MoonMama89: I admit for a moment I thought about having him kidnap her but though better of it, she wouldn't let that happen and it would create worry for usagi so it was a mute point. I did have to make sure she wasn't figured out though. The elder hasn't seen him yet but he will soon. They will figure it out but it will take time since Minako could only get so close. You and I both are suckers for happy endings. So sorry to hear that, I've had a few family members come down sick so I do understand that. Aaawww…I really do appreciate that. This sequel has been one that's been flowing through me pretty fast. I've already written up up to ch 13! And its all because you and the viewer and reviewers inspire me so. I think the only one I would ever go back and change up would be the zombie one but that would be a massive re-write and overhaul just to make it a little bit better. I'd rather do something new or a sequel to something else. I've even been contemplating a trilogy for this vampire one if there are enough people who want it. As for your life issues, its so sweet that you have a little one to chase after, I wish I had that…but first I must get a boyfriend that wants what I want and actually spends the time to get to know me and be with me…anyways…plus one of my own favorite parts of the day is not only reading your reviews but seeing if there are any little inspiring tid bits I can use from them to add to the later chapters. Almost like the viewer is in a sense contributing to the story to get what they want out of it as I am. 😊 I do mean that as a positive since your reviews, everyone's mean a lot to me when I see them in my email folder!
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A vampire's forbidden love: the lies that bind us ch.7
Mamoru POV
I couldn't believe how mentally drained we were getting these days. Rei had spotted it before either of us had. I felt bad in all honestly for not seeing it sooner even if I was drained to, I felt like I should have seen it as her mate. The circles under her eyes, her slightly thinner appearance and the hunch in her shoulders. I took it as stress from the counsel issue going on but didn't think that it was lack of blood.
She was getting malnourished from lack of blood and it had started to become evident. Everyone had been working hard on this pack issue that lead in with the case but none also had Usagi's job of running a coven at the same time. She was essentially proving that she could do both at the same time but exhausting herself in the process. When she woke up I could help but notate how her cheeks looked fuller since she'd had the blood and some sleep.
The circles were about gone and she looked rested. Still in her dark jeans and black sweater from earlier she had only discarded her boots while getting on the bed. I still had on my clothes as well. Eldon was really working hard to weaken her in the smallest of ways. Luckily she had good friends and myself to keep her from over doing it. Vampires were only capable of so much and without any blood to sustain oneself we got weaker.
I touched her face as I wanted to take the opportunity to be with her for even just a little while before reality of what was going on would settle in. She woke fully up and tilted her head up to kiss me as I kissed her back. Taking a passionate turn as she pulled me onto her form. My hands rose and pulled her sweater over her head revealing a tank as I grabbed it and flung it over her head to revealing her bra underneath.
I starred hungrily at her breasts for but a moment as I enveloped a globe into my mouth. I feasted on her breasts as she held me close to her. Her moans of pleasure spurring me on as I switched from one to the other. Taking her little engorged nipples into my mouth and giving them both gentle but nippy bites as I traveled lower to pull her jeans off. It didn't take long before her scent was revealed to me.
I inhaled deeply as I pulled her cheeks panties off next and took a long lick hearing her groan from it before engorging on her sweet nectar. My mouth exploded with her juices as I drank from her with fever. Wringing out the pleasure and giving us both some much needed stress relief in the greatest form one could ask for when it came to their lover. When she nearly came I stopped and saw the pleading expression on her face.
"Now." she emphasized. I lifted myself over her and stripped out of my own clothes as I then found myself back between her legs and plunged into her wet heat within seconds. I groaned from the tight, wet heat that surrounded me like a glove specifically made for me. It felt so good to be back inside of her. I knew it hadn't been long but when you loved as deeply as we did, days could feel like weeks apart and weeks could feel like months. It may have been why our elder asked if I was sure.
The need to stay as close as we already did, knowing that need would grow and intensify made me all the most aware and frankly strongly about the need marry her. The look in her eyes as I shifted within her made me groan in need to mark her. I had one hand on her hip and the other under her shoulder as I pushed in. Slowly at first wanting to savor it just a little bit more, but a repetition that slowly formed a nice and deep rhythm.
It sent shock waves of pleasure through us both as I felt her walls grip and slide against my throbbing heat that pulse inside of her. Pre-cum already leaking out and making the slide even easier as she clenched her walls around me. I loved the feeling of her clenching rhythmically around me as I could see and practically feel her enjoyment of my engorged shaft widening her and sliding along her walls added to her pleasure.
The angle I thrust into her at rubbed me up against her clit making her moan out even louder at the exquisite torture we were going through. The build-up was like the journey, as enjoyable as the end game or getting to the destination. She mewled for me as I kept up the pace and thrust into her steadily. I looked down at her, her hair splayed out like a golden halo around her head as I plunged heedlessly into her.
It was when I felt her legs go to wrap around my waist that I growled and pulled her left up and over my shoulder. I felt myself sink in even deeper now that the angle had changed again making us both grunt from the next thrusting impact as I never relented or let up. "Oh Mamoru!" she cried out. Her nails digging in and leaving trails of fire down my back. I could feel a tiny bit of blood from them leaking out and only felt a guttural moan of approval come forth.
I rotated my head as I tried to control the insane amount of lust that was coursing through me in response to the expressive way she was feeling and her attempt to keep me to her. I looked down at her and saw her eyes light up. Her vampire side coming out as I knew from the way she looked at me to the way she touched my face that mine had come out to. "Let me have all of you to." She cajoled.
"Usagi…" I gripped her hair as I pulled her head back and lowered myself to her. I looked into her eyes and saw the pleasure in the hair pulling. It wasn't harsh or meant to cause pain obviously. It was only there to add to the pleasure and this dominant feel I gave into as I slammed into her hard. She cried out but for more as I repeated the plunge into her. Her walls beginning to cave in around me. I reached with my other hand further down and rubbed on her sweet spot as I watched her eyes roll to the back of her head.
The pleasure so intense I couldn't stop. I could stop my hips from jerking my hips or thrusting my length into her repeatedly. Her walls so tight as she was orgasming that I could barely push back in but still so pleasing that I couldn't not push back in. it was an imperative need not to be denied. I grunted at the feelings she evoked within me and even whimpered myself at the ecstasy I was feeling.
My shaft widening as I felt her walls convulse around me in her own blinding pleasure. Her voice rising higher and higher as we both climbed up that mountain of pleasure, "USA!" I bellowed as I couldn't even finish her full name as I came hard. My seed spurting from me like a volcano erupting and spewing its lava flow. It felt as hot as lava to. Maybe not literally but you get what I mean.
Her own juices mixing with mine as I heard her scream, "Mamoru!" in a crackled out voice that was sounding raw from all her previous screams. One look at her face though and I saw how sated she was. The orgasms lasting for several long minutes. As I fell on top of her and merely enjoyed the feeling of her beneath me. We both breathed in and out deeply as she finally was able to rasp out, "We so needed that." "No argument there." I agreed.
Usagi POV
When we left the room I felt better than I had in days…hell it felt like a week really. The blood was needed and so was the actually night's sleep and not just a mere nap. Plus getting to have that time with Mamoru this morning so we could have a little fun was beautiful. I wished it could have lasted longer by doing that all day but duty called and that meant we had to get up and take care of things.
I didn't even make it all the way down the steps. Dressed in new clothes consisting of black leather form fitting pants and a tie in the front leather top that still hide everything appropriately while being sleeveless. My boots remained the same as Soren and Minako came to me, "Good your up." she remarked as they lead us to some monitors. "We have more proof of Eldon's misdeeds." She said, "Or rather Soren found something on the cam's." she corrected. I looked at him as he turned back to the computer.
"See this?" he asked. I saw the property cam's for the last few nights up. "Yeah." I was trying to see what the big deal was. That's when I saw Eldon sneaking out looking very much like a guilty party. "When is this from?" I demanded and looked at the time stamp. "It's from the night that the pack moved. This was taken hours earlier." He remarked. "Once Minako confirmed he had been meeting with Lycan's for a bit of time I started to dig further into our own surveillance." He remarked and pulled up more feeds.
"This is from when Minako went to spy on him. Same camera." Well I'll be damned. I was glad now that I sent Minako out to follow him. I motioned my thanks to her as she shrugged it off like it was nothing. Mamoru arrived shortly afterwards having needed to shave in the bathroom. We caught him up and he remarked, "That's near our room." I realized that now to. "We need a copy of these video's now." I ordered.
Soren gave me a disc, "Already burned it for you." I smiled as I took it, "Man's got a serious hate on you for no reason not to mention he acts like his shit don't stink when in fact he reeks." I knew he meant metaphorically so I smiled, "Yeah that does sound like him. This is great now we have more proof of his leaving the coven and the time stamps to prove he was meeting with the Lycan's." I was glad about this.
"Make sure to keep a copy on back up just to be safe." I ordered Soren, "Already done." I looked at him approving. "The dick insulted me." he reasoned, "I know the feeling." I responded then turned to Minako, "Listen I need you to use your contacts to dig up everything you can on Eldon. Based on what we're finding out its not matching the records I initially received from the northern coven. Plus their image of him was grainy at best. Let's make sure we know who were dealing with." She smirked, "On it." Before leaving.
"I'm gonna go get back to work on my research." Mamoru said. I kissed him as I said, "Any new developments come tell me." he nods and gives me another kiss before leaving. I round a corner heading to my office with the disc secured in my leather shirt over my breast when I run into Eldon. Oh great. I mentally groan. "So I heard your under probation." He couldn't have been happier at the news. "Oh look who it is the newest pain in my ass." I greeted. Sarcasm dripping from my mouth.
He smirked. Enjoy that while you can…I muttered mentally. "Well I guess it'll only really be a matter of time before this coven will be under new leadership. I'm sure the counsel will make sure that the old ways are kept in-tact." I let the fool talk gaining any new bit of information from his cockier than thou ass. "You sound sure of yourself." I goaded. Those with higher egos tended to talk more than listen.
In this case it would come in handy for me to listen so that I could gain that much more clues to who he really was. He stepped into my personal space as two nearby vampires stopped to see if I needed assistance. I gently waved them off seeing as I knew I could handle him if need be. He may be stronger than he's letting on but I'm stronger than he thinks and more skilled. "You really have this coven trained to think you something." he muttered in slight aggravation as he looked at some of the other vampires like they were pathetic.
It was making me want to strike him but I help myself back, "The only thing I've implemented in the vampires around here is training in discipline, fighting and caring for not only our own kind but that of the human world to avoid the two worlds from bleeding into the other." I answer as he scoffs. "You are much like the elder around here." He voiced. I smiled, "I try." I smart off to him as he walks closer to me.
His invasion of my personal space grates on my nerves as he voices his distain, "Its nothing more than weakness…nothing to be proud of." He must have realized what he said as the next thing I knew he backed up but not before Mamoru was there in front of me and him in the span of mere seconds, "You've got a few seconds to back off my mate before I back you off." Mamoru's words were deep and a low toned threat. Even Eldon looked weary momentarily at Mamoru's angered form.
That's when we realized we'd gained an audience. "Till next time." Before Eldon walked off and disappeared amongst the rest of the vampires. "What was that?" Mamoru asked. "I think he was showing his hand without realizing it." I answered as I continued towards my office. Mamoru with me. "I thought you wanted to get more research done?" I asked as we entered the office. "I do but the numbers are starting to blend together so I needed a break…like a day's break." He explained as I understood.
He helped me on getting things for the coven taken care of. Supply orders that we needed. That Minako's coven needed since she was here helping us. Keeping the books maintained. It was basically endless paperwork that I had been starting to fall behind on keeping up with this Eldon, Lycan investigation. Thankfully after five long, agonizing hours we completed everything. All I had really needed was someone to help me put a sizable dent into it that way the rest could be handled by simply needing to be filed away.
It was an hour after the office was finally put back in order that Minako came in with both Rei and our elder, "Something must be up." I noted as she shut and locked the door. "Something is up." Minako remarked. "I don't know what information you have regarding Eldon from the northern coven but I sent the picture to a contact of mine who knows all there is to know about everyone in the underworld…" which meant both vampires and Lycan's alike which I held no doubt they existed.
Everyone had to make something these days. "He ran it through his network and NOTHING came up." she gave me the file to show that his actual picture had no results. That as one thing about each coven we trusted the other to give us everything on a new member visiting or not and being that Minako's underground contact who the counsel would snub in a heartbeat just for consorting with Lycan's came up with this spoke volumes about Eldon.
"I checked even recent law enforcement data bases for all over the world, nothing, it's like he didn't exist for the past 100 years. Now it does make sense being that I felt how powerful he is but it also states the regular methods won't find him. We need to dig deeper I just don't know where to go." Minako admitted even as our elder himself seemed puzzled by the development, "This is odd." He commented.
"Lets get cracking at those books downstairs." Rei commented as we made to leave. I noticed the elder looked on grimly at the matter, "Don't worry sir we'll figure this whole thing out." I assured him, "I worry not my child…you are who you are and I love you as my daughter. I know you'll figure this out." He assured me as I walked out leaving him to his thoughts. We left for the archives, the one place in the estate vampires rarely went into.
It was large, beneath even the training grounds. Another basement beneath what we had if you will and it was filled to the brim with dusty old books as far as the eyed could see. "Time to have some fun." I commented as the four of us began going through nearly every old book in the archives there were. It took hours before we even hit a quarter. The books themselves were mostly archives of every older vampire that had been made or turned in the last near millennium of life on this earth.
Each coven kept records like this but the newer ones had been going back and began to detail them within the last century or so to keep up with modern times and to avoid more paperwork, the archives had gotten filled up so we started to have no choice. These had been moved here before we were forced to leave the old coven so there hadn't been any lost. Going through the archives may not have been forbidden but to search through the countless records for sometimes days on end would make any none driven vampire give up.
Thankfully we were all very driven. I felt the hours passing by like clock-work as the eighth hour we were at work came by. We were at different tables in the archive. There only was three tables as it was. Myself and Mamoru at one and Rei and Minako at another. There had to be at least a dozen books on each table strewn about. The older then got the more precious we had to treat them as they were very fragile. Mamoru having finished off the last one in his pile went to grab one more when a smaller one slipped out.
I didn't think anything of it as not all the books were the same width so I kept going and tried to find a mention of his name. His face. Anything. We were almost three quarters done when the little book Mamoru was working on, which looked ready to disintegrate made him go, "I think I have something." his voice even though it was low sounded loud in the otherwise deathly silent archive we were in.
The three of us went to him as we saw not Eldon's name but his face. It was him. The picture itself was worn but thanks to it being compressed nicely and unmoved since who knows when the picture was preserved. The ink used to draw him thick at the time was now faded away but not enough to not distinguish him. "I want everyone to confirm this." I said, "It's him." Minako said, "Those eyes…yeah it's him." Rei confirmed.
"It's him regardless." Mamoru said. Gaining shocked looks from us, "Yeah it doesn't look carbon copy but examining the bone ridges the contours…" he looked up at us and explained, "I did a year where I had to go through anthropology and identify bone features." I nodded, "This doesn't make any sense though." Minako chimed in. we looked at her, "Why is he here and NO where else in the archives?" she indicated the whole place.
"Because this book was under everything else in here. My guess is it wasn't meant to be found." I turned back to Mamoru, "Cause other than this there is no trace of Eldon even existing and now we have proof of him and he's much older than we thought he was." I concluded. "Eldon is definitely not who we thought he was but it does explain why Minako couldn't find him." he looked to her as she looked at the picture once more before acknowledging he was explaining her lack of finds.
"The vampire hasn't existed anywhere but here for over 500 years easily." He concludes, "Now can we take this to the counsel?" Rei asks seemingly impatient regarding it, "Hai, I think we have the proof we require. Well enough anyways to showcase at least that Eldon is lying through his teeth on matters. One thing still bothers me though. A vampire this old would know our elder. Why hasn't ours said anything?" I asked. Hating that I even did have to ask that.
"Come to think of it…they've never even met." Minako noted while appearing as if in heavy thought on it, "Same. I don't think they've ever even met." Rei said joining in. "Perhaps he was avoiding our elder because he COULD be recognized." Mamoru said as he took the little book with delicate care and stood up. "Perhaps he will if he sees this." I motion towards the book as we all agree.
"Let's talk to him." Rei suggested. "Hai, but let's not gang up on him. We're all here to do one thing and that's figure this out but were also not going to interrogate our elder." They agree and nod. We leave the archive, book delicately in hand, and have a messenger send for our elder to the office. Mamoru made sure to stick close to me while Rei and Minako covered the door to secure it behind him when he walked in. Once he announced himself the girls let him in as they then shut and locked the door.
He arrives there minutes after we do. "Did you find something?" he asks. His posture relaxed as he stood next to the girls. "Yeah…" Mamoru put the book down in front of him on the desk and gently open it to where our elder could see the picture. "Does he look familiar to you?" I ask. His eyes widen in disbelief before they clench shut in pain. I had a feeling something bad was about to come up.
He suddenly looked withered and beyond his years. Like looking at that picture aged him. "Sir? That's the vampire Eldon that we've been dealing with. Do you know him?" I asked, trying to be of some comfort to him regarding this. Perhaps he could help more than we know but that'll be if he wants to at this point. He looked pained. Like emotionally pained. He even seemed more pale than before.
That's when my phone went off. I went to ignore it but after the first ignore it kept going. The number belonged to the northern coven. I was agitated, our elder needed me yet the ringing wouldn't stop. Answering it I demanded, "This better be good." Right then is when the printer went off. Mamoru looked at it but as I was closer I went to it instead. The words the voice on the other line said threw me for a loop.
"The print out is the vampire we sent over to you. The one you confirmed with us isn't him. We don't know who that is as ours was just found dead." The voice was obviously displeased. I was now worried, "His head was found cut off. Be weary of the vampire you have in your collective now. He's not one of ours nor would I guess is a friendly in any manner." the call ended, my words weren't needed for anything more.
I pulled from the printer the picture and found the vampire Eldon looked similar but wasn't the Eldon we had known now. This is how he skirted by. His image was enough to look like this vampires through the graininess but once the image was cleared up it looked only similar but clearly not him. I showed it to everyone, "This guy we've been dealing with assumed this vampire Eldon's identity."
Gasps were heard as Rei took it first then Minako as it got passed around. Everyone seeing how we had made the collective mistake through the initial grainy image we had. "The real Eldon was sent from the northern coven at the same time we got the guy we believed to be him in, but his body was just discovered. Whomever it is that were dealing with just killed him to assume his identity and get closer." I looked at our elder now.
We needed answers and I had a feeling they would all come from him know that he knew the face of Eldon or whom we thought he was. The expression on his face was proof of that. It was just lucky timing that they fixed their printer bug issue right when this all happened. Come to think of it if it hadn't happened Eldon wouldn't have gone as undetected as he did. We would have spotted this much earlier. Our elder took the leather seat for himself as I walked around to his front.
We needed to focus here. "Sir tell us what's going on?" I begged him. He looked to me as if hoping that his child wouldn't condemn him for his actions. It shook me I had never seen him look like this before. "Some lies are easier to absorb that the truth…even light…" he began, not able to continue to face me something that troubled me, "Of the truth of this came the harshest of pains." He clenched his eyes shut.
"The young man that you've been dealing with his birth name is 'Emon'." He touched the original picture with delicate fragile tenderness. His fingers barely touching the face of it. As if he too was afraid the artistic rendered image would crumble beneath his very touch. "He's also the only other child my dear mate and I birthed to full term." That stunned everyone in the room. A collective of gasps were heard as one could hear a pin drop at the deafening silence that followed at his words.
"Sir I'm sorry but I don't understand…" I kneeled down in front of him as he leaned forward himself, his head nearly falling into his hands. As if unable to face me in the moment. I didn't get it he had only ever had one child to term and now he was saying he had had another son all this time? How is this possible and we never heard of him till now? Damon never even mentioned a brother before.
"I'm so sorry my child…for all of this." he lifted his face me and he truly looked like the guilty party. He then stood and as regal as before. I sat back up and stepped a few paces back to give him some room respectably as he began, "I don't understand sir…I thought you only had one child that was full term?" I voiced just above a whisper, not wanting to dredge up such painful memories for him but it seems I didn't have a choice. "Damon and his unborn baby sister were not the only children my mate and I had." We listened intently.
Everyone in the room was silent and unwilling to say something that might upset him greatly and cause him to clamp up on the information he was providing. I myself barely spoke my words above a whisper. My mind reeling at the information we were getting. "Emon is my greatest sadness for what he became and did to us all. And…my greatest relief yet the biggest burden I've ever had to bury."
He looked at the picture once more as he struggled to get the words out. No one said a word as he spoke, feeling the emotional and mental pain coming off of him in waves. As if he was reliving whatever horrors he had thought was buried in the past. His mannerisms that of a tortured man or in this case tortured father. He then turned to us explaining everything as we listened intently.
"You all know Damon as the corrupt monster he became over the centuries, but his brother was a troubled soul, one even more devious at a young age. He only ever truly got along with his brother Damon. No one else could hold a candle to their brotherhood." to that he held a small smile for as if seeing in his mind's eye the sparingly few happy memories. "They were thick as thieves they were but only a short time later when my mate and I became pregnant with our daughter did…" he looked to me.
He swallowed, "Well that's when things changed." His expression turned grim. "He was an arrogant child, dismissive of others around him that tried to teach and help, but he really became sinister in his actions when she fell pregnant. We couldn't figure out why at first. I thought he loved his mother dearly, yet she sometimes fell with no provocation and he had this glint of satisfaction in his eyes at it." Rei looked ready to say something but held her tongue just as we all were.
Though I knew what she was going to say. How could any child be soo evil especially at such a young age? "It was as if the mere prospect of seeing her in pain or rather more specifically the child growing in her womb. I discovered that yes he loved her, but he became jealous of his unborn baby sister." That was disturbing on levels I didn't know even existed till now. The elder looked sad righteously so.
"He grew jealous that Damon tried to be somewhat nurturing towards their mother whenever he himself would do something to cause her that harm. He was even upset that Damon was taking away his fun and wasn't trying to enjoy the more malicious side of their brotherhood as before. It was becoming clear to both brothers that they were not as one in the same as they once thought they were." It was hard to see Damon as being that way, but we only saw the asshole he became, not the child nor the teenager he once was.
"I tried to explain it to him that another child only meant someone else to love and protect for him and his brother, but during that time he also developed a strong sense of disobeying any type of authority figure which destroyed any attempts I made to get him to understand the importance of family. He felt that he shouldn't have to have someone telling him what to do…ever." The elder was in disbelief yet still he told us what happened.
"It was as if he truly believed he could do no wrong. The young boy of malicious intent turned into a grown man of malicious treatment of anyone that got in his way. He truly was a dark seed of a child…yet he was my child." He looked away as if he hated what had become of him and also wishing to this day that he could have done something, but in all honesty I wasn't sure there was anything he could have done.
It sounded like Emon was developing something deeply disturbing in a psychological sense and back then they didn't have any type of diagnosis for that. It would be hundreds of years before something could have been established. I couldn't help though but feel for the pained guilty expression on his face. I think he truly felt guilty for what was going on and was taking the blame on himself but why?
"Sir?" I implored. He remained silent as if lost in thought. Before I could say anything Mamoru spoke up, "He had problems with authority?" a repeat if you will to try and cajole him to talk more, "Problems would be a nice way of putting it." Our elder almost sounded sarcastic. Almost. "He tried and succeeded over the years to put those who told him what to do in harm's way." He began, "He decided he would train himself instead of listening to others and even stabbed fellow trainers to prove his point." He rolled his eyes as it.
"It was as if he enjoyed the pain he put others in. He held no empathy and therefore held no remorse for his actions. Everyone tried to take it as growing vampire boy problems as did I, but we knew deep down it wasn't. We lied to each other and ourselves. It was just kept secret from the rest of the covens. You didn't talk about problems then as you do now." He stated which I understood what he meant.
To this day there are some cultures that still refuse to talk about problems and prefer to keep it all in. It was an effective way of keeping victims silent and drive them to feel either suicidal or homicidal which thus allows the abusive men and women to do as they pleased to avoid shaming them or causing grief and dis honor as some people felt. Problem is to keep it in keeps it unresolved and makes it even worse.
"We couldn't figure out what went wrong. We treated both boys the same. No one was treated or asked to do something the other wasn't. Damon at least obeyed compared to his brother. He accepted the need to learn and progress whereas Emon didn't want to. The more Damon conformed and learned to accept the more they began to drift apart as brothers. In the end after we lost our daughter and my mate to Yamamoro, Emon was…"
He stopped for a moment the grief hitting him as I knew the image of his dead mate came through that is until he said, "Ecstatic about it. We mourned the losses of the two we loved and held a ceremony for her that lasted a month. Emon reveled in it and drank happily. I supposed he felt that Damon could just be his brother again, but Damon felt the loose as we did. He loved his mother." he continued on.
"It made Emon mad that his brother didn't share in his joy of it being just the two of them again and no one to interrupt that. Damon had actually been somewhat happy to receive a new sibling." I felt a tear fall from my eye as I wiped it away. Wow…it's amazing what you can learn about someone who as you do learn of them they seem like an entirely different person compared to the person you knew them as during your adult years as a vampire.
One question still burned on my mind though, "What happened?" he looked at me, "What happened to where he was wiped away from the history books and how did this get saved?" I asked referring to the book. "It must have been missed and since no one ever goes down there anymore I forgot it existed still. I had anything to do with Emon erased from the files. The books everything. Emon became cold and emotionless when he got older. He held no sympathy for others." He went on.
"He started to see the world with humans and Lycan's and the more he got out and explored the more he felt that since we were stronger than the humans that we should take control over the world. But we knew back then as well as now that the humans out-numbered us greatly. Now more than ever. He didn't care though and felt that the world was his to take and enjoy the benefits of. I gave him one last chance at redemption and it was a fatal one. To this day I regret it with everything in me." He sounded pained.
"How did he get away with hurting others in the past so easily?" Mamoru asked, "As pure blooded vampires we heal much faster than the average vampire that takes many centuries to heal as our rate. So it was taken with a grain of salt really." He expressed. Mamoru was shocked by this and blurted out to our shock, "Cause for many cases if a child of any type were to harm a loved one it's usually a red flag that something is wrong with them." The elder looked at him as I gulped for him.
"While that may be true for the human world things are a little bit different here in our world. We can take a stab wound and still fight for several hours going forward." The notation was made with a bit of agitation and Mamoru took that as his one and only time to ever talk in that manner to an elder as it nearly sounded accusatorily even though I knew Mamoru hadn't meant it that way…I don't think. Just making a point.
"What happened?" I asked him, now a bit afraid. What happened that made our elder look this down and pained? "When he hit his 20's I gave him the chance to rule his own coven. It was a last chance for him to prove his worth as a leader. As part of my blood to show that he was capable." He clenched his fist away from the picture to avoid ruining it, "No one knew what went on that night until a survivor of the coven came to us." That had me blanching as I backed up, "A survivor?" I asked.
"Hai…apparently my son had enough of me telling him what to do and wanted to overthrow myself as leader of the coven I ruled by killing me and…I wanted to refuse to believe this but I couldn't any longer, he wanted to rule over humans." We were stunned by that, "I thought it was merely talk and a stupid pipe dream that there was nothing to it, but he felt they were nothing but our meals on legs and wanted to rule over them all." He was right the vampire became delusional over his wants and needs.
"Apparently he was becoming disillusioned on he and his brother ruling both covens and taking the world as theirs. Damon was going along with it at first but also still had a strong sense of a bond with myself. I was all that he had left of his growing up years and we did get along for a long while till afterwards hit. He came to me a few times with his concern but also tried to side with him. I supposed he felt conflicted." The elder surmised.
"The survivor?" I asked again. "Right…" he sighed, "He was one of the vampire guards I hand-picked for his personal protection. Someone I knew for decades that would watch over Emon. I knew I could trust whatever he told me without fault. If he said Emon was doing something it was the truth. I hand-picked him for a reason." He explained as we listened with rapt attention, "You trusted him over Emon." I stated. He nodded, "He was one of my personal guards…of course I did." He said.
"Apparently Emon decided to stage a coup. He wanted to eradicate me from my position here as a leader. Once his coven found this out they decided to stop him to protect me. Imagine they were protecting me from my own son." He let out a dark chuckle of pain. "However, he found out that they planned to stop him. Feeling betrayed he decimated them in a single night. Letting so much anger and rage out that I couldn't fathom this to be the truth. Yet it starred at me in the form of the one guard that survived it." he remarked.
"I don't get it if Emon refused to train how did he kill them all?" I had to admit Mamoru had a point there, "He has an eidetic memory. He didn't feel the need to train because once he saw it he knew it by heart. It made him incredibly clever and smart but in a cruel and manipulative way." He stated making us realized every time he would see a fight he'd have the moves down pat and committed to memory.
"My personal hand-picked guard said that Emon had indeed died in the fire that consumed the coven's estate where I left them off. I had thought and believed him dead. It even crushed me to tell Damon about it." he admitted. "The worst part was though…that even with what he had done, with what he had planned to do, I still loved my son." Tears threatened to escape his eyes as he jerked his face away from us.
"I wanted to go to the coven myself but the pain as to much to bear to so sent my trusted guards to go in my steed, they found nothing left but rubble. I had to admit that I made an error and went about figuring how to explain this to the rest of the covens. They saw it coming and since I still had a child left to rule in my place, and since I had dedicated so much of myself to the counsel they gave me a one time free pass to remain a counsel elder. All I had to do was destroy the evidence of his existence. It seems I failed in that area." He stated.
"Wait a minute…" Minako chimed in, "So why come out now?" that's when Rei looked shocked, "Cause Damon's dead." She looked at our elder, "They were close right?" he nodded, "So when Usagi here killed Damon last year…" he nodded again as she figured it out, "Hai, it pulled him out of hiding. He must have been laying in wait or slumbering in hiding waiting for me to die out but when Usagi put an end to Damon he felt the need to come out and take vengeance against his brother." He responded.
The puzzle pieces were finally pulling themselves together. Emon was coming after me because I killed his brother, "Shit." I cursed, "I imagine he wants to tear you down mentally at first with this case before finding a moment when you'll be vulnerable to kill." Our elder said with a sadness in his voice. "I honestly believed him to be dead all this time." I could see that part of him wanted to cry over his not so dead son, but he refused to do so.
"Not just that." Minako said, "He made this deal with the Lycan's to get you overthrown so he can take over. Remember we'd been speculating that theory for a bit, but we had no motive. This is the motive!" she concluded. "It makes sense." Rei agreed, "I mean think of it. He gets them to attack Mamoru, make you look bad, then seeks the counsel out to rat you out like the dickhole chicken that he is so that he an usurps you." We couldn't believe what we heard but it all made perfect sense now.
"It does make sense but back to one point here." He turns back to the elder. "If there was a survivor then how did this go unknown all this time?" he asked. "He didn't survive for long. Only a day before his wounds got the best of him. It was a harsh way to go. I literally watched the life leave his eyes before he passed." Clearly he felt for the guard that he not only hand picked but trusted with not only his life but his sons.
"Wait a second…" Rei jumped in, "Why didn't Damon ever mention him? I was with him for a long time before Usagi came in and he never once mentioned a brother." That had me curious as he never mentioned it to myself either. We all looked to the elder. "I was wondering when that would come up…" he sighed, "I used my own compulsion on him. It's rare that vampires can do it to others but if one is old enough and has the complete trust of the other its possible." It shook us all to the core.
"To be completely honest with myself I'm glad I did it, but I wish I hadn't had to do it. I wanted Damon to keep his memories of his brother but with everything that had happened I knew he wouldn't survive that kind of traumatic lose. First to lose his mother, his unborn sister then his brother." I was stunned, was beyond stunned. I didn't think he had it in him to do something like that ever.
"I knew I couldn't do anything to take the pain away so I hide it from him. I told him to tell me his fondest memory of his brother that the two had shared together, that only they had shared together as brothers…he told me and as we both laughed at the devious adventure they had shared I compelled his memories of him away. Any of the memories that involved someone else alive got altered to fit only them and remove him." I had no idea this was even possible. Even Mamoru looked stunned by the admission.
"They were locked behind that memory so that no one would be able to unlock it and had him forget the memory even existed so not even he could unlock it, not even by accident, nothing to trigger it." I couldn't believe everything he just said. I think everyone was to stunned to even formulate a thought. To think all this time Damon had another brother but his memories of him were repressed by his own father.
To a degree the memories were stolen from him but at the same time his father was trying in a way to prevent him from feeling that pain of the lose. Problem was it was the wrong decision to make and now I could see it clear as day that our elder still held remorse over it, "Not that I've ever been team Damon here…" Mamoru began, "But the way he has been makes a bit more sense now." We looked to him in a 'tread carefully' manner.
"With all due respect you're an amazing elder and a grand father figure but it does makes sense to a small portion of his life. He never got over that empty feeling he developed and my guess is you ordered everyone who knew of him to never to speak of Emon again." he assumed. Our elder nodded. That's when Rei sunk her head in to her hand in distress, "That's why no one knows about Emon." We looked to her.
"Think about it, he changed his appearance just enough and since he hasn't been seen in over 500 year's he knows the vampires that would recognize him are scattered around and the ones that are here he's avoided them like the plague. He's been undermining us this whole time in an effort to take control away from Usagi. He's a clever little asshole I'll give him that." She noted as I sighed myself now.
Before we can digress anything further a knock comes to the door. Minako opens it to reveal a messenger, "Usagi, Mamoru and the elder are being requested by the counsel." She nods as we all are at very distressed by the news shared. "You guys have to make your case now." Minako said as I grabbed the proof we needed. I went to the computer and took the video of Emon to make screen shot still so I could present it to the counsel.
Printing them I made sure the time and date were stamped on it in the corner as Mamoru took my hand and lead me out. Even our elder looked saddened by what was coming about. "Wait so the wolfs bane we've been smelling?" our elder asked, "Its Emon. He's using it to mask his own scent in there." I explain. He looked on even sadder. "All this time he's been here and I didn't even know it…" I gave the elder a moment as we walked out.
"Question is how does Naoyuki fit into this?" Mamoru asked. "I have those two theories to present to them. Afterwards it'll be up to him on what he wants to do or how he reacts that'll confirm either theory of mine." I remark as we continue forward. We marched to the chamber doors and for the first time in weeks I looked into it at the elders in their seats with new hope and determination in my eyes. Emon this little game of yours is at an end…it just won't be an end you see coming.