Vampirates
By: Katie-lee Brady

Summary: her feelings get the better of her, and encouraged her to take a course in life based on a promise. But along the way, she finds out the truth of reasoning as well as the truth about herself.

Rate: M

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon nor do I assume I do. This is merely a random plot I thought of to which I used the Sailor Moon characters. . please don't sue *hands and knees* plsss.

I also do not own the character name of .Hack. I'm just borrowing the name, not character.

Chapter 10: Truth of the Gods

I awoke with a dull ache between my legs, but other than that, I was perfectly fine. Well at least I felt I was. I was in Endymion's arms, and couldn't help but noticed the perfectly placed golden rose tattoo placed upon his chest. The gold had such brilliance I almost forgot he beared the God of Death Tattoo. I don't know why… but the tattoo always reminded me of that night, so very long ago when I first met him, in my second life I should say, after I lost my memory. But as I think about it now… and since I have my memory back, I always remembered Endymion would never wear anything that would expose his chest… never… there was once… what I thought I seen, were black markings upon his chest, but it all happened so quickly, and plus I was a child, so imagination was fun; but as I think about it now… maybe there was more to this then what met the eye. Maybe it was a cult? I felt Endymion stir and lost my train of thought for a moment. As Lightly as I could I traced the golden rose with my finger.

"Hmm…" Endymion stirred from his sleep. "Good morning," he whispered as he kissed my head, rubbing the length of my arm.

I still wasn't used to calling sunset morning time… but oh well… I was getting good at the sleeping pattern, "Morning," I looked up at him, smiling. We continued to look in each other's eyes before saying anything.

I noticed Endymion's eyes roamed down to my neck, over my chest and around my uncovered body, "I've never seen anything like this before," he whispered with awe.

I looked over myself, and couldn't help but be a bit frightened by the golden extensive workings over my body. Looking back at Endymion with a frown, "nor have I… but… it is beautiful," I looked back over myself again.

"Hmm…" Endymion placed his hand over his heart where the rose was. "I have not seen anything like this happen before…" he untangled himself away from me and got out of the bed. He walked over to the spot where the rose pendent had fallen, and picked it up. He looked over it and returned to me in bed.

"You think what we did had an effect?" I raised an eye brow as he drew the pendent to my attention.

"Thoroughly," he said huskily, leaning closer to me, kissing my neck… I couldn't help but fall back onto the pillows, "but this is not the time," he shook his head.

I gasped and propped myself back up again, "I think you may have read the wrong context," I said knowingly, "I meant it by us doing the blood bondage over the rose having an effect."

Endymion slowly raised the rose and looked at me, "no," he said very slowly, "I'm not sure. I've never heard of anything like this happening after a bondage… I'm not sure the magic is that strong."

"Then you think…" I swallowed, "us uniting? Or the fact we are different?"

Endymion looked at me, "maybe," he said. There was a pause, "I'm going to get some opinions on this," he said getting up from the bed. "First, I think I'm going to need to refresh myself." As he got to the bathroom door he looked back over me, "don't worry, we will sort everything out."

Just as he was about to close I yelled, "Wait!" I waited for him to appear at the door way again before I asked, "can I ask you a question?" I felt kind of rude, but I wanted to know.

Endymion merely raised an eye brow, "hmm… more questions…" he shrugged, "sure. What is it you want to know?"

I swallowed, "That tattoo…"I pointed at his cheat, "not the rose, but the Death one…" I diverted my eyes from him for a mere second to return to a horror struck look on Endymion's face, "what does it mean?" my voice was low and shaking, but I urged a sense of wonder to it; hoping my answer would come.

Endymion took a moment to look down and contemplate with himself. I could sense he was not happy about me asking, or the fact he wanted to tell me… but there was something there that made him not want to tell me.

"Whatever it is, I'm sure I'll be fine with it!" I added softly.

Endymion then looked at me with no outburst of emotion, "It was placed on me as a child, a marking as you wish… it was also the marking of a very strange and powerful vampire; an 'ancient' my mother would say." He paused, "there was a story… that long ago he used to rule parts of Estelle until there was a plague that killed off the vampires, and only the strong survived. It was within this time, while the vampires were fleeing to stay alive to seek medicines from the nymphs, an almighty God like creature, 'Angel', claimed he was superior then the vampires, causing the plague to rid the lands of then… and then decided to take over the land. By which time the vampires where safe and healthy once again, they returned to their lands to realise they had lost their place within the gods; this god like creature 'Angel' claiming he was a descendent of a God, and vampires were never part of any deity cults and religions… Claiming Vampires used their abilities to control the people and make them think they were Godly creatures…

The people soon turned to fearing the vampires after these vicious stories and accusations… The vampires allied together joining clans in hopes to claim their land back… but something happened in the war between the vampires and the 'Angel's' army… no one really knows… but a treaty was made; The vampires had become a worthy opponent and 'Angel' believed they were strong enough to 'watch over' his lands in his absence. Throughout the years, land over land, bit by bit, they conquered the hearts of the village people and by the time the creature 'Angel' returned, the main force within the Vampire's 'The death race' who beared such tattoos as myself begun another war with this creature! This time the Vampires were allied with the force of the people. The creature lost the battle, and the vampires took over their lands again… But the 'Angel' creature was still allowed to hold but one part of the land for himself. To which the Vampires gave him the centre of Estelle. So he and his race could be watched upon. And so the Vampires took their rightful place amongst the gods again to the people, but that was not good enough for them.

The real God of the lands, who lived amongst people as everyday people, knew everything, and yet they did not help the vampires, not one bit. Although they did much for the 'King', he did not want to help in their dispute with this 'Angel'. By the time they reached the middle of Estelle, after eradicating their lands of the creature, the vampires asked the King why he did not help after they had helped him in his own wars… but the King merely said he knew they would destroy the creature. The vampires complained since they were slaves for many many years, generations even… but sensing the anger of the Vampires, he offered them something they wanted, in return to forget about everything that had happened. He offered them the title of 'Gods'. With his almightily ruling words, no one would dare think them anything else.

The vampires were fine with this… but were still not happy. They were Gods by right, not rule, and forever they hated the King. To which the small 'death race' group continued to convene in secret, in hopes to plan a way to over throw the King and take his place. The succeeded many years later. They made the Kings people hate him and his 'real' gods with such fierceness; the Vampires didn't have to lift a finger. The King fled to the middle of Estelle to where the 'Angel' creature and his race were. They made a deal together, to which was unknown to the Vampires, and so when they came to eliminate the King and Angel from the lands of Estelle… they paid no heed to the fact many of the villages and the woman were gone. They had killed the King, and Angel… took over the land, and placed themselves as Rightful Gods. However, the King and Angel agreed on a proposal. The Kings daughter and the Angel's Son… marriage and a Hybrid… to which they would put all hope into this new race." Endymion paused and looked at me, "even to this day Serenity, there are plans to overthrow the King…" he swallowed, "My family is part of it… we worked ourselves closer to each new King's generation… for one reason… Your family's blood line is the direct line to this 'Hybrid' Childs, the abomination of the Kings daughter and the Angels son… " He paused again, "but then there was you," he looked at me with a glance of fierceness and regret, "YOU changed everything. My family had hopes for me… but we had to be marked as destined… you had to have such a strong pull to me…" he shook his head.

"Endymion," I quietly spoke, "We cannot choose our destiny, or our family. All we can do is change and try to live with what we have, day by day. I do not think of you any less. We do things for what we believe in, for what we think is righteous. But trust me, Vampires will have their glory." I just looked intensely at Endymion. "There is nothing to be ashamed of."

"We shall see," he said, "But I have everything to be ashamed of… before I truly begun to love you Serenity… killing your family was above all that was important to me; you coming to me proved good to my parents… but I knew it would end badly." He paused and looked away, softening to a slight whisper, "Sometimes I actually wish I was smart enough to make you disappear like Diamond did… but then I'd think I should be glad you were gone… but at the same time there was a pulling ache in my chest… and I realised that I do not want to do my family's dirty work… so I ran to you."

A tear slipped from my eye as I looked at Endymion turning back to me, "That is all I needed to hear," I whispered, "we can get through this," I smiled, "I believe we can."

"Hmm…" Endymion hummed as he smiled one last time at me and walked back to the bathroom.

I merely watched him escape behind the closing door as I thought back over what had happened. It was unfair to him, having such a family history… tortured as a child… he was not given a childhood. I shook my head to rid myself of bad thoughts. That was over with; Endymion chose his destined path with me, not his family. So I changed my thoughts back to the evening's happenings. It was official that I was no longer a virgin, and as embarrassing as it was, I knew everyone on board this ship already knew that to. They knew everything that happened between us. But what I still couldn't get over was the fact that I had inherited these golden tattoos. Somehow, something happened and this occurred. I had a feeling it was something to do with the pendent since the golden spark started there, but my mind was still struggling to keep up-to-date, so I let myself lull back to sleep.

When I awoke again, everything was quiet. I wrapped myself in the sheet and made my way to the bathroom. I was surprised to see a bath was already drawn, and warm too. So I slipped out of the sheet and sunk into the bathtub. I let myself emerge deeper and deeper till I focused my thoughts. I was never really one to believe in magic "magic" like the power of love will prevail, blah blah, the fairytale kind of "magic"… but I couldn't ignore the fact, nor get the stunningly beautiful image out of my head, the aura that had emerged from Endymion's emotions. My mother, and her mother before her, and her mother before her, throughout our whole family, it was believed that true love, where a magical union would be formed from, beared the most stunning aura. Gold has always been a "love" colour… but white reflex was always pure, so gold with white was always a pure true love sign… but the added pink… the colour of lust, desire, the fulfilment love brings with it… I shook my head... there was always an attraction between us. I mean please! He was marked with a sign to be a potential mate for me! Fate had already made its mark… but somewhere something went wrong maybe?

I let my thoughts go as I washed myself. Once I was satisfied I was clean enough, I emerged out of the water and grabbed a nearby towel on the rack and wrapped it around me. I stepped out and pulled the plug. When I turned around, facing the mirror, the gold caught my attention and I couldn't help but gawk. It still freaked me, but at the same time, it was absolutely gorgeous. I let the towel slip and noticed the vines started at my heart, extensions from the rose, to my left shoulder and across to the other shoulder and down the arms. I turned to look at my back and noticed they twirled around at the top before falling down the middle of my spine and around my hips; I looked down and followed to design down the sides of my legs to my ankles where they came up onto my foot and ended with a tight curl. The vines along my body had shooting leafs and small roses and buds. I also noticed they were fainting somewhat. I quickly grabbed the towel back on and left the bathroom.

Upon entering the room again, I was again greeted with a nice surprise of a made bed, and clothing laid out for me. I looked around the room quickly before letting the towel drop again and put the dress laid out for me on. It was again form fitting like all the other dress, which I didn't think would change any time soon. But the top was a straight cut across my chest with off the shoulder puffy sleeves. The dress was a pearl white and across the top of the dress line was gold circles. Once the bodice hit my hips, the material became loose and free, and again, on the edges it was trimmed with gold. I looked back onto the bed and saw the same colour pearly white shoes. They were strappy small heels with pearls and diamonds on them. I quickly put them on and looked back on the bed. I noticed the only thing left was the box Endymion gave me last time… but I never saw what was inside.

I snatched the box and cradled it in my hands. There was a bit of weight in side of it, but nothing too heavy. Was I ready for a present from Endymion? Was I ready to see what was inside? For some really weird reason my gut was telling me to wait, but there was that part that wanted, no needed to know what was inside! I took a seat on the edge of the bed and laid the box on my lap. Staring at it, I envisioned myself. I knew everything from this moment on would be different. Every since I made the bondage with Endymion I felt change happening in a very large scale, but I couldn't determine what exactly it was.

"I won't mind if you want to wait, I'm just glad you have acknowledged it," I snapped my head in the direction of Endymion's voice and was surprised to see that I was so engrossed in my thoughts I didn't even notice him approach me.

"I just have this feeling to wait…"I whispered as I grasped the box again.

Endymion smiled as he took a seat next to me, "listening to your self is good. Very wise," he laughed softly, "but I know that is not only what you feel."

I turned my eyes down, "you can feel the change too?"

"Aye," he said as he rubbed my back, "and it's happening in a fast swoop."

"What do you mean?" I raised a brow to him.

"The boats behind us, they are now gone. And the river current is flowing with us, there is nothing stopping us… it's as if, everything is in our favour." He paused and sighed, "At this rate, we will reach inner Estelle Kingdom by next sun fall."

I understood the dread he was feeling about going back, all of them did, but it was something that needed to be done. And right now, I actually felt like there was a reason other than finding the truth about myself. It was like fate had chosen my destiny for me, and was guiding me. Giving me a purpose and a reason. What it looked like to me, was that some powerful force here was at work, and wanted me to go and reach the Kingdom, fast. I still didn't know why, but I felt the wind, I felt everything, change was coming, and somehow, I was part of it.

"Tell me everything is going to fine," I said in a soft whisper as I let myself fall upon the bed, lying there, clutching the box tighter.

"I wish I could Serenity, I really do wish I could," he laid down next to me, "but something else is at force here, and I cannot explain it. I hate not knowing what is happening."

I closed my eyes and breathed, "I can hear the wind, the sea, everything…" I opened my eyes again, "they mutter, but nothing is cohesive."

"Hmm," Endymion cuddles me, "Well, I am most positive that this will all be decoded in due time, at least until we reach the Kingdom."

I agreed with Endymion. It was our destination, and that is where I guessed it was all going to really begin. I put the box on the night stand and cuddled more into Endymion. "Is it possible I could get some food? I haven't really eaten for awhile now," I said softly.

Endymion just looked at me shocked, "of course!" he stood up, "I keep forgetting!" he hauled me out of the cabin and into the kitchen dining area. We spend most of our time there, just talking and discussing.

And so we did for the rest of the night. The sea was getting rougher, and the clouds drew darker, but yet, we sailed fine. When sunrise was upon us, I was not able to sleep. I watched as Endymion lay sleeping on the bed, but I could not join him. The instant I closed my eyes, horrid images of people dying and war was upon me. It gave me shivers just thinking about it. But as the nuns used to say, things happen for a reason, signs. Like me coming to them was a sign. So obviously, this was a sign, but what did it mean? That a war was going to happen? That people were going to die? Of course not! It couldn't be. I did not wish to think such thoughts. But what else could it mean? Maybe I was reading the outside, maybe there was a hidden message inside what I was seeing? It was all too much to think about, but yet, I still couldn't fall asleep! I mainly wondered about the cabin trying not to think about the nightmare, but it still haunted me. Chaos maybe? It was the only thing I could make of it.

As the day went on, I kept feeling a tug at my mind… I let myself slip closer and closer to it until I was in an alternate reality. Everything was blurred… but I was in the middle of a circle surrounded by 5 people? They were more like black hooded figured… they were each holding something… but I could not make anything out. As I got deeper, I felt another tug, something trying to pull me back… but I was getting drawn into this reality faster… and it seemed almost real, I could feel the pain… they were hurting me… but why? The tug pulling me back got heavier, dragging me away for the pain. In an instance I felt a powerful warm jolt go throw me and my eyes snapped open. In front of my I saw Endymion and Ami, and behind them were Rei and Mina.

"Oh My goodness!" Mina pushed through, "are you alright?" she asked me in a trembling voice.

I just looked at them, "what…" I looked at Endymion, "what happened?"

"You were burning up Hun," Rei butted in, "Like major white flames!" her eyes were widened to emphasise the wow factor.

"I didn't know what to do," Endymion raised his voice to rule the chat, "so I called them in…" he looked at me with glazed eyes, "luckily Ami knew what was happening," he swallowed.

"Very powerful stuff," Ami added, "Luckily us Nymphs have great healing powers," she looked at Endymion, "but someone rather power knows of her existence. That sort of spell cannot be cast outside a 50 mile radius. They must have also known she was unable to control herself."

"Hmm…" Endymion looked back at me, "But she has learnt to manage her mind and powers," shaking his head, "thank-you Ami."

Ami nodded, "You already know," she smiled, "she will be fine now."

Endymion merely looked at the girls and they all trickled out of the room.

"What exactly is a Nymph?" I asked.

"Possibly the most powerful creature, but they use their magic on healing and other supportive aspects… so they are not threatening. Ami is a water Nymph. Earth is the strongest, but water is more soothing. She merely sung herself into your mind and bought you back. Obviously not that simple… but along those lines."

"Oh," I said as I laid there. 'Sung herself?' I thought to myself…. Wow… I most definitely wouldn't mind spending more time with her to understand her powers.

"Don't worry… it's over now," he added.

We sat there for awhile more until Endymion pointed out that we were nearly at the Estelle boarder. I followed him out of the cabin and stood on deck with him, watching the far south as the last of the orange pink sun rays disappeared into the black… but that was merely a distraction for what Endymion really pointed at…. The Estelle Kingdom…. A towering castle stood in our view with surrounding villages. It was not hard to miss… but very daunting.

We were drawing closer and I could feel the sweat forming inside my balled fists. I unclenched and let a breath out. I could feel a few presences behind us and I slid my head to the side to have a look. I could make out the girls; Ami, Mina and Rei, along with the guys; Andrew, Chad and Greg.

I slip my eye to Endymion and met his waiting eyes.

'They have all never seen Estelle this close… they merely want to see,' he whispered inside my head as I stood there shocked. I raised a brow, 'you are stressing, your mind is down, I can penetrate…' he said slowly, 'sorry.' He then moved closer to me and whispered, "No matter what happens once we reach port… we will all be there. I will be there for you. I will not leave your side."

I looked into Endymion's eyes and saw my world, "thank-you," I said softly as I places my hands on either side of his face, reaching for his lips, I kissed him softly and tenderly. Wrapping my arms around him, and leaning my face against his chest, I continued to look upon the sight ahead of me… knowing but all that within a few more hours… everything was going to change…

A/N: Sorry it took me awhile, and next chapter may be a few weeks as well… BUT I am trying :D Hope ya'll liked, and hopefully next chapter won't be TOO long of a wait