And We shall Smyte the Wicked (closed)

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

The bath was tender, caring and she smiled at him as he helped her so intimately. She still lacked the strength to move, to help. She whispered a soft sigh as he lifted her and put her to bed.
Her mind was rapture enduced, coma like, she was saited beyond normal comprehension. She slept wrapped around him the entire day and into the evening.

She did not dream that night, nor feel any regrets. Nothing intruded on her peaceful sleep for the first time in a long while. She felt him leave the bed as the sunset but stayed half asleep where she was, for a moment forgetting where exactly she was?

Yawning, she stretched and peeked out. She was not in her room but in Ren's. Smiling, she rolled over and burrowed under the covers to sleep a little longer. Now why was she here again? She grinned, her entire body was sore but in a sinful way. Stretching yet again, her muscles flexed and relaxed, the pleasure from that simple movement causing her to groan softly under the silken covered pillows.

"Rise and shine sleepy head..." Ren swatted her covered bottom, she yelped from the impact and grumbled, shaking her head no as she went back to dozing in and out.

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

Dressed in black slacks and a white, flowing shirt I toyed with the idea of crawling back under the covers with Kara and teasing her until she desired another few hours with me.

But I couldn't. I had work to do, to be seen by my own people and to see to it everything was repaired and back as it should be. The previous evening had a huge plus to it, one I hadn't anticipated but wasn't going to pass up, a point to make to the few that doubted me and to use it to reinforce the coming alliance.

I did so on the floor below my own quarters, where the greatest havoc had occurred and where the scent of others arousal was still heavy in the air.

"As everyone in this house surely already knows the Huntress is no longer a virgin, she has bestowed that gift and her blood willingly on me and I have returned the gift of blood sharing to her. It was upon her receiving our mixed blood for the first time that her energies were fully released, her uncontrolled powers and the proof of them seen here...and now. With each future sharing of blood our powers will grow, and as the Huntress becomes more adept at controlling and focusing her powers she will become an undefeatable ally for us. Already she is greater than any one of you in her abilities, already she is able to influence our total numbers into behavior we have carefully refused and not allowed ourselves. Any that are foolish enough to doubt her or my belief in her will soon pay the ultimate price for betraying thier own kind. No longer will you be able to sneer at her and hide it from her, for soon it will be her mind breaking down your barriers...to read and contol what is inside."

It had drawn thier attention, each and everyone within the room had stopped the frantic pace in which they were trying to restore order to the house to listen...and as I paused silence reigned within the room.

"Kara is my second. Please her and you please me, refuse even her slightest wish, her most minute of questions without giving full and honest truth to her query...and you will displease me and suffer the consequences."

A threat? No, it was a statement made to all of my own kind, a declaration of how it would be, as it should be...Made crystal clear by the Master of thier clan. It was something they would all understand, all they could respect...and if they dared to oppose?

Something they could fear.

"Replace all the broken and cracked furnishings, draw from all our resources to return this coven to it's original splendor, and do it before sunrise toady" I instructed and moved through the mortal and immortals as they returned to the tasks at hand. "Once we have restored our house we will move onto more pressing business, the vampires that have joined together to over run us"

Returning to my suites I met the sensous figure of the woman who served me, her face smiling as she reassured me breakfast had been served to my "guest".

Smiling I carressed her cheek and moved past her, correcting her as I opend the doors and looked for Kara.

"She is no longer our guest, Twila, She is one of our own"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

Yawning and scratching, she sat in the middle of the bed eyeing her breakfast.

"Too tired.." Grumbling to herself, she played with her egg a moment before sipping her juice. The girl, whatever her name was, came in and left a pot of black rich coffee.

Groaning with pleasure of the scents reaching her nose, she jumped from the bed with more energy than she thought she'd have and grabbed herself a cup.

Moaning as the tart black fluid met her tongue, she smiled as she swallowed.

"That'll hit the spot.." She wandered into her room, drinking the entire time.. Dressed and had a second cup. Sitting back on the bed, she downed her third and ate her breakfast. Cold or not, it was filling...

She heard the voices coming from the hall and stood up from Ren's bed.. She really needed to return to her own rooms, not linger here.. But she did


When he entered and caught sight of her, she gave him a tentive little smile before setting down her cup on the tray.

"Ready when you are.." What he had in mind was a guess to her, but she knew it would envolve meeting with those living here. Tonight, she'd be back in her own room, again for the job she was meant to do.. but for now she could let last nights memories tickle her mind and give her butterflies in her stomach.

She stared up at him as he came closer, standing over her and blocking out the dim lights, she met his gaze as he looked her over.

"I am well Ren.. No worries.." he seemed to think she might be injured from last night by the concern on his face, she hoped she put him at east with those worries. Smiling she gave him a little wink, "Besides.. it'd take alot more than that to break me.." She grinned as the smile flickered in his eyes.. He was fighting a losing battle, she knew he'd laugh whether he wanted to or not..

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

Smiling at the glowing young woman in front of me I admired the sight of Kara as she spoke to relieve my tensions.

"Then we'll put you to the test again and quickly"

She had dressed again, in the same outfit she wore when she arrived here and I made a mental note to buy her a wardrobe much more suitable to my tastes, something less practical and more on the erotic side...

"Why Ren...Erotic?" She laughed coyly as the thought spilled over and I laughed in return.

"You are dressed perfectly for your introductions in the theatre later, Kara, But when we are together in private. What good is the perfection of your beauty unless it can be seen, amplified… appreciated?"

Already I could see the changes in the young girl now turned woman...Her face was full of life and health, her eyes quicker...more alert and her bodies actions smoother and faster.

"I never did thank you for the use of this the other night." I continued to smile as I lifted Kara's knife in my gloved hand and threw it in a level path over the table that would cross but not hit her.

Kara's eyes widened then narrowed as she turned to see her hand gripping the hilt of the knife, an unconscious action that surprised her and made me smile again.

"I'm glad to see your evening was restful, Kara, I know now you are up to meeting your new family and impressing them with who and what you are...our new Huntress and executioner. But I must warn you, there will some brave enough to test you both vocally and physically and you must respond...immediately. I will be there to side with you, but if I intercede it will weaken both our positions in this new order, and that is the worst thing we want to present to them at this time....weakness. Do you understand?"

Kara uncoiled from my beds surface, so much like a deadly panther I could see the animals face in hers, the muscles under her clothing moving sensually and sinously at the same time as she flipped the knife and with a deft movement hid it up her sleeve.

"I understand Ren, I'm not the little girl you used to know, and I’ve grown..."

"Up?" I interceded and let the passion of last night surface in my mind...and Kara's.

"Damn it Ren, quit playing with my mind" Kara demanded, lessening the words with a blush and a smile.

"It is an effect of my taking your blood, Kara, we are linked together and able to share our thoughts, an ability you will use to channel my energies into you when you need it, in times of great stress or physical demands...or peril"

"So you've made me into a superwoman then? She queried her eyes suddenly serious as she glided to me with two sure steps.

"No Kara, I simply bit you and shared a slight amount of my abilities with you. You can only fly if you choose to completely join our family."

I replied softly, bending to kiss her lips and finding them hard, then suddenly pliant and wanting.

Breaking the kiss I brushed my hand across her silky skin of her already healed neck, a small mottle all that was apparent from my invasion of her body last night.

"Now let me guide you to your coming out party, Huntress"

Offering my arm I moved beside her, guiding her to the doorway and beyond, then down the wide and winding stirs that led to the theatres grand hall.

"I will not coach you on what you say, Kara" I offered as the double glass doors opened to us and the large stage could be seen as we slowed.

"But whatever you say or do, WE must be seen as an inseperable force, one that can never be broken."

We moved together and walked to the center of the lit stage, the hushed voices of 600 hundred stopping completely as stopped.

"My children, I wish you to raise your voices in Welcome to our newest and perhaps greatest family member...the "Huntress"...."

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

She listened as the voices raised in cheer, some however reluctant to applaud gave a half-assed attempt. She smiled up at Ren and then turned to inspect the crowd.

"You would put me on the spot.." She teased Ren before raising her voice.

"Thank you for the welcoming.. I am sure all know who i am, hopefully by the end of the night, I will know all of you as well. I don't give speeches well but I will say this... Welcome to a new era, one where we all can live in coexistance... and if there is ever a time someone tries to disrupt this..." Her hand took Rens and held tightly to it. "...Our justice will be swift and deadly. With our unity will come peace of mind and safety.. For all.." She stressed the word, letting them feel their meaning. Although vampires, they were human beings to her and would always be this way.. Ren helped her to see this, removed her blinders.. Now that she was more than aware, she was prepared to guard them all with her life, vampire or man.

They applauded again and some even stood. Turning to Ren, she did what she never thought she would.. She bowed to him with full respect and then stood upright. A smile curved her lips, she did well to mask her unease in this new position... but it made no difference. She was determined as was Ren.

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

Much, much later, the hall empty, the last face passed by to greet and pay thier respects...we stood on the roof of the building and looked upward...to the stars.

"Have you ever wondered if there truly is a God, Kara? And what his higher purpose for all of us is?"

Musings from one that looked forward to living an almost eternal life, and yet already I feared life and living alone in it more than I feared death.

"You did well this evening, Kara" I spoke to her without looking at her, without needing to..."You stayed true in all you said, all you voiced and to yourself. We all felt it and that was what swayed them to accept you."

Dreams. Dreams and blood. Two things that we all shared now, all having one blood and one dream in common. With Kara's help we would continue with what we began, and succeed.

"Take my hand and join me in the air, Kara" I offered quietly, not an order from a Master but a request from a man to a woman. "Let me show you what I see when I am free"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

She had met everyone in the entire clan and wondered for a moment how she would remember everyone's name? She was polite and warm, her greetings warmly returned. She found that this transitition would be much easier than she believed.

She stood on the roof, Ren and her.. Finally alone.

"Take my hand and join me in the air, Kara...Let me show you what I see when I am free" His offer was too tempting to pass up. Her face softened and her hand was placed into his.

"Show me.." She smiled, stepping closer to his body, fitting against him as if she had been made for him. She felt the roof beneath her feet give way and the air begin to stir around them. He lifted them easily, his eyes holding hers as they rose higher and higher into the night sky.

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

"How high can a vampire soar in the moonlit evening winds?"



"It depends on the woman he loves and if she is in his arms"


"Then how great can that vampire be if he is dependant on her love?"


"With her love to make him strong, as great as he wishes to be."


"And once he has reached his dreams, how long will he live?"


"With her to continue those dreams, forever."

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The words silently passed from one mind to the other, my arms around her waist as we soared above the city, above the mountains...above the clouds. And as Kara responded with the last endearment I looked from the magnificent veiw of the tiny city below into her eyes and saw something I knew I would never forget...

"To forever then, Kara" I responded and then kissed her, a gentle, tender, lingering thing that savored the softness of her lips and the taste of them. "You and I, together"

Above the clouds in the cool, thin air we were finally alone, able to share the lonliness we both felt and because of that ability, able to replace it with something else, taken from inside ourselves so well hidden away...

We soared then with that ability. Soared like the eagles that claimed lofty perches and laughed at all the others below them, not because the others couldn't soar as high and free, but because we could...Lips melded we soared as one spirit.....whole....complete....wild.....and utterly free.

And as we soared high above for the first time I watched the sun begin to rise, it's rays so utterly breath taking, that I dreaded returning to the night and the earth so far below us.

The ground came silently at us as we returned, our lips and bodies parting as the glow of what we had found retreated into each of us to nurture and to protect....

And as we returned to reality and the cold, harsh world below...

We were greeted.

Ruthlessly

Rudely

In a fight to end our dreams

To the death

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

We landed on a grassy knoll in the park and out of the shadows emerged a group of dark figures...

Eight total. The lead figure one that was familiar, the others strong, hungry...eager to kill and unknown.

"Ren? We're not alone" Kara's sense guided her accurately as the figures moved at us with blinding speed.

"I know Kara, It's a trap...and we've stepped into it."

No weapons. Kara carried nothing save the knife I had tested her with, the silver, double edged dagger I had tossed to see if she could pass my test.

"Kara, Be careful. Each vampire that comes at us is stronger alone than I am, and each intends to make sure I die watching you suffer"

No time. No time to warn her further, No time to prepare as I gripped the too eager throat of the first hungry demon and tore it out, ignoring the distraction of his blood as it covered me, then turned to one not so wise and pushed my hand into his chest...and through it.

No time to check and see if Kara were faring as well, a small part of me feeling she was alive, her heart beating strongly as her eyes burned with the fire of killing her first and second opponent, her third bleeding from a wound in his groin...

Only time to rip the heart from the distracted second vampire's heart and crush it, watching his surprised face turn to ashes and dust as his silent lips mouthed a denial he would never speak.

My third came at me from the side. His rage making him too ruthless, his swing too powerful as his hand tore at the side of my face and drove me to the ground. and him over me to land on his hands and knees, grinning triumphantly.

"You're stronger" I conceded as I stood over him and gripped his hair and chin, the grin now gone as he realized the blow hadn't slowed me and I was now about to end his realization forever. "Stronger but clumsy, unpracticed, too eager."

His face showed surprise as I turned the severed head and watched his eyes before they too turned to smoke, my fourth would be assailant turning and fleeing...

"Kara" I called out in warning as her fourth gripped her from behind, his mouth open as his fangs extended themselves to rip at her bent neck...

"Kara, Don't kill him..."

But it was too late as she drove her dagger backwards and into his heart, a perfectly placed thrust that stopped his hungry assault and instead made him cry in agony as he too died a final death.

"I wanted to find out from him who has betrayed us, who is behind all this" I finished as she turned and walked towards me, her mind blank save of an intense, raging anger...

"You KNEW this would happen, Ren?"

"I suspected Kara" I admitted "But did not know when"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

"You knew and you didn't warn me?" She glared at him, her anger still there as was the rush in her blood.

Her hands were on her hips as she gave him the 'once over'. Turning she walked the last two blocks to the Theater and marched inside.

"Tell Ren when he returns.. I will be in my quarters ALONE!" She marched past the startled servant and up the three flights of stairs to her rooms. Shutting the door, she locked them and then realized that wouldn't keep him out.

She unlocked the doors but kept them shut. He best just stay on his side of those doors if he knew what was good for him.

She huffed and growled, she needed to work off some energy...

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

Anger. It worked in many different ways.

It could make you lose control.

It could feed you and make you stronger.

And if you knew how to use that strength?

It could destroy what was in your way.

Kara had walked away.

Turned her back on me and refused to even ask what my intentions were.

Leaving me the fool.

Only I didn't feel foolish after all the killing.

I felt angry.

The glass in her second story windows shattered into endless peices. And unlike the fairy tale I didn't stop to count them all. Instead I moved over them and into her room, knowing she had closed the doors to me in defiance, and not expecting I would come thru them.

"Kara, You defy me. And by that defiance... You insult me!"

Anger, every word dripped with it. Soaked in it.

Fuck it...I was pissed.

"Before I punish you...Tell me WHY!!!!" I thundered.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

"Punish.. ME? Go to hell!" She fumed right back at him as she stalked over to him and poked him in the chest.
"You knew danger was coming and said nothing! And to top it all off! you left me defenseless.. Well almost! But that is beside the point. I am not your lap dog! Punish this!" She poked him again before whirling and stalking across her bedroom to lean against a wall and glare right back at him.

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

"I trusted YOU" I returned and advanced on her.

"I knew at some time they would attack, but not WHEN!"

My own finger in her chest I poked back, my angry eyes holding hers as I literally made my POINT.

"I accepted you as my partner. Gave you more power in one night then I've gathered in a century. And this is how you thank me for it?"

I expected her to wince. To apologize. To move away from me.

Anything except what she did.

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

She growled at him, her eyes narrowed and pulsating with a heat all their own. She was so angry, she was excited. Strange yes, but she was.

She grabbed his hand and wrenched it behind his back before she stood on her tiptoes and planted a wild wanton kiss on his lips.

She released his wrist and forcefully shoved her fingers through his hair, tugging on him none-to-gently until his mouth was angled right for her. She parted her lips.. seeking.. demanding.. Her tongue was like a fire brand as she speared through his lips and into his mouth.

Panting heavily, she thrust him away as she gasped for air.

"Then show me, fuck me!" She whispered in a husky breath, her hands already literally tearing away her clothes.

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

My clothes in shreds I stood quietly, Kara's eyes ablaze as she tore at them, her breath coming in huge gasps that made her full breasts rise and fall, her mind filled with images of wild, uncontrolled...

Fucking.

And as the last scrap of thread touched the floor I moved.

Behind her, my body moving faster than the light it detested.

Gripping her hair and pulling her hair back to arch her neck as I twisted her arm.

"Show you Kara?" I taunted as I freed her wrist to tear her blouse off, the jolt of it making her breasts bounce erorically in the bra she wore.

My hand was back on her wrist before she could move it, my lips pushed to her ear as I continued.

"Show you what an animal I can BE?"

Again my hand moved, her tiny lace support shredded and leaving her breasts unfettered as my hand moved to her jeans.

"YOU.....WOULDN'T......DARE!!!!" Kara growled and I responded with a hard tug.

Her jeans shredded and for a second she stood in only her tiny briefs...until I tore that as well completely away.

"I don't DARE, Kara" I corrected, shoving my bare cock against her wet slit from behind, feeling it open to the tip of it as I thrusted into her again. " I DO "

My cock hammered into her and with a second hard thrust struck bottom, her howl an intense and distorted mix of pleasure and pain as I gripped her hip with one hand and her hair still with the other.

"I am your Master, Kara" I pounded into her with each bruising thrust. "You are my MATE"

And with that I gave her what she wanted. Inch by inch I pushed into her wet opening, hearing the sounds of it as I slid in and out of her, smelling her arousal as my hard abdomen hit her rounded, firm ass...

"Tell me it is SO" I thrust into her and buried my cock in her with the last word, then pulled back to the point of nearly leaving her slick, hot cunt.

"Tell ME"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

She groaned and thrust backwards on him, shoving his cock into her soaked depths. She growled low in her throat, his hands tugging on her hair making her cunt twitch in pleasure.

She moaned out loud and then grinned with wicked intent..

"Master? Uh! maybe.." She grunted as he jabbed into her deeply, hitting her cervix and pushing through.

"Mate.. yes... " She panted out as he tried to master her..

"Master! Say it!" He demanded from her, his cock poised as if he would actually stop fucking her and walk away. She chuckled and groaned..

"Takes alot to master me....... So Master me Ren.." She challenge back, her nails biting into his ass cheeks behind him as she forced herself forward and then back hard against him, impailing herself on him. Her nails held into his skin as she ground her ass in his groin visciously.

"OOooh yes.. Master me... " She would have grinned if not for the low moaning that didn't seem to stop. He made to move and she dug in deeper to his skin until little pools of blood began to run down his buttocks and thighs.

"Respect!" She grunted, holding him although his hands tightened painfully on her body, yet not enough to break anything nor truely hurt her.. "Respecting the other to give warning.... " She rocked her hips back and forth again, shoving him in and out. "Got to give to get..." She panted, she loved him but she would not tollerate needless danger anymore than he would. Her mind caressed his, her love showing as she said the last part.. "All I ask is that you trust me!" She released him with her nails and held in place, firmly planted on his cock, waiting for him to make the choice..

"Master you are... Here.. Over me? Willingly.. If you trust me to your counsel." She panted heavily, her breasts heaving with each ragged indrawn breath. She was firey, turned on.. melting..But she could not do her job if he never intended on sharing with her.

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

It was akin to stopping a freight train as it hammered it's path down a hillside, to prevent the gained momentum suddenly from moving another inch...

"Trust Kara?" I questioned, not her but the meaning of the word she challenged me with...

"I trust you with everything I hold dear to me,myself, my children, my dreams..."

Even my love for her and the delicate threads that held us together...

"But it is a double edged sword, with that trust comes responsibility and burden..."

Kara had stopped our love making, my quivering length still buried within her, the eager lust to continue keeping me hard and ready...

"Is that what you need to hear before we finish what we've begun, Huntress?"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

"That is exactly what I wanted to hear.." Her lips crashed into his, her body moving once again on his shaft. Back and forth she moved, taking him with her.

His hands cupped her, their bodies moving in unison until orgasms claimed them and dawn peaked over the mountains. Wrapped together on her bed, they slept peacefully.


It was much later she awoke to find her room empty but a red rose upon his vacated pillow. Smiling, she plucked the beauty from it's bed and inhailed the sweet scent.

Still smiling, she rose from the bed as one of the 'chosen' came to her room.

"Twila?" She stopped to wonder why Ren's servant was in her bed chambers?

"I have come to help you with your bath.. Raven has gone to hunt, needing nourishment.."

Kara nodded her head in understanding and moved through her room. Before her nudity might have made her shy away from other's seeing her, but Twila was a trusted servant not a stranger.. Plus she had to get used to others being around at odd times and places.

She walked with the rose, smiling as she moved ahead of Twila and towards the bathroom...

"Where is Ren...Er.. Your Master?" She stopped to grab her favorite robe at the vanity table.

"He accompanied Raven and Ramon on the hunt, he said he would return within an hour's time.." Twila pulled something from her long sleeved blouse and moved to follow Kara.

"Thank you Twila.. I can take it from here.." Kara dismissed her with a smile and moved to fill the tub. Bending over, she adjusted the water.. She never seen it coming..

Twila moved quickly up behind the bent form of Kara and stabbed her twice. Kara let out a scream, but was pushed into the bath tub.

"NO! REN!" She cried out in her mind and verbally as Twila jabbed that knife twice into Kara's lower back. Kara gasped out in pain as the knife sank and tore away at her flesh, her eyes wide with shock as she tried to capture her breath. Face first into the tub, her head hit into the porceline of the tub, knocking her senses wild.

Kara grabbed for Twila, her hands franticly fighting to grab hold of something but Twila was gone, racing away from the scene and then the back exit and the building.. She ran into the night knowing it would be too late to save Kara now.. She'd be dead before the forty-five minutes were up.. Ren never returned before he said he would.. She laughed coldly, hating Kara, hating them all! Kara could never reach him... Not being caught unexpectedly! Twila was certain there was no way Ren would know before it was too late.. She timed it perfectly! Twila vanished into the black van that waited for her...

In the bathroom, Kara fought to right herself and turn, blood pouring from everywhere, she cried out in pain and fear.. She was dying! Wet and nude, she slipped in the water time and time again until she couldn't stop the darkness that engulfed her mind and drug her into a faint... Her last thoughts were of Ren, "R...ren...h....hel..pp me.."

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

Raw, white pain washed over me and I straightened, dropping the drained corpse of my victim, forgetting the pleasure of the hunt suddenly as I recognized the meaning of the it...

"kara?" I hissed, knowing she was safe and secure where I had left her, resting...or was she?

"R...ren...h....hel..pp me.."

And just as suddenly the pain changed to fear...fear of what those weaks words meant and what would force Kara to send them to me?

"Master, what is it?" Came the words from both Raven and Ramon, eyes concerned despite the blood lust they too were feeling.

"We must return immediately" I replied, nearly snarling at them as they refused with thier questions, then taking the now precious seconds to explain.

"The Huntress is in danger"

Eyes wide they nodded, not questioning now and we moved into the nights cooling air...

"Ramon, gather the TEN when you arrive and have them ready...Raven? Bring the strongest of the humans we've captured from the rival vampires to my quarters and hold them there"

Already I had pulled ahead, using all my strength to gather and propell towrds her, while cursing my slowness at the same time...

"Hold on Kara...I am coming" I sent out ahead of me, grimacing as I senses no reply..no one there to receive or answer the words of assurance...

Minutes later I was there, kneeling at the side of the bath, lifting her form from it and for the first time cringing at the sight of the blood tinged water...

"Kara, awaken!" I urgently demanded, no sound of her heart, no sign of her breathing as the others gathered around me...

"The TEN are in place Master" Ramon assured me, his hand on my shoulder and eyes on me..."Raven is ready as you instructed as well"

Concentrating I closed my eyes, reaching past the cooling skin of the rapidly failing woman, past the unbeating heart and the blood drained body...to find the tiny spark I could still recognize and talk to her....
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"Kara, my love..."

In front of me now lay Kara, a gown of white silk draped over her, a sleepy and content smile on her face as she rose from the bed and came to me.


"Yes Ren, what's wrong?"

"You have been attacked Kara....and near death...so near I can not save you in mortal form any longer..."

"Mortal form, my dear?"

"Yes, my love...the body you claim is past being able to sustain you"

"Then you've come to say goodbye, Ren?" She asked, her lovely face puzzled as her eyes looked into mine...

"Only if you wish my love, instead I offer eternal life to you, but you must ask for it...choose to accept it, only then can I help"

"Help how my dear?"

"Help by giving you my blood and a new life, one as I am, immortal, strong and able to live our lives with each other...forever"

"And if I do not ask, Ren?"

"Then you will die, my love and we will be seperated for eternity"

The energy that was Kara's life faded about us, the darkness closing in as I held her hands and begged her with my eyes to make the correct decision, the one that would take her from this fading darkness and return her to me...her face a pale beacon now as I waited and silently prayed for her to reply...

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

"Ren? I feel funny..?" Her eyes met his as she tried again to reach out and touch him. Again her hand passed through him, her eyes misted with unshed tears.

"What is this!? What is happening?" She demanded in a hushed, weak tone.

"You are dying Kara.. Please don't leave me." Ren's voice seemed to be fading. Her heart was slowing now, the beat so faint and far between it could not be felt by mortal hands... nor immortal.

"No.. NO!" She shook her head, her eyes widening in fear. She was cold.. so cold now.

She faded from his sight, her face gone, her inner voice quieted..

For a good fifteen seconds she could not be heard, he could not hear her... She was dying?

Her eyes opened, her body not listening, her lips barely moving as she stared at the powerful man bent over her.. The bright lights of the bathroom stung her eyes and tears fell.

"Don't.." She tried to speak, her breathing ragged and watery sounding.

"Kara?" Ren shook her, his eyes filled with fright? Loneliness? Fear of being alone?

"Don't let .. let.." She shuddered and gasped, her spirit fighting for all she was worth. "Don't let go!" She gasped out yet again, her hands finally following the commands of her weakening brain.
"Don't let me go.." She whispered again, his hands tightening around her. She knew.. She knew she had to stay awake to accept his blood.. She was dying now, almost empty.. Funny she knew this? Shouldn't she be passed out by now?
"Do it.. d-d-d-o it-t.." She was stuttering, her lips pale.. her entire complextion.

"She's awake?" Ramon stared at the huntress, the shock of just Kara being cooherant enough to speak.. with so much blood loss?

Kara's eyes stayed on Ren's, her lips no longer moving, she lacked the energy to do anything now.. Her mind screamed out at him in one last attempt, "Make me...you!" .

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

It's said a vampire can slow time in his mind, split each second into a tiny universe of it's own, and live that second as if it were a century.

For one second it was true. Reaching deep into the fading soul of the woman I loved I touched that dying spark and gave it my own energy...forced it into her and slowed her death, knowing her lips had spoken with her bodies final breath the words...

"Kara, what you need you must take" I told her with a husky voice, the ring of darkness forced back around...

It would take nearly all my own blood and within that blood, my energy, my power...leaving me weak and unable to defend the dreams we had begun, an eternal lifetime of careful planning...

But it was worth it

SHE was worth it.

Inside that tiny second of light Kara nodded, her eyes understanding as I kiised her, her lips pulling at mine in return of the passion we shared....
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Outside it was a much more desperate reality.

Ramon now held the Huntress, my own hands busy as I took Kara's own silver knife in one hand and ignored the searing pain of it as it met my bare flesh...

Ignored it as I raised my other arm over her blue lips, to run the razor edged bladed across my wrist, opening my body and allowing my blood to flow freely....to wash her lips, her face, her throat and all the while....
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Inside our eternal second I broke the kiss, my eyes watering, crying the trail of blood tears for fear of losing her...and begging her to...

"Drink, Kara....Drink"

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Eyes open I watched, her blue, still lips...the red, life giving fluid sliding off of them as Ramon insisted it was of no use...that the Huntress was too far gone...

And then a tiny drop slipped thru, followed by another... her lips moved...

And she drank

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

Slowly she came out of it, her eyes turning darker as they dialated, her lips sucking upon his wrist like a new born babe eager for tit. Her hands wrapped around his wrist tightly, holding him to her.

She wasn't aware of what she was doing, her brain had shut down as did her heart and other organs.. Slowly blood was moving through her system. Her heart lurched painfully in her chest as it began to slowly beat again.. Her head raged inside her skull, throbbing little by little, the neurons firing again..

She groaned as her eyes slowly sank shut, her throat swallowing again and again.. The flavor was the sweetest, more sweet than any wine known to man. She had to have more!

She drank and drank, almost two full pints before Ramon pushed her away from his Master.

"She lives! Let her feed on someone of less importance!" He was urgent to express this to his Master. Ramon could not see his Master endangering himself to save the Huntress.. She was breathing, it was enough. He knew newborns were dangerous. Their hunger over riding common sense and control.. No, it was best to fill her up with a vagabon on the street destined to die from alcohol poisoning or lack of food.. Not his Master.. Without him, it would be as bad as living without the Huntress as well, only worse.. She could not control them as well as he had done.. Not a new born.

"Bring in Lacey!" Ramon barked his command at Raven who nodded in turn. Lacey was shown in, a humble little servant.. one who was well nourished and round.

"Master? Feed from her.. I will hunt and bring your .... Huntress something substantial." He pleaded softly, knowing that a command would upset Ren worse than anything he had dare do before. Ramon was already thinking of the darker allies not far from the Theater which housed many homeless people who wouldn't be missed.

Kara hissed and growled much like a cornered kitten, her eyes darting before she doubled over in pain and groaned loudly. Raven assisted Ren to a chair with lacey while Ramon put Kara into her bed and covered her up..

The process was starting already and in a few short hours.. Kara would be reborn one of them.. She would need plenty of blood, enough that she'd drain two fully grown men and still crave more.. He had a mission without orders. He knew what had to be done.

When Ren nodded his head in agreement, Ramon wasted no time vanishing from the room via the window.

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

"Summon the ten"

If Kara and I only would have had time I would have proved the intimacy of my trust and the workings of the colony I oversaw...

The vampires glided in. Eyes curious but too well trained to ask. They knew with out being told something much more out of the usual was happening or they wouldn't be summoned, that it was too serious to waste time satisfying curiousity and not tending to...

"Business my loyal friends" I nodded weakly, my mind strong and continuing where my body couldn't. "In a short time we will be under attack. Lock the theatre down and take me to the stage. If they do manage to enter our home they will be drawn to me and it will give you time to surround them as we've hoped."

My eyes were on Kara, the pain in her eyes and body as the last shreds of human life were leaving her and the vampirical elements replaced them.

"Kara I pray will be able to join us by then"

We were running out of time and we were weak. Too weak. Something Ramon knew and that I must remedy immediately.

"Bring the servants held in my quarters to me when I'm at the stage"

And then it was time. No time to waste yet I rose and moved to the figure on the bed, sounds of eternal agony coming out of her distorted lips, her eyes bleeding as the veins in her face twisted and swelled.

"Kara, the pain will be short lived, Ramon has returned and will feed you, giving you the strength you need to change and live...Then you must join me and complete our destiny"

 

[Sweetp4u]

Kara

She never woke up fully as Ramon helped her to feed, helped her to dress and sat waiting by her side. Below, Ren and the rest sat waiting for an attack to come..

They were weakened momentarily, but not enough to be penetrated..

And as Kara finally woke up, she could feel all the strange changes that had happened to her. Heightened hearing, sight, sounds, smells..... all of it. Her head hurt, she could hear so many thoughts in her mind, all worried in some degree or another.

"R-Ramon? Where is.. Ren?" She panted out as she rolled to her side, her body feeling so odd to her.. very odd.

What happened?

She had vague memories of some odd dream, but nothing more. Had she been hurt? Sick? Had something happened to the clan? Ren?

The hole in her back was gone, all traces of death vanished from her body. Her hair was shiney compared to it's normal hue.. Her lips red tainted naturally now and her skin pale..porceline pale.

"He is down in the theater, waiting." He moved to help her rise from the bed.

"I feel strange and hungry..." She stopped all movement as her eyes fell on the vanity mirror.. Where there should be a reflection were none.

"It wasn't a dream...." She groaned again, her body hurting.. She needed.. "God.." Blood.

Ramon seemed to tense sensing her thoughts, did he disapprove? She felt him stiffen more and smirked even though she hurt.

"Stay out of my fucking mind Ramon.. You know I hate that! And no, I am not being insulting.. just takes some adjustments is all.."

"I will help you down to Ren." Ramon seemed to distance himself a little, but she paid him no mind. He can be uppity if he wanted to be, she was the one adjusting for the first time.. She bet he had to adjust too and felt strange as well.

"Yes please do.." She stopped him before he could push her out of the room, grabbing up her two guns and clips loaded with ammo, she then went down to meet ren in the center stage.

"Well..?" She had come up behind him, his back to her but he seemed to tense as he sensed her approach.. Did he think she wouldn't make it?
"Did you miss me?" She grinned a little, still feeling light headed.

 

[BLACK BART]

Ren

How different I felt now that Kara stood in front of me. I knew she had lived, knew the change in her was almost complete, and yet without seeing the woman who all my clan thought I cared for too much...

"Kara" I spoke her name softly and smiled, then rolled it off my lips a second time as I touched her hand and tugged her to me.

"Karrrrrrra"

She had changed. Her skin, the lovely alabaster tone of it, her lips turned to a perfect red...her eyes darkening and yet flashing as they moved about the room and then to my face.

"How do you feel my love?" I questioned, intent on her answer as I drank in her face, her body...her new energies and power that hovered around her.

I had fed, on each maiden now lounging around near the settee I rested on, my powers quickly returning back to me as I watched Kara sit next to me and allow me to kiss her.

"Things will appear differently to you now" I consoled, running my hand up her back and to her neck and hair. "Different because you are able to see them in a different light, smaller because your powers will grow as they now are growing...and some things will grow in importance, details you may have over looked otherwise now become important"

Kissing her hair I could still smell the woman that I called Kara, but now that scent was clearer...stronger...and as she turned I kissed her lips and continued.

"I'd like you to tell me who tried to kill you Kara" I spoke quietly to her and watched her eyes. "Tell me who and where they went, so we can make a small point of our own...quickly"