Hi! I love this chapter. It's a little choppy, I admit, what with things happening with no justification. This chapter is actually the whole reason I wrote this fic. I love the vampire biting victim scenes, but I hate when people just right the scene. No before hand, no after math, just there, bite, done. It annoys me. If you can write such a beautiful death scene, why cant you write a reason for it! Oh well. Not my problem. I just won't read those scenes any more. So, on with the recognition of reviewers;
Tora-Yasha Chan (yet again): You are officially my most frequent reviewer! Your huggles have kept me going and going with bright thoughts and good dreams. I like you very much, even though I've never met you. To see a similar version of Scott, only this time accidentally vampiric in nature, check out Fictionpress. I will have my original story up there A.S.A.P.
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Chapter 9: Alone
I woke up and groaned. Rolling over, I found myself nose to nose with Seras.
"Mrrph?" I asked. She looked confused. Untying my tongue and taking my pillow out of my mouth, I tried again.
"Why are you looking at me from only an inch away?" she looked down, embarrassed.
"Well, I didn't get a really good look at your face last night. So I figured, now was an opportune time." I looked at her like she was crazy.
"Right, ok. Smile and nod." I yawned and stretched. Without getting off the bed I reached under it to get some clothes. Unfortunately, my balance was not at its best that evening, and I ended up somersaulting off the bed. Seras laughed as I law sprawled on the floor, shirt in one hand. I blinked.
"Well, I'm awake now." I rolled onto my stomach, and got a pair of read bellbottom jeans, which were slightly shiny. They matched the patterned black velvet tee-shirt. Under were, bra, mini-brush through my hair. I was presentable. I fished out one more thing that made Seras squeak.
"Is that a knife?" she choked on her toothpaste.
"Yes. These are the sheathes that strap onto my legs. The rest of the knives are in the built in sheathes in my robe." I put on the sheathes, got the knives, and retrieved my switchblade. Seras looked at me in open horror.
"What?" I said.
"Who do you think you are, the freaking cavalry or something?" I snicker/hissed.
"I just want to keep as many weapons on me as possible, after yes…last night. Only think what would have happened if I hadn't had my sword on me." I looked for my toothbrush. Finding it, I located my toothpaste and stated brushing. Seras looked a little uncomfortable.
"What?" I asked. She shifted her weight.
"Well, I have a mission tonight, and you'll be here without a guide, or company. It will probably take me a few hours to get back." I shrugged.
"What kind of brooding teenager would I be if I couldn't take care of myself for a few hours? Besides, what could possibly go wrong?" Seras sighed.
"Rubin and his little gang are staying behind, and I'm worried that they might, well, try to take advantage of your being on your own." I laughed.
"Seras, don't worry. I can take care of them any day, or night. I'll be fine, and you know it. There's something else bothering you, isn't there?" she nodded.
"Master is staying as well. Him you can't deal with on your own."
"And your saying you could?"
"No!"
"Well, then, why are you worried? If you can't stop him whether you're here or not, then you might as well be somewhere else doing something useful. Leave me to worry about my own skin for a while, kay?" she sighed, but agreed. When she left, I heard Alucards voice echo around the room.
"So, you think you can handle yourself on your own, do you?" he chuckled.
"I never said that. I just said let me worry for myself. No doubt I'll get myself in huge amounts of irreparable trouble by the time she gets back. Oh well." I was trying to see if I could sense were he was. I smiled as I pinpointed his location. I turned to the wall behind my bed. On the wall was a dark spot. A tendril of shadow reached out for me. I dodged it.
"What is that, and what is it trying to do?" I questioned. Alucard stepped partially through the dark spot. He reached his hand out to me. I suddenly felt my pulse thundering through my body. Damn, am I that scared? Or is this something…else? I reached out and took his hand. He drew me through the portal thing. I thought my eyes were open, but discovered they weren't. I saw a tidy little room, with nothing but a coffin. The walls were stone, the floor was stone, the ceiling was stone. Oddly enough, there didn't seem to be a door. I voiced this confusion.
"Why isn't there a door in here?" Alucard grinned.
"So you can't run away."
"Come again?" I was lost, in more ways than one.
"You did say that you did not know your purpose here. It was you who suggested you become a light snack." He chuckled. Again, that bloody chuckle made me shiver. Serious gulp! He wants to feed off me! I don't even know if I want to find a way out. Besides, even if I did, how would I? There's no door! Oh my… my thinking was cut short by Alucard vanishing. Great, now what do I do? I'm stuck! Wonder how long he'll leave me here… I jumped as a large black dog with way to many eyes brushed against my leg.
"Are you Alucard?" I asked it. It shook its head. Alucard's voice sounded in my head. What's the matter, Scott? Talking to dogs now? I looked all around the room. No, just trying to find out if you could shape shift. He laughed. I can. That made me blink. Then, if that's not you, but you can shape shift, then what is it? A cold felling filled me. Is it another vampire? My breathing turned quick, panicky. Close. Keep guessing. I glared at the wall disapprovingly. You like toying with people, don't you? Well, lets see. A flash of inspiration came to me. Is it a hellhound? His cold laugh filled the room. He walked out of the wall behind me.
"Very good. Only two guesses. It took Police Girl ten. And she wasn't dead on either." He started circling me.
"What?" I asked. He smiled, and stopped moving. Leaning up against a wall, he replied:
"You would make an excellent vampire." My eyes widened.
"I'm honored you think so, but what's the point?" he only smiled again. Then, he abruptly fazed through the wall, leaving me to stare at the portal. When I walked over, it did as expected, and close up, almost right on my hand. I sat down and reached for the dog. It didn't growl. Maybe it was guarding me. I tried to pet it. To my surprise, it worked, and the thing actually closed some of its eyes in pleasure. Alucards just going to love my turning his hellhound into a pet fluff ball. The hound rolled over, then seemed to remember it was a guard dog. It sat with its shoulders hunched, staring at me with its several eyes. A portal in the ceiling opened, and I heard yelling coming through.
"Hey! You can't do this to us! Are you listening? I know my rights. What's that black thing? What are you…ahhh!" with the end of the yelling, a figure appeared through the portal, quickly followed by two more. I grinned maniacally.
"Hi guys." I said in a falsely cheerful voice. Rubin looked up.
"Ahhh! Not you! Any thing but you! Lets us out! Please?" I cackled.
"Hey…" said Felix , "She's not wearin' her hood thingy. Why'd ya' change?"
"I was covered in blood. As fun as that is, it's just not hygienic. By the way, have you met this hound over here?" the men screamed. The hellhound only panted at them…with two tongues.
"Well, that's unusual." I was enjoying myself immensely. With my earlier unease gone, I went to poke at the new portal that had popped up in the floor. All of a sudden, a T.V. appeared out of it, and I was thrown to the ground. The next thing I saw made me laugh. Apparently Alucard had been listening to more that one thing in my mind last night. My Nintendo, along with the Tetris cartridge, was quietly going about hooking itself up to the T.V. the men all stared at it like it was possessed, with I suppose it was. When it was finished, the T.V. turned on to reveal the first screen to the game. Alucards voice sounded in my head again. You said you thought you could beat them. I have terrified them. Now it's your turn. I grinned. Roger dodger, I accept this mission! He laughed, and it filled the room. The men were looking at me fearfully.
"Why are we here? What do you want? And above all, how did you get Alucard working for you?" said Rubin. I smiled carefully.
"He's not working for me. If anything, I'm working for him. I do believe he wishes me to challenge you to a game of Tetris." Felix grinned.
"How 'bout a bet?" he asked. I guessed that he was fairly good at the game, and that he was underestimating me.
"Such as?" I replied. He snickered.
"I propose that the loser stay here, while the winner gets to go free. Deal?" Alucards voice sounded in my mind. I agree to their terms, what of you? I smiled.
"Almost. The stakes aren't fair. Here's my deal. All three of you play, get as high as you can, and I count in lines, not score. When your done, I'll play. If any of you beat, or even tie me, I'll stay, and you all go free. Alucard agreed to you term, lets see if he agrees with mine. Approval sounded through my head.
"Then it's settled. You go first." I kicked the remote over to them. Rubin looked at the other two, then took the controller and sat. He played as well as he could, but only made it to level three, with thirty-four lines in total. I could do that in my sleep. Jeremy went next, and got to level five, with exactly fifty lines. Then Felix stepped up.
"I'll warn you now little chicky, I'm good at this. So don't be disappointed when you see you can't win." He smirked. Ten minutes later, at level eleven, and with one-hundred and nineteen lines, he game overed. I raised an eyebrow.
"Wow, Felix, I'm impressed! I've only gotten that far a few times." He smiled.
"Like how many?" he asked.
"Well, I can't be sure, but I think only ten." I smiled at how pail his face got.
"Well, lets see how lucky I am today." Cracking my knuckles, I got down to it. Seven minutes later, I was at exactly the same place Felix had gotten too. The only difference was that my shapes were still piled up near the bottom, with plenty of time left before I ran out of room. I paused the game, and turned to the three men who were staring at me aghast.
"Well, do you know that I can get one more line, and win?" they all nodded, Rubin looked scared.
"Then I don't have too."
"Wha…?" all three looked surprised.
"Look, I don't want you stuck down here to face the wrath of Alucard. I'm going to lose on purpose, as long as you understand that I don't have to. I'll stay and be the 'loser', as long as you don't go bragging that you beat me. Deal?" they looked slightly queasy. Then Felix stepped forward.
"No. No deal. If I get beat, I get beat. I'm not letting someone else take the fall if I'm the one who couldn't make it."
"Look, I don't want you getting hurt. Just let me be the heavy. I'll probably like whatever he does anyway."
"Are you crazy! He'll probably bite you!" Rubin looked like he was about to faint.
"So?" at this Alucard walked out of the wall.
"Are you trying to say that you don't want revenge on them for the way they treated you?"
"Yes. You see, most of the people I know are worse then that, and I only wanted revenge for Seras. I got that by scaring them, and now beating them at the video game. I'm cool with the way things stand."
The men, both alive and dead, looked at me like I was from another planet. Then Alucards look changed.
"For the n'th time, what?" I was exasperated. Even the vampire was looking at me strangely.
"I said before that you would make an excellent vampire? I think now that, with the proper training, you would best me in a month." I was shocked. He thought I would make a better vampire than him? It was the highest praise I had ever received! Alucard snapped his fingers, and a portal opened beneath the men, casting them presumably back to where they came from. The T.V. and Nintendo vanished, and he and I were left alone in the room.
"What are you going to do?" I asked. He looked at me seriously.
"Do you want to become a member of the un-dead? Do you want to be a vampire?" his voice was so low I could barley hear it. Normally I would have joked over the possibility, but I could tell that he was serious.
"I think that's a rather large decision to make without the proper time to think it out, don't you?" he smiled.
"If only I had thought that way before my own death." I was confused, but kept that to myself.
"I'm not sure if I want to be a vampire. There are the definite ups, but there are the downs. I still like the sun, as much I like dark. I'd like to continue eating and drinking my favorite things before I'm cut off from them forever. So many people get caught up in the pros of vampirism, they don't even see the cons." I blinked. When did I become a philosopher? The vampire in front of me chuckled.
"Your absolutely right. Too many get lost in the dark beauty, and forget the horror beneath. Your different, why?" I pondered that for a moment.
"I've been different my whole life, why stop now? I'd just like to take time to look at something this serious before rushing in."
"The body of a child, the mind of an adult." I blushed.
"Tis nothing more than wisdom from the mouths of babes." He laughed.
"And she knows poetry to boot. Your so perfect."
"Perfect for what?" I wanted to know.
"As a companion. The Police Girl is a servant, my fledgling, nothing more, my Master provides me with the entertainment I need when I am bored, but you, you are the perfect companion. Intelligent, quick witted, strong, and the curse off the night would not be wasted on you. You understand, and you understand perfectly." He stared at me.
"I…I'm not ready to die yet, I'm just not. I would be honored to be your companion, but im still somewhat attached to living." I gave a feeble laugh.
"You need…time?" he said softly.
"Time? Yes, but how much? How can any child just think for a moment, and say how long it will take? How long will I take to be accustomed to the thought of dying, and living forever? I can't answer that." My voice got lower and lower. The next thing I knew he was right in front of me, looking down at my head.
"And what could I do to speed your decision?" I smirked.
"That depends on which way you want me to decide…ah!" he had me pinned against the wall before I had even registered movement. One hand held my arms, the other pressed my shoulder into the cold stone. Stay still… his thoughts drifted unhurriedly through my brain. I listened, and did not move. What are you going to do? Is it not obvious? My body tried to free itself, but I force it to quiet back down. It was obvious. He was going to bite me. If I moved, it would hurt. Wait! Please, don't… he only chuckled against my throat. Look deep within yourself…see that this is what you want. I gasped. His fangs against my skin, his arms holding me down, it all felt good, and I didn't want it to stop. But… my mind protested, it…it's wrong. There are, things… Hush. He told me. Don't try to think. I am not going to turn you rite now, simply show you what it is that I offer. All thought ceased as he slowly ran his tongue over my flesh. I sighed. Panic shot through me, as I felt his fangs brush my neck, but I forced it down. Suddenly, there was the sensation of weightlessness as he carried me to the coffin. Laying me down inside, he leaned over me. I was dimly aware of his tie falling in my face as he one more leaned over my throat. Opening his mind to me, he caressed the vein with his tongue. He was going to let me feel him feed. From my unique viewpoint, both vampire and victim, it was potentially devastating to my mind. I sighed again as he place his fangs over my skin. My scream caught in my thought as he bit down. I felt his hunger, my pain, our ecstasy. His need tore through my mind as my own fear and pain dimmed. He took his time, slowly, painstakingly draining my blood away. At last he withdrew, taking care not to let any blood spill.
A/N: It's a good thing I update frequently. Other wise I would get twenty people telling me to update. My cliffhangers are evil, I admit. Oh well. This one is the most evil of all, so be prepared for anxiety! (Scottthespy leaves the room)
Seras): Is she gone?
Alucard): I believe so.
Seras): Alright! We get to take over! (touches computer)
Automated defense system: STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER. IF YOU ARE HUMAN, YOU ARE ABOUT TO BE SHOT. IF YOU ARE VAMPIRE, SILVER NITRATE IS ABOUT TO BE DROPED ON YOUR HEAD. HAVE A PLEASANT EVNING.
Alucard): Always polite, Scotthespy is.
Seras): Master, can silver nitrate hurt us?
Alucard): Oh, yes. It can hurt us quite a bit.
Seras): Then may I suggest we RUN!
Alucard): Jovial idea.
(both run away from approaching tidal wave of silver nitrate)
by the way, my asrtix, the star above the 8, is not working. So all actions being described as words will be in brackets. Till next chapter!
