Bride of Camula

TITLE: Bride of Camula
AUTHOR: WotanAnubis
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters and am not making a profit.
RATING: NC-17
PAIRING: Alexis/Camula


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Alexis dreamed.

She sometimes had lucid dreams. Not often, but frequently enough to recognise them and influence them if she wanted them to. She usually didn't. She never really had nightmares and she rather enjoyed seeing her dreams play out in front of her eyes. Changing them was more effort than it was worth.

The dream she enjoyed now was pleasantly uneventful. She sat at the base of a tree near the lake. The sun shone brightly, there was a pleasant breeze and a pair of Cure Mermaids were playing with each other amongst the waves. There was nothing to do except enjoy the sunshine. And perhaps the sight of the frolicking mermaids.

Alexis leaned back, closed her eyes and looked up at the bright afternoon sky. Or the star-filled night sky. It seemed to be either one or the other at any given time, though she couldn't see both at the same time. It was a bit like the trick drawing of the vase and the faces, but with the sky. Slowly the sun faded and the moon became brighter until the afternoon had gone and only the night was left. All sound faded until there was only silence.

"Ah, ze creatures of ze night. Vot vunderful music they make."

Alexis sprang to her feet and turned around quickly to see Camula leaning against the tree she had just been sitting against. The green-haired vampire smiled knowingly.

"Everything's quiet," Alexis said.

Camula righted herself. "Yes, I know," she said. "But it is vot people expect."

Still smiling in a way that worried Alexis though she couldn't quite put her finger on why, the slender creature moved closer, leaving the shade of the tree and allowing the moon to bathe her body in its light.

"Stay back," Alexis said, wishing for a crucifix.

"Back?" Camula said. "But this is a dream. Vot can I possibly do to you here, hmm?"

Alexis thrust out her arm and waved her crucifix in front of the vampire's face. "I mean it."

Camula gently took Alexis's hand lowered it. "Come now. Can ve not talk about this as adults?"

"There's nothing to talk about," Alexis said as she yanked her hand free.

"Oh, but there is," Camula said. "You see. I vont to live again. And since I vas not slain by a stake or had my head chopped off, the vay is open for me to return. But I need... help."

"You're not seriously thinking I'm going to give you that help?"

"Oh no, of course not." Camula smiled again. "Not vithout incentive."

"There's nothing you can offer me."

Camula reached out and stroked Alexis's chin. Her hand was very warm for a dead undead creature, yet she couldn't stop herself from shivering at her touch.

"There is much I can offer you."

Alexis moved further away. "I don't care. You're evil."

"Evil?" Camula laughed and Alexis hated how the sound made her feel all warm inside. "Come now. Your kind committed unprovoked genocide against mine. My desire to repay your atrocity in kind vas only fair. But zat is the past. Let us look to the future. A future in vhich I am your devout and loyal servant."

"What?"

"You still have not grasped my intentions? Very well then, let me be blunt. I will serve you for the rest of your mortal life in vhatever capacity you vish. Furthermore, since I know you vill insist, I shall never again seek to destroy your entire kind nor shall I drink the blood of the unwilling. And in return, all I ask is to live again."

"That... sounds fair, I guess," Alexis said.

"Fair? It is more than fair, I should say," Camula replied.

"But how do I know I can trust you?"

Camula gave her a mockingly hurt look. "Vhy must you distrust me so? In any case, for me to come back I vill need to drink some of your blood. Blood that you vill give to me of your own free vill, I must stress. As a result zat blood shall bind us together in vays you cannot yet comprehend. And it vill force me to keep my end of ze bargain."

"And I'm supposed to just take your word for that, am I?"

Camula shook her head. "How hopeless your life must be if you have so little trust."

"I have a lot of trust in a lot of people. You're not one of them."

Camula looked her in the eye, nailing her to the spot. "Yet."

Alexis managed to tear her gaze away. "Why are you bothering me with this?"

"Vell, to be honest, if I am going to be a servant I would rather I serve a woman. Men are... entertaining, to be sure, but I vould not want to be a slave to any of them. You, on the other hand... I am sure it vould be very... satisfying to serve you."

"Well, I..."

Alexis's eyes widened when she felt Camula take her hands. She looked up to see the vampire's face near her own, their bodies now only inches away. She hadn't even noticed her move. She did notice how the moonlight seemed to enhance her already beautiful face. It was a strange, intense, inhuman, predatory beauty, but beauty all the same.

"You need not decide just yet," Camula whispered. "Instead, allow me to give you a taste of vot my service to you could be like."

Camula kissed her. It was not what Alexis had expected. She didn't know exactly what she had expected, only that it wouldn't have been as gentle as it was. Camula's lips were soft, warm and deliciously intoxicating. The vampire's kiss made her feel warm and cherised. Impulsively, Alexis embraced Camula to deepen the kiss and press their naked bodies together.

Camula withdrew, her eyes briefly glancing down at Alexis's bare skin, and smiled, her fangs glinting in the moonlight. Alexis supposed she ought to feel ashamed that she had so readily exposed herself, but then again, this was only a dream. She was free to express her desire here, even if it was one she secretly knew she wasn't really supposed to have.

Alexis watched Camula slowly lower herself and felt her hands gliding down her back. She hissed softly when Camula kissed one of her breasts, her tongue playing with the nipple. The warmth she'd felt before was nothing compared to the heat the vampire awoke within her. As the woman kissed and licked her breasts and teased her nipples into hardness, Alexis felt her arousal grow larger and more intense than it had ever been before. She realised that this was mostly because the only real experience she'd ever had was fingering herself, whereas Camula had had centuries.

A moan escaped from Alexis's lips when Camula flicked one of her nipples with her tongue. It was ridiculous how aroused Camula had made her and how much pleasure she gave her with every well-placed kiss. If the vampire stepped away from her now and demanded her blood before paying any further attention to her body Alexis wasn't sure she would be able to resist the temptation.

But Camula didn't step away, didn't deny her her pleasure. If anything, her moans only seemed to encourage the vampire to keep toying with her breasts. So when Camula's lips did seem to depart from her breasts, Alexis couldn't stop a suprised whine of disappointment. But instead of stepping away and issuing demands, the vampire kneeled the grass.

Alexis gasped when she felt Camula's breath caress her pussy. She looked down to see the vampire looking up at her. She was smiling a very strange smile. Then she realised it only appeared strange to her simply because, for once, there did not appear to be even a hint of malice in it.

"It is good to see I am so... appreciated," Camula said.

Even if Alexis had wanted to reply, a pair of Camula's fingers brushing against her slit crushed whatever she would have wanted to say and turned into a lustful moan. The vampire brought her now glistening fingers to her face. Feeling her breath become heavier by the moment, Alexis watched Camula delicately lick some of her juices from her fingers.

"Not quite as good as blood," Camula said, "but very enjoyable in its own vay. Vould you mind if I tasted more?"

"N-no," Alexis breathed.

"Thank you."

Camula put her hands on her hips and kissed her again.

The silence of the night was shredded by Alexis's scream as she felt the vampire's lips press against her wetness. Her breasts had been sensitive enough, but the feelings Camula evoked in her now dwarfed everything that gone before. Alexis felt her pleasure flare inside of her body, lust dancing around her every nerve. She felt her legs weaken as though her naked body had only just enough energy to experience what Camula gave her and didn't have enough left to keep her upright.

As though recognising what her lips were doing to her, Camula carefully lowered Alexis to the ground. Once Alexis felt the grass tickling her back Camula resumed her attentions. Feeling the vampire kiss her up and down her slit, Alexis could do nothing but lie and moan with pleasure. Part of her dreaded what her tongue might do to her once it lapped her clit or slithered into her, but most of her yearned for it. She feared the sheer pleasure might tear her mind to shreds, yet she could not help but long for it.

Alexis reached down and grabbed Camula's long green hair with her hand without knowing why. She had no desire to push the vampire closer to her, to force her to drink from her, nor did she feel the need to pull her away and save herself from the frightening pleasure. If there was a thought behind it, it would have been that she felt the need to hold onto something real as she lost herself in lustful emotion.

The dream faded. The stars blurred, the grass could no longer be felt, the lake vanished and the tree seemed further and further away. But the moon had not lost its brightness, illuminating their naked bodies and causing stark shadows to shift across Alexis's as she writhed and bucked. She screamed again when Camula used her tongue to enter her and the force of it tore away everything. Only she remained with Camula between her legs and the moon shining above her.

Acting on pleasure and animal lust, Alexis writhed obscenely in response to Camula's exploring tongue. She moaned and moaned, hardly even pausing to take a breath. Her juices flowed eagerly into Camula's mouth and her whole body was on fire.

Alexis came, her orgasm taking her both by surpise and being long awaited. Her back arched and her body bucked and quaked as the pleasure flooded through her. She did not know or care how long her climax shook her body, but she wished it could be forever. The orgasm burned away her lust, leaving her with wings of pure pleasure with which she might fly to the moon.

Breathing slowly and carefully, Alexis returned to earth and found herself lying on the grass once more. Camula was on top of her, looking at her with curious fondness.

"That was only a taste?" she breathed.

"A demonstration of my skill, yes," said Camula. "Now, vould you still object to having me as your... companion?"

"You swear you're not going to hurt anyone?"

"I swear."

"OK. Then you can drink some of my blood."

Camula smiled and kissed. First on the lips, then in her neck.

Alexis winced, but the pain she felt as Camula's fangs punctured her skin wasn't as bad as she thought it would be. She felt her blood flow from her body into Camula's and saw with strange, light-headed clarity how her life became Camula's and how Camula's life became hers.

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Alexis blinked rapidly a couple of times when she woke up. The early morning sun shone in her face. She yawned and decided she might as well get up.

The memory of last night's dream came back to her. It certainly had been an... interesting one. She couldn't figure out if it had been a nightmare or not. No, it hadn't been a nightmare. Just because it had a vampire in it didn't make it a nightmare.

Ah well.

Alexis threw off her blankets, got up and froze.

A large black coffin sat next to her closet.

It took a while before she managed to lure her mind out of hiding again. It seemed her life was about to become very... interesting.