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The next morning Abel went to each girl's room and woke them up. They packed and groggily got into the ship with Abel. The trip took them about 4 hours and they sighed when they finally saw the out skirts of the Methuselah Empire.

"Our first meeting is with Ion Fortuna Count of Memphis." They nodded, the ship took them to about the middle of the city and Abel took over from there. They reached the Moldova home before nightfall and knocked on the door. It was opened by a servant. "Excuse me; we are here to speak with the Count of Memphis." The servant nodded and allowed them entrance. They were taken through the house into a back garden, a gorgeous garden really. They all sat at a gorgeous stone table and chair set.

"The young master will be with you shortly." Abel nodded and they waited. Soon they could see someone come from the house. Abel stood to great the Count.

"Count of Memphis. I am Father Abel Nightroad and these are my two colleagues Corissa and Danielle." He said in welcome, pointing to said girl when their name was spoken and the boy bowed. Corissa stared at him, he was very cute. He had nape length blonde hair and mahogany eyes. His face was soft and his body was lean and athletic.

"Is there a problem with me Terran?" She heard him asked and was mildly confused about who he was talking to until she realized he meant her.

"I'm not a Terran." She said.

"You most certainly are. You smell like one." She narrowed her eyes at him.

"You smell like a wet dog mated with a skunk, what's your point?" Abel's eyes grew wide; he slapped a hand over her mouth.

"Forgive her, Count. Her mouth is much quicker than her brain." Corissa found the comment irritating and offensive and stomped on his foot, he bit his lip to keep from screaming. "Count we have come here to offer peace from the Vatican."

"Ah so you are members of the Vatican, that would explain the stench." Corissa made a lunge at him but Abel held her back. Ion raised a brow at her attempt. "It seems the little Terran wants a fight." Abel shook his head.

"No sir, she does not. She uh…has an incurable twitch." Corissa bit Abel's hand and he yelped pulling it away. She glared at him.

"I'll give you twitch. Listen here blondie I'm not a Terran, I'm only half of one. And yes I'd love to fight you, but unfortunately it might jeopardize my mission and I don't want that." He shrugged.

"If you're afraid you'll lose, that's not my problem." She glared at him.

"I'm not afraid to fight I just know where my loyalties lie." She grinned. "I don't need to provoke fights to make myself feel strong I already know I am." He glared at her.

"You have a real mouth on you for a little girl." Danielle rolled her eyes, her sister couldn't help fight when someone called her a 'little girl' it just sent her over the edge. But Corissa's face remained calm, the only thing she did was mentally lift Ion off the ground and into the air. He struggled at the invisible force and flipped over in the air trying to get free. "What is this?!"

"You shouldn't of insulted me, I can keep you up there are all day. Just apologize and I'll let you down." He glared at her.

"Never."

"Fine, I hope you don't mind rain." She said and grinned when it began raining (thanks to Danielle). "And I hope you aren't afraid of heights." She said and raised him higher into the air; he was now 20 feet from the ground. "I can go higher; I will go up to 100 feet, until you apologize." She was grinning like an idiot and Danielle knew she was enjoying torturing him. He remained silent and Corissa rose him up to 40 feet, still silence and then up to 50, still silence. He finally spoke at 65 feet.

"Fine I'm sorry!" He yelled and glared down at her; she smiled widely and slowly let him down. Once his feet touched ground he shot at her with his tanto, she easily dodged the attack and kicked him in the chest sending him away from her.

"Slow." She said and held him at bay when he shot at her again, she looked bored. "I wouldn't call this peace." She said and grinned again. Ion sighed.

"Fine, I give up." She smiled and dropped the spell; he put his tanto back and motioned for them to follow him. They went back into the mansion and Ion spoke again. "You can stay here." Abel smiled.

"Very hospitable of you Count."

"You can call me Ion since you'll be staying here."

"Ion then." Abel said and smiled, the smile quickly faded however when he felt a large group of presences. Danielle looked at him.

"What is it Abel?" She asked in a whisper.

"We're surrounded, follow me." Danielle and Abel began to walk out the back door when Ion stopped them.

"Wait I'm coming with you!" He almost sounded like a child afraid to be left behind. Abel turned around and smiled at him.

"Ion you have to stay here to protect everyone inside." Ion nodded slowly, Abel motioned for Corissa to come to him she smiled thinking she was going too. "Stay here and watch him, make sure he doesn't leave."

"What? I'm on babysitting duty?!" She hissed and glared at him. "No!"

"Yes, that's an order. You just have to keep him occupied; the only other people here are servants. It's probably an assassination attempt. Just watch him." Corissa pouted angrily and nodded. Abel and Danielle took off; Corissa walked to the door and locked it.

"Fuck." She muttered, she heard Ion chuckle.

"I thought you were a member of the Vatican, they don't curse."

"I was sworn in by Cardinal Sforza, I'm more like a guest member of the Vatican but I guess you couldn't tell by my smell, right?" She asked angrily and walked away from the door. He rubbed the back of his neck.

"Oh hey uh…sorry about that."

"No problem." She said and sat down in a chair. Ion looked out the door.

"They don't want me to leave because they're afraid I'm gonna get hurt, huh?" She shrugged.

"I guess-" Suddenly the door was open and Ion was gone. Her eyes widened. "Oh no you don't, you fucking little twirp! Get your ass back here! I'm not getting in trouble because of you!" She screamed as she raced after him. She leapt through the air into the forest and saw him standing in front of her, she growled angrily and tackled him. He yelped in surprise and flipped over to face her.

"What the hell are you doing?!"

"What the fuck is your problem?! You were told to stay put and you go against that? You could have gotten killed; we don't know what's after you. Abel and Danielle left to protect you!" Despite the grip she had on his wrists and the fact that she was straddling his stomach he sat up, bringing his face closer to hers. She blushed for a moment before it was replaced with an angry look. He peered at her.

"So your half Methuselah?" He asked she frowned slightly at the question.

"Yes why?" He flipped them until he was straddling her and pushing her against the ground, his eyes fixated on her neck. She fought to free one hand to cover her exposed neck. "Come on Ion we can get you a pizza or something…"

"No I want to know what it tastes like, Methuselah blood mixed with Terran." He opened his mouth and his fangs grew before her eyes, his head dipped down and he licked the place he was going to pierce and she felt a shudder rip through her body. It was an odd shudder, fear mixed with excitement. Finally his fangs pierced her skin but she didn't feel pain she felt pleasure; she bucked her hips up on instinct and heard Ion moan. He only drank enough to get a taste of it and released her neck; once her hands were free she put her hand over the spot. He sat up and looked at her, her face was flushed and she was panting lightly. She had a defiant look on her face.

"If you're still hungry we'll get that pizza." She said pushing him off her and standing, she brushed off her jeans and fixed her shirt. Ion chuckled at her as he stood; he wiped his mouth with his sleeve and followed after her as she began walking back to the mansion. "I'm so getting in trouble for this." She muttered as she lightly stroked the bite mark, Ion stepped up next to her.

"I can heal it for you." He said she glanced at him from the corner of her eye.

"It's ok; it will heal on its own." She said guardedly. "You're not going to do that again, right? I like my neck the way it is, without holes in it." He grinned at her.

"Sure. Now let me heal it." She turned and faced him fully.

"No." She said before turning forward and walking again, she felt his fingers wrap around the hand she had against her neck and growled, he pulled her hand away and leaned his head down and began lapping at the puncture wounds. Pleasure again flooded her body and her knees buckled, quickly his arm went around her waist to keep her from falling. She gasped and fisted the front of his shirt as she closed her eyes waiting for it to pass; it felt wrong but oh so good. Slowly the puncture wounds began to get smaller and Ion smirked against her neck. "You're an asshole." She said in a shaky voice when he was finished, he stood her up straight and smirked at her.

"I can live with that." She stopped and looked around the forest. "What?" He whispered he had seen her body go rigid, he looked around too but didn't see anything.

"Shh…" She paused and listened. "The animals are frightened I can hear them whispering, they saw something here." He moved closer to her. "It's not safe here, come on." She levitated them and made a quick exit back to the mansion, they reached in and she got them inside before locking the door. "Stay here ok? We'll wait for Abel and Dani." Ion nodded and sat down on the couch; she glanced at him from her perch at the door. "Why didn't it hurt when you bit me?" He glanced at her and saw her cheeks pink.

"Because I didn't want it to hurt." He replied, she frowned.

"Why?"

"I like my victims to feel pleasure." She rolled her eyes.

'Horn dog.' She thought as she scanned the yard again.

"Come away from the door, you could get hurt." She threw him a look.

"Better me than you." She said as she stepped away from window. She sat down on the couch and leaned back. "How much longer do you think we have to wait? I'm bored."

"I don't know." He muttered and looked at her; she took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Her eyes opened and she looked at him.

"Where are each of us sleeping?" She asked raising a brow at him. He shrugged.

"I don't know." She rolled her eyes.

"Do you know how to say anything else other than 'I don't know'?" He grinned at her.

"I don't know." She narrowed her eyes in annoyance.

'Please Dani, Abel get here soon.' She thought and to amuse herself she levitated Ion, twirling her finger making him do flips in the air.

"Will you let me down?!" He asked angrily, she stared at him boredly but continued to twirl him and flip him. She grew much bored with that also and put him down, he ran to her angrily. "What was that?!"

"I was bored; I had to amuse myself somehow." She replied with a soft shrug.

"Why will you not show me respect?"

"You haven't earned it."

"What?" He asked in confusion.

"I only respect people who earn it. You've done nothing but insult us since we got here."

"But I apologized-"

"And then you ran out of the house when you were asked to stay here, I could have gotten in serious trouble because of you but you don't care about that. The only thing you care about is yourself."

"No I don't-"

"That's a lie!" She said she was about to say something else when the small hairs on the back of her neck stood straight up. She stood quickly and moved toward the door, she peered and ducked low to try and see out. Ion looked at her oddly, as soon as she approached the door the glass shattered around her. She screamed and covered her face with her hands; the glass shards cut deeply into her arms and exposed flesh. Fresh blood dripped all over the floor and she looked at it, as soon as the glass stopped falling she looked up and saw a man standing in front of her. He had shoulder length brown hair and brown eyes; he wore an odd outfit that vaguely reminded her of a school uniform.

"Corissa!" Ion screamed and rushed to her, she stopped him when he was halfway to her.

"Stay back, he's here for you. Let me fight." She raised her eyes to lock with the new comers and glared at him. "Did you have to break the door?" She asked. He shrugged.

"What can I say; blood is just so pretty when it's dripping from wounds." With a narrow of her eyes he was flung back. He got to his feet 20 feet from her and glared at her. "How'd you do that?!" She smirked.

"It's not fun to kick your ass if I tell you my secrets." She said before she flew into the air and spread her fingers, pointing her hand at him. He was lifted into the air also. As soon as he was level with her, birds dive bombed him, he tried to cover himself but she grabbed control of his arms and forced them to stay at his sides. She lowered him to the ground but continued to keep him immobile and called on the big animals that roamed the forest. Three tigers came out and stalked toward him. Ion watched in amazement.

"Don't hurt Radu!" He shouted, Corissa stopped and looked at him.

"What?"

"He's my friend!" Ion shouted and leaped up next to her, he landed on a branch.

"What?! He came smashing through the glass door, I doubt it was to say hi and ask for a sleep over." She looked at one of the tigers and locked eyes with it for a moment.

'Alright, I won't eat the Methuselah right now but if he tries anything I can't guarantee anything.' Corissa nodded at the tiger.

"Thank you Tigra." She said. The largest tiger nodded at her. She looked back at Radu. "Explain why you are here or my tiger will divide you in thirds." Radu smirked evilly.

"Ion you actually think I would be a whiny little whelps friend? No. She's right I came here tonight to kill you. You're just not smart enough to understand that." Ion narrowed his eyes at him and lunged at him; he knocked Radu to the ground and began punching him in the face. Tigra walked calmly to Ion and picked him up by the shirt and tossed him away from Radu. Corissa frowned.

"Tigra what was that?" Tigra locked eyes with Corissa.

'It is a trap. This Methuselah was expecting a rise from Ion and had something planned.' Corissa nodded.

"Good looking out Tigra, finish him." Tigra nodded and lunged at Radu. Radu threw Tigra away from him and Corissa growled in anger. "Oh I know you just didn't throw my tiger!" Corissa screamed and lunged at Radu herself, with as many cuts as she had she was bleeding immensely and it began flowing faster when she began fighting him. Radu rolled his eyes.

"You think a stupid Terran girl could defeat me?!"

"Bite this buddy! I'm half Terran and half Methuselah!" She said and kicked him in the stomach and watched as he gasped for air. She continued to kick him in the stomach but he kicked her away and ran. She growled and was about to go after him when Tigra stopped her.

'We will see him again; you need to get your wounds treated.' Corissa pouted for a moment before she looked down at her arms. She had many lacerations on her arms, hands and part of her chest. Tigra began lapping at one on her arm and she hissed when she felt a tugging action. She looked to her left and saw Tigra trying to pull out a shard of glass imbedded in her arm. She got it out and worked on the next one, there were only three shards imbedded in her arms and Tigra got them all. Ion stood and walked to her.

"Come on we have to get your wounds wrapped." Corissa leaned on Ion as he helped her back into the mansion, Corissa looked at Tigra.

"Can Tigra sleep in my room with me?" She asked, Ion looked back at Tigra and nodded.

"Yes she may, just please don't go traipsing around my house and scaring everyone." Tigra locked eyes with Corissa.

'I will behave myself for you.' Corissa smiled and nodded.

"She said she'll behave but will only listen to me so when I fall asleep you'll just have to trust her."

"Won't she sleep in your room with you?" Corissa shrugged.

"If she feels like it, she might even sleep in Danielle's, yours, or Abel's. It's where ever she feels most comfortable." Ion nodded and set her on the couch; he grabbed the medical kit and began wrapping her wounds. She could feel herself getting drowsy, Tigra walked inside and sat down on her right and Corissa smiled at her, she nuzzled Corissa's leg. When her right arm was done being wrapped she petted Tigra on the head. Corissa leaned her head back and closed her eyes; Ion got down on one knee to wrap her hands and looked at her legs. Tigra looked at him slyly. Ion gently lifted her pant leg and checked out the smooth flesh underneath; he gently brushed his hand against the soft skin. Corissa groggily lifted her head and looked at him. "What are you doing?" She asked.

"I was checking to make sure your legs were fine." She nodded and leaned her head back again. Ion finished wrapping her arms and stood up; he frowned when he saw her face slack and breathing evenly. "Corissa are you asleep?" She groaned and took a deep breath.

"No." She said, Ion rolled his eyes and sat next to her on the couch.

"You need to wake up." She opened her eyes slowly and sat up.

"I'm awake." She muttered and leaned against him. "But I'm really sleepy."

"I know that's from to much blood lost." He said with a cute blush tinting his cheeks. He wrapped an arm around her waist and picked her up, holding her bridal style. He looked at Tigra. "Which room should I put her in?" Tigra moved forward and bit the edge of his shirt pulling him to the stairs; he followed her to one of the best rooms in the whole mansion. There were only four others that were just as nice. His, his grandmothers and two others. He figured he should give the other two to Abel and Danielle. He pulled the blankets back and laid Corissa down, taking off her shoes. He pulled the blankets back over her and looked at Tigra. "Tigra are you staying with her?" Tigra gave a short nod. He nodded back. "I'm going back downstairs to wait for Abel and Danielle." Tigra gave another nod and jumped onto the bed, lying next to Corissa.

Ion walked down the stairs and saw Abel and Danielle standing in the livingroom staring at the blood and broken glass. Abel looked at him.

"Ion are you alright?!" He asked in alarm and ran to the boy, Ion nodded with his hands raised in defense.

"Yes I am. Corissa is the one hurt but I have cleaned and dressed her wounds and she is now sleeping. Tigra is with her." Danielle's expression changed.

"Tigra is in the house?" She asked with a smile, Abel looked at her.

"Who's Tigra?"

"My sisters pet tiger." Abel stared at her in disbelief.

"Tiger?!" He asked and ran up the stairs.

"Abel be careful, Tigra is very protective of my sister!" Danielle called and ran after him. "Let me go in first!" Abel stopped and allowed her up the stairs first. Danielle walked up the stairs. "Tigra which room are you in, growl for me." She heard a growl from the room off to her left and walked inside; Tigra sat on the bed and stared at her. "Tigra." Danielle greeted and petted the tiger affectionately. Tigra growled however when Abel stepped into the room.

"Wow that's a big tiger." Tigra got off the bed and walked toward him.

"No Tigra, he's ok. We came here with him." Tigra peered at Abel for a moment before backing down and going back to the bed. Ion walked into the room and looked at them.

"If you'll follow me I'll show you your rooms." They nodded and left the room with Ion. Tigra's head picked up when she heard something outside the window. A young mans face appeared in the window and stared at Corissa in the bed. A slow perverted grin spread on his lips.

"I love me some exotic Terran meat." He said with a chuckle and rubbed his hands together. "This is going to be fun, Terran." He whispered and kissed the air before disappearing.

'Corissa there was a strange Methuselah at the window; I think he's a threat.'

'Tigra please let me sleep, if he comes in tear him apart.' Tigra nodded and laid her head on Corissa's thigh, Corissa brought her bandaged hand down and patted Tigra's head before she fell into a deeper sleep. Only a few hours later the door to her room opened and Tigra lifted her head up a deep menacing growl rumbled her chest, she cut the growl when she saw Ion at the door.

"Tigra it's just me, I was coming in to check on Corissa." Tigra gave a quick nod of acceptance and allowed him to enter; Ion walked inside and closed the door behind him walking slowly to the bed. He sat down at the edge and patted Tigra on the head for a moment before he looked at Corissa. "Do you think she's ok?" He asked Tigra, she gave another short nod. "Good." He said sighing a sigh of relief. Corissa stirred in bed and groggily sat up.

"Ion?" She asked and frowned at him; he looked flustered for a moment but soon cleared his throat.

"Yeah?" He asked, she blinked a few times and looked down at his hand.

"Your hand is on my thigh." She said, and pointed to his hand. He looked down at his hand and saw that it was indeed resting on her upper thigh, almost gripping it. His face flushed a healthy red and he moved it quickly.

"Oh I'm sorry." He said hurriedly. Tigra looked amused and Corissa cracked a short smile.

"I was just alerting you, I didn't think you'd freak like that." She chuckled and looked at his hand; she picked it up and looked at it. She lifted her eyes and locked them with his, she smiled warmly. "Your hands are soft." He stared at her and frowned.

"No they're not." She grinned again and shrugged.

"If you say so." He grabbed her hand and ran his fingers over the top and brushed them lightly over her palm.

"Your hands are soft." He said, she looked down at his hand and nodded.

"Lotion works wonders." She said, suddenly her look turned serious and she looked back down at their hands. "Thank you for wrapping my hands." He could see her cheeks turn pink and smiled; he leaned forward and kissed her cheek gently.

"It was no problem, I'm just glad that you're ok." He stood to leave but she called his name stopping him, he turned around and looked at her.

"Ion I'm sorry for saying you smell like a wet dog mated with a skunk, you don't." The cute blush had resurfaced and she looked away, he smiled and walked over to her, he lifted her chin and grinned down into her face. Her lips parted as she stared into his pretty eyes, they were such a unique red. He bent his head forward and kissed her nose. Her blue eyes widened and she stared up at him.

"I'm glad I don't smell like a wet dog mated with a skunk that makes me feel better." She nodded and tried to smile at him but all she could do was stare into his handsome face.

"You're really cute." She admitted and blushed darker than she had ever before. She floundered for words. "I mean-" He cut her off with a gentle kiss on the lips.

"Your cute too, now go to sleep." She nodded in a trance and watched as he walked out of the room. Two fingers rested on her tingling lips and she looked at Tigra.

"He kissed me." She said in amazement, Tigra gave a nod.

'Yes he did. Why do humans kiss that way?' Tigra asked. 'Why don't they nudge or lick?'

"We have actual lips, we like to use those." Tigra gave a growl of understanding.

'And tongues too, I've watched some TV with you. Human's use their tongues too. I don't want my cub going any further than lips touching.' Tigra said and gave Corissa a pointed look.

"I'm not your cub."

'Yes you are I say you are.' Tigra put her head on Corissa's stomach and nuzzled it. 'That's my kiss.' She did the same thing to Corissa's cheek and then licked it. Corissa giggled and hugged Tigra around the neck. 'Go to sleep, my little cub.' Corissa rolled her eyes playfully and nodded; she turned on her side and laid her head against Tigra's side.

'I love you Tigra.'

'I love you too my little cub, I'll watch over you.' Corissa nodded and sighed going into a deep sleep. Tigra lifted her head when she heard a noise outside, Corissa sat up this time too. Tigra looked at the window and the same young mans face was there, peering inside. Corissa gasped and moved closer to Tigra.

'Tigra there is a Methuselah at my window.' Tigra nodded.

'I know Corissa, just stay here. If he tries to get inside I will rip his head off.'

'Good.' They watched the vampire at the window. His face clouded over in anger.

"So the Count is getting comfortable with my little half Terran? I'll fix that." Corissa heard what he said and her eyes widened; she rushed from the bed and to the window. She flung it open and glared at him.

"Don't you dare touch a hair on Ion's head!" She hissed the young man smirked at her. She looked him over; he had short brown hair spiked away from his eyes. His eyes were a deep red color, nothing like Ion's eyes. The look he suddenly got in his eyes startled her and she pulled her face back but not quick enough when his hands shot out and grabbed the side of her face, crushing his mouth down on her own, kissing her hard slipping his tongue inside for a quick taste. She squeaked at the intrusion and bit down on his tongue, he only moaned into her mouth. As pay back he pulled hers out with his teeth and also bit down, she yelped and he lapped up the blood. Making smooth long stokes against her tongue. She finally got free and began wiping her mouth vigorously with the back of her hand.

"Until next time my little half Terran, bye baby." She watched as he ran away. She gagged for a moment before she spit out the window and closed it, locking it behind her. She rushed back to the bed and moved as close to Tigra as possible.

"That was a kiss, a very disturbing kiss." She said and gagged again.

'Sleep my little cub, I'll watch the window and door. The only Methuselah allowed in here is Ion.' Corissa nodded and closed her eyes.

'Please nuzzle closer to me when I have a nightmare, it always calms me down.'

'Of course my little cub.' Corissa nodded and tried to go to sleep. After an hour of trying she finally drifted off but her sleep was plagued with nightmares staring the creepy vampire at the window. She could vaguely feel Tigra nuzzle her side or her cheek. It jolted her from her sleep for a moment before she went back to sleep.