Slayers in the Night
Chapter 2: Continuing In Death
Ruby-red eyes cracked open to a dark, evenly squared room. A red-haired girl to whom the red eyes belong to let out a gasp, her heart ached, literally. She tried to sit up only to be stopped by a firm hand that held her in place, which was half up and half down. She took hold of the arm, it was clearly a man's arm. With her hold she was able to support herself in the half position she was in.
"Gourry?" she whispered with a course voice. Her eyes, blurry and oddly unadjusted to the darkness in the room, scanned what she can hardly make out of her surrounding. There was another figure standing by, that much she can tell. "Zelgadis? Amelia?"
When the arm did not let go of his hold, tiredness washed over her in a sudden rush and she laid back down on the soft mattress.
She let out a sigh. "Who are you people? Where am I? Where is everybody? I didn't dream any of what happened, huh?"
Out of the corner of her adjusting vision, she saw the arm withdraw. She lifted her hands in front of her face.
I thought I was dead? She thought to herself.
"You are," a melodious voice sounded through her head. "Or rather, I should say, you are undead."
She put a hand on her face. "Great," she mumbled. "It wasn't a nightmare, afterall." She chuckled. "Me! Lina Inverse! An undead!" She burst out laughing. "Who woulda thought!" She laughed harder, noticing she isn't choking to get any air.
"Why are you laughing?" a deep, male voice ask dryly.
Lina continued to laugh. "I don't know! I don't KNOW! I can't stop!"
The girl moved closer to the sorceress, cold hands caressing flaming red-hair. "It's okay, child. Stop."
It wasn't exactly soothing to Lina's ears but she stopped laughing abruptly. She didn't understand how and why.
"I'm dead! I'm DEAD! I'm an UNdead!" she shouted angrily. She sat up suddenly, ignoring the pain in her chest. Looking down at herself, she winced as she saw what she was wearing: a flowy white gown. It was plain but it wasn't her style. Whoever that dressed her, probably Amelia, should have known that much about her.
She sighed as she thought about her friends. "So...I guess I'm really dead then, huh?"
"You've said that about three times now," the man commented.
Lina turned to glare at the man. "It's kinda hard to swallow, okay?! Geez, one moment I'm fighting a hairy bastard, the next I'm dead."
"Undead," the girl corrected. "You are one of Us, an undead."
Lina sighed. "I shoulda asked first, WHAT are you? No, no, don't tell me, a succubus? No? Medusa, naw, if you were then we would've turned to stone already. Faeries? But geez, no offense, but you guys are too dark to be Faeries. You're certainly NOT a Were of any kind! OR any sort of Lycanthropes. OH L-SAMA! Don't tell me you guys are--"
"We," the girl said, cutting off Lina's rant. "We are vampires. One of the creatures of the Night."
Lina sighed and grabbed her head. "I KNEW I should have ASKED before I signed onto Death's delay list! But geez, I didn't exactly have time! I was DYING, afterall! Ugh, I have a headache. This is happening way too fast, even for me!" Her head spun about. "I feel like a Gourry right now..."
"That is because you have not fed yet," the girl said.
Lina paled whiter than she was. "F-fed?"
"Vampires feed, girl," the man said, matter-a-factly. "Had you not read any children's stories?"
"Geez, you got an attitude, Mr. Know-it-All," Lina sneered.
Lina swallowed and felt her throat dry. As if complaining, her stomach growled.
The girl turned around and walked to a small table, coming back she held a glass of liquid.
Lina saw the glass and swallowed harder, thirstier than ever. "Oh L-shama, ish that what I think it ish? Huh?" She felt her teeth and sure enough two sharp fangs protruded from her mouth. "Thish ish too weird!"
"You will get used to that. Eventually, you will not lisp at all," the girl said.
Lina sighed, trying to form a sentence without S's. "Who are you people? What ish your name?" Doh! An S.
The girl smiled, as if amused. "My name is Lilith. This is my companion, Robbie."
"Robert," he said firmly.
"Lilith and Robert. Lilly and Robbie," Lina said to herself.
"Lilith."
"Robert." They both said simulteanuously.
Lina ignored them. She turned her head to them and smiled. "That's like a sister-brother name. I'm Lina. Lina Inverse."
"We know," Lilith replied with a small smirk. "Dragon Spooker, Bandit Killer, Enemy of All Who Live."
Lina sweatdropped. "Ok, ok, you don't gotta squash my reputation in my face, yknow." She hmph'ed and crossed her arms.
"She will cause problems in MidNighte, Lilith," Robert predicted.
Lilith waved one of her delicate looking hands at his comment. "Do not worry yourself so, my dear Robert. She's but an infant vampire."
"That is the problem, Lilith," he scowled. "We've a long way to MidNighte. How can we take care of this girl?"
"Hey, this GIRL is in this room, yknow!" Lina said annoyingly. "And what's a midnight?"
"MidNighte," Lilith replied, turning herself around to look at Lina, "is where our Lord resides. A land where our Kind, and nothing but our Kind, exist."
"Lord huh? Who is this Lord exactly?" Lina asked.
Lilith sighed. "You have many things to learn Lina. So much that I do not know where to begin."
Lina sat up and dropped her legs off the bed, the white dress billowing down the edge of the bed as well. "Well, you can start by answering my questions."
"That is true," Lilith said and nodded. She sat on a wooden chair across from Lina.
Lina blinked as she finally studied the younger-looking girl in front of her. She looked young but somehow Lina knew she was not young, she FELT it.
But she looked so delicate. As tall as Lina was with soft looking brown hair that fell to her back. Her skin looked pale, even in the dim room, and her eyes were red, solid red.
"What do you want to know?" Lilith's soft voice brought Lina back to the present.
Lina shrugged. "Anything."
Robert grunted. He was leaning on the wall next to the door, arms crossed over his chest. "Kind of vague, don't you think?"
Lina shot an annoying look at his direction, then looked back to Lilith, figuring it was best to ignore him.
"What were you guys doing at Margouse? Y'know, before the...incident happened," Lina asked, not sure where to start. She thought she'd start off easy then go from there.
"It is fairly insignificant," Lilith replied, turning to her head to look at the crescent of moon glowing from the black clouds. "We needed to stop for...a few accommodations in the village."
"Oh," was all Lina said. Then, "So um...do you guys...accommodate often?"
Lilith turned back to look at Lina. "Let us be blunt and not beat around the bush, yes?" She let out a small laugh. "We feed when we must. Robert and I are fairly old and can hold our thirst when neccessary. You, a newly Turned, however, is a different story. Which reminds me, Lina, you have yet to feed."
With that, Lina shuddered violently as Lilith pushed the same glass of liquid into her face. Lina pushed the glass away, almost spilling the liquid.
"NO! Eww! Keep that thing away from me!" She shouted, ignoring her growing thirst.
"You must feed, Lina," Lilith said. "If you continue to refuse it, the consequences are...inevitable."
Lina blinked. "What does that mean?"
"It means something you do not want to know," Lilith replied. Holding the glass in front of Lina's face, she said, "Drink. Now."
Lina automatically lifted her hands to the glass, unable to stop herself.
No! No! NO! Her mind screamed as she lifted the glass to her lips. The liquid, although cold, seemed warm against Lina's undead lips. Disgusting as it is, her thirst was gone by the time she finished every last drop of the liquid.
Abruptly, she shoved the empty glass back to Lilith. "Ew! I can't believe I jusht did that! And ENJOYED it!"
Lilith took the glass back and gave Lina a curious look. "You should have enjoyed it. You are a vampire, afterall. Do not deny your thirst, Lina. It is a part of you now. Something you do not want to turn ravage."
"We need to let her feed on her own," Robert said coldly. "We cannot treat her like an infant forever."
Lilith nodded. "Yes, that is true." She studied the undead sorceress, who refused to look at either of them. "What is wrong, Lina?"
Lina sighed. "Nothing. Everything." She shook her head as if to clear her mind, but it was still foggy. She brought her knees to her chin, which gave her a chance to feel if her fangs retracted, it did. "I was always in control of my life, my own being. Now look at me..." Lina buried her pale face into her knees.
"Nothing is wrong with you, Lina," Lilith said. "You are unable to control yourself now because you are a newborn. You will learn as you grow older."
"Whatever..." Lina mumbled. She suddenly lifted her face up to look at Lilith. "Hey, so, are you umm...my master and all now? I mean, weren't you the one who...er....made me and all?"
Lilith gave her a small laugh. "We did Turn you, however, we are not your masters. It is old wives' tales."
"Oh," Lina said, somewhat relieved. "So how did you make me drink when I didn't want to?"
"Well, Lina, you must understand that we are older than you," Lilith said with a smile. "With age brings power. You will be able to refuse what we tell you to do when you are, as you say, in control of your own being."
"So umm...how old are you guys?" Lina asked, somewhat curious. She would never believe they were undead just by looking at them, not Lilith anyway.
Lilith giggled. "Why Lina, thank you."
Lina blinked. "What? Oh, you guys can read minds huh?"
"Not exactly," Lilith replied with amusement in her eyes. "Your thoughts are practically leaking out on thier own. You must learn how to shield it better, Lina."
"Ugh! From what your always telling me to learn, I'm gonna have to take Vampire 101 every night or something!" Lina whined.
"Oh, not to worry, Lina," the female vampire said lightly. "We have plenty of time to teach you what you need to learn. We are somewhat a long way from MidNighte."
"So what exactly do you need to do at this midnight place," Lina asked, stretching out her short legs.
"We pay homage to our Lord," Lilith replied and looked out the window. "We must make our way to celebrate his one hundredth anniversary as the Vampire Lord."
"Oh-kay..." Lina said distantly. In all her living years, she had survived with Naga, through the Shabrinigdo incident, through the Koppi Rezo incident, through Gaav, Hellmaster, Valgaav, Dark Star, and L-sama knows all kinds of weird life threatening situations and THIS was not in one of any other possibilities in her mental list. She sighed.
Lilith made her way to the window and drew the curtains, which were much thicker and darker than the regular white flimsy ones that usually decorate the inn's rooms.
"What are ya doing?" Lina asked.
"The sun is rising," the older vampire replied.
"Oh."
Lilith turned to her with a serious look on her face. "This is not old wives' tale, Lina. The sun is very much our enemy. Avoid the sun at all costs. "
"So we do burst into flames, huh?" Lina asked and without waiting for an answer she continued. "So what about Weres and Lycans. It's not like I studied majorly on things that go bump in the night, if ya know what I mean."
Robert grunted in disgust. "What about Them?"
"Well, what's their deal? What's their weak points, strong points, etc?" Lina asked, annoyed.
"I think you need to learn about Ourselves before caring about anything else," he replied, glaring at Lina.
"Robert." Lilith gave him a look that Lina had not known how to take. She did not show anger nor annoyance. Her voice was ever so soft, but the male vampire looked away and said no more. Lina looked at this in curiosity but held her tongue as Lilith turned to look at her.
"You will know about Them, Lina," she said. "However, I agree with Robert that you must know about Us first before focusing on Them. Do not worry, it is not at all complicated. Everything is mainly innate. As long as you are aware of them, you will know the abilities that you hold." She gave Lina an assuring smiled.
"Okay..."
Lilith straightened herself. If she had lived, she looked as if she had taken a quick breath.
"Sunlight," she said, "will certainly harm Us, if not kill Us, depends on who you are referring to and the situation in which they are in. A stake to the heart and decapitation, however, is permenant to any of Us. Holy water and crosses will harm Us, but you eventually build a tolerance to it." Without really paying attention to anything else, she sat down on the same chair she had occuppied before drawing the curtains.
"If you are harmed in any way, the exceptions of stakes and decapitations, you can heal yourself by drinking blood." Lina shuddered at that.
"That is the basics about Us," Lilith said, "Weres and Lycans are mostly the same, as far as weak points and strong points go."
"It's not like Werewolves and Lycanthropes are much different to begin with," Robert said, not looking at any of the two. "Lycans are just stronger, faster, and hairier than Weres."
Lina stifled a snicker. She didn't really like this guy enough to openly enjoy his would-be joke.
Lilith, unlike Lina, openly smiled. "That is true."
"Sunlight has no affect on Them," he continued. "But They are unable to Turn in daylight. Once every month, They are able to draw power and strength from the blue moon." He crossed his arms across his chest and went on. "Silver is a different story. They are highly allergic to it. Something in their blood that gets passed into others they Make. However, some of the stronger, older ones develop an entire tolerance towards it.
"Oh...I see."
"Nicely explained, Robert," Lilith commented with a smile. "I couldn't have done it better myself."
Robert snorted and continued to not look at her.
"So what else?" Lina asked, curiously.
"Now, you must sleep," Lilith replied simply.
Lina blinked. "What? But I'm not sle--" She fell back on the pillow.
Lilith gave a small laugh as she saw the newly Turned vampire flop onto the bed suddenly. "It's been a long time since I've seen that."
"It should have been. Ever since me," Robert said. He finally turned to look at the female vampire. "Why did you Turn her? This will waste our time, you do know that, don't you?"
The smile disappeared from Lilith's pale face as she seemed to go into thought. "I just thought it was a waste to just let her die." She turned her young looking face to Robert. "She seems to have a lot of potential." Her thin lips curved into a smile.
"Potential for trouble," he mumbled.
Lilith laughed. "Yes, that too." A glint of amusement flickered from her red eyes as she looked at the newly undead. "Interesting, indeed."
"Yea...right," was all Robert could say as they could 'feel' the sun rising.
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Author's notes: Ok! Chapter 2 up! not much goin' on i guess, just some general info on my "vampires". I get bits and pieces from everything i know and read, so yknow...yea, so this story, i warn beforehand, will not be complicated, obviously. It will have a basic storyline.
Chapter 2: Continuing In Death
Ruby-red eyes cracked open to a dark, evenly squared room. A red-haired girl to whom the red eyes belong to let out a gasp, her heart ached, literally. She tried to sit up only to be stopped by a firm hand that held her in place, which was half up and half down. She took hold of the arm, it was clearly a man's arm. With her hold she was able to support herself in the half position she was in.
"Gourry?" she whispered with a course voice. Her eyes, blurry and oddly unadjusted to the darkness in the room, scanned what she can hardly make out of her surrounding. There was another figure standing by, that much she can tell. "Zelgadis? Amelia?"
When the arm did not let go of his hold, tiredness washed over her in a sudden rush and she laid back down on the soft mattress.
She let out a sigh. "Who are you people? Where am I? Where is everybody? I didn't dream any of what happened, huh?"
Out of the corner of her adjusting vision, she saw the arm withdraw. She lifted her hands in front of her face.
I thought I was dead? She thought to herself.
"You are," a melodious voice sounded through her head. "Or rather, I should say, you are undead."
She put a hand on her face. "Great," she mumbled. "It wasn't a nightmare, afterall." She chuckled. "Me! Lina Inverse! An undead!" She burst out laughing. "Who woulda thought!" She laughed harder, noticing she isn't choking to get any air.
"Why are you laughing?" a deep, male voice ask dryly.
Lina continued to laugh. "I don't know! I don't KNOW! I can't stop!"
The girl moved closer to the sorceress, cold hands caressing flaming red-hair. "It's okay, child. Stop."
It wasn't exactly soothing to Lina's ears but she stopped laughing abruptly. She didn't understand how and why.
"I'm dead! I'm DEAD! I'm an UNdead!" she shouted angrily. She sat up suddenly, ignoring the pain in her chest. Looking down at herself, she winced as she saw what she was wearing: a flowy white gown. It was plain but it wasn't her style. Whoever that dressed her, probably Amelia, should have known that much about her.
She sighed as she thought about her friends. "So...I guess I'm really dead then, huh?"
"You've said that about three times now," the man commented.
Lina turned to glare at the man. "It's kinda hard to swallow, okay?! Geez, one moment I'm fighting a hairy bastard, the next I'm dead."
"Undead," the girl corrected. "You are one of Us, an undead."
Lina sighed. "I shoulda asked first, WHAT are you? No, no, don't tell me, a succubus? No? Medusa, naw, if you were then we would've turned to stone already. Faeries? But geez, no offense, but you guys are too dark to be Faeries. You're certainly NOT a Were of any kind! OR any sort of Lycanthropes. OH L-SAMA! Don't tell me you guys are--"
"We," the girl said, cutting off Lina's rant. "We are vampires. One of the creatures of the Night."
Lina sighed and grabbed her head. "I KNEW I should have ASKED before I signed onto Death's delay list! But geez, I didn't exactly have time! I was DYING, afterall! Ugh, I have a headache. This is happening way too fast, even for me!" Her head spun about. "I feel like a Gourry right now..."
"That is because you have not fed yet," the girl said.
Lina paled whiter than she was. "F-fed?"
"Vampires feed, girl," the man said, matter-a-factly. "Had you not read any children's stories?"
"Geez, you got an attitude, Mr. Know-it-All," Lina sneered.
Lina swallowed and felt her throat dry. As if complaining, her stomach growled.
The girl turned around and walked to a small table, coming back she held a glass of liquid.
Lina saw the glass and swallowed harder, thirstier than ever. "Oh L-shama, ish that what I think it ish? Huh?" She felt her teeth and sure enough two sharp fangs protruded from her mouth. "Thish ish too weird!"
"You will get used to that. Eventually, you will not lisp at all," the girl said.
Lina sighed, trying to form a sentence without S's. "Who are you people? What ish your name?" Doh! An S.
The girl smiled, as if amused. "My name is Lilith. This is my companion, Robbie."
"Robert," he said firmly.
"Lilith and Robert. Lilly and Robbie," Lina said to herself.
"Lilith."
"Robert." They both said simulteanuously.
Lina ignored them. She turned her head to them and smiled. "That's like a sister-brother name. I'm Lina. Lina Inverse."
"We know," Lilith replied with a small smirk. "Dragon Spooker, Bandit Killer, Enemy of All Who Live."
Lina sweatdropped. "Ok, ok, you don't gotta squash my reputation in my face, yknow." She hmph'ed and crossed her arms.
"She will cause problems in MidNighte, Lilith," Robert predicted.
Lilith waved one of her delicate looking hands at his comment. "Do not worry yourself so, my dear Robert. She's but an infant vampire."
"That is the problem, Lilith," he scowled. "We've a long way to MidNighte. How can we take care of this girl?"
"Hey, this GIRL is in this room, yknow!" Lina said annoyingly. "And what's a midnight?"
"MidNighte," Lilith replied, turning herself around to look at Lina, "is where our Lord resides. A land where our Kind, and nothing but our Kind, exist."
"Lord huh? Who is this Lord exactly?" Lina asked.
Lilith sighed. "You have many things to learn Lina. So much that I do not know where to begin."
Lina sat up and dropped her legs off the bed, the white dress billowing down the edge of the bed as well. "Well, you can start by answering my questions."
"That is true," Lilith said and nodded. She sat on a wooden chair across from Lina.
Lina blinked as she finally studied the younger-looking girl in front of her. She looked young but somehow Lina knew she was not young, she FELT it.
But she looked so delicate. As tall as Lina was with soft looking brown hair that fell to her back. Her skin looked pale, even in the dim room, and her eyes were red, solid red.
"What do you want to know?" Lilith's soft voice brought Lina back to the present.
Lina shrugged. "Anything."
Robert grunted. He was leaning on the wall next to the door, arms crossed over his chest. "Kind of vague, don't you think?"
Lina shot an annoying look at his direction, then looked back to Lilith, figuring it was best to ignore him.
"What were you guys doing at Margouse? Y'know, before the...incident happened," Lina asked, not sure where to start. She thought she'd start off easy then go from there.
"It is fairly insignificant," Lilith replied, turning to her head to look at the crescent of moon glowing from the black clouds. "We needed to stop for...a few accommodations in the village."
"Oh," was all Lina said. Then, "So um...do you guys...accommodate often?"
Lilith turned back to look at Lina. "Let us be blunt and not beat around the bush, yes?" She let out a small laugh. "We feed when we must. Robert and I are fairly old and can hold our thirst when neccessary. You, a newly Turned, however, is a different story. Which reminds me, Lina, you have yet to feed."
With that, Lina shuddered violently as Lilith pushed the same glass of liquid into her face. Lina pushed the glass away, almost spilling the liquid.
"NO! Eww! Keep that thing away from me!" She shouted, ignoring her growing thirst.
"You must feed, Lina," Lilith said. "If you continue to refuse it, the consequences are...inevitable."
Lina blinked. "What does that mean?"
"It means something you do not want to know," Lilith replied. Holding the glass in front of Lina's face, she said, "Drink. Now."
Lina automatically lifted her hands to the glass, unable to stop herself.
No! No! NO! Her mind screamed as she lifted the glass to her lips. The liquid, although cold, seemed warm against Lina's undead lips. Disgusting as it is, her thirst was gone by the time she finished every last drop of the liquid.
Abruptly, she shoved the empty glass back to Lilith. "Ew! I can't believe I jusht did that! And ENJOYED it!"
Lilith took the glass back and gave Lina a curious look. "You should have enjoyed it. You are a vampire, afterall. Do not deny your thirst, Lina. It is a part of you now. Something you do not want to turn ravage."
"We need to let her feed on her own," Robert said coldly. "We cannot treat her like an infant forever."
Lilith nodded. "Yes, that is true." She studied the undead sorceress, who refused to look at either of them. "What is wrong, Lina?"
Lina sighed. "Nothing. Everything." She shook her head as if to clear her mind, but it was still foggy. She brought her knees to her chin, which gave her a chance to feel if her fangs retracted, it did. "I was always in control of my life, my own being. Now look at me..." Lina buried her pale face into her knees.
"Nothing is wrong with you, Lina," Lilith said. "You are unable to control yourself now because you are a newborn. You will learn as you grow older."
"Whatever..." Lina mumbled. She suddenly lifted her face up to look at Lilith. "Hey, so, are you umm...my master and all now? I mean, weren't you the one who...er....made me and all?"
Lilith gave her a small laugh. "We did Turn you, however, we are not your masters. It is old wives' tales."
"Oh," Lina said, somewhat relieved. "So how did you make me drink when I didn't want to?"
"Well, Lina, you must understand that we are older than you," Lilith said with a smile. "With age brings power. You will be able to refuse what we tell you to do when you are, as you say, in control of your own being."
"So umm...how old are you guys?" Lina asked, somewhat curious. She would never believe they were undead just by looking at them, not Lilith anyway.
Lilith giggled. "Why Lina, thank you."
Lina blinked. "What? Oh, you guys can read minds huh?"
"Not exactly," Lilith replied with amusement in her eyes. "Your thoughts are practically leaking out on thier own. You must learn how to shield it better, Lina."
"Ugh! From what your always telling me to learn, I'm gonna have to take Vampire 101 every night or something!" Lina whined.
"Oh, not to worry, Lina," the female vampire said lightly. "We have plenty of time to teach you what you need to learn. We are somewhat a long way from MidNighte."
"So what exactly do you need to do at this midnight place," Lina asked, stretching out her short legs.
"We pay homage to our Lord," Lilith replied and looked out the window. "We must make our way to celebrate his one hundredth anniversary as the Vampire Lord."
"Oh-kay..." Lina said distantly. In all her living years, she had survived with Naga, through the Shabrinigdo incident, through the Koppi Rezo incident, through Gaav, Hellmaster, Valgaav, Dark Star, and L-sama knows all kinds of weird life threatening situations and THIS was not in one of any other possibilities in her mental list. She sighed.
Lilith made her way to the window and drew the curtains, which were much thicker and darker than the regular white flimsy ones that usually decorate the inn's rooms.
"What are ya doing?" Lina asked.
"The sun is rising," the older vampire replied.
"Oh."
Lilith turned to her with a serious look on her face. "This is not old wives' tale, Lina. The sun is very much our enemy. Avoid the sun at all costs. "
"So we do burst into flames, huh?" Lina asked and without waiting for an answer she continued. "So what about Weres and Lycans. It's not like I studied majorly on things that go bump in the night, if ya know what I mean."
Robert grunted in disgust. "What about Them?"
"Well, what's their deal? What's their weak points, strong points, etc?" Lina asked, annoyed.
"I think you need to learn about Ourselves before caring about anything else," he replied, glaring at Lina.
"Robert." Lilith gave him a look that Lina had not known how to take. She did not show anger nor annoyance. Her voice was ever so soft, but the male vampire looked away and said no more. Lina looked at this in curiosity but held her tongue as Lilith turned to look at her.
"You will know about Them, Lina," she said. "However, I agree with Robert that you must know about Us first before focusing on Them. Do not worry, it is not at all complicated. Everything is mainly innate. As long as you are aware of them, you will know the abilities that you hold." She gave Lina an assuring smiled.
"Okay..."
Lilith straightened herself. If she had lived, she looked as if she had taken a quick breath.
"Sunlight," she said, "will certainly harm Us, if not kill Us, depends on who you are referring to and the situation in which they are in. A stake to the heart and decapitation, however, is permenant to any of Us. Holy water and crosses will harm Us, but you eventually build a tolerance to it." Without really paying attention to anything else, she sat down on the same chair she had occuppied before drawing the curtains.
"If you are harmed in any way, the exceptions of stakes and decapitations, you can heal yourself by drinking blood." Lina shuddered at that.
"That is the basics about Us," Lilith said, "Weres and Lycans are mostly the same, as far as weak points and strong points go."
"It's not like Werewolves and Lycanthropes are much different to begin with," Robert said, not looking at any of the two. "Lycans are just stronger, faster, and hairier than Weres."
Lina stifled a snicker. She didn't really like this guy enough to openly enjoy his would-be joke.
Lilith, unlike Lina, openly smiled. "That is true."
"Sunlight has no affect on Them," he continued. "But They are unable to Turn in daylight. Once every month, They are able to draw power and strength from the blue moon." He crossed his arms across his chest and went on. "Silver is a different story. They are highly allergic to it. Something in their blood that gets passed into others they Make. However, some of the stronger, older ones develop an entire tolerance towards it.
"Oh...I see."
"Nicely explained, Robert," Lilith commented with a smile. "I couldn't have done it better myself."
Robert snorted and continued to not look at her.
"So what else?" Lina asked, curiously.
"Now, you must sleep," Lilith replied simply.
Lina blinked. "What? But I'm not sle--" She fell back on the pillow.
Lilith gave a small laugh as she saw the newly Turned vampire flop onto the bed suddenly. "It's been a long time since I've seen that."
"It should have been. Ever since me," Robert said. He finally turned to look at the female vampire. "Why did you Turn her? This will waste our time, you do know that, don't you?"
The smile disappeared from Lilith's pale face as she seemed to go into thought. "I just thought it was a waste to just let her die." She turned her young looking face to Robert. "She seems to have a lot of potential." Her thin lips curved into a smile.
"Potential for trouble," he mumbled.
Lilith laughed. "Yes, that too." A glint of amusement flickered from her red eyes as she looked at the newly undead. "Interesting, indeed."
"Yea...right," was all Robert could say as they could 'feel' the sun rising.
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Author's notes: Ok! Chapter 2 up! not much goin' on i guess, just some general info on my "vampires". I get bits and pieces from everything i know and read, so yknow...yea, so this story, i warn beforehand, will not be complicated, obviously. It will have a basic storyline.