Sacrificio Di Sangue

Chapter 1:

He walked the familiar streets of Paris, making his way past the Basilique du Sacré Coeur he stopped and looked at it ‘The Basilica of the Sacred Heart…the last time I was here they were just starting construction on this’ he looked thoughtful ‘that was back in 1875…’

He walked up to the towering church and placed his hands on the cold stone, “I can’t believe I’ve been gone for so long, it’s been one hundred and thirty two years since I’ve been in Paris” he whispered. He removed his hand and grimaced, he had all his belongings moved to his old house it was nearby within the eighteenth arrondissement. It was nice and had a small village feel to it and he tried to avoid his neighbors, but most knew of him and his weird life of going out only at night.

The vampire grinned to himself, but then wiped it off as he looked around sensing another vampire nearby. After a few moments it passed and he shrugged away the feeling before walking towards his home. He walked into his house and threw his keys on the table, staring down the hall he froze "something is missing… someone was here."

He paced through the house, room after room scanning with his striking black eyes trying to figure out what was missing. His left arm clenched his stomach as he fell to his knees in the middle of his living room.

"No not now this isn’t the time!" He gathered his strength and stood up and ran to the big bookshelf on the other side of the room then scanned the books before grabbing the big red dictionary.

"I hope to hell this isn’t it,” he said as he flipped the cover open and stared into to book. There was nothing there but a hole cut through the pages of the book in the shape of a big key. He threw the book to the ground and headed towards the door, only to fall to his knees again just short of it. He clenched his stomach again as his long black hair fell forward off his shoulders. "I need to feed. It’s been to long."

Out the corner of his eyes he noticed a small folded piece of paper taped to the wall. He unfolded it slowly as his eyes grew wide. ‘Thanks for the key – Akira’ it read before he crumpled the paper and clenched his fist around it "Bitch!" he muttered under his breath grabbing his keys he flung the door open and stormed out slamming the door behind him.

He slowly walked down the alley looking for a poor unsuspecting victim ‘I hate cold nights, not enough people out walking the streets.’ he thought before hearing the welcoming sound of heels taping around the corner. The women had long blonde hair and bright blue eyes her long black skirt waved in the wind with every graceful step she took. He stepped out from the shadows and grabbed her arm spinning her around as she began to scream he quickly covered her mouth with his ice-cold hand.

"No need to scream it’ll all be over soon I promise," he said with a smirk.

He threw her against the cold brick wall and slowly moved her hair away from her neck, his eyes turned blood red as he watched the veins on her neck pulse.

"Shh… This will only hurt a little... Maybe" the fangs in his mouth grew longer and sharper as he lunged forward and dug into her neck. He could feel the blood flow down his throat and girl moaned and began to twitch. After downing the last drop he moved his head back and stared at her limp body he could tell she would die shortly.

"Sorry! But a guys gotta eat" his eyes went back to black and the fangs moved back into his gums "now to find that stupid bitch Akira."

Heading down the street he scanned every alley hoping to catch Akira’s sent, he was starting to get frustrated. ‘It’s never this hard to find a fellow vampire in this city’ he thought. He knew Paris was big but he had been a vampire long enough that he had a sixth sense for feeling vampires over long distances. He walked for hours before sensing the tingling feeling of another vampire nearby; he stopped near some abandoned warehouses near the river.

He walked into the middle of the street between two warehouses before hearing a giggle come from behind him. He quickly spun around and stared at Akira, her short brown hair was as messy as ever as she wiped the dust from her leather pants and looked back at him. "Long time no see Leon. How have u been, it’s been what 200 years?" she said smiling childishly.

Leon growled to himself remembering the first time he had met Akira…

~Flashback~

It was 1741 in Italy where Leon had taken a liking to law and studied alongside Gian Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, which he later learned became infamous for his sexual exploits. He had not known Casanova well but had studied with him a few times at his home; Leon had made an agreement with the University of Padua to let him study there only at night.

He was on his way back from the university when he stumbled across the petite vampire feeding on some poor drunkard, he being a vampire himself just ignored them and tried to continue on his way.

“Wait,” said a childish voice.

He turned and looked at the young vampire, her short brow hair a mess of curls above her head, she grinned at him “why are you dressed so nice?”

He looked at himself then to her and noticed she was wearing rags; he raised an eyebrow “you’re a rogue?”

The diminutive vampire girl before him frowned in her childish way “so what if I am?”

He knew not many rogue vampires survived alone and if they did it was because they were extremely cunning or extremely strong, deciding to avoid a fight he waved his hand “I have no problem with it…I must be on my way, so if you’ll excuse me.”

He never saw her charging him, and he not being a rogue vampire he had not been in many fights with other vampires, the girl gave no mention why she attacked him. He tumbled with her to the ground and began letting his instincts for survival tell him what to do, all the while the small girl never stopped smiling. Once they were both battered and tired, she spoke “it’s almost daylight…I had fun, I’ll see you around…by the way, the names Akira, remember it.”

As she ran off he couldn’t believe what had just happened, but he managed to avoid her for almost three hundred years…

~End Flashback~

He grabbed his long black hair and put it up in a ponytail "It’s been 266 years to be exact. Where’s the key you little tramp?"

She frowned and pulled a small pendant out of her back pocket and wrapped the chain around her neck "You don’t need to know. It’s in good hands though… I swear,” she said as she flew into the sky “besides I haven’t seen you in so long lets chat…”

He glared up at her “what’s there to chat about?”

She giggled “remember our fight from way back when…I should have killed you then.”

He shrugged “you had your chance, now I’m much stronger”

“You think?” she said smiling “anyways the only reason I’m here was because of the key, I need to go soon.”

"Damn you Akira!" Leon screamed as he pulled a small bloody heart pendant out of his coat pocket. Placing the pendant around his neck he followed her up into the night sky. Akira mumbled and a blue ball formed in her hands. Leon quickly pulled a long glowing red sword from the pendant and stared at her waiting for her to make a move. She threw the ball towards him and he lunged forward with the sword and knocked the ball to the ground leaving a huge hole in the street.

"Awww. Now I have to make another one" Akira pouted then she began to mumble again. Leon grunted and flew forward sliding the sword across Akira’s arm, he had heard about her reputation after their first fight.

He knew she was strong, growing up a rogue did that to you, especially after Darius had been sealed, he was like a father to Akira.

"Ow! You asshole you’ll pay for that Leon" she yelled grabbing her arm, she made another ball quickly but before she could throw it Leon swung at her with his fist.

Akira connected her energy ball with Leon’s fist and an immense explosion sent the two flying across the street from one another. They both hit the brick walls of the warehouses and it crumbled slightly before they both fell to the ground with a bone-cracking thud.

Leon coughed as he pushed his body from the cement debris surrounding him and looked to Akira, she was kneeling and looked over to him before shouting “Leon you ruined my new outfit!”

He smirked, “like your scrawny ass could do that outfit justice…” and with that last remark he stood up and clutched his sword “bitch now it’s my turn!”

Akira closed her eyes and spread her arms out wide, before Leon could cross the street five huge demons appeared behind her and lunged towards him tearing at his flesh.

"Damn it Akira this isn’t a fair fight! Fucking bitch!" He screamed as one of the demons plunged his arm through Leon’s stomach. His eyes grew wide and the demons disappeared, he fell fast hitting the cold ground he moaned and passed out.

"I win" Akira said and she giggled and vanished into the night sky.

~A few hours later~

Leon’s body was sprawled out on the ground and a large black wolf ran up to him. The wolf sniffed him and then sat down and began to howl.

"Kirin where the hell did you go?" A girls voice screamed.

The wolf looked up and barked as a black cloud of smoke appeared and a girl stepped out. Her short black hair waved in the wind as her long black leather trench coat covered her body.

"What’s this?" she said staring at the body. "You didn’t do this Kirin, did you?" she said kneeling down next to the body and turned his head "Oh shit it’s Leon!"

She jumped up grabbing his body and throwing it onto her companion Kirin "He’s and old friend of mine bring him to my place so I can fix him up okay?" The wolf nodded and ran off into the darkness as she stepped back into the dark cloud of black smoke and vanished.

~

Kirin laid Leon down on her bed and transformed into a human, He was short with long brown hair and deep brown eyes.

"Go get cleaned up Kirin while I dress his wounds" came the girls voice as she walked into the room with some bandages. Kirin nodded and quickly left the room before she looked at Leon’s body and began to take his coat and shirt off "What have you gotten yourself into now Leon?"

She ran her fingers across his chest and noticed the large gash in his stomach "Kirin bring me some cloth and water so I can clean this up some, please?" she shouted and stared at the gash.

Kirin sauntered back into the room handed her a long piece of white cloth and a bowl of water "This guy got his ass beat,” He said mid laugh as he turned to leave. She looked at him with a raised eyebrow then began to clean and dress Leon’s wounds. After patching him up she rolled her sleeve up on her left arm and pushed her long sharp nail into her wrist until she felt the blood flow. She watched the blood drip slowly into Leon’s mouth.

"Okay that should work. Please don’t die on me?" She said moving her arm from his mouth. Leon twitched and sprung up gasping. He stared at her with blurred vision "Purity? Is that you?"

Purity smiled and hugged him "It’s been too long Leon I thought you were never gonna come back” she said before letting go of Leon and yelled for Kirin.

Kirin ran in and saw Leon sitting on the edge of the bed "Oh so he’s okay then?" sounding almost disappointed.

Purity smiled and looked at both of them "Oh sorry Kirin this is Leon. Leon this is Kirin my pet werewolf."

Leon laughed and looked at Kirin "Ha so you’re Purity’s Bitch!" Kirin growled at him, snorted then walked away.

Purity sat on the bed next to Leon "So you gonna tell me what happened or not?"

"Akira took the fucking key and we got into a little fight. The bitch called for backup and got away. So now I have to find her before she awakens Darius or find the weapon to stop Darius if I’m too late" he muttered angrily.

Purity’s eyes widened and she wrapped her arms around him "What can I do to help?"

Leon looked at her with a satisfied expression "Well you could help me find the weapon. It resides with in a morphing demon named Chastity or so I’ve heard… but I’ve never seen her so I don’t know what I’m looking for."

Purity looked up at him and smiled "Chastity.... hmmm.... I may know her. Oh yeah now I remember her but she’s hard to find. Usually she finds me." Leon turned towards her "Well what are you waiting for let’s go find her."

Purity jumped up. "Well in order to find her we have to find her guardian Lucius. But I know where he hangs out. He’ll help us... hopefully"

“Hopefully?” asked Leon.

Purity grinned “he can be a little tough to convince at times, and he isn’t keen on strangers…especially those who look for Chastity” she said standing up to leave

~Hours later~

Leon and Purity walked up to the huge black doors in front of the bar, the seventh bar they had tried that night. Purity knocked and stepped back, a small hole in the door slide open and she leaned forward whispering through it.

"Come in" a voice from behind the door echoed.

The door flew open and they walked in "So where is this Lucius guy at anyway?" Leon said looking around the bar.

Purity pointed at a door In the back of the bar, the loud music made it hard for even Leon’s ears to hear anyone talking even though he could see their lips moving. They pushed through the crowd and headed toward the door in the back. Purity pulled a key out of her bra and unlocked the door. Leon stared at her.

"What I’ve been here a few time’s" she said winking at him before opening the door and whistled. Leon stared at the dog demon sitting on the couch, both his black dog-ears were flat against his head as the skinny naked blonde moved up and down on his lap.

"Lucius we need your help" Purity said and Lucius’s ears sprung up as he stared at her.

"What the fuck do you need my help for Purity" he growled as the woman on his lap moaned in pleasure.

"We need to find Chastity, Akira took the key to Darius’s tomb" she said knowing the demon would probably fight her on it.

Lucius stood and threw the woman away from him, making her land on a large cactus plant in the corner, he ignored her cries of pain as he fixed his clothes “Chastity hasn’t asked for you…I care not what anyone else does, I protect Chastity and Chastity alone.”

“But we need her…” began Leon.

Lucius growled, “who are you!” he turned to Purity “why are you telling others of Chastity!?”

Purity knew that this might turn into a fistfight if she didn’t calm down the seething dog demon “please Lucius, how long have you known me? You know I won’t hurt her…”

Purity knew of Lucius’ past, he and Chastity had once been in love, but that had all changed when they found out Chastity held an important roll in an insidious plot. Now Lucius protected her with everything he was, he wanted to still love her but he didn’t want to at the same time.

Purity awaited his answer and glanced at Leon, finally the dog demon spoke “I don’t care, I will talk to her myself, if she wishes to see you I will find you…now leave!”

Leon went to argue but Purity grabbed his arm “come on Leon we have to let it go for now.”

The vampire grumbled out something incoherent before turning to leave, Purity walked to Lucius and kissed his cheek “you can trust us…I hope to see you soon” and with that said she followed Leon out the door.

Lucius stared at the now closed door, ignoring the crying bloody girl in the corner still, he sat down grabbing his glass of Jack Daniels and thought ‘what do I do…I don’t want to lose you…the prophecy foretold that when the weapon is used it dies…what am I without you to protect, what am I…’

~Hours Later

Chastity looked up as Lucius walked into her room, she could tell he was deep in thought “what’s wrong” she asked sitting up. The bed sheets fell from her body exposing her nude form.

Lucius sat on the bed with his back to her and shook his head “nothing…nothing at all.”

Chastity frowned and hugged her naked form to him “I know when you’re lying…what is it?”

He turned his head so he could see her “I don’t want to lose you” he whispered.

She raised an eyebrow “lose me?”

Lucius shook his head “forget it…we need to go, we need to leave town tomorrow.”

Chastity pulled away from him and stood up “why?”

He stood and went to the small bar in the hotel room “because people are looking for you like always, they want to kill you like always” he half lied as he poured himself a drink.

Chastity grabbed a black silk robe and wrapped it around herself “ok I trust you, you’re my guardian.”

She didn’t notice Lucius flinch at the word ‘guardian’ and sat back on the bed as he walked back over, he took a sip of his drink and looked into her eyes ‘I want to be more than just your guardian like we were so long ago…but I can’t…I can’t let myself love you, you need a guardian not a lover…’

She smiled at him and wiggled under the covers and patted the bed, he shook his head and placed his drink on the nightstand, Chastity watched as Lucius let himself morph to one of his four forms. He morphed into a black Labrador and jumped onto the bed curling up at her feet, she smiled “goodnight Lucius.”

Lucius growled softly and laid his hands into his paws ‘good night…’ his mind whispered.