"GoodNight Kiss"

''By;fernand jiro

Chapter 1

I sat staring at the girl in amazement. She fiddled with a strand of her long brown hair. I wouldn’t have a problem with her sitting in front of me except the fact that she was a slayer. My name is Dinaer but my nickname is Shiva as she is the ice maiden, which is a good representation of my vampire powers. I had never helped a mortal before yet alone a slayer. And here she was sitting in my office talking to me like I was a normal person like her and not a killer.

“So let me get this straight,” I said slowly thinking about what the girl had been talking about “You want me, to help you find out who is responsible for six child murders.”

She nodded slowly like she was afraid to move to rapidly.

Raven stood silently beside the door of the office watching me with great amusement from within his eyes.

“And if I refuse?”

“I thought the predicament that I am in would interest you.” She said patiently

“And why would anything a vampire killer say to me interest me?”

“Because I believe that the person responsible for the child murders is also the same person who killed two vampires.”

Raven shifted slightly and I could feel my eyes growing cold.

“What vampires?” I asked coldly

“Two vampires were found bodies been slaughtered and also they were missing there hearts”

My eyes must have begun to glow because the slayer tensed and stood up from the chair. She was good I have to admit it she put her back to the wall so that she could see me and Raven on either side of her. Raven stood utterly still so as not to provoke her. I slowly stood up taking slow paces towards her. Her hand moved rapidly and she was holding a small black gun that reminded me of a derringer.

“Back of a little freak show” she hissed at me

Bullets from a gun can’t actually kill a vampire unless you have some powerful ammunition and the only way you could still kill them is to blow there heart or the back of there skull out. I wasn’t going to give the slayer a chance to do either of those things. I stopped glowing eyes staring at her.

“Show me them” I said slowly. My voice sounded distant, it sounded like a command.

“If you calm down a little I can arrange for you to come to the crime scene with me now.”

I started laughing quietly I found it funny that I was listening to what a slayer was saying to me. I moved with great speed and I had her arm with the gun above her head.

“Remember you’re the one who wants my help, you have no right to tell me to calm down”

I looked down at her other hand a small silver blade had retracted from a wrist holster and was pointer towards the bottom of my rib cage. I let go of her hand and stepped back from her slowly.

“I have to admit though, you are good for a slayer”

She nodded at me in appreciation to the complement that I had given her.

“I’ll meet you out in the parking lot” She said as she walked to the door with her back to Raven. I thought to myself that was her first wrong move of the night. But Raven just took a step to the left away from the door so that she could exit.

I sat back in the chair my long silver hair falling gently over my shoulders.

“Your not really going to help her I hope” Raven asked. It was the first thing he had said since the slayer had got here. Raven had very long black hair that fell just below his waist and also had purple eyes that could draw you in and make you forget about the world around you.

“It could be interesting” I answered him

He sighed “If you help her then she’s going to use it as an invitation to ask for help from us every time she needs it.”

“Really” I said as if I were intrigued in what he was saying but he knew that I wasn’t.

“Fine, it’s your problem when you find yourself food for the worms”

I sat there silently and he opened the door and returned to the club. I brought the club for vampires to feed of vampire junkies. It was also a good way for us to feed without the cops on our backs. Both vampires and mortals work here and visit here. I don’t know much of what goes on in the club but Raven seems to like spending his time out there.

Raven is my lover. Although it seems like we try killing each other more than love each other recently. I don’t care though. It’s hard for me to cope with being a vampire recently because I have become the new ‘Master Vampire’. Although I have accepted the responsibilities of being the master vampire now. I stood up from my chair angrily and opened the door to the small corridor. I closed the door pulling a small silver key from my pocket. I locked the door and walked to the other large metal door that lead out into the club. I pushed open the door to be greeted with the sent on blood, lust, and pain. It was intoxicating to me, and it made me want to feed. Feeding I thought to myself, I would have to feed before I went out with the slayer. I didn’t think that I would impress her if I killed someone out on the street with her.

Even as I was thinking of it a small woman walked towards me. Her blond hair had been pulled away from her face in a complicated style. I took a deep breath as she stood before me she knew that I needed to feed. Bitch I thought to myself. I spun the girl around so that she had her back to the door I had just come through. She smiled as she pulled her white blouse down from one of her shoulders. She had old vampire marks on her throat. I moved her head gently to one side as I sank my fags into her throat. Her body tensed under mine and I began to drink. I heard a small moan escape her lips. I still couldn’t believe that some people enjoyed this. I kept on drinking from her I didn’t intend to stop like the other vampires in the club would. I think she realized that as she tried to pull away from under me. It just excited me more. Her blood was filling me with warmth and I was crushing her shoulder under the palm of my hand.

“I think that’s enough” I heard from the familiar male voice behind me.

I let go of the girl and she fell to the floor slowly laughing slightly as tears ran down her pale cheek. I turned to face Dominik who was glaring at me. Dominik was tall about 6ft4 I’m only 5ft2 so I felt rather small against him.

“Hi detective,” I said, as I looked up at him “What do I owe this great pleasure?”

“Shut your mouth Dinaer I have several squad cars out side waiting for me to give the order to storm this place.”

“And why would you want to storm this place?” I asked amused

“Don’t play dumb with my girl, you know about the missing and murdered children”

I stared at him waiting for him to say some more

“And all the children have vampire marks on some part of there body”

“So that gives you permission to smash up all the vampire clubs in town?” I hissed

“Yes it does” he answered me angrily

“Don’t worrie Dominik I didn’t kill those kids but I will send me regards to the person who did”

Dominik’s fist came out of know were and he struck me in the face. I fell back against the door, as I wasn’t expecting the blow. I stood up anger flaring from me around the room. I went for his throat as my fangs sunk into his flesh he cried out in pain. Two vampires from the bar grabbed me around the waist and pulled me away from him growling and hissing angrily. He held his neck and spoke into a microphone that had been hidden under his collar

“Storm the place,” he said happily

Raven was standing in front of me trying to calm me down and the vampires were having great trouble keeping me away from the detective. The door got smashed down and I heard shouting all around the room as people started getting dragged outside. A police officer came up behind me smashing a shotgun into the back of my legs and then into my face making me fall to the floor. As soon as I had hit the floor I felt myself being pulled back up. The police officer cuffed me using silver cuffs that the cops had soon learned were one of the easiest ways to restrain a vampire.

I looked up at Dominik smiling I slowly licked my lips so that he got the message that I had enjoyed that short moment when his blood had filled my mouth. But another blow to the back of the head made me fall to the floor. The world began to gray around me and I saw the slayer standing at a table in the club. She looked like she was ashamed of me and then the darkness consumed me.

Chapter 2

My arms had been cuffed three times. My arms were cuffed together and then I had another cuff on each wrist that was attached to the chair I was sitting on. They had difficulties getting me here.

The small interrogation room amused me; it seemed just like the ones on TV two other cobs were probably standing on the other side of the large glass mirror watching me thinking ‘Gosh what a monster’.

Detective Manoy sat in front of me frowning me.

“Why did you attack Detective Arnold?” he asked me for the third time that night. I ran the name though my mind Dominik Arnold I thought to myself, he’ll be dead before the night is out.

“He angered me” I answered him politely

“And how did he do that?”

“He hit me”

“I was under the illusion that mortals couldn’t do much damage to a vampire should you hit one”

“Really?”

“You’re not making this any easier on yourself Dinaer”

I looked up at the ceiling light. God wouldn’t it be easier to be the light getting turned of and on not having to make any decisions. Detective Manoy’s voice brought me back to reality.

“What was your relationship like with your father Dinaer? From what I understand you killed him”

My mind went blank whenever my father was mentioned

“I have no father,” I answered coldly

“Oh, it was like that then. Well I'm afraid that I can’t actually allow you to leave the station tonight as you assaulted a police officer.”

“How do you intend to keep me here” I asked him blankly

“Well it would be better on your part if you come with us willingly”

“I have o interest in your world” I answered him

“I’m sorry you feel that way. Your going to have to stay in this room so that the sunlight doesn’t get to you”

“Fine”

“I can take the cuffs of if you don’t try making a break for it”

I didn’t answer him but he came around the back of my chair and began to unlock the cuffs. He must have had the keys to the cuffs in his hands the whole time, as I hadn’t seen him pull them out from any pocket. When the cuffs were unlocked he stepped away from me cautiously. I stayed sitting on the chair not moving. He opened the door and stepped outside.

“You’re ok for a mortal” I said

He nodded in response and shut the door behind him. I heard it lock behind him and I was alone in the room.

My eyes shifted to the large mirror on the wall. I winked and I felt panic rise from the hidden Dominik.

Chapter 3

I was getting bored. I had been in the interrogation at least six hours now. Although I slept for five of them so the time was going quickly. I had at least seven more hours till sundown. Why didn’t they send someone in to interrogate me? I walked up to the mirror and gazed at my pale reflection. I remember my father finding it most amusing when I looked in the mirror to find out I was still there. ‘Just because the human part of the body is gone doesn’t mean there isn’t a body standing before the mirror’ he had responded. I ran my hands down the cool glass

“I could smash this and be out of here in the time it takes you to realize I’ve gone.”

I sensed movement in the room behind the glass someone had been listening. I heard the latch of the door slid open and I looked up at the mirror to find the slayer walking in from behind me. I turned slowly smiling at her.

“Well, well,” I laughed “looks who’s come back to play”

“Sit down Dinaer”

“This is a problem that I’m finding most irritating, you know my name but I don’t know yours”

“If I tell you my name will you sit down?”

“Maybe”

“My name is Aries”

I moved across the room and sat on the chair in front of her.

“I saw what you did in the night club.”

“Yes I saw you standing beside a table just as they gave me another bash to the back of my head”

“The cops said that they would let you leave at sundown”

I stared at her in amazement.

“I nearly killed a cop I didn’t protest that I did it, why would they be letting me out”

“I simply explained how detective Arnold struck first and how you were defending yourself. You got to carried away though and if it wasn’t for the other vampires in the bar the detective would be dead now.”

I couldn’t help but laugh.

“A slayer helping out a vampire, there has got to be a catch to this”

“Of course there is. I want you to help me find out who has been killing the children.”

I shrugged at her. She seemed so small but I knew that through her bloodline great warriors were born.

“I will help you, but only because vampires are dieing as well”

Dominik burst into the room angrily with detective Manoy at his heels. Dominik pointed an angry finger at me

“This creature deserves to die. It shouldn’t be walking the streets.”

I had never heard myself referred to as an It I found it most amusing. My eyes locked onto where I had locked fangs onto Dominik’s neck. He shifted uneasily, his blue eyes growing incredibly cold. He put his hand on his neck as if to shield it from me. Such a human gesture I thought to myself.

“Detective Arnold,” Aries said quietly “Dinaer has agreed to help us solve the murders on the condition that if none of her people get in our way then none of ours get in hers, is that understood?”

Dominik frowned it was obvious that he didn’t want to agree.

“Just keep her away from me” He said her like I was some whore on the streets.

“You realize that I won’t work with you alone I want some vampires with me at all times”

Everyone in the room turned to look at me puzzled.

“For my protection of course”

“You’re the Master Vampire there isn’t any vampire out there that’s stronger than you”

“I do wish what you say is true Aries”

I spent another eight hours talking to them about the plans that were to go into action. I laughed as I stepped out into the cool night air. I couldn’t believe that I was working for them. I began to take a slow walk home. A couple walked past me rapidly they understood what I was, and that it wasn’t a good idea to cross my path. I turned into a large alley and stopped my slow pace and began to speed up. Someone else was lurching in the shadows near me. Using my vampire speed I was suddenly amongst the shadows and it was impossible to tell where I was.

A tall female vampire stepped out from the shadows looking in the direction she had seen me vanish. I watched her with great interest. She was tall about 5ft9 and very thin. I would have said that she suffered from anemia if I didn’t already know she was a vampire. She was a lot older than me but most of the vampires are. The vampires are not impressed that a young vampire is the master of them all.

The vampire world is actually very organized. There is one master vampire for every city or if they’re powerful enough they could own up to three cities at once. But ‘The Master Vampire’ is the one who has to protect their own territory which in my case is Los Angeles and also tell the other master vampires how to run there territory.

The woman seemed to be ancient. She had long brown hair tapping against her thigh that had been tightly platted. She seemed to be scanning the shadows she believed that I was still out there. She hadn’t been invited to my city, which was trespassing in my mind. Also trespassing can leave to some unfortunate accidents.

She spoke with a strong voice, like she was used to ordering people what to do.

“I know your out there, it won’t do you much good if I decide to come in there and find you.”

“It gives me a head start” I answered her blankly

“Are you Dinaer?” she asked politely. She was going to accept the fact that I wasn’t planning to go out of the shadows.

“Yes, what are you doing in me city?”

“All of the vampires from New York have come here.”

I’m glad she couldn’t see me, as fear would have shown on my face. All the vampires from New York meant about sixty of them. There were a lot of vampires there, but a vampire would also come with their human servant or a shape shifter, each which meant that there was a population crisis at the moment. I stepped out of the shadows her eyes met mine and she smiled.

“I am Gabrielle ” she said happily

I nodded in response and watched her thoughtfully

“What do you mean all the vampires?”

“Well you need to speak to my master really. But all of the vampires in out city came here for help.”

“Why do you need help?”

“Someone is killing the vampires in our city and not kindly”

I remembered who Aries had told me that vampires were also being killed right here in L.A.

“How did they die?” I asked quietly

“Painfully. Someone made sure that the vampire suffered when they did it. There bodies were found dismembered and the hearts missing.”

Great I thought to myself. Whatever did the killing here had come from New York.

“Where is your master?”

“Back at The Siege”

That was the name of my club. I began to walk at a fast pace back to the club. Gabrielle followed me from a safe distance.

End Of Sample