It was cold, damp and dark. It reeked of blood and betrayl and dark magic. In the cool mist the streets were empty and the homes around the tiny gathering were locked and silent. No one even knew what was going on while they celebrated their families. His body language was that of slight begging while trying to hide the body that lay behind him. The man tried to touch his charge with a small smile of guilt laced with greed. To her, he looked twisted as his oath between them started to disappear. Her pale body fridged, but not from outside, but from the anger and disappointment she had of him.

"I do not believe you!" She shuddered at his touch and smacked his hand away then swung her body  so her back faced him. "Do you remember who I am? You may be immortal to them!" She twisted her body and pointed a finger to the human who just had their life taken from them, "But you are still mortal to me and I can take everything away from you!"

"My Lady," His deep voice purred, looking at his hand with slight disappointment, "I merely took what I needed for the price of his favor, a life for a life. This is what you taught me, yes?"

The woman froze for an instant, mulling over what he had said, then the already unusual cold summer night got colder as she drew on the air around her, freezing the ground underneath her feet and creating frost and ice where her feet fell on the cobblestone. They reflected the fog and clouds from above that turned darker and dangerous.

"A life for a life you say?" She turned to him with an eyebrow raised. The man got up from the ground and started to back away from her, tripping over the bloodless husk he left behind. "That is not what a god told two humans who took what what his, he had cursed them. You could've done the same, we are not supposed to dwell in the lives of humans like this! You were once human yourself!"

"My Lady," His slightly begging voice turned desprate as she towered over him, raising his hands over his face. Goosebumps ran over his hero-like body like a nightmare, "I do not wish to be human again..."

"Oh, of course you do not!" She laughed, her white glowing hair as bright as the moon that hung in the air, hidden above the clouds, started to lift as her bell-like laugh turned to dark and wicked. The blood that the man had drank eariler started to seep out of his body and around her hands, he screamed in pain. The scream echoed off the houses but it was not heard by anyone around them. She lifted the hands and watched the blood wiggle as she tainted it with her curse.

"No, you will not be human again, my retired champion." She spoke, "As you were plucked from one of the first and have been loyal until now. But you may know a dark hunger dark as your deed." Whispers curned around her as she spoke, "I call on the Vampire Goddess, the Lady upon the Moon, to lift this man up and turn him into one of yours."

The blood shot to the man who shouted for forgiveness. He groveled on the lifeless body but he was ignored. He felt another presence around them as the fog cleared and the clouds moved so the moon was in view of the dark ritual. He shuddered and fell quiet as he started quietly accepting his fate which he did not blame on himself.

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"I call upon the Dark Thirst!" She shouted, lifting her hands in the air while a strong was summoned, lifting her off the ground, her eyes glowing silver, her full moon mark between her breasts glowed through her silk dress. "You shall know a hunger which you cannot sate," She snapped her words at him like a wolf to it's prey, "You will only be strong when you are full, weak when you are not. But you, my darling, will never know the burn of the sun... But those you turn will, your kin and your decendents. They will die when they are exposed. Let the Lady of the Moon hear my call! May she witness and seal this man's life! May this cursed blood of this oath-breaking guardian remind him who he will forever-more is!"

Lightening crashed down on the woman, flinging the blood to the guardian. It seeped through his skin like needles and changed him like a virus. The woman fell from her perch in the air and onto the cobblestone when she was hit and she had quickly recovered looking over her body. The full moon was blue and decorated.

He wiggled in pain, screamed as he started to bare fangs and his skin turned from a beauitful tan to a bleached white. He bleed tears as he clentched his torso and hissed until he stopped breathing. He looked at the woman who he thought had betrayed him. The witch! He growled and gave a weak lunge to what he thought was the witch.

The Goddess gave him a sour look at her newest charge as she tossed him away from her, "A cursed vampire, not a real one." She huffed in disappointment, "At least your handsome." She talked with the witch's mouth. "Maybe I shall still have you under my wing."

"You witch!" he shouted, grabbing for the cobblestone ground, "I shall kill all of your followers and then you! I shall never be under what ever wing you'll have me under! I will be me again... I will... kill... you..."

The Lady raised her eyebrows, amused, "The woman who cursed you is dead, but since you decided to turn me away I won't give you the chance for help again. You may eventually... one day be stronger than my vampires, but your will is going to be your downfall. When you decide to seek me out and be my champion, then I will offer you mercy." She raised her hand and elevated him above the cobble stone to the air. "I won't be waiting." She flung him into a well and sealed him off from the outside. "When the time is right, I'll let you out, until then..." She huffed and pouted at the man, "Think about what you did." The Lady's spirit left the woman's body to go back to the moon.

While reaching to the border of space and the Earth, the Lady was slowed down and then stopped, only able to touch the possibility of space. She cried as she tried to pass the barrier and then after one final ludge she felt the teether to the Earth that wasn't there before. Soaring down wasn't hard, especially when you're a Goddess and when you're bored you do crazy things, but finding the Lunar Witch's spirit was slightly troublesome. After looking on the border of a forest filled with willows that bloomed stars instead of flowers the Goddess eventually found the witch. Her spirit had waited with a seductive smile that wasn't amusing the higher power.

"Oh," She giggled, "Did I do a double curse? I'm sorry, My Goddess, my only wish was for you to seal him and then you could depart. I guess you need some time to see your subjects grow and prosper as well."

"You shall hide me," the Goddess exclaimed, pointing a finger at the witch. "You shall never be free from me until I wake from false memories... But our time is not now." She gripped the witch's ghostly throat, "Let's go make you a new body, but you shall roam and learn new magic until then." 

The witch snarled but nodded her head. A life for a life then, I guess I should've seen this coming.