AN: I know it's been done, but I just couldn't HELP myself. This is most
certainly an AU. Those of you offended by Paganism . . . don't flame me for
it.
Disclaimer: Dude, If I owned The legacy of Kain series . . . *starry eyes*
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"I still think Raziel is hot!"
"But he's practically a CORPSE!"
"He's still the hottest corpse I've ever seen."
"Oh yeah what about Kain?"
" . . . I want both." Raine sweatdropped. Kale was THE strangest person she'd ever met, and she told her so. Kale grinned, her glasses moving slightly as her nose wrinkled. "Well Raine, It all comes from being thought of as totally sexless." Blonde eyebrows rose, hazel eyes rolled.
"Oh come on Raine! Think about it! Every time I walk up to a boy group it always is about sex or video games, You walk up and boys are suddenly going through puberty again. I am the 'boy with boobs'." Raine frowned slightly, there was a bit of resignation in there, but the smile was going full force, and her eyes were mostly green, which meant that Kale meant it as a joke.
" I'm sorry if sex and video games isn't to your liking." She quipped tossing her braid over her shoulder. Kale sighed and posed dramatically as she pushed the button at the crosswalk.
"Oh that it were of love and passion," She straightened up and peered at her friend over her glasses.
"Instead of the mechanics on how Gendo Ikari is screwing around with every female in NERV." Raine burst out laughing as the light turned green and they started across.
"You're kidding me! They actually ASK you about that?" Kale nodded her ponytail bouncing up and down.
"And they expect me to decide if it would be hotter for him to go with Rei or Asuka!" Kale stopped, and put a hand on the taller girl's shoulder.
"Hey . . . Raine? Is it just me . . . or did it get real quiet?" the blonde teenager looked around blue eyes wide.
"All the cars are gone." Kale squinted and looked at the sky, frowning.
"Strange, it was sunny a little bit ago, now it looks like it's going to pour." The blonde shook her friend by the shoulders.
"How can you bee so CALM! All the cars and people and roads and things are GONE!"
The brunette raised a hand to keep her glasses in place. "Yes, I know all the people are gone. I will go into hysterics later, but now we need to find shelter and quickly."
Raine took a deep breath drawing on the strength of her friend. She looked Kale over, baggy cargo pants, plain gray shirt with a camo over shirt, eyes serious and comforting through thick glasses.
"Y-you're right, I'm sorry." The shorter teen hugged her.
"It's okay. We can do this, compared to Mrs. Guillory this is cake." This got a weak laugh from her friend and the brunette smiled,
"Now come on, I think there's a town over the hill to out left."
Hours later....
Raine snorted as what should have been classified as a monsoon continued to pound them.
"Over the hill. Right." She called, shouting to be heard over the wind.
Kale looked back at her only true friend, her jeans were almost black with water and her "Blame my therapist" T-shirt was a second skin.
"Sorry! I thought it was!" the blonde smiled slightly.
"Don't worry about it, at least we won't have to bathe!" The shorter ones laugh was lost in a rumble of thunder. Suddenly a figure came dashing out of the near darkness, as it collided with Kale; an ominous crunching sound reached her ears.
Raine's eyes widened as a shadowy figure collided with her friend.
"KALE!" Both figures dropped, the girl ran over her long legs getting her there in almost no time.
"Kale! Are you hurt?!" A convenient lighting flash illuminated a face she'd never thought she'd see this side of a TV screen.
"RAZIEL?!?!?!" The vampire was up and gone before she could do more then blink, she shook herself and knelt down next to her friend still yelling over the monsoon.
"Kale? Are you hurt?"
"Whoever it was stole my Camo shirt AND broke my glasses!" A small hand held up the bent frames containing one cracked lens.
"Crap." She stared at her mud-splattered friend, who was looking slightly bewildered and blinking trying to see.
"How much can you see?" The shorter girl shook her head, shouting over an energetic gust of wind.
"I wouldn't be able to see wing zero if I were standing on its foot." The blonde swore and pulled her friend up.
"Well he had to be running from something so all we've got to do is retrace his path."
"That will not be necessary." Both teenagers froze as armored men surrounded them
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Raine paced the perimeter of their cell, rubbing her arms against the draft, and wishing the men hadn't taken their shoes. Kale wept silently on the one cot the room contained. As promised she'd had hysterics, quietly in the corner.
The silence shattered as doors burst open and men began running about shouting. The blonde stepped over to the cot.
"Kale, If I lead could you run?" Kale looked up and wiped her eyes seeming to look past the taller girl.
"I-I guess I could . . . I'd stumble a lot though." The blue eyed teen grabbed her hands and pulled her up.
"I don't think it matters, just, be ready." Both heads shot up as screams reached them from outside, before they were cut ominously short. Kale patted her pocket making sure her ruined glasses were with her, and Raine grasped her wrist.
Butterflies danced wildly in the blonde's stomach and the sense of SOMETHING waiting to happen was almost unbearable.
"Something's coming." Kale's voice was loud in the terrified hush of the dungeons, and then her friend heard it to, slow soft footfalls, from . . .
"They're behind us." Raine whispered stiffening. She felt her arm stretch as Kale backed up.
"Raine, this wall is cracked . . ." Suddenly a harsh voice reached their ears,
"Move away from the wall if you wish to survive human." The blonde pulled her friend towards her turning to face the cracked wall; there was a thud and the bricks moved.
"Cover your eyes!" Raine gasped as she raised her arm. Kale brought her hands up to cover her face as a second blow shook the wall.
The third blow sent it shattering outwards and the warriors on the other side of the bars panicked as, from the darkness outside, four men attacked them. Raine looked out through the bars as the men grew fangs and began slaughtering their captors.
"Good God . . ." She jumped as Kale screamed. Raine whirled around to see, a tall pale man with sliver hair carrying Kale's now limp figure.
"Kain?!" She shivered as golden eyes pierced her.
"I will not ask how you know my name, we must go before Moebius arrives, I will carry your companion, keep up." The fortress was eerily empty, though the clashing of swords seemed to come from everywhere BUT where they were. Kale groaned and opened her eyes, and winced as Kain's armored shoulder drove into her stomach.
"Next time you pick me up, whoever you are, TRY not to bang my head on the ceiling." No response was forthcoming.
"I'm assuming that the blonde blur is you Raine?" The taller girl was having trouble keeping up with the vampire, and her response reflected it.
"Yeah," She panted, "S'me." The smaller teen's face turned pale as Kain's armor winded her yet again. Abruptly the cathedral ended and they were standing on the edge of a moat.
"Rahab!" Kale frowned, that voice sounded awfully familiar. A pale face surfaced from the water.
"Here milord."
"The others?"
"Leaving as we speak Milord."
"Good." Kale didn't have time to scream as he flung her over the edge, but strong arms caught her and helped her slip into the water. A small shriek informed her that Raine followed. Then all thought was driven from her mind save one,
"DAMN THATS COLD!" A clawed hand clamped over her mouth and the voice that had answered the familiar one hissed.
"Do you WISH to die?" She shook her head unconsciously treading water.
Raine looked on wide-eyed as the man, vampire? Held her up with one hand rebuking her friend before letting her drop the small distance herself. She barely managed to stifle another shriek, it WAS cold, and after the rain that afternoon she feared for her and her friends health.
"Follow me." The pale man disappeared beneath the dark water and Raine groaned, HOW was she supposed to follow him through this?! As if summoned a full moon shone down showing that the water was almost supernaturally clear and that, Rahab was it? Was waiting impatiently for them to follow.
"Kale, we have to swim. It looks like a long way." Kale sighed and looked at the blur that was her best friend.
"Sometimes I think fate saves stuff like this just for me so she can take me down a peg." The brunette looked down into a swirly blur she assumed was water.
"I hate not having my glasses."
"I told you, you should have switched to contacts." Said Raine taking hold of her wrist.
"Now come on, deep breath, I'll lead." Kale sighed and inhaled filling her diaphragm and lungs before diving below the icy surface.
A few hours later . . .
Kale's teeth chattered uncontrollably, she knew she was pudgy and was thanking the goddess for it now, Raine didn't look so good, the fall after the swim had knocked her out and the cross country hike hadn't done her any good. Rahab was now carrying her friend, no small feat.
"Are we there yet?" She asked attempting to follow him without falling flat on her face. Rahab sounded like he was talking through clenched teeth.
"If we were there yet you two would be out of my hair." She shouldn't, she knew she shouldn't but it just begged for a smart-ass remark.
"We're not in your hair, I know your ego is big but it couldn't have inflated your head THAT badly." A snarl ripped the air and the blur was very close to her face indeed.
"The only reason you live is because Kain would not be pleased to see his efforts wasted." Kale blinked as a blurred face slowly came into focus.
"So YOU'RE Rahab!" She thought for a little bit, studying him, "You're not that bad looking actually." He blinked and moved away again becoming a blur. The brunette sighed.
"I really wish that guy hadn't broken my glasses." There was a confused silence.
"Glasses? What are those?" Kale stumbled over a root, then dug in her pocket, producing the sad remains of what had once been a fine pair of spectacles.
"These. They used to help me see." The ruined glasses were plucked from her hand and silence descended.
At the Clan hold place thingy . . .
False dawn painted the sky as Rahab brought the girls to the giant gates of Kain's clan hold. Kale scrubbed her eyes with the heels of her hands.
"I can't feel my feet." And so saying she promptly passed out from exhaustion.
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Raine opened her eyes stifling a groan. She was warm but she ached all over, she remembered climbing out of the river that went into the moat and then slipping. She attempted to sit up and her head pulsed, it was slightly less then bomb strength.
"Ow, I feel like I got clocked by my History text book."
"Yeah, You hit your head pretty hard." Raine's eyes shot open and she looked up into Kale's slightly unfocused hazel eyes.
"Kale! Are you okay? Where are we? What happened?" The brunette smiled.
"Yes I'm fine, I have no clue, after you hit your head Rahab brought us here, and I passed out when we reached the gates. At least I'm assuming I did cause I don't remember anything after that."
"So, we're in a new place." Kale nodded.
"But not a cell." Again an affirmative nod. Raine moaned as her head throbbed again.
"Describe the room for me?" Kale chuckled softly.
"Well, there's a whitish blur that was my bed and a dark bluish blur that I think is a chair, there's a brown blur I'm guessing is a table and a blur on the wall that signifies a door." The blonde winced.
"I'm sorry, I forgot." The slightly pudgy teen chuckled again.
"It's alright, I don't mind. But it annoys me that I can't see your face . . . or anyone's face for that matter." There was true anguish in her voice and Raine took her hand.
"Hang in there, Once we get to a town I'm sure we can get you new glasses." Kale sighed.
"I just wish I knew who did it so I could clobber them."
Raine's eyes widened "That's right!"
"What is?" Asked a rather confused Kale. The bedridden girl grinned,
"I forgot to tell you who broke your glasses." There was an expectant silence. It stretched on for about a minute.
"Well?" Kale growled. Raine grinned.
"I know you're grinning now tell me, or I'll do IT." Raine snorted, and winced as her head throbbed again,
"You wouldn't do that to me in this condition but I'll tell you anyway. It was . . . Vampiric Raziel."
The girl's knees hit the floor with a thud as she knelt by the bed, "Raine, promise me you're not lying."
Raine raised her right hand, "I swear by the Hellsing series, it was Pre- fall Raziel." Kale's mouth dropped open.
"By the Goddess . . . and I MISSED it!" She put her head in her hands. Then raised it back up, "But he still stole my shirt, the jerk." There was quiet for a bit as they contemplated this.
"But why would he NEED it anyway?" pondered Raine, Kale shrugged.
"Because, The forest had ended and I didn't feel like becoming an acid burnt corpse."
Raine saw Kale stiffen, "The Hell! How did you get in here without me hearing you?" A soft chuckle ran over them like velvet and Raine shivered. Kale stopped looking when she saw a blur standing next to a brown black blur that meant the door was open.
"I AM a Vampire." Kale snorted.
"And I need to know this because?" there was a shocked silence and Kale raised an eyebrow as Raine burst into gales of laughter;
"I . . . bet you wouldn't be saying that if . . ." She broke off, laughing too hard to continue.
"If I could see him? You're right I wouldn't, I'd probably be picking my jaw off the floor." The brunette shrugged and smirked.
"I guess there are some advantages to being nearly blind after all." Raine managed to lift her head a little, her mirth driving away the pain as she saw Raziel's dumbstruck expression. She giggled, dropping back onto amazingly soft pillows.
"Oh my, Poor Raziel. Kale I wish you could see! He looks like he's been smacked with a board!" Both girls burst into laughter at this while the vampire merely stood there dumbstruck.
"I have had your, 'Glasses' repaired. While you slept"
Kale's head shot up, "Rahab?" She stood and looked at the second, new, blur that was moving towards her. "Indeed, I found a glassblower who said he could make new er. . ."
"Lenses." The teen prompted.
"Yes, and a blacksmith with enough skill to create the joints on the holder." Kale coughed slightly covering a laugh.
"Frame, it's called a frame." Her brow furrowed, "But that would have taken time . . ."
Raziel chuckled, "You HAVE been asleep for three days." Raine's jaw dropped, but kale shrugged.
"Ces`t la vie." And held out her hands for her new eyewear. She smiled as Rahab placed them in her hands. She opened up the legs and put the glasses on settling them on her nose.
" I CAN SEE!!" Everyone in the room winced as the cry echoed from the walls. Kale twirled and then gave Rahab a bear hug.
"Thank you SO much! You have NO idea how wonderful this is!" Rahab stood still, not sure weather to break away or just stand there. He settled for clearing his throat.
The short girl let go of him and cleared her throat as well, smiling sheepishly, "Sorry, sorry. Shouldn't have done that, but it's so nice to see!"
Raine winced, "Yes, We can tell, you seem intent on letting the world know." Kale grinned, blushing slightly.
Raziel chuckled softly, "Well now Kain knows you are awake, I might as well take you to meet him." Kale's mouth dropped.
"Ohmigod, I'm going to MEET Kain. It's a dream come true!" She stopped for a moment.
"Or a nightmare depending on if I ate Chili for dinner or not." She winked at Raine eyes gleaming, and the blonde fell victim to another laughing fit. Kale snuck a peek at the vampires and began laughing herself.
"He DOES look like he's been smacked by a board!" She rubbed her eyes, which were beginning to tear slightly.
"Ahhh, I'm sorry, stress relief, now. Take me to your leader!"
Raine pulled back the covers, stood up, "Give me a minute." And proceeded to crack her knuckles, neck, back, wrists, and ankles. Kale sighed.
"I wish I could do that."
Rahab shuddered.
In Kain's Throne room . . .
Kale attempted to look at everything as Raziel ushered them into Kain's throne room, where both teens were promptly shocked.
Kale gasped, "By the Goddess! They still stand!"
Raine looked up at the decaying pillars, eyes wide, "But that's not possible! According to Blood Omen I they should be . . ."
"I know." Kale frowned slightly mouth moving as seven vampires stared at them.
"Okay I think I've got it, We're from an alternate reality right? But each reality has parallels where decisions were made differently, so, if there were MAJOR changes then this would be completely different from the reality of LoK that WE know." Raine frowned and stared at the pillars for a bit.
"So what you're saying is we're in a parallel universe of an alternate reality?" Kale nodded, and Raine snorted.
"Why not just call it an alternate universe?" the shorter girl grinned,
"That would be to simple for my insectoid brain and elephantine ego."
"Enough. Who are you, and where are you from?" Kale twitched, and turned to face the, oddly familiar voice, ready to verbally flay the intruder alive, and then she realized who she was about to dis, and WHY this was a bad idea. Raine elbowed her in a 'you first' gesture.
Kale glared and muttered "Fine, but if he's going to be rude, then I'M going to be over the top." She grinned and stepped forward bowing.
"Most Honorable Lord Kain! I am Kale, I am 19 years old and a bibliophile, I come from a normal white, middle class, suburban home and I am generally considered to be an odd girl who knows more about sex then most teenaged males."
Raine put her face in her hands torn between laughing, growling, and running away screaming. She managed to lift her face long enough to say, "I'm Raine, same age as her, We're from America, don't ask we couldn't explain it to you even if we knew how."
Kale stepped back and winced as the anticipated thwap upside the head was delivered, with more force then strictly necessary.
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End chapter one! Heh, heh, I realize it was probably a bit confusing so I'll be using 1st person P.O.Vs in the next one.
Disclaimer: Dude, If I owned The legacy of Kain series . . . *starry eyes*
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"I still think Raziel is hot!"
"But he's practically a CORPSE!"
"He's still the hottest corpse I've ever seen."
"Oh yeah what about Kain?"
" . . . I want both." Raine sweatdropped. Kale was THE strangest person she'd ever met, and she told her so. Kale grinned, her glasses moving slightly as her nose wrinkled. "Well Raine, It all comes from being thought of as totally sexless." Blonde eyebrows rose, hazel eyes rolled.
"Oh come on Raine! Think about it! Every time I walk up to a boy group it always is about sex or video games, You walk up and boys are suddenly going through puberty again. I am the 'boy with boobs'." Raine frowned slightly, there was a bit of resignation in there, but the smile was going full force, and her eyes were mostly green, which meant that Kale meant it as a joke.
" I'm sorry if sex and video games isn't to your liking." She quipped tossing her braid over her shoulder. Kale sighed and posed dramatically as she pushed the button at the crosswalk.
"Oh that it were of love and passion," She straightened up and peered at her friend over her glasses.
"Instead of the mechanics on how Gendo Ikari is screwing around with every female in NERV." Raine burst out laughing as the light turned green and they started across.
"You're kidding me! They actually ASK you about that?" Kale nodded her ponytail bouncing up and down.
"And they expect me to decide if it would be hotter for him to go with Rei or Asuka!" Kale stopped, and put a hand on the taller girl's shoulder.
"Hey . . . Raine? Is it just me . . . or did it get real quiet?" the blonde teenager looked around blue eyes wide.
"All the cars are gone." Kale squinted and looked at the sky, frowning.
"Strange, it was sunny a little bit ago, now it looks like it's going to pour." The blonde shook her friend by the shoulders.
"How can you bee so CALM! All the cars and people and roads and things are GONE!"
The brunette raised a hand to keep her glasses in place. "Yes, I know all the people are gone. I will go into hysterics later, but now we need to find shelter and quickly."
Raine took a deep breath drawing on the strength of her friend. She looked Kale over, baggy cargo pants, plain gray shirt with a camo over shirt, eyes serious and comforting through thick glasses.
"Y-you're right, I'm sorry." The shorter teen hugged her.
"It's okay. We can do this, compared to Mrs. Guillory this is cake." This got a weak laugh from her friend and the brunette smiled,
"Now come on, I think there's a town over the hill to out left."
Hours later....
Raine snorted as what should have been classified as a monsoon continued to pound them.
"Over the hill. Right." She called, shouting to be heard over the wind.
Kale looked back at her only true friend, her jeans were almost black with water and her "Blame my therapist" T-shirt was a second skin.
"Sorry! I thought it was!" the blonde smiled slightly.
"Don't worry about it, at least we won't have to bathe!" The shorter ones laugh was lost in a rumble of thunder. Suddenly a figure came dashing out of the near darkness, as it collided with Kale; an ominous crunching sound reached her ears.
Raine's eyes widened as a shadowy figure collided with her friend.
"KALE!" Both figures dropped, the girl ran over her long legs getting her there in almost no time.
"Kale! Are you hurt?!" A convenient lighting flash illuminated a face she'd never thought she'd see this side of a TV screen.
"RAZIEL?!?!?!" The vampire was up and gone before she could do more then blink, she shook herself and knelt down next to her friend still yelling over the monsoon.
"Kale? Are you hurt?"
"Whoever it was stole my Camo shirt AND broke my glasses!" A small hand held up the bent frames containing one cracked lens.
"Crap." She stared at her mud-splattered friend, who was looking slightly bewildered and blinking trying to see.
"How much can you see?" The shorter girl shook her head, shouting over an energetic gust of wind.
"I wouldn't be able to see wing zero if I were standing on its foot." The blonde swore and pulled her friend up.
"Well he had to be running from something so all we've got to do is retrace his path."
"That will not be necessary." Both teenagers froze as armored men surrounded them
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Raine paced the perimeter of their cell, rubbing her arms against the draft, and wishing the men hadn't taken their shoes. Kale wept silently on the one cot the room contained. As promised she'd had hysterics, quietly in the corner.
The silence shattered as doors burst open and men began running about shouting. The blonde stepped over to the cot.
"Kale, If I lead could you run?" Kale looked up and wiped her eyes seeming to look past the taller girl.
"I-I guess I could . . . I'd stumble a lot though." The blue eyed teen grabbed her hands and pulled her up.
"I don't think it matters, just, be ready." Both heads shot up as screams reached them from outside, before they were cut ominously short. Kale patted her pocket making sure her ruined glasses were with her, and Raine grasped her wrist.
Butterflies danced wildly in the blonde's stomach and the sense of SOMETHING waiting to happen was almost unbearable.
"Something's coming." Kale's voice was loud in the terrified hush of the dungeons, and then her friend heard it to, slow soft footfalls, from . . .
"They're behind us." Raine whispered stiffening. She felt her arm stretch as Kale backed up.
"Raine, this wall is cracked . . ." Suddenly a harsh voice reached their ears,
"Move away from the wall if you wish to survive human." The blonde pulled her friend towards her turning to face the cracked wall; there was a thud and the bricks moved.
"Cover your eyes!" Raine gasped as she raised her arm. Kale brought her hands up to cover her face as a second blow shook the wall.
The third blow sent it shattering outwards and the warriors on the other side of the bars panicked as, from the darkness outside, four men attacked them. Raine looked out through the bars as the men grew fangs and began slaughtering their captors.
"Good God . . ." She jumped as Kale screamed. Raine whirled around to see, a tall pale man with sliver hair carrying Kale's now limp figure.
"Kain?!" She shivered as golden eyes pierced her.
"I will not ask how you know my name, we must go before Moebius arrives, I will carry your companion, keep up." The fortress was eerily empty, though the clashing of swords seemed to come from everywhere BUT where they were. Kale groaned and opened her eyes, and winced as Kain's armored shoulder drove into her stomach.
"Next time you pick me up, whoever you are, TRY not to bang my head on the ceiling." No response was forthcoming.
"I'm assuming that the blonde blur is you Raine?" The taller girl was having trouble keeping up with the vampire, and her response reflected it.
"Yeah," She panted, "S'me." The smaller teen's face turned pale as Kain's armor winded her yet again. Abruptly the cathedral ended and they were standing on the edge of a moat.
"Rahab!" Kale frowned, that voice sounded awfully familiar. A pale face surfaced from the water.
"Here milord."
"The others?"
"Leaving as we speak Milord."
"Good." Kale didn't have time to scream as he flung her over the edge, but strong arms caught her and helped her slip into the water. A small shriek informed her that Raine followed. Then all thought was driven from her mind save one,
"DAMN THATS COLD!" A clawed hand clamped over her mouth and the voice that had answered the familiar one hissed.
"Do you WISH to die?" She shook her head unconsciously treading water.
Raine looked on wide-eyed as the man, vampire? Held her up with one hand rebuking her friend before letting her drop the small distance herself. She barely managed to stifle another shriek, it WAS cold, and after the rain that afternoon she feared for her and her friends health.
"Follow me." The pale man disappeared beneath the dark water and Raine groaned, HOW was she supposed to follow him through this?! As if summoned a full moon shone down showing that the water was almost supernaturally clear and that, Rahab was it? Was waiting impatiently for them to follow.
"Kale, we have to swim. It looks like a long way." Kale sighed and looked at the blur that was her best friend.
"Sometimes I think fate saves stuff like this just for me so she can take me down a peg." The brunette looked down into a swirly blur she assumed was water.
"I hate not having my glasses."
"I told you, you should have switched to contacts." Said Raine taking hold of her wrist.
"Now come on, deep breath, I'll lead." Kale sighed and inhaled filling her diaphragm and lungs before diving below the icy surface.
A few hours later . . .
Kale's teeth chattered uncontrollably, she knew she was pudgy and was thanking the goddess for it now, Raine didn't look so good, the fall after the swim had knocked her out and the cross country hike hadn't done her any good. Rahab was now carrying her friend, no small feat.
"Are we there yet?" She asked attempting to follow him without falling flat on her face. Rahab sounded like he was talking through clenched teeth.
"If we were there yet you two would be out of my hair." She shouldn't, she knew she shouldn't but it just begged for a smart-ass remark.
"We're not in your hair, I know your ego is big but it couldn't have inflated your head THAT badly." A snarl ripped the air and the blur was very close to her face indeed.
"The only reason you live is because Kain would not be pleased to see his efforts wasted." Kale blinked as a blurred face slowly came into focus.
"So YOU'RE Rahab!" She thought for a little bit, studying him, "You're not that bad looking actually." He blinked and moved away again becoming a blur. The brunette sighed.
"I really wish that guy hadn't broken my glasses." There was a confused silence.
"Glasses? What are those?" Kale stumbled over a root, then dug in her pocket, producing the sad remains of what had once been a fine pair of spectacles.
"These. They used to help me see." The ruined glasses were plucked from her hand and silence descended.
At the Clan hold place thingy . . .
False dawn painted the sky as Rahab brought the girls to the giant gates of Kain's clan hold. Kale scrubbed her eyes with the heels of her hands.
"I can't feel my feet." And so saying she promptly passed out from exhaustion.
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Raine opened her eyes stifling a groan. She was warm but she ached all over, she remembered climbing out of the river that went into the moat and then slipping. She attempted to sit up and her head pulsed, it was slightly less then bomb strength.
"Ow, I feel like I got clocked by my History text book."
"Yeah, You hit your head pretty hard." Raine's eyes shot open and she looked up into Kale's slightly unfocused hazel eyes.
"Kale! Are you okay? Where are we? What happened?" The brunette smiled.
"Yes I'm fine, I have no clue, after you hit your head Rahab brought us here, and I passed out when we reached the gates. At least I'm assuming I did cause I don't remember anything after that."
"So, we're in a new place." Kale nodded.
"But not a cell." Again an affirmative nod. Raine moaned as her head throbbed again.
"Describe the room for me?" Kale chuckled softly.
"Well, there's a whitish blur that was my bed and a dark bluish blur that I think is a chair, there's a brown blur I'm guessing is a table and a blur on the wall that signifies a door." The blonde winced.
"I'm sorry, I forgot." The slightly pudgy teen chuckled again.
"It's alright, I don't mind. But it annoys me that I can't see your face . . . or anyone's face for that matter." There was true anguish in her voice and Raine took her hand.
"Hang in there, Once we get to a town I'm sure we can get you new glasses." Kale sighed.
"I just wish I knew who did it so I could clobber them."
Raine's eyes widened "That's right!"
"What is?" Asked a rather confused Kale. The bedridden girl grinned,
"I forgot to tell you who broke your glasses." There was an expectant silence. It stretched on for about a minute.
"Well?" Kale growled. Raine grinned.
"I know you're grinning now tell me, or I'll do IT." Raine snorted, and winced as her head throbbed again,
"You wouldn't do that to me in this condition but I'll tell you anyway. It was . . . Vampiric Raziel."
The girl's knees hit the floor with a thud as she knelt by the bed, "Raine, promise me you're not lying."
Raine raised her right hand, "I swear by the Hellsing series, it was Pre- fall Raziel." Kale's mouth dropped open.
"By the Goddess . . . and I MISSED it!" She put her head in her hands. Then raised it back up, "But he still stole my shirt, the jerk." There was quiet for a bit as they contemplated this.
"But why would he NEED it anyway?" pondered Raine, Kale shrugged.
"Because, The forest had ended and I didn't feel like becoming an acid burnt corpse."
Raine saw Kale stiffen, "The Hell! How did you get in here without me hearing you?" A soft chuckle ran over them like velvet and Raine shivered. Kale stopped looking when she saw a blur standing next to a brown black blur that meant the door was open.
"I AM a Vampire." Kale snorted.
"And I need to know this because?" there was a shocked silence and Kale raised an eyebrow as Raine burst into gales of laughter;
"I . . . bet you wouldn't be saying that if . . ." She broke off, laughing too hard to continue.
"If I could see him? You're right I wouldn't, I'd probably be picking my jaw off the floor." The brunette shrugged and smirked.
"I guess there are some advantages to being nearly blind after all." Raine managed to lift her head a little, her mirth driving away the pain as she saw Raziel's dumbstruck expression. She giggled, dropping back onto amazingly soft pillows.
"Oh my, Poor Raziel. Kale I wish you could see! He looks like he's been smacked with a board!" Both girls burst into laughter at this while the vampire merely stood there dumbstruck.
"I have had your, 'Glasses' repaired. While you slept"
Kale's head shot up, "Rahab?" She stood and looked at the second, new, blur that was moving towards her. "Indeed, I found a glassblower who said he could make new er. . ."
"Lenses." The teen prompted.
"Yes, and a blacksmith with enough skill to create the joints on the holder." Kale coughed slightly covering a laugh.
"Frame, it's called a frame." Her brow furrowed, "But that would have taken time . . ."
Raziel chuckled, "You HAVE been asleep for three days." Raine's jaw dropped, but kale shrugged.
"Ces`t la vie." And held out her hands for her new eyewear. She smiled as Rahab placed them in her hands. She opened up the legs and put the glasses on settling them on her nose.
" I CAN SEE!!" Everyone in the room winced as the cry echoed from the walls. Kale twirled and then gave Rahab a bear hug.
"Thank you SO much! You have NO idea how wonderful this is!" Rahab stood still, not sure weather to break away or just stand there. He settled for clearing his throat.
The short girl let go of him and cleared her throat as well, smiling sheepishly, "Sorry, sorry. Shouldn't have done that, but it's so nice to see!"
Raine winced, "Yes, We can tell, you seem intent on letting the world know." Kale grinned, blushing slightly.
Raziel chuckled softly, "Well now Kain knows you are awake, I might as well take you to meet him." Kale's mouth dropped.
"Ohmigod, I'm going to MEET Kain. It's a dream come true!" She stopped for a moment.
"Or a nightmare depending on if I ate Chili for dinner or not." She winked at Raine eyes gleaming, and the blonde fell victim to another laughing fit. Kale snuck a peek at the vampires and began laughing herself.
"He DOES look like he's been smacked by a board!" She rubbed her eyes, which were beginning to tear slightly.
"Ahhh, I'm sorry, stress relief, now. Take me to your leader!"
Raine pulled back the covers, stood up, "Give me a minute." And proceeded to crack her knuckles, neck, back, wrists, and ankles. Kale sighed.
"I wish I could do that."
Rahab shuddered.
In Kain's Throne room . . .
Kale attempted to look at everything as Raziel ushered them into Kain's throne room, where both teens were promptly shocked.
Kale gasped, "By the Goddess! They still stand!"
Raine looked up at the decaying pillars, eyes wide, "But that's not possible! According to Blood Omen I they should be . . ."
"I know." Kale frowned slightly mouth moving as seven vampires stared at them.
"Okay I think I've got it, We're from an alternate reality right? But each reality has parallels where decisions were made differently, so, if there were MAJOR changes then this would be completely different from the reality of LoK that WE know." Raine frowned and stared at the pillars for a bit.
"So what you're saying is we're in a parallel universe of an alternate reality?" Kale nodded, and Raine snorted.
"Why not just call it an alternate universe?" the shorter girl grinned,
"That would be to simple for my insectoid brain and elephantine ego."
"Enough. Who are you, and where are you from?" Kale twitched, and turned to face the, oddly familiar voice, ready to verbally flay the intruder alive, and then she realized who she was about to dis, and WHY this was a bad idea. Raine elbowed her in a 'you first' gesture.
Kale glared and muttered "Fine, but if he's going to be rude, then I'M going to be over the top." She grinned and stepped forward bowing.
"Most Honorable Lord Kain! I am Kale, I am 19 years old and a bibliophile, I come from a normal white, middle class, suburban home and I am generally considered to be an odd girl who knows more about sex then most teenaged males."
Raine put her face in her hands torn between laughing, growling, and running away screaming. She managed to lift her face long enough to say, "I'm Raine, same age as her, We're from America, don't ask we couldn't explain it to you even if we knew how."
Kale stepped back and winced as the anticipated thwap upside the head was delivered, with more force then strictly necessary.
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End chapter one! Heh, heh, I realize it was probably a bit confusing so I'll be using 1st person P.O.Vs in the next one.