Hey Guys, I'm back with another story, this one taking a different toll on my fanfic-
ing. I will continue my other stories, don't worry, I just cant remember where I left
off. When we moved, we hooked up the other computer that didn't have my fanfic on
it, so I'm going from scratch here. Anyways, hope you enjoy
This story is extremely different than my other stories thus far. I normally cut
straight to the cutesy stuff and don't bother with serious, and sometimes morbid
things. But I do enjoy them sometimes. Thus this story was created. It will be longer
than my others, ranging anywhere from thirty to forty chapters. It is also not
generally based on romance, instead, a different approach. Horror. Now, I bump it
into this category because there isn't one in particular for what I'm writing. Though,
rest assured, there will be fluff, for what is a fanfic without it? However, it wont be
out in the open until father in the story. However, you may detect hints at future
fluff throughout the story. With this being said, I suppose I should carry on. I hope
you like this and please review, otherwise, I wouldn't know whether to continue or
not. So, please enjoy.
Echoes that walk the night.
Kirralle Hazayaki.
Prologue
If it weren't for the fact that I was running on two and a half hours of sleep and four cups of
coffee, I probably would have paid a bit more attention than I was while leaving the hospital.
I quietly lumbered down the sidewalk, humming to myself lightly as the rest of Boston slept
or watched others sleep in fear of losing them to the sickness as they slept.
One thing occupied my mind as of late. Influenza. I had thought many times on the chance
that I too could get sick, but I worried less about myself and more about the patients, like
every other nurse and doctor in that small and rather crowded hospital.
So I like I stated before, I slowly made my way back to my tenement probably
somewhere around midnight when my footsteps slowed and things seemed to get very quiet,
very quick. I suppose if my mind weren't so jumbled and on a coffee high, I would have
heard the footsteps behind me much sooner than I did. By the time I did hear them however,
it was too late. As if someone…some invisible force, was pushing me, I quickly turned
around to face a man behind me.
His face was partially covered by a mask like mine and the rest of Boston who could
afford them these days, and he wore a long black trench coat. His skin, from what I could
see, was a pale grey color. Purplish-blue colors hung lazily under his eyes, which were as
black as onyx. Fearing the worst, I tried to run, but my legs didn't want to listen to me.
Neither did the rest of my body. It was like I was frozen in time, staring at the stranger
before me. I watched in fear as he slowly removed the mask from his face and smiled
wickedly, revealing pearly white…fangs. My breath caught in my throat as I tried to scream,
but I came out as more of a whispered whine as he sauntered over to my side.
"Hello" He whispered as he placed his fingers on my neck carefully as if he was trying not to
break me or something. He whispered something unintelligible and in a tongue I couldn't
recognize. Soon, a dark, thick fog hazed over my eyes and a sharp piercing pain sunk into
my neck, fire spreading rapidly through my body. Then, everything went black.
Everything was dark. In the darkness, I heard a very incisive and very annoying humming
sound. I lifted my hand to my forehead and sighed. Great. I had known exactly where I was
the moment I came to. The room smelled highly of chemicals and anesthetics, the pillow
under my head, lumpy and very uncomfortable. I grumbled at the humming of the air vents
above me and opened my eyes to the white walls and ceiling of the hospital I was just leaving
a few hours ago. A horrible notion crossed my mind and I broke into a cold sweat as one
word echoed in my mind over and over again.
Vampire.
I had seen them before, vampires, but only once, when I was 12. I was looking out of the
window in my bedroom one night when I heard some sort of commotion under me. There
were three guys, two of them were watching idly as the other was hunched over something in
his arms. I soon realized that it was a girl, about my age. The three men laughed as the
lifeless girls body fell limply to the ground and they quickly departed from the alley. Too
quickly almost, like they were flying. They found the girls body the next day and stated that
she was attacked by a dog, how more wrong could they get?
I sat up and pressed my hands to my eyes, noting that my hands seemed unusually cold. I
looked down to notice they were a pale grey, much like the man who attacked me. I pulled
the mirror from my beside into my hands and looked down. All of my skin was grey, My lips
were a pale shade of purple and my brown hair stood out abnormally in contrast to my
recent skin color. My eyes, once a smile, dark brown, now stared at the reflection in the
mirror with piercing, electric blue eyes. I don't think the word unusual would cover it. Any of
it. But the worst part, the part that confirmed my suspicions was that when I yawed, the
mirror revealed what I was hoping I wouldn't ever see again. Two razor sharp, glistening
white fangs. Right where my canines should be. Hallucinations. That's what it is, I was
hallucinating… or dreaming. Now all you have to do is wake up. Wake up Sakura…..
"Wake up!! Its just a dream…wake up…" I mumbled as I squeezed my eyes shut and
slapped my face a few times. Ow. Ok, so its not a dream, and the thing that I had feared
since my childhood, the thing that I had a vendetta for, what the man was that attacked me. I
had become one. A Vampire. My nightmare, which haunted me for ages, I had become it.
How any of that was fair was beyond me. What had I done to deserve becoming this… this
monster?
And a monster I was, because soon after I woke up, I became hungry. Or thirsty I should
say. And it was overwhelming and overpowering. I tried to suppress it, But by the time night
had fallen that evening, I was starving, and there were a million people in this hospital, I could
smell the blood coursing through their veins… the temptation was overwhelming. Yet still I
fought against it. Or tried, tired hard as I could, but before long, a feeling rose from the pit of
my stomach and took over my consciousness. I was hungry. And someone was going to be
my meal. I threw the mirror off of my lap and looked at my reflection in the shattered glass
laying on the floor. My eyes were black and terrifying, again, like the creature which
attacked me and made me this way. I pulled the IV out of my skin and slowly left the room,
It was late and nobody but at least two nurses and the patients were still here. The nurses
being the only healthy ones.
I quickly made my way through the familiar corridors and hallways that I had passed
through so many times to check on a patient or to get to the cafeteria. Footsteps echoed to
my ears from a few hallways away and I quickly, almost too quickly, made my way to them,
quickly spying a nurse, I think her name was Amy. Not that it mattered, you shouldn't make
acquaintances with your food. She must have heard me behind her because she stopped and
turned around, smiling at me.
"Oh, Hey Sakura, you ok? You sure you should be out of bed?" She asked. Who cares, its
not like I had the Influenza. I shrugged and smiled at her, careful to make note of the fact that
I had miraculously grown pointy teeth over the course of a few days.
"Um. Ok. Well, I'm gonna' go get some food, wanna join me?" She asked, not realizing
what exactly it was she was asking. I nodded and slowly walked up next to her,
"Your eyes look a little different. They're almost black. Are you sure your ok?" She
continued, As if she were really concerned with my well-being. I frowned. But nodded all the
same. Figuring that she was too dense to figure it out that I was somewhat stalking her, I
figured that I just needed to take the matters into my own hands and her suffering would
have to be dealt with later. She looked at me sidelong, and her eyes grew wide as she saw
that I was running my tongue along my fang absentmindedly. Balling my hand into a fist I very
swiftly threw a punch at her back and an instant later one to her chest, knocking the breath
out of her.
"I'm sorry" I whispered as she watched in horror as I sunk my teeth into her neck. She
gasped mid scream and soon fell unconscious as I drank.
My eyes quickly faded from black to their new startling blue, I could feel the change, it
was like my sinuses clearing up suddenly after a sneeze. I looked down to see Amy's body,
lifeless in front of me. And I panicked. I picked up the body and flew down the hallway
hastily, licking whatever blood was left from around my lips. Making my way outside, I sped
around to the back of the hospital and threw the body down in the alley, then fled myself.
Not looking back at my first victim or the hospital. Tears escaped my eyes, whether they
were cold or hot, I couldn't tell, emotions seemed dead for the moment with the amount of
panic that coursed through my veins. I couldn't go back to my tenement in fear of hurting one
of the children that lived there and I had no family since Touya, my brother died of a train
accident. So I ran, ran until I couldn't anymore…which never came, so I just stopped in
front of the Charles River. I sat down along the banks of the river and sighed, surprising
myself at the fact that I wasn't out of breath and my heart wasn't beating insanely, it didn't
even phase me that my heart wasn't beating…at all. Last I remembered, vampires were
undead, so weather that meant that they were borderline alive or if they were something like
a zombie was beyond me. I just knew I was one. I just didn't want to be. I didn't want to be
a monster, and wasn't about to let myself become one. So I stopped eating. And it was
close to four days without food that I finally grew weak. The sun in the afternoons and
mornings hurt and made me slower than usual, and the fact that I was insanely hungry
overwhelmed me at most times, but I grew to overpower the subconscious state that had
come over me when I grew hungry, and I had to hold myself back several times from eating.
I refused to let myself become something like him. Someone who killed for personal reasons.
It wasn't until the night of my first week being this way that I was so hungry I was about to
do something about it. But I was weak, very weak. So weak I couldn't bring myself to stand
up to find food. That's when I met Eriol. I was sunk back behind a trashcan in an alleyway
when they came. There were two of them, one, tall, slightly taller than I, and a child, she
looked like she was twelve and had blood red eyes, raven black hair and a smile that would
fool anyone. The other wore a smile too, but it was more kind and understanding than
creepy, like the child.
"Hello." He said, crouching down to meet my gaze with emerald green eyes. I looked at him
placidly and traced my gaze to his teeth. He was a vampire too. But not like the other one,
the masked marauder that had attacked me.
"Oh, you poor thing. You don't want to be a monster do you." He said… it wasn't a
question, but statement. Almost like he could read my mind. Or my expression, which I'm
sure read: "I'm hungry and rather miffed right now. So bugger off." He smiled and offered
me his hand.
"Well, neither do we. We can help you. I'm Eriol and this is Tomoyo" He said, nodding his
head to the maniacal looking girl behind him.
"Come on. We'll get you something to eat" He said as he picked me up off the ground and
placed me onto his back.
"Come on Tomoyo. Lets help our new friend" He mumbled quickly as they sped down the
alley and kicked off the ground, bounding onto the rooftops of the tenements, running at
what seemed like light speed.
That's how I met Eriol and came to be the most recent member of his Covent. They were
like me. They didn't attack humans for food, but instead used animals and blood from blood
banks. There were four of us. Eriol, Tomoyo, Touya, my brother, and me. My name is
Sakura Kinomoto, and this is my story, like none you've heard I'm sure.
END!! Well, the end of the prologue that is. Like I said, this will be my longest story
yet. So please review and tell me what you thought about it! Cause otherwise, how
am I to know whether to continue or not?? So until Next time!!
Ja Ne!!