Sacrifice Helle

Chapter 20

Tobias was one of the brighter types I had seen in a while. He was quite bubbly to be honest, for a vampire I though he was talking an awfully lot. He was wonderful like all vampires I had seen, light brown hair, his eyes reminded me of melted chocolate. "Oh, so you like chocolate eh? Ah, I can still remember the taste of chocolate.." And then he went on and on about everything he knew about chocolate while spinning me around, looking at me and taking mental notes of my sizes.

"You know, it's just not that easy to find you anything, Vaan keeps no clothes for visitors, and borrowing any is out of the question. The only girl as tall as you in this building is Raven, and she'd bite my head of if we took any of her dresses. Hmm.. Vaan wouldn't like it anyway, to much 'elf', you know?" He sincerely looked me in the eyes and waited for an answer. "I.. I .. really don't think I would know..." He started spinning me around again. "Ah, human clothes, what has happened to them in the last decades? Where are the flowing dresses and magnificent textures these days? Seriously girl, this really looks awful on you. Well, at least you had the dignity to keep your hair intact, have you seen those girls? Short like boys in the army I tell you... This is SO going in the trash!" Tobias made a slight move with his hand and then all my clothes fell on the floor and I stood there in all my nudity.

"Eeek!" "Heh, like I care.. Stop screaming or Vaan will think I'm raping you." He picked up my clothes and left the room. I sat down on the bed that was there, who it belonged to I didn't know. I guessed it was Tobias's. Shortly after he came back. "Now what?" "Oh, I'm going to sit down and make you an outfit, just for you! Actually, I guess I'll be making your entire wardrobe..." "But... what am I going to wear until then?" Tobias looked at me and smiled the sweetest smile, "You will just have to be naked I guess." " WHAAAT?! You threw away my old clothes and now I've got nothing to wear, so I'll go around naked?! I DON'T THINK SO!" O_O Tobias's eyes widened at my rage and he actually jumped back. "I... I was joking..." "Hmpf!" "Ehr... The bathroom is through that door, why don't you take a nice relaxing bath?", he said as he pointed to another door in the room. 'Want to get me away eh?' He didn't reply. 'Hmm.. maybe he can't read thoughts.. hehehe... Tobias is a stupid little rat... trallalalllalla....' "Ey! I heard that!" 'Oki, just checking...'

Tobias was a master in making dresses, he was so quick that the dress was almost ready to wear when I came out of the bath. It looked so...so goth. So.. Iselin.... "Vaan likes it that way ^_^" "Do I have do wear what Vaan likes?" "If you want to please him, yes..." "Who said anything about pleasing? I'm not here for him, but for Asami. Where is she by the way? Vaan said I could see her!" Tobias was busy dressing me up and adjusting the dress to fit me perfectly. "Who?" "My sister!" "Oh... Oh, that child... Didn't Vaan tell you? She was sent off earlier today. With Juan and Fredrik. It's only me and Iselin and Vaan left now. And.. well.. Raven too. If you want to count her." "Sent off! But he said.....! That bastard!!!" "Relax now.. I'm sure you'll get a chance to see her later. As soon as we pack our necessities, we will follow after..." I sighted. He was just lying to me, Vaan. I couldn’t trust anything he said.

"There! Now your all pretty-like ^_^" "How come you ended up like a vampire Tobias? You seem like a nice person.. " Tobias looked at me with his chocolate eyes, "You can't be nice while a vampire?" "You just don't seem like the type..." Tobias smiled at me, big smile with his fangs showing. "You try to resist Vaan, see how it turns out." "I don't get it..." Tobias's eyes started wandering off, like he was looking at something in the past, "The first time I met Vaan... ah, what a time that was." Then he looked at me again intensely, his eyes had a soft glow in them, "When he takes off his shirt ..", he started as he moved closer to me, "...and lay you down on a bed with silken sheets..", moved his hand onto my back and pushed me against his chest, "... the room lit by burning candles...", he leaned in closer, "and kisses you gently...", his lips touched mine as gently as a feather, "...You try to resist...", he smiled one teasingly smile and let me out of his grip and moved away a little. "He slept with you?" Tobias was still teasing me with his eyes, "He still does...." I tried to picture it. Tobias: okay, he had the tendencies, but Vaan? He looked so innocent.. and.. so not gay... "So.. He sleeps with every one of his children?" "No.. only some... And.. off course, he sleeps with them when he sires them..." "Why's THAT an off course?!" "He always has.. It's just what he does, he never sires any other way.."

KNOCK KNOCK! The door opened and Vaan entered, asking Tobias, "Is she ready?" Tobias moved out of the way so that Vaan could get a closer look at me. He was wearing a black shirt, some fitting pants and he smiled his most charming smile at me. "You look so much better now, love, and that stinky demon smell is ALMOST gone.." He reached his hand out for me, but I backed away. Vaan rose an eyebrow, "I do not know what Tobias has told you, but last time I remember you took my hand..." He still held it out for me, I built up some guts and took it. "That's better... Are you hungry?" I nodded, my tummy was acing, I hadn't had anything to eat since that time on the café while waiting for Darien to finish feeding. Apropos that, how did demons feed? And Vaan had also recently been eating, at least he had said he would. My mind found the most horrific images from the hundreds of horror movies I had seen. "Maybe I should bring you with me to the dinner table next time?", Vaan questioned with a smirk. "And when it comes to demons and feeding....", Vaan grinned devilishly, "Maybe I should let you see that too... Could be entertaining..."

Vaan had given me dinner, real good normal food, served on a silver plate by a servant, a human servant I was told. He had whispered sweet words in my ear all night, it seemed to amuse him. And he loved teasing me with demon and vampire hunting and feeding habits, although he didn't say a word he said it all. He didn't have anything against the demons it seemed, only he talked about them as below him. It was so difficult for me to get used to Vaan, with his charming, boyish looks and that devilish mind. At first glance he came off as no threat at all, but when you looked him in the eyes and heard the words he said, you understood that this was no 16 year old boy, but something far older. And scarier.

Then he had showed me my room and now I was sitting on my bed, waiting for someone to help me out of this dress. I couldn’t do it alone, because it consisted of a corset that was closed at my back, and the skirt was also a little tricky. He would have helped me himself, he said, but that he had to 'pack'. So he called for one of the servants. She came, the servant, and undressed me. I noticed that she had a couple of red marks on her neck and grossed.

The bed felt good and soft, far more comfortable than any other bed I had slept in. The next day I woke up and the same servant came in again and helped me get into my dress again. The day went by without me seeing anyone else besides the servant who gave me food from time to time. I was shown out to the gardens too, outside in the sun. She never spoke to me though, and I didn't feel like talking to her either. She was probably not permitted to speak to me anyway. The gardens were beautiful, but I couldn't see the surroundings due to the high bushes, cut like walls of plants. Sometimes there were even real walls behind the bushed and plants that crawled up them. The air smelled differently, I had no idea of where this was, just.. it wasn't home. I spent the last hours of day in the garden, laying on a bench looking at the sky.

After the sun had set it started getting cold, so I got up to walk inside when I saw that Vaan stood a couple of meters away watching me. I jumped a little, I didn't expect to see anyone. "How long have you been standing there?" Vaan looked up at the sky, "About... 20 minutes..." "Done packing?" "Yes, and we should hurry or we will be late for my welcome party.." "Party?" I walked over to him and we went inside the building. He let his hand slip around my back. "I do need a welcome party when returning to the underworld..! I who bring the gift and everything..." "Will I see her?!" "Hmm... If you behave I might take the trouble of arranging a meeting... Since it's you." "What party is it anyway? Blood bath? Killing spree? Dancing?!" He laughed, "Dancing would be the closest... But.. yes... well... no... Blood bath doesn't fit... more like.. a nice dinner." He smirked. "Oh, I nearly forgot... Your demon... Raven!" We had walked to the hallway and after about 7 minutes Raven showed herself. "Yes Master?" "I almost forgot, we have a demon companion this year, would you go get him for me?" Raven stood still, her eyes moved down to her left side, then after a while she nodded and walked away from us. "What's up with..." "She searched for him, to find out where he was. Dark elves have such wonderful paraphsycological gifts... Raven really has made my existence easier.. Now then.. We should get ready."

We walked into another room, I recognized it as Tobias's, and then it was confirmed when I saw Tobias himself laying in the bed. The blankets barely covering him and he was clearly naked. Vaan walked silently towards the bed then he gently crawled up in it, like a kitten, making his way up towards the top while sliding his fingers across Tobias's body. 'Okay, now I get the image I couldn't get earlier...' Vaan gave me a teasing glance, then he leaned over Tobias and bit him in the ear. At this Tobias opened his eyes and smiled at me. Vaan got down from the bed and walked over to the closet, found some clothes and threw them over at Tobias. "Get dressed, we're leaving!"

"Huh? What? Now?! But I only made two dresses! And what will she wear at the party?" "Who said I'd bring her?" Then Vaan came over to me, put his hand on my back again and pulled me with him out of the room. We got to the main room in the house, the same room we had come to first when we walked through the gate. There stood a bunch of people, mostly young people with wide frightened eyes. "What...?" "Baggage! No humans in the underworld... And you think I'd bother returning here every day?" Tobias then came. "We ready?" "Not yet...", Vaan said, "Iselin... She's late. She'll have to make her own way down there if she's not here when Raven returns." Then Raven suddenly came out of nowhere, she held on to a leash and then I saw Darien also coming through the gate, with a collar around his neck. Raven handed the leash to Vaan. "Why.. what..?", I began. "I can't have him running loose.. Besides, this will keep him calm... All right, now we are all here, Iselin: fuck you, we're leaving." Raven made some hand signals again and muttered some words, a circle glowed around us on the floor and we were moved through another gate, a large one this time.