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I panted as I ran down the twisted streets. The wind howled like a wolf, it's power ripping at my hair and causing it to lash my neck like teeth scrapping flesh. I didn't like this powerless feel. Being chased into a long neverending tunnel, where only darkness and my pursuer stood grinning with twin crooked smiles.
I stopped, out of breath, and using what little I had left in my lungs to curse frantically. I looked behind me. There was nothing there. Not a sound, not a step. My eyes searched the area for my attacker, and though the sadistic maniac had either stopped, backtrapped, or even disappeared into thin air, this emptiness in my soul had festered further.
Raped of my own power, I had nothing but my body left. I wasn't prepared to let my pursuer obtain that. I wouldn't allow that insolent being to kill me. Not yet.
And I wasn't going to let it happen to my friend.
Whether she cared if I lived or died, I wouldn't allow the girl I saved from the ocean fall into their hands. I had suffered too much, and call me selfish, but I wouldn't have invested such effort if I hadn't undoubtably, unfathomably, unconditionally loved that fool.
No matter what I had said in our parting... I would not abandon her. Not now, not ever.
I turned on my heel, facing the darkness that had chased me this far.
I smiled, noticing the vampire that finally emerged from the darkness, baring his teeth.
"Have you finished running yet? It's not that it hurts you, Raphael... it's the fact that you can't accept it."
"Because I don't want to be a blood syphon, like you and the rest of the you lot."
Almand just shook his head.
"You don't have a choice. Erica Rose belongs to us, as she always has. That's why she survived the ocean, and the reason why she refused to walk in the light. Can you not put two and two together boy?"
I stood there, eyes wide with calculation. It made sense... and as the final connection was made, I felt something grab me and pull me back. Two hands locked like handcuffs over my wrists and held them at the level of my eyes. I looked back to see a sandy colored man with a twisted crooked smile etched into his perfect lips.
"My, you were a fiesty one, you nearly killed Abe," he said, and then playfully pushed his nose up against my neck, rubbing it up and down along it in torturing anticipation of the brutal bite he was about to make. I gulped in fear, wriggling with my body to get away, but despite my build, there was no way to get out of the vampire's grasp. Almand walked up and touched my chin, "Erica sold you to us, can't you understand that?"
Tears formed in my eyes as I looked up at the scarlet eyed demon. He was angry from having to tear after me down the walk, but he held something else in his eyes... a odd feeling of sympathy gleamed from their depths.
"We don't get much human blood nowadays," the fair haired one purred, "Always living off of livestock dulls your taste. Like eating chocolate laxatives instead of truffles. Disgusting, vile stuff. Water for wine..."
"Indeed," Almand said, finally dropping my chin, and pushing me to my knees. The sandy haired vampire knelt down too, and pulled my head back in his hands. I thought I could get away if I twisted enough, but I realized the grip he had would force me to snap my own neck in my escape attempt. Too attached to life to do such a thing to myself, my instincts held fast and would not let me perform the act. Almand knelt down and tore my shirt's collar, exposing my neck and shoulder.
"Arthur, move his head a little more," Almand said, tracing a finger down my neck softly. I shivered in disgust and wriggled a little in vain. Arthur obeyed, moving my head to the side a little. Almand bent his head down and traced his lips up from my ear down to my shoulder. Sitting back, he took his fingernail and lightly tapped the base of my neck, "This is the best flow from this side."
"I'm guessing you get it?" Arthur said synically, eyeing him with a bitter pout, "You get the best parts all the time. I get jipped all the time."
"Hush, you," Almand spat.
"Wait for me," another voice echoed from above. All three of us looked up to see a dark figure descend from the sky. She landed gently on the ground, her scarlet hair falling around her like water.
"Whoo! What a run!" she exclaimed happilly, "You are talented, my boy!"
"Ramona," Almand greeted her with a small bow of his head, "Do you wish to partake?"
"Indeed! Why would you think I chased him for?" she said, kneeling down and rubbing her slender fingers down my back, her nails caressing my shoulder blades like little talons.
"I get the back of the neck!" Ramona laughed, thrusting her nail into the back of my neck, a little off center. I cringed as I felt it slice my skin a little, and a warm droplet of my blood trickled down from the wound.
"I'll have this side," Arthur purred, licking my right shoulder. I wriggled against him, but Almand grasped my shoulder and kissed the spot that he deemed "best".
"I'll have this spot." He said, his breath ragged with anxiety.
"Alright then, let's feast!" Arthur cheered, and then all three bent down and sunk their fangs deep into my flesh. My eyes opened, and my breath caught in my throat, with a raspy final gasp.
 Keoteki · Mon Apr 02, 2007 @ 09:12pm · 0 Comments |
