~ Disclaimer ~ I do not own Trigun, but I do own the characters that which
the Trigun creators themselves have not created. This is the sequel to
Vampire Tendencies, hope you like. And do not worry, there may be
appearences by other Trigun characters and Legato 'might' come back. So, if
you you want to know how it all turns out, read the sequel.
- Title - Bleeding Heart.
- Author - EngelWachter ( shortened my name when I write, or put ownership on my stories )
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It has been too long. Many days have passed by with a blink of the weerie eye. Mind racing with so many questions for the unanswered brain. But, we have a choice to believe or not to believe. To what our brains say, do and control. But, the blood is just too powerful.
I woke up. That's about all I can remember. I haven't eaten in days, weeks...maybe months. I felt my throat tighten as I got to my feet and stumbled to the door. All I could really think about was Legato. "Legato," I choked before collapsing to the floor.
Tears came fast, never stopping since that day. That rainy day, or was it my tears playing tricks on me?
Chris was so malice. So vicious and rude to Legato. Legato had reached out to me then, I knew I could have helped him. What right did I have to take care of Chris when he had...
"No, don't feel as if this was your fault," I told myself as I fingered for the doorknob.
I grabbed a hold and rested my forehead against the oak door. The door knob turned and my forehead contacted with a leg, it was a man. I looked up with my eyes towards a man with black shades covering mysterious eyes, his hair was pitch black with red streaks. He wore a simple black suit, a vampire is what I guessed he was. "You look horrible, Nicole. Why do you abuse yourself so?" He inquired with a sigh as he walked past me.
"W-who are you?" I asked as I turned around slowly.
"Jesse Smith. How are you feeling? Sick I suppose."
I struggled to stand and Jesse held my arm securely. I didn't know who he was, but I felt as if he was trying to help. If he had attacked right then..
"I...I haven't eaten in a long time."
"I know you haven't, Nicole. Because of that day I take it?"
I didn't reply to him. I didn't want to, it hurt so much inside that my stomach was being torn apart by regret and betrayel. Jesse let me collapse onto my couch and he sat across from me, slouching and making himself comfortable. He reached up and removed his shades, revealing beautiful bright green eyes. "Nicole. You can tell me what you are feeling, I will not trick you. But I do promise you something tasty. My blood is rich, I'm obliged to share this time with you...and would be most gracious for you to take some blood. I'd love to get to know you better, much better," he said with a monotone voice, leaning forward to stare into my eyes.
My mouth felt like a desert plain and my body was so cold. Jesse stood up and pulled me to my feet, I could smell the blood in his veins. I felt the tears already flow as I neared his neck. "I'm...so..I'm so alone," I whispered before sinking my fangs into his pale neck.
"You won't be alone for long, Nicole," Jesse replied as he held me close.
I closed my eyes as I released my bite and Jesse held me there, supporting my weight as the blood began to fill my veins. I felt a huge boost of power and I let out a gasp. I stared into Jesse's eyes. "Who are you really?"
"Jesse...who I have told you I was. And I am Jesse."
Jesse let me go and sat down, holding his neck where I had punctured two neat holes. I sat down across from him and wiped a small line of blood away from the right corner of my mouth. "Why did you come?" I asked.
Jesse sighed and blinked. It seemed as if two minutes went by before he replied. "Chris sent me to you."
I felt a pull at my heartstrings. Chris?
"Why would he send you?"
"I'm...as you say...an old friend."
I raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know Chris flowed that way..."
Jesse let out a rich laugh and waved his right hand. "Oh, no no no. You took it all wrong, vampiress! Chris and I weren't lovers, we really go way back as good friends."
"But why would he send you? I thought I made it quite clear I wasn't going to be around...anymore. I didn't stick around after he appeared home."
"You didn't have to, Nicole. You don't hate him, do you?"
I reached into the back of my mind for the answer. But I didn't exactly know. Chris and I had been friends, maybe even more in his mind. But, he had killed Legato. The one who had made her this way. "He loves you, you know that?" Jesse asked as his brow furrowed into a worry expression.
"I heard he did," I replied.
"He does. Much more than you can know, maybe even more than Legato had loved you."
"That can't be."
Jesse got up and brushed off his black coat, returned his shades to cover his eyes and turned for the door. "You're blind, Nicole. You can't see the one who had risked his life just to show you...how much he cared. Well, I've been here long enough. You'll be having another visitor...so, this is fair well for now."
He vanished before reaching the door. I felt a little, no, really bad about not listening to Chris. But, he didn't have the right to kill Legato. If Legato was really dead, could I bring him back from Hell?
I bit my lower lip as I thought about this, not noticing the person who had stepped into this room. "Nicole, right?" A rough voice asked.
I turned around and a young man with spiked blonde hair and aquamarine eyes was standing there. He was clad in a red overcoat and he wore sunglasses, what was this? The sunglasses club?
"My name is Vash. I've come to help you," he continued as he stepped forward.
I cringed back and frowned. "It is not polite to enter a girl's room while she's alone. And I don't need your help, the last time I heard that line...I was almost..rid of my virginity," I grumbled.
Vash shook his head. "I do not mean to harm you. I'm just here...to comfort you. I feel the hurt, it hurts me also. We vampires actually do have a soft side, and unlucky me has been stuck with it ever since I was bitten by Lord Legato."
I widened my eyes. "He's alive?"
"Why, yes he is. I was bitten only a month earlier. And my, he is quite a catch."
I growled in the back of my throat. "Hey! He and I..."
"What? Slept together, yes. But what were you together? You weren't a couple..you and him didn't ask to hook up. So, maybe you were just his sex slave?" Vash cut in.
Fury billowed inside of me and I lunged forward. Lashing out with my nails, but Vash caught my wrists and locked legs with me. His eyes bore deep into mine. "Who are you? Nicole? Yes...but what and who are you?" He whispered.
I struggled in his grip. "You try and help me! But all you're doing is making me furious!" I snapped.
"You're making yourself furious. Can't you see what these emotions are doing to you? Legato is in your mind forever. Sorry I had to take such measures, but one has to do what he must."
"He...isn't alive?"
I felt the tears slide down my cheeks. Vash shook his head and after I relaxed my muscles, he let me go. He wrapped his arms around me and I couldn't help but cry into his chest. "You want him here, don't you?"
"Yes..so badly."
Vash frowned and hugged me tighter, running a gloved hand down my head and to the middle of my back in a comforting gesture. I just wanted to see Legato, was that so bad?
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Chris shot up in his bed, sweat beading on his chest and forehead. He ran his right hand through his hair and looked around with his eyes. "The fuck...was that dream?" He breathed as a bead of sweat trickled down the side of his face.
He got out of bed and changed into some baggy blue jeans and entered the hallway. His whole mind was boggled with his dream, he had a dream of Nicole. He couldn't get her out of his mind, and he knew he had to see her before the next full moon. That was when some of the dead would come back to earth, it would mean Legato would rise again. Chris turned and drove his right fist into the wall, drilling a hole into plaster and concrete. "Damnit!" He snarled.
He retrieved his hand from the wall and blood dripped to thr ground. As he stepped into the kitchen, his fist was nearly healed. "Chris, you sound disturbed," Ceila said as she set down a mug of tea.
"When do I not?" Chris asked with ice on the tip of his tongue as he opened the fridge door and snatched a blood bag from the storage.
Ceila sighed and took a long pause before speaking. "It's about Nicole, isn't it?"
"No."
"Why don't you go to her house, walk right in and force her to have sex with you? I mean, come on, Chris! You're a damn horny fang-toothed, blood drinking loonie who just wants to get laid by Nicole. The new vampire in town. Chris, you are so tran-"
"Shut the fuck up! Even if you are my mother...I don't want to have sex with Nicole. I just....," Chris snapped and stopped, realizing it was better to let his mother think than let her know what was on your mind.
"See, I told you. Having those damned dreams. Well, you're a man. You can have those kind of dreams," Ceila muttered as she vanished with her mug of tea.
Chris smacked himself in the face and dragged his hand down, shaking his head afterwards and headed out the door. The moon was full, it was only a matter of time until the next full moon came and Legato would come back. To have revenge, or to take Nicole to Hell with him. Leaving Chris with nothing but a faint memory of how she felt. How she acted, smelt and even..when he had kissed her that one time, tasted. He licked his lips and frowned, turned his head to the sky and let loose a cry. It sounded like a mix of rage and sorrow, carrying through the night like a wolf's song. Chris's head lowered as he closed his eyes and his hands clenched into fists. "What am I to do? When Nicole loves Legato...Legato loves Nicole...and I have nothing," he muttered.
"You can't just stand here...contimplating, bitch," a familiar sneer replied.
Chris looked up and a fist hit him in the face, sending him to the floor. "The hell do you think you're doing!?" He growled as he put a hand to his bleeding lip.
Slash smirked and folded his arms over his chest. "Just knocking you for what you did to me back in the club, buddy. Now, like I was saying...you can't just stand here contimplating. You have to go get her and that's it. You had the wrong decision to stand up to me for that Nicole girl, now...you best have her in your possession by tomorrow. Or I'll be hunting your ass down, bitch."
He vanished and Chris got to his feet. His lip healed and he looked up at the full moon. "Only a couple of days...before Legato comes back."
Chris looked down at his hands and smirked. He tightened and released, flexing his fingers. "I'll do the same as I had done before...just, maybe Nicole will have the power to destroy me."
He turned and burst into a cloud of dust.
"I see you've finally made it down here, even when it was the kid who killed you," a dark demon with glowing red eyes sneered.
He stood beside a navish blue haired, golden eyed and amazingly muscle built man. Legato.
"Do not misjudge me, Dev. I can tear you apart, if you push me that is," Legato said with a dark voice.
"I know you can."
Legato's eyes glowed darkly as he cracked his knuckles. "I'm going to Earth...tomorrow. No one can stop me, not even Satan."
Dev smirked. "And you'll finally kill the girl?"
Legato's hand grabbed Dev's throat and he lifted him into the air. His fangs bared. "The girl is not to be killed, I'm going to kill Chris though. And, just like I said before, no one can stop me," he snarled.
Legato dropped Dev and closed his eyes, prepairing to arrive on Earth.
-- To Be Continued -- Hope you like the sequel so far! I'll be working on the second chapter. I wonder if he and Nicole should have a baby...eh, I'll be contimplating on that. ^^;
- Title - Bleeding Heart.
- Author - EngelWachter ( shortened my name when I write, or put ownership on my stories )
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It has been too long. Many days have passed by with a blink of the weerie eye. Mind racing with so many questions for the unanswered brain. But, we have a choice to believe or not to believe. To what our brains say, do and control. But, the blood is just too powerful.
I woke up. That's about all I can remember. I haven't eaten in days, weeks...maybe months. I felt my throat tighten as I got to my feet and stumbled to the door. All I could really think about was Legato. "Legato," I choked before collapsing to the floor.
Tears came fast, never stopping since that day. That rainy day, or was it my tears playing tricks on me?
Chris was so malice. So vicious and rude to Legato. Legato had reached out to me then, I knew I could have helped him. What right did I have to take care of Chris when he had...
"No, don't feel as if this was your fault," I told myself as I fingered for the doorknob.
I grabbed a hold and rested my forehead against the oak door. The door knob turned and my forehead contacted with a leg, it was a man. I looked up with my eyes towards a man with black shades covering mysterious eyes, his hair was pitch black with red streaks. He wore a simple black suit, a vampire is what I guessed he was. "You look horrible, Nicole. Why do you abuse yourself so?" He inquired with a sigh as he walked past me.
"W-who are you?" I asked as I turned around slowly.
"Jesse Smith. How are you feeling? Sick I suppose."
I struggled to stand and Jesse held my arm securely. I didn't know who he was, but I felt as if he was trying to help. If he had attacked right then..
"I...I haven't eaten in a long time."
"I know you haven't, Nicole. Because of that day I take it?"
I didn't reply to him. I didn't want to, it hurt so much inside that my stomach was being torn apart by regret and betrayel. Jesse let me collapse onto my couch and he sat across from me, slouching and making himself comfortable. He reached up and removed his shades, revealing beautiful bright green eyes. "Nicole. You can tell me what you are feeling, I will not trick you. But I do promise you something tasty. My blood is rich, I'm obliged to share this time with you...and would be most gracious for you to take some blood. I'd love to get to know you better, much better," he said with a monotone voice, leaning forward to stare into my eyes.
My mouth felt like a desert plain and my body was so cold. Jesse stood up and pulled me to my feet, I could smell the blood in his veins. I felt the tears already flow as I neared his neck. "I'm...so..I'm so alone," I whispered before sinking my fangs into his pale neck.
"You won't be alone for long, Nicole," Jesse replied as he held me close.
I closed my eyes as I released my bite and Jesse held me there, supporting my weight as the blood began to fill my veins. I felt a huge boost of power and I let out a gasp. I stared into Jesse's eyes. "Who are you really?"
"Jesse...who I have told you I was. And I am Jesse."
Jesse let me go and sat down, holding his neck where I had punctured two neat holes. I sat down across from him and wiped a small line of blood away from the right corner of my mouth. "Why did you come?" I asked.
Jesse sighed and blinked. It seemed as if two minutes went by before he replied. "Chris sent me to you."
I felt a pull at my heartstrings. Chris?
"Why would he send you?"
"I'm...as you say...an old friend."
I raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know Chris flowed that way..."
Jesse let out a rich laugh and waved his right hand. "Oh, no no no. You took it all wrong, vampiress! Chris and I weren't lovers, we really go way back as good friends."
"But why would he send you? I thought I made it quite clear I wasn't going to be around...anymore. I didn't stick around after he appeared home."
"You didn't have to, Nicole. You don't hate him, do you?"
I reached into the back of my mind for the answer. But I didn't exactly know. Chris and I had been friends, maybe even more in his mind. But, he had killed Legato. The one who had made her this way. "He loves you, you know that?" Jesse asked as his brow furrowed into a worry expression.
"I heard he did," I replied.
"He does. Much more than you can know, maybe even more than Legato had loved you."
"That can't be."
Jesse got up and brushed off his black coat, returned his shades to cover his eyes and turned for the door. "You're blind, Nicole. You can't see the one who had risked his life just to show you...how much he cared. Well, I've been here long enough. You'll be having another visitor...so, this is fair well for now."
He vanished before reaching the door. I felt a little, no, really bad about not listening to Chris. But, he didn't have the right to kill Legato. If Legato was really dead, could I bring him back from Hell?
I bit my lower lip as I thought about this, not noticing the person who had stepped into this room. "Nicole, right?" A rough voice asked.
I turned around and a young man with spiked blonde hair and aquamarine eyes was standing there. He was clad in a red overcoat and he wore sunglasses, what was this? The sunglasses club?
"My name is Vash. I've come to help you," he continued as he stepped forward.
I cringed back and frowned. "It is not polite to enter a girl's room while she's alone. And I don't need your help, the last time I heard that line...I was almost..rid of my virginity," I grumbled.
Vash shook his head. "I do not mean to harm you. I'm just here...to comfort you. I feel the hurt, it hurts me also. We vampires actually do have a soft side, and unlucky me has been stuck with it ever since I was bitten by Lord Legato."
I widened my eyes. "He's alive?"
"Why, yes he is. I was bitten only a month earlier. And my, he is quite a catch."
I growled in the back of my throat. "Hey! He and I..."
"What? Slept together, yes. But what were you together? You weren't a couple..you and him didn't ask to hook up. So, maybe you were just his sex slave?" Vash cut in.
Fury billowed inside of me and I lunged forward. Lashing out with my nails, but Vash caught my wrists and locked legs with me. His eyes bore deep into mine. "Who are you? Nicole? Yes...but what and who are you?" He whispered.
I struggled in his grip. "You try and help me! But all you're doing is making me furious!" I snapped.
"You're making yourself furious. Can't you see what these emotions are doing to you? Legato is in your mind forever. Sorry I had to take such measures, but one has to do what he must."
"He...isn't alive?"
I felt the tears slide down my cheeks. Vash shook his head and after I relaxed my muscles, he let me go. He wrapped his arms around me and I couldn't help but cry into his chest. "You want him here, don't you?"
"Yes..so badly."
Vash frowned and hugged me tighter, running a gloved hand down my head and to the middle of my back in a comforting gesture. I just wanted to see Legato, was that so bad?
-
Chris shot up in his bed, sweat beading on his chest and forehead. He ran his right hand through his hair and looked around with his eyes. "The fuck...was that dream?" He breathed as a bead of sweat trickled down the side of his face.
He got out of bed and changed into some baggy blue jeans and entered the hallway. His whole mind was boggled with his dream, he had a dream of Nicole. He couldn't get her out of his mind, and he knew he had to see her before the next full moon. That was when some of the dead would come back to earth, it would mean Legato would rise again. Chris turned and drove his right fist into the wall, drilling a hole into plaster and concrete. "Damnit!" He snarled.
He retrieved his hand from the wall and blood dripped to thr ground. As he stepped into the kitchen, his fist was nearly healed. "Chris, you sound disturbed," Ceila said as she set down a mug of tea.
"When do I not?" Chris asked with ice on the tip of his tongue as he opened the fridge door and snatched a blood bag from the storage.
Ceila sighed and took a long pause before speaking. "It's about Nicole, isn't it?"
"No."
"Why don't you go to her house, walk right in and force her to have sex with you? I mean, come on, Chris! You're a damn horny fang-toothed, blood drinking loonie who just wants to get laid by Nicole. The new vampire in town. Chris, you are so tran-"
"Shut the fuck up! Even if you are my mother...I don't want to have sex with Nicole. I just....," Chris snapped and stopped, realizing it was better to let his mother think than let her know what was on your mind.
"See, I told you. Having those damned dreams. Well, you're a man. You can have those kind of dreams," Ceila muttered as she vanished with her mug of tea.
Chris smacked himself in the face and dragged his hand down, shaking his head afterwards and headed out the door. The moon was full, it was only a matter of time until the next full moon came and Legato would come back. To have revenge, or to take Nicole to Hell with him. Leaving Chris with nothing but a faint memory of how she felt. How she acted, smelt and even..when he had kissed her that one time, tasted. He licked his lips and frowned, turned his head to the sky and let loose a cry. It sounded like a mix of rage and sorrow, carrying through the night like a wolf's song. Chris's head lowered as he closed his eyes and his hands clenched into fists. "What am I to do? When Nicole loves Legato...Legato loves Nicole...and I have nothing," he muttered.
"You can't just stand here...contimplating, bitch," a familiar sneer replied.
Chris looked up and a fist hit him in the face, sending him to the floor. "The hell do you think you're doing!?" He growled as he put a hand to his bleeding lip.
Slash smirked and folded his arms over his chest. "Just knocking you for what you did to me back in the club, buddy. Now, like I was saying...you can't just stand here contimplating. You have to go get her and that's it. You had the wrong decision to stand up to me for that Nicole girl, now...you best have her in your possession by tomorrow. Or I'll be hunting your ass down, bitch."
He vanished and Chris got to his feet. His lip healed and he looked up at the full moon. "Only a couple of days...before Legato comes back."
Chris looked down at his hands and smirked. He tightened and released, flexing his fingers. "I'll do the same as I had done before...just, maybe Nicole will have the power to destroy me."
He turned and burst into a cloud of dust.
"I see you've finally made it down here, even when it was the kid who killed you," a dark demon with glowing red eyes sneered.
He stood beside a navish blue haired, golden eyed and amazingly muscle built man. Legato.
"Do not misjudge me, Dev. I can tear you apart, if you push me that is," Legato said with a dark voice.
"I know you can."
Legato's eyes glowed darkly as he cracked his knuckles. "I'm going to Earth...tomorrow. No one can stop me, not even Satan."
Dev smirked. "And you'll finally kill the girl?"
Legato's hand grabbed Dev's throat and he lifted him into the air. His fangs bared. "The girl is not to be killed, I'm going to kill Chris though. And, just like I said before, no one can stop me," he snarled.
Legato dropped Dev and closed his eyes, prepairing to arrive on Earth.
-- To Be Continued -- Hope you like the sequel so far! I'll be working on the second chapter. I wonder if he and Nicole should have a baby...eh, I'll be contimplating on that. ^^;