I've been toying with this fic for a couple months now.  Somehow, it was
left forgotten on my harddrive, so here it is.

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Beginning and Endings

A Vampire Princess Miyu Fanfic
by Deunan (deunan@aol.com)
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	Despite my power, despite my strength, I can do nothing.  I do not
know if she let it strike her, or if the shinma was too fast as I was too
slow.	
	Blood, so beautiful, their is nothing quiet like it.  It stains the 
cloak that is my body as is the mask which binds me to her.  My hands touch
it feeling the sensations it gives.  Blood, so beautiful, yet it is so 
horrifiying.  My face, hidden, contorts in fear, a feeling I once thought I
beyond.  It was fear of the unknown, of the change, of the eternal loniless.
The rage is set aflame inside of me.  My hands lash out in full fury.  Wave
after wave of pain is cast upon the shinma.  
	Their is no banishment, return, to the darkness.  Their is only 
torment for him/her/it.  The shinma screams and screams howling its unearthly
lungs.  I take no delight in it as I would hope.  They are cut off as it is
torn apart, eviserated by my will.  
	Her weight presses against me.  The memory of the shinma is instanly
banished from my mind; I carefully lower her to the ground craddling her
body.  -So fragile-  I can do nothing.  Her blood soaks the flower kimono
she wears.  Her hand reaches up carressing the cheek of my mask.
	"Larva," she calls to me weakly.  Her hands clasp the mask and 
removes it.  It drops to the ground shattering.  The realization of freedom 
rings dully in my mind.  "Go, leave me."  She commands averting her gaze from
my true face.  Her voice is full of fear and saddness.  I can see it in her 
eyes.  Eyes the color of gold, so hauntingly beautiful.  Windows to a soul
so beautiful and painful at once.
	-Why push me away, why cast me aside?!-  Does she fear my face?  Or
my eyes?-  The thoughts struck me. The pain she takes on herself to ease the 
others, countless over time.  She was trying to take away my own.  She wanted
me to be free of suffering, to forget her.  It is something I cannot do.  It 
is a price I cannot pay.
	I pull back my hood.  "Miyu," The sound of my own voice seemed 
strange to my ears.  "Miyu, I am yours to stand at your side, to banish 
shinma, to be your..."  These words come to me naturally from a hidden part
of my black soul.  
	"Please," she sobbed her voice was so weak.  She hugged herself
tightly.  "Don't make me hurt you."  -Does she not understand?  Her pain is
my own.  Her happiness is my own.  She is my only world.  My...-  The pain in
her eyes draw me to her.  So much darkness...  My hands move on their own 
accord.  The ribbon is undone from her hair releasing it.  The brown hair is
like silk.  It spills out behind her.  We kiss.  A maelstrom of yearning, 
passion, despair, regret, and finally love, an emotion I had once thought I
was incapable of.
	She slips away into the dark.  The golden light in her eyes fade.
	"My love...," her voice trails off leaving me alone.  I sit their
alone with my cloak gathered around me.  It is stained with her blood.
	"DAMN YOU!!!!"  I curse to the Lord of the Dark.  He has taken her
from me.  Why, I do not know.  An image and etheral voice is forced into my
mind of ice surrounding my dark angel.  She can be freed.
	The offer is familar.  It is the same she accepted.  I accept.
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	I appear to her.  She gasps seeing my face for the first time.  
Does she see the pain in my eyes?  Or does she see the scars of lose on my
face?  It is handsome in her eyes, youthful and old at the same time.  I
hold up my hand in a gesture of offering.  No longer pale white, but the
color of mortal flesh.  She sees the red silken ribbon wrapped around my
arm ending at my wrist.  A single drop of blood drops from the ribbons end
falling to the floor.
	"Himiko, It is time."
	The hunt begins anew
	The Shinma shall be returned to the Dark

END