Ninth Trial
The rules were special this time. One is discouraged from killing the Shades, but allowed to do so if necessary, and perhaps it would make the Trial easier. Riddles, rather than being buried alive, tempted, or battling is what this trial was about. If you solved fifteen riddles you passed. There were twenty riddles given, so there was a margin for error of merely five riddles- after all, the Vampires would hardly want a witless brute to become one of their leaders simply because he w

The Second Trial
        
"A Hydra?!", I yelped in horror stricken surprise, oggling at the multi-headed saurian with my remaining eye bulging from it's socket. Apparently this clan had an empathy for strange many headed monstrocities. They did not laugh at my reaction. Many of them wore the same expression I did, and a single Vampire at the back toppled in a faint. Perhaps this was not their Hydra after all. A Hydra, or The Hydra, is one of the most feare