[Prelude] Vampires and Witches

For the Queen of Demon World, hohoho, it had been a very ho'hum day of dealing with Demonic Affairs within her office deep in the pits of Demon World. Many events had happened to her that may seem like a bizzare day to most non-demons or people with a sane head twisted around their shoulders, but it was utterly uninteresting to the Queen after performing these tasks day in and day out over and over. For starters, The Queen was seen Decipating the heads of many traitorous demons whom dared go against hers and King Touketsu's will with that infamous green scythe of hers that even had the force to bring down the once mighty city of London, signing death warrants of Demon's, Iramasha's, Shinigami and Humans alike for her followers to terminate, bringing fresh and new blood into the walls of Sin Fall, dealing with the other Archdukes of Sin Fall and giving them their orders for this upcoming war in the winter and many other tedious and quite frankly, BORING ordeals that had to be done by the Queen. Eventually, hehehehe, it reached a critical point where The Queen herself felt like she needed a solid break from all this boring madness. Therefore, without saying a word to others, she flapped on her little bat wings and escaped silently from the Sin Fall base and eventually made her way out of Demon World not too long afterward.

Heh, with Mana's mastery of The Demonic Arts Of Magic, it was not that hard for the Queen of Demon's to conjure up a way to propel herself through the many different realms of existence that comprised a world much larger then very few people could comprehend. Thus, with this knowledge in mind, using just a simple flick of her right wrist, Mana had easily created a black dimensional portal that could lead to just about anywhere she damned pleased. Riding through the dark cosmos on her trusty scythe, Mana sat down on end of her blade and began to think of just where in the hell did she want to visit? Rubbing her chin as the blaring sounds of high speed travel blurred around her, eventually, something tugged on her soul. Patting on her chest, Mana blinked and realized that her senses for her dear sister, Asheli, was tingling. Despite being an unimaginable distance away from the Nuevo Espada Leader, Mana's bond with her was one that could transcend the laws of physics itself to feel when her loving sister needed her. So, with a wriggle of her nose, she knew right where she was going to within this tunnel of darkness. "Hehehehe, take me to Queen Asheli's location!" And with those set of words finally finished leaving Mana's pale white lips, The Demon Queen was almost immediately consumed within a blazing, bright green light that had made it seem like she had almost spontaneously combusted; but this was just a custom demon spell she had forged in order to teleport her instantly to wherever Asheli's Spiritual Pressure could be detected. Much like the Iramasha's Chaos Warp, for an example. As they to can pin-point where a powerful person is, lock on to that location and then get there via Chaos Warp. This is the same logic.

At any rate, she was already one hundred feet away from Asheli's location with the speed she had traveled. If Asheli had her senses in tact, she would notice a very powerful aura approaching rapidly above her. In fact, she wouldn't even need her super senses. Upon Mana's arrival, there was a flash of green and white light above the skyscraper that the Nuevo Espada Leader was currently standing on. Very soon after her arrival, Mana would be seen jumping off of her scythe and using the reishi in the air to seemly walk through skies like most advanced fighters could do. From there, she called out to her scythe to reemerge in the palm of her right hand and pointed it upwards towards the sky. "This scenery within The Kokuryuteshi's Realm always depresses me, fuh-fuh-fuh, hopefully Kin won't mind if I change this small area for the time being. I can't stand how quiet things are." Spoke Mana out loud to anyone who could hear; not realizing she really did have a strong point in her comments about the surroundings.

If anyone were to take a good look around this small section that two Queen's were currently in, the air would have seemed very quiet within the space that Asheli and Mana had filled up. Despite being such an enormous, ever-growing and ever-expanding metropolis, this section of Kokuryu City had seemed all but alive. If you were to try perform a murder, in fact, this would be the perfect place to pull it off without attracting too much attention. It was that quiet and dark. Therefore, Mana felt that a slight change in scenery was needed and was sure Kin would not mind the slight alterations. Since, after all, she didn't intend to stay here even a full day. So, with a twirl her scythe, Mana began to cast her demonic magic upon the entire area as the skies within a five mile radius began to gradually change from that dark purple sky cast, to a brighter green colored skyline in the matter of a half minute. Smiling at the fact her demon spell went correctly, Mana felt more at home within this jungle of concrete buildings.

And, with that out of the way, Mana had time to finally make her way over towards the Pink-Haired leader of The Espada and all other Hollow; Asheli Clixx. If you were up close and personal with The Demon Queen, you could get a better look at her appearance. At the moment, Mana had shifted her skin-tone to a mixture more pale-white color with a hint of green in it. You see, Mana had the ability to easily shift the shade of her skin between a regular Caucasian tone, shifting down to a totally pale white skin color and sometimes even mixing up all three to get a truly weird complication. From what Mana could gather about her body, this may or may not have been side effect of taking so much of Touketsu's energy within her being. With that aside, another dominating trait that was noticeable about Mana was the pair of bat-like wings on behind her. These were attached to her back and black in color like most bats, however, these had a habit of going from the top of her shoulders, to the center of her back and even down to her waistline. Since Mana had such a mastery over her body was adjusted, she sometimes used this a defensive mechanism due to the special hidden ability these wings had. That, and apart from the special power these wings had, Mana herself also felt it looked pretty cool in an fashion sense. So hell,. why not keep these nice little bat wings?

Now, moving along, yet another intense trait that most would notice about Mana's appearance is the pair of very sharp horns on the top of her hair. The pair of horns, just like her skin, could range in many different colors from time to time. Today, they were jet black in color so it would be hard to see them at night unless she was directly in front of you or under a street light. However, on other days, these spikes could sometimes be green or bright green in color, a mixture between green and black, a bright white color with black spots or sometimes emitting a strange green aura in combat. It all depends on what mode she sets her horns in as these can also be used in battle sometimes to gore her opponents. Heh, as a matter of act, it was sometimes very amusing for Mana to torture her opponents by constantly tearing apart their organs with her horns over and over again until they eventually blacked out from the sheer pain. Oh, such delicious agony! But, alas, there is still more to Mana's body that we must get to.

Our next subject would be Mana's memorizing eyes. Each of them were dark green in color, but sometimes within the dark, they could easily be scene emitting an ominous glow if The Queen had wished it. This helped Mana see within shadow's, find out what the opponent was doing from miles away, look at the reishi in the air and so on and so forth. And, just like everything else on her body at this point, she could shift her eye color from black to green in an instant. There was also a blood red color, but that was mostly saved for situations in which she is partaking in a serious fight or royally pissed off at you. (Haha, royally.) Apart from these dominating traits in her appearance, not many really noticed the black polish on her fingernails, though they to were also a combat ability more then something for looks. Mana also had lengthy black hair that stretched down to her shoulders and really pulled off the "image" she had. Finally, as for what she was wearing now, Mana could be seen with a short black dress that had long sleeves on it together with a white bow on the right side of it. The Queen also had on a pair of black gloves on each of her hands that went well with the long black stockings on her legs and her black flat-fitted shoes. Thus, this completes what hte queen was wearing and how she looked.

"I see your still the same as always, huh Lil' Sister?" In a more accurate sense, Asheli had thousands of years on Mana's existence if you count her past life. However, in this relationship, Mana always felt like she was the big sister. Besides, in this day and age, your power is the only way to determine your true age. And if we were to add that into factor, Asheli and Mana were more or less equal aged sisters. But, none the less, Mana proceeded on her with her conversation with her dear sister. "Mind if I take a lick, hun?" Giggling a bit, Mana faded away into the shadow's and emerged out of a black portal next to Asheli's side. "That looks mighty tasty to me~!" Then, if the Espada Leader would allow Mana permission, The Demon Queen would proceed to take large licks of the blood off of Asheli's face as she made a satisfying sigh afterward; rubbing her belly a bit and grinning slightly.

"Mmmm, your blood is truly exquisite, sister." Said Mana as she would hopefully be licking the remains of Asheli's blood from across her lips. "Feel like sampling mine today?" With a devious smile on her face, Mana proceeded to use her demonic magic to cut a large opening in her skin and placed her arm on Asheli's lap. "Feel free to suck whenever you like, hun~" Patting Asheli's head, Mana then proceeded to grin a bit. It felt really nice to have some casual time with her dear sister with all the madness going on within the world. After all, Mana is one of the few people who truly knows what the scope of this upcoming war will be like with Touketsu guiding her. Things are going to get bloody, nasty and chaotic; all things in which Mana loved, but knew that she and Asheli were in danger of being consumed by it. Therefore, this was the perfect time to spend some quality time with her before everything went to hell in a hand basket.

So, with those thoughts in mind, Mana hten placed her head against Asheli's shoulder and smiled. "So, dear sister, what are your plans for today? Why are you all the way out in Kin's world today? Something up?"

Ashlei continued to sit there and wait. Things were going to be boring to begin with so Ashlei had to find a way to entertain herself and biting her thumb is a small pass time she made up one day after falling over. She tripped down the straight and even though she was aware she was falling and she was ready to prime her wings to stop her from falling, she fell anyway to see the end result. This all happened in las Noches where the stairs go on forever so Ashlei was falling for a good 2 minutes before she hit the floor covered in wounds and even a few broken bones. People gathered to her but amazingly she stood up. Grabbing her broken arm with her bruised arm she yanked the entire limb off and used the blood inside to regenerate her arm again to peak condition. Because that is what Ashlei was like: She could regenerate her entire body by drinking even her own blood or the blood of others.

Soon after doing this she sneezed randomly and after doing so, found she blew a bubble with her lips made of blood. Thus she invented the bubblegum blood and found it a humorous method to keep herself entertained without killing people. Suppose that phrase 'got any gum' does have stress relief meanings. Ashlei still sat there not moving. It was as though she knew something was happening. Well that wasn't far off. Whenever her sisters are nearby, Ashlei's gut starts to flutter like butterflies and it can even make her sick sometimes. It's lucky Ashlei has that blood on her face so she can at least regenerate her gag reflex if it started to play up. Somebody was coming and that was great. Finally some company.

Ashlei stood up from her sitting position and brushed her silk soft hands through her beautiful princess hair. This was the best way to denote if it was Ashlei or somebody else your talking to. Those crimson streams of hair dangled across her back and almost down to the floor, barely covering her forehead and a little of her eyes. She looked like a dead princess with hair like that trailing behind her. Winds would pick up and blow her hair about like crazy creating a sort of northern lights effect with her hair flowing behind her. You could say you could grab those strings of brilliant silky hair to stop her from running away but trust her when she says you can't do that. She wouldn't care if she had to pull her hair out to escape somebody. Thats what regeneration is for.

Ashlei looked up to check the scenery around her and where this energy was coming from. She could sense with her ever keen senses that somebody was shooting to her location at a rapid pace. Most people wouldn't be able to detect such a thing but this is Ashlei were talking about. Her detection ability could cover all of Karakura easily with room to check the sky. Ashlei was constantly checking reitsu signs through her feet so you would never tell she was detecting people. Soon though, she could feel something in the sky was shuddering ad a rift would appear to reveal a lone figure zooming out. Ashlei knew exactly who this person was that shot through: A girl, looking about Ashlei's age but appearing much more demonic. Where Ashlei was the vampire, this girl was the witch. Ashlei stared with those ruby eyes of hers. Those eyes that shone in the moonlight and have her face a radiant feel. Ashlei looked beautiful to anybody but maybe thats what a vampire was supposed to look. She then spoke with those soft lips of hers, never cleaning up that blood from her face.

Mana...

The shock caused the winds around Ashlei to pick up a bit. Their conflicting reitsu signs were hidden but obviously moving. The wind shot right through Ashlei's legs, chilling her jet black tights and uplifting that victorian styled dress she was wearing. She looked like she belonged in a victorian mansion the way she was wearing those clothes. A long black Gray school-like dress with a white under shirt and a frilled section underneath. However, Ashlei wasn't one to wear damn frilly shorts to keep her legs warm. Her black tights can do that for her. Instead, she just wore her casual panties, red in colour with the chibi vampire on the front. Can;t blame her for wearing that really.

Mana had appeared in the sky before Ashlei and revealed her presence by performing some peculiar spell. The purple black sky suddenly grew into a deep green to change the atmosphere to something mana must prefer. Ashlei wiped her forehead with the back of her hand, brushing a bit of blood off by accident and then eagerly looking at her hand. She then lifted this bloody hand to the sky and spoke to herself.

Know....I would have preferred it red...

But that wasn't Ashleis decision. Mana liked green, Ashlei liked red. It's only one of the many differences the two girls have. However, the library of similarities will always exist. ANother similarity would be those wings the girls have. Mana's would appear smaller at this point compared to Ashleis but there was always a hidden trick up their sleeves. Ashleis wingspan could grow to an absolutely gargantuan size to a point where walking through the countryside would cause her to hit things as she passed them. Ashlei wasn't fully aware of Mana's perception on her own wings but this just gave Ashlei something to think about. But then this leads onto another difference the girls share.

Mana's head was decorated with a fabulous pair of black horns. Ashlei certainly liked the look of them and in her honest opinion, would let mana 'impale' her any day if she understood the meaning behind that. Ashlei on the other hand didn't have that. Instead, she had yet another pair of wings. Instead of growing from her forehead, Ashlei's wings grew from just behind her elf-like ears. Her ears were indeed pointed but this lets her hear things better. Those little wings just behind them however were just enough to cover her eyes and pretend to be the masked crusader for a few minutes of if she forgot her glasses. In fact, this was a time Ashlei couldn't be hassled with wearing her glasses. Why would that be? It's because Mana had come down from the sky and done something rather peculiar. However, it was expected from Mana to do it and Ashlei was all in favour.

Ashlei could feel Mana's slender tongue stroking her cheek, wiping away the blood that had dirtied it. Mana wasn't going to let Ashlei walk around with a dirty face was she? But to clean it with her tongue? This just made Ashlei's body tingle at the prospect of slamming her down and going nuts but luckily, Ashlei was in the right mind to not assault her sister for something so stupid. Ashlei spoke as Mana went about her duty and licked Ashlei clean.

M...Mana...oh...

Somehow, Ashlei was just imagining this as a damn sex scene but that was just in her nature. She wanted to say something but suddenly lost all thought and then couldn't be bothered to remember. Instead, Ashlei raised her arms, even the hand that had some blood littering the back and hugged her in a tight embrace. The two girls never got to see each other thanks to their damn work. Ashlei barely even interacted with her sisters anymore. if you really thought about it, Ashlei was all alone in this world and she wasn't used to it. Ashlei's grip loosened as she heard Mana suggest something to her. Would Ashlei like a taste of Mana? Well Ashlei would never say no to this just because of who she was but when Mana raised her arm to Ashlei, she noticed just how intimate the two girls were. Ashlei's hands held onto this soft arm of Mana's and her head bent down to greet the gold mine of luxury. Ashlei's lips slowly opened as her tongue slowly slipped out and onto Mana's arm. She then proceeded to lick off the blood from the wound mana had just performed. Her tongue wasn't grainy or like sandpaper at all. It was soft and silky just like the entirety of Ashlei;s body. She bathed in blood, she drank blood, she lived for blood and it made her this soft and gentle to feel. Ashlei then raised her head again after cleaning up her sisters arm and smiled with a little dribble of red coming across her right cheek.

Thank you Mana...

This was about as far as happiness was going to go tonight as something would seen distract Ashlei. The sound of mechanical shuddering and static rung through her ears as she could hear the statical teleporting that came from the Espadas messenger: Lucy heart. A holographic version of the girl appeared. Her body was half metal half flesh, one of Ashlei's successful projects. her hair was long and blonde, braided behind her to the floor. Her eyes were covered with a metal visor and her upper body was dressed in a thin sci-fi suit. Her lower half however was bladed with two sharp edges for her legs. She hovered just above ground level before the two girls and spoke with her emotionless programmed voice.

My lady

Ashlei looked at her in disgust. Why did she appear? Damn it. Things were going lovely and Ashlei didn't want to have work get in her bloody way again! maybe she would pull lucy's arms off to teach the girl to never interrupt her when she is away.

What do you want Lucy...

Ashlei sounded rather bothered as she had to let go of Mana's arm and turn to this hologram projection of the girl. Lucy bowed before Mana's presence and then began to speak.

My lady, I regret to inform you that Nada, our Espada of number 1 has been killed in battle. My indicators detected his body was under strain before blanking out. I could not pinpoint his location after he had died...

Ashlei stared at Lucy for a moment, taking in this crap. She then raised her fist, and pretty much levelled the top layer of the roof with her fist. her hand slammed into the ground followed by a loud: DAMMIT! from the vampires mouth. She made sure not to break the actual roof, but the entire roof was now a messy rubble with some bits pointing directly upwards instead of to the side like they should be. Ashlei lifted her hand, not cut of from the floor and placed it on her forehead so she could think. Lucy then started to talk again.

It...I... apologies but...Kimimaro your possibile trecera has...also..

Ashlei had had enough of this godforsaken conversation as she fired a cero in Lucy's direction, cutting the hologram to shreds so she couldn't hear that girls voice again. It wasn't lucy's fault but right now Ashlei was pissed off. Her espada had just dropped to 4 members including herself. How else was she supposed to feel. The cero travelled for a good way before exploding in the distance creating a large sphere of energy that would take a buildings life. Ashlei then slumped onto the floor, not caring about her appearance looking good for Mana any more. She was unhappy, as bloody tears built up in the corners of her eyes...

...She was slowly losing everyone...