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Call of the wild: Wake the dead
Chapter 10

fusedtwilight: Thanks to my beta i got two chapters up tonight, Thanks a lot ishtani!

I woke up at around ten with Drake still curled at my side. He looked strangely peaceful when asleep. I tried to get out of bed without waking him, but he opened his eyes when I moved.
"Morning." I said.
"Morning." He replied getting up, "What time is it?" He asked rubbing the sleep from his eye's.
"Ten in the morning." I said
"What do you have planed for today?" He asked.
I walked over to the dresser to pick my day clothes, "Well Jean-Claude and Anita are going to help me learn how to call animals better." I said.
"Why? You have no trouble calling animals." He said watching me dress.
"True but I told them I can’t do it very well. And if I start acting like an expert they’ll get suspicious of how I am so good at it." I said.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door "Dave it's me." Jeremy’s voice called.
Shit what was he doing here? "I thought you had guards out there?" I asked.
"I did but I sent them home, after I woke up twenty minutes ago." He said.
"What have you been doing for twenty minutes?"
"Watching you sleep."
Only slightly creepy.
"Dave is that you?" Jeremy asked then he came in through the door. He stood at the door and took in the scene, me, Drake, half-naked. "What is he doing here?" He hissed.
"He was keeping me company." I said blushing. How embarrassing to have your boss see you in your undies.
"I see that." He said; his eye's narrowed into slits.
"No not like that!" I quickly said.
Drake stood up stretching his arms, "Dave needed some comfort last night. I was there for him." He said, he then grabbed his clothes, "I see you two need to talk, so I’ll leave you alone, David I’ll talk to you later." He said and walked out the door.
Oh yes please leave me to fend for myself.
Once Drake shut the door Jeremy rounded on me "Why was he here David?!" He growled and I felt a wave of prickling energy.
"I told you he was just here for comfort." I said grabbing a pair of socks from the dresser.
I felt Jeremy walk up behind me.
"Dave you shouldn't be any were near him, it's his fault you were hurt." He said.
I turned around to face him "No it's not."
"Yes it is, if he had just left you alone then you wouldn't have been at the club." He said crossing his arms, "And by the way what were you doing at Danse Macobre anyway?"
"What do you mean? I was there to dance."
"Dancing sure, but you are so not Danse Macobre material."
"What that supposed to mean?" I asked indignantly.
"Well you are a bit too red blooded for a place like that." He said rubbing the back of his head.
"I'm twenty-one (really sixteen) who says I’m not cool enough for a place like that."
"You did, you'd say you'd never get caught dead in a place like that."
"Oh yeah."
"But I know you were there with bat boy, Ron and Kim told me everything." He said sternly, great here comes big brother mode.
"Well he showed up at the zoo to apologize, and we talked, and he invited me to hang out, I didn't want to go alone so I invited Ron and Kim to come with." I said.
"He followed you to work, and asked you out and you said yes!" He said disbelieving.
"Well he didn't follow me exactly." I said, who am I kidding.
"You need to stay away from him Dave, he's dangerous." He said.
"Believe me I know that." I whispered.
"What do you mean?" I told him about his ability to gain memories from blood, "So he knows everything?!"
"Yes, but he doesn't mean any harm, if he did he would have said something last night."
"Yes I heard about last night, I’m going to be there to help you train." He said.
"What? I thought Jason was going to help."
"He is but Richard felt that given the nature of your power, it would be best to have as many test subjects as possible." he said "Anita is going to bring some of her Leopards." He said.
"Okay."
"Dave I thought you were trying to stay hidden? What happened?"
"I don't know." I moaned.
I sat down on the bed and he sat down next to me "Do they know about everything?"
"No they don't, you heard what happened last night right?"
"Lets see, every major Alpha in St. Louise, came to have a major meeting, in order to discuss you and your ability to call animals, then Haven Rex of the lions forced his beast on you, you ate it, which impressed the Alphas so much they decided it would be more interesting to see you develop said power, all hoping they can lure you to there side, then posses a very powerful weapon?"
"Basically." I said impressed.
"Yeah, I heard that...Seriously what the hell!"
"Well what am I supposed to do Jeremy?"
"Run."
"WHAT?!"
"Run like before."
"Where to? The only reason I came here was because I was looking for Phillip, but now I find out he's been dead for years, I have no where else to go, and I only have about five hundred bucks right now. What am I supposed to do?" I said frustrated. "Now to top it all off I have every shifter in St. Louis on my ass hoping they can use me for what ever!" I said raising my voice.
He grabbed my shoulder "Richard has no intention of using you, he's concerned about what the others have planed for you, yes but believe me he is not going to turn you."
"Yeah tell that to the dozen or so Alpha's from last night." I said shakily remembering the looks on some of the leaders’ faces at the thought of me as a resource.
"What are you going to do?" He asked.
"The only thing I can do right now. I’m going to just sit it out, hopefully I can learn a thing or two about my powers, and if the shit hits the fan I’ll just run." I said.
"Where to?"
"I don't know, I can live in the woods, I went camping all the time when I was a kid."
"So your going to go grizzly Adams ?"
"Hey it's a plan okay?" I said.
"Well you still have five days off, so I suggest you take it easy" he said.
"Well it's a good thing I work at the Zoo, otherwise I’d go crazy down here." I said.
"Umm, yeah about that, when they heard you were in an incident involving a bunch of shifters, and had a mysterious recovery, you were suddenly in the budget cuts." Jeremy said nervously.
"WHAT!" Normally it was illegal to discriminate against the lunarly challenged, but somehow they always found themselves on the list of budget cuts "But I’m not a shifter." I said.
"Yeah well they obviously didn't want to risk it." He said.
"Damn it, I’d sue them if it wasn't for the fact I was on the run." I said. "I busted my ass off there and this is how they repay me! I so totally better get paid for last week." I grumbled.
He got up, "Well I better get to work, see you later tonight."
"See you later." I said, and was finally left alone. Well better get ready for today.
After I had my bath and changed into a pair of jeans and a blue shirt, I walked back into my room to find a visitor, it was Ixion.
"David." He greeted.
"Can I help you?" I asked.
He stood up and walked over to me, I resisted the urge to back up, he wasn't feeling aggressive, or threatening. He simply handed me a black envelope. "Narcissus wishes’ to meet with you at his club Narcissus in chains, you may bring five others of whom ever you choose, think of it as a sign of good faith." He said and walked out. Doesn't anyone around here knock?
I looked at the front of the envelope, it had golden lettering. It said To David Kazat. I opened it; it had been sealed with wax. It read:
'Dear Mr. Kazat, sadly I was unable to be there in person, but I would very much like to meet with you in person, to discuss personal matters as well as to request your aid in hyena business. Now I know my reputation proceeds me, which is why I have allowed you to take five others with you. You may invite anyone you wish, weather they be a guard, or Jean-Claude himself. I hope to see you soon.'
Narcissus
XOXO
Hugs and kisses? What the hell is wrong with this Chick/Dude? And he wants to talk private and personal business? That’s the same damn thing. For once there was a knock at the door and Jason came in.
"Hey Dave what’s up?" he asked. I looked at him and my face must have shown something.
"What’s wrong?" He asked. I handed him the letter, as he read it he started to frown.
"Ixion gave this to you, I can smell it." I nodded. "I have no idea why he wants, he lets us use bodyguards, but he handles his hyenas personally, he's already paranoid that Asher will try to take over.” He said.
"I don't know maybe he hopes to have a new whipping boy...literally." I said.
"I take it you've heard of him?" He asked.
"Yeah, and I was sooo not impressed." I said it wasn't the BDSM thing it was the torture bit.
"So what are you going to do?" He asked.
"Tell Anita and see what she say's." I said.
"You’re not going to say no?" He asked.
"Well it doesn't matter, I mean he seems hell bent on meeting me, and he did put his protection on me, it's the least I could do is meet up with the guy." I said.
"It says you can bring five, that rather generous of him."
"Which is why I will tell Anita about it, she'll know what to do better than me." I said
with maybe to much admiration.
Jason grinned "You have a crush an Anita don't you?"
"NO!" I said to quickly blushing.
He broke out laughing "HA ha ha ha ha oh my god you have it bad for the Executioner don't you?" he said still laughing, I hope he died laughing.
"Shut up Jason, or I’ll make you play dead." I said with a hint of menace.
He stopped laughing "You would really kill me?" He said sounding hurt.
"What no I was just-" I said quickly, but stopped when I saw him grinning.
"God you’re so gullible." He laughed.
I grinned at him nastily, the perfect revenge came to mind "Jason, SIT!" I said, and I did more then say, I tapped into some of my power, and ran over him through my voice, he shuddered and dropped to the floor landing on his ass. "Good boy." I said patting him on the head.
He looked at me with a serious face "So that’s your power huh?" He said sounding displeased.
"What?" I asked, suddenly we weren’t joking no more. And this is Jason were talking about him and seriousness don’t go hand in hand.
He stood up, "It’s illegal to use magic on shifters to you know." He said wiping the bottom of his jeans. This coming was from the guy who donates his blood regularly to vampires?
"Well sorry you were pissing me off." I said crossing my arms.
"You need to be more careful Dave most shifters would have attacked you for less." He said seriously.
"I knew you wouldn't hurt me, besides you deserved it." I said stubbornly. All I did was say sit, Jason was known for his pranks.
"Well remember that next time you decide to screw with someone’s mind." He said angrily.
Ok I did not appreciate that tone, or him implying I went around 'screwing with peoples minds' as he put it "I wasn't screwing with your mind besides you give blood to a vampire, mind tricks should be natural for you!" I screamed at him.
I felt a rush of hot prickling energy, Jason growled and his eyes bled to wolf, he started to walk forward but a voice called out "What the hell is going on in here?" We both turned to look and found Anita she looked pissed.
"Nothing Jason's just being a dick I’m sure he can explain it all to you" I said and walked toward the bathroom and slammed the door shut.
I was feeling rather frustrated, I lost my job, I was stuck living with a bunch of vampires, I had been shot, I had a bunch of crazy religious fanatics probably warming up a pyre with my name on it, and I had to get my balls chopped by a guy who worked as a stripper for a living. I started brushing my teeth, when there was a knock on the door, "Come in." I said. The door opened and in stepped Anita, I ignored her and continued to diligently brush my teeth, she leaned against the edge of the tub. She just stood there watching me brush my teeth, finally I spun around and shouted at her.
"What?" God I hate being stared at. She gave me a hard look and I flinched "Sorry." I said.
"It's not me you should apologize to" She said.
"Is Jason mad at me?" I asked.
"A little but he's cooled down." She said.
"I'm sorry for snapping at you like that, it's just been so frustrating, I lost my one job at the Zoos, and getting shot and last night." I said pulling my hand through my hair.
"You feel angry, and frustrated, that’s only natural." She said.
"Yes, but Jason was right, whether I was kidding or not I shouldn't have used my power on him like that." I said. "Jason was just trying to be friendly and I over reacted." I said.
"Jason showed me the invite, what do you want to do?" She asked.
"What do you think of it?"
"Personally I would want to stay as far away from Narcissus as possible, but for him to allow five people of your choice, makes me think he may not have any harmful intentions." She said.
"So do you think I should go?"
"You’re pretty compliant for a twenty-one year old." She said.
"What can I say, I was raised to obey." I joked.
She stood up from the tub "Jean-Claude should be up within the hour, Richard is on his way we'll start your training soon."
"Ok, can I get something to eat first? I'm starving" I said.
"Sure, but we don't have much, so I picked you up some breakfast from McDonalds."
"Cool" I said. We walked out of the bathroom, Jason was still there leaning on the bed post "Sorry." I said.
"Water under the bridge." he said waving his hand and his infamous Jason smile.
While we sat in the main room of the circus with the old painting of Jean-Claude and Asher, we were joined by the thong guy from last night and Micah. They joined us for breakfast and I learned the thong guys name was Nathaniel. He wore a pair of jogging shorts, and shoes and nothing else, once again she kissed both Micah and Nathaniel upon meeting them. I didn't care, she was the leopard Queen she could kiss who ever she wanted. I took a bite out of my bagel and took a sip of my milk.
"You surprise me." Jason said next to me.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Most people would have looked surprised, or shocked she kissed two different men." He said nodding toward Anita and the guy's, "But you didn't even flinch." He said.
"I'm not most people." I said, "Besides, she's the Nimir-ra, nothing wrong with kissing members of her pard." I said shrugging my shoulders.
"How'd you know she is the Nimir-ra?" He asked surprised.
"Well when you work at a shifter bar, you tend to hear things." I said..
"Doesn't it bother you she's the Nimir-ra?" Micah asked looking at me, he had charities colored eye's, they weren’t human, they were leopard eyes. The only reason his eye's would be stuck in leopard form would be because he had spent too much time in were form and couldn't go back all the way.
"Why should it? I mean I’ve never heard of a human that was a leopard queen, but it's none of my business, and there's nothing wrong with it, I mean she's the Lupa to right? And Jean-Claude's human servant and part of his triumvirate...did I miss anything?" I asked. They all had looks of shock on there faces. "I mean the human servant everyone knows that, the rest I just learned by paying attention." I said blushing.
"And you have no problem with any of that what so ever." Anita asked, I knew people in the tabloids and real life gave her a lot of shit over the human servant bit. But if they ever found out she was the Lupa, and Nimir-ra, they'd really bitch.
"Look I’m not going to harp on you, you are what you are, you still kill vamps that deserve it, and you raise zombies, you help bring closure to family and friends, so what if you lead some fury’s, nothing wrong with that, does your cross still burn for you?"
"Yes."
"Then obviously your not doing anything wrong" I said and finished my bagel.
"Sorry it's just weird to have someone just accept it, with out complaint." She said.
"That's one of the benefits of being born with the ability to attract fury's, it gives you a perspective that sadly most people lack." I said grinning.
Jason checked his watch "Well better get going to see Jean-Claude see you all soon." He said getting up and walking past the curtain.
"Why does he have to go meet Jean-Claude?" I asked.
"He’s Jean-Claude’s Pomm de sang." Nathaniel said.
"Oh his blood donor." I said, of course.
A Pomm de sang or apple of blood is a person who is a vamps personal blood donor when they wake up. When ever the vamp needs blood the pomm is there to open a vain. I knew for vamps a pomm de sang was a special thing, like a kept mistress, only instead of sex it's blood. Most of the time, and sometimes both.
"You seem to be pretty well educated about the life of vamps and shifters?" Anita asked.
Opps.
"Oh well umm you see." I tried to say.
"You said you were Phillips cousin right?" she asked suspiciously.
"Yes...oh no, no, no, I've only gave blood a few times before" I said but realized my mistake.
"How old were you?" She asked.
"Um eleven." I whispered.
"What?! That's illegal to take blood from a minor, willing or not." She said.
"What can I say, I’m a rebel without a cause." I said. Actually I had to give blood as part of an agreement to the new master vampire who had taken Nigel’s place. He had been one of Nigel’s vamps, his own son in fact. But turned traitor when we offered him the chance to be rid of Nigel, that and some of my blood was all it took to change his mind.
I heard a squeaking sound and turned to my left, there by one of the small tables was a rat. It looked at us with it's beady little black eye's staying deathly still.
"We never seem to be rid of those things." Anita said "Go on shoo." She said waving her hands.
"No don't." I said. I let my shields down just a bit; I reached out to the rat with my power. The rat let out a small squeak and turned it's beady little eye's to me. "He's just hungry is all." I said. I reached into my bag and pulled out a peace of pancake and set it next to the floor by my foot, "Come on little guy." I said. The rat came scurrying over to me and began to devour the pancake. "See just wanted some food is all." I said.
"How did you do that?" Nathaniel asked.
I petted the top of the rats head with my finger, "It's my ability, all animals are attracted to me, and I can communicate with them." I said.
"Like Doctor Dolittle?" Anita asked with a smirk.
"Not quite." I said, it was always tough to explain this part of my power, hell my power was always hard to explain. "It's like I know what they’re saying, but it's not that they’re speaking human. They speak there own language, I’m simply capable of understanding and communicating with them better." I said.
"What’s he saying now?" Anita asked nodding to the rat.
"He says the food is tasty, and he likes me." I said.
"You are full of surprises monsieur Kazat." Jean-Claude’s voice called out.
We turned and saw Jean-Claude walking towards us, Claudia, Bobby Lee, Jason, Richard, and Jeremy with him. "I thought we were only going to use Leopards and wolfs for this?" I asked.
"Oui, but Rafael offered his services, namely the help of some of his rats for this experiment, however it seems as though you already found a willing test subject." He said waving toward the rat who had finished it's meal.
"Just feeding the locals." I said. I squeaked at the rat and he went scurrying away.
"Glad to see you’re not scared of rats." Claudia said with a grin.
"I never fear animals." I said plainly "When I was four I fell into a tank of crocodiles, they never harmed me, they actually played with me."
"How in the hell do you play with crocs?" Bobby Lee asked shocked.
"You’d be surprised." I said grinning. "So what first?" I asked.
"Well first we should see your power first hand." Richard said, "Or at least the part of it that allows you to call animals." He stepped forward to me and to be honest I felt a little intimidated by the larger and more muscular man. "I want you to let your shields down just a little." He said and I complied. I lowered my shields enough to sense all the shifters in the room. "Ok, now can you feel me?" He asked.
"Yes, I feel your power." I said.
"Interesting, I’m blocking like I normally do." He said.
"I know I can't even sense you right now." Anita said.
"Well it's there." I said, "It's like I’m hyper sensitive or something, I’ve known you were Ulfric sense I first met you Richard." I said.
"You know our terms? How?" Ue asked.
"I'm an antenna for shifters, you make a few friends and they spill a secret or two." I said.
"It's usually forbidden to share such knowledge with humans." He said.
"They didn’t tell me everything, just a few terms." I said.
He put his massive hand on my shoulder "Does my touching you effect how you sense me?" He asked.
"Oh yes." It was true I could feel his power running through me, I could only imagine what would happen if he let that glorious energy loose, like blood spilled from a freshly torn wound. Could I make a wound in his shields, was it worth it to risk his anger just to feed on this feast?
I quickly backed away from Richard "What’s wrong?" He asked.
"I was getting tempted to try and penetrate your shields, just so I could soak in your power." I said
"Your eyes have gone wolf." He said simply.
Jason stepped forward sniffing the air "He smells like pack." He said.
I turned to look at Jason his eyes had bled wolf to "He's tapped into my power." Richard said.
"No I soaked some of the ambient energy, you’re stronger than you think Richard." I said.
"Seeing how we seem to get power ups every so often I’m not surprised." Anita said.
"Jason what do you want to do right now?" Jean-Claude asked.
"I want to treat him like another wolf, smell him, taste him, run with him." He said.
"Dave tell me what your power is like, tell me what happened last night with Haven" Richard said.
"When I think of a shield for my power, I think of a vast wooden ark, like from the bible with mosses, only there only one creature inside, not two of every kind, when I lower my shields, I think of a window or a door appearing, and a tentacle, or wing, or claw coming out, when I fully unleash it I imagine the front of the ark opening up and the whole beast springing forth, it has no form and every form. It has every body part of the animal kingdom, because in my imagination it is the animal kingdom." I said. "It is warm, full of life, it is a predator that feeds off of metaphysical power like a sponge, it feasts on the beasts of shifters in order to quite it's hunger, but it is always hungry, but for a while can be sated." I finished.
"Wow, that’s pretty heavy." Bobby Lee said.
"Dave, can you see our beasts?" Anita asked.
"Yes, Anita I see them." The beasts were like phantom animals besides there containers, I saw Jean-Claude’s wolf, but it felt cold and dead. "Their beast.s" and I turned to her, "And yours." I said "You have quite the menagerie." I said.
I could only do this when I wasn’t shielding. But when I let them down I could see the beasts of shifters and Vampires. For vampires there beasts were very different then that of a shifter. They looked the same but a vampire’s beast wasn’t the instincts of the animal. It was a manifestation of there power to call the said animal.
"What do you see?" she asked.
"Wolf, Leopard, Lion, Tiger, lots of tiger." I took a closer look at her "Lots of tigers." I said amazed. She had more than just the orange kind, there were white, black, yellow, red, and there were stripes and none stripes, some of these tigers hadn't existed for thousands of years, they were old these beasts, but they weren’t hers, no they came from something colder, darker, older. "What are you?" I asked.
"What do you mean?" She asked but I had a feeling she knew what I was talking about.
"There are tigers in you that haven’t existed in thousands of years, and they don't belong to you." I said.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"They come from something older, deader." I shuddered.
"They came from the mother of all vampires." She said was it just me or did the lights dim?
I shuddered "Why would you take anything from her?" I asked. I had no idea who this mother of all darkness is but judging from the looks on every one’s face she was scary. Even Anita looked a little pale. And she’s the executioner.
"I really didn't have a choice." She said.
"Ok Dave I want you to try and call Jason’s beast." Richard said bringing us back to today’s agenda.
"Doesn't it hurt to call there beast?" I asked.
"Only if you force it, try and coax it out." He said.
He was right. Alpha’s to punish there subordinates would force there beasts out causing them to shift, I had seen Tom do it before and I knew it hurt worse then a muscle cramp. It was still possible to call a persons beast you just had to do it gently, that way it wouldn’t hurt. It was a good way to heal someone who was unable to shift themselves.
What they didn't know was that I was already versed in calling a shifters beast. Jason had stripped naked, shifting shreds cloths, and to force a shift causes blood and some unknown goop to blast from the shifting were, for some strange reason anything besides the shifter gets covered in this mysterious goop. I walked over to him and put my hands in front of him, I closed my eyes and imagined his wolf sleeping in a vast forest, I called the wolf and it looked at me. It stretched and trotted over to me and licked my palm. When I opened my eye's there was Jason in his wolf form licking my palm.
"I take it you forgive me then?" I asked and he gave a yip.
"Wow your pretty good kid." Claudia said impressed.
"A little to good." Bobby Lee said.
"If you got it flaunt it." I said. Maybe I should tone it down, I am supposed to be new at this after all. If I get everything right the first time they will get suspicious.
"Okay what next?" I asked
"Well, we are going to have Bobby Lee, release some of his power and try to observe how you absorb the energy." Jean-Claude said.
"Let’s do it." I said.
Bobby Lee walked up to me and I felt him focus his energy right on me. My power soaked in it, tasting rat, I knew my eye's probably were black like a rats, but I didn't care, all that mattered was this delicious taste of food. Soon Bobby Lee broke out into a sweat, and then he pulled back that power.
"Damn." he said gasping for breath, "It was like pouring water down a drain, no matter how much strength I put in he just kept on sucking."
"Best stop Bobby Lee." Claudia said.
"No." I said.
"What?" she asked sharply.
"I need more, more power, more meat." Was that me? It sounded like me, but it didn't feel like me. I realized my power had slipped through my shields more than I realized. It had snuck through my notice, while I enjoyed the rat feast. It was trying to take me over! "I will have more." I said, I was ravenous, I need more power, sustenance, flesh, blood, prey. I looked at Bobby Lee, he was strong but he put to much power into me, I knew I couldn't take him on, not yet. I turned to Claudia, yes she was strong, bursting with sustenance, she would be a wonderful feast. I reached out to her I probed her shields looking for a weak spot, but much to my frustration couldn't find one. She was strong and disciplined. If only I could reach her, the core the rat.
"What are you doing!?" She demanded sensing my power probing her.
"Feasting." I said.
"Dave, stop." I heard Jeremy say. But I kept on going. I had been locked up for far too long, I need more power, I need more food.
"David, that's enough!" Anita shouted.
Almost just a little more, I could break down her shields and take that power.
"STOP....HIM!" Claudia hissed, her eyes had gone rat, her shields were weakening, soon she would be mine! She is an Alpha she would make a good feast.
"That’s quite enough monsieur!" Jean-Claude shouted.
I felt a rush of cold power, vampire power. I turned to look at Jean-Claude and saw his eyes were glowing a bright blue. He was trying to roll me.. "She's my meat." I hissed at him.
"She is a person David you will stop this at once!" He shouted.
"I can't the power, to good, almost there, it's waiting, begging for me to drink it." I said. I was drooling now. Salivating at the thought of devouring her power, and then there were more to eat, wolfs, Leopards, Anita?
I felt Jean-Claude try to force his way into my mind. Some small part of me had been shoved into the back of my head were my subconscious normally was. I was screaming and hollering for help. "Jean-Claude? Help me it's taking over, can't fight it." I said in the back of my mind. How the hell did I go from the front to where my subconscious should be?
"I know Mon ami, just try and focus, see if you can let me in." He said."I am finding it rather difficult to enter your mind."
That is weird. I have a little immunity to a vampires gaze, but Jean-Claude is really powerful he should have no trouble rolling me.
I focused on my shields, I lowered them so he could enter my mind more easily, never thought the day would come when I would roll out the welcome matt for a vampire to enter my mind. We stood before the ark. But it was different now there were cracks, and some parts of the wood looked bent like something was pushing against them. A massive Claw/ Wing/ Tentacle was out stretched, it held a rat in it's grasp squeezing it. The rat let a shriek of pain. I turned to Jean-Claude.
"I'm sorry, this has never happened, it's become stronger some how, I don't know why." I said.
He turned to me his face grave "Mon ami we must appease this beast." He said.
"It's hungry." I said, "If we feed it enough power, it will go back, it's so hungry." I whimpered clutching my stomach.
"Mon ami, we will feed this beast our power." Jean-Claude said stepping forward to face the beast, brave man. Better him then me.
"We?" I asked.
"Yes we." He said. Suddenly besides him stood Anita, and Richard. On his right was Anita, her eye's were black like night time with stars, Richard his eye's burning amber. The beast stopped it sniffed the air, it could smell them, there power. It dropped the rat and it disappeared with a squeak.. It turned its attention toward the others, no not all of them, just one, Anita. It sniffed her, it could sense the beasts but there was something else that it liked. They grabbed hands with Jean-Claude and it was an explosion of power, focused on the ark. The cracks mended, the bends returned to normal, they were putting my shields back up! But suddenly the beast struck, it latched on to them, it stuck it's fangs into there beasts. They tried to ignore it, they had to put the shields back up, but it was working its own mischief. Somehow it tapped into there circle of power, and through them, there servants. I could see them, from Jean-Claude I saw dozens of vampires I saw Asher who was waling with Ixion, discussing the invitation, Magnus talking to Drake, Meng-Die talking to clay. From Richard the wolfs, Jason Jeremy, Sylvie, Gwen, Shang-Da, Jamil, and hundreds more. From Anita her ties as leopard queen gave her a connection to little more than a dozen but good enough. I saw all these faces going about there day unaware of the danger, until one by one they turned to look at us as if they could sense what was happening. And one by one they screamed. It fed, it fed from the vampires, and the shifters, the wolfs, the leopards, there power was ours for the taking, and take we did. All that power....how to describe it, all this power, all this......food. I felt it like a fire, like a sun, flowing through my veins.
The power of the Master of St. Louise’s kiss, The power of the Thronose Roke clan, the power of the man eaters clan, and the blood drinkers clan. So much power. I could see my victims, some had fallen down, others tried to resist, others were being cared for by friends. I knew if I wanted I could take it all. I could snuff out hundreds of lives, and I would reveal in it, or would I? Why had I run from the black forest clan? Because I was scared? Or because I had crossed lines that should never be crossed. I knew it had to stop, I went to the trio and I grabbed the beast. I yanked and I pulled on it until I tore from them.
They gasped for breath and I felt the beast’s outrage. More it wanted more. It shoved me aside and attacked Anita, it went beyond her vampire powers, beyond her beasts, and went to her core, the one thing that she always had been and always been. It touched her power, what made her an animator, like a cold wind it blew across my beast, it cooled the heat, and the heat warmed the cold. Like two serpents, they entwined and ran rampant.
"Hurry!" Anita said "My Necromancy, it's activating, can't stop it." She said.
I grabbed the beast and tore it from her, it thrashed and growled/chirped/hissed at me, but with the help of Jean-Claude and Richard I put it back in it's cage. I walked back to Anita, she was holding her chest were the beast had struck her.
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"We have to go back, something happened." She stared at my eye's "Your eye's." She said.
"What?" I asked looking at Jean-Claude and Richard who were staring at me with amazement, and then suddenly we were back in the room.
I was on my back, staring into black eye's "You’re full of surprises Dave." Drake said with a smile, but it didn’t quite reach his eyes.
I stood up and looked around; Micah, Nathan, Jason, and Jeremy were on the ground, pale and breathing heavy. Claudia and Bobby Lee were checking on everyone. They were all staring at me in a mixture of shock, anger, awe, and fear. "What the FUCK was that!?" Bobby Lee asked furiously.
"I'm sorry, that’s never happened before." I apologized, was it just me or, was everything...sharper? More vivid? Every one of my senses, taste, touch, sound, sight, smell, it was all hyper aware now. I leaned forward to Drake and sniffed him, I smelled his shampoo, his soap, the blood he had drunken. I smelt the dark damp of his cave, the smell of bat. I smelt myself on him from when we slept together.
"You smell nice." I said..
He shifted, normally I would say he just shrugged, but with these new heightened sense's, I could see the tightness in his shoulders, the rush of blood, it let me know my comment had pleased him to an extent.
Richard came to me, staring me in the eyes "Your eye's, they’re...different." He said. I wasn't really listening, I felt high. Not that I’ve ever been high, but this was extreme. Everything so livid, so intense. I looked at Richard and giggled, honest to god giggled.
"What’s so funny?" He asked thrown off by my delirium.
"Your hair, it's really brown, like your skin." I chuckled, I know it was obvious but it was so funny to me for some reason. I felt so alive, like there was nothing I couldn't do. I was a well of energy, I was overflowing. I tried to walk but I stumbled, and Drake caught me just in the nick of time. I rubbed my hand along his face and he stiffened.
"Wow Drake...your skin is soft like a baby’s bottom." I said.
"What’s wrong with him?" Jeremy asked.
"He's high." Bobby Lee said.
"No I’m not, I don't do drugs." I said
Me high, please…..Why are there so many colors floating around?
"He's like London after he feeds the Ardeur." Anita said.
"London? Let me guess he's from England?" I asked and laughed at my own joke. No one else laughed, they all stared at me with blank faces, jeez why were they all stiff? Stiff (snort) vampires stiff.
"What’s wrong with his eye's?" Jason asked.
He had really blue eye's, like the sky "You really,...have blue eye's they’re like...blue." I said to him.
"Dave your eye's are…here look." he handed me a mirror I looked into it and blinked. They were blue, like the sky on a cloudless sunny day, my pupils were like the sun bright and yellow. I had only seen eye's like these before, once.
When Nigel used his powers to the fullest his eye's went like this, his successor, the one who betrayed him had been made by Nigel, his son William his eyes did the same thing. William was Nigel’s son with a mortal woman, William was one of the few children with a vampire for a father not to have been born with Vlads syndrome. William was lucky, or unlucky how you saw it, when he turned twenty he was turned by his father. Now master vamps have the ability to retard the power of there descendents. Even though he was two thousand and nine hundred years old, he could not tap into his full potential because his father didn't want to lose him as an alley. Even though he had been taught ancient shaman techniques by his father, was kept weak so he could never leave his father. But was strong enough to be a useful. He was capable of calling canines, like his father. The Black Forest clan made a pact with William, we help him overthrow his father, and in return he would leave us alone, and let us take over Nigel’s army, he agreed for a pint of my blood, that is.
William shared his fathers power, they had a form of Psychometry/Telepathy, not only could they read minds, but they could read your soul. Every thought, every feeling, everything you ever forgot, it was there’s to read. Just one glance is all it took, they would know all your secrets. Him and his father had been well versed in the mystic arts as well, they had been capable of manipulating the four elements, it was a trick he Nigel picked up when he was a human shaman, and passed on to his son. When they had the power activated to there fullest, there eye's glowed like mine. I had no idea why they glowed like this, I had been scanned before by Nigel and William before, but this had never happened.
"Wow, now I’m pretty in blue to." I laughed.
"Once again What...The...Fuck...Happened" Bobby Lee repeated.
"Bobby Lee what a hick name." I laughed.
"He fed on them, and through them us." Nathaniel said "It was like that time with Auggy only reverse, and he fed on all Jean-Claude’s kiss, the wolfs, and leopards." He said.
"How? He doesn't have the Ardeur?" Claudia said. Ardeur funny name, sounds sexy.
"No but somehow his power tapped in through our beasts." Richard said.
"It did more than that." Anita said "It activated my Necromancy, it was like our powers recognized each other, I stopped before it could go further but I think we may have raised something." She said.
"Raised what?" Jason said.
Suddenly Asher came running in, he looked paler then usual, "We have a problem." He said.
"What happened?" Jean-Claude asked his face hard.
"You have raised the entire cemetery, and all our kiss has been greatly drained of power, we are receiving reports that all the wolfs and leopards are down to." He said.
"Shit! I knew it." Anita said walking forward "I'll need some help putting the zombies away, but we'll worry about that later. Jean-Claude I think that’s enough for today." She said and quickly left.
"Oui, Drake could you escort monsieur Kazat to his room." Jean-Claude said and left after Anita, and Richard followed.
Only Drake, Jeremy, and Jason stayed behind, Richard thought it might be a good idea to have me under guard for the time being until I sobered up.. I wonder why?

fusedtwilight: There is a good reason why Dave is acting weired but you have to wait till next chapter to find out. Please review.
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