Disclaimer: I do not own the names or characters of Mai Hime/Otome, nor a lot of the concept presented within this story. I just write to express myself.

Authors Note: WARNING! This is for Mature Audiences only as it will contain adult situations that may not be appropriate for minors.

On another Note: To those waiting for an update from my other story Protect, Serve and Love. I apologize for the lack there of update, for at times it is hard to relay what is upon your mind onto paper. It's all in my head, but it won't come out right on paper, so I have placed it on the side for the moment. Rest assured though I will complete it, perhaps not as quickly as some of you would hope, but bear with me. You've come this far with me with that story, so I will not abandon it. It is a dear piece of work that holds a special place within my heart, and has blossom into something that I am proud of which also makes it harder to write as I wish for it to be the best.

Pertaining to Betrayal, I am uncertain when that story will be updated, as it's a very complex story line that I've got set up. So it could be years before I update it again. My apologize for those of you hoping for quick updates.

And on to this story Salvation. It is a given that some writers and readers may say the concept of vampires, werewolves and demons have been over utilized. Hopefully this one will intrigue you as the reader and keep you upon your feet, till the very end. It is Shiznat based from start to finish with other characters. So those of you Shizuru and Natsuki fans I presume will enjoy this one. Like my other story, love is something that comes with growth between the two individuals. This is my first attempt when it comes to Mature themes and honestly as adults (in my presumption that adults are the only ones reading this) one should understand what it entails.

Without further a do, I give you the first installment of Salvation.

In the year 1175 of countess Viola, our story begins of the last known noble pure blood vampire to walk the plains of mortal and immortal alike. One would never suspect that an insurance business building in the heart of Windbloom City, the capital of Death Valley was actually one of a few inter-dimensional portals between the world of humanity and Immortals such as vampires, werewolves and demons alike.

Shizuru wasn't exactly an enigma. She was just the last pure blood and direct descendant of Dracula himself, making her queen of all vampires, a title which held very little weight in her opinion. Shizuru's nobility was a special case, one of the reasons many feared her, while some showered her with such title as the damned, one condemned to the depths of eternal damnation and would never learn the true meaning of salvation. It wasn't that she was sired or bitten as some would say by a noble pure blood. On the contrary she was born from the seeds of Dracula himself.

In the year 6918 of count Dracula, he had bedded a human. Little did he know that this mortal woman had minuscule traces of demonic genes embedded in her DNA. Demonic sexual innuendos between humans were very common when demons ruled the plains of immortals. It was how they kept their numbers from dwindling. However after their kind was nearly wiped out from extinction by the werewolves over a millennium ago, such escapades were no longer tolerated. Those half-bred abominations were all but wiped out, yet a handful managed to escape the cleansing spreading their genetic atrocity into the earthly world. Sadly the demonic trait was dominated by the human genetic trait and was completely eradicated save a handful of unsuspecting individuals who carried it rooted inside them.

Vampires were in a sense kind of like the walking dead capable of processing information so they couldn't really breed with humans, werewolves or demons. They could only sire them by means of biting them and infusing their blood with them. Siring humans was okay, but siring werewolves and demons was punishable by death. Intermingling between the species was strictly prohibited except for humans, because they were the lesser of the beings, easily changed and seen as a valuable food source numbering in the billions.

It wasn't as though Dracula was a heartless man, he just had issues that was very complex in nature. One would say his long rule had drove him to madness. Oddly enough though, he was able to, during that short moment in his existence find a sense of calm from that mortal woman. He had bedded many women before him and they were but brief in nature and lasted but a night. Yet this woman he could not seem to tear himself from her after the first night of laying with her. He continued his pursuit of her knowing full well that such a thing could not happen. On the night of the second full moon he had vow to part ways with her, but learned from her own lips that she was pregnant with his child. Enraged by such news he fled unable to grasp the concept that he could sire an abomination. Determined to kill the woman and child growing within her, he was on his way back to finish the task when one of his confidants approached him with some insight.

Dracula having listened to his confidant saw reason enough to keep the child growing within the woman alive. And on the fourth full moon after Dracula had laid with the woman, Shizuru was born, the process killing her mother. Shizuru's birth wasn't a secret to the immortal realm. Many said her birthing was the end of his reign, while other's said it was a curse upon the vampire race, yet a handful stated that it was a miracle between two lovers. Dracula had kept her from the eyes of those who would do her harm until she had aged enough to learn of her rightful place. Shizuru's aging had slowed down upon reaching her 21st birthday, an anomaly that no one could ever explain.

In the year 7000 of count Dracula prior to his long slumber, he left the care of his realm to Shizuru who was now 82 years of age, yet looked but 21 in age. While he recuperated from the century of being awake, Shizuru was tasked with governing the other noble houses of vampire. During her father's slumber she would learn of many things that she would come to detest, most of all her own birth. She had learned from her father that as nobility she was only allow to sire one vampire while she was awake. She also learned that she was the third to be sired by Dracula, even though she wasn't sired the normal way, his blood still flowed in her veins. One of her father's sired had perished before it could sire another and the other one she would learn of him later in life. So Shizuru had decided that she would not sire any offspring. She would be the last to carry on his legacy and if the other sire wanted to fight for her position she would be willing to accept the challenge when the time came.

During her aimless ventures she visited the territories of demons and werewolves and became well acquainted with Mashiro and Arika the pack leaders governing the werewolf domain during that time. Arika had stated at one time that the two of them knew Shizuru was soon approaching because they had felt her presences a day in advance and Shizuru had laughed it off. When it came to vampires the more presence you projected spoke volumes as to where you fell on the ladder. Being that Shizuru was the sire of Dracula, you can say head turns and gossips were heard of her coming long before she arrived within the town. It was also a way to keep lesser vampires from harming you, for the mere presence of Shizuru scared all but a few from the highest class of nobility. Before her first slumber Shizuru had learned how to grasp the basic concept of how powerful she really was and had even learned to conceal her own presence when she so wanted too. Her father had told her the best way to learn of her abilities was to experience it firsthand so he did very little in teaching her, and she had been grateful that he had allowed her to do as she pleased.

xxxx

Shizuru had paused briefly to watch the sun set before continuing her calm stroll. She would come to learn after killing her father that she could walk in the sun, due to her half human genes shielding her from the rays of the suns that would kill a normal vampire in the mortal realm. It was one of the greatest pleasures she felt for having been born thus lessening the guilt of her own birth. It was also a trait that many vampires would soon come to envy and would eventually try to recreate by means of attempting to slay her or take her blood. All attempts were in vain as they were either slain by her hand before being successful and if, the key word being if. Even if they managed to succeed the rays sun would burn them. It was apparent that the key lied not in her genetic blood but in her human genetic makeup. So as the centuries passed the attempts on her life lessened, yet there were still some foolish enough to believe such a thing leaving her to be cautious at all times.

Shizuru exhaled a breath of exasperation, watching the humans stroll around so causally, not a clue to the dangers that lurked so close by. She was lost in thought and didn't notice that someone had bumped into her before the individual apologized.

Shizuru smiled, "It's quite alright, I was not paying attention to where I was headed." While making the remark she studied the young lady who had an arm wrapped around a young man's, whom was waiting patiently.

The young lady slightly embarrassed and a little bit stunned by Shizuru's beauty quickly dismissed the remark, "No, no it was my fault for being in a rush with my husband I did not see you," but in truth it was those crimson eyes that mesmerized the humans and at times scared the immortals, yet reminded her of her birth right.

The young man had turned around to see why his wife had stopped and upon noticing Shizuru he gulped, "It was partially my fault for rushing her," whether out of fright or the mere presence of Shizuru, she would never know and did not care to find out.

Shizuru couldn't help but chuckle, "It appears that since we all are apologizing I would presume we are all at fault and therefore should not worry about the matter as we are aware of the situation and there was no harm done."

It was an hour after the incident and Shizuru found herself in bed with the two of them. How did it happen, she couldn't quite figure out. All that she knew was one thing led to another and before she knew it she was lying in bed, the young lady fondling her breast and her husband caressing the other one. She could tell by their movements and how they didn't seem too distracted by the fact that she was there, that the two of them were involved in this kind of scenario on more than one occasion. It just so happened that on this occasion Shizuru was the lucky one, or was it them for being able to caress and touch an immortal such as Shizuru. Either or she was just glad that she would be able to find some pleasures of the flesh before her long slumber.

The young lady brought Shizuru out of her thoughts with a deep kiss with her lips, causing Shizuru to moan slightly, a smile spreading across her lips. "I wonder how is it that you keep your skin so soft Viola," the lady asked after breaking apart from the kiss.

Ah, yes she remembered telling them that her name was Viola. It wasn't as though she was afraid of giving out her real name, on the contrary she knew that after this night the two would not remember her and all that remained would be like a memory or dream. It was a little something she did to those who she became intimate with, a precaution of sorts, so that there were no lingering effects of lust and desire towards her. Shizuru wasn't keen on having a lover, let alone one obsessed with her and constantly seeking her out. She had learned her lesson and it would seem that lesson is still pestering her to this day.

"I cannot tell you my sweetie for it is a secret that only I am allowed to know," Shizuru teasingly responded as she glided her right hand along the spine of the young lady. In truth she wondered, how they would take it if she told them she was a vampire one with such presence that it would scare the lot off with a simple smile. Softly chuckling, she reminded herself the last time she did such a thing the fool had tried to kill her causing her to kill the individual instead.

Shizuru watched in sensual desire as the young woman arched her body, spreading her woman hood to her husband who easily glided his phallus into her. It was nothing new to Shizuru, during the course of her life, she had bedded many men and women alike. Her first time with either sex was rather awkward, but she soon learned through her course of intimacy how to please both sexes. It wasn't as though she preferred either or, she just loved the pleasures of the flesh. In truth it was the only time she truly felt human whether or not she would be willing to admit it to herself, and she found no fault in it as long as no one was harmed and the parties consented to such acts.

So there she laid on her side, her left hand propping her head up while her right hand fondled the young lady's breast as she watched the husband thrust into his wife's woman hood gently at first, then quickly prior to the two reaching their peaks of euphoria. As the lady cried out the husband pulled out spilling his seed upon the stomach of his wife.

Shizuru raised an eyebrow upon seeing what had occurred, but didn't question it. She watched while the wife laid there a solemn mood descending upon the young lady as she excused herself from the bed. The husband then turned to Shizuru, his phallus was still rather erect and enlarged not quite sedated by the previous actions.

"Ara," Shizuru smiled at him as he hovered above her, before parting her legs with his own, and without waiting to see if she was ready he pushed himself inside of her filling her completely with his manhood. Shizuru gasped out loud and clawed at his back as a means of punishment for being so rude to a lady.

As he quickened his pace pushing deeper into her with his phallus, Shizuru questioningly asked, "Will…uh…she….oh….be…ah…alright," He paused his thrusting inside of her and raised an eyebrow questioningly before replying his breath heavy from exertion, "She wants a child but I am not yet ready for one."

Shizuru wrapped her legs around the young man's buttocks securing him in her grasp finally calming her breathing down she asked, "And why is it that you are not ready?"

A little bit annoyed at her questions he rolled them over so that Shizuru was on top of him. He started thrusting into her again using his hips while his hands glided along her stomach to grasp her breast responding in between breaths, "It is that… I am… uh… not ready…ah… You could say… I…oh gawd…am afraid…fuck…mm…that I might…ah…not…be…oh...a good father."

Shizuru smiled at the response and lean down whispering into the young man's ear, "That is no reason to not have a child. If you don't allow yourself to experience it how can you say that you will or will not be a good father?"

The husband pushed Shizuru off sitting up he looked at Shizuru who was now lying on her stomach not attempting to make any move. So he grabbed her by the hips lifting her rear end up enough so that he could position himself behind her, before thrusting into her yet again stating in irritation, "When it happens it will happen."

Shizuru moaned as he roughly dug his hands into her hips when he pulled out and thrust into her roughly yet again. In a sense he was trying to tell her he was the one who would be doing the talking with his pride and she couldn't help but chuckled as he continued his thrusting.

"How can you know if you don't ever let it happen," Shizuru cried out as he glided his left hand down in between her legs to pinch her most sensitive nub.

However before the young man could answer his wife walked back into the room a smile on her face and Shizuru could tell that the expression on her face was one of lust and sexual desire. The husband looked at the wife exclaiming, "Fuck I'm going to…" Shizuru smirk when she heard that and felt the young man pull out of her before he spilled his seed onto her back. She had already reached the peak of her orgasm when he pinched her sensitive nub. Rolling off the bed she excused herself.

When she came back into the room she was clothed already. She had enjoyed their company very much and it was getting late into the evening or early morning as some might say. While she watched the two continue their love making, she left a little bit of a commanding essence on the husband. She left him with a desire to spill his seeds deep into his wife's womb upon reaching his orgasm.

Shizuru masking her presence and making sure her essence would vanish upon leaving the room, left only the lingering dream like state for the two individuals who cried out in unison as they both reached the last of their peaks this day. She left knowing full well that the man came inside of his wife.

Shizuru had an odd sense of helping those whom had unknowingly brighten her day or mood. One could say Shizuru was malice or cruel, but those who said that only knew of her on the battlefield or heard rumors of her cruelty in slaughtering those who would harm her and those near her. Shizuru only had a handful of people she entrusted her life too and when it came to everyone else she could care less, as long as there was no ill intent or malice against those who were under her care.

xxxx

Midori paced back and forth in the lobby area waiting for Shizuru to return, and upon seeing Shizuru's wispy cloud form. One she only utilized if she wished to travel quickly from place to place without being detected by the lower class vampires and mortals. Midori called out before Shizuru vanished from her sight, "Hey I saw you Viola, get your ass back here I need to talk to you about something."

Midori wasn't a vampire, she was human through and through. She just so happened to work inside the insurance building connecting the two universes together and she wasn't the only one. The side effect was that aging had stopped for the humans working in the building. Shizuru had set up the building as a safe haven for both humans and immortals alike. It was a neutral zone, and being that it was in her territory the werewolves and demons had no say in it what so ever. Shizuru's real building of operations and her mansion was a good ten miles from the insurance building on a hill overlooking the city including the building.

Shizuru had paused in her stride turning around, sometimes she was perplexed that a few humans were able to pick up her presence but none of the other vampires could. Then again Midori wasn't just any normal human she had been with Shizuru for a good 300 years, and she wasn't the only one. Yohko was there too, because Midori was there. Shizuru was fortunate enough to have both of them working alongside her. Yet sometimes she wondered how she was able to put up with them.

"Yes, Midori what can I do for you?" Shizuru stated calmly, she wasn't really in a rush, after all she was heading to her deep slumber and it would be some time before she saw Midori again. A few minutes of her time to straighten some things out wouldn't do her any harm.

Midori paused upon catching up with Shizuru, "You smell like sex."

Shizuru smirked an eyebrow raised, "Really now, is that what Midori wants to talk to me about. I have been wondering when you would take me up on my offer."

Midori took a step back flabbergasted, "What gosh no, Shizuru. Yohko would have my head and that's not what I wanted to talk to you about." Shizuru watched when Midori pulled out a watch of some sort as she stated, "So I created a new device, ingenious I do say so myself but don't tell anyone. Anyways these things are embedded with nano-machines."

Shizuru looked at Midori stating the obvious, "Midori does know that watches have been around for centuries now right."

Dismissing the remark Midori continued her explanation, "You know how you've stated that you wanted to know where all your military scout guards were at all times, so that you can plan accordingly if something were to happen. Well I have the solution."

Shizuru was thoroughly intrigued now and motioned for Midori to continue by not saying anything. Midori smiled, "Well human technology has advance rather quickly this past century and who knows, maybe the next time you wake up they'll be in space. Anyways what I was saying is that I can create a watch that is genetically engineered for that particular individual. The nano-machinces will be able to tell us their location as well as their status. If at any time one of them is killed we will be alerted. I mean when vampires die they turn in to ashes right, so in that moment the nano-machines are short circuited frying the watch out, there for no one else can use it. Once it's embedded to you, it doesn't come off anymore until you're dead."

Shizuru interrupted, "So you're saying they're stuck with that ugly thing until their untimely deaths. I don't know. I wouldn't want them to presume that I am punishing them."

Midori opened her mouth then clearly stated, "I can work on the design, if you so wish. But if you give me the okay I would like to get this started and when you wake again you'll see how awesome it has become."

Shizuru exhaled, "Very well, but I want this to be a mandatory watch for all the vampires who so chooses to work under me. It is not a matter of distrust if the issue is brought up but it is a matter of knowing in case of a dire need for medical attention or matters of utmost important. And please do come up with a better design for the watch. I do look forward to seeing the final product upon my reawakening."

Midori nodded and trotted off happily. Shizuru couldn't help but inwardly smiled, "She will always be a teenager through and through even though she has been with me for nearly 300 years. I do wonder how Yohko handles her at times. I must remind myself to ask her that."

When Shizuru reached her mansion she was bombarded with questions from Haruka her most loyal of subject, even though at times Haruka has a dire need to throttle Shizuru. After a brief moment of answering all her questions Haruka backed off. She was simply asking out of concern, but she would never admit it. Haruka had allowed Shizuru to travel by herself outside only because she knew that Shizuru would be entering the realm of mortals and saw no need to burden her with guards. No nobility would go into the realm of mortals except for Shizuru, all the others deemed themselves to high up to do such a thing. Their food and supplies where procured by the lesser vampires that worked for them. Haruka knew Shizuru could handle a good couple hundred or so lesser vampires by herself without breaking a sweat.

Shizuru had left to bathe and upon finishing her bath Yukino was waiting for her in her bed chambers. Shizuru's teasing nature couldn't let such a sight go to waste, "Ara, is Yukino here to accompany me on my long slumber."

Yukino shied away causing Shizuru to inwardly chuckle, "Always the shy one aren't you," when she heard a thunderous voice exclaim, "Not to offend Shizuru, but Yukino will be preoccupied with other matters while you slumber."

"Pity, and here I thought I wouldn't be slumbering alone for such long periods of time anymore." Shizuru pouted causing Haruka to state, "Then don't and stay awake."

Shizuru sighed, "You know I cannot do that Haruka, as nobility and cursed by my own blood I am bound to sleep as that is the only way to regain my strength. At times I do wish I was a lesser vampire, so that I would not have to slumber half or nearly a century away before waking. I do miss so much while I slumber."

Haruka stunned into stupor by the honesty in the remark couldn't say anything so Yukino spoke up ever so softly, "Please do not say that Shizuru. You require your rest so that you can continue to keep the peace among the other lesser nobilities. You are the last of your line and the only true pure blood of Dracula. We do not even know of what has become of your father's other sire, the only other one who is suppose to be alive. Without your guidance there would be mayhem I am sure of it. So while you slumber rest assured that we will do our best to keep things in check until you awake again."

Haruka added, "Exactly what Yukino said Shizuru. So shut up already and go to sleep."

Shizuru laughed, "I am glad you two are in my services. Until I awake again be safe."

Haruka and Yukino watched as Shizuru laid herself down into the coffin before they closed it securing it tightly. No one could open it save the three of them who were in that room. Shizuru could open it at any time upon awakening. It was a precaution in case there was an attempt on her life. No one really knew when Shizuru went in to slumber as her visits where so sporadic and far in length between so it was hard to know unless you were in the circle of her most trusted. And so Shizuru would slumber for nearly another century before awakening to find out what she had missed out on and how much or little things had changed while she slept.

To be continued in the next installment...

So there you have it chapter one of Salvation. As always thoughts, comments and simple guesses about what is going to occur in the next installment is more than welcome. I hope it was enjoyable and has captivated some of you to continue this journey in the next chapter.