Beneath the Full Moon (Chloe)

[Dianne]

Night befallen Moon Valley and a great big beautiful full moon rose over the horizon as its rays of silver light shined down on the nation. Blue eyes looked up into the sky to admire the full moon as their body made its way through the forest of the city. The body of course belonged to the vampire known as Dianne, a foreigner to this world. An unknown. And that was the way Dianne preferred it for those who made loud tracks always met their death in the end. Dianne was content on staying in the shadows and never finding the harsh light of day. It was better this way. Especially for a creature of night who strength came from the darkness.

The forest would make a great hunting ground if only there was someone in it to hunt. There was so much Dianne did not know of this world, so much left to explore that it fueled the vampire clad in red curiosity to the point where "going home" wasn't even a concern in her mind. As she tread through the forest Dianne would soon catch the scent of another like her. A vampire. And not far from that vampire was a human whose life was slowly fading away. It was enough to arouse the woman as she followed the familiar smell of death. While running through the trees the vampire vanished, hiding in plain sight as she literally became one with the forest. No one would be able to see, hear or even smell her whereabouts as now her blue eyes looked over to the second vampire in the forest.

[Chloe/Kat]

Chloe imagination had ran off with her to the point of pure delusion. The man who tried to help her out of the forest would be grabbed and feel the razor sharp teeth of the vampire penetrate his skin and drink ever so slowly from his blood, savoring each drop that went into her mouth. She imagined that it was Amoura made helpless in her presence, that it was Amoura blood slowly entering her body and giving her the greatest thrill of her entire life. The vampiress tried to ignore the visions that kept replaying in her mind, pushing them aside as best she could while trying to enjoy this kill. But not even the lust of blood or the powerful thoughts of Amoura's death was enough to keep her from screaming.

The man's body fell limp as she let out a loud scream of agony and slapped her hands onto her head. Everything around her was rotting away. The silver moon became red like blood and the leaves fell off the trees as the plant life withered away and died. The corpse became a mere skeleton as it grabbed her by the throat and the familiar pool of blood rose over them. "No! NO!" The skeleton pushed her under the blood in an attempt to drown her. If you love blood so much then drown in it! That voice. It sounded like Amoura's voice. Chloe tried to fight, to gain control but the skeleton was overpowering her until finally....
The nightmare ended and Chloe found herself shivering against the grass as she stared up into the sky with absolute terror present in her eyes.

When will it end?

[Dianne]

Dianne would be made confused by the display she was about to witness. At first it was just another child of the night enjoying the prey she has captured to their last drops of blood, something Dianne has done before but never had she drained them completely like this girl did. Dianne could smell the youth on her and by her actions it was easy to tell this woman was new to the gifts of the vampire. And how addicted she was to the blood of man. The rest would baffle her as the other girl let out a terrible scream of agony, as if the man's blood has caused harm to her in some way. Dianne noticed how she held onto her head while screaming. Was it the memories? Was this child so inexperienced of the night that she could not handle the memories of her victim? No it had to be something else. Further observation proved that this woman was reacting in a matter one would while being held down. Was there something invisible in the area attacking her?

Not being able to watch further Dianne pounced from the confines of her surroundings and challenged whatever was attacking Chloe with an intimidating roar but nothing came at her to accept the challenge. Instead Dianne now towered over a broken and defeated vampiress who looked up at the moon like it would be the last one she'd ever see. It was truly pathetic and invoked the woman's pity. Right there and then did Dianne want to put the vampire out of her misery by tearing out her heart but she resisted. The pity outweighed the urge to put her down as now she simply looked down at her, blocking her view of the moon. Blue eyes staring straight into another pair of blue eyes before she spoke. "Get up woman. Your lying there degrades us all." Dianne would make no move to help the woman up. If she wanted to continue to exist as a child of darkness she needed to learn how to pull herself up and dust herself off. Otherwise she could just lay there until another predator came to send her off to the next life.

[Chloe/Kat]

Death, oh how she wanted death to take her. To appear right next to her wielding its scythe and reap her soul where she laid. Death had to be better than this dreaded life and thanks to Amoura she no longer feared hell. The eternal torment it had to offer couldn't possibly be worse than the terrors she was being forced to relive here on this strange new world. Chloe's eyes looked up into the pair that was now staring into hers coldly. Soon those eyes popped and hung from their sockets before the rest of her body wasted away and the cycle started all over again. She was too weak to scream or even cry so the vampire laid there helplessly in the wake of the nightmares playing over and over again. What the woman said almost didn't even register with the 22 year old but she managed to catch it and only laugh at Dianne's words.

"Then we stand degraded." Chloe made no effort to stand. Why should she? The nightmares would only continue to haunt her and sap away at her sanity with each waking moment she bothered to continue existing. Chloe felt her time in the world has gone past its expiration date and so she would embrace death like a lover. Perhaps she could invoke this woman's rage enough to make her help. If only Chloe had the nerve, then she would end her life right here and now, herself. "In fact I take pleasure degrading us all." Chloe smiled looking up at the decayed form of Dianne. The horrid images didn't matter to her as soon she would be free from them. She had to be. "I think I'll remain here and continue to degrade our kind forever."

[Dianne]

The obvious attempts made by the girl in order to provoke her did not go unnoticed to the vampire but it would only work to breed her curiosity. What could be so terrible that one would beg for death not caring how extremely painful it could be? Any vampire that took pride in their vampiric nature would have obliterated this woman where she lied but Dianne would do no such thing. She had pride in what she was but killing a person while they were defenseless was against her code of conduct and would only further to degrade their kind. "You would incite my rage? Why?"

Dianne pressed the heel of her foot up against the chest of the woman threatening to crush some ribs as she forced it down but did nothing that Chloe couldn't simply regenerate. It was enough to show her that she meant business while inflicting no permanent bodily harm to the female. There were still too many questions left unanswered and Dianne wouldn't leave until she got some of them but first thing first. "Get up!" Dianne's voice remained cold and became very demanding as more of her weight went into her heel. Chloe would stand up. Dianne would make sure of it.

[Chloe/Kat]

Chloe felt her ribs being crushed beneath the woman's heel but she refused to regenerate her wounds. The vampiress only laid there still not even looking at Dianne anymore as she bit her lower lip to keep from screaming. Just because she wanted to die didn't mean she had to submit to the pain. Nay. Chloe wanted to go out with as much dignity as she can maintain but as long as she was dead by the end of it all, it didn't matter how much dignity was left really. Chloe only chuckled at Dianne's question. "Because we're nothing but filth with no world to call our own. Drug addicts wandering from place to place in search of their next fix. We are pitiful creatures that deserve death so please; crush my ribs, shatter my bones, squash my head beneath your heel like a common insect! My death will just be one less disgusting vampire leeching off the life of others on this god forsaken planet."

Chloe never thought that pain could feel so good, so soothing. Compared to the agony at the hand of the visions the crushing of a couple of ribs were almost laughable at best. Chloe would not stand up, instead she closed her eyes and awaited the inevitable death by the hand of Dianne. There was only so much one person could take before they gave into anger and did what their urges dictated, even for this woman surely. You win, Amoura. The vampiress finally learned the woman name after drinking from her blood back in the deserts outside of Jherrazad. A name and the desire of revenge was hardly worth the cost Chloe would end up paying. If only she knew that it would lead to this. If she had any indication that she would receive such horrors forced down her throat Chloe would have let her thirst for vengeance go and never thought of it again. But alas there was no way Chloe could have foreseen the terrors to come from one simple action. It was her fate and now it would be her death.

[Dianne]

Dianne could not help but feel pity for the vampire child beneath her heel at just how pathetic she was. What a horribly grim view on things. This woman must have really desired death to say such blasphemy about her own species. It was made perfectly clear to Dianne that she was going to get nowhere with this child so she would have to take the answers from her very veins. She lifted her foot off of Chloe and grabbed her, forcing her up to a stand as now Dianne held onto her tightly. "So be it, woman. I'll take the information from you, myself." Dianne had no idea what she was about to get herself into as she reached over to the back of Chloe's head, pulling back on pigtails as her neck was now bare right for the picking.

Dianne didn't even bother to numb the in-coming pain as it came to Chloe full circle. Fangs biting down hard on her neck as the vampire made sure to hold onto Chloe tight enough to where she couldn't escape the bite, even though Dianne had very little faith that she would try to best not take any chances with this. If nothing else the woman's blood was sweet and gave Dianne a great energy boost as she relived Chloe's previous moments on this planet until it all came like a great flood. The nightmares. Undead beings wailing. Hollow eyes of ebony staring towards her. So these were the images within her mind that made the woman seek out death so openly. They caught her off guard and Dianne dropped the woman as she fell down to her knees and held onto her head. It was tearing away at her mind little by little until she could feel a huge tug at it. "Ahhh!" The screams were low at first, Dianne not wanting to give it the satisfaction of forcing a lot of pain out of her but before long it was too much, even for her. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" Dianne's screams caused birds to fly into the air and animals to return to their hiding places as the nightmaric episode finally came to a close and she had enough focus to stand up. Dianne walked over to the other woman, towering over her again just in time to watch her flesh begin to rot away. "Gross."

[Chloe/Kat]

And curiosity came to kill the proverbial cat as Dianne took matters into her own hands, or in this case teeth. As the fangs came down and penetrated her veins and blood began to flee her body Chloe only muttered the following: "You just made the worst mistake of your life." A reminisce of the words Amoura said to her before inheriting the nightmares from her memories and now Dianne was plagued by them, being subdued by madness as Chloe felt Dianne's warm, strong, arms leave her skinny body and she fell limp to the ground. Staring out into space meanwhile the other woman was on her knees screaming in agony. "Do you understand now? Why I want to die?" It was hell. True hell. Chloe prayed for the sweet release of death, the words of Genius and the others didn't seem to register with her mind. She didn't want to believe that there was no peace even in death, she refused to believe it. There had to be. There just had to.

"If you wish to do anything to help me then kill me. I don't care how you do it. Quick, slow, inventive, simple. Nothing you do to me can be worse than the things I've been forced to endure. Even the agonizing pain from your bite is but sweet heavenly bliss compared to what that BITCH has inflicted upon me. Upon us." Chloe turned her head to see Dianne standing over her again. She too could see the other woman rotting away as she felt herself dying. The nightmares made her believe they would finally kill her and right when one would meet death it would start all over again. Perhaps at the hand of this woman she could find that peace and prove the others wrong? Chloe could only hope. Only your will to survive can save you now. Amoura words continued to play in her mind and Chloe only spat, as if spitting in her face. Trying to defy her the only way she knew how. I'll see you in hell, bitch! Chloe closed her eyes and waited for the soothing hand of death to stroke her cheek.

[Dianne]

"That's it then? You're just going to give up?" Dianne reached down to grab Chloe by the throat and lift her up to her feet. "You don't think I can hurt you?" The vampire's eyes narrowed over Chloe's in a glare before slamming the woman back against a nearby tree so hard the tree was sent crashing into the ground and it threatened to snap Chloe's body in two upon impact. "You don't think I can make you scream?" Dianne positioned herself behind Chloe and pulled back on her pigtails bending the upper half of her body back, the pigtails started to rip as Dianne turned this simple movement into an inverted DDT. It wasn't like the stuff you saw on TV. It did hurt on impact with the ground as now Dianne sat on top of Chloe's back to keep her grounded face first, eating grass after her head connected with the ground. "How wrong you are."

Dianne ripped off her right bum and then lifted her head up, stuffing the ball of hair into her mouth and forcing her to eat it. "You are a vampire. Your strength, your will, they should transcend that of humanity. You have the ability to fight this. To use it as a weapon on your enemies to make yourself stronger. I'm not about to let this thing defeat me, not without a fight, and neither should you. We were infected through memories. Memories are just pictures in the mind. Do you really think something so powerful will let you be in death? I could make you ashes right now with ease but what good would that do?" Dianne sat up and took a few steps back to give Chloe room to get up. "I can teach you how to become a beautiful creature of the night. Then you can exact your revenge on that woman you hate so much from your memories. Or do you still wish to die pointlessly?"

((ooc: I had permission to do that))

[Chloe/Kat]

Chloe was getting into the bad habit of putting her foot in her mouth. She has done it outside of Jherrazad and she was doing it here again in Moon Valley. The woman had taken her words as a personal challenge and was now using all of her might to inflict physical harm upon her small form. Chloe let out a loud yelp of pain when her back smashed into the tree hearing it fall and crash behind her before having her pigtails pulled back, starting to tear from her scalp and to make matters worse she was dropped onto her head. The vampiress felt the harsh grass up against her mouth now as she tried to get up but Dianne sat down on her, adding insult to injury. Chloe screamed when she felt one of her bums tear off and then began to cough as she was force fed it. A great struggle occurred beneath the other vampire as Chloe was using all of her might to get up but it was no good. She was forced to listen to the lecture by the stranger right after coughing up her own ball of hair.

Chloe found herself unable to argue against any of the points Dianne made. They had attained this curse through memories and that was only one testament of the nightmares powers. Who knows what else they could contain if they could be passed on from person to person in such a matter. It made the woman wonder if there was someway to harness this "curse" as a weapon. That would be some interesting food for thought later. Chloe felt the weight of Dianne finally lift as she was free to move. She used that freedom of movement to get back up to her feet and turned around to face the woman. Was she really offering to help her after all of that? At first Chloe thought Dianne was finally going to kill her after making her feel pain but instead she was offering assistance. Chloe would never understand the living dead. "You really want to help me even after everything?" Chloe shook her head to express her disbelief. "Who are you?"

[Dianne]

"My name is Dianne and I don't abandon children of the night when there's still hope." Unlike her creator who sired her back in the later 1960s and then she never saw him again. Through the years Dianne had learned that there was an instinct which kicked in during the moment that causes you to sire somebody when you're feeding off of them. It was very inconvenient if you didn't want to share your legacy to just anybody so she could understand why her sire might have left her behind, but that sort of thing went against her own code of conduct. In the few times that instinct dictated her actions Dianne actually took responsibility instead of running off into the night to leave them alone to figure things out on their own, like she had to and after receiving some of Chloe's memories through drinking her blood Dianne saw that it was the same case for Chloe. She was but a lost child that didn't have anyone to show her how to survive in this world and it was nothing short of a miracle that she hasn't died yet with the bullshit she already ran into since rising from the grave.

"With time you will learn how to master your abilities and become fear itself through them." Dianne walked up to Chloe, slowly as to not startle her. She brought her hands onto Chloe's cheeks, running down and reaching her shoulders while looking into her eyes. After the act of drinking blood Dianne now had a connection with the woman, she could feel what she feel and Dianne could tell that for whatever reason, Chloe enjoyed her touch. "Do you like that?" Dianne's voice was barely above a whisper now while she tilted her head to the side and moved strings of her raven black hair away giving Chloe a clear shot of her neck. "I drank from you. It's only fair that you get to drink from me."

[Chloe/Kat]

Hope? There was a word that caught Chloe off guard. Hope. The vampiress found her whole situation very hopeless so curiosity, if nothing else, made her interested in what Dianne had to say. What hope was there that just flew over Chloe's head? Dianne spoke of becoming fear and the idea sounded very appealing to Chloe. Little did she know that all the things she could ever need for such a task was right at her fingertip. When Dianne approached and touched her, Chloe's body began to tense but then started to relax. The tenderness and warmth that touched her cheeks and the smoothness which ran down her shoulders was amazing. After everything she had went through it felt nice, like a little taste of heaven right here in hell. Chloe leaned into Dianne's warm embrace, taking full advantage of the comforts those strong arms wrapped firmly around her provided. For the first time since coming to Genesis Chloe felt secured. Like nothing could hurt her. She had forgotten what feeling happy felt like.

Chloe's eyes caught a glimpse of Dianne giving her free access to her neck. However when Dianne's offer entered her ears Chloe would go completely against her nature and shake her head, declining the request. "No. No I don't want to drink from you." Instead Chloe rested her head in Dianne's bosom, melting away at those strong arms of her and closed her eyes to take in the moment. At last, after having to go through so much shit since coming here, Chloe was finally at peace. She would hold onto this moment as long as possible, never wanting to let go of it. Wishing she could hold onto time itself and never have to face the cruel world of Genesis ever again. This was how much she wanted to stay in Dianne's arms but no matter how much you wanted to hold onto a moment, you can't stop time from moving on.