Lucine transformed Luxuvius with much success! After several days of plasma fasting, Lucine decided that it was time for another midnight snack. Draven walked over to Bellaluna with a worried look on his face “Um...have any of you by any chance seen Lux anywhere? I haven’t seen him around in a couple of days now...” Lucine grunted under her breath. Her brows furrowed at the very thought of Draven and Luxuvius’ affair. Lucine closed the book she was reading and walked towards Draven.
“Draven, we need to talk,” she said with a saddened voice; a great actress indeed! Draven rubbed his hand gently across his face, staring at her with a slightly annoyed look. “Yeah, sure...but have you seen Luxuvius anywhere?” Lucine closed her eyes and counted to ten. One. two. three. “UGH. No. I haven’t...but after we’re done talking we can look for him, okay? Knowing Lux, he’s probably just hiding out somewhere sleeping off his hangover. Come on, darling...” she grabbed his hand gently, a confused Draven pulled his hand away. “Wait...darling? Hand holding...? I thought you hated me and didn’t want to speak with me?” Lucine rolled her eyes and smiled. “I’ve had a lot of time to think...and now I think it’s time we speak. Shall we?” Lucine pointed to the dining room.
“I..sure,” Draven said quietly as they both walked towards the dining room table. Lucine thought to herself “He didn’t even offer to pull out my chair for me...man, he must be somewhere else right now...” Lucine sat down across from Draven and took two glasses off of a silver platter next to her. “Here you are, I figured we’d be here for a while, so, I made us some bubbly!” Lucine smiled and handed Draven his concoction. “Thanks, Lulu,” he said. Lucine’s eye twitched at his little nickname for her. She couldn’t stand hearing it after everything he put her through!
“So, here we are,” Draven said. “Yeah, here we are...” was Lucine’s response back to Draven. “I...I should have never splashed you with my drink. I am also very sorry for calling you names and...and...well, making fun of your fang size.” Lucine spoke with a very concerned yet fake tone to her voice. Draven chuckled, “That was a bit...harsh, and childish, but I forgive you. You had every right to be angry with me. I let you down...I said I’d be there for you, but I went behind your back and betrayed you. I was wrong to do so and you were right with your choice of actions.” Lucine interrupted him. “Well then, having said all of that, I hope you accept my apology.” Draven smiled and chuckled once again, “Yes. I do, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me as well?” Lucine dodged the question and lifted her glass in the air “To friendship, and whatever more may come from it!” Draven looked at her, slightly confused and raised his glass with her. “To friendship.”
Draven took a large swig of his drink. “Wow, this is refreshing! What ingredients did you use for this drink?” he said. “Well, if I told you then it wouldn’t be a family secret, now would it?” she smiled, resting her chin in her hand while staring at Draven in a very loving way. “True. Well, my compliments to the chef, Miss Lucine.” Draven put the glass to his lips again and took yet another large swig. “You’ll have to make this beverage for our dinner parties in the future.” he smiled and took yet another large swig. “It’s truly delicious.” swallowing back the last gulp, he set the glass down on the table and crossed his hand in front of him. “Funny, Luxuvius thought it was disgusting...”Lucine spoke quietly.
Draven perked up, “Did you say Luxuvius? I thought you haven’t heard from him in a couple of days? Where is he? Where’d he go? Did he say?” Lucine interrupted Draven nervously, “No! I uh..I made this drink for him a long time ago, back in college, yeah. College. He uhm....hey, let’s go lay down, shall we?” Lucine stood up and put her hands on his shoulders. “Come on, let’s go...” Draven stood up. It was just then that Draven could feel his vision blurring and his head spun out of control. “Woah. The alcohol really got to me...and f....and fast.” Lucine smiled and grabbed him under his arm, leaning him against her shoulder. “Come on, love. Let’s go...you’ve had too much.” A “drunken” Draven chuckled, “Too much? I’ve only...I’ve only had one....one gl...one glass....you know, maybe I did drin...maybe I did drink too much...too much.”
Lucine “carried” Draven over to her secret door and lead him downstairs. “Where are we? I don’t...I didn’t...I can’t see.” Lucine became frustrated. “Come ON, Draven...we’re headed to the bedroom.” She rubbed her hand against his chest and down to his abdomen. “See? That’s nice, isn’t it?” Lucine leaned over and licked his neck. Draven shivered, “Mmmm...yes ma’am.”
Lucine walked past Luxuvius’ chambers and over to Draven’s. Luxuvius was sleeping up until he heard the cell door of Draven’s room open up loudly. “Lucine, what have you...what are you doing to us?!” Lux yelled out angrily. Lucine ignored him and closed the cell behind her. “There there, Draven. Sleep.” A confused Lucine stepped out of Draven’s cell, locking it behind her while she stared in on him. “Weird...he should have turned back into a human by now...why is this such a slow process for him...?!” she said out loud.
“Well, geez, Lucine...maybe it’s because he is a stronger vampire than us. Did you ever think of that? No, you didn’t because you only think of yourself!” Lux yelled out at her. Lucine turned around, her glowing yellow eyes and her sharp white fangs displayed angrily. “Myself?! MYSELF? Wait - I only think of MYSELF?! You left me at the party with him, a random stranger I only knew for a while...you left me there. Then, when you knew I had finally found somebody that I truly loved, you stole him from me! YOU stole him from ME!” Lucine slowly rose up about three inches off the ground, a faint, purple haze swirled around her. “You took the one thing that mattered to me and took him for yourself, all while I was in the SAME room, asleep!” Lucine levitated slowly over to Luxuvius’ cell. “Don’t you DARE....tell ME...that I only think of myself.”
Suddenly, a moan came from Draven’s cell. Lucine hovered back down to the floor and turned around. “It’s starting...” she smiled happily and transformed into a bat, flying into his cell and transforming back into her vampire form. “Hello, Draven. How’re you feeling?” Draven looked up at her with an angry expression “What....what have you done to me, Lucine?!” Draven jumped up at her then fell to the floor in pain. “It hurts...everything hurts! What have you done?!”
Lucine stood over him “Does it hurt? Does it? I hope it hurts just as much as my heart did the moment you betrayed our love...and more! You remember that drink? That drink that you enjoyed ever so much? It was a curse vampirism concoction. Took me a long time to figure it out but OH MAN did I perfect it or what? You actually thought I would forgive you for breaking my heart? You thought I’d make you an “apology drink”? What do I have to apologize for? Really?” She glared down at him, her fangs showing more than ever. Draven looked up to her then over to Luxuvius. Shortly after, Draven’s body began shaking just like Luxuvius’ body did right before the transformation.
Moments went by and then Draven transformed back into a human. When Draven came to, Lucine stepped toward him with a big, happy smile. “You see, Draven? I am not weak and powerless like you may have assumed. I can rise above, as you can clearly see...” Draven interrupted her “Why, Lucine? I understand what I did to you ... I understand it was terrible thing to do...and for that I apologize...but why turn me into a human? How does this benefit you?” Lucine chuckled, stepping even closer to Draven. “You don’t get it yet, do you? You’re in a cell...Lux is in a cell..has been for a few days now, actually. I haven’t left the house in a few days, either. Does it all make sense yet?” Draven shook off his dizziness and coughed. “What, you’re going to bleed me dry? Murder me? Is that what you’re going to do?” Draven’s voice shook with anger and fear. “No, my love...I could never murder somebody...you...you and Lux are now my pets. My blood bags. You get it now? You’ll stay down here forever and supply me with delicious, sweet, warm blood. I will never go hungry again and I will do this to any vampire or human that ever wrongs me again.Huh! You know...maybe I could start a business! Lucine’s Plasma Pit Stop Shoppe. How’s that sound? Too long, huh? Hmm, how about The Plasma Pit! Hmm..Drinking dungeon? No, no. Ugh! I’m so bad with names. We’ll figure it out. Anywho, I’m stalling...time for a little snack!”
Draven stepped backward and yelled “HELP! LUNA! MOIRA HELP!!” Lucine laughed loudly and mocked Draven. “Yes, LUNA MOIRA HELP ME PLEASE! Hah! They can’t hear you... now... calm down, my love...” Lucine stepped towards Draven and put him under her trance, biting down onto his neck and took in her fill. “Mmm, yes, yes...” Draven started to struggle, upsetting Lucine. “THE MORE YOU STRUGGLE THE MORE IT’LL HURT. I don’t want to hurt you, my love...” Lucine lifted Draven into the air and set him back down again, suckling on his neck again, enjoying every minute.