Trinity Blood: Wire In The Blood
Chapter Thirty-eight: Your soul and my mind
Father Nightroad kept his pleased stare until he noticed his daughter's morose look, "Katiya? C'mon don't be angry about the trench coat anymore. It's time to be happy!"
"I'm going out for a bit…" she mumbled before rising to her feet and walking away.
Abel frowned in confusion, "Katiya?" he called to her bewildered before turning back to the two other females, "excuse me!" he told them before getting to his feet and rushing after his girl.
In the Vatican:
The silver haired girl crossed her arms over her chest and stood agitatedly. Her father approached her with a concerned look, "what's wrong?"
"I'm not sharing you father…" was her laconic answer.
"Wha'?!" her parent asked moronically before placing his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm not sharing you…not even with my…mother. You're my father and I want you all to myself. I don't want to lose you again and fall back into that hellish cycle of chronic depression, angst, and, insomnia," she said with a sniffle.
A smile of understanding crossed the silver haired man's face, "don't worry about it Katiya…you're MY little girl and nothing can change that. I will never voluntarily leave you…I've told you that many times before. I will NEVER abandon or leave you…ever," he told her as he gently squeezed her shoulder before giving her a tight hug and kissing her cheek, "don't you ever worry about me leaving you again…"
"Alright father…" she told him lowly and with a hint of relief in her voice.
"Now why not we go back to the gardens and join the others?" the priest suggested with mild cheer in attempts to uplift his daughter out of her sullen attitude.
The youth shook her head, "no. I have to call a friend and I think that I'll stop by the bar to play some pool," his child replied.
"You're not going to drink," he warned her in his infamous solemn tone before smiling and adding sweetly, "Alright then; I'll tell Zilla and Talitha that you decided to leave on your own for awhile. I'll see you later tonight…daughter but remember NO DRINKING…" he told her before turning away to re-enter the gardens.
The silver haired girl sighed and went to get her phone out of hers and her father's bedroom to call Adrian…
Thirty minuets later at a strip-tease bar called 'The Cabbage Shed':
The song, 'Master Of Puppets,' by the band, Metallica, played throughout the strip-tease bar as Katiya entered the building and looked around for her dhampir friends.
"KATI-KAI-KRUSNIK BABY!!!!!!" Six half-Vampire-half-Human men called to her happily as they waved to her, "Come here! We got a chair pulled up for you!"
"What are you doing in a tittie bar like this, boys?" she chuckled as she joined all of her friends.
"We thought that we'd spend our money on these dancers. Good that you could make it! We missed you so much!" the dhampir men cried as they coddled and kissed her lovingly.
"Alright get off of me. I missed all you little bastards too but you're in my personal space bubble and its making me nervous," the woman told the men as she shoved them back, "now go sit down!"
The six men sat down and smiled at her goofily.
"So um…do you boys want me to get you some soda?" she asked them with a queer look, "you know that we can't have alcohol in this bar…"
"LET US BUY YOU A SODA!" all the guys shouted happily.
"Yeah…buy me a soda…get me a cherry coke," Katiya mumbled sheepishly.
"Adrian told us that you're living with you papa. How's that going? Is he really a hard-ass?" a dark skinned man named Kempfer with a toothy grin.
The silver haired girl glared at him before turning over to Adrian and smashing him point-blank in the face, "asshole," she snapped in disappointment, "How dare you call my father something like that."
The half-Methuselah groaned in agony on the floor as he wiped the blood from his nose and mouth. He spat three teeth out with some bloody spit before struggling to his feet, "I'm sorry Katiya…" he moaned.
The girl looked down with a sigh, "I better go…things haven't been going good for me this week. I'm sorry that I hit you Adrian…but you better learn some respect. My father may not be perfect and he may piss me off a lot but the fact that he IS my father and that he alone cared for me after my mother was killed…" she took a deep breath before digressing, "I LOVE my father regardless!"
The half-humans' looked down in shame, "we're sorry; we didn't know…" they sighed.
The girl smiled at them as a sign of forgiveness before kissing Adrian's cheek, "I'll see you guys later…I'm sorry that I couldn't have been better company," she whispered to them before walking away.
Twenty five minutes later; still on the streets of Rome:
A massive black bird with demonic red eyes perched itself on a building over-looking the street that the young woman with silver hair was walking down. It blinked and knew that it found Kirkja's mother. The demonic bird, satisfied in completing its search, took flight again to return to its master…
Abel's child looked up; sensing the demonic prescience of the bird but chose to pay ignorance to its fading form into the augmenting night sky.
Ten minutes later:
The youth entered the Vatican to see her maternal uncle, wearing his new dress, with Esther, talking to Syair about something that was of no importance to her.
Skye looked over and smiled, "Hi Katiya!" he smiled before remembering the incident earlier and frowning before turning his attention back to his other niece.
The silver haired girl approached her transvestite uncle and gave him a hug; which surprised him, "I'm sorry uncle for snapping at you and slapping you in the face with that live carp today. I know that it was an accident that you fell in and pulled me in the pond with you."
Cain's daughter was totally stupefied; along with Michael (Skye) at Kati's apologizing spell.
"Do you know where my father is?" the youth asked her uncle.
"Um…"
"Father Abel went out on his own for awhile," Esther told her, "he should be back shortly," she added with a sigh.
"Then I'm going out to find him," Katiya mumbled with a lonely exhale.
"Alright."
Two hours later in the front of Hannah's work place:
"Thank you for visiting me again today Abel," Hannah smiled, "that dinner was delicious."
The priest smiled softly before kissing her lips, "I'm glad that you liked it. I actually had to borrow some money from the church since I took a vow of poverty (Note: I looked all OVER the web for the Catholic vow of a priest not being permitted to carry money or other riches on him…but 'poverty' was the closes thing that I could find that even remotely resembled as to what Father Abel does along with other (real-life) Catholic priests do) when I became a priest," he told her sweetly.
"That's alright," she replied before running a hand over his cheek, "thank you for the time," the fire-haired youth told him before pressing her lips upon his and going to enter the building.
"Hannah wait!" Abel Nightroad called to her.
"Yes?"
The priest dug into his pocket and pulled out the ring, "give me your hand."
The teenager smiled and approached him once again, with her hand out. The priest took her hand and slipped the ring onto her finger, "do you like it?"
The young woman gasped, "Oh Abel," tears built in her eyes, "are these mars diamonds embedded in the platinum?" she sniffled happily, "I love it."
He nodded, "I was going to give you this ring over nine hundred years ago…I had this ring custom made with all the precious Mars gems that you cherished. Personally nothing less could complement the finger of the woman that I love and the woman who bared me a child."
She hugged him and sobbed into his neck, "I take this ring as a sign of devotion to you…my…husband."
The silver haired man smiled and kissed her, "I'll always cherish and honor you…may our wedding be blissful."
Two hours later:
The red haired woman smiled dreamily as she looked at her new engagement ring that her fiancé presented to her earlier.
"Hey Hannah, you're shift's over; I'll see you at home," her boss called her from behind the counter.
"Alright Boris, thank you…" the young woman told him serenely before grabbing her things and leaving the building.
On Rome's street; half-way to Hannah's home:
The fifteen year old (looking) woman turned down an empty street to see a horrific sight off to the corner of her eye. Two teenaged Methuselah were feeding on a homeless man in the shadows of an alleyway.
A feeling of anger climaxed through her body, "Leave him alone!" she cried; dropping her things and approaching them.
The Vampires heckled before 'disappearing' and re-appearing before her.
"Well-well-well fresh blood," the taller Methuselah remarked as he licked the blood from his mouth.
"Too bad that she's pretty," the shorter one chuckled.
"Don't attempt it," Hannah warned.
"Oh…what will a little Terran, such as yourself, do to stop us?" the tall teen told her.
A frown crossed the girl's smooth, rosy, lips, "I-I'm sorry…please forgive me for this," she told the two creatures' sadly before darting her eyes at them with predatory lust, "Krusnik 00…power up at forty percent…permit release," the youth said before a red gleam illuminated from her eyes…
"What in the Hell?" Both the Vampires gasped as this girl became a golden winged creature with a demonic halberd and milky white skin.
"Please…I won't hurt you unless I'm forced to. Don't attempt to attack me," Hannah growled in her feminine metallic tone.
The teenagers got over there shock and laughed at her, "what a joke!" they heckled.
Meanwhile on a building top; overlooking this:
Katiya smiled darkly; she too had taken forty percent of her Krusnik form and held her demonic barbed whip in anticipation…
Below the building:
One of the Vampires lunged at the red haired Krusnik but was slammed back with the broad side of her halberd, "please…I don't want to hurt you."
The other one appeared behind her; the red head was about to strike him with her weapon when all of a sudden a barbed whip wrapped around the boy's upper torso and shoulders. The Methuselah screamed as he was dragged up the wall before his scream was hindered by the sound of slaughter and slurping. Hannah knew that it was Katiya who killed him.
"No! Bitch!" the remaining vampire cried as he lunged at the red haired Krusnik.
The golden winged creature swung her halberd out of reaction and decapitated the Methuselah with the axe part of her weapon.
"O-oh," she sniffled before dropping her weapon, "Oh no…"
The silver haired Krusnik landed before her mother, "are you going to absorb that?" she asked her as she pointed to the massive pool of blood, around the Vampire's headless corpse.
"Asenath! I-I'm sorry…I didn't want to kill him-I didn't!" she cried into her daughter's shoulder.
Her daughter took that response as a 'no,' and absorbed the blood through her feet, "where's father? Have you seen him…mother? I've been looking for him for a few hours now. But most of my searching has been distracted from all the food that's been running amuck around this city all of a sudden."
Her parent sniffled, "The last time that I knew…your father went back to the Vatican. That was a couple hours ago…after he took me out to dinner," she sobbed, "I can't believe that I killed that poor Kudlak…" the red haired girl added after taking human form.
Katiya also took human form and returned a comforting hug to her mom, "You'll be alright…it's our nature to kill and feed; just like our natural prey…"
"I just wish that I didn't react on instinct…" Hannah blubbered softly.
Her child sighed, "here I'll take you home…just take a bath and some sleep and then you'll be fine."
The youth took her mother's hand, "alright…show me the way," she told her.
The red haired youth wiped the stray tears from her face before leading her daughter toward her home, "thank you sweetie," she told her child.
"Uh…sure," the silver haired girl replied.
(To Be Continued in Chapter thirty-nine)