Eternal
For lack of anything better to do, I'm posting a one-shot slash story set in my "ShadowLegends" universe. Without reading "Shadowlegends" some of it might be a bit confusing, but it can probably stand alone. But since I'm betting only two people will read this, and they both read Shadowlegends, that probably won't be a problem.
Note: Aelan is a semi-main character of "ShadowLegends",and a leader of his people.
"Kaian"is one of the words for "vampire" in my story.
I'm pretty sure "Eisei Des Demo Yume" means "Eternity is but dream" I was going for, "Eternity is but a
dream" but there is no "A" in Japanese. I also only started taking it, so I probably did something wrong.
Warnings - Slash and character death. A bit depressing, I suppose.
"Sweet deams, my love
May they wander naught
To darker notions
Of horror and doom
But may they dwell always
In brighter places
Of blissful serenity
And may they be
Sweet but short
So I may see you soon"
- Written by Zai to Aelan, in the year 1672
Eternal - "Eisei Des Demo Yume"
A vampire's love for their childe burns eternally. No matter how the childe feels for their sire, the sire will always love them unconditionally. It has long been rumoured that should a childe ever forsake their sire, the sire would be doomed to eventual madness, borne of a broken heart. One such accounting was of a Sire, Aelan and his Childe, Zai....
This is their story.
In the village of Valeria , there once lived a thriving community of vampires; two such vampires were Aelan and Zai. The pair were sire and childe, and they held such love for one another that it even astounded the other vampires; Aelan had turned Zai when he was still young, and despite the centuries between then and the present, they remained together. The latter looked up to the former with pure adoration, and he never resented his maker for turning him, which was a common occurrence at first among a sire and their childe. Aelan of course adored Zai as well, as he had from the moment he laid eyes upon him. He knew as soon as he had spotted the boy in that bustling slave market that he could not let such a beautiful mortal remain so, and in the hands of such cruelty. The boy would die if he kept on walking by.
Thus, needless to say, it was shocking to each and every creature of the night, and not the least Aelan, when Zai turned around one day and professed to his sire that he wished nothing more than for him to die. The former was stunned, and it was merely seconds later that he became confused. The knife then materialised in his heart, as the Adonis Child begged for him, over and over without stop nor relent, to leave, or - and Zai spoke more earnestly on this - killed himself by striding in to dawn sun. Aelan, still bleeding from the patricidal wound, furiously attempted to reconcile with his childe, who refused him repeatedly. The older vampire professed his immeasurable love without a breath between his outpourings, but every vowel and noun on how he loved Zai fell on averted ears.
It was many years before Aelan ceased to announce his love; By that time, he truly believed that Zai despised him, and with that thought in mind, his sire finally left Valeria with a pledge to never return. He left with a heavy heart that had shattered into pieces tiny enough that a human woman could pass them through the eye of her daintiest needle. The first flickers of madness stirred in his mind, and before long the tendrils of insanity were creeping into his consciousness. He cared not, though, for all he could think about was the gaping hole of agony that Zai had left when he ripped himself out of his sire’s life. The knowledge that the too-beautiful boy did not return his love any longer….it forced him away, farther and farther from his home.
It was vampire legend that claimed the vampire Aalen to be seen walking an endless walk in search of his obliterated heart - but of course, without Zai, his hunt was futile and eternal. He found nothing despite that he wandered and stumbled until the madness seized him wholly.
He quickly became malicious, hopeless, and crazed. He murdered women, children, and men as though they were cattle; They died in rivers of blood and screams that made the ancient dead shudder in their graves. Some vampires believe that they have seen Aelan, even in the modern day. The stories say that he is still alone and very mindless, and that he will kill whatever dares to stumble across his path, as he ceaselessly ‘searches for his heart'. He never knew that Zai actually still loved him with every fibre of his immortal being; He had never stopped.
Zai, meanwhile... unbeknownst to everyone, a particularly ruthless pack of mercenary bounty hunters had cursed him to loathe his sire to the very depths of soul; none of his scorn and spite had been real, and after nearly a millennia the cruel spell began to grow weak. The talons it had dug into his mind began to fade and leave Zai devastated when he heard the horror of what he had done.
He launched himself out into the world in search of his only love. He hunted high and low, year after year, from the highest mountain to the deepest trench for Aelan, but always he found naught.
He never heard the rumours of the wandering vampire in his frantic looking and it did not transpire once to him that he had nearly crossed paths - indeed, a number of times - with his sire. It is all but impossible though, even for a vampire, to find someone who will not put down roots; Zai never found Aelan, and he came to assume that he was dead.
It was with a heart that was every bit as broken as the one Aelan carried that Zai returned home to Valeria, where he dropped a brand in the sitting room of the house he and his sire had once shared. He remained inside as the flames licked at the roof; those who lived in the village reported that they had heard someone scream, "Aelan, forgive me!" The house then erupted into a fiery ball in which Zai, whose very soul had become a shadow, was engulfed.
This is one of the greatest stories of tragedy for the Kaian people...for it is truth.