I could feel myself slip in and out of sleep through the day and could hear almost everyone around my snoring or grunting and moving around in their sleep. We all really needed this, just a bit of peace and silence from the world around us and for them to take in the warm day and to just sleep off the night before a bit. Kili made these little noises in his sleep and every once in a while I would feel his head fall onto my shoulder and I would nudge him away from me, his breathing kept my awake. After awhile I tried to open my eyes and start to move around, but once a vampire has started to sleep during the day it can be very hard to get them to wake up and stay up once again, and my eyes would just shut once again. But I was happy to find that once nightfall came that the others in the group must have felt the same way because we were still here, safe and sound, and had not been moved. Even Thorin was found sleeping under the shade of an old tree, which made me smile. We would be staying here for another night and the lazy side of me was thrilled about that.
" Come to me." A cold chill came across my body, waking me up from my sleep to find Kili's head had been nested into my shoulder.
" No." I breathed into the air as Kili groaned and lightly fluttered his eyes in his surprised new state of consciousness.
" What? What's going on?" Kili lightly questioned as his eyes were barely open as he looked around/
" Nothing, go back to resting." I sighed as I took the hood off of my head as I noted that the sun had fully set.
" You know you want to."
" Who were you talking to?" Kili asked and I could hear in his voice that he had been awake for awhile now.
" No one, myself." I muttered as I looked around to find that the others were starting to stir awake as well. Damn. " No, now go off and leave me the hell alone, Tathar."
" I heard you talking to someone, whatever it was woke you up. Are you alright?" He asked as he tried to move his hand towards my body and I instantly shot off of the ground and into a standing position before Kili even knew that I was up.
" I'm fine." I hissed as I looked down to me and then back around to find that the others were starring. " Just leave me alone, alright? Please!" I hissed as I moved away from the boy and towards where the others all had been.
" Yikes, give him the third degree, Rolly. That's the way to win the boy over." I could almost hear him laughing.
" I wasn't only talking to him, now leave me the fuck alone before I cut you out of my mind. Forever." I moved in closer to the group who had been awake the longest and smiled to them as they had made a fire and were wrapped around it.
" You wouldn't dare, I am your only source of knowing if your little family, your clan, are still even alive. You would never dare to do that."
" You do not know what I would dare to do and who I have shared blood with and who I have not shared blood with in my clan."
" Not like we have." His voice danced in the air.
" How did you sleep Rolly?" Fili asked, I had not noticed that he was even wake. I smiled as I sat beside of him near the fire.
" Amazingly. I think that was my full days sleep in. . . weeks." I smiled as he looked to me puzzlingly.
" Well. . . you. . . you kind of looked a little. . . dead." He said without trying to sound offensive.
" Aren't they so cute?"
" That's because I am dead. No need to breath, no beating heart, in all aspects I'm deader than dead comes. I'm cold and lets face it paler than normal. It's all a sign of being a vampire. Not to mention the whole combusting when I step foot into the sun thing." I laughed as he smiled lightly.
" Is that the only way to kill one of your kind? The sun?" Ori asked from the other side of the fire as I laughed at him and shook my head.
" No . . . no there are plenty of ways to kill my kind if you know of them." I laughed. It was really funny how little the younger ones have learned about things that go bump in the night.
" Silver and chaining them to something, a tree, a pole, anything really, works." Balin stated and then looked to me to make sure that it was true and I nodded.
" Extremely painful and takes a long amount of time. . . unless the sun comes in the way first." I nodded as it seemed like a battle of the brains was growing.
" Starvation." Dwalin stated.
" Usually happens by chaining one up, sucks to be honest, vampires go mad." I snickered as I shook my head. " It's horrible to watch."
" Draining a vampire of all blood." Òin more of asked.
" You know, I have never seen that happen before, but I would have to say yes to that because it's almost exactly starving a vampire." I shrugged and looked into the fire.
" Fire." Thorin stated as he moved into the group.
" One of the worst ways to die, so painful, so horrible." I said as I placed a hand around the side of my throat and could feel it burning.
" Wood to the heart." Kili said as everyone looked to him as he sat beside of his uncle on the other side of the fire but looked dead into my eyes. " That's how you killed the one that was trying to kill me. Wood straight to the heart."
" That's the way that the elves know how to kill us, they have become very killed at it with their archery. I think that they just kill us for sport now, but yes. A wooden stake to the very center of the heart works the best, but you must make sure you hit it correctly or the vampire will only be slightly stunned and very, very pissed once they recover." I smiled as I lowered by shirt a bit and showed the star shaped scar on the outer side of my heart. " Some elf prince did this to me. I would love to see what I left him with."
" Hope you wrecked pretty boys face a bit." Fili smiled as he lightly smacked my on the back. " Specially for missing a shot that easy."
" Easy? Not to say that I am defending the guy or anything, but I would love to see you try and kill one of my kind." I laughed as he looked at me so very serious.
" Bring one to me and I will kill it, easily." I laughed as I stood.
" Well common then, pretty boy, I'm one. Try and kill me, here I'll even take off my weapon to make it a bit easier on you." I smiled as I unhooked the belt to my sword and threw it on the ground.
" Oh yes, go on and teach them how to kill our kind, very good idea Rolly, really good."
" They would have killed me, I will teach each and every person who will listen how to kill our kind. They all deserve to die."
" There's my Rollywaters."
" I would, but I do not hit women." Fili smiled his charming smile as he stood from the ground and put his hands out.
" Aw. Too bad that I do." I smiled as I moved faster than lightening and stood right in front of him and smacked him so hard that his head swung. " Besides, I am no woman. Now fight me."
" Oh you asked for it now." He smiled as he got into a tackling stance.
" Rule first. You win if you get a stick at my heart, I win if I get my pretty little fangs around your neck. But don't worry, I promise I wont bite." I smiled as I moved a bit away from him and stripped off my cloak and could feel the tightness of the clothing around my body as I got into the same stance as him. " I'll let you make the first move."
" You'll wish that you didn't" Fili said through his teeth as he broke off a branch from a tree and he glared at me. Then he charged and I moved just before he hit me, sending him straight into a tree that was right behind me.
" Careful Boy, her whole body is a weapon!" Glóin stated from his seat.
" It's true." I laughed as Fili looked to Glóin for only a moment and I took the chance, shot out my fan, and ran to him, moving my hands around his head and placing my fangs on his skin. " I think I won."
" No fair! He distracted me!" Fili said as I started to laugh and moved away from him, leaving my fangs out though.
" Boo who! There are going to go plenty of things in this world to distract you with! Even being alive near a vampire is a good enough thing, battling one is a death wish!" I smiled as he got back into his tackling stance once again.
" If an elf can do it, than so can I." Fili stated and I laughed as I shot out my hand and waved him on once again and just like last time he started to run full force at me.
This time I jumped in mid-air and kicked myself even higher off of Fili's back when he passed by, sending him into the ground below. I landed on the ground to find that he was already coming back at me and charged him even faster and harder, taking the breath out of him, and sending us both onto the ground, me on top of him. Try as hard as Fili could to pull my hair or to punch or not matter what he tried, I wrapped my hand into his hair and pulled as hard as I could to expose his neck and smiled as I placed my fangs back around his neck and could feel his heart racing as he did so. I instantly jumped off and smiled a bit as I looked down at him and could see that I had turned him on, he had a rather large hard-on. But I knew that it could happen, it has before with many of my kills, but I did not think about it while training. I acted like I did not notice and Fili instantly rolled himself over onto his stomach, away from the others.
" You see, what you did wrong was allowing yourself to make the first attack, though vampires can be hard to see when they are moving, you will always have the upper hand by standing your ground and making them come to you." I smiled as I placed my foot onto Fili's back.
" I've tried teaching the boy that." Thorin scoffed from the other side of the fire.
" Anyone else want to give it a shot?" I smiled as I looked to the others and found that most of the younger one all wanted to see if they could out do the vampire.
One by one all but Kili came up and tried their luck at it and one by one they all failed at it. It was rather funny their fighting skills that they had, which was rather none. Though I was very happy to find that only Fili had been turned on in such a way. Soon music was being played and it almost turned into a game to see who would be able to beat me. With each new person that had been defeated there was a new lesson to learn from their mistakes, making the next person a little harder to fight. Fili, Ori, and Bofur all made it look almost too easy. The elders in the group soon joined in a well, testing their fighting skills from wars that they had been in from years that had long ago passed. They, on the other hand, were much harder to beat. A few times I thought that Dwalin was going to get me pinned and wiggled myself out. Dori tried to stab me from behind, but I somehow managed a back flip off of the tree in front of me and placed my fangs onto his neck from behind. And soon enough all but two dwarfs had been defeated when the king stood from his place on the ground.
" Oh." I smiled, allowing my fangs to fully show as he took his place. " Now this is going to be. . . so. . . much fun." I laughed as he did not say a word, learning from the others.
" You first." He nodded as I looked him over, leaving his weak spots.
" Oh thank you." I nodded back and noted his right leg, just above the ankle, his armor had been taken off.
I sprung on the attack towards the one spot, running as fast as I could through the air and then sliding downwards allowing my legs to hit him right then, sending him to the ground. But he had already seen this and took my leg before I had the chance to move a full kill and flipped us so that he was above me and looking down to me. I smiled as I kicked him in the stomach and freed myself from being under him and instantly jumped to my feet. But he had seen all of my moves watching the others, knew what I was thinking before I did it, as well as I knew his. I jumped to attack and he took my arm, just below my armpit, and swung my around and threw me on the ground, my shoulder hitting with a large crack. I instantly stood to find that the branch that the rest had been using was right near my face as I took it in my hands and twisted my body as hard as I could, taking it from his grasp. I smiled as I turned around to find that he had found another on the ground and laughed at him.
" Good thinking there." I said as I twirled the branch in my hand. " But mines bigger."
Now we both had weapons and it was funny how it almost became a survival game more than anything else. Each person trying to attack the others with a very sharpened branch from a free above, the sound of the branches colliding could be heard for yards around us. We were both making grunts and noises when hey collided and were in very close hand to hand combat. But I finally saw my opening as he tried to hit me in the head with the stick I ducked down, wrapped my whole arm up to my shoulder around his leg and sent me straight into the ground, using my branch to keep his left arm with the branch on the ground but even Thorin had a trick or two up his sleeve. With his other hand he took out a small piece of his silver leg armor and placed it around my arm, making my scream and freeing him as he flipped our bodies around and pinned me to the ground; the steak barely going into my chest.
" That. . . was a good one. . ." I smiled as I took in a deep breath after he took the silver off of me and stepped away from him, pulling the branch out of my body and could already feel it healing.
" You weren't too bad yourself." Thorin stated as he stood from the ground and pulled a leaf out of my hair. " Kili! Your turn!" He yelled as we both looked to find that Kili was paying much more than attention to the two of us.
" Common Kili! I wanna see what you got!" I smiled as I motioned my finger for him to come near me.
" No. . ." He muttered as I snorted as I looked up to the sky.
" Common! Don't tell me that you are scared!" Fili nudged at his brother.
" We all have done it Lad!" Dori added.
" I truly wanna see what you've got." I smiled lightly to him.
" Fine." He grunted as he stood from the group and almost all of them hooted and hollered to him.
" Don't hold anything back and I promise I will not hurt you too badly." I laughed as he looked to me. " Common Warrior! I wanna see so badly what you've got." I broke from the normal pose and moved in closer to him and handed him a branch.
Kili did not listen to the rules that I had given earlier and instantly swung out his other hand as if to punch me in the face in which I simply twisted my body to move. He tried hitting once again, using more force the second time and when I ducked his whole body moved with his arm which made me giggle as he stumbled. When Kili finally regained himself once again, he looked back to me and changed with the branch in his hand aimed perfectly at my heart. This time around I gave it a little more show and it a cartwheel around the spear and himself as he went in the other direction as my body. As I charged him though, he moved his hands around my waist, gripping me in, and wrapping his hand around my chin, smiling a bit as he did this. I swatted his hand away and jumped as high as I could into the air and caught onto a study branch from above and smiled as Kili looked around to find me. As I jumped from the tree I wrapped one hand on each of his shoulders and as he turned to face me I lightly kissed his cheek before placing my fangs onto his neck.
" I won." I smiled as I jumped off of him and turned away from his body to look at the others. " We will use our emotions against you at any point we can. Just remember that a loved one, a family member, even your wife if she is changed will not be the same person. The first months are all about blood blood blood, adolescence is all about murder, and soon after that it's just survival." I smiled as the others nodded and I could feel hands around my shoulders as I was turned around and could feel Kili's warm lips hit mine.
