Chapter 24 -- As You Wish, Your Majesty

Finally, he comes, the Queen mused. She had waited far too long for this.

She directed him into the study, feeling stronger by the second as her power washed over the young human.

"Take a seat. There is much to be done tonight," she commanded.

As Lukas succumbed to her power, he felt a little dizzy, then oddly at peace.

"Much to be done? Of course, Your Majesty," he mindlessly responded.

"Good. First, you must listen. While my story may have started countless lives ago, this small tidbit begins only slightly before your time. I was, as I still am, Queen of this group of Nosferatu. We were powerful, ruling the nation, that is until some of your kind revolted and wiped out most of our population. Now there are only few of us left, almost all being female."

"In this dire time, I commanded that all of the remaining males report to be my consorts so our race would not fall completely into the hands of mortals. Those that bid the call of their Queen were unsuitable. They were the ones that hid and watched while our kind was destroyed; they met their end at my hands. The ones that did not, I can only assume are forever gone or have fled the nation."

"Mmm," Lukas mumbled in response, completely wrapped up in the tale.

"I had no choice in what happened next," she gritted, slamming her fist onto the armrest, "To save our kind, I had to find suitable human mates. I attempted to procure a male half-ling with whom I could create stronger males until our line was pure again. I only found two suitable males in this entire region. The first provided me with four female half-lings before his mortal life ended. The second was your father."

Feeling confused, Lukas wished to ask his Queen what she meant. His father was with his mother, not Her Majesty. Before he could form the words, her power silenced his throat and he slipped back into the haze.

"Your father was strong and powerful. I knew he would be the one to produce the half-ling I had been searching for. Time passed and his seed refused to join with mine time and time again. I became frustrated and released some of my hold on him in a moment of anger. The next thing I know, I could no longer feel his presence anymore."

Lukas sat still, mesmerized by the power his Queen was emitting.

"I could not track him. I could not feel his emotions. When I heard he had taken up a new residence, I discovered that cunt of a woman had stolen him from my grasp. He had chosen a worthless human like himself over the most powerful of the Nosferatu. To make matters worse, he had been able to impregnate her. I followed them that night and attacked her and her unborn baby the moment she was alone, sure Tim would come back to me. That was my mistake. To feel such petty emotions for a human being is not in my nature. If I had felt nothing, then you and your mother would be dead, and your father would be at my side."

 

"But this is much, much better. They produced a much stronger male than Tim ever was. A male much more suitable to provide his seed. You, Lukas, will provide me with a son."

Happy he was going to cause his Queen such joy, Lukas put his hand to his heart in reverence to her before following her up to her bedroom.

"My Queen, I am ready to serve you."