearing each other apart; blood flowed like a rivercollecting the further people progressed. It was not strange that this was herdaily life, that it was 'normal' it was a matter of when this became normal.Soldiers stood in their path, but to Kira's surprise Vale ushered her to go onwhile he covered her. For a gourmet, he is considerate of the appetite ofothers or he just didn't want her to ruin his fun, either way Kira continueddown alone.

A turn to an open area and she is attacked, but her reaction hadher love unharmed across the celled block. Adam leaned against the wall besidethe entrance--she was quicker than the last. As she thought, Adam was noprisoner, he was helping the Association in exchange for something they had.

"The king sends one person to fetch me like a dog,I feel insulted--" Adam's sentence cuts off as he sees the imagine ofwhat would be a victim.

"He sent you? The infamous One-Eyed Reaper has come to claim yet another immortal soul, but alas she does not wish to reapfor each time she weeps."

Her mission was to take him to Alucard, there was notanything about killing him. Although if his eccentric mannerism continued she might become more inclined to remove his tongue. Adam predicted this outcome however, as a manwho knows the future, if the informant refused to come whoever was here would kill him.Of all people the double is glad it is she who is here--someone who can thinkfor themselves.

Kira huffed with amusment, "I didn't know I had a nickname."

"Like it? It was I who named you such, I was abard once you see, and often gave heroes and villains titles to match theirdeeds. Of course it did make my songs more popular, but that was anotherage."

Kira casually walked towards Adam, sheathing her blades.

"You going to knock it off with the Shakespeare?" Kira asked.

She held no intention of killing him because he was useful to 'her' beforeAlucard. Born in an unknown year, what is known about him was that he wasturned upon being sentenced to death for treason against the French Crown. Heknew many secrets those which kept him alive and would end him. Its saidinformation is valuable, but for a spy information about empowered persons ofinterest is where money is made.

Adam and Kira walked together towards an exithe knew about; helping the Association, he was either brave or completelystupid. As annoying as he was with his poems and songs, but it did make thelong walk bearable. True to his word well-known folklore Kira recognized andwas rather pleased to meet their author.

"I have another riddle for you: 'A line of six tobecome five; prowess of a god's breath, yet the weakness of one another. Whatis a mob to a king? What is a king to a god? What is a god to a non-believer?'As read from the Book of the Moon."

Kira stopped, he's read it. The book said to not existand to tell the entire history of a single family. Adam has read it and thatwould make him wanted by many different forces, especially Alucard. What wasshe to do? Handing over Adam may result in her only chance to replace the bookbefore the king and because only the king himself knows what he will do with itonce he gets it back. The only written record of people who were at the startof the war, who may have even been involved! A step closer to replaceing the startis a step closer to ending it.

"That expression tells me you've heard that namebefore."

Kira nodded, "If you've read it, then you must know where itis."

Adam smiled; a fellow scholar searches for knowledge,but what that knowledge maybe used for is indeed a mystery.

"I knew where it was, but not where it is."

A smile comes across the old bard's face. Perhaps sheis not as others have led him to believe, but of course stories arerepresentations of a stretched truth. He planned to sing of her maliciouscrimes: killer of killers; betrayer of kin; human-loving cannibal. Adam hadmany names for a villain because that's all there was in the world because heroesnever lasted long. Always choose the lessor evil,but in Kira's case it seems she's a greater evil becoming a lessor good.

"I last saw it among the Nightraven FamilyArchive, but that was centuries ago, I doubt its still there."

They reached the end of the tunnel, meeting with alarge group of Association members.

"What is it you want with that book? I was hardlyable read any of it, its in an ancient script so only older Purebloods can read itscontexts."

Kira's flames created a barrier between the humans andthem. Adam's smile widened further--someone has inherited Satan's Flame! In allhis years he has never seen it, anyone outside of Alucard and the Nightraven'sacquire his gift, nonetheless a half-human was entirely out of the question!Lady Eona must have taught her their language, an outsider would be able todecipher the book's contexts and its author...the sixth may not haveanticipated outside influence. The book must not have been finished.

"I need to know how this war started. If I canreplace that maybe I can replace a way to end it."

"That would involve killing a lot of importantpeople, Alucard's mind will not be swayed by modern ideas..." Adan's tonelowered, "Honestly even I don't know much about him, but I can see behindthat pride of his, how much he has suffered. He isn't a horrible person becausehe wants to be, its what he was made to be as a member of the cursedclan."

The fire flashed out and knocked the humans to theground with an unrelenting force. Kira and Adam has vanished, but both wenttheir separate ways, one to the king, the other to the queen.