Love bites
Intro
A story revolving around the lives of two very important and powerful creatures of the night Kain the noble werewolf king half breed werewolf/vampire and Shaklana a hot headed queen vampire with shadow magic, this story tell of how their lives took a terrible turn after Kain lost his memories,
This story starts when Kain and Shaklana decide to move to a smaller castle next to a village on the edge of the wastelands were most battle’s start and end around the time.
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Chapter 1
Like a hawk and its mate
Kain stand’s on the hill looking down at the small village below “so Shaklana this is our new home it seems” he looks over at Shaklana and smiles “yes mausi it is, it looks very nice” she replied looking happily at the village, far off in the distance a small group of bandits are charging at the village “huh look down there Shaklana those people don’t look to friendly do they. Want to go teach them a lesson?” without waiting for an answer he jumps down the hill faster than any *normal* person “fine but it’s your fault if we get exposed” she ran down after him elegantly, he leaps on one and drags him away without the others noticing “so why are you guys here?” he leers down at the small bandit with a smile that reviles sharp white teeth,
Fearfully the man replies in a high pitch squeaky voice “we….came to steal…to steal this towns money and food” the bandit rattles with fear “don’t…don’t kill me please” Kain raise’s his hand ready to crush the bandits rounded skull to powder, Shaklana comes running to stop him “leave him be Kain, let him spread the word to other bandits not to enter our *territory*” Kain lets go of the man and he flees crying with terror as he sprints away “they came to raid this place Shaklana, should we stop them” Kain looks up at Shaklana “this is our new home we will defend it to the last” she starts to walk to the town but stops to give Kain a kiss “come on you can have your fun with them” he smiles and jumps up to fly towards the town
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“They’ve already started to burn the buildings! There going over the top a bit” says Shaklana as they run through the town.
The shadows of danced around them from the flickering flames highlighting the strong and beautiful body of Shaklana and the large transforming muscles covered in white sickly skin of Kain.
A small group of swords men come running out of a burning building strait at them, Kain jumps them and kill two with his bare hands, that’s when Shaklana pulls out her long sword and runs at them shouting “die scum” the surviving swordsmen in shock of what just happened start to run but are cut down by their own archers with a shrill but commanding voice shouting with them “cowards deserve to die, there’s only two of them” Kain pulls Shaklana into a un-burnt building as arrows rip up the ground where they were just standing “thanks but hiding is un worthy of us….” She notices an arrow sticking out of Kain’s arm “your arm look” he looks down at it “they have some good aim” laughs “yes they do, let’s kill them quickly” Shaklana laughs barely repressing a smile, Kain unfolds his wings carefully “if its quick you want then fine, but you didn’t say not painfully” he smashes through the window flying faster than they could ever hope to react and obliterates the roof on which they are standing letting them plummeting to their deaths amongst the debris of the roof.
After hours of fighting and hunting the two finally take a break to check for any surviving bandits
“Perfect but do you see any more from up there” she shout’s from atop the pile of dead and rubble.
“Na just a few people running from the town” he swoops down and grabs her around the waist and smile’s gliding towards the fleeing enemies
“It’s been a while since I could let loose like this” he smiles happily as he fly’s just above the clouds. “Well let’s go kill the rest of them” he dives down towards the fleeing enemies like a hawk on its pray.
“Yes. Let’s get them” she smile’s along happily falling upon the swordsmen with him.
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Chapter 2
Who the hell are you?
Kain lands on top of one of the swordsmen instantly killing him
But before he can regain his balance 5 shining silver arrows pierce his now burning flesh “KAIN?! Your back” Shaklana screams as Kain loses his footing “damn it’s an ambush, get out of here Shaklana” as he say’s this his body contorts and spasms changing into something more animal than man “NOW GO BEFO….” He falls silent as Shaklana charges the ones who fired “I will not leave you” all that she receives in return is a low grunting noise, she hacks and slashes with her sword, the sword was short and curved with a dark evil face on the hilt “DIEE!!” she screams in a voice that doesn’t seem her-own,
Whilst this is happening Kain or what used to be Kain stirs and crawls away into a shallow cave, he looks over at Shaklana and shake’s in fear.
Shaklana killing the last of them turns and grabs a bow with silver arrows “now for the werewolf” she states with a brutal voice not her-own, walking elegantly towards the cave “you there beast what is my name” she aim’s an arrow at his head
“I…I don’t know” he looks at her petrified “I’m giving you one chance to live now tell me my name” she pulls the bowstring back further, a strange familiar voice appears in Kain’s mind “her name is Shaklay, tell he that and quickly throw her sword away” it was more of order than a request, he looked up at the women with fear and confusion in his eyes “what is my name” she shoots an arrow at him and readies a new one, he screams as the arrow hits him and burns “IT’S SHAKLAY AKK” he pulls out the arrow “how? Hmm so you know about me then” she smiles and aims the bow away, he jumps and throws her sword away “WHAT?!” her hands both grip the sides of her head and she falls to her knees screaming all the while, Kain jumps back surprised by what happened, She looks at Kain’s werewolf form “k…Kain?” they both look at each other for a moment then she faints, Kain carries her to the cave he was just in.
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The werewolf falls asleep and Kain transforms back into his human form and awakes “huh were am I” he looks around and notices Shaklana “who the hell are you” she gawps at him as if she was just insulted horribly “how could you not remember me” she looks at him angrily “none of your jokes Kain, I’m not in the mood” her eyes turn red “how did you know my name” he backs away from her and leans on the wall furthest away,
“You’ve lost your memories again it seems” she sigh’s heavily,
Then she explains everything that had happened last night and about their relationship “so I’m a werepire and you’re a vampire?” she nod’s “and were married?” she nod’s again “and I’ve lost my memories of everything that happened after we met” she nod’s a little bit annoyed by Kain’s constant questions.
They both walk back standing 3 feet away from each other “if all that’s true about the fact we were married why did you attack me last night” she looks away sadly “it...it was that sword…its took over me… it hurt you didn’t it?” she stops Kain to check him for any wounds “I did” she tends to them but he shrugs her away “I’m still not all that shore about us being married, besides I need to find myself some cloths” he was naked because his cloths were ripped from his transformation, he grabs the cloths from the bodies of the dead “that’s better”, she blushes, he stumbles around towards the village “I need to find something to eat badly” she follows him.
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Chapter 3
I would never!
“don’t you remember anything Kain?” he shakes his head and kicks the first door he sees in the village “I can only remember stuff about when I was much younger but it’s all confusing fragments” he rips open the door to the house’s larder and looks in “not much in here, damn it” he grabs a loaf of bread and offers Shaklana half “no I don’t want any” she spot’s a child laying dead at the stair’s “I’ll get my own food” she picks up the child and drain’s every last drop of her blood, Kain jumps back horrified by the scene “what are you doing to her?!” Shaklana looks at him questioningly “I’m a vampire I can’t believe you didn’t guess that” she smiles her soft lips dripping with the small child’s cold blood, he backs away frightened “are… are you going to drink my blood two” She laughs happily, then realizes he was serious “no, I would never think about drinking your blood” she leans over and kisses Kain leaving a blood stain on his face which he quickly rubs off “I love you, but something’s definitely wrong if you think that of me” she smile’s sadly “besides we probably should get back to the castle” he looks at Shaklana strangely “castle? We live in a castle?” she laughs “yep and it’s a big one too it’s just half an hour’s walk from the town” she points out of the window.
Suddenly a villager burst into the house thinking there were some survivors, he looks at Shaklana blood stained face and then to the small dead child “what….what are you” he raises his pitch fork in anger, Kain grabs her and drags her out of the house before the man can do a thing to stop them “so it’s that way right” he nods to the large cathedral like building on a high hill “yes that’s it” she smiles as they run towards the castle.
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“this place is huge, how did you pay for something like this” she smiles at him forcing back a laugh “silly I didn’t pay for it, WE split the cost’s” she opens to huge double door’s to reveal a large entrance hall, people running around arranging everything stop momentarily to see Shaklana enter the castle then go back to their work, she smiles at them with all the authority of a queen in her kingdom “come on don’t be a stranger in your own home” she drags him into the main hall forcibly “why are there so many people here?” she sighed heavily because of her annoyance at Kain’s in-ability to remember anything “we only moved in last night these people are busy putting all our stuff in its place, come on I’m hungry that child didn’t have much blood left any way” Kain cringed at the thought of Shaklana drinking more blood in front of him “no, no I’m fine I’ll just find somewhere to sleep” she insisted that he come with her to get something to eat, practically dragging him to the kitchens.
On his way Kain decided to study the paintings along the walls that were finished by the decorators “all of them are of us” he pointed out obviously, they had just past one of Kain sitting on a barn house laughing at Shaklana playing with some village children, this came as a shock to Kain after the scene with the small girl down in the village near the castle “they’re very well done” she smiles again “I painted them, you said the same thing when you first saw them” she looked at it with sadness in her eyes “that one was of when we first met in a village far in the south before that village found us out, many years ago about 400-500 years” Kain gasped “500 years ago” he looked at them again more carefully to see that the paintings all around them had the cracks and scratches of age upon them, Shaklana entered first because Kain was to occupied with the paintings “come on Kain” she sighs again “you’re as slow as always” she states under her breath.
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Chapter 4
Are you coming up?
Kain realizes that he was left behind and quickly runs into the kitchen “ah sire I didn’t expect you to return so soon, I’m sorry but your meal will not be ready for another hour” he looked slightly intimidated but obviously used to Kain’s company “don’t worry I’ll fix myself something” he tried not to seem out of place or offend him “as you wish sir, do you want me to stop cooking and throw away the scraps?” Kain shook his head “no, no finish cooking it then share it around if there’s enough” the chief nods and leaves quietly and quickly, Kain walks to a the larder and takes out a small loaf of bread and some cheese, he munches hungrily on them and walk’s into what he thinks is the dining hall “oh you decided to join me did you” she smiles evil over her empty play sipping hungrily from a glass of what appeared to be dark-red wine “didn’t the chief make you dinner?” Kain sat down and placed with small chunk of cheese and bread on a plate of glistening metal “yes, but I wasn’t hungry enough for anything fancy, I tried not to hurt his feelings” he admitted almost guiltily “so…umm do we live in the same room or separate one’s” he blushed slightly at his own question, she smiled amused at his shyness “you may sleep any were you wish, its partly your house” she stood up “well goodnight, you coming to bed” she stood there expectantly waiting for his answer “no I’ll find myself a room later” she gave him a look of slight disappointment but left silently, passing under the arch above the stair’s elegantly, after he had finished his bread and cheese he went up the stairs, he opened up a door to find an old coffin “to traditional for my taste” he walks to another room to find it full of paintings and a 4 poster bed with drapes around “…..umm no” he finally finds a plain room with a small bed and lays down “hmm perfect” he falls asleep to many nightmares and hateful dreams.
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Meanwhile in Shaklana’s room “what happened to him it’s like he doesn’t remember anything, I hope I didn’t make him mad is that why he didn’t come up with me” she looks out of the window unable to sleep, she sigh’s longingly “if we hadn't fought those bandits, this wouldn’t have happened”
She sigh’s again and falls backwards onto her bed “why did I decide to bring that crazy sword?” and for the hole night she failed to sleep and was awake blaming their predicament on that one fight, mean while just outside the castle “Darel I don’t want to be here, what if there really vampire’s?” Darel ignores Shery’s protests and continues to climb up the side of the castle “come at least let me check” he drags himself into a window of the castle “just wait out here I’ll be right back” he sneaks into the room to find a very unhappy Kain “what the hell are you doing climbing in through my window?” Darel backs away and stop and turns to find Shaklana standing there looking very angry “who are you? Are you trying to rob us or something human?” realizing that they really aren’t humans Darel pulls out his sword ready to fight them “I'm not in the mood kid” says Kain as he drags Darel though the house, Darel attacks Kain’s arm’s to brake free but fails, Kain throws him down on a chair “now what is it you want child?” Shaklana walks in behind Kain obviously surprised by Kain’s sudden burst of anger, meanwhile outside the window “I hope Darel’s ok, knowing him he got caught again” Darel fumbles for his weapon “I…I came to kill you two” Shaklana shrugs "then try fool human" Darel backs away fearing for his life then falls out of a window, Kain looks out of the window to see a girl dragging a unmoving body to the village "in a way I feel sorry for that human" Shaklana gives Kain a funny look "I’m still sleepy" she walks halfway up the stairs then flashes Kain a smile so perfect that she looked like she was in a painting of some goddess of ancient time’s "are you coming up?"
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Chapter 5
You did what last night?!!
with Kain in her bed Shaklana slept soundly and for hours she awoke to find Kain missing and the sound of friendly chatter "....I can’t thank you enough for all you have done for Darel" said a female voice "if it wasn’t for you he would have died from those injuries he sustained from that fall" Shaklana got up and dressed quietly listening to the conversation "it’s nothing shery, to be honest iv never created another werewolf/vampire before I think" Kain’s voice was exited and abnormally quick "your nicer than I thought vampires or werewolf’s would be you saved him even if he threatened to kill you and your friend" Shaklana opens the door and walks down stairs "who are these people?" she asked Kain "ah your awake, I need to tell you something Shaklana, I kind of turned this boy into a werepire last night" he smiles almost embarrassed "YOU DID WHAT LAST NIGHT?"
After hours for shouting and arguing Shaklana finally calmed down “so you turned him without deciding to ask me first” she finally said coldly “I’m sorry mausi I didn’t think you would react like that” say’s Kain apologetically, she sigh’s heavily “we’ll what’s done is done we can’t change him back now” she glances over at shery and Darel “they can stay here with us on one condition” she turns to Kain and smile’s “there your responsibility” Kain grimances “fine I understand” he turns to them “I’ll show you to your room’s, unless you sleep in the same room?” as Kain asks this they both blush uncontrollably “we’ll sleep separately” they finally decided “ok, come let me show you to yo…” kain was interrupted by a short man in a uniform similar from the other servants “I’ll take you to the room” say’s a calming squeaky voice, as he steals the both of them from Kain “huh? Who was that?” Kain asks after their pulled away, Shaklana giggles girlishly at Kain lack of memory “he’s the butler, you really don’t remember anything do you?” she sigh’s again and move’s in closer “to bad” she kisses his cheek and walks out slowly, Kain stare’s at her back mesmerized by her beauty and grace.
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Chapter 6
What’s up with Darel?
Darel awakes after a restless sleep to find the smell of fresh cooked meat filling his nostrils, “wow that smell’s nice” he gets himself up and dresses finding his arm’s, leg’s and chest have grown “strange” he shrug’s of his confusion to hungry to speak, running down the stairs he notices Kain and Shaklana eating in there dining room, he tries to say thanks you but can’t find the words, Shaklana looks up and somehow guessing what he wanted to say “you don’t need to thank Kain, he wanted to do it” she looked away and sipped some *blood* red wine, Kain hearing this convocation “just hurry up and eat all this gratitude is starting to make me lose my apatite” he grinned at him “sit” said Kain in a commanding tone which seemed to surprise Shaklana, she looked over at him as if he’d done something very strange, she looks away and shakes her head smiling “well at least he hasn’t changed that much” she whispers to herself, Darel didn’t like Kain’s commanding one and walked out glowering with anger “Darel? What’s wrong” said shery as she saw him pass by, she felt his anger and decided to follow him “Darel are you ok? You’re not yourself” he turned just realising she was just there “that werepire Kain he’s acting like he owns me or something” said Darel hatefully “he is?” she stands close to him closer than most friends normally do “just put up with it until we leave, ok?” she hummed to him gently, he seemed to calm down with her in front of him “I…I understand, how long until we leave?” she looked undecided as she looked around the house “as long as it takes for you to be used to being a….a werewolf”
“So, what do you think of the new arrival’s Shaklana?” asked Kain curiously, Shaklana looked up smiling her white angled features lit up by the candle light “I like the girl shery she seems very confident, determined and loyal but her friend the *new* werewolf doesn’t seem to be very enthusiastic about being turned, it’s almost as if he’s rather have died than become you werewolf child” Kain sigh’s heavily “I know but what am I supposed to do if we let him leave he’ll be a danger to those around him” Kain explains to her about what happens after werewolf’s see their first full moon, “so your saying if he’s too close to civilians he’s going to run rampant, that doesn’t sound good” she said finally when Kain stopped “ya, I don’t want it on his conscience, that’s why I want him to stay here in case” she stands up and gracefully walks to Kain “then he can stay”
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She bends down and her cool breath hits his neck sending shivers down his spine, his thoughts were all focused on trying not to lose control at their closeness
“But you must keep him in your control Kain” she smile’s softy and kisses his cheek, he stop’s her and kisses her red lips, she falls back not expecting that then giggles with her high pitched laugh, “you’re the same as always honey” she turns around and walks away here slender curves shimmer in the half light of the candles “I shall see you later in the town?” she walks out of the door without waiting for an answer, “huh?” gets up and follows her not quite shore why they’re going,
They approach the edge of the village “wonder what they’re saying about the attack” states Kain after a long time “probably how amazingly beautiful I was as I slew those soldier’s” she smile’s jokingly, Kain nods in agreement and they laugh “let’s get going I feel like I haven’t eaten at all” his stomach rumbles and he rubs it embarrassingly, “always food with you” she say’s teasing him, as they both walk Shaklana tells Kain about their life together “no......really? We used to fight before we got together?” she giggles and wipes a happy tear from her eye “yes we did, I used to bully you calling you my pet dog” she burst out laughing, Kain laughed with her but not as hard “I wish I had my old memories back then we could reminisce all day” he say’s almost sounding jealous of her “well another of this were entering the town” they walk in to see many people rushing around and some fighting fires that are still going on, luckily all the fire’s were contained before they got there, “come on let’s eat: he drags her to the nearest inn and finds Darel and shery eating , they sit by them barely saying anything just smiling “so how do you like things here shery?” Shaklana finally say’s boldly “grate I’ve been having a great time” she looks at Darel “I...I have been sleeping well here” tries to smile as best he can “good just wanted to check” smiles happily “were did you live before this?” she asks as politely as she can “we travelled allot me and Darel, most of the time we stayed in Inn’s we stopped off in a cave or two if there was no were left to go” Darel blushes and but hides it under his hands “so, looks like you don’t need to worry about travelling so much now” says Shaklana trying to entice convocation, Darel became very quiet and withdrawn after hearing that, Kain picks up on it asks “what’s wrong with you Darel you look like someone’s just announced your funeral?”
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He turns his head to the side “maybe you should go back to the mansion and sleep?” Darel looks up at Kain “what do you mean, were not staying there!” he looks at shery pleadingly then back to Kain “besides what makes you think you can keep us here?” Kain laughs slightly and shery and Darel start looking at him confused “why do you think your still alive Darel?” Darel start clenching his fist “because you turned me” Kain nods only increasing Darrel’s fury “but what does that have anything to do with making me stay?” this time to their surprise Shaklana laughs “he’s now you master, Darel you couldn’t refuse him even if you became the most powerful werepire alive” she smiles in triumph, Darel shakes with anger and stands sharply knocking his soup onto his top, he winces at the heat then starts to walk away, Kain starts at him with a commanding voice “sit Darel sit now” Darel freezes in place then turns and returns to his chair “Wh…What did you just do?” Kain looks at him with a mix of triumph and pity “you’re my werewolf child technically, meaning no matter what you do I will be able to influence you, you could see it as a kind of mind control” Darel’s anger radiates out across the table, “I think you made him upset mausi” she holds onto Kain’s arm as she states this obvious fact, Darel shaking with anger his voice almost squeaking “may I leave this place master” glares at him meaning for Kain to follow “fine” he nods also standing, Kain turns to the two girl’s “we’ll be back in a moment” he walks out following Darel to the local forest, “why did you call me out here Darel what’s up with you?” he turns his face bright red “you basted what did you do to me?” he doesn’t wait for an answer and lunges at Kain ripping the coaler of his short sleeved top away, Kain les out a low growl at Darel’s challenge meanwhile back in the tavern “I hope there not fighting” says shery in a very nervous tone to Shaklana as she finally finishes her soup “me too, I was hoping Darel wouldn’t react like this” Shaklana sigh’s and drops a few coin’s “we should go see” she stands outside and looks at shery “remember, don’t say a word, try not to make any noise ok?” shery nods a little confused, Shaklana disappears into the shadows and drags shery in with her “WHAT THE…” screams shery as she looks around the darkness “this is my power I can shift into the shadow realm from any shadow” Shaklana explains and walks towards some unseen point “were are we go….” Shery starts as she stops seeing both Kain and Darel staring each other down there claws at the ready “d…Darel!!” she tries to shout but a hand clamps down on her face “I said stay quite girl” says Shaklana warningly, Kain stares out at where he thought he heard a voice then shakes his head and glares back at Darel “why are you challenging me here? Now?” Darel’s anger rises again and his flesh starts to peel away ready for his first ever transformation, Darel grunts in reply to angry to form any intelligible language, Kain’s arm’s start to grow ever so slightly sensing a threat and smelling his anger.
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What’s wrong with Kain?!!
“So, looks like your mind is set Darel, then come if you think you have what it takes to kill me” Kain gets into a half crouching position ready for Darel’s next attack, Darel finally loses control and his body bursts outwards his cloths ripping as the muscles under his skin grow and contort into larger more animal like shapes, his skin rip’s away revealing nothing but muscle, then his skin heals over the exposed muscle, his hands widen and the fingers grow longer gaining dagger like claws, he leaps not waiting for himself to fully change his human legs don’t take him very far as he falls to the ground writhing in pain and anger, shery lets out a muffled gasp at seeing her child hood friend turn into the thing that is on the cusp of being fully werewolf, Kain laughs at Darel his face completely different from his normally kind happy self “what is that is that really your wolf form” he grins and rips off his top revealing his many battle scars, his chest starts moving about almost bubbling then his arms stretch out and grows thicker, to large wing bones burst out of his back right next to his other wings, his flesh starts to cover them his body growing in size, his leg’s turn into a wolf like leg, Darel lays there tears of anger and fear rolling down his face, Kain stands above him his voice something nothing like before “you are a disappointment to our race, now stand and let’s start this battle Wolfchild” all four wings twitch in anticipation of the fight, shery tries to push past Shaklana to stop them but she’s stopped by Shaklana.
“Don’t get involved I don’t think Kain is himself right now he may hurt you” Shaklana explains to her “but…but what if Darel gets killed” Shaklana looking sadly at her “then it will be his fault shery” Shaklana looks back at the two, Darel starts sending punches at Kain but Kain pushes them away or ignores them with a strange smile on his face “more, more, more you’ll never hit me like that Wolfchild” finally out of utter desperation Darel lands a hard blow on Kain's forehead making him bleed, the blood drops into his eyes blinding his left eye “ good one maybe I should call you something more than Wolfchild…hmm maybe Shewolf slave” Kain laughs at this werewolf humour, Darel slightly starting to realize the insult hits him again in the hip, Kain winces and starts to growl in a tone that suggests death “I’m not going to play around anymore Wolfen now you will die here nameless” following up with his threat Kain slashes with both hands up across his chest flinging him towards a tree, Darel hits the tree growling and shouting in pain “DAREL!!” shouts shery as she shoves her way past Shaklana “Darel are…are you ok? Please be ok” she screams over his still bleeding body “move girl, move now before you join him” kicks her away and grabs Darel, Darel coughs a whimpers like a beaten animal “Kain that’s enough please leave him alone…for me” says Shaklana finally, she looks at him and sees something that
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she hasn’t seen in many years and her face drop’s “K….Kain?” she backs away as he turns his feral eye’s glaring at her, he slash at her cutting deep into her shoulder, in pure reaction she slices up a part of his arm they both stand bleeding looking at each other Kain’s ferol hard eye’s soften and he slowly return to normal Shaklana’s pure red eye’s stare deeply into his and they both look away “Kain?” Kain falls back slightly returning to his old self, he steps forward hand outstretched longing to apologize but instead of doing so he turns and starts to run his body returning to normal, the extra wings fall and he flaps his remaining one’s his feet leaving the ground “Kain!!!” shouts Shaklana crying constantly after Kain, shery ignoring everyone but Darel weeps as Darel breaths very quietly and slowly, a calm understanding settle’s onto Shaklana as she looks at shery crying over Darel’s mangled form, she picks him up and walks to the castle “come on shery first we need to help Darel then we can worry about what happened to Kain…” still crying she walks trying to calm shery down.
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Darel this is all your fault!
Three months after Kain left Shaklana had been a terrible state refusing to leave the shadow world after healing Darrel’s wounds, Darel lay’s on the sofa lazily watching TV with the still teary eyed shery “won’t she hut up” complains Darel with a scowl, horrible moaning and crying pierces both of them, shery looks at Darel and hug’s him “she’s really upset you should be more understanding” another howl of sadness hit’s them and shery winces “but I understand why your moaning…” a News reporter appears on the screen cutting off half the show “we apologize for this interruption but this is an emergency” an obscured picture of a winged man in a green/black cloak “this man believed to have illegally entered America from England has begun a killing spree through southern America, if you have any information abo..” Darel turns the sound down “I hate News reports they bore me” shery not listening to the TV any way starts to fall asleep, and Shaklana’s waling can still be heard.
Meanwhile in America, Kain run’s down the street strait towards a News building avoiding the policeman trying to bar his way, he smashes in through the main door’s his wings shed feathers and blood as they catch on the door as it closes, he crashes onto the set.
Back in the castle, Darel jumps as Kain shows up on the screen “IT’S KAIN!!” Darel bolted up and turned the volume higher “quick shery Kain’s on the TV!!” shery open her eyes slow to see Kain’s strained and desperate face on the TV then hearing him shout “SHAKLANA!!! I'm sorry for hurting you and leaving...I can’t come back just yet but please forgive me for hurting y...” he was dragged off by some guards, Shaklana burst through the door and looks at the TV tear’s still drenched her eye’s but she looked happy to see his stupid child like face smiling as he struggles with the guards, he’s finally after much kicking and shouting and a few little punches in the face for good measure dragged away from the camera “at least he’s giving us a show” says Darel with contempt, Shaklana hit’s him “YOUR THE REASON HE LEFT IN THE FIRST PLACE DAREL!!” suddenly Kain returns to the screen and before Shaklana or Darel had time to continue their argument they both turn to the screen “oh and Darel this is all your fault” he exclaims just before leaving the TV screen, Darel visually slumped down in his chair “Shaklana should we go?” asks shery tentatively “no... But shery...would you look for him? Please shery I beg you” says Shaklana in a desperate pleading tone
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Fort Knox?!!
Kain barrels’ down the road knowing that he’s being chased by something more than human, he spins as a bullet smashes into his shoulder landing hard on the ground looking up to see the armoured boot’s of a slightly glowing soldier “your fun has ended” the man shoot’s a dart into Kain’s shoulder “Reaper wants you to find your daughter” the man start’s to walk away and the last thing’s Kain heard before falling asleep were “ ya I found him he’s just outside 10 downing street come quickly I only stunned him...”, Back at the castle Darel and shery are arguing “if we leave him he might get hurt” pleads shery “and remember you owe him your life Darel” Darel crosses his arms and snarl’s “he nearly killed me I’m not helping that monster” Shaklana is back in her room crying then suddenly shout’s and a crash can be heard, both Darel and shery look at the stairs to see a horribly angry Shaklana and some wire’s hanging from her leg “TV REMOTE NOW!!” she bellow’s at them and shery runs to her with it, Darel turns the TV on quickly not wanting to be shouted at again, a women pops up on the screen as Shaklana pushes a button the women pauses for a second as if someone was talking to her inaudibly then she looks up and start’s “I’m Clara Gradual I’m here talking to you from Fort Knox, in a few moment’s I will be getting a sneak peak at the werewolf that has plagued the godhand family here in America, the powerful godhand family has had many problems thanks to this werewolf and many human’s have been killed by him” she turns to show Kain strapped to a chair he looks up lazily knowing if he wanted to he could kill every one there, in the room were 2 guards and off in the corner seemingly unnoticed was a cloaked man with a hood to hide his face, the lady stands a just out of reach of Kain in fear but doesn’t show any of that fear, she looks at him and asks “why have you committed these act’s against the godhand family, do you have some sort of grudge or maybe it’s something ells?” Kain looks up at the women with a smile of pure spite “I’m not talking, but seeing thoughts sharp metal knives over there I’m guessing you’re going to try and make me aren’t you” he smiles again and the lady turns off the camera, Shaklana glares at shery “go find him” drops a wad of cash into her hand, shery nods knowing exactly what to do, she walks out and runs to the village steals a car and drives to an airport, Darel just sits there cracking unfunny jokes about Kain’s imprisonment, Shaklana starts pacing not shore of how to act “he left me but.....I still love him” meanwhile back in fort Knox, Kain growls angrily at the man twisting a sharp iron bar into his leg “basted why won’t you talk” the man twists angrily “well for a start I barely feel your petty display at torture” the man gets angry and drives the metal pole in deeper, the news reporter sits there watching
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“My god why do we have to baby sit this half breed what’s so special about him?” she sighs “I wonder what godhand wants with him” she questions herself, the cloaked man walks to Kain and whispers in his ear a horrified expression appears on his face, the expression was something so sad and shocked that not even this expert torturer could have made Kain do this, shery waits on a plane worrying about Darel and if he’s in trouble or not, Shaklana final decides to go find Kain and disappears and follows her intuition looking all over north America, shery walks up pretending to be a tourist to fort Knox, she sneaks past the guards and finds her way down to Kain’s empty cell, he looks up and gives her a smile “ hay are ya here to get me out?” after much time Shaklana finally finds out were fort Knox Is and teleports there “oi you” a guard points at shery and aims a gun at her, Shaklana drops down and dispatches the man silently and both Kain and shery look at her,
Shaklana is wearing a hood stopping them seeing her face, she walks towards to Kain and bends down to him to whisper “your time has come” she smiles under her hood, Kain’s surprised face turns into a sneer “well come and try” he growls standing ripping up the ropes and chains that were holding him he looks’ into Shaklana’s hood to see a smiling Shaklana laughing to herself at how easily she got Kain to get ready for a fight “Shaklana?” he looks at her then laughs putting his hands down, “I’m glad to see you again Kain..It feels like so long” he looks down at his feet “can we go back I miss you at the castle iv been giving shery and Darel hell” he clenches his fist’s “I want to come back but.....but there’s something here I must deal with” he looks at her pleadingly “I..I have a daughter” he lets out slowly, Shaklana’s face blanches a whiter shade of gray “what? You have a what?” he looks down and goes to speak but shery cut’s him off “well that all well and good but why in the hell did you make me come, iv been worrying about what you were gona do and you come yourself” she crosses her arms and pouts “well I’m going home” turns and leaves, looks then starts speaking “I didn’t even know myself... I think she was conceived before we got together” he sighs “go home and forget about me for a while k? Besides after hurting you...I don’t think I could stand being near you knowing I might lash out like last night” Shaklana’s eyes glow with silent anger “I came here to take you back now come” she grabs his arm and he pulls away “I can’t not until I get my daughter” looks at her pleadingly and she finally gives in “fine then but come back when you get her k? I can’t stand being without you” she turns and walks out leavening Kain disheartened but determined to find his daughter as fast as possible.
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What’s with Shaklana?!!!
Shaklana didn’t cry as much when she got back but Darel was still complaining about her angry mopping mood, Shaklana passes Darel as he carries her food to her room “oh Shaklana I came to try and cheer you up” Shaklana just ignores him and walks into the main bathroom, shery waits in the kitchen hopping Darel doesn’t offend Shaklana they have been trying to cheer her up for the past month but she just keeps blanking them and goes to the main bath room every day not even eating “what’s taking so god damn long?” , Darel comes down and the plate of food has been half eaten by him “na it’s the same as before completely blanks me” puts the plate down and they share the food “if she keeps doing this she might starve... do you think we should find Kain again?” Darel shakes his head and crushes a piece of toast in his hand “the longer he’s gone the happier I will be but I’m starting to get annoyed with that Shaklana girl she won’t listen to anyone it’s frustrating” he growls and shery see’s another anger spat coming on in his eyes, she drags him out of the kitchen and into her room surprised Darel is forced to comply and all memories of Kain disappear, Shaklana pours the ruminants of the special blood mix she had kept in her private cupboard into the bath, she had forgotten who’s/what’s blood it was but she knew it smelled sweet and she was bathing in it regularly “well whatever this blood is from it’s almost like a drug to me” she giggles at the thought this was the last and she doubted she would be able to find more, she lays down in the steaming hot blood and sighs relaxed as the blood seeps into her skin mixing with her own blood without her knowing it, three hours of this happening Shaklana gasps awake from her nap in the still steaming blood, gasping she slides out and onto the floor her vanes and head pounding, screaming loudly she rolls over coughing up blood a voice say’s clearly and almost violently “GET UP! Your body is now mine Shaklana” a mental wrestling match starts Shaklana fighting this unseen monster in her head as she slowly gets beaten back she can only think of one name then as her mind is finally surprised she bellows out a single name “SHAKLYA!!!!”, a few minutes pass and Shaklana gets up a strange twisted smile on her face she smashes the door to the ground pulling a long dress on, “Shaklana?” walks past and looks at her stopping “what did that door ever do to you?”, Shaklana turns to shery and back hands her through the window filled with insane girlish giggles “ a human I think I’ll go kill her” laughing she leaps down to her and stamps on her hand, shery screams as Shaklana’s foot crunches and brakes the last of the bones in Shery’s hand “shery?” Darel’s eyes widen from the top balcony, he leaps down and trys to punch Shaklana “get away from her now!!!” Shaklana catches his hand and twists sharply snapping the bone in his forearm
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“Raaaaggggggggg” shouting Darel as his arm is broken like a dry twig “hmm a werewolf” Shaklana kicks Darel aside and reaches down to grab shery, Darel leaps up and using the last of his strength transforms his flesh tarring away painfully so much unlike Kain’s transformation he punches Shaklana and brakes his hand she mealy looks at him waves him away like a mosquito, “be gone bug this human is mine” Darel’s huge left arm bristles with blood muscles and his broken right arm hangs uselessly as he continues to pummel the uncaring Shaklana “stop it...leave shery alone” he gasps out of ripped and stretched vocal cords, Shaklana ignores him and picks shery up by her hair tugging violently “oooh you look tast......oh your still alive” Shaklana disappears making Darel stumble to the ground “ a drop from here will kill you this time” Shaklana giggles as shery moans her pain loudly into the night air, Shaklana lets go and Shery’s body slumps down falling and screaming franticly Darel tries to leap and catch her but misses and hits into a tree “SHERY!!” he reaches out to grab her but misses again suddenly a flash of dark blue whizzes past and shery disappears from Darel’s sight, he looks up to see Shaklana staring coldly off to the left, slowly Darel turns his head then falls out of the tree in both surprise and fright what he saw was a girl wearing a long midnight blue cloak over a purple dress her hair as pure white as her pupils she look barely 10 years old but had the eyes of an ancient the grin on her face was something of pure innocent bliss the girl looked down at shery in her arms and smiled and played with Shery’s hair like she was some new toy her father had just given her, a hand fly’s down and grabs the girl’s shoulder the hand was a sickly green white stained with hints of blood the rest of the body connected to that horribly pale arm was huge and overstated making the girl next to it look impossibly small draped over the shoulders was a kind makeshift bag Darel assumed was there baggage the pale man was wearing an odd mix of ripped expensive trousers with a sleeveless shirt presumably from a small shop a kind and concerned voice echoed from the throat of the pale man “good work my little girl but don’t play with her she’s badly hurt” the voice grabs Darel’s attention immediately “Kain?!” the girl pushes Kain “I’m not little dad I’m nearly as old as you dad so give me a little credit” says the girl close to having a tantrum.
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Look behind you
“Who are you?” shouts Shaklana from the top of the tower of the castle, the girl looks up and scowls “she’s not what I expected dad, she’s not that good looking” Kain sighs and takes shery of the child “would you do your father a favour and keep Shaklana busy for a moment? I need o tend to shery and Darel’s wounds” the girl nods uninterested and leaps up onto the roof of a lower down parapet shouting up at Shaklana “oi down here!” Shaklana looks down at the girl and bristles with anger “what right do you have stopping me having my fun child” the girl looked up at Shaklana tetchily “what right do you have bag, for talking to me in such a way” in seconds Shaklana had leapt down from the tall tower and the girl mimicking her every move landed on the ground, pulling down her eye lid and sticks her tongue out making a taunting noise “if you want me so much come get me” bristling with anger Shaklana leaps down and go’s to slap the girl the girl skips back easily making Shaklana angrier than she already is “impudent whelp” grabs the girl and she growls “I will kill you!” the girl giggles and jumps away, suddenly a foot fly’s out and slams into Shaklana’s face “come and try” she smiles sweetly as her foot connects and sends Shaklana flying away “cow!” shouts Shaklana as she stops herself and looks at the girl, the girl grins and black bat wings burst from her back she grows and becomes animal like her face elongating into a wolfish grin “die!” the girl shouts flying right at Shaklana, Shaklana disappears dodging and attacking each time the girl charges “keep her busy ill get what we need” calls Kain hastily dragging the wounded Darel and shery with him, the sound of smashing and growling and shouting still present in his ears from the fighting just outside the castle “I’m gona kill you for that” Shaklana shouts out as the girl...monster slashes a scar down her face, Shaklana starts disappearing and reappearing quickly hitting and kicking the girl constantly, the girl spins around growing in size and swinging around more franticly trying to hit the teleporting Shaklana, Shaklana pushes the girl through one of the castles walls, Kain finds what he was looking for one of Shaklana’s book’s on shadow magic “this will work, I just hope she doesn’t hurt mausi to much” he runs out holding the book and sees Shaklana and the girl brawling, from the looks of things the girl is about to get beaten but then Kain jumps down behind Shaklana holding a scrap of paper against Shaklana's skin he then reads out the sentence in the book sealing Shaklana’s shadow magic and the paper burns “behind you” says the girl grinning widely punches Shaklana in the stomach the spell sealing all her shadow powers and weakening her “NO!” shouts Shaklana as the girl punches one more time
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but this time something oozes out of Shaklana's mouth it looks like blood but it doesn’t smell like Shaklana's blood to Kain “...Shaklana?” asks Kain wondering if this really is Shaklana he turns away “get her inside we all need to wait for her to get up before we know what happened” he walks helping the girl take Shaklana to the sofa, Shaklana coughs up blood curling up into a ball laying on the sofa “pfft that was easy” the girl say’s confidently “hush yourself Nina and don’t talk so disrespectfully to your step mother” he glares at her sternly and she steps back, Kain cares for Shaklana for over three days her laying on that same sofa coughing blood but as far as Kain can tell she isn’t injured and the blood isn’t hers, he rubs her head gently kissing her cheek, everyone else went on as normal as Kain never left her side not even to eat, “oi Kain you coming for dinner I made your fav” shery calls out from the kitchen “I'm fine” still sitting near the sofa taking in Shaklana's beauty Darel laughs shaking his head “hey if you die of hunger can I have your castle?” Kain doesn’t listen and nods “shore, take it if you want” Darel's laughs again and shery asks “take this to Kain anyway ok Darel?”Darel takes the plate of food and walks grudgingly to Kain then trips, shery shouts “Kain LOOK BEHIND YOU!” Kain turns his head as a plate full of hot food hits his face.
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Filling in some blanks
It’s been three weeks and jarring thoughts few weeks Shaklana woke up and everything seemed a bit boring for everyone living in the huge empty castle with nothing to do Shaklana suddenly impulsively decides to show Kain part of their old history together, “oh god it’s so boring in this place” mused Darel one day, Kain looked up from hugging with Shaklana “I’m perfectly fine with it as long as I’m with mausi here” he smiles and kisses Shaklana shery seemed to pop out of no were and lean on the sofa Kain and Shaklana were kissing and hugging on “so what were you guys doing before Kain lost his memory?” she asked just as randomly as she popped up, Shaklana turned her red face to shery and plainly said “a bit busy” she turns back to Kain and kisses him again, Darel laughed and looked at shery thoughtfully “don’t bother when there like that” he laughed again and walked to the library near the cellar “mind if I find myself a good book?” he called not waiting for an answer, Shaklana and Kain just laid there intertwined kissing having a moment of weakness, a few hours later after Shaklana had regained her composure pulled off Kain and got a drink, leaving Kain slightly disgruntled and bored again “so...willing to tell me about your life before Kain’s memory lapse?” Shaklana sighed and looked almost glaring at shery “you’re not going to let it drop are you?” Shaklana asked a bit annoyed at having to remember all the hardships and pain of the past “ok fine I’ll show you and fill in some blanks for Kain, mausi will you come here please?”, she waited in the kitchen for him, he gets up and walks sluggishly to her a bit disappointed that she stopped “yes mausi? You called” he smiles still happy to see her awake anyway, Shaklana smiled and opened a shadow portal “come you two I want to show you something” ,shery looked at the portal then asked “what about Darel” Shaklana shrugged and walked through not really caring about Darel much, he first thing that came to the groups senses is the chilling windless cold that assaults all of them, then secondly the seemingly endless silence that threatens to absorb them into the dark nothingness of the silence “were are we?” asks Kain after what seemed like an eternity, even Shaklana was taken aback by the cold and silence “this is the place where our old kingdom stood” Shaklana replied, they all looked out at the time destroyed wasteland, nothing but sand and slowly eroding rock still stood “its been two century’s since this place stood, it was the focal point for both werewolf’s and vampire’s it rained blood every week for the vampires and the forest animals bred constantly to supply the wolfs with seemingly endless food, but it was a boring place in our time Kain, so I destroyed it and left with you” she smiles remembering all the fun and excitement she had in destroying this toy castle
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Kain looked at her in awe and slightly shock “we....we ruled a kingdom?!” Shaklana nods and grins “and you haven’t changed one bit Kain you’re still a slow kind idiot” she laughs at him then reaches over and kisses his cheek “my slow kind idiot”, shery just stood there wide eyed on the edge of not believing and blind face shock “...you...you both were the king and queen of the red kingdom, the one in all the scary kids story’s” she looked at them both backing away slowly, her parents had told her all the story’s of the two monsters of the red kingdom “aren’t your names supposed to be cane and Shaklay?” she stared at them still shocked at how old they really are, Shaklana growled at the name’s “how dare you mention Shaklay in front of me” instantly feeling Shaklana's tension Kain hugs her from behind “calm down mausi, she didn’t mean anything bye it” Shaklana calmed down and then grinned evilly “well it doesn’t matter anyway all humans that see the red kingdom must die or be turned” shery backed away trying to get through the portal, but it disappears as she reaches for it “what?” Kain says loudly shocked at her words “she must die or become a vampire or werewolf” repeats Shaklana “why....why?” shery at a loss for words looking at Shaklana her shrill voice getting higher in fright “I don’t want to die” she gasps “it’s a sacred law of the red kingdom, now shery chose die or become one of us” Shaklana smiles opening a portal back to the house, Kain on her arm following her stepping in time with her foot steps towards shery, “umm guys were did you g...” starts Darel as Shaklana shushes him.
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Submission Name: love bites act 1
