queenoflogs | There are two types of human beings in this world: the divine, and the demonic.

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There are two types of human beings in this world: the divine, and the demonic.

Characters: Akiha Tohno and Katina Tarask
Date: 1/30
Summary: Akiha's willpower finally breaks and she inverts... on an unsuspecting soldier.
Warnings: violence, blood, and a forced kiss (no death!)

The days had begun to wear on Akiha, straining the limits of her tremendous amount of willpower. Too much had happened recently, starting with her discovery of what provided the blood in the Lake that she'd been sating her bloodlust with. She'd stopped drinking all together, not even partaking of the freely offered blood of her magician. Then Kohaku had tried to take her own life and Akiha had to divulge secrets to her maid she hadn't wanted to. But Akiha was tired of the lies. She was just... tired. And her blood stirred.

Encountering the supposed 'Queen of Demons' several days earlier had her blood running hot. She could feel her inversion impulse beating against the back of her head, pounding in her chest. Akiha should be in her mansion, should be taking heat and blood from Kris, and calming down. She should, but she was stubborn. She hated her Tohno blood and resisted it. Yes, it was her pride causing this...

She wandered the Gardens, restlessly, as she was moving more on instinct than on intellect right then until she came upon a towering mechanical creation. Standing in its shadow, Akiha looked up at Katina's 'doll' and sneered. What a worthless waste of energy for something that would never work. What was so special about it that the lieutenant had dedicated so much time to it?

Without hesitation, Akiha climbed up on the thing. Perhaps she would understand the point of having it here if she got a closer look. In reality, she knew she shouldn't be touching it, much less climbing on it, given it belonged to Katina. There was no love lost between them, but she ignored the internal warning to avoid this place.

But maybe part of her just wanted the confrontation that would come from this...

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The way Katina stuttered and fought to keep herself in control was sweet, sweet ambrosia to the demon. She chuckled again - low, dark and amused - and took the time to gently brush the hair out of Katina's face and then ran her nails down the side of her neck. Such a soft touch contrasting with the grip she had on the other woman's wrist. Just a bit of pressure and she could slit the length of her neck if she wanted...

"Yes... Delicious. Such emotion, you have. I'm sure you're a fine vintage indeed," she said, eyes drifting down over what she could see of Katina. "I am AKIHA," she said, saying the name with a slight difference in inflection than any other time the girl's name was said. Those blue eyes snapped back up to lock on Katina. "I am her... she is me." A soft snort as condescension dripped from her next few words. "Or she would be if she wouldn't fight me so much."

Now her laughter was sharper. "I cannot tell you how irritating it is to be that repressed child day in and day out, denying her urges and the call of her blood. It's so much more freeing to be what I was born to be. And you... I just could not wait any longer for you."

Katina knew, both consciously and deep down inside, what those nails could do, practically talons with the kind of strength AKIHA had. It was as controlling as the powerful grip on her wrist - everything about AKIHA was power, and she sure as hell had control of the situation. If she was lucky, Katina thought, maybe this demon wouldn't kill her, or maim her, or... a lot of things.

Despite her fear, she locked eyes with AKIHA, still exercising her bravado. "So you're... like the real her. Or part of the real... Akiha. For some reason or another, she holds your half of herself back... so what the hell are the two of you then?" Maybe she should just be trying to stay alive. She could ask Akiha later... maybe.

"I am what she is when she stops pretending to be human, stops caring about things like order and rules and restraint," AKIHA replied, her nails gliding to Katina's throat and then down her chest. It was almost like she was going to touch her inappropriately, but stopped with her nails pressing in lightly over the pilot's heart. She could feel the woman's pulse, feel the life blood being pumped by it. A part of her wanted that blood now, but no... She wanted to play some more. Savor Katina's fear.

"Or how someone feels or the discipline drilled into her as a child so she would be able to hold me at bay. What you see, what you fear, is the impulse laden in her blood that refuses to be denied. I exist across the line that has always been drawn. If I have my way, that line would be erased completely. But it doesn't matter, my beautiful, succulent prey... the sands have covered it and now I have you."

If Katina wanted a better answer than that, she would have to ask Akiha when she was in control again. Her inversion impulse loved holding her superiority above the pilot.

Well, at least she's not being groped by a demon. Under different circumstances, she could take all of this talk like that instead, but it was far too obvious that she was dealing with something dangerous, someone fully capable of ending her life on a whim, at least at this range. Katina hated feeling helpless, but fear was still holding out as her dominant emotion.

Just like she'd said, she really, truly did not want to die. "S-so... a demon or whatever you are has me in her hands... I can't fight you and... I can't get away. What are you going to do to me?" Hopefully, it wasn't something like ripping out her heart or tearing out her windpipe or just leaving her to bleed out. If anything, those seemed far too concise, though nothing was stopping AKIHA from killing her slowly.

Where was help at a time like this?

"A Tohno," AKIHA corrected with a bit of an edge to her voice, emphasizing the importance. She wasn't just any demon. There were other demon families in Japan, but none of them were as powerful, as strong, as potent as the Tohno. And Akiha was the head of the Tohno family.

As for the question of what she was going to do to Katina... AKIHA leaned forward, her breath felt on Katina's skin, and languidly licked up the curve of the woman's jaw all the way to her ear. "I'm going to feast upon you and have what I've been denied for weeks."

She the pulled her head back and gave a sadistic smile that gave hint to a certain sharpness in a pair of her teeth. "But I'm going to have a little fun. What joy is there in you just submitting to me? Oh, I admit, having you on your knees before me--" Is Katina quick and alert enough to not have her feet suddenly kicked out from under her as AKIHA pushes her down to do just as she said? "--begging for your life would be melodious, but you... you're not just any prey. You have fire in you. You have fear in you."

Whatever the hell a Tohno is. Obviously, there was pride in that voice. Akiha and AKIHA had pride in damn near everything about themselves.

That lick broke some of Katina's nerve. She cursed in her head as she actually shivered at the tongue moving across her skin, having to shut her eyes for a moment to regain her composure. There were those fangs, so close to her, and AKIHA could have easy just ripped into her neck, but instead she had to taunt Katina.

Normally, the pilot would be quick enough to react, perhaps even turn it around, but she was far too thrown off her game to have a chance. She let out a shout as she dropped to her knees, staring up at AKIHA, trying not to think too hard about what the girl might do to her. "Why... why don't you just take what you want and stop screwing around? C-Come on. You're... wasting my time."

Looking down at Katina as she knelt before her sent a fresh rush through AKIHA. There, the one who might be her most desired prey, was kneeling before her still trying to keep up her false face. It was such an invigorating sight. Yes... she'd gone too long, way, way too long, being a 'good girl' and pretending to be what he wanted as if that would ever bring him closer to loving her. But he wasn't here and her maid was locked away in the Clinic recovering. There was no reason to not take what she wanted, when she wanted it, to stretch her proverbial wings and embrace her blood for the time being.

She'd just forgotten how intoxicating this power was to hold in her hands and the madness she'd taken into herself when she killed her brother.

"Oh, I will, but I want a little sport in it. There is a certain... satisfaction in the chase." Her hair moved a bit more in the wind and the heat mirage increased enough to make it seem like the air was rippling. Her hand moved back up Katina's chest to trace the swath she'd licked. "Should you reach for a weapon, you will lose that hand. Permanently."

And then she let go of the pilot's wrist and sharply cut her nails down the length of Katina's neck to draw blood.

"Now run little rabbit~"

AKIHA wasn't exactly subtle about that. It was pretty blatantly obvious how she was basking in her control over the situation, twisting Katina to her whims. Like an athlete who'd been laid up with an injury finally recovering enough to get back out on the field, or at least that was the closest analogy Katina could sympathize with.

Katina was increasingly afraid as well, her tough front being chipped away at by the simple knowledge of how utterly powerless she was on her own. AKIHA could make her bleed whenever she liked, tell her that she'll take a hand off and make it a promise instead of a threat.

She stood slowly, taking a few steps back. "...wh-what if I decide to... not humor you. Just... stand here instead?" she responded slowly, having to muster courage just to get that far.

"Then I will be very disappointed in you."

There was a flatness to those words that was perhaps even more terrifying than anything else when combined with the change in AKIHA's expression. The sadistic pleasure faded away until her face reflected the inhuman iciness of her eyes.

She then brought her bloodstained fingers to her mouth, tongue snaking out to wrap around them and finally taste Katina's blood.

Shit. Whatever AKIHA was, it was utterly terrifying. Katina twitched as though she was going to run, almost unable to control her own body as everything in her head was screaming at her to try and get away. This creature wanted her blood, hopefully no more, but that was still unacceptable. If she ran, AKIHA might only take that. If she 'disappointed' AKIHA, though, who knows what a creature like that might do? She couldn't afford to test what happened to those who were killed here.

"Hope... I h-hope you're good and... w-warmed up..." Katina stammered, completely failing to taunt anything before turning and bolting as fast as her legs would carry her, blood pounding in her ears, senses ramped up their peak. Her fight-or-flight instincts had settled fully on flight.

"...you'll warm me up nicely," came the reply as Katina ran from the demon. The sadistic amusement, that superiority, had returned to her voice as AKIHA watched the pilot sprinted away from her as if a tiger with its tail on fire.

What an apt comparison.

Though, Katina was running, AKIHA walked in an unhurried pace after her. A few seconds later and something seemed to wrap about Katina's ankle and pull back, accompanied by a searing sensation, not unlike the kind of burning one would feel after grabbing dry ice.

And yet, when Katina looked at her ankle, she saw nothing about her ankle despite the feeling that something was.

Katina ran, with no intention of stopping. Her lungs and muscles wouldn't burn; the human body was amazing at trying to preserve itself in the face of incredible danger. It was all she could do though, and she knew AKIHA would catch her, giving in to her fear only in the hopes that she might live through whatever AKIHA had planned for her.

As recklessly as she was running, there was no compensating when something tugged at her ankle, sending her flailing to the ground. Her ankle slammed into a stone, tearing open a gash, but the shout that escaped Katina was surprise and fear, the pain going unnoticed in the face of being grabbed and tripped by a burning nothingness. "Fuck... fuck fuck fuck..."

"My, my, you're bleeding already... and not by my hand."

There was a mocking quality to AKIHA's voice as she continued to steadily close the distance between herself and Katina. The grappling, burning sensation seemed to slip away, leaving the pilot with her own pain, as the demon approached.

"And such language... Am I going to have to wash your mouth out with soap?"

All that goading Katina to run, and she went own like this. In an instant, she went from a fearful adrenaline rush to her legs feeling like jelly, unable to lift her to try and make another break for it. She rolled over, looking up at the demon with fear plainly evident in her eyes.

This was it, she was caught, AKIHA would do whatever she wanted to Katina. She was already bracing herself, or trying to brace herself, for pain, for torture, for taunting, maybe for death. It didn't matter what she said or did. "Akiha! A-a-are you in there?! Come on, please, I know we've... we've had our differences, but I know you don't want this!" Begging was almost physically painful for her, but if it was her last line of defense against a monster she'd damn well take it.

AKIHA came to a stop over Katina like a Harbinger of Death as her long vermilion hair moved about her almost as if it was alive. The chase had indeed been entertaining, but not nearly as entertaining as watching Katina beg for her life. And she tried to call to Akiha as if she was something separate from the demon staring down at her.

Knealing down, AKIHA put a hand to Katina's chest to hold her to the ground and that same icy burning sensation wrapped about the pilot's primary arm, immobilizing it. Slowly, all the crimson hair seemed to settle, to fall down to rest over Katina's body as the demon leaned down.

"On the contrary, Katina... she does want this. She'll just never admit it." And that would be when AKIHA moved quickly to seize Katina's jaw and kiss her, tongue with the taste of blood on it immediately moving to invade the other woman's mouth.

No... no... Akiha would never admit to having wanted this.

There was still a sharp divide in Katina's mind between the prissy, arrogant Akiha, and the demon that stood over her. If this was what Akiha had been hiding the whole time, though, how close had Katina come to putting herself in danger before? Having to tread lightly around Akiha would be infuriating, but it would be worth not having to deal with THIS.

Katina laid there, trying to not give away her terror any more than she had. Her breathing was starting to come in gasps as AKIHA pressed her against the ground, her arm immobilized even if she did want to fight back. "Wh-what... does..."

Before she could even figure out what she was trying to say, she was being kissed. Kissed. She tasted blood - her own? - as AKIHA forced a kiss on Katina. Katina didn't resist, too surprised and fearful to do anything but lay back and let herself be kissed, but she wasn't kissing back either.

She'd been half-expecting Katina to bite down in her tongue in a final show of defiance. It was disappointing that she didn't. Did this mean AKIHA had broken Katina's spirit, truly terrorized her into the cowering rabbit she'd taunted her as being before?

Somewhere, deep in the back of her mind, behind the madness and the bloodlust... this possibility bothered her. The fight in Katina was one of the more appealing things about her - not that Akiha would ever admit it. She didn't like the pilot, that was for sure, but the attraction was there deep down. And this lack of reaction bothered her.

Breaking the kiss, those blue eyes stared into Katina's for a moment before flat words were issued.

"I expected more from you," she said. "How disappointing."

A heartbeat later, AKIHA shoved Katina's head back, bearing her throat, and her teeth sunk into the woman's neck. Her mouth flooded with hot, fresh blood and she began to drink.

For now, the fight had nearly been beaten out of her. She'd recover, and become more defiant when she realized that AKIHA didn't intend to kill her, but fear and anger had worn her down. She could barely catch her breath when AKIHA pulled away, defiance all but gone as she looked back up at the demon who'd caught her. "Maybe... next ti-"

And she was cut off again, but this time by a loud gasp as fangs sunk into her neck. Finally, at least, she was taking what she wanted, and maybe she'd be satisfied with this. Aside from shuddering breaths, Katina was deathly silent as AKIHA fed, her warmth flowing into the demon's mouth. Her heart hammered in her chest, feeding the the rush of her own precious blood. Katina raised her free arm, giving a weakened, useless shove, a token resistance as she was drained, wondering just how greedy the demon would be.

The fangs weren't very long at all, barely enough to even be considered as such, so there was more teeth involved in the bite, more pain, than a vampire's bite would be. In fact, if one were to stick their finger in Akiha's mouth on a normal day, they would find those canines to be a bit more pronounced than one would think. Not fangs when human, but certainly something.

The taste of the blood, feeling it slide down her throat as she drank, was divine. She'd gone over two weeks without a drop of blood and she craved it. More and more and more, the unique taste of Katina filled her mouth and brought warmth coursing through her body, raising her naturally low body temperature once more to that of a normal person. Some of it slipped past her lips as Katina gave that pathetic shove. That small display told AKIHA that somewhere inside the pilot there was still fight, and her lips turned up in a smile that was easily felt against Katina's neck.

But she didn't stop. She continued to drink... and drink... and drink...

stop NO. you will kill her soon SO BE IT. we don't kill NO, YOU DON'T KILL. you will cease now I WILL DO AS I PLEASE.

YOU WILL CEASE NOW.

With an internal hiss, AKIHA released the bite leaving Katina on the verge of unconsciousness and stared down at her as the pilot's blood slid down the demon's chin.

Katina felt that pain. At the very least, she could feel pain, as she felt her blood leaving her, sliding down her own neck. It meant that she wasn't dying, as long as she could feel those teeth against her skin.

...then that started to fade a little. It wasn't just adjusting either. She could feel herself starting to grow lightheaded at first, as though she'd donated blood. Nothing unusual, and if AKIHA stopped there, she'd be fine in a few days. But the demon wasn't stopping; that lightheaded feeling was slowly turning to dizziness, her neck growing numb. AKIHA was going to keep going, and her eyes shot wide open in fear, her struggle renewed with what strength she had left, for a moment, as she realized that maybe she wouldn't get out of this alive, all of her blood slurped down by this monster.

Black spots roamed in front of her eyes as her arm dropped, nearly giving in to her lack of strength when AKIHA broke away. Katina couldn't focus on her, blinking her eyes a few times to try and get a better look. "Finished...? Please..." Her voice was small, but more even than it had been.

There was no need to restrain her prey anymore, so the burning sensation left Katina's arm and AKIHA took her hand off the woman's chest. She brought it up to brush back the hair from her face she gazed at her, blood pattering down on her from above as it dripped from the demon's mouth.

"It seems I cannot obliterate that line, no matter how much I want to." For as much as AKIHA had wanted to keep feeding, to drain Katina dry until there was no life left in her, Akiha would have none of it, mustering up just enough willpower to make herself stop.

"Your tithe has been paid, my dear Katina. I will send someone to see to you, lest too much of your delicious blood stains the ground." She leaned close again, her voice dropping to that flat, tone once more. "If you are wise, you will keep your silence or next time I will take your tongue as well as your blood. Understand?"

It wasn't as though she'd be getting up under her own power right now anyways. She'd lost too much blood on top of her earlier exertion, leaving her limp on the ground, her gaze unfocused. Just staying awake was taking effort, and Katina knew that it wasn't wasted effort, if she didn't want to end up dying bleeding on the ground.

She nodded weakly at AKIHA's demand. No, she wouldn't have to ask anyone else about what happened - she was going to go to Akiha directly, no matter how many threats the demon made. The side that didn't want her dead was strong enough, apparently, so she had to hope that it stayed strong. "Gotcha. I like... my tongue... where it is."

"Good, little rabbit. Good. Now rest."

Those last two words, whispered as she pulled away from Katina and stood, almost, almost sounded like Akiha's normal voice. But it was a fleeting moment as the demon walked over to the Vine and activated the mirror, leaving Katina laying there as her blood continued to drip down her neck, and disappear before help would arrive.

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There are two types of human beings in this world: the divine, and the demonic.

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S'okay, keeps the thread easier to read...

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