To fellow readers and writers that are viewing this fan fiction,

This is a quick note to remind you to look at the dates of different events carefully, so you can understand the story better. Two or three events occurring at the same time might be read to know what affected a person in the time span. I hope you enjoy this story I always thought about, and pondered about sharing as an idea ^_^. Thank you,

Kazumi, or Kaz

Abandoned Unidentified City, Japan, 11:00 P.M.

A sigh escaped his open mouth as he stared on into his vicinity. Around him was a destructed city of demolished buildings and infested houses, with complete silence producing a rather odd ambiance. He brushed his black hair back as a soft breeze blew across his pale skin. Green eyes sharply glanced at every corner uncertainly, though gleaming an emotion of boredom as the boy loosened his grip on a long sword and walked around slowly. He was perched onto the top of a rather short building, watching over his surroundings for any sign of a vampire or any other danger that could be possibly lurking around the area. Suddenly the boy heard a thump and footsteps as his eyes widened and he turned around, aware of a presence.

"God, is it that how easily you're scared, Yuu?" A familiar voice rang out playfully. A girl with lavender hair and a quite sly smile was walking toward him.

"Ugh, Shinoa, you really underestimate me- even after I grew wings and became a superhero, hm?" Yuichiro Hyakuya, relieved to see only a friend, boasted.

"Dream on, friend, but you really expect a lot from me, even after I found out that you're a pretentious wannabe who can't even control himself, literally," Shinoa retorted with a quiet laugh.

Yuu blushed and mumbled "Ya got me there. Anyway, why are we here?" he asked with a bored expression planted on his face as he looked over at Shinoa.

"Like I haven't told you. We need a safe place to stay for a temporary moment, and so then, we need to double check for any idiotic monstrosities that could be going around this dump of a place," she explained. Yuu groaned at this.

"I get that, I have been, but out of all these places, why should we stay here?" he desperately questioned. Shinoa only looked over ahead of her, avoiding his childish stare. He shook his head and looked down. "Just... it's alright, tell me later."

They both stared on into the dark and quiet place for a while. Yuu decided to break the silence with another question. "Hey, don't you think it was funny how we all-"

Shinoa's eyes widened as she kicked a shocked Yuichiro harshly but quietly. "Shush! Do you hear that? Oh my god..."

Yuichiro was alarmed by this as he looked on ahead of him. His own eyes widened as he heard something. It couldn't be... There couldn't be... but what he was hearing was real. And it was disturbing.

A piercing scream.

"DAMN IT!"

The boy and girl exchanged expressions of horror at the sound as blades swung out and they took their positions. Yuu was in a mixture of feelings. There was a girl somehow... somehow alive. Alive in an abandoned city. It was surreal. This place held unrealistic conditions. Who could ever be so alive at this moment? By every thought, Yuu ran faster toward where the sound was coming from. He wanted answers.

It was an apartment building. Up in shape, but blanketed in mold and wiped out of color. Yards and yards were marked as Shinoa and Yuu leaped across numerous platforms.

Finally, they were here. The entrance of the building, consisting of two glass doors, was smashed, and an old picture frame lay across the shattered, remaining glass fragments outside the place. An old, bent sign dully identified the building as Avaron Inn on Amaya street.

10:51 P.M.

She was quietly strolling back home to the apartment. A slash across her cheek bled as crimson rolled down her face like a tear. She wiped it away carelessly and continued on hurriedly. Her clothes were torn and stained with blood. Pain overwhelmed her but didn't defeat her awareness and priorities. She had to get home. Right away. Back to her family. Back to safety. She jogged as dark thoughts consumed her.

What those people threatened to do was wicked. Terrifying. Witches who dealt with dark sorcery and the full ability to deceive. Those same monsters whom were mentioned in her mother's stories- they found her scavenging for food and captured her, about to use her for a ritual. How ever coincidental was it that she was suspicious of a presence while picking at roses in the morning before she left?

She grabbed her phone out of her pocket swiftly and called her mom, covering her ear as much as possible to prevent making any noises that could signal she was around.

"Hello?" A frantic voice spoke out. The girl was relieved. "Thank god! Mom, I, I..."

"I know, I know, sweetie. I won't hang up on you. I promise."

She was at the verge of tears. She was scared. "Mom, we're not safe. Did you sense them?"

"No... don't tell me they're here. Did they-"

"Yes. They did. They saw me, mom. They took me and almost sacrificed me. I escaped it and now I'm on my way home. I'm sorry I couldn't call, it's just that I lost almost everything.." The girl explained in a panic. "I have to tell you something though- they threatened to send out a vampire to kill us all."

"Oh my god. This isn't good. Akira, this is not good at all. You need to get home now." The woman was shocked.

"I know, I'm hurrying, just please, tell the others, and Dad too. Protect them all and when I get there, I'll keep you all safe. Including Gina. She won't grow up as we did. I promise. I love you." She hung up and hurried along her way toward home. She needed to make sure her family wasn't going to be harmed. She would not let it happen. She could not let it happen.

10:55 P.M

Akira was almost home. She gripped onto her phone and dialed her mother again, about to alert her that she was getting there. That she was alright, and that she was going to be there soon.

But something left her in an air of incredulity.

It couldn't be.

No...

There was no answer.

Akira was shocked, agitation and perturbation consuming her, ever so irrepressible as she thought the worst almost involuntarily. She saw the apartment in the distance and ran toward it, being only feet away from the very entrance. When she arrived, shock automatically stunned her as the sight of shattered glass told her that someone came already.

She hurried through the foyer toward the main room. She repeatedly whispered "No..." to herself in pure denial as a trail of broken glass led the way to wherever this person, or rather her own family, was.

She finally got to the main room.

And she gasped in disbelief.

It had to be a nightmare. It had to be a nightmare. A horrific "No!" escaped her trembling lips as she saw there, in the area, blood splattered and dripping from the walls to the floors. Crimson blanketed everything as bodies laid across the room. The body of her brother, her mother, and her father. Tears streamed down her cheeks uncontrollably.

Akira ran toward her newborn sister, Gina's crib in a state of panic, only to find that she even was a victim. She couldn't believe anything that was happening to her as her hand reached out to the bloody crib. It was horrible. It was a nightmare. It was surreal. She turned and attempted to shake her mother awake again, grabbing her and hugging her to herself, sobbing away at the dreadful reality that came to be.

Through that, she wept for what felt like hours, but was only minutes to come, until she heard footsteps. Her face, red and scratched, looked up only to see someone worse than the hell she felt she was being sent to. The murderer. The vampire sent by those witches. He was terrifying.

The monstrosity wore a wicked smile on his pale, messy face. Blood dripped from his mouth and was on his ripped, torn clothes. Messy black hair, shoulder length and soaked, lay over his shoulders. He was a monster. The worst monster. And he was about to kill her.

He was about to kill her.

She screamed.

11:05 P.M.

"Keep to your position, Yuu!" Shinoa yelled as she ran inside with Yuichiro.

Yuu nodded as he continued through a large foyer in the apartment toward a main room. Suddenly though, he paused. He grabbed Shinoa's hand tightly to halt her from running, and quickly explained "We need a plan! Whatever's going on, it's inside that room over there! Reach the opposite end and attack from behind! I'll help. Sounds good?" He asked in assurance. He received a nod from Shinoa as they departed to prepare for the ambush.

He desperately sneaked through the doorway through the room to a large, covered corner inside. He heard violent remarks as he spied over and saw a girl attempting to fight a vampire... Around them were dead bodies... How did all of them not become livesto-

"DAMN YOU! LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE! YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS! YOU'LL PAY!" the girl was half crying, half yelling as she threw objects at the vampire, who dodged and ran toward her. He grabbed an object of his own- a rather large one- and smashed it against her head. She looked stunned, affected by the move and stumbled back toward the ground in horror. The vampire was cackling. He grabbed the leg of a table and knocked it to the ground as he took it and slowly walked toward the girl, who was terrified. He was about to stab her and kill her with the table leg. She screamed again, when-

Shinoa, wielding her scythe that was summoned as her Cursed Gear, threw the vampire to the wall with her weapon and stabbed him harshly. She yelled out to Yuu to come out and help the girl. And so he did. He ran from the corner toward the shocked kid, and grabbed her by the arm, holding her up. He took out his own sword and hugged her close to him, covering her with the blade to ensure that nobody took her away.

As the vampire fell to the floor, dead, silence returned to the setting. Shinoa breathed heavily after the mere job of killing the vampire as she stared on at the girl. She was sobbing in Yuu's arms uncontrollably.

Akira's POV

Akira was sobbing in his arms uncontrollably. She attempted to regain her breath and looked up at the man who was protecting her. She became speechless.

He was beautiful. Every inch of him was beautiful. He had bright emerald eyes that were pure beyond depth. His hair lay gently over his soft, pale face as he looked into her own eyes in sadness. In admiration. She felt like she could drown in his gaze if she kept looking, and she couldn't bare to see him. She wept in his arms gloomily.

Yuu's POV

She was beautiful. Her misty but strong eyes stared hopelessly into Yuu's as he felt heartbroken for her. Her soft but messy golden brown hair carelessly covered her face as she looked away from him and hugged him back, crying. Sadness overwhelmed Yuu. She was too beautiful. Too beautiful.

11:20 P.M.

Kimizuki handled the site as Yuu still held on to the girl, silence consuming both him and Shinoa as Mitsuba decided on orders for Yoichi. She all of a sudden turned toward him and walked in his direction, yelling "Is that the girl?! Is she alive?"

Yuu nodded quietly, stunned. "Yeah, she- she passed out." He looked down at the unconscious girl. She was asleep against his chest, her face in pain and her skin cold.

Mitsuba sighed and muttered, "When this whole thing is sorted out and we fight that Kureto guy, as well as get Guren back, I'll keep her safe with the other protected former livestock in the Moon Demon Company."

Yuu looked up and frowned. "What?! She can't! I swear, I saw her fighting that vampire- without any weapon! And he got injured. Imagine how she is with a weapon if she was able to weaken him- at least even a bit."

Mitsuba glared at him in anger. "Ya think? She's not even awake right now, and she has just experienced her family's death! She wouldn't want to go through training after all of that!"

"Of course not! But sooner or later, don't you think she'd be worthy to stand up to those jerks? She was using self defense, and I believe if she's strong enough, she'll hold it as a benefit!" Yuichiro explained roughly.

"Tell me why you are so curious about her!" Mitsuba spat out at him.

"Don't you see? She and her whole family were not caught by the vampires! There's something we all need to know, and I'm dying to figure it out!" Yuichiro yelled.

"Hmph. Okay. Fine. There's gotta be an application for that company somewhere. But I swear to God, you better have another reason to help justify this case. Don't let me OR her down," Mitsuba warned Yuu as she walked away.

Yuu looked down at the sleeping girl. It was surely a rough decision to make, but he needed to know.

In 2012 the human race was nearly completely annihilated, with the Moon Demon Company holding an antidote in their member's hands, knowing ahead of time about such a mistake that these people made. When finding that children under or about the age of 13 were not affected or weakened by this mysterious virus, the vampires, whom have been around longer than the human race themselves, took the matter into their own hands, and in return for "saving children's lives," the children would be submitted into a livestock system controlled by the 3rd Progenitor, Krul Tepes. They had to lend the vampires their blood and survive together, or rather that- on their own. To find that there was a family of adults and children that were not submitted into the livestock system- or were not affected by the virus- was rather strange and left Yuu in an air of suspicion. Did these people have any knowledge whatsoever about the very day that the human race was going to be wiped out, or was there some specialty in their systems that resisted anything?

Immunizations were rather the only excuse, and a dismissal of the conversation would be requested almost involuntarily, as everyone concluded that the antidote was taken.

1:00 P.M.

"A family of 5 had survived in an abandoned town and were not in the livestock system," he repeated thoroughly.

"Hmm. Document that for me, okay Yuu? We're gonna have some questioning tomorrow with this girl."