Chapter 5 Shadows Chasing Shadows
A/N: After this chapter and until the end…sort of, most of the chapters you will recognize something. What I mean is, if you have read all of The Chronicles of Angel then most of the chapters there's going to be something you have seen. That also includes Nikon the Vampire's two spin-off stories. Enjoy this chapter.
About time for anyone telling you off for all your deeds
No sign the roaring thunder stopped in cold to read
No time
I get mine and make no excuses; waste of precious breath
No time
The sun shines on everyone, everyone love yourself to death
So you gotta fire up, you gotta let go
You'll never be loved till you've made your own
You gotta face up, you gotta get yours
You never know the top till you get too low
A son of a stepfather
A son of a
I'm so sorry
A son of a stepfather
A son of a
I'm so sorry
No lies and no deceiving, man is what do you loves
I keep tryin' to conceive that death is from above
No time
I get mine and make no excuses; waste of precious breath
No time
The sun shines on everyone, everyone love yourself to death
So you gotta fire up, you gotta let go
You'll never be loved till you've made your own
You gotta face up, you gotta get yours
You never know the top till you get too low
A son of a stepfather
A son of a
I'm so sorry
A son of a stepfather
A son of a
I'm so sorry
Life isn't always what you think it'd be
Turn your head for one second and the tables turn
And I know, I know that I did you wrong
But will you trust me when I say that I'll
Make it up to you somehow, somehow
So you gotta fire up, you gotta let go
You'll never be loved till you've made your own
You gotta face up, you gotta get yours
You never know the top till you get too low
A son of a stepfather
A son of a
I'm so sorry
A son of a stepfather
A son of a
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm so Sorry by Imagine Dragons
The sun was gone, it had finally set over horizon and the small carriage with the sisters passed a sign alerting them where they were. They have arrived to Avignon. This will be the last city before they go to before Rome. This might not be the best city for Elizabeth. During the 1300s this is where the heads of Catholics came. This city was filled with religious items, churches and laws. Of course this place is no longer dominated by religion entirely but the Popes have still remained here. Well, the current Pope, Pope Clement the XIII, was on a mission trip. Elizabeth would have loved to met the Pope, she had a few choice words and actions towards him.
Elizabeth looked outside and the first thing she was a church. She closed the curtain and sat back in her seat.
"How long are we here?" Elizabeth asked.
"A night or two, we have been traveling almost non-stop." Darla answered and she could see Elizabeth wasn't happy. "It's just for a night or two." Darla was insisting they needed time to rest, walk around, get some fresh human blood you know the normal vampire needs. Darla then looked out the window to see what made her sister turn sour. "It's been sometime little sister, why does it bother you so?" Darla asked and Elizabeth didn't make eye contact. It was just silent in the carriage.
Elizabeth has been a vampire for some time now. So it was a good question, why would God and religion bother her? Vampires do not acknowledge God or a god. They are demons and some don't even believe in Lucifer. Your older vampires follow the Master. Most vampires believe in themselves and nothing more. They have fragments of their souled lives but once the soul is gone and demon takes over it's about themself. Vampires are one of the most selfish of demons. Most do not hold any loyalty and if they do it means they are the weaker of the leader.
So if this is true, why does Elizabeth see a church or a holy person and rage fills her? The first night she turned she walked into a church, into a holy place as if nothing was wrong. Newly turned vampires can't even look at a cross. It can take years for vampires to face a cross, get close to the doors of a church. But that night Elizabeth walked in with no issues.
That's a moment Darla has yet to forget. Her sister was strong with something in her. It's not the rage, the rage comes out and gives whatever she has in her this lethal strength and brute force. Maybe Elizabeth doesn't realize it yet. And once she can really channel it then maybe vampires will have a new master.
Elizabeth was still staring off somewhere else. She was in her own head. She tends to go to her own head these days. She thinks, she speaks to herself and right now she was thinking on this new place. She was seen some beautiful places as a vampire but this place seemed make her angry. Elizabeth finally turned to Darla and small, an ever so small smiled formed on her face. Something was happening in her head.
"We're being followed." Elizabeth spoke up and Darla raised an eyebrow. "You didn't know?" Elizabeth asked. Elizabeth in the last year or so has been able to be very keen on her surroundings. Again for Darla, Elizabeth's instincts as a vampire seemed have taken over in a short amount of time. But of course there were things Elizabeth didn't know and one was who was following them?
Darla sat up slightly knowing being followed in the vampire world had two different meanings. One is another vampire or vampires are following. It could mean they are interested in you and want you to join in on their group. Or you've done wrong and they were going to make you pay. That's pretty typical. Not all vampires travel in groups and not all travel alone. Vampires while alike they have their own families, groups and people. Darla was part of one such group. It was a very old group at that. So, that's one example. But Elizabeth picked up that these followers were not vampires at all.
Scenario two being followed in the vampire world was something more sinister to the vampires and demons alike. Elizabeth, however, didn't know who it was. She picked up that they were human. Why would humans follow vampires? Do they want to be vampires because if so she'll be happy to oblige them?
"They're humans." Elizabeth informed her older sister and Darla quickly looked out the window. The sun was gone and they should go ahead and set up for the night. But instead Darla had the horses keep trotting. "Darla?" Elizabeth asked knowing they were about ride through the night. She would like to get out, walk around, and maybe torture a soul or two.
"Listen, we keep moving." Darla's voice was stern and clear. That threw Elizabeth off. Darla avoided eye contact with her sister and now that made Elizabeth curious, her sister knew something she didn't. "If you want answers it's in your book. It probably explains her better."
"Her?" Elizabeth asked and Darla looked up to her a little.
"I've only been told of her. The slayer." Darla began. "She's the one who hunts us, hunts demons. If it's a slayer following us we aren't stopping." And the older blonde made that very clear.
"You make this…slayer…?" Elizabeth started; she wanted to know more about this person, this girl. "You make her sound like a real person not a myth."
"She's real." Darla protested.
"Have you ever seen one?" Elizabeth began her rebuttal. Darla wanted to say something but her silence seemed to suggest what Elizabeth already suspected. Elizabeth gave smirk and seemed to be at ease.
"She is real, there's only one, something about one being the chosen." Darla was trying to remember the saying.
"Then what's the likelihood of us running into her?" Elizabeth asked. But that all depended how many vampires are round at the moment and where the slayer is.
"Because, you've caused enough damage." Darla now sounded angry and that offended Elizabeth and younger blonde sat up.
"Excuse you, you were there with me. You've encouraged it." Elizabeth pointed out. If they were going to go down then they were both going down together. Elizabeth sat back in her seat looking at her sister. "We need to stop, getting hungry." Darla looked like she wanted to protest but it was true. "It's only a girl?" Elizabeth asked again and Darla shrugged.
"That's how it was told to me." Darla answered. "Why?" Elizabeth gave a causal look.
"Why not a cute, strong boy? Be much more fun to torture and then rip his heart out." Elizabeth was talking out loud. Elizabeth then leaned over to a bag as she started to look for the book about vampires. It's been a while since she has read it but this slayer seemed interesting. Elizabeth began to flip through it and Darla just watched her.
"You think that will help us?" Darla asked and Elizabeth ignored her, which only frustrated the older of the blondes even more.
"When I first began to read this it referred to an old vampire named Lilith and after years of terrorizing people she just vanished." Elizabeth explained and Darla had no idea what that was going to do for them. So in response Darla shrugged and scoffed.
"So?" Darla asked as Elizabeth flipped through the pages.
"It then talks about that she could have died by hunters. Which I can only assume they hunt us." Elizabeth went on.
"Yeah, you can thank the Catholic church for that one. They weren't kidding about having an army for Christ." Darla sounded annoyed by now. Elizabeth was still looking for an answer about who was following them.
"The other theory states the chosen one and when you said that I believe the book is referring to the slayer." Elizabeth flipped a few more pages scanning each of them. Again Darla shrugged not seeing the point. All Darla wanted to do was get away. 'Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.'
One girl, that was it? A girl? A girl was making Darla this nervous. She must be strong and powerful to do this. Darla could feel Elizabeth staring her down and she looked up to meet Elizabeth's green eyes.
"Yes?" Darla spat out. Elizabeth hasn't been a vampire that long and doesn't understand the monsters that want to kill vampires.
"I think we can handle one little girl." Elizabeth answered and Darla straighten herself up and it was time teach.
"Not this girl. She only does one thing; she's brought into this world for one thing to kill us. No vampire lives to tell then tale." Darla explained and Elizabeth smiled.
"Of course they can't, they're dead." Elizabeth pointed out and Darla gave that frustrated sigh.
"No vampire hunts the slayer. And any vampire that comes up against the slayer dies." Darla reiterated her point. "The slayer is given a power,"
"To hunt and kill the vampires, so on and so forth." Elizabeth closed the book. "What are the chances of us running into a slayer?"
"Maybe if you close your eyes and wish real hard," Darla answered and Elizabeth laughed. Darla had enough. "That's why vampires don't cause such mess or if we do we clean it up."
"I don't know, I kind of like leaving a signature. Maybe years from now, people will know me." Elizabeth began to daydream.
"At the rate you're going, you won't be around for long. It's about being quiet, calm and being able to disappear into the dark." Darla explained how a vampire lives in this world. "We live among the people, but we aren't them. We feed and we move on. The dark is our friend."
"That doesn't sound fun at all." Elizabeth can understand that is might allow you to live a long life. But what about living beyond that? "We're immortals, let's be immortal. We can do a little more than just run and hide." Elizabeth had something igniting in her. There were rules to being a vampire. There rules to being a human as well. But why? Vampires have the gift of immortality; they can live until the end of time. Why not use that immortality to live a free, an amazing, no rules life? Why should one girl keep that from them? "We're going to be vampires Darla." She meant in the truest sense of the word and name. Vampires were violent, malicious, evil beings. What these two are doing were just playing by the rules but it was time to rewrite the rules.
The two sisters arrived in Avignon and the sun would rise soon. They exited their carriage and looked to a rather beautiful home. Elizabeth looked around and while the sisters have declared to not follow the vampire rules, a few rules were going to apply such as they needed to be invited in. Elizabeth stood in front of the door and began to frantically knock.
The door opened with a man to greet them. Elizabeth turned on the tears and the fear stricken face, something that was becoming like a switch she can flip with no problem.
"Monsieur, ma soer et moi sont suivis par un groupe d'homme." Elizabeth gave that sweet and innocent, shaking voice. Her small size, golden air and soft green eyes made her seem fragile, warm and friendly. Darla smiled on the inside realizing that Elizabeth taking the time studying the languages have been very helpful.
"Entrez," The man invited them with not a single second thought. Darla followed in but before the man could press the matter further Darla trounced on him and took him to the ground. The man started to fight her off in a frenzy but a vampire's strength is twice that of a man.
"Don't kill him yet, going to browse a bit." Elizabeth ordered and informed her sister and looked up the staircase. The man was about to yell out something but Darla placed her hand over his mouth to keep him from speaking.
"David?" A woman's voice could be heard. It followed with question if David was ok and what was happening. David was brought up from the floor to his feet and forced down the hall. Elizabeth headed upstairs and down the hall of the lush and lavish house. Then a door opened and woman came out in her long white nightgown holding a candle for light. The hallway was empty as she ventured further out of her room looking. She held up the candle as Elizabeth crept up behind her, reached out and with her thumb and index finger she put the candle out.
Downstairs, David was gagged with a dishtowel and being restrained when he heard a woman scream. He began to yell but it was muffled through the dishtowel. Darla then waited as Elizabeth came to the kitchen as she shoved the man's wife in front of her. She then kicked the woman's back knee hard so she clasped to the floor and then Elizabeth stepped on the woman's back.
"Argent et des bijoux maintenant." Elizabeth demanded.
"Le coffer-fort, l'agent est dans le coffer-fort!" The woman answered in a scream.
"La cle?" Elizabeth asked as the woman was in tears crying.
"A l'etage dans la boite a bijoux avec tous mes bijoux." The woman answered and Elizabeth smiled and got down to the floor hovering over the woman.
"Merci." Elizabeth then grabbed the woman's head and then snapped it violently and the man screamed as loud as he could. "Shut up, not like you could do anything." Elizabeth said to the man as he continued to scream in garbled and muffled words. Elizabeth then grabbed the man's hair and yanked his head to one side and showed her teeth. The man continued to scream as Elizabeth sunk her teeth into his neck to feed. Just before she finished Elizabeth then bit down on his neck ripping at it. She spat out the hunk of flesh and something hit Darla. Her sister was becoming more and more savage with each kill. Elizabeth wiped the blood from her mouth and turned away. The man was still alive but he was going into shock with the pain and blood loss. Darla decided to take what blood was left.
Upstairs Elizabeth looked around the master room where the couple were just sleeping only moments ago. Elizabeth then saw the vanity of the woman with the different hairpins, hair ornaments, combs, brushes and then saw the jewelry box well more like a cupboard. Elizabeth reached for the handle and opened it reveling pearl necklaces, gold rings and diamonds. Elizabeth reached for a particular piece of jewelry. It was a gold necklace but the pendant was unique all made of gold. It was three triangles intertwined and twisted with a ring around it. Smiled as she held knowing this was something she was going to keep.
"These dresses," Darla stated and Elizabeth turned around seeing Darla was already looking at the heavy fabric and silk robes. Elizabeth went back to the many pieces of jewels then saw a hanging key and took it. As she walked to the huge closet while placing her knew necklace around her neck she began to search for the safe. She found it and opened it and the girls found stacks of money.
"Take what you can carry." Elizabeth ordered and Darla didn't ask and began to take dresses and different jewels while Elizabeth headed back downstairs to the kitchen to the lifeless bodies. If the slayer was hot on their heels then the scent needed to be thrown off. This could be made to look like robbery and that's how this was going to be.
The little carriage that now held some new clothes, jewels and money trotted off into the night. The sisters spent some time in the huge home breaking items, smashing things to make it look like a struggle as if gypsies or robbers came in and took over the place. It might just work too. As the sisters rode off together Elizabeth looked at her new necklace. She knew it must have meant something it was fine and elegant. But maybe it was time for her to make it mean something as she looked out into the night.
This was a short chapter but it carried a lot in it. I will explain in the forum as we now have a foundation. Don't worry more is coming slowly. I will also explain how postings will happen. I hope you liked this chapter and I want to thank you all for reading and keeping up. You readers rock, thanks once again.
Translations.
"Sir, my sister and I are being followed by a group of men." Elizabeth to the man
"Come in," Man
"Money and jewels now." Elizabeth to the wife
"The safe, the money is in the safe." Wife to Elizabeth
"Key?" Elizabeth to the wife
"Upstairs in the jewelry box along with all my jewels." Wife to Elizabeth
"Thank you." Elizabeth to the wife.
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Chapter 6 Young Lust
"What did you do?" Darla asked and she looked to her sister and Elizabeth smiled.
"I had a drink." Elizabeth answered and brought the bottle to her lips taking another sip. She watched the flames get bigger as Darla looked to the building knowing if there were bodies in there they would be ash by morning. Elizabeth looked to the bottle of alcohol and then with all her strength she threw it at the building. As soon as it hit the heat it popped and burst into flames adding more fuel.
The fire was gathering attention to others and Darla looked around. She got closer to Elizabeth as she stood there watching the fire.
"We should go." Darla whispered angrily.
"We should, Rome is boring." Elizabeth agreed and started to walk away and didn't even stumble. As she walked away a man grabbed her.
"What happened?" He demanded and Elizabeth grabbed the man's hand and his face began to twitch in pain. He took a step back knowing he should mind his own business for the moment. Elizabeth continued to walk away and Darla followed. Whatever happened here there was nothing Darla could do. Maybe Elizabeth was bored and they needed to find some friends.