My new story, up finally. I wanted to make it a oneshot but it just wouldn't happen. Read on and review.

Advent of the unwanted one

Don't. Her conscious was almost begging her to stop but it was futile. She walked on towards the beautifully haunting looking mansion. Her feet were taking her towards her cursed destination without her realization. No, that wasn't the thing. She wanted this; she had wanted to meet Jade Curtiss, to see him again. Just this once, Tear told herself.

The sky went purple just for a second as a deafening crack was heard just behind her and she immediately rolled away swiftly to dodge the tree that fell to the spot where she had been just a moment ago. Tear looked at it wondering if her mother was watching from above and so caused the thunder to hit so close by just to stop her from going into that cursed building. She looked at it for a second longer, the pendant feeling heavy against her chest and then simply turned right from the road she had come by approaching the ghostly mansion that stood alone without any hint of life.

---Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. ---

Red eyes watching, glinting in the firelight from the hearth…he set his glass on the glass table without any of the red liquid slopping. So she had come. She would have been better off not coming after him this way. He pitied the girl…a child. Tear was still so young, so very young and she was walking right into her own destruction. Death called and she came and there was nothing even Jade could do to stop it. He closed his eyes for a moment's rest for he knew what happened next would continue to kill him for the rest of his life from within.

The large door opened silently without a single noise. Tear let it open and waited for any sort of attacks and decided to enter when there was none. A burst of chilly wind made her shudder and tighten the cloak around her small form. Slowly she entered and the door behind closed making her jump very slightly and she made her way through the long corridor after chiding herself mentally. Things like that didn't happen. Vampires didn't exist. It was all children's story to stop them from doing anything wrong….right? Not in a million years could Jade Curtiss be one of those blood-devouring beings people called 'Vampires'. But even then she hesitated a little when ghostly shadows passed by the nearby walls. Ghosts didn't exist either, she told herself swallowing and then making her way through another door at the end of the hallway without a sideward glance.

Why did mansions have to be so maze-like? Tear looked around wondering which would be the way to her Jade-she shook her head before finishing the thought. They had only had dinner a few times, had spent long nights together. He had been a gentleman but that didn't mean he was ready for anything yet and neither was she. Breaking up with Luke had been hard on both of them, she knew. But it had to be done; she had been drifting away from their relationship lately and she hadn't realized it was all about Jade until Natalia had cared to point it out and Asch had gone a little mad at her for such malevolence as he saw it. Luke had stepped in and defended her with a forced smile in her direction and she hated herself for the while for being the reason for his anguish.

"Be careful…." Luke had said when he had gotten wind of what she was about to do.

"Be careful…" Natalia had warned when Tear had finally confessed that she was going to go look for Jade, to find him. She needed answers. Where was Van? What had happened to her brother? Why had Jade gone missing for a week? Why had neither of them kept in touch with her?

-Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear-.

His eyes opened as a rustle of the cloak was heard and he turned sighing to see the one person he had hoped to avoid; if possible forever. Tear stood at the door taking in the sight of the room lighted only by oil lamps, the candle lights and the fire reflecting off the wine-colored curtains, casting the room into a sinister but beautiful bloodied glow. Her eyes met his and her breath stopped for a second but she steeled herself before melting on the spot and advanced with an unreadable visage.

"It's good to see you again, Tear." He said as he motioned her to a settee which was also in shades of blazing gold and red.

"What happened to you?" was her first question and she looked into his eyes, "I tried contacting you but I never got an answer." A lazy smile crept up to Jade's face as he took up his glass again while surveying her over the rim of his glass. The potent scent of the blood was way too much to ignore but she was Van's sister. A fact that stopped him from making any licentious move no matter how appealing everything about her seemed. The liquid sloshing in the glass lightly made the girl wonder if it was just the usual or…blood.

"You mean to say you have been anxious about me, because I doubt the Emperor would have been all that concerned about my safety?" he asked with a small laugh that didn't show up and he saw Tear almost scowl at that. It was an enjoyable sight, at the least it was something to take his mind off the snatching urges to bite into that tender neck…

"Where's Van?" she asked giving no hint that she had heard his previous remark. Jade didn't reply and simply stood up and walked to the window. A few moments of silence except for the cracking of the hearth fire was all Tear could take.

"I want to know what happened." She announced, "I looked all over for you, everywhere possible. It was Emperor Peony who finally told me something I couldn't possibly believe but-but-I-" she paused not knowing what to ask first. So many questions whirled in her head. "I need to know everything Jade, I need the truth. The truth about Van and you and everything else that's been going on. You kept quiet every time I wanted to talk about my parents' sudden death. You knew something all along and refused to let me know. Why?!" her voice rang out in the empty silent room and she waited for an answer from him. Anything.

Jade continued to stare at the hearth, the flickering flame reflecting off his mane of golden brown and dark silk shirt, the hue of his eyes. No doubt Tear had run into the Emperor when he was drunk in one of the public bars. What a shame he himself had to be that womanizer's best friend.

He was a magnificent sight to behold. When he turned to face her, her heart stopped for she was only seeing him properly for the first time. In the light, she saw scars, bruises around his wrists and neck. What had happened? Who had done this?

She walked closer to him despite the unnerving chills in her spine, "Who did this?" she asked softly as she stood close enough to touch but she kept her hands to herself.

"What would you if I told you the truth?" he asked directly looking at her and she looked at him although her heart raced faster.

"About what?" she asked.

"Everything." He replied as he took a step closer to her.

"Is it about Van?" She could feel her voice getting close to a whisper when Jade took hold of her hand and her primary instinct was to shake him off when he was still unaware of it but something kept her rooted to the spot. He would never hurt her, not him of all the people. He was Van's friend, the only one she knew her brother trusted apart from Legretta with whom she knew Van had a relationship beyond that of just commander-subordinate.

"Everything." He repeated, "Why do you think Van and your father disappeared suddenly? Why did your mother pass away?" Tear looked at him with her eyes wide.

"My father didn't die?" she asked in disbelief. Jade gave her a grim look.

"He left to protect you." He told her and only silence engulfed the room.

"Protect?" her voice sounded hushed, "From what?" Jade gave her an expressionless look and then pulled her to him. She gasped as she felt his breath in her ear.

"From me." He whispered lazily, "From our clan." Tear pulled away in horror at his words and he turned away.

"They took your mother's life because she caused so much trouble for Professor Nebilim. She wouldn't give anybody your or Van's current address so they imprisoned her. She wouldn't give away anything at all and they were getting hints of your whereabouts so Zhan Fende lured them away one day when he sensed them near the Sennin's lair. He faked his death and Delaine Fende hearing the death news ended her life." He paused letting her absorb all of it. It was after all too much information for someone who barely had any idea of the atrocious environment she was now living in.

"So did Van-"

"He hasn't been killed, if that's what you are wondering about." He interrupted, "He was transformed into one of us. Besides, once he was taken on our side, Professor Nebilim didn't have much to be concerned about. Van was one of her most challenging adversary." Tear felt everything going hazy in her head. How was any of this possible? Did her mother really suicide to protect her? Her father had faked death for her? Her brother turned to a monster for her? Was all of this her fault? She sat down at the edge of a cushioned couch feeling weak for the first time in many years.

"Why?" she asked finally, "Why are you one of these monsters? What did Van or anybody have to do with this? They worked like all other normal people, lived their lives like a perfectly happy family. We all did, then why did things suddenly change?" He turned to her this time again.

"Do you suppose your brother wasn't involved in anything unusual? Do you think I was simply working as General Curtiss in the military?"

"What do you mean by that?" she looked up at him defiantly, "Tell me. I have to know everything. If I don't…." she trailed off wondering what else there was she could do other than running away from all of this. None of this seemed real and she wasn't one to run away from things this way. She would confront even Van or major Legretta if that was what she had to do.

"Sennin." Was the only thing he said.

What are sennins????I'll explain it in the next chappie.^_^