Chapter Two
why sacrifice
( Hello reader… like my fanfic? My first one, and it didn't turn out to bad, its not finished and I'm warning you now don't get to attached I have problems finishing things when it comes to writing. Just thought I'd let you know.)
The boy known as Liam kneeled before the darkly garbed figure, the pack leader standing beside him his hand on Liam's head. He smiled charmingly at the tall figure before him,
"No worry's no worry's. She'll come around, we can be very persuasive." He said his voice low,
"She had better, or we shall take our business elsewhere." The figure said in a very female voice. Liam's leader bowed low, and Liam shuttered at the thought of bearing his neck to anybody. The figure chuckled humorlessly at Liam, then turned and swept out of the room, leaving a smell of flowers and wind and death behind in a sickly sweet smell.
The inn was loud with the noise of the pack, they had settled in the living room, drinks in hand in front of a roaring fire. Rida glanced up from where she was brushing out the red hair of an orphan child and gave a very wolfish grin.
"What your boy toy didn't want to stay the night?" she asked Luna, who blushed and looked away.
"Shut up Rida." Vivian purred, sliding her arm around Luna and leading her into the other room. Luna looked up her eyes wide, fear showing clearly in their dark depths,
"I can't go back! Please don't make me go back!" she pleaded before Vivian had said anything, Vivian smiled kindly at the girl.
"I didn't say anything about making you go back." Vivian said looking over her shoulder to where Gabriel leaned against the door frame. "And Gabriel's not going to make you leave either. Right?" she asked him, her eyes pleading silently that he would agree with her. He nodded solemnly,
"Luna your part of our pack now, and we'll protect you as best we can. We just need to know what we're protecting you from." the girl nodded and turned as if to leave the room, "That wasn't a dismissal." Gabriel said, raising an eyebrow questioningly at the girl. She sighed,
"I don't think I can tell you. I swore on my blood, it's a Lunluepsine secret." Luna said with a small frown, not meeting either Gabriel or Vivian's gaze.
"What do you mean you swore on your blood?" Vivian asked her eyes narrowing, Luna sighed again sitting down on a fluffy chair. They were in one of the guest bedrooms a small one with a small television set, a chair a table and a twin bed. Gabriel stayed at the door but Vivian sat down on the bed feeling uncomfortable being so tall compared to the already small girl.
"The Lunluepsine have a pack with another pack." She said after along silence in which she stared transfixed at the popcorn ceiling. Gabriel seemed to twitch away from the door, and then leaned back again calmly,
"What pack? The only packs that are around here are quiet and keep to themselves." He said he eyes glinting, he had always thought it was odd that the Lunluepsine were so powerful.
"Not a loup-garou pack." Luna said so quietly had it not been for their wolf enhanced hearing they wouldn't have heard her words.
"Not … humans?" Vivian asked disbelieving,
"'Course not." Luna said almost scoffing. "The Lunluepsine wouldn't be as powerful as they are having an alliance with a bunch of mea- humans." Vivian shook her head looking at Gabriel to see if he understood, but he was staring intently at Luna.
"I've heard stories, in the village." He murmured, and Luna glanced quickly at him, nodding her affirmation. "You mean their real?"
"Only in the last three years have they been here. They call themselves 'Transylvanian Children'" Luna whispered her dark eyes vacant. "They chose my family line as the Lunlepsine sacrifice." She added, "That's how my mother died, and they took my sister when she was only an infant. They don't seem to realize that once they take me my line is dead. 'Course once I'm gone they'll probably just pick someone new."
"I can see why you left." Vivian said understandingly, "will thease Transylvanian Children really take you with out your consent?"
"Oh yes, they feed off fear as well as blood. They really are true creatures of the night. 'Cept for they're really pale, so you know they stand out in the night."
"Why cant we smell them?" Gabriel asked softly,
"Something to do with them being 'pires I suppose. I dunno." Luna said, once again she stank of fear and Vivian glanced at Gabriel who nodded.
"You'll be fine, why don't you go up to bed?" he asked kindly stepping out of the doorway. Luna nodded smiling faintly at first Vivian then Gabriel and left the room. Vivian waited until Luna was far from earshot before she sighed deeply,
"I thought Vampires were just a bedtime story to scare the children." She said, Gabriel nodded his eyes thoughtful,
"I did too, but in a town awhile back, their was a girl found in the woods. They thought a snake bit her when she was sleeping, across the wrist, maybe it was a vampire trying to hide their trail." He said quietly.
