A Black Destiny (Ch7)

Edwin snarled in disgust as he wandered the empty wastelands that were rumored to be the ceromonial pulpits of the Children of The Night. Nothing. No ashes, no burning torches, not a single sign of this Undead Lord that would bring him unrivaled amounts of prestige, fame, and the title of a hero. "Once I have my hands on the last vampire, I will live more highly than the king himself!" Edwin murmured. He straightened the map he had been clenching and looked over the spots he had marked. He had narrowed Cromwell's hideout down to three places in the whole land, and he was now down by one. 1

He took off into the night. His next target was the old cemetary on the otherside of the god foresaken farmland he was now traveling. The horse he road understood what a fiercely important task this was and drove on with vigor. He would have his glory.2

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Aelfric burst through the door at the bottom of the flight of stairs, still cradling Maharani in his arms. She looked around his room, gasping in surprise. The whole room was draped in silk! Black and red and gold silk, just like her room upstairs only far more elaborate. The floor was black velvet and the only light came from a hanging chandelier of lively, lit candles directly over where Aelfric must sleep. It was not a bed he intended to seduce her to. Of course, how could she have forgotten!? A gigantic black coffin lay open in the middle of the room, lined with black silk. 4

He layed her gently down in the gigantic casket and hop effortlessly in beside her. "Made for two." He whispered enchantingly into her ear. Maharani couldn't recall when it had happened, but there was no sign of Aelfric's wings as he unclasped the brooch at his neck, his cloak slinking from his hand to the floor outside the coffin. Maharani's breasts heaved in her efforts to breathe. Aelfric's grin gleamed in the flickering candle light.5

"Relax love, the worst is over for you." He whispered. Maharani's half lidded eyes flew open and burned straight into Aelfric's. HE simply grinned at her in his sultry manner and continued trying to remove his tunic. His lithe body rippled in the soft yellow glow as he knelt over Maharani. 6

"I'm already...did you..." Maharani sat straight up as she recalled all of what had happened before she blacked out in the cemetary. "I've been one of them... you for all this time and I didn't realize it? " she queried in a small, confused voice. 7

"You see, dearest, you aren't really a Vampire yet. That is laying dormant in you right now. It's sort of like, oh I do not know how to put this...there's still a lever I must pull, so to speak, before you are mine for eternity."8