My Beautiful Enemy

Five Hundred Years Ago A young long black haired pink eyed vampire is held back by his grandmother he is crying, reaching out. The grip on his tightened and he yelped pain, but the young vampire’s pain was nothing as he watched  his small black furred black winged puppy wiggling in the arms of a blonde vampire, his uncle. “I am sorry I have the gift! So please! Please don’t hurt Zhi Ran! Mommy gave him to me! He’s all I have left of my parents please don’t throw my puppy off the ship!” The blond vampire shook his head, “You are so insistent on such nonsense, this dog is an assassin! Sent to kill you! We cannot allow it to live!“ the cute fluffy puppy continued to wiggle, trying to get back to his master, Si Fan knew that his uncle wouldn’t hurt him for talking to the puppy, but hurting his puppy was too much. His eyes widened as his puppy was tossed, yelping over the side of the ship, Shi Fan screamed in despair and his uncle picked him up and carried him back inside. Five hundred years later The outside of a large manor that sits on a hill over looking the ocean. a winding path leading up to the door past a large old black double gated courtyard. Deep within the corner of the bedroom of the master of the manor, sat a red and black coffin in the crypt of the manor. It opens slowly, a pale hand with black painted claws sliding the lid off. Long black hair cascades down slender shoulders, a shirtless male vampire lifts himself from his slumber, free hand not touching the lid still crossed against his chest.  He stood up from his tomb and exited the crypt, dressed in nothing but black leather pants. “Such a blistering night, it is time I returned home to China. Europe has run its course, and its blood, I do so miss my little dog.“ He lifts a human up from a cage set next to his coffin, attached to a chain, curly black hair falling into Shi Fan’s face. He leans down and sinks his glistening fangs into the neck of the squirming human.  Once her blood was drained until the last drop, the vampire let the white gown adorned female human fall to the ground, the last bits of her blood flowing out onto the crypt floor. The second human trapped in the cage glared at him as he stared at them blankly. “You’re a monster!” Shi Fan has several humans chained up and caged in his crypt, he looks at the one who spoke, short brown hair, white gown dressed the same as the rest. He smiles a bloody smile all fangs and charm, he struts over to grasp the human by his chin. “I do not, recall saying you were allowed to speak. You and the others are my captives, you will remain as such until I see fit to feed from you, then, you will be nothing worms in the ground. As such, get ready to be packed up, we are leaving for the first ship back to China tonight.“ A red haired being entered the crypt, translucent red scales lining his skin, his purple eyes scanned the room. This was Shi Fan’s man servant, when he was kicked out of the clan around two hundred years ago after his powers came to full bloom, he took some of his staff with him when he fled. He could hear the other kneel before the pink eyed vampire turned to look at him. “My lord Shi Fan, the carriage is ready“ He Jiao-long said this as he slowly stood up when Shi Fan smiled at him and nodded to get him to do so. “My lord you have a bit of blood on your shirt” “Thank you, Good work He Jiao-long, prepare the horses, unless you wish to carry us there?“ Shi Fan said this as he turned to the other human in the face after feeling them reach out to try to punch him.  Jiao-long bowed once more and nodded, “ Of course, it would be my honor my lord.“ He watched his lord hold up a finger to grab the human by the chin with his free hand and slam a fist into their gut. The vampire grabs a whip off the wall and unchains his human slaves. He stared as his lord mumbled, whipping them to line them up to be placed into storage units. Jiao-long packs them up and helps his vampire lord upstairs in silence.  Once up the spiral staircase several foo dog demons run into the room, tripping over each other. They change to their humanoid forms of seven identical fluffy white haired floppy earred butlers dressed in suits. Shi Fan recalled he found these seven dogs outside this small manor when he arrived here on Jiao-long’s back. He nursed them back to health and raised them to adulthood and they served him ever since. “Get ready to pack up, we are leaving for China, Wo Li, Lian, Lin, Liling, Lingling, Lai Lai and La La.” The quintuplets bowed and changed to their dog forms, barking and running off to clean out every room in the manor. Lin had a red streak over his ear, Li a green streak, Liling a blue streak, Lai Lai a grey streak, Lian a yellow streak, Lingling a purple streak and La La a pink streak, they each wore collars with their names on the rose shaped tags. Shi Fan sat down in front of his vanity, brushing his hair before Jiao-long took the brush and brushed his hair for him. “My lord, you came here for your opera career, have things not been working out? Ever since you were kicked out of the royal family you have been dodgy. Perhaps if we spent time using your Wolf Anima ability?” Shi Fan snorted in contempt “Europe is meaningless to me now, after he left me, I no longer have any desire to remain here, don’t talk about my Anima ability! It’s what got me removed from the family, grandfather said I was cursed, uncle said I had no place in the family. Calling me a werewolf lover, I only ever bonded with one werewolf, my puppy, but the cruel things my former lover said about the werewolf pack that I call my future companions are not to be spoken about in such a manner.” Jia-long nodded and frowned, “Leonardo was always an insensitive man, I understand your choices my lord, they were admirable.” Shi Fan lifts up a portrait of a blonde haired man, dressed in a green suit as well as a picture of an adorable black furred puppy. “Leonardo, such a foul man, he left me for some french whore.“ He threw the portrait of Leonardo against the wall next to the vanity  he stood up once his hair was finished being brushed.“Come! let’s just get packed and gone before the sun rises!“ Jiao-long nodded and bowed, fist against his chest, the packing was taken care of quickly. Soon enough it was finished and the dragon butler came over. “We are ready to move my lord“ Jia-long said this as he bowed out of the room.  “Good. Boys.” Shi Fan said this as his quintuplet dogs ran into the room excitedly. He looked his servants over and held his arms out, Liu and Lai Lai came over to measure him. They measured him for new robes inch by inch. Once this was finished they then carried him to the baths, they bathed him and dressed him in a three layers of purple and black robes.“This will be the easiest to move in while we travel, He Jiao-Long, change and lets go.” The dragon returned to the crypt and quickly packed the humans and every other item Shi Fan owned into the massive house sized carriage. The foo dogs in humanoid form quickly worked and  attached him to a harness attached to the carriage and he rose into the sky. The foo dogs flew alongside the carriage after Shi Fan got in. Shi Fan adjusted his facial piercings and let his hair fall over his own eyes as he looked out the window of the carriage. The wheels were on fire, Jiao-long flying through the night sky,  foo dogs flying above the carriage. Some down below and on the sides of it some twirling in a beautiful display as they swooped through the clouds. Shi Fan clicked his tongue happily and they nuzzled against the sides of the carriage affectionately. “My sweet boys, my big boys, whose mommy’s good boys?” Lin, recognizable by the red streak over his left ear, licked the window where Fai Bao’s face was in a long slobbery stroke. Another one of his servants was settled in the carriage next to him, a winged lion called Dao. He was writing on a scroll with a feather pen, he was in human form, his shaggy black mane hanging in his face, dressed in a blue and white robe.“My lord we are headed to the ships and will be there within two days time flying this speed and avoiding human contact.“ Shi Fan smiled and nodded, “Thank you Er Dao, I appreciate your tactfulness.“ Dao grinned and spoke once more “Anything for your well being my lord Ah Shi Fan, but I must ask, on that note, are you certain it is wise to hide  your fully developed Wolf Anima ability to the clan?” Shi Fan shook his head, “When we arrive back to my estate in China, I want to contact the Gumiho, my nine tailed fox servant has been without me for far too long. Also, I do not want my family to carry on with their unfounded hatred of me, everyone in the clan has a special power and Wolf Anima is mine. I can speak with the wolves the way they cannot and it must just be some horrible coincidence that they exiled me two hundred years ago.” Dao frowned and wrote down everything he heard as he was required to. “I understand my lord,  it is not any fault of your own you were born with the Wolf Anima. As such, the Gumiho being contacted has been noted my lord. Also, my lord, the Aqrabuamelu, Ninurta has asked for an audience with you when we get back to the estate in China.“ Shi Fan rolled his eyes, thinking about the half man half scorpion creature that’d been hounding him since he visited the middle east for an opera performance. “I do not wish to speak with him, he’s always been annoying me, I only spoke to him once at a dinner party in Arabia and he’s been hooked on me ever since,.I must focus on convincing my family I no longer possess the Wolf Anima not entertaining a bug.” Er Dao nodded and looked back at his scrolls, “As you wish. I will alert him as soon as possible.” The carriage continued its flight, the suns rays being combated by the foo dogs blocking the sunlight from entering their master’s carriage by covering it with their bodies. When night finally hit once more, what looked like a wounded bat came falling through the sky.  Shi Fan’s  eyes widened as he watched the mass fall from the sky, it was dressed in a yukata, long black hair like a ragged flag flowing through the sky on its descent. “Liling! Catch him! Hurry up!” Liling dove down and caught the falling man, catching the sword at his hip before it fell away from the body. Shi Fan sighed as he waved them back inside the carriage, “Liu, Lai Lai, we are almost there, scan the area for anything else related to this man.“ The dogs set the fallen samurai inside the carriage, Shi Fan raised an eyebrow and looked at the mystery man. His nose twitched and he sniffed the blood covering the other. “My god, this is no simple creature...He is a werewolf!” The vampire spoke this quietly as he said this and sighed, leaning back into the seat and ran a hand through his own hair. “Why must fate do these things to me? I simply do not understand why the gods see fit to do such things...can you tell me Dao?” The lion demon shook his head, “I am afraid I do not have the answer to that my lord, but what I can say is that I do not think it would be wise for us to return to the palace with a wounded werewolf in our care.” Dao gave a nervous smile as he spoke and he watched his lord twitch in realization. the yukata dressed man was adjusted in his place inside the carriage, slumped over against the window, Dao made room for him as he spoke to his lord, “we should be able to land soon, we can look him over for any injuries once we do so, is that acceptable?“ Shi Fan nodded at that “yes, whatever he has been through…I cannot imagine it must have been absolutely, it must have been...” The yukata was soaked in blood, the male was covered in dirt from head to toe and various bruises and burn marks littered his chest, neck and face which was open and visible from his tattered blue yukata. “It must have been absolutely horrific“ The carriage continued on, flying until they reached the mainland of China and like flaming clouds did the vampire and his servants descend from the sky. Shi Fan  insisted on personally tending to the injured werewolf samurai in the carriage. Once they landed in the depths of the night Liu and Lan helped Lingling carry the various items into the grounds of the manor that Shi Fan stayed in when pleading his case with his family. He had been rejected every time but they did allow him to keep his lordship over the area he lived in here.  His servants landed and changed to their vampire forms, some helping with the carriage itself and many of them assisted him in bringing in his objects from the large carriage. Jiao-long reverted to his vampire form and helped lifting the heavier objects.  Dao walked over to Shi Fan who was instructing people on the carrying of certain objects, “I can determine that though you went to Europe to further your opera career, the chance to join the country of France’s vampire population to our own through marriage was a good idea at the time. You Wolf Anima ability would have been overlooked, the family may have accepted you back.”  Shi Fan watched the statues and the storage units containing his traveling food be taken out of the carriage. He finally spoke after a long pause, “My dear Er  Dao, Leonardo was a charmer, made me think he wanted me to be his bride, to unite our people, how foolish of me to think him anything other than a snake. Nothing could have made me marry him after what he said about the werewolves. I may be trying to earn the favor of my family once more, but I will never allow anyone to speak of them like that. That pack raised me after my parents died, allowed me to return the palace so long as I spoke nothing of our contact, gifted me one of their own as a pet even.” Once the storage units had gone past he walked back into the carriage, picking up the shorter male Shi Fan smiled and took him into the manor. He fell a few times, stumbling to carry the shorter yet heavier male. Shi Fan practically fell up the stairs getting him to a room, tripping several times as he struggled. Shi Fan grunted as he spoke, “Bring me bandages and new robes! Quickly you lot!” All throughout the night he tended the passed out samurai’s wounds. He spent a long time  cleaning the dirt off of him he then moved getting him into a change of robes before sending his yukata to be cleaned and mended with Lai Lai and Lian. The werewolf striped and moved, opening his eyes slowly, “where am I?“ his voice was quiet and Shi Fan looked over at him. The werewolf samurai fully awoke a few moments later, red slit pupil eyes being revealed as he did so. Shi Fan spoke as he smiled and stood up from the chair he was sitting in. He walked over and sat down next to the bed, “You are in the Manor Of The Ah Moon Vampire Clan, I am The Lord Noble Ah Shi Fan we caught you as you fell through the sky, do you have a name?“ The werewolf grinned smugly, “My name is not important, but since you saved me, I will tell you, my name is Fa Han Ri, thank you for your kindness. Though I can smell it, you are a vampire.” They stared at each other deeply for a moment before the beautiful vampire lord finally looked away. “And you are a werewolf, and we are mortal enemies. A bath has been prepared for you, perhaps you can tell me why you were falling from the sky then?“ The wolf chuckled,”Perhaps I shall, my beautiful enemy, though it is not a terribly interesting story,  I assure you.“ To Be continued.