The sunset came, and all the vampires were still sleeping. They could walk in the sun without turning into ashes, but it made them weaker than usual, and the sensation of having the sun's rays on their skin was not something they enjoyed.
For that reason, Damian, who was a human, was already awake by early 7, and the other human servants of the castle were the same.
He left his room for a quick bite, yet unexpectedly, Gerard was in the castle's hallway, staring at him.
"Good morning. Where are you going so early?" Gerard asked, leaning against the walls of the corridor.
Damian had to pass by him if he wanted to get some food — the kitchen was in that direction — so avoiding Gerard was almost impossible, but not fully impossible.
There was a door right next to Damian. If he was not mistaken, that was the bathroom, and the perfect place to avoid Gerard.
"Do I know you?" Damian said, frowning his eyebrows in confusion, acting as if he did not even remember Gerard.
"Don't act foolish. I know you know who I am, and you should know me, weak human," Gerard said arrogantly.
With a smirk, Damian said, "I'm early to use the bathroom. Can I go inside alone, or do you want to hold it for me?"
Gerard's face went from pale white to red with anger. Damian was messing with him, entering the bathroom that was right beside him.
"I will just wait here. There's no way he can avoid me, or the guards outside!"
He had come with a plan that morning, and that was to kill Damian! Gerard did not want to wait for the night to come to do that, afraid Damian would avoid him.
So, the other night when he failed killing Damian, Gerard paid a few guards to help him dispose of Damian during the morning when most of the vampires were asleep, including Serana.
Damian knew nothing about that, but he knew Gerard wanted him dead, and for that reason, only a stupid person would meet him in that hallway.
There was a small window on the tallest part of the bathroom's wall, almost near the roof. Normal humans would have a difficult time, not only with the climbing part, but opening the window too!
But Damian? He used his mind to open the door, and make his body float, easily passing through it.
That was not everything. With the help of his Invisibility Cloak, none of the guards outside saw him, even those who were nearby, hired by Gerard to keep watching Damian at all costs.
"I will grab something to eat, and eat inside Serana's room to avoid meeting these clowns," Damian thought.
He floated through the castle's courtyard, avoiding touching the ground as that would make noises. Damian found his way toward the kitchen, grabbing some slices of bread with none of the servants realizing it.
"It smells good. I think it recently came out of the oven!"
After making sure he would have something to eat and drink — Damian also got some fresh water from the well — he returned to Serana's room.
Well, not inside her room. Damian was on the balcony, and saw her sleeping through the door glass, and did not want to wake her up, deciding to stay on the balcony.
As for Gerard, he was waiting by the hallway, but after realizing Damian was not leaving the bathroom, he slowly made his way toward the door, stopping right in front of it.
"I know you are scared in there, probably shaking with fear, but don't worry, I will grant you a quick death," Gerard said, smiling maliciously.
There was no response coming from the other side of the door, and the bathroom was way too silent.
"There is no way he left, right? There are guards walking around the castle. They would see him the moment he left."
Gerard then opened the door, and by his surprise, there was no one in there! He searched everywhere inside the bathroom, behind every furniture. Nothing.
He then opened up the window, jumping through it, realizing that was the only way out that Damian could use.
"Lord Gerard! What are you doing here? Where is that boy?" a guard asked when he saw Gerard.
"Did you see him passing through this door?" Gerard grabbed both shoulders of that man, yelling "tell me, NOW!"
The guard was shaking, scared by the sudden change of mood, "no, lord. We are keeping a close watch around the castle, and no one left it until this point. All the servants are inside, and the vampires too!"
"This makes little sense. What the fuck? Can he become invisible or something?"
Gerard almost punched the guard in the face with the amount of anger he had inside, but restrained himself, as doing that would not make them any good.
He could not understand how Damian vanished, and now that he was thinking about it, Damian disappeared last night too!
"I was certain last night that he was inside the room, yet he vanished. What kind of magic is this?"
While Gerard and the guards he hired were scratching their heads trying to figure it out where Damian was, Damian was sitting on a couch in the balcony, looking at the early morning sky, eating his bread.
"It is a kind of bad not having anything to eat the bread with, and only water, but this is better than starving. I wonder how is Gerard's face right now."
Damian chuckled at the thought of it. After he was done eating his breakfast, he waited for Serana to wake up, but it had to happen sooner than he expected.
"What is that?"
He was gazing at the horizon, and armored people on horses appeared, carrying a banner, like an army from medieval times.
"Vampires? Humans? Or other things?"
Damian did not know who was coming toward the castle, but one thing he knew, they were not friendly.
The army passed through the farmlands of the humans who lived under Serana's territory, and the army killed each one of them, mercilessly.
"Serana," Damian said, knocking on her balcony's door.
-Serana: "Who is knocking so early? I will kill… oh wait, it is my love, Damian. What does he want? Maybe some early morning sex? Well, as a vampire, I am not that fan of the early morning, but I can overcome that fear for him…"
She opened up the door, and asked, "is something wrong?"
Damian did not say a word, but pointed his finger to the army.
Serana followed it, and when she saw the banner, her legs softened, and she wanted to flee as fast as possible.
"What is wrong?"
"That's the banner of the Undead Legion! They should not be here. Damian, we must run before they kill us all!"
Even without knowing what it was, Damian quickly helped her pack the things to leave, but it was too late.