Hey guys, here is the new Volume of this series. Sorry for the long wait. had no internet.

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HUNTER AND VAMPIRE

VOLUME 16

GATHERING

Previously on Hunter and Vampire

Hot on the trail set up by Gendo, Lilly head straight into a remote place which turned out to be SEELE's main Headquarters. There, the Vampire found Rei's scent but is confronted by a powerful enemy called Ramiel. Meanwhile, Rei met Lilith in her subconscious revealing to be the previous owner of the Ying Yan Sword. She warned Rei of SEELE and freeing the Vampire from her Vamridic induced coma. But as Rei joined the fight with Lilly, the sun started to rise…and Lilly, since losing her Charmed Object…faces mortal danger…

Chapter Sixty-Two

Escape

Lilly knew what happens to non-pureblood vampires under the sunlight, vampires who doesn't wear a Charmed Object from a Pureblood. In the long years she had spent wondering the world, she had seeing it happens.

She never believed that it would be also her fate.

She always believed that she would die fighting alongside Rei and protecting the Pureblood's back.

Her body felt like it was on fire when the sunlight reached her, and she had never felt something so painful in her life before. She couldn't stop the scream that sprung from her lips…she didn't even feel the hug Rei had given her.

"Hang on Lilly," she yelled.

She felt something enveloping her form…as the sunlight simply disappeared and a void of darkness had enveloped both Rei and her.

"Rei…what's…what's happening?" she asked.

"I…I don't know, just hang on," Rei told her.

They seems to be floating through the dark void which was suddenly opened again and the two fell down upon the ground causing Lilly to hiss softly with her weakened body. Rei stood up glancing around the place they had landed, so did Lilly thought she stayed seated upon the ground.

"W…Where are we?"

Rei didn't say anything, her eyes looking around the place they were in.

"This…This is…"

Lilly looked at the Pureblood in confusion.

"What?"

"The Silver Crystal Cave," Rei whispered.

Lilly was confused.

"H…How did we get here?"

Rei shook her head.

"I don't know."

Ramiel stared at the spot the two Vampires had disappeared from. He couldn't believe his eyes at what just happened.

"I didn't think she would be wielding that blade," the long haired man said.

"What do you mean?" Ramiel asked him, confused a little.

"That Vampire is in possession of an Angel Tear," the long haired man told him.

Ramiel frowned. He had seen the blade the Vampire Rei Ayanami was holding.

"She may have the blade," he said, "But what she had just done…it's the same as Lilith's."

"Why have you uttered that name Ramiel?"

He turned at the voice, and quickly put himself in a kneeling position.

"My Queen," he said, "I…I wasn't aware that you will be about soon…"

"A disturbance have awoken me from my sleep," The Queen said, her voice oddly soft, "But you uttered Lilith's name…why?"

"The Vampire Rei Ayanami used a signature technique that belongs to Lilith," Ramiel said.

"So, that's what the disturbance I've felt," The Queen said slowly, "But never the less, Rei Ayanami is only one Vampire. She wouldn't be able to stop our plan from coming into fruition."

"We would need all Nine Angel's Tears to be able to complete the plan's final's stages."

The Queen smiled a little.

"We would," she said, "But we will take care of the problem then. We have a new task to complete."

Her attention was drawn toward the rising sun.

"Make all the necessary preparation Ramiel," she said, "We move out soon."

"Yes My Queen," the large man said, bowing.

The two Vampires were walking through the dark cave. Rei had no idea how they got here, but they have to find a way out soon. She knew that the Cave existed outside of Japan and far away from where they had faced those SEELE guys.

She couldn't figure anything out of what ha d just happened but one thing was sure. Lilith had done something to her, what it could be she had no idea.

"Lilly, what happened to Asuka while I was gone?" she asked.

"Well, your mate was strong enough to defeat one of the SEELE guys."

Rei glanced at her shocked. Asuka had done what?

Seeing the shocked look upon Rei's face, Lilly continued.

"It had happened a couple of days ago," she told her, "Misato told me about it…they were some bruises but the Hunters came out fine."

Rei frowned. She is going to have to return to Japan.

"But Rei, how did you get captured?" Lilly asked her.

The pureblood growled.

"The mission Gendo had send me to had been a trap," she said.

"Gendo? Your Human friend?" Lilly repeated.

"Yes, he betrayed me," Rei said, "And he is about to get an earful from me."

"Then…why would he help me?"

Rei glanced at her long time friend, confusion in her red eyes.

"What are you talking about?"

"Rei, Gendo tracked you down because of your cell phone," Lilly told her, "That's how I was able to get to that place."

Rei looked straight at the blonde.

"Lilly, I didn't have my phone with me when I got captured," she said, "I had left it in my car."

A shocked look crossed the blonde's face, her eyes showing exactly what Rei was thinking.

She had been tricked.

Gendo got a lot of things to answer to, she thought.

Then they got to an opening.

"Whoa," Lilly said.

It was a large opening with sunlight coming through the giant circle at the top of it and they can see patch of the sky there. A small field of flowers had grown thanks to the opening from above them, the wind blowing through them.

In the field of flowers, nine stone crosses stood in a straight line, similar to a grave of some kind.

"Stay in the shade Lilly," Rei told the blonde.

"Okay,"

The blue haired vampire approached the crosses until she was standing right in front of them. Her eyes read the name that was written upon it.

Silverstone-Guardian

She looked at each of the cross, finding a different name for each and as she reached the last one on the far left, her eyes widen.

Lilith-Guardian

It's…It's her, Rei thought, thinking about the woman she had met in her subconscious, It have to be the same woman. This must be her grave…but why would she be buried here in the Silver Crystal Cave?

"It's been a long time since a Vampire set foot in this place,"

A long haired man was standing on the top of the large opening above them. He was dressed sharply, but his eyes were bright silver, which shone even more in the morning sunlight.

"Who…Who are you?" Lilly yelled.

The man's eyes found Lilly in the shades and they widened in surprise.

"Elizabeth…it had been a long time since our last meeting," he said.

Rei glanced at Lilly's shocked face.

Lilly knows this man. Just who is he?

"Who…Who are you?"

A mysterious stranger who knows Lilly? Who could he be?

Jacques0 out.

R&R.