Author: slightly longer chapter then the last. I've been visiting with my parents this past week so I haven't really had time to write this one so I hope you like this one.
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" Wake up, love."
Ai heard a strong voice whisper to her. " Come back to me, my love." A small smile came across her face. She knew that voice to the very bottom of her soul.
" Ace?" She said, looking around for the source of the voice. She was in a large field of star lilies that stretched as far as the eye could see. The sky above was a beautiful blue and was crystal clear. " Ace where are you?"
A pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist, pulling her securely against a rock solid chest. A warm familiar masculine scent wafted into her nose. Spinning around eagerly she grinned happily up at Ace. " There you are! Where have you been?"
" Waiting here for you, love." Ace said nuzzling her cheek lovingly.
" Well I've been looking everywhere for you!" Ai huffed cutely earning a deep chuckle from him.
" You took a very long time to return to me." Ace said stroking her cheek. " I was worried you wouldn't ever."
" What are you talking about?"
" I've been waiting centuries for you, Una." Ace said dipping his head down to capture her lips.
" Woah, woah, woah!" Ai said pushing his head back. " What did you just call me?" She asked in agitation. Did he really just call her another woman's name? A wave of jealousy surged through her at the mere thought.
" I referred to you by your name." Ace said calmly. " Your true name."
" My name is Ai! It always has been!"
" In this lifetime, you are correct." Ace said. " Yet this is not your first life. You've been through dozens of lifetimes with dozens names."
" What are you talking about?" Ai asked.
" This body of yours is not your first. It is only your most recent incarnation." Ace said a hungry smile darting across his face. " Although it is the one that resembles your original form the most."
" A-Ace-"
" You keep referring to me by that boy's name." Ace said, his dark eyebrow twitching in annoyance. " He is my most recent incarnation but it is still annoying."
" What are y-wait…you're Ace's Companion, aren't you?" Ai asked nervously. She knew the Companion had existed and that he was in control of Ace's more primal instincts. She remembered Rouge telling her that his Companion was an old one, though she wasn't aware of how old he was.
" My name is Aviur." He replied in a slight annoyance. " And yes, the I would be what those of this time call a Companion. However, I am so much more than that."
" What are you going on about?"
" I am the first Vampire." Aviur said calmly.
" How are you the first Vampire? Where did you come from? How did you become a Vampire?" Ai asked curiously.
" That is not a pleasant story, love." Aviur said suddenly becoming uncomfortable. " It is not one that you would enjoy hearing."
" How about I decide that and not you." Ai said becoming irritated.
" You are so much like her." Aviur said stroking her cheek. " In your behavior and image. I still cannot believe you are here." Ai smiled awkwardly. She could hear the pain and longing in his voice. The sadness in his eyes was apparent as well.
" You must have loved this Una very much." She said meaningly.
" I will always love her…and that was the reason she was taken from me." Aviur said weakly.
" What do you mean?"
" It was because I loved Una that she was taken from me…and ever since then she was taken."
" I'm sorry."
" It was my fault."
" How?"
" I have already informed you, little one. It is not a pleasant story."
" And I already informed you that I will make up my own mind about it!" Ai snapped in irritation. She didn't like the fact that he was handling her with kid gloves. Aviur had a sort of smugness about him, one that she had seen from many of the men in the human villages. They treated women like possessions and as if they were unintelligent. She did not like it at all.
" Alright then…it was many thousands of years ago when I first met Una." Aviur whispered, stroking Ai's cheek. " Back when the human race was just in it's infancy. Their tribes still lived in caves or in small, make-shift huts at the time.
" The Goddess of Curses, Thana, was my lover at the time. Neither of us cared much for the primitive humans. They were merely play things to us."
" Play things! Why?" Ai asked angrily, offended to no end. Not only was her birth father a human but Whitebeard had raised her to respect all life, supernatural or not.
" We were gods, My Soul." Aviur said calmly, his eyes…Ace's eyes, boring blankly into her own. She didn't like it. " We didn't care about those who we viewed as weak. Humans were weak to us. Nothing more than food and toys for sexual satisfaction…sometimes both at once."
" Play things?!" Ai said in disgust. " People are people regardless of their species!" Aviur smiled blissfully, tracing her cheek lovingly. Ai wasn't sure how she felt about him. He was Ace's Companion and after he had emerged he was in complete control over Ace's body. Aviur made her nervous. There was something deadly about him. Something possessive and dangerous. She wanted Ace back.
Ace made her feel safe and treasured, not like a possession as she felt Aviur. After she had knocked some sense into him, Ace treated her with nothing but respect and love. " You are still as spirited as ever…and just as beautiful."
" I don't understand how you could treat another person like objects for your own enjoyment! It's disgusting!"
" That is the delicious spirit that I enjoyed so much!" Aviur said hungrily. " You are exactly like Una. You look almost exactly like her…your hair is a lighter shade…but it is still beautiful." He curled a lock lightly around his finger and kissed it gently. " You even smell like her. I'm having a hard time believing that you aren't Una playing a prank on me."
Ai noted an enormous amount of pain in his voice at the mention of Una again. " You truly loved her…" She whispered softly.
" I never knew how much one woman could mean to me…my eldest brother Zaman was cruel when he gave me a Bride…he made me love one woman for eternity…and when Thana, took her from me…it felt as if my soul was ripped from my body and destroyed."
" I'm so sorry!" Ai said weakly. She didn't know what else to say. She didn't want to think about ever loosing Ace.
" That was how the Female curse came about…all because I loved Una and turned her into the first female Vampire."
" Why a Vampire?"
" I am the God of Darkness. I wanted her to be one of my creations. Practically immortal and unable to be harmed by human diseases. I wanted her to be with me forever."
" What happened to her?" Ai asked lightly, brushing her fingers lightly across his cheek.
" Thank, my former lover, Cursed her and all the Females of our kind." Aviur said sadly. " She died giving birth to our daughter, Ethne…" Tears began to swell in his eyes. " Our daughter never made it to her first name day. Thank cursed all the females of our kind to keep Una away from me forever."
" How?"
" Only the strong could survive the Curse. Una was always so gentle and never survived it. She would either die as a child or in childbirth, along with our child."
" I'm so sorry." Ai whispered, pressing her forehead against his chest. " How did you meet Una?"
" I slaughtered her village and took her as my whore." Aviur replied blankly.
" YOU WHAT!"
" It was a different time then." Aviur said coolly.
" You are just going dismiss it like that?"
" It was so long ago…" Aviur dismissed.
" Oh no you don't!" Ai snapped angrily. " You can't just say something like that and then dismiss it!"
" What would you like to know?"
" All of it!"
" Alright." Aviur said cupping her face gently with his hands. " Close your eyes." She did just before he pressed his lips against hers hungrily.
" Mmmm, you were wonderful, love." A voluptuous woman with Snow White skin, waist length pitch black hair with a strand of blood red hair on the right side of her face. She blinked a set of blood red eyes lustfully over a tall muscular man with long shaggy black hair and black eyes. They lay naked and entwined on a King sized bed covered in several layers of black and dark brown furs, a fire burned low in the hearth.
The woman curled closer to the man licking a small trickle of blood from his neck. " Oh so wonderful, Aviur." The man grinned lazily as he traced a finger over her breasts.
" You weren't to bad yourself, Thana." He said lazily.
" When should we grab another bite." The woman asked lazily.
" Such a greedy little she-wolf you are." Aviur chuckled. " Wasn't today enough?"
" Strive for excellence!"
BANG!
BANG!
Aviur groaned angrily at the sound of someone pounding on his bedchamber door. " Maybe if we are real quiet, they will go away."
" Or we could just kill them." Thana said in a matter of fact voice.
" I wish it were so, but I do like most of the people here and would somewhat miss them."
" You're no fun."
BANG!
BANG!
" I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE, AVIUR!"
" Although killing Zaman may not bring me much sadness." Aviur sighed. " GO AWAY!"
" I WILL NOT! NOW OPEN THIS DOOR!"
" How long will it take him to figure out that the door is unlocked?" Thana asked.
" It may be a while, he's a bit of a moron."
SLAM!
" Not that big of one, apparently." Thana sighed.
" Do you have any idea what you've done!" A tall muscular man dressed in red silk robes and golden sandals. His shoulder length blonde hair fell in waves past his shoulders.
" No but something tells me you are about to clue me in." Aviur smirked as his brother stopped short at the sight before him.
" What the hell did you do?" Zaman gasped, his face now pale.
" It." Aviur said lazily as his brother took in the grizzly sight in the room before him. Several bloody figures of young women lay scattered across the floor.
" You killed all of these girls?"
" We fucked, drank and killed those human females."
" WHY?"
" We were hungry and horny."
" DO YOU REALIZE WHAT YOU'VE DONE? THE LIVES AND FATES YOU'VE DESTROYED!"
" They're only humans."
" Humans are important as well, brother! They are capable of so many wonderful things!"
" Those one's tasted wonderful and were fucked in so many different positions before we drained them."
" AVIUR!"
" What? Humans are nothing but food and objects of sexual play. Why else would father have made them?"
" They are his children just as we are!"
" Oh get over yourself, Zaman!" Thana groaned. " Like you don't occasionally fuck and feed off of human women, yourself."
" But I don't kill them afterwards."
" Excuses, excuses." Thana said stretching very cat like in response.
" What else is there to do with them?" Aviur asked, an evil smirk appearing on his handsome face.
" RETURN THEM TO THEIR TRIBES!"
" And run the risk of them being pregnant and then having to intervene from the unintelligent animals killing the heifers? Me killing them before my seed takes root is merely an act of kindness."
" You are disgusting, Brother."
" And you are a wet blanket, Brother." Aviur laughed.
" Mother and Father are angry with you."
" When aren't they?"
" You are disrupting the flow of Fate." Zaman snarled dangerously.
" You are not intimidating, Zaman."
" Why you-"
" Why don't you go lecture someone else about how morally superior you are somewhere else." Aviur said stroking Thana's cheek lazily.
" I'm not going anywhere, Aviur!" Zaman growled. " Not until-"
" Listen Zaman, either you leave now or you get a first hand viewing of how to properly fuck a woman." Aviur grinned slapping Thana's bottom playfully as she straddled his hips greedily.
" You disgust me, brother." Zaman snarled hatefully.
" You are just envious of me, brother." Aviur laughed before thrusting skillfully inside Thana. " I know how to have fun and I have a beautiful woman warming my bed my bed who loves to suck my rather large cock."
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" Your son needs to be reigned in, Chaos." A well built man with skin as black as the night's sky snarled holding a knarled walking stick, nearly twice his size, clenched tightly in his hand. His long hair, as white as the purest snow, hung in-front of his crystal blue eyes that currently glared over at a beautiful young woman, her skin matched the man's hair. She smiled awkwardly over to him, her blood red lips a stark contrast against her skin.
" Order, My Soul. Aviur is simple trying to sew his wild oats. He will grow out of this phase eventually. Besides, he is not just mine, he gets his good looks from you." The woman called Chaos said in a gentle voice. She sauntered over to him, her voluptuous hips caused her inky black hair to sway back and forth like silk.
" I don't believe so," Order said leaning against a nearby wall as Chaos leaned against him. " That he will outgrow it not that he gets his good looks from me."
" I know what you mean, My Soul. There are times his brutality frightens even me." Chaos said nuzzling Order's cheek. " It is because of Thana…she corrupted him far more then Bedisa intended him to be."
" I told you not to create a entity such as her. She is not just a Goddess of Curses, she IS a Curse. Her entire being will bring misfortune wherever she goes with no balance. She will corrupt this world so much so that Bedisa will not be able to fix it."
" You doubt our daughter's abilities, My Soul."
" Our daughter is talented in many ways, but controlling her brothers' is not one of them. I knew we would have a problem when we gave them Free Will." Order laughed. " However, we now come to our most recent issue with our children. How do we stop our son from destroying the humans that we worked very hard to create?"
" Easy," A rather irritated male voice said. The two Ancient Entities looked up to see Zaman walking towards them. " We give him one that he cannot live without."
