I never described Hitoshi's looks, did I? Well I do here :3
Ayame and Hitoshi explore the old Cross Academy when something strange happens
"This is so cool. I've never been here before; father never let me." Ayame cooed as she stared at the rubble that used to be the enter arch to the school. Hitoshi nodded as the two began climbing over the mold covered stones.
After being abandon for fifty years the arch that had been destroyed by Kaien himself was covered in green mold and other plant life. The reasons the old Cross Academy grounds had never been cleaned up or rebuilt was because of the ghosts. Kaien had wanted to start rebuilding his school but, thankfully during the time the students went home, strange things began to happen. Small rocks would be thrown around. The horses, who yet needed to be relocated, would act up and Kaien could swear he felt vampires everywhere. Deciding that Cross Academy and the forest surrounding it would be too dangerous to be around any longer, he rebuild the school a few blocks away where the vampire ghosts would not bother them.
"Yes, my parents always warned me about this place as well. I wonder how they'd react if they knew I came here against their wishes." The young Pureblood prince agreed. The young Cross daughter grinned as the two of them reached the top of the rubble, chuckling softly.
"Who says we have to tell them? Besides I'm the daughter of a vampire hunter and a aristocrat vampire and you're a Pureblood." Ayame stated proudly. Hitoshi chuckle as he and the halfbreed jumped from the rubble and landed on what used to be a stone pathway.
Little of what used to be the stone pathway showed. The stones were cracked and through those cracks wild grass and weeds grew wildly. The grass surrounding the grounds, from where the two friends could see, was strangely not as tall as it should have been. After being abandoned or fifty years the grass should have been knee log if not taller. It looked wild and un-managed enough but came only higher than the two friend's ankles. The trees looked a little better then the grass, in the bad way. They were over grown with twisted branches and some even looked dead.
"Huh, that's strange. You'd think the grass would be taller after fifty years." Ayame observed. The Pureblood beside her simply nodded and rubbed his chin.
"Maybe the grass is scared to grow any longer." He mumbled before coming up with a more logical idea. "Or someone had been taking care of Cross Academy lately."
Ayame nodded and pulled the blood tablets Hitoshi had given her out of her jacket pocket. Something was casing not only her hunter blood but her vampire blood to act up. She could sense other vampires around and it made her feel edgy. Her hunter instincts kept telling her to find the vampires and kill them while her vampire blood was telling her to run. Swallowing three pills, Ayame looked over to Hitoshi to see he looked slightly disturbed.
"I guess the rumors about vampire ghosts were true. I can sense them but I can not see nor can I smell them." He said seriously, his eyes turning a dangerous shade of red. Unsure what to do, Ayame bit her bottom lip and put her blood tablets away.
"They aren't dangerous, are they? I mean they are ghosts after all." The half breed questioned. Ayame had fought other vampires before but a vampire ghost was something new and much more hard seeing as the vampire was already dead.
"These vampires are the Level-E and D servants of Rido Kuran. Even in death they have no peace; they still seem to be under his control." Hitoshi announced after a minute of starting at nothing. He then turned his gaze to Ayame, showing his eyes had reverted back to their natural baby blue.
"Yes they are dangerous but they can sense my Pureblood aura and wont dare try to harm us. So lets have some fun before the sun goes down completely and you have to go to bed." The Pureblood said teasingly and pinched Ayame's cheek. Glaring childishly, the young Cross girl slapped Hitoshi's hand away with a angry pout.
"Why's with you and cheek pinching?"
"What's with you and poking me?" Hitoshi asked back, an undertone of smugness. Ayame rolled her eyes before smiling childishly.
"Touche, old friend." She snickered before skipping ahead of him. "Come on, we have to see everything before I get to tired, don't we?" the half breed called out teasingly. Hitoshi rolled his blue eyes as a soft smile coated his perfect, Pureblood lips, and he followed after her.
Sadly time had not be kind to the old Cross Academy grounds. Originally most of the attack fifty years ago took place more around the forest area and the Moon Dorms. After fifty years the forest was over grown with new trees but old dead trees could been seen laying on their sides, some of them rotting and bug infested. The swan fountain, which had once proudly stood tall and spat water from the bird's beak, was now missing it's head, some of it's left wing and had moss and mold growing all over it. In the actual fountain sat old dirty water. The school and dorms weren't much better.
While the school building itself still seemed pretty steady there were plenty of things wrong with it. A chuck of the roof was missing, trees had grown so close that the branches had broken into near by windows and the one of the front doors was missing. Even though Ayame and Hitoshi stood their distance they could smell the rotten smell of wild animals and plants that had made the inside their home. Worst of all the the two friends could sense a great deal of vampires inside the school building and some of them were looking down through the broken windows at them. Crept out Ayame and Hitoshi moved to the Sun Dorm area.
The Sun Dorms seemed to take the least amount of damage. There was no sign of the attack on either building and the only things that seemed wrong was the buildings began to decay with age. Both buildings had trees growing near them like the school, windows were broken and grassy mold grew on the sides of the brick buildings. Unlike the school, however, the doors stayed in tact. They may have looked a little rotten with age but nothing else seemed wrong; besides the fact both Ayame and Hitoshi could once again sense more vampires that stared down at them.
"Typical place for the ghosts to be. They can probably sense the auras of the Day Class students that used to live there." Hitoshi said as he stared at the Sun Dorms in disgust. Ayame nodded and shuffled her feet again.
"Yes, that's very possible. My father once told me a lot of students had to leave most of their things behind so that might be why the ghosts like it in their. It gives them the feeling that they are still hunting for gifts for their master." Ayame said calmly, her green eyes flashing seriously. Hitoshi, uncomfortable with the atmosphere, grabbed at Ayame's arm.
"Come on, lets check out the Moon Dorms then leave. I'm beginning to think this was a bad idea. This place is full of evil and sorrow." The Pureblood vampire said as he began to pull his friend along. Ayame hesitated for a moment longer before willingly following him.
Yes this place was far more intense then the young half breed would have ever thought it would be. She knew there would be ghosts but not so many. Yeah Ayame heard that hundreds of former humans died in battle but it seemed that every single vampire became a ghost. Didn't any of those former human slaves of Rido Kuran and the Hunter Association cross over to where ever? That really was sorrowful but Hitoshi was right, this place was evil; she could feel it in her blood and bones..
"You know, the dorms looked sturdy enough to enter." Ayame said as she continue to be pulled out of the Sun Dorm area. Hitoshi looked at the young Cross girl in shock.
"Please tell me you aren't stupid enough to want to enter those hell holes. You sensed what was in there, Ayame." He nearly shouted as his grip tightened in reaction. Grunting in the pain of the Pureblood's grip, Ayame glared and yanked her arm away with her vampire strength.
"Hitoshi, I was raised by a vampire hunter, I have hunter blood in my vains; I am not an idiot. Maybe a bit childish and stupid yes, but I am not an idiot. I was just pointing something out, I didn't actually plan to go inside. Those dorms gave me bad vibes." Ayame growled out, feeling insulted by her friend's accusation. Hitoshi sighed and ran a hand through his shaggy, shoulder long purple-brown hair.
"I'm sorry, I was only trying to protect you. You have your father's idiocy so you can't blame me for worrying." The Pureblood attempted to apologize. Ayame crossed her arms and glared, and yet smirked, behind her glasses.
"I might have my father's idiocy but I also have his vampire hunter instincts and my mother's temper." she said and stood on her toes to playfully poke Hitoshi in the forehead again. "Now come on, I want to see the Moon Dorms before we leave. I'll race you." Ayame winked before she ran off down the grass and weed covered path. Hitoshi stared after the girl for a few seconds as he collected his thoughts.
'I wonder if Kaien Cross is really that bipolar. Not that there is anything wrong with it and Ayame is smart enough to control needed emotions for needed situations.' the Pureblood thought, a thin smile spreading on his face again as he used his Pureblood vampire speed to beat Ayame to the destroyed Moon Dorms gates.
Like the front arch of the school the gates to the Moon Dorms was also destroyed. The stone that made up most of the gate was laying in rubble with grass, weeds and moss growing all over them. The large wooden doors peaked through the pile of rubble and stunk of old age and down right rotten. After Ayame complained about Hitoshi cheating the two walked into the Moon Dorm area where everything looked worse. The building had chunks missing out of the roof, worse than the school did. Big holes replaced windows, windows were laying broken in the grass, sections of the Moon Dorm laid in rubble everywhere and the smell was horrible.
"So this is where it all started, huh?" Ayame asked as she stared up at the destroyed building. Strangely the doors had stayed intact, except for a large hole in the corner of one that was most likely made by a wolf.
"Yes, it is rather spooky." Hitoshi said with a frown. Looking over to her friend, Ayame Cross could sense something was bothering him.
"Hitoshi, is something wrong?" She asked nervously. The young Hanadagi Pureblood shook his head slowly as his blue eyes glazed up at a window in the Moon Dorms.
"I think it's time to go home now, Ayame. The sun is getting lower and I need to get used to staying up during the day." Hitoshi said instead of answering and turned around. Concerned for her friend Ayame was about to follow him before she spotted something curious.
It was a man, or it kind of looked like a man. He had no color and was see through. The man was a ghost and was looking right at her. However, before Ayame could get a good look at a ghost he disappeared through the Moon Dorm doors. A shiver went down the C Level's back and what crept her out more was that she sensed this ghost wanted her to follow him. So, without thinking, Ayame began to do just that.
"Ayame? What are you doing? Come on, we have to go." Hitoshi ordered, using a bit of his Pureblood power to urge her along. Ayame twitches and hesitated for a moment but shook off the order and turned her head around.
Thanks to her human blood no Pureblood could fully control her. If she was weak minded or can't control the situation she was in, Ayame had a better chance of being controlled. However right now the young Cross girl knew what she was doing and didn't want to be stopped. At least she thought she knew, it was her curiosity that made her want to follow the ghost, see what he wanted.
"I saw a ghost go into the Moon Dorms. I think he wants to be followed. Come on." Ayame stated and with no other word broke into a run into the Moon Dorms. Swearing under his breath Hitoshi chased after his friend, determined to keep her safe.
'What is she doing, why is she following him?! Ayame is smarter than this. Why can't she sense she's in danger.' The Pureblood thought as he rushed after Ayame. The Cross girl was already halfway up the stairs.
The inside of the Moon Dorms looked a bit better than the outside. The furniture was laying on it's side and smelt musty. The wooden floors were dirty with mud, dirt and animal poop. The wall paper was peeling off the walls and the lamps that had once hung on the walls were broken and dirty. The whole insides smelt like stale blood, animal and animal poop and death. The wooden stairs, however rotten, still seemed to have the strength to be walked, or ran, on. This wasn't a place for a girl who refused to he a vampire hunter should be.
"Ayame, stop!" Hitoshi shouted, his voice echoing off the walls. Ayame didn't even look back as she rounded a corner and disappeared inside a room.
"Ayame! Why didn't you listen to me?!" Hitoshi snapped as he rushed into the the same room, angry and worried. However his expression changed in seconds when he saw the pale face of his friend, staring straight in front of her.
Turning his attention to where Ayame was looking, Hitoshi quickly understood why her face was so pale. There, in the middle of the room, was a old style black coffin. It smelt old and rotten but it also held the faint smell of another vampire; a Pureblood vampire. The coffin was Rido Kuran's, the same ghost that had for some reason lead Ayame up to the room. Trying to not let his nervousness show, as a Pureblood prince needed to be graceful in everything he did -not that he was-, Hitoshi walked over and placed a hand on his friend's shoulder.
"Ayame, we have to leave. This is the room Rido Kuran lived in before he attacked the school." The young Pureblood tried to cox the younger girl outside the room. However Ayame Cross continue to stare at the coffin before she finally looked away to look up at Hitoshi.
"I know and I want to leave but a voice in my head keeps telling me to open the coffin. It wont go away." She said and shrugged off his head. Hitoshi watched dumbfounded as Ayame walked over to the coffin and grabbed the lid.
"So you're just going to open it?! Are you crazy or just plan stupid today?" the boy demanded, starting to get angry. Ayame lifted her head and shone her sad green eyes at him.
"Trust me, Hitoshi, please. If I knew I really shouldn't do this my whole hunter and vampire instincts would be telling me to run. I am not going to die from this so chill out." The half breed demanded and lifted the lid. If it wasn't for the fact that they were best friends, and that she was doing something really scary, Hitoshi would have scolded her for ordering a Pureblood like him around.
Instead the two watched nervously as Ayame gave the lid a final lift until it rested upwards. What laid inside the coffin shocked both Pureblood and halfbreed. There was nothing inside the coffin and when I say nothing I mean the coffin was clean. Not one speck of dust or mold. The coffin smelt strongly of another vampire and only that vampire.
"How is this possible? Everything is either destroyed, smells or has mold on it; some have all three. How can this coffin be so clean." Ayame asked as she leaned in closer, trying to see if she missed something. Hitoshi did the same thing.
"It's not possible. Even with the lid down after fifty years at most some bugs should have gotten in." He answered, sniffing the coffin. Sadly he could only smell the old scent of Rido Kuran and nothing that say how old the coffin really was.
Suddenly Ayame felt a hard shove on her back. Letting out a startled gasp she tried to stop herself from falling forwards but instead fell inside the soft padded coffin. Hitoshi looked surprised and confused but before he could ask what happened, or try to help, he was also pushed in the coffin on top of Ayame. Before the two of them could do anything the coffin lid shut on them, which was followed by a faint, evil laugh. A male voice started to say something but neither Ayame or Hitoshi managed to figure out what it said before the two began to fall.
"What's going on?" Ayame screamed over the rushing wind. Hitoshi, who had grabbed Ayame and was now holding her to his chest, shouted back.
"I don't know!"
The two felt like they were falling for hours. Ayame had grabbed onto Hitoshi's shirt and buried her face into his chest. The young halfbreed was scared and she shook in Hitoshi's grip. Not many things could scare Ayame, not vampires, nor werewolves, nor zombies, nor anything else. Ghosts on a new hand were now a new fear and Ayame Cross was scared of this. She just wished it would stop and she and Hitoshi would appear back in the Moon Dorms so the two of them could go home. Seconds later the young girl got her wish.
Somehow during the fall Hitoshi ended up under her and Ayame, still hugged tightly to the Pureblood, landed on his chest as Hitoshi's back in carpet. Ayame and Hitoshi both groaned as Ayame's heart beat was going twice as fast as it ever had. Whatever just happened to her and Hitoshi was scary and Ayame never wanted to experience it again. She was just glad to be back in the Moon Dorms, with the sun shinning through the window, making her feel even more safe.
Wait... hold on a minute. The sun? Wasn't it just setting a while ago? It should be dark by now and the moon should be up. Ayame had a very uneasy feeling that something was wrong, very wrong. She could also sense a few vampires, B Levels, and one very close by. Pulling her eyes away from Hitoshi's chest Ayame looked around the room and felt her face turn pale. It was the same room she had been in a moment ago alright but it looked just like new. No hole in the ceiling, no dirty walls and floors, a vampire boy staring at her from a bed, a... wait, what?
Ayame turned her attention back to the boy that was staring at her. He would have been the vampire she sensed at the moment. What freaked Ayame out the most was he looked like a slightly younger Senri Shiki. But that was impossible, wasn't it?
"Who are you?"
Oh dear this was not good one little bit.