Blood Lust

Written by: Fira Flame

I do not own these characters; they belong to their respective owners. Keeren belongs to me and Missy and Teri belong to Missy and Teri.

This is the re-written version of 'Blood Lust', which was written in the fall of 2002. The older version was written very poorly, so here is a newer version , for all your vampire fans! There may be some references from some video games, bu tI assure you, they're just there, not from those games. Beware of any yaoi/Shonen-ai that might occur in this!!

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Chapter 1

The dawn was just beginning to rise. Shadows formed in the deep forest and stretched for the west, fleeing to their next area to plague with darkness. A lone man stood, leaning against a tree. His hand over his stomach and he was moaning painfully. He needed to feed. He scanned the area for a shelter to keep him for the day until he could try again the next night. His plight with his master had gotten him punishment. He was drained of the majority of his energy and pushed into another dimension. What dimension? He knew not. All he knew is that if he didn't feed within the next twenty-four hours, he was done for.

The vampire stumbled over to a small opening in the face of a hill and under a tree. He kneeled before it and peered into it. It was a cave was dark, full of roots and dirt. He grinned, success. He slipped his feet in first and let himself slide into the cavern. His feet hit bottom and he turned around, hissing at the now brightening light of dawn. He summoned all of the energy he could and morphed the roots and dirty around the entrance into a closing. He was closed in, he was safe.

Although, this had taken up the last of his strength. He staggered over to a corner and sat with his back against it. He closed his eyes and waited for slumber to over take him.

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Several days later...

"Would you like another sandwich, Star?"

"Uh-huh...!"

Melissa grinned over her shoulder at her six year old daughter, Star Roujin Kou. She picked up the quickly prepared peanut butter and jelly sandwich and handed put it onto her plate. Star took it with a grin and pushed it into her mouth. Melissa smirked and pulled her purse off a chair. Kissing her daughter on the head, she went into the living room and rapped her husband on the head.

"Take her outside and play with her why don't you?Just don't rough house with her like you did T.J."

Tasuki looked over the back of the couch at his wife and arched an eyebrow.

"I'm just going out to the store, I'll be back soon." Melissa cupped Tasuki's chin in her hand and she pecked him on the lips before waving and leaving. As soon as the sound of her motorcycle could be heard outside, Tasuki got up from the couch and went into the kitchen, where Star was putting her paper plate into the garbage.

"Hi daddy!" She chirped. "cn' we go out th' the forest?"

Tasuki shrugged and took the wet wash rag from the sink and wiped Star's face with it.

"Mebbie', jes' lemme go get changed, m'kay?"

Star nodded as her father wiped her hands with the same cloth. She looked up at him as he stood, and smiled a toothy grin.

"Go wait on th' deck for me, m'kay?"

"Uh-huh!" Star nodded and went quickly towards the deck glass door. She struggled to open, but she was soon outside. Tasuki smiled after her and went up to his bedroom. He met Keeren on the way.

"Hey, are you doing anything important this afternoon?" The lavender haired Saiya-jin asked.

Tasuki nodded. "Yea', Missy wants me t' spend th' day with the kid, so I'm booked. Why?"

Keeren shrugged. "Dunno, I need help mowing the lawn, and Teri isn't here to beg and plead to make it shrink."

Tasuki chuckled and continued his way upstairs. Soon, he was in his outdoor clothes (tank top and a pair of shorts) and he did meet Star out on the deck.

" 'ey, get away from that pool!" Tasuki scolded the child, who was standing on the edge of the underground pool. She twisted around and ran up to him, the constant grin still plastered on her face.

"C'mon, lessgo"

The father and daughter walked out to the woods, Tasuki walking slowly and calmly, while Star skipped ahead of him. Star bent over once to pick up a toy she had left out there before and continued towards the trees. The flame haired ex-bandit called out to her when she reached the forest to wait for her, and she did.

"Now, dun go wanderin' off on me again, m'kay? We're jes' going out the the tree-house and maybe to the arena."

"Awright, daddy."

The tree-house wasn't the best, but that's not what they wanted. It was a simple square platform with a roof and guard rails. It wasn't all that high, but enough to 'ward off evil cootie boys', and that was good enough for Star.

Tasuki's thoughts lead him back to his son, T.J back when he played in this tree-house. How old would he be now? Thirteen? The ex-bandit sighed, his son was nearly a man and he couldn't see him. Off in Konan, under discipline to become a Samurai. Too many times had the boy gotten out of hand, pulling a chi-blast on his teacher got him expelled and nearly dragged away from his parents. Tasuki and Melissa had to quickly send him away to the Fushigi Yuugi dimension and then deny his existence to the authorities who came to remove him from the household. It took persuasion and a lot of will power, but they got them to believe. Melissa was down in the dumps for a week or two afterward because they weren't allowed to see their child anymore, not until he came home in fifteen years, when he would be twenty-five.

Tasuki was shaken from his thoughts when Star tripped over her own feet and landed on her stomach. Tasuki looked up from where he was sitting, the doorway of the tree-house and watched her sit up. She sniffled a little, her eyes teared up only slightly, but she soon was back to playing with the toy she had found.

The ex-bandit smirked at his daughter. Only once had he seen her cry from hurting herself, such as falling over, down the stairs, or falling out of her highchair, and that was when she fell out of the tree house a few months ago. She had broken her arm, but when she fell asleep later that night, Melissa healed it and told her it was a miracle when she awoke.

He suddenly shivered as a breeze blew by. It was suddenly unusually chilly in the area. Usually the area was around eighty or ninety this time of year, that just felt too cold.

Tasuki jumped from his seat when his daughter screamed. She was staring up, her small round finger pointing into the tree, a look of pure horror on her face. Tasuki looked to where she was pointing, and a dark shape was crawling on the branch. Squinting, he saw this was no ordinary animal. A dark mist drifted off of it and a pair of bright, yellow eyes shone out at him. It took in what sounded to be a breath and took another step towards the pair.

"Get out of here Star, let Daddy take care of this." Tasuki said quietly, kneeling next to the child.

"But I--"

"Just go!" He hissed. Star got the point and quickly climbed out of the tree house, running for home. Tasuki stood and glared at the creature. It hissed at him, and leapt from the branch at him.

Tasuki cried out when it struck him, from claws clinging to his shoulders, hind claws to his waist. It was cold, so very cold. It's body seemed to be made of an icy mist, he couldn't even grab a hold of it. He tried to punch it, but his fist went straight through it. But, when it clung to him, it was if it was solid. He was pushed to the floor, and he let out a groan of pain when it's claws dug deeper into his skin. It's bright yellow eyes stared out at him. It opened it's spiky jaws and a plack mist came out at him. He choked on the smell and soon found himself slipping into the very darkness it had breathed.

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Blah! First chapter done in less than an hour! Wooo!!!