~ Disclaimer ~ I don't own trigun, nor do i own the creators. This is the
third story/sequel to the Vampire Tendencies trilogy( I've always wanted to
type that! )! I hope you read Bleeding Heart before this because then you'd
know what's going on. First is Vampire Tendencies, second is Bleeding Heart
and now it's....read the title after the disclaimer!
Wahahahhaha..eh..anywho. Mwah.
- Title - Crimson Red Clouds.
- Author - EngelWachterInderHolle.
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- Chapter - Two
- Title - Two Broken Apart.
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I held Raven closer and felt her shudder. "Raven?" I said.
"Mama, if that lady comes down here...will you protect me?" She asked.
"I promise I will, Raven."
"Really?"
"Really."
I looked down at Raven and smoothed her unruly mop of brown hair. Legato floated towards the second floor and a loud crack echoed through the house. His body flinched back and his arms came up to protect his face. Shards of glass speared through the air and blood rained down. "Legato!" I cried.
"I'm fine. It's just cuts," he replied as his arms came down.
"Get out of this house, leave the godsent!" The woman's voice yelled.
The yell seemed more like a screaming demand. "Show yourself!" Legato ordered.
A ghostly figure appeared on the edge of where the railings were. Her dress flowed with an unfelt wind and her dark hair was long enough to end at the middle of her back. Her face looked almost like mine, yet it possessed such a demonic expression. "Give the child to me and I will not kill Nicole," she said.
"Why do you want Raven?" Legato inquired.
"She posesses such a great power from the two most vampiric freaks of the world. I'd like to drink her blood so I can once again become human, or rather be a full bodied vampire again."
I started to backstep and the woman's gaze turned to me. "Nicole...don't move or I will kill you. Then feed off your rotting corpse," she snapped.
I stopped and held Raven tighter. "How do you suppose you'll kill me?!" I challenged.
"I am a part of you...a part of you who loathes this damn family...who wants to kill everything and everyone. You cannot deny the bloodlust, Nicole. I am Celes, your inner demon. Who will drink the blood from Raven and become immortal, then kill Legato. He stands in our way, dear outer layer of the true self. We are not at our full capacity of power, we need the blood of our offspring."
"You are not part of me! I would never want to harm Raven or Legato!"
Legato floated down and took Raven from me. "Ghosts manipulate the mind, Nicole," he said.
"I know this...and that is why I'm going to fight her. I want Raven to be happy."
Raven looked at me and her eyes held unreadable emotions. "Be careful, mama," she whispered.
"I will. Don't worry about me."
I ran up the steps and stopped once I reached the top floor. "Let's find out if you really are my inner demon," I sneered.
Celes raised a ghostly eyebrow. "I am, Nicole. Legato is such a great lover...but I could have brought out your full potential. I'm your bad kitten inside of a low-life vampire. Nicole, you could have brought down the world at your feet. Glendon tried to make you this powerful woman, but you refused. That's why Legato had to kill Glendon, he didn't want you to become more powerful than him. He wants power just like we do, Nicole."
"Just shut up. I don't want to here this bullshit!"
"Bullshit? I don't believe the truth is that. I think we should become one!"
Celes sprang forward and a sharp pain hit me. "Mama!!"
"Fight her, Nicole!"
I collapsed to my knees and felt Celes inside of me. Her mind wandering up to my own and pushing it away. Pushing it into darkness.
--
"Nicole..."
I opened my eyes and Celes was nelt over me. "You're going to be alright, Nicole. Just let me into your mind," she whispered.
"I'd rather kill myself," I snarled.
"Raven is just like Glendon. She has this great power...Legato sees it as a competition so I think he'll kill Raven while your fighting me."
"He wouldn't do that!"
"He killed Glendon, didn't he?"
"That wasn't our son! That was V...."
I stopped and remembered Vash. His caring eyes and he was always a gentleman. "Vash? I see...so the higher beings didn't know that you were with the demon. Now I know the whole picture, but that doesn't change my purpose. Let me into you, let me boost your power...let me help you."
"Help me kill my own daughter? Help me kill Legato? You are here for destruction, just like you said."
"Being a ghost of one's self...it doesn't really help at all. Being a ghost sucks ass, you can't really get your point across with the spectral body. I am part of you, I am held within you and I am your inner demon. Make amends with me. Mend me into your whole being and then...only then can you really have control over yourself."
"Mend you?" I asked.
"Yes, mend me, Nicole. I was broken apart when you first met Legato, remember?"
I thought back. I had been a mindless teenager back then, one who flowed with everyone else. That night, when I let Legato take my blood willingly for the first time a part of me had vanished. A part of me which made me who I was. The part that made me almost human. Then when Legato and I made love for the first time, the same part which had vanished, broke apart. I was nothing, but I was a vampire. A vampire with a lust for blood and Legato. Tears slid down my cheeks. "Lies," I whispered.
"Lies? What do you mean?"
"I was never human. There was always a small fragment in my mind saying I was, but I never really was. Celes...you're right. Legato made me...Legato made me Nicole. Who was I before him?"
Celes looked into my eyes and the tears appeared. "No one..."
No one before Legato. I was his creation. Raven is my creation. "Nothing but two people torn apart."
Celes closed her eyes. "I see you understand now why I did what I had to do. I hope I haven't jossled your mind or anything. Will you let me come back?" She asked.
"Yes."
"Go back to your daughter...the only real thing of you. She will grow up and be something spectacular to this world. Go back to Legato, the one who made you Nicole...the one that made me."
Celes's energis flowed through me and I felt like I was a whole. A whole being in a world of creation, a world full of lies.
"Nicole! Wake up!" Legato pleaded.
"Mama!" Raven cried, tears dropping to the ground.
I opened my eyes and sat up. Legato pulled me into a tight embrace and Raven held my left arm. "I know everything now, Legato," I whispered into his ear.
"She told you," he replied.
I nodded against the side of his head. I was still an Innocent, my father had been real. My mother hadn't been real, she had been a dream. A creation from my long dead father from long ago in the past. I got to my feet and picked Raven up off the floor. "You're going to change the world, Raven."
"No I'm not. I'm nothing special like you, mama."
"Oh, but you're much more than me."
Raven smiled slightly and hugged me. I looked at Legato and felt a new emotion grow within me. Self pity.
-- To Be Continued. -- Ooh, so Nicole wasn't even -real-? She was just a creation of Legato's! Wahahaha, what a twist. Raven is real..eh..well, time is gonna speed up in the next chapter. Raven'll be sixteen. ^__^; She's gonna meet a very familiar person to all of us.
- Title - Crimson Red Clouds.
- Author - EngelWachterInderHolle.
=
- Chapter - Two
- Title - Two Broken Apart.
==
I held Raven closer and felt her shudder. "Raven?" I said.
"Mama, if that lady comes down here...will you protect me?" She asked.
"I promise I will, Raven."
"Really?"
"Really."
I looked down at Raven and smoothed her unruly mop of brown hair. Legato floated towards the second floor and a loud crack echoed through the house. His body flinched back and his arms came up to protect his face. Shards of glass speared through the air and blood rained down. "Legato!" I cried.
"I'm fine. It's just cuts," he replied as his arms came down.
"Get out of this house, leave the godsent!" The woman's voice yelled.
The yell seemed more like a screaming demand. "Show yourself!" Legato ordered.
A ghostly figure appeared on the edge of where the railings were. Her dress flowed with an unfelt wind and her dark hair was long enough to end at the middle of her back. Her face looked almost like mine, yet it possessed such a demonic expression. "Give the child to me and I will not kill Nicole," she said.
"Why do you want Raven?" Legato inquired.
"She posesses such a great power from the two most vampiric freaks of the world. I'd like to drink her blood so I can once again become human, or rather be a full bodied vampire again."
I started to backstep and the woman's gaze turned to me. "Nicole...don't move or I will kill you. Then feed off your rotting corpse," she snapped.
I stopped and held Raven tighter. "How do you suppose you'll kill me?!" I challenged.
"I am a part of you...a part of you who loathes this damn family...who wants to kill everything and everyone. You cannot deny the bloodlust, Nicole. I am Celes, your inner demon. Who will drink the blood from Raven and become immortal, then kill Legato. He stands in our way, dear outer layer of the true self. We are not at our full capacity of power, we need the blood of our offspring."
"You are not part of me! I would never want to harm Raven or Legato!"
Legato floated down and took Raven from me. "Ghosts manipulate the mind, Nicole," he said.
"I know this...and that is why I'm going to fight her. I want Raven to be happy."
Raven looked at me and her eyes held unreadable emotions. "Be careful, mama," she whispered.
"I will. Don't worry about me."
I ran up the steps and stopped once I reached the top floor. "Let's find out if you really are my inner demon," I sneered.
Celes raised a ghostly eyebrow. "I am, Nicole. Legato is such a great lover...but I could have brought out your full potential. I'm your bad kitten inside of a low-life vampire. Nicole, you could have brought down the world at your feet. Glendon tried to make you this powerful woman, but you refused. That's why Legato had to kill Glendon, he didn't want you to become more powerful than him. He wants power just like we do, Nicole."
"Just shut up. I don't want to here this bullshit!"
"Bullshit? I don't believe the truth is that. I think we should become one!"
Celes sprang forward and a sharp pain hit me. "Mama!!"
"Fight her, Nicole!"
I collapsed to my knees and felt Celes inside of me. Her mind wandering up to my own and pushing it away. Pushing it into darkness.
--
"Nicole..."
I opened my eyes and Celes was nelt over me. "You're going to be alright, Nicole. Just let me into your mind," she whispered.
"I'd rather kill myself," I snarled.
"Raven is just like Glendon. She has this great power...Legato sees it as a competition so I think he'll kill Raven while your fighting me."
"He wouldn't do that!"
"He killed Glendon, didn't he?"
"That wasn't our son! That was V...."
I stopped and remembered Vash. His caring eyes and he was always a gentleman. "Vash? I see...so the higher beings didn't know that you were with the demon. Now I know the whole picture, but that doesn't change my purpose. Let me into you, let me boost your power...let me help you."
"Help me kill my own daughter? Help me kill Legato? You are here for destruction, just like you said."
"Being a ghost of one's self...it doesn't really help at all. Being a ghost sucks ass, you can't really get your point across with the spectral body. I am part of you, I am held within you and I am your inner demon. Make amends with me. Mend me into your whole being and then...only then can you really have control over yourself."
"Mend you?" I asked.
"Yes, mend me, Nicole. I was broken apart when you first met Legato, remember?"
I thought back. I had been a mindless teenager back then, one who flowed with everyone else. That night, when I let Legato take my blood willingly for the first time a part of me had vanished. A part of me which made me who I was. The part that made me almost human. Then when Legato and I made love for the first time, the same part which had vanished, broke apart. I was nothing, but I was a vampire. A vampire with a lust for blood and Legato. Tears slid down my cheeks. "Lies," I whispered.
"Lies? What do you mean?"
"I was never human. There was always a small fragment in my mind saying I was, but I never really was. Celes...you're right. Legato made me...Legato made me Nicole. Who was I before him?"
Celes looked into my eyes and the tears appeared. "No one..."
No one before Legato. I was his creation. Raven is my creation. "Nothing but two people torn apart."
Celes closed her eyes. "I see you understand now why I did what I had to do. I hope I haven't jossled your mind or anything. Will you let me come back?" She asked.
"Yes."
"Go back to your daughter...the only real thing of you. She will grow up and be something spectacular to this world. Go back to Legato, the one who made you Nicole...the one that made me."
Celes's energis flowed through me and I felt like I was a whole. A whole being in a world of creation, a world full of lies.
"Nicole! Wake up!" Legato pleaded.
"Mama!" Raven cried, tears dropping to the ground.
I opened my eyes and sat up. Legato pulled me into a tight embrace and Raven held my left arm. "I know everything now, Legato," I whispered into his ear.
"She told you," he replied.
I nodded against the side of his head. I was still an Innocent, my father had been real. My mother hadn't been real, she had been a dream. A creation from my long dead father from long ago in the past. I got to my feet and picked Raven up off the floor. "You're going to change the world, Raven."
"No I'm not. I'm nothing special like you, mama."
"Oh, but you're much more than me."
Raven smiled slightly and hugged me. I looked at Legato and felt a new emotion grow within me. Self pity.
-- To Be Continued. -- Ooh, so Nicole wasn't even -real-? She was just a creation of Legato's! Wahahaha, what a twist. Raven is real..eh..well, time is gonna speed up in the next chapter. Raven'll be sixteen. ^__^; She's gonna meet a very familiar person to all of us.