When the Song Ends
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this story besides Virulentia and Nomad. And if I did own them don't you think there would have been a lot more sex in the Anime (Nightwalker which I do not own... T.T). And even if you do decide to sue me, YOU WILL GET NOTHING! Because I spend all the money I get on porn...
A/N: Yaoi...Love it, you love me!
Chapter Seven: Building a Bargain
The two male vampires followed Viru to a door obscured by the shadows at the back of the club. She lead them through the door and into a dimly lit corridor. Viru brought them to a stop before a door at the end of the hall that was guarded by to fairly muscled men.
"Tonight I will be entertaining a few guests. But it will be for business matters only. So I wish to not be disturbed unless it is of urgent importance." The Mistress addressed the guardsmen.
The men bowed, "Yes Mistress. We hope your transaction will prove profitable." They said in a monotonous unison. While one of them opened the large door.
Viru thanked the guards and ushered her friend and business partner through the door. She sighed when the door shut behind them, and visibly relaxed. The vampiress searched along the wall with feathery touches until she found a light switch a flicked it on. She strolled over to the desk and pushed an intercom button. "Cleary?" Viru spoke into it. "Mistress? How may I help you this evening?" A scratchy female voice asked. "I would like three glasses of B-" "Yes, Mistress. It will be up in a moment." "Oh, and Cleary, send it up by the elevator." Viru finished and released the button.
She turned and smiled tiredly at her guests, "The refreshments shall be up in a moment." A small bell rang out in the room and a light flashed next to what looked like a large cupboard in the wall. "Well, speak of the devil! Here they are!" Viru chirped brightly, exhaustion forgotten for the moment. The vampiress eagerly ran over to the wall and opened the cupboard door to reveal a mini elevator with a tray with three glasses and a pitcher filled with warm B- blood. She took up the tray and brought over to a small coffee table in the middle of the room.
Virulentia sat down on a small velvet love seat in front of the coffee table. For a few moments she sat patiently, looking expectantly at the men before she sighed. "Do please take a seat." She said dryly, startling the males out from their glaring contest. Shido blushed sheepishly and laughed nervously, while Cain just glared at Viru without shame for interrupting his "Stare-at-my-too-Sexy-to-Know-it-Mate" Time. Virulentia just giggled and gestured for the two to sit down. Shido immediately sat down next to Viru. leaving no room for Cain to sit down beside him. Cain pouted and sat down in the opposite Love seat, glaring at Viru.
She poured the blood from the pitcher into the wine glasses, and gestured for the men to take one each. When they all had a glass she took a sip, and sighed. "Well, its time to get down to business now, isn't it." The vampiress said carefully. "We should start by stating what each party wants and is willing to agree to. For insurance purposes I will be recording onto paper what each party says and agrees to." Virulentia began. "Any other ideas, or objections?" The Queen asked.
Shido shook his head no. But Cain objected. "Yes, may I ask why are you, a mere Childe, giving orders around here to Masters and those that by far outrank you in age, and actually having those orders obeyed. A Childe should not have that kind of power! It's illogical!" Cain spat in outrage. Shido blanched and looked at Virulentia in fear. He expected her to be outraged, or at least to be a little annoyed. Not chuckling softly into her hand and gazing coolly up at Cain in amusement.
"Really, my dear Cain. Do you not remember me? I know we met quite a long while ago but I did not think you would forget what happened all that easily." She crooned softly.
Cain stared at her in confusion for a moment, that was until Viru let out an eerie, hollow chuckle and for a second a crimson red bled over the whites of her eyes and her irises flashed gold, while her pupils turned into slits, before they changed back into their normal pale bronze. Cain shuddered as a realization flooded his mind; it was her. The Demon Queen.
"It's you. You're the Demon Queen!" The Transylvanian vampire breathed, in awe and slight fear.
"Yes it is I, the Demon Queen, though I kind of rue the name. It's a little too cliche foe me." She said in slight distaste of the title.
"Wait a minute! The Demon Queen? How did Viru get a name like that! You have some explaining to do here Viru!" Shido exclaimed heatedly, irritated that anyone would call his gentle, sweet, kind, and fragile Grandsire by such a horrendously violent and insulting name; also he didn't want to be left behind in the conversation.
"Well, I guess I should tell you it now, I can't stall any longer...Shido do you remember when I told you about my mate?" The Mistress questioned her companion.
"Yes, yes! I remember! Now stop stalling!" Shido urged her on.
"Jeez, Childre these days, they don't even know the meaning of patience." Viru said in mock disappointment to Cain, shaking her head sadly. Cain made a sound of agreement and nodded his sadly. Shido gave a muffled scream of frustration a buried his head in a pillow. Viru and Cain sniggered in amusement then sobered up.
"Well Shido to tell you in all honesty I have indeed met my Mate before." The Shido's Grandsire confessed sadly, tears glistening in the corners of her eyes.
"Really! You have! What's his name? What does he look like! How'd you meet him? What happened to him!" Shido asked eagerly, missing the look of despair in his Granddame's eyes.
Virulentia gave a hollow laugh of amusement. "Well, how where should I begin? I know I'll start off at when it all started, When I first met him..."
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Glossary
#1. Master Vampire: Vampires with immense strength, age, and wealth,. They are also high in station or ranking.
#2. "Snack": Virulentia + Vampire + "SNACK" Vampires drink BLOOD (what kind of imbecile doesn't know that)!
#3. Nightbreeds: Creatures of evil intent that inhabit the bodies of the dead, transforming the bodies into hideously deformed shells under the breed's control.
#4. Blood-Saber: Some of the More powerful vampires can turn their blood into weapons (swords, whips, bullets, ect.).
#5. Childe: One who is turned into a vampire by a Master.
#6. Master: A Master Vampire.
#7. Blood Seeing: Very old Masters can see into the pasts of others through tasting their blood.
#8. Cain: Shido's Master and Mate.
#9. Mates: Vampire soulmates, ones who complete the other vampire in every aspect, and who's fate are intricately tied together.
#10. Shadow Traveling: Using spells Masters can travel through the Shadow Lands.
#12. Using Shido to Get to Cain: Cain is a very influential figure in the Vampire Society. So to get on his good side and get his favor, is to literally get like a promotion in the Society.
#13. Feeding: The younger a vampire is, the shorter the time periods that they can go without feeding are.
#14. Masters' blood: The blood of Masters by far more potent than humans. The older a vampire is the more powerful their blood is. Vampires blood also has high healing capabilities. The more Ancient vampires' blood are highly desired for potions, though it is very hard to acquire though legal means.
#15. Rare Eye Colors: Vampires who are Ancients, that are very powerful and are the Head of their Line tend to get different eye colors when they transform into their vampiric forms (fangs, golden eyes, slit cat pupils, ect.), and also some rare fledglings when made, sometimes have different eye colors.
#16. Blood Flavors: All people (and vampires) have a very distinct, and unique taste to their blood. The taste can be strengthened by certain strong emotions (fear, lust, happiness, anger, blood-lust an overwhelming urge to kill, sorrow, and love).
#17. Drinking Coffee: In other stories vampires can only drink blood. But in my story they can drink other liquids (and let's face it people, they're vampires, they wake up at night. At night there is no sun to blind you, to happy cheeping birds to annoy you, and no fuckin' morning people I swear those morning people are freaking insane! I mean you gotta be shittin' me. You cannot wake up, cheerfully fucking awake in the mornings, and not be holy-cow-fuckin'-nun-tippin'-ballsack-suckin' NUTS! to freakin' cruelly pry you from your blissful grogginess from being half awake in the mornings...Soooooo...They need to drink coffee at night (that's so obvious, but it just sounds so god-damned ridiculous) to help them wake up peace fully (well that at least goes for the other vampires, but poor Shido can't wake up peacefully because he lives with one of the most dreaded creatures known to the vampiric population, and that is a...A NIGHT PERSON VAMPIRE OH THE HORROR!).
#18. Rich Vampires: Vampires do need to make money you know. And Virulentia, like other Ancients and Masters, have had a good amount of time to stockpile their money.
#19.Siring: To Sire is to Turn a human into a vampire, and to take full responsibility for the Childe's physical and mental well-being and safety. Also they must teach their Childe how to take care of themselves, how to act amongst other vampires, their vampiric family, how to care for their health, how to fight, act amongst humans, how to fight, to hunt, earn a stockpile of wealth, and care for their own Childre, and also how to develop their powers and use them.
#20. Adoption: When a Sire cannot care for, abandons, abuses or mistreats their Childre of Childe it is possible for another (older, more better off, kinder, or more responsible) Master or Sire to Adopt the aforementioned Childre or Childe through willingly (both vampires must be willing or bearing no ill intentions towards each other) to be able to form a Sire-Childe or Grandsire-GrandChilde kind of Bond.
#21. Vampire BloodLines: All vampires originate from a certain Line of Vampires, each Line has its own powers that are unique to only the members of their Line. Though their are exceptions to this rule, for their is a Line (the Head of the Vampire Lines) that bears the powers of every Line. This Line is known as the Savernious Line.
#22.Fealty: Fealty is when the other Lines swear loyalty to another, stronger Line.
#23. Council of Elders: For every Line there is a Council of Elders. The Council is made up of the Eldest Vampires in the Line. There can be between six and twelve Elders to a Council depending on how large the Line is. The Head of the Council is the Second Eldest of the Line, the Eldest of the Line is the Head of Line and has the final say on whatever issues are brought before the Council. The Council is left to rule the Line if the Head of the Line is indisposed of or if the Head is dead, they rule until the Heir is found and settled or until the Heir is instated. They will also rule if the Heir is not of age, And they will rule becomes of Age to take the Title of the Head of the Line.
#24. Toy: A sex slave.
#25. Blood-Children: When two Vampires Mate in the utmost height of love. The Mates may be able to conceive a Blood-Childe. A Blood-Child is the actual, true, biological child of two Mates. The Submissive Mate is the one with the ability to bear and conceive the babe. And it is very rare for true Blood-Children to be conceived. And it is very rare for a child to survive to come to full term, much less survive the birth (which is both very stressful for both the 'Mother' and the child); and if the baby survives birth, then there is also the very high chance of the being killed by rival Lines, enemies, and Vampire Hunters before it grow to an age where it is fully capable of defending itself. Which is why if conceived the Mate is jealously guarded by their Dominant Mate and close Family. And that is why the successful birth and survival of a Blood Child is greatly celebrated.
#26. Heirs: The predetermined Heir to the Head of the Line. The Heir is chosen to rule the Line because of certain attributes that were essential to the proper ruler of a Line that they had. An Heir is determined if either there is more than one Blood-Childe (as rare as that is the ruler of a Line, if there is more than one Blood-Child, is not determined by age, but by whichever child is best suited by the List of Attributes needed to rule that were by the unknown Creator of the Vampire Lines the only Vampire who knows of the true origin of the Lines is the Ancient Master, Virulentia Savernious.
#27. Title: The position of being Head of a Line.
#28. The Savernious Line: The Savernious Line is considered to be the royalty of the Vampire Society. They hold a vast amount of power in and over the vampire community. But ironically, with all great amounts of wealth, age, influence, knowledge, and power, there are very few members of the Savernious Line. Because with the exceptions of past generations of the Heads of the Line, the most recent and powerful ruler of the Line have become (along with her kin) extremely fickle as to who is allowed to be initiated into the ranks of their Line, and the Line members have become an especially close-knit family under the influence of their current ruling Head, known solely as Virulentia, the Vampire Queen.
#29. The Corocal Line: The rival Line of the Savernious Live.
#30. Losing Your Mate: When a vampire loses their Mate they usually die not long after their Mate does. Unless the Vampire Gods allow for the Lost Mate to be reborn, though that rarely happens unless the Mate was not meant to die. Sometimes when one Mate dies the other will stay alive if she/he is pregnant with a Blood-Child, and even they will only stay alive long enough to carry the child to term and birth it, before dying. If a Vampire loses their Mate before they have been Turned and they have Bonded with them, then the vampire has to wait for their Mate to be reborn again. Sometimes Mates will go through countless rebirths before they are finally Mated and Bonded. In rare instances A vampire that loses their Mate will be so deeply infatuated with the Lost Intended Mate that they will go insane at the discovery of the death of their Intended Mate, this will especially happen if the Intended dies in an especially brutal fashion.
When a vampire happens to go insane with grief they tend to become incredibly aggressive, irrational, cruel, and relentless in their search for revenge against the murderer of their Intended. After vengeance is achieved, the vampires are fund to be inconsolable in their grief, and if left unattended will tend to neglect their own care for months in pursuit of searching for and awaiting the return of their Mate to the living world. That is why some Families are known to send their distraught siblings into a torpor (trance) and until the Mate is reborn the vampire will not awaken. Sadly though there are an unlucky few vampires that are to strong to be restrained and sent into the torpor and have to suffer in solitude and growing insanity until they find their Mate again.
#31. Summoning Birds: Each Line has their own Kind of messenger bird that they can summon. The Phoenix is the Summoning Bird of the Savernious Line.
#32. Burning hole in Your Heart: When a Vampire's Mate has runaway or disappeared, the Mate that is left behind is alerted to their absence by the feeling of having a burning through their heart.
#33. Line Colors and Crests: Each Line has their own unique set of colors and a crest (Line Symbol). The colors of Black and gold are the colors of the Savernious Line, and their crest is a black rose blossom against a gold (circular) background.