It was near, she was sure of it. That beast was somewhere near her. She was tired and felt dizzy.
She heard leaves moves behind her. She got ready to resume the hunt when...
The sound of a gunshot was all that was heard. The wind sweeping the fields died. Not a sound was heard after that, as if nature was waiting for the suspense to end.
She was having trouble breathing. She felt a liquid rise in her throat and spit it out, choking for air. The beast beside her twitched one last time before surrendering itself to death.
She got up to her feet. She had to get help. She was pretty certain the liquid she was choking on wasn't bile. She started to walk but, eventually, her knees gave out and the world turned dark and colder still.
When Daisuke got up the next morning, fog had settled on the country side. The distant village bells that usually sung the morning hour with joy now sounded somewhat heavy and monotone.
It's when he did his morning round that the farmer found the body of a dead teenage girl lying in the middle of his cabbages.
He bent over her to get a closer look, his shocked eyes as big as baseballs.
He bent lower and lower, until her face was only a few inches from his own.
That when the bloody girl moved.
Daisuke was sitting his the chairman's office at Cross academy. The cup of tea in front of him was left untouched, the poor man didn't trust his still trembling fingers with handling anything that could break right now.
The Chairman was sitting at his desk with his legs crossed, savoring his favorite tea.
"So", said Kaien, "How did you find that girl?"
"She was lying on my cabbages", answered the man simply.
The conversation wasn't getting anywhere. Daisuke was in a state of shock and the only two things he kept on saying were : "She was lying on my cabbages" and "You're the only person I trust with things like this".
By "things like this", he meant shady things. Chairman Cross was known for dealing with unusual situations quite well. After all, first there had been Yuuki, then Zero. Daisuke figured Cross would know what to do with the "still alive dead girl".
After a while, the poor man left and Cross went to the infirmary to check on the girl.
She was sleeping on the bed, a heavy bandage covering the junction between her throat and right shoulder. He decided to come back later when she was awake. He told the nurse to let him know when she regained consciousness.
The brave nurse called him only at the end of the day, the injured girl had opened her eyes.
Walking hurriedly across the room, Cross almost tripped on the carpet.
She sat up, frightened by the sudden noise and gasped loudly.
" Sorry, sometimes my feet don't obey me", said the Chairman with smile.
She observed him. That old man's aura was similar to a teenage girl's.
She snickered, already disliking the man. She knew her tendency to judge people too quickly often brought her more trouble than anything else but she was certain of one thing about the long-haired man : He was of the Annoying kind.
At that moment, a silver haired boy walked it. His aura was most certainly that of a vampire, a low class, hungry vampire. He gave her a hard look and turned to Cross.
"Chairman, why did you want to see me?", said he impatiently.
"hah? Oh, Zero, yes I wanted to show you this young lady here. A local found her this morning."
He lowered his voice, although she could still hear him and went on,
" She seems to have been attacked by something quite unusual so I thought I'd call someone from the Hunter Association."
" What are you talking about Old man?! You're part of it too, for your information! Why did you wake me up?! I didn't get any sleep last night, I was working!"
The boy stopped talking, his breathing was labored and his fists were balled up. A minute passed before he calmed down enough to take another look at the girl.
"What's your name?" He said, his voice sounding business like.
"That's really none of your business" she said as matter of factly as he.
"Now, Miss, we'll have to call the police if you won't tell us more. You were attacked last night. Can you tell what happened?" interrupted Cross, fearing that Zero would lose his temper.
"There's a dead werewolf in the forest. I shot him."
"A werewolf?!" gasped the Chairman.
Zero shot her a surprised look.
"You killed a werewolf by yourself?"
"As you can see it wasn't easy and I payed the price for it" she replied showing her wounded neck.
"He bit me"
Her own words hit her like a bomb. The werewolf bit her. But she wasn't dead yet.
All the hunter under Lady Astrid's orders were given anti-transformation shots. They prevented hunters from transforming into beasts but they also killed the patient within 48 hours when activated. She wasn't dead yet. She still remembered the day she had received the shot; it had hurt like hell and the symptoms she had experienced afterwords-ranging from throwing up to hallucinations-had left her scared of shots.
"What day are we? What time is it?"
"Today's Sunday. It's 7 pm."
She still had time to find the beast and destroy its body before humans found it by accident. She had time, before the vaccine reached its limit, to send a message to her mistress, explaining her situation.
She got up quickly, put on her shoes, took her gun, and walked towards the door. The dizziness wasn't helping her. She had lost a large amount of blood and her neck sent painful signals to her brain. Finding the werewolf in this condition wouldn't be easy.
"Where do you think you are going?" asked the lavender-eyed vampire.
"There's something I need to do. I don't have much time."
She felt her throat tighten at the thought. She was going to die soon. She had less than a day left. The beast had bitten her on Friday night and she had hunted it without rest until last night. She was going to die in about thirteen hours.
"You aren't going anywhere until I get answers"
She looked around the room, looking for another way out. The window. She slowly raised her gun. She pointed it in Zero's direction. The Chairman had started to talk in a soothing voice, trying to get her to lower the gun. Instead, she rotated 180 degrees, shot the glass panels and jumped out the window. The infirmary was about two stories above ground level, nothing that could harm her. However, this time she felt her knees burn. Feeling weak was something she wasn't used to.
She had just jumped out the window. Zero was seriously getting annoyed with that female. He didn't know why she had left in such a hurry and was dead set on following her. He got ready to jump out the now shattered window.
"No, Zero, you might...." Cross started
The vampire jumped.
"...get hurt" he finished flatly. The chairman let out a sigh and left the room to go to the kitchen. He needed a nice cup of tea, now.