Laraba Episode 1

Episode 1


Ryan Jericho, some knew him as the most powerful
original vampire of all time, while some knew him as
a werewolf; but I said the best word to convey the
ambiguous nature of Ryan Jericho was to call him –a
Hybrid! He was a half vampire and half werewolf.
Everything about him patently frothed nothing but
supernatural!—and not even a trace of gnomish-sized
humanity could be found in him.
Oh well, even though Ryan Jericho’s similitude didn’t
come close to humans—still; under his raw
supernaturalism la!d a good heart, a very fragile and
beautiful heart filled with a lot of virtue and
benignancy. As a matter of fact, if benignancy could
be measured with gross tons—then ten thousand tons
would still be a blatant lie to depict the weight of his
benignancy.
However, Ryan Jericho didn’t just arrive to become a
hybrid or a supernatural being. He was born as
human; bred as human; nurtured up as human and
fledged as human. It was however an unwavering
circumstances that made him moult away his
mortality to become the most powerful supernatural
creature on earth.
It all started when a very huge timber wolf stormed
the town many years ago to accomplish no other task
than to kill, to steal, and to destroy. The extremely
aggressive animal had poured all its attention on
shredding to smidges everyone residing in the town.
Just like an ultimate invasion—the wolf invaded
countless of homes every night to devour harmless
people while they slept. The town folks had always
retired to sleep every night with a dreaded hope of
making it till next day. And whenever the lucky ones
woke up safely and sound the next day; they were
always greeted a ‘bad morning’ with torrid sight of
pool of blood sluiced on every terrace and corner of
the town. The blood would always be from the
carcass of victims from this tyrant predator. The
animal really enjoyed it tirade—slamming everybody
into self-durance because, they had psychologically
assumed ‘the fear of wolf was the beginning of their
wisdom.’ The fear they had, had subconsciously
arrested their freedom and turned their home into a
gaol.

Hereafter a solution arrived, but it was a futile one.
After the townsfolk got tired of living their life in
revere of a brute animal which was not ready to
scram in time soon; then they decided to assemble
able men to hunt the animal down.
This men that were thewed assembled themselves
with the aim of hunting the predator but
unfortunately, none of them was able to come back
give a bitter tale of how they lost their lives on a
mission of acquiring heroism.— the battle between
humans and wild timber wolf ended on a more
catastrophe note. It was apparent the animal would
have enough body to gloat on after the end of the
battle.
Seeing no other way to kill this animal; the remaining
town folks plodded back to their state of frightfulness.
But not long after; a utile solution emerged from a
very powerful female witch who just arrived at the
town to find solace. This witch— Alzarius, who was
so dextrous in the use magic, finally found a solution
on how to put an end to the marauder rubbing away
the innocent life of the people.
Alzarius concluded the brute was nothing close to
ordinary—hence the reason why ordinary men could
not stop it. Thewed and herculean men would
certainly get defeated when faced with that kind of
brute. Now, the only solution being suggested by the
witch was using a particular spell known as ‘Spell of
Eden.’ This ‘Spell of Eden,’ was a dangerous spell
that could only be used as the last backup to save a
flawed plan because of it grievous consequences.
Now, this spell had to be used to build a supernatural
being who would face the wolf in the next battle, and
the best way to accomplish that was turning human
being into a lamiae. This lamiae tended to possess
more than enough strength to face the wolf and kill
the brutal beast. On hearing this, everyone abstained
from being a lamiae.
Especially when the witch told them that there was
only a little chance of returning the hero back to
human form if by mistake he got bitten by the wolf.
The wolf’s toxin could do a pretty-bad whacking
damage on vampirism.

When nobody volunteered to be transformed into a
vampire to face the predator on the hunt of their lives,
Ryan Jericho did. Ryan volunteered to be turned into
a Lamia just to kill the wolf and quickly shed away
the vampirism to return back to his human form.
Even though the peril of what he was about to do
kept peeking at him—Ryan Jericho refused to be
unfazed. His determination to rescue his people
impelled him to surrender to the spell of Eden.
Thus how Ryan Jericho became the first Original.
(The Original has always been a locution for a
vampire who doesn’t go through the bit e from
another vampire to attain their vampirism. And it
always come with colossal attribute of being able to
compel other vampires just as easy as they could
compel humans–they also remained the strongest
and fastest vampires of all time)
So Jericho became the Original vampire after the spell
of Eden had been casted on him. Then he went ahead
to face the timber wolf. The war between the vampire
and the wolf went too extremely gory but alas! The
vampire won.

Ryan killed the wolf ending the predator with fatal
bites from him. Ryan got victory! He became the hero
of the day and a multiple life saver. But unfortunately
his victory was tinged when he found out that there
was small volume of venom in his body from the
wolf’s bite. His victory was short-termed because
there was no way of becoming human again.
Furthermore Ryan was going to die if the witch didn’t
find a solution. The solution that entailed casting
another spell to cure the lesion incurred by the wolf’s
toxin. Ryan couldn’t object to that, so he decided to
go through the spell to become human again. But just
as it was known, the spell of Eden was brutal. After
Ryan went through the other spell–the lesion was
healed but the toxin had already fused with the
vampire blood inside of him consuming half of his
vampirism. That had sledged him to being a half wolf
and a half vampire. Making him a very powerful
hybrid.

Something at first Jericho contemned very much.
Being unable to explore human attributes again in his
supernatural theurgy had punted him into a state of
depression for days. He hated being vampire! He
hated being a werewolf! Just as how much he hated
how he had been transubstantiated into a
supernatural. However Jericho later learnt how to
accept the way he was after much unavailing
rummaged over antidote to turn him back to human
being. He found out that becoming human again was
very dangerous to his life and moreover he couldn’t
meet the requirement. So he accepted his fate and
learnt to adore his supernaturalism with a vow to use
the artful gift to save humanity.
But what Ryan Jericho did not know was what the
future had in store for him. Especially when he found
love in the heart of a fragile mortal lady in which fate
would haul at his way in the future. The future hued
in sodding-mystery and wrenching dilemma and most
especially what he dreaded the most in his lifetime.

To Be Continued