"Yuuki Goes Rambo"
Disclaimer: Vampire Knight is by Matsuri Hino. This is just a spin-off I have written for entertainment.
Introduction: The following takes place over the break when all the students go home and Kaname and the others go to Aidou's mansion, while Yuuki stays behind at an empty Cross Academy. Little does anyone know that at the time of Rido's awakening, the Vampire Council has sent Ichiru to assassinate Yuuki, because they fear Rido will be too powerful if he gets a hold of her. But Ichiru isn't prepared for the wrath Yuuki is going to unleash on him. This has been playing out in my head for a while now. I hope it turns out just as good in words and I hope you like it!
The soft warmth of the evening air is interrupted as a cool breeze brings with it an ominous feeling. She appears from nowhere and is knelt beside him on the balcony. "Kaname-sama, he is awakened."
"I know. I'm going back to the academy, Seiren. Keep an eye out for any movement."
"Of course."
~Cross Academy~
It is the perfect opportunity for her to sneak off. There are no students to protect and the Chairman, Zero, and Yagari-sensei have left to attend to some business at the Hunter's Association headquarters. She tries to push Kaname-sama from her mind as she leaves the sun dorms and heads for the woods. Between his indecipherable intentions and her struggle to keep Zero's cravings under control, she feels at a loss for everything. Sometimes it infuriates her the way Kaname-sama and Zero treat her. She is tired of being patronized.
This brief escape helps her get her priorities straight again. She makes her way into the woods following the familiar path to her secret getaway. It is a waterfall created by the river running through the forest just outside of Cross Academy. She knows it's dangerous to leave the school property, but this act of defiance is just the thing that makes her feel better. It's the one thing she has to herself. She has a feeling Kaname-sama holds the secrets of her past, she gives Zero all the blood she can, and her emotions and loyalties seem to be torn between the two of them. This little secret, her occasional evening swim, is hers alone. She tries to focus her thoughts on the moment, forgetting all her responsibilities and concerns.
The warm night air brushes against her skin. She hears birds singing lullabies that carry through the trees as if they were meant just for her. The sky holds on to the last of the daylight from the setting sun. A sense of tranquility hovers in the woods as creatures settle down for the night. Yuuki hears the rushing of water as she approaches the rocks up ahead. She steps out onto a giant boulder that overlooks the water. This boulder is one of many that encircles the water in the river making it still enough to swim. She looks towards the pink sky of the setting sun and just beneath it lies the waterfall spilling over into the pool of water. It is calming as the sound flushes all the worries from her mind. She takes off her t-shirt, shorts, and shoes so that she is just in her bathing suit and sets Artemis on the boulder with her clothes. She looks down toward the water about nine feet below and then throws herself off the rock. The cool water against her skin as she is completely submerged further alleviates the tension in her mind. She feels happy again and carefree as she comes back up for air. She floats in the water on her back for awhile before she decides to try and swim toward the waterfall. She feels so secluded and free in the water.
After she has completely worn herself out swimming she decides to head back to the academy before the Chairman and Zero return. She climbs back up on the rock and wrings her hair out in her hands and puts her clothes back on over her bathing suit, she doesn't care if she is soaking wet. She fastens Artemis back around her thigh and heads back towards Cross Academy. By now darkness has set in, but she knows her way back. She thinks to herself that she wouldn't mind getting lost out here if it meant she didn't have to face reality for a while longer. The only sound in the woods now is the crunch of her feet against the twigs and leaves on the ground. The moonlight drapes the woods making everything blue in its glow. She can hear every breath she takes. Suddenly she is overcome with a feeling of dread. Something isn't right. The forest shouldn't be this quiet even in the night. That's when she hears the crunching of the ground around her. Whatever it is, it's all around and getting closer. She knows the world she lives in though, and the only thing she fears enough to make her heart beat out of her chest the way it is beating now is the threat of vampires. She doesn't know how many surround her, hidden in the woods right now, but she knows they are there. She can feel the heat coming off her body in waves just enticing her predators to come and get the hot blood pulsing more rapidly than ever through her veins. She knows that it is unlikely that if she stays frozen in place long enough she'll disappear. She can't allow her fear to paralyze her, so she whips Artemis out and holds her breath as the sound of sliding metal reverberates off the trees around her. She doubts it's much of a warning to the vampires, but the sound of Artemis cuts through the night reassuring her that she still has a fighting chance.
Then she sees one of them. He emerges from behind a tree. His eyes glowing bright crimson in the darkness settled around them, his hands elongated as his fingernails extend into deadly claws. He is slowly coming towards her. Then another emerges from deeper in the forest, her eyes glowing with blood lust as well. Yuuki takes a defensive stance against their advances, gripping Artemis tightly in front of her. Suddenly the male vampire lets out an animalistic groan as he lunges toward her, fangs glinting in the moonlight and razor sharp claws reaching for her. Yuuki's arms react faster than her mind. She takes Artemis into her hands like a bat and swings full force at the vampire's head. The sound of his cracking skull splits the night and turns Yuuki's spine to ice. She watches as his limp body hits the ground and bursts into a million tiny crystal shards. She doesn't have time to be dumbfounded by what she has done, because the female vampire, in a fit of vengeful rage is charging towards her with fury in her eyes. She swipes at Yuuki's bare legs with her claws. Yuuki screams as she feels her thigh burn where the vampire has slashed open her skin. She can feel the warm blood running down her leg. The sight of it claims the rabid female's attention long enough that Yuuki takes advantage of it. The vampire darts low towards the fresh blood pouring from Yuuki's open wound and Yuuki takes Artemis in her hands, holding it horizontally in the air. The vampire's mouth is gaping as she moves to sink her teeth into Yuuki's leg. Yuuki's muscles tense as she shoves Artemis into the vampire's open mouth and down into her throat, her fangs breaking against the electrified metal. Yuuki only recoils after she sees the vampire immobilized as blood gushes out of her mouth. Yuuki withdraws Artemis as she watches the vampire collapse on all fours. She lets out a gargling noise as her own blood drowns her. She then bursts into glasslike shards. Yuuki remains motionless, Artemis gripped in her hands, blood dripping off the shining silver. She stares at the ground where her two assailants fell before her and cannot believe she has so brutally defeated them. Her leg is barely aching anymore as the adrenaline saturating the entire inside of her body numbs her completely. She looks at the blood on her leg, black under the moonlight, and jerks her head up as she hears more footsteps coming toward her. She looks behind her and sees at least four more vampires steadily approaching her. Panic grips her and immobilizes her once more. She can't believe she has annihilated two vampires, she can't imagine there is anyway she could take four at once. She does the only thing she can think to do in the moment. She runs. She feels her legs floating beneath her. She is running so fast it seems her feet aren't even touching the ground. She retracts Artemis so that she can run faster. She feels the vampires at her heels. She is trying to make it out of the curtain of the woods. She thinks she might feel safer once she reaches the Academy, but she knows that the open land around the Academy won't keep her enemies from pursuing her. This will only be over once they are dead, or she is. She will have to kill them all, or be killed. This revelation stuns her. She stumbles and before she can regain her footing, she is falling hard to the ground. Artemis flies from her hand and she hears the muffled clanking as it hits the ground somewhere out of her reach. She races to get back to her feet, apprehensively looking behind her as she does. There are six of them now, not more than ten yards behind her. She doesn't have time to find Artemis. She looks in front of her and can see the clearing ahead of her. She is almost back to the Academy. She pushes herself off the ground with her bleeding hands. Her feet launch her back into a sprint. Her heart feels like it is about to beat out of her chest. She can't let her fear overcome her. She soars out of the darkness of the woods into the unfiltered glow of the moonlight. Her wet hair whipping the back of her neck, blood oozing from her clenched fists. Her clothes are completely wet from her bathing suit underneath, turning the dirt to mud as it sticks to her skin. The blood from her vampire wound has run all down her leg and soaked into her shoe. All of this is invisible to her as she pushes herself harder towards the Academy.
She sees the dining hall building first. She knows the vampires aren't far behind her, but she needs more time. She doesn't have a weapon and she's outnumbered. She closes the gap between herself and the door to the building in what feels like eternity. She fiercely prays that the door is unlocked as she slams herself into it. She pulls the handle and thankfully the door comes toward her. Once she is inside she slams the door shut. In the half second it took her to close the door she saw the vampires, their eyes glowing with thirst, prowling toward her. She bolted the thick wooden door and lodged one of the cafeteria chairs beneath the handle. She wasn't sure that would hold the six of them off at all, but it was worth a shot. She darted past the rows of empty tables in the unlit dining hall. The moon still following her through the enormous windows lining both sides of the room. She busts through the double swinging doors into the kitchen frantically searching for anything she can use. She looks at the labels on the drawers and cabinets, "Pot holders....spatulas.......knives!" She yanks at the knife drawer but it is locked. "They don't lock the door, but they lock up the knives?!" she yells to no one. She desperately attempts to rip the drawer out anyway, but her attempts are futile.
She hears them banging on the door in the distance. She has to come up with a plan now. She scans the rest of the drawers at light speed until she finds one labeled "matches." She yanks at it hard, thinking it will be locked too. The entire drawer comes out spilling boxes of matches onto the floor. She picks one up and heads around the kitchen to each of the stoves. The banging is growing louder and she hears the chair clack to the floor while the door creaks under their force. She pulls each stove out from the wall enough to rip the gas line out from the back. She starts to cough as the rotten egg smell becomes thicker in the room. She notices that the banging has stopped and only wonders where they have gone for a second before she hears an enormous amount of glass shattering in the dining hall. She turns to the counter that connects this room to the other room of the kitchen. She hops the counter and ducks beneath it just in time to hear the vampires' footsteps coming towards the double doors. She pulls out a match and strikes it against the box. It doesn't catch. She hears the double doors swing open and the loud breathing of several vampires in the room just on the other side of the divide. She knows that this next scrape of the match will give her location away so she makes it a good one. The flame is big and glowing orange. She stands up and the vampires are already looking her direction. They watch, grimaces on their faces, as she throws the match toward them and sees the flame catch the gas in the air. She throws herself to the floor as the kitchen explodes. She lands on her back and is momentarily smothered by heat as the flames lick her skin for an instant. The flames retract over her as they are sucked back into the opening over the counter that divides the two rooms. She coughs as she rolls over onto her hands and knees. Her skin has an extra layer of filth from a sweaty mixture of dirt and now smoke. She hears eery screaming on the other side of the counter and stands up to see the aftermath. Three of the vampires are frantically running around engulfed in orange and red flames. Three? Where are the oth---
Two of the remaining vampires bust through the doors on the opposite side of the room from where Yuuki is standing. She doesn't have time to worry about the third missing vampire, much less the time to watch her back. The only thing between her and these two is an island with an array of pans hanging overtop from the ceiling. By this point, she is ready to get this over with. She agilely jumps onto the island and pulls a big frying pan off its hook. The two vampires opposite her tense to spring. One of them goes to knock her off her feet so that she will fall from the island. As his hand swipes at her feet she jumps over them and lands with her feet firmly planted on the ground. He makes another swipe at her face this time and she blocks it with the frying pan. His hand falls and she swings the frying pan at his head. She hits him and he falls to the ground. The other vampire cuts her wrist so that she drops the frying pan and then grabs it and pulls her to him. His fangs protrude from beneath his lips as he thrusts his head toward her neck. She takes her free arm and slams her elbow down into his chest causing him to release her and stumble backwards. He clutches his chest trying to breathe again. She doesn't even hesitate before she spins around and throws her leg at him full force. Her foot collides with his jaw sending him to the floor. She mercilessly stomps on his neck, breaking it in an instant. Suddenly, she hits the floor while the last vampire bursts to crystal simultaneously. The first vampire had kicked her feet out from under her. Her head hits the tile floor hard and she groans. This can't be the end. She has killed six vampires up to this point. She is going to finish this. Especially now that she thinks she has a chance. She rolls over just as his claws break the tile that her heart laid over milliseconds ago. She swings her legs around in front of her knocking his feet out from under him, just as he had hers. He lays on the floor face up and from where she is sitting she lays back on her elbows so that she can lift her leg high enough to throw her heel down into his face. Her leg comes down and his nose crunches against the back of her shoe. She repeats the action over and over until she no longer hears him choking on his blood. The shards of crystal settle like dust on the floor. She gets up slightly disturbed by her own brutality. She never dreamed she would be capable of this.
Suddenly, she feels teeth sinking into her neck from behind. She screams as the missing vampire's arms circle around the front of her body clenching her tightly. She feels the blood rapidly leaving her. She has to get free from his grip. She pulls her knees up toward her as he holds her and then thrusts them out so that she kicks off the corner of the island sending them both flying backwards toward the swinging doors. They hit the floor and the force of the fall coupled with her weight releases his arms from her body and sends her rolling through the doors into the dining hall. She feels a hand wrap around her ankle and pull her back through the doorway. She pulls against his grip, but he pulls her closer to him. She flips over onto her back throwing her left leg at his face. His grip loosens just enough for her to scramble for the frying pan she dropped earlier. He pulls her by her leg again just as she grabs the handle and when she is close enough to him she swings the skillet at his head with everything she's got. He turns to dust next to her.
The wound in her neck aches. She gets up and but doesn't feel any relief from the tension. She knows she has killed all six vampires that followed her from the woods, but she still feels anxious. To be sure she cautiously walks back through both rooms of the kitchen. They are disastrous. The explosion in the one room caught some of the cabinets on fire. By now the flames have died down, but almost everything is blackened by the smoke and ash. The thought quickly flashes through her mind, I wonder what Zero would think...or Kaname-sama, before she shakes the trivial contemplation from her head. She walks out the first set of double doors she came through and back into the dining hall. It looks mostly untouched except for the broken glass from one of the windows all over the floor and the overturned chair she used to barricade the door. She sighs heavily, seeing that there doesn't appear to be anyone left to fight. Then, she sees him moving out of the darkness across the dining hall. He doesn't have the glowing red eyes of blood lust. In fact he looks quite calm. He saunters slowly toward her.
"I-Ichiru?"
"And I thought that the council was being excessive, sending me with eight vampires just to kill a little girl. Clearly, I underestimated you. I just assumed you always cowered behind my brother."
Yuuki continues to stare at him in complete shock. She realizes her expression probably looks like that of a scared little girl, so she adjusts it to one of controlled anger. Ichiru may have been sent to kill her, but she can't imagine taking the life of Zero's brother. But it looks like that's what it's going to come down to, so she says, "I don't want to kill you, because I think Zero should have the honor, but know this: if it comes down to my life or yours, I will kill you."
Ichiru lets out an amused laugh, "But it seems I have the advantage of a sword, where you have no advantage at all."
Yuuki looks him dead in the eye and says with confidence she has never known before, "I just killed eight vampires. You really think I can't take you?"
To be continued.
I got kind of carried away with this. If you made it this far, let me know what you think.
Music that helped me:
"Help I'm Alive" by Metric
"Knights of Cydonia" by Muse
"Push It" by Garbage
"It's My Life" by No Doubt
"Ghost Town" by Shiny Toy Guns
"The Undertaker (Renholder Mix)" by Puscifier