The creatures of the night
Come up upon me
They break my bones
They snap my spine
They slit my throat
They tear out my aching, bleeding heart
I feel nauseous and sick
I feel like I am floating on air
Somewhere between life and death
That's when I notice
The two sharp, pointy fangs stuck in my neck
They come out of my neck with a sickening slurp
And I fall face forward,
Dead
Onto the bare chest
Of the man I thought was my lover
I thought that was the end
But then I feel a slick metallic liquid
Run down the back of my dead, graying throat
Slide over my swollen, untasting tongue
Coat my once shiny, white teeth
I realize then that it's blood
And that it's not mine
I feel a deep hunger stirring in my abdomen
And the back of my mind
I feel cold heat return to my face
And I now have feeling back in my dead limbs
I lift up my head to look at the man
Who has destroyed my life eternally
And I smile
I smile a deadly smile
One with deadly fangs
And then I take out the wooden stake I brought with me
And stab him through the heart
He turns to dust in my arms
And I let loose maniacal laughter
For I am immortal
And I am a vampire.
- A Vampire's Betrayal,
copyright Hayley Hutchings, 2005
On the world known as Traverse Town people happily reside, knowing what is out there, but not at the same time. They think they know of everything that goes on, on their world but they are heavily mistaken.
After midnight when the townspeople start filing into the first district for coffee and start heading back to their homes is when they come out. When there are only a few stragglers left in the second district.
They look like humans and maybe at one time they were, but now they are only monsters. They feed on the stragglers and if the people are strong enough they decide to turn them into one of them.
They are vampires.
A schism occurred many, many centuries ago that divided the vampires of Traverse Town forever.
A schism so large that it could never be repaired...
Vampires began being slaughtered left and right after the schism occurred. It seemed that some of the humans had picked up on the division in the ranks of the vampires. These humans called themselves the Slayers. They would purposely go out after most had gone home and to bed so that they could hunt those that feed on the blood of the helpless.
The Slayers were very successful in their endeavors until the betrayal of Rydia the Caller. Rydia had been the leader of the Slayers for many years until she fell in love with one of the vampires and turned. This betrayal caused dissention amongst the ranks of the Slayers and in the end rendered them useless.
The Slayers still existed after that incident but were heavily weakened and lost power in Traverse Town quickly. They were forced to take refuge in the underground to escape the wrath of the vampires.
The Vampires, who had yet to form actual sides decided to take this break in the reign of the Slayers to form those sides and go to war. The older ones became known as AVALANCHE and the younger ones became SeeD.
They warred and warred while the Slayers grew stronger in the underground. One day, approximately one hundred thirty two years from the day of Rydia's betrayal, the Slayers resurfaced again. They washed over the ranks of the vampires, killing, murdering, and slaughtering the vampires with cold blood.
After the resurfacing of the Slayers, the vampires' numbers were greatly reduced. They hid back in the shadows, avoiding human contact at all costs. Their kills were now usually made in broad daylight, in the back alleys where it was dark enough for them to exist without being burned from the sunlight.
This surge of power remained for the Slayers until the betrayal of their two greatest members: Terra Branford and Celes Chere.
They had come in contact with the once great leader of the Slayers, Rydia the Caller. She had talked to them well into the night, explaining what it means to be a vampire of SeeD and why it was the best decision to make in their position.
They became vampires working for SeeD that night, both sired by the great Rydia.
This once again put dissention and chaos amongst the ranks of the Slayers and many of the stronger members, including Faris Scherwiz and her sister Reina Tycoon, defected to the side of the vampires.
The vampires ruled the town after that day with the Slayers never making much progress in anything. They destroyed shops and killed people viciously not even bothering to make them vampires.
So the cycle went on with the vampires gaining and losing power to the Slayers.
Today we are in the middle of the seventh reign of the Vampires.
The Slayers are weak and don't currently show any hope of becoming strong soon.
We, the townspeople of Traverse Town, can only hope that rule will come to the Slayers soon, for our lives depend on it.
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A/N: This was written by me, Mizuki. It's the intro to our story. I really hope that you like it because I worked really hard on writing this and arranging and writing parts of the next chapter. It's kind of a funky idea but it should start taking real shape in the next few chapters.
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Disclaimer: Mizuki Kurenaida, Vampiegurl, and KairiLuv hold no ownership rights to Kingdom Hearts or any of the Final Fantasies.
