And then there was Darkness

He saw her. Yes, often in his thought dreams, and fantasies but not he saw her in the flesh. He knew it was real because it was more intoxicating than he remembered. He Loved her and hate himself and her for it.

Tatyana stood framed in the door way. Every detail of her porcelain skin and silk hair was perfect. Mortals admire beauty in some things that are flaws but only on a level they can not perceive. Yet, to the minute detail which Lord Tyros could observe she was perfect.

"Come to me Tyros, Your loyalty devotion and protection are again needed." Here honey covered words broke the shocked silence which seems to have lasted years as he drank in all of her. Yet he remembered who he was before he met her, before she changed him.

He spoke, "I can't take one more step towards you, because all that is waiting is regret." Anger coated his words, "Don't you know I'm not your ghost anymore."

"Then I've lost the love I love the most."

Unable to stop his tidal wave of words, "Because of you I learned to live only half alive. And now you want me one more time. I heard from Valkaryie you were asking all around to find me. But I have grown too strong to ever fall back into your arms. And who do you think you are
Running 'round leaving scars?
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
So don't come back for me."

The Vampiress was taken back by the rare display of defiance shown by a man she has loved. Compassion entered into her voice, "I made you what you are because I needed to know that someone good could still love me. That I wasn't unloveable. You look into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core where I've become so numb
Without a soul, my spirit sleeps somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home.
Now that I know what I'm without
You can't just leave me
Breathe into me and make me real
Bring me to life."

Tyros felt his once beating heart threaten to give out, "And it took so long just to feel alright
Remember how to put back the light in my eyes
I wish I had missed the first time that we kissed
Cause you broke all your promises
And now you're back
You don't get to get me back

And who do you think you are
Running 'round leaving scars
So don't come back for me
Don't come back at all"

She recoils, " You misunderstand me, I'm not some monster, I've been living a lie
There's nothing inside. I am frozen inside without your touch
Without your love, darling
Only you are my life among the dead" It was exactly everything he wanted to hear and because he wanted it so much he was horrified of those words and what if caused him to feel. Perhaps he could obtain her approval.
She continued, "I was a fool to abandon you in favor of Darkness. Though I saved him, he can not fill the emptiness in me. All this time, I can't believe I couldn't see
Kept in the dark but you were there in front of me
I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything, and see you."

She glides up to him stroking his cheek. The feeling of love and needing become almost uncontrollable. He grabs her hand. . . and pushes is away, "And who do you think you are
Running 'round leaving scars
Collecting your jar of hearts
And tearing love apart
You're gonna catch a cold
From the ice inside your soul
Don't come back for me"
He pushes her away like she were a disease because that is what she is, he grasps to Galan's words that "Now you can be whatever you choice to be." He knows what he must do what only he can do. He pulls out his swords, but before he can strike he sees something else in the doorway. Something that grabs his attention, something he has never seen before, DARKNESS.

Two easy strides made at lightning speed even for a vampire's standards. Tyros feels something he has not felt in over 6000 years -- fear. He swings and strikes but the strike is only deflected by his bare arm, the same arm that springs to grab Tyros's throat slipping past all his useless defenses. "Who do you think you are? to oppose me. You are Without thought, without voice, without a soul" He tries to thrust Darkness grabs the blade and turns it around stabbing Tyros in the heart. Darkness speaks with a confidence and command, "You will do as Tatyana asks, you are what you are."

Tyros falls to the ground shaking from the pain. Tatyana runs up and kneels to him taking his head in her hands. He gasps, "DON"T LET ME DIE HERE." She removes the blade from his heart and they embrace -- the walls wash away.
"It is not your fault we are what we are. I made you this way, I know you must hate me, but he made me this way left me empty, I am as much a victim as you are. Please help me."

The night fell and it was only DARKNESS. TYROS feared that the Darkness would never end.