Princess of Night

Hey, so this is the story that won my poll. Again, which one it is should be obvious from the title. I have made a typical outfit for the main character on Polyvore again.

Anything you recognise is not mine.

SK

Name: Princess Kisara Elizabeth Nosferatu

Age: 419 (looks 19)

Height: 5'7"

Hair colour: black

Eye colour: Sapphire blue

Animal form(s): Black cat, Black dog, bat, Silver dragon, Black Hawk

Other powers: Hypnotism, Telekinesis, Mind-reading (Telepathy), Psychic (can see the future), Mutatio humanae victus vampiri (the ability to turn a human into a living/aging vampire), Super speed

Family: Sister (Lady Marian Alice Nosferatu)

Name: Lady Marian Alice Nosferatu

Age: 353 (looks 16)

Height: 5'3"

Hair colour: Blonde

Eye colour: Sky blue

Animal form(s): White cat, bat, White dove

Other powers: Hypnotism, Mind-reading, Telekinesis, Mutatio humanae victus vampiri (the ability to turn a human into a living/aging vampire), Super speed

Family: Sister (Princess Kisara Elizabeth Nosferatu)

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Prologue

She'd watched him for years, nurtured his growth. In all her existence she'd never seen a human with anywhere near the amount of potential that he had. She'd first seen him when he was just 12, the amount of sadness that he'd seen in his short life was more than most people had to bear in three times as many years. His strength and courage impressed her more than anyone else had in her long years. She was old, far older than anyone else. That's why she was the Princess of Night, a vampire of immense age and powers. She'd been born towards the end of 1590, on December the 27th to two vampire parents. Thus she was a vampire that aged. Until her 10th birthday she aged normally, after that she only aged one year for every 22 years. Currently she looked like she was 19 whereas she was actually 419. There were no other vampires that even came close to the same age as her, most of them lasted only around 200 years before a hunter caught up with them, they got careless and people would realise that they weren't aging. The only vampire who was even close to her age was her younger sister, Lady Marian Alice Nosferatu, but even then there was 66 years between them. She was proud to say that she could clearly remember watching several of Shakespeare's plays the very first time they were performed, including: Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Macbeth and The Tempest. In all that time she'd never seen a human that intrigued her, until she saw Seto Kaiba.

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Chapter 1

For years now Seto Kaiba had had the feeling that someone was watching him. Strangely enough he never felt threatened by the presence, instead it was almost as if someone was watching over him. He'd also had a strange way with animals; ever since he was 12 he'd been able to get close to various black cats, black dogs, bats and black hawks. It was always those animals in those colours; if he didn't know any better he'd say that it was the same animals, but that was impossible. Whenever he was upset, for any reason, one of those animals always seemed to show up and make him feel better.

And that was just what he needed now, he might be 19 but in the business world age counted. There were numerous company owners who wouldn't do deals with him due to his age and there were others who would set odd conditions. This situation was one of the latter, Toshio Tanaka, one of the most prominent businessmen from Tokyo, had refused to do business with Seto unless he attended Aiko Tanaka (Toshio's daughter)'s 16 birthday party, a masquerade ball. He knew what Toshio was thinking, Daddy's Little Girl wanted him at her party so she could try and become his girlfriend, something which no doubt Toshio would be pleased with. If he didn't need a part of the technology that Toshio could provide, then he would have just forgotten the whole thing. As it was, he was getting ready for this masquerade ball, something he really didn't want to go to.

After he got there things didn't get better. Aiko and all her friends started to cluster round him as soon as he got there; in fact, Aiko was the worst of the lot. She had bleached blond hair, large fake breasts (a birthday present from her father) and was wearing the shortest pink mini-dress that showed way too much fake cleavage. Eventually, when Aiko realised that she wasn't going to get him to dance with her, they left him alone and he was able to 'hide' in a corner out of the way. The loud clubbing song that was currently playing faded and 'Angel' by Westlife started up. Lazily Seto looked around when suddenly his attention was fixed on the stairs to the ballroom. Two girls were stood at the top and were walking down in time to the music, their movements graceful. One looked about 16 while the other seemed to be 19, the same age as Seto. They were as different from each other as night and day; the younger of the two had softly curling blonde hair that was held back by two Victorian style clips, she was wearing an ivory coloured dress with silver embellishments on the straps and between the bust that ended just above her knees, silver high-heels, pearl jewellery (stud earrings, a pearl choker and matching bracelets) and a white lace mask. She wore pale pink lipstick and silver eyeliner around her sky blue eyes. The other one had long black hair that hung straight, on top of her head was silver tiara studded with what looked like hundreds of tiny diamonds. She wore a plain black dress that stopped just below her knees and a pair of satin peep-toe high-heeled pumps, in her ears she had a pair of silver earrings that had a small oval pale emerald with a teardrop-shaped black diamond below it. Around her slender neck was a matching black velvet choker. She had a black satin mask with silver embellishments and black feathers covering her face. She wore blood red lipstick on her perfect and smiling lips; black eyeliner framed her almond-shaped sapphire blue eyes. Both girls had very pale skin, both had a similar face making it obvious that they were sisters, and both were painfully, heart-stoppingly beautiful, although Seto felt that the older girl was the more beautiful.

At the bottom of the stairs they paused and looked around, the older one's eyes fell on Seto and rested there before she turned to her sister. They spoke for a few seconds, seemingly oblivious to all the eyes on them. They then went separate ways, the younger sister going straight towards a group of young men and she was soon dancing with one of them, some heir to a fortune and, from the look on Aiko's face, Aiko's current boyfriend. The other one had walked to the edge of the room and promptly vanished, much to Seto's disappointment.

"Looking for someone?" A musical woman's voice asked from behind him. Seto whirled around and saw, to his surprise and intense pleasure, the woman he'd been watching.

"How did you get behind me?" Seto demanded, deliberately not answering her question. She gave a light and musical laugh.

"Why don't we go for a walk outside and I'll explain out there. My sister can manage in here for a while." She smiled lightly. After a few moments Seto nodded his consent and offered his arm to her.

"Such a gentleman." She said with another smile, linking her arm through his.

Once outside they walked to a cherry tree that was covered in tiny twinkling fairy lights. Underneath it was a bench which Seto and the woman sat down. There was silence for a few moments before Seto looked at her.

"Would you mind answering my question?" He asked, a little irritated. This caused her to emit that musical laugh again.

"Always so focused. I simply moved quicker than most do. I can do many things that most people can't." She explained.

"Such as?" Seto asked, curious in spite of himself.

"To tell you that I'd have to tell you something even bigger than them." She smiled, getting up to go back inside. Before she could move Seto grabbed her arm.

"Then why don't you?" He asked. She looked back at him, a sadness in her eyes that hadn't been there before.

"If I tell you then you might run." She said softly.

"I promise I won't." He replied, for some reason desperate to make this beauty stop feeling sad. She simply looked at him for several moments before sitting down once more.

"First of all I may look human but I'm not, I'm a decidedly older species that can blend in with humans so well that humans don't even know that we really exist. We also have much longer life-spans than humans, I'm actually older than I look and am physically." She said before pausing, watching for his reaction.

"What species are you then if you aren't human?" Seto asked calmly. She sighed a sigh of relief, this was obviously the reaction she was hoping for.

"I'm a vampire." She replied softly, looking almost terrified that he would freak out and run. The effect her words had on Seto was instantaneous, he froze, his back poker straight.

"Are you making fun of me? There's no such thing as vampires." He hissed, looking annoyed at the thought that she was trying to make a joke out of him.

"Do you think that these are a joke?" She hissed back, showing a pair of long and curved, ivory coloured fangs. Again Seto froze but this time out of shock and slight fear. This caused the vampire to roll her eyes.

"Oh calm down, I'm not going to rip out your throat." She sighed in exasperation.

"Well excuse me for being careful when I've just found out that vampires are real and that I'm sat right next to one." Seto scowled causing her to laugh again.

"Trust me, I'm not going to hurt you. I've spent far to long protecting you to kill you." She smiled.

"What do you mean protecting me?" Seto asked suspicious.

"I've spent years watching over you and your brother and using my powers to make sure that you're alright." She replied.

"Like what?" Seto asked, curious again.

"Was is in Gozaburo's character to commit suicide?" She asked, Seto shook his head after a moment.

"After you took Kaiba Corp off him, he was going to kill you. I couldn't let that happen so I…convinced… him that it would be better for him to kill himself." She continued carefully. Seto was shocked, she'd just admitted to being responsible for his adoptive father's death but strangely he didn't feel threatened by her, rather he instinctively realised that she'd done it to protect him.

She felt very nervous after her admission, and, when he didn't say anything, thought that he was going to take what she'd said badly so started to get up to leave. Seto noticed this and, before she could get up, he gently took hold of her hand.

"So one of you're powers is mind control, what are your other ones?" He asked, causing her to look at him.

"So you're not bothered that I'm the reason for Gozaburo killing himself?" She asked, looking a little unsure.

"No, as you explained, at the time it was him or me and you chose to help me." Seto replied with a very slight but very genuine smile. She sighed, for some reason him telling her that he wasn't upset really reassured her.

"Well firstly, I don't have mind control, it's actually hypnotism, but I can read minds, move objects using my mind and see partway into the future. Like all vampires I can move very fast but I'm one of two vampires who can turn a human into a vampire that can age if I so choose. I have more powers than any other vampire and I'm also the oldest vampire in existence." She explained carefully watching Seto for some sign that he was taking what she'd said badly.

"Why do you have more powers than any other vampire?" Seto asked, her hand still held firm in his.

"Because I'm the eldest vampire to be born one, my family have always been born as vampires. Because I'm the eldest I'm next in line to be the Vampire Queen, I will ascend to the throne when I turn my mate into a vampire that ages." She explained.

"Your mate? And who's that?" Seto asked, for some reason his heart falling slightly.

"Yes, my mate. Every vampire has one. As for who it is. I'm afraid that's a wait-and-see kind of answer." She replied smiling. She looked up at the sky.

"It's going to rain soon. We'd better get inside." She said, standing up. Seto stood up with her and, letting go of her hand, offered his arm to her once more.

Once they walked back inside, Seto noticed that there was no sign of the vampire's sister or the boy she'd been dancing with.

"Typical Marian, always has to choose straight away." She muttered as she walked with Seto.

"What was that?" Seto asked, even though he'd heard her.

"Nothing, just relates to what we were talking about outside." She replied looking at him with a smile on her lips.

"You know, you never told me your name." Seto pointed out.

"You know you're right, it's Kisara." She smiled causing Seto to give a slight smile in return, one which only Kisara noticed. She turned and started to walk away, before she turned and looked back at him.

"By the way, Seto. Just so you know, who I'm choosing tonight will mean nothing to me. I'll see you again soon." She said with a smile and a wink before she walked off the that same group that her sister had. She danced with several different members of the group before finally stopping and leaving the room with one. Seto didn't see either of the sisters or the young men that had left with them again that night. He left not long after them as he refused to stay and put up with the mindless flirting of Aiko and her friends any longer.