Demon Seed
11
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GW
and its characters don't belong to me but to Sunrise/SOTSU Agency
Bandai,
etc. etc.
Well,
the latest installment 11 of Demon Seed. A few warnings here, no,
not of
the lemony kind, but of the more disturbing gore and
incestuous
kind. Hey, they're vampires, they have no limits, right?
Anyway,
the warning's there.
The
pairings so far are, 1xR 2xH 4xCB 6x9 13x11 with implied 1xDC
(yes,
I myself can't believe I stuck it in here, but it happened a
really
long time ago, so 1xR fans don't freak on me, besides you'll
like
how Heero deals with her). And poor Trowa, the odd man out for
now.
But whom will he end up with? That'll be a surprise. ~_^
And of
course this fix will remain non-yaoi.
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"Into,
latrine, kelp." Hildie spoke the words sternly, calming her
mind
and spiritual powers just as Catherine had taught her do. She
watched
with intense eyes the small bolder in front of her rise
slowly
off the ground.
"Very
good, Hildie." Praised the one who had been her teacher for the
past
seven months. "Now, using your mind only, hit the bulls eye over
on the
post."
The
rock suddenly fell back to the ground as the wide-eyed apprentice
sorceress
looked over at the older woman. "But that's at least thirty
feet
away. I've never done more than fifteen."
"Well,
you are about to do thirty now. So calm down, then, focus your
aim at
the target. If you miss, you simply will try again and again
until
you can master it. Your telekinetic powers are very sharp, but
they
need to be honed or else they will do you no good."
The
breath Hildie took was quick but deep as she repeated the
incantation
once more adding the necessary word that propelled the
rock
through the air and towards the target. But then a little over
halfway
towards reaching its goal a swishing sound was heard and a
thin
rectangular blur was seen that surpassed the speed of the large
stone,
hitting the bull's eyes dead center.
"Will
you two grow up?" Shouted Hildie as she turned around to see
across
the pond, her lover and Quatre both on horses, a single bow
held
loosely in Duo's cousin's fist.
His
laughter calming, the blonde prince apologized. "I had to get
your
attention somehow. It's time for the evening meal. You magic
people
get so wrapped up in your spells. Neither one of you heard us
calling
you."
"Not
to mention you love to show off your archery skills." Grumbled
Duo
good-naturedly.
"I
heard you calling, Quatre. I simply chose to ignore you."
Quatre
was taken somewhat aback by Catherine and Hilde's sudden
appearance
before them, wondering how it was they had gotten across
the
water so quickly.
Sporting
a silly grin, Quatre chuckled, winking at the redhead. "Good
thing
you love me, I'd hate to see it if you really hated me."
"Prince
or not. You can still be a brat." Catherine quipped back to
her
betrothed as she accepted his hand and slipped up on the horse.
Halide
giggled at Catherine's comment as she followed suit, soon
propped
up behind Duo on his horse. "Smart Asses obviously run in the
royal
bloodline I guess."
"Why
yes." Spoke Duo, in an arrogantly joking voice. "But, then so do
cute
Asses."
"Duo!"
Hildie playfully scolded as she gently boxed his ears; causing
their
two companions to laugh as the quartet themselves sparked their
horses
off in a trot, homeward bound. She tightened her arms around
his
waist, however and snuggled more into his back, closing her eyes,
remembering
the day that they first declared their love, or at least
attraction
towards one another.
~Flashback~
Why
don't you focus on yourself and your true feelings…Elena's words
rung
loud in Hildie's ears as she stood immobile and dumbfounded just
staring
at Duo who was busying himself getting ready for the ride.
Myself,
and my true feelings? Is she trying to tell me…good lord,
right? I think I'm in love with Duo. No. How could this be,
been like siblings for all of these years, yet recently when I
at him I've wanted to be so much more than…damn you Relena,
did you do to make me realize…? I wonder if he…"
"Hey
Hildie…something wrong?"
"What?
I…I…" With dark blue eyes widening and a quick lick to her dry
lips
Hildie noticed that Duo was now right in front of her.
"You're
looking like a startled deer, dear, hehehe. Bad joke, sorry."
"Kiss
me."
This
time it was Duo's turn to be immobile and dumbfounded. "Boy, you
must
be ill asking me to…"
Closing
her eyes tightly shut so that she would not lose her nerve
she
repeated her request. "Just don't talk and kiss me."
Clearing
his throat Duo scanned the area quickly, and when he felt no
eyes
were upon them he leaned his body slowly into Hildie's lowering
his
head until his lips barely touched hers. "Don't know what brought
this
on, but here goes."
His
lips then touched hers, as soft as a whisper yet as solid as a
rock.
The kiss lingered only a few seconds before Duo pulled away, /tt>
madly and fighting to catch his breath, though he was only
able
to breathe deeply once before he found Hildie pulling his head
down
once again to capture him in another kiss. When she finally
eased
away and released him, he saw her eyes were opened and looking
at him
with nervous anticipation and intense desperation.
"Duo,
I, I think I love you, I mean, I truly believe I might, do you
think
you could fall for me too?"
With a
sly but sincere smile and the wind causing his hair to tickle
his cheek,
he peered just as intensely and desperately back into
Hildie's
eyes.
"I
think I already have."
With a
shriek of joy Hildie hopped up, so her arms could embrace his
neck.
His arms were tight around her waist and back, holding her with
her feet
dangling just inches from the ground.
"Promise
me you'll never leave my side, my Duo."
"From
this day on I never shall, my Hildie."
~End
Flashback~
"And
now I know it is love."
>
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"What
was that Hildie?" Duo asked.
Biting
her lip with girlish embarrassment the raven-haired girl
shrugged
her shoulders. "Nothing. It was nothing."
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He
twirled a single red rose in between his fingers, noticing howpan>pan>
dark
it looked even in the moon's glow as he brought it up to his
nose
and sniffed the sweet potent scent. The look and smell of roses,
he
thought, one of the few true joys I've had in this long life of
mine.
From
where he sat, his eyes settled upon the brunette woman that
in the large plush bed that took up the biggest part of the
bedchamber.
Always did love to sleep in, though over time you've
gotten
lazier. If not for title anpearpearance sake I would have
thrown
you out long ago. Sorry, dear wife, but that is how I feel…
< sty style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS"'>bored
to tears with you for the last one hundred, fifty years.
The
tall, broad shouldered man then rose from the rail of the balcony
where
he was sitting and ran a hand through his thick ginger waves as
he
made his way over to the bedside. Sitting down by his wife, he ran
a
white gloved finger down her cheek, all the while the face of a
different
woman overtaking his mind.
Wonder
if the girl's as elegant, graceful and as lovely looking as
mother had been? If not for having human blood in her veins she
be truly perfect, but that matters little to me now, for my
are almost completely healed and then I will track her and
her and make her mine, and you, my dear Anne, shall have nothing
say even as you rot out your remaining years in the lower depths
an>
this castle's dungeon. Or, maybe I'll just have you executed and
done with you for good. Dorothy will be sad of course, but she'll
how accidents `do' happen.
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With a
gasping breath Relena jolted from her daze that had been
nothing
more then a nightmare, the same nightmare she had been having
for
the last six months. In her mind appeared a face of a man she'd
never
seen before. A man who was much older than she, though still
looking
only a few years older than her own Heero. She snorted to
herself,
her Heero? That man would belong to nothing and no one; even
his
own heart could not force him into its servitude.
"Eena,
are you all right?"
"Huh?"
She looked over to her right and into the eyes of Duo who had
placed
a concerned hand on her shoulder, a thin but bright smile
shown
on his lips.
"You
left us again, dazed in your own little world for a few seconds."
Blushing
slightly Relena tore her eyes away from her friend's and the
rest
of the eyes that she knew were resting upon her.
"It
was nothing. Truly." She rose up from the dinner table, suddenly
finding
it hard for her to breathe and asked to beusedused. Sally
granted
her leave and she took it even more quickly then she had
risen
and was soon out the door away from the questioning and
confused
looks of her adopted family.
"What's
happening to her? She's no longer the Eena I grew up with and
know."
"And
are you the same person you were when you first came here,
Hildie?"
Hildie
shook her head to Sally's reprimand. "I'mfereferent as well,
but
Eena, she's, she's…"
"She's
the daughter of the man who murdered my parents and Duo's
parents
and took away our birthrights, that's who she is. How can you
even
let her stay here, let alone train her, Wufei?"
Slowly
and softly the Asian man set down his goblet of wines eys eyes
serious
as they caught Quatre's glare.
"She
was as unable to control the situation surrounding her existence
just
as you were. Do not judge her because of the actions of her
father.
She is not the same, nor does her blood flow as coldly
through
her veins."
Quatre
snorted, a frown on his face. "Her kind still cannot be
trusted,
and I will never accept that monster as a friend or a
comrade."
"Cousin
you might be, Quatre, but Eena's been my friend for as long
as I
could remember and if you keep saying rude things about her,
I'll…"
"Enough
you two." Intervened Sally. "The dinner table is not the
place
to have such conversations. We all feel differently but while
you
reside here, with us you will show respect for everyone. Have I
made
myself clear?"
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Heero
poked at the fire, the end of the long stick that he held in
his
hands began to spark somewhat, as did his senses as he picked up
another
presence a few feet away. Without taking his eyes from the
flames
he spoke in a raised, threatening tone. "Show yourself now
because
you don't want me to come looking for you."
"Has
it been so long that you have forgotten my scent?"
Heero
popped to his feet and jerked his body in a turn towards the
familiar
but long forgotten voice.
"You
must be ready to die because I told you if I saw you again I'd
kill
you."
"Oh,
Heero." The blonde vampire replied as she seductively slinked
her
way over to him, wrapping her arms around his neck and placing
tiny
kisses along it and his cheek. "Don't you know promises are made
only
to be broken?"
Gripping
her wrists tightly Heero pried them from his body and back
down
to her sides. "You may have been able to seduce me once, but no
more."
The
woman twitched a forked eyebrow, her laugh haughty and
demeaning.
"Once? More like twice, three times, oh at least a dozen.
Though
it did happen like fifty years ago."
"It's
before I knew who you were, Dorothy."
A
childish, empty pout overtook her grin. "Oh but uncle Heero, we had
so
much fun!" Her smile then suddenly returned, this time more
evil.
"But then falling for the daughters of the men who wronged you
must
be your specialty."
"If
you're referring to Eena, er Relena or whoever the hell she is, I
left
her."
Dorothy
sighed and sat down next to Heero who had taken a seat in
front
of the fire. "Yes, but you are on your way back to her, to save
her?
Or is it simply to conquer her young virgin body before my
father
gets to it? Why must us Vampires be so territorial? You know
he's
all she ever thinks about now I'm afraid, and my mother is going
absolutely
mad over it."
Remaining
silent, Heero willed his body not to react and grab his
half
niece's neck and strangle her, he would for now, play it cool.
The
vampire girl's lips thinned in frustration of his seemingly
detached
state towards the other girl. "I don't know what everyone
sees
in her. She's just some stupid half-breed orphan, a filthy
urchin."
"For
her being a half breed orphan and filthy urchin you sound
somewhat
jealous of her."
"Jealous?
Me? Not of `that', creature anyway. Besides, once I catch
up
with her I'll kill her myself. I refuse to let her ruin my mother,
or
father…half breed bitch."
Heero
could feel the length of Dorothy's slender arms begin to glide
around
his shoulders as she adjusted her body so that she was sitting
in his
lap. He allowed her to kiss him and even permitted her tongue
to
enter his mouth as she leaned him back until he was lying in the
grass,
her straddled atop him.
"After
all," she spoke, her voice husky and dangerous, "I know she
could
never pleasure you the way I can." She leaned down to him again
and
kissed him as well, moaning when she felt his embrace tighten
around
her and roll her gently until their positions were reversed.
He
then lifted his body slightly up from hers until he was on his
knees
hovering over her; she was oblivious to his left hand as it
reached
behind him.
"Oh,
I think she could learn to pleasure me much more than you ever
could."
Dorothy's
sky blue eyes widened with fear, and before she could open
her mouth
to scream he had whisked out of his back belt loop a small,
sharpened
stake, which he quickly plunged into her chest.
Anger,
revenge and violent bloodlust coursed through his veins taking
over
his consciousness as he felt the transformation of his vampire
self,
overtaking that of his human self. He sat there like a stone,
watching
the girl under him whimper in pain and writhe in suffering.
"I
told you I would kill you if you came near me again. Though I was
going
to let you go, maybe give you one more thrill for old times
sake,
but you had to go and threaten her, and that I cannot allow."
"You
bastard! "My father will kill you!"
"I
give him the opportunity to try, niece. And if he even steps one
foot
near what is mine then he shall suffer a fate worse then yours."
"And
you claim…to feel…nothing for her." She hissed her final words
the
nails of her right hand digging into that of Hero's right cheek
leaving
long thin marks that dripped of blood.
"That
is no longer any of your concern." The half-breed male hissed
back,
as he saw the brightness in her eyes suddenly dim and felt her
body
underneath him no longer struggling. He then moved his face down
to her
throat, his nostrils wide as he took in the scent of her
slowly
gelling blood. "Besides, you never pleasured me as much as you
thought."
He then plunged his protruding fangs deep into her jugular
drank of her blood.
And
far away in another kingdom there could be heard the horrific
pained
scream of a queen. A queen of great beauty and power, a queen
married
to one who was even more strong and powerful than she. A
queen
who had just experienced the suffering and realization that she
had
lost her only child.
TBC…