Sup people! I'm back! I just wanted to say that this chapter might not be
everyone's cup of tea (if you know what I mean). There are some hints of an
attempted rape. I use the word 'rape' VERY lightly in this particular
circumstance because I personally wouldn't call it that, it's more like
minor sexual situations. Nevertheless I don't want anyone flaming me for
what I've written, claiming there was no warning about it, so consider this
a warning.
For obvious reasons not everyone was looking forward to this chapter, (the final encounter of Rei and Lei) you know who you are...
Kai: Yeah, just about everyone...
Silverstorms: *glares* Anywho as usual I encourage and greatly accept questions, comments, advice, and suggestions, but NO flames! It's no wonder they're called that, they can really piss a kid off...
It's very stressful to try to please EVERY single reader, (like the time when Max was suppose to die, but I made Tala take his place) so I've just opted for writing what *I* want to happen, and if ur half as sick and twisted as I am sometimes than hopefully you'll enjoy it too! It's part of the fic, it's what makes the story dramatic, exciting and nail-biting so I don't wanna hear 'I hate u, how could you do that! Blah blah blah!' Okay peoples? Like seriously people cry me a river. If there were never any problem or conflict in a story than it would be a real snore to read! I apologize greatly if I'm coming off as being rude, I really don't mean to bite any heads off. I'm just sayin' that u've gotta except a story 4 what it is, you know? Anywayz, enough of my ramblings.
HUGE THANKS TO ALL WHO REVIEWED! *gives them all chocolate chip cookies*
Warnings: course language, yaoi, mature subjects...have I missed anything? Probably, oh well.
Thinking: ( )
Speaking: " "
Me: (SS:)/(A.N:)
Flashback: ~~~~~
Change Scene: ~*~
Chapter 18: The Blood Thief
Lei stood up suddenly and proceeded towards him, a perilous, and mischievous glint in his eyes. Rei backed away slowly and apprehensively, before turning and running toward the door. Lei stopped in his tracks to watch Rei struggle with the door, "poor kitten," he cooed softly. "It appears that the door only opens from the outside," he announced smirking. "I guess you're stuck." Rei turned around slowly, trembling. "No," was the only word that escaped his lips. "Yes," said Lei grinning. "And to make matter worse, for you anyway, this room is sound proof. No one can hear you scream."
~*~
Takao and Max continued walking through hallways, and checking in rooms, still no sign of Kai or Lei.
~*~
Kai continued to run down the hall. Mariah's mocking laughter still seemed to linger in his ears, teasing him. Her voice was still fresh in his mind. 'Rei's not at the restaurant anymore, word around the theater is that the little fool's gone looking for Lei. He'll never make it out alive.' Was that really true? Was Rei truly in danger? Perhaps Mariah was only saying this to sidetrack him from his ultimate goal, which was to find Lei. But Kai couldn't take any chances, he had made a promise to Rei earlier that night, 'I promise that I won't let anything happen to you, no matter what.' So with that in mind, Kai decided that he'd continue his search for Lei but keep a look out for Rei as well.
The hallway he was running through took a sharp turn so Kai followed. He was running so quickly that he didn't even have time to stop as he ran right into two unsuspecting figures.
"Whoa man! Watch it buddy!" a familiar voice cried out as they all fell to a heap on the floor.
"Yeah," another familiar voice agreed.
Kai immediately scrambled out of the mess of limbs on the floor, and stood up. "My Goodness!" he gasped, when he finally got a better look at the two people on the floor. "Max! Takao! I'm glad you're here!" he spoke almost frantically. The two boys would have cracked a joke of some kind about Kai not watching where he was going, but decided not to when they saw the deeply distressed look on the handsome, crimson-eyed vampire's face.
"Kai, what is it?" Max demanded jumping to his feet, and peering intently into the other vampire's face. Kai told them everything. He explained the earlier encounter that he had had with Mariah and that there were rumors that Rei was out searching for Lei.
"No," was all Takao could say. "Rei, he-he can't... he couldn't have. Do you really think it's true?" he asked turning to Max.
Max's gaze fell to the floor. "I sure hope not," he answered softly. "Lei is very powerful, more powerful than he's ever been, and Rei. Sweet innocent Rei. He's a fledging. He hasn't even been immortal for one full year yet. Therefore, he is a much weaker vampire than Lei. He wouldn't stand a chance against Lei's wrath. We must find him if he truly is missing."
"Takao," said Kai. "You go downstairs and check if Rei is still at the restaurant. If he's not there ask the waiters or anyone for that matter, if they've seen him."
"Right," Takao nodded.
"Max," Kai said turning to him, "You continue searching down these halls, don't leave any room unchecked, and as for me, I'll be checking the rooms upstairs," the crimson-eyed vampire announced. "Yes sir," the two boys answered, and sprinted off in separate directions. (A/N: I kno, it sounds like they're goin off to war, but bare wit me here, okay?)
~*~
"Oh, Rei," said the other dark-haired vampire, as he slowly strolled up to him. "Don't make this harder than it has to be, come, join me. I can teach you all you long to know. For I have more answers than you could have ever imagined. Kai, he can teach you nothing, for he knows nothing. Come to me Rei."
"No!" Rei said at once. "I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to see how strong my will is. Testing my loyalty to Kai, my maker, by tempting with false promises. Trying to seduce me to a pack of lies. You and I both know you probably want nothing more than to kill me," Rei stated bravely, though he was trembling slightly.
Lei chuckled at this, "clever boy," he said softly. "But I really do want to help you..."
"It's too late to help me!" Rei growled angrily. "You killed my parents! Wiped them off the face of this godforsaken earth, and for that I-hate- you!" he said the last three words slowly.
"Frankly, I don't care how you feel towards me," Lei began, shrugging. "And, I don't understand what you see in human beings. Many vampires will agree with me when I say they're worthless, and inferior," Lei told him.
"You speak of them as though you were never one yourself," Rei mused.
"I was *never* one myself," Lei told him. "Even when I was mortal. I never felt human. I never felt that I belonged. Not with them," he said emphasizing with his hand.
"So what?" Rei asked him. "You're telling me that this whole 'kill-all- humans-attitude' originated from a vengeance against humans because you never felt you belonged?" he inquired incredulously.
"No," Lei answered. "I just find humans as being like cockroaches. There's far too many of them, and they're all so weak, useless and annoying. Anyway, enough about me, where did we leave off?" the tawny-eyed vampire smiled deviously, as he advanced on Rei. Rei's eyes desperately scanned the room, there had to be another way out besides the door.
Presently, he spotted it! On the other side of the room, just above the bookshelf sat two large windows. If he could get to them in time, he could make it out of here! Lei's eyes traveled to where Rei was looking, "don't even," he said automatically, before Rei could even attempt to run toward the windows. "Those windows are barred," Lei explained. "As I said before, the only way in and out of this room is through the door in which we came, and it appears to be locked."
Rei mentally decided that he wouldn't just hand himself over to Lei like this. He had to at least try to escape. So despite Lei's warning he ran over to the bookshelf, and stared up at the windows, to his dismay the windows were indeed barred. Four three-inch bars were planted in front of each window, preventing any sort of escape, and Rei didn't need to be a psychic to know that he was not strong enough to pry them apart and run off.
Rei's heart was racing at a mile a minute, as he hopelessly tried to come up with an idea. Just as he was pondering about where he would go from here, a strong pair of arms snaked their way around his waist, his blood ran cold and he jumped. Immediately Rei struggled to pull away from them, knowing full well whom they belonged to. "Don't fight me sweet, beautiful one," Lei whispered softly into his ear, from behind him as he pressed himself closer.
"Don't touch me!" Rei screamed in frustration and panic, as he was finally able to tear Lei's arms away from himself.
The tawny-eyed vampire pouted playfully, before his expression suddenly changed, "you know," he began. "I haven't fed in hours. I'm feeling a bit gluttonous, and I just have the most *overwhelming* craving for blood, " he said, eyeing Rei with a look he'd only seen in Kai's eyes when he first began his transformation into a vampire. Before Rei could make a run for the door, before he could even make a movement, Lei had swiftly moved in front of him, a malicious glint in his entrancing eyes.
He pushed Rei to the ground with such brute force, that he was immediately flung off balance and sent backwards. Fortunately for Rei, he stretched out his hands beneath himself, just in time so that they broke his fall. However, he felt as though he had seriously injured his wrists in the process, because a sharp pain was now shooting up his arms. He cursed inwardly. Just as he moved to get up, Lei moved on top of him, straddling his waist and pinning his injured wrists above his head. Rei was completely helpless against any sort of harm that Lei now intended to inflict upon him. Lei bared his impressively large fangs, and brought them down to the flesh on Rei's neck, barely grazing it.
(A vampire can't feed from one of their own, can they?) Rei wondered fretfully, as he continued to struggle.
"Yes, actually we can. In fact it makes us stronger when we do so. It's perfectly legal too, so long as we kill the vampire we've bitten. Because it is considered extremely insulting to the bitten vampire and the marauder vampire if the bitten one carries on living after being fed from." Lei answered him, now planting warm kisses down his throat, possibly trying to arouse him.
Rei gasped. "Y-you can..." he began, but his voice trailed off.
"Read minds?" Lei finished for him. "That is correct," he said nuzzling Rei's neck, while breathing in his sweet aroma, just inching to sink his teeth into Rei's warm flesh and take him. Rei couldn't help but tense up while Lei continued to tease him. "Rei," Lei said suddenly stopping to look the frightened boy in the eyes. "You're shaking badly," he told him in a concerned voice. "You really should try to relax," he said in false kindness as one of his hands wandered between Rei's legs to grope him in a place that made him gasp, and when he did, Lei took this opportunity to shove his tongue into his mouth and force him into a rough kiss, harshly caressing every inch of his mouth. Hungrily taking what was his.
~*~
Max dashed down the hallways, only to discover that he had indeed just been going in one huge circle, "Rei's not here," he thought miserably to himself. He was suddenly feeling very worried for Rei and had a feeling that he should be.
~*~
Takao had asked the only seven or eight people left in subterranean hall if they had seen Rei, but no one had given him any good leads. Everyone was basically saying the same thing, 'perhaps he's gone home. It is very late you know.' Takao sighed, very much depressed, for he knew he wouldn't be able to bare it if anything more was to happen to the poor distressed, and tormented soul that was Rei.
~*~
Lei deepened the kiss, if that were even possible, and began roughly stroking Rei where he had groped him earlier, smirking into the kiss when Rei moaned in his mouth and he felt Rei growing hard beneath him. Rei was squirming under his weight, thrashing about, trying to fight off both Lei, and this new burning sensation deep within himself that wanted so badly for Lei to continue his actions.
He continued in his futile attempts, but Lei was much too strong, and seemed to have absolutely no trouble dominating Rei. The raven-haired vampire struggled again but Lei only tightened his hold on him. Tears were now running down Rei's face, tears of anger, of fear, of regret for even trying to find Lei in the first place, tears of knowing that this was no one's fault but his own.
Lei noticed this, and looked up at Rei, who was whimpering and crying silently. Lei knew how helpless Rei must have felt, how violated, ashamed of himself and hurt he must of been. And for a brief moment, Lei felt great sympathy for this young vampire, but it quickly vanished when he had felt an urgent longing for blood. He leaned against the younger vampire's chest, listening to his heart as it continued to race quickly within him. Lei licked his lips wanting to taste that sweet crimson liquid. He moved back to Rei's throat. He could no longer deprive himself of this need, and he wrapped his arms around Rei's waist tightly, sunk his teeth deep into Rei's throat and began to feed.
A searing pain erupted from where Lei had bitten into Rei, and he shuddered, moaning loudly because of the terrible pain he was in. At first the pain had only been in his neck, but it soon spread throughout his body like wildfire, paralyzing him. It wasn't a burning ache, more like an ice- cold throbbing. And it was getting even more unbearable by the minute; Rei bit his bottom lip in order to suppress the strong urge to scream out in agony.
~*~
Takao ran back up the stairs and he soon spotted Max. "Hey, Maxie did you find Rei?" he asked the golden-haired vampire. He shook his head sadly.
"He's gotta be on one of the higher floors because he's not here," Max told him. Takao nodded in agreement and they both made their way upstairs. The corridors upstairs were very elegant, pink-crystal chandeliers hung from the high, dome-shaped ceilings, and the carpet beneath their feet was lush and springy. The two vampires looked around wondering if Kai was still up there, wondering if they would run into any other vampires. "Well," Takao sighed. "Let's start looking."
~*~
Kai walked swiftly through the halls, opening doors and peering into the rooms. He was almost completely convinced that the other vampires in the theater had already settled down in their coffins for the night, so he did not need to worry about running into them. Then again, Mariah had not been in bed, so he quite didn't know what to expect anymore. Kai was feeling extremely distressed, he couldn't imagine what Lei would do to his precious Rei if he had the chance, or rather he didn't want to imagine what Lei would do. Something deep inside of Kai told him that Rei was in a lot of danger, that he was suffering and needed help. Kai decided to follow his instincts, which told him that Lei and Rei were indeed on the same floor as him, it was just a matter of figuring out which room they were in.
~*~
(I've never tasted any type of blood this satisfying in my life!), Lei thought to himself, as he continued to lick and suck at the wound on Rei's throat. He could have easily hypnotized Rei, or rendered him unconscious so that he would not have to go through this excruciatingly painful ordeal, but Lei wanted Rei to be conscious, to feel his life slip away from him in gushes of blood. He wanted Rei to feel everything. He loved the pain-filled expression on Rei's face, it turned him on even more and he roughly began to grind his hips into Rei's, loving the sound of Rei's gasps and moans a result of pain mixed with pleasure.
Rei's breath was hitching and his tears were blurring his vision, yet he still managed raised a shaking hand up to Lei's head, trying to push it away from his neck as he continued to feed from him, but he was getting weaker by the second and Lei was not showing any signs of letting up. (He's gonna suck me dry just like he did to my parents), Rei realized mentally. (My mother sacrificed her life for mine, and she died in vain, because I will die at the hands of Lei after all).
Rei had ran out of physical strength to fight Lei off a long time ago, and now he was running out of mental strength, the strength to stay conscious. He was very aware that if he did lose consciousness it was most likely that he'd never wake up. But he couldn't help it. It was like asking a car with no gas to drive fifteen miles. It was impossible, and finally Rei went limp in Lei's arms, his vision hazing until finally...total darkness.
Lei continued to feed from the near-dead boy until he had had enough. He stood up, licking the red crimson liquid from his lips. His gaze fell to the floor, studying the unconscious Rei's form. His eyes wandered over Rei's body for a long moment. "How beautiful he is, even at this stage," Lei said aloud, he knelt down and stroked Rei's now extremely pale and tear- stained face with one hand. It was now very cold against Lei's newly warmed skin but still soft to the touch. "How *did* Kai ever find something so precious?" he wondered quietly. His train of thoughts was interrupted when a small moan escaped Rei's slightly parted lips. Lei chuckled softly at this, "That's funny. I was almost certain I'd killed you. I guess you're stronger than I thought," he shrugged, and stood up once again. He strolled over to a small cabinet, which stood next to the bookshelf, and pulled out a handsome long, and slender sword. "This will have to do," Lei told himself aloud, and returned to Rei.
Lei just stood there staring at Rei for a long moment, studying him. He was very pale, his long dark lashes covering those seductive yet innocent amber eyes, his gorgeous black hair was disheveled because he had struggled so hard, and Lei could tell that he was hardly breathing because his chest rose and fell extremely slowly. He was close to death.
"It's really kind of funny," began Lei after a moment of silence. "This is how we first met," he said speaking to Rei as if he could hear him. "You, lying unconscious on the ground, me, standing over you like a dark angel ready to close in on his prey. It was nice meeting you, beautiful one," he said in a whisper and he really meant it. "But since you refused to join me, refused to be my companion, to be my pupil, my lover. I'm afraid we must say goodbye," he said lowering his knife to Rei's throat. "Good night my sweet prince, may your tormented soul finally rest in peace, in a world not our own," he said placing a kiss on Rei's bluish-white lips, and getting ready to slash his throat.
"Are you sure you wanna do that?" asked a cool voice suddenly.
Startled, Lei quickly spun around, only to come face to face with his ex. "K-Kai?" he gasped, before skillfully hiding his shock. "Look who's finally come back to me, just like I always knew you would," he said with a smirk.
TBC.
Owww. Things are definitely heating up! Is it hot in here or is it just the fiery hate between Lei and Kai?
Kai: No, it's really hot in here, the furnace is on and it's not even cold outside.
*Silverstorms checks the thermometer*
Silverstorms: Holy crap ur right! Anyways guys I was not going to stop here originally, honestly I was gonna write about a page more but I'm sooooooo tired. I went to bed at two last night. What? I couldn't fall asleep!
Kai: *coughcoughcoughINSOMNIAcoughcoughcough*
Silverstorms: Anywho the end of this fic is near, the next chapter is actually the second last chapter of this ENTIRE fic! (I kno, I'm excited too! ^_^) So you don't want to miss it. I'll try to post it the next chance I get. Till then you'll just have to R/R please thankies!
~*~Silverstorms~*~
For obvious reasons not everyone was looking forward to this chapter, (the final encounter of Rei and Lei) you know who you are...
Kai: Yeah, just about everyone...
Silverstorms: *glares* Anywho as usual I encourage and greatly accept questions, comments, advice, and suggestions, but NO flames! It's no wonder they're called that, they can really piss a kid off...
It's very stressful to try to please EVERY single reader, (like the time when Max was suppose to die, but I made Tala take his place) so I've just opted for writing what *I* want to happen, and if ur half as sick and twisted as I am sometimes than hopefully you'll enjoy it too! It's part of the fic, it's what makes the story dramatic, exciting and nail-biting so I don't wanna hear 'I hate u, how could you do that! Blah blah blah!' Okay peoples? Like seriously people cry me a river. If there were never any problem or conflict in a story than it would be a real snore to read! I apologize greatly if I'm coming off as being rude, I really don't mean to bite any heads off. I'm just sayin' that u've gotta except a story 4 what it is, you know? Anywayz, enough of my ramblings.
HUGE THANKS TO ALL WHO REVIEWED! *gives them all chocolate chip cookies*
Warnings: course language, yaoi, mature subjects...have I missed anything? Probably, oh well.
Thinking: ( )
Speaking: " "
Me: (SS:)/(A.N:)
Flashback: ~~~~~
Change Scene: ~*~
Chapter 18: The Blood Thief
Lei stood up suddenly and proceeded towards him, a perilous, and mischievous glint in his eyes. Rei backed away slowly and apprehensively, before turning and running toward the door. Lei stopped in his tracks to watch Rei struggle with the door, "poor kitten," he cooed softly. "It appears that the door only opens from the outside," he announced smirking. "I guess you're stuck." Rei turned around slowly, trembling. "No," was the only word that escaped his lips. "Yes," said Lei grinning. "And to make matter worse, for you anyway, this room is sound proof. No one can hear you scream."
~*~
Takao and Max continued walking through hallways, and checking in rooms, still no sign of Kai or Lei.
~*~
Kai continued to run down the hall. Mariah's mocking laughter still seemed to linger in his ears, teasing him. Her voice was still fresh in his mind. 'Rei's not at the restaurant anymore, word around the theater is that the little fool's gone looking for Lei. He'll never make it out alive.' Was that really true? Was Rei truly in danger? Perhaps Mariah was only saying this to sidetrack him from his ultimate goal, which was to find Lei. But Kai couldn't take any chances, he had made a promise to Rei earlier that night, 'I promise that I won't let anything happen to you, no matter what.' So with that in mind, Kai decided that he'd continue his search for Lei but keep a look out for Rei as well.
The hallway he was running through took a sharp turn so Kai followed. He was running so quickly that he didn't even have time to stop as he ran right into two unsuspecting figures.
"Whoa man! Watch it buddy!" a familiar voice cried out as they all fell to a heap on the floor.
"Yeah," another familiar voice agreed.
Kai immediately scrambled out of the mess of limbs on the floor, and stood up. "My Goodness!" he gasped, when he finally got a better look at the two people on the floor. "Max! Takao! I'm glad you're here!" he spoke almost frantically. The two boys would have cracked a joke of some kind about Kai not watching where he was going, but decided not to when they saw the deeply distressed look on the handsome, crimson-eyed vampire's face.
"Kai, what is it?" Max demanded jumping to his feet, and peering intently into the other vampire's face. Kai told them everything. He explained the earlier encounter that he had had with Mariah and that there were rumors that Rei was out searching for Lei.
"No," was all Takao could say. "Rei, he-he can't... he couldn't have. Do you really think it's true?" he asked turning to Max.
Max's gaze fell to the floor. "I sure hope not," he answered softly. "Lei is very powerful, more powerful than he's ever been, and Rei. Sweet innocent Rei. He's a fledging. He hasn't even been immortal for one full year yet. Therefore, he is a much weaker vampire than Lei. He wouldn't stand a chance against Lei's wrath. We must find him if he truly is missing."
"Takao," said Kai. "You go downstairs and check if Rei is still at the restaurant. If he's not there ask the waiters or anyone for that matter, if they've seen him."
"Right," Takao nodded.
"Max," Kai said turning to him, "You continue searching down these halls, don't leave any room unchecked, and as for me, I'll be checking the rooms upstairs," the crimson-eyed vampire announced. "Yes sir," the two boys answered, and sprinted off in separate directions. (A/N: I kno, it sounds like they're goin off to war, but bare wit me here, okay?)
~*~
"Oh, Rei," said the other dark-haired vampire, as he slowly strolled up to him. "Don't make this harder than it has to be, come, join me. I can teach you all you long to know. For I have more answers than you could have ever imagined. Kai, he can teach you nothing, for he knows nothing. Come to me Rei."
"No!" Rei said at once. "I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to see how strong my will is. Testing my loyalty to Kai, my maker, by tempting with false promises. Trying to seduce me to a pack of lies. You and I both know you probably want nothing more than to kill me," Rei stated bravely, though he was trembling slightly.
Lei chuckled at this, "clever boy," he said softly. "But I really do want to help you..."
"It's too late to help me!" Rei growled angrily. "You killed my parents! Wiped them off the face of this godforsaken earth, and for that I-hate- you!" he said the last three words slowly.
"Frankly, I don't care how you feel towards me," Lei began, shrugging. "And, I don't understand what you see in human beings. Many vampires will agree with me when I say they're worthless, and inferior," Lei told him.
"You speak of them as though you were never one yourself," Rei mused.
"I was *never* one myself," Lei told him. "Even when I was mortal. I never felt human. I never felt that I belonged. Not with them," he said emphasizing with his hand.
"So what?" Rei asked him. "You're telling me that this whole 'kill-all- humans-attitude' originated from a vengeance against humans because you never felt you belonged?" he inquired incredulously.
"No," Lei answered. "I just find humans as being like cockroaches. There's far too many of them, and they're all so weak, useless and annoying. Anyway, enough about me, where did we leave off?" the tawny-eyed vampire smiled deviously, as he advanced on Rei. Rei's eyes desperately scanned the room, there had to be another way out besides the door.
Presently, he spotted it! On the other side of the room, just above the bookshelf sat two large windows. If he could get to them in time, he could make it out of here! Lei's eyes traveled to where Rei was looking, "don't even," he said automatically, before Rei could even attempt to run toward the windows. "Those windows are barred," Lei explained. "As I said before, the only way in and out of this room is through the door in which we came, and it appears to be locked."
Rei mentally decided that he wouldn't just hand himself over to Lei like this. He had to at least try to escape. So despite Lei's warning he ran over to the bookshelf, and stared up at the windows, to his dismay the windows were indeed barred. Four three-inch bars were planted in front of each window, preventing any sort of escape, and Rei didn't need to be a psychic to know that he was not strong enough to pry them apart and run off.
Rei's heart was racing at a mile a minute, as he hopelessly tried to come up with an idea. Just as he was pondering about where he would go from here, a strong pair of arms snaked their way around his waist, his blood ran cold and he jumped. Immediately Rei struggled to pull away from them, knowing full well whom they belonged to. "Don't fight me sweet, beautiful one," Lei whispered softly into his ear, from behind him as he pressed himself closer.
"Don't touch me!" Rei screamed in frustration and panic, as he was finally able to tear Lei's arms away from himself.
The tawny-eyed vampire pouted playfully, before his expression suddenly changed, "you know," he began. "I haven't fed in hours. I'm feeling a bit gluttonous, and I just have the most *overwhelming* craving for blood, " he said, eyeing Rei with a look he'd only seen in Kai's eyes when he first began his transformation into a vampire. Before Rei could make a run for the door, before he could even make a movement, Lei had swiftly moved in front of him, a malicious glint in his entrancing eyes.
He pushed Rei to the ground with such brute force, that he was immediately flung off balance and sent backwards. Fortunately for Rei, he stretched out his hands beneath himself, just in time so that they broke his fall. However, he felt as though he had seriously injured his wrists in the process, because a sharp pain was now shooting up his arms. He cursed inwardly. Just as he moved to get up, Lei moved on top of him, straddling his waist and pinning his injured wrists above his head. Rei was completely helpless against any sort of harm that Lei now intended to inflict upon him. Lei bared his impressively large fangs, and brought them down to the flesh on Rei's neck, barely grazing it.
(A vampire can't feed from one of their own, can they?) Rei wondered fretfully, as he continued to struggle.
"Yes, actually we can. In fact it makes us stronger when we do so. It's perfectly legal too, so long as we kill the vampire we've bitten. Because it is considered extremely insulting to the bitten vampire and the marauder vampire if the bitten one carries on living after being fed from." Lei answered him, now planting warm kisses down his throat, possibly trying to arouse him.
Rei gasped. "Y-you can..." he began, but his voice trailed off.
"Read minds?" Lei finished for him. "That is correct," he said nuzzling Rei's neck, while breathing in his sweet aroma, just inching to sink his teeth into Rei's warm flesh and take him. Rei couldn't help but tense up while Lei continued to tease him. "Rei," Lei said suddenly stopping to look the frightened boy in the eyes. "You're shaking badly," he told him in a concerned voice. "You really should try to relax," he said in false kindness as one of his hands wandered between Rei's legs to grope him in a place that made him gasp, and when he did, Lei took this opportunity to shove his tongue into his mouth and force him into a rough kiss, harshly caressing every inch of his mouth. Hungrily taking what was his.
~*~
Max dashed down the hallways, only to discover that he had indeed just been going in one huge circle, "Rei's not here," he thought miserably to himself. He was suddenly feeling very worried for Rei and had a feeling that he should be.
~*~
Takao had asked the only seven or eight people left in subterranean hall if they had seen Rei, but no one had given him any good leads. Everyone was basically saying the same thing, 'perhaps he's gone home. It is very late you know.' Takao sighed, very much depressed, for he knew he wouldn't be able to bare it if anything more was to happen to the poor distressed, and tormented soul that was Rei.
~*~
Lei deepened the kiss, if that were even possible, and began roughly stroking Rei where he had groped him earlier, smirking into the kiss when Rei moaned in his mouth and he felt Rei growing hard beneath him. Rei was squirming under his weight, thrashing about, trying to fight off both Lei, and this new burning sensation deep within himself that wanted so badly for Lei to continue his actions.
He continued in his futile attempts, but Lei was much too strong, and seemed to have absolutely no trouble dominating Rei. The raven-haired vampire struggled again but Lei only tightened his hold on him. Tears were now running down Rei's face, tears of anger, of fear, of regret for even trying to find Lei in the first place, tears of knowing that this was no one's fault but his own.
Lei noticed this, and looked up at Rei, who was whimpering and crying silently. Lei knew how helpless Rei must have felt, how violated, ashamed of himself and hurt he must of been. And for a brief moment, Lei felt great sympathy for this young vampire, but it quickly vanished when he had felt an urgent longing for blood. He leaned against the younger vampire's chest, listening to his heart as it continued to race quickly within him. Lei licked his lips wanting to taste that sweet crimson liquid. He moved back to Rei's throat. He could no longer deprive himself of this need, and he wrapped his arms around Rei's waist tightly, sunk his teeth deep into Rei's throat and began to feed.
A searing pain erupted from where Lei had bitten into Rei, and he shuddered, moaning loudly because of the terrible pain he was in. At first the pain had only been in his neck, but it soon spread throughout his body like wildfire, paralyzing him. It wasn't a burning ache, more like an ice- cold throbbing. And it was getting even more unbearable by the minute; Rei bit his bottom lip in order to suppress the strong urge to scream out in agony.
~*~
Takao ran back up the stairs and he soon spotted Max. "Hey, Maxie did you find Rei?" he asked the golden-haired vampire. He shook his head sadly.
"He's gotta be on one of the higher floors because he's not here," Max told him. Takao nodded in agreement and they both made their way upstairs. The corridors upstairs were very elegant, pink-crystal chandeliers hung from the high, dome-shaped ceilings, and the carpet beneath their feet was lush and springy. The two vampires looked around wondering if Kai was still up there, wondering if they would run into any other vampires. "Well," Takao sighed. "Let's start looking."
~*~
Kai walked swiftly through the halls, opening doors and peering into the rooms. He was almost completely convinced that the other vampires in the theater had already settled down in their coffins for the night, so he did not need to worry about running into them. Then again, Mariah had not been in bed, so he quite didn't know what to expect anymore. Kai was feeling extremely distressed, he couldn't imagine what Lei would do to his precious Rei if he had the chance, or rather he didn't want to imagine what Lei would do. Something deep inside of Kai told him that Rei was in a lot of danger, that he was suffering and needed help. Kai decided to follow his instincts, which told him that Lei and Rei were indeed on the same floor as him, it was just a matter of figuring out which room they were in.
~*~
(I've never tasted any type of blood this satisfying in my life!), Lei thought to himself, as he continued to lick and suck at the wound on Rei's throat. He could have easily hypnotized Rei, or rendered him unconscious so that he would not have to go through this excruciatingly painful ordeal, but Lei wanted Rei to be conscious, to feel his life slip away from him in gushes of blood. He wanted Rei to feel everything. He loved the pain-filled expression on Rei's face, it turned him on even more and he roughly began to grind his hips into Rei's, loving the sound of Rei's gasps and moans a result of pain mixed with pleasure.
Rei's breath was hitching and his tears were blurring his vision, yet he still managed raised a shaking hand up to Lei's head, trying to push it away from his neck as he continued to feed from him, but he was getting weaker by the second and Lei was not showing any signs of letting up. (He's gonna suck me dry just like he did to my parents), Rei realized mentally. (My mother sacrificed her life for mine, and she died in vain, because I will die at the hands of Lei after all).
Rei had ran out of physical strength to fight Lei off a long time ago, and now he was running out of mental strength, the strength to stay conscious. He was very aware that if he did lose consciousness it was most likely that he'd never wake up. But he couldn't help it. It was like asking a car with no gas to drive fifteen miles. It was impossible, and finally Rei went limp in Lei's arms, his vision hazing until finally...total darkness.
Lei continued to feed from the near-dead boy until he had had enough. He stood up, licking the red crimson liquid from his lips. His gaze fell to the floor, studying the unconscious Rei's form. His eyes wandered over Rei's body for a long moment. "How beautiful he is, even at this stage," Lei said aloud, he knelt down and stroked Rei's now extremely pale and tear- stained face with one hand. It was now very cold against Lei's newly warmed skin but still soft to the touch. "How *did* Kai ever find something so precious?" he wondered quietly. His train of thoughts was interrupted when a small moan escaped Rei's slightly parted lips. Lei chuckled softly at this, "That's funny. I was almost certain I'd killed you. I guess you're stronger than I thought," he shrugged, and stood up once again. He strolled over to a small cabinet, which stood next to the bookshelf, and pulled out a handsome long, and slender sword. "This will have to do," Lei told himself aloud, and returned to Rei.
Lei just stood there staring at Rei for a long moment, studying him. He was very pale, his long dark lashes covering those seductive yet innocent amber eyes, his gorgeous black hair was disheveled because he had struggled so hard, and Lei could tell that he was hardly breathing because his chest rose and fell extremely slowly. He was close to death.
"It's really kind of funny," began Lei after a moment of silence. "This is how we first met," he said speaking to Rei as if he could hear him. "You, lying unconscious on the ground, me, standing over you like a dark angel ready to close in on his prey. It was nice meeting you, beautiful one," he said in a whisper and he really meant it. "But since you refused to join me, refused to be my companion, to be my pupil, my lover. I'm afraid we must say goodbye," he said lowering his knife to Rei's throat. "Good night my sweet prince, may your tormented soul finally rest in peace, in a world not our own," he said placing a kiss on Rei's bluish-white lips, and getting ready to slash his throat.
"Are you sure you wanna do that?" asked a cool voice suddenly.
Startled, Lei quickly spun around, only to come face to face with his ex. "K-Kai?" he gasped, before skillfully hiding his shock. "Look who's finally come back to me, just like I always knew you would," he said with a smirk.
TBC.
Owww. Things are definitely heating up! Is it hot in here or is it just the fiery hate between Lei and Kai?
Kai: No, it's really hot in here, the furnace is on and it's not even cold outside.
*Silverstorms checks the thermometer*
Silverstorms: Holy crap ur right! Anyways guys I was not going to stop here originally, honestly I was gonna write about a page more but I'm sooooooo tired. I went to bed at two last night. What? I couldn't fall asleep!
Kai: *coughcoughcoughINSOMNIAcoughcoughcough*
Silverstorms: Anywho the end of this fic is near, the next chapter is actually the second last chapter of this ENTIRE fic! (I kno, I'm excited too! ^_^) So you don't want to miss it. I'll try to post it the next chance I get. Till then you'll just have to R/R please thankies!
~*~Silverstorms~*~