Sorry... I know I told you that more was coming... soon-ish... well here it is. Finally.
Courtney glided gracefully out of her nighttime resting place. She shook out her long brown locks and with a wave of her hand, clothed herself in skinny jeans and a teal and black tank top. Courtney smiled, fangs showing, then dissolved and misted into her home.
Duncan had just gotten home from work and was in the kitchen downing his second bottle of beer.
"You know, drinking such a taste-less alcoholic beverage is unwise, Duncan." Courtney's velvet voice purred from the other side of the room.
"Yeah, well, when I guy finds out that the woman he loves is a vampire and wants to eat him... I think that he deserves a drink or two." Duncan said, tossing aside the second bottle and reaching for the third. After he finished that bottle he turned and began speaking again, the forth clasped tightly in his right hand. "Up until this point I was really, really hoping that there would be some other explanation and that you would deny being... whatever it is you are." Duncan said, his speech already starting to slur.
"Duncan, you haven't eaten anything all day. You are going to make yourself sick it you do not stop ingesting those drinks." Courtney said, reaching out a hand.
Duncan tripped over his own feet while backing up. "St-stay away fr-rom me." He slurred from the floor.
"Duncan. You have nothing to fear from me." Courtney pleaded.
"Sure I don't Princess. Why would I have anything to fear from a blood sucking-" Duncan's words were cut off by a loud hiss from Courtney.
Courtney's eyes blazed and her lips curled. She sprang forward and wrapped her arms around Duncan.
The next thing he knew he was lying back in bed. Duncan looked around for Courtney. He tryed to climb out of the bed but failed. "Princess... Courtney... Court!" Duncan called over and over again when there was no answer. "Oh God, please let her forgive me." He prayed for the first time in years.
After placing Duncan upon the bed, HER bed, Courtney retreated to the basement of her home. She dissolved and flowed down, deep into the earth through the ground. Courtney resumed her true shape and followed along the north wall of a narrow tunnel until she reached her target area.
Courtney entered the large underground cavern and knelt. "Please help me of Great One, for I desperely need your guidence in a matter conserning my heart." Courtney whispered in a long forgotten language into the dark cavern and she rose and allowed her clothes to fall to the ground behind her.
Courtney continued on into the chamber and walked barefoot into an underground pool. The water was cool. Courtney wadded out until she reached the other side where there was a stone monument.
Courtney stared up and the monument and spoke a few more words in her native language before slipping away from the wall of the pool and treading water at the center.
Courtney then submerged herself underwater. When she came back up some time later the pool's water had turned icy cold.
Courtney repeated the process of submerging herself once again. Only this time when she came back up the water was boiling hot.
"Please oh Great One. Show me the path as it is according to your way." Courtney called into the oddly echo-less cavern.
Spooky huh? Keep reading, there is sooo much more... (evil cackle).
The first rays of dawn were breaking across the morning sky as Courtney returned to her lair. The Great One had not deemed her worthy of reciving a message and so she had left the cavern empty handed.
Courtney recalled her finally words as she left the mystical environment of the dark cavern... "Please oh Great One. Just let me know that I am not the monster the man I love thinks I am."
Courtney let herself sink into a resting position before closing her eyes and sighing deeply, expelling all of the useless air she had inhaled while she had been in Duncan's company.
When Courtney opened her eyes she felt something resting heavily upon her chest, nearly crushing her almost unbreakable ribs.
You have been deemed worthy young one... Came a voice from nowhere and yet everywhere.
Courtney froze, then closed her eyes and thanked the Great One of its gift of guidence.
Courtney then shoved the large object off of her and bent to examine it.
The heavy object was a stone box, perfectly hewn from a solid piece of petrified wood. The petrified wood itself was many millions of years old, but the box only thousands.
"Haji Bali Kali Dukandulasao..." Courtney mummered in awe. Before her lay the box of mipar kind, better know as the species vampires. The box was as old as the first mipar and was said to contain his remains. The box was only suppose to appear to only the most worthy of vampires.
Courtney ran her hand over the lid, there was engraving there. Courtney closed her eyes and fingered the engraving again, this time her fingers saw what her eyes couldn't.
Courtney's eyes flew open and she let out a startled hiss. The engraving was a prophecy, and not just any prophecy... the prophecy. The prochecy that was said to tell all of the secrets behind the mipar species.
"Am I truly worth?" Courtney asked, amazed at the responsibiliy she'd just been given.
That was when she realized what this responsibiliy truley meant.
"No... No!" She yelled, visions of Duncan lying on the cold hard ground writhing in pain, gasping for air, filled her mind. "How can I do that?" She asked no one in particular.
An impossible breeze washed through the hole underground where Courtney lay in shook. The breeze carried the stench of decay and yet it also held longing. Courtney knew what the scent was, and what it meant she had to do... it was, after all, the Great One's wish.
And Courtney would always stay on the path that the Great One wished her upon.
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