The twilight was dark, all that illuminated the path to Castlevania was the full moon above, no clouds wandered the skies currently but that may change quickly and once more; cast a shadow over the land of Romania. But, this wasn’t the usual full moon that was bright and showered the world beneath in a soothing, baby yellow light — it was a blood moon, deep crimson in colour that had made it seem foggy and dense, this one had greatly affected all sorts of vampires or creates crafted by Dracula’s meticulous handiwork, including Alucard due to being a direct blood relative to the count and being also half-vampire. None was safe from the blood moon.
Bats and vile creatures from the pits of Hades — ones that were made by the hand of Dracula himself — call out; their meek squeaking echoed through the thick forest which none besides Alucard, Dracula’s son who turned against his father decades, possibly centuries ago and jij, a mere human who was outside at this point of time to admire and observe the sky above… they always had such a fascination with it, oh, how they long to be among the stars; dancing with the deities and whoever was worshipped from long ago.
Maybe they were too much of a dreamer for they didn’t realise what was going to get them… God, jij couldn’t even hear what was nearby.
“Huff… huff…” the dhampir sprinted through the forest, seeming to be running aimlessly as the desire to feel blood against his teeth and the urge to see blood spill and splatter across the ground grew inside of him. “Must… consume…” Alucard muttered out hazily between shallow breaths as he rested his body against a large stump of an evergreen that’s been cut down, leaning against it as he gritted his teeth together with force and grinded them together while sniffing and silently listening for anything that he could feed on.
As he took in a deep breath, his ears picked up on something nearby, something… breathing. Not just any breathe either… a human breathe? It had to be! Yes, a human breath! Just… where was the human? The dhampir’s ear twitched and he stood up immediately; he needed to see who that belong to… so, he began to sprint through the forest, following the sound quickly until he had reached an end which was…
“Blood…” Alucard whispered to himself softly, his eyes widened and his fangs elongated as he found what he was desperately searching for.
