'A crimson moon? Where the hell is this place?' Jack wondered as he stopped for but a moment before continuing to follow Archie.

"It's a special dimension of sorts made from the power of the castle, it makes infiltration into this place almost impossible, of course, there are loopholes to be exploited in everything so nothing is absolute and neither is this place," Archie answered before continuing down the dark hallway.

Minutes passed, and the hallway which had looked small seemed to never be ending.

"We're almost there" Archie answered before he took another step and disappeared.

Jack's eyes widened at the phenomena before continuing to walk toward where Archie had been.

In an instant he saw the surroundings change, what was a dark hallway turned into a large plaza with hundreds of people and stalls all around him.

Archie was standing right in front of him with his arms wide and a large smile on his face.

"Welcome to the Aurora Order Headquarters."

"It sure does leave an impression," Jack said as he quickly scanned the people around him.

Some had blazing red eyes whilst others had orange, yellow, and all kinds of unnatural colors adorning their iris.

'None of them are human.' Jack thought to himself.

Looking closely at them, some didn't just show their abnormality from their eyes, some had wolf-like ears atop their heads, some had what looked like black tails and some looked to be hiding wings under their clothes.

'Truly a gathering of the supernatural.' Jack thought to himself before following Archie who had started walking once more.

Jack didn't hold his gaze on any certain individual, he didn't know what they were or the repercussions of gazing upon the unknown, in places like this, the more inconspicuous you were, the better.

They walked through the plaza and toward a large stone building at the end of the road that started at the edge of the plaza.

"That's the main building where the office of the president is, he usually doesn't stay here however today is when the newbies are getting introduced into the Order," Archie informed Jack as they walked.

'Does that mean that they have a set time for when to introduce more members into the Order? Seems like I wasn't so special after all.' Jack thought before another idea crossed his mind.

'Is it because of my luck stat that I was found during a time that they were recruiting causing Archie and that woman to not kill me but rather recruit me?' Jack wondered, though the prospect of his thought was horrifying, Jack maintained his calm demeanor, his mind not even shaken in the slightest.

The two walked deeper and deeper before they finally arrived at their location.

The first door to the right is inside the stone building.

Opening the door, one couldn't see anything inside, as if a dark mattress was right behind the door.

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This didn't seem to stop Archie at all however as he walked into the darkness which quickly engulfed him.

'Does everything in here have to be linked to the dark?' Jack wondered, his lips slightly curling up.

Following him into the darkness, Jack found himself teleported somewhere else once more.

Now he was inside a wide room with a large black wood table in front of him.

The room was made of stone bricks and seemed to hold decor with a gothic style that had already gone out of the trends centuries ago.

'It does increase the mystery of everything, or this guy might simply be from that time period and he finds the new trends of architecture unpleasant.' Jack thought as he lifted his gaze and finally looked at the person behind the desk.

It was a young woman with long platinum hair that seemed to go all the way down to the floor, her eyes were completely black giving Jack a feeling as if he was gazing into a bottomless abyss.

Her mouth was curled up into a smile though her overall expression didn't make it look like the smile was even slightly true.

"Welcome, you're our last recruit for the day." The woman said, her voice resonating in the silent room.

"Pleasure to meet you, I'm Jack Sparrow," Jack said as he gave the woman a slight gentlemanly bow, trying to replicate the etiquette of centuries past.

'Considering she's likely centuries old, she might find this more polite than the usual polite greeting of these days, though I don't have any intention of kissing her hand.' Jack thought to himself as he straightened his back once more, his eyes wandering down to the woman's chin, not looking at her eyes or anything else that might be a cause of trouble.

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"Well, aren't you a polite one, the others were quite rude." The woman said, her voice seemed to convey slight joy.

Archie who was next to Jack gave a light chuckle before asking.

"How many passed until now?"

'How many passed?' Jack wondered as he heard Archie's question, ideas immediately engulfed his mind, each more depraved than the last.

And it seemed his mind hadn't been wrong either.

"None, I told everyone to at least give these guys some training on their education but it seemed like they just grabbed whoever they could find. I ate them all." The woman said, her mouth opening up to reveal a bloody smile.

At her words, Jack slightly furrowed his brows however he didn't lift his gaze.

'This Archie fucker didn't tell me anything about etiquette in front of her.'

A small laugh erupted out of Archie as he extended his arm and patted Jack's back.

"So I'm the only one who actually found someone useful eh?" Archie said, his voice as smug as ever.

"Seems like it." The woman replied before turning her gaze to Jack once more.

"He resembles you quite a lot actually, is he a Vampire?" The woman questioned as she looked at Jack.

"He is, though he's still quite new so he wouldn't know you or anyone worth remembering for that matter. I found him to be quite interesting so I chose him." Archie replied.

"All right, well he's accepted, I'm sure he already read the rules in the contract so theres no need for me to repeat them again. Come closer kid." The woman said as she extended her arm and made a motion with two of her fingers.

Jack didn't hesitate for a single moment as he came to stand in front of the woman.

"Hmm, I wanted to give you a present but you're not to my taste." The woman said as she looked at Jack from top to bottom.

'I wouldn't want to look to your taste either.' Jack thought before he saw the woman stand up and bring her head close to his ear.

"For some reason, I cant seem to be able to read your thoughts so I see why Archie finds you so interesting."

"You can't read them either? Dang, seems like I've found a gem." Archie said.

"It seems so, well then Jackie, you're free to leave. Take this before you go, however." The woman said as she put her hand forward, in it was a small black ring with a red rose engraving.

Taking the rose whilst avoiding contact with the woman, Jack nodded his head and gave a small thank you.

"Alright, Jack let's head out now," Archie said as he came close to Jack put his arm around Jack's shoulder, and turned him around, the both of them heading toward the door.

At that moment, at the edge of his sight, Jack saw something.

It was a head, a bloody head with a horrifying expression that seemed to convey endless pain.

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