Kilthalia
The year 2003, genetics conquered; Dolly cloned. On to newer and better things; the public dubbed: stupid things. The successful cloning of Jonathon Harker.
Soon after, a cult of vampire slayers was formed, Jonathon Harker was the head. he taught his cloned regeem of vampire behaviors and identification. When he was satisfied they went out into the world to do what they were born to do.
"Ah, technology these days. What will they think of next?" Harker said to himself. He went to a man named Dell, who made these things called computers and there he put in an order for 5 dozen contraptions in which would aid him and his fellow slayers in easier tracking of vampires.
A gun to the head was convincing enough and the job was done. Some year later Harker and his possy set out and they were appalled to whitness how very many vampires they came about within the first 10 minutes! Harker cursed Dracula's name and set out to dispose of the devil's creations, but they only seemed indifferent to the hostility and avoided a confrontation as if the attacked happened every day!
Jonathon Harker and the others were puzzled
A defeated vampire child returns home and bows before his mother and queen. "Forgive me, Kia, my queen. The slayers were too powerful. There were too many…"
She springs to her feet in a rage and screeches her frustration, but does no harm to anyone. After calming herself she goes and kneels before her bloodied son and caresses his face. "then it looks like we will have to outsmart Mr. Harker rather than by force." Face to face, she licks his bloody wounds. "you did well, my beloved, Tristian. Now it is time for you to rest." She stands and lets him go recooperate.
Just as the plan predicted, Harker couldn't resist the chase, while his fellow slayers lagged behind to slay the taunting vampires. It was Kia herself that lured Jonathon Harker down a narrow street and into an alley. He ran out of arrow darts during the chase but turned down the alley determined to kill her.
She stood awaiting him at the end of the dead-end alley. The gate behind him slammed shut and he realized that there were no other exits.
"it's over Kia!! You're as dead as Dracula!!"
"Dracula? I think not. Right, my love?"
from the shadows came the familiar silouet of the infamous vampire Vlad Dracula. He answered, "I have no idea what he's talking about."
"I thought so. You see Harker? It is not that easy to kill a vampire." She turned to Dracula and held him close, filled with lust.
"Not now Kia." He said coldly, intent on having his fun killing Harker.
Harker realized that Kia's brood was also there in that alley with them. Dracula signaled the one at the gate to open it for the chase to begin, but Kia motioned not to. Kia asked, "Vlad, what do you think you're doing? Even I know that if you let him go that he will find a way to kill us all. I've seen the movies and read the stories! You yourself know this for a fact!! Let's kill him now and be done with it. It sure may be anticlimatic, but at least the job will be done without further complications!"
"how perceptive you are. Very well then." Vlad coolly walked up to Jonathon Harker then, swifter than the human eye can perceive, the vampire snatched up the man's wrists and held them to the bars of the gate. Vlad whispered to the man, not more than a hair's width away, "Prepare to run for your life."
Kia knew something was up. "Vlad! What are you doing?"
Suddenly, the ancient vampire knocked the gate down and threw Harker out. After safely away, Vlad wedged the gate back up to stop the others there from persuing. Kia, enfuriated, stomped up to Vlad and smacked him then hissed, "What do you think you're doing!!?"
She went to kick the gate down again, but Vlad stopped her; taking her arms in his hands. "You will do no such thing, Kia!!"
"Let me go!!" she screamed as she wrenched herself free. Like the skilled huntress she was, she set out to find Harker and kill him, but once again, Vlad stopped her.
"is it your goal in life to jepardise our kind??!! Let me go so I can destroy that monster!!"
"He is not the monster! We are!! It's taken me hundreds of years to realize that our kind are not meant to be here on this planet!!"
"WE have as much reason to be here as the humans!!! They do not persecute vampire bats!! Then why us??!!"
"I have never figured that out. But what I do know that there is no room for more killers on this earth. The humans do that well enough to themselves."
"then let us resolve this in some other matter than the destruction of our race!!"
"I… have not found any other way." Vlad said sadly.
She pulled away from him and screeched an order that led she and her kin away to a safe house, knowing full well that Harker was out of their reach. Vlad held himself back, knowing that he disappointed Kia.
On the waterfront, the ancient vampire sat, Jonathon walked up to him and sat beside. "what made you change your mind?"
"I've missed you, Harker." He looked at him with his dark sunken eyes. "it's been hundreds of years since I've seen you. And you are a mortal and yet here you are."
"I was cloned, Count. Much like how you can, only it's more complicated."
"yes. the mortals these days are getting smarter. But why you?"
"I don't know. I honestly don't." a pause between them as a bat chases and insect. Vlad looks up to watch, but then Harker says, "Kia's mad with you, isn't she?"
"*sigh* yes, she is."
"what will come of that?"
"I…am not sure." Vlad truthfully said as he looked at his long lost friend.
"How did you and her…"
" 'Hook up'?"
"I suppose you could say that."
"it was this past winter. She was out for a walk by herself and she found me as I rested on a park bench. She…has a particular taste in men. I suppose I fit into that category that she likes. Few do." He paused, remembering that cold snowey night and how she made his blood boil with passion. "She came over to me and introduced herself, sat down then caressed her lips against my neck. We held each other close and…that night, I can't remember the last time I felt my blood become that hot…"
"but then didn't she come off as some sort of bedmate?"
"no. she looked respectable. But she has a strong self will and will impose herself upon others, I guess. I don't know the stories of her children; how they came to be vampires by her. But she enjoyed it when I sank my teeth into her neck. She held me closer than I thought possible and dug her nails into my back. After a while of holding her neck in my jaws, she then did the same to me." he smiled lusty thinking abou it.
"ug. Vampire love."
"Love at first bite. But…her blood is unlike any other vampire's that I've tasted. Hers is thicker, like cold molasses and it has the most bitter taste that I have ever beheld!"
"why do you think that is?"
"Jonathon. Don't you know?"
"know what?"
"she's a different kind of vampire."
"what do you mean?! How different?! What is she?"
"I think she feeds off love or soul, or attention. I am not sure. All I know is that she craves attention as a vampire craves blood. That is the reason for so many of her children."
"what do you and her hope to accomplish by being together? To make a stronger combination of vampire?! To rule the world?!"
"I never sensed that from her. Kia is very content to keep the world as is. Her goals with me are…unknown to me. she might kill me. she might love me. she might bear children with me. I can honestly say I do not know."
"and for once in your life you dont have answers. You must be scared."
"it is unnerving, I'll admit"
"the infamous vampire admits his true feelings at last."
"it has taken me this long to realize that feelings are important. And I have very strong feelings for Kia."
"strong feelings? Like what? Fear? Sadness? God forbid, happiness?"
"god has nothing to do with it. it's the feeling she gives me when she touches me…"
"touches you……I don't think I want to know."
"her icey hands caress my face, donw my chest, around my waist, up my back… her toothy kisses *sigh* how I miss the feeling she gives me…"
"you're going to go back to her?"
"to receive such affections it is all well worth it."
"is it?"
"when you've lived as long as I have, ANY feeling you receive is to be treasured." Vlad stood and started on his way, harker looking at him.
"Count!"
the vampire turns to look at him.
"I hope you find what you're looking for."
"thank you." And with that he leaves on the back of the mist.
"Kia, my queen. I have returned. I profusely apologize, my love," Vlad said as he bent to one knee and lowered his head.
"Vlad…you are the father to all vampires and you bow to me?"
"love bows to the object of that love. Please forgive me." as he stayed as he was, Kia walked down to him and knelt down in front of him. she ran her fingers along his face, his lips, his closed eyelids and brow, through his hair and down his neck, along his jaw line. Their lips touched and with a shakey breath, Vlad reached up to her face to caress her cheeks, her hair. Their eyes met, her mahagony, his an inky brown on the verge of black. Their lips locked as their eyes closed and they dove into passion.
Vlad, carried away in feelings grabbed Kia close and laid her down on the carpeted stone floor. They never heard Tristian stand there and watch nor heard him when he ran up to them to rip Dracula from Kia. It all came as quite the surprise.
Dracula rolled to his feet and hissed. The opponent growled back, "Mother is MINE, you degenerate!!" the two men attacked each other in a blindingly fast slashing of claws and teeth, of punches and blow. Kia jumped to her feet and tried to stop the situation, only to be throw to the side. The rest of her kin came to see the commotion and they all watched helplessly as the two vampires fought.
Little to anyone's knowledge, Harker's slayers, without orders, had broken into the vampire lair and were sneaking up on the gathered crowd of sitting ducks. One clear shot is all it took as the two fighing vampires were locked in battle. Tristian fell to an arrow through his heart.
Kia cried out at the sight of her beloved child dying. Suddenly, a rain of arrows bombarded the vampire family, killing some, wounding others. One of her children ran up to Kia only to get an arrow through her midsection. Kia and her daughter looked down at that arrow, then to each other; the daugher fell. Kia screamed and got down, an arrow wizzing over her head, to comfort her daughter.
Dracula came up from behind, an arrow already in his arm, and he grabbed Kia's upper arms and yelled, "We must get out of here!!" he hauled her to her feet and started running away with her when he got hit in the back. Vlad kept running when he got an arrow in his calf. He fell then got back up to hobble towards the exit, where Kia was headed.
When she reached the door she realized that she was alone. She turned to look back at the massacre and to Vlad on the floor behind her. He rrached out and cried, "Go!! Save yourself!!"
Kia turned to run out only to be confronted by Renfield. "where do you think you're going, Kia?" he shot her in the abdomin. With the last bit of strength left, Vlad cried out to Kia, who fell to the floor in slow motion.
The next thing anyone of the felled vampires knew, they awoke to find themselves in cages, the arrows still where they landed in their bodies. Dracula awoke and yanked the arrows from his body as if they were thorns. Getting to his knees he went to grab the bars of his small cage, only to be burned; electrified. "what IS this??!! Kia??!! Kia!!!??"
He heard her moan in a cage a few off. "my queen! Speak to me!!"
"Vlad?" she weakly says. "wh…where are we?"
Renfield then walks into the room of hanging cages and says, "you're in OUR lair NOW, vampire scum!!"
"you just wait until Harker hears of THIS!! He'll have your head!!" Vlad retorted.
"oh I think not. That weakling of a slayer could never hold his own!!"
"You just wait and see Renfield!! Harker WILL come and you WILL PAY!!" Dracula threatened.
"look how scared you are, Dracula. Counting on a mortal to save your sorry carcass? How successful do you think he will be against all of us? If he does come, you will find him in his own cage!"
enraged, Dracula kicked the bars out and landed on the catwalk to attack Renfield when UV light from artificial sources hit him. Quick thinking he retreated to the shadows.
Renfiels taunbted, "tsk, tsk, tsk. The great Dracula scared of a little UV lightbulb? How sad…"
"You are a cruel man, renfield!" Dracula hissed.
"Actually…it was Van Helsing's idea!"
"gunantag" the german slayer greeted.
The vampire lord growled, remembering and hating that man, "You…"
"shoot we keel heem now or let heem watch us keel hees lover?"
"As muchg as I've tried, I can NEVER EVER stop HATING you!! You, who MURDERED my loved ones!! YOU who hast made MY life HELL to bear every night of my waking!!" enfurated, Dracula started towards Van Helsing, only to have some more UV cast upon him. Retrrating Vlad hit the corner walls behind him and lowered himself to the floor in pain as the german massacreer walked closer.
"you haf no life, monster! You died long, long ago and are now possessed by a demon that must perish to free your body from ever lasting torment."
"TORMENT THAT YOU CAUSED!!"
"Nien! I am not the one who made you a vampire! Und as for your so called loved ones, YOU are the one whom bore them into darkness, leaving ME to free them from the prison you made of dere bodies!"
"You RAMBLE NOTHING but LIES!! You ALWAYS HAVE and ALWSY WILL! You know NOTHING of vampires, you monster!!"
Renfield then put a hand to Van Helsing's UV light as it was clearly committing much damage to Dracula, who was cpwering on the floor. "alright boys! Let's get him back in his cell!"