-She had made Valentino as comfortable as a person can be made while strapped to a chair. At the moment the vampire was chained with precious silver that wrapped his body and gave off a vague scent of burning flesh where it touched him. Strapped as he was to one of the Skate Parks many tattoo and piercing chairs. The back of the chair was reclined so that Shane could work on him. A soft humming came from the engine of her tattoo gun as the needle plunged repetitively into the mans pale flesh.-
-The job of tattooing him was almost finished when the venom began to wear off and he started to stir. Chains clinked softly with the movements and she rushed to finish the job that she'd been doing. Of course he was a vampire, so she assumed that he could take a knife and skin off the area she had inked to get rid of it, but that didn't make it any less fun at the moment. Right on the mans groin was a tattoo of a coiled rad and black cobra with the words 'Property Of Shane" on a lovely bit of scrollwork. It did the intended job nicely. Might as well say 'Here Lies Shane's Bitch' and who knew. Maybe that would be the next one.-
-Finished she pushed back from his body, the rollers on her stool screeching slightly. The tattoo gun was set aside onto the metal tray she had set up for her equipment, and as she let the vampire come fully awake she began to disassemble and clean her equipment out. Stopping only once to lick her long fingers and taste the mixture of ink and vampire that musked them. When he seemed awake enough to hear her she began to speak.-
"Don't bother trying to get up pretty boy. I want to talk, and I have a feeling you're one of thossssse men who listenssss better when you're chained up and in a little bit of pain."
-Though it was said with a derisive snort she had to admit that she rather liked pain addicts. Their needs were simple and usually fit well with her tastes. Done with her equipment she rolled the cart away and turned to look down at the vampire chained up before her. She liked him better like this. Dirty, unkempt, and held down. Seemed to make him look better than when he was prancing around like a goddamn peacock with a boner.-
"We both know you hold the power to call my beassst. You let the sssnake out of the bag on that one. Maybe on purposssse, maybe not. Doesssn't really matter. I should just kill you for that," -Shane yawned lazily, showing a flash of those retractable fangs that he could remember the feel of piercing his neck, then continued.- "I don't know. Maybe I'm getting old, or maybe I've jusssst had a big week. But I think I'd rather make a deal with you than kill you. You want power. I want power. You want alliessss, sssso do I. But right now I'm holding all the cardssss big boy, and you haven't sssshown me anything worth believing in."
-Pulling her phone from her pocket she began to punch in numbers, connecting the phone to a three way call. The two numbers dialed were for two other people she had that seemed eager to join with her as allies in taking control of the city. Being a fair woman she wanted to give each of them a shot at grabbing the brass ring. Plus, it would be fun to see who got the nastiest in their pursuit of the prize.-
"Assss it happens I have two other alliesss who sssshould alssso be eager to prove themselves. Ssssso thisss little challenge will help me decide which of you I can trusssst. Which are the mossst useful, and which are expendable."
-The phone was on speaker as it called both Roxanna, the shapeshifter, and Cologiro, the leopards Nimir-Raj. Once both had answered and were ready for her instuctions she reached out and placed the phone on Valentino's bare stomach, just beside the new tattoo. Leaning forward with her hands planted on her thighs she spoke clearly so all three could hear.-
"Here'ssss your mission, should you chose to accept it. Find (*edited content*) and kill her by whatever means necessary. The three of you can team up if you're into playing nice, or you can fight each other to get to the prize. But bring me the bitchessss head, and whoever doessss thisss will win a wonderful prize. As for anyone who failsss in thissss misssion......well. Let'ssss just say you'll still serve your uses, but don't be surprised if in the new world order you find yourself as butt boy for the rest of ussss."
-After taking any last second questions from the two on the phone she hung up and put the phone back in the pocket of her skin tight leather pants. Looking Tino over her glossed lips pulled into a smile.-
"Believe me, I know that a Primogen must keep his nose clean, and if we are to join our powerssss then I will make sure your handssss ssstay clean. But I have to know who I can trussst, and I have to know which of you issss the most capable. You are Primogen, sssso prove it. Sssshow me whether or not you are fit to control those other two."
-Reaching out she twisted the key that would unlock the chains and flung them off with a sound like a ghost making music in the attic. Leaning back in her chair she did nothing to stop him from rising, only watched him with her depthless black eyes. Shane was eager to see what those three would come up with, and she was already laying bets in her head on who might win the prize. The other thing to debate was what to do with the loser. After all, if the three of them didn't team up then there would be a loser, and some punishment might be necessary. Punishment for not playing her game.-
It was rather late in the evening when Roxanna got the call from her secret admirer. She was laying in bed next to Alix and Kit, who were sound asleep. Alix stayed the night because he was exhausted from a long day of training with the more powerful shapeshifter; good thing her bed was big enough for two people and a dog.
"This is Roxanna De Luca."
She put the phone on speaker and did not say a word as soon as the woman on the other line began to talk. It was a mission. A mission to retrieve *beep* head, and she wouldn't be the only one doing it. She didn't know who the other two were, but apparently it was the Nimir-Raj and the Primogen of the city; Cologiro and Valentino. She did know this; she had no problem killing someone in order to have more allies, just in case a situation like this happened to herself and her shifters. Once the woman hung up, Roxanna stayed on the line with whomever it was.
"I accept the mission. I do honestly like a challenge that involves more than just a one-night stand, and being the most powerful of my kind, in which we are out numbered, I certainly wouldn't mind having a few more allies. Perhaps we can all meet up one day and discuss this like adults. If you decide to do it on your own, well just know that you're not alone. I come in different forms."
She hung up the phone as well, and curled next to Alix and Kit in bed. She couldn't wait to tell her new shifter the good news.
-- Edited by Roxanna on Wednesday 18th of March 2009 10:06:17 PM
Incestint buzzing around him as his vision slowly cleared, heat radiating through his body to the very core. Chest rattled as he tried to draw in a breath, a sand papery feel in his mouth as blurred vision slowly came into view. Where the hell was he? He looked down at himself, feeling the ornate silken white and golden robes of a Senator against his naked flesh, slick with sweat, as the sun radiated down on his body. Eyes of the palest silver gazed upwards at the shadow that loomed over him, seeing a mans nude body nailed upon wood, his electric blues, filled with such conviction and passion gazed down at him, causing him to feel worthless and guilty, yet wholely forgiven at one complicated time, hearing the words: You are my child, I forgive you, breathed upon the air, a single tear drop of solace s lid down the weathered, yet golden cheek of Pointus.
Bzzzzz....Bzzzzzz...Bzzzzz
The flies were getting worse as the sun beat down on the dying body before him. The sound growing louder as the flesh baked under the heat of his personal hell, or the devil laughing at the irony of the whole situation. The buzzing grew louder as hundreds of flies hovered and flitted around him, covering his groin area, biting into the slick wet flesh. His body jerked, arms unable to move to swat at the biting gnats, his temper rising as eyes snapped open further, the smell of burnt flesh and singed hairs filled his senses.
"Che cosa nella scopata? Dove sono? Che cosa lo pensate state facendo a me? Avete nessun indizio che sono!?" Thick, ancient dialect of fluent Romani rolled off of the Primogen's tongue as realization hit him of the severity of his situation. This was not a flash back, this was not a flock of flies eating at him.
He pressed against the restraints, the chromed gaze glaring at the Kadra as she made her mark on him, then told him what he was going to do for her? No, he might not have been in the best position at the moment, but he'd be damned if some lycan was going to have him play a game and be her whipping horse.
He listened to her proposition, the fact she wanted someone dead. Why couldn't her little nest just find her and deal with her snake style? He all but rolled his eyes at the female voice on the other end of the line as he held the phone on the flat abs, feeeling the cool power of Shane tickling him just below the surface.
Once she hung up the phone and he knew they were alone, he listened to her speech about how she wanted power, head tilting slightly with the mention of keeping his hands clean. When she released him, the chains falling from his reddened skin where the chains had lain, it took everything he had not to yell in pain. Swallowing it, he slowly moved from the chair, looking down at the mark on his flesh. That would be removed soon enough. He belonged to no one and the sooner she figured it out, the better.
Tino was going to have to feed and soon, his body could heal, but silver? He would need help. He'd be lucky to make it home at this rate, and he knew Sam must be going out of his rat's mind by now, his Master not having been home for who knows how long.
Licking lips, not bothering to hide his fangs, he slowly stepped over to where Shane was standing, staring down at her. He remained silent, intently looking into her eyes, calculating. What, was the question. Finally, lips parted as he spoke. "It was unintentional." The slap of his power to her beast, but she was smart enough to figure it out. He didn't figure an explination was needed.
"How do I know in the end, that I can trust you? You ask of who you can trust, bella morte, but can we trust you? Killing someone doesn't prove trust, it proves one is capable of ending a life. Isn't it more worth your time to capture and torture at your desire, having them beg you to end their life as you taste their blood on the air, taste their fear?"
A shrug of the bare shoulders as he finally looked around him. "If you want help, bella, I need more information on that which you want."
-Who knew vampires were such chatter boxes. Shane leaned back at complete ease in her chair as he stared down at her. That gaze which might affect some women into a swooning state did nothing for her. The cold blood which ran through her veins refused to be heated by the vampire standing over her glowering like a child who was threatening to take his marbles and go home rather than share with the other kids.-
"You don't know. But what you mosssst certainly do know issss that if you don't play then any hope you have will die. I'll make ssssure of that."
-Shane could do more than take Tino's life. She could do far worse as she had already proved to Cologrio. She could make those he cared for, those who trusted him, resent the day they had met him. She could burn and maim and destroy everything he held dear. Only on a whim. But what he could gain by playing along was something only she could offer. A nest of serpants who were strong, and puzzlingly good at adapting and surviving, as well as the power of those who had already allied with her.-
"To me death is ssssacred. To know that thossse who would be clossse to me will bleed for me isss important. It issss the only law in my jungle."
-She gave him some information on the other two he would be competeing with or against, as well as choice information about the victim intended (whose name has been emailed to all muns involved). Then she turned away from him and rose from her seat to go about the rest of her nightly business.-
"I'm tired of you for now. Come back when you have ssssomething to ssssshow me."