The Legend I

Once Bitten

Vampire Hunter D Fan Fiction

# This is NOT a chapter.

Author's Note

Hey all! Welcome to the end of the first arc of The Legend! First of all I really want to thank those who have been reading, reviewing and supporting this story all this while. I really hope you all liked it. Do look out for the next instalment, Tainted Angel, which will be up once I've finished prepping it.

Well, if you've read the summary, you would know that The Legend is a seven part series. If I were you, I'd go, "What the (insert expletive)! Seven freaking parts? How long is this damn story?"

Time for some explanation. I made The Legend such a terribly long series because I'm experimenting with a gradual genre change thing. Basically, the stories making up The Legend will focus on different aspects of the story as we move along the series. Notice the conspicuous lack of open romance? I mean, besides the horrid crude rape scenes and all. Well, it's going to come in bit by bit as we progress along the series (Gasp! Spoiler!). I read some of my old, unreleased stories, and realised that I often jump too quickly into making characters fall in love and such. Becomes rather shallow, really.

I like to think of The Legend as seven short, related stories, rather than one long story broken into seven parts. Obviously some things that I've introduced in earlier parts of the series are going to have a certain impact on later parts, but as far as possible the seven stories will be able to stand alone, with flashbacks and such inserted here and there to serve that purpose. Even if you've read the earlier ones before, hell, who on earth memorises seven stories' worth of content? Refreshers are always good.

Enough of series introduction. I'm probably boring you all to death. Besides, you'll see it all for yourself as the rest of the series comes out. I will now proceed to bore you to death by talking about this particular story instead.

For those who watch anime, perhaps you've noticed that Once Bitten runs a little like a mini-anime of words. It starts and ends with a basic and (dare I say it?) rather boring main plot (the vampire Casanova thing). There's a filler in the middle, which is the bit with the village and poor Marcus. I actually find the filler more meaningful and enjoyable to read and write, but whatever. Screw my lousy judgement.

Theme analysis! No, this is not a literature essay. I just feel like doing this. Yes, you have permission to think I'm weird. The main plot, as you can see towards the end, deals with an overarching theme of eternity and companionship, which you will see more of throughout the series. That's why it's the main plot, you see, even though it's not all that great. Typical vampire-slaying stuff. And then you have that wonderful filler, which I'm considerably prouder of, going on about hasty judgements and slamming the whole eye-for-an-eye thing. I'll find more themes to slot in as fillers in the following stories. Ha! I'm on a quest to make fillers more interesting than the main plot. Go me.

This bore-you-to-death session is now officially over, congratulations if you survived. I'll work hard to finish the rest of the series, and I hope I do well enough to keep all of you reading till the very end.

Cheers,

-RiP-Vii

P.S. As a (dubious) bonus for reading through that load of crap, I will now bequeath upon you the almighty secret of … the rest of the titles for the series! Wow! Right, whatever. I'm rolling my eyes at myself. Not a good sign. The titles given here are unconfirmed, since I only have the concepts for the individual stories. But I'm "sneak-releasing" them anyway, so that I can feel all important and sought-after and stuff. Ego-boosting tricks, you know?

The Legend I: Once Bitten

The Legend II: Tainted Angel

The Legend III: Dream Walker

The Legend IV: Siren Song

The Legend V: Funeral Bell

The Legend VI: Final Peace

The Legend VII: Legendary (?!)

P.P.S. This is to explain the (?!) notation. The last title is the most tentative of all, because … come on, "The Legend, part seven, Legendary!" sounds positively silly. Go figure.