A Wolf's Howl, A Fairy's Wing

After everyone was reunited and introduced, the entire group moved into the cave, and then the bunker, with Erik at its head.

After a few moments, they entered the command room, and tens of vampires instantly jumped from their seats in fright. Erik smirked a little with amusement as he watched all their trembling gazes drift towards Emily.

Although, their eyes went wide when they noticed this sadistic nightmare was hanging on this man's arm with a loving gaze in her eyes, like she was nothing more than an obedient wife. But when she noticed them all staring at her, Emily turned her head towards them, and smirked playfully.

"What are you people staring at?" she purred in a tone that these vampires considered dangerously calm. "The deciders of your fates have entered the room. I suggest you start grovelling."

Behind them, Liv raised an eyebrow at their reactions and realized that perhaps her daughter's words were even underestimating the terror this Emily could instil in people.

Suddenly, she noticed a handful of blackened corpses displayed in prominent positions, while five doll-eyed second-ranked vampires were spread around the room as their dull gazes kept a close watch on the ghoul controllers.

At the same time, the vampires in the room finally realized Liv and Astrid were standing behind the woman who'd been terrorizing them for the past few days, and most of them quickly sank to their knees.

"L— Lady Frost!" one of them exclaimed. "P— Please! Save us from this—!"

But before he could finish, a black orb came to float in front of his face, controlled by a sadistically grinning Emily, and he quickly covered his mouth while trembling like a leaf. "Oh, please don't stop talking now," Emily blinked innocently. "What were you going to say?"

But the man shook his head frantically, and every other vampire kept their mouths shut as well, while looking pleadingly at Liv and even at Erik.

Deciding it was time to step in, Erik pursed his lips wryly and put a hand on Emily's shoulder, "That's enough, Emily. You had your fun, but these are Liv's people now. In fact, you should remove the enslavement on those second rankers as well at this point."n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Emily pouted a little, but then sighed, "Alright, Master. You're the boss."

Instantly she recalled the black orb in front of the vampire's face, and he breathed a sigh of relief, but still decided to keep his mouth shut. At the same time, the five slaves suddenly started blinking as they slowly regained their senses and looked around in confusion.

Immediately, the raven-haired girl turned back to Erik looking for a reward. "Did I do good?" she grinned playfully. So, Erik chuckled, and rewarded her with a quick swat on her ass, causing her to giggle and moan.

Meanwhile, the slaves had finished regaining their senses, and now looked at the newcomers with trepidation. Naturally, they recognized Liv, and knew about her power. They didn't waste any time with figuring out exactly what happened for them to get here, as they instantly started clamouring for mercy.

"L— Lady Frost, I—"

"My lady! Please d—"

They all exclaimed their own pleading greeting, but Liv ignored them all. Seeing it was finally her time to step in, she frowned and stepped forward, next to Erik. Then, she roared, "Shut up!" Her voice reverberated around the room at the same time as her third-ranked pressure flooded the room, careful to avoid the people in her group.

Immediately, the second-ranked vampires were interrupted and all the vampires still standing on their own two feet were forced down to their knees.

Next to her, Erik grinned. He could appreciate a forceful woman. So long as they didn't try it on him…

While continuing to exert her pressure and keep the present vampires under control, she panned her gaze across her subjects and inspected their faces.

But after looking at each of them, she frowned, and turned her head to look at Emma and Emily, "Were is Lars? Surely, he was here?" Her voice was edged with barely contained fury. Clearly, her anger towards him was only second to Sigurd.

Unfortunately, Emma cocked her head innocently, "Master didn't tell you? In order for our plan to work, we needed to make a deal with him."

On Erik's other side, Emily pouted her lips in disappointment, "Our deal was he'd get to leave after the battle in Kirkenes was over, so… we were forced to let him go." But then she smirked evilly, "If it makes you feel any better, I may have caused him to lose a few fingers and toes."

Emma's face became a little complicated when she remembered the scene of these vampires stabbing Lars's body with darkness covered blades at Emily's urging.

Liv's face fell, and her nose scrunched up, but she nodded grumpily, "I guess that will have to do for now…" Continue reading stories on empire

In between the sisters, Erik smirked a little, "Don't worry. There's nowhere he can go besides the Council, and since you'll end up there soon and become a Councillor, I'm sure you'll have all kinds of ways to mess with a mere second ranker."

The cheered Liv up a little, causing her to grin with expectation, "That's true… Guess I'll have something to look forward to then."

With Lars's fate discovered, she turned to the vampires in front of her. The grin on her lips turned into a smug smirk, "I'm sure many of you didn't expect this day to ever come, right? Well, here it is anyway! Judgement day! I doubt many of you are worthy of keeping around, but I'm a fair ruler."

She turned to Erik, "Erik, if you please?"

Erik chuckled, "With pleasure," and bent down to start drawing the same sigil they used back in Kirkenes. Of course, it was still Elora doing the deed, but just in case any of these people were worthy of sparing, they were keeping her existence hidden.

Thus, another judgement day began. They also had the vampires that were locked inside Erik's ice prison brought over at the same time, as they wanted to get this over with quickly, so they could get to more interesting matters.

Like Erik finally marrying Astrid, semi-officially.