-1Slayer & Princess

"Why have you bought me here?" the young man fully cloaked in black and holding a silver gun sneered, licking the corner of his lips.

Unnerved by his actions, the man motioned at his servant who threw a suitcase onto the table that was in-between them. The man opened the suitcase, revealing the vast amount of money, "I wish to hire you, the most powerful slayer there ever is that isn't even afraid to kill royalty - Zero Kiryu."

Zero removed his black cloak, allowing himself to be full in view of his hirer and with a swift movement fired the gun at him, missing only by inches on purpose. He smirked, "I specialise in killing royal bastards like you because I find it pleasurable; exhilarating to kill pureblood vampires rather than the latter." Zero took several steps towards him and directly pointed the gun at his head. "Rido Kuran, what makes you think I wouldn't want to kill you first? The most likely candidate to succeed the throne and become king of vampires."

Rido chuckled, totally calm and unaffected by the cold touch of the pistol that he feels on his forehead, "you are quite misinformed aren't you?" Rido waited and seeing Zero did not move, proceeded with what he had to say, "have you not heard of the inner game we royalty play?"

Zero remained still, "like I give a damn about you royalty. I just enjoy the thrill in killing you guys."

Rido ignored Zero's comment, "there are more than just me and the Kuran family that are purebloods; meaning besides me there are also many more suitable candidates to become the next King. Within my own Kuran bloodline there are already too many people. You understand what I mean?"

Zero removed the gun, "how amusing? So you mean to tell me you purebloods who are supposed to be family are trying to kill each other."

"Precisely," Rido admitted with a broad smile, "the weak ones have no right to be king. It's only fair that we fight to see who is the strongest and deserve that title."

"You don't want to hire me," Zero stated straightforwardly, "you want me to become one of your pawns and eliminate as much pests that are in your way as possible."

Rido smirked, "you won't get a bad deal from working with me. I guarantee your reward will be satisfactory, Zero Kiryu. I could've asked anyone else but I personally chose you to become my right hand man. I see your worth and I am asking you with sincerity. You should honour me back. It is smarter for you to ally yourself with me who is the strongest of all purebloods and is the future king."

Zero closed the suitcase. He took it with him and headed towards the door, "so my lord, my first - no my next pureblood?"

Rido chuckled again, "good Zero Kiryu. A brilliant decision. We shall eliminate the weakest first - which will be my pretty niece, Yuuki Kuran."

The door shut closed as Zero left.

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Blood splattered across the brick walls, staining the originally white carpet a sinful crimson. The maid kept running, one of her legs already deeply cut. She didn't dare to look back behind her but from the edge of her eyes, she saw the silhouette gaining closer ground to her, the deadly weapon still raised. She tripped on a body lying across the floor before her. She turned, staring into the blood-shot eyes of her former master and could beg in her last efforts to stay alive, "princess…please-no…you promised you'd treat humans like me-" The deadly weapon cut through her throat and she was no more but another corpse of the hundreds in this castle. Swinging the weapon around and finally resting it over her shoulder whilst holding onto it loosely with her other hand, she walked into a nearby room and silently waited.

The big iron doors to the big castle made a rather loud noise as it was thrashed to the ground. Gripping his gun tightly with excitement, Zero set foot into the princess's dwelling. It was dark, very dimly lit and deathly silent. It wasn't long after he set foot inside to the castle that he felt irritated. It was daunting to him, seeing all the dead bodies of the servants and their blood decorate the castle; someone must've beaten him to the job. He gritted his teeth, "Yuuki Kuran, you better not be dead." After seeing Rido, Zero was unsatisfied somehow. He took the money out of the one reason that he believed Rido was the strongest pureblood and that he will become future ruler. To a cold-hearted pureblood slayer like Zero, even he knew that there needs to be at least one pureblood remaining to ensure society wouldn't collapse on itself. There had to be a ruler to make decisions somehow.

At this minute, Zero felt his hands itch and tonight he knew he craved to kill and shed blood with his own hands. He studied the markings of the blood which seem to lead him down the main corridor. The sight of so many corpse only made him more eager to get into action himself. The bloody trail finally stopped at a room. Without any hesitation Zero kicked opened the door and pointed his gun into the room. He gave a cruel smile like those of an animals seeing its prey before its eyes. "Any last words Princess Yuuki Kuran?"

Yuuki turned to stare at the intruder. She clicked her fingers and the candles in the room lit up with more flare, brightening the dark room. She clutched onto her own weapon and pointed it back towards her assassin. The blood stained upon her face, her dress and her silver tiara gleamed. "Only one," she mused, "under whose command?"

"No need for you to know when your about to die?" Zero taunted, "though seeing the state of this castle, I'll praise you, Princess Yuuki Kuran - for surviving and letting me do the honours in killing you."

Yuuki began to laugh hysterically, her eyes and expression turning wild, "you honestly think someone else did this to me and my servants. You think I've managed to hide myself and survive from a massacre by someone else? How scarily simple are you?"

"You did all this," Zero stated cautiously, seeing the truth before his eyes. For the first time, he felt himself shiver a little from this girl before her. A unpredictable move she had made tonight which threw his judgement of her slightly. "Well, I've enough talking to you Princess. Rest in peace."

The definite sound of three bangs echoed through that room, followed by silver slashes in the air. Standing unhurt, weapon still grasped and the three bullets split apart on the floor besides, Yuuki smiled at Zero. "To be honest with you, Mr Assassin, guns are the most ineffective weapon against me."

"Don't underestimate me," Zero cursed.

Yuuki's triumphant smile disappeared. She stared at him with a serious and stern look, "I won't need my weapon against you." With a delicate motion she threw her weapon onto the floor in front of her towards Zero. "I can predict the future. You will not kill me because you are the one I've been waiting for."

Zero leered at her. The presence she gives off was something completely different to the other countless purebloods he had killed in the past. She was so composed before him, she seemed scary for the split second; a emotion he didn't feel for anyone, not even Rido Kuran. Before Zero now was a violently wild princess who had killed all her servants and whose every action and words seem to intimidate him. Unforgivable being that needs to be killed…