It was a whole ass vibe, light shooting up the skies, well dressed people all around… well monsters, not a single human was visible. Everybody was an aura itself... but for Lucian, it meant nothing, because he didn't feel it, or at least did not care about it at all, why Charlotte, Damian and Gerard felt every bit of it.
"Good night, sir." A woman welcomed him as they entered the building.
"Good night, darling. I would like a ticket to the auction."
"It will be 1 million coins."
"A million? Why is it tripled?"
"Well, because of the main auction." She said, as she smiled a little nervously because well behind Lucian were well known figures, too well known for their troubles and the other thing that they were raditin an aura something that was just as dark as powerful as the others.
Meanwhile Lucian thought about the price because it was outrageous, but shit, he needed it to get in, so he got out his card and swiped it, giving out a million to nothing, just the pricing and finally they made their way to the main hall and it was exactly what he expected.
It was just radiant wealth. Everybody was dressed in high end suits and dresses. Some of them even looked like queen and king, with so much jewelry on that it was literally blinding him on the spot. But the most obvious thing was the eyes that just immediately fell at him, smelling his scent, smelling that he was a human among all these vampires and werewolves.
"How good that the rules forbid any fight…" Damian said, because well, he was the one that all the eyes fell upon, even more than on Lucian.
It was strange to see a hunter there, especially one like him. One of the famous ones that hunted down several big names before the piece tery and even after it… the name that even the Temple put a pierce upon his name.
"It would be fun to see you get ripped apart in a second." Charlotte said as she chuckled.
"I get what you're saying. I feel the eyes too." Gerard said, because the werewolves were looking at him too with judging eyes. The werewolf who left his clan, his family, and operated alone. He was a traitor to the spirit of the werewolves.
"They're just jealous that you're an alpha on your own." Lucian said as he looked back at him.
"Don't sweet talk to him, 'cause it's going to go up to his head." Damian said as he chuckled. They were having fun while the eyes were judging basically all of them, except one.
"Miss Charlotte, you're shining like the stars up in the dark sky." A man stepped to her.
"Klein, stop your bullshit and don't try to compliment me when you see I am here with my man." She said and grabbed Lucian's hand and drew him close to herself.
Klein only looked at Lucian. "Are you still running after a human? How bad for you. We would be perfect together, two biggest families making up one." He said with a smile on his face.
"I'd rather be with him than with a fucker like you." She said as she pulled Lucian even closer to herself, and he felt embarrassed. Charlotte's boobs were a little too close and pushed against his arm.
"Darling, don't talk this way to the Valtor family heir." A deep male voice came from the back and it was him the father of Charlotte.
"But he's saying stupid shit in front of my babe." She said as she huffed, and Lucian just felt more embarrassed.
"Lucian, how are you, my friend?"
"Well, a bit overwhelmed but feel good, William." He said to him, and he just started laughing, but then he stopped and stared deep into his eyes.
"If you dare to overbid me tonight, I'm going to beat your ass, you know that, right?" He said as he still just kept eye contact, but Lucian didn't waver or look scared of him.
"You said it many times and it never happened."
"True, but tonight, if you do it like many times before, I'm going to do it in front of everybody." He gestured around. "It will be a show itself."
"Oh really? What if I beat your ass with this cane? It would be self-defense." He said back with a smile, and William just started laughing out loud, with such a deep voice and so loud that everybody around just looked at them.
Even Klein was fucking just blinking in confusion because, what the fuck this was Lucian, and he literally spoke back to the fucking Carmilla family, the strongest vampire house in the entire country… and he said he would beat his ass in front of everybody…
Like, he knew Lucian was cocky, but not this much, to talk back to one of the strongest vampires who leads the alliance of the vampire houses, in front of his children.
But the most outrageous thing to him was that he is a fucking human. Not even a mutant, a half-vampire, or a werewolf, or not even a hunter… he is just a fucking ordinary human, who could even be shredded apart by the weakest vampire…
"Then if you win, don't run away, Lucian." William said as he turned back. "Oh, and you guys," he looked at Damian and Gerard. "keep him safe. There are a lot of folks here who want to see him dead. And if he wins, then all hell is going to break loose. See you." He waved his hand and it was true.
Lucian is the only human in their world with actual power, the only human that has the most enemies and the reason for it was a business empire… they didn't want to say it out loud, but he held power and influence in their world… but one thing shields him for any harm
The Vampire Alliance and the peace treaty, which every single being had to follow. If not, they would be killed. Don't kill humans, nor each other. It was made after hundreds of years of bloodshed.
But if there is a rule, there's going to be some who go against it and if they do, they will be killed by the alliance. That's how easy it is. Of course, there are many exceptions to it. Like if a human starts it, or a werewolf or vampire does, then they can kill each other. Even a tournament was made that's called Bloodnight, which is just an old, silly fashion arena where opposite families and pieces fight each other.
But when Lucian showed up, everything changed. He was, and still is a human hated by many, yet it seemed like he had his own rules.
No one could touch him. No one could challenge him.
He lives by his own rules in a world where he is the weakest.