Vaympyre
Chapter Eleven
by: Lazuli
<lazulidreamer@yahoo.com>

	I felt strange, as if someone had 
made a connection with me without my 
knowledge. It felt faint, and far away.... as 
if through a great tunnel of some sort. I saw 
Endymion start as well, and I looked up to 
him, confused. 
	"What was that, Endymion? 
Who.. what happened?" I was afraid that 
something dire had happened, that we 
were on the verge of being attacked by an 
unseen enemy. The touch did not seem 
evil, but it was more like a premonition of 
sorts. That a monumental event was about 
to occur, and this was just a 
warning in advance. 
	"I think that Leda has meet us, in 
some future point in time, Serenity." His face 
was serious, free of all joking. I thought that 
Endymion said that his powers did not extend 
over the breach of time. He nodded, sensing 
my thoughts, or perhaps just reading
the confused look on my face.
	"That is true, Serenity, but with your 
power, you almost exceed myself in a manner. 
You have the power of bonds.. to break them, or 
to overcome them. You connected with the bond 
of your own blood of the future. It is the only 
explanation that I can give you for this. I can only 
surmise that Leda met up with us, but she is still
far away for our present selves to meet her."
	Nodding, I let my attention drift from 
that, onto my mother.I had a feeling that she 
would become a local legend in this town.
A sign to all those who dared to be cruel... 
or if they did the wrong thing. I smiled. 
Mother would keep them in line. I no 
longer had to worry about my old home, 
or old life. The future was now.


	Leda was limp with relief when she 
knew that Pallas could no longer use Marcus 
to hurt her with. There were other ways of 
harming her, but her heart would not be so 
brusied over the matter. Leda winced when 
she saw the look on Pallas's face, the dead 
calm in her eyes as she regarded Leda. This 
did not bode good. 
	"I see that you have taken away 
my pet. I have worked so very hard to attain him. 
You will not be happy with what I am about the 
devise for you, my servant."
	Leda shook her head. She knew that 
she would pay for what happened, but at least 
she knew that Marcus was safe. That those 
strangers in that distant time would care for 
him, and that one day she would meet up 
with him.
	"I know how you despise me. I can 
not make you wholly mine. Not yet. But I can 
keep you further under my control. You know 
that I am bound to the darkness. I believe 
that I have been giving you too long a leash. 
Perhaps if you are bound by the same chains 
as I, then you will think differently on how you 
treat your Master."
	 Leda's eyes closed in horror. What 
did she mean? What could Pallas be planning 
to do?
	Pallas stood up suddenly, and was 
gripping Leda's throat in a tight hold before 
Leda had realized that she had even moved 
from the seat. 
	"A simple spell of darkness... 
something that will make the light poison your 
skin, to burn you if you ever venture in it's rays 
again. You will soon become my creature, and 
never again pass for a human in the mortal world. 
You will be mine."
	Leda felt all light fleeing from her, and 
she knew that the battle in the years ahead would 
be a hard one to fight indeed.

Serenity and Endymion
200 Years Later
Leda
50 Years Later

	I relaxed aganist Endymion, relishing 
in the last hundred years or so. Time had melted 
together for me, no longer seeming to matter 
anymore. I wondered if that was what Endymion 
had felt when he had first met me. If he could 
have waited for a long time to be with me, if I 
had first refused his 'offer' for me to be a part of 
him. Ismiled at the memory. It was so long 
ago, and the start of my past with him was 
long gone, my village home faded into memory, 
save for a single home that had become legend 
over time, as I knew it would. I never visited the 
area again, but I heard of the whispered 
tales that passed along through the generations. 
	I felt a faint foreboding go through 
me as I thought of the past, and more to the point, 
as my mind drifted towards a single person. 
Leda. As if now was the time that we were to 
meet. Now was the time for the bond to be made 
of our alliance.
	"Endymion?" I looked up at my beloved, 
my head tilted slightly the side, awaiting his answer 
to my silent query. He nodded, and his eyes 
darkened with anticipation. 
	"It is time, Serenity. Time to seek out 
Leda." I nodded slowly as he pulled me tighter 
aganist him, as if a hidden sense was telling
him to be wary. I did not being closer to my beloved, 
and I let him draw me close to him, so close that 
there did not seem to be any room between us. 
As if you could not tell where 
he left off and I began. I enjoyed it being that way, 
even after so long with him. Even after our minds 
had intertwined and the actual touching of bodies 
to one another was no longer needed, we still 
used that contact. It was if it  made us 
stronger, telling us that that contact was 
not a useless act on our parts, but an 
even further strenghtning of our bond. 
	I knew that my entire existance 
had been driving towards this point. 
To meet leda, if not to fight Pallas. That
may not be a task for several centuries 
yet, but we would pave the way for that 
battle. To make the first connection.
	I let Endymion kiss me gently 
then, ignoring the crowd around us, 
forgetting that there were people that
frowned upon that type of public display. 
I had left the modesty that I once attained 
in life centuries ago, and I only cared about 
the moments in Endymion's arms when
we were not hiding from people who sought 
our demise, not planning for the new fight, 
and not getting used to the gradual changes 
the came upon us as decades went by with 
no more recognition as seconds fly by. 
	

	Leda walked along the dark paths of the 
alley, used to the naunces and changes of the 
dark now, her pale face standing out in the faint 
glimmer of moonlight from above. She knew that
if she was found by any of the members of the 
town, she would be burned or hung for the creature
that wandered into their safe homes. 
	"As if I had a choice. I am under orders.
They are lucky 'tis me they deal with, and not my
Master. They should pray for such fortunate tidings
upon them."
	Her eyes narrowed briefly as she thought
again of the curse that was placed upon her. How
she truly became a creature of the night, unable to
bear the touch of daylight, but to be called to the 
sounds and scents of the night as the needle in a 
compass shows the way home.
	That even though Pallas cursed her 
from daylight, the moon was just as bright and
the night held it's own beauty. The night that 
had it's own predators about, the ones that called
to her as though they were a part of her family,
acknowledged her as one of their own. Her lit
up with joy as she caught the scent of a meal 
for her, and she felt the darkness inside of her
try to take over, and she struggled aganist it.
A gentle hand on her shoulder almost made
her lose her concentration, and she saw red
for a precious few seconds before her vision 
cleared and she met with the clear blue gaze
of a peasant girl. She had the feeling that she
had met the girl before, but Leda was not sure
how. She had never been in this town before,
but surely no simple child would follow her!
	"Go home! You should not be out
here at night with my kind." Leda backed 
away from the girl, feeling a headache 
coming from lack of blood, lack of the hunt,
and from denying her inner nature. It had been
so long now, and she still had not conquered 
it. 
	"Leda, it will be so much easier if
you accept it, instead of denying it. It will
only bring you more pain if you deny it, and
you will never be able to break the chains of
your bondage if you do not overcome the 
obstacle of what you are now."
	"What do you know about what
I am, little girl? It is none of your concern!
Do not bother with me!" She reached out
to shove the child away, when her wrist
was held in an iron grip. 
	"Please, Leda.... do not fight
the darkness inside you. Accept the gifts
that were given to you. Once you accept 
the face that the darkness is there, and it
can do you no harm, then it will cease to
be held over your head like an axe waiting
to fall. I know what you are going through.
I have seen you before, even if you do not
remember."
	Leda studied the stranger more
carefully, and she then realized where she
had seen the girl before. That time of so 
many years into the future. 
	"That is right, Leda. My name is
Serenity."

	That is the ending of that chapter! 
It's tres early in the morning, minna. Enjoy, and
remember, I am STILL for WAFF WAFF WAFF!
*giggles*

Laz