"NUMBER 530: Cassius Victus..." a sharp voice said, which went straight into Cassian’s ears. Cassian slowly opened his eyes and saw a very weird, tall Vampire with horns on its head and completely red eyes standing in front of him, holding an old book full of dirt in its completely shielded hands. Also, one of the vampires with black eyes was standing beside him, holding a blue fire-flambeau in its bare hands.
As soon as Cassian saw this weird scene, he sensed something was very dangerous. He wanted to stand up and face the situation, but then he realized his body was completely numb: neither was he able to move his head to the sides, nor could his legs and hands move. When he wanted to speak at that instant, he felt his mouth was not under his control. All he could do was watch the tall, weird-looking vampires who were standing in front of him.
The vampires left Cassian’s front view still; he was able to listen to the same voice that he had heard before. It felt like the vampire was counting something and making a record of them in its book.
Cassian felt deep anxiousness and tried to come out of the numb phase. He used his inner core strength and focused all his mind on one part of his body, which was his hands. Surprisingly, after a few minutes, he was able to move his fingers. He did the same trick on his legs again, and his toenails started to move a bit. After a few trials, when he regained control over his body, he tried to stand up but instantly fell halfway.
He realized that he was chained from top to bottom like an animal and sitting leaning against the wall. As a result of his actions, the chain started to make a heavy sound, but no one noticed. His hands were locked together in front; his neck had a heavy thorn full of chain, and his legs were also locked together, and he was sitting in a very dirty place. It was all dark around him; only a few blue fire flambeau were hung on the wall of that closed cage-like place.
He turned his head to look to his sides and ended up getting hurt on his neck because of the thorns of the heavy chain around his neck. Yet, his intentions were clear, and he had courage, so he managed to look to his sides properly. He saw many vampire-like chained creatures sitting silently to his left and right. It felt like he ended up in a queue with those vampires. He shouted, "WHERE AM I? FREE ME OR I’LL KILL YOU ALL!"
Still, no one cared about him. Then suddenly he remembered that the vampires only understood the water-language. He used the sharp side of his handcuffs, and then raised his hands together to write the same thing on the wall behind him. He tried his best to make proper letters, as he was writing using the thorns present on the wrist side of his handcuffs.
It was a very challenging part, so he wrote only two words: "FREE ME!"
After writing that successfully, he made a forceful jerk to look to his side. That jerk of his neck resulted in a cut through his own skin from the heavy thorn chain around his neck. His human red blood started to pour out from his skin, drop by drop. He adjusted his neck to a position so that the drops of blood fell on the ground beside him. As soon as he managed to convert the letters in the water-image form, he shouted the same, after reading them from the puddle of his own blood. So basically he screamed out the words, adding Vilucious at the end (as he remembered how to spell ’VILUCIOUS’ in water language:
"!suoiculiv em eerf". To his shock, no one cared yet. Getting annoyed and frustrated by the thought that if he did nothing, he would end up soon in the worst possible case. He wasn’t able to resist his frustration and pain anymore, so he screamed very loudly this time, "YOUR SH*T VILUCIOUS! LORD OF TRASH".
A vampire came to him; its eyes were glowing like red fire. He had a hunter attached to its local soldier-like costume. It was definitely a male vampire like the other. He sat on one of his knees, touching the ground in front of Cassian. Cassian thought his plan worked, and the vampire started to obey him until the vampire grasped Cassian’s chin tightly.
After this, the vampire spoke, "Five Three Zero... What’s it? CASSIUS VICTUS,OH! For your knowledge... if you take our lord’s name like that once again, I will cut your tongue, and then you will never be able to say a word!"
Cassian was shocked by what he just witnessed. The vampire was speaking normally like a human, no weird water language from before. He went silent for a moment to decode the situation. Then that vampire added, "You are just a slave of our lord. I can finish a vampire like you in one go".
Cassian’s eyes widened as soon as he mentioned him as a ’vampire’. With a psychopathic laugh and a serious expression, Cassian replied, "VAMPIRE? YOU GROSS FIGURES!? AHAHAHAHA... I am a human- Karma is my belief, and only humanity is my lord!"
The vampire’s face was very pale; his pale face turned bluish-red from anger, and he forcibly jerked his chin to his side, which resulted in more blood flowing out from Cassian’s neck. The vampire stood up and took a key out of his old-fashioned costume’s pocket. He bent towards Cassian in the same anger and unlocked the heavy metal from his neck. Cassian felt very relieved as soon as it came out of his neck.
But the vampire’s plan was different; he grabbed Cassian’s neck with one of his hands. The long nails of the vampire were scratching deeply into Cassian’s wound. The vampire forcibly turned his neck and bent his face to his side. Cassian’s face was almost in contact with the puddle of his own blood that he had made earlier. He was not able to breathe properly, so he opened his mouth wide to get some air in, while the vampire was grabbing his neck.
As soon as Cassian opened his mouth, he saw his teeth had fangs, and his own eyes were completely black; into the reflection of the blooded puddle. He no longer had normal human features.
The vampire threw his face directly into that puddle through the neck grab and left the grasp that he had as soon as his face contacted his own blood. Cassian realized that even after having control over his own body, he started to feel comfort and a sense of security after getting his face drenched in his own blood. Then he heard the voice of the vampire that said:
"Humanity? You want to S*ck your own blood right now... So graceful, human... HAHAAHAA" (the vampire said this in a furious, low voice with a ruthless laugh at the end).
Cassian wasn’t able to use his genius mind properly at that time, but he was trying to retain his human traits. Cassian failed to do so. He licked his own blood from the ground, and after that he raised his head and looked directly into the eyes of that vampire; he said in a furious, serious, low voice,
"Cassius Victus, maybe a vampire, but might be a human"