Let's Play!

The teenage years were the worst. It was a daily battle to keep your head on straight, and you had to slowly come to realize that the world was not that blissful place you knew it to be a few years ago. Your guardians pulled away from you and suddenly you were fending for yourself, fighting to keep your head above water. Yes, being a teenager was entirely sink or swim, fight or flight. Ajora had learned this the first time around, but that still didn't prepare her for round two.



Ajora was a vampire. Vampire... the word still seemed surreal to her. Sometimes she even woke up and couldn't believe that any of it had happened, but then she would glance at the mirror, and there was the proof. See, had Ajora had only been a vampire for twenty years or so. That firmly put her out of vampire infancy, but as her mentor started to drift away, leaving Ajora to her own devices, that also catapulted her into her "teenage" years.



What did that mean for the world? A moderately unstable woman was about to learn how wrong her perceptions had been... and, it was to be a hard lesson coming. Who knew what would happen? Especially when it came to leprechauns and trolls and banshees - oh my!







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Malykai had no one to blame but himself. If he would have used his better judgment, then he wouldn't have be sitting on a gurney while a masked nurse blotted his face with saline. If his conscience hadn't gotten the better of him, Kai would not have been in the... well, it should probably be best referred to as a storage facility. The commercial basement was public access and contained mostly dusty old books, but there were other things down there as well. Not that it wasn't obvious from the itching rash across his nose and eyes. One of the stacks had collapsed, dropping a box on his head.



That was what caused the white powder to explode everywhere. Subsequently he was confined to quarantine with the one other person who had been nearby. How long? Until they identified the mystery substance or until he died from anthrax, whichever happened first. As the nurse finished applying the calamine lotion to his skin, Kai looked over at the person, a woman, sitting on another gurney on the other side of the negatively pressurized room.



"I'm hoping for smallpox over the pneumonic plague. How about you?" Hooray for dry humor.

Ajora glanced to the curious man, looking to the windows, then back to the man, or more accurately, person, as she wasn't certain his age. He sincerely looked like a rather annoying and bothersome type of male. As if it weren't bad enough that she was in here, because of him, he was now attempting to make take with her like she cared. This certainly wasn't what she wanted to do, and there for was looking to the clouds about, sighing inwardly.



" I really don't care."



Yep, woot for honesty?

Malykai nodded slowly, not really knowing what else to say about that. The man was kind of short, only about 5'11". His brown hair had once been stuck up in spikes, but now it was just sort of messed up from the washing of the powder.



"Sorry..." That's all he could think of as he reached over to pick up an old Sports Illustrated.



"My name is Malykai, by the way. Most people just call me Kai, though." Not that that was really a lot of people. This twenty-three year old didn't have many friends - not that he wasn't friendly.

Ajora looked over, and shrugged slightly, looking back to her ceiling tile that had taken oh so much of her attention, thinking things over as she lay there, trying to debate on the pros and cons on remaining here. The largest con would be that they'd probably issue a medical breach until they discovered whatever they were covered in was harmless. She was, however, surprised that they'd not caught on to her near-dead heartbeat. Naturally, it was just a mimicked heart rate, as in normal circumstances she'd have none.

Malykai frowned a little at the brush-off. Apparently it didn't matter that he was friendly. She wasn't. Well, fine, be that way then. He scooted down into bed a little, reading the magazine.



The technician on duty was staring at the monitor screen, especially frustrated with Ajora's vitals. They had immediately figured out that she must have been an athelete, after all, why else would her blood pressure be so low and pulse so slow? Not to mention the fitness. However, this was no consolation for him, because every time he glanced at the monitor out of the corner of his eye, he nearly leapt for the defibrillator and slapped the huge red button. This was going to be a long night. Stupid lab... He wearily pressed the intercom and spoke.



"Are we doing alright? Any numbness, pain, nauseousness, altered vision, or dizziness?"

" All fine."



Ajora mumbled, glaring at the man before her, and then returned to staring at the screen above where the skylight was. She wasn't about to let them keep her here for very long, and expect her to stay..... He was in for it.

Kai glanced up, only to see that he was getting the death glare. He literally jumped. Yikes! What did I do?! Take numero... what were they at now? Kai: 0 Ajora: 3?



"What's your name?"

" Jane Doe."



she informed him casually, looking to her fingers now, frowning and starting to file her nails. where had she gotten the file from? Did it matter?

Malykai frowned at her.



"Oh come on. It's not like I did this on purpose. How about just a first name?"

Sighing, she looked him over, voice faint.



" Ajora."



she replied as she worked on her other hand.

Kai gave a bright grin.



"See? Was that so hard?"

" Yes."



She replied honestly, wondering if her toe nails looked anything like her finger nails.

Kai got up to walk around, sighing.



"Hey... Attendant... guy..." The nurse sighed.



"I am an observational therapist with specialized training in the epidimiology of toxins. How may I help you?" Okay then... Apparently everyone was in a bad mood tonight.

" Hey, dude who hasn't realized we're fine yet, I want out."



Warning number two. If she told him again, she was ready to bust out. ... Maybe she'd drag joke boy along.

The nurse pressed the button, sighing internally.



"Sorry, ma'am. I can't do that. We haven't gotten the lab results back and therefore must keep you under close observation." Kai shuffled slightly.



"...I just wanted one of those little white markers that write on glass..."

Ajora looked up at the monitor watching them.



" Don't say you weren't warned."



She replied simply, moving to wonder about the room, glad they'd left her clothes with her, as she was currently wearing them.

The nurse just rolled his eyes. However, there was a white marker brought to the room after a few minutes. As the first pressurized door opened, the female attendant waited for them to switch. The perfect escape time?

Ajora looked at the door, and actually casually wondered out the door when the nurse wasn't paying attention. How easy to be a vampire. not to mention, she easily knocked out the awaiting peoples outside the door. After that, she just kind of... vanished.

Kai stumbled backwards, falling flat on his butt.



"Ajora! Hands off!" His pupils were contracted into tiny little pinpricks in the field of gray as he stared at her.



"...Holy loli pops."

Releasing his arm in the corn field they now stood in, Ajora shook her head, brushing off soem random twigs that were kicked up by their appearance.



" See ya skippy."

Kai leaped to his feet.



"Wait... Stop." The man stumbled slightly as he tried to keep his balance. His voice was half an octave higher, but then he tried to calm himself, and it dropped back to normal tones for his next statement.



"Whatever you are... You are going to burn."

Ajora sighed, stopped, rolling her eyes, looking to Kai.



" Are you serious?"



She asked, looking over him.

Malykai stopped and stood there, rubbing his forehead without saying anything. Then, after a minute or so, his pupils dialated back to a normal size and he looked at the woman with earnest and fearful eyes.



"Totally and completely. I would normally be a little more subtle, but seeing as I am mysteriously standing in a corn field... I was hoping there was no need?" He couldn't help but take a couple steps back. He was fighting the urge to run away from this bizarre woman.



"I... um... I don't know the place... But... There is going to be a fire. A fire so hot that there are blue flames in some places... Maybe a gas fire then?" He was reasoning through this as he spoke.



"And you are going to burn." Without his help, that is.

Ajora looked him over, eyebrows raising.



" Vision or threat?"



She asked casually, eyes resting upon the man.

Malykai raised his hands in vast surrender.



"Vision! I swear I wouldn't threaten you! I don't even know what you are, but that seems like a death wish to me!" He took another step back, seriously considering running again.



"...Please don't hurt me."

Ajora rolled her eyes again.



" this is why I don't talk to people. Your safe by me."

Kai lowered his hands.



"Okay... I'm sorry. It's just... there was this one time..." He trailed off for a moment.



"I still won't go back to Wisconsin." The man tugged his sleeves down a little further, glancing around at the corn.



"Where are we?"

" Nebraska."



she replied simply, looking at him casually, starting to walk.

Malykai's eyes widened and eyebrows shot up.



"What?!" Then, after a second or two, he jogged after her, though not without accidentally smacking himself with a cornstalk or two in the process.



"Why Nebraska? Where in Nebraska?"

" Safe. Good distance away, in the middle of nowhere with little risk."

Malykai sighed.



"Great... The hospital had my wallet..." Now he was going to have to jump through hoops. Oh well... He could always eat the corn until then.



"How'd we get here?"

" Faith, trust, and pixie dust."



she replied with the sliest of smirks, wondering off still, pushing stalks down as she went.

Kai rolled his eyes.



"Alright, Tinker Bell. Are you always so dodgy? I'm trying to be polite. After all, I believe I was just kidnapped by a random supernatural being." Hint hint, nudge nudge, what-the-heck-are-you?

" I could have left you there, if you'd prefer, I can return you."

Malykai thought for a minute or two.



"You know, I think I might be okay with the corn field. I'm not sure they would release me when I went to explain where I've been. Not too keen on the 'abducted by aliens' idea..." When would the corn end?!

Finally they came upon a little broken down barn, and abandon farm house. hurray for luck.

Kai came over the hill, rather withdrawn for the time being. This wasn't the first time he had happened across another biological anomaly and it was by far not the first time he had 'seen' one, but that didn't make it any less awkward.



"Or a house. A house would be nice." He looked over the door for a minute before pushing open the door. It smelled old inside. He glanced around, looking over the objects in the entryway.



"Seventeen, four, fifty-two."

Shrugging, she wondered on inside, and started to sweep and rummage for new clothing.



" So, what is you view on making yourself at home for one night."

Malykai glanced up at her.



"If my choices are sleep in an old abandoned house or sleep in the middle of a cornfield, you have to know I'm going to pick the house." He closed the door behind him, rummaging through the pantries. There was a lot of canned corn... Of course, the cans all had a thick layer of dust on them, so their age was nothing but a mystery.

Modesty lost sometime during the years, Ajora was shirtless and ready to become more then that before she caught herself, and glanced to her little talkative companion, moving on into another room to change. Honestly, it was probably to spare his thoughts at the moment.





Once changed, she stretched and yawned slightly, looking about.



" it's not be abandon more then ten years.... Too new of a dresser in the otehr room to be otherwise."