When I opened the closet I was extremely happy to find that someone had bought a few clothes that I could wear. I looked over to the gothic guy that had followed me in, "So what are you?" I asked. He looked at me eyebrows up.
"Well that is very simple to answer." He said. With that he let his fangs extend then he flashed into a bat. When he changed back I saw that he was still clothed. I wanted to ask how he managed that but he started to talk before I did. "I am one of the oldest vamps here, apart from your Walter. I am called Ravvi." He said.
That explained a lot. More years more experience more power. "So how old are you guys?" I asked.
He looked at me like he thought I should know ,somehow I could sense that this is the one I should have been getting information from all along. "Both your Mari and I were turned on the same day, I am 453, and he is 459." He said clearly enjoying the shocked look on my face.
"But you don't look any older than 16." I said stupidly.
He just laughed and said, "Well you won't age either." Well that did make sense.
"Well Tippi I'm going to leave you now. Walter would kill me if he knew that I was in his room with you in it. Do us all a favor and put on some clothes. He could come in any minute, get the wrong impression and burn the whole fucking place down." With that he walked out leaving me with a smile on my face. < I do hope he does come home tonight >I thought to myself.
I found the bathroom took a bath then changed into a black silk night gown and slipped into bed. I was awakened by the sound of someone entering the room. When I opened my eyes I was hoping to see Walter but instead was greeted by Alexxus.
"I am here to offer you my vein." He said sitting on the bed and extending his neck. At first I was going to refuse him but then I noticed a new feeling in the back of my brain it was almost as if my brain was pulsing to the beat of his heart. Before I knew it I had flashed forward and latched onto his jugular. He let out a tiny barely audible moan and I quickly let go. He looked at me with dream struck eyes.
"Is that all you need?" he asked me sensing I didn't complete the feeding.
"Yeah that's it." I lied he had to have known I was lying but he just got up and left. After he was gone I couldn't get back to sleep so I just stayed up and waited for Walter to come in. I stayed up for hours and he didn't come in, and eventually in spite of myself I fell asleep. When I woke up the next morning I looked around eagerly for Walter, and to my dismay he was no where to be found. I then set out to find the kitchen. This at least I was able to find. My spirits were lifted a little when I saw Ravvi sitting at the extra large table.
"Good morning Tippi." He said not even turning around. "I bet you want to ask me about everything that is going on. And I just want you to know that I was given orders to do so anyway" he finished turning around. I looked at his and nodded. "Very well then from the top, Kasha and Walter are brother and sister by the blood." He paused for my dramatic intake of breath. "Somewhere along the line they just broke apart and stopped talking. That, for whatever reason, turned into the full on hating each other. They then decided that they where enemies and that one of them had to die. They have been fighting tooth and nail ever since then, but their powers are to well matched along with their armies. This battle has raged on for way to many decades. They both began to get desperate and went to a spiritual witch. The woman gave them both the same prophecy. There will be one vampire that will stand above the rest. She will be the only one that can resolve this conflict. She will take no sides unless greatly moved, and neither of you will be able to shake her. Her young beauty will enthrall you both and lead to one of your demise. Both he and Kasha went in search of you and well they clearly found you. I don't think that he expected to be your soul mate though. The old crone left that part out. Now they have dumped you head first into this quarrel, they are fighting over you because your powers are supposed to be the most magnificent that all of us vamps have seen in a very long he time. I personally believe that you won't be killing either one of them you look like the sit down and talk it out type to me." He said with a little frown.
I was slightly brain dead from the knowledge that I had sucked up. Well it was just another thing for me to add to my weird ass shit list. I just sat down and ate an orange while my brain digested what Ravvi told me. At some point he got up and left leaving me alone with my thoughts.
You know really this shouldn't have bothered me much; I was always solving other people's problems. My only issue came when he told me that one of them had to die. The entire rest of the day went oh so slowly. I stayed up in my room for a vast majority of the time. As the hour ticked away I grew more and more wary about Walter's absence finally it was night and Alexxus came up to my room and offered his vein once more.
"Please just feed! Walter will kill me for real if he comes back and you aren't well." He looked at me with pleading eyes. I didn't want to do it but I knew I had to it just felt wrong, but I lifted his head back and landed a strike directly on his jugular. Once again he moaned and I was going to let go but he reached his hand around and held me there. Stubborn as I am, I continued to struggle, but he was too strong and I just had to give in and drink. As I was feeding he started to writhe as though in intense pleasure... or pain. I panicked and withdrew violently.
"I really think that you should go now." I said unable to look at him. He didn't say a word he just got up and staggered out. I flopped back in the bed thinking about how awkward that was when I heard the door open again. I lurched up expecting to see Alexxus slinking back into the room. I blinked a couple of times just to make sure I wasn't seeing things, I wasn't Walter was back!
He stumbled a few times towards me then he fell to the floor. I screamed for help rushing to his side. He had multiple lesions on his side that looked like they were caused by some sort multi-bladed weapon. Two vamps flurried into the room one of them was Ravvi. They instructed me to step back, I didn't know what to expect I just knew that I for damn sure was not going to just step back and watch this happen.
