First Blood

Everything twisted as those big brown eyes looked up at you, time almost slowing as you continued to fly up through the air. The Woman below you, her face painted with shock at the sight of you and for good reason, you could feel the muscles in your face drawing back like hard wires, jaws extending hideously as your insides screamed: "She's seen me!" You had to get her, stop her before she ran off, damn it! you would never get back down to the ground in time!

Slowly the woman began to turn to run as your hand, twisting into horribly sharp claws, You reached out to her, outstretching your will downward with everything that you had.

In a wicked flash, Your body instantly began to thin, the fibres of your muscles, your snow-white skin, your iron bones, began to dissipate into an umbral vapour, a mist that shot like a rocket down to the woman below, You felt the cringe-inducing sensation of your mass passing through her flesh, feeling the pull of her blood and bones while rematerialising only a couple of inches behind her.

There was only a second or so of shock, between the both of you, considering the fact that your entire body passed through her... as a mist, as cool (and weird) as that was, you could worry about that later.

You slowly turned, eyes burning red as hot coals, meeting with the quivering woman as her heart was beating so fast, pumping freshly oxygenated blood through her tall and buxom form "I....I....I...You-Wha...Ple-" You snatched out at the woman, your taloned fingers wrapping around her neck as you **** her back against the adjacent brick wall.

This was the feeling that needed to be quenched, you understood now, your cold predatory fury pressed against her frail human warmth, a fleshy vessel, filled to the brim with pure euphoria completely at your mercy. You were the king at this moment, Her life hung on your whim, this was the Thirst's companion, a mandatory extension of what feeds a night creature, not only the Blood, the Hunt too, prey in your grasp; her fate your creation.

Your eyes wandered along the woman's partially exposed collar, looking across the smooth olive her skin and up to the pulsing veins in her neck. Without much thought you slowly began to descend on the woman who, you had barely noticed, had been trying to pull your hands from her neck as she choked "Stop."

Rose had appeared in between you, her piercing stare breaking your line of sight on the woman's jugular... You know Rose looked quite appetizing herself, the fiery Vampire staring you down with her icy blue eyes, her incredibly long mane of hair tied into a tight bun, you could just eat her up, "I have half a mind to see how you taste." You said in your beastly voice, you weren't certain of what she thought about that, but she didn't pause, noticing your growing monstrosity "Maybe You should look before you eat, moron." She said, gesturing to the girl in your grasp.

The Woman that You had so hastily caught squirmed less and less as you continued to decline her breath. You slightly relaxed your grip, carefully allowing the woman to gain enough air so that she could breathe. Gasping harshly as You finally, actually, saw her.

She was maybe in her late twenties, quite beautiful, despite the mascara running down her face from where she had been crying, her cheeks were round and sleek, the pink of her lips quivering in fear, you noticed the little beauty mark under the right of her lip. She was more than prey, she is a person, you don't want to forget that "Look at her clothes" you peered at her fine mink coat, her fingers adorned with fine rings and her designer jeans "She's wealthy or her family is..." You muttered gently loosening your grip further as she began to cough violently "You must *see* your prey before you choose, look for what makes them a good target, but she has also seen you."

"Well, I can't... kill her, she'll be missed." Rose nodded in agreement, "There is a solution." Rose gently exclaimed as the beautiful prey began to sob, "Pleasedon'tkillme!" she quickly rushed out her dark eyes wide with fear, "I-I-I have money, you want money, its... it's in my purse please, just let me go..." she continued to beg along those lines for a moment before Rose gestured for you to watch.

The Woman was cut off by Rose's piercing stare "Silence..." she whispered, causing the yapping to halt abruptly.....

A chill crept up the arch of your spine, Silence...

"Eye contact and the extension of will, she will obey your command, to see, to be blind, to follow or halt, to Remember and to forget." Rose removed herself from between You and the now silent woman, tears slowly falling from her face; still fixed with shock, You didn't like that look, that fear... you looked deep into her Chocolate coloured eyes pushing between the terror in her pupils and latching on to her being "Be still..." She shivered, looking at you strangely as you invaded her mind "Be. Still." You insisted, pushing back against her will "Be Still."

The words echoed through her body, filling every crevice, seizing up into her soul, making her body tense up tightly as she remained completely still "Good." said Rose as you let go of the woman completely, watching as she simply stood their quietly a terrified look on her face, you touched the soft skin on her round cheek, wiping a little of her stained tears away "So pretty, too pretty to look so scared..." You muttered, "Don't be afraid." Little by little, her face relaxed at your command, though the lingering fear in her eyes remained, she mostly looked calm... she smelt so good.

You felt a hiss involuntarily slip from your jaws, "You have begun the Hunt, made your Choice of Prey..." Rose hissed. her visage twisting grimly "Now, Feed."

You never looked away from the Brown-eyed woman, even as you felt the beast inside enrapture you, teeth bore, Skin white as ash, eyes glowing a bloody red "Your name, Tell me Your name, say it to me." You commanded as you inched in closer, smelling her perfume the after tones of her sweat behind it, you could see them pulsing in her neck, the veins begging to be tapped into and as You closed your jaws around her nape she squeaked quietly, her eyes rolling as you drew from her life "Belle Harlow... Belle Harlow... Belle Harlow... Belle Harlow... Belle Harlow... Belle Harlow..."

After the first sip, You had come to revelation: this was perfect, so unfathomably euphoric that stopping might have been almost impossible.

You weren't just drinking human blood, biting some poor lady called Belle Harlow in an alleyway, You were sapping life itself from the living, delving into the apex of her soul and claiming it for your own. You could taste her hate, her fear, her love, her life, you could see into her heart, feel what she had felt, in these fractions of a second, You knew Isabelle Harlow, You knew her fiance; Eddie, You knew how many cars she had, how many sexual partners she had gathered in her 29 years of life: Seven & Twenty-Four, you pushed into her veins and penetrated her very being, her warmth being replaced with your devilish essence.

"Charles...." A red-Voice called in the distance "Charles, you have to stop." Rose said coldly "If you don't stop you will drain her dry..." Her words made you almost semi-conscious, she was right, you were pulling the blood right out of her heart, you had to stop.

But it was so good, this nectar of the gods, this beautiful keg of absolute joy

TASTY,HUNGRY,FEED ME, MORE,GIVE,TAKE,TAKE,TAKE,WARM,SOFT,BLOOD!

"Stop!"

LOVELY,SCRUMPTIOUS,DELICIOUS,GIVE,HUNGRY,FEEDME,GUSHING!

"Shut up!"

NO,BLOOD,DELICIOUS,HUNGRY,TASTY,MORE,MOOORE!

"I said Stop."

WHAT!?HOW!?NO,BLOOD,TASTY,TASY,PLEASE!

"Let go."

HOW,NO,STOP,NEED,PLEASE,FEEDME!

"Obey"

FOOD,NEED,MORE,FOOD,STOP!

"Back in your cage"

NO,NO,NO,NO,NO

"You are just a beast."

NO,HOW,PLEASE,FEE-

"Go back to sleep."

TiReD...

"Go. Back. To. Sleep

sleep.....yes....sleep.

You let her go. She was **** but alive... though barely, you held her, she was almost completely clean, not sanguine covered like you had expected, though the dark pin-prick marks where you had fed remained for a moment, funny, it looked like all you had done was give her a bad hickey.

"I think I understand why they stay in that hotel" You muttered to Rose who had this cautious look on her, "Yes." is all she said, staring silently at you, not like a zoo animal this time, no, she looked at you, if only for a moment like the Gerix did.

As suddenly and shockingly as being shot, a sensation passed through your chest "What the fuck!?" You cried trying not to drop Belle as you shook, but Rose.

Rose changed so completely that it almost made your jump, her face becoming monstrous and her fingers sharpening into claws so sharp that they almost looked like Razors "Take her and leave!" She hissed furiously "But-"

"NOW!" She roared, shrieking as she vanished into the shadows.

".....Um, fuck." You said, holding Belle's **** body in both of your arms. You looked around, it was quiet, you could hear the street a ways off but other than that, why did Rose runoff, what was that feeling just now. Whatever was going on, just standing there in a dark alley with an **** wasn't a good look and so You thought for a second, "Where do I take her, the Hospital is obviously out of the question." It was then that it occurred to you, Belle only lived ten minutes away, her Fiance's apartment would be a good place to leave her to recover.

You reached down to Belle's legs, carefully holding her against you and supporting her neck with your shoulder. After checking to make sure that no-one would see you this time, you jumped up to the roof, flying effortlessly on and across the high city rooftops.

Reaching the studio apartment was pretty easy considering that You had to make sure that you didn't drop or harm Belle in the process, though as you did reach the high apartment, You realized that Her eyes were open a crack, her absent eyes staring at you as you dropped carefully to the fire escape "Sss.....Wh....Yo...." she mumbled mindlessly, blinking dozily while you jumped over to her balcony, forcing open the door to get inside.

You stepped into the large single room, looking around curiously as you took in the small living space, weird, she looked like a wealthy woman, not someone who would stay in a studio apartment, you scoured the fragments of information that you picked up from her, but it seemed pieces were missing, though why was for another moment of lamentation, for the moment you simply walked over to the large couch and gently set her down.

You looked at the bruises on her neck where you had held her, the dark spot where you had latched on like a leech, it was all just... you felt kinda bad.

"Hey, Lover-boy" The Words were fuel on a fire that you had almost forgotten was still burning, in all of the excitement of undeath, you had forgotten about her.

You turned, every fibre of your being filled to the brim with primal rage, only further pushed by the sight of her standing there in the balcony's doorway, You were gonna do it, You were finally gonna fucking kill this god damn monster, you were going to wipe that smirk off of her pale face, rip off her head and toss it in the sewers, you pulled every inch of strength into your being and prepared to storm that Red-Haired bitch!