Dark Ceremony

Story by delete341 on SoFurry

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#1 of PMD-E-of-Beyond

One more to go and that will be for tonight. He has no memory of when he was a vampire yet. Just constant fragments from the implants that hold his memories as his brain has limited memory compatibility. It causes him problems often. Anna needed money and was selling her body to make ends meet after her loss.


Team Forsaken Memories

name: Drake Vanderbilt Species: Ninetales Moves: Fireblast Howl Iron tail Flamethrower Abilities: Fire Flash

Accessaries: None for now Affiliation: scoundrels

The dark ceremony The sounds of drums and the pleas of the sacrificed begging to be saved filled the room. Each victim was dragged into a pool of blood as their throats were slit with a blade as chanters prayed for the original creator of their race to return. The bodies were thrown to the side. Soon the pool of blood was bubbling and caught on fire as a ninetales emerged from the pool and was gasping for air. Right after gasping for air he was coughing up brown and black blood. In unison the prayers said, "Our father the original has returned!" The bloody ninetales asked, "Who am I and who are you?" The leader pulled the resurrected ninetales in the back room as the others started to remove the bodies of the victims. Some bodies were going to be eaten. In the back room the leader said, "Lord Drake we need you back from the dead. You are from the last of the old one's still on this side of the world. The one's who had the lost technology around. The legend is that you defeated the devil." Drake replied, "I did? And, and what is this feeling? Am I hungry, can get some food please?" Some servants came in with some food and drink. Drake was starving and skipped the polite way of eating and was gorging like a barbarian. He tried the wine in a bowl and felt groggy as he stumbled to a chair and fell to the floor unconscious. The leader said, "Take him to surgery and keep him tied down." Drake woke up not seeing his reflection and on a cold table with a cone on his neck. His heart was racing and he wanted to run from strangers that knew him for some reason. Drake was scared for his life as had memories causing conflicts as all he remembered was blood and death. Then, great loss as memories of someone he cherished dying next to three children. The individual he cherished was a charmander. Fragments of memories were ticking in or flashes of memories. The feeling of pain was in his head. A scholar came in and said, "I found out what happened. He came back and lost all memories from when he was one of us. He thinks he is mortal at this moment until he has his first drink." After a few hours Drake was released for a meal and he was drugged again and on the operating table. They muzzled as RFId's (Radio Frequency Identification) were implanted in him with some strange hardware at the base of his brain. The surgeon said as Drake woke up, "The surgery was successful with the installation of his damaged but, intact external memories implant. It will take weeks for his memories to return. Until then, keep him locked up until then." Drake played like he was still asleep as they removed the straps and harnesses. A slight security overlap during the shift change occurred and he ran into the street in a sheeting rain. Cars were screaming to a stop as one hit him hard and he got up as the specters were shocked as Drake ran into an ally and was pulled to a female heliolisk. She said to him in a seductive voice, "For a few coins I can help you have fun?" Drake asked her, "Who are you and I feel sick for some reason." He was about to pass out and she looked at this short male with a cone on his neck. More memories that were recent came first as he had memories of a fire and screaming orders to a zorua to run. "Miracle! Run now!" Drake remembered screaming. Drakes' 'rescuer' asked him, "Is Miracle your name, it is a lovely name?" Drake replied, "I had a son and what is this shack? Miracle was my son and where is he? I think Tao?" She replied, "Tao is 12,000 years in the past and 10,000 miles away. That is a long gone place and only in the memories of a few. I was wondering why you were covered in blood when I met you?" Drake looked sacred and wanted to be quiet and turned away and looked at flowers he viewed in a child. His eyes said, "What is going on?" "Lucy, Get back in your room my child." Drakes' rescuer said. Drake got the nerve to ask, "What is your name and why do I keep getting such sad memories?" She replied, "Anna is my name. I heard from my grandmother that the worst memories come first then, the happy one's come later after the most painful." "I'm scared. What did I do and, why is your child look so hungry, Anna?" Drake asked. Anna talked in a low voice, "I am an only mother and I have to make a choice of food or dignity. Many look down on my profession and I get only lust. Love and caring for her is all I can do. We have no food as the money I would get from you would get food." Drake looked and said, "I do not remember I have any money at all." This sad moment made Drake want to leave but, his feeling of guilt of this low life of a female's plight changed his mind. He felt that something in him made him not want this child to starve. Seeing this little girl with deep eyes of hunger made him remember three charmanders he apparently cared for in pain as they coughed up blood and their tails getting dimmer until each one was out. With there fleshes rotting and then seeing the female he cared for having the same syndromes they had. He got up and took a walk outside after the rain stopped. He was thinking on what to do. He heard there were guilds that he could work as a freelance work for them but could not. Drake started to talk to the guilds and they wanted more his name. A persian named Stanley asked Drake, "Hello I am Stanley, you look new here and what is your name?" "Drake is my name but, what are your guilds and why are there no humans here?" Drake said. Stanley replied, "What are humans and we have three guilds to choose from. We have Scoundrel, Agents, and Hero guilds to pick from. Heros' help others without question and want to do the right thing. Agents' want to make money and support the guild's. Scoundrels' do the dirty work for the right reasons. What do you choose for a guild to join?" "I just wanted to get some money for food." Drake pleaded. The persian looked at Drake as an ID reader was blinking. Stanley looked at a display and read it. Stanley said, "Well Drake Vanderbilt, it seems that you could buy food down the street easily but, the currency you have is not valuable as it is now. All you have to do is register at Julie's home and then work can come to you." Drake got the address and found a shop that sold food. Drake passed his leg over a scanner and he bought some bread to bring to Anna's home. She was not there but, her child was and Drake broke half of it off and gave it to Lucy. She did not say a word but just ate it up as Drake was having a craving for blood. He could see Lucy's veins and had to turn away. He did not want to hurt her at all. Then, Drake had his memories of his childhood come back and he felt sick. He remembered that his parents were dead when he hatched and he had to eat the bodies to survive. All alone some strangers used him for some item and he was a crybaby as he was only a few weeks old and did not know how to speak. All he witnessed in his dreams were death and loss. "What are you Drake!" Anna screamed at him as she came in from finding a paying client. His eye's were pitch black and he had long three inch fangs showing. She looked at him and he was trying to fight this craving as his eye's turned red again. Drake left promptly as Anna viewed Lucy sleeping with half a loaf of bread or what was left of it, and Drake had the other. He had gotten Lucy food as his guilt was the reason. Before Drake left, "What am I? I hate to see a child starve to death. I think I nearly did starve to death as a child as some of my memories came back. Why do I crave blood?" He was depressed. Anna was just silent as Drake left for Julie's home. When he got there, he was trotting carefully over eggs and wanted help in deciding what guild to pick from. He had gotten permission to enter first but he still felt unsafe. "Mis Julie? I would like to enter a guild but, what do I choose?" Drake asked her. She replied, "What are your like or dislike first?" Drake replied, "I have no idea at all. I can't remember my past very well but, I feel that my life has been hard and long. I want to help Anna get out of her situation but that requires actual money. Her child is thin and starving." Julie said to him, "It sound like you want to help others and are willing to try. That would be a hero guild member." "Then why do I want to hurt them at the same time?" Drake asked. "I see now. You would be best to be in the scoundrels' guild for what I can tell. You are in conflict over right and wrong. You look like you have guilt. What is it?" Julie asked. Drake said, "I remember hatching to dead parents and seeing death and loss. I fell scared strangers and then I ate my parents' bodies as I felt hungry for weeks. That is what I remembered." "Guilt, sorrow and you might be crazy. The scoundrels is the best spot for you. I will get your information. Just wave your leg and let me take a look." She said to Drake. Drake did what she said and she looked at the data. It looked random at first but, she knew it was the best choice as his age was much greater than she expected. He had his age as eight, nine thousand and then, one thousand two hundred years. She continued and it stated, "Deceased at eight years old (eighteen in human years). Lived for 8992 years deceased until a fire. Resurrected after one thousand two-hundred years." "What are you and how do I put this, your age is confusing as it said that you are two days old after resurrection. I am confused." Julie said to him. Drake replied, "So am I at this point, I have no idea who or what I am. All I know is that Anna needs help and that is what I intend to do." "Who is Anna" Julie asked him? His reply, "She is kind to me and let me stay at her home. I do not know what she is but Lucy her child is sweet and, and they are poor, unrespected as Anna's works on the streets." His ears were low as he was speaking. Julie said to him, "I knew her when she was in better conditions. Her mate died four months ago and she had no paying job. She was raising Lucy as he worked. I never knew she stooped that low to get money. If you want to take care of her that is your choice but, her reputation will not be washed away that easily." Drake left to read what work there was to be had and the sun hurt his eye's a lot. He sat in the park as he was thinking of a lost love and just sat under a tree grieving over her. He felt lost and insecure as he just looked lost. After the mid day sun he left the park and came to Anna's home with some more bread. Lucy was crying as Anna was being hit by a client. Drake comforted Lucy with a song until the client noticed him and his aggression over Drake made him leave fast. Anna was bruised as Drake came to her and he was depressed. The song was in a long dead language that had a strange rhythm. The translated song was, Hush my child and get some sleep. Love like yours much run deep. When death calls we all must meet. It is time to rest and let others watch. With great battles won and lost. We must never forget the one's we lost. Flowers grow as all young do. Our time is short but love always comes through. May you never forget the one you love? Win the battle, with all your might. Face your destiny and prepare to fight. For this is the last fight you have for your life. He told Anna, "I lost my one love a long time ago and I know about your mate. Can I stay here and help you a bit? I have money and a lot of it after exchanging it for here. I lost my children to a plague and I was wondering if I could take care of you to? I think Lucy needs a father right now and you lost yours. Maybe we can have a mixed family?" Anna held him and said, "Please do, I hate my life as it is. I want too quite but, what could I do? I have no job references and all the guilds had work that I was scared of doing. I am lost without a mate." Drake lowered his ears a bit and tried to start this new family of the loss each of them had. At that moment Julie knocked on the door ruining the moment when Drake was happy. He opened the door and Julie asked, "Are you a solo team or with others. I forgot to ask?" Drake replied, "Solo, now leave me alone unless there is anything else?" Drake was irritated based on his tone. Julie asked, "One more thing, you need a name. What is it?" Drake replied, "Unwanted memories, no that is not a good name at all. I know now Team Forsaken Dreams. Now go and leave me for now!" Julie left with the finished paperwork and sent it out. Just to see a gangar named Rictus for Drake's pledge. Rictus told Drake, "I need you pledge to join the guild." "No. I want to learn to read first and also, I just remembered how to kill a ghost pokémon. Leave me now and let me have a trial run first. The laws of this place are the rules of the city of Ankore a place that is long gone. I need to buy food so leave." Drake told him and went to get out of the constant interruptions ruining his life. Note: At this time Drake is basically illiterate when he was alive originally as knowing how to grow food was more important that knowing how to read. Copyrights -pokémon belong to Nintendo, Game Freak -Most of the character and ideas are mine Delete341 -BBC(, Toby Whithouse, Rob Pursey, Touchpaper Television, and Eleanor Moran, for BBC Cymru Wales) -Anyone I do not know that created the NPC's -PMD-E-of-Beyond is on DA