Vampire's Silver moon

Discalimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters used in this story. No copyright intended.

Mute.

The slaves cart was dark and moist and smelled of fear new and old. It was wooden with chains connecting to the thick walls.

But the slaves were outside having just come back from being cleaned up in a river for the potential buyers.

Koga chews a piece of straw and waited for his mate Ayami to return. He had the slaves clean clothes and he just needed them to wear them and it will look like they've had good treatment.

For Koga the slave trade was a lifetime of work then easy cash, grab a girl from one kingdom and sell her in another and no one would ever know that she hadn't come from this county.

He turned and saw Ayami his werewolf mate pulling the chained together girls behind her.

Ayami love her werewolf, she had been born a human but they had fallen in love. But she was only five when that happened and Koga was in his thirties and he still looked eighteen. Werewolf's had longer lives and longer youths than a human so he had patiently waited for her to come of age before making her his lifelong mate.

Ayami wrapped her arms around his neck "All clean, dear" she kissed him passionately.

Koga returned the kiss for a second then pushed her back. "I think we should wait until we're alone before you take off my clothes" he teased holding her hands in both of his.

Ayami nodded disappointedly. Then she picked up the clothes and dragged the nearest girl behind the wagon. Koga held the horses steady until his mate returned with the sixteen newly dressed girls.

They wore thin red satin that hugged their figures and had a red choker of the same material around their necks.

They were still chained on the left ankle and had their hands bound together with rope.

Ayami stood at Koga's side "We found a good bunch this time, didn't we?" Koga nodded. All the girls were pretty and all had sworn that they were virgins, which pushed the price up another two hundred.

He had even been nice enough to let them have their own names still, but he said they no longer had a second name, if there was any nonsense he would either get out his whip and lash them across the back until they were half dead or her would use his Werewolf powers to make them hurt from the inside.

Ayami was still learning her powers and Koga used the slaves as punch bags. After all they were only humans.

They all got back into the wagon they looked at the floor in hopelessness, they had all realised and accepted their fate now. To become a vampire's snack.

Koga frowned at one. A girl who was one of the prettiest of his catch, but he wasn't sure if she would fetch a good price, his Werewolf powers were useless against her so she had more whip wounds than any slave he had traded and she was silent and had a strong spirit that hadn't yet been broken like these other girls.

He had a bad feeling about this one. Because of her silence he had called her mute.

But he didn't have much time to think about such nonsense because the Vampire capital was approaching on the horizon.

There was a huge black marble palace that was the first thing anyone would see. The streets and villages around it were bright and happy despite how evil it looked at first, humans and vampires got along well because humans gave some blood once a month and it went into bottles so vampires didn't need to hunt them.

But every now and again the food in a bottle thing gets a bit off and a vampire wants to use his fangs, sometimes a vampire would feed off his human mate or his vampire one, because vampire blood worked the same way as a humans but it was a little toxic to a human causing them to change into a vampire if it was drunk by one.

And that's why slaves were in such high demand here, because a vampire likes to use his fangs, and these girls were the victims.

Koga opened up his stall in his normal spot, Ayami went off to buy food and more clothes while Koga got to selling his precious cargo.

About half had been bought in the first four hours and Koga fingered the money lovingly.

Then he jumped when he saw a vampire standing right in front of his stall. He had golden eyes and long silver hair that almost went to the floor he moved like a cat and had a very distinct face. He had elegant rich looking clothes on and had a, clearly, enchanted sword at his side. All put together screamed that he was of very high status because enchanted swords weren't that easy to find or buy.

Koga walled up to him. "Good evening, sir. See anything you like?" he gestured at the girls who were looking back either fearfully or sadly.

The vampire looked at each girl in turn.

"I'd recommend this one to you, sir" Koga said pointing to a red head. "I didn't catch your name" he continued absently.

"Sesshomaru"

Koga nearly fell over. "Your Majesty" he said and bowed. The vampire king! What luck!

"What about that one?" Sesshomaru pointed to the mute at the back.

"Er… well, your Majesty, I don't think that she'd be the best choice here. Won't talk or obey orders and seems strangely immune to my powers. She'll be a handful"

Sesshomaru caught her chin and turned her face to look at her. "She is a beauty" he said. Koga nodded.

The girl had had enough of being examined and she pulled her face free and bit the vampires hand.

Koga slapped her across the face. "You bitch!" he was worried that he had lost a sale to get rid of her.

Sesshomaru just looked at his knuckle in amusement, luckily for the girl the skin hadn't broken. "She's spirited" he commented. "She'll do"

Koga blinked, had he heard right?

"She's to your liking, sir?" he asked in shock.

Sesshomaru nodded. "Spirit is a vital part in a human, if it is crushed then they are empty like those others"

Koga unchained her but kept her hands bound. "You're one lucky wench, if he hadn't taken such a liking to you I would have skinned you alive" she just glared at him.

She stepped out of her chains and gently rubbed her wrists that Sesshomaru had just unbound. She's special Sesshomaru thought as she stumbled barefoot over to her master.

Sesshomaru put an arm around her shoulders and started to lead her away. "Excuse me, sir" Koga asked suddenly. "But don't you already have a human mate?"

The vampire looked coldly over his shoulder. "This one isn't for me… she's for my little brother" and they left.