Clang
Two swords clash sending sparks where they meet,
Confronting each other with all their might, both sword masters fight relentlessly without a care about their heavy injuries. Each tries to outdo the other and exploit whatever weakness they find.
Each trying to end it with their victory for the stake is high,
One fights to protect while the other fights to save.
Even with broken ribs and stab wounds slowing her down, Alysia fights trying to overcome her limit just to save her lover, her most cherished one, Luis.
Seeing the faintest opening from her opponent, Alysia with utmost skill and precision, in an uncanny position slashes, and stabs. Her opponent staggers and falls dead.
Finally, an end to a long-drawn battle.
"I won," Alysia mutters as she rushes to Luis's side making sure he's safe. Seeing him lying still with a large open wound in his chest unconscious, she didn't hesitate and cut her palm and let the blood drip on Luis's mouth.
Instinctively Luis swallows the blood and opens his eyes,
Without warning, he aggressively bites the neck of Alysia and drinks her blood greedily.
Alysia only pats Luis' back.
Seeing how Luis is controlled by his bloodthirst without any will could only mean that his wounds were truly life-threatening. And so without any resistance, Alysia can't help but let Luis drink her blood even if it would kill her.
"Don't drink too fast you might choke," with a weakened breath she jokes. Luis is still so deep in his bloodthirst that he is only running on his instinct. He can't perceive what's going on and if he knew, he would definitely stop even if it costs his life.
With death approaching, Alysia just hums a tune that Luis loves to listen to and thinks about their time together.
At last, Luis almost sated from his bloodthirst finally regains consciousness.
The first thing that he becomes aware of is the warm metallic-tasting liquid in his mouth. He immediately stops drinking and with horror quickly notices it is Alysia that he bit.
"ALYSIA!" Looking at Alysia's slow ebbing breath, Luis trembles and tenderly holds Alysia.
"I…Love…You…always…" With a weak smile Alysia utters her last words.
"No, no, NO! Don't leave me, please!" His voice breaks, raw and hoarse, and his vision blurs with tears he doesn't bother to wipe away. He cradles her closer, pressing his forehead against hers, trying to feel the warmth that's already fading from her body. He rocks her in his arms as if the motion might bring her back, and his breaths come in ragged gasps.
With tears still running freely down his cheeks, he begs for all the gods he knows to give her back to him.
But with the gods choosing to play deaf to his prayers, after a while, he curses himself instead for being such a blood-sucking monster. He also can't help but hate and blame the world for letting Alysia die.
She was the only person who made him like himself and made the world a place worth striving to live in...
After a long while with the cold stiff dead body of Alysia still in his arms, Luis with grim determination gets up and takes Alysia's body to the altar in the Lux shrine. A shrine that used to be so sacred but is now in ruins and defiled with so much blood.
There he sets Alysia's body aflame.
He stays until nothing is left but ashes, then
"Never again will I drink blood, that I promise." He pledges.
Centuries go by, his pledge remains unchallenged
And yet, on a whim, in an auction house
Luis sees something he never thought would be possible
'Alysia?!'
The moment that thought enters his mind, his bloodthirst emerges vehemently he cannot stop himself from impulsively buying the slave that looks like Alysia.
With the unexpected slight touch, his bloodthirst came full force without a warning and he helplessly lost control and bites.
Breaking the promise he, for centuries, kept with diligence.