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The death zone, as they called it. Vast land that was bare of any humans. Where once little villages sat cozily between hills and near small rivers everything was destroyed.
The remands of one town after the other passed under them. Empty buildings, many of them partly or completely destroyed, rubbish and signs of rushed escapes or useless fights were everywhere. The villages and towns were slowly reclaimed by nature. Plants growing in the streets and the buildings, animals were fleeing beneath them. Only they could live in these zones nowadays, since they weren't seen as prey by them, at least most times.
Apart from the cars, rubbish and other things left during escape the streets were empty, not even bodies could be found anymore. He knew it wouldn't stay like this. As soon as night breaks they would crawl out from their hiding places, deep inside those dark, empty houses of the towns they were passing.
Most of the bigger city's had at least partly survived the last year. Humans could live there hiding behind walls or in safe basements underground during the night.
He had no idea how the rest of the world was faring. They weren't able to make any contact yet. Perhaps they were somewhat better off, since they had been prepared for the horrors to come after hearing the news of this unnatural catastrophe in Japan. After all, it had started here.
Here in Japan the first vampire appeared. They weren't such a big problem though. Humans continued living like before. Well, of course many were killed by vampires and it got all big on the news every time with hunts and demonstrations following after. But not all vampires were like that, most continued living unnoticed by society. And mind, they weren't that much different from humans.
But suddenly everything changed. Six years after the 'Vampire Outbreak', about a year ago, a new threat appeared: the reapers.
Most reapers lose their consciousness and logical mind and are simply blood addicted machines. They aren't completely dumb, but rather think like (none too smart) animals.
Sadly, they didn't seem to die of hunger, at least not that he knew of. It would have been way to easy this way. Thus, chopping of their heads or burning them was the only way to get rid of them. Luckily they burnt very well, even the sun was enough to set their skin to fire. This was the reason they only came out during night and sometimes on dark, clouded days.
Most humans still despised vampires, which is also why he made sure their existence and location would stay secret for now. They would let other cities know of them, when the time seemed right. One enemy breathing down their necks was enough to deal with for now.
As of right now he, Tomoya Shuichi, was one of the major leaders of a bigger city on the coast. It housed vampires as well as humans. So far they managed to life together peacefully, more or less.
He also was a leading commander of an army, most of them vampires. His own small unit called themselves Dragons Breath, which wasn't his idea mind.
"Commander, we are approaching Nagoya now, should we make a recount while we're here?"
"That won't be necessary. It was already done two days ago. I thought I put that report on your desk?"
The white haired male in front of him only grinned.
"Must have forgotten to read it then."
Shuichi shook his head in displeasure. If his people continued slacking of like that those monsters might have another feeding feast in the near future.
He could still feel the bruises from some weeks ago as they got into a fight in this very city they were approaching right now. It was a nasty sight, still giving him nightmares. He shuddered at the memories.
"Are you all right? You're getting a little bit green. Don't tell me you're getting air sick now. The helicopter still needs about an hour to get to the city."
"I'm fine, don't bother."
Shuichi mentally reprimanded himself. Every vampire fears the reapers and they were right to. It just shouldn't get in way of his work; he had more important problems to take care of than his own aversion to the reapers.
The lack of blood for the many vampires of his city was one of their bigger problems. Their scientists are working hard for a solution, but didn't have much luck till now.
So they needed other sources.
This sources mostly being human soldiers from other cities. Of course they wouldn't kill them; that definitely wouldn't help stopping the human race from dying out. They simply asked for a blood donation. "Ask" of course meant force, since the humans wouldn't do it freely till now. They would be knocked out and their blood taken via clean syringes. The vampires would make sure the humans got back safely to their cities and then get the hell out of there.
This was what they had been doing just now. The helicopter being full of cooled blood bags from a successful assault.
"Commander, it seems we got quite the problem."
Shuichi sighed. Heads were surely going to roll if he heard the sentence "I need to pee" again this day.
"What now."
"We are being tailed, look between the clouds above us."
Shuichi blinked in slight confusion and leaned out the open cockpit to look at the thick clouds above them. He narrowed his eyes. There, a small spark of metal shone between the clouds before vanishing again.
"Another helicopter?! Who are they and how could they follow us unnoticed! God damnit Dawn!"
He locked at his back towards their tracking vampire Dawn, who was sound asleep in his seat. Shuichi turned around and shook the man awake, who now looked at him sleepily. He pointed towards the sky above them.
"Tell me who the hell is following us up there!"
Dawn yawned.
"A helicopter with five people inside, commander Uchiha Itachi and his little brother seem to be with them as well."
"Uchiha? From Osaka? Didn't we just assaulted one of their units?!"
Suigetsu grinned.
"Well, seems like they didn't take it kindly. Should I get rid of them? I would gladly do the job."
Shuichi rubbed his temples.
"Yeah, sure they wouldn't. Still, it wouldn't benefit our course to kill or hurt them, just because they might find out our cities location. If their town is lost we're one big step closer to the human worlds end. Besides they might be good partners one day." He felt like he needed to explain this to the older male, in case he might act on his own account and kill them. No, he did need to explain it or Suigetsu would surely try to kill them. Those people weren't his favorite folk.
"They? Are you kidding? Did you forget what they do with vampires!"
"How could I. Now get some warning shots at them, warning mind. Don't hit, just get them of their course for now. We will flee through the clouds. Dawn, I'm sure they got a tracking devise onto our helicopter. Find it. Now!"
A glare from him was all his second in command and friend needed to gulped down his killing urge.
"Yessir"
Suigetsu slowly leaned out of the cockpit, ready to fire some water bombs in the direction of the other helicopter.
Just as he fired a strong wind came up, making their helicopter reel and nearly making him fall out. Shuichi jumped up and grabbed him at his jacket, pulling him back in.
The water bomb, which was supposed to shoot past the humans, instead hit them full force. Apparently it didn't break anything, but someone fell out, seemingly unconscious.
And aren't open sided helicopters stupid?
"Shit!"
Without thinking twice about it, Shuichi grabbed one of the life packs.
"Continue the mission! That's an absolute order! I'll be back in some days."
He threw of the head set and jumped after the falling human.
"What! Get the fuck back in idiot!"
It was futile though. Suigetsu sighed in defeat. He glared back at the pale faces of Dawn and the rest of their troop. They were still young vampires and humans and new to a soldiers daily risks.
"What are we doing now?"
"Exactly what the commander ordered us to do. Let's get out of here, Shu will manage."
At least he hoped so. He threw one last look at the ground before they vanished into the clouds.
Great. He just managed to lose one of their most important commanders in the middle of the death zone. And dusk was coming soon. The others back at the city would be delighted. He would never hear the end of this.
AN: For anyone that already read the story, I just changed some grammar mistakes and the like that irked me.