Walpurgis Nacht (Vampire + Pied Piper Fic)

Something odd that I've been meaning to do for a while. This is likely riddled with historical and geographic inaccuracies. Heh. I've just wanted something with the Piper vs vampires for a while, and I've been fighting with this story for ages, so I thought I'd just throw it up as is before I got any more annoyed with it.

Title: Walpurgis Nacht
Rating: R
Fandom: Fairytales, Pied Piper of Hamelin, German Folklore, Vampire Folklore
Characters/Pairings: The Pied Piper, Mila (OC), the Lady in Red (OC)
Summary: In 1876, in the Harz mountains in Saxon Germany, a dark court takes possession of a ruined castle overlooking a village, led by a lady all in red. On Walpurgis Nacht, the most dangerous night of the year, a stranger wanders into the terrified town, and the world is made to realise that there are things that even vampires should not mess with
Wordcount: 5881
Warnings/Notes: Folklore, vampires, spelled thrall, conflict, bonfires, people being set very thoroughly on fire, horror. Happy ending, though. More or less.
Disclaimer: Oh, not mine.

( Walpurgis Nacht )

Random Music

I really love jazz, blues, jazzy blues, that whole bundle of genres. Also swing and electroswing. It makes me want to move. I think I've just bruised my foot (or possibly pulled the muscle to my big toe) from dancing rather enthusiastically around the kitchen in bare feet. I don't even know exactly what I was listening to, my dad had a playlist on while he was cooking. He said it was dixieland jazz at the start, but it wandered around a bit as well. I've no idea. It was brilliant, though. Made me want to do hips and circles and tappy feet. Heh. I never said I was a good dancer, I just like to do the rhythm/drum bit with my feet and then the brassy bits with hips and hands over it - it looks absolutely ridiculous and I stand on my own feet fair regular, but it feels great.

Jazz is good for you. Jazz makes you feel good. I like it.

Walpurgis Nacht Notes

These are just about 1700 words of rough notes, mostly outlining, research and associations, that I did in preparation for the Walpurgis Nacht story. Normally I wouldn't post these, but the stuff about the Harz and the Piper is really kind of interesting, so I thought I'd throw them up as well. The actual story shifted a bit from this outline as I was fighting with it (seriously, there were five separate drafts and two months of fighting involved), but since they're only rough notes I figured I'd leave them.

( Walpurgis Nacht Notes )