Love in Dark Realm
By AngeL From Chaos
This is a plain story about a secret vampire clan, the Lamias, who were believed that they are just one of those myths. The folk tellers often describe them in three words: Immortal, brutal and lethal. Despite of these characteristics, there are capital laws that are strictly prohibited when dealing with humans: Limit their blood lust and don't dare to fall in love with humans. But what are the consequences for rule breakers like the princess of the dark realm, herself, Sakura Kinomoto?
However, there is this mystical book of the Legendary King Lacudra that possesses an ancient power to bring the dead to life… in exchange of someone's soul.
A/N: Love in dark realm is actually a comic strip of mine that's why I decided to publish it on the net, too. Yeah, right! I sketch this on my sketchpad! Anyway, this is just my 1st fanfiction to be submitted on this site so. Please pardon me for having some grammatical errors. I am not that expert in English grammar but I'll try my best not to have errors. It will be my pleasure if you'll review / post a comment.
A/N: This continuation is dedicated to iceGoddess: okay, okay… thank you for your reviews… sighs.. Also dedicated to chibi-sherilyn… thanks! LOL! Anyway… in the previous chappy I told that I wouldn't update this damn fic but hell! IceGoddess begged me to update… oh man.. This is it!!! Chapter 12: I am One of the ClanThe prophecy said that…
"Lacudra shall be vanished from the Dark Realm,
But the dark ruler shall be back for centuries…
In the name of Yue, he shall have reign
The Dark Realm for the second time…
On that era, darkness shall engulf the light
Unveiling the true power of evil & darkness…
But then…
Two great warriors shall emerge
To reclaim the light that was lost…"
The night finally enveloped the Aegis City. And the duos were on their duty at the Emerald Bar. Syaoran and Yamazaki were still having a busy conversation about the mysterious event that happened lately. "I can't still believe on what kind of situation we are dealing with. The Aegis City, if we're gonna refer its meaning on the Greek Mythology, Aegis is the shield or breastplate of either Zeus and Athena. It is a protection. Well, our city doesn't sound safe and peaceful anymore…" Yamazaki stated with a low voice. "If Sakura's saying is true that Vampire Lacudra will exist as the new moon arises, then we're truly in a serious trouble" he continued while clearing the bar table.
Syaoran just listened and didn't say anything. "Vampire Lacudra, uh?" he thought and left the bar table to serve for the customers. Deep inside, he was really alarmed of the happenings. Syaoran served the rye whiskey to the longhaired customer sitting alone. "Here's your rye whiskey, ma'am…" he gave the bottled whiskey.
The customer patiently received it and smiled, "Thank you, Syaoran." She gently removed her hood so Syaoran could see her clearly: An elegant face with startling green eyes, (I'm not that sure if Kaho really has green orbs in CCS) long wavy orange hair that resembled her like an ancient prophetess.
Syaoran was startled. "Huh? Oh! It's you!"
She nodded. "Yes, I am. Kaho Mizuki is my name, the keeper of the Temple of Void," she introduced herself as she watched Syaoran's confused reaction. "I understand what you're thinking of…" she chuckled a bit then stopped. "I think this is the right time for you to be enlightened with your real identity," Kaho carefully examined his startled handsome face.
"I… I don't know what you're talking about," Syaoran uttered abruptly and was about to leave when he heard breaking of glasses inside Mr. Morton's office. "Hey! What was that?"
SCREAMS!!!
"Mr. Morton was killed by some demonic creature!" an assistant yelled at the top of her voice. She looked pale and scared. "I saw it clearly with my own eyes!" she cried heavily. All of the customers were horrified of the sudden news.
"Mr. Morton? The bar manager? Whatta pity?" others said. "C'mon, let's get out of here!" Mostly rose from their seats and ran away fearing they might be in danger, too. Too coward, aren't they?
Afterwards, Yamazaki approached the frightened assistant. "Why? What happened? Are you hurt?" he asked trying to comfort her. Yamazaki quietly listened of what the assistant was saying. She was almost whispering because of some state of aftershock. A trauma maybe.
"The white haired man with black bat wings swooped from the glass window and lashed Mr. Morton's chest in an instant. It was so sudden that you couldn't even notice the whole happening," she told Yamazaki.
Yamazaki's eyes narrowed. "White haired man with bat-like wings?" he repeated.
"The killer is a… a monster! An unexplainable being like a vampire perhaps!" she sobbed and stared at Takashi Yamazaki. "You don't believe me, don't you?"
"I do believe you…" Takashi answered bitterly and comforted her. "Lacudra is the only possibility…" he thought worriedly.
Just in a minute, Mr. Morton's corpse was taken out from his office. "Oh shit!" Yamazaki said with shock and horror that he quickly turned his face sideward. "I didn't expect it to be like this one… so brutal…" Mr. Morton's chest was opened, his heart gone. Upon seeing his decapitated body, all of the watching customers dashed with terror.
But Kaho remained still and watched the fatal scene. "Lacudra's own work of art… His own art of killing" she murmured to Syaoran. "His little game is just beginning. This is the beginning of an end…" Kaho added with a determined face and tapped Syaoran's shoulder. "Come with me, Syaoran. I want to tell you something very important."
Syaoran faced and looked at her carefully. "Fine…" came his reply as he jammed his hands inside his pocket.
And Kaho dragged him outside the Emerald Bar, in a quiet zone where there were no people. She asked him, "You're still thinking of avenging your father's death, aren't you?" She could clearly see Syaoran's fury.
"It's so hard to believe that a vampire killed my dad. I could still remember those fangs…" Syaoran's wrath crept over his stiff body.
"Oh!" Kaho gasped. "So you're trying to tell me that you believe on vampires based on what you saw," she chuckled as she hardly pictured his thoughts. She could picture how Syaoran hated vampires. "Yes, we are true. We exist as vampires…" she brushed her long wavy hair with her lazy fingers.
Syaoran did not hesitate to hit Kaho with his right fist. "Darn it! You're one of them!" with those words, he attacked Kaho. "Die!"
Kaho was surprised of the swift move just like what she saw when Syaoran hit Eriol in the Horror Castle. She blocked his knuckles and gripped it so tight, enough to make Syaoran wince. "You're really bad when you're mad, aren't you?" she smiled gently still gripping Syaoran's knuckles.
"I'm mad about vampires!" he used his left fist to attack her.
Again, Kaho blocked it with her left hand. She squeezed it, too. "I appreciate your little talent. You have an aggressive move," she gave him a lopsided grin. "Well, sorry. But your talent isn't enough to beat me. You're still a human being and I'm a lamia. Humans can't overpower vampires." Kaho released him and watched him ache in pain from his hands. "You may had overpowered the Grim Reaper in the past days but he's still more powerful than you do…"
"I don't care with your special abilities!" Syaoran thundered. "I know that you vampires have weaknesses! You're weak against the wood! And I'll make a way to kill you…"
Kaho sighed. "C'mon Syaoran… I'm not here to have a fight with you. I'm not here to kill you… Please listen to me first!" she was losing patience.
Syaoran cooled off. "Ah really? Go on… I'll listen. Just make sure you won't hypnotize me or something like that. I have read about vampire's habit on the Ancient Book…"
"I won't do that. Well, what if I tell you that your dead father was a vampire, too? Would you believe?" the temple keeper questioned him straightly.
Syaoran's jaws tightened. "What the hell do you think you're saying? Are you trying to insult my father telling me he's some kind of… damn being?" he couldn't stop himself. "He's my father, an ordinary human… not a… not a whatsoever breed of creature!"
A/N: THE NEXT FEW PARAGRAPHS ARE A LITTLE BORING TO READ BUT HEY, READ THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION VERY WELL…
"Then you're wrong." Kaho interjected. "Let me explain everything…" she began. "There are three types of vampire clan during Lacudra's era: The Primary, Secondary and Tertiary. A primary vampire's parents are both lamias. A secondary vampire's parents are human and a vampire. As I've told you, these three types were during Lacudra's period. Vampires were still permitted to marry humans. But the present leader of the vamps, King Kinomoto, prohibited this."
"Kinomoto?" Syaoran asked. "Hey, that's Sakura's last name…" he thought.
Kaho continued lecturing. "Your father belonged to the Secondary vampires. And the third type, tertiary, they are the offspring produced by the Secondary vamps. As for the third type, tertiary vamps are also divided into two groups: Primal tertiary and Second tertiary" she explained. "When a secondary vamp marries a vampire and bears an offspring, the offspring then is called a Primal tertiary vamp. Primal tertiary vamp has a 75 chance of becoming a vampire. On the other hand, when the secondary vamp marries a human and bears a child, the child is then called a Second tertiary vamp. Second tertiary vamp has only 25 chance of becoming a vampire. They changed into a vampire rarely." Kaho looked at Syaoran straight to the eye. "And you belong to the Second tertiary clan, Li Syaoran…"
Syaoran gaped at the last sentence. "You've got to be kidding, Ms. Mizuki!" he said then shook his head. "Oh no… I'm a… I'm a human!" he uttered. "And I don't want to be some blood sucking creature!" he recalled how he can read one's mind and how clearly he saw Sakura's face when there was no light. "Oh, yes, Sakura…" he thought. "If I have the tendency to become a damn thing then I… I couldn't see her again the moment I changed! Nooo!!" he yelled desperately. "Sakura… she can't love a future vamp like me!" Syaoran remembered the first two pages of the book telling that vampires can't fall in love with humans.
Kaho sweatdropped and hit him so hard. "Stop your crazy thoughts, Syaoran! Sakura can love you, of course!" she said cheerfully. "You have a narrow thinking sometimes…"
Syaoran's eyes were moist. "I couldn't believe this! Maybe I should stop seeing her before I change into a… into a… Nooo! I don't want to hear that word!!!" he yelled crazily.
Kaho teased him. "What word? Vampire? Vampire? Vampire? Lamia? Lamia? Lamia?" she laughed sweetly at Syaoran.
"Shut up!!!" Syaoran went dramatic again. "I might hurt or kill her!!!" he cried quietly. "Damn it!"
"Sakura is our princess. She's the princess of Dark Realm. Your love is the beautiful daughter of King Kinomoto. Got it?"
Syaoran calmed down. "Dark Realm?" he's getting even more crazy the more Kaho talks. "You mean… No…" his heart sank and seemed to lose strength to speak up. "No…" he repeated. His voice was already weak.
"Sakura is one of our kin." Kaho watched him change his own reaction.
"Insanity… This is totally crazy…" Syaoran chuckled with disbelief. He wanted to run to Sakura's home and tell her that: "HEY! I'M ONE OF YOUR KIN! I BELONG!" His heart thudded hard. "Since when?" he asked curiously.
"Please don't be shocked. Sakura is about 3,000 years of age. We can stop aging anytime we want to. That's the nature of vampires." Kaho answered.
Syaoran's mind was full of mixed thoughts. He was scared of knowing he might become a vampire any moment from now. But then, upon knowing Sakura is also a vamp, he was somewhat overjoyed all of a sudden. "She might love me, too. Then we'll be together for eternity… That's one of my dreams. The other is to avenge my dad's death." His expression changed. "Do you know who killed my father? Probably not you. The murderer is a man…"
She puffed her fluffy bangs. "Find it out for yourself. You met him already…" she replied and turned around to leave.
"Wait!" Syaoran called. "Um… About the changing… Do you know when exactly I'm going to become a… vampire?" he could say the word now. His tone seemed to be excited.
She smirked and said. "Very soon.. Sooner than you expected. And please, be careful," she stressed the last words. "I have to leave now. I don't have much time to discuss about your future world, Syaoran. As for now, I have to focus about Lacudra's come back…" with that she fled. "I could sense it in your blood. The vampire blood inside you is slowly killing your human blood…" she thought. "Syaoran would be a great help to dispose Yue. I hope he's one of the two great warriors according to the prophecy."
Syaoran watched her left. "Whoah… The power of immortality…" he murmured to himself as he watched his palm. "The vampire cells inside me are already killing my every human blood.
End of the twelfth chapter
AngeLfromChaos
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