*This is my first foray into the "NonHuman" category, and I have to say it's so much fun! I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it! Please be honest, leave your comments, rate it, send feedback. I love hearing what readers have to say, whether good or bad. Also, Happy New Year!! Enjoy!!
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Chapter 1: Change
Zara stormed into the club with murder in her eyes. Kai and Stéfane would pay dearly for the millionth prank they pulled on her in her very long life. She wondered how she managed
not
to kill them in the thousand and a half years they had been walking the earth. She had been planning to dye her long wavy chestnut hair that night when it had all gone horribly wrong. Her brother and his little sidekick had replaced her usual product with one that had left her hair white, bordering on silver. Had she stopped to look at herself, she would have realized the effect on her light skin and large, green eyes was unmistakably ethereal, surprisingly enhancing her already gorgeous features. She hadn't stopped to look however, her temper flaring instantly, as it usually did.
She also hadn't missed the fact that he had invaded her space, and she was extremely private when it came to her living arrangements. She didn't allow anyone into her domain, as most vampires do. They were naturally a very secretive species. Living with her brother most of her life, she needed her own place to escape. Most importantly, and the cause for most of her fury at the moment, he had taken her ring, and he should have known better. She had left their home and climbed into her Aston Martin, speeding all the way to her brother's club. She found Kai sitting in a large booth with a pretty girl in his lap; she seemed a young vampire, no more than half a century. A few other men sat with him, Stéfane to his right. Her fangs elongated as a long hiss escaped her as she stomped towards them, her eyes glowing silver, causing dancers to give her a wide berth.
"You idiots think this is funny?!" she shrieked, gesturing to her hair, "I'm going to cut your balls off and feed them to you Kai, and when I'm done, I will gladly do the same to you Stéfane!" she glared at him, her eyes growing brighter.
"I don't know sis, I think it suits you wonderfully! Much more age appropriate I think," he said laughing loudly.
She growled, "Where the fuck is it Kai? I know you took it!"
"What are you rambling on about dear sister?" he said while waving a hand in the air, a strobe light glinted off of the emerald ring on his pinky finger.
"Sweetheart," she said in a sickly sweet voice to the youngling in his lap, "I suggest you unwrap yourself from my brother immediately, so I can kill him. Don't want to harm that pretty little head now do we?"
One look at Zara, and the youngling was scrambling off Kai's lap and far away from the scene that was about to unfold.
Her brother sighed resignedly, "I quite liked that one," he said in a disgruntled tone.
Zara pounced on him suddenly, grabbing him by the throat. He reacted immediately, pushing her back, landing them both hard on the ground, with him hovering over her. She kneed him in the crotch and rolled them over, her hand still clasping around his neck, her nails digging into his skin, piercing his throat. She wrenched the ring off his hand, breaking the finger with a loud snap in the process. The instant the ring was back in her possession, her eyes began returning to their normal state, the glow merely a silver halo now.
She felt Stéfane attempting to pull her back by the shoulders, she whipped around in a blur and punched him hard in the face, breaking his nose and sending him flying back, as though an invisible rope was tied around his waist.
"Don't worry Stéfane, you'll get your turn, as soon as I'm done with brother dearest," she hissed. When she turned back around, she found her brother standing again, the wounds in his neck already healing. With the ring back on her hand, she felt her untamed power being reigned in, her anger going down a notch.
"You're so fucking lucky you're my brother Kai, or I would rip your head off right now without a second thought."
"Love you sis," he said with a smirk, then blowing her a kiss. She blurred again and pushed him so hard in the chest he flew back and slammed against a wall, causing a sizable chunk of concrete to crumble with him to the floor. They had drawn the attention of almost the entire club. The stares of the patrons sobered her up a little and she attempted to calm herself once again.
"Jesus, Zara, it's not like you can't fix it! That bloody hurt!" Stéfane said, walking back to the booth, setting his nose back in its place with a resounding crack, his healing abilities already at work.
"That was the point dumbass," she rolled her eyes, slapping him upside the head.
"Why do you even bother with that human made crap, you can easily will your hair any colour, and it will be," Kai growled, setting his finger back in place and brushing dust off his Armani suit, more angry that it was ruined than having been bested by his sister, "Really Zara, sometimes I don't understand your fascination with all these human limitations."
It was true, as a vampire she could will her looks into being. If she wanted long hair or short, blonde or red, all she had to do was think it and it would change upon her will. She could will many things into existence. It was one of the many perks of her supernatural life. She had grown tired of it however, wanting something to do in her boredom. She opted to attempt the way humans went about doing things. It was her new project at the moment, attempting not to use her abilities for the week, simply live as a human would.
More than boredom though, she wanted to test how far she could suppress her surplus of abilities and for how long, as she was no ordinary vampire. She had come up with the idea to give her something to do. She hadn't realized until it was too late what the two idiots sitting in front of her had done. She hadn't changed her hair back either because she saw it as cheating, she had two days left in the week and she wouldn't allow Kai to ruin her little experiment. It was when her anger sparked and the sheer force of power that hit her, did she realize he had taken the ring from her dresser. While not as strong as if it was on her person, its proximity still held part of its enchantments, containing the energy that raged through her. The magic worked on it made it an extension of her body, an extra limb, as she liked to think of it. Another organ, working to keep her alive.
"That is besides the point Kailan!" she growled back, using his full name, "How many times have I told you and Stéfane to remain out of my private quarters! I'm so blessed to have a half-wit as a brother, and his mentally challenged friend for my life's companions!" she snorted.
"Do not think to even try to unleash that side of me again. You are both playing with fire! I moved back here because you asked me to, I will not hesitate to pack up and leave! I'm disappointed in you Kai, you of all people should know the consequences, and the toll it takes on me. If I so much as scent you near my wing again, I will follow through on my previous promise. See how you enjoy living another two thousand years without your balls."
She turned on her stiletto clad heel and walked out, her silver hair waving behind her like silk. In her fury, she hadn't noticed who her brother's companions were. Had she stopped to look, she would have found a pair of deep cerulean eyes staring after her, completely amused.
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"Perhaps it wasn't wise to piss off your own flesh and blood Kai," a low, smooth voice drawled to his left.
"I'm sorry she interrupted us Philippe, my sister does have quite the temper, I didn't mean for you to meet her like that. It's been such a drag around here though, I was merely trying to liven things up," he grinned.
"Understandable, but it is perhaps not the best of times, Kai..."