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Aaron stirred, moaning in sleeps. He rolled on his side, feeling a comfortable warmth besides him. The sunlight went inside the room from the open window from last night, illuminating the two figures tangled on the bed. Lucian had both of his arms around the boy in a possessive way, his legs upon Aaron's body, protecting his partner with his own body. The dhampir's breaths were calm and noiseless, but his ears were listening carefully to everything that was happening in the room. Even the soft cracks the wooden floor made woke Lucian up. His eyes would scan the room for enemies and once he noticed there was no one besides them, he would close his eyes and sleep besides Aaron again.
Dumas opened the door slowly. Perrault, a feather, winged cat with light purple and white fur, landed on his head smiling at the sight of both boys lying down on the bed, curled in each other's arms. Though the scene was cute the former Duke stepped inside, barefoot and wearing only short pants, trying to avoid the sunlight. He cursed Lucian for letting it open last night, knowing how he hated it. Perrault flew to it and covered it with a curtain she found on the floor, near it. When it was safe to step, Dumas went to the bed and shook Aaron's shoulder softly. The boy groaned, moving closer to Lucian's body.
"Damn kid...", mumbled the vampire. "Hey, wake up.", whispered in his ear. The boy moaned and rolled on his back, opening his eyes and rolling to the other side, spotting the good looking abs of the former Duke.
"You have... such nice abs, Dumas...", said the boy half sleep.
The vampire snorted. Aaron was an interesting kid, especially at those morning hours.
"But Lucian's are better.", added after a few seconds.
"Ok, that hurt. That really, really hurt.", said Dumas smiling. "Come on, get up."
"Why? It's too early.", complained Aaron, rolling once more into Lucian's arms.
"You will be more helpful if you stay awake during the night. I want you to be tired so you sleep all afternoon and then, you will be awake in the night like us. Wouldn't you like to be with Lucian all night?"
Aaron rubbed his eyes. He looked up to Dumas.
"That's a good idea.", he said getting up trying not to wake Lucian up.
The vampire left the room and the boy helped Perrault to put the curtain back in place before leaving. Nero was already awake, curled up on the table with his red wings folded on his back. He perked his ears upon the noise and smiled when he saw the young one go into the kitchen.
Aaron found milk in a refrigerator and a box of cereal. Taking a bowl from under the sink, he poured the cereals and the milk, adding two spoons of sugar. He put the milk inside the refrigerator again and went to the living, sitting on the table and starting to eat his breakfast. Nero came to him and asked for milk, and Aaron lifted the spoon filled with milk, letting the thirsty cat drink. Once again, Dumas was resting on the couch.
"Do you really like being on the couch?", said the boy with curiosity.
"A lot.", answered the vampire, yawning. Perrault was curled on his lap, wings folded on her back. "Since I found the cottage, this became my bed."
"You sleep there?", asked surprised. He put the spoon in the bowl, when Nero finished drinking the milk, and lifted it again, filled with cereal and milk, and ate.
"Yeah... I don't like beds.", he watched the human ate. "Does it taste good?"
"The cereal? Yes."
"I forgot what taste has cereal, long time ago.", he sighed. "I can't even remember what was the last human though I had before transforming in what I am now."
"Are you feeling alright? It's not typical of you to came with this, specially when you hated humans.", said Aaron, worrying that the former Duke would have caught some sort of vampire flu.
Dumas grinned.
"Being like this, and had traveling between humans once more, it made me think of those little things that I have pushed away when I had complete control four years ago.", explained, crossing his legs and resting his arms on the back of the couch. "Polidori made me to only think in myself and in what I could do with the power I had and he gave me."
"Wasn't your goal to kill the Lord of Destruction and get the title of the strongest vampire?", asked Aaron eating another spoon of cereal.
"The Lord of Destruction had a name, refer to him as Ratatosk.", answered Dumas. "Yes, it was, but now... I just realized that even if I heal completely, even if I bring my powers again, what would I do? Taking over New Culiacan with a new army of vampires is impossible, since no one would like to be besides a weak creature like me.", he lowered his left arm and petted Perrault's head and back. "The only one that keeps besides me is this little creature sleeping on my lap.", he added with a big smile. "Not caring if I am weak or strong, or if I am healthy or sick. She is just here, like you are there to Lucian, and takes care of me since the day she became my servant. Even after four years, Perrault is still by my side, and forgave me for all I have done that time and I don't have enough thanks to thank her for being by my side. Now I understand Sartana's passion and how he was moved by it, especially when it was with Trinity and Ella."
"Do you know who was she?", asked the boy, finishing his breakfast.
Dumas sighed.
"Just a little.", the vampire rubbed Perrault's wings softly, smiling when he heard the cat purr. "It was a pretty woman that Sartana loved. I don't know if they were already a couple, but he took care of her all the time. They were inseparable, like two sides of the same coin. After I took her, Sartana came with Trinity trying to rescue Ella and Sartana's rage fall on me.", he smiled again at the memory. "I swear, not even Ratatosk was that angry when I fought him. Eleven years ago, he kicked my ass so wonderfully. I though I was going to lose but I managed to kill Sartana and Trinity before they killed me. Returning to the main subject, I would say that Ella was Sartana's girlfriend, but I am not completely sure about that. You should ask Lucian."
"He is losing his memories.", said the young one. "The transformation is eating them up, and I fear that once he becomes full vampire, he will forget about me."
"No, no, Lucian will definitely not forget you. I can assure you that."
"How? All humans that finish transforming into vampires lose all its humanity, including their memory."
"Lucian is having a different transformation.", Nero, who fall asleep again, perked his ears and opened his eyes lazily. Aaron waited. "The eyepatch helped in that. The amulet inside it prevents the dark powers to take the physical form of the host and change it to a vampire's physical characteristics; blue skin, pointy ears and perhaps horns or wings like I have. Instead, the dark powers started changing Lucian's insides. His teeth grew longer and pointy, his stomach slowly rejects human food, only accepting the blood from juicy meat, especially red meat. His muscles became stronger, his hearing is much, much better than before (even better than mine), and his smell has increased too, now he can see in the night like he was in the day. Those things is what the dark powers changed in Lucian, and since he wore the eyepatch for about... eleven years now, perhaps a bit less than that, his transformation hasn't came to a physical level except for his red eyes and long claws.", Perrault yawned, curling up on her master's lap, falling asleep again. "Lucian will lose his memory, that's something we can not change, but the more time he spends with you the less he will forget about you. Even if he hunts for the first time, if you are besides him when that happens, he will not forget about you. He will remember your scent, your voice."
"How can you be so sure about that?"
"I have seen cases like that.", said the vampire. "I have my hopes that Lucian will not forget about you.", he saw Aaron's sad expression and groaned. "Kid! If you don't cheer up I will slap you, ok? Have faith in Lucian. You came all this way to him, right? Then trust him and in what I say. Otherwise, he will end up forgetting about you."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't, kid. It's alright.", Dumas smiled, leaning his head on the back of the sofa. "You can go out if you want. Vampires will not be awake at these hours."
"To recognize your territory?", said Aaron getting up. He took the bowl and left it in the sink. After his walk he would wash it.
The vampire laughed softly.
"Well, before it was, but seems like Lucian has taken it from me the third day he came."
"He stole it from you? That's amazing. Are you that weak?", giggled Aaron, checking that his Knight was charged.
"Excuse me, I am not that weak. I just let it pass because I didn't want to fight with him.", defended himself the former Duke.
"Right."
"Take that back! Now!", yelled Dumas, lifting his head up.
"Make me!", yelled back Aaron, stepping outside the cottage.
The bright sunlight made the boy close his eyes for a few seconds before adjusting to it. The woods looked more attractive and calm, unlike last night that seemed fearsome and noisy with the vampires fighting each other. The high mountains behind him were covered with thick, dark clouds. Aaron though if those clouds would bring either rain or snow, if it gets too cold during the night. Flying on the sky there was several hunting birds, looking down for possible preys to eat. Aaron started walking away from the cottage, watching his surroundings and trying to memorize them. He would not like to be lost in the night with all those aggressive vampires out there. The boy shivered at the mere though, but it also would mean that Lucian will come to protect him wherever he was. That made him smile warmly. He was going to ask Dumas if he could escort him that night to see Lucian fight against another vampire. He really wanted to watch the dhampir use all his bestiality and instincts in a real encounter.
Aaron shivered in excitement.
The boy kept walking in the woods, finding easy recognizable plants, trees or rocks that leaded his way back. Even like that, he marked them with a single shot of his gun and kept walking, getting closer to the mountain's top. The air around was getting thicker and it was hard to breath at that altitude. Seeing that it was impossible for him to keep going without a special equip, he spun on his heels and returned from a different path from before, marking rocks with the gun each time he passed in front of them. He noticed that bigger rocks had claws marking, thinking if those marks were Lucian's, Dumas' or of other vampires. He hoped he didn't mark on the enemy territory. That would make the vampires back in the cottage really mad.
Aaron was getting sleepy. The warm of the Sun made his walk tiresome and lazy. He wanted to go back, but now that he looked around, he noticed that it was in a place inside the woods that he didn't like at all. It was all marked with scratches and dried blood on the ground, trees and nearly rocks. He swallowed hard. Was that a fighting field during the night for vampires? Better not to mark anything in there or he would be in serious troubles because of it.
"Oh?", he exclaimed upon seeing a silhouette hiding in the shadows of the woods. It was a young woman covered from head to toes. Aaron took his Knight in his right hand and hid it, approaching to her.
"Mm? Who are you?", asked the young woman, looking up at him. Aaron noticed she was a vampire because of her bright, red eyes.
"Just a traveler.", answered the boy.
The woman smiled.
"It's pretty rare to see travelers up here, specially during this agitated nights.", said the woman. Aaron could see her long fangs and trembled. He was alone now, and was not used to fighting alone. "You have the smell of the new vampire who came here last week. Are you his slave?"
Aaron thought it for a moment. If he answered no, then the woman would want him to be her personal slave, her next mate or her next food.
"Yes, I am."
"You don't look like a slave. Your hands and body are in good shape.", replied the female vampire, turning on his heels, looking up at the boy. "You aren't a slave, you don't even have the bite marks on your neck that claims you like a work-boy."
Aaron cursed mentally. He completely forgot about the bite marks on the slave's bodies that claimed and bounded them to their vampire masters. Other vampires would know what slave was with what vampire with only smelling on the bite mark. The woman approached him and Aaron stepped back, taking his hand on the buttock of his gun, ready to take it out and shoot.
"You must leave."
"Excuse me?"
"Leave. This is no place for a young human like you.", said in a sad tone the woman. "Vampires are too aggressive in nights like these."
"I have my reasons to be here."
"Who would in their sane judge come up here, to the wolf's mouth?", exclaimed the woman.
"I, because I have a friend to take care of."
He saw the woman's surprised look on her face.
"Are you a friend of the new vampire?", she laughed. "That's impossible! Humans and vampires can not befriend! Hunter and prey can't ever be on the same side, never!"
"Why not? He wasn't born as a vampire, he is changing into one, and even if he becomes one, I will be always by his side."
"Oh, that's it...", the woman walked closer to Aaron and stopped just a few feet away from him. "You are a very pretty human boy, no wonder why the new vampire didn't want you to come here."
"You know my friend?", Aaron was careful enough to not say Lucian's name or even his. You never have to tell to a wizard your name or he will do whatever he wants with you. Some vampires had the ability to control humans or other creatures by knowing their name only.
"Just a bit. I came across with him and his partner a few times since they came here.", explained the woman. "He is the one with purple hair, right?", Aaron nodded. "Anyways, you should be careful during the night if you want to accompany them in their hunts or fights. Some vampires would love to have you for their next mate or food because of how attractive you are.", Aaron felt blood rush to his cheeks. He was so embarrassed now. "I feel you have strong potential for any vampire to be their next mate, rather than being their next food. I take back what I said about being food."
"How could I be a vampire's mate? I'm human and... well..."
"It doesn't matter if it is human or not. If the creature has strong potential to be one, then vampires will do anything to be their next mate of that creature.", explained the woman. "I warn you. Stay really close to your friend. Tonight will be a really blood field once the vampires living here notices you.", said the woman before fading in the shadows of the forest.
He turned back and started walking towards the cottage, which found after running in circles for about three hours straight. He opened the door, finding Dumas sleeping on the couch with Perrault curled on his lap. Nero was sprawled on the table, snoring softly. Aaron laughed at the sight of the black cat's position, but walked past him to Lucian's room. There, he found the dhampir in the same position when the former Duke woke him up. The boy took off the jacket and tossed it at the bed's feet, climbing on it and curling inside Lucian's arm, which surrounded his body when they met.
"Where were you been?", asked the sleepy voice of the dhampir.
"Out."
Lucian grinned, nuzzling Aaron's neck. He tangled their legs together, purring loudly.
"Doing what?", asked in naughty voice, starting to nibble the boy's neck.
Aaron tensed up but soon relaxed.
"Recognizing your territory.", answered. He leaned his head on Lucian's chest, hearing his soft heart beats.
Lucian grinned.
"Hope you didn't get lost in it."
"Just a bit."
Aaron closed his eyes, made himself comfortable and soon, he fall asleep.
Night came quickly and, with it, more roars from the vampires looking out for a mate. The hissing sounds and the hits traveled in the air, reaching Lucian's ears. He was sitting on the cottage's roof, Nero by his side, trying to get as much information as he could from the other vampires outside his territory. This way, he would be in advantage if one of them wanted to take Aaron from his side. The moon was near its next phase and the closer it was, the more aggressive Lucian became. When he woke up, Dumas cheered him and the dhampir growled at him, not really in the mood to befriend the former Duke. But Dumas knew why he received that response, and was because he stepped inside Lucian's room without permission. The dhampir took it as a sign of harm upon the still sleeping Aaron and reacted towards his instincts of protecting his future mate. Now, he was waiting for the boy awake and let him accompany him to one of their fights.
The dhampir was excited. He really wanted Aaron to see what was capable of, to tell him how worthy he was to be his next mate. The other vampires were trash compared to him, even Dumas itself. He was the perfect mate! Lucian grinned at the thoughts. Yes, Aaron will definitely be amazed by his fighting techniques.
"Hey, lovebird, your little boy is already up.", came Dumas' voice from the inside of the cottage. "We will be out in ten minutes."
"Alright.", answered Lucian, getting up. Nero jumped in the air and floated in front of his partner.
"Just be careful.", warned the Terrennial. "While you are distracted, some vampires will try to get their hands on Aaron."
"That's why I bring Dumas, too.", said the dhampir, jumping from the roof and landing on the ground like a cat. "He will watch over Aaron while I demonstrate myself to him."
Nero sighed. There he was with his arrogant self once more.
Aaron stepped outside the cottage, followed by Dumas, who once more wore his Casket Armor and cloak upon it. The boy had his Knight under Lucian's jacket, while the dhampir only wore the Casket Armor he always wore for years now. He led the way, jumping to the nearest tree and starting the hunt. Dumas walked from behind, following Lucian's trail and helping Aaron to see in the dark. Perrault and Nero were behind the boy to alert the vampires when an enemy was too close to the human.
They didn't walk that much when a young looking vampire came in sight. Dumas stopped and so did Aaron, hiding behind the horned one. The Terrennials stopped in mid air, too, watching the scene but concentrated in the surroundings too. Lucian jumped from the tree to the ground, growling to the welcomer who responded in the same way, cracking his fingers, ready to strike anytime. The dhampir crawled on the ground, grinning, knowing that that fight was already his. The vampire stroke first, rushing towards him. Lucian jumped to a side, kicking the creature's back and sending it rolling on the ground. The vampire stood up, coughing up because of the dusk. Not giving him time to move, Lucian roared and slashed him with his claws, leaving deep scratches on the enemy's body.
The young vampire whimpered in pain and blocked the next attack, jumping away from the fight. Lucian growled in frustration. That wasn't what he expected from him. He actually thought they were into a real fight, that they would break their bones to prove who was better, and now, the dhampir wanted to fight in real with the next vampire he would find.
Dumas laughed at Lucian's situation and followed him, Aaron right behind him just like both Terrennials.
The next walk was longer. They didn't find a vampire inside Lucian's territory, but they found one in the limits of it. That vampire was much older than the first one. He looked to have the same age of Dumas, was taller than him but not looking that strong. Lucian stopped, looking at his movements. The vampire noticed Lucian standing upon him, protecting the entrance of his territory, but the creature hissed softly and disappeared from sight. He didn't want to fight him. He knew he was going to lose so, before getting too wounded, he decided to leave for good.
Once outside the safety of the territory, more vampires were reaching Lucian to fight him to win the territory and have more chances to get a mate, but the dhampir wasn't going to let them win that easily. He proved himself to be a good candidate to Aaron to copulate with him in the next full moon, but Lucian wanted to demonstrate he was more than a very good potential mate. He also wanted let Aaron know how good was he seducing. After finding a nice place to rest, Dumas walked away from them not really wanting to see how the dhampir molested the young one. The Terrennials flew away too, but not too far just in case.
"So, are you enjoying the show by far?", asked Lucian sitting next to Aaron.
"Pretty much.", said the boy. "I'm really surprised to know that you are a lot stronger that I thought."
Lucian smiled.
"You just haven't seen anything yet.", assured the man with soft voice. He leaned towards Aaron, looking directly to his eyes. "I'm more aggressive than this."
The boy shuddered and the dhampir drown a moan in his throat. He wanted to make him shudder, but in a different way.
"I can't imagine how much more aggressive can you get.", admitted the young one. "Do you let your instincts control you?"
"More or less. I let my instincts control other things, too.", added while tracing Aaron's face with his fingers.
"Really? Like what?"
"Well...", Lucian lowered the tone of his voice, traveling on the soft skin of the boy's neck and then to his chest, feeling how his heart started to rise his beats at the single touch of the dhampir on it. "You know that I am not exactly a man of words...", the left unused hand lifted up and traveled on Aaron's left thigh. He heard him gasp at the sudden feeling. "And that I prefer actions over words.", his fingers reached Aaron's crotch area. The boy shuddered and gasped again, trying to close his legs but Lucian got in the way.
Aaron blushed deeply, letting soft moans escape his mouth, getting hard when the dhampir rubbed his groin through the fabric of his pants. Lucian reached Aaron's right ear and licked it, nibbling at the ear lobe, hearing more moans fill the air. The dhampir's lips met the boy's and they both shared a deep kiss in where they muffled their own moans in the other's mouth. Aaron's cheeks went redder when he felt Lucian's bare hand crept into his pants and underwear, reaching his hard member. The boy left the dhampir's lips to moan loudly when his partner started to masturbate him in slow pace. His body was getting hotter and the sweat was covering his heated skin at each erotic touch from the dhampir.
Lucian made Aaron lay on the ground and sat between his legs to have more place to work with his hands. He lifted the boy's shirt and found the already erected nipples tasty enough to lower his head and lick them. Aaron gasped, arching softly from the ground to get more of that sweet sensation that washed him over again. The feeling of the naughty teeth of Lucian on his nipples made him moan loudly, getting the attention of a vampire that was traveling not far from them.
The dhampir stood up, but not letting Aaron's body get uncovered. The poor frustrated boy rolled his head to the left and saw the lust in the vampire's eyes, knowing that he would fight against Lucian for the right to claim him as his next mate. Embarrassed at the situation, Aaron put his shirt back in place and crawled away from the dhampir, who looked directly to the vampire. The new vampire stood in place, watching Lucian's movements carefully, trying to find an opening to attack. He was amazed by the way he moved. So natural and elegant yet aggressive and deadly. The vampire adopted an offensive position, alerting Lucian that he was about to attack.
Both crashed when they attacked, groaning in pain but getting ready to strike again. The vampire gasped when he felt the shadow energy of Lucian grab his legs and send him flying through the trees, hitting them before rolling on the floor on a stop. The vampire hissed angrily, getting up and tackling the dhampir to the ground, punching him on the face, chest and stomach. Lucian coughed up blood but managed to get the vampire off his body, trying to recover from the recent hits. The vampire didn't let him that chance to recover and kicked him on the stomach, making the dhampir cough up more blood.
Lucian growled and took both of his legs, making the vampire lost his balance and fall on the ground. Once like this, the dhampir used his dark powers to strike the vampire with a black needle rain that pierced the vampire's body merciless, but he managed to arch forwards and hit Lucian on the head, making him go dizzy enough to get up, grab him by his waist and crash him on the ground with such force that made the ground crack. The dhampir moaned in pain but he couldn't let the vampire win. If not, he will have the right to take Aaron as his mate and he wasn't letting that happen. The young boy was his alone.
The vampire kicked him on the face once more and Lucian felt his surroundings spin in circles, not knowing that the enemy went directly to where Aaron was waiting. The boy, upon seeing the vampire approach, crawled away ready to take his gun out to defend himself. Now that the creature was closer, the boy could see that it was tall, thin, young looking with a messy black hair. He shivered in fear, not knowing what to expect from the vampire.
"Now that I look closer, you are really hot.", said the vampire grinning. "You will be a perfect mate with that energy of yours, so demanding, so attractive, so erotic.", he purred, licking his lips.
"Get the hell away from me!", yelled the boy, taking his gun out and shooting, but the vampire laughed as he dodged the solar bullet. "What?!"
"I'm used to them now. I fought against a lot of gunslinger before. I know how their guns work, and your weapon will never touch me."
Before the boy could stand up, he had the vampire all over him, strangling his waist with his legs and putting his arms down using only his hands. Aaron screamed when he felt the hot mouth of the vampire on his neck, putting hungry kisses on the soft skin. He squirmed and kicked, not going anywhere with it as the vampire wasn't affected by them.
"I don't want you! Get away!", screamed the young one again trying to avoid the vampire's lustful touches on his virgin body.
"You are in no position to ask for freedom. Your 'ex' partner lost to me, and now I have all my right to claim you.", he hissed in warning when Aaron screamed again. The boy shut up, trembling in fear. "That's good. You will be such a nice boy..."
The vampire gasped when he felt a strong grip on his head. Someone took him away from Aaron and crashed him on the ground, cracking it once more. The vampire looked up, shivering in fear when he saw the rage showed in both red eyes of the angry dhampir. Lucian kicked the vampire on the face, hard, and crushed him on the ground once more.
"I wasn't done with you.", Lucian said in a dry tone. He lifted the vampire up. "Never touch him again. The young one is completely mine."
"You are just a fucking half breed! You will never win to a real vampire like me!", shouted the creature jumping away from Lucian's grip. "Besides, the boy is still a virgin, how can be he yours when you haven't claimed him yet?"
The vampire blinked and Lucian was nowhere in sight anymore. He yelled in pain when a dark scythe cut his waist in half. The upper half fall on the ground, while his legs kept standing in place before Lucian came and slashed them up. Aaron recognized the scythe as the dark weapon called Hel, but this scythe was more devil looking, with streams of Dark Matter flying from it. It had a dense and dark aura around and the four blades were as red as blood, making it more fearsome. It looked like the scythe was alive with all the darkness that surrounding it, and Lucian knew how to control it pretty well.
"He was mine the first time I saw him, the first day we met.", answered the dhampir to the vampire's earlier question. "It doesn't matter if he is still a virgin, I claimed him in other ways even if I'm missing the physical one. But don't worry...", a huge grin came in sight. Lucian's fangs glowed in the moonlight and the vampire shivered. "I will copulate with him so no one ever touches him again, so no shit like you dares to put a finger on him never again."
The dhampir came to the fallen vampire and stepped on him. He took his right arm and put his left leg on the other and, using his inhuman strength, he ripped the vampire's arm out, hearing the yell of pain he made. What a wonderful sound! He needed more, more! Lucian licked his lips when the blood poured from the wounds. It was so shiny, so red. The smell was intoxicating, so seductive. It called him. Drink, drink! The dhampir breathed heavily, arguing with himself if he had to drink the pouring blood or rip the vampire's left arm. He decided to rip the other arm but moaned at the smell of the blood. He couldn't resist anymore! He needed to drink! He needed the blood!
Lucian moaned and lowered himself just enough to let the attractive smell penetrate his senses, making him feel light headed. He opened his mouth, he stuck his tongue out. He could imagine the sweet, intoxicating taste of the red elixir his body so much needed and craved. He was so close...
Dumas came and kicked him right on the face, preventing him to drink the contaminated blood. The idiot, said Dumas to himself. Lucian deserved to drink proper blood and not the blood of lesser vampires like the one on the floor, who was already dead from the blood lose. The former Duke ripped the vampire's heart out, watching as it went into dust like the rest of the dead body. He heard a soft whimper of pain and watched as Lucian stood up, rubbing his face.
"That fucking hurt!", yelled to Dumas. "Why you did that for?"
"Son of bitch.", whispered loud enough so the dhampir could hear. "You deserve to drink proper blood and not fall into the temptation of just common liquid like this.", explained the former Duke. "You always surrender at the first drop of blood. You sure are a whore."
"Shut the fuck up, asshole.", growled Lucian back, reaching the horned one. "I just lost my mind to it, what do you expected? I was so close... Damn it!", cursed the dhampir.
"That's why you have your little boy over there.", said Dumas with a naughty grin. Lucian looked at the solemn expression of Aaron and the boy's eye met his. The dhampir thought of how tasty would be Aaron's blood and shivered in excitement. "Just not rush things up. He will not let you become a full vampire and will do anything at his hand to prevent you to drink blood."
"You had to suggest that, didn't you? Now I really want to sink my fangs on his neck and drink his blood."
Dumas laughed, helping Aaron to his feet.
"So, did Lucian pass the test?", asked the vampire to the boy.
"Test?", Aaron blinked and looked at Lucian then, to the vampire again.
"Yes, test. Is he good enough to be your mate and let him copulate with you in the next full moon?", he grinned at the deep blush that covered the young's face. Tomorrow night will be the first night of full moon, so the boy had to decide now or Lucian might lose control over his instincts and end up raping Aaron, and Dumas didn't want that since it will break the two of them. "Well?"
Aaron smiled shyly but nodded. Lucian smiled like a fool and grabbed the young one on his arms, jumping from tree to tree, in their way back to the cottage. The Terrennials came seconds after they disappeared in the shadows.
"How it went?", asked Nero.
"Oh, the usual. Lucian lost it and he dismembered the enemy, proving himself to Aaron and the boy just accepted him.", answered, following the same path that Lucian took.
"That's good, so very good!", exclaimed Perrault, excited. "Master will have to leave or Lucian will kick his ass again."
"Oh, don't remind me.", said in sad voice the vampire. But she was right. The dhampir may take Dumas' presence as an invading of territory, specially now that he had Aaron's approval to copulate, and will probably end up fighting with him in order to protect the boy from his 'actions'. Dumas sighed. "Tomorrow is going to be a pain..."
"Don't remind me.", said Nero flying besides the former Duke. "Oh shit, Toasty.", exclaimed, remembering the light Terrennial.
"What with that sunflower?", asked Perrault.
"Oh fuck!", cursed the cat again. "Aaron hasn't come to the Inn since yesterday, and he may be worried about the boy. I'm positive that Toasty would think that Aaron went out to patrol, even if Ernest told him not to."
The vampire growled.
"The last thing I needed it's to see those assholes again!", he yelled, referring to Ernest and Kay. "But that's a minor problem. If the gunslinger comes up here, Lucian will not recognize them as Aaron's friends. He will go berserk and probably kill them all."
"We should tell him, either way.", said Nero. "Lucian will not let Aaron come out of his territory even during the day, so you or I will have to tell Toasty."
"Toasty is not going to like if I see and tell him 'Hey, your boy is up there with two horny vampires'. He will definitely fry me right there with his sunlight."
Perrault giggled and Nero laughed out loud.
"That would make my day.", said the dark Terrennial, making the vampire growl again. "I'm going to talk to him, then. Toasty will not panic that much if the one telling him this is me. Are you sure you are going to be alright tomorrow? You may surrender to your hormones too, when full moon comes out."
"I will try to control myself. Aaron isn't that attractive to me."
"Dumas."
"What? It's true! I'm no pedo like Lucian."
"Lucian is not a pedophile.", groaned the black cat.
"Right.", mumbled Perrault and her master laughed. Nero growled and disappeared in the shadows.