Of Vampires and Werewolves.
SUMMARY: Adam is a vampire. Blake is a werewolf. Their families have raised them for centuries to hate each other. But when a chance hunt pushes the pair together, something happens that neither thought possible. AU.
PAIRING: Edge/OC.
MEANING: Decided to make a series that this time I would finish. The result came about after watching Underworld and a heap of the Werewolf and Vampire flicks we have. Each story is on a different guy, and a different situation. The first is Edge. The second- well, we'll wait until this one is on course. There is a song to accompany each story. The actually story of this fic is a script I had in mind and I wanted to write it using the WWE before turning it into the screenplay version. Hope you like.
SONG: Forever by In This Moment.
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CHAPTER ONE
The war has raged for centuries. Before Christ their blood and bones stained the Earth. Before Achilles and Hector clashed at Troy, they were destroying cities to take the other down. The Immortal races. The Vampires (Bloods) and the Werewolves (Lupines). The two ancient powers that had been there for each and every war; Troy, the Persian Wars, Caesar's rule, the battle of Hastings.
The war began the year, he was turned. 9674 years before Christ. Predating history, his ancient name was never recorded in history. Turned by Gangrel, one of the first, at age thirty-seven. Stories say he was from a small Romanian village others say else wise. One man's mistake cost a young woman her life and started the feud that has continued since.
She'd been mate to the Alpha Lupine Silgori pack. A foolish mistake and untimely run-in saw her be the first victim to the newly turned Vampire Adam Copeland, upon Gangrel's request.
It would be a long time before either Adam or John (Silgori pack leader) saw one another and it would come about due to another woman. She was born a werewolf, in 1678 AD by John himself- three centuries prior to what most of the Immortals who survived called their World War III.
Without memory of part of his life, a Vampire and the other a young Lupin. Can a chance meeting change the way both sides see the other, will it only cause a war that will be more devastating anything before it or will it save both Immortal houses from descending further into the darkness they create from their fighting?
The entire world of the Immortal houses - Lupine and Vampiric - had moved during the first years of English settlers discovering Newfoundland, now America or the United States.
The feud stood strong and while they hid their fighting from the mortals of the world, times were dangerous. Much of the Lupine packs had been killed during the Salem Witch Trials when Vampires were able to use the full moon's curse to their advantage of hunting them- with the help of mortals.
Canada and its surrounding wilderness became the main place for their fighting. The Vampiric clans; the Avient (Gangrel) and Summie (Steve Borden)- found settler within old abandoned mansions while the Lupine packs hid themselves close to the towns near them, taking up residence in a large home just on the outskirts of town.
If they did not each other than they did not seek the other out and start a fight- despite many have been killed in the last century alone due to ignoring this.
The year 2009. It was the year in which the first Black president was inaugurated, which made history in itself.
Our story begins on a cool Summer night, at the home of Silgori Lupine pack's home.
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She could not stand it any longer. The looks the two of them had been sending her way for the past four and a half hours were driving her insane. Currently, they were sitting at the opposite end of the table that sat in the middle of the large library and was her favourite place to study.
Not anymore.
"Ted! Cody! I'm five seconds more of those looks coming my way to shoving my foot up your asses," she growled, hurling her pen that she'd been writing with towards them and hitting Cody directly in the head.
"Damn it, Blake!" he cried, rubbing where the pen had hit him. "What'd ya do that for?"
She pouted at him. "Aw! You big puppy!" she shot back. "I did it to stop the pair of you from staring at me."
Cody pulled a face at her and stopped, slamming the book he'd been 'pretending' to read and stomped off. Ted shook his head and followed his friend. "They cannot help it, tiny." She spun round to find Randy, John's cousin slipping into the seat at the head of the table closest to her. He lifted his long legs and propped them up on the table, right in front of her. "We can all smell it and sense the change in you. Your body."
She rolled her eyes. "I know you can all smell it, but its not like my first heat cycle is going to magically make me grow a huge chest like Jessica or grow anything for that matter," she told him back. He smirked and shook his head while putting his hands round the back of his neck. Randy had all the grace of a cat and the muscles of what most of the women said should have been on a Greek god. Blake never really saw him as much of a mate, but a close friend and almost brother like.
"Yes, I know that and so do the others but our bodies react to what's happening to you very strongly. You're turning three tomorrow. You're having your first heat cycle and-" he stopped for a second as he moved until he was leaning his head in close to hers, that smirk growing into a cunning grin "- you'll probably even mate with one of us."
Blake lowered her eyes away from his. What he said was true and it scared her. Since she was little - well, young for a Lupine - John and Randy had told her of everything she'd experience. One side effect that no one would be able to help her with during a full moon, like tomorrow nights one, was her change. It occurred on sheer will, even if she fought it. "I know that. You don't have to mind me. The looks you all give, does a good enough job of that."
Randy chuckled and ran his long fingers through the long, sleek black braids that completely adorned her head. "We can't help it, tiny, its in our nature."
She stopped his hand and slowly tilted her head to look up at him. "Randy- what if I don't want to mate with any of you this year?"
"Well, you won't have a choice while you're here. It'll drive us crazy if you were to even be in the same room, without us being able to actually touch you, kiss you, lo-" he trailed off when she blushed slightly. It amazed him how her mind worked ten steps ahead of his in times like this. He cupped her small, pale cheek in his hand and leaned close, kissing her forehead affectionately. "Pet, you'll want us as much as we'll want you." It was barely a murmur.
"I could stay with Mae? Just this one time," she pleaded. He looked at her and patted her cheek gently before standing up, letting her go.
"You'll have to ask John about it, pet." That's what she'd been afraid he'd say.
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Randy was a rough, cruel and very dangerous Lupine to be on the wrong side of but it seemed wherever Blake was near him, and no one else was he truly acted soft towards her, showing a side to him that very few of their pack even knew of. Randy acted as second-in-command, in military or hunting conditions. He was under John. Blake's maker- as Randy had dubbed him two and a half centuries previous when Blake had questioned him on who had turned her into a Lupine.
It had always lingered on her mind before her asking that it had been John because she seemed connected to him, close to him. That was how she knew to find him in his bedroom just before twilight that evening.
"Blake- you ready for tomorrow?" he questioned her when he opened the door, going straight to the point. That was one thing Blake had never truly found likeable about John's character. He was direct and straight to the point. Only a week after he'd turned her, he had explained that she'd be his when she turned three and was finally able to take a mate.
Like he'd turned her only to prove something. Prove what? She did not know, but she never questioned him on it. He must have seen the way she was wringing her hands nervously in front of her and served how nervous she was for he stepped back and opened the door for her. "What's got you rattled up?"
"This," she answered, lifting her arms up to emphasis her point before she huffed heavily. "Well, more that I'm afraid of tomorrow. John, this is my first heat cycle-" John grinned broadly, seeing her duck her head when she blushed heavily "- and I thought that- Can I please stay with Mae this year for my first cycle?"
She saw John tense up suddenly. "Why would you want to do that? You belong here. This is what is meant to happen," he replied with a shake of his head before he walked over to the desk in the corner of his room.
"I know but- just this once. So I can experience what it is like without the worry of being att- tak- taken every hour by one of you," she explained, stepping over and taking hold of his large forearm between both her tiny ones. In comparison to others, even female Lupines, Blake was incredibly small.
Hence why she'd been nicknamed with things like; Tiny, Squirt, Pet, Bubby (Sharmell only) and so on. "Please. I promise it'll just be this first time. Mae can explain it, in much more detail, than you and Randy are able."
"The woman was turned after she could no longer have children. What is she going to be able to explain to you?" he growled. Blake's eyes dropped to the floor. He was going to say no. She just knew it.
"John," she whispered and leaned her small frame against the back of his much more bulkier one, running her fingers over the muscles of his lower back. "Please."
After a long moment of silence, Blake feared he'd tell her no and held her breath until he spoke: "Fine, but this one time only. Never again." She hugged him tightly before saying she had to go and pack.
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The fire in the hearth had been burning since late in the gloomy and rainy afternoon as the cold sent a chill throughout the house of the Avient clan. And, more currently, had sent a chill down his spine. Adam was generally not affected by the weather, especially the rain but since he had not drunk in quite a few days he believed it to be his weakened condition from not sustaining anything. He was resting in the large lounge chair that had been set out for him and him alone, his feet outstretched and propped up on a foot rest, arms folded over his chest lightly beneath the blanket Denise had laid over him earlier and an intent stare fixed on the fire.
He felt odd today, even odder than he usually felt after not feeding properly. His mind had been fixed on one thing as of late. Something that plagued his mind more than anything else. What happened all those years ago? He breathed in deeply before releasing it in a deep sigh, leaning his head against the side of the large chair.
It had been something that few people knew of. Those who did know what he was thinking of, would not actually help him recover that some forty year block of memory that he had lost. Everything he had tried to do in order to try and help him remember hadn't worked and so he'd given up after the twenty-seventh attempt.
"You know Denise is worried 'bout you?" The dry tone in the voice snapped Adam back to reality. He turned his head and glanced up to find his brother, Jay leaning over the back of the chair, looking down at him with the smallest of smiles.
Sneering slightly, Adam turned away from him as he spoke: "Tell her not to. I'm fine. I was just thinking."
Jay moved to kick Adam's feet off the foot stool, ignoring his brother's glare as he sat down on it and rested his arms on his knees. "Oh and fine being the term for sitting in front of the fire for the past several hours?"
He just looked at his brother dryly who simply raised an eyebrow at him. "You have to feed Adam."
"I already told you I-"
Jay cut him off. "I know you're lying. Come on, Adam. Can't you tell me what's wrong?"
The other Vampire just shook his head. "Nothing is wrong. I am simply content to sit here and listen to my thoughts. Or is that illegal for me to do?"
"Smart-ass," Jay muttered back before shaking his head.
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Despite it'd taken a lot of persuasion on Jay's account, Adam had finally gotten up and agreed to go out. Denise had not even looked at him as he'd taken the long leather coat from her hands. She had simply told him to be careful. He crouched down low on the rooftop of the small shop, watching the numerous people walk in and out. Each time one of them did, he smelt them. The man with the scruffy beard, stench of alcohol and smoke coming from him and shabby clothing was what caught his attention. He smirked and easily walked along the rooftops, following the clearly homeless man as he headed towards what Adam knew was the dregs of the city slums. It was almost too easy.
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Blake had been in small, run down shop, looking for something to eat. Or really someone. Her thick hooded jacket was pulled up tight around her, keeping herself guarded as people walked past. The thick stench of alcohol and smoke came from many of them and even other things that Blake couldn't put a finger on. She stood behind the guy paying for his bottle of alcohol at the counter and her eyes shifted suddenly. Inwardly cursing as her change started ripping at her, she glanced down to find her hand changing very rapidly. Shoving her hand into her pocket, she watched him turn, bump into her and apologise before leaving. Sneering slightly as her mood started to shift between human and animal, she quickly paid for the bar of chocolate that she would no longer even touch, as she'd asked for and quickly left the shop, keeping her shifting arm hidden from view. Tossing the unopened packet in the rubbish bin just in the alley beside the shop, Blake headed after the man who she had decided was going to be her food. A strange scent caught her nose and she dropped to her knees suddenly as a sharp pain seized control of her. She shook her head, trying to fight the change that was happening in her body. As soon as it appeared, it disappeared and she was able to get back to her feet.
Looking around, she groaned seeing her target had disappeared. She followed the way she thought he had gone and gasped when she was caught off guard suddenly as a hand wrapped around her mouth from behind and a larger body shoved her into the alley nearest them. She was tossed to the ground and as she looked up, Blake found that the very man she'd been following had caught her. A slum dweller like him had caught her. She glowered up at him and made to get up, only to have him push her back down and cover her with his weight. Her eyes changed suddenly to the colour of the moon just as her nails grew and she was able to dig them into his skin making his attempts to clearly rape her even harder as she fought him back. Being only tiny in comparison to average people did not make this situation all that easy on her part, even with the strength that came with being a Lupine.
She felt something cold press against her throat suddenly and she stilled, her eyes still the shade of the moon as her changed started to take full effect. "Keep your mouth shut, bitch! You followed me so clearly you wanted some of this!" he growled, releasing the safety on the gun.
As soon as he had, his weight was lifted off her. She looked up as a shot was fired. Sitting up, she found a tall figure standing between her and the man who'd been attempting to rape her.
Blake got to her feet just as the man tossed the gun away. He must've gotten it away from the man. It landed in the bin about ten feet from them and Blake groaned as her stomach twisted into knots and pain shot through her as her body started to change beyond her control.
The blonde who'd helped her watched the man stutter before running out of the alley. Blake only saw the tiniest glimpse of his face before he had disappeared into thin air. "Wait!" The only thing that alerted Blake to him still being there was the faintest of whispers in her ear.
"You should find food somewhere safer little she-wolf." She spun round only to find him gone. How the hell had he know what she was? Then as a sharp pain stabbed at her insides, Blake realized exactly what he was. She'd let a Blood help her.
Growling as she fell to all fours this time, Blake let out a sharp howl as her body changed completely.
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Adam had watched the entire thing. The smell of the she-wolf had made him curious. He had never seen one so young before and knew that such a small thing would never be allowed out on her own without protection in case one of his Clan members caught her- so why was she?
Then it was the other thing that caught his attention. She was in heat. He knew because it was so powerful and the scent may have never been all that appealing to her but for some reason, it intrigued him even more about why she was out in the city on her own.
As he crouched down on the rooftop again and watched her change, his eyes followed the way her tiny form became a mass of dark fur and muscles. The howl sent a chill down his spine and he watched her leave the alleyway before he heard the distant scream of the man who had tried to injure her.
She'd caught him. He'd let the tiny she-wolf have his food for the night- Adam could always find something much nicer to bite into that did not taste like dirt and ash.