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The Old One
The fog was gone. I couldn't see it precisely and I was moving through a forest. My form was naked, my breathing was harsh. Each step was heavier than the next and harder to get out. Was I wounded? I looked down in case I was and saw nothing, before she was on me. The thing I was running from.
It was the woman from earlier, her long black hair over her shoulders and her form just as bare as my own. She had large black wings that were beautiful and disgusting all at the same time, while she also had a long tail that was lashing back and forth. An arrowed tip at the end of it. She smiled down at me.
"You think you can escape me child?" She grasped the back of my hair and pulled my head back, "How rude of you to treat your mother so crassly." I shut my eyes tightly as her mouth came down towards my neck. I opened my mouth and let out a shriek as she bit down. It hurt, it hurt so much. My eyes shut tightly as tears formed in them. She clung to my body, smiling happily as she drank my blood.
It hurt, it hurt so badly. My eyes shut tightly as I fought back a scream before there was something ripping her off me. Hands came and grasped me under the arms before I was yanked backwards and into a strong muscled chest. A snarl exiting the figure behind me as the pain in my body continued, I was clutched close to the warm chest before fingers moved to my neck and felt at the bite.
Pain moved through it immediately causing another cry before I relaxed into the small feeling of warmth that was coming from the being. My eyes shut tightly as they kept me to them, they made me feel safe… I let out a low breath and shivered while hearing the clear Swedish voice snarl angrily as the woman who watched with interest. My eyes drifted up and made contact with her almost black ones.
"Is this your prey?" Her voice was light and amused. Eric clutched to me all the tighter making me shut my eyes and grit my teeth. Nodding I stared at her and let my arms slip slowly around him. The pain in my body all I could deal with in the moment. "He's pretty." I felt a feral growl come in my throat while a face buried into my hair. I stared up at the Viking who looked back down and then glared ahead at the woman. "He seems to like you as well…" She was eyeing him. A possessive snarl exited me while my nails dug lightly into his back. I heard him chuckle almost.
Grasping her chin for a few moments, that long tail flicking back and forth, she slowly smiled, "…I'll take him." My eyes widened and I felt a hand move down my back lightly followed by a shush from the male that caused the Succubus in me to roar angrily but also made my eyes turn up in a panic. A calculative look was there in the blonde's eyes and he let my legs drop but kept me tucked to his side.
He went cool instantly and his arm remained tight around my waist, the heat the pain had caused dampening immediately before the vampire was eyeing the woman in front of us with a look of great contemplation and curiosity. He looked down at me, "Are you alright?" I shivered again and shook my head back and forth. He gave me a scowl, "Wake up. Now."
I hated being able to follow orders so well, but nothing sounded better than being awake right now.
I snapped up from my slumber and slumped forward, chest rising and falling, left arm sticky and covered in warm goop. My eyes flicked immediately over, only seeing red before I felt nauseous immediately, Eric's hand came onto my head and he slowly shoved me back down, ignoring the blood completely. He stared for a few moments at me in silence, my blue remaining to his own before he got up. "Don't move. That bite is deep." I felt my chest rising and falling softly. My hoodie had been cast aside at least, but the bitch had ruined my favorite shirt. I paused for a moment though and shivered, how did she manage to bite me? Unless she didn't… I looked over at Eric as he moved quietly, still naked as ever, into the bathroom and returned with a first aid kit in hand.
I stared up at the ceiling quietly and then looked over at Hanska as he was sitting on a chair, head hung and black hair flowing around his face. I felt shame and horror from him before I slowly opened my mouth and hissed out, "Who is she?" It hurt to talk. A hand planted lightly over my mouth and I looked at the vampire who held a small frown on his lips and wiggled his finger in a nonverbal 'no talking.' For a few moments the silent continued before Hanska's raspy voice filled the room.
"She's The Old One." He lifted his head lightly and stared at me for a few moments, I stared back, "The ancestral mother to us all…" I shivered as a needle bit into my skin, my eyes shutting tightly as the pain was rather annoying and upsetting, soon it was taken care of though and alcohol was applied. I let out a soft snarl in the process. "She's the very first Succubus."
He didn't say anything after that, my eyes moving to the ceiling in my thought before I slowly got up, my neck stiff and the vampire grabbing my shoulder as though to put me back down on the bed… I needed water though. Slowly I moved to the sink, but once seeing the minibar, I opened it and grasped the first bottle I saw. I opened it and downed some of the contents…
Whiskey I discovered was rather sweet. Putting it back down I looked at the wall before I found my voice again and turned back to the two men. Hanska was staring at me now with a frown before he opened his mouth, "Ky." I narrowed my gaze on him immediately. "The woman you ran into, was it her?" I slowly nodded, "What happened?"
I watched his eyes narrow and he got up after he asked, he moved forward and placed his hands lightly on my shoulder. "Tell me exactly Kylie Scott…." I backed away from him immediately and he paused watching me while I clenched my hands into fists and remained a good distance. I didn't like that feeling and I didn't like him using such an approach. Stumbling back though I made friends with an arm chair and stared for a few moments before letting my head bow and stare at the blood that covered my arm. I leaned forward and began to lick it away before my arm was yanked away. Hanska glared down, "Kylie!"
I glared back, "I dunno what I did okay!?" I snapped, he grunted and looked mildly surprised, stepping back as I continued, "I was hunting in an Alley, she interrupted me and my fucking prey! Made him go away, and then starts talkin' about all this crap! I got strung up like a marionette, she scared the shit out of me, so I broke free and ran a-" Whoa, where the fuck did the succubi attitude come from?
"You broke Free?" I flinched at this staring at his wide-eyed gaze before I slowly glared away and nodded crossing my arms. Thought I very much wanted to finish cleaning my arms.
"Yes. I wasn't going to just stand there, she said she might kill me if I back talked her, so I just ran." There was a silence before the fourth raised his hand as I opened mine and he sat down on the chair behind him. The silence continued before I slowly looked ahead and let out a low breath. I didn't like the silence, coming from him in particular. It carried though and I shut my eyes tightly before murmuring, "Did I do something wrong?"
"No." I opened my eyes and looked at him in disbelief, "Not wrong per say… she doesn't like newborns, but she has to check on them to make sure they aren't dying… your instinct should have sensed a slight bit of comfort from her actually."
"Comfort from Her? She was scary as hell!" I blurted back, he shot his head up and watched me for a few moments then tapped his lips and let out a breath.
"It must be the Siren blood or the vampire blood in you that allows you to refuse her…" I simply continued to watch him now, "When she saw me for the first time I was almost relieved instantly of my hunger…"
I didn't understand much of this but I leaned up in interest, "Who the fuck exactly Is she?" He glared at me now like I was retarded, who knew, maybe I was.
"She. Is the very first Succubus. Kylie. She's a pure blood, she's the purest blood." He glanced at Eric then back at me, "You're lucky you already fed off him or he wouldn't have been able to pull you from the dream. Once she decides to invade yours you're screwed. She's… I guess what you might call, the modern day Freddy Krueger." I leaned forward in my intent to listen while he ran a hand through his hair, pushing it behind his ears. When had he let it down?
"She's the type you hear about that Can and Will suck the sexual energy from you in your dreams, can make you exhausted from a single feeding, and if she finds you annoying enough, she'll settle for damaging you in the physical world. She's testing you now, but she may have a taste for you, if you're that unlucky." I shuddered at this fact and covered my face lightly. I just wanted to go home right about now.
"Why would she go after one of her own?" Eric's voice piqued in.
Yeah, why would she? I immediately looked over at Hanska demanding an answer silently, he let out a low breath and sighed softly, shaking his head I watched him grimace. "If you can break her hold in physical world you could damage her in the dream realm should you so choose. It might make her view you as a threat. If you're a half that can break her control, she might consider you to carry on her next child, she's a complicated woman."
"She's a cunt." I snapped out loud. Hanska gasped and stared at me in disbelief, Eric simply held his tongue for the moment, before I insisted, "Well she IS! I didn't even do anything to her except run away from her and here she is biting me at the fucking neck!"
"Get your mouth under control brat or I'll get it there for you." Hanska spat. I paused to stare at my mentor for a few moments with a glowering glare before silencing fully, "You cannot speak about the old one like that."
I stared for a few moments and then glowered at his bite mark. "She give you that pretty little body art there?" I pointed at it and he brought his hand up lightly and then glared at me.
"That's none of your concern." Struggling out of the massive arm chair I made my way to him and tugged on his hand.
"Sure it is, I mean, she did just take a chunk out of my neck, and it doesn't feel nice by the way." He glared at me as I tugged at his hand before I slowly pulled it off and inhaled at the bite. Yes, the same smell she had, I glowered at him and then looked away before looking back, "Why the hell didn't you say anything?"
"I am your teacher god damn it! Do no question me Kylie!"
"I'm inquisitive you bastard! I'll question you however I want as you're now the object of curiosity!" Hanska opened his mouth to snap back at me before Eric's voice broke through between us.
"ENOUGH! I'M TIRED OF ALL THE BICKERING!"
Hanska immediately turned to him and opened his mouth to snarl something back but the vampire's icy glare was enough to silence us both. I began to force my breathing and moved away from Hanska over towards the chair again and sat down, staring at the floor with my form slumped over like a drunken king in his throne.
"Incubi, you test my patience." His voice was like chilled water, I almost felt delighted at it, but kept my head down and my mouth shut. He was 'master of this house' for the moment. Even though we weren't technically in the house. "Now this old one, the first Succubus, does she have a name?" My head did pop up at this and I looked over at Hanska.
He slowly frowned and said nothing making me shut my eyes and fight back a groan. He was like a metal box, lots of dents but no give. I let my head come up and with a glare from Eric I kept my mouth wisely shut. The silence continued before Hanska slowly exhaled.
"Her name is Lilith."
My eyes widened and my heart stopped. Slowly I looked at Eric who was eyeing me, whose form was no doubt several shades lighter.
Great.
Just Great.
I had managed to piss off and catch the eye of the first wife of Adam.
Fucking, brilliant.
A/N: Alright, hopefully FF won't screw up and you'll all be able to read the chapter, hope to know what you all think, I know there were some problems last time with sending reviews, getting to the chapters and such, but I think they worked out the kinks. So I'll see you all next chapter, ciao!
