Chapter One

A family of vampires has ruled over the eastern seaboard for centuries, but they haven’t stayed in one spot for only a century or two. When the family finally decided to fully settle down. The family, after much effort and discussion, had finally, after days of talk, chosen to settle down in the city of Boston.

They asserted their dominance in high society by becoming the only family that operated during the night. How they have done this was bringing bodiless heads of certain enemies to certain high-class men and women.

The family estate wasn’t fully built and established until the year of 1800 by Matthew Hira along with his wife, Elizabeth.

When Matthew and Elizabeth had finally finished building their estate in the year 1803, they had made sure in the next few decades that their name sake would cause a shiver and make people scared whenever they heard the name Hira.

For the first few months of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, she didn’t know that she was indeed pregnant until three months later. October 17th of 1855, Elizabeth had found out that she was pregnant with her first child. On the fourth of April, 1856, when Elizabeth had gone into labour and after she had given birth, she found out that she was pregnant with twins.

When the first set of twins were born, Elizabeth had given Matthew the right way to name their firstborn sons.

Matthew had signed the paperwork for his sons and named them as Alexander and Christopher.

A decade and a half from when Elizabeth had given birth to her and Matthew’s first-born sons, she had gotten pregnant once again. In her eyes, she hoped that this time around; it was just a single baby and not another set of twins.

When Elizabeth gave birth in 1871 on the 10th of April to another set of twin boys. This time around, she had named them as William and Raymond.

Elizabeth had given birth to a third set of twins on the 18th of April in 1904, to Tyler and Anthony.

Lastly in 1982, Elizabeth had given birth to the last set of twins. This time around, she had given birth to one boy and one girl. Ethan and Ella. Elizabeth was hopeful each time she had given birth before she finally had her precious baby girl. Her wish was granted this last time when the doctor told Elizabeth that she had given birth to a boy and a girl.
Matthew had relinquished his control to his eldest son in 1984, to Alexander.

When Alexander asked his father along with his mother as to the reason he and his mother were stepping down from their status that they have brought up from nothing into something.

Matthew had taken Alexander into Matthew’s office that was across the compound on the plot of land that the family owns.

When the both of the men got inside, Matthew had explained to his son that it was time for him to step down and he wanted Alexander to step up and continue the family’s ruthlessness. To show the population of the world what the Hiras can do.

Matthew also explained to Alexander that he needed him to watch over his brothers and little sister, no matter what happens or what he hears about what the others believe and gossip about.

Matthew had gotten Alexander to swear on the family insignia to protect the family. And when Alexander swore on the insignia, it was only hours later when his father, along with his mother, had disappeared.
Matthew and his wife, Elizabeth, had left their estate to Alexander, and they never looked back. Not even once.

It took months for Alexander to realize that his dear mother and father had left the family estate and they weren’t coming back. It also took another half a year to realize that he had to bring it up to the rest of his brothers.

When Alexander finally brought it up, their parents were already gone for two years before he had told his twin, Christopher, first since it was easier.
When Alexander finally brought it up to the rest of the twins, he did it in a way he had let it down even easier and told them that their parents had died in the hands of hunters while they were on a date night.

Alexander knew he couldn’t tell neither Ethan nor Ella what actually happened to their parents. Since both Ethan and Ella were still very young at the time of Matthew’s and Elizabeth’s death.

Alexander was going to take what truly happened to their parents to the grave, since he didn’t want either Ethan or Ella to know what truly happened to them. So in the end, Alexander kept quiet about it.
Alexander and the rest of his brothers helped raise Ethan and Ella until they could be independent.

When Ethan and Ella started elementary school in 1987, they had finally met the Graysworth Twins, Sam and John.

The both sets of twins spent the next twenty years going to school with them and bumping into each other. It had irritated the Graysworth twins to no end.

When Sam and John bumped into Ethan and Ella in 2007 on the sidewalk, it was at this moment that the Graysworth twins decided right that moment that they were going to deal with both Ethan and Ella.

Both Sam and John had enough with the youngest Hira twins, so that night when Sam and John had gone home, they had gone to one of their bedrooms to come up with a plan.

Sam and John had spent the next five years delving into their plan of getting rid of Ella for good. Spending every waking second to their plan of getting the Hira’s out of their lives for good. And they hoped that this plan that they were coming up with, that the plan wouldn't bite them in the ass for trying to get rid of Ethan and Ella.

On the evening of the 17th of July in 2012, Ella and Ethan were heading home from doing a few errands for the family when Sam and John had stopped them from going any further.

When Ethan and Ella turned down the alleyway, thinking it was a connection to the street on the other side. The second that they looked down the alley, they didn’t see that it was connected to the street on the other side of the tall buildings.

Ethan had sighed and Ella had softly hit the bottom of her palm to her forehead, forgetting that most of the streets that the twins used, the alleys didn’t connect to the street on the other side.

When the Hira twins had finally turned around, they had looked at the Graysworth twins staring down at them. Trying to be intimidating.
Both Ethan and Ella just rolled their eyes, along with a heavy sigh at Sam and John and their macho energy that was coming off of them.

Ethan had a gut feeling for the past five and a half years that Sam and John were up to something, but not to this. Not trapping him and his delicate little sister in the closed off alleyway to harm them.

Earlier in the day, Sam had gone to the exact alley that all four of them were currently standing in to set up the trap. This trap can send one of them in the distant time by two hundred years back in time.

The trap that was set was a diagram that was spray painted in red and purple.

When Sam and John stepped forward towards them, Ethan and Ella had stepped back. The Hira twins didn’t want the others to come any closer to them.

“The both of you are getting on our nerves! And that stops right now!” Sam had snapped angrily at them. To Sam and to John, their very essence was irritating.

“We haven’t even done anything to the both of you. We have been keeping to ourselves.” Ella had snapped back towards them. She was ready to jump them for being so rude and not leaving herself along with her brother alone.

When Ella had stepped forward, Ethan had pulled Ella back to stand by his side and he had glanced over to her, telling her to stop with this nonsense.

“It doesn’t really matter if the both of you can’t stand us or our family or not. I really can’t say that the both of you are getting on our nerves though. But I’ll give you this warning, though. The both of you need to stay away from us or there is going to be bloodshed.” Ethan had calmly explained to the twins, since he knew that if they didn’t stop with their nonsense that there would be definite bloodshed.

Ethan knew that if Sam and John were going to start something, it was up to him, along with Ella, that they were going to bleed both Sam and John.
Ella had slightly calmed down a bit. She had silently stood beside Ethan with her arm linked with his arm, holding his hand.

With this simple gesture, both Ethan and Ella didn’t mind it. It was a platonic gesture. It was a way that they had grown up, and they didn’t seem to mind what Sam and John had thought about it.

“What do you mean by that? By bloodshed? We know that the both of you and your brothers are something different from being humans. Something that are made from myths, like vampires and such.” John had stared daggers at both Ethan and Ella.

“You really should listen to your elders, kid. And what if we are something more than human, huh?” Ella asked, in a snappy tune. “The Hira’s will be on this Earth until we see fit or until the Hunters will come to our Estate and massacre all eight of us when we are asleep.” She had explained to them.

Both sets of twins were arguing had gone on forever it seemed, but the Graysworth twins were going to put it to an end by trapping Ella in the diagram that they had set up earlier.

The said diagram that the Graysworth twins are currently using was invisible to both Ethan's and Ella’s eyes. Since their eyes weren’t capable of seeing such things. It was up to their eldest brothers, Alexander and Christopher to see such a thing.

When Sam and John kept walking towards Ethan and Ella, it had sucked in Ella.

When the diagram had activated, it had such an unruly force that it had pulled Ella into it and pushed Ethan flying to the entrance of the alley.
When Ethan had finally landed, he landed on his back and slightly bounced once he landed in which he had coughed.

“Brother!” Ella had screamed out to her brother. She had hoped in her heart that he wasn’t hurt. She is very protective of her brothers, especially over her twin. Ella’s flight response was in overdrive, but she had a feeling that she couldn’t get to Ethan. She had a feeling that she had gotten stuck, and she blamed it all on Sam and John.

Ella’s deep violet eyes had turned into a bright emerald green. It was a sign that she was not happy and that she was completely furious at what the Graysworth’s twins were doing to them.

Ella also knew that she couldn’t act so carelessly and act out of her own volition without letting her eldest brother know. So instead of acting out on her feelings, she just stared at the Graysworth twins with a deep hatred for trapping her and causing pain to her twin.

When Ethan finally stood up after being shoved and thrown away from Ella, he had eerily walked back down the alleyway towards Sam and John His eyes had changed to the exact colour of his twins.

One thing that the whole Hira twins shared was their anger issues. Whenever one twin has gotten hurt, the other one will get furiously angered. No matter what happened, if one had gotten hurt.
Ethan and Ella had stared at each other to give one nod.

When the twins had changed their eye colour and looked at each other, they were completely serious that they were going to give the Graysworth twins what they deserved for harming them.