Disclaimer: I do not own Twilight.
Disclaimer: I do not own House of Night.
Authors note: I decided to slip in a house of night reference. I will pull more from that book series (fantastic series btw) and put it into Cursed Secrets. HM means Hive Mind...if you haven't already figured that out.
One of the Human Hive Minds detached from the building, apparently the first one finished transforming. It didn't look special, just a regular human, but one with the insides of an octopus.
"Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha…" The vampire laughed hysterically when he saw the creature that had detached itself from the feeding mass, "Ha, an Octopus HM? Funniest thing I've ever seen, octopuses can't do anything but fit into tight spaces."
Charlie and Paul stopped as they reach the vampire. The two men were pale in the moonlight, "Good." The vampire muttered, and took a deep unnecessary breath, "That way this will be easier, the last picture I see of you will be forever what society as a whole sees. Pale unearthly creatures."
The vampire with a controlled hunger boring gigantic holes in his throat grabbed Charlie by his powerful shoulders and handled him gently. The vampire was taller that Charlie, and the creature had to life the human into the air to drink from him.
The taste was beyond exquisite, but somehow tainted. 'He's the father of a human child. Of course, virgin blood always tastes better…for some odd reason. Ha, must be why there were a shortage of virgins in the last vampire war.' The taint grew as the vampire continued to feast on Charlie.
It was as if Charlie's blood was fighting back against this invasion, but the vampire was a very powerful creature, and forced Charlie's will to submit to his.
After he fed on Charlie the vampire dropped him writhing and screaming near the middle of the platform. Paul, the vampire didn't have to lift up to drink from him, surprisingly enough the taint wasn't there. 'Strange. I wonder why Charlie's blood tasted so god awful.' The vampire dropped Paul at the edge of the platform, and tied him tightly with rope woven out of dwarfs' hair and strengthened by dwarfs' spittle.
The vampire took another length of the dwarf rope and tied the struggling Charlie to the edge of the platform, directly opposite of Paul. Turning the vampire faced the horde, the Octopus HM still faced the trio tower, and looking up at the vampire it blinked a second set of eyes.
"I can't use sound, I've already used up those stores of power…hum. I wonder…maybe Nyx? No I can't ask her that wouldn't work. Last time she talked to me she told me to send the black rose, so she could gift her. Whatever the fuck that means." The vampire muttered to him self, thinking the OHM was completely harmless when its hand made a fist, and its arm stretched out smacking the vampire back a few feet.
"Seem more like and annoyance, huh?" A voice called from below.
"So the OHM can talk can it? That's just wonderful, now I can hear you scream in agony when I kill you, slowly." The vampire threatened in response, when in reality he really wanted to keep the monster distracted so his creations could finish transforming.
Sure it would take a while, but two fresh fledglings and one ancient vampire was an infinitely better fighting force than one ancient vampire all by his lonesome.
"OHM?"
"Octopus Hive Mind." The vampire said, clearly ignoring the outrage from the creature at the knowledge that it knew what a Hive Mind was, and how to classify them.
"How do you know? How?" The OHM hissed, despite the distance the vampire could still hear the creature's quiet speech.
"I am a Hive Mind myself, to be specific I am a Vampire Hive Mind." The vampire said with concocted interest, the creature above the other creature was trying to keep the other creature quiet.
"Why don't you come down here, eh? I'm sure we'll figure something out." The OHM said his voice trying to allure the ancient and powerful vampire standing atop the three industrial Golem steel smokestacks.
The whole time during this brief conversation the vampire never forgot the sound of the horde feeding on the building, suddenly it stopped. Still keeping one eye trained on the OHM, the vampire looked to the building, or what was left, or where once was a building.
All the metal in the massive structure had been eaten away, completely devoured, and the results on the Human Hive Minds were astonishing.
Somehow they all looked the same, except with firmer jaws and more muscular bodies, and the ability to morph. the vampire realized this last fact when he witnessed one of them morph itself into a massive tundra wolf, a species that had gone extinct a long time ago. 'They look like they could tear through anything…I wonder if this is a prelude to the land eating leviathan?' The vampire thought as her stared at the now fully aware and awake army of Human Hive Minds stretching out before him.
"Listen," The vampire said trying to negotiate with the OHM, "Let's work out a deal."
"What kind of deal?" The OHM asked.
"One that we both will benefit from." The vampire said.
"I am intrigued…go on. What is the deal that you purpose?"