Tainted Vengeance
By: Sara Angeldust
Chapter 1:
Death To Humanity************
Disclaimer: all characters having to do with "In the Forests of the Night", "Demon in My View", and especially Nikolas, Christopher, and Sarah Vida, all from "Shattered Mirror" are soul property of the greatly talented author Amelia Atwater-Rhodes. I am not stealing them but merely borrowing them to complete this story. The only characters I can take ownership for are Raven , Michelle and Vailor. Thanks. ^_-
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Disclaimer for "Do What You Have To Do" / Song / By: Sarah McLachlan:
This song and it's original lyrics are soul property of Sarah McLachlan and friends. I am only using them for entertainment purposes and am not, I repeat, not stealing them. Thanxs
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What ravenges of spirit,
Conjured this temptuous rage,
Created you a monster,
Broken by the rule of love,
And fate has led you through it,
You do what you have to do,
And fate has led you through it,
You do what you have to do,
And I had the sense,
To recognize
That I don't know how to let you go,
Every moment marked,
With apparitions, of your soul,
I'm every swiftly moving,
Trying to escape this desire,
The yearning to be near you,
I do what I have to do,
The yearning to be near you,
I do what I have to do,
And I had the sense,
To recognize,
That I don't know how to let you go,
I don't know how to let you go,
A glowing ember,
Burning hot,
And burning slow,
Deep within I'm shaken,
By the violence of existing,
For only you,
I know I can't be with you ,
I do what I have to do,
I know I can't be with you,
I do what I have to do,
And I have the sense to recognize,
But I don't know how to let you go,
I don't know how to let you go,
- (whispered) I don't know how to let you…
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Synopsis:
298 years have passed since Raven was bitten and blood bonded by the vampire Vailor. 298 years since Raven's shapeshifter blood was tainted, and she was driven away by her people. All because Vailor was out for shifter blood and found her first. Now Raven is out for her own blood. Vailor's blood, and she will stop at nothing to get it. So when she ends up meeting another infamous vampire twin by the name of Nikolas, her life takes a radical U-turn. But you can never take away a taste for blood, once yours has been tainted.
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298 years to the day. Raven sighed a large restless sigh, she couldn't believe it. Had it been only that long? By they way the days passed it seemed so much longer. She could remember everything. The way the damp night air flowed across her soft black pelt, the way she felt, so free, running through those beautiful woods. But the good feelings never lasted long. All she could remember after that was fear. His smell, his rough yet smooth touch on her skin. The shock of feeling his overly evil soul just reaching out to take hers. Emotions couldn't express her sadness, her over whelming feelings of helplessness as his sharp painful fangs cut into her soft skin. And there was no release. All vampires could give release to their victims, but he decided on pain. His name was Vailor. The evil evil soul of Vailor.
Raven had only been 17, in the prime of her years as a shifter, and just finishing her training. She had gone out for a run as her clan's animal, the panther, when she met up with Vailor. There, in those cold, dark woods he took her blood, and left her for the fate of her clan. And of course, all knew the punishment for becoming anything having to do with Vampires was death. But because Raven had not known anything about it, she was merely cast away. Away from her family, her friends, and away from the clan. Never allowed to return, even so close as 10 feet from their grounds, without being killed. Vailor had taken all from her. Everything she had ever had, gone. All because of that damned vampire.
The dreams pasted as Raven slowly opened her eyes. She squinted as the light of the setting sun came through her window. Although she never wanted to, Raven now found herself rising with the night and sleeping with the sun on weekends. Other days she went to school, but weekends seemed to awaken the small amount of vampire blood within her body. Raven stayed in bed trying to grab as much rest as her body would allow her. Today would be a day to reckon with. At school, her friend Michelle had invited her to a "rad" party. Raven had cringed at the idea of going to a party, perish the thought. And just as she was about to put her human friends hopes down, Michelle had told her the location of this party. 234 Redwood Drive. This perked her ears. That address was a well known location for vampire parties.
Raven smiled as she lay her hand across her forehead. She hadn't been to a vampire party in forever. Like she would ever want to go to a place where she knew animals like Vailor resided. But a thought had struck her about Michelle and she worried about her. The only humans vampires invited to their parties were known as the refreshments. Great, she thought, now I have to go to make sure Michelle doesn't become late late dinner.
Raven finally rose from her black covered bed, and lazily went for her clothes on her large chair. Per usua,l she had picked out an outfit only she could deem suitable for a party. Black was the called color and she had plenty of it. Dressing quickly and pulling her hair back Raven grabbed some money from her wallet and her keys from the table.
As she began walking to the door she stopped at her old mirror. Raven tried to keep going pas it, but for some reason she felt compelled to stare at her hazy reflection. She had not "lived" long enough for her image to be so faded that it was not noticeable, but it was a little blurry around the edges. She stared at her face, inspecting it. Her shoulder length night black hair framed her 17 year old looking face. Something that had not changed since 1704. She noticed her complexion wasn't pale as she had thought, but almost bright. Her eyes though, were what had always surprised her. They weren't black as they should have been because of her conversion, but were an icy dark green. Their original color had been blue, but they had changed themselves according to Vailors' talents. Her nose was nicely rounded, and complemented her oval face, and her lips were medium and black according to her lip stick.
Although the mirror ended short of her shoulders, she knew what else her image would hold. If the mirror was there it would hold the image of a 17 year old looking body. It would be tall, 5ft 8 at least, and medium build. It would be wearing a black leather jacket. Underneath would be a black longsleeve shirt, flared jeans, and black boots.
Finally looking away from the mirror, but still in an inspecting mood, she looked at the underside of her left wrist. There, imbedded in her skin, was a tattoo of the Egyptian God Anubis. On the top side, high on her right wrist, was a tattoo of the outline of a panther with a cloud on it's side. This was her clan's symbol. And on her right shoulder, hidden by her shirt and jacket, was a tattoo of a gothic cross. The first and last tattoo's had come after she had been bonded, but her clans symbol had been placed there religiously by her mother long ago.
Feeling uneasy by the memory ,she clutched her necklace. This was the proudest part of herself. A paegen star over an eternity symbol. This always reminded her that she was shifter first and vampire second. Finally, snapping out of her trance, she looked at her image once more. How morbid that mirror made her feel. As she grabbed the door knob to leave she shattered the mirror, never to look at it again.
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As many of you know, this story has already been posted her once before. Since that time I have gone back and edited MANY a thing. I can't believe how many gramatical and spelling errors it had. Anyway, you may want to go ahead and reread all of the chapters, they have been updated and conten as been added. If you don't, you may miss something that could have changed later on in the story.
For any new readers, welcome, and I thank you for reading my story. Also, please read the prequel to this story, which was really written after, and not before this one. It is currently being finished, and the last part to it should be up within the month.
Ps. For a more formal version of this fic, visit my Amelia Atwater-Rhodes site, Through the Black Night at
Thanks tons and see ya at the next, newly edited chapter!
-Sara Angeldust