Where am I?

  I pondered to myself as I felt an almost floating sensation all over my body. Then the memories from a few minutes ago flowed back.

  I was on my way home from a grocery store trip when a truck suddenly came crashing on from the other ne.

  Now I sit here, in my car, ying in a pool of my own blood. I felt all the warmth in my body slowly flowing away as my blood dripped onto the floor of my car.

  I looked around and tried to call for help and noticed my voice had already gone hoarse and could only send out hurried gasps and coughs.

  So this would be how I end huh. As I hear the sirens rushing my direction my eyelids grew heavy as I fell unconscious.

  I was a fresh college graduate with both parents gone so only really my friends and maybe some other retives were there to miss my existence. I felt a pang of regret that I couldn't have another chat or game session with them again, but I guess it was already to te.

  I felt my body and soul going lighter and lighter as all that I knew and was became nothing more than a memory from other people.

  ...

  After my sensations faded away I felt only an unknown amount of time pass by. With every passing moment I felt my memories and personality slowly fading away. Unable to do anything I tried to push whatever senses I had outwards to see if I could do anything.

  After a long time I felt the st bit of memories fade away and a sigh echo throughout my body. All I could do was continue sensing outwards in the hopes that something would change.

  It was only after another long period of time when a change finally appeared in my presence.

  I massive bubble appeared in my senses that seemed to house several floating continents that I couldn't see the end of.

  Before I could pay attention to them I felt a tugging sensation on me as I got pulled into the bubble.

  Then, I slowly felt a warm and comforting feeling. Before I completely fell asleep under the warmth I felt as if I was marked by an unknown presence.

  It was during all of this that I fell into a deep slumber.

  ...

  Another unknown amount of time passed as I woke up from my slumber. I felt a warm membrane surrounding me. A rhythmic beating came from the depths of the area around me that synchronized with my heartbeat.

  I felt a moving sensation as the membrane around me shifted. With my hearing I heard an unfamiliar male voice speaking an unknown nguage. After straining whatever senses I had, I still couldn't comprehend the nguage spoken.

  Although a little uncomfortable, I guess having changes like this would still be far superior to having my consciousness dissipate in a vast void of nothingness.

  I try to move and rub against the warm membrane around me. As I move I feel the membrane react and shift along with a warm soft spoken voice.

  I try to understand the nguage and find it was the same nguage that was spoken before.

  After a long time, my mind finally settled down from the change between this environment and the void I experienced before. After some thinking, my current situation seemed simir to the reincarnation phenomenon from my memory fragments that still remained from traveling in the void.

  Although most personal memories have disappeared, I still had fragments of ideas and various concepts from my remaining memories.

  After some time listening, I finally figured out some information. The male voice that I assume is my Father is named Warren of the Volod family. His wife and my mother is Melissa Volod. And what I was finally able to deduce was my name was Celine.

  According to the name, it seems that my new life would be as a girl. Although, from my fragments of memories, I was a male, I don't have enough memories of my life as a male though, so it seems it might only become a psychological difference.

  Apart from that, piecing together a nguage while only learning from listening to a conversation as a third party is proving as difficult as expected. I could only continue to slowly piece together the nguage from these conversation that I could hear.

  An unknown amount of time passes and I found my body had slowly grown more and more. With my bodies growth I felt mysterious energy flow in my body. As I felt my body becoming more and more full and I felt that the day of delivery would be arriving soon. More and more voices of what I assume to be doctors had arrived to check up on me and my mother.

  It was then I felt a sudden tightening sensation and knew that now might be the time. I heard loud grunts and cries from my mother's voice as well as the hurrying of the various doctor's voices soothing my mother.

  After some tight squeezing I felt that the membrane around my disappearing as a rush of cold flows by me. I shiver and make an instinctual cry. As I cry I felt the energy flowing in my body from in the womb. All the energy flowed from my body to my mouth which escaped through my mouth along with my cries.

  A blood red energy radiated from my crying. In waves, it crashed into all the doctors standing around forcing them all back. It was after releasing energy for a few seconds that the energy finally all flowed out that I finally was able to open my eyes.

  In front of me was a group of doctors all in kneeling positions as well as an old maid like figure. After a few seconds I hear a tired voice that sounded like my mother's voice speak. After a second a doctor comes and picks me up and turns me to see my mother for the first time.

  Skin as pale as fresh snow, long flowing hair that reached waist length and blood red eyes. The woman showed a tired smile at me. I felt my mouth unconsciously turning into a smile. I felt a warmth from this person from deep in my body and soul. Maybe this was a bloodline connection?

  I was pced in her arms and I was able to partly see myself in my mother's reflective ruby like eyes. I saw a baby with the same red eyes in my reflection in her eyes. After staring for a while she says a few words and begins singing a soft lulby and lulls me into a slumber. As I fall asleep I felt the soft breath of my mother and the hushed movement of the doctors as I fall into a deep slumber.

  When I reawakened I looked around. I appeared in an unusual looking crib. It almost resembled a coffin from my previous life. This is a bad joke right? What kind of baby would like a coffin like crib?

  I looked around further and noticed that the room I was in was quite spacious. The walls were all a light shade of red and an ornate wooden door was right in front of my coffin like crib.

  After looking around more, I found a few glowing blood red stones on the outside of my crib. After looking at it for a while, I could sense a bloody scent coming from them towards me. After sensing the scent I noticed it melting into my body transforming into the energy that I had accidentally released when I cried after getting birthed.

  After looking again at the energy in my body, I noticed that the total amount in my body seems to have increased from when I st checked in the womb.

  As I think this I suddenly feel a wave of hunger and instinctively cry again. Is this instinct going to be a regurly occurring thing?

  When I was thinking that I heard a flurry of steps before a young maid-like girl barges into the room. She rushes to me and seemed to only gnce at me before rushing back out.

  After only a few seconds she rushes back with a baby bottle with little bat shaped decorations...

  It was only after seeing it that everything had finally clicked.

  Bat decorations, red eyes and coffin bed all lead to one conclusion.

  I reincarnated as a Vampire(or vampire adjacent race)!

  After the realization, the rumbling of my stomach finally snapped me out of my daze. With the bottle at my lips I start sucking the baby bottle.

  The fvor of the milk was quite sweet and had a fvor simir to cinnamon. The milk in the bottle surprisingly filled my body full of the energy to move around.

  As I was finishing it, the maid was surprised I was able to hold the baby bottle on may own. After watching for a while she left, likely to do a few menial chores.

  When I finished the bottle, I started to look around and attempted to crawl. After rolling my body a bit I found myself only able to wiggle my way around as my legs weren’t so developed yet.

  After a while of struggling, I finally got closer to the side of the crib where the crimson gems were inid. When I had inched closer I could tell that the energy would rush faster towards me the closer I was to the gem. Although I don't know what this energy is, it is always better to have more stored in case it might be useful.

  After a few minutes, I found that no more energy was flowing into my body. Have I reached the limit of energy that my body could currently hold?

  After trying a few times to no avail, I wiggled back to the center of the crib. It was while in this silence that my mind began to wander about.

  I have suddenly been reborn as not only a girl, but also as a vampire. Not only that, since my family has maids working for them and the fact that my parents had a group of doctors all pointed to my current family being quite affluent. Either we were nobles based on the appearance of everything here or maybe workers here are all cospying as maids.

  After a while of contempting all of my current life's circumstances, I decided to just leave them all aside. There is no need to worry about all of that while I am still a newborn. I have plenty of time to figure it all out.

  Settling the matter as it was, it was then that I heard a click at the door and gnced over to the new visitor. They were a different maid than the one who fed me previously. They were an older dy who wore the same attire as the previous maid. I seem to recall that they appeared on the scene when I was born.

  She said a few words to me before picking me up and cradling me in her arm for a bit.

  She then took me across the manor to a room with quite an outrageously rge door with guards at either side. The maid seemed familiar with the guards as with just a nod the guard knocks on the door and asks the one behind the door something.

  After hearing an affirmative, both guards work together and push open the massive door. Inside was a spacious office filled with various shelves full of various knick knacks. The most obvious is a shelf with figures of various animal on them.

  At the massive wooden desk in the center was a focused man with silver hair and red eyes wearing a simple yet tasteful suit. After gncing at him I suddenly felt a tug from my body and soul. The only time I felt such a sensation was when I was being held in the arms of my mother.

  Because of this, I could clearly tell that this man in front of me was likely to be my father. Then, as if he felt that same tug, he looked up from his work toward me. At first confused, after seeing me he realized what was going on and gave a wide and rexed smile.

  He then motioned to the maid to hand me over. After the maid gingerly handing me over, I could take a clear look at the man who I presumed to be my father. He was a handsome fellow and looked matching to my mother in appearance. While held in his arms I could sense a powerful aura and breath emanating from him. As if sensing discomfort, he retracted his powerful aura and gave a bright grin.

  He said a few words before handing me back to the maid and likely instructing her on where to go next. After a brief nod, she takes me out of the room to a room located somewhere between my father's office and my crib.

  While walking over, I found that any people in the hall who saw me and the maid would immediately perform a bow. When seeing all of this, it reaffirmed the idea that my family's status was quite great at least in this manor.

  The room I was taken to was different from the door to my father's office. It was smaller and only had guards patrolling rather than standing guard. After politely knocking and waiting for a response, I finally saw the room that I was being taken to. There was a rge bed with a canopy. On the bed was my mother who was talking to one of the doctors from my birth.

  After seeing me my mother's face glowed with surprise. After turning towards me, the doctor was also surprised. After leaving a report on a bedside drawer to the side of the massive bed he bowed and left the room.

  The maid wordlessly handed me over to my mother before stepping over to the side.

  My mother sat me on her p and then began speaking while pying around with my arms and cheeks. After struggling to no avail, I was forced to endure the teasing ughter from my mom as she continued to py with my cheeks. After an unknown amount of time, my mother seemed to be satisfied and began to quietly hum the same lulby she had previously sang.

  Listening to my mom humming while ying on her stomach gave a soothing and comfortable feel that almost again lulled me to sleep. With my head on her stomach, I could feel the soft vibrations from her singing and the soothing rhythmic heartbeat from her heart. I was again lulled into a deep slumber from that same lulby.

  After the lulby was finished, she handed me back over to the maid who returned me to my crib and left.

  A few days passed with a simir rhythm.

  I would wake up and crawl around the crib. Then, I would be fed by the first maid I saw. After a few days of pying around I could find out that her name was Mifune. Compared to my mother and my name, her name seems to be quite different in style. After I finish eating, either Mifune would come back to take the bottle back while I was wandering the crib, or likely after the older maid arrives she takes it to be cleaned and used another day.

  The older maid's name still eludes me as she doesn't speak to me as much before handing me over to my parents. My father seems to take my visits as a moment to have a break from whatever paperwork he does at his desk. From gncing at his paperwork I was able to find a written version of his name signed at the bottom of some of the papers he had finished.

  After my father was satisfied and rested, he would send me and the maid to go visit mom. Every time I visited her she would always be on the bed with a doctor. Maybe she hasn't recovered from birthing me? When visiting my mother, I would always be sent into her arms and pyed with. I have gotten used to it and have stopped resisting by the third day. After singing a lulby I would then get sent back to my crib where I'll be fed again and likely need a diaper change.

  After a few days with this same pattern, I noticed one day that I was not taken to my father's office. The guards around the manor seemed to be on high alert and instead of going back to my crib, I was left with my mother. After some confusion, I found that my days would mostly be staying with my mother and a lot less moving around. There, I saw for the first time how the doctors were caring for my mother.

  I saw a doctor, after a short conversation and writing a little in his note book, stand and point his palm at my mother. Then he started chanting words in an unknown nguage. It seemed like the words echoed and resonated with the room as a dark glow appeared around his outfit and his palm. After a few second of chanting, a bck light shone from his palm towards my mom. This was my first time encountering anything like it so I was transfixed on his action. Probably seeing my expression, my mom asked him something and, after a second of contemption, nods in agreement.

  He then aims his palm at me and again chanted the spell. After a few seconds, that same bck light shone from his palm and onto my body. I felt surprisingly warm and comfortable as the light shone on me. The light then faded and I saw that the doctor seemed a little more tired after he used his light on me. Then after looking back to my mother, he wrote a few things in his notebook before leaving the room.

  These days kept repeating until one day I heard a noise in the distance. I saw that my mother was up and looked quite serious. Soon I was able to hear fighting off in the distance. Shouts and cries and the cshing of metal echoed in the hallways. After a few minutes, the sounds quieted. After a few seconds, my mother suddenly rexed. Then the old maid entered the room and informed my mother of likely what was going on.

  My mother looked dignified for a second, for a second I felt as if the room was frosted over with a sheet of ice. Then the icy feeling seemed to melt instantly as she gnced over to me.

  This day ended with nothing too crazy happening and finally ended my extended stay with my mother as my father came had returned and I finally returned to my room.

  Today was such an exciting day as I not only got to experience extraordinary power, but also got to understand that the world doesn't seem that peaceful as my family manor was seemingly attacked.

  Months passed while my life returned to its previous cycle. Now it was my birthday and I got to celebrate it with my parents and with the older maid and Mifune. On the table was a blood red cake that glistened with a blood like luster. I received various dolls and toys as my presents this day. After the celebration was over and the day passed I was surprised that Mifune came today with a picture book.

  Finally, after a year I was going to learn about the nguage that everyone spoke. It all started with just a simple picture book. It showed various symbols ordered like an alphabet. With Mifune slowly sounding out the letters, I slowly got to understand the nguage bit by bit. She seemed a little surprised by my attention towards learning. After finishing the alphabet in the book a few times, she closed the book and started excitedly hopping about.

  During the next few days I slowly got through the picture book. With encouragement from Mifune and my parents, I was able to finally finish the picture book myself in just a week. I guess my brain in this world might be quite good since everyone was quite excited when I was able to read the picture book. Although it could just be the parent bias though.

  After finishing the picture book, Mifune brought over a new book. This time it was a short textbook about the basic nguage. This book taught more about the nguage and world. For example, the nguage mostly used by most people here is Common speak. It is the most widely used and expansive nguage used by almost all of the races in the world.

  The book also spoke about the various nguages and groups who usually use them. Firstly was the aforementioned Common nguage as the most well spread nguage in the world. Next was Abyssal tongue used by most dark element races as well as the abyssal races. After that are the various racial nguages like Elven, Dwarven and Draconic. For vampires like me, they are usually cssified as a member of the dark races so the most used nguage we use are Abyssal and then Common.

  The nguage I first learned from the picture book is in Abyssal as the most common nguage spoken by the most predominant races nearby.

  After learning about the nguages, I was finally taught more knowledge about this new world that I currently live in.

  The world we live in is called Astera and is compromised of a bunch of floating continents in a spiritual sea. Each continent has its own unique animals and pnts that make them quite distinct from each other. According to the book, there are countless smaller floating isnds all around that each could contain rare materials or unique organisms.

  Among these isnds are the ten rgest areas each named based on its defining factor(s). The Floating continent that we live on is known as the Dark Land of Eluseus and is known for its high concentration of dark energy as well as having a massive dark canopy that blocks sunlight all year round. The world is encompassed in total darkness and leads to all the races living here to either have natural night vision or to use various other senses to perceive the world.

  Although the other nds were mentioned, they weren’t given any names. Maybe they would be mentioned in a more geographic based book?

  The rest of the book was all about various phrases and sentences that would be expected out of a basic nguage textbook.

  The next few days were all quite mundane, as the textbooks just got a bit more complicated. The most important things were that many pces around the Dark Land were mentioned such as a bck waterfall that flowed with a dark glint. The water there is apparently guarded by mutated dark water spirits because the water itself is a rare potion ingredient.

  After having read quite a few of these books I could finally start to understand the conversations going on around the manor. Firstly, we are indeed a family of vampires. Vampires are a group where bloodline and strength get concentrated at the tip of the pyramid. Although I wasn't told the exact levels of bloodline, I know that our family is a powerful Duke level family. According to one of the textbooks I went through before, this Duke level is likely in reference to the human nobility system where Dukes are only below direct royalty.

  Other than that, the textbooks went on and on about various phrases common to the nd here and various locations of note, although with so many notable pces I couldn't really be bothered to pay attention to so much.

  Because of my new understanding of the common nguage, I could finally understand all of the conversations around.

  For example, this would be how an average day here would be spent.

  First Mifune would barge into my room in the morning.

  Mifune: Hey, little Celine I am here!

  She would shout as she rushes over with the milk bottle to feed me. After a few days I was finally able to learn what the milk being fed to me was. It is the milk of a cow like creature here in this continent, except it is quite different from what I would expect a normal cow to be like.

  Like most creatures here they have night vision. But, they also have a long body and 8 long and sharp legs crawling about like a giant centipede. They are strong and stable while having multiple wart like sacks that they use to store concentrated versions of their milk. When feeding they drink plenty of water and store it in a separate organ before pouring the milk concentrate in it in order to dilute it for feeding their young.

  The milk I drink is apparently the original milk concentrate taken from the sack of the creature. The sacks are cut off and the cows are fed more feed in order for them to regrow another sack. But less on cows and back to an average day of mine.

  After feeding me, Mifune would go and do her other chores as the old maid comes to bring me around.

  The old maid is known as the head maid of the manor and helps to organize everyone's work when she is not carrying me around. Apparently the old maid is quite respected here as she was the maid who took care of even my parents when they were young.

  She doesn't speak much, but even the guards here respect her to a great degree.

  Next, I would be taken to my father's office where I get to hear more about the area as he rexes by pying with me while talking about some of his lighter struggles.

  Warren: If only all the citizens here in our Vodol territory were as understanding as you dear Celine. I have had to deal with so many things in the past year from ignorant vampire hunters to vicious cultists everywhere.

  He would then compin about all of the paperwork he has to deal with. Most of his paperwork rete to governing policies and so he has to personally review each one to perfection himself.

  After pying around and resting his mind he would then ask the head maid to take me over to my mom while he finishes his paperwork. The head maid would just quietly nod and proceed to take me to my mother's room.

  My mother, now that a year has passed, could be found wandering in the garden. The garden here is more reminiscent of a human garden except for a few pnts from the dark nds used as a defense system here for the garden. For example, there are shadow roses that can manipute their own shadows to attack other people's shadows. The workers and my family all have a specific mark made on our body that lets them not attack us.

  My mother today was wearing a light green sundress and was watering a human world pnt known as lilies. Although there is magic to water all of these pnts, my mother likes to personally water the area where she pnted her own flowers. Not far from here were two guards that always patrolled close by my mom's room. They have darker skins and elongated ears, they were dark elf guards that guard my mother any time she leaves the house.

  Melissa: Oh Celine, you're here! Thank you head maid for bringing her here.

  The headman would nod and then quietly step back and leave our mother-daughter pair bonding together. Then my mother would take me around the garden and introduce her favorite pnts.

  Unlike most pnts in the human world, the pnts here are all active with a mind and spirit of their own. According to my mother, the dark canopy of our world not only prevents light from entering, it also blesses the entire world using the light energy that is blocked and converting it into a dark blessing. This blessing allows us to have a higher talent and stronger abilities than most races under a bright sun. This blessing gives the pnts in the dark nds the ability to absorb dark energy as well as absorbing the fragmented souls of fallen creatures. Those soul fragments would then constitute a pnt soul that allows them to think of their own accord.

  Most of the pnts in this garden were collected by my parents when they were young and traveling the world. Using my father's magic, he would be able to domesticate them and keep them here at home.

  Oh, have I not spoken of the magic here? Well magic has its own complications here but to keep it short, us vampires use blood magic that is based on both our bloodline and talents. The talent of the Vodol family is the famed Blood Oath that allows the user to make a mark on a soul that allows the user to communicate and manipute the being that is marked with the Blood Oath. That is why our family and the housekeepers can remain safe on these premises. In contrast, my mother's family bloodline allows her to manipute blood for the creation of magical objects in order to either boost the end products abilities or to bind the object with a certain bloodline.

  Both magic I have seen before as I saw my mother one day manipute blood into a blood bracelet that wrapped around my hand and hardened slightly to stay on my hand. The bracelet, according to my mother was made to create a shield to block attacks as well as to tell her and my father when I am attacked as well as find my location when in danger or lost.

  For my dad, one day I saw a creepy four eyed bird suddenly attacked my dad's office but was stopped at the window. Then, my dad called one of his creatures and a rge red crocodile swam out of my dad's shadow and by moving through shadows went and slipped through the building and crushed the offending four eyed bird with it's terrifying jaw strength.

  This magic interested me and since my parents saw me so fixated on it, they allowed me to watch the manor guards when they are practicing with their magic.

  So after meeting my mother and pying around enough, I would then be taken to visit the guards practice area on the side while drinking my milk.

  The manor guards aren't the only ones who practice at the practice ground here. Most times I see the manor guards who use blood magic to create and enhance weapons made of their own blood. These blood weapons are the signature of the guards of various vampire mansions, although not all guards are nearly as strong as the guards in our manor. The stronger the user's blood the stronger the weapon that could be made and enhanced.

  Other than the guards are the Shadow Walkers as well as the actual territory guards. The shadow walkers are hard to find as they can slip into shadows to hide as well as hearing conversations in the shadows by sensing the movement of objects through the shadows on the ground.

  The Territory guards on the other hand, are split into long range infantry, close range infantry, long range cavalry and close range cavalry.

  Each category of guards has their own way of training here and seeing the different uses for blood is really eye opening.

  Long range infantry would make arrows or orbs of blood and unch it at both fixed and moving targets. Close range infantry would spar with each other using their melee weapons. Cavalry usually don't practice here, but I was able to take a glimpse of it once when I saw them practicing once. It was a close range cavalry who rode around on a skeleton horse and charged with a blood nce in hand.

  The various uses for blood manipution was quite eye opening as they also used blood magic to boost their physical abilities and even create things like blood wings to help maneuver around.

  All of these uses for blood are just the methods given to the soldiers in our armies let alone the actual special techniques that vampire nobles like my parents would use. I'm starting to look forward to using magic myself.

  Time began to slowly pass as it became my Fourth birthday.