“Can you pass the salt please?” Said Laura politely looking across the table to Sammy. She was at Sammy’s house tucking into a nice piece of roast beef.
Sammy through the salt across the, it slid easily across the well varnished table. Laura smiled, and tried to pull of the top of the dark wood container that held the salt. “Twist it dear twist.” Said Sammy’s mum Anne, Laura smiled again, studying the features of her friends mum, she was old, but she had a certain elegance, her hair was grey but it was kept up in a tight knot, she also wore expensive smelling perfume (she had started to do so since she broke up with Sammy’s dad) and she was very tall, she had a muscular build for a woman. Sammy was of a similar build but had lovely chocolate brown hair that Laura envied (Sammy couldn’t seem to see why, she kept saying that if she was anything like here mum then it would all fall out soon, ever the pessimist), she was fourteen, a year older then Laura, but they had been great friends for a long time.
Laura could not have been more different to Anne and Sammy, she had fair hair and pale skin, she was short skinny and not to muscular but as they say opposites attract, and Laura and Sammy had been friends since the first time they met.
There had been a long silence after Laura had asked for the salt, no-one was talking and they finished the meal in silence.
“When did your mum say you were to be back today?” Asked Sammy’s mum.
“She said around 7:30.” Said Laura “what’s the time now?”
“Well its 7:45 so if I were you then I would politely ask for a life.” Joked Anne
“Nah ill be fine.” Said Laura “I don’t want to be any trouble. Anyway I go down busy streets, ill never be alone”
“Well ok dear.” Anne sounded uncomfortable “but will you ring me when you get home so I know you are ok?”
“Sure.” Shrugged Laura, then departed
Five deep voices yawned in unison. Five celestial figures floated up. As if mirroring each other they all made there way through a network of dark catacombs, out to the surface. The exit was concreted over, but the figures floated through. The five figures all saw the night sky for the first time in one thousand years, then floated off on there own paths.
Khimaria took a rout down a dark alley, a cliché that she had never heard of. There were brown rock buildings, which she had seen before in visions, she took a closer look, the walls seemed crumbly, but the substance they were made of was far lighter then any stone she had ever seen.
As she got out the alley she found herself on a gravely surface (tarmac) a car rolled past, but she dismissed this as pure magic and continued along on her quest to find a host.
Laura walked swiftly down Rosen lane, it was long and winded around a bit, it was downhill, and she often ran down it on her way home from Sammy’s house.
She came to a main road, that was usually very busy, but it was a dark clear winter’s night and people seemed to sense in there subconscious the air of change around them and went to there homes. Being slightly well off, at this time Laura’s parents were sitting in front of a fire getting anxious about Laura’s were a bout’s.
Khimaria sat at the corner of her main road, it wasn’t busy enough for her to be conspicuous when she possessed someone, nor was it abandoned so that no-one would come down it. A car went fast its engine roaring loudly and scaring Khimaria, its headlights bore into Khimaria, its headlights on maximum shine and the driver staring right at her as if the driver saw her (which was impossible) and knew that she was a thing of the night.
After the car passed there was a long gap of people passing by. Khimaria began the think that vampire’s had risen again, and the humans had gone to hide in there little homes at night, but she soon dismissed this theory, as homes would be little protection if a creature of the night was trying to gain access. That made her think however, she thought of herself as a creature of the night, and not as just a vampire, but there might be other types of creatures to make the humans afraid of the dark. She had often summoned a werewolf, they as far as she knew had not been wiped out like the vampires, maybe the humans houses had silver protective symbols.
She soon dismissed this theory too, werewolf’s had a extremely strong odder, Khimaria with her heightened vampire sense of smell would have been able to pick up on this quickly like a bee to honey.
So evidently this road was just getting a bit more deserted then it was before.
After a long time a young girl came passed, she radiated a strong aura, of one with a strong force of will, and an equally keen intellect. Khimaria did however have a interesting dilemma, the girl was only thirteen (she thought) and that was a bit young for her liking’s but her alternatives were to wait on this crumbly stoneoid wall, waiting for another person slightly older with an equal frame of mind. No she wasn’t foolish, and nor did she want to stay here any longer, she would make here move.
As Laura walked down the few streets to her house she felt like she was being followed, she kept looking over her shoulders and frightening Khimaria, although in retrospect Khimaria snorted it was impossible. At first Laura wasn’t worried; but as she kept going on her path everything was beginning to seem so deserted, it made her slightly nervous.
Khimaria just followed floating along at the same rate as Laura, no faster no slower, waiting for the time she felt was right, they passed a dark bus stop with people under it, Laura seemed to relax a bit and walk slower, allowing Khimaria to make the detailed observation that her pase was quite fast before. Laura turned down the first left after the bus stop into a short road, and she kept her slow walking speed
“this is my chance.” Grinned Khimaria in a way only one thousand year old corpses who have just found out they are going to take on a good body can do.
Doubling the speed that both her and Laura had been traveling at Khimaria swiftly overtook Laura and took her body, Laura and Khimaria collapsed as one, and then Khimaria took over, controlling Laura towards her base, the Laura part of mind was unconscious.
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The spirits
Khimaria[taken by me]: Khimaria was often represented in paintings as a old hag with green skin, this is false, she looked very young, and the green skin represented how one of her powerful spells went wrong and her blood turned to strong acid, she soon found a thirst for blood after the spell, and started drinking, she was the first vampire, if you take her spirit then you will have the ability to cast spells (which you learn of later) and if you cut yourself your blood with burn away nearly anything.
Yuri: Yuri was a creature of the night, he had long hair and nails, and he was legendarily fast, he was skilled with most weapons but he liked spears, short swords/ knives and just bare hands, he was a great assassin, by taking him on my character becomes very fast, agile, and good at jumping and using fists and nails as weapons.
Xzaar: Xzaar was known as the human vampire, he is the only vampire with good surviving records, in a time long past he was a knight, very good a jousting, when he became a vampire he went into denial for a long time, testing himself against the sun for as long as possible, and slowly tanning, he can pass for human very well now, but he is still a great vampire, if you take this spirit on then you have the ability to be very good at talking people into things, and you can also survive sunlight for an extended period of time.
Zechariahs: recorded as the greatest fencer to ever live in life, in death zachairias became very good with weapons, he trained for a very long time against lesser vampires, and even in friendly matches many were doomed, if you take on his spirit you become very good with weapons, you don’t need just one, also items in you surroundings such as a pipe can become a deadly weapon in your hands.
Airy: Airy was Known as the healer has a human, she traveled the land healing the wounded and occasionally bringing the dead unharmed back into life, she brought these powers with her into death, and saved many vampires life’s, if you take Airy's spirit then you will regenerate from your wounds at a great speed and you will be able to heal those around you (with difficulty).
Name: Laura
Age:13
Appearance: pale, thin and relatively athletic, Laura looks fairly sickly(with her skin tone being so pale. She wears a plain black hoodie and blue jeans, around her neck she has a talisman with a dragon curled around a cross, the dragons eyes are bright red and look like rubies (there is a slightly better description near the beginning of the post
Weapon: two sets of claws, with an intricate design running up the far left and right prong of a dragon, and in the center prong is a vine, it fits between Laura’s fingers perfectly
Spirit: Khimaria
Other-
The base was a dimmed cave with huge stone walls, and lots of books, desks and many other stuff you might find in a classroom. Laura stirred and Khimaria let her gain consciousness, she might as well get slightly used to sharing a body, not that she would remember much of her past life.
"Were am i" moaned a very sleapy Laura, she was lieing on a stone flore with a five pronged star, on each of the prongs lay a sleaping figure. Instinctively she decided to let them sleep, why she would never know.
"I have to get home." She thought "Were is home"
She blacked out again. Khimaria had caused this, she didn'nt want the girl thinking these things untill the other spirits hosts were awake, it would be much easyer to explain then