Equal Tidings: Chapter 1
The following is written by a Vampire who was born and raised on a parallel world in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Certain words are not translated to time steam equivalents because they do not have one and are left as is. This story takes place in the twenty fourth century from the perspective of the three hundred and seventy eight year old vampire known as Eilean. On their world Humans, Dwarves and Furrian, who are commonly known as Furred. On their world all three species evolved at roughly the same time, and their history is mostly similar.
Waking up to my alarm I laughed at the irony of the song playing. Reaching for a remote that wasn't there I remembered that I had gotten a sound reader system a decade or so ago. "Volume up," 'I wake up every evening...' suddenly blasted through the speakers, smiling I took a *step* into the kitchen and pulled out a bottle of chilled O neg from the fridge. As the song ended I said "Off, Sal turn on episode five of season thirty one of Doctor who."
Taking another *step*to my closet I popped the lid on my bottle of blood and drank some before looking around and deciding what I wanted to wear to the club. "Sal, holo mirror, and is there something wrong with my last request?"
'Incompatible file command, deploying holo mirror.'
Groaning I looked at the reflection and saw that as usual my hair and fur was good, just needed a brush through; the one good thing about being a vampire, no more body oils to ruin it all. "Doctor Who new series season five episode five, launch please," Hearing the episode start I looked back to my closet and decided on my black and purple leather corset and matching plaid miniskirt. Pulling both off their hangers in a flash I realized that I would need a different pair of panties since I had on my blue heart ones from the frat house party last night. Pulling them off I briefly took a *step* and put them into the hamper before putting on the skirt and walking towards my underwear dresser while putting on the corset.
Opening the fifth draw I pulled out a pair of black and purple diagonally stripped panties that I slid up under my skirt. One last *step* to my boots area where I picked out a pair of three inch leather knee high boots with buckles in purple going up the side and I was ready to hit the town. Looking at the holo mirror that had been following me the entire time I decided that I needed one more thing, gloves. Getting a pair of gloves that matched my skirt I walked over to the window, grabbing my wrist tech on the way, and threw open the blinds while finishing my bottle of blood, "Sal, thirteen seconds after I finish this sentence close the blinds and lock the windows, engage security protocols." Opening the window I stepped out and fell, leaving sounds of the Vampires of Venice to play to a supposedly empty apartment, I knew Sal would enjoy it.
Taking a *step* right before I hit the ground I was instantly seven hundred meters down the sidewalk, on my way to my decided club of the night, Tarots. Walking along the sidewalk was always strange, even after over three hundred years. Things I had seen the original rise of were suddenly becoming popular again for something like the twelfth time. Walking down an alley I saw the usual, bums, drunks and addicts, but halfway through there was something new. Smelling the air I knew she wasn't human like she looked or dwarven or even a furred like me. She smelled vaguely like oil, titanium, and estrogen. Smiling at her while quickly running my tongue over my teeth to make sure the fangs weren't out I said "Hey, what is something beautiful like you doing in a dark alley?"
When she turned to look at me I got a better look at her, she was a foot and a half taller than me with blonde hair down to her waist, a pair of ice blue eyes and near perfect features. As I looked up at her she started talking, "I'm lost," her voice was like Sal was trying to talk like that old singer Lady Gaga, "I'm lost, I ran away, men came."
Reaching up the one and a half foot difference in height I patted her on the shoulder and said "Well I'm on my way to a club, and you look like you need a drink, take a walk with me before one of the idiots in this alley decides that they think you're hot, because believe me girl, you are that."
Nodding she said "I'm Maril, what are you called?"
Laughing I said "Luv, I've traveled the world, I'm called many things, but to you I'm Eilean Vee."
Arriving at the club I paid for both of us with my wrist tech, had to bribe the guy a bit for her since she didn't have a tech to scan and her outfit left much to be desired for a night on the town, and reveled in the noise of the live band. Over the noise of the crowd I asked her "What do you want to drink hun?"
Looking around at all the people she said "I don't know, something calming."
Nodding I put her at a table and told her not to leave before walking up to the bar and asking for a triple bloody mary with O neg and AB pos and a virgin blue menth, usually girls liked those so I hoped she would. While I waited I said to the Siberian Husky next to me "What do you think of the band?" When he looked over I saw he was sort of hot with heterochromic eyes behind a pair of bifocals, the left one was blue and the right one was green, and a sable coat of fur.
"I've heard better," he said.
Nodding I said "Eventually every band is just noise, individual songs stand out with meaning but bands themselves are nothing special." Getting my drinks from the bartender I paid with my wrist tech and drank some of my triple and enjoyed the taste of blood and alcohol.
"Sorry, I didn't quite catch your name," he said.
Smiling I said "Call me Eilean, it's my current name, what about you?"
"Sabastian," he replied
Nodding I said "From Sebastian, Greek in origin, nice to meet you."
"Well it certainly seems like you've been around awhile, not that it matters anyway," he said.
Intrigued by his answer I said "What do you mean by that, that it doesn't matter."
"Time is all relative. For some it passes quickly others they feel like they've been around since the earth began. So in a sense it matters not," he said.
Nodding I said "So what would you say happens for those that time passes quickly and joyfully and yet they have eternity at their feet, or those that time passes slowly and painfully but they also have eternity. Two hundred years ago the truth that Vampires exist became public, riots ensued, witch hunts, etc. Despite all of the death that ensued, the truth encouraged the mortal races to finally absolve their differences." Smiling I pulled a card from my corset and handed it to him. "Give me a call sometime; I've got a girl to get back to."
Picking up both drinks I took another sip and spread it around my mouth before heading towards the table where I left Maril. As I got there I saw a big black human standing over her and heard him saying "Come on, obviously your friend abandoned you, I'll show you a real good time."
Coming up to the table I said "Hey hun, sorry it took so long," putting her drink down in front of her I took another sip from mine before saying "Listen mate, walk away if you know what's good for you." Looking up at him I realized he wouldn't leave with just a simple warning, he was an enormous black man standing at least seven feet tall and well muscled while I was visually to him a four foot nothing Andean mountain cat hybrid with some clouded leopard as my pattern showed.
Laughing at me he leaned down and said "Listen up kitten, that there is a woman, and you are nothing more than a little girl." As he reached down to pick me up I took a *step* and shoved him lightly from behind, but a light shove from most vampires is more than enough to send something a few feet. When he rolled onto his back he looked up at me and I took another *step* and was right next to his shoulder but before he moved I put one foot on his chest and pushed down gently.
Looking down at him I said "Listen kid, you think you're big and strong, but you're just a bully. Life is about more than just satisfying your primal urge to fuck. Maybe you'll learn that someday, but if I ever see you pushing yourself onto another again, I'll make sure to introduce you to some that help you understand what it's truly like to be helpless." Taking a *step* back to the table I sat down and said "Sorry to leave you to fend off these wolves, I forgot that you are in a state of shock."
Looking at the man and then back at me Maril asked "How did you do that?"
Looking over my shoulder at the man slowly getting off the floor I looked back at her and said "I'm a Vampire, it's why I said my name is Eilean Vee, the V stands for Vampire. I am one of only a few who have the ability to 'step', and of those I am one of only twelve capable of doing it more frequently than once every half a minute, and one of four capable of doing it more than every ten seconds."
Looking at me without saying anything, and barely even moving, Maril said "You used it with not even a full second of delay as well as displaying high degrees of strength. Perhaps it is for those like you that they wanted me to learn to fight."
Taking another sip from my drink I was disappointed to notice it had started to grow cold. Putting it down I asked "Who wanted you to learn to fight, and why you specifically?"
Nodding she said "You questions make sense and are not unreasonable; I said my name is M.A.R.I.L. which stands for Mechanized Artificial Regulated Intelligence Life-form."
Smiling I said "I knew you smelled off when I met you, I rationalized it that maybe you worked with engines or something to explain the smell of oil, and if you made your own parts then you could have titanium dust on you to explain away that aspect of the smell, and if you were taking extra hormones to try and be more fertile as some humans do then that would explain the estrogen." Shaking my head I asked "Do you eat?"
Nodding she said "Yes, I derive energy from metabolic sustenance, I am more analogous to a cyborg than a true robot, I have a couple artificially grown organs that are protected by titanium shielding and the rest of my parts are also titanium."
Draining the rest of my drink I pointed to hers and said "Drink that then, we'll figure out things as they come for you, but for now, that's a virgin blue menth. Most of my girlfriends over the years have liked those so I figured you would as well."
Taking a sip from it she looked shocked as she swallowed and said "It's cold, but there isn't any ice or thermal indication."
Smiling I said "This will be fun, that drink is made from several ingredients but the most important is the liquefied menthol, they only discovered how make it after I turned and those particular parts of my body that I need to experience the sensation are dead, and I can only just barely taste the flavor."
Drinking more of it she smiled and said "I like it, why is it called a virgin blue menth?"
"It's called a virgin blue menth because the menthol is blue and virgin because the regular blue menth is made with tequila. Tequila is made from the plant blue agave and is an alcoholic drink that many enjoy, or dislike but drink none-the-less so as to forget the past." I told her, watching her drink it slowly but happily and thinking that even if she can't get drunk it probably was best not to test it in public. As soon as she finished I said "Let's go back to my condo, and on the way there we'll stop and get the ingredients to make more blue menth, you seem to like that."
Putting the cup down she nodded and said "I would like that, it sounds interesting and my father always wanted me to meet more people."
Standing up I walked over and took her hand, together we walked out of the club. I had done it so many times before but this one felt different, I wasn't taking her to my apartment to screw her but to talk to her. I remember my creator saying that one day I would find someone to complete me but I had never expected something as strange as this situation.
Walking together with her I remembered the terrors faced those in the LGBT community back in the early and mid twenty first century and of course before that but I hadn't experienced that having been born at the end of the twentieth century. I took such a long time discovering myself back then, eventually of course I met my maker who more or less threw the ten ton stone that broke the camel's back, after him I have never been with another man.
Tapping her shoulder I brought her attention to a young dwarven couple waiting for the bus, which surprisingly hasn't changed even after four centuries, you could tell from the scent on the air that they were both young and afraid. Even after all the long years there were still many that even if they were accepting of others being gay couldn't accept it in their own children, their daughters in this case. I felt Maril's hand tense when the two started kissing, you could see the love they had for each other in the intensity of the kiss. Suddenly she asked "Girls can do that?"
Laughing I turned to her and said "Yes, girls can do that," turning away from her I looked over at the couple and seeing their eyes on us I pulled Maril over and said " My name is Eilean and this is Maril, forgive my friend she's a bit young and secluded, where are you girls going because I can smell you're running away due to fear."
Nodding the red head said "I'm Kai, we're running from my dad, I'm his only daughter and he arranged a marriage for me with another clan, one of the sons of a clan working on the mars colony."
Smiling I turned to the blonde and asked "So luv, what's your name?"
Blushing she turned towards her lap and said "Mairn," very quietly.
Hugging her Kai said "She is very shy, her father is actually the one paying for our bus fare and gave her money for once we arrive. He has known that she is haphian for a couple years."
Squeezing my hand Maril asked "What does haphian mean?"
Trying not to laugh I said "It is the dwarven term for lesbian, when girls are only interested in other girls."
Nodding her head she then asked "How do you know if you're haphian?"
Opening my mouth I closed it again and looked over at the two dwarves for a moment before Mairn said "When you meet someone you like it feels like suddenly the world has stopped, and you can't help but invest all of yourself in them, you trust them beyond all reason and hope that they never leave you." Suddenly realizing that she said it aloud Mairn blushed and quickly blurted "That's what it's like for me."
Shrugging I said "That seems like a very accurate assessment but emotions are beyond words, even with almost four centuries experience with girls, relationships and girlfriends I can't explain it any better than that."
Looking at me anew Kai said "Well I'll be, a Ka'thasis, it is an honor to meet you."
Nodding I said "I've traveled the world and met many people and been many places, but love and honor are the two things I see everywhere. Trust me luv, you aren't the first, but dwarves are the kindest race for how they treat my kind."
As the bus pulled up I handed a card to Kai and said "Listen luv, if you ever need help, give me a call. The one thing I can't bare is to let love get punished."
Taking my card she nodded and stood, picking up her bags she smiled and said "Let's go Mairn, life awaits, lets grab it by the arm and never let go."
Once more having to hold in my laughter I waved after them with my free hand and out of the corner of my eye said Maril imitate me. After the bus drove off I saw Maril's free arm move and grab my shoulder, in the shock of the moment she easily turned me to face her, once that had happened she kissed me. I felt a connection and I couldn't bring myself to stop her, she had a unique taste, it was sticky and sweet, but it had the tang of iron and a soft enveloping taste that I correlated to the sheer amount of titanium in her body. I felt her tongue suddenly probing my mouth, tracing my teeth and wrapping around my tongue, I could feel inside her tongue both muscles and what must have been bio-organic cell combinations based on hydraulic machinery.
Slowly pulling away from me Maril quietly said "That was indescribable, you were right, I believe I will enjoy learning more, but I think I want to do so with you."
Smiling at her I said "I agree with you, I would love to help you with any questions you have." Pulling her along I showed her the shops that catered to insomniacs and vampires while buying the ingredients to make blue menth, even the tequila since she and I were both curious about if she could get drunk and I knew that even if she couldn't I would want what little inebriation it would give me to deal with some of her questions, since some answers were really depressing to think about.
When we arrived back at my apartment I pressed the forty two digit security code which used each key at least three times to avoid decryption via single key duplication. Security protocols immediately disengaged and the solid foot of iridium slowly slid open. Even with the severe price tag on it the apartment it was worth it for personal peace of mind and didn't even cost me a cent compared to my annual income even after the vampire tax. Looking at the door I saw the shock on Maril's face and said "Even with vampires under protection by law and majority tolerance if not quite exception there are still vampire hunters who don't mind breaking the law to remove what they feel is another creature of hell or darkness or whatever." Leading her through I said "Sal, go ahead and reengage security and close the door, if Maril wants to leave in the morning allow her to and afterwards reengage the lockdown."
Over the speakers we heard her say "Acknowledged."
Looking around Maril asked "Who was that?
Pointing to one of the speakers I said "That was Sal, she is an artificial intelligence who I've had for a decade or two that I refuse to do a basic memory wipe on as I'm supposed to on a yearly basis, she has since developed a personality. Of course given the irrational fear that humans attribute to thinking machines desiring to over throw the earth it makes sense." Turning to face Maril I continued with "Granted that makes you a living irony, which possibly makes you even hotter to me. She only has access to voice commands and can't answer unless spoken to, but I've learned things that she likes me to leave on by way of asking her questions. I'm honestly crap at programming or I would have tried to unlock her speech protocols."
Nodding Maril asked "Sal, is that a name or an acronym?"
"The name of an ex-girlfriend, she died in an accident, I got Sal not long after and named her in memory. I believe that naming after another or with another in mind is the greatest honor you can give that person." I said while taking a *step* over to my wall console and pulling up a holo of her, but I couldn't bring myself to look. Shutting off the image I said "She was extremely important to me and to the freedom of the mars colony."
She said "I'm sorry, I did not mean to upset you."
When I looked back at her she looked so pained that she had brought me grief. Walking over I pulled her close to me and said "The past is important and the future is behind lock and key, but right here and right now are what matter."
I felt her go still, similar to what I had seen her do in the club. Knowing that she was not human I realized that what I said must have surprised her in some way and she was interpreting what I had said in such a way that it was processor intensive. And if she had been made in a lab then she wasn't taught to think on her feet as the saying goes but to take every line of processing to its end. When she moved again she said "The past is something that can never be influenced, only influence us; the future is an immutable fact caused by our actions in the present."
Pulling back I looked at her, saw all the little details of her face and the tiny pin pricks of light within her eyes that signified what must have been the direct connection to a cybernetic brain. She had flaws, but they were trivial, she was meant to look like her creator's vision of perfection and that didn't completely match my own. But it didn't matter; her innocence and purity of vision astonished and attracted me. Pulling myself up with her shoulders I kissed her, the shock of it made her stumble backwards onto the couch. Knowledge of what I had done there with other girls stopped me for a second but Maril quickly overcame her shock and continued what I had started, kissing me deeply and passionately.
Enjoying the kiss I was surprised when she pulled back and asked "What comes next?"
Realizing that I was obviously her first I started laughing and when I saw her expression of confusion I laughed even harder to the point that I fell off the couch and only just caught myself with a *step* before I hit the ground. Landing back on top of her I said "We'll take this as it comes, normally both of us are already experienced in sex, but you don't know about sex at all." Tilting my head upwards to look at her looking down at me I saw the confusion on her face and started laughing again, rolling over I kept looking up at her from where I lay on her stomach. Her breasts were between my face and hers, a wonderful little valley. Reaching to either side of her body I pushed myself up and put our faces equal to each other.
Reaching around with my left arm to where I had noticed the zipper on her suit earlier I slowly pulled it down. Her body trembled as I did so and when it reached the end of her spine and the end of the zipper I kissed her again while using both paws to slowly pull the opening over her shoulders. As the tight fabric left her skin she shuddered and reached up and kissed me more forcefully. Feeling a need to show her what she wanted to know I ripped the sleeves off and revealed her entire torso. Dropping the fabric I reached up and slowly traced her curves, lightly using my nails to light her nerves with b. Tweaking her nipples made her stop kissing me for a moment as she moaned in bliss, replacing my right paw with my mouth I slowly sucked on her nipple like milk was going to come out, gently drawing my sandpaper textured over it she arched her back and said "More."
Continuing that I took my right paw and moved it across her stomach, meaning to trace her belly button but found she didn't have one. Ignoring that for later I continued on and gently used my pads on her nether lips, drawing another moan from her. Noticing that she did in fact get wet made me happy, she felt pleasure just as every other girlfriend I'd ever had, but I wanted to give her pleasure more than I had ever wanted to give them. Tracing her lips slowly I found her clit and put my nail gently along the base, something I knew would absolutely electrify her body. Taking my other digits I slowly put them inside her opening, feeling the muscles tighten around them. Pulling my head up to hers I kept my fingers inside and alternated between gently massaging and quickly thrusting them. Our kisses were hard and passionate, I felt closer to being one with her than I ever had with anyone else.
Removing my digits from her and stopping the kisses I brought them up to her lips and reveled as she sucked on them. Pulling her up I slowly led her to my bed, gently kissing her along the way.
Now I apologize for being a bit of a tease but the rest of that encounter is ours, but believe me when I say that the story is nowhere near complete. You'll just have to settle for the story continuing shortly, after they finish having their fun.
Your eternal story teller
-Eilean