Things That Go Bump: Part 2

This is the second part of my fic I am doing for Halloween, Hope everyone enjoys.

Lina had made it to the room ok. Once inside she noticed that everything had cleaned up nicely: the body was taken to the morgue, the mattress and sheets had been taken for DNA evidence, and the carpet had been cleaned. It was so clean that you couldn't tell there had been a murder just the night before. Lina took off her jacket and hung it up on the rack. Ok I'm hear now let's see who is capitalizing on the urban legend about Rezo's grandson, Lina mused. She started making herself at home, Might as well relax a bit, she thought. She began to think again, Someone is using the story and this time of year, All Hollow's Eve, to commit murder and not be fingered, but who? Its not Rezo, his grandson really isn't in the picture either. It might be one of the hotel employees, Martina had known about it, others might of as well. She soon notice the large tub that the bathroom housed and decide it was a good time to take a bath. Lina stripped off her clothes and settled down into the hot water that was filling the tub. She had placed 'Fireball' right next to her head, just in case someone got daring. She let out a sigh of relief as the water got higher, "Ah, this is the life," she said to herself.

As she relaxed in the she began to ponder over the long lost grandson. It's sad that he just had to disappear on Rezo. Well, I'm sure he didn't run away, who would run away from this. What I wouldn't give to be the granddaughter of Rezo, that would be living in the lap of luxury. Hell, I wouldn't put pass dating his grandson, if he was still around, he was cute to say the least. If Lina hadn't been so lost in thought she would have noticed that the portrait, in the other room, had eyes that shifted from back dotted eyes, to blue sapphire ones.

He had been sleeping peacefully, not wanting to awaken, in his hiding place behind the wall. Soon he was awakened by the lights coming on and the rustling of clothes. Now who would be foolish enough to stay in this room after I lost control like I did last night, he mused as he removed the slit of paper covering the eye holes in the painting. He saw one of the most beautiful sights ever as he looked into the room. There was a petite redhead, sitting on the edge of the tub, nude while she waited for the tub to fill. He bathed in the sight of her: her petite frame, her long fire red hair, her ruby eyes, her perfectly proportioned body, at least to his eyes, he had never seen anything of that beauty before, and he wanted to touch her. He restrained that feeling as soon as it came, I know very well what will happen if I do that, he chided himself as he watched on. He couldn't pry himself from the eyeholes as he watched her bathe. His finally restraint was broken when he watched her raise from the bath, and began to towel off. He was mystified by the water glistening off her hair, and her body, he had to at least touch her once. There he stood and waited for her to go to sleep, then he would make his move.

Lina had finished her bath, and was slipping into her pajamas. She placed 'Fireball' under her pillow, turned off the light, and laid down to act like she was going to sleep. As she laid there she watched for anything out of the ordinary. Soon enough that anything happened. She was alerted to the wall, with the portrait on it, as she heard a click. She watched in total shock as the wall slid apart, and out walked the man from the portrait downstairs, Rezo's grandson. What is he doing here? Rezo and Martinna said he disappeared five years ago. Wait a minute, maybe he was lying to cover up his grandson's murderous tendencies. Great, and I was thinking about dating him too, why do I fall for the psychos? Lina quickly grabbed 'Fireball,' pointed it at the intruder and yelled, "Freeze!"

Zelgadis Greywords, grandson of Rezo, walked out from the wall expecting the woman to be asleep. But, instead of what he was planning, he was standing there with a gun pointed to his head and her yelling at him. He turned towards her as she threatened to shoot if he didn't freeze. That gun couldn't hurt him, and he knew it. He looked her right in the eyes as he attempted to calm her.

Lina was holding the gun steady as the man turned towards her. She warned him to stop moving, he did and stood there staring at her. As her stare meet his she felt calmer, she felt no danger from him, in fact she wanted to get closer. She stood up, dropping the gun by her bed, and walked closer to him.

Zel smiled as she fell under his spell, he would soon be able to touch her, at least for a little while. She stopped right in front of him and looked up at his eyes. She embraced him as the effects of the spell kept working. Zel embraced her, breathing in her scent, feeling his fingers slide through her soft hair. He loved the feeling, he wanted to stay like this forever, but another feeling made itself known. He was hungry. As he became more intoxicated with the small redhead, he began to lose control, and his canines began to grow into sharp fangs. It was then his true nature was known, Zelgadis Greywords was a vampire, and he was loosing a battle with instinct. He titled the girl's head to the side, giving him better access to her neck, and began to lick right at a vein.

Lina moaned with pleasure as the man traced the side of her neck with his tongue. Suddenly she came back to herself, whatever had effected her was gone, but she didn't move. It felt too good to ruin, she felt all of the day's pressure disappear into a sea of pleasure. She pulled him closer as she felt him lightly biting at the side of her neck. She was enjoying the feeling so much she didn't notice the pair of fangs the young man had.

Zel traced her vein with his tongue, he wasn't going to hold off too much longer. He began to slightly nip at her neck when she pulled him closer. He couldn't stand it anymore, he needed her blood, he needed it so bad he could taste it. Right as Zel was about to partake in his next victim the door flew open and Rezo yelled, "Stop!"

Lina backed away slightly, more out of embarrassment of being caught like that, then out of fear. As she looked around she noticed the young man had jumped back to a darker part of the room. Him and Rezo stood there for a few minutes facing each other in a stare down, if Rezo had working eyes that is. As Lina watched, wondering who was going to make the first move, when she noticed Zel's fangs. "Wait a minute, what type of weirdo are you? Why do you have your canines sharpened like that?"

Zel shot her a cold glace as he answered, "What type of weirdo indeed. I hope you have good reason for interrupting me Rezo."

"I do Zelgadis, I have a very good reason. You can't have this girl as a meal, at least not yet."

Lina raised an eyebrow at this remark. That did he mean by 'as a meal'? How nutty was his grandson, he ate people, oh this was just great. "Hold on here! What do you mean 'as a meal'? Is he a cannibal or something," Lina shouted at no one in general.

Zel felt his heart clench at what she said. I will always be a monster, no one will ever see anything different. Zel turned away from her and retorted, "No, not a cannibal, something much worse."

Lina looked at him, totally bewildered by what he said and ask, "What do you mean by that?"

Rezo stepped next to Zel and put a hand on his arm. "As you can see Miss Inverse, my grandson is quite alive and well, and I know where he is. Please understand that I had to keep this secret, it word got out then people would go hysterical."

"About what, your mentally troubled grandson," Lina asked, soon regretting it after she saw Zel's reaction.

"No, about my cursed heir," Rezo retorted coldly.

"Your cursed heir," Lina repeated out of shock.

"Yes, Zelgadis here will inherit Blindview after I retire. If the public would have known about his condition then they would have gone crazy."

"There you go again with that cursed condition thing, just tell me," Lina yelled as she grabbed Rezo by the collar.

Rezo pushed her off, brushed off, and said, "Why the curse of the vampire of course."

Lina stood there for a second, looking at Rezo, then hit the floor laughing. "That's the...hehehaha....funniest thing......hehehe......I've ever heard!"

Zel clenched his fist and stepped forward eying the young detective, if looks could kill this one would. Lina recovered slightly after seeing his anger but she couldn't help but giggle here and there. "So you don't believe. Looks like I will have to prove it," with that Zel grabbed an edge of his cape, wrapped it around himself, and turned into a bat right in front of Lina's eyes.

Lina's jaw dropped to the floor as Zel turned into a large bat and flew around the room. Lina turned to Rezo and sputtered, "How...can...that be. Vam....pires aren't real."

Zel flew behind her and turned back into his normal form. He wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her towards him. "If they didn't exist, then could I do this," he whispered into her ear.

Lina turned three shades of red as Zel embraced her. She liked how it felt, but with Rezo standing there, and the potential of being bitten she didn't care for it at the moment. She wiggled free of Zel's embrace and positioned herself in between the two. She put her hands on her hips and asked, "Now what does all this have to do with me?"

"Why you can provide us with a cure," Rezo answered with an evil grin on his face.

At the same time both Lina and Zel asked the same question, "What do you mean a cure."

Both Lina and Zel blinked a few times, realizing they had asked in unison, turned and looked at each other of a second and then back to Rezo. Rezo's smirk grew as he watched the two, this would be easier than he thought, "Why the partial cure to your condition grandson."

"What do we have to do," Zel asked with uncontrollable enthusiasm.

"Oh just a simple little ritual, I have all the ingredients for the spell except one, virgin's blood."

Lina snapped her head towards Rezo and gave him a look that would kill, if she had that ability that is, "What do you mean virgin's blood. I'm not going to be a sacrifice for no one you hear."

Rezo waved his hands in front of him and explained, "No, no you have me all wrong. When I say we need virgin's blood I mean like a pint at most. There is no reason to kill you. The only catch is the donor must be willing as well as the vampire."

"Willing for what," Zel and Lina asked in unison again.

"To be bonded of course, you two are doing a good job at it already, Zel you didn't do anything before I got here did you?" Rezo asked mischievously.

Both Zel and Lina blushed about four shades of red as they looked at each other. After a few minutes, Zel gain control over his face, and asked, "What do you mean by bonded?"

"She has to be willing to let you bite her and drink some of her blood. In return, you must perform the blood kiss on her. Once you have done this you two will be bonded. There are a few drawbacks: one you will hate to be apart, two you can hear each other's thoughts, and three both of you will have a craving for blood. You can control the craving a lot easier after the bonding, but it will always be there," Rezo reviewed the topic sagely as the two 'to be bondeds' looked on a bit dumbfounded on how he knew so much.

Zel let out a sigh and asked, "How many all nighters have you pulled in that study of yours since I was cursed?"

"Oh, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five," Rezo said as he did the math in his head.

Both Lina and Zel facefaulted as the answer came from Rezo's lips. "You've been doing this ever since," Zel asked with total shock apparent in his voice.

"Well Zelgadis, I do care for you, you are my grandson," Rezo said as he began working on setting up the ritual in his head.

Lina looked at them going on about things and decided she need to speak, they weren't going to ignore her. "Wait a minute!! First what will this ritual do other than bond us, and what is a blood kiss?"

"Well it depends on who you are," Rezo said as he began to explain the process. "If you are the human you gain some vampire characteristics: such as increased speed, strength, heightened senses, and you will be forever young. If you are the vampire then you gain more control over your carvings, and lose the weakness to sunlight. Both of you will seem like normal humans, but will be quite powerful after this."

Lina began to ponder the situation, Well if I do this then I will gain some pluses, but I'm still not sure. Also if I do this I will become bonded with Zel, that wouldn't be so bad would it, I was thinking about dating him in the first place. Lina turned to Rezo and said, "I will be willing on a few conditions: one you explain this blood kiss like I asked, two you promise not to go back on your word and kill me, and three I want the nicest penthouse suite to live in free of charge."

Rezo thought over the demands, the first two he could do easily, but the last one would take a little work. Man, she drives a hard bargain, oh well what do I have to loss. If she goes through with this Zel will be able to inherit Blindview and possibly have a wife soon after. Rezo smiled wickedly as that thought went through his head, he could just see red haired, blue eyed grandchildren running around a penthouse, yes he would get all good things from this. "Ok, you and Zel will have the best penthouse in the hotel, how's that on the third offer?"

Lina and Zel blushed again as they thought of what might come of that, and the bad thing was it seemed Rezo had caught on quite quickly. After a few minutes of silence Lina protested somewhat, "I meant for just me. Why are you putting Zel in there, I'm sure he would want to be on his own."

"I'm sure he would but if you go through with this you will be bonded, and will hate to be apart, this is killing two birds with one stone so to say."

Lina pondered over the idea, should she go through with this or not. She thought, and she thought until the pure strain was enough to drive her up the walls, "Oh, let's just get this over with."

Zel's eyes light with pure joy as Lina announced she was willing. Not even thinking Zel lifted Lina into the air and twirled around in a show of pure happiness.

Lina felt herself fly through the air as Zel picked her up and spun about. She could see the happiness in his eyes, and for some reason that made her happy. As Zel let her back down she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him passionately.

Zel kissed her back, sending all his happiness into the kiss, and becoming intoxicated in the very moment. After about a minute or two they parted, and just stared into each others eyes, not wanting to move from within the embrace they where in. It was about this time that Zel noticed not once did he have the want to drink blood as he normally would've. He brought a hand up to examine his canines to find that they had shrank back to their original size. "What's wrong," Lina asked somewhat worried.

"Its just that for some reason I am having more control over my instincts," Zel responded as the shock wore off.

"She is willing, she is no longer prey, she is to be your bonded. Your vampire side knows this, it has accepted this, it wants to be bonded," Rezo said as he motioned for the couple to follow.

Lina and Zel followed Rezo hand in hand, not caring anymore about what people thought, and wanting to complete the ritual.

Lina and Zel stood in a magic circle, that Rezo had prepared, waiting for the ritual to begin. Rezo was collecting the things needed when Lina asked, "What is the blood kiss, you never told me."

Rezo stopped for a moment looked up and answered, "It is a kiss where the vampire passes some of its blood to the receiver. This is where you will get the vampire-like abilities from."

"Oh," was Lina's intelligent remark as she learned of the secrets of the blood kiss.

Rezo flew about the study, throwing ingredients into a large cauldron, preparing for the ritual at hand. Rezo tossed the last of the ingredients in and began to stir, after a few minutes he turned to the couple and said," Now when the brew starts to give off an incense you must breathe it in then complete the ritual like I said."

Both Lina and Zel nodded and turned toward each other. As they looked into each other's eyes, they embraced each other, and prepared for the moment the ritual would be complete. The incense began to lift form the cauldron and into the area of the circle. The two of them breathed it in, noticing the somewhat sweet smell, then looked at each other before continuing. Zel looked into Lina's eyes questioning, making sure that she was alright with this. Lina responded by flicking back her hair, leaning her neck to the side, and closing her eyes. Zel took her actions as a yes and began to commence with the first part of the ritual. Zel began as he did earlier, tracing a vein in Lina's neck with his tongue, causing Lina to moan in pleasure. As Lina pulled him closer, Zel felt his canines begin to grow, and he warned Lina "This might hurt for a bit."

Lina braced herself as she heard Zel's warning. She gasped in shock as she felt his fangs penetrating her skin, but it was soon replaced by a sucking feeling. Lina pulled apart from Zel after a few minutes and moved to cover the wound. She soon discovered that it had healed over as soon as she had pulled away. She moved back into Zel's embrace, and readied herself for the blood kiss. Lina pulled Zel near and started the kiss, after a few moments she had a slight coppery taste in her mouth as the bit of blood needed went down her throat.

Zel had completed the blood kiss but he didn't want to stop. Her turned all the emotion he could muster in on the kiss. As the two prolonged the kiss a white light shot up from the circle and totally encircled the couple.

Ten years later........

It had been ten years since the murder at the Blindview Estates, and business couldn't have been better. Rezo had since then retired, leaving the business to the new CEO and the new vice president of the company.

Zel stood behind the counter of Blindview as the last customer on his shift signed in. "Thank you sir, and have a good stay here at Blindview Estates. Bellhop needed," Zel yelled while ringing the service bell.

After taking care of last minute things, and changing out the watch of the desk with the night manager, Zel made his way to the elevator. Zel hit the button for the top floor and hummed with the music while he waited. He got out the elevator and headed down to the penthouse at the other end of the hall. He unlocked the door, walked in closing the door behind him, and let out a sigh as he leaned against the door. "Man, what a day," he said to the air in front of him.

"How was work today dear," Lina asked as she ran up and embraced him.

Zel embraced his wife and rested his chin on her head. He breathed in her scent as he answered, "Very busy, that's how it was."

Lina looked up at him, smiled and said, "Same here, man being the vice president of Blindview can be such hard work."

Zel let go of Lina and walked over to the window to watch the sunset, "Ever since the city started holding that Halloween Festival every year we have since then gotten a load of business this time of year."

Lina leaned against him while holding his hand. As she watched the sunset she smiled evilly, "Yes, but it also gives us a reason to really paint the town," she said as her canines began to grow.

Zel smiled as his did the same, "Indeed, no one every notices the difference this time of year," he said as he turned Lina to face him.

They looked into each other's eyes before they kissed each other passionately. After a few minutes they broke apart, and Lina took off into the bedroom. She came out with two Victorian styled costumes, and handed one to Zel. "Time to win the most realistic costumes award again this year dear."

They changed and walked out the door, ready to have a ball at the annual Halloween Festival, and to celibate their tenth wedding anniversary.

Disclaimer: Any characters or ideas from The Slayers do not belong to me. I am not selling this material, just writing for the heck of it as I go.

Authors Notes:
1) Yes I know Blindview is a major oxymoron, but what can I say couldn't think of anything else.
2) I thought that sense Halloween is known for strange things I would have Rezo and Zel actually get along. I always liked Rezo, and I did believe the theory that Rezo truly didn't turn Zel into a chimera, but Shabernigdo did.
3) The blood kiss is actually a true part of vampire mythology. That is how new vampires were created, not by the bite of one like a lot of people think. (Not to say the vampire couldn't pass its blood while bitting someone).
And of course Happy Halloween.

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