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:: Creature of the Night::
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Everybody fled. They feared for their very lives as they witnessed the club owner's fate. His cadaverous face horrified anyone who took the courage to gaze at his repulsive features while scampering towards the exit.
The blood that trickled on the floor from the corpse's demise body sent shivers down Sesshoumaru's spine. He needed blood. Just grasping sight of it made him desire it keenly. However, he couldn't devour the blood from the deceased corpse because he would share the same outcome. There were only two ways to execute a Vampire: a Vamp's body would easily be eradicated if being displayed by the rays of the sun, and if a Vamp was to ever consume a human and drink after the last heartbeat. In doing so they, too, would perish after in taking dead blood.
Thus, Sesshoumaru chose to wait patiently until he was to rid himself of the Lycan.
"It is been quite some time since I have last seen you, Lycan. How long has it been? Six or eight hundreds of years since I last caught sight of you," Sesshoumaru replied with amusement in his tone.
"Look, you bastard, I don't know what the hell you are doing here, but I suggest you leave these people alone," a very enraged Kouga barked while attempting so hard not to strike his foe.
"Leave these people alone? Have you simply gone mad, Lycan? I do as I please," Sesshoumaru asserted.
"I'm warning you! Leave the humans alone," Kouga snapped.
"But I can not do that, even if I wanted to. Which of course I do not desire to, none the least. These humans are too delectable to be left alone," Sesshoumaru said, "especially the females."
With a wave of his hand one of the female performers fled to his side. She yelled while protesting. Her body magnetically made it's way to Sesshoumaru's extended arm. He smirked malevolently, his fangs growing and his golden orbs now glowing a crimson red. The objecting dancer squirmed in his embrace and let out another painful yell while glancing at Sesshoumaru's threatening glare.
Kouga panicked. He knew exactly what Sesshoumaru had in mind. He was going to take that innocent woman's life. And right in front of his presence. He knew that was all it would take to drive him over the edge.
Sesshoumaru drilled his teeth into the young female's delectable neck and practically devoured her life in the slowest way possible. His eyes never tore themselves from the dim-witted Lycan. He thought he was going to jump at him for murdering the beautiful female in his arms, but he was mistaken. The Lycan merely stood there and watched.
Upon drinking the last drop, he dropped the girl onto the tiled floor as he licked around his lips. He couldn't aid himself on laughing as the Lycan growled outraged at what he just witnessed.
"So much for trying to keep me away from the humans. Eh, Lycan," Sesshoumaru teased.
"You foul bastard," Kouga managed to say through clenched teeth.
"It just kills you inside that you can not stop me, does it not? My kind is superior to yours, accept it" Sesshoumaru informed.
"You aren't superior than me, or anyone of my kind," Kouga shouted baring his sharp fangs while he growled.
"Is that so? Well, my friend, I see that you are mistaken. Or have you forgotten your past?" Sesshoumaru said while placing a finger to his chin with an innocent look on his face, "your father sure thought otherwise, or was it simply my imagination?"
"My father is--" Kouga began.
"Is dead," the Vamp finished up.
Having his past brought up and having it being spoke of out aloud drove Kouga fierce. No one knew of his father's cause of death, only him- and Sesshoumaru. He didn't want to recall that painful memory of when he found out of his father's demise. And because of that he despised Sesshoumaru and all of his kind. The Vamps knew nothing else, but to kill.
"Well, now that you have something to ponder about, I shall leave you."
He waved a colorless hand and vanished.
Kouga gaped down at the lifeless body of the human female, as well as the nightclub's owner. Both were too hideous to look at. He wondered if everyone else that had been inside the club were able to flee safely as well not have to witness a Vampire feeding. Such incidents were better left unseen.
"Kouga, we should probably…" Ginta whispered clutching Kouga's arms and leading him out of the club.
"Yeah. Let's go home," Kouga murmured.
Kouga still couldn't believe what had happened right in front of him. And what was worst was that he did nothing to stop it. Another murder in which he was able to stop, but didn't.
Ginta's clutch was not released. He kept on dragging Kouga out of there, but Kouga didn't seem to budge. Kouga had sensed something mysterious inside the nightclub from the moment he stepped in but hadn't paid much attention to it since he was too caught up with Sesshoumaru.
"Ginta.." Kouga softly said.
"Kouga, come on. Let's go home before the police get here."
Kouga was giving in to Ginta's forceful pull when he saw her. Her body was trembling in terror, as was the other females around her. They had all seen the death of their former friend and were in shock. But something about her got a hold of his attention. She was…different in a way. She was petrified, yet she seemed to be stronger about this than the others.
"Kouga, let's go," Ginta pleaded, tugging on his arm.
"It's her," Kouga muttered as he pushed Ginta from him.
"Her who?" Ginta questioned.
"Her. The one from the parable. She's…" Kouga began to say as a name popped into his head, "Kagome."
"Kago-- who?" Ginta said worried.
The bothersome sound of a police car was miles away, but with their keen senses Ginta could hear it perfectly and feared for Kouga and himself.
"God, your hopeless," Ginta complained and decided to take matter into his own hands.
He lifted Kouga onto his shoulder and ran off as best as he could since Kouga began struggling when he finally came to his wits.
"You imbecile. That's the woman from the myth. It's her, I just know it was. It was Kagome," Kouga said still struggling from Ginta's grip.
Ginta didn't say a word as he dashed into the woods with Kouga over his shoulders. Once upon arriving at their dwelling he hoisted Kouga on his feet and began walking into the cave.
"Ginta?" Kouga asked concerned.
Ginta stopped in his tracks and turned to face Kouga.
"Look, Kouga, I'm serious when I say this, and I say this for the whole herd. Stop it with your myth bullshit. I may be an idiot, but I know when my pack needs me. Ever since you became the leader of this clan everything turned out great, but lately…I don't know. You changed. You're so caught up in this fairytale that it's endangering your pack," Ginta alleged seriously.
"What are you talking about, Ginta?" Kouga asked, "the pack isn't in any kind of danger."
"Kouga, that Vamp could have killed you at the nightclub and he chose not to, and only God knows why. But, if he had slaughtered you, then that would have been the end of our kind. You're chasing after some tale when in reality we are the ones who need you. Accept the fact that our kind is dying because of your mistakes and the only way you are going to fix it is by undertaking the truth that you have to mate with Ayame to continue our existence," and with that said Ginta simply shrugged and walked into their residence.
Kouga was stunned at the words that Ginta just threw at him. He was serious. Never had Ginta spoken with so much care and significance. And truth was, he was right. His pack has been decreasing in size, because of the one rule about converting humans into Lycans. That was no longer to be done. But converting one human in particular into one of them could save their very existence instead of endangering it, right?
Was he really jeopardizing his pack's lives because he chose to believe in a fairy tale?
The only way he could think this straight was to leap on top of the mountain and howl at the full moon. Howl with all his might. He didn't care who or what heard him. He needed to pour his heart out to the full moon tonight. Only the moon could understand his pain.
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After a numerous of never-ending questions Kagome finally had the chance to head home. Police officers each took the liberty to take every women home. Kagome was the last one to arrive home.
"Are you going to be alright, Miss?" a very apprehensive officer asked.
"…Yeah. I'll be alright," Kagome said while gathering her bag and sliding out of the police car, " thank you for the ride, officer."
He nodded his welcome and disappeared into the hollowness of the night.
Kagome quickly crept to her dwelling fishing in her bag for her keys. She locked every window in the house after locking the front door. She headed to her bedroom and secured herself under the covers not sure if she wanted to be alone. She wanted to call Hojo to have him keep her company, but she didn't want to worry him.
Kagome felt so confused. She wasn't sure what she saw at the club, or more like didn't want to dare believe it. Exactly what she saw was what she told the police. She had seen a creature of the night feeding upon one of her friends. The police's puzzled face made her think she had simply gone insane, but every girl's story was the same. Dana, the deceased friend, was killed by a… Vampire. The police choose to deny the fact that Vampires could very well be real after all this years of story telling.
This wasn't the first time an incident like this had happened. There were several actually. But it was all too unreal to be accepted as true. They convinced the girls that the one whom murdered their companion was simply a lunatic whose choice of weapon was his very teeth. They all accepted it because they didn't know what else to believe. However, whatever it was they did see was going to stay in their minds horrifying them every time they were to step pass by Exotica. Their dancing careers were over because the club was now closed for further inspections.
But Kagome wasn't easily convinced by the 'lunatic speech'. She knew exactly what she saw and what she saw was Sesshoumaru. Without a doubt it was him. She easily recognized him by his calm tone and how he affected her so much when he glanced over his shoulder to flee Dana to him.
She feared that somehow she would soon share the same fate as her friend. The more she thought about it, the more she feared for her life.
Just then she felt a sharp pain on her chest. She lifted her shirt to reveal her two dotted scar pulsing. It throbbed and blazed. She ran to her bathroom hoping the bitterness of the water would cool her down. It seemed that the inferno she was feeling on her chest was spreading through her entire being. She hunched over the sink and tossed the running water on her chest, face, arms, everywhere.
Suddenly she felt light-headed and descended onto the floor not before catching sight of a smirking Sesshoumaru in the mirror.
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-Kianna Chan-
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