R+V Time, Place, Destiny! Chapter 57 In the land of darkness.
Tsukune closed his eyes as he reached over and held Moka in his arms laying her head close to his chest so she could listen to the soft beating of his heart. Reaching up with his right hand Tsukune gently began to stroke her pink hair.
"Tsukune, chapa chu…."Outer Moka whispered softly as she sank her fangs into Tsukune's neck. The pink haired vampire let out a happy moan reviling in the intimate contact she shared with her bloodmate as well as the intoxicating taste of his blood which was exclusively for her and for her alone.
"Moka, its okay, take as much of my blood as you want there's always more."
Moka hearing her mates comment seemed to inspire her to bite down harder and suck more blood from him for she continued to feast from Tsukune's neck for nearly twenty minutes only to fall asleep in his arms.
Tsukune smiled as he shook his head. He turned and looked at everyone in the limo with him. His grandfather, The Seer, and his parents. Tsukune paused for a moment trying to think of how best to word his question, thankfully the vampire with the long silvery hair dressed in her green robes looked at him and said.
"What you saw Tsukune was real do not doubt it. Tell your grandfather to do the task Moka's departed relatives asked of you so a little of your burden can be lifted from your shoulders."
Tsukune narrowed his eyes as he turned to The Seer and said. "How do you know about that? How do you know what Moka and I experienced in the temple? I don't even know if it was real or not."
"Tsukune its doesn't matter what you believe as long as you believe in something. Now please hurry time is short."
Tsukune closed his eyes shook his head and said. "Look this going to sound crazy but in the shrine Sheora Sanzena daughters uborn daughter unleashed her youki along with our babies youki. It mixed and something happened. I lost conciseness and I found myself kneeling in vast pool of blood.
It was everywhere. I saw both Inner and Outer Moka then the Sanzena's daughter showed up. Then she claims that we are or were dead. Then out of this vast pool of blood Moka's four grandparents show up."
Olorin regarded his grandson for a moment taking in what he said acting as if what Tsukune had said didn't sound incredibly insane at all.
"You think I'm crazy, don't you?" Tsukune said trying not to be overwhelmed by the near insanity of how his previous statement had sounded even to him.
"No Tsukune I don't. Now what did Moka's grandparents, if that is indeed what they were, tell you?"
Tsukune took another breath grathering his thoughts and said. "They told Moka to go back home to the mansion. That there was a fire place with a loose brick in it. They said that beneath that brick is a small silver and red square box covered with vampire glyphs.
That box they claimed that it contains a piece of all four of their youki…It was some kind of ancient vampire device used for training younger vampires. They said that it was one part ancient vampire youki one part ancient vampire science. They claimed that it had all of their knowledge and techniques they learned from Moka's great grandparents."
Tsukune's grandfather raised one of his eyebrows in amazement.
"A sangreal a blood stone like the one Moka has around her neck, beneath her Rosario. Humm, things just got more interesting then….Tsukune continue please."
"Umm then Moka's grandmother said that we should use it to help and nurture the next generation of our family. That's what the stone was for.
Also Moka's grandmother said that there was an old tape drive in the space behind the fireplace. She said that it has two lists on it. The first is a list of friends of theirs other vampire nobles who know the truth about what the council is doing. Then she said that we should get them to go into voluntary exile into the human world, have Night Falls fake their deaths it's the only way that they would be safe.
Then the second list is a list of executive orders on it. Hidden inside that list of orders is the kill list of all the nobles that the assassination squad had been ordered to kill. She said we have to get the nobles who are on that list out of the vampire nation and into the human world.
After that she said for Moka to get her family and go into hiding in the human world." Tsukune paused and let out the breath he didn't realize he was holding only to begin to unconsciously absentmindedly begin to stroke Moka's long pink hair trying to calm himself down while taking in the heated scent of his wife/ bloodmate.
Tsukune's granfather pressed his hands togeather proping his arms up on his elbows up on his knees frowning letting the wheels in his head turn taking in everyword Tsukune spoke considering it carefully.
"I see so the situation is that grave then….Hummm, well if what you are saying is true and checks out then once I have the list I'll have to pull a few strings but I'll do what you ask Tsukune. Now then go on Tsukune continue."
"Moka's grandmother said that if any of Moka's family or any of Kahula's family stay then they'll die when the assassination squads come for them…The councils and the two Elders goal is to start a war between the various covens, and noble houses which they believe will cleanse the vampire nation of all the vampires who are weak.
Moka's grandmother said that the official order that The Vampire council and The two Elders list the assassination order under is Executive Order sixty six they called it. Then she gave me a line of code memorize…" Tsukune closed his eyes as a frown appeared on his face as struggled to remember the conversation.
"Make sure that you remember this. The line of code is: Management Security Division, Security regulation three-zero-nin-zero, seven, seven, eight, two. Access code R20055. Then she said to decrypt the file . Authorization for the file is, nine, four-eight-AR-RMOC-666-02-AK. Make sure you get that tape drive and don't tell Moka's father about what you are doing…I don't know who if we can trust him…
Grandfather when a vampire dies what happens exactly? I mean…The reason I'm asking is I went to the temple of night and I got taken down to one of the lower levels in it. Underneath the temple is the resting place of the vampires. If Moka's grandparents are dead then will Moka's grandparents get taken there too? Also theirs someone else down there that you need to go and see….."
Tsukune paused once more looking squarely at his grandfather he said. "Grandfather at the lowest level of the temple is the resting place of the son of The Master Vampire, High general of the vampires, vampire general Gelnarf. The priests have been protecting him all this time. I thought that you would want to know."
Tsukune's grandfather closed his eyes and said nothing however for a few seconds Tsukune could have sworn he heard a brief all to soft murmur of "Father" escape his grandfathers lips only to die a few seconds later.
"That's not all…Moka's grandmother said that an Assassination Squad came and murdered the four of them when the team came to get the information. The council and two of the three Elders wanted to make a example of them for the other nobles of the other noble houses who they believed to be threat to their rise in power."
"Well Tsukune its true after all, the lower vampire court and the vampire high council and the Elders are corrupt and power hungry. Being gready, power hungry, and suffering no rival to your position , being pridefull, and a pureblood these are reasons that you get a position on the lower court or the vampire high council if you are good enough or if your lucky you become an Elder Tsukune.
Granted a positon on the lower court, the high council or The Three Elders doesn't open up that often, but when it does its due to one of its members being killed off by a rivial house. Its not because that any of them are kind, gentle and lead the other vampires. Its because they have proved to the other vampires that they are the coldest, cruelest, oldest and most dangerous of their kind. They always have to keep fighting among rival houses, covens or clans to keep their positions of power so its in their nature.
Then again what person of power and influence don't get that way over time. If the information Moka's grandmother told us is true then they've started something very dangerous, ordering the Assassination squads to kill the nobles of other prominent houses. The Assassination squad is not supposed to take sides in regards to feuds between clans, covens and noble houses. There soul purpose is to protect the vampire nation from threats outside and within. They kill the vampires who break the rules and hunt down the ones who go and kill their own kind mindlessly."
"What do mean, "Kill their own kind mindlessly?"" Tsukune asked afraid of what the answer was going to be.
Olorin regarded Tsukune for a moment and said trying to be as deliecate as possible. "Well this is going to take some explaining so relax and be patient. Tell me Tsukune what you think immortality is?"
Tsukune reached up and scratched his head for a moment and said.
"Living forever I suppose….Why?"
"Well immortality is defined as the ability to have eternal life or existence but it's so much more than that….So much more and then some. Let me give you an example….I remember I once saw a little girl playing in the gardens of her parents estate. I was a friend to her and I watched over her in secret then over time I saw the same woman get married, then years later I saw her grow old and die.
Immortality in its simplest form is it's the ability to see everything and everyone around you change and your left. It's the ability to see the people you love grow from mere babies to old adults only to die right in front of you. When your immortal you learn that people and places are finite in this world and that nothing and no one lasts forever. Everything and everyone around you is nothing more than a eye blink in your life. Everything changes all around you are you are left. Immortality can be a curse if you let it. It can drive you insane as well.
On the other hand you get to see people, places and things no one else has and it's a increadible thing to see the way a society changes from nothing more than social barbarism to a partially civilized society like we have now.
Garont and Gilson once told me that it helps to have friends to pass the ages with. Immortality Tsukune is like being in the middle of a raging river. You have to have someone or something to help steady yourself against the flow and rage of the waters of time or you'll slip, loose your balance and loose yourself to times raging waters and drowned loosing your humanity and go insane."
Tsukune swallowed taking in the vast weight of his grandfathers words
"Now then that brings me up to this point as I said before you know Tsukune vampires are immortal youki. Now what you don't know is that just because you're a vampire that doesn't mean that you automatically get unlimited wealth and power. Vampires just like humans have had to work hard to accumulate the vast wealth that most of their houses enjoy espaecilly the younger ones. Most younger vampires on average are about two hundred to four hundred years old now the really older ones are about eight hundred to nine hundred years old. Now the oldest ones are about a thousand or two thousand years old.
The thing about being thousands of years old is to them they are few and far between and the older ones grow tired of watching and sheparding over the younger generation of vampires and left them to their own ways. Kind of like a older brother who gets tired of watching over his little brother or sister. Now the older you are the stronger you are also you tend to get a little set in your ways. Also you begin to feel the subtle impact of seeing the hand of time stretching itself out over everything and everyone and with that some vampires believe that they have seen it all, war, famine, plagues, revolutions, love, life, and death.
So they begin to lose themselves little by little and begin to not care about themselves or their own kind anymore. They begin to seek a new thrill to entertain them and what greater thrill is there to by tried then by trying to kill another immortal creature such as yourself. Thankfully the few five thousand year old vampires I know very few of them ever chose that path. When they grow tired of humanity some decide to find a quite spot away from everything and everyone and sleep away the ages and awaken every few hundred years or so.
Also a vampires immortality is a pretty relative thing. On the one hand if you play your cards right you could live ten thousand years like me or you could die tomarrow at the hands of another noble who could try to steal Moka away from you. Get the picture?
That in essence is what it means to be a vampire Tsukune. Now then if you are lucky enough to get that age, then you have, if you have played your cards right, a great deal of wealth and power, which would make them absurdly wealthy in the eyes of a human, and just like in human society, in vampire society that doesn't make all of them equal to each other in terms of wealth or power.
The truth of it is Tsukune that due to their own imortality and pride in their near invicible status amoung youki most vampires don't reproduce that often and they don't care to. Most of them are so content and confident in their own strength and power that they believe that they will live forever, which techicly speaking they will, and don't even both thinking about a heir. Then more often than not they end up killing each other in an effort to get another ones power.
Tsukune swallowed grimly at his grandfathers words.
"Good now I mean to sound bossy Tsukune but you and Moka should live in the human world just to be safe. Few vampires from the youki world set foot there most of them consider it beneath them to do so. Because if The council and the Elders are indeed hunting their own kind down until they believe that their position is secure they two of you aren't safe."
Tsukune looked at his grandfather said slowly. "Grandfather there's more. You see Moka's grandmother said that she should seek out The Exiled vampires they will be an invaluable asset later. I think that she was referring to the vampires whom you take care of. Also have you ever heard of a vampire called a ludo?"
Tsukune watched as his grandfathers eyes shot open wide in shock upon hearing his question.
"Where did you hear that word Tsukune?" Olorin's voice said as it tightened like a vice.
Tsukune griped Moka in his arms.
"Ummm Moka's grandmother said that the ludo were humans who have been transformed into vampires….Is this true?"
"Yes its true Tsukune. The ludo are rare. They are sometimes called second born vampires. They are hated by the vampires in the youki world. They are as hated as much as say half bloods, or blue bloods as they are sometimes called. In other words demphires being the technical term for a vampire who has both human and vampire blood in their veins. Both Ludo and Blue Bloods are sometimes called mudblood or dirty blood by the vampires who are what they call pure blood. In otherwords blood that has no trace of human blood in it."
Tsukune shook his head at the level of racisim that Moka's race had.
"Grandfather listen Moka's grandmother said that I should meet with Fong-Fong Wong and that he would take me to a group of Ludo vampires. She said that the Ludo would listen to me and that they would help us as well. One more thing you said mom is what type of vampire again?" Tsukune asked trying to be gentle in the subject conserning his mother.
Tsukune's grandfather chuckled at Tsukune.
"Your mothers is a Fangless Vampire. Fangless are a group of vampires who were sired by The Master Vampires wife The Empress. Your grandfather was the first of their kind and from him grew the Frangless vampires. They are vastly different from purebloods.
Fangless vampires have to bite someone and inject their blood into another living person to get rid of it. Otherwise it overwhelms them and they drown in their own fluids. Just as purebloods need to drink blood to stay alive. Fangless vampires don't drink blood save for the one person they intend to marry. Fangless vampires can't reproduce with other fangless vampires they have had to mate with humans in order to survive. The purebloods hate them.
True your birth proves that a union between Pureblood and Fangless is possible. I'm starting to think that, that is what The Master Vampire and The Empress wanted both Pureblood and Fangless to do. The two of them wanted was for the two races of vampires to become one. What one race lacks the other provides in symbiotic relationship. The thing is Tsukune the purebloods started a war with the fangless vampires in a effort to exterminate them and they damn well nearly seceded.
I helped Kasumi's father help his people go into hiding so as far as most of the purebloods know the fangless are all wiped out. We can not let the elders find out what your mother is Tsukune otherwise they will kill her. Also Moka should be happy she married a new breed of vampire." Tsukune's grandfather chuckled.
'A new breed of vampire great.' Tsukune thought sarcastically.
"Look grandfather Moka's grandmother said that I should go to Las Vagas Nevada. She said that I would find a singer there by the name of Wyne Nution. He is a fangless vampire. She said I should met him then ask Wyne if that is his real hair. Then she said that I should say that Wyne has the same hair on his head as Elvis once did. Then say Elvis is not dead he just went home. Apparently its some kind of code word or something. I think that its best if mom and dad go to Las Vages to take care of that.
Also one last thing she said something about no matter how safe it may seem Moka and I mustn't go back to the vampire nation, especially on The vampire Holy Night of Attack. She also said that I shouldn't let the council or the Elders see Moka or our babies for if they do they will attempt to destroy them. She told us to stay away from the vampire nation for sixteen years, because if we do go there for whatever reason then our children will suffer for our foolishness. Grandfather first what is this vampire holy night of attack and second the councel wouldn't'do anything to Moka would they for fear of angering Moka's father who is High Elder right?"
"Tsukune," The Seer let her green eyes gaze at Tsukune as she addressed him. "The vampire holy night of attack is a night in honor of a vampire Saint named Vispuchi and is meer hours away. Remember my words of not going back and on the night of St. Visputchi. You must not go."
The Seers words sent a shiver down Tsukune's spine then The Seer then turned to address Olorin. "Now then the daughter of the head priestess of her shrine temple, her daughter is like your two children grandchildren. I knew that from the moment I first saw her." The Seer paused and rubbed her head for a moment and said.
"Soon the night of the vampire saint will be upon us, mere hours away with the rising of the full moon. It will get dangerous now for Sheora Sanzena her daughter and also for all of you."
The Seer wrapped her green cloak further around herself as she turned her green eyes over to and addressed Tsukune's grandfather Olorin. "The head priestess and her daughter are in the next limo so it will take the two of them to a safe place so they will be protected. Events are now set in motion which cannot be undone."
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Several men dressed in black suits and ties slowly peaked their heads out from behind several dead trees that each of them stood behind.
"T-Minus two minutes lets get this done people." A bald man spoke into a communicator on his ear to the rest of his men.
"Remember we need them alive, no disintegrations. Use your branding irons on the rest but leave Aono Tsukune and Akshiya Moka alone. We need the two of them alive."The man snapped as he fingered the grenade launcher in hands even as he unconsciously began to finger the long thin narrow branding iron attached to his belt.
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