Fate's Decree
Chapter 1:
Clashing Silver and Tender Adieus
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Rushing footsteps echoed down the cobbled stoned pavement as a silver-haired hunter runs in worry in search for a missing girl that managed to melt a fragment of his frozen heart. He took in a deep breath as he halted for a brief moment both in an effort to calm the raging storm of worry and fear engulfing him and to catch her sweet scent.
Yuuki, where the hell are you, dammit?! The man cursed inwardly as sprinted once more only to turn sharply to a corner when he finally caught a trace of the familiar fragrance that made his throat clench in undeniable thirst.
Yuuki. Please be safe. He thought as he proceeded to take up more speed as her scent became stronger. As the scent grew, his thirst grew as well, he merely ignored the aching dryness in his throat as he rushed to her direction, while his instincts shout at him of impending danger.
I'm almost there. Concluded the vampire as he gained more speed only for his heart to skip a few beats when another scent pervaded his heightened senses.
Shizuka. He growled as deep red anger filled his vision and at the same time increases his speed to maximum.
A booming slam was heard as the heaving youth stood in the wide entrance allowing the briefest moment of relief and joy enter him as the sight of the girl's safety took him. However, such emotions were soon diminished when his silvery amethyst orbs meet a pair of hauntingly familiar light magenta eyes.
"Shizuka Hiou." seethed the prefect as he took aim letting years of pain and suffering engulf him in full force only to be surprised when his quest for vengeance was halted.
"Zero, don't." the girl said as she took out her weapon and assumed a defensive stance against him.
What the hell is she thinking?!He screamed in confusion as he assumed his calm façade once more and told her to get out of the way.
"Move, Yuuki." He ordered his voice steely and cold as he once more took aim despite her pleadings.
"No!" she protested as she proceeded to use the paralyzing charm against him only to fail when he caught her small wrist.
"Why are you stopping me?!" he asked in obvious anger that made her flinch.
"She can help you. All you have to do is drink her blood and that way you wouldn't turn into a Level E. Please, Zero. Let me help you." pleaded his partner, her dark crimson orbs shinning with obvious pain and guilt that made him falter for a second.
But only for a second.
"If this blood thing is true… I guessing it wouldn't matter if you're half dead right." It was more a statement than a question as he was about to push the one he swore to protect out of the beast's clutches while taking aim once more.
What the?!NO!!! He mentally panicked as he felt his mobility and control fade from his grasp when the damn vampire ordered him to stop and hold Yuuki in place along with throwing his Bloody Rose to a far unreachable corner.
"As if you could kill me. I am after all your master. " the pureblood mused out as a small smirk played upon her pale features.
No. I must fight. He struggled as he felt a suffocating numbness overwhelm his senses, only to here a sinister chuckle escape from the one who took away everything he once held dear.
"It's no use. You have descended far too low to resist me." she chuckled out as he continued to struggle within, feeling the hold growing and his helplessness increasing as he heard her pleas.
"Zero, let me go. Let me go Zero." Yuuki said as she fought against his iron hold only to falter when the pureblood's attention shifted to her.
LET GO OF HER, DAMN YOU!!! he mentally shouts at himself as he continued the losing battle.
"Your screams won't affect him. He only listens to his master." Said the woman coolly while eyeing them in sheer amusement.
"Please, I'm going to give you my blood anyway. There's no use for this." the girl pleaded only to receive a haughty laugh from the said master.
"You think your blood alone can satisfy me? No, little girl. I have been starving and I need a little more than what you offer." Mused the magenta-eyed villain as she neared him. His numbed senses managing to take in her intoxicating scent and only for a familiar sensation invade his neck sending him a sliver of pleasure and disgust as her tongue ran along the vein while as her fangs pricked at his skin.
As her fangs began to sink deeper, he felt the memorable pain in full force.
The loss. The helplessness. The guilt. The fear. Everything that he suffered on the fateful day came back and attacked him like a wrecking ball.
Mother. Father. Ichiru. He gritted his teeth as the memories came, flooding his mind, suffocating and drowning him in the process. Happy memories cloud him at first, only for the harshness of reality to ruin it all.
As he battled through the rush of memories, he managed to regain at least an amount to control, as he about to regain his usual range of sight, he merely regretted it at the sight of a pair of crimson eyes stared at him full of sorrow and guilt. Her wide eyes brimming with hurt and tears as they looked at his almost spaced out ones.
Yuuki. I'm sorry. He thought as the images of her began weaving a rope of guilt around his tattooed neck.
I'm sorry for not being able to protect you. He reflected in sorrow as he felt the sucking sensation stop along with the retraction of fangs.
"Don't worry, child. It's your turn now." Said the mad princess as finished off by licking his neck clean and proceeded to near Yuuki with hungry eyes. The girl had no choice but to close her eyes and brace herself, only to open them once more when a strangled voice entered her ears.
"D-Don't." he croaked out at he began to shake off the uttered command. And as he did so, a light of surprise managed to grace the pureblood's eyes as a small smirk played at her lips.
I won't let you take her. He thought as he succumbed to desperation and futility of another way out besides what he plans.
He didn't know how he did it. But the image of Yuuki turning into a monster like him managed to give him enough strength to shake some of the effects of the binding hold over him. With what strength he had left, he let go and pushed away his partner while reaching out to the demon's slender neck.
"I must say. I'm quite impressed with you strength to resist me, Zero. But you barely have the strength to tighten your hold." Said the woman as she tilted her head in amusement while letting out a short chuckle.
As the cold hollow chuckle died down, a pregnant silence engulfed the three. One was too shaken to speak while the other was merely waiting for a certain servant's reply.
"P-Please, don't take anything from me anymore." He silently begged in a tone filled with defeat and acceptance as he let what remains of his grip on her slackens.
The two females merely stood silently, one unable to comprehend the words the escaped her friend's lips while another waited for her prize.
"L-Leave Yuuki out of this. I-I will become your slave. J-Just let her go." He continued feeling her hold grip him even tighter along with the silence that followed his words.
He looked at her, defeated and in pain. Awaiting her reply, as he desperately wished for a miracle, but it seems such things never existed in his world.
Her reply was no more than silence, except for a raised brow as if telling him his pleas were missing something.
"P-Please, Master." He choked out as the words sent a bitter taste in his mouth.
He looked up to her once more, only to be rewarded with a triumphant smirk.
"Very well. I will be waiting outside. Be quick with your goodbyes, I want to leave this place soon." She said in a matter-of-fact tone that made the pain of submission even worse, as she exited out of the room leaving the two prefects in stillness.
She was shaking.
Not with hurt or fear but with guilt as she saw the ex-human approach her.
"Yuuki." He whispered as his hand caressed her tear-streaked face.
With those words came the heartbroken sobs of hurt and reluctance, as she held on to him not willing to let him go.
"Don't go! Please, Zero!!! DON'T LEAVE ME!!!" she screamed out as her grip tightened as tears blur her vision.
"Yuuki. Forgive me." he muttered as he felt her slump against him when he hit her gut to make her lose consciousness.
He laid her out on the coach, allowing his eyes to take in her slumbering form for what probably would be the last time.
He knelt down to brush stray locks away from her face, lingering longer than necessary at the touch of her skin against his cold palm. He brushed his thumb against her cheeks as he allowed a sad smile escape his lips while he leaned down and placed a quick chaste kiss upon her lips.
"Goodbye, Yuuki Cross." He whispered against her ear while he inhales her sweet scent engraving in into his memory.
He stood up, as he forced himself away from her side, he was about to reach for the doorknob when a faint whisper caught his sharp ears.
"Zero." she pleaded in slumber, only to fail as a faint sound of a closing door answered her, leaving her alone until a certain dark-haired vampire carried her, painfully ignoring her mutterings for an already lost companion.
-END OF CHAPTER 1-
A/N: My first VK fic… quite ambitious of me really… making a multi-chaptered story on first try… =] please review and thank you for reading…I apologize for any OC ness… and btw…there would be data and event manipulation so that I could adjust with my story…besides this is an AU so it's kinda expected…suggestions and constructive criticism are welcome…
P.S. I do not own Vampire Knight. This disclaimer would include all my future chapters. If I do own it, Yuuki and Zero would be together in the end…Yup! I support ZEKI.