Chapter 6
The next night came quickly to all. Jina stepped out as soon as the sun set because the bloodlust, though it had calmed a bit, was still raging inside of her strongly. She needed food and wanted to be able to feed her Queen when Roddy awoke.
The alleyway was dark as Jina walked down, searching for her first feed in years. She no longer had the extra-keen senses that she did when the Queen's blood was in her, so another Vamp had to be close for her to smell them.
She closed her eyes and sniffed the alleyway, blocking out all other intrusions that would block her olfactory senses. She heard the crunch of quick feet on the snow and knew that the sound could only come from a minion. She stood perfectly still, waiting for the evil Tainted to come towards her, luring them in for an ambush; guerilla warfare was always fun. Even before the Queen's blood was in her, she had always been a stellar fighter.
"You're all alone, Pureblood." She heard a minion say from behind her. She smiled; he had underestimated her. She turned and grabbed him and sank her teeth into the flesh of his neck and drank until the minion turned a ghoulish white and crumbled into dust in front of her.
She turned to see ten other green-glowing eyes in front of her and smiled. Her own eyes glowed a fierce yellow, the color of a Pureblood in deep bloodlust.
"Come and get me." She growled and they all rushed her. She fought and killed most of them, breaking their necks and drinking their blood, their bodies crumbling into dust. The Tainted always disappeared when they died. She smiled as she looked at the last one, the one minion she'd only maimed; that was the choice pick for her Queen.
"You're coming with me." She picked him up by his hair and dragged him back to the apartment.
Noin and Zechs stood on top of the building and watched all of the activities that had taken place.
"Follow her. Do not get caught!" Noin ordered Dorothy, and the pathetic Bug obeyed.
"Do you think they will kill her?" Zechs asked, jumping from the top of the building to the ground. Noin followed him.
"I told her not to get caught; she will not fail me." Noin said and vanished into a puff of white mist.
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"So, Catherine how was your night?" Sally asked looking up from her book and smiling at the redhead. Cathy smiled back coyly at the other woman.
"About as good as yours was."
"Touché. I hope we didn't interrupt you and Quatre, even though the whole house heard you screaming." Sally said, Cathy's face turned a bright red and she giggled.
"Oh, don't try to act embarrassed now, Red, we know what Blondie is made of if he can make you scream Cathy." Hilde said, joining into the conversation.
"Please Hilde, if I hear the words 'Oh Duo' one more time I think I'm going to throw up." Cathy said and all the women burst into fits of laughter.
"So, where is the smile-less wonder?" Hilde asked referring to Jinakel.
"She was hungry so she left early to feed. She said she'd try to be back before the Queen awoke." Catherine replied.
"Our search for her is finally over." Sally said.
"Good. Then maybe we can start having some fun and stop being so boring." Hilde replied.
"Our search may be over, but our war is only starting. Treize will stop at nothing until he kills Queen Badri." Catherine said.
"Then the cycle will start all over again. I don't think I could take it another time. We've lost too many." Sally said.
"Let's not think that way. This will be the last Queen that Treize will kill, and soon we will all be granted mortality again. We have done more than enough to atone for our sins, especially Jina." Hilde said dropping her head in thought. The silence captured them all, thinking of their past indiscretions.
"Do you think Jina will ever…" Hilde was cut off.
"Let's not think about that, we have a Queen to protect." Sally said.
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Blood red eyes opened and took in the dark room. The sights and smells were enticing and the sound of a thunderous heartbeat thumping excited the newly born vampire. Roddy didn't know what to make of what she saw. When she peered around the black room, it was as clear as day. Her senses were stronger; she could smell the rancid trash outside and could hear the squeak of a small mouse that scurried in the alleyways. She smiled at the splendor of the pale moonlight creeping through her window, her fangs appearing for the first time. A small tear slid down her cheek and she knew who she was for the first time. She was Queen Hadilah Badri and she'd come back for a purpose. But first, she had to eat. Luckily, there was a warm body next to her whose blood smelled delicious.
She rolled herself on top of the handsome man, his countenance familiar for some reason, and straddled his lap. He didn't stir; he must have been extremely tired to not feel her on top of him. She looked at this beauty underneath her, the way his hair flopped messily over one eye, the way his smooth, tanned skin glowed in the moonlight. He was too precious to feed on, yet the bloodlust called her. But to kiss those supple lips would be divine. She lowered her mouth to his and devoured his lips in a kiss. Arms went around her and on her head, holding her mouth in place for the kiss. She pulled away, her eyes closed tightly; that was the best kiss that she'd ever had.
"Roddy, you're awake?" Trowa asked. She looked down at him, her mind remembering that name vaguely. His voice sent a familiar shudder down her back and she knew not why. Too bad she had to feed on him now.
He was going to speak to her, but she lowered her mouth to his again, his tongue entering her mouth and she biting it with her fangs to get a taste for his blood. He moaned out of pleasure and pain and held onto her tighter. Trowa's mind danced with thoughts of passion, forgetting all about the fact that she was a vampire now.
She kissed along his jaw line, nipping with her sharp incisors; again drawing little trickles of blood. He tasted delightful; not metallic or bitter, but sweet and musky, a taste too distinctly pleasing, and the way his hands roamed up her body didn't make this experience altogether unpleasant. Finally she reached his strong neck and sucked on his Adam's apple that bobbed up and down from the guttural noises that he was making. His pulsating vein was tempting her, but she wanted to taste him some more before ending this timeless pleasure.
She pulled back from him, his eyes jutting open to beg her to continue. She smiled down at him and brought his hand to her mouth, sucking and kissing on his sweet, soft, yet calloused skin. Trowa moaned as Roddy brought his long index finger into her warm mouth. There were so many other places where he imagined that warm orifice doing the exact same things, but patience was a virtue in this situation. Trowa was completely gone, his pleasure having taken over his senses; he didn't even notice that her eyes were glowing red, or that her fangs were shining in the moonlight, or that smudges of blood were on her chin. He only felt the twinge of pain as his finger was being bitten.
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Sally and Hilde were sitting on the living room couch bored out of their minds because Duo had found ESPN and was watching football (the American version of the word). Heero and Wufei were sitting in the kitchen cleaning their weapons and preparing for the hunt tonight; Catherine and Quatre were in her room having a repeat of the night before. The Cowboys had just made a touchdown, and Duo was doing a victory dance when a scream of utter fear and anguish came from the direction of Roddy's room. The scream sounded oddly like Trowa.
"Roddy must be awake." Sally and Hilde said nonchalantly, smiling evilly at one another.
"What the hell was that!?" Quatre screamed running downstairs in his boxers, Catherine right behind him in her robe.
"More than likely that was Roddy trying to eat Trowa," came the voice of Jin who had just arrived with a half-dead minion being dragged behind her by his hair.
"What?" Duo asked, taking in the scene of the small, pale woman holding a large vamp by the hair. Will wonders never cease?
"We need to stop this." Quatre said.
"We can't. She has to recognize him first." Jin said dropping the defenseless minion to the ground.
"And if she doesn't?" Heero queried, ice-cold blue eyes glaring at Jina.
"Then she'll eat him and we'll have to kill her. This is the true test. The Queen would never kill the one whom she loved that dearly, no matter how deep in bloodlust she is."
"So we are supposed to just let her do this?" Wufei asked, outraged.
"That's the only thing we can do, Fei. This is the only way." Sally said. Another scream came from the room and Quatre charged towards it with his saber in hand. Jinakel grabbed him by the arm and held him. Quatre turned to her with a feral look in his eyes; he pointed his blade at her neck.
"How could you do this?" he asked, not letting the blade drop. Jinakel only held his arm; the grip was not tight, he could have escaped if he wanted to.
"He has to make her remember. His love will make her remember. Have faith." Jinakel said. Quatre dropped the saber to the ground, tears falling from his eyes. Catherine walked over to the blonde and touched his shoulder; he pulled away and huddled into a corner as close to Trowa's door as possible.
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Trowa screamed with all of his might, hoping that someone would come and save him from this frightening beast that used to be his gentle girlfriend. He'd pushed her off of him with so much force that she'd fallen to the ground and he cowered on the bed, wondering why she'd bit him.
"Roddy, what has gotten into you?" Trowa asked, trying to find her in the darkness.
"Lights on." Roddy commanded and millions of candles lit in the room. She smiled at him, her fangs large and sharp, and a small trail of blood trickling down her chin. Trowa had never been so frightened in his life. She moved towards him on the bed, crawling from the floor where he'd pushed her to the soft cushion of the mattress where he was curled up impossibly small.
"Don' be afraid of me my beauty, this will be over real soon." Her voice was like nothing he remembered. The deep sultry tone mingling with a sound so clear that it reminded him of two crystal glasses clinking. The sound was as sexy as it was frightening and Trowa knew he had to get out of that room; so he made a run for it.
She caught him by the arm and pushed him back onto the bed with monstrous force. The second scream he let out surprised even him. What happened to the docile Roddy he'd known? That innocent angel was gone and was replaced by the crimson-eyed temptress that now straddled him.
"Roddy, please, I'm Trowa, don't you remember me?" He said, trying to hold her back. She pushed his hands over his head and held them there as she kissed him again. He tasted his own blood mixed with her sweet taste and figured that this wasn't a horrible way to die.
"Trowa? So that is the name of my stunning food." She said and ground her hips against his. Trowa moaned; where had she learned how to do that?
"Tell me, why do you call me Roddy?" she asked again, nipping at his ear and tasting the blood that she left there. He no longer cared whether he lived or died, as long as she kept doing what she was doing.
"Because… that's your name." He ground out between moans of intense pleasure. No woman had ever touched him in this way; he surrendered completely.
"My name is Queen Hadilah Badri." She said, removing his shirt and nipping her way over his already hardened nipples and toned stomach.
"Yes, but you are the love of my life, Roddy Adelphia as well." Trowa said, a slight shiver of cold flowing over his body contrasted by the sticky, warm feel of his own blood. She ran her index finger down his chest, catching the wonderful liquid with it and putting the tip of the digit to her mouth.
"You look heavenly, sweetness." She said and ground her hips into him again, "it's too bad that I have to eat you." She brought her head back to the palpitating vein and bared her fangs to bite it.
"Please, Roddy, don't do this… I love you," he said, and she stopped less than an inch from his vein.
"What did you say?" she asked, her eyes not glowing red any longer. She looked down at him, his green eyes earnest.
"I love you," he whispered to her. Somehow he'd broken through. She closed her eyes and breathed hard, recognition coming slowly. She fell from him onto her back and thrashed around on the bed with great abandon. She started speaking in that same strange but beautiful language. And then, she was still.
The room grew quiet. Trowa dared not speak, afraid that he'd wake her from this stage. Her eyes slowly opened and she looked at him.
"Trowa?" she said.
"Yes Roddy?"
"I'm sorry for trying to eat you." she said, her voice shy. He smiled and grabbed her to him.
"It's okay, I understand." He hugged her fiercely.
"Make love to me." She said, and Trowa gladly obliged.
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The group stood outside of the door listening to the strange sounds coming from the room. First there were sounds of fear and frightening moans. Now, there were sounds of two people's mingled moans of pleasure and passion.
"I don't think she killed him." Duo said sarcastically. Hilde nudged him in the ribs.
"Good. She is our Queen." Jinakel said and sighed with relief. The sounds of completion soon came from the room and Jin timidly knocked on the door.
"My Queen, I have brought you food." She said through a crack.
"Come in Jina, I need to feed." Roddy said. Jin walked in and saw Trowa sleeping soundly with a smirk on his face.
"Now eat this my Queen." Jina brought the minion's neck to Roddy's mouth and Roddy fed on the blood of the large vamp and was sated. As soon as the minion died, he disappeared and Roddy smiled.
"I have returned." Roddy said, her once blood-red eyes showing a healthy yellow.
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Dorothy Catalonia watched this from the window of the loft. She quickly crawled down from where she was perched and hurried back to report to Treize.