A series of Vampire Game one-shots.

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Third prompt: Fun and dangerous ways of sneaking out at night : Why take the easy way?

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Rating : T

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Summary: Darres finds the princess trying to sneak out one night. However the usual reprimand turns out quite different this time.

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This is the third of my many vampire game one-shots ideas, it is a Darres x Ishtar pairing.

I hope y'all like it. :"]

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Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Game

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It had been four days since Duzell had been missing and Ishtar was beginning to get worried by now. Sure he was a vampire king and could look after himself but he was never gone this long without letting her know he was fine. She would rather not go back to her mundane life without Duzie. She would cling on to him and any other semblance of normality and constancy within her life; which wasn't much.

She had to go find him. Now. Lest she let her sanity leave her. Being locked within her rooms all the time was forever boring and certainly not fun at all.

"I have to go out and find Duzell. But how?" She whispers to herself as she paces her room and plots quietly out loud how she will escape her guards and get out of the palace to freedom and to find Duzell; or as others knew him, her pet Kyawl.

"Yes, that's it." She almost yells out as she comes up with one of her most interesting albeit dangerous plans to get out of her confinement.

Princess Ishtar had it tough but her way of thinking made it fun. Next thing on her escape routes to try list was climbing out her window and down the tall yet thankfully rocky wall in to her garden where she has the perfect escape route from the palace grounds planned out. No one ever goes along the princess's tunnel footpath and especially not at this time of night because they fear her wrath.

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"Princess?"

Ishtar spun around at the sound of her name being called and her heart beat loudly in her chest, as she saw none other than one of her most powerful semblances of normality and constancy; the man she loves. "Oh, Darres. Hello"

Darres had been out for his usual midnight round of patrolling outside the princesses quarters when he had suddenly turned the corner and saw a figure shrouded in darkness trying to be stealthy. At first he thought it was an intruder, until he made out the well-known figure of the princess beneath a heavy black cloak.

So when Ishtar turned around in shock at being caught she saw that Darres was stood there in his usual glowing handsomeness, silhouetted by the moon in the sky behind him. As he put on his usual expression of stress, anger and annoyance; which overshadowed his true feelings of care and love for the princess that he knew he could never act upon. It killed his heart seeing the beautiful princess outside, sneaking around and acting cute when not wanting to be caught. His concern for her safety though replaced all of his strong true feelings for her in an instant. "What are you doing out at this hour of the night?"

"Shouldn't that be, my lady, what are you doing out at this hour of the night?" Ishtar never dared to think or act upon her feelings until she comes face to face with him at times like this. Unfortunately her true feelings always come out muffled by fake annoyance and rebellion that Darres can't see through.

"Yes, I apologise, my lady." Darres says through gritted teeth as he tries not to let a smile slip at the way she is so bossy towards him, which he adores about her.

"That's better" Ishtar says smugly as she also fights back the urge to grin at how amazing he is to put up with her attitude and still look gorgeous.

"Now, what are you doing out here without a chaperone, your highness?" He asks her while her guard is down; knowing he won't get any complaints from her, its his usual trick of distract tactics.

She couldn't think of a good excuse when he was standing so close to her and she wasn't going to let him trick her in to giving anything away again. 'Even is he does look so handsome' she thought to herself as she resolved that she wouldn't let him know. So she just did the next best thing that came in to her mind.

Without a second thought Ishtar pulled Darres down towards her and before he had time to object she placed her small delicate mouth over his and kissed him, putting all her feelings for him in to it. This was something she had wanted to do for a long time now.

Darres was shocked and paralysed for a moment until he smiled and melted in to the feeling of his love's lips on his. This was a nice surprise from Ishtar, for once. Now that he knew she had the same feelings for him as he did for her he let his resolve of his duty falter and he snaked his arms around her waist and pulled her up towards him while he joyously kissed her back; hoping to god that this wasn't another dream.

Ishtar thought she heard faraway yells and gasps but she ignored them. She couldn't hold back now there were to be no distractions form this perfection, not when her love was kissing her back. This was the happiest moment of her life and all her worries left her as she concentrated on the feeling of his soft lips moving against hers.

Suddenly cries of "The princess is missing, the princess is missing" could be heard throughout the castle and the shouts quickly reach the embracing couple's ears. Darres and Ishtar broke apart instantly and stare in to each other's eyes in shock and deep longing, both not wanting this moment to be over. The castle would be swarming with armed guards any minute now, looking high and low for the princess; this was a regular practice for the royal guard, just a normal Friday night looking for the mischievous princess Ishtar. Little did they know that she had corrupted the leader of the armed guard and right at that moment they were huddled together in the hall outside the princess's gardens.

As the guard were deployed Darres could hear them coming round the corner, a few more metres and they would find them. But he didn't want his time with Ishtar to be interrupted and it couldn't be over so soon, not yet. Before they could even think of any sensible ways to hide, Darres pulls Ishtar down the hallway and towards the one place he knows they won't find them.

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At the last second Darres had managed to hide them in his secret passageway that he had found when he was younger/ No one else knew about this place but him, and now Ishtar. He had pulled the princess around the corner and they raced along the next corridor until Darres stopped suddenly and placed his hand along the bottom of the wall. With the right amount of pressure in the right place he had triggered a mechanism, which slid back a stone panel in the middle of the wall, which had a keyhole in it. Without hesitating Darres had pulled an ancient looking key from his belt, fit it in to the lock, turned it twice anti clockwise and then once gain clockwise then took the key out and waited mere mille-seconds until a dull thud was heard and an arched doorway appeared. He pulled her through it and pushed another stone in on the other side, which immediately closed the secret entrance. Keeping one hand on the princess and one on the stone Darres listened instantly for the sound of boots against the cobbled floor as the guards passes them by. Finally when he was sure no one had seen anything or discovered them Darres focused his attention back on the princess again who has wide eyes and was looking at him in amazement.

He can't think straight, holding Ishtar to him like this is corrupting his mind. The onslaught of feelings, emotions and senses he is picking up from her is enough to drive him wild but on top of that there is the feeling of her body pressed against his and the fragrance of her long beautiful hair is killing his self-control.

Darres leans down and pulls her even more to him; if it is possible. He whispers in her ear that he loves her and doesn't wait for an answer before he starts kissing her again. He captures her lips with his and bites on them slightly to get her to open her mouth. Ishtar easily complies and lets him take over while everything becomes a haze to her at the feeling of being touched and amazingly even kissed by Darres. Before he kisses her again he allows her to breathe, giving her time to tell him she loves him too. This makes Darres ecstatic and he places his lips on hers again. He darts his tongue out and licks her lips, allowing a little moan of want and anticipation to escape form Ishtar's mouth as she eagerly parts her lips for him. She lets him take control completely now as she becomes intoxicated by him and drifts in to a sea of happiness, loving the taste and feel of him.

Her wish is coming true at last.

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I hope y'all liked that one-shot story. I decided to write some Ishtar x Darres even though I am more obsessed with the Ishtar x Duzell pairing, lol.

I was thinking of continuing this one short story. I have an extra part to it which is rated M and I will be putting it up as soon as possible as the next chapter. It will be the sequel to this one-shot.

Sorry it took me a while to update this story by the way, but I really need to finish all my other ones too, lol. I have a-level exams and coursework at the moment and a rather busy life so it may be a while between updates after this next one, sorry; I wish I had more time to write but it just seems to fly by.

Also i am sorry if there were a lot of tense or grammatical errors in this story, i am improving but i am still not good with tenses and constantly change which one i am writing in. I haven't had much time to check over this story so if there are any major errors then please let me know and i will fix them.

For now i am going to focus on updating one of my stories once a week and eventually i will go back over them and correct any mistakes in them.

Thanks for reading and please review

…Anie