Jarald
The man shrugged. Probably should have asked about your plan before showing off, he thought to her, looking once again at her self inflicted bruises. I don't know how fast you can move, but you've got 10 minutes to grab it and change, probably a little less considering we have been talking for a little bit of it.
Valerie
"Aruna you big meanie..." His dark hands were big enough to completely encircle her tiny waist, and locking her in place quite securely. Being suspended in the air like that really limited her options and she was left with little room but to complain at the unfair treatment, and with every thrust he pushed deeper, knocking bits and pieces of her reasoning away.
"I told you to be rough with her, not me! S-slow down A-aruuuuna..."
Valerie
"Co-cospaly..." Her eyes lit up with an intense desire, different yet similar to the one before. it was so intense that she didn't even react to Sakura kissing the back of her hand.
"What kind of cosplay?" She was glaring at the jacket of the butler uniform, almost like she wanted to burn it down. "I don't really like it, it makes your breasts look smaller."
Valerie
She lead them through the misty maze perfectly, she knew the way like the back of her hand after all, and before long the two of them found themselves back inside castle. She had lead them to one of the opulent living rooms, decorated with the finest of furniture and filled with art from various eras. Living this long sure had its benefits when it came to collecting things.
Valerie sat down on a comfortable couch and motioned for Sakura to take a seat beside her. "If you're that insistent then I can do it, take a seat if you truly want to be turned." This was working out perfectly, soon she would have a cute new follower and the girl didn't even think that had been goal since she'd first seen her.
Valerie
The Vampire King broke out in laughing fit, unable to contain herself after hearing the girl's reasoning.
"I-I want my sister's baby!....."
It took her some time to calm down, even for someone like her that meant a few seconds. "That wasn't an answer I was expecting, but if it eases your mind, I am True Vampire. A designation which exists to separate sired ones from naturally born vampires. Rest assured you have nothing to worry about on that front if you try hard hard enough, but I wonder..... What would you do if you were to get pregnant before seeing her again?"
Valerie
"Nopee~"
Valerie caught Sakura before her fangs could sink into the royal's jugular. She gleefully observed the changed girl below her but was she enjoying the changes so obviously laid out before her by her nakedness or the fact that she'd de ied the girl her first meal.
"Having vampire blood is not a good idea, especially if it's mine, you'll just have to endure a little longer." She did enjoy endulging in these small acts of cruelty from time to time.
She then reached down to her shorts and fished up a fancy looking cellphone and called the place they'd visited earlier.
Valerie
"Friends...." She nodded to Sakura and then begun speaking quickly into the phone. ""Hey Hey Lizzie. it's your little Vamp King calling. Could you do me a favor pretty please? I have a new cute minion here and I'd really love for her to sample the greatest the Nexus has to offer, yes but that I mean you. I'd really appreciate it~"
Valerie
"Excuse me your highness, but your daughter stole all my champagne when I visited a few months back, and before that she lured away the people I was with, she urgh.... Excuse me I spoke out of turn." Valerie took a deep breathe to collect herself.
"I can you full access to my wine cellar that dates back all the way to the dark ages, I have bottles here that long predate your own arrival, and believe me when I say you can't get it anywhere else."
"If that's not enough, you can have my vote on the Great Council for the next ten years."
Forest
Forest pointed at the Duke and said, "Those other royalty wouldn't be you though. I'd probably get pissed because they'd be some prissy arsehole and just flip them off while leaving the building."
"Well, if they looked like Bruce Campbell in his Army of Darkness days, I'd probably make an exception," she said with a grin.
Valerie
"Hmm..." She walked around Sakura to inspect her from every angle. After finishing her initial inspection, She came in real close and hugged Sakura's from behind.
"It's not as tight as it could be..." She released her hold and took a step back. "Shrink it underneath your chest and you stomach until you can barely breathe."
Valerie
"That's not what I meant.... Now that I come to think of it, I haven't turned anyone in a long time. You wouldn't know any better." She shook her head, a bit disappointed that she'd forgotten about that detail.
"You don't actually have to breathe anymore."
Valerie
She sighed, a look of disappointment cam over her.
"It can be be... but don't mind that. Is making it like a corset too much for you? I guess I expected too much, and to think I had such high hopes when I heard you were from a noble mage family."
She shook her head again and looked at Sakura, who had gotten really tall now thanks to her heels. "You don't have to strain yourself if it's too much."
Valerie
"Whatever might you be suggesting my dear Sakura? I am a kind and generous ruler and would never force my fetishes on my minions. This is for your benefit and nothing else, that said..." Valerie quickly grabbed Sakura and effortlessly spun her around.
"You look absolutely adorable now, come let's go!"
She didn't even wait for an answer as she pulled Sakura with her.
Death's Cradle
The pinkette chair suddenly begun floating upwards, until she was eye level with the purple haired newoy minted vampire.
"Her majesty put you in that dress didn't she? I'm sure that's what you were told, but I know far better than you ever could, you're a piece of eye cand. Did she turn you before or after she fucked you?"
Then she finally turned her attention to the bonde and raised an eyebrow. "Oh another Childe? And this one wasn't born yesterday hmm...sweetie, Lord Taro is a monster."
Edelgard
10 PM Nexus Time
These portals were testing both her patience and her stomach, but Sakura didn't need to know that her companion had such a poor tolerance for her supremely useful sorcery. Edelgard steadied herself against the mage with the slightest portion of her weight she could manage, and nodded.
"This is fine."
Edelgard
She thought she was doing well. Doing something productive, upkeeping her place with Sakura. But there was no end to the outfits! The various styles, from loose and simple, to more formal and layered, were starting to meld together, despite her efforts to pick and choose appropriate ones. Edelgard had no sense for what was excess and what was too little in her choices, but still she had managed to pick a gallery of shapes with main colors that veered towards grey, gold, violet and crimsons. A twinge of detachment swirled in her gut, but she was steady. It wasn't difficult to subject herself to the exercise.
Something became more obvious through the repeated movement as her insistence on formality swayed in the periphery of the changing room. She had no intentions of saying it, but at this point it had surely occurred to Sakura that her undergarments too were lacking in repertoire, as well as comfort, going by their visible age.
Edelgard
The Forsaken looked back at Sakura, in the middle of slipping out of a long-sleeved, half-transparent shirt. "Oh." She exclaimed, slipping her head free of it, sending her hair tumbling over her shoulders. She couldn't have looked more out of her element. It wasn't often she felt embarassed. Intimacy was a confounding spectrum.
"Help me pick," she said, hastily slipping back into the clothes she'd brought to the store. The elven woman was reaching for Sakura's shoulder after a moment, and slightly pushing her younger companion to the relevant section, sticking close behind. Of course, for her build, 'slightly' was enough to roll a boulder up a hill.
Edelgard
She stared at the detailed contours of the cloth with a minute scowl. Edelgard's eye wasn't trained for this, but it was obviously of good and elegant quality. She pictured it on Sakura's frame, comely and showy, and thought for her it would work best in red.
Still, the Forsaken hummed in stiff approval, and set herself looking through the other colorful samples, hands drifting to less enticing designs. Doing so, however, made her alert - not in an "again" away, as they had never gone out of her mind, but nevertheless they came into focus - of the locals that stalked them incidentally.
"Vampires," she said uncertainly, as if searching for the words between the lines of underwear. Edelgard wasn't meeting Sakura's eyes, but it was obvious it was an inquiry only meant for her. "Troubling you?"
Joining a ladder upheld in power and blood from the side would always have those who stood above and below doubtful until you had proven your worth to the extreme. And for some even after, regardless of your abilities.
Edelgard
She scowled, boring right through the underwear stand she was holding to scare away a particularly lesser vampire. The Forsaken's voice came out in curt, labored exhalations. "Can't stop, doesn't matter. You are uncomfortable, that matters."
Sakura clicked her tongue. "It really doesn't matter. I'll be fine."
Sakura clicked her tongue. "It really doesn't matter. I'll be fine."
Edelgard
Her jaw trembled with unspoken assurances for an uncomfortable stretch of time. Edelgard didn't understand why she denied it so vehemently. If this wasn't the place to speak of it, for fear of being overheard or exposed, she understood that. But here Sakura was, and she seemed to be merely enduring it as background noise. Like the disorienting ringing of the battlefield that any full-fledged Forsaken cataphract had to become used to. That was duty, so what was this?
But it wasn't her place to question. She wouldn't mistake or strain Sakura's kindness, lest she prove entirely undeserving of it. "These are enough," she said, holding up the clothes she'd been collecting. "Should check the size?"
Edelgard
She turned out to need help with some of them. The unfamiliarity of the fitting and the hooks made the initial tries clumsier than her dexterity should have allowed, and by the time they'd switched several to the correct sizes, her patience was wearing down. Judging from the opaque, lingering glances that Sakura furtively shot her throughout, she wasn't the only one who needed to change avenues soon.
Edelgard walked out with Sakura, wearing the very first ensemble she tried and carrying their bags. She'd allowed her benefactor to pay, and stuck to her side while her body grew used to the texture and lightness of the new clothes. She asked, "Other business here?"
Edelgard
Her eyelashes perked up at the idea. Tools like that were uncommon among her people due to the omnipresent reality of ambient mystical disruptions. She had used one only once, during the last invasion of the North, but if they managed to acquire one that suited Edelgard, it would be that much easier to be promptly wherever her charge had the need, and to spare her clumsy words in combat.
"Good idea," she said, falling in step next to Sakura.
Edelgard
Edelgard received the ring on her palm, and her fingers curled around it like it was a treasure. She'd take good care of it. It wouldn't be like the other spear, she thought. Just in case, she would acquire a chain. She didn't intend on taking it off unless it could help it, but that was more reason to be careful, not less. She couldn't lose this boon connecting her to a benefactor... or to a friend in the darkness, who she didn't dare call by that word yet.
The Forsaken nodded at Sakura and slipped the ring around a finger where it wouldn't fall. There was a faint buzz when she felt the thread of magic connected, like an insect suffocating in smoke.
She focused on the mage, pushing her intent into a message, filtering her cloistered thoughts into an image of the words she wished to say. Edelgard wanted to know about Sakura's liege. If she was to stay by Sakura's side as her spear and bodyguard, then it would be wise to introduce her the sooner the better to the sovereign who would command her by proxy.
Edelgard
Edelgard blinked, and the hard lines of her brows and the pressure in her jaw softened. By the slightest amount, a turvy turbulence that resided in an unmentionable part of the Forsaken drained away, eroded by the cleansing agent of the ring's initial success.
Feeling was easier than speaking, and the desire to explain herself purer than her throat's ability to do it. Maybe that was why. Why these messages reached Sakura so cleanly, in spite of the indirect, distant voice that carried them, she pondered. But yes, she wanted to meet this vampire king, whose deal had transformed Sakura.
Nika
A young woman wearing a white hoodie and black leggings exercised, without a care for curious looks of passerbys. After all, it wasn't just simple jogging, a fad popular among some of youths trying to keep fit. Squats, pushups, breathing exercises, on repeat without breaking any sweat. The training regimen looked fairly serious, but there was no tension, no fatigue. The girl looked relaxed, and in fact this was more like going through motions, basking in the sunlight on this pleasant day.
After all, she didn't need to exercise herself in this manner, for she was a creature of the night. Or rather used to be, from a certain view. The rays of sun didn't bother her anymore, thanks to an acquisition of certain marvelous trinket, a ring she was wearing on the fourth finger of her left hand. She would never grow feeble and only improve herself as years and decades and centuries passed, and this series of exercises wasn't anything more to her but subtly gloating that she could do it again under the gaze, like in her mortal days as an athlete.
Eventually, she stopped, took one final deep breath to finish her routine, and looked at the old wristwatch on her right wrist. Still quite some time until sun would set, and indeed she wasn't a pile of ashes and cinder. One mountain conquered, even if that was something more akin to climbing Mount Everest in a summer, with guidance and all equipment guaranteeing survival.
Nika usually didn't care too particularly about seeking out other bloodsuckers, as sometimes the unlife just caught up with her, for predators could recognize other predators on a glance. Given the vistas that opened before her, she'd normally rush headlong into sampling how mortals lived and had fun these days, in this city that seemed so unrecognizable to the place where she laired for decades long slumber. But the fact that others like her could brazenly ignore the curse that weighed down all of her kind inspired to give it a try and explore the area where she coerced a weaker vampire to give up the ring and tell what it was for before she let him go. Magnaminous deal for both sides, even if she was careful to test the veracity of his claims.
Walking through the bustling streets in the direction of the district, she took in the scenery, her hands in the pockets of her hoodie just in case someone tried to slip off the ring from her finger. The urban layout: idiosyncratic. Crowds full of people of different races, some that seemed to be different from people living in the period she came from. Indeed, a brave new world ready to be sampled like a glass of a good wine. She'd enjoy exchanging stories with more agreeable immortal. She didn't expect the whelp to be taken seriously by his elders. She had this hunch he'd be laughed off for accidentally messing with his betters. Anyway, she'd probably take a gamble and approach the first vampire she chanced upon.
Nika
"Old enough to tell you how folks wrestled back in old timey Greece."
She shook her hand, baring her fangs in a friendly smile. Freshly turned wrestler? She never felt really too old, but speaking to someone who barely started similar path made her a bit more self-aware about the years that have passed. A kind of nostalgia.
"Just call me Nika. I just dropped here by to see how much things have changed. I woke up yesterday night. Fresh off the boat in a way too."
Nika
"Nope, it's first time I hear this name. You sire, right?" Valerie. A bit modern name, but of course she could've changed her name to adapt. You never knew how old or young one of the creatures of the night were just by their name.
Yusho
Early Evening
He stared up at the building, eyebrows climbing up his forehead with impressive nonchalance. Scoffing, Yusho clapped Roman in the back, pushing him through the gates. "She turned you into a vampire and babied you, and I'm a guest. If we're not welcome, she must have very strange standards."
He didn't mention how he hadn't worked out Valerie's expectations yet, and followed only one step behind him.
Nika
"Nope, it's first time I hear this name. You sire, right?" Valerie. A bit modern name, but of course she could've changed her name to adapt. You never knew how old or young one of the creatures of the night were just by their name.
Sakura
"Hah! So you're a complete newbie to this city too, aren't you!" Sakura immediately felt a connection forming with this young woman-er, ancient being. "She's the ruler of this place, and the one whom turned me."
She spun around, staring intently at the other woman and blocking her path. "So if you're that old, you should be pretty strong, right?" She immediately took a defensive stance, reinforcing herself. "Wanna get some practice in? Break in your moves after being asleep for so long?"
Roman
"Yeah.... thats probably true," he said, thinking how annoying . Taking a step forward, he entered the gate. Large walls were erected, guiding the two down a path. Left, right, it didn't take long for Roman to realize that they were trapped in a maze.
"Why would someone have this as their front gate?!"
Sakura
Sakura readied herself, and nodded with a chuckle. "I doubt she'll mind us having a little fight, as long as we don't destroy anything. If she gets mad, I'll take responsibility myself!"
Her magic circuits began to glow, green lines glowing along the entire length of her legs through her clothes. "Don't hold back!"
Sakura
Sakura readied herself, and nodded with a chuckle. "I doubt she'll mind us having a little fight, as long as we don't destroy anything. If she gets mad, I'll take responsibility myself!"
Her magic circuits began to glow, green lines glowing along the entire length of her legs through her clothes. "Don't hold back!"
Nika
Curious. There must have been something to the glow, and she planned to rather mercilessly test that. A front kick delivered to the knee. In a sudden, jarring motion, she cleared the distance in a blink of an eye, her kick carrying a power of the lifeforce coursing in her veins. Simple, pragmatic tactic to throw the opponent off balance and maybe shatter her knee for a time too. She would recover anyway.
Forest
Ah, Taro, you're going to have a harsh history lesson sometime in the future, Forest thought, but not unkindly.
She grinned and said, "Is that the real reason you hired me? Because you wanted attention?"
Sakura
Sakura readied herself, and nodded with a chuckle. "I doubt she'll mind us having a little fight, as long as we don't destroy anything. If she gets mad, I'll take responsibility myself!"
Her magic circuits began to glow, green lines glowing along the entire length of her legs through her clothes. "Don't hold back!"
Nika
Curious. There must have been something to the glow, and she planned to rather mercilessly test that. A front kick delivered to the knee. In a sudden, jarring motion, she cleared the distance in a blink of an eye, her kick carrying a power of the lifeforce coursing in her veins. Simple, pragmatic tactic to throw the opponent off balance and maybe shatter her knee for a time too. She would recover anyway.
Sakura
She was fast. Faster and stronger than her. Sakura intuited that immediately, and without a second to spar, squatted down a tad to change her stance, leaving the kick to glance against her thigh instead. She'd had plenty of experience fighting opponents whom were more powerful and skilled than her in her fights with the servants.
She gritted her teeth and kept her guard up with one hand, rushing in to force herself within Nika's guard in her moment of extension.
Nika
Curious. There must have been something to the glow, and she planned to rather mercilessly test that. A front kick delivered to the knee. In a sudden, jarring motion, she cleared the distance in a blink of an eye, her kick carrying a power of the lifeforce coursing in her veins. Simple, pragmatic tactic to throw the opponent off balance and maybe shatter her knee for a time too. She would recover anyway.
Sakura
She was fast. Faster and stronger than her. Sakura intuited that immediately, and without a second to spar, squatted down a tad to change her stance, leaving the kick to glance against her thigh instead. She'd had plenty of experience fighting opponents whom were more powerful and skilled than her in her fights with the servants.
She gritted her teeth and kept her guard up with one hand, rushing in to force herself within Nika's guard in her moment of extension.
Nike
This proved the girl wasn't a small fry (for a vampire) to be taken out with with a single, decisive opening move. She would've rejoiced more in the fact this was getting more interesting if not for the fact there was no place in pankration for anything inefficient like this. Passionate she was about her martial arts, but also pragmatic to the core.
And hence, she applied another favored methodology of hers. Moving around in a broken rhythm around her opponent, trying to confuse the younger vampire, then moving in for an opening and tackling her to the ground. First, she would prevent Sakura from closing in by stepping back in a flash. The elder would noticeably slow down compared to her previous burst of speed, relying on her inherent agility and skill. Conserving strength was important.
Nika
Was she getting rusty after that nap or her opponent was adjusting that well to her confusing tactic? If obviously broken pattern wouldn't confuse her, then a slightest feint to set up a takedown would work into Nika's advantage. Very fast opponent usually reacted to such false openings rather than something more prolonged and elaborate.
A jab feint to set up a leg takedown, the takedown delivered as fast and strong as possible if Sakura fell for this. She'd be in position to leverage her grappling skills if that worked out. Not easy way to defeat the opponent, but she felt confident about such contest of strength. After all, it was very hard to take her to the ground herself in retaliation.
Nika
And now it was her chance to do the takedown. She did know that leg trips were illegal in the modern 'Graeco-Roman' wrestling, but she scoffed at such notion. In her days, much more things were permissible to athletes, and she didn't shy from what some people with skewed sensibilities would tell her not do. So a leg trip it was. Pouring all her speed, strength and soul she kicked at Sakura's leg to destabilize her footing and engage in a grappling contest, rushing in a follow up move to grab her and wrestle her to the ground. This wasn't yet a victory, that's for sure, but she edged closer to the resolution. Who prevailed now would depend on what they were best at, everything else merely trials and prelude leading up to the essence of the sparing. The question now was:
Would you be a mere hill or another mountain to climb?
Nika
The willingness to "cheat" was an admirable quality in such a freestyle competition, but maybe it was too late to reverse Sakura's fortunes.
Avoid the ground at all cost.
Such was the nature of the older vampire's craving. Never be dragged down, neither in motion nor in grapple. To be stopped and pinned down was tantamount to unbelievable misfortune. These subconscious obsessions about her art manifested imperfectly in the clash with reality, but gave her quite firm advantage nevertheless as part of her cursed lineage.
Sakura's attempt to turn the situation around was in naught. The other vampire withstood the brunt of the sudden pushback and barely budged. There was barely any reaction to Sakura's action, Nika's footing more firm than it had any right to be.
Nika would try to finish the grapple and pin Sakura down in spite of her attempts to turn this around, but she was getting slowly hungier. Her body after all braced herself unconsciously to shrug off the momentum, and she couldn't afford fucking around for too long. Submission holds and anything related to choking obviously was rather ineffective for people with heightened pain tolerance like vampires, so she chose a pinning hold.
Nika
"You jest." Nika was still pinning Sakura in a hold as she spoke it. "I have a hunch there's a lot I don't know about you."
She had vague feeling this wasn't all. Centuries of experience and her own nature made her alert about such things, and while she wasn't perfect in her assessments, she didn't dismiss her intuition. Besides, she did push her to a certain point when she felt pressured to end this. Even if she was wrong, she undoubtedly would hold some surprises in the future.
The vampire released Sakura from the hold. Now she had certain other concerns on her mind. "How much do you know about the neighborhood? You're new, but I didn't hit even a single place here."
Some drinking hole would've been great.
Nika
"Your clothes can transform?" She raised her eyebrows at this trick. "Some magic or tech progressed since I went to sleep?"
She could probably imagine applications in a sparring, like to catch off guard someone who doesn't expect for example a make shift rope from a fiber pulling them towards their opponent. Why Sakura held back about using such tricks?
Nika
"A hobby? Can't say I get why you're not dedicating yourself more to it, but your call. I just like collecting memorabilia as a hobby. Especially militaria. And fashion's great too." Nika pulled up her hoodie to nonchalantly reveal the concealed Colt handgun. "That one's for the muggers not worth my time. But I doubt they will have guts to go against me after that display."
Nika
"I'd rather celebrate the Round 1 with a drink, as much as my heart and soul tell to have another go."
Thrilled about facing Sakura again rather than phased by the implicit threat of the creature, her smile looked downright savage with the fangs fully bared. But her sense of aesthetics revolted against just rushing into the fray.
"I'm annoyed but this scenery. Going all out under the rays of the sun? The night is our domain and our birthright. There is no proper time than when the night is still young. Name the place and I'll be there by the midnight."
Nika
The vampire started running, still maintaining a good pace even if she started feeling a bit hungry after that fight. Damn, she really needed a drink. Better to indulge soon than worry later.
"I like bars. More personal touch. I might see people as a source of blood quite often, but I also like the small talk, the atmosphere, if you catch my drift. So I guess I'll head out to look for one before we meet again. Unless you want to tag along." She shrugged. The vampire figured she maybe didn't share her taste for the mundane. Hanging out with mortals, at least to a point, was how she kept her grip on the reality.
Roman
Roman's head turned to the other side, staring at Emila's pink face. The girl was acting so aggressive and forward before but she melted the second Valarie opened her mouth. Even her simplist words had so much weight, so much power. Was that from her physical power or just her influence?
"My advances?"
This girl was kinky. No this whole group was kinky. Sucking him off in the car, fucking her minion, encouraging him to have sex with her other nobleman; this was all so much information to take in. What would she have said if he did spill things to Emilia? Would she have been mad at him or happy? Up until now he had made assumptions about his place on her food chain, but Yusho made him realize that maybe the world isn't so black and white. Valarie was making him realize that he knew nothing about vampires.
"What am I to you anyway? How many people did you fuck before me?"
Sakura
The fledgeling vampiress continued on her way, meandering through the snaking walkways of the misty gothic surroundings.
It was very much like she was living in one of the fairy tales which she had grown up reading. Towering spires, long, ornate bridges, as well as spinning minarets. It was all dominated by the mist which clung to everything, and protected the vampires from the hated sun during the day. She smiled, and headed to her next destination. If her information was correct, the woman who lived at her destination was one of Valerie's top advisors, and she wished to introduce herself to her.
Residency of Duchess Alice
Unlike the Royal Castle, The mansion of Duchess Alice was surrounded by an inviting garden with meticulously cared for roses that shone with an almost unnatural crimson hue. The bats that was so commonly seen flying around also claimed this place at home sitting atop pumpkin shaped lanterns that bathed everything in an inviting orange glow.
The area being much smaller meant you could immediately spot the Mansion itself upon entering the area since there was nothing obstructing your view. It did follow the same horror house movie aesthetic that was so popular in this place however this place was clearly high class and maintained, And with the four floors it made for one big building that perfectly showed of the important status of the woman who lived here.
Before Sakura had any time to move towards the house a distinctly feminine voice greeted her.
"Oh my you must be the new one Her Majesty mentioned... I'm Lady Alice, but please feel free to call me Alice in private company. "
Alice had been aware of her arrival for a short while now, it was easily noticeable by the smell of Valerie that clung to the girl since her recent embrace, that's why the blonde had sensed her arrival in advance, and that's why'd she'd been waiting here.
The Duchess curtsied as was proper of a noble lady, however she wasn't wearing her famous set of armor today, no instead she was dressed up in an almost scandalous teacher outfit that looked like it came straight out of an anime. She was wearing a white shirt with a blue blazer on top that really strained to contained to huge chest, as if it was a size too small. Her lower half was barely covered by a similarly colored skirt that barely went halfway down her thighs, at least her plump legs were covered by black pantyhose.
Being a Combat Instructor at one of the schools in Campus Town even if part time, came with some rather odd quirks if you were female. She didn't really mind them though as it was really good for PR, and this outfit combined with her long blonde hair and her piercing crimson eyes, made a striking image indeed.
Alice
"Is that truly how you're aiming to greet your old sister?" Alice stared at the hand Sakura was offering and she looked utterly unimpressed. She breathed in and huffed in exasperation, which made her already impressive chest look like it was truly gonna burst out, and as she breathed out the breasts didn't settle immediately but jiggled slightly for a few seconds.
"Sakura, the true proper greeting for us noble ladies is to glomp the other girl and subtly feel them up while sparring with heated words." It wasn't really, but Her Majesty enjoyed seeing that so it might as well be.
Alice
The slightly taller blonde returned the hug in the same fashion, her own creeping close to Sakura's butt. "Now that is the youthful enthusiasm we've been lacking. My students would be so jealous of you if they could see this... Although you're a bit overdressed..."
Alice pulled away from the hug and circled her junior to give her a good look over. "It's good that your dress hugs your body so splendidly, however if you aim to get her majesties attention, you should wear a shorter skirt."
Alice
"Oh my...."
Alice eyed the treat that had been given her quite thoroughly, this new girl had quite the body and she wasn't afraid to show. The blonde wouldn't just give up a free show like that, especially one with nothing attached to it.
"So eager to please, but my advice is meant for when our King jumps you. And considering your incredible looks, that's gonna happen fairly often, although if you appease her too much you're gonna end up as a fuck toy like the Idol... Hmm hmm..."
Poke.
Alice pushed her finger against Sakura's cheek as the other girl leaned in close. "I take it you're here because you want something? Come inside and we can have some tea but, whatever you want it's gonna cost you..."
Roman
Roman took the slap to the face, rubbing his cheek. His exposed dick twitched a bit as he staggered back, frowning as he realized something truly horrible. Shit, I was into that. Yet despite the pleasure resided a shame that forced his shoulders and wide back to slump. There was a slight hump in his muscular back and that feeling of shame intensified as Valaire got on her knees. Grabbing hold of the collar, he said,
"Is this... ok?"
Well all that happened was he got a little restless and loose with his words. Maybe... No, he had done enough damage already.
Alice
"You will do no such thing." Alice's voice had gotten much sharper all of a sudden, there was a fierce lethal edge to it, almost enough to cut yourself on it. "Her majesty belongs to us all, and it's King, if you call her that again I will be forced to give you a thorough education." She grabbed Sakura's arm and pulled her along into the mansion.
"If you call her that in person it might end badly for you and I would be saddened to lose such a promising young Lady so soon." She didn't sound saddened at all, in fact it was almost like she was excited at the idea of Valerie going to town on Sakura.
The house however followed the overall gothic aesthetic of the district complete with pumpkin lightning. It was really large though and you might even get if you wandered around carelessly.
Sakura
Sakura had never liked that sort of dynamic. It bristiled against her morality, and she didn't like being treated as if she were an object or a toy of Valerie's. She felt, that if Valerie was to treat her body as an object, then she should be able to do the same. Still, she'd clearly been to forwards with her inner desires.
"Thank you for the advice, Lady Alice."
She clicked her tongue, and allowed Alice to lead her inside. She waited a bit though to observe Alice's movements and posture to see if she was actually upset with her, or if this was just a form of hazing.
Alice
"Hmm you certainly have manners, and poise too...." Alice lead them to a large room meant for receiving guests. She took a seat at the one table at the center of the room and the moment she did, bats appeared. They came in carrying kettles full of tea as well as trays of numerous kinds of biscuits.
"Were you a noble before being turned, you seem quite familiar with the proper conduct already... Oh and please try these out they're quite sweet. Just because we don't derive any nutrients from human food doesn't mean we can't enjoy it still."
Sakura
Sakura happily took part in the consumption of scrumptious confections, nibbling politely upon one of the cookies. "Indeed, it was one of the reasons I accepted Valerie's offer in the first place-very few appreciable downsides, and the promise of eternal life for me to be able to continue my research was too good for me to pass up. Her red eyes stared into Alice's own. "I was a noble, of sorts. I'm an adopted daughter of an extremely wealthy and prestigious family of mages. I joined the family when I was just a small girl, so I basically don't remember any other life than the one I've had now. And you-you're a swordswoman, correct?" She raised her eyebrow, hoping her guess would prove accurate.
Sakura
Sakura gently brushed the older woman's hand away from her head. She wasn't a child, and didn't appriciate being treated like one. "I don't want to be around just for my looks, even as proud of my body as I am." She replied. "And no, she hasn't. That doesn't really seem like the sort of thing that's up my alley."
Then, she let out a soft giggle. "I don't often meet women who are larger than myself, so it came as a bit of a surprise, that's all. Your body is incredible."
Alice
"But not enough to keep your hands to yourself." She shuddered as the hands of the shorter girl caressed her abs, she couldn't and she wouldn't let her know just how ticklish she was. That's why she forced herself to go against her natural instincts and simply relax, to lean back into the embrace and let the other girl support her.
"With that much confidence you'd look great in a bikini, a splash of water trailing down your cleavage and your cheeks flushed as you pant in exhaustion, it would look amazing. I know I do, besides you'll have a much easier time getting your way if your opponents think of you as a hot underwear model with no brains..."
Sakura
"Why would I keep my hands to myself when my target is so willing to let me get close?" Sakura ran the tip of her index finger slowly up the hard muscles, feeling the pleasant bumps and valleys which always got her so excited. "I think I look better with the sheen of sweat after a vigorous workout, muscles glistening and trembling in delight." Sakura replied. Do you think that idol will be competition for my bod?" She slowly pressed herself closer to Alice, until she was right up against her in a bear hug. She took in a deep whiff of Alice's body with her newly enhanced sense of smell, taking a deep breath to really appreciate the fine scent of her shampoo and conditioner in her finely kept hair.
"Regardless, I don't want to look like a brainless fool, and a swimsuit is no good for other reasons too. Sapphire likes to put me in leotards to really show off all my curves when I fight seriously."
Roman
There was a glow on Roman's face. His skin seemed sleeker, shinier. There wasn't a smile, but his otherwise neutral mouth arched up ever so slightly towards a grin. The young man was now blissfully but hyperaware of the way his shirt cuddled his muscular arms. The way his pants hugged his firm legs and tight butt made him want to smile, but fear of karmic forces kept his expression more humble.
The door swung open and Roman drank in the scenery, completed with the wonderful doll he worshiped for so long. Brimming with confidence from sleeping with the vampire king, Roman's surprisingly soft lips parted to say the most chad thing ever spoken by an otherwise ordinary man.
"Holy shit! Is this.... Oh god it is! This is where you do your shoots isn't it?"
Roman wasn't even hiding the fact that he was checking her out at this point. His eyes bounced up and down her body before rolling around to the rest of the room. He pictured her posing in different places, the images in his mind vivid. It helped that the pictures around him could be used to fill in the space. He pictured each picture coming to life and posing for him, begging him to do what he did to Valarie.
"Wait education? Did she teach me....oh. Did you bring me in here for that?"
Roman
Roman restrained himself as best as he could. That inviting pose and soft stare was enticing. He had just finished with Valarie yet he felt his pants tightening. "Well let me show you," he said taking off his pants and underwear. In between his legs stood a large hard dick waiting to be tended to. Grabbing the couch, his fingers sunk into the arm and with a quick yank, pulled it in front of him so that when he sat down, it was like an audience to a show. Sitting his now naked butt down, he grabbed hold of his dick and stared at Emilia like a man would a screen.
"Well I got sent a porn picture of you leaning in with your fangs out and your chest exposed in a tight shirt... it was actually pretty tame but... something about how you looked at the camera like the viewer was food was exhilarating. I followed your more cutesy idol shows after that and well... fapped to your porn."
Roman began stroking his exposed shaft as he talked.
Alice
"No she won't but-" Alice said as she pushed away the grabby hands that were feeling her up. "That's quite enough, we should get you up to speed on the various factions at play here and more importantly, you'll gonna have to make choices..."
The tall blonde suddenly took a step forward to create some distance between them and then turned around to face her before she continued speaking. "Most importantly who you're gonna be friendly with and who'll you'll not be, choices you make now will have consequences for a long time. That's why it's important you think about what you really want, before you try to suck up to too many people, unless you wanna end up with no one trusting you."
Alice
"Then you've come to the right place Lady Sakura, such heartfelt passion must be returned in kind, and thus I will gladly help you with finding your sister!" She puffed her massive chest up in an act to alleviate the mood before it become too sour,mmissing family could be pretty messy.
"But you say you need power for it, why's that?" Is she held in a faraway dungeon as the plaything of terrible orcs who make her do unending Jenga??" Alice took a step closer while maintaining a look of serious worry, there was no fate more terrible than the one she had described of that she was sure. Or could it be that she was just acting and pulling Sakura's leg?
Sakura
"Oh, nothing like that!" Sakura waved her hand in front of her own face while shaking her head. "She's not in any sort of danger like that-although she's probably more difficult to get to than if it were something straightforwards like that."
Sakura's lips curled slightly downwards into a frown. "She's not in this dimension. And as far as I can tell, I'll need to spend a long time working on perfecting my magic to be able to open a gate to come and get her."
Alice
"You have a pathway to dimensional travel?" Alice raised an eyebrow at that particular part of the story. The admittedly tired old sob story of leaving family behind in your old world was something she had heard a thousand times and more. She might have been more sympathetic a few centuries ago, but not now. She had seen where that story usually lead, and it was not a happy place. However, what Sakura said after that was not part of the norm.
"Perhaps you should shared that trivia with her Majesty, I can't imagine her ignoring you with that information at hand. The potential to travel to other world is invaluable."
Alice
Delicious.
Absolutely delicious. This fledgling must be a powerful mage cause there was no way this divine taste was due to the potency of her blood. Alice greedily sucked up more and more for the next two minutes before she had finally had her fill and pulled back with a satisfied gasp.
"Your taste is heavenly, almost as good as her Majesty!"
Roman
"I DON'T KNOW WHAT SHE SEES EITHER DAMN IT, A BIG DICK AND A GUY WHO WANTS TO BE BIGGER MAYBE!" he yelled, slamming his foot into the concrete under the thick fog. "Working your ass off is different when your a rich brat! All you have to do is sell your stupid soul and everything is handed to you! The fact that all you had to do was do some workouts and read some books and all the sudden you can lift cars is proof you don't understand ANYTHING!"
Roman sighed. "You didn't work hard! You worked outside of your comfort zone! Do you know what it took to get my sorry ass off the couch after a lifetime of hiding in my home?! Imagine leaving your house in a world where a nearby pebble can kill you! Shit, even if I took away god knows what powers you have, you could at least save yourself from the pebble by paying it off!"
Roman
Roman felt a strange pit in his chest, a feeling of absolute defeat. Maybe thats why he laughed. "Funny. Everyone else has been telling me the exact opposite. Valarie, Yusho, Emilia.... they are all telling me I have to be kind to get real strength. But from my perspective, all the strongest most respected people in the world are assholes. Thanks... i've been going crazy thinking maybe I was wrong this whole time."
Roman
Roman watched Sakura do her magic with wide eyes. He wondered how long it took to be able to cast magic like that. Still, if it did what she said it did, then she was being disingenuous. She said she didn't care, yet she casted a spell to prevent others from hearing their conversation. At the very least, Roman considered that maybe it wasn't wrong after all to feel so defensive when they first met. She wasn't very honest with herself. But then again, maybe it was better to judge after he heard her out. After all, she was opening up to him now.
"All in the past huh?" he said, echoing her words. As he spoke, he sat his tinier ass in the chair opposite to hers. "Does having all that power allow you to put the past behind you? I always wondered about that. People who made it never seem to care much about the past, or at least don't bring it up."
Roman
It was hard to listen to, not because of the severity of it, but because it hit so close to home. Even so, he couldn't stop listening. This sort of traumatic backstory, it wasn't something he was a stranger to. Quite frankly, the citizens of the nexus were no strangers to some form of trauma. It was the fact that it came from a person like Sakura, so powerful, someone who seemed to have at least most of it figured out.
Roman's eyes widened and he spoke with a soft voice. "Slow down.... You.... I want to know, but you don't have to tell me anymore if you don't want to."
He didn't understand all of it yet. It was too incoherent. Her sister Rin leaving for the airport? Her weak parents? Was it the pain of being abandoned that set her off or the sister...? Yeah it was the abandonment wasn't it? She was hurt by the people closest to her.
"But... I do want to know...."
Roman
At last Roman understood why she said what she did. The idea of getting something engraved into your body to be a "real mage," was relatable. In a way, thats ultimately why he took the vampirism so quickly. He got to move from a human with nothing to a vampire of the night, a monster who treated humans like cattle. The only true way to be someone was to step over another's body. Leaning forward, he nodded.
"Yeah. I want to feel what your feeling too. Truth be told, I'd still rather be you. I'd rather go through all of that trauma, just to exist as someone. You can whine and whine about how hard you worked all day, but the fact of the matter is someone with true talent like you could never work as hard as someone like me. A person who walks through life will never work as hard as someone who crawls."
Roman's eys scanned the room, wondering for the first time what these other vampire's lives were like. Maybe they all had similar stories. One thing had been made clear. "We have a lot more in common than I thought," he said, sighing. "....If you want you can look inside my mind too.... I don't mind. I just would stay away from the hornier parts of my brain if you can."
Frowning, he said, "I think the strongest people in the world are those with talent who get through truama, the rest of us.... are losers."
He said that but he didn't really believe it. Thats why he left his home to become strong after all, because he wanted to prove that "reality" wrong.