The Fallen Kingdom

Cameron Knight

Cameron Knight

Once upon a time in the kingdom of Pollyville, There was a boy who was 15 years of age, and his name was Noremac. Noremac's father was a vampire, and vampires in this land were executed, how they got executed no one knew because whenever they found out someone was a vampire they took them to a secret area where no one would be able to find them. One day Noremac was going to his hideout area because he likes to be alone. When he got to his hideout area he found a note on his desk, the note said
  "Hello Noremac If you are reading this then I am dead. I have died because the king found out that I am a vampire, you need to run. Don't ever come back if you come back you could die son. Us vampires are not welcome in this world, if anyone finds out you are a vampire you could die. This is all I wanted to say. Goodbye son.

 I did what my father said and never came back. When I got home my mom asked me what I was doing, so I told her going to a friend's house. On my way to go to the only country where vampires are accepted. I met some new people on the way and some friendly and some not, I was getting close to my location and when I arrived I saw something unimaginable...
 When I got there the whole place was burned down. Everything. There were people with torches and weapons walking around so I confronted them and they asked me if I was a vampire. I said no because I had a bad feeling about it. I walked into some peoples houses and found horrible things. But the worst thing about being here was the fact that there were no vampires in sight. I walked back out and found the people again, I asked them if they killed all the vampires and they said we hope. I got really mad and told them I was a vampire and I said they won't do anything about it. They tried to grab me but as soon as they did, strong bats came in and picked them up and took them away. The bats turned into vampires and we had a long conversation and we talked about how to to turn into bats and how they do it. I asked where they took the people that were grabbing me, but they said that I was too young. So I asked how to turn into a bat. So they taught me how to do that.
 When I was able to turn into a bat I flew to their hideout. It was really late at night so I tried to go to sleep, but they woke me up and told me that vampires only sleep during the day. I was kind of annoyed because I was really tired and wanted to go to bed. When it was daytime I went back to their hideout and went to sleep, It was hard to fall asleep because I knew it was day and not night. Once I fell asleep I had a dream about my dad, he was trapped inside some sort of dodecahedron. After a few minutes of just seeing him trying to escape, he looked at me and told me that I needed to leave this place, and that they trapped me here.
            A couple nights later I snuck into the leaders quarters and looked around for the dodecahedron but I couldn't find it. The leader walked in and asked me if I was admiring his trophies. Obviously I told him yes so I don't get caught.
           A few weeks later I decided to give up on searching for the dodecahedron. When I got home from the hunt I saw something but not something but someone. It was my dad. He was just wandering in from the forest and he looked all beat up, I was wondering what happened so I ran up to him but he wasn't the same. He grabbed my arm, pulled me in close! Then I woke up in the hideout sleeping on my bed.
        I lost track of the date but all I know is that I have been here long enough to be over 20 at least. I was going out for the next hunt when I found a body, the body was just in the middle of the forest. It has been there for a while because it was already a skeleton, that meant that anything that harmed it was gone now. When I told the leader he said to leave it there and that we will check on it to see if any of the bones get crushed from walking behemoths. A few weeks later we came back to check on the bones but they were just fine. We decided to still leave them alone and find a new hunting place. At our new hunting place we got a lot of new food.
       
       When I got back to the hideout I decided that this was my life now. This is where I'm going to be living for the rest of my life. No. I can't just give up on my dad like that, he would never give up on me. I worked out for a few months but apparently vampires are already very strong. After I got a lot stronger I went back to the leader's quarters and destroyed pretty much the whole place the leader came in so I hid. I wondered why I did all of that working out if I was just going to hide. I decided to get up and fight and then I tried but got taken down immediately. They trapped me onto a seat with ropes and I couldn't get out. I asked them what they were doing but they wouldn't tell me. 
       A few weeks later I woke up back in my house, I could tell there were a lot of people watching to make sure that I don't try and do anything crazy again. I went to the leaders quarters and knocked on the door to apologize. He asked me what I was apologizing for but I told him that it was obvious, he kicked me out and told me to go with the group to go hunting. While we were out hunting I saw a really weird glow coming from the inside of a big tree. I went inside of it and found the dodecahedron my dad was trapped inside. When I was asking him if he could hear me and how I could get him out, he never responded. I tried to break it but I couldn't even touch it. I decided to punch it with all my strength but that just hurt my arm more than it should have. I managed to get it out of the tree and when I did it broke he got out and hugged me. When I took him back to the hideout everyone was mad that I took him out of the dodecahedron, I asked them why. They said it was because he tried to kill everyone there, I didn't think it was true but I couldn't say it wasn't because everyone was saying it was. I asked him if it was true and he said yes, I was wondering why but I started to get scared of him so I ran off back into my room.
        He opened my door and asked me why I left. I told him because he scared me by saying he did threaten all of them. I asked him if he actually ever threatened the people. He never answered though, I was scared to be near him because if he didn't answer he most likely did. I woke up the next morning and found out he worships demons, so that was intense. It was weird how he was sitting, his legs were bent up and his eyes were rolled up into his head and his hands were like if you were praying.
 A few nights later I decided to tell the leader because it was happening every morning when I woke up. He came into the room and smacked my dad to get him to wake up and be normal again. A few hours later my dad did the creepy thing again when he worshiped his demons. I was getting really nervous about being near him if he is still worshiping the demons. I went back to the leader's quarters and told him. He grabbed a stake and said that my dad needs to be executed. I got scared when he said that so I tried to stop him from going to my room. I didn't want him in there mainly because in my room my dad was bringing evil demons into this world and if the leader saw that he would kill my dad, me and all the demons. He got into my room and saw what was happening, my dad was evil and wasn't himself. I was scared. I took the weapon from the leader, went up to my dad and killed him. I cried, the leader told me there was no time for crying because we had to fight all the demons that my dad released into this world. We got our whole entire army against the demons and sadly we lost a lot of our men but we defeated my demons. 
 Two years later everything was back to normal. Nothing bad happened minus some people trying to invade us but they were no problem at all. That is the story of my life.
 
    The End
 

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