Blood Lust
Yearning

Blood, I'm dreaming of blood, currently all my fantasies revolve around it. I yearn to drink; the lust for the life force is so strong. I've held it down, pretending I no longer feel it but it's always been there…within me and now my yearning is beginning to control my every thought, every action. God help me if I loose control…

Note: I do not own Power Rangers; I'm just borrowing them.
Timeline: This takes place (I've just decided after thinking about it all day at work) after the end of the series, Nick is gone and the others are still splitting time between the human realm and Rootcore to keep the peace and harmony.
Pairing: Vida/Chip (Eventually)
Rating: PG13 or higher (Minor language, violence, adult situations)

I gasp as I wake, Chip is above me; he is looking at me with confusion and worry in his face. I sit up and I realize he is sitting beside me on my bed, his hands were on my shoulders then on my bare arms, and he jerks back.

"You're so cold Vee...you should sleep under the blankets," he tells me, I shake my head. I hold up my hand and he helps me sit up, my head swims. That is not the first time I had that dream, and every time I wake I feel like dying...I cannot ever lose my control, I cannot let myself become the monster of my nightmares. I cannot hurt Chip; he is the world to me. His devotion to me is unwavering and I cannot help but love him.

"I know I was so exhausted when I got in last night I just passed out," I told him, he smiled and lightly strokes my face, to feel his touch, to sense his blood so close is killing me.

"You need to stop partying so late...I think its taking too much from you," he says, he's so concerned.

"Well you're not my parents, so please, back off," I snap. I don't mean to but if I'm too soft on him, he'll know something's wrong. He doesn't look hurt, merely amused, he knows me too well to know I don't mean it. He stands and pulls me with him.

"Come on Vida, get dressed and meet me at Rootcore ok?" he asks, I nodded and he smiles at me. "Go take a warm shower, you are seriously cold," he adds before disappearing. I sigh, I wanted to shout that the dead stay cold because their blood doesn't flow but that would blow my cover…what little of it I could still hold up. I'm getting too weak to play pretend anymore, to pretend I wasn't a vampire, to pretend I'm not craving blood constantly. I've held off for months and its positively killing me. I'm feeling sick all the time and I'm weakening in my body and mind. I hear a knock on the front door and that was odd…no one I knew knocked on the door, they just let themselves in.

I go downstairs and I smell Daggeron…this is odd, he hardly comes into the human realm and why would he come see me? I open the door to find him in regular clothes; he is so tasty looking…oh my God! Did I just think that?! That's the blood lust talking that's all that was. He's looking at me strangely but that could be because my hair is now streaked with white, which was spur of the moment last night. Though I've been realizing the next day its back to black with no color and it would happen again tonight. Then it could also be because I'm in my bra and shorts…oh my GOD! I'm going to kill Chip! Sneaky perv! Daggeron clears his throat and I turn my attention back to him.

"Daggeron? What are you doing here?" I asked, now feeling self-conscious for the first time in my life.

"I know what you're hiding Vida," his thick accent is usually to understand but his voice is so dark I barely understood it. He closes the door and walks towards me, I begin to back up. How could he know? He wasn't here when I had been turned, how could he know! HOW!? I've been so careful! If I fool Chip I should have everyone fooled!

"Wha…what do you mean?" I asked, he continues to advance on me. He holds out his open palm, it was my cross I used to wear before I had been changed earlier this year, after I could barely look at it when I was first changed and I left it hidden away in Rootcore. It begins to shine and I feel like I'm on fire. "STOP! STOP!" The agony is too much to bear and he quickly pockets the cross, the pain slowly ebbs away.

"That's what I mean, Vampire," He says calmly, I dart around the couch and I jump as he moves just as fast as I could. "I've noticed you're weakening, I see the blood lust in your eyes, I don't know how the others have not realized what you are by now but I've seen you hunger for too long and I know that you can no longer hold it off. You need to feed and if you don't you will lose control and you will kill someone. That burden on your soul is not for you," His words are calming and we both sit down, he rolls up his sleeve of the white shirt he is wearing and nicks the flesh of his arm, that was odd, I hadn't seen a knife but since I he rolled up his sleeve I've been listening to his blood flow. "Drink," he offers his arm freely, I can't do this, and I can't! This man is freely giving me his blood to keep the others safe. I want this to feel awkward enough to stop me but it isn't. This is an older man by at least 15 years or more, and I'm sitting here in my bra and tiny shorts, but that isn't going to stop me and before I know it I'm leaning down towards the blood that is pooling on his thick, muscled arm and is threatening to pool over.

"Daggeron…" I whisper softly shaking my head 'no', he gives an encouraging nod and I finally give in. I trace the line of blood that was dripping over his arm, nearly falling onto his clothes and follow it back to the pool. I drink for the first time since I've been changed nearly a year ago. This is bliss, I heard Daggeron exhale slowly, he's carefully monitoring how much I take which is good since I'm in such a delirious state that I can't do it myself. It feels so good; I feel so warm right now. I'm not feeling completely alive but I sense that coming back to me. After a few moments he pulls me off, and I realize how pale he is, is usually warm, caramel colored skin is looking sickly but as he holds his arms I feel his palm glow and the cut heals and his color returns. "Thank you…" I whisper but I can't help but ask, "Why did you do that for me?"

"Because I do not want you harming anyone. When you get back to full strength I'm going to be the only one who has enough strength to fight you off. Everyone is at risk when you're in such a weak state. Even the blood I gave you won't help, it will only last for a short period of time, and you've been thirsty for so long you are going to need to feed again and soon." He pulls out the cross and now it doesn't bother me or glow…what the hell? That is so odd…maybe he has the answers I need.

"Daggeron, what's happening to me…why did my Vampirism come back after Nikki… Necrolai, I mean, had been destroyed?" I asked, to my surprise he smiled and it made me thirsty again.

"The Vampires are a society that relies on having a ruler and when Necrolai was destroyed they lost their Queen, until she was absolutely destroyed you still had the vampire power inside of you. Now that she is gone, it has reawaken and has completely changed you; your powers have been repressed because you've been putting off your thirst and that wasn't exactly wise." He advises me, he realizes I haven't exactly been paying attention because I've been staring at his throat with a blank look on my face. He snaps his fingers in front of my face and I jump back and blink. I growl at him but then I hear a car pull into the driveway…oh shit! Its my parents, I grab his hand and we race upstairs. I shut my door and we are silent as I hear my parents come in and head for the kitchen, they don't know we're here. Which is a good thing for now. I feel his heart races and I lean close, I miss the feel of my heartbeat, to feel my pulse race in my ears, now its eerily silent.

"I'm so thirsty…" I tell him and I'm surprised when he doesn't stop me as I lift myself up and bite into his throat, in fact, he holds me up. God, now that I know what its like to drink, how alive I feel and the rapture I feel from it, I don't want to stop. This is as close to divine as I can possibly feel now. He emits a soft groan he hadn't before, I feel his heart race faster now…not from the sprint upstairs but from arousal. I pull back and look at him, I'm dangling inches from the floor and he looks at me with a look of surprise and shame. "Daggeron?"

"'M so sorry, I feel what you feel…" he murmurs, looking slightly distraught. Now I'm confused and since he can read it in my face he answers without me asking, which is nice because if I open my mouth I'm going to bite him again. "Any emotion you are feeling, when you feed, I feel. You were concentrating on the ecstasy and rapture, your pleasure you were getting I feel as well." Oh…but when I feed why would I want him to be in pain, if anything I want to relax and make sure I'm not hurting him. Why does he feel so bad about it…

"Why are you feeling so bad about it? I don't want you in pain," I tell him; he sets me down and lifts his hand to heal his neck. The bite wound is gone, I've never been happier that he and I know magic.

"Because it's not proper," Oh hell I wish he would elaborate…wait a minute…oh my God!

"You don't think its proper feeling pleasure from me feeding because you're in love with my sister!" I honestly don't know why I didn't see it before! He's been in love with Maddy since she broke his curse! I don't know why I couldn't see his devotion to her! He looks ashamed and looks away, if he looked down he'd be staring at my chest and since I'm still shirtless that would not be proper for a knight. I go to my closet and grab a shirt, any shirt; I don't care to be honest. I pull it on and his gaze is still adverted. "You love my sister!" I sing softly from the other side of the room, and I smile as his face regains his health color than a light blush.

"I do have feelings for you sister but I know she does not share my feelings. She has feelings for Bowen and that is very clear to me. It is not noble to want another's." Aww that's sweet, too bad he has it all wrong.

"Actually, she did have a crush on Nick but when he left it hurt her. She knows he isn't coming back and she does have feelings for you. We've discussed it many times. She hides it well since you're, to be quiet frank, older than any man she's ever had feeling for and she feels wrong." Madison told me that the night she broke his curse, she thought he was the most handsome man she had laid eyes on and it was a relief that he was so noble, so kind and the kind of man she had wanted since she was a little girl and had become obsessed with Fairy Tales. She dreamt that someday she would have a Prince come save her and her exact wording that night had been 'my prince has come'. I know she does like him, since I've been dying of thirst for months I've been tracking people's hearts more often. It's soothing to me to hear the rhyme I've been lacking for months but I've noted that every time Daggeron is around my sis her heart races. Even before Nick left I know he didn't have the same affect that Daggeron did.

"It's still not proper for me to have affections for one so young," he insists, now looking at me since I'm wearing a shirt.

"So, you love her, I know you do and I can feel your emotions from here through your heart. We'll make a deal, you'll supply me with your blood when I need you and I'll get you a date with Sis," he smiles and chuckles, he's got such a nice laugh and I rarely hear it. He is a handsome man and if I hadn't lost my heart to Chip when we were kids I could find myself liking him but no. He's sweet, handsome, and strong and has a great body but he loved my sister and I know that he, not Nick, would make her happy.

"Thank you, Vida, but I doubt dear Madison would accept a date from me and I have not courted anyone in many years. I do no think I would remember how to act on a date, especially one in the human realm." He's so cute when he's insecure in his own manly skills!

"Sure you would! Act like the noble Knight you are and I'll give you money since I know you don't have any since you don't live in this realm. You just go to a restaurant, make small talk and eat." That's simple enough to follow, I'm sure he would pick it up easily, he wasn't slow after all and I'm sure Maddy would enjoy anything he did.

"I still doubt that Madison would like to go on a date with me," he says, now I'm becoming annoyed and thirsty. Not a good combo.

"She will trust me, now shut it before I bite you again," I warn, he smiles at me and hides his laughter.

"You're going to need to learn how to control you're hunger. I know you can hold off your hunger though it harms your body and the light doesn't weaken you to the point of passing out. We're going to have to confer with the Xenotome about your weaknesses…and you do realize now that your body has been dying over these months since Necrolai's destruction. Haven't you realize that your bodily functions have slowly stopped?" Actually I hadn't…wow…come to think of it I should have realized I haven't had my period in months and I'm not preg…oh God…oh God…I actually fall to my knees as I realize that I will never have children, I will never die, I will watch everyone I love die…oh Great! Now I'm crying! SHIT! I had to pick this moment to break down, I couldn't have done it when I was alone, and no I'm doing it with an audience. To my surprise Daggeron takes out a handkerchief and begins to blot my tears and I realize they are blood…pure, deep red, blood just like in my dreams. Now I'm crying harder, I hate crying more now that I'm dead because it (a) looks gross, (b) it hurts to cry because my body is dead and doesn't make tears and lastly ouch…

"You just realized everything you've lost haven't you?" he asks softly, I nod and he hugs me close. "I'm sorry," he whispers and means it completely, and now I truly wish I was dead, not undead.

"Me too…" I tell him.

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Author's Response:

Krusader: Ames, thank you for being the first to review. I know you weren't into MF !
Blue Eyed Dragon Girl: I know there is something sexy about Vampires and I'm a huge Vampire fiction fan so when I saw Vida as a Vampire and her constant attempt to feed from Chip and no one else I was inspired. I like to give a different and adult views on different relationships. With me I could not get into her stories but I adore and cannot get enough of The Undead Series by MaryJanice Davidson. Her spin on Vampires is new and hysterical. I love comical Vampires and romance and she's the best
Pureangel: I hope this answers some of this is to your liking!