The Sharpest Blade (My Vampire System Fan-Fic)

Raten felt like he was going to lose it. His heart was thumping wildly inside his chest. The sound of his own blood coursing through his veins was so incredibly loud that it drowned out all the ambient sound around him. He was storming through the building aimlessly.

WHAT THE HELL

He thought to himself, enraged at his own lack of self control.

What is wrong with me? I have never felt like this...

Just then something occurred to him. He had never felt this way because, technically, he had never actually felt. At least not in many years. For over a thousand years Raten had been merely a voice inside Shiro or Vorden's head, aside from the period of time that he had spent in control of a Demon tier- humanoid beast. While residing inside Sil he was very rarely allowed to be in the seat. The mental seat so to speak, the chair created within Sil's mind that allowed him to be plugged in to the outside world, and in control of the body.

Vorden was always the one to take the lead, because he was the talker of the trio. He just had a knack for diplomacy that neither Raten nor Sil had ever mastered. Raten was just too rash, too prone to outburst with his incredibly short fuse and his unimaginable hot temper. So until now, Raten hadn't ever had an opportunity to actually feel all of the physical stimuli from the world around him. Of course, this was excluding those precious but sadly very brief moments of high tension and stress, usually in the middle of a truly difficult battle or fight or other situation that called for Raten's unique brand of bloodlust and ruthlessness. More often than not he was called upon whenever things would hit a wall, after all else had failed, as a sort of last resort.

He gave all of this some deep thought while his body continued wandering about the building more or less on autopilot. His nerves had calmed down just enough to take the edge off. The sensation of urgency that took hold when he was seeing red, which had been present just a moment ago begun to subside. At this point Raten realized that his subconscious self had carried him to the weight room, attached to the training hall.

Looking up at the sign above the door designating it as such Raten shrugged and thought

Well, I guess that's one way to blow off some steam.

He went in with the intention of dispelling some of the pent up energy he had built up after the situation with Vorden in the training hall. He scanned the room quickly trying to decide what equipment he was in the mood for, when his heart stopped. There, right there, just a few feet away from him, using a piece of equipment that focused on upper body strength Raten saw a bright red head of hair and a set of piercing green focused eyes, a cute dainty little nose with high cheek bones and a stern determined expression with full luscious lips pursed as the strain began to take hold of the facial features.

Just as he held his breath taking in every detail of her perfect face, she must have sensed eyes on her because at the exact moment her eyes suddenly snapped up and met Raten's gaze. She paused for a quick second right in the middle of the rep. A sequence of emotions washed over her face in succession.

At first she began to smile, then she looked like there was a pang of regret, and her cheeks flushed slightly from embarrassment remembering the events from just a few short hours prior. However seeing that he was completely healed, at least he appeared so, brought a smile back to her face, with a sense of relief.

All of this equally gave Raten butterflies in his stomach and put a goofy smile on his face, as well as being deeply satisfying which turned that goofy smile into the slightest of smug smirks. It was invigorating, the knowledge of just how much one could affect another. It was just the thrill Raten was needing.

Unfortunately the moment of positive sensations was short lived as the expression on Cassidy's face suddenly shifted yet again from the relieved smile to a look of panic. Raten began to notice that she was shaking pretty bad. As the horror on her face had grown more obvious Raten instantly figured out what was wrong and dashed forward crossing the gap between them in a flash.

It dawned on Cassidy a moment too late that her surprise at seeing Raten suddenly walk in the door she had frozen in place, which meant she had paused mid rep. All of the weight she had put on the machine almost instantly began to feel increasingly heavy until it was suddenly too heavy for her to lift again, yet she couldn't just let go due to the position she was in, and she had started to panic.

Before she could even see him lunge he was already in front of her reaching out both hands to grab the handlebar of the equipment and with only a slight strain Raten pulled on the bar taking the load from her arms and then slowly began to lower it back down. This of course had placed Raten directly in front of Cassidy, with her legs slightly spread apart and Raten standing between them. This was because he had needed to lean over her slightly to have enough leverage to take the weight. Looking down at her, they were well in each other's personal space.

As she looked up at Raten her heart began to pound rapidly. Her face flushed again and she was very aware of just how close they were to each other. Raten's heart had started to speed up again as well. He looked down at her delicate features. From that height he also had a terrific view of her cleavage. The milky white completion of her soft skin cascaded over the modest edge and plunged into the shallow canyon. It flowed down disappearing into the darkness of the intimate area beneath her top.

Raten felt his throat become very dry, and he felt tiny beads of sweat begin to form on his forehead. Clearing his throat as he was suddenly very aware that they were not alone in the room. He began to speak first.

"That was close, you are just not having very good luck today with your training" at this her face dropped a little, clearly she was embarrassed and disappointed. So quickly Raten continued. "Would you like a hand?"

Raten outstretched his open hand signifying she could take it for help to her feet. She accepted and the moment their fingers touched her felt the sensation of her skin on his, and it was ecstacy.

Her skin is even softer than I was imagining...

Raten thought this and many other things that were, let's just say, less than civilized in nature. At least in regards to activities one does with a respectable lady. At this moment Raten wanted no such thing. So he tried to clear his mind of the deliciously taboo ideas his imagination was tormenting him with.

Once Cassidy was on her feet, Raten was looking at her intently while maintaining his grip on her hand like he was lost in thought. She had to kind of clear her throat this time, hoping to alert him that she was still there.

"Wha... Oh! I'm so sorry. I sort of got lost in the moment". Raten said as he released his hold on her. "Now, I have a bone to pick with your spotter, you aren't lifting without one right?" Raten's tone grew a bit more authoritative as he seemed to be asking more as a leader of the Blade family rather than just a stranger at the gym.

Cassidy's brow furrowed as she spun around scanning the room for her spotter. "Actually I'm not sure, I mean yeah of course I had one, but I'm not really sure where they went or when". Her head hung lower again feeling foolish and embarrassed.

Just then a broad shouldered man with dark auburn hair and a face full of freckles walked into the room reading something on a tablet. He got about 10 feet away before looking up. He was surprised to see Raten standing there so close to Cassidy who he had expected to see alone, because that was how he had left her. Startled by the extremely tall, unimaginably muscular, and to his dismay... Strikingly good looking blonde man that was standing inches away from Cassidy left him at a loss for words. He simply gulped as he stood dumbfounded with his mouth agape.

Looking past Rated Cassidy noticed the individual looking like a brainless statue with his mouth open just still some feet away. She became disgruntled and shoved past Raden, matching up to the man. "What the hell Wyatt!? Where were you? You were supposed to be spotting me!" Wyatt's face went from speechless to terrified as he looked over her head at the equipment and surrounding area, then grabbing both of her upper arms began to look her over twisting her by the arms to one side then the other, inspecting her for injury.

This was more than Raten could handle Before he could even think to ask who this guy was his body had already started to move. At the same time Cassidy hand pulled herself back out of his clutches and began to turn around. "Raten this is..." Before she could utter another word Raten had whisked past, around her and now stood directly between her and Wyatt.

"You son of a bitch, so you're the one who left her alone?" Raten had gotten firstly in his face and was pressing forward causing Wyatt to retreat backwards, stumbling a bit as he did som "Did you know she almost had a bad accident, and it would have been all your fault, I have half a mind to..." At that point, as he was imagining what he would do to this guy first for being so careless with Cassidy's well being, and second for the way he had put his hands on her just then, he realized something.

I am in the driver's seat now.

With that last thought Raten wound back his arm and without hesitation let his fist fly, sending Wyatt back a few more feet and slamming into the ground. He began to step toward again, looking like he was only getting started, until a bright red head of hair came into view. He looked down and a horrified Cassidy had thrown herself between them, both of her arms out wide like she was trying to become a wall of separation.

"WAIT! Raten please, stop this!" She shouted with her eyes squeezed tightly closed as if she expected there to be an impact. Raten froze. All the rage that just a split second ago had been boiling over was washing away, completely leaving his body. It was quickly replaced by an ice cold sensation that washed over him instead. Seeing her tiny face scrunched up in anticipation, he looked behind her at the man, now blessing from the face laying on the ground. He looked around at all the other gym goers who were frozen as well staring wife eyed at what was happening. He looked down at his hands, and then drew them back to his sides.

When nothing happened Cassidy opened her eyes and looking into Raten's she lowered her arms slowly. "Wyatt is my cousin. I... I.... I...." She glanced back at him for a second and then turned back. "I don't want you to hurt him. He's an idiot, but he's family, and I know he meant no harm". She was holding her breath now.

Raten walked up to her, he reached his hand out and picked up her hand as he had done earlier before he and Vorden fought. Only this time she didn't rip her hand away. He slowly raised her hand to his lips. Without breaking eye contact he paused just before he met her hand and said "I am so incredibly sorry. I was so angry, and worried. I don't know what came over me, I just lost control". He then proceeded to kiss her hand before releasing it and walking over to Wyatt who flinched as Raten leaned down. "I apologize" he said crisply. And reached down grabbing Wyatt's hand who took it apprehensively, and Raten helped him to his feet.

His nose was bleeding profusely and appeared to be broken. "You should head to medical, and get that looked at". He began to walk past Wyatt and Cassidy rushed over to get a closer look at Wyatt's nose. She looked up to say something else to Raten but he was nowhere in sight.

Cassidy grabbed a cloth for Wyatt's nose and offered to walk with him to have it taken care of. "Who the heck was that psycho Cassie? What are you doing hanging out with a monster like that, he could've killed me! Did you see his arms? He was like one of those guys on steroids!" Wyatt proceeded to whine and complain the entire walk.

Cassidy didn't mind. She hardly heard anything after he mentioned Raten's arms. She started to picture his physic in her mind and as she traced every muscle she had seen with her eyes she felt a little flushed again and her cheeks burned red.

She wasn't 100% sure who Raten exactly was. The only thing she did know, was the only thing she could think about now was his lips on her skin, and it was almost too much to bare.