I don't own LOK or any of the characters. Sarah is mine, but since she has a tendency to quote, I don't own half of her dialogue. Authors notes are at the bottom.
Raziel, Janos, and Vorador all sat around the dining room table. Kain had decided to look for his answers elsewhere. Vorador had his servants bring goblets of blood for his guests. Raziel carefully pushed his goblet away.
"Is my hospitality not up to your standards?" Vorador asked.
"I don't need blood," Raziel said simply.
Janos stared at Raziel curiously, but instead asked, "When you were fighting those Sarafan, why did you take up one of their weapons?"
Raziel flexed the talons on his right hand, feeling the quiescent energies of the Reaver. Raziel suppressed a shudder as he was reminded of the sword's newly discovered secret. "It is ravenous and willful," Raziel began, "a parasite. I have to limit my use of it, or else it'll be in control."
Janos watched Raziel's claws for a moment before saying. "I do not understand how this could have happened. The Reaver was supposed to sustain you; it wasn't supposed to have a mind of its own."
"It did sustain me once," Raziel said, remembering. He shook himself out of his reverie and said, "That doesn't matter now. Tell me, what do you expect me to do?"
Janos sighed and considered Raziel for a long moment. "When the pillars were raised, we anticipated that our enemy would try to enter this world once again. With the pillars under human guardianship, it is only a matter of time until they find a way to break through." Janos folded his talons. "One of them would rise above the rest, the destroyer. You will have to face it."
Something nagged at Raziel's mind; a piece of the puzzle that wouldn't quite fit. "What is Kain's role in this?"
"He will return the pillars to vampiric guardianship," Janos said.
Raziel was glad that his features were hard to read. He knew that there was almost nothing left of the pillars in his time. What hope was there of returning those ruined stumps to their former glory? How could Kain return the pillars to the vampires when new guardians couldn't be born until he died?
Janos broke into Raziel's thoughts. "Perhaps it was necessary for most of the circle to die. We passed our bloodline on to the human successors of our fallen guardians until they rebelled. The current guardians would not have accepted the dark gift."
Raziel realized that he didn't know what guardians besides Moebius had survived. If Vorador had killed Ariel's predecessor, then that death at least would have been necessary. "I think so," Raziel muttered. "If you'll excuse me."
Raziel wandered through Vorador's hallways, his mind filled with disordered clues to his destiny. Could it be that the prophecies were wrong? Janos certainly did not expect Raziel to become a part of the Reaver.
Raziel wandered into Vorador's pantry. He surveyed the whimpering humans chained to the wall and decided that he should feed before he became too weak and slipped into the spectral realm. Raziel chose the one that was closest to him, a middle-aged man with pasty features.
The man's voice was hoarse from begging for help. Raziel pulled his tabard down slightly and began siphoning off the man's soul. The man's cries ceased.
There was a time when Raziel would have loved to hunt the pretty ones, especially as they became harder to find. Now, there was no point in choosing his prey; he could not taste anymore, just feel the energy. Raziel did, however, have an emotional preference to consuming human souls more than any of the numerous spectral creatures.
Raziel felt the man weakening, his soul threatening to tear away from his body. Raziel broke his hold on the man and readjusted his scarf. There was no reason to completely kill him, though Raziel reflected that there also was no reason to spare him, either. Humans were plentiful in this time, and it seemed that Vorador was not in the habit of keeping them as blood slaves. When he bled his stock, he bled them dry.
Suddenly, Raziel heard a rustle behind him. He turned to see Janos standing in the doorway. The angelic vampire stared at the wraith curiously before turning to the human dangling loosely from his shackles.
"What are you doing?" Janos asked.
"Feeding," Raziel said.
"I thought you didn't need…" Janos stared more intently at the unfortunate man and found no marks on him.
Raziel shook his head. "I said that I don't need blood. My hunger has been replaced."
"By what?" Janos asked.
"I am a devourer of souls," Raziel said.
Janos backed away in alarm. "You are an abomination to the wheel."
"He's the one who made me into what I am," Raziel retorted angrily. "Or at least that's what he claims, though I have my doubts as to whether or not that is actually true."
Janos flared his wings angrily. "He does not resort to deceit."
"He wants me to kill Kain," Raziel said.
"Could it be possible?" Janos asked quietly as he fingered the golden oroboros around his neck. "Vorador asked me if I thought that you were the right one. I am beginning to think that his concerns are not unfounded."
Raziel felt horrible. Janos had waited so patiently for the arrival of his savior, but Raziel felt that he could never be the vampire that Janos had expected, even if he was the right one. "I am not your enemy," Raziel stated.
Somehow, that seemed to be the reassurance that Janos needed. He laid one hand on Raziel's shoulder companionably and said, "Of course. If you were, you would have tried to destroy me already."
Raziel's spirits sunk further. Janos didn't realize the truth, but Raziel knew. Raziel had seen his mortal self go after the gentle vampire, and there might have been previous attempts on Janos' life.
Their tense exchange was interrupted by one of Vorador's harem. "There are Sarafan at the gates again."
"Calm yourself, childe," Janos said. "The gates will hold."
Okay, thank you anonymus, Zaran, Istari, and Lunatic Pandora. The reviews are helpful. On that note...
Being a guy would not have saved my OC. However, I'm planning on taking the rape out when I get all the kinks out and re-write my story. I'm going to keep it in the rough version though.
As for her quoting the games, Raziel has been hanging out with a giant squid that can read his mind, so he's suffered weirder things. Kain I imagined as being more intrigued. There are two choices on how I can carry this; either she starts speaking for herself again, or she's going to continue quoting the games.
As for that thing where Kain can't exist unless Janos dies, they're about five centuries before the events of Blood Omen. Kain will dissapear then.