Author's note: I've been thinking about this one for awhile. This one I wanted to go with a darker tone than my normal stories and definitely might have a lemon later on. I noticed a few vampire AU's in the past but I wanted to make one of my own (what the hell, join the bandwagon.) Either Way, I hope you all enjoy this! P.s. There is going to be a hard core lemon later on.

Forever

Chapter 1: A King without a Queen

It had been one hundred years; a hundred years since Gajeel became the King of Vampires. It felt like yesterday when he was a Vampire Hunter and slayed every single vampire on the coast. Then one evening after one too many drinks, he was bitten and turned by another vampire. The night he rose, he decided to seek revenge on the one who ruined his life.

The night he killed the vampire who sired him, it changed his life forever; it turned out the vampire who sired him was the King of Vampires. And according to the law, anyone who slays the king, becomes the new king; Gajeel accepted the title reluctantly. Years had passed and he got use to being the king. He had a fair share of vampiric women, the blood wasn't bad, the riches were beyond his wildest dreams, and he had a castle filled with vampires who he literally had under his thumb. But that changed about twenty-five years ago.

With the decision to create an entire army, Gajeel sent some of his most loyal servants to spread across the lands and sire anyone deemed worthy of joining his Kingdom; he was creating an army. Some stayed in order to serve him, but time passed and some left to start families of their own or died at the hands of a Vampire Hunter or sunlight. Now, the king lived in his castle with only one companion. In his human life, he befriended a wizard by the name of Pantherlily.

In times of crisis, Gajeel would go to Pantherlily for advice; in fact, everyone went to Pantherlily, for he's a wizard, or was a wizard. Pantherlily was known to be a knowledgeable wizard and always helped people in times of need. Kings and Queens would ask him to help with illnesses, relational issues, you name it Lily could do it. But when it came to dark magic, Lily would never mess with it. If he found a book of dark magic, he would dispose of it properly. But his fame and glory was never meant to last, one day a spell went awry for Pantherlily and he was turned into an Exceed; a very rare species in the land of Fiore. Only a few were to be known in existence. Now unable to get food on the table with his new found appearance, Lily soon located Gajeel and was shocked to find out about his 'condition'.

Unable to see his friend in his sorry state, Gajeel allowed Lily to live with him in his castle until he could return to his normal appearance. Gajeel even had him look him over to see if there was a way to cure him of his Vampirism but Lily explained that there is no cure and will never be. If he were to be cured, he would most likely die. For the rest of his time being, Lily would research ways to cure himself of his appearance to the point he would conjure spells of his own, just to be human again. But right now, Gajeel had a bigger problem at hand; he and Lily had been the only ones in this castle for years, but Gajeel really wished for the company of someone. Yes, he had many one night stands and turned the women into pretty much Take Out food, but for once, he wanted companionship.

Gajeel sat at his long dining room table which was once filled with many of his servants, right-hand men and heads of branches in his kingdom. Now it was just him at the table and at the opposite side, was a large chair that matched his. Even when his table was full, that one chair remained empty. He looked at his gem-encrusted goblet that was filled with blood. He looked at it sadly, he wasn't hungry for once, he was too depressed. He looked at the empty chair across from him and felt his unbeating heart sink even more. He finally realised why he was feeling so depressed; he wanted- no, not wanted, needed. He needed a bride. Gajeel then let out a very long sigh, got up from his chair and walked up the stairs of his castle.

Lily was up in his tower, researching for his cure once again. Many of his old tomes were splayed out on tables, floors and chairs. Herbs were growing at the windowsill and a secret room filled with alchemy supplies and a tiny bed near his window that was also filled with books. He had been researching again for hours. A knock on his door startled him from his trance-like state.

"Enter." he said and watched as Gajeel entered into his room "Gajeel, I told you I don't want to be disturbed during my research-"

"Hate to bother you Lil," Gajeel interrupted "But I wanted to ask you something."

"I already told you Gajeel." Lily began "There is no cure for your Vampirism."

"It has nothing to do with that." Gajeel explained "I was just wondering if you could tell me my future?" Lily raised an eyebrow to his friend's request. Yes, he knew Fortune Telling, but he rarely ever performed it.

"What do you want to know? Adventure? Happiness? Roman-" he cut himself off when he spotted his friend look away embarrassingly when he heard the third option "Romance? Gajeel, I never saw you as the type."

"What can I say Lily." Gajeel shrugged "I guess it's time to make a change."

"Let me just get my stuff cleared off." Lily began. He waved his paws and all his books flew off where they were and onto their shelf. A basin appeared out of the center of the room, Lily grabbed a jug filled with a clear liquid and and gave it to Gajeel.

"Hold this." Lily ordered "I got some ingredients I need to find." He walked over to a large closet that was even taller than Gajeel "Let's see, Dragon root, Thammistle, don't need any of this, or this, Ah ha! Found it!" He pulled out a jar of light pink, close to white flours "A few petals in the basin along with water from the river of Dragon's tears and were good to go." He took the jug of water from Gajeel and poured it into the basin and added a few petals into the water and a few ingredients "Gajeel, I need you to give a blood sample to the basin."

"Why?" Gajeel asked.

"It's so the basin can tell your future." Lily explained "It won't be able to tell unless it gets a blood sample." Gajeel sighed at Lily's answer and took a dagger from his pocket. He cut his finger with the dagger and let the blood drop into the basin. The blood mixed with the water and soon, the water returned to it's natural color, only steam soon came out of the water.

"This is interesting." Lily said with wide eyes.

"What?" Gajeel asked "What the hell do you see?"

"Well, you're going to get what you're looking for." Lily smiled "In a few months time you'll meet the woman you will spend eternity with. She will have blue hair and have the most beautiful eyes and... basically you'll find everything beautiful about her." Gajeel watched his friend with a smile, he was already getting excited hearing all of this "But,"

"But what?" Gajeel asked "Don't tell me she's married already."

"Nope, definitely single. The but is that she's ill; fatally ill. And apparently, her arrival will cause a war between the vampires and werewolfs."

"She's a fucking werewolf?!" Gajeel screamed.

"No." Lily said "From what I see, she doesn't have the eyes. But apparently the head of this werewolf clan's son is in love with her. And he's willing to give his life to make her his bride."

"Not until I get a hold of her. Gihihihi." Gajeel smirked.

"I would be careful Gajeel. A war between the Vampires and Werewolves is something that should not be. I mean, you did create a treaty with them, correct?"

"Well I'm never gonna let that werewolf bastard take her. She's my woman so why should I?"

"Gajeel, you never even met her yet."

"So? Never too late to start now. Gihihihi." Gajeel then thanked Lily and left his tower with nothing but a smile on his face and looking forward to the day his bride would arrive through the doors of his manor.