The Fallen Vampire

Underneath the light of a pale moon, there was a lone woman who could be seen sitting on a rocky cliff overlooking her surroundings.

The woman smiled thoughtfully as she brought her hand to her chest to feel her throbbing heartbeat.

'I miss him so much..'

It should come as no surprise that the group of love birds had become somewhat codependent on each other over the years they had spent together.

This was particularly true for Lucia, as she was always the one who floated about though different sections of the house and lingered around the members of her family one at a time before she began to miss the rest and went to find them.

Being away from them like this was so very difficult for her.

Just the simple sound of her husband's voice in her mind was enough to make her heart ache with longing, and she wanted nothing more than to fly off into the distance and rejoin him at his side.

She could even feel that her husband and Aveena were doing something new and kinky that also happened to feel really good.

She wanted to partake in that kind of thing!

But instead she was stuck out here and couldn't even take a moment to touch herself because of-

'You've been resting too long… and get your mind off of coitus!'

Lucia gnashed her teeth together until venom started to secrete on it's own.

'Do not eavesdrop on me, you nosy bastard! And stay out of my mind so that you don't see anything I would have to kill you for!'

'You…kill me…? …..hehehe….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'

'I didn't realize that anything I said was fucking funny!'

As a response, the voice within her mind only continued to laugh louder as if it found all of this monumentally amusing.

And it agitated Lucia beyond description.

All she could picture in her mind was a withered old man with a long grey beard who was rolling around on the ground as he laughed his last few years away.

Fuck this guy!

'Listen here you old bastard! I don't care if you are helping me or not! My marriage is private and isn't something for you to snoop on!'

'Who is snooping on you, cretin? I cannot see any of your memories or thoughts, but I can hear them loud and clear! A word of advice, it isn't healthy for a young woman's mind to drift towards sex every thirty seconds!'

'Well you have sex with a fox demon and see if you can think of anything else for eternity!!'

'That shouldn't-! …You're being closed in on.' The voice suddenly said.

'Don't you think I know that? I could smell them before I sensed them.' Lucia grumbled.

In the next moment, she heard the sound of footsteps and falling rocks coming from behind her and she did not even bother to turn around.

"Well now, isn't she a vision!"

"That she is..!"

"How are you doing, darling? Bit odd of you to be out here all alone!"

Lucia coldly looked over her shoulder and blinked her inhuman golden eyes casually.

Interrupting her peace and quiet was a group of around eight short and bearded men.

They all wore well made steel armor and carried weapons with intricate designs inscribed into the leather of the hilts.

The stench of alcohol, blood and gooch grease oozed from every corner of their bodies, nearly making the sensitive Lucia want to gag.

It was clear that they had been out here for quite a long time, and were likely pursuing magical beasts.

Upon finding Lucia, their demeanor went from friendly and slightly flirtatious to downright hostile.

With their foul tempers and bad drinking habits, dwarves famously have the worst disposition towards fallen that their is; even worse than human ones.

When they saw Lucia's serpentine golden eyes, their hand's immediately went to their weapons without a second thought.

"Damn it, that's no woman!"

"Grab it!"

"Whatever she is has to be rare, we can sell her off for a hefty profit!"

Making up their mind in an instant, the dwarves let out a hardened battle cry as they rushed forward.

Unbothered, Lucia remained right where she sat with her legs crossed as her eyes started to glow green.

"Arcane Wind : Detonation."

A moment later, several small, internal popping sounds could be heard.

The dwarves who showed such lust for battle a mere second ago went down like little lawn ornaments.

Tears streamed from their eyes as they grasped their chests and tried to take in air that their bodies could no longer store.

Detonation is one of eight new wind spells created by Lucia and Taira together for specific situations and purposes.

By causing the air pressure inside an object to expand beyond it's normal limits, they were capable of exploding things even if they were not in their direct line of sight.

Like just now, where Lucia had blown apart these men's lungs without so much as twitching.

She finally stood up from the rock where she once sat and stretched her body sensually before walking towards the dying dwarves.

Holding out her hand, she summoned an enormous nine ringed sword that seemed to be too big for a warrior of her somewhat diminutive size.

Coldly, she lopped off the head of the first dwarf she came across before moving on to another.

'This is an unnecessary task. They were going to die anyway, you could have saved yourself the time and trouble.'

'I am ending their suffering.' Lucia responded blankly.

'Why? They are your enemies.'

Lucia's great blade separated the head of another dwarf from his neck before she paused.

'..I'm assuming you know that one of my family members is a human?'

'A nauseating fact indeed.'

The lamia rolled her eyes as she continued to put the dwarves out of their misery.

'I used to think so too, you know? But… she makes me hopeful. She makes us all hopeful.

She is living proof that the only thing that stands in the way of us living peacefully with the races of light is perspective.

I still want us to win this war, but I hope that when our enemies are finally ready to listen to us, we can reach some kind of common ground.

And I believe that extending kindness when it costs me nothing to do so may be the first step to that.

Continuing a cycle of hatred just because I can would make me no better than them, no?'

The entity within Lucia's mind fell silent for a moment, and she thought for a second she may have broken it.

'Ah, what do I know though? I'm in my late seventies already, so maybe old age is just beginning to mellow me out.'

The voice in her head scoffed as if he found the notion of her being old at only 76 abysmally unfunny.

'…Do not waste time with them. Focus on following the map laid before you.'

'Yea, yea.'

Lucia flicked off any lingering blood on her weapon before she let it go entirely.

Instead of falling onto the ground, the weapon started to float on it's own in midair like some kind of surf board.

With a small leap, Lucia hopped atop her blade and directed her gaze towards the east.

'Even at my fastest the trip will take a few days. Want to tell me a story to pass the time?'

'No.'

'Well if you don't want to, I'll tell you all about sex with my husband, and how he focuses on-'

'I was born eons ago. I do not even remember my own age correctly anymore. My earliest memory is of a young woman, no less annoying than you…'