Angel moved to the back of the club where he often sat, and where a group of women vampires that he'd never seen before were waiting. They smiled seductively when they saw him and geustered for him to sit down. Angel did, and once again was offered many wrists and necks.
"No... I'm really quite full..." Angel murmered, pulling a girl into his lap and burrowing his head into her shoulder.
Catilina arrived a few moments later, and the vampires moved to get up from his lap. He shook his head.
"No." He said to them "Go away Cat."
And she obeyed.
Across town, a sharp nail dragged itself along a stone throne. It made an annoying screech.
"We should stop him now... before he get's too powerful."
The owner of the nail looked up at it.
"Come now Love." She said "Do you honestly think that at this point we have a shot in stopping him?"
"No. But what do you propose we do?"
"Well... I for one... I like this... the way he's become. L.A. has almost become over run with vampires, simply because of his aura. He doesn't realize the power he's given off..." She ran a hand over herself. "It makes my skin tingle."
Her lover looked at her.
"You think it is a good idea? To leave the power of Him in a meer vampire?"
"Oh... dear, this one is not a meer vampire... he... well there is something special about that one..." She stood "I wish to find out more."
"Aura. Don't..."
"Why love? Don't you trust me?"
"No."
Aura looked back at her mate, shining in the moonlight peeking through the windows of the mosaluem. She grinned.
"No Malcom... you never did."
And with that, she walked off.
Angel headed home near dawn, as many of the vampires who didn't practically live at Euphoria left it. He stretched and yawned, feeling the strenght that he had gained in the night start to leave him.
He turned down an alley, walking slowly, in no hurry to escape the sun.
"Okay... I'm tired... it's very early... and I don't want to play games. Stop following me."
Angel turned to face the attractive woman behind him.
"Wow... you are good."
"No. You're just very bad. Who are you?"
She smiled and stretched, running her hands through her dark hair and across her red leather dress.
"A friend."
"I doubt it. You're a vampire."
"I am." He said "I'm.."
"Not my child." He said evenly, walking towards her "You don't belong to me... do you?" He asked "No... you're... you're something else, am I right?"
Angel placed his hand on her cheek.
"Yes." She said softly
"Of course..." He whispered "Your aura is different... but that's your name... isn't it? Aura?" He asked
"How did you know?"
Angel laughed and touched her temple.
"I know many things. Like why you're really here... a vampire still outside... so close to dawn? You're not like them... you're stronger.. but..." A smile came to his lips "You're not like me either, are you?"
Aura smiled.
"No. I'm not."
And her hand snaked out and punched him. Angel stumbled back a few feet, then recovered. Angel smiled and licked the blood off of his lips.
And then faster then Aura could move, he was attacking her. He rushed her, landing a kick in her stomach, sending her flying back several feet. She rolled to her feet only to be greeted with a bunch of punches. Her body couldn't react as fast and she could barely block, let alone fight. Before she knew it. He had her by the throat, holding her on the edge of the alley, meer millimeters away from the sun soaked sidewalk.
"Now Aura... you didn't come to kill me did you?" Angel asked
Aura shook her head.
"I didn't think so. And you didn't come here because you were drawn to me like my children are?"
"No."
"You came to test me didn't you?" He asked "Some centuries old vampire... coming out to fight me just moments before dawn... it's a little melodramatic isn't it?"
Aura swallowed, she could feel the sun warming and starting to burn her skin.
"Now... Aura... why did you come to test me?"
"Because I wanted to see..."
"See what?"
"If you were truely him."
"Who?"
"My father."
"I'm a lot of people's father."
"No... this is different."
"You mean... your direct sire." Angel asked "You were made by the King of the Damned."
Aura nodded. Angel laughed and let her down.
"And you came all the way here to find your master."
"I came here to find the vessel that my master chose worthy of bearing his powers." She circled around him, moving as gracefully as a cat "And that brings me to this question... you have at your command the wisdom of ages and yet you didn't remember me."
"I may have all of his power, and all of his knowledge, but I don't have all of his memories... and besides... even if I did, they're all jumbled and why am I telling you this?" Angel muttered "Besides, I'm not your sire. So leave me alone."
And with that, Angel brushed roughly past her and went home.