Blood Oath
By: Kitty McGonagall
Note: This is a rewrite of a old story of mine called A New Academy.
A young girl wakes to find herself somewhere new, and is told she is a vampire. She grows up as an average young vampire but raised by a human. Only thing is she has no memory before she woke. But a few years later when she is sixteen things start to come to light about her. A love she feels is unheard of, her existance is a mystery, and all the while she wishs to be a normal vampire.
Prequel
The rain beat down on the figure as they ran through the trees, their katana in one hand, a bundle of some kind at their side. The figure wore a leather coat with a hood up around their face and a half mask on the lower part of their face. Their black knee high boots splashed in the muddy puddles as they ran but they did not care. 'I have to get her to somewhere safe since she is no longer safe being with me!' he thought as he continued to run as he could sense the beasts that were giving chase.
'Damn vampires! Don't know when to give up!' He cursed in frustration in his thoughts as one caught up and bared its fangs and claws at him. The man shifted as his blue eyes were hard and narrowed on his adversary that had appeared. "I will give you one chance, vampire. Leave and I may spare your life for the time being." he said in a cold tone.
The vampire reered it's head as it let out a sadistic cackle. "I think not!" the vampire said as he leaned forward his red eyes gleaming in the stormy darkness. "I will only leave when you hand over what you are carrying." the vampire said only to lunge at the man.
He stepped to the side only to bring his katana swinging down as he cut through the vampire, from back to stomach only for it to turn to dust before even hitting the ground. "I am not about to give her back to a monster like your master." he said as he glanced around only to hear a faint movement as he backed a step, ready for another fight. But he soon saw it was nothing more than a squirrel running across the ground then up the nearby tree. He sighed in relief as he soon turned and kept running as fast as he could through the storm.
About an hour later he reached his destination as he walked up to the large building that had one of the lights on the lower level lit, so that told him that someone was home. Be it the man he needed to speak to or someone who might come and help him with the upkeep of his home. "Just a moment longer, little one." he whispered looking at the covered bundle at his left side as he walked up the steps to the door and gave a forceful knock. He did not have to wait long before the door opened to show a former aqaintance of his, Kaien Cross.
"Satsu?" Kaien asked after a brief moment as he looked at the man, Satsu, through his glasses. But Satsu merely shoved his way in past his old aquaintance. "W-what is going on?" Kaien asked as he followed Satsu into the sitting room of the house.
"Stop calling me that stupid nickname." Satsu said in a slightly annoyed tone as he walked over to the couch and put away his katana only to shift the bundle he was carrying to where he was craddling it before placing it on the couch. "I need your help, Kaien." he said looking back to Kaien who still stood by the door looking like a weak old man compared to how he was once the Legendary Hunter. He had traided his black clothes for some tan colored long coat and pants and some green shawl around his shoulders. His light colored hair was drawn back, making him look much softer than he ever had before.
"What do you need help with Satsu?" Kaien asked ignoring Satsu's earlier demand.
"I need you to hide," Satsu said shifting the leather covering to reveal the pale face of a sleeping girl with long white hair. "Her." he said with a gentle look in his eyes as he looked down at the sleeping girl.
"Whatever for? Was her family killed or something?" Kaien asked thinking surely Satsu would not randomly bring a child to him.
"Yes. But she is not human. I am sure you can sense it, that this girl is a vampire." Satsu said as he moved the covering off of her only to drop it to the floor despite protests from Kaien as he even drapped a blanket over the girl. "I cannot tell you the details, just that I must leave her with you and draw away those who were chasing us here." Satsu said grabbing a large pillow and a heavy blanket before going to wrap them in the cover so that the vampires outside would think he still had her.
"I-I will but what is this about? It is not like you! Especially since you disappeared two years ago only to return with this girl! Satsu, tell me what is going on!" Kaien said as he was worried about Satsu. He seemed to be in over his head, but at the same time he looked to have no regrets.
"All I can tell you is that necklace she is wearing," Satsu pointed to silver moon pendant hanging from the girl's pale neck. "Is the only possession she has. And she will be a blank slate when she wakes tomorrow morning." Satsu said as he finished positioning and wrapping the pillow and blanket. "And her name is Ame Hoshi." Satsu said before heading past Kaien to leave but Kaien ran after him.
"Satsu! Wait!" Kaien said as he caught up to Satsu at the front door. "Why not stay since it is obvious that you have some ties to this girl." he said finding it odd that Satsu was doing this but his friend merely shook his head.
"She is safer with me not around her anymore." Satsu said as he opened the door. "And if she ever asks, do not tell her of me or how I was the one to leave her here." Satsu said before closing the door in Kaien's face and leaving.
Kaien stayed by the door for a short while only to head back to the sitting room to check on his new charge. She looked so frail, she could not be any older than eight years old at the most with how tiny she was. But he soon settled onto one of the armchairs as he waited for the young girl to awaken.