Meals for the Vampires

[Syani]

One look. Just one look at Alessa's pained expression and Syani can already tell it's not the kind of normal physical pain people endure. That expression clearly indicates that it's some kind of internal pain. Hencewhy, the second she got a good clear look of Alessa's face, Syani stopped dead in her tracks. She was shocked to see that expression, and her mind is already trying to list out all the possibilities on what's wrong with the girl.

"Um... Eva..?" Syani tries to get the vampire's attention, but Evangeline, being the famished vampire that she is, seems too distracted by her hunger at the moment and resumed to bite Alessa on the neck. "Eva...!" Syani tried to call out to her again, now louder than before. It took the blonde a moment to realize what's going on with her victim, and the second she noticed, Eva bellows out a worried cry. By her cry, Syani finally understands that it's a case with her heart. Still, it seems kind of odd... "H-hold on--" Syani was about to ask about it when Alessa suddenly vomits out blood from her mouth.

Reflexively, Syani slapped her hands on her nose and mouth, both out of utter shock and to stop her sense of smell from smelling the scent of blood. With a bit of magic, the half-vampire blocks her sense of smell entirely and is forced to breath through her mouth. That's when she heard Eva's panicked yell. Syani steps back a bit as she observes the situation, with her own breathing acting as a rhythmical sign to let her know to stay calm. Alessa falls sideways from leaning against the tree, and fortunately Evangeline manages to catch her. Syani, on the other hand, is outright confused, because to her knowledge, a heart disease can't just push blood through the trachea and out of the mouth like that. "I get it..." It seems her suspicion is correct...

"Eva," the black-haired finally moved from her position and approached the vampire, holding her shoulder firmly, "Leave it to me. Please stand back." Syani normally sports a rather high-pitched childish voice, but in serious moments like now, her tone had descended into a rather flat business-like voice. Once Evangeline had given her space, Syani moved in to inspect Alessa. "This isn't a normal heart attack..." In normal heart attack situations, it's best to perform CPR to the victim, but with Alessa coughing out blood like that, Syani doubts that's a clever solution. "I think... I think she's been cursed."

After stating that out, it's time for her to find the core of the problem. Syani presses two of her fingers at the side of Alessa's neck, the side where she's not bleeding from Eva's bite, and tries to feel her pulse. Indeed, her heart beat is slower than normal. Curse or not, it affects the heart, and the best way to treat any heart problems is to stabilize its rhythm. The question is, how to manipulate the heart to beat normally? "Time for a bit of peacemaker." Electricity, of course.

From her cloak, Syani pulls out a flask with a shining yellow liquid. The half-vampire's not a gadgeteer, but she can definitely store electricity in liquid. Inside the flask is a distilled essence of electricity, gained from a lot of study and a lot of trials and errors, as well as a bit of magic. She pulled out a long slender needle-like object from her convenient cloak, pierced it inside the long flask from its cork so the liquid touched the needle, then pulls it back out. Now half of the needle has that odd yellow liquid stuck to it. Syani carefully bites the non-yellow part of the needle to hold it between her teeth as she prepares Alessa by pulling the girl's hands away from her chest.

"Hey, hey, I need you to cooperate," she said through her gritted teeth, "Quick painless surgery. Sorry I have to strip your top a bit." Time is of the essence, so Syani hastily tries to loosen Alessa's clothes. She doesn't need to pull her shirt off, since Syani only needs to see the middle of her chest, where her heart is, so the vampire merely pulls Alessa's shirt apart from the middle and lets it drape over each of her breasts to at least cover the poor girl. "Okay, this is gonna sting just a liiitle bit~"

Thank goodness she learnt about pressure points and have the entirety of the human organs memorized. With the needle in one hand, Syani leans over Alessa to search the exact spot where the needle could pierce through without harming her other organs. "Here..." She pressed the spot of Alessa's skin and pinched it a bit to make it red, so it would be easier for her to align her needle exactly how she wants it to be. "Okay, here goes. Ready? One, two...!" And with a nimble move of her hand, Syani deftly pierced the needle soundlessly into Alessa's chest, the tip of the needle barely stabbing her heart, grazing it and allowing the yellow liquid to touch her heart. Half a second after she pierced the needle, Syani pulls it back out smoothly and immediately pressed a thumb on the hole she made, magically closing back the puncture with an enchantment she whispered out.

As Syani expected, her liquid electricity acts just like a peacemaker to help control abnormal heart rhythms. If the heart's beating too fast then it'll help slowing it down, and if the heart's beating too slow then it'll help quicken it up. The electrical pulses prompted her heart to beat at a normal rate, as Syani could see by Alessa's jolted body and limbs tightening. "Temporary fix, but..." Just as Syani finished speaking that out, Alessa's body finally relaxes. She then turned to Evangeline with a worried smile. "Now its your turn."

The half-vampire siddled away from Alessa, giving Evangeline space to move towards her. "You should try calming her down. Convince her you would do no harm... I can only stabilize her heart rate but, if she's emotionally scared of you, then it's going to start all over again." Syani mustered up a supportive smile to her friend. "Prove to her that she needs to keep on living! Like I said about your human love, a human spirit is strong. So is their will. ...Make her fight death itself. Good luck."

[Evangeline]

Evangeline whom is always composed are now in a state of shock. The blood on her hand and faces now are giving her a flashback of her lost love on, Krieg. The blood isn’t the trigger, but rather the fact that Alessa being a human, who is innocent, dying in-front of her was the trigger of Evangeline painful memory. Adding the fact it is her fault too. It makes Evangeline stay still as she is holding this young girl on her arms. Her eyes are twitching as she struggles to grasp the situations. She must stay calm and keep herself in control if she needs to save this girl, but she needs time calm herself and she don’t have that time. When she felt like she was about to panic, a hand hold Evangeline’s shoulder firmly which breaking Evangeline of her panic trance. Syani is here. Evangeline never would have thought in asking for help most of the time back then, but now she has Syani by her side. She then turns her head around to face Syani. Evangeline is mesmerized to see that Syani’s expression calm yet serious. Her voices tones changes too. Just by that, Evangeline felt relief that she has someone to rely on, her precious partner. “Ah,” she let out a weak tone. “I’ll leave it to you, Syani,” Evangeline bows with a small smile as she gave Syani some space to help the girl.

While Evangeline would want to help Syani, but it is best for her to observe as she is calming herself in this situations. When she heard Syani mentions about ‘curse’, Evangeline frowned her eye brows in bemusement. She may not be expert it dark affinity magic, but she at least have knowledge about it, and that makes Evangeline convinced that this is one deadly curse to be casted on this poor young girl. She wanted to know why, but since it is a curse, Evangeline starts to do something to help the girl too while Syani are treating the girl in medical way. Evangeline will heal her, in magical method. She focus her vampiric power and also some magic enhancement on her eye, causing her normally red eyes turned glow-ish green as she initiates her ‘Scanning Eye’. She however does this without causing much attention in order to not distract Syani as she believe it is critical to not make her lost focus in treating a patient with heart illness. As she watched how Syani brilliantly treat Alessa’s in her own way, Evangeline observed them as she tries to analyze the magic circuit of the curse.

“You’ve got to be kidding me!” Evangeline thought as her faces that just recently calmed, turns furious. This is no ordinary type of curse. While deadly curse may not be ordinary itself, but this one takes it on higher level. This is a curse by a very powerful magic, whom had mastered the art of Plague magic. There is no way even for Evangeline herself would be able to break it. Never would she thought about feeling this inferior and useless as she can’t find a way to break this curse. The magic circuit are too complex and finely made so that to break it, you need another Master Plague Magician to do it. She somewhat curses herself that she turned down the art of plague magic from her father. Despite Evangeline’s bossy attitude, she is never the type to torture anyone, which Plague magic are often used for. What bothers her more is that why such curse would be inflicted to this poor girl.

Evangeline heads a dead end once again as she do not know how to dispel the curse. As she look with concerned on the young girl whom being treated by Syani, she wonder how could she have survived up to this day. She begged to be spared. If she had live this long, dying here would be a regretful death for this young girl. As she was thinking while still observing Syani now doing the important part of her medical method, Evangeline remembers something regarding of her power. She then touched the seal embalmed on her neck, a powerful seal that are casted to her by Clark to confine her power. It gave her new idea. She may not have been able to dispel the curse, but she may be able to reduce its effect, by sealing its limit. She then closes her eyes as she think deep about what would happen if it fails. Would it even work? As she trying to make up her mind, Syani then comes to her. She is done with her treatment, and now told Evangeline that it is her turn. Once again, Syani reminded Evangeline that the fact about human spirit is strong. To be able to fight death itself, that’s how she survived all this time. “Such a strong spirit,” Evangeline murmurs, finally letting out a smile after being in sour face for so long.

Evangeline then goes closer to Alessa whom are now at better condition than before. She is still conscious, and she startled when she look at Evangeline in the eye. “Looks like I scared you so much alright,” Evangeline thought as she then kneel down with her hand touches Alessa’s cheek gently. “I’m very sorry little one,” she said with a regretful tone as she looked at Alessa in the eye. She knows that she might not be forgiven, but she felt like she needs to say that. It took much of her pride to say that too. That’s how regretful she was with her action toward this young girl. “I’m one thirsty vampire and all. But I’ll keep my word. I will not let you die,” as she said that, her eyes glows red as she initiates her vampiric power.

She can see the girl are tensed when she does that, so she holds one of her hand, to tell her that she is not going to harm her. “Please trust in me. This might be too much to ask but, please. Let me save you,” she said that with such determined tone, it ensures and calms Alessa. As Alessa nodded, Evangeline felt huge relief and… touched. She felt touched that this human actually trust her after everything she had done to her. Then again, so is Krieg. She knew that not all human are kind, but she felt happy to actually met one of the same kind, like Krieg. “Thank you,” Evangeline close her eyes for a while before her power amplifies, distorting the winds around them as she starts to conjure powerful sealing spell. Focusing on her right hand, she then touches on Alessa’s left chest, which is the heart area, before releasing the spell. As the spell finished, so does the distorted wind and her vampiric power. The young girl are sleeping peacefully now. It worked.

Evangeline thought she would fail that because sealing such powerful curse might take a lot of her vampiric power. Despite that, she did not feel tired even when lot of her vampiric power was used in that spell. Perhaps this is because of the girl’s blood, give her more energy than she thought. “Great, now you just increase your blood’s worth,” Evangeline sighed as she thought of that. She is starting to felt attached to her blood. Evangeline rubs Alessa’s head whom seemingly are sleeping peacefully now after all that happened. “I felt like I can't just let you go without even getting to know you better. But whom am I to force you?” she murmurs. It pains her that she might leave this girl soon. She then noticed Syani whom are now coming closer to her. “I’m sorry my dear,” she let out of a sighed as she turns her head around to look at Syani. “I really gave you lot of trouble didn’t I?” she gave Syani a sad and awkward smile. This was supposed to be an enjoyable meal between her and Syani. She just had to be greedy in wanting this girl blood. “I feel so immature now,” she looks down.