Blood Awakening: The Strongest Hybrid and His Vampire Bride

Nikolai could sense the tensions between the people in the mansion while sitting in his grandfather's study, quietly sipping the special blood tea that calmed his nerves.

'Father seems to be late...'

Tonight, there was supposed to be a meeting to determine whether the other clans would follow Nikolai or if he needed to prove himself to them. Though this normally happened, with all the traitors and the current state of S-City, he wondered who might cause trouble.

Knock-Knock!

"Come in."

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door.

The person waited for Nikolai's voice before she entered—it was one of the mansion's maids and an older-looking male with greyish hair.

Unlike the white fur of a Fenrir or the pure silver hair of a Volkov, this hair was dirty, maybe a little mixed between the two.

'Who is this?'

"I am the patriarch of the Etin clan, my lord. Turim Eri." The man spoke in a polite and well-educated manner, bowing once before approaching closer.

"Well, you seem to know who I am, however..." Nikolai shook his head. Instead of being arrogant or sarcastic, he needed to understand who was an ally first.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, patriarch Turim. I am Nikolai Volkov, the young heir of the Volkov clan. Please sit down. Can you serve our guest some tea?" Nikolai gazed at the maid with a faint smile.

The maid nodded, and with a polite curtsey, she started preparing a fresh cup of the warm tea. The maid seemed to be a member of the Fenrir clan because Nikolai could smell a scent similar to Nikita's but much weaker and less appealing.

After serving the tea, she soon bowed and left the room, giving Nikolai a slight nod before leaving.

'Well, grandfather said these maids would protect me during my time in the mansion.'

He noticed the blades hidden under her skirt and wondered where she had placed them all. Meanwhile, the old man quietly sipped his tea and observed Nikolai.

"Young Lord, are you prepared for today's meeting?" Turim seemed to be someone his grandfather trusted enough to enter this office.

Nikolai remembered that people who didn't trust the clan enough wouldn't be able to enter the complex. Many clans doubted their betrayal and lost all their standing in the alliance and the Volkov family.

"I cannot say that I am fully prepared because I have no idea about the agenda, Patriarch Turim."

"Oh? You don't say... that old geezer."

Patriarch Turim muttered about Nikolai's grandfather before the door suddenly slammed open, and the man in question entered.

"Turim, you old dog! Why are you telling lies to my dear grandson!"

"Viktor, don't dare test this old hunter's patience! You know what you did!"

Nikolai wondered if the two men would break into a fight while pointing at each other, but suddenly, he noticed his grandfather's lips tremble before transforming into a shit-eating grin, and he burst into laughter.

"Turim, it's good to see you—how is the east?"

"As always my old friend, have you been well, why haven't you retried yet?"

Turim Etin was a member of the werewolf clans that kept most of their families in the East. This formed a barrier and protected the heritage of all wolves from the beautiful motherland of the R-Union.

The two were old hunters, leaders and childhood friends.

"Nikolai, this old geezer is a close friend of mine and the source of wolfsbane from the east, a useful plant used to make potions that stop blood frenzy."

Viktor's bright face allowed Nikolai to relax.

Nikolai thought that the entire meeting room later would be against him, but it seemed he was overreacting.

"Don't be so stiff, this young and strapping lad doesn't need to brother with our old selves, those annoying centralists and traitors will try to make him feel awkward enough later." Turim really seemed like someone cut from the same cloth as his grandfather.

"True... but they don't stand a chance against him!"

"Hahah... but I must ask, which young lady is he going to marry?" Turim Etim wasn't completely up to date on the issues of S-City and the head family.

Thus, the information he received wasn't up to date.

"I've left it to the boy himself! There are many of those damn families who started sending proposals and offering their daughters, but with what happened to Anastasia and Ivan... I chose to stop being stubborn."

"What..." Turim looked visibly shocked, overreacting to Viktor's words. "To thing that you... Viktor would be willing to go against family laws!"

Nikolai sipped his tea. While listening to these two old men, his nerves faded. The idea of meeting a room full of old people like these men didn't make him nervous.

"Grandfather is that true?"

"Ah? Don't be thinking about more women! Do you want your grandfather to get beat up by those annoying vampires?!"Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Haha..." Though he doubted they could beat him up, seeing his grandfather acting so human made Nikolai laugh.

"Don't laugh... Vladimir threatened to go to war if you made his girl cry!"

"Which one?"

Turim's eyes widened, listening to the old man and Nikolai exchanging words. He muttered to himself while sipping his tea. "The east is too far away... so much drama."

"Ah... but what about the lady of moonlight? Who will take that role?" Turim suddenly interrupted them.

"Lady of moonlight?"

Nikolai didn't know that term and instead looked at his grandfather, who seemed a little ashamed, looking away from the young werewolf.

"Grandfather?"

The atmosphere seemed to take a turn for the worst because Turim suddenly covered his lips after speaking about the title, and he turned away from Viktor with a bitter expression.

"The lady..." Viktor spoke in a low voice before turning to Nikolai, gazing at him for a few moments before nodding. "The lady of moonlight is the one who will stand beside you, and help you manage the clan and alliance... Though we have accepted you marrying multiple women, you must understand that only one can take this role."

"Does it hold special meaning?"

"...to us werewolves it does." Turim added.

Viktor suddenly became less animated and sat down beside Nikolai. He took a silver pendant from his shirt. The pendant showed a picture of a beautiful woman in her 20s with pure blue eyes and fluffy brown hair.

"This... is my moonlight, my Luna."

His grandfather's voice croaked and sounded rough when he mentioned the terms Luna and moonlight, but Nikolai noticed a grimace on his face, which made him regret bringing up the subject.

'I don't want to see my grandfather so sad...'

"She was a day walker... from a Gypsie tribe from F-Kingdom, someone I met whilst travelling hundreds of years ago."

"Giselle was her name, and she was the woman who stole my heart."

The story follows that during a brief war between the F-Kingdom and Empire, Giselle was a refugee from an eastern land, and Viktor visited to earn credentials and strength to become the head of his family.

Wounded by a foreign vampire clan in a sudden trap, he could only survive by falling into a river.

A young woman found him... and that was how the two met.

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After the war, Viktor proposed to her.

Although he already had a woman back in the East, he couldn't forget Giselle, who was different from his family's organised fiancee.

"It was a whirlwind romance... I remember her telling me she hated official duties and being bound to such customs... yet she still agreed to leave her people and come back to the R-Union with me.. but back then things in the East weren't calm and were strife with turmoil."

"Well those old geezers got involved and made you jump through some annoying hoops... even after the war ended they sent you to various battlefields in the nexus." Turim added with a sour face.

It seemed the great elders and ancestors of the Volkov and werewolf families weren't liked.

"I see..."

Nikolai could see what his grandfather faced—it was like himself. Although there was pushback, he still brought the Daywalker to their clan. So, what happened?

"We managed to clear all their goals, requests and stupid laws to allow her to become my only one... the woman who would sit beside me and help rule over the clan and alliance... but there were many who disliked listening to a Daywalker... our enemy."

Viktor sighed, leaning back while stroking the old picture in his locket.

"To be honest Nikolai I worry about you, more than your father... because you take after me, but unlike me you are trying to accept all of them rather than what I did..."

He admitted to pushing his original fiancee and wife away, treating her with less affection.

Although they were engaged because of an alliance, she was a member of the Silver clan, and she lacked anything suitable for him.

"Grandfather... what happened in the end?"

Nikolai wanted to know more and understand what made his grandfather change and become so strict and family-oriented.

"She was a spy..."

"What?!"

"It wasn't like her feelings were a complete lie... but it seems that she was told about things ahead of time, the vampires who attacked me and how she just seemed to understand me... all was because of a certain family that wanted to see us fall."

"Is that why there's no pictures of her?"

Turim and Viktor looked awkward, but both nodded and gazed at Nikolai.

"Nikolai, although she betrayed me I still couldn't let her go and appointed her as my moonlight... the only person who could lead the family other than the head."

Nikolai didn't understand the big issue...

"You see, the problem came after... because once you appoint your moonlight, a Luna cannot be replaced or changed. Even if they die, or you get divorced... that person will always be the Luna of clan Volkov."

However, this information made Nikolai want more details. Did she betray him and leave, or did his grandfather kill her to save the clan?