Well, here is Chapter 2 of Light and Dark...

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Elani, Adrian, Leron, and the Prophecy of Light and Dark are mine, though...

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Light and Dark

by: hidden dreamer







The call of the night whispered in my ears, beckoning me...

And I listened as I always did. But this time it was different somehow. Something else silently called to me, as if something was going to happen...was meant to happen.

So, I followed my instincts by leaving the apartment, going out into the beauty of the night. Traveling all the way from New Mayhem, I went to New York.

Walking through the dark streets, I didn't notice anyone around, human or otherwise. But suddenly I heard a yell and the sounds of fighting. Snesing another vampire fighting with its prey, I was about to leave. But, then something changed my mind, so I followed the sounds to where they were coming from. I saw the vampire fighting with a human that seemed strangely strong for one of those weak vermin, and suddenly I realized that the vampire just wanted to kill the human and leave, not feeding off of it. As if he was an assassin assigned to kill the human. But why would he want to kill a human that only seemed strong, not with any powers or have a threat to anyone?

The human abruptly collapsed to the ground when the vampire did a flying kick to his head, and I could tell that he was going to die very soon. Probably within the next few minutes, even.

For some unexplainable reason, I knew that I had to find out what was so important about this human.

"Why the hell are you killing this human?" I asked the vampire in a steely voice.

"Go away, weakling, or I may have to kill you," he snarled at me without even turning around to face me. Of course he thought I was a weak vampire. I had veiled my aura before coming here.

Suddenly I laughed and unveiled my aura, letting the power of it wash over him. I was much more powerful than this vampire, even if he wasn't any weakling himself. He turned around to me, and I could plainly see the fear shining in his black eyes.

Again, I asked him, "Why are you killing this human?"

"The Leron knows that the Dark One had to die, and this human is the Dark One."

Abruptly the images from my dream from before I met Risika came back to me, and I realised that the prophecy was beginning, and the Leron was trying to stop it. Shit.

"Thanks for the information, but now you have to die. I mean, I wouldn't be the Light One if I was stupid," I told the vampire, striding towards him.

"L-light One? Y-y-you can't b-be!" he said, trembling.

"Oh, but I am," I said, all the while grabbing my witch knife I had stolen off of a vampire hunter from its sheath, and sliding it into the vampire's heart.

The last thing the vampire saw was my eyes glittering with glee at killing him...before he slipped into death.

I actually did enjoy killing him, for that was the true way to live as a vampire. The rule is 'kill or be killed' and I lived to that by heart. Completely.

I hurried over to the human, sensing that he was still alive, but barely. Kneeling by his side, I felt a surge of...compassion? And another emotion flared to life as I touched his cheek, but I couldn't discern what it was. All of a sudden, I knew that I HAD to change him before he died.

Slashing open my wrist with my teeth, I pressed it up against his mouth. For a moment, he resisted, but then his eyes burst open and saw straight into mine, and started drinking. Soon, he stopped, and I felt his heartbeat slowly stopping.

Knowing that he was dying from his mortal life, I picked him up and used my powers to transport back to my apartment. Then, I laid him down on my bed while I went off to New Mayhem to inform Risika of the news that the Dark One was here.

Arriving at Las Noches, I saw Risika in a heated argument with Aubrey...as always. Jessica stood nearby, rolling her eyes in boredom. It was strange how one human girl could so completely change Aubrey. Although he was still the same ruthless vampire, he felt complete and utter love towards Jessica, which resulted in him changing her into a vampire when Fala decided that the young author should be killed.

"Hey, break it up you two! I got important information you might want to hear," I yelled, walking towards them.

Instantly they stopped arguing and looked at me, wondering what important information I could have. Risika had a clue to what I was talking about, but both Jessica and Aubrey were completely clueless.

"Fill us in, Light One," Jager said, appearing out of nowhere.

"I found the Dark One being killed by an assassin from Leron and saved him by killing the assassin and changing the human into a vampire," I said, sitting down on the bar, grabbing a bottle of who-knows-what.

Jager, Aubrey, and Jessica instantly paled considerably. Both Jager and Aubrey had been around when the Leron had last been around, and Jessica knew about it because of Siete's memories she dreamed.

"Oh shit, we're fucked," Aubrey muttered.

"Why?" I asked, confused.

Jager explained, "The Leron, which means the Circle, is a group of vampires and werewolve who delight immensely in killing for pleasure. Their sole purpose is to tear the world apart into chaos, killing anyone and everyone who isn't a member of Leron, including every vampire, witch, human, and werewolf alive. That last time they were around, there was a big battle in which witches, humans, werewolves, and vampires formed together to beat the Leron. Unfortunately, almost everyone in the battle died. A handful of us made it out alive, and that was only the strongest. The battle had occured a few thousand years ago, and the humans have forgotten it completely in their myths and legends. We had thought the Leron gone forever, but I guess I was wrong."

All of a sudden I sensed that the Dark One was awake, and I left instantly to go back to him. Appearing in front of him, I saw that he looked very thirsty and greyish looking.

"Hey," I said, getting his attention.

He looked up at me and suddenly our eyes connected. I felt myself feeling dizzy, and fell against him. He caught me even though he was still weakened, and still our eye contact didn't break. I looked into those black eyes full of unimaginable depth, and all of a sudden our mouths pressed against each other's in a hot, powerful kiss.

We broke apart when we suddenly heard someone laughing, and I saw everyone from before standing only a few feet away.

"Damn it, why couldn't you have waited for me?" I said, annoyed as hell.

"Touchy, touchy. You disappeared without saying anything so we just decided to follow. And we found you in that heated kiss," Aubrey said, a malicious grin on his face while saying the last part.

"Does anyone know what's going on?" the Dark One asked, confused.

"Oh, sorry. I'm Risika, this is Aubrey, Jager, Jessica, and my ever- forgetful fledgeling, Elani, the Light One," Risika said to him.

"I know who Elani is, since I saw her in a dream. But, why are all you people here?" he asked.

"We're vampires."

"I knew that. I just wanted to know why you were all gathered here. Anyway, I'm Adrian," he said.

"Adrian...Elani...I get it! Elani means Light, and Adrian means, Dark. And since Elani is a vampire, she is from the night, and Adrian is from the day, well...he was until he got changed," Jessica blurted out.

"Cool. Now, I want to know why we found Adrian and Elani kissing like there was no tomorrow," Aubrey said.

Jager told everyone, "They are soulmates, same as you and Jessica are, only you didn't know that."

"Soulmates? I thought that damned thing didn't exist!" Aubrey said.

"It does. Though finding your soulmate is almost impossible. But I think more people are finding soulmates now since the Leron is arising again and the apocolypse may occur. It is possible that the soulmate principle will have an effect on our fight against the Leron," Jager explained.

"Oh."

"Uh, people? I need to feed, now," Adrian said.

"Oh, oops. Sorry about that, Adrian. Go on ahead and leave," I told him, with a rueful grin on my face.

And so he left to go out into the night to find some poor human to feed off of. I knew that he was going to end up killing the human since his powers were immense for such a new vampire, and he was obviously in a slight pain from the bloodlust. That didn't matter...