Chapter 2
Hero
You could be a hero
Heroes do what's right
You could be a hero
You might save a life
Zero's POV
Finally I was rid of her…Mizuki…The scent from her neck smelt ever so sweet….But I vowed to never drink from a human again.
"Help me! Oh please! Someone!?"
A old lady was calling for help…Was she being attacked by a vampire? Quickly I ran until I found her
"Oh please! My grandchild has being kidnapped!" She sobbed to a man walking past. He simply ignored her
"Don't worry." I said walking up to her "I'll find her."
I ran off quickly following the scent of a Vampire. Hopefully the girl hadn't been attacked yet.
Mizuki's POV
"God I wish Zero wasn't so mean." I muttered crossing my arms as I began walking down an alley way.
"Here Vampire… Vampire…" I whispered peering around a corner.
Maybe I had run to the wrong end of town…It was too quiet here…Obviously nothing has happened…*hic*…Here *sniff*
"Who's there…?"
I heard another sniff. Sounded as if someone was crying. Walking around the next corner I saw a little girl sitting against the wall. Her eyes filled with tears streaming down her face. I took one step towards her but then stopped.
- - -
Zero suddenly appeared in front of the girl.
"My bag…Thank you." He said to the little girl.
She looked up at him with her tear filled eyes and hiccupped again.
"It's ok now. The bad man who wanted to take you away to some weird place is gone. Don't worry." He added
As he reached to pat her on the head she ducked from his touch. Zero pulled his hand away from her and then smiled
"Hey…I might be scary…But….I won't do anything scary to you..."
Mizuki at the time quickly slipped back around the corner of the alley way. Had her eyes seen correctly…Had the cold heart Zero Kiriyu just….smiled…?
"Come here…I'll take you back to your family." Zero said crouching down to her level and opening his arms. The girl slowly walked into his arms and he picked her up. Holding her with his right arm she wrapped her arms around his neck and he walked down the alley with her.
Mizuki slowly followed behind, keeping her distance.
- - -
"Yes officer! That's how it happened! So please! Please hurry up!" The old lady cried
"Understood ma'am." The officer replied
The old lady continued talking to the officer as Zero placed the little girl on the ground.
"Grandma!" The little girl said happily, smiling as she ran toward the lady
"Mii!" The lady replied. She asked if the little girl was ok and how she escaped the man who took her
"No grandma! I didn't escape! I was saved by that mister over there." She pointed to where Zero was standing. But he had simply walked away once he knew the girl was in the safe arms of her Grandmother.
- - -
He walked past a few people and headed back to his apartment. Forgetting entirely about Mizuki…
"Where is he going…?" Mizuki muttered as she stopped walking
The girl looked up and saw snow falling from the sky. She placed both hands out and watched as the snow fell onto her warm skin and melted away. Zero walked up some steps and opened a door and disappeared. Mizuki watched as he slammed the door shut. She sighed and turned around heading back in the direction of Cross Academy.
The chances of Zero actually excepting her as his apprentice was probably as thin as the ice that would form on a lake in tonight's cold weather; there was no point in trying to skate on it because you would only fall into the freezing water.
A loud bang noise came from inside the apartment making Mizuki and few people walking by stop and look.
"That was weird…" Mizuki sighed
- - -
Once making it back to school, Mizuki looked around for the chairman. But he was no where to be found.
"Great. How do I know where I'm staying…?"
Quietly she sat out the front of Chairman Cross's office door waiting for him to return. The hall ways were silent and slowly the sun began to set, making everything darker. Suddenly a happy whistling tune could be heard in the darkness. Footsteps got louder and louder until…
"Whoa…" Kaien Cross gasped as he tripped over something. He quickly regained his balance.
"Sorry!" Mizuki said startled
"Mizuki…What are you doing here sitting in the dark hall way…?" Kaien asked
"I don't know where my dorm room is…" She replied
The Chairman laughed nervously and apologised helping Mizuki up
"How'd the first hunt go?"
"I don't know. Zero did it and then disappeared into his apartment."
"You mean he left you?" The chairman asked
Mizuki shrugged, only then realising that the Headmaster could not see her
"Um…It doesn't matter. Mission accomplished anyway…Heh…"
Kaien Cross had managed to find a light switch. Mizuki quickly covered her eyes from the sudden brightness
"Sorry…Should have warned you." He laughed "Now! To your dorm room!" He added putting one hand on his hip and the other pointing down the hall
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Zero remained on his bed after the chairman had left, still clutching the sheets from the anger, and the hunger which was inside of him. Another successful kill of vampires…But he hungered for more…
Rolling over, he looked at the destruction he caused to his room. A large hole in the wall and a glass window shattered.
"Wonderful…."
- - -
The next day came quickly, Zero felt like he had hardly slept. And apparently Mizuki had either. During a lecture, she had dozed off next to Yori.
"Just like Yuki…." Zero thought as he rolled up a piece of paper into a ball and threw it hard against her head
"Ner. Huh…What's wrong….?" She snorted
"Maybe the fact that you have fallen asleep in my class Ms. Kara is what is wrong" The teacher replied slamming the text book he was reading from shut
Mizuki laughed nervously and rubbed the back of her head
"….Sorry….I didn't get much sleep last night…."
"Obviously." The teacher muttered "Class dismissed" he added after the bell rang
Everyone grabbed their books and were out the door quickly for lunch
"I can't believe you slept through the whole class…What were you doing last night….?"
"Uh….I don't sleep too well on nights before a full moon…" Mizuki laughed
Zero was currently eavesdropping on the two girl's conversations at the time and decided to add in his comment
"Don't like full moons?" He asked sarcastically
"You could say that…" Mizuki replied and picked up speed, walking quickly away from Yori and Zero.
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