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14
A few hours later Aaron was feeling better from the potion Oyan used on him, but thanks to the blood loose he couldn't stand up yet. He stayed on bed, with Nero and Toasty besides him, while Carmilla attended him, often bringing books to the boy for him to read.
Aaron felt lightly uncomfortable when he was around Carmilla. From what Nero told him after the effects of the Energy Injection wore off, Dumas took Ella to the Vambery and it was there where she was made into the android she was now. Like Lucian, she lost all memories of the person she was in the past and, thanks to Sheridan, she escaped from the vampire's hands to live with him. After the boy heard the story, she looked at Carmilla with different eyes from the beginning. He didn't know how Ella looked alike so he didn't compare it with Carmilla but now, he was trying to picture the appearance of the girl who Lucian once loved. Nero told him to not worry about that because it was all in the past. The boy nodded, but kept thinking about it.
What would have been the things that Lucian saw in Ella eleven years ago? What attitudes were the ones that charmed the gunslinger? How the girl charmed him? Did she love Lucian back, or it was only the man who was feeling love towards her? Questions like this walked around Aaron's mind, while he waited on the bed, curled under the sheets, for any news about the vampires.
The sun was rising on the horizon. It was already six in the morning, and no one knew anything about the vampires. Aaron started to worry about his mate's life. Had Oyan killed Lucian? Had the gunslingers took them as hostage? Did Oyan kill Dumas or Nish, and Lucian wanting to avenge them also got killed? Aaron rolled around the bed several times, feeling in his chest a very heavy sensation. He bit his bottom lip, looking at the uncovered window. Where was Lucian? The Sun was rising and if they stayed more time outside, Nish will not be able to walk since he didn't have a Casket Armor like Lucian or Dumas. Could it be that they were hiding somewhere, waiting for the new night to come and then go to Sheridan's mansion? The thought made Aaron sigh. Yes, it could be. Maybe they ended up to wounded after the fight and they were resting, healing up their injuries. The boy rolled on his stomach, hiding under the sheets. Yes, it must be like that. Lucian was too powerful to be beaten by Oyan and his men. The same goes for Dumas, and probably Nish, even if he didn't know what the vampire's techniches were.
Upon these thoughts, Aaron's eyes slowly shut. A few instants later, he was in deep sleep.
A familiar scent woke him up, but the room was in darkness. He couldn't feel Nero or Toasty on the bed when he stretched his arms out, trying to find them on the mattress. Where were they? He felt dizzy; he could feel his stomach moving violently when he stood on the bed. Where was the dizziness coming from? Besides that, his neck ached a bit. When his body decided to stop for a moment, the boy looked around again. Darkness, all black. Where was he? It didn't see like Sheridan's mansion at all. He removed the sheets of his body and stood up on his feet. The bed disappeared after he left it and, without caring about it, he started to walk.
Even though he was inside nothingness and thinking it should be cold, it was completely the opposite; the ambient was so warm. The darkness made the boy remember Lucian's warmness when they were together, cuddling or snuggling on the bed in a very lazy morning. Aaron kept walking, where, he didn't know, and looked around trying to find something familiar, a silhouette. But there was nothing there. One thing he noticed was that his neck ached more and more the more he walked towards his destiny and, after a while, couldn't bear the pain any longer. He cursed loudly, grabbing his neck, making pressure, trying to find a way to ease the pain.
"Shhh..."
Aaron lifted his head at the hissing sound. Who could it be? He heard the same sound again, and something moving between the darkness. The boy stepped backwards, not looking away any moment. His neck ached harder, and Aaron fell on his knees, whimpering and moaning in pain. His body started to sweat and shake. What was causing that horrible pain...?
His eyes opened violently. The first thing he saw was the ceiling and the second thing he felt was his elaborated breathing and his chest rising up and down at each breath he took.
"My child, are you alright?", his ears heard a soft, male voice on his left and a smile appeared on the young's face.
"Lucian!", he whispered, turning to his left and finding his mate all bandaged up. Some of them were tainted with red spots, meaning that those wounds were still bleeding. Aaron crawled to his side and hugged the new vampire tightly, filling Lucian's face with kisses. "I missed you! I was worried about you!"
Aaron shivered when a clawed hand rubbed his back. He couldn't still see Lucian due to the darkness of the room, but could see the white and bright bandages something that amused him. The window was covered with the curtain and no light penetrated the room from the door. It was like being blind, but he knew that Lucian was besides him. There was nothing to fear of. Slipping his fingers between Lucian's hairs, he could feel two pair of small horns growing from his head and small wings on his back, too. They were tiny and didn't know if they could stand Lucian's weight if he decided to fly.
"What's the matter?", asked the vampire, feeling the nervousness of his mate.
"I can't see you.", answered the boy, with a faint smile on his face. He snuggled on Lucian's chest, feeling both of his arms circling around him in a protective way. Aaron felt happy to feel that warm again. "But I can feel you...", now that he noticed, his neck was still aching, but at last it wasn't than painful.
The vampire chuckled, kissing Aaron's forehead. The boy looked up and could see the bright, red eyes of the vampire looking at him in a tender way. Aaron found them so beautiful shining in the dark... He snuggled closer and, finding his mate's lips with his fingers, he kissed the now cold skin of his lover, in a welcome kiss.
"Does your neck aches?", asked Lucian when Aaron broke the kiss. The young nodded. "Don't worry about it... It will fade soon."
"Does it has anything to do with your return?", the boy felt his mate nod. "Why?"
"It's like... I don't know how to explain it.", Aaron giggled. A hand started to play with his hair. "Each time a vampire is gone for a long period of time, its mate knows when the other it's going to return because his mate's mark starts to ache."
"That's what happened just now, right?"
"Yes. At first it will be annoying and painful, but soon you will get used to it and will ignore the pain.", Lucian stood up from the bed. "I have to see Sheridan. I need to change the bandages; they are getting sticky with blood."
"I want to go with you...", whined Aaron, pouting, still grabbing Lucian's hand.
The vampire laughed softly.
"You can't walk yet, but I think I can carry you. What do you say?"
Aaron stretched his arms to Lucian, who took the indirect. The vampire lifted his mate on his arms, which put his own around his neck, and walked outside the room. Now with the dim light of the lamps in the hall, the boy could see Lucian's new appearance. He blushed at the sight, feeling lightly uncomfortable again. The vampire's skin was paler, but not a bluish color like most vampires. He noticed the small, black horns that felt earlier and there were two pair of wings instead of one, as he thought. His clawed hands gently carried him in the sleeping clothes Carmilla gave him when she carried him to the room. The most peculiar physical change on Lucian was some strange marking on his pale skin. It was on his face, arms and legs, perhaps on his whole body. Just after he looked at them, the marks disappeared. The boy gave a little yell of surprise and Lucian locked eyes with him, smiling and whispering that he would explain after Sheridan attended his wounds.
The vampire seemed like a mummy, all covered with the bandages but, surprisingly, could still walk. He was only wearing short pants and a simple shirt and was barefoot. His legs were all covered with bandages and bloody patches, sticking them with sticky tape (the medical one, not the other). His arms weren't much different, and Aaron knew that his torso was the same. Lucian's face wasn't that bad. It had some minor scratches but, besides that, nothing serious.
They reached the main room of the mansion on the second floor. Aaron saw with joy that Dumas and Nish were alive, but seemed like Lucian all covered with bandages. The albino vampire was smoking near the window while he waited for Carmilla to finish with Dumas, who was sitting on a metal table, the same one that the Terrennials used, helping the girl with the bandages. Said Terrennials were bringing heal potions, creams and other stuff, since with three wounded vampires Sheridan almost ran out of that stuff. Nish was the first to notice that Lucian and Aaron entered the room. He shook the cigarette and the ashes fall outside, as he smiled to both of them when the vampire left the young boy on one of the couches.
"How are you feeling, Aaron?", asked the vampire, taking a nice sip of his cigarette.
Instantly, Dumas turned his head and smiled widely.
"I'm so glad you are safe, kid!", said the former Duke, finish bandaging his left arm. Carmilla put a piece of the sticky tape, finishing with him for now. Nish lighted off his cigarette when the maid told him to come over the table. "I was worried that the gunslingers got you and the Terrennials in middle of your run.", Dumas, helped by his partner, got off the metal table. "So, do you like Lucian's new look?"
Lucian was getting the bandages off his body when the other asked. Aaron was helping him with the ones on his legs. The little wings shook as he smiled with mischief.
"Well, to be honest, I let my imagination flow a bit after what I read on the book.", answered the boy. The bloody bandages fall on the floor as he finished uncurled them. "I was thinking that Lucian would return looking alike...I don't know!", he laughed. "I though he would look creepy."
"Hey!", Lucian's wings shook in anger. The vampire pouted. "That was mean.", the bandages on his arms fall on the floor, besides the ones that were on his legs. Then, he started to undo the ones on his torso. "Glad you didn't see my full form, then."
Seeing that Aaron was lightly confused Nish, which was fighting with the new and itching bandages, answered.
"He is a lot creepier and fearsome in his full form.", explained. "The one you see now it's the one that has while he doesn't use when he releases all the dark power inside him.", he hissed when Carmilla put some cream on a deep wound the vampire had. "I can guarantee that Dumas and I almost crap our pants.", Lucian laughed softly, pleased to know he made the vampires react that way. "It's something to fear, really."
Aaron looked at the calmed Lucian and couldn't imagine him as a fearsome creature like the one that Nish was describing.
"What happened with the gunslingers?", asked then, trying to put away the creepy images he was getting inside his head. The last pieces of the bandages fall off, and Aaron could see several wounds and burns that Lucian had. They were slowly healing up, thanks to the vampire's power, but needed a bit of help seeing that they were pretty serious. Some of them were still bleeding.
Dumas rolled his eyes and showed a naughty smile on his face.
"We had a nice banquet.", was all Dumas said.
The boy shuddered.
"But sadly, Oyan escaped with the few men that survived to our counterattack.", added the albino, thanking Carmilla when she finished changing the bandages. "At that time, the Sun was rising and the gunslingers were out of bullets. We were too tire to keep fighting."
Lucian's wings shook again and Aaron found it funny each time they did that. He muffled his laugh with his hands.
"I so wanted to eat him!", the vampire exclaimed. "Perhaps next time we see each other I will be able to eat him."
Dumas giggled at the thought and fall on the couch, very tired. Perrault appeared in the room, followed by Nero and Toasty, and landed on her master's chest, curling on it. Nero rested on Aaron's lap while Toasty changed into his human form and sat besides the boy. Carmilla left soon after she finished with Nish, letting Lucian to do it by himself. Aaron thought if Lucian had asked her to not bother with him, or she actually remembered something of her past, and seeing that Lucian didn't remember her anymore she didn't care anymore either. He helped his mate with the creams and bandages, hearing the talk that Nish and the others were having. The vampire has lighted another cigarette, and was just staring at the wall in front of him, while Dumas fall asleep on the couch, visible tired after the effort he put into the fight even when his body wasn't fully recovered from his revival.
Aaron asked how started all and Nish said that they were in the clear of the forest, helping Lucian with his transformation. The moon rays that illuminated him where helping in easing his pain through it. He was almost complete when he suddenly stood up, growling furiously. The streams of Dark Matter dancing around his body moved nervous, resonating with the vampire's emotions. The steams materialized into two pairs of dark wings, with skulls and sharp bones on their junction. The horns that he had now weren't that short, actually. They were twice their current size, and his clawed hands were covered with skulls, too, along with long and sharp nails. His pale skin started to cover up with the runes he saw when they got off the room, and like that, he run off from the clear, clearly returning to the mansion. Worrying that the new vampire would do something stupid, like drinking his mate's blood, attacking someone or killing someone, Dumas and Nish went behind him barely catching his speed.
It was a surprise for both groups. The gunslingers got in defensive mode when they saw the three vampires suddenly show up, and the vampires were surprised to see them in the forecourt. It was all good until Lucian spotted the weak Aaron lying on the bench, being protected by Nero and Toasty, and a good amount of hounds, Ghouls and other monsters. He lost it instantly. The Dark Matter dancing around his body formed sharp and pointy needles that went straight to the gunslingers. All of them took out their light shields that worked against the attack, repelling it, but most of them cracked when the attack impacted on their surface. Nish summoned his ice powers, which took everyone off guard, and started attacking like Lucian, with equal force. Dumas, seeing that he couldn't Trance with Perrault yet, who was with her human form beating up some gunslingers, managed to summon some of his dark powers and use some of his Trance attacks to counterattack.
Oyan seemed to try and get closer to the stun boy, but he was having a hard time with the vampires that protected him with fierce. Just a few instants after the battle started, the boy awoke from his sleep and the Terrennials picked him up to try and run away, and Oyan, dodging an attack, managed to shot his weapon. Toasty could save the boy and he and Nero run away from the forecourt, leaving the fight behind. It was funny to see that once the boy was out of danger, Lucian started to attack with stronger attacks, trying to kill all the gunslinger of a first try. He was succeeding, but at the cost of being injured by the solar shots, knives and other stuff the enemy had. He was not thinking clearly, just trying to kill all the enemies just to be sure that his mate wasn't going to be in any future danger.
Nish was the one that noticed it and grabbed the panting vampire by his arms, dragging him across the battlefield to a safe place. Dumas followed closely behind with Perrault at his side, protecting them from the attacks of the gunslingers. Oyan, seeing that Nish was desperate doing a retreat, he forced a retreat, too. He had only five men left, in good shape, and more than forty alive but severely injured, and around twenty dead. They all put away their weapons and run away, leaving the other men in the field at the vampire's mercy. Once Oyan had disappeared from sight, Nish released the angry and growling Lucian that instantly jumped to the nearest gunslinger. The men tried to fight back but the strong vampire broke both of his arms with a single swift of his hands, hearing with much pleasure the pain scream he made, and proceed to eat him up while hearing those sounds that ringed in his ears. Seeing their own fate, the men that could still walk stood up and started to fled, but the ice wall that Nish created before them stopped the men, that looked around in a desperate way to escape.
Following Lucian's example, Dumas caught one and started to feed, moaning at the sensation of the warm blood pouring from the men's neck, to his fangs and then to his hungry stomach. When was the last time he could enjoy of such feast? He could see Nish growing excited too at the mere sight of other vampire's feeding and at the scent of fresh blood. Dumas could see how his partner grew fierce, showing his hidden claws and fangs. The ice vampire tackled a brave gunslinger that tried to kill him, and proceed to feed, breaking his ribs, arms and waist bones with such force that the wounds started to bleed from the inside. The former Duke released the body he had in his fangs, seeing that the men couldn't move due to the amount of blood he lost, and licked his lips, laughing. When was the last time he felt so happy about feeding? His long claws twitched in excitement as he walked to his next prey. He picked a young one. Young men and women have always the most delicious blood. When was the last time he hunted for real? He growled, showing his long fangs to the picked one that tried to shove him away with his weapon out of bullets. He smiled widely, hearing how Lucian jumped to his next food and Nish give a content sigh, and attacked the young one, biting his neck in the first try, drinking his blood quickly and grabbing his arms to prevent the gunslinger to harm him more than he already was.
They continued feeding until the first rays of the new day. By then, the three of them had finished eating up all the gunslingers that were abandoned by Oyan. They were full, happy vampires. When he finished eating, Lucian returned to his old self but having smaller version of the wings and horns he had in his full form. The runes stayed, too, and the skulls and long claws of his hands disappeared. He was calmer now. When the transformation finally ended, he looked around and jumped at the sight of the dead, dismembered bodies lying all over the forecourt. Had he done all of this? Was it because he couldn't control his new dark powers, his new vampire form? Lucian could feel the metallic taste of the blood his mouth and, surprisingly for him, loved it, feeling he hadn't enough of it. He saw blood on his hands and started to lick them clean, desperate for more of that red elixir. Now that he noticed it, all his body was splashed with blood. And then, he remembered the previous events; the clear in the forest, the run off, the gunslingers, the Terrennials running away with Aaron, the fight, the feeding... Lucian closed his fists and opened them again.
He was a full vampire now, capable of doing things he never dreamed to do. Slowly, the craving for blood disappeared. He turned around and saw Nish picking up a weak Dumas into his arms. Perrault had long ago returned to his beast form and was sitting on the ice vampire's shoulder.
"How are you feeling?", asked the former Duke. He was back, like Nish, to his old self. He almost gave up to his crave for feeding.
"...not so weird.", answered Lucian, walking to them. "I feel like always, just... different. I don't know."
He was confused but, at the same time, knew what was happening. Nish suggested to turn all the dead gunslingers into Ghouls and then head towards the Terrennials fled; Sheridan's mansion. After doing it, the three of them tripped to it and reached it just when the Sun started to bath the entire planet with its bright light, something that Nish didn't seem to like at all. Walking under the shadow's trees, they made it to the mansion. Carmilla opened the door and stood there, watching them, not believing what she saw but made them enter. Sheridan acceded to help them in their injuries but didn't like the fact that Dumas was with Lucian. The professor still hated the former Duke after all he had to go through, but left that old hate aside and concentrated in healing the vampire's wounds.
Nish, after he finished telling Aaron all what happened, lighted off his cigarette and exhaled the last smoke breath he had in his lungs. Dumas was still sleeping on the couch, covering his eyes with his left forearm. The ice vampire was sitting next to him and was entertaining himself in petting Dumas' hair. Lucian smiled when he, finally, finished with all the bandages.
"Then Oyan will not rest until he has me.", said the boy, cuddling besides Lucian that sat next to him. Nero made himself a place between the two and lay there, receiving soft pets from both of them. "I just worry for Alexander, though."
"He will be fine.", said Toasty after a long while. "We have to talk with Ernest about this, since he knows Oyan better than us.", the Terrennial stretched up, yawning. "I think I'm going to rest for a bit.", hi shined in a dim, white light and transformed into his plant form, leaving the room floating in air.
Since Dumas seemed to sleep until late, Nish suggested talking with Ernest as soon as possible and think a way to rescue Alexander and, at the same time, kicking Oyan out of the East cities. Aaron stood up but fell quickly after, still too weak to move. He told Nero to bring Sheridan to the main room on the second floor and bring him a phone or something to talk with Ernest. The cat disappeared like Toasty, flapping his tiny, red wings.
"Shouldn't we ask for Alice's advice?", suddenly said the boy, a few minutes after Nero left.
Lucian's eyes widen in horror.
"Have you fucking lost it?!", answered instead. Nish smiled, amused, at Lucian's reaction. "She hasn't been bugging me in the past two years!"
"I know that!", replied Aaron. "She can tell us Oyan's entire moves from the outer space, especially how many gunslingers are on the north lands."
"It will come handy if Oyan wants' to start a war in Acuna.", seconded Nish. "If we know where the enemy is hiding, our chances of defeating it will increase."
"But she is so annoying!", whined the vampire.
Aaron rolled his eyes.
Sheridan came to the room with a cell phone on his hands. He gave it to Aaron and sat on a chair, asking the two vampires if they were better now. They thanked the professor his hospitality and asked if they could stay in the mansion since the gunslingers already broke into their hideout. Lucian knew that Sheridan wanted all of them out of his house since he hated vampires, but couldn't deny their wish since the professor knew Lucian and Aaron for quiet a while and they have helped him in the past, too. And now, he had to decide if they stayed or not. He excused himself from the room and left, to find a place to think clearly.
He chooses to go to the indoor garden the mansion had. Next to it, it was the kitchen, where Carmilla was preparing some food for the young boy. Sheridan could notice a delicious meat stew scent in the air and with it, he stepped into the garden. It didn't had any light except the moon's one, that went through the huge glass ceiling. He stopped and sat on a stone bench, closing his eyes, feeling the food's smell...
He was going to help Lucian and Aaron, but he didn't want to help the other two vampires, especially Dumas, who was the one that actually sent Stoke to bring him to the Vambery Tower and keep him there to work along the mad scientific in the Casket Armors. He didn't want to work on the young girl that Stoker brought when the war finished, when Ratatosk died at Dumas' hands, but the ice vampire obliged him to do so, transforming her human body into a bionic one. Her hair was cut, her skin lost all the bright and healthy color it had, her memories were erased... The bright girl she once was, it was all lost, in one of Stoker's machines. When Lucian and Aaron decided to take over the Vambery, all of that stuff was destroyed. Sheridan wanted to bring that joyful girl back, once the Duke was defeated, but he didn't imagine that both boys would go after the tower. And with it, all hopes for Carmilla to return to her original self were lost.
Sheridan had another assignment, how Stoker used to call human dissections or transformation of humans to another sort of creature, that was another girl called Laura, who is the current Solar Bank owner. In contrast with Carmilla, whose program was a prototype and failed because Sheridan couldn't finish since he managed to escape with both girls, Laura's was complete; she didn't have any human emotion, the main thing Stoker wanted to get rid off. But, strangely, Carmilla kept her native emotions of human and that was something that Laura admired. In terms of techniques, Carmilla's try was a complete failure since the girl still had her human emotions, but Laura didn't see it that way; it was a miracle she still had them. And, at some point, she felt jealous of Carmilla, seeing that she had something that was taken from her. But the two of them went along well and helped Sheridan in getting a new home to live.
After a few months, Laura found a job in the Solar Bank and had to leave the mansion, since it was too far from her job. Sheridan allowed it and wished her the best luck. After she left, Carmilla had a lightly depression. She didn't do the house work as she always did, and often sat on a window and stare outside, as if she wanted to see Laura come back to the mansion. The new bank owner could visit them from time to time, but her busy horary didn't let her, sometimes, visit them for months. Soon, Carmilla got used to those very rare visits and got back to her old self, starting to clean the house and prepare the professor's food as always.
Sheridan would never forget the appearance of the human girl that Stoker brought and had to convert into something else. That day, she was wearing a dirty, red dress. She was barefoot and her skin extremely pale and the man deduced that the Duke had fed from her. She had pretty, long brown hair and beautiful green eyes. The man also noticed a beauty spot on her right side of her face, just above her lips. That was all what he remembered of Carmilla's human self. He didn't know her name either and named her that way after a famous writer from the old era that wrote a book with the same name.
He knew that the first time that Lucian came to his mansion along with Nero; he could see that the dark swordsman felt something twitch in his chest when he saw the maid standing in the doorway. Sheridan never asked Lucian if he knew the girl Carmilla was before and, since she lost all her memories thanks to Stoker's work, could found out if both of them met in the past. But he was digging a lot in the past. He had to focus on the present and future. He would allow Lucian and Aaron to stay the time they wanted to, after all they helped him with some researches about the Vambery and Stoker. Nish... He might let him stay, but for a while and Dumas, he wanted that vampire off his house immediately. He didn't know how he stuck with the boys or how the boys let him stick with them, but knew it was because of Lucian. He needed someone who was vampire to guide him through his transformation and seeing that the former Duke was still alive, he asked for his help. Sheridan narrowed his eyebrows. Lucian wasn't the type of person to go and ask for help. Could it be Nero the one that asked for Dumas' help, and Lucian saw he didn't have any choice but to stay with him? What had the former Duke asked in return?
He stood up and left the garden. Carmilla wasn't in the kitchen anymore and supposed she went to bring the food to Aaron. Sheridan went to the main room of the floor and found only Aaron and Dumas, who was still sleeping, there.
"Where did Lucian and Nish go?", asked the man, sitting on a couch.
"To bring Ernest, Kay and Bea here.", answered the boy. He had a nice place of meat stew on his legs. "Nero and Toasty are going to stay here to protect us, and I think Ezra and Tove will come too."
Sheridan nodded.
"I think I can let your friends stay, too.", said the man, watching the boy eat.
"Really?", Aaron was surprised. Sheridan hated vampires.
"Yes, but as soon all this... problem solves out, I want them out."
"I understand.", then, as thinking in something for a few seconds, he left the spoon on the plate. "What are you going to do if the East cities let vampires lives with humans? Leave, right?"
Sheridan laughed softly and nodded a second time.
"Where would you go? Hope not so far, because then we couldn't come and visit."
"I don't know.", answered the man. "Perhaps the south or west cities. After this... invasion from the north, I wouldn't like to go there, especially because you and Lucian will not be able to get through the frontier."
"Will you bring Carmilla with you?"
"But of course!", he smiled. "What kind of question is that?"
"What about Laura?", Sheridan seemed surprised at that.
"Do you know her?"
"But of course, she is the Solar Bank owner and manages our store items and money.", said the boy. "And told us about you and her time in the Vambery and how she met you and Carmilla."
"Well...", he let out a deep sigh. "It will depend. She left the mansion a few years ago after finding job in the bank and due to her work she barely visits us."
Aaron lowered his head and took a nice amount of the stew into his mouth. He smiled. It was delicious. He was going to miss Carmilla's food if Sheridan leaves with her.