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A vampires forbidden love: the lies that bind us ch.9
Usagi POV
It actually felt like some positive light was shining down on us now. Well as of the last seven hours. One we left the counsels chambers they decided to initial the protocol change for Naoyuki to be banned from ever entering a coven again for his treacherous actions against us all. Even if it was mostly against me the fact that he disobeyed them so openly and even yelled at the highest ranking elder in the counsel was a huge issue.
So, unless he made a deal and provided the location of Lycan's pack there wasn't any way he could go anywhere for sanctuary. He was banned from every coven going forward. However, all he probably had to do was go to wherever Emon was for sanctuary if need be. Wherever that was anyways. And that was even if Emon didn't mind his company at his personal fortress of fiefdom the very thing he planned to do with my coven.
He might be pissed off at him for blowing his own cover and allowing his cover to be blown but we don't know. We don't know how deeply their bond goes as even our elder wasn't aware of just how close they were. It almost seemed as if Naoyuki was being, if I can even call it this, protective of Emon…like in a twisted fatherly sort of way. Or perhaps in an older brother way but still…protective. I shook it off for the moment.
"Okay so this is good. We've put the origins of the case on the back burner and now we need to absolutely find that Lycan pack. We find it and we find Emon cause I'm sure one is with the other now that he's got a warrant out on him." the counsel had issued that not to long after the one on Naoyuki was issued. Only Emon's was a standing kill order that I was to carry out as part of my deal to remain in my leadership position.
I was essentially carrying out the orders that the personal guards from all those centuries ago thought they had but hadn't and hadn't known they hadn't. I was basically doing this for them not because they failed but because it was something that I would have done with them then if I had been around. Our elder was like a father to me, he was my father now and I accepted that. I know had he been a regular man my father by blood would have seen him as a brother like figure over time.
I was carrying out this order to protect the man that was protecting me and who had come to my defense from Naoyuki and Emon's treachery. Yes Emon was after my position here but I had a lot more at stake now. Knowing that he wanted our elder dead back then only served to fuel us all more to taking Emon down. We couldn't take the risk that he wouldn't still want his father dead for being himself.
Then there was Naoyuki. Despite his malicious words, though true, there were standing orders sent to every coven that he was to be captured for imprisonment, once the counsel members had had time to cool down from the explosive argument that is. He still had too much valuable information and had still done a lot of good for the counsel which is why he DIDN'T have standing kill orders.
However, IF he couldn't be captured then a kill order was issued that way he couldn't use his intellect of us and how we worked to grant himself a deal with either the Lycan's or the humans to save himself. Unfortunately by the time Chikao had decided upon this he'd already slipped out of the estate here and took off. I honestly figured he'd stay around for a few hours but once he was out of the counsel chambers he packed up and took off. It was almost like he had prepared for this moment to happen.
I rounded the next corner as Mamoru and I met up with Minako and Rei through the hallways, our elder taking the day to cope with the fact that his long-lost, thought to have been dead son was still alive and had wanted him dead and probably still did from the way Naoyuki talked about it and talked about him. That can't be an east pill to swallow. I had a feeling he was doing a lot of self-reflecting on the issue as everything was coming full circle now.
"We still need more help. Those woods cover way too much ground and go off into a shit ton of different directions where the Lycan's could be at and loose us in. For anyone who teaches S.E.R.E. It's a dream world." Minako stated. Rei and I both looked to her while Mamoru arched a brow at it, "Survival Evasion Resistance Escape. It's a teaching method for escaping in enemy territory. Nani?!" she asked, "How do you know this?" I ask her.
"One of the things I learned over the years from my leader before I took over." We nodded at her assessment and kept moving forward. "Let's not forget that while their near the field of wolfs bane that doesn't mean that their sitting on it." Rei agreed as we rounded another corner. It seemed we would be needing more help soon as we wanted to get this done and over with as quickly as possible.
"Loop Makoto in on it and get her help. If you can get her out towards the wooded area and from where you spotted Emon meeting that Lycan go from there on forward. She might be able to sense something that we can't. Plus three excelling vampires searching out there is better than two and takes up less time while covering more ground." I gave the unspoken order as they both walked off ready to go narrow down the trail even further.
Makoto was an excellent fighter, but right now we needed her excelled skills as a tracker. I could fight and lead, Minako could fight, lead and be a good spy, Rei could fight and use her temper to that advantage, channeling it to give her a boost that made her a force to be reckoned with but Makoto had this inane ability to not only fight well but track a target once she got the right key pieces and follow it back to the home base. We just hadn't found those key pieces yet for her to use, its why I had Minako follow Emon.
Follow him, find where the pieces could be and put Makoto on it form there. She saw things we didn't out in those areas. With her and Minako working together with Rei for help we'd get that much closer to the den of wolves…so to speak. Its what we needed right now as we searched for Emon which meant finding the Lycan pack so we could put an end to this matter at hand and get back to business as usual.
Mamoru and I made to the security office where Soren was at. "Listen we have a new parameter to work with." he went over to his desk, "What do you need?" he asked. We walked around it, "We need a satellite imaging from the earliest point in the system and to run it against the mostly currently taken one in the system from the entire area of the woods where Minako went to and of the whole forest area." I stated.
His eyes widened a bit, "Is that all?" he asked, like 'okay that's not at all tough' in a slightly sarcastic manner. He began to hit several keys as I stood over him, "Glad that Emon is out of here?" Mamoru asked, "You mean am I happy the little arrogant cock sucker is gone…yes." Soren replied. I smiled, "Sounds about right." I smirked, "So I've got it being uploaded for a side by side comparison however…" he pulled up the biggest screens he had.
They looked like giant tv screen monitors. Easily 75 inches wide. However, we noticed the loading bar was quite minimal, "So what's with the long load?" Mamoru asked. Soren looked at him in irritation though it seemed towards the loading itself rather than at him, "Unfortunately I'm working off of the lowest speed available." I looked to him then, "Why?" I asked, "Cause any more and I'll tip off the Japanese government to having hacked their satellites for the information." I looked to him shocked.
"Usagi its not easy pulling up the satellite readings from the earliest ones at that time. I had to track where it was and then pull it from there. Problem is it'll take easily…" he pulled up the loading counter as we all three read, "Thirty minutes." Great. "So, I'll leave this to loading but I actually do have a few things to go take care of." He remarked, "Go ahead we'll keep an eye on it." I assured him. He nodded and left off.
Mamoru POV
I watched as Soren left off leaving us to our own devices. Once more I thought on proposing but realized yet again, I didn't have the ring on me. I was beginning to curse my luck with that. Every time I brought it, it was the wrong time and every time I had a chance I forgot to bring it with me and I wanted this moment, the moment I proposed to be just right. I wanted her to be shocked and to see that look of utter joy on her face.
I looked back up at the loading bar and sighed. She took a chair and sat in it as she grabbed a large map of the area and tried to narrow it down from there by just looking at it from where Minako had been which wasn't easy since there had been a lot of ground she had covered during her spy trip on Emon. It was really pointless to do without the images being done but she needed to do something.
I knew the feeling. Needing to get something accomplished further towards your goals or in this case finding a rogue vampire hell bent on killing you, taking over your coven and killing your father figure. I went forward and began to massage her shoulders as she sighed and sat back a bit, "I hadn't known…" I looked down at her even though she couldn't see me, "I hadn't known our elder had compelled Damon's memories away." She stated making me stop temporarily in my kneading of her shoulders.
"He had reason…to lose the majority of your family like that…it's got to be pretty traumatic." She looked back up at me, craning her neck to meet my eyes. "I lost majority of my family…hell from back then…I lost them all…" she stated, "True but you and Damon are completely different people. I know you might NOT approve of what the elder did but consider what Damon had already lost and what he was going to lose." I tried, "Do you agree with what our elder did?" she asked. It was a loaded question so I knew I had to answer this carefully.
"I think he did what he felt was best at the time. I can't imagine what either he or Damon were going through…in fact…" I turned her around in her seat as she debated with herself. She now had something in common with Damon and was unsure of how to feel about it. Should she feel an understanding or pity…I could feel it coming off of her in waves. It was like the emotions of what she should feel yet didn't know which ones to feel were blanketing her.
"For our elder to have lost what he did, his mate their unborn child…" I couldn't help but choke up at that a bit. I couldn't ever imagine losing Usagi like that. To have the chance at a family with her but to see it literally being ripped away from me. "Then to lose one of his sons like that and then to find out that the son was going to kill him…" it was like a small Greek tragedy found its way in here.
"Usagi I can't say I agree with it or disagree with it because we don't know what was going on through his head at the time. Grief, pain…suffering, lose…and his only son left was Damon. I think he did what he believed was right at the time FOR Damon but did it out of a misguided need to do something he couldn't do for himself." I told her. "What's that?" she asked confusion in her face. I pursed my lips for a moment. "Remove his son's pain. The pain he couldn't remove from himself." I answered.
"He knew he could live with the pain, would have to since there is no real elder strong enough to compel his own away, but he didn't want his son to have to be burdened with it. Yes it created an emotional hole within Damon but he more than likely didn't see it that way at the time. He wished he didn't have to live with it but if anyone could be free of it he wanted Damon to be free of it." I could understand why even if I didn't completely agree with it myself.
"So he compelled it away. He gave his son the one thing he couldn't ever have…peace. Usagi you went through years, generations of torture from Damon…on levels I couldn't ever imagine, if I could I'd take that pain from you to but at the same time what pains us also makes us stronger and lets us know what we can tolerate and what we know the human body and mind can tolerate." I explained.
"I think our elder saw Damon as a youth and saw him falling into the grips of a darkness he himself couldn't pull him out of. He compelled the memories away in an attempt to prevent the pain from making him even worse than what he could become." She nodded though barely. I saw the way she looked at me then, "If you lost me…" she began which made me gulp in revulsion at the idea, "Would you want him to compel the memories of me from your mind?" she asked. Damn did she know how to get me.
"IF something were to happen to you I wouldn't…but only because I would ask that he send me to you. I meant what I said Usagi I don't want to live without you in my life." I confessed as she leaned forward and kissed me. I kissed her back as something about it became desperate. I suddenly needed her more than I needed air to breath or blood to drink. I needed her in my arms as I made love to her.
I pulled her into me as I hiked her up against my waist before I laid her down on the map filled desk. I knew part of her felt for Damon now having gained some sympathy towards him but in the end Damon made his decisions with his emptiness. Instead of talking with someone about how he was feeling he filled himself with women and his treatment of them. Whatever love was in his heart was buried under the pain of lose.
That wasn't fully on our elder. He made a decision to protect his only living son and create a barrier from the negativity that knowing could have made. It made not have been the best idea but it was one he made out of grief and pain and it did work to a degree. Damon didn't turn into a power driven, psychopathic asshole that wanted Usagi dead…he turned into someone that refused to access or accept love due to his own issues.
I truly do think that had he allowed love to enter the equation he would have made it a challenge to gain Usagi's affections and love. He wouldn't have succeeded but it would have become a challenge. But he didn't and it lead to his downfall. Is what happened between he and Usagi to be blamed on the elder, one could argue it possibly while I believe he made his decisions and now he has to live with them.
Or rather now, wherever in the after-whatever where ever he is, is coming to terms with his inner demons. He's where he does belong and is probably getting the full story from his mother and the unborn one up there…if he in fact made it up there. Either way Damon made his choices and you can't place sole blame on one individual for the one persons actions. A series of events leads to it and for him a series of events lead to his relationship, or whatever you would call it with Usagi at the time.
Now though…as I looked at her as she pulled her shirt up over her head as I did myself…she was mine and right under me. He was long gone and our elder was in serious self-reflection mode. She attacked my belt buckle as I saw her bra being revealed to me. My length hardening in my pants at the sight of her breasts bouncing in the lacy confines. Once he popped out after she unzipped me I pulled at her thin leather pants.
Undoing the tie up in the front I pulled them off her hips and rear but only pulled them half way down as I ducked under them and reached her moist nectar. Her thighs on either of my head as I pulled her forward from the desk to begin lapping at her. My tongue wreaking havoc on her bundle of nerves as she gripped my head to keep me locked there. Her own moans spilling forth as I sucked her engorged clit into my mouth.
More of her juices came out as I added a finger to the works. Feeling her muscles clenching around the digit before I added another to the mix. I felt myself get worked up now. Tasting her had a way of making me horny and hard all at once. There was something about her taste that was like an aphrodisiac. I loved it and enjoyed lapping it up. I also knew we were short on time as Soren would be coming back.
So I instead pulled away but only after I knew she was wet enough before I pushed her legs over my shoulders, still trapped within her thin leather pants and slid into her. It truly felt like coming home whenever I was within her. How many times had I had her like this? How often had I had her legs wrapped around my shoulders as I slid my length into her repeatedly like there was no tomorrow? How many times would I get to have this going forward?
Too many times to count for the previous ones and I wanted it to be several lifetimes at least for things going forward. Yet every time we made love whether it was hard or slow, fast or gentle it felt more magical than the last. More thrilling. More sensual, more of so many things I couldn't even begin to describe as I continued to thrust my length into her. Continued to plunge myself into her heated depths as she tried to hold onto my shoulders.
I just wanted to be seated in her for all times. To know her warmth all the time and not just her tight heat that currently surrounded my cock as I plunged into her slowly with sharp twists of my hips that made her head roll back and hit the desk, creating a loud thud that made her growl but wrap her legs more strongly around my shoulders and back. Any type of banging like that was never enough to deter her from this…or myself.
It was also the warmth in her heart that I wanted to be seated in for all time. The heart that would always hold mine. The heart that gave out so much and worked itself over and over again to try to give people chances to do the right thing. The warmth from that heart made me feel safe and confident and gave me this uncontrollable need to protect, defend and comfort her no matter what. I was well aware she could handle herself but it was during the moments when she needed me that I would be there as she was for me.
I slide into her as I bent over her form, nearly climbing on the desk to get closer as I watched her face go from ecstasy to pleasure with her biting lips that just tempted me over and over again as I wanted to bite those lips myself. My pumping motions gaining a little bit of speed but if anything more depth as I changed the angle to sink in even deeper within her heated core. Wanting to reach her lips to nibble on them.
Bending her legs that much closer to her shoulders as they lined up with each of her knees as I kept sinking in over and over within her. "Mamoru!" she bit her lip to try and stop my name from coming out on a scream as I knew this was getting to her as it was to me. I thrust myself into her harder and faster, unrelenting as I got onto the desk myself now. Feeling it begin to sway just a bit as our combined weights were on it.
She gripped the skin of my back as I sunk in even deeper, reaching her lips as I nipped at them with each passing thrust. Kissing them until the thrusts got to be too rough and fast to attempt to reach them. My passions taking over as did hers as I could feel her walls beginning to contract around my cock. I began to slam home within her, watching her face as she climbed that mountain of pleasure higher and higher. Her mouth widening into that perfect O as I reached down and twisted her little nub just right.
I felt her careen over the edge into oblivion. Her muscles tightened around me so hard, squeezing the very essence from me as I felt something take over that hadn't before. Like something new left me and went into her. I came harder and longer than ever before. Her moans of pleasure spurring me on as I held onto her form tightly. I felt like something changed in these moments between us.
I looked into her face as she slowly came down from her high. Her eyes light up with a brightness I hadn't noticed before. Either that or it always had been there and I was simply to horny to see it before. It felt like we had somehow bonded closer together than we were before yet I didn't know how. I just knew we had. I took a few extra seconds to admire her before we both distinctly heard Soren coming back through the halls.
Smiling we got our clothes put back into place as we then heard the click of the load bar. "It's done." He commented as he walked in. Then he sniffed the air. As if trying to figure it out before his eyes widened then looked at us. "So what do these images look like?" I asked completely by passing it, "Really?" he began, "So were going to pretend I DON'T smell that?" he asked, "Hai." Usagi answered. He rolled his eyes, "Here are the images." He clicked accept as we saw the differences in them.
"There are definitely a lot of foliage changes." Usagi noted, "Try doing a comparison of one under the other and look for large changes made." Soren looked to me, "Like what?" he asked, "Like building structure density. If anything has been upgraded or built up a great deal it'll be noticed on the satellite scans and the change in the screening." I explained. Sure enough there was a large rocky looking formation about a half a mile from where Minako was at. We all looked at it intensely.
"Minako said the Lycan ran within that general direction. It does fit." Usagi stated. "It'll be a place to start looking at for recon." I tell her. "Agreed. We just need to locate it on the map here and figure out which is the best direction to go into without giving ourselves away. Remember he more than likely had that Lycan pack there for help against us as well so we have to be smart about this."
This of course was a theory but more than likely if he was using them to sabotage Usagi they wouldn't have any problems trying to kill us for invading their new 'home' per say. We three went up to the map as we saw what we couldn't before. "The foliage is thicker over here." Soren noted, "So we'll do the recon from that point that way they can't see us but we'll have view of them." Usagi decided. "Sounds good." Now all we needed to do was figure out the weak points then go in and collect his head.
Emon POV
I waited by the hidden entrance on the other side of the estate. Naoyuki assured me the continued help from the only other elder he had any form of control over. Well control in the form of black mail that is. Turns out Kitiara had been unknowingly helping him help me over the generations and knew if the counsel knew she had been she'd be in serious trouble and didn't want to take the chance of getting lined up next to him in the imprisonment section.
Granted there was no way to know for sure that they would send her to the 'vampire prison' BUT she didn't want to take the chance, so she was helping me. No one wanted to go there. From what I heard it was located in a coven up in the Andean Mountains. Run by the next oldest vampires that were ruthless and only spoke to leaders or elders as it was a prison and declined any other vampire up there for any reason. From what I'd heard it was like Alcatraz for vampires and brutally run.
Rumor had it they set the prison up there as vampires don't do well in the cold, but they are trained to withstand it for lifetimes so that the vampires kept there in prison can't escape with ease as their not as adapted to the cold as the others are. Not to mention the vampires are former hunters, the best of the best picked by the elders themselves next to leaders to run the coven and ensure the safety and security of the place.
Never before have I heard of an elder being placed in there though. Especially since this one hand picked a few of them over the decades. Then again, I've been out of that loop for a long time so who knows now. I came in through the entrance way and found Kitiara standing there looking worried and peeved. "Don't look so worried, the mark of a new change in things is to come." I told her.
She sent me a glare that rivaled Naoyuki's, "Let's just get this over with. I can only give you a half an hour. If you're not back here by that time I can't do anything more for either of you without risking my own seat here." She stated. "Trust me when I kill him…well hopefully them both, you will be rewarded." I smirked at her. "In fact if you do your part right I may even let you be my pet whore."
She looked at me disgusted, "You're nothing more than a fucking pig." She snapped and shoved a piece of paper into my hands, "That's her room. Don't make me regret this." she stalked off, "And you're nothing more than Naoyuki's bitch. And trust me I don't truly regret any of the so called horrific things I've ever done." I muttered as I walked into the estate forgetting about her insolence for the moment.
I'd take care of that later when I had more time to care. I was on a mission here after all. As I passed by a few hallways I noticed a change in the air around me. It seemed lighter around. Like without my presence here it was different. My smirk dropped a bit as I sneered at the uplifting mood. It was like they were motivated to work together near happily towards a common goal and I sneered at the reason why. Soon they would all know what it felt like to be under my rule and would cower beneath me as I looked down upon them as a pure blood should.
I pulled my hoodie up over my head as I darted between hallways to avoid vampires roaming about and noticing me. There were so damned many though and my own scent, while covered in wolfs bane would leak through soon. I couldn't afford my scent to get noticed as it was a new one that would get sniffed out fairly quickly if I didn't keep moving and find what I was looking for. Especially now that I was inside and my cover was blown and a potential death warrant on my head.
I snaked around nearly a dozen hallways, before I finally found her room but then a familiar scent made its way to my nostrils. I knew that scent anywhere. My father's room was nearby. His scent coated it as I made my way there instead and slipped inside. It was roughly eight doors down but still pretty close. Shockingly close to Usagi's but I guess since she was their leader for now they felt she could have a room close to his.
I scoffed at the notion of it. I inhaled deeply as some old memories flooded me. The stench of old woods and scotch lingered in here speaking of him and his preferences. I locked the door to ensure privacy as I noticed the door to his own personal tea room was up here. Old man really needed a tea room of his own. The benefits of being an elder. When he walked back into the room from said tea room our eyes met for the first time in centuries.
His eyes were shocked yet not as shocked as I had expected. He had seemed aged but not as much as when I last saw him. He still held that same feel of authority to him. I hated it to such a degree I wanted to snuff it out. I wanted to end him so badly. Yet as I looked at him there was this tiny little part of me that wished he would look at me with those loving and protective eyes he looked at Usagi with.
The same eyes that he even looked at Damon with. Yet because I sought more, he looked at me with irritation and distain. So right now, perhaps there was some part of him saw this as inevitable in me coming to confront him. To kill him. For me…as much as I wanted to slay that bitch for killing my brother, for taking him from me before ewe could be reunited, I wanted to kill him for trying to tear us apart as children.
He was the one that started this whole mess by pulling us apart from the other. Between teaching my brother what he felt was right compared to the darknes we both held and feed the other and getting our mother pregnant again and giving Damon someone else to care for other than me was a betrayal that went deeper than what Usagi did. This was for taking him away from me as teenagers. For solidifying that for us as growing adults. "Hello father." I greeted. The anger still etched into my face as I met his eyes.
I had him see the lack of care for what I had come here for, the lack of care for any ramifications as I held none. I wanted him to know that his actions from all that time ago had consequences and he was about to reap from them. His face held sympathy and pain. Perhaps he did feel a bit guilty for what he'd done to us as children. To my brotherhood with my brother. However, to feel pain, THAT he did deserve to feel, and he would feel more soon enough. "Been a long time." I commented as I walked further in.
He hardened up in front of me and the anger that I expected to see came to the forefront. Was it sad that a smidgen of me had hoped to see a tinge of welcome on his face? That he would want to see his only BLOOD relative back form the supposed dead. To beg for forgiveness from me for his crimes against me so that he could spare his life? Yet he didn't look the slightest bit as if that were even close to the case.
"Your unwelcome in this coven let alone my room Emon. It would be wise for you to leave." I had to laugh at that. Really laugh at his words as if they held any meaning to me. "This is no laughing matter." He started which just made me laugh harder before I did cease. After all I did come here for a reason and it wasn't simply too laugh. "There's a death sentence that's been placed on your head. If you leave now you may get a ten second head start before Usagi comes to collect your head." He advised me.
The fact that he believed that as if it were fact pissed me off, yet I showed no signs of caring for his words of advice. I just hated that he had more confidence in her than in either myself or Damon, we deserved better…I deserved better. "Ah yes the replacement child." I mocked. I don't know what he saw in her as a daughter. Everything she's become or learned she learned through my brother.
"She's been more of a child to me than even Damon himself was at times." he stated. That pissed me off further. It was nothing more than a direct insult to Damon's memory and he stomped on it with those words. "Ahh there's that predictable weakness of humanity that floods you. I was wondering when it was going to rear its weak little head." I quipped as I looked at him like the pathetic man he was.
"And here it is beating within a man with such power to do almost anything he desires…and yet he does NOTHING with it." I pitied him in a sense. But not enough to spare him from my wrath. "I never understood that in you. You have the power to do so much yet you do nothing to claim your very right over this world." I looked down upon him for his lackluster choices in life for what he could have.
He looked at me with the same eyes I remember seeing on him last time. When I walked out of his office I the old coven and through my so-called guards as I headed off to my own coven. That looked was of a father still trying to teach me when all I wanted to do was roll my eyes at the pathetic attempts to sway me to see where he saw us in life and it wasn't in charge of the world as it should be.
We're so much more powerful and better than humans with their weak little forms and their ridiculous choices and their petty squabbles over the most mundane of issues it was truly pathetic that in the end he was siding with THEM over his own flesh and blood. It sickened me to no end that THAT was his choice and to get Damon to agree to it. He was a manipulative bastard for a father. "Damn it Emon!" He nearly yelped yet in such a fatherly authorative way I actually listened to his words as he spoke.
"It's unbelievable that still even after all these decades, after all the time that's gone by with EVERYTHING that's happened in the world, all the advances made by the humans, all of the changes the world had gone through because of the humans, all of the choices made by so many people, men, women, children that have changed everyone in some shape form or the other and you STILL have failed to grasp that this world is meant for humanities survival." He snapped back at me.
I listened as he talked to me like an errant child, as if I needed a lesson or a lecture about what this world is meant for. He still so stuck in the past of believing that this world is made for them when it was meant for the strong and the powerful. That's US! ME! Naoyuki was right, he's an old man stuck in his own belief's and mind set and won't ever change. I would let him talk though, let him think I was listening. I would need it for later.
"They outnumber us a hundred to one easily. Yes we have covens all over the world but this world is MEANT for humans. Their natural source of light is our doom. This world is not as it once was my son." He was actually trying to reason with me. Silly old man. Tricks are for kids and I'm NOT a child any longer. "This world is meant for them we are merely here to exist and to protect the rest of who we are from them and them from us and the Lycan's on both accounts." He snarled at me. "Spare me the lecture father!" I snapped back at him.
"Your words are nothing more than a petty sentiment that means nothing to me. Is that supposed to explain why you took my brother from me? Why you had to separate us and turn him against me? We could have made the world ours he and I. Just because YOU didn't want it didn't mean we couldn't have it!" I began to rage outwards, my words carrying over as my voice rose higher, "Yet you chose THEM over US! Over ME!" I indicated outside the windows he had, to the world he picked.
A choice to save and protect humans and see the rest of the vampires as friends rather than the slaves they were to us pure bloods. Naoyuki made sure I knew the difference as a growing teenage vampire. Once he was made an elder, he taught me the truth of things. Yes he wasn't the oldest of us and I was powerful as well but I agreed with his view points and sought him out as a role model since my own was such a weakling.
Naoyuki was the father figure I needed and wanted in life, and while my dear father was one of the oldest I saw weakness in his wants and needs. I saw strength in the power Naoyuki expressed to me and I've never looked back since. "You chose these pathetic-mortal, weakling humans over ME?! Your own flesh and BLOOD son!" I was boiling over. I had so much anger, wrath and rage within me still that I wanted to end him where he stood.
"I chose humanity over the raw anger of my son in his state of mind." I nearly stood back on that one, unsure what he meant. "I am so terribly sorry I didn't recognize the signs of your mental state then." Excuse me?! "As Usagi and Mamoru to a degree pointed it out, there were things unknown to us back then." He looked actually sorry and regretful. "I'm so sorry I didn't see it sooner that way you could have gotten the help you needed."
I was seeing nothing but red in my vision as he spoke. Stating that I had a mental condition was why I am how I am! Of all the fucking nerve! I'm not fucking MENTAL! I'm just not fucking WEAK! "Instead I gave you a coven and look what happened." I blurred to him and backhanded him before I could even breath I was so beyond enraged by his words and to sound like he was mourning me in a weird sort of sense.
"There is NOTHING wrong with ME!" I snapped. He wiped the small amount of blood away from his nose as he remarked, "There always was son. I just didn't know what it was. But it's not your fault. It's how you were born." He stated with such fatherly affection as if we hadn't been estranged for all this time. As if there wasn't this crushing need inside of me to eradicate him from this earth. As if he actually cared.
I resisted the urge to let a tiny wisp of it in. I gripped my hands into fists as I held onto the hatred towards him. It was a ploy. My father was the best and an elder for a damned good reason. Truth was though even if it wasn't a ploy…the problem with it was…I didn't care. I lacked empathy over what I was going to do to him and it felt good. The only time I EVER felt anything was when Damon was there for me. That was my only true bond ever and he took it from me at a young age.
"I was born into a world of possibilities…my father was the weak one…NOT me." I ground out as I went to hit him again. He dodged as he tried to console me, "Let us help you my son." My rage wouldn't allow the possibility of him being right. Of him being there for me…of him actually being a good right father. It would place doubt that I couldn't afford to let it. I had to destroy him and his weakness over me.
"I have no respect or care for your pathetic words or petty sentiments regarding this human weakness you insisted upon having. That you still try to instill within me. If you want to continue to be that way so be it, but I refuse to allow the weakness of humanity to be in control of this world any longer. Not when it can be strong with me as its rightful leader. I can turn more people into vampires. Create a world befitting the purest of bloodlines." I replied to him, letting him know what I wanted.
I wanted to see that look in his eyes as he found out what I would do to this world after I killed him and her. Show him that his protecting the world all these generations was futile and that it would soon be under my control. I shoved the weakness of his words down and stomped on it before it could reach a part of me that still held any feelings of care or remorse. I couldn't allow it to blossom into anything. "This world…" I look out his window as an indication that I was looking at the world around us.
"It belongs to the powerful and the willful and that is me now. I'm all that's truly left of REAL power. I had hoped to share it with my brother once you passed the torch to him and left but that that bitch stole him from me. My only brother. My only true friend. He understood the darkness within me and accepted me for who I was. You, you tried to change me." I accused him as I walked up towards his form.
He was trying to gauge if I would make another attempt upon him and he was right to do so. As his death would be imminent soon enough, "You tried to make me into something that wasn't me. Yet I grew stronger and more powerful without you. I grew beyond your control and you couldn't handle it. Naoyuki knew of my darkness and he encouraged me as YOU should have!" I barked at him.
"He was a true father to me…the father you SHOULD have been…you…" I looked at him pitifully, "You were nothing more than a sperm donor." I sniveled at him as if he were nothing and very shortly he would be nothing more than dust beneath my boots. Yes I would kill him and that would aid in destroying Usagi. Killing her father figure and showing her that she was vulnerable. That I could take from her as she took from me.
"You will not succeed in your plans. Your Lycan pack won't stand a chance against Usagi and her forces here. She, Mamoru, Rei and the rest will bury you and your pack. You will be nothing more than a phase in history…if that. A memory of what once was." He told me, "Oh no father, you see once I kill you Usagi will be so distraught that she won't be able to fight me off as well." I saw the slight look in his eyes.
"You see I know her now father. I know how she fights. I know her methods. I know what will hurt her the most and part of that is in your death. After all from what Naoyuki has told me she lost her blood family centuries ago and now, she'll lose the family she has here. It'll destroy her so completely I'll be able to pick her off with ease." I state with confidence as his face forms a frown of anger. "Usagi will fulfill the counsels wishes…and bring your head home to this coven for all the rest to see." My father tells me.
"You really are confident in her abilities." I sniveled at him, "I'm confident in who she is and what motivates her. You seem to really think that by ending me, which you won't, that it'll compromise her." Well of course it will. "It w - " I went to say but he cut me off, "If anything, it'll motivate her to end you before you can hurt anyone else." He confides. For the barest flicker of moments I see the belief he holds in his eyes of her ability to do so and for the briefest of moments I doubt her end…but only for that brief moment.
"Your attempts are futile." I tell him, "No…your attempts are futile." The belief in his eyes enraged me as I grabbed my sword, the one I hide beneath my coat that I came in here with, the very sword that he granted me when he gave me my own coven. I swung out and slashed at him with it. He barely dodged it from slicing him in half from the waist. Instead I merely cut him across the stomach as he blurred for his own sword.
"You will not win." He starred at me with angry eyes as he brought his own sword down upon mine. Soon others would hear the fighting going on as our swords clashed. Furniture got pushed away and things got knocked over in our endeavor to land a blow on the other. As an elder he could still fight for a good long while even with his wounds. It's why I had to cut his head off or at the very least puncture his heart. Kill him in some form or another. We spared as he nearly took my own head off.
I hated that he was a good swords man but it only ignited my hatred against him as I kicked him away and swung out again. Clipping him across the chest and cutting into his clothing. Not close enough to draw blood but close enough to show him that I was better than he assumed. We exchanged a few more blows as he bowed over as I tried to cut his head off before I banked off the wall nearby and ended up with the butt of his sword clocking my chin.
"You never did learn your sword skills from me. That attribute went to your brother once he surpassed the trainer." He mocked as it did nothing more than enrage me where I was. We clashed with the swords a few more times, even as we heard the doors being pounded on. I knew this fight would result in someone hearing us. Therefore I knew I had to make my final move against him and therefore the move that would ruin her.
I spun around on him only for him to catch me and pin me with the sword pointed forward, wedged in my side. Preventing me from swinging it back to slice into him, "When will you ever learn son…?" he asked. I snarled and twisted the little level on the sword. It was an add on I created over the years as I knew some vampires did work with double sided blades. His gasp as I turned back around was enough to tell me I hit him badly.
I grabbed it and pushed it in further shocking him and angering him further. He went to try and stab me but I reacted to fast for him now that he was badly injured. "I've learned all that needed from you…Katsuo…" speaking his given name for the first time in centuries, "As you are no father of mine." I pulled the shorter end of the bad out as he caved forward a bit in response and spun it around and shoved the sword in as deeply as it would go.
I saw the pain on his face at what I had done and part of me did feel a tinge of regret, but it was mostly for regret in not having the father I wanted and needed of him. For not being the Naoyuki that I needed in life. For trying to change me from what I was meant to be and for taking away what mattered to me the most. That feeling of guilt that crept up I shoved it away and buried it beneath the ground as the doors to his room burst open, slamming into the walls, his blood pouring out from the wound.
I looked back to see Usagi standing there as she bust it open, "You take my brother I take your father figure." I remarked as she saw what I did to him. The utter sight of devastation on her face before rage came in place made me wonder if there was some merit to his earlier words. I saw the guards behind her as the sight before them took hold. They were ready to kill me as well, but it wouldn't matter.
It was then that I heard him utter, "You will fail." I looked at him taking my eyes from her and saw the disappointment radiating off of him. In those few seconds Usagi blurred and threw me so hard into the wall by the window I almost went through it. "Till next time." I smirked as I got back up and jumped out the window. Breaking it in my stead as I took off like a lightning bolt and ran as if I had the hounds of hell as my feet as I heard the alarm bells go off.
I swore I heard a high pitched scream that was filled with pain as I kept on running. Sure I blew my chances to kill her but I did in fact take her down that extra notched she gained from that last counsel meeting. Now she knew I could break her especially since I broke that elder of theirs, her last father figure she had left in this world. I cracked a smile, "This pain you feel Usagi has only JUST begun."