Chapter 2
First Encounter

Slight changes were made, just grammar and corrections I found~

Four years had passed since Keiko fled from the manor, she was thirteen now and isolated more than she had ever been.


A young girl had her snowy white hair gathered into a ponytail on the side of her head which was tied with a ribbon that had a soundless bell hanging off if it. She was wearing a cream-coloured dress and dancing in a flower bed outside of a large manor. A few minutes of dancing and spinning she had realized someone was watching her; she stopped moving. Tilting her head she looked over to the trees that began on the edge of the fields. Her blue eyes which had a speck of pink in them grew alarmed as she breathed in the smell of something sweet-smelling. The girl turned around and darted towards the manor, looking back she saw a woman following just behind her. She was wearing a white kimono that had a cherry-blossom pattern decorated on it. Her hair was a fine silver and flew behind as she hovered towards the girl. The older woman reached her hand forward and covered the girl's mouth. The little girl looked up into the rose-pink eyes which glowed of a faint red. The woman's eyes were filled with a mix of grief and fury.

"Why are you running from me, my Keiko?" The woman sneered and exposed her fangs, bringing her head down onto Keiko's pale neck. Her fangs brushed against the skin, leaving a small cut which leaked blood. Keiko closed her eyes and focused all her energy inside her head. She disappeared from the woman's grasp and was in the mansion a second later, running through the halls at a very inhuman speed looking for her parents. She came to a stop outside a door; she could smell the fresh blood that was wafting from the room. She knew what she would find on the other side of the door but she prayed that she was wrong. Keiko pushed open the door to her father's study, revealing the mess of a man and woman's body on the ground. The limbs were pulled from their bodies and their blood painted almost every inch of furniture the room had. The girl looked down at the last of her parents corpses before they turned to ash. The ashes of her parents blew beneath her bare feet as the breeze from the open window tickled her skin. Keiko looked up to see the woman with long silver hair sitting on the ledge licking the mess off her fingers. The woman looked sideways at Keiko then a second later was right in front of her. Keiko had tried to escape but was no match against the grip of the woman. The pink-eyed woman wrapped her left arm against Keiko's torso, pinning down her arms. Her right hand had yanked at the white hair on the little girls head, exposing her neck. She brought her hand down to cover Keiko's mouth, muffling her screams she was letting out. Keiko felt fangs press up against her neck. The woman lifted her lips to Keiko's ear and whispered something. Her eyes widened and tears streamed down Keiko's cheeks and she felt the puncture of the woman's fangs. Her fangs sunk deeper into her neck and everything to Keiko went black, her life was being drunk from her.

She was hopeless.

Her eyes opened once more and the last sight she saw was…

Blood…

Her blood…Her father's blood… Her mother's…


Keiko's eyes flew open and she let out a bloodcurdling scream. The glass of her windows mirrors and doors all shattered and sailed around in the air letting in the daylight from the outside as her curtains flew around. A few shards of the glass had cut her skin and a moment later her father rushed into the room. His golden brown hair flicked out and was a mess. He had just gotten out of bed and had only pyjama pants on which were tied tightly around his waist.

"Keiko! Stop this!" He yelled out to his daughter standing at the door. His eyes blazed red as he tried to use his power to stop the glass from flying around dangerously in the air. Keiko looked up, her blue eyes lifeless looking at her father while she sat upright in her bed. Kenta made his was carefully into her room but not long after his attempt did some glass graze against his skin. The smell of his blood reached Keiko and ended her trance-like state. The shards of glass dropped to the floor and her eyes welled up with tears looking at her father's injuries. He raised his hand to his cuts and in a moment they were gone and he swiftly moved to his daughter's side. Kenta took her into his arms and pulled her into him rocking her gently to calm her down.

"I-I'm so sorry, papa..." Keiko sobbed, pressing her head into her father's chest.

He hugged her tighter and rested his head on hers and hushed her, "It's okay Keiko, it was just a nightmare," Keiko moved closer and soon her tears had stopped, she stared emptily at the wall she was facing. "Would you like me to sleep here with you tonight; I'll fight off your bad dreams," her father winked at her and Keiko let out a small giggle.

"Would you?" She asked her eyes filled with delight again.

"Of course I will my dear. But do you remember the trick we learned on how to fix the glass?" He father asked pointing a finger to the mess on the ground. Keiko nodded her head and lifted her hand out in front of her. The broken glass lifted off of the floor and moved towards the places it had shattered from. She fixed each shard into its spot and a small blue light emitted from her hand. The blue light split into threads as it moved towards the glass and a frost floated along with it. In the past 3 years this happened quite frequently and her father taught her the trick to remake the windows with glass and ice. She could permanently freeze her ice which would keep the glass and it together. She froze the glass together and lifted her head up to her fathers who gazed at her proudly. Kenta lifted the covers over his daughter and brushed away her cuts that had been imposed on her delicate face. He lay beside her letting Keiko cuddle into him, he rest his arm around her and soon after they were both sleeping soundly curled up together.

When Keiko woke up later that evening the sun had long set. She pushed herself onto her elbows and looked around her room but her dad had left probably long ago. She hopped out of her bed and opened her door to the hall, she didn't sense anyone moving about which made her curious. She twirled down the hall of the manor; she slowed as she got to the end of her hall. There were staircases that led from the second floor to the first which had a gigantic hall. Keiko looked over the railing to see one of her maids was laying at the bottom. Keiko hurried over to the maid worried she had injured herself; she kneeled down by the maid and rested her hand against the woman's head. The old maid moved her arm up to meet her young mistresses but Keiko was flung across the room and hit the cold and hard marble floor. Keiko lay shocked for a moment before making her body dematerialize before she could be attacked again. She had become air herself and was examining the maid. Her heart dropped when she realized it was her teacher and was no more than a level-E anymore. The teachers face was twisted into a ferocious snarl. Keiko was so shaken about the event she was witnessing, her body had materialized and the maid was charging right at her. Arms grabbed around Keiko's waist and pulled her away, the level-E had been turned to ash without any action.

"Papa, what's going on? Where's mother?" Keiko asked, her voice filled with fear as the pain from the impact hurt her spine.

"Keiko, someone is attacking our home. Can you go to your room? Promise me you'll stay there until I come get you okay? Promise me Keiko." Her dad pressed with urgency in his voice.

"Yes I will papa." Keiko replied. She knew it wasn't wise to argue with her father. What he said goes and she had learned that long ago, his position on the senate proved that point further. Kenta leaned down and kissed his daughter's forehead and urged her on. Keiko's body disappeared and she was in her room a moment later. She ran over to her bed and grabbed a little chest she kept beside her on her bedside table. There was a little lock on it that only she knew how to open. Keiko looked at the box and watched it as it disappeared from her hands.

She had been sitting quite patiently and irritably on her bed for a while now, but before her thoughts processed much further she heard footsteps outside her room. The door to her room opened and Keiko jumped up eagerly.

"Pap-" Keiko barely managed to get out before an invisible push sent her flying and pinned her up against the wall.

"Why Keiko dear, it hurts me to see you call a low vampire such as this your father," A strange voice crept from behind her father's limp body that was hung in the air. Keiko watched as a hand came out through her father's chest with the heart in the killer's hand. Keiko was petrified, not a sound could leave her lips as much as she wanted to scream. She just watched her dad's life been taken from right in front of her own eyes. Kenta's body dropped and turned to ashes before it hit the floor as his heart was crushed in the hands of his murderer. Keiko's eyes filled with tears and she fought against the force around her neck that held her against the wall.

"Shi-shizuka... Wh-what are you doing here?" Keiko fought to get the words out as she stared at the silver haired vampire standing just across the room.

"Can't you greet your mother kinder than that? Didn't these fools teach you manners?" Shizuka hissed and flung the young girls body against the ceiling. Pinned to the ceiling she looked down at the silver haired vampire with her frightened eyes.

"M-mother? N-no, my mother is Mai Kami-" Keiko had stuttered before she dropped from the ceiling and landed flat on the ground.

"I'll need to remind you of whose blood flows through your veins then Keiko Hio," Shizuka stated and lifted her arm up, which raised Keiko's body along. A few moments later Keiko was in the arms of Shizuka while they sat on the red couch just beside the window. A hand wrapped gently around her neck and all that she saw was her father's ashes on the floor which were now spread about. Tears filled her eyes as she felt fangs pierce into delicate skin. The salty droplets escaped and poured down her face as she recollected her locked up memories. The senate had giving Keiko to her adoptive parents hoping they could raise the pureblood child. Shizuka pulled her fangs from her daughter's neck and licked the spots she had bitten which closed the wounds quickly.

"Now my daughter will you accept the truth that I am your mother?" Shizuka said, her voice was lulling to Keiko which made her become rather dazed. That was until she had smelled the blood and seen it dripping down her mother's arm. Keiko grabbed hold of Shizuka's wrist with her shaky hands and raised the wound to her lips and licked the blood. She savoured every drop before sinking her fangs into the pale white hand. She glowered up as her mother's memories filled her head. Her father... Withdrawing her fangs she got up and shuddered away from Shizuka, fear consumed her eyes and more tears had escaped from her cheeks.

"T-that man cannot be my father..." Keiko whimpered before her hands flew to her pounding head and collapsing on floor. Her body began to shake uncontrollably. Her mother had been the princess she read stories about every night when she was a child before she went to sleep. Her father... The more she thought about him the more her head hurt, so she decided to make it stop. Two purple lights illuminated around her hands which still covered her head, Keiko heard her mother let out chuckled behind her.

"You can try to run from your existence Keiko dear. But you're the pureblood princess of Hio and Kuran and it is time you soon figure that out," she hissed towards her daughter. She tightened the grip on her head until everything went black and she lay on the floor unconscious. Her body was lying in the blood of her father and Shizuka looked down at the unconscious girl before she disappeared.


Sorry about the shorter chapter compared to the first; w ;~ Please review! They give me the motivation to keep updating!
I'll try to make next chapter more interesting to make up for this!
(It is kind of background/story filler~~)