Invisible Elder by T S Paul

Author:T S Paul [Paul, T S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Invisible Elder
Publisher: T S Paul
Published: 2017-11-29T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The ritual to make a Royal is long and tedious for both the intended and the Vampire that performs it. And it’s very, very personal. So personal, in fact, that the two beings involved become as close as mother and daughter or father and son.

My Master, Alukah, performed the transformation on me five years after I entered the city. It took that long before they could truly trust me. Vampires aren’t necessarily evil, but we are extremely cautious. Trust is a big deal among my kind. To discover my wants and needs, I was assigned the nastiest and most dangerous tasks in the city. Feeding the Echidna wasn’t even the worst chore I performed.

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Agatha is not the only being that is regularly visited by Gods. The Vampire race came into being through the actions of a Goddess. To us, she was called Kleidouchos or the Keeper of the Keys. The Greeks called her Hekate.

Each key held by the Goddess represented a power or trait that only Royal Vampires had. As the keys of the Goddess, we were to be the protectors of the Gates and the Guardians of the Underworld. Politics and strife tore us away from those duties in time, but when I was transformed, the city of Stari Ras still held to our original mandate.

Alukah anointed me with oil as he muttered words in what he later said was Babylonian. “In the name of the Goddess, I bless you. In the name of the God, I bless you. In the name of Cerberus, I bless you.”

I was lying upon a bier made of pure white marble, naked as my mother gave birth to me. My Master explained that I would be reborn and it was necessary. To me, it felt as if I was on display for all to see and it made me terribly uncomfortable at the time. Nudity was fairly blasé among paranormals, but at the time I was still human.

“You will stand at the threshold of life and death. Protecting the Underworld from the actions of the living.” Alukah placed sacred herbs and stones of power around my body and upon what he called my centers of power: my heart, head, and hands.

“May the Goddess bless you and keep you.”

Being around Witches several times later in my life, I know what power feels like. At the time though I was ignorant, but I do remember the surge of energy that I could feel building inside my body. It was almost a fugue state that overcame me. I could see my Master’s face and hands as he bent my head and lowered his head to my neck. I felt a sharp prick on my neck, and then an ecstasy flooded my young body that I had never experienced before. Before the blackness took me, I saw Her, and she spoke to me at the end of my life.

“Welcome to the threshold of life. This is your crossroads. Choices will be made and promises broken. What happens here will change your life and those around you forever.

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