Mark of Darkness [private for me and RedRose4]

[zajawa]

"Oh? So.. if I would loose a hand.. it would grow back?", asked Ashley, pretty surprised and then really smiled. "That's a really good news for her."
Then he listened to the small conversation. When Destro's blue eyes rested on him he wondered what he was thinking about.. but since he didn't seem angry he didn't have a reason to be nervous. Looking back at Rayne he nodded his head.
"Yes. And the one here..", he skipped to the right page. "Seems to be almost fine as well. It says he can be a bit.. emotionally unstable at times though.."

[RedRose4]

Rayne nodded and smiled vaguely. "It would take way longer than a cut, but it can grow back over a few days." He explained. Looking back at the paperwork, Rayne scanned over the writing before he spoke. "We'll be cautious, but we can try to speak and treat him as nicely as possible. Hopefully it won't trigger anything."
Rayne stood up and looked at Ket. "You can come help. Destro....how about you stick in here for a little and sort out the paperwork."
Destro nodded silently, sitting down in the chair and taking out papers.

Rayne took a deep breath and walked back into the room, having to breath from his mouth to prevent the smell from overwhelming him. "What numbers cage is the one you spoke of in?" Rayne asked, looking over at Alra's which was number ten, showing she was the last vampire to be brought here. Numbers one and two seemed to be the most far gone, so they'd be the most difficult.
Ket followed close behind, staying near Ashley as he was a bit uncomfortable walking around here alone.

[zajawa]

Not saying much he just followed other vampire back to the room with cages. He needed to go into the papers once again to see what cage it was.
"Four. It's the cage number four", he said softly and headed there right away.
In the cage was a men that looked more like a junkie. He was thin, his hair really messy and the stench... Why the fuck they didn't let them to shower? Even a bit? What a maddening place. And with the senses of vampire.. the smell alone was pretty maddening. Though it sure was the smallest worry of all the people that were in the place. Although when he walked by the dark haired, dark eyed young male seemed to be sane.
"You..", he whispered barely audibly. "You are not here to hurt us, right? Did you come to safe us?"
"Yes, we all came here to let you all free.."
The man, his name Moris, looked at Ashley with wide eyes for few long minutes and then started to cry,
"I-it's a-a-another dream, r-right? Another.. f-fake hope..", he sobbed making Ashleys heart squeeze with pity.

[RedRose4]

Ket walked with Ashley, staying alongside him and heading over to the fourth cage. He looked around and frowned. All the young man had in his cell was one thin blanket and a bucket just as the others did. Ket's eyes locked with Moris' when he heard him begin to cry, hearing those words and glancing at Ashley.
"No one will hurt you anymore." Ket whispered, getting up and heading over to a locked safe. Memorizing the combination, he pulled it open and looked through the keys, grabbing the one that had the number '4' beneath it and throwing Rayne the tenth key. Ket passed the key to Ashley, hoping that Moris would be okay after a little rehabilitation.

Rayne caught the key and went over to Alra, hearing a soft gasp escape her lips while she moved to the back of the cage. "No...his eyes, you have his eyes." She covered her ears and head, shaking it while whispering to herself.
"I'm not like him. Please...you need to trust me. Ashley is right over there, he'll make sure I don't hurt you okay?" Rayne unlocked the cage door but didn't open it all the way. He knew she looked to be sane, and had it written in her file, but he couldn't take a chance. "Come on, let me carry you. We'll bring you to the infirmary and give you some blood."

"Blood?" Alra peeked her eye over towards Rayne, carefully unwravling herself until she crawled over to the bars and nodded. "Protector is Ashley?" She asked.
"That's his name." Rayne managed to smile lightly while opening the cage up a little more, allowing Alra to crawl out. As he was about to pick her up, she flinched and backed away once more. "Look, there he is. If I hurt you, he'll kick my ass, promise."

Alra glanced at Ashley, nodding her head and allowing Rayne to pick her up. She flinched, feeling her bruised back being touched. Rayne on the other hand noticed he could feel her bones, she felt emaciated and it seemed as if they weren't giving her food at all, something that new vampires needed in order to keep up their body mass and strength. "You can get a nice burger too, maybe fries and a glass of milk on the side." Rayne whispered, glad to see Alra smile in reply.

[zajawa]

"Come on. No one will hurt you, Ket is right", said Ashley and reached to the other male.
Though he did something he didn't expect and bit hard into his hand. The smell of blood made the other vampires quite agitated. Ashley hissed.. but other than that didn't react. He just reached to other male and stroked his dirty hair.
"Come on.. I'm not your enemy.. I know you're able to fight the animal in you. The vampire side.."
After some longer time Moris let go of him. He probably had some blood not so long ago because if not he wouldn't beable to get a hold of himself. That was at least what Ashley thought.
"So.. you're r-real? You all are really?", he asked, another tear making it's way down his cheek.
"We are. And we came to free you. We will take you to the infirmary. Can you walk?", asked the young vampire.
"Yes.. they gave me blood yesterday.. I.. I-I thought i-it would b-be another.. another... I don't want to.. p-please."
"It's the end. There would be no more of that..", said Ashley, his voice a bit shaky from all the feelings that welled up inside his chest.

[RedRose4]

Ket went to Rayne, saying a few words before he put the key back and hurried back towards Ashley. The smell of his friends blood made his body tense, but he didn't say a single word. Instead, he watched and even admired how Ashley was with the man. He was so kind...and even if Ashley didn't see his own actions as commendable, he knew others had to notice it.
Ket saw how Ashley was reacting to it all, it was clearly overwhelming. Rubbing his friends back, Ket then looked at Moris and backed away so that the gate of his cell could be opened. "Take it slow when you walk...take your time."

Rayne went over to the other two, noticing Moris and being unable to help himself with smelling Ashley's blood. Clearly the young vampire didn't mind the bite, so Rayne dismissed it. "I'll bring her down once he's ready to come out." He said softly.
Alra was quiet now, her body lightly shaking while her head was buried against Rayne's chest, blocking out her sight in the process.

[zajawa]

Moris got out of the cage slowly.. looking almost like a ghost with how thin he was. He was able to walk but it was clear he must be really long in the cage and needed some time to get used to be move like normal people did.
"Take your time", said Ashley softly and looked a Rayne with a small nod, then his green eyes reasted on Alra when they got closer. "Alra? Are you alright? We soon will be heading downstairs.. we just need to give some time to Moris."

[RedRose4]

For the time being, Ket stood back and allowed Moris to get out on his own pace. Rayne on the other hand nodded in reply to Ashley and glanced down at Alra, seeing her eyes open when she heard Ashley speak.
With a soft nod of her head, the young woman bundled her hands up against her chest and whispered. "I'm...fine. And okay." Was all she said before looking at Rayne and asking kindly. "Will you be my Master? What's your...name." She croaked out.

Rayne looked bothered by her question, his blue eyes glancing over at Ashley before he mumbled to her. "I don't believe 'pets' are right. You'll be free...but my name is Rayne."
"Hm..Rayne." Alra said as her eyes closed again, remaining calm despite her body still shivering. The room was rather cold, and the woman only had on a nude coloured bra and underwear, while the males had on similar coloured boxers, nothing else. Seeing that the room had no ventilation or heating, it must have been freezing during the winter, and horridly hot during the Summer.

[zajawa]

When Ashley heard Rayne saying the thing about being a pet his eyes widened while he looked at him. There were many feelings playing inside him, making unable stay quiet or not ask what he wanted.
"You... you really..?", he asked and then blushed softly, realising just how he sounded. "I-I mean if you really think like that.. So far I met only two vampires, thinking like that.."
Moris had time for himself, to get used to walk and stand again so he didn't pay attention to other things for the time being.

[RedRose4]

Rayne's blue eyes focused upon Ashley when he heard his voice, nodding his head at his question and yet again vaguely smiling. "I'm not my brother. I oppose everything he does here which is why I do the opposite." Rayne then looked at Alra and whispered.
"If you'd like, you can work with me. You see...I have an amazing place where I live and I bet I can give jobs to each one of you. You'll get blood as payment as well as money." Rayne looked back at Ashley and began speaking to him. "Of course, if you'd like to have the vampires here for another purpose, I'd understand. But whenever they have the chance to roam free and walk outside, they have a place for them where they can work, to be normal again." Rayne finished off, his voice dipping into a more somber tone.
'Normal'. It was something half the population of vampires strived for since most didn't ask to be changed. It was forced upon them, and Rayne knew that the vampires in this room were victim of that.