Nightly Lessons Book I: The Book of Beginnings

[Peeker]

"Um... I"ll try. I don't know if I can tell... well, any story, and dance - much less this one... but, um, it started alot like yours did. I woke up with an aching head and an aching neck."

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"Uhh...."

Jake opened his eyes, and groaned. He was lying on a firm cot, under a starched white sheet. The room was dark. a weak orange light was in the corner - candle light? He looked up. Yeah. The room was starting to come into focus as he got used to the lighting - there were a few piles of candles in each corner: three in each, to be exact. Jake was sitting up in a bed in the middle of the room... the walls were dark, made out of some dark stone - black or grey, as was the floor... there were rugs hung up on all of them, though... maybe not rugs... um... tapestries? Yeah.

One wall was open - there were tightly shuttered windows there - but the other three had big tapestries filling the wall, wherever furniture - a small writing table, a big armoire, a chest of drawers, and a small chest at the foot of the cot - wasn't.

...and that was it.

Jake gulped. He wasn't in his bedroom, that was for sure.

This place was... creepy.

"H-h-hello? A...Anybody t-there?" Jake pulled himself out of the sheets, legs dangling over the bed.

This place was really creepy.

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

The door to his room blew suddenly open as a large creature came running into the room. It looked like a completely black wolf with blood red eyes, but it was the size of a great dane. It came at Jake barking madly, making Jake jump up on his bed with a yelp, as it circled him like a shark.

"I see you're awake. Good," a cold voice called. A man stood in the doorway looking at Jake with cold eyes, a riding crop in one hand tapping the palm of the other. "Do get down from there and stop acting like a fool. That hound won't harm you."


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That's all the introduction he gave you? After waking up?" Alice stumbled in her shoes as she looked at Janus shocked. "Jesus fucking (Alice! Language!) Sorry.... still that was a crummy intro if you ask me..."

[Peeker]

"You're tellling me!" Janus shook his head. "Um... I apologize Lord Aleksandr... I... was not exactly the same as I am now... at least... not when Master Razziel first found me. I... reacted in a way that you, at least, might have expected..."

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"Holy Fucking Shit! What is that thing?! Who the hell are you? Wh... what the fuck?"

Jake looked up at the man, simultaneously frightened and angry. His condescending tone... the scare tactics... Well, Jake wasn't raised to put up with shit like that.

"Yeah! What the fuck? Who the hell are you? Where am I? -and what's with the god-damned dog y' got there?"

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"I can see what you mean, Janus." Alek said, dryly.

"Yes, m'lord. My apologies... but... you know, its funny..." Jake smiled tightly - his eyes were practically glowing as he relived the experience. "The first thing I did wrong was not listen to him. I was still standing on the bed..."

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

Alice laughed at him for a second. "I would have yelled more if that was me."

"Oh? Like you did when you met Kapad?" Mikeal teased as he continued to play flawlessly.

"Hey! I wasn't awake and that little pain was 3 mms from my face," Alice growled back. "So bite me, Mikkey. Please continue Janus."

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The man frowned before snapping the crop away the doorway.

"Bruja!" He barked. the hound gave a small whine, wanting to met the boy more but returned to her master's side. "I will tell you this once and only once, boy. I do not permit swearing in my home so you'd best get rid of the habit unless you wish to learn the consequences of it."


He reguarded the boy for a moment before walking up to him in long calm powerful strides. Once he was in front of Jake, he looked him up and down, studying him.

"Clothing is distasteful, hair is unacceptable... we shall have to clean you up before anything else." He muttered before locking eyes with Jake. "I am Lord Razziel Dornell, you're Sire. I have taken you into my home and under my name."

He looked at Jake and then smiled cruelly at him.

"I think I shall call you... Janus," He nodded to himself. "Yes, a fitting name for a new fledgling. Now come!"

He turned towards the doorway, his aura demanding that Jake/Janus was to obey him.

[Peeker]

Janus blushed. "Yeah, well... it was a hard habit to break... later. Right then, I was still a bit terrified..."

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"Lord... Razziel... Dornell... ...the...hell?" Jake remained standing on the bed, giving the huge dog - which was now wagging its tail and lolling its tongue out at Jake like any housepet might do upon meeting a new friend - a curious look.

"W-wait up! Sire? What the heck's that? ...and what do you mean you've taken me in? I have a home! I-" Jake cut himself off to step off the bed and follow Razziel out of the room, though he wasn't sure why. He tried to get the rest of what the man said straight in his head as he walked with him.

"...Um... Mister... Dornell, right? My name's Jake - not Janus."

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Janus shook his head. Aleksandr frowned. "...he forced his aura on you? Well..." The elder vampire smirked dryly. "I suppose that's one way to get you to obey on your first night..."

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

Alice stopped half way in the dance and pointed dryly at Aleks.

"Don't get any ideas buddy or I will finish what I failed in my first week," she threatened although her face told them she was joking. "So he forced you to follow him, creepy..."

"Dance Alice," Mikeal called as a reminder as the two continued. "Very nice."

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Razziel ignored the youth that was forced to follow him as Bruja trotted near him. The hound always had a love for all things young. It wasn't until they stood outside Janus' new room that the man turned and looked harshly at the poor boy.

"You will refer to me as 'My Lord' or 'Master' at all times" He lectured and willed some clothing out of the closet. "A sire is the term or rather tittle of the one who has turned one into a Nosfuratu. As for you're name, It was Jake Bell, but now you have been reborn as Janus Dornell."

He growled as he looked at the thunder stock boy before him.

"you died boy," He growled bluntly. "You were brutally murdered and died only to be reborn as a fledgling."

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"Oh dear... He said that to you?" Mikeal kept his music calm as he looked at the two younths. "I must say that's a new one."

"you were murder?" Alice gagged as she allowed him to lead her more through the steps. "Geez, I was drugged at the lest, not murdered."

She never noticed the two nervous looks the elder vampires gave each other.

[Peeker]

Jake looked at the hound, nervously offering it a hand to sniff while protesting against Razziel's words.

"Wait... what? Fledgling? M...Murdered?"

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Janus frowned, looking at Alice as they danced. If she'd been drugged before she was murdered... that is... if she didn't remember being bitten... well, she was lucky!

...that was what she meant, right?

"Um... I don't know how exactly, but... I guess since he threw it at me so suddenly... Remembering part of my turning didn't hit me as hard as it did you, yesterday... I... I remembered part of it... Getting dragged into... I think it actually happened at my town's mall... I... I dunno. Not worrying about it now - but I remembered where the pain in my neck came from.... There's... there's a certain point where you simply can't remember anymore - the actual moment of the turn - where your blood... stops... But I remembered right before that... and started to remember what happened after... I... It effected me, I guess. I really didn't want to hear what Razziel had to say, Aura or no Aura.

The boy fell back into step.

"I was just yelling, at that point - I registered the fact that he summoned clothes from nowhere, and kept going.. I knew what nosfaratu meant.. I just.. I didn't want to hear it. I just kept asking questions, trying to ignore what he was really trying to say..."

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"Nos-fa-what? Fledgling? I told you! My name's Jake! Who are you? Where're my parents? This... this isn't funny, man!" The boy looked at the huge, monster-dog next to him.

The man had just done magic. Magic.

....this.... This was... uncomfortable. Jake swallowed hard.

I died. I DIED. No...no-no-no.... But...

"What the hell is all this?" He grasped the tender spot on his neck, wincing. It hurt. "Am... is this... hell?"

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

Alice looked confused at Janus' frown, before checking her feet again. 'Maybe I stepped on him again.'

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Razziel turned on Jake faster then a cobra and snarled dangerously at him, baring his fangs. He towered over the poor child and even Bruja gave a loud whimper behind Janus as she too cowarded near him.


"I will not tolerate such language in my house, is that CLEAR!" He ordered baring his elongated fangs at the already distort child. He snatched out a hand and roughly grabbed Janus by the neck and shock him violently before thrusting him towards the clothing into the room, Bruja following the boy into the room. "Now change! I will not have you dressed as some idiot!"

He slammed the door show with enough force to make the walls shack, shutting the boy in with only the hound as a companion. Bruja saw the boy's clear distress and nudged her head under his hand to encourage him to pet her. She had lived a long time, and she knew how harsh her master could be. If anything she always offered her friendship to them so that they knew, they weren't completely allow.

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Alice pulled Janus into a fast hug as they prepared for a twirl where he would spin her out at an arms length and then pull her back.

"You poor thing..." She stated and slipped somewhere in the twirl, crashing to the ground. "AWE!"

"Are you alright Alice?" Mikeal called to her as he watched her rise up and take Janus' hands notice more. He grinned to himself. It was like watching him and Gabby learning the steps although he had been the lead footed one of the two. "I can see you are... from the top..."

"Slave driver," Alice scuffed at him and smiled at Janus. " Then what happened?"

[Peeker]

"Ummm..." Blushing (and not just because of the story) Janus started the steps with Alice again. "I... threw the last tantrum of my life..."

Janus looked over at Mikeal. "I'm going to guess that our master was reprimanded for breaking your back? Because I committed the same offense that you did, and the only thing he didn't do was break bones..."

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"FUCK YOU!"

Throwing the pile of clothes off to the side, Janus pushed off of Bruja, eyes full of tears - scared into shock by the angry fanged man - and threw himself furiously at the door.

He was surprised to hear the hinges shatter. The door shifted, and fell - revealing, just like a drawbridge, Lord Razziel on the other side.

Janus paled. All the hate went out of him, replaced, suddenly, by a singular, helpless terror.

How had he done that?

Who was this guy?

...what was he going to do to him?

[Kira_Wolf_Cub]

"Well there was a little more to do with it then that..." Mikeal blushed himself and looked at the two. "I was in my third year. I sugguest by then Janus don't break any of his rules."

"I can't believe you broke the door," Alice gapped at him and pouted. "I can't even brake down a door. Why can't I brake down a door?"

"That is because mon cherie, you are a girl," Mikeal laughed at her. "The changing is slightly different for them, or so I've heard."

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Razziel rose an angry brow at the young before his feet. Without a single word, he reached down and plucked the boy up by the back of his windbreak and dragged the boy to the bed.


"Right then boy," He stressed the word as he forced Jake to bend over the foot board of the bed. "You will learn what the price is for not obeying me."

Razziel flexed his hand, drawing out his claws and shredded the boy's blue jeans. He would not need them anymore so there was no need to preserve them. Once the disgusting modern leggings were off, leaving the boy only his white boxer-briefs. Holding the riding crop in hand, Razziel glared down on the back of Jake's head.

"Spare the rod..." He snarled. "Janus you will learn your place here and you will change into the clothing I have picked for you once we are through is that clear?"

He didn't wait of an answer, just brought the long staff part of the whip against the youth's backside, using it as a cane for now.

SwishCRACK! SwishCRACK! SwishCRACK! SwishCRACK!