Chapter 1. Prologue
December 24, 2023 at 11:05 AM
Even before the formation of Samara as a fortress in 1586 (XVI century (Samara town)) Prince-voivode Grigory Osipovich Zasekin, on the arrow between the Samara (Samar) and Volga rivers, there was a small settlement named after the ancient Greek records of travelers Samar from the end of the 1st millennium BC. What was not the case with the capital of the Samara region (region): the fortress on the Volga, the uprisings of Stenka Timofeevich Razin (1667-1671), Emelka Ivanovich Pugachev (1773-1775), the rebellion of the Czechoslovaks (1918), KOMUCH (Committee of Members of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly), the liberation of the Red Army (October 7, 1918), the role of the military capital during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) and one one of the largest industrial centers of the Soviet Union and modern Russia (from the 40s of the XX century to the present day). But then, two thousand years ago, a clan of immortals ruled here, to whom the locals worshiped, considering them gods and leaders. The clan members were vampires. They decided to create a stove to control the ghouls of the ancient Slavs, since at that time there was an internecine struggle between the clans of the immortals for power.
— Brothers. — said the leader of the Lag clan with eyes the color of a blue lagoon — Today our plan will come true. For many years, our learned brothers have been looking for a way to end the feuds of the immortal clans. And so the Supreme Council found a solution. I am deeply grateful and grateful to you for choosing me and my Family to be rulers. By shedding my blood over the sacred slab, I Valery Lag, head of the Lag clan, appoint myself and my direct descendants as kings and rulers of the immortals. Blood for blood is the royal family. May it be so forever and ever.
The blood of the vampire stratilate poured from the ritual knife cut of the palm onto the slab, and soaked into the stone, illuminated the temple with white light. But there was a traitor among the princes of the clans of the Supreme Council. He decided to kill Valery and his pregnant mortal wife, and seize power himself. Three days later, Sergei Rasputin, the head of the Rasputin clan, one of the representatives of the Supreme Council, managed to kill the tsar and ritually drink his blood, becoming a stratified tsar. Valery’s sister, Elena Lag, having learned about the betrayal of her fiance Sergei, hid her pregnant daughter-in-law Anastasia from the council. The vampires, having learned about the betrayal of one of the members of the Supreme Council, expelled him from their membership, warning that the Earth is round and this betrayal will still be returned to him and the blood will return to the direct descendant of the king. The traitor, having lost everything, lived for many more years, adapting to the existing system of ordinary people and consuming the blood of his victims and leech servants. Until, in the summer of 1918, he, a White Guard commander, was wounded with a six-pound cannon by two brothers of the Red Army, Sergei and Matvey Hieronov.
— Now we’ll drink your blood, you bourgeois scum, — said Sergey (Sickle) Hieronov. The stratilate carried out the order of the younger Hieronov and gave them to drink their blood, making them stratilates, although he assumed that the royal blood would not be given under the order to drink his blood, but the traitor did not know that this was a kind of protection of the clans. Outside the clan, anyone can demand to drink blood until it returns back to her family, and only members of the royal clan cannot be ordered to drink their blood, which is why he had to kill Valery Lag and drink blood from a corpse through a special black ritual. As time went on, Sickle tried to control thirst (a kind of protection too, only members of the family could control their thirst and strength) unlike his brother Hammer (Matthew). It got to the point that in the thirties, NKVD Major Serp Ivanovich Hieronov, handed over his older brother to the NKVD torture chambers by starvation. After some time, the second Stratate died of starvation, and the Sickle became the only Stratate of the Kuibyshev region until the summer of 1980.
And at this time, after the betrayal, Anastasia Lag gave birth to a son, Alexander, changing her surname to Lagunov. Elena Lagunova looked after her nephew, but there was a problem: Sasha Lagunov was not a vampire. The blood of the royal clan of the immortals fell asleep in the Lagunovs. And the story itself has become a legend of the family. Year after year, century after century, Elena Lagunova watched the descendants of her deceased older brother, until the birth in 1967 in the family of Sergei Petrovich and Vera Vasilyevna Lagunov of Valera’s youngest son, who was similar in character to his distant ancestor and Elena’s brother. The vampire looked after them and saw how Denis Lagunov, Valery’s older brother, died, how Valery fought with leech vampires in the pioneer camp “Burevestnik”, his sympathy for Anastasia Sergushinna, friendship with the counselor Igor Korzukhin and the pioneer Lev Khlopov and the fight against Serp Ivanovich. She saw how the younger Lagunov defeated the stratilate and returned the blood of the royal vampire family to his family, becoming the stratilate of the royal blood.
— You have been avenged, Valera. Our blood flows again in your descendant Valerka Lagunov. Blood for blood — the royal Family