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2. Welcome to Vamp Prime.

*I remember the day we met.

Too young to see the danger.

I didn't know the devil you were,

That you'd fill me with so much anger.

*At first you gave me comfort,

Numbed me from the pain,

But the light you gave me faded**,

Brought blackness to my veins.

-Ashley hyder

EARTH: January 1, 2018

12:30 a.m.

Niya was working on her new story. She wrote half of its introduction and fell asleep on her table. At 12:33 a sharp edge of the diary made a cut on her right hand, which was placed on the introduction page of the diary, and a drop of her blood reached the word villain and stopped like there was some sort of power that pulled it towards the word. Her blood created a strange red sparkling pattern on the diary and suddenly, the wind started blowing inside her room and everything around Niya vanished. A red-colored force popped in the room out of nowhere and absorbed her sleeping figure inside itself within a millisecond. She continued sleeping peacefully, unaware of the danger ahead.

THE VAMP PRIME: January 1, 7018.

''When will she wake up?" A girl's voice reached Niya's ears and she tried to open her eyes to find out the owner of that voice. But as soon as she tried to, her head hurt so bad that she had to close them again for some relief. She tried to move her body but quickly found out she was unable to do so. She could listen to the things around her very clearly but could not respond.

''Please inform the king that she is waking up. Hurry!'' A new, more mature feminine, voice spoke, somewhere near Niya's bed. She heard the quick footsteps of someone leaving the room.

Niya was now curious to see her surroundings and by a sudden jolt, she gathered all her force and opened her eyes. A lady who was probably in her mid-sixties stared at Niya's face with her dull green eyes and grinned.

''My goodness, she is awake, please someone inform my son." She jumped with excitement.

Niya carefully observed her surroundings and there was nothing peaceful about it, unlike her house. A big room was full of silver chandeliers that hang on the walls, the ceilings were golden with a strange design, and all the windows were covered with silver-colored curtains.

She sat up on the bed, trying to look at the floor only to see it was pure white like snow. Niya was confused. ''Am I in a lucid dream?" She whispered to herself.

Before she could speak again, a person entered the room, wearing a long black royal coat and black pants. He had big green eyes and rosy red lips with pale white skin. He had a strange dark aura around him and Niya could feel it even from a certain distance.

Everyone bowed in a curtsy in front of the person. ''Where the hell I am?'' She finally asked what she wanted to ask from the very second she woke up.

Everybody was staring at her, two middle-aged ladies, a girl who was probably in her twenties, and that dark aura person. They were observing her as if they have never seen a girl before. ''Did you all kidnapped me?" She asked again furiously. The green-eyed person smirked at the question.

"Welcome to Vamp Prime, Your Majesty!" He bowed a little and smiled.

''Vamp Prime? Which city is this? Is it in Canada?" She was so confused. Her mind was running thousands of thoughts per second like why she was there and the most important, how she ended up there? She was lost in her thoughts but she could feel everyone's presence in the room, making it difficult for her to breathe. A sudden jolt of pain hit in her brain and she landed directly on her bed again.

''Are you okay?'' The green-eyed person came closer with a few strides and put his hand on her shoulder with deep concern in his eyes. ''I am claustrophobic.'' Those were the only words she managed to utter as her head was hurting like someone was stabbing her brain.

''Everybody out!'' He almost shouted and in less than a second, everyone vanished out of the room. ''Our royal doctor will be here in no time for your check-up Your Majesty.'' He smiled and put the white blanket around her.

''Dude, look you have mistaken me for someone else.'' She paused for a second to see his reaction, when there wasn’t any she became more anxious. ''I am not what you are thinking I am. Okay? Got it? I am Niya Hemsworth, not Your Majesty so stop calling me that.'' She explained pushing the blanket away. He sighed.

''Now you are not Niya Hemsworth, now you are Queen Niyanica Hemsworth, Your Majesty.'' He replied with no expressions on his face.

''What do you mean by now? I was Niya yesterday on New Years's Eve and now out of nowhere, I become a freaking queen? Am I a joke to you?'' She let out all the anger and frustration she felt without any pause.

"The New Year’s Eve you are talking about was 5,000 years ago." He smirked and offered her a glass of water which was placed near her bed on a golden table.

Ignoring the offer she questioned, ''5,000? Oh come on boy, stop joking and please let me go, okay?" Getting up from the bed, she tried to go out the door but he stopped her by blocking the path to exit.

"Let me explain.'' He sighed, motioning her to sit on the chair placed just on the right of the exit door. She quickly sat as her body was hardly in the state to stand firmly.

''This is the planet Vamp Prime and I was ruling this planet, till now, on your behalf. So let me first introduce myself. I am King Archie Melbourn Everette of Vamp Prime at your service, Your Majesty. And from now on, I will assist you with your daily official work." He smiled proudly.

''And why were you ruling on behalf of me? I mean, where was I?" She asked in a sarcastic tone. Not believing a single thing he was saying.

''You were sleeping. You slept for 5,000 years." He replied calmly.

Niya was in utter shock and her brain cells stopped working, she blamed it on the pounding of her head, but suddenly Niya saw her reflection in the mirror placed on the wall in front of her and she noticed that she was still wearing the same nightdress she wore on New Year's Eve. How can my dress be the same if I am 5,000 years ahead of that day…, she thought.

''You liar. How can my dress be the same if I was sleeping for 5,000 years?" She pushed him to the side and ran through the exit door as fast as she could, even though her body begged her to sit back on that chair.

Outside her room, there was a long never-ending hallway and at every five-foot distance, bodyguards were standing on both sides of the corridor with the same uniform, black coats, and pants with a white shirt and a red tie.

Niya was shocked to see that she was basically in some kind of prison but it was too beautiful to call it that.

Fighting the pain, she picked up her speed again but suddenly Archie was in front of her out of nowhere like a wind. Now, this was something very hard to digest for Niya.

''You...how?" She was unable to speak due to the extreme shock she was experiencing at the moment. Without saying a word, he took a hold of her right arm tightly, and with a blink of an eye, she was back in the same room.

''Niyanica, I was sweet to you because I could understand your condition but it doesn’t mean I will tolerate every nonsense action you take." He warned her. His dark aura was at its peak and he was looking like the Devil himself so she decided to avoid any further conflict and kept her calm as he gave her a red shiny book titled The Rules.

"Read this carefully and be ready at 9 sharp for the dinner.'' He left the room in less than a second, faster than the speed of light even though at the back of her mind, Niya knew that was impossible.

She sat on the bed as the atmosphere in the room turned colder even though the heaters were on. Wrapping the blanket around her body, she opened the first page of the book. It was all about the rules to be followed at THE ROYAL COURT and the PALACE, and how the government works on this planet.

"Rule 177 Clause B states that if the king and the queen of this planet are not necessarily related to each other, or married to each other, they can work independently. They are free to marry anyone of their choice." She read out loudly in shock.

"Rule 177 Clause C states that the king would be the nominal head only and has no discretionary powers. He would work under the advice of the queen who is the de facto head of the planet. Her advice will be binding on the king and the councils." She continued to read all the rules and it was almost 8 when she recalled Archie's words of the dinner at 9. She went to the washroom to clean herself and make herself more presentable for this so-called Royal Dinner.


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