~ Disclaimer ~ I do not own Trigun, but I do own the characters that which
the Trigun creators themselves have not created. This is the sequel to
Vampire Tendencies, hope you like. And do not worry, there may be
appearences by other Trigun characters and Legato 'might' come back. So, if
you you want to know how it all turns out, read the sequel.
- Title - Bleeding Heart.
- Author - EngelWachter ( shortened my name when I write, or put ownership on my stories )
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- Chapter - Three
- Title - Bleeding Threat.
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Legato walked up the staircase and entered the apartment. Closing the door silently behind him.
"Legato?" I said as I entered the living room.
Legato turned to me and a warm smile spread across his face. His eyes glowed and showed a sort of glow, a strange glow. "Nicole," he said with sigh before plopping down on my black couch.
"Are you alright?"
Legato placed his right hand to his forehead and his lips seperated into a toothed grin. "I'm fine."
I padded over to the couch and sat next to him. "Are you sure? You seem flushed."
Legato's fingers seperated and his golden eyes peered over at me. It sent shivers up and down my spine when he looked at me like that. I developed goosebumps and I shook involuntarily. Legato closed his eye. "Sorry to make you become frightened of my appearence, love," he whispered roughly.
His voice seemed to radiate in his chest, because it made a little ripple sound. Like he had a catch in his throat. I shook my head and smiled slightly. "No no no, you didn't frighten me. I just got a cold chill for some reason," I said.
Legato opened his eye again. It split like a cat's eye, the pupil was small and slit but then widened when light entered the iris. "You know you're pregnant....right?"
My gaze averted to the floor. I had felt a tiny bit strange after our reunion. "No, not exactly. But how did you know? Are you a pregnancy monitor?"
Legato let out a chuckle. "No. I just can feel it. Not just your aura, another aura as well. It doesn't matter to me if it's a boy or girl. But just to be exact, I'd love a son."
I smiled. "I would rather have a daughter."
Legato's hand fell and landed gently on mine. He gazed into my eyes and leaned in, kissed my nose and got up. "It's coming from you...so it doesn't matter what I want it to be. But it will be our child, together. I'll be here forever, just remember that. Love."
He vanished into the bathroom and the sound of running water came to my ears. I had the urge to join him, but decided not. I stood up and walked over to the large window which overcasted the east half of the city. A beautiful voice, a male voice, sang. I realized it was Legato singing. His voice was beautiful, hitting all the right notes. I never knew he could sing. He was singing Our December, for some reason. I turned around and leaned up against the glass. Letting out a long sigh, I finally felt at ease.
"Nicole, you are finally happy?" Vash inquired as he appeared in the middle of the room.
He wore a black suit and dark sunglasses. His hair was spiked, as usual. I smiled crookedly. "Yes. So happy that I could spontaniously combust," I replied as I turned my head and looked out the window.
Vash shifted his weight. "Expecting a new addition to the family, eh? You'll be a brilliant mother, Nicole."
"Even when Legato and I are not married...I already feel as if we are. Connected for eternity. One person. You know what I'm saying?"
Vash smirked. "Sadly, yes I do. I've felt the same way before, Nicole."
I pushed off the glass and stood still. "Why do you say sadly? Wouldn't you be happy you'd feel that way?"
Vash seemed to toss those words in his mind a couple of times, his body showed no sign of responding to my question. He smiled again, baring his right fang. "My whole life was about one girl. But then she turned against me, killed our son. Everything I worked for was gone...dead from this world. I had nothing left, except the heavy weight in my gut from the loss. She then left and I think a vampire hunter or something staked her. I don't really feel the pain anymore, you see. I just keep my head up high and bear with it."
My hands clenched into tight fists. "I'm sorry to hear about that, Vash."
"It's alright. It doesn't bother me anymore. Maybe that's why I trust you with everything, you're so pure and innocent. Yet the innocence can take a deadly turn, but yours will not. I wonder why."
Vash removed his sunglasses and looked at me. His eyes glowing slightly. "You might as well be the only vampire in this hell hole with a heart, Nicole. I'd follow you to the end of the Earth as your Guardian. Along with Legato, I would take it."
I smiled and walked over to Vash. He rested his hands on my shoulders and gazed into my eyes. "I hope you take care of him, Nicole. Take care of him and never let him go," he whispered before vanishing.
Legato entered the room toweling his hair. He wore a pair of black boxers. "Vash was here, wasn't he?" He asked.
"Yes. It was nice talking to him again," I replied as I turned around.
Legato let the towel fall onto the couch and he pulled me into a hug. I felt a little surprised on how longing this hug felt, full of emptiness and despair. I felt sick and alone all at once. "Legato...you're leaving..."
Legato stepped back and smiled. "Only for a month, Nicole."
I backed away and turned to the window. "You said you'd be here forever, never leaving," I said with a weak voice, full of soon erupting sorrow.
"Love," he started but his voice died away.
I turned to look at Legato. Tears slid down his cheeks as his body began to vanish. He held his hand out but it soon crumbled away before I could touch him. Left alone. For a month.
I laid down on my bed. Unable to sleep or even close my eyes. Had he lied to me?
Or did he have to leave?
The tears soon slid out of the corner of my eyes and ran to the pillow underneath my head. My whole body soon began to shake with infinite sorrow. "Do not cry," a familiar male voice soothed.
I turned my head and Jesse was standing there, his arms folded across his chest. His head was cocked to the side, like a dog you had just asked a question to and it tried to think of what you had asked. "You always appear when I hurt, don't you?" I inquired with a sniffle as I sat up.
Jesse vanished and reappeared sitting on my bed. He gazed into my eyes. "Not all the time, Nicole. Only when Legato isn't here to protect or love you. Even when Chris, Hell rest his soul, had sent me first."
"Chris? What happened to Chris?"
"Didn't Legato tell you?"
I shook my head and Jesse whistled. "Legato killed the chap. Chris had turned into that Kin and Legato just snapped his head clear off like one of those dandolions. You know the little rhyme ' mama had a baby and the head popped off' ?"
I let a laugh slip from my lips. I silenced myself and looked away from Jesse. "But why would Le-"
"Revenge, remember? Vampires...you are only a beginner, I keep forgetting. Vampires hate being killed, it doesn't really hurt. But it really damages the ego a hell of a lot," Jesse cut in.
I nodded and Jesse laid his right hand onto mine. "It's alright. Legato really had some business to attend to, Nicole."
"I know...it's just, he could have said he had something to do. Not just leave."
Jesse put his finger under my chin and raised my head up so my eyes were level with his. "He'll be fine, stop worrying," he whispered.
"Alright."
But I couldn't ignore the numbing in my body like something bad was going to happen. Something very bad.
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Legato appeared and the dust particals around him vanished. His eyes darted to the left and then to the right. Two figures leaped out of the darkness, catching Legato a bit off-guard. Legato dodged each lethal attack from the dark shadows by barely an inch or so. He raised his hand up and swiped downwards, sending a huge wave of energy at the figures. They were sent into the air and landed on the gravel with a bone crushing thud. "I knew I'd find scum in the suburbs," Legato muttered as he stood straight.
The two figures got to their feet. One had pitch black hair and crimson red eyes, while the other had white hair and pure blue eyes. "Legato?" The black haired one asked.
Legato shrugged. "Who else can survive a twin onslaught by the Fanged Duo?"
The two chuckled at Legato's dry sense of humor. The chuckles were more of a sinister and childish sense than a happy chuckle. The white haired twin stepped forward. "So you've come back?" He asked.
"Not exactly, Crowe. Anything new happen around here, Julias?"
Julias shrugged his bony shoulders in a lazy manner. "Only the usual drunks being eaten by zombies, but among other things..uh, a werewolf stopped by and said he had a bone to pick with you."
That last statement sent the twins into another sinister chuckle. Legato rolled his eyes at their humor and frowned. "Seriously, Julias."
Crowe cleared his throat and Legato looked over at him. "There's been a huge wave of energy pulse from some town. The Master Lord has taken a renewed interest in the Upperworld. Something big is going to happen in a few months, Legato. Do you have anything to do with this?" Crowe asked.
Legato's lip curled. "Exactly where did Master Lord feel this wave of energy?"
Julias hobbled to the left and drew a small picture. Legato walked over to the building and recognized it instantly as Nicole's apartment. "There," Julias weezed.
"I have a hell of a lot to do with it. Nicole...my former blood donar, now love of death itself. She's pregnant with my child, hers and mine."
Crowe and Julias started to weeze and cackle at the same time. "Oblivion will soon come! Oblivion! Rain of Flames!" They cried in shrill voices.
A large portal appeared and a large man stepped out. He was clad in a black robe, obscuring his facial features. "So, it was true it was you who passed along the genes? To the Oracle...the only Innocent. You knew of this, did you not?" He asked with a booming voice, it radiated off the walls.
Legato shook his head and the man waved his hand. Legato was flung back into the building, his whole body breaking through the concrete and plaster. He fell out the other side of the building, coughing. The man was already on the other side, his hand only inches from Legato's throat. Legato's body rose into the air and he was smacked up against the wall by an invisible force. The man's hood fell back to reveal platinum blonde hair and aquamarine eyes. "Knives, you know the Master Lord had not spoken with me about this!" Legato snapped.
Knives frowned, but soon his lips formed a smile. Revealing sharp, needle- like fangs. "He hadn't?"
"No! Now let me go, bastard!"
Knives's hand slowly fell to his side and Legato was released. He held his throat and coughed, blood hit the ground and his whole body was bloody from the force of the huge blow just before he was sent through the building. "Nicole is her name, am I correct?" Knives asked.
"Yes. And if you dare touch her...I swear...I will kill you," Legato snarled, baring his fangs.
Knives laughed. A most sinister laugh. "And you think you can stop me? I wouldn't touch her..after you did, who knows where you've been."
Legato jumped up but was instantly forced up against the wall again with Knives's claws piercing through his tender flesh. Blood slid down Legato's chin and ran over Knives's hand. Knives's own lip curled back in a hiss. "You know I could break you, Legato. If you make me angry enough, I'll kill your expectant family. Even the mother of whom your child will be bore from. Then I will hunt you down and rip you apart. It won't matter to me, you are just another disobedient vampire I have to deal with. Just hope Master Lord won't have to come here to find you messing around when on the job."
Knives's nails retracted from Legato's throat. His nails had to be a few inches long when he dug them into Legato's throat, two puncture wounds were in the back of Legato's neck and holes were in the concrete wall. Legato put his hand over his throat and glared at Knives. "I have no more research, Knives. And what have you been doing? A hell lot of nothing as I see it."
Knives growled. "You better hold your tongue, or shall I do that for you?"
"You'd have to catch me first."
Crowe and Julias began to shriek. The sun began to rise and Knives glared at Legato. "Do not cross my path again, Legato. Or you shall feel unbearable pain," he warned.
"And do not cross mine," Legato snapped.
The two vanished as the sun rose, sending light into the ally.
-- To Be Continued -- ^^; Hope you liked. Please review! I so need reviews to keep it going!
- Title - Bleeding Heart.
- Author - EngelWachter ( shortened my name when I write, or put ownership on my stories )
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- Chapter - Three
- Title - Bleeding Threat.
==
Legato walked up the staircase and entered the apartment. Closing the door silently behind him.
"Legato?" I said as I entered the living room.
Legato turned to me and a warm smile spread across his face. His eyes glowed and showed a sort of glow, a strange glow. "Nicole," he said with sigh before plopping down on my black couch.
"Are you alright?"
Legato placed his right hand to his forehead and his lips seperated into a toothed grin. "I'm fine."
I padded over to the couch and sat next to him. "Are you sure? You seem flushed."
Legato's fingers seperated and his golden eyes peered over at me. It sent shivers up and down my spine when he looked at me like that. I developed goosebumps and I shook involuntarily. Legato closed his eye. "Sorry to make you become frightened of my appearence, love," he whispered roughly.
His voice seemed to radiate in his chest, because it made a little ripple sound. Like he had a catch in his throat. I shook my head and smiled slightly. "No no no, you didn't frighten me. I just got a cold chill for some reason," I said.
Legato opened his eye again. It split like a cat's eye, the pupil was small and slit but then widened when light entered the iris. "You know you're pregnant....right?"
My gaze averted to the floor. I had felt a tiny bit strange after our reunion. "No, not exactly. But how did you know? Are you a pregnancy monitor?"
Legato let out a chuckle. "No. I just can feel it. Not just your aura, another aura as well. It doesn't matter to me if it's a boy or girl. But just to be exact, I'd love a son."
I smiled. "I would rather have a daughter."
Legato's hand fell and landed gently on mine. He gazed into my eyes and leaned in, kissed my nose and got up. "It's coming from you...so it doesn't matter what I want it to be. But it will be our child, together. I'll be here forever, just remember that. Love."
He vanished into the bathroom and the sound of running water came to my ears. I had the urge to join him, but decided not. I stood up and walked over to the large window which overcasted the east half of the city. A beautiful voice, a male voice, sang. I realized it was Legato singing. His voice was beautiful, hitting all the right notes. I never knew he could sing. He was singing Our December, for some reason. I turned around and leaned up against the glass. Letting out a long sigh, I finally felt at ease.
"Nicole, you are finally happy?" Vash inquired as he appeared in the middle of the room.
He wore a black suit and dark sunglasses. His hair was spiked, as usual. I smiled crookedly. "Yes. So happy that I could spontaniously combust," I replied as I turned my head and looked out the window.
Vash shifted his weight. "Expecting a new addition to the family, eh? You'll be a brilliant mother, Nicole."
"Even when Legato and I are not married...I already feel as if we are. Connected for eternity. One person. You know what I'm saying?"
Vash smirked. "Sadly, yes I do. I've felt the same way before, Nicole."
I pushed off the glass and stood still. "Why do you say sadly? Wouldn't you be happy you'd feel that way?"
Vash seemed to toss those words in his mind a couple of times, his body showed no sign of responding to my question. He smiled again, baring his right fang. "My whole life was about one girl. But then she turned against me, killed our son. Everything I worked for was gone...dead from this world. I had nothing left, except the heavy weight in my gut from the loss. She then left and I think a vampire hunter or something staked her. I don't really feel the pain anymore, you see. I just keep my head up high and bear with it."
My hands clenched into tight fists. "I'm sorry to hear about that, Vash."
"It's alright. It doesn't bother me anymore. Maybe that's why I trust you with everything, you're so pure and innocent. Yet the innocence can take a deadly turn, but yours will not. I wonder why."
Vash removed his sunglasses and looked at me. His eyes glowing slightly. "You might as well be the only vampire in this hell hole with a heart, Nicole. I'd follow you to the end of the Earth as your Guardian. Along with Legato, I would take it."
I smiled and walked over to Vash. He rested his hands on my shoulders and gazed into my eyes. "I hope you take care of him, Nicole. Take care of him and never let him go," he whispered before vanishing.
Legato entered the room toweling his hair. He wore a pair of black boxers. "Vash was here, wasn't he?" He asked.
"Yes. It was nice talking to him again," I replied as I turned around.
Legato let the towel fall onto the couch and he pulled me into a hug. I felt a little surprised on how longing this hug felt, full of emptiness and despair. I felt sick and alone all at once. "Legato...you're leaving..."
Legato stepped back and smiled. "Only for a month, Nicole."
I backed away and turned to the window. "You said you'd be here forever, never leaving," I said with a weak voice, full of soon erupting sorrow.
"Love," he started but his voice died away.
I turned to look at Legato. Tears slid down his cheeks as his body began to vanish. He held his hand out but it soon crumbled away before I could touch him. Left alone. For a month.
I laid down on my bed. Unable to sleep or even close my eyes. Had he lied to me?
Or did he have to leave?
The tears soon slid out of the corner of my eyes and ran to the pillow underneath my head. My whole body soon began to shake with infinite sorrow. "Do not cry," a familiar male voice soothed.
I turned my head and Jesse was standing there, his arms folded across his chest. His head was cocked to the side, like a dog you had just asked a question to and it tried to think of what you had asked. "You always appear when I hurt, don't you?" I inquired with a sniffle as I sat up.
Jesse vanished and reappeared sitting on my bed. He gazed into my eyes. "Not all the time, Nicole. Only when Legato isn't here to protect or love you. Even when Chris, Hell rest his soul, had sent me first."
"Chris? What happened to Chris?"
"Didn't Legato tell you?"
I shook my head and Jesse whistled. "Legato killed the chap. Chris had turned into that Kin and Legato just snapped his head clear off like one of those dandolions. You know the little rhyme ' mama had a baby and the head popped off' ?"
I let a laugh slip from my lips. I silenced myself and looked away from Jesse. "But why would Le-"
"Revenge, remember? Vampires...you are only a beginner, I keep forgetting. Vampires hate being killed, it doesn't really hurt. But it really damages the ego a hell of a lot," Jesse cut in.
I nodded and Jesse laid his right hand onto mine. "It's alright. Legato really had some business to attend to, Nicole."
"I know...it's just, he could have said he had something to do. Not just leave."
Jesse put his finger under my chin and raised my head up so my eyes were level with his. "He'll be fine, stop worrying," he whispered.
"Alright."
But I couldn't ignore the numbing in my body like something bad was going to happen. Something very bad.
-
Legato appeared and the dust particals around him vanished. His eyes darted to the left and then to the right. Two figures leaped out of the darkness, catching Legato a bit off-guard. Legato dodged each lethal attack from the dark shadows by barely an inch or so. He raised his hand up and swiped downwards, sending a huge wave of energy at the figures. They were sent into the air and landed on the gravel with a bone crushing thud. "I knew I'd find scum in the suburbs," Legato muttered as he stood straight.
The two figures got to their feet. One had pitch black hair and crimson red eyes, while the other had white hair and pure blue eyes. "Legato?" The black haired one asked.
Legato shrugged. "Who else can survive a twin onslaught by the Fanged Duo?"
The two chuckled at Legato's dry sense of humor. The chuckles were more of a sinister and childish sense than a happy chuckle. The white haired twin stepped forward. "So you've come back?" He asked.
"Not exactly, Crowe. Anything new happen around here, Julias?"
Julias shrugged his bony shoulders in a lazy manner. "Only the usual drunks being eaten by zombies, but among other things..uh, a werewolf stopped by and said he had a bone to pick with you."
That last statement sent the twins into another sinister chuckle. Legato rolled his eyes at their humor and frowned. "Seriously, Julias."
Crowe cleared his throat and Legato looked over at him. "There's been a huge wave of energy pulse from some town. The Master Lord has taken a renewed interest in the Upperworld. Something big is going to happen in a few months, Legato. Do you have anything to do with this?" Crowe asked.
Legato's lip curled. "Exactly where did Master Lord feel this wave of energy?"
Julias hobbled to the left and drew a small picture. Legato walked over to the building and recognized it instantly as Nicole's apartment. "There," Julias weezed.
"I have a hell of a lot to do with it. Nicole...my former blood donar, now love of death itself. She's pregnant with my child, hers and mine."
Crowe and Julias started to weeze and cackle at the same time. "Oblivion will soon come! Oblivion! Rain of Flames!" They cried in shrill voices.
A large portal appeared and a large man stepped out. He was clad in a black robe, obscuring his facial features. "So, it was true it was you who passed along the genes? To the Oracle...the only Innocent. You knew of this, did you not?" He asked with a booming voice, it radiated off the walls.
Legato shook his head and the man waved his hand. Legato was flung back into the building, his whole body breaking through the concrete and plaster. He fell out the other side of the building, coughing. The man was already on the other side, his hand only inches from Legato's throat. Legato's body rose into the air and he was smacked up against the wall by an invisible force. The man's hood fell back to reveal platinum blonde hair and aquamarine eyes. "Knives, you know the Master Lord had not spoken with me about this!" Legato snapped.
Knives frowned, but soon his lips formed a smile. Revealing sharp, needle- like fangs. "He hadn't?"
"No! Now let me go, bastard!"
Knives's hand slowly fell to his side and Legato was released. He held his throat and coughed, blood hit the ground and his whole body was bloody from the force of the huge blow just before he was sent through the building. "Nicole is her name, am I correct?" Knives asked.
"Yes. And if you dare touch her...I swear...I will kill you," Legato snarled, baring his fangs.
Knives laughed. A most sinister laugh. "And you think you can stop me? I wouldn't touch her..after you did, who knows where you've been."
Legato jumped up but was instantly forced up against the wall again with Knives's claws piercing through his tender flesh. Blood slid down Legato's chin and ran over Knives's hand. Knives's own lip curled back in a hiss. "You know I could break you, Legato. If you make me angry enough, I'll kill your expectant family. Even the mother of whom your child will be bore from. Then I will hunt you down and rip you apart. It won't matter to me, you are just another disobedient vampire I have to deal with. Just hope Master Lord won't have to come here to find you messing around when on the job."
Knives's nails retracted from Legato's throat. His nails had to be a few inches long when he dug them into Legato's throat, two puncture wounds were in the back of Legato's neck and holes were in the concrete wall. Legato put his hand over his throat and glared at Knives. "I have no more research, Knives. And what have you been doing? A hell lot of nothing as I see it."
Knives growled. "You better hold your tongue, or shall I do that for you?"
"You'd have to catch me first."
Crowe and Julias began to shriek. The sun began to rise and Knives glared at Legato. "Do not cross my path again, Legato. Or you shall feel unbearable pain," he warned.
"And do not cross mine," Legato snapped.
The two vanished as the sun rose, sending light into the ally.
-- To Be Continued -- ^^; Hope you liked. Please review! I so need reviews to keep it going!