Schadenfreude - satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune

Chapter 14

She stepped down looking at Reiji, his eyes closed, a bed amongst a room of books – a place all too academic. She half expected Misceo to construct a room such as this as well.

Yet, her bets were on this man. He was all too controlling – aware of our golden vice? One who spoke so loud as to proclaim war yet was smart enough not to let the words fall from his mouth?

She slid through the room, a predator on the prowl.

She could get her answers. She always did.

She let her fingers drift over the soft silk sheets until she placed her hand down, delicately shifting her weight so as to be looking down onto Reiji's sleeping face. Cool. Calm in his sleep. So coy perhaps these vampires were in thinking themselves safe.

She moved his finger to his chin so as to tease the element of surprise when she was taken back by a blood red set of eyes staring at her. He had caught her hand in his.

"The last woman who caressed my face in such a manner is dead, I don't suppose you wish the same?"

"Such a cool response for a man nearly consumed by a snake." She blinked – what woman had he destroyed last? Had flirted with caress? Surely it was not that coveted Eve.

"Surprisingly any shift of weight on my bed warrants a lack of sleep so I cannot say I am surprised. As for your tactics – perhaps underwhelmed." Reiji rose in his bed. His shirt was dishevelled – normally he slept without one, but even he lacked a will to change at times when his studies had demanded a quick rest.

"I suppose you want something? Or is this some covert attack to provoke a war again?" He continued.

"I want answers. My gamble is on the brother who seems to be oh so well reassured."

"Gamble?" His hand moved to his jacket near the head of his bed.

"A bet on who the new King is."

"And you request affirmation?"

"Ideally…answers for why you all covet a girl whom seems to have chosen one… I see things well when it comes to men's weaknesses."

"Ah yes, the snake which suffocates its prey?"

"Nah, much better than that." Belladonna's hair shifted, as her long ponytail was held oddly at its midpoint, as if begging to slip down, while streamlining her hair to a slim pile of platinum white gold on the sheets. Her wild jade eyes called attention to her deep red lips.

She was no Yui, but undoubtedly, was enticing for her prey. He already suspected where this was heading and had weighed his options.

"So tell me, easy and simple, are you the dear revered Vampire King?" Her hand braced his cheek again.

"I do not react well to women like you."

"What women do you know like a vibora demon?"

"Do you forget my brother's mother Cordellia had your type of blood somewhere in her?" Belladonna's snake like movement, the cool flirtatious type only soon recalled his deceased half-mother's failed attempt to entice him.

She pinned him down with her legs around his midsection. "So, you want to play my game? Do things the hardway?"

"On the contrary, I doubt you know what you're getting yourself into." Reiji's red eyes stared up at the serpent vixen, with a cool and calm retention.

And with that her lips pressed onto his, and so delicately her teeth poisoned his blood. "Touche. Now do you know what the worst form of torture for a man is?"

He already suspected as such. His body grew stiff – she no doubt played a game of immobilization. "For me, it is playing out such things as this, long-winded games of withholding information, that is torturous – quite frankly be blunt if you expect to get answers."

She bit her lip a bit in frustration. He spoke so eloquently for one who was near paralyzed from her poison – a vampire so subject to her own actions now. She could cut his head off in an instant like this – however she knew that was not the plan. "Pain, localized pain. But you see pain, can also come in the form of chastity…or perhaps more truthfully an abstinence from that which you crave most…"

She touched her tongue to her finger and etched a deep scratch down his breast – a realization of an effect that Reiji was beginning to realize was a secret she had just let out. Rouge perforated his alabaster skin.
"How about you tell me why this girl is worth so much to a band of brothers when they once despised their father's will and I will tell you why that hurt so much…" She stared at the deep red blood that stained her nail.

"Quite simply put, our Yui is the answer to the Endzeit virus from spreading…and allowing her to awaken her vibora side means giving up what she retained of her human dna, that which makes her our Eve. If you are daft enough to not realize what your King's intentions must be than I cannot help you…also I suspect the localized pain has to do with your saliva?"

"Ah clever man. You see, you will have a hard time convincing me you are not the one who outsmarted your lovely saint of a father."

"And quite frankly you have done nothing to entice me to tell you any more…I should call this matter of torture rather in effective."

"Ah but you really haven't gotten the best of it yet…" Belladonna's hand reached her lips before reaching beneath her, grabbing beneath Reiji's pants. He soon realized what she had intended – to tempt a man, and subject one to both sexual "almosts" and physical pain would drive any normal man mad. As her touch went against his member, he felt the strong feeling of lust drive him what could be the beginnings of wild, but when it left, teased what could have been, for lack of better word. Now he could predict what her moves would be.

"And you could never go through with it…sex with someone like me. Just as I will refrain from telling you who is the real King here." His voice was blatant and cold, apart from a recent look of sexual desire.

"Ah words of a stubborn man. Just admit that with a few more excruciating tears at your body and a bit of play you won't be dying for release?" Belladonna's tongue seemed almost serpentine, licking her fingers, becoming that of a snake's as she struck down onto his chest, digging bloody holes into Reiji's body.

"The smell of blood turns on a vampire, so I'm afraid this won't due if you wish to entice torturous pain or any form of fear." His hand twitched. "And I do doubt you would succumb to enticing a vampire into any sexual act…we all know the forbidden nature it is for a vampire of high status to intermingle with a low demon."

"Did you insult me and admit your own Kingly status?"

"Neither. You are deducing that which you want to hear."

The threat of Reiji's words enticed her to challenge his perceptions. She licked the tip of his member, calling all feeling now to the sexual part of him. However like she promised when her mouth moved away, the antidote escaped with it, causing what she would hope would be the beginning of sexual frustration. His body arched a bit beneath her. "Tell me more and maybe I'll let you have a bit of release."

She grinded and what was left of any feeling in his groin clung onto that. He looked at the clock. It shouldn't be that much longer. "I willtell you, that if you suspect any of us to give up that information you are horridly mislead…"

"Ah, really?" Her tongue moved up his chest, releasing the pain again from the paralysis. He noticed it wasn't as bad as before.

He cringed. She noticed his facial change. Why was he so stoic at times and yet letting such a face show? Slight notes of lust in his voice made her believe his struggle true, but yet he was being difficult. Should this go on more blood would stain these sheets.

She then released his member from his pants, and still positioned over it, as if sex was in question. "Tell me the truth, and then you can even pretend I am the little bitch protégé herself when I let you have release finally…"

Reiji's flashed back to when that half-blood demented fox demon whom impersonated Yui. This charade was quite enough.

"The truth is you've chosen the wrong brother to entice." His voice was now unaverred by pain or any slight tone of lust, purely and deeply stagnant as he stared at her above.

"What do you-" His hand moved to her neck, holding her where she was, stopping her words.

"Now if you be still for a minute I will explain. Tempt me and I will devour you. As you can see your blood does not scare me, for I have ingested many poisons in an attempt to akin others and myself to that which makes us weak. Teas, poisons all the same. On top of which I also created the beginning of an antidote for all poisons, which I have, as my brothers have also, been consuming as a human might a vitamin – which means your dear infliction of a paralytic poison works least on me. As for this-"

Reiji lifted his other hand, revealing a vial. "I would be interested to see how you do with something like this." He injected it into her thigh and consequentially smiled deviously. "I am also the brother who is rather impartial to pain when it comes to sexual endeavors so I must ask how you like having your own torture given to yourself?"

And with a quick motion Reiji pushed her down onto himself with full strength, as Belladonna felt the pleasure and disgust of actually copulating with a vampire. "Do not tell me that you wish to be picky about who you mate with at this time? Vibora demons are below us, because as you can see, when it comes down to it we can evolve to become immune to your threat. If anything this is a sacrifice I am making."

"Not the crimson snake-" She choked out against his iron grip on her neck, as she felt her thigh where he'd injected her tingle with the antidote. She would not do well like this, as she began to feel a form of pleasure emerge that made her wish to lurch.

"Then perhaps in some ways I am like my father as I intend to make sure he does not prevent us from succeeding. They're kind was almosteradicated. We will finish it." Reiji's eyes grew redder, not happy with his own admittance of his kinship to his father, but feeling a strong grow of a need to release.

She felt him twitching, a long reaching of his member to her core, her legs unable to move struggling with the injection. She had no ability withstand the grinding of what was once her prey, carving himself into her. A twitch her body was responding to…

"Luckily for you I have no intentions on copulating with a vibora in full amount, however I will be taking one other thing from you…" He thrusted hard as his grip around her neck forced her down on him, as Belladonna began to twitch against him, sighing out a sigh of release.

She was cumming from this? He must be their King to be this well prepared. One thought, the thought that she had only failed once in attaining information from any man, ripped through her in shame and disgust just as the onset of pleasure did.

Before he would be tempted to cum inside, he pushed her off the bed and onto the ground, careful not to allow any unplanned demon kin to be born – as he had said, no Vampire would ever wish to attain any kin with a low demon such as a vibora.

As he expected, she glared quickly at him as she turned into her snake form, with intent to slither off. He grabbed her again by her neck and walked to his desk, swabbing the inside of her mouth. Her fangs didn't scare him.

"And while you have failed on taking such information as you had intended to receive from me, you have given me all I could have needed. Please consider that I could have taken your life but am quite enticed to see what you petty snakes try next." He put his hand out over his balcony and dropped the snake onto the grasses below.

He fixed his shirt tucking it in and combed his hair slightly with his hands, before putting his glasses and his jacket on.

"And now I am afraid we need another family meeting…while I have a new antidote to poison, I'm afraid I may have also leveraged a higher game of war."