Chapter 3. Friday The Thirteenth
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Princess Miyu; now please point all guns away from my head!!! (Poem I made up as usual)
Friday the thirteenth. . . . .
Mysteries surround;
Dark magickal mysteries,
That keeps us mystified by our own wonder
Day or night; bad luck and misfortune will follow
No matter when, no matter where
No one escapes the curse of
Friday the thirteenth
Miyu sat uncomfortably on a tree branch and watched as the sun slowly set in the west. She had been up in that tree for hours just waiting for everyone to leave the park. She had thought that it would not take that much time for everyone to leave considering that there were vampires out there that would drink their blood as if it were water.
She jumped down from the tree and landed on the well-maintained grass. She had no need to worry about the park's night patrol. They had all quit their jobs due to the vampire outbreak, afraid of being the next vampires' victim.
She walked slowly down the path towards the center of the park. She was not quite sure where the vampire would be. He could be anywhere considering the fact that he had been out in broad daylight in a public place.
". . . .Especially when there is a full moon out. . . ." he had said to her. She figured that he would come when the full moon came up.
Miyu sat down on the edge of the water fountain, the centerpiece of the park, and waited. When the sun disappeared over the hill the streetlights flickered on, and still she waited.
She looked at her watch after what seemed to be an eternity of waiting. 9:30. She had only been waiting for two hours. She stood up and paced back and forth in front of the fountain.
Another hour went by. 10:30.
Every sound she heard, leaves rustling, a cricket chirping, any sound attracted her attention.
"Calm down Miyu," Miyu ordered herself. "Don't get so jumping. Just stay calm." But she could not seem to calm herself down. She could feel her heart pounding in her chest; hear it pounding. Anyone could have heard her heart pounding; even a vampire.
Another hour went by. 11:30.
She watched as the full moon rose up in the sky. In another thirty minutes it would be centered in the sky. She rubbed her eyes. A vampire hunter was supposedly supposed to act like a vampire. Hunt by night. Sleep by day. Not Miyu. She hunted by night and went to school by day. She only got a couple hours of sleep after school and before hunting time began.
On this particular night she had gotten no sleep at all. She had stayed at the park the rest of the afternoon up in a tree, hidden from everyone, hoping that no one would notice that she had never left the park.
Now it was finally taking its toll on her, but she could not fall asleep. It would make her easy prey for a wandering vampire.
She cupped her hands and splashed water onto her face from the fountain. It was cool and refreshing, but it did not help much. She was not sure how well she could fight against a vampire half awake.
Finally 12 midnight rolled around and the pale moon rose to its position in the sky, shining its light on the whole park.
She waited, but no one came. The whole park was silent. Not even one cricket chirped. She was not sure if she should give up and go home or wait a couple more hours. She looked around her. She saw no one.
But that did not mean that no one was there. . . . . . . . . .
A black figure, perched upon the outstretched arms of an angel statue, watched as Miyu sat and waited in the light of the full moon. He was some distance away from her so she could not easily spot him. Vampire hunters were supposedly very alert, or so he had heard.
"I knew I would find you here." Another figure wearing a dark forest green cloak appeared out of the darkness.
"Why did you follow me Kyroku?" the figure asked. "Don't you have a wife and child to attend too?"
"I do," Kyroku replied. "Just doing a little hunting, but I left the cavern to see what you have been up too." He spotted Miyu sitting on the edge of the water fountain. He frowned. "Since when have you had tastes in Vampire Hunters?" he asked. "Their blood is no good. Leave her alone or just kill her and leave her carcass out here to rot."
"I am not interested in her blood," the figure replied.
Kyroku eyed him suspiciously. "Then, why are you interested in her?" he asked. "You have been following her for so long. Humans are just worthless beings. The only thing of interest that they have is their blood."
The figure turned his head towards him. "Do not forget Kyroku," he said sharply. "Your wife was once human."
"She was different," Kyroku said. "This one is a Vampire Hunter."
"Be gone Kyroku!" the figure hissed harshly. "You are not needed here."
Kyroku shrugged. "I just hope that you know what you are doing." He turned and disappeared.
The figure turned back to watching Miyu and spotted a man, about in his mid-forties, quickly moving towards her, a double-barrel shotgun was strapped to his back.
'This should be interesting,' the vampire thought.
Miyu stood up and was ready to take her leave when she heard something click. She turned around only to have a double barrel pointed at her head.
"Don't move Vampire Hunter," the man holding the shotgun said harshly. "Don't move or else I'll pump lead into your skull." He pushed the cold steel up against her head.
Miyu stood perfectly still. "What do you want?" she asked as calmly as she could but the anxiety was noticeable in her voice.
"Shut your mouth you devil!" the man yelled. "You slayer. Your kind killed my daughter. Shoved a stake into her small heart. She is dead because of you!"
"I didn't kill her," Miyu said hoarsely. Her throat was dry, the palms of her hands sweating. She had no idea how to deal with this. She had never had a gun pointed this close to her before.
"I said shut up!" The man struck her across the head with the end of his gun. Miyu fell to her knees, her head throbbing, her vision blurred. She had no way of fighting back. This man was completely over come with grief and anger; it completely blinded him.
The man shoved the barrel off the gun under her breast. "I wonder if you Vampire Hunters even have hearts," he said. "Or are you just as cold and blood thirsty as the ones you hunt."
"Stop this right now!" Miyu begged. She pulled out a switchblade from her pocket and slashed at the man's leg, cutting into his flesh then she quickly got away from gunpoint. The man let out a cry of pain and pulled the trigger to the gun. The gun fired and the bullet hit the concrete water fountain. Water began to stream out of the crack that it had created.
"Damn bitch!" he yelled. He fired off another round and missed her because of poor aim.
Miyu dived behind the water fountain as the man fired off round after round at it, blowing off pieces of concrete. She brought her knees to her chest and covered her head with her hands to protect herself from the flying concrete. Her head throbbed even worse after he had fired his last round. She heard a hollow clicking sound notifying her that he hand exhausted his ammunition.
She slowly looked up over the ledge of the shattered fountain. The man stood there fiddling with his gun as if trying to find extra bullets that had not been fired.
She knew she had to run. This man was more dangerous then any vampire she had faced down before. She heard the gun click again. She had been wrong. His ammunition supply had not been exhausted. He had brought extra rounds just in case he needed them.
"Come on out Vampire Hunter!" he yelled. He fired one round at the fountain. "You can't hide from me!"
"Stop it!" Miyu yelled. "What are you going to get out of killing me? Your daughter isn't going to come back, even if you kill every Vampire Hunter in Japan."
There was only silence. Miyu wondered if the man was contemplating what she had said. She risked a glimpse over the ledge.
The man was gone.
Miyu shifted so she was on her knees and raised herself up slowly. She looked everywhere. The man had completely vanished. She stood up. Was it possible that he had left?
Suddenly, the man rose up from the other side of the fountain. "Gotcha Vampire Hunter!" He pulled the trigger and two bullets fired out of the gun.
Miyu had no time to duck, no time to run. Both bullets struck true, hitting her abdomen with enough velocity that they both burst out of her back.
Miyu gasped. She pitched forward and blood spewed out of her mouth. She wrapped her arms around herself trying to stop the blood from seeping out of her body. She heard the gun click again. The man was going to fire another round to finish her off. She fell to her knees. It did not matter if he fired that last round or not; she was finished for sure anyway.
Suddenly there was a flash and something swooped in from out of nowhere and struck the man. She heard the sound of flesh being torn apart, a sound that she was quite familiar with being in the vampire hunting business. She heard the man scream as he struggled and tried to get away from his attacker, but all in vain. When his screams finally stopped she heard the sound of his body hitting the ground and then there was silence.
She forced herself up on to her feet and stumbled over to where the man had stood behind the water fountain.
There was hardly anything left of his body. The whole thing was a bloody, mutilated mess. Body parts were scattered everywhere, the head had been decapitated from the body and sat like a weight on the bottom of the half empty fountain. This had been the work of a vampire. She looked away. She had not seen something this gruesome in all the years that she had been vampire hunting. She did not even think that vampires would murder a human without draining them first.
She turned away from the bloody heap and struggled to walk away towards the entrance of the park. Every step she took sent a wave of pain through her body and caused the blood to flow out even faster. She bit her lip to keep the cries of pain from escaping.
Suddenly, she heard the high-pitched shriek of the police sirens coming towards the park followed by a similar sound of an ambulance's sirens. Someone living near the park must have heard the sound of the gun shots and called the police.
Miyu turned around from the park gate and ran. She ran no matter how much it hurt. She had to get away. She did not want to be blame for the man's murder.
Everyone despised vampire hunters, even the police themselves. They did not consider vampire hunting civilized. Slowly the police began to refuse vampire hunters rights including the right for a fair trial. If Miyu told the police that the man had assaulted her with a gun and was killed by a vampire then they would most likely figure that she was a vampire hunter and blow off the rest of her story and arrest her. Then they would make up some story stating that the man had shot her because she was a vampire hunter but he only wounded her and out of rage she brutally slaughtered him. The end. The public would buy the whole thing no matter how stupid it sounded and she would be thrown in jail for the rest of her life.
But that could not happen if she could just get out of the park and back to her apartment where she would lay low until she got a hold of a doctor. She had heard of a couple of private doctors that made a living by taking care of vampire hunters when they were wounded on a hunt.
She glanced over her shoulder and saw the blue and red flashing lights of the police patrol cars and ambulance outside of the park gate. She had to get out the park and fast.
The police officers got out of their cars and ran to the gate. Someone must have had the key to the gate because the gate swung open and the police officers swarmed in. There must have been twenty some police officers. They grouped up in pairs and spilt up to search the park.
Now she was screwed. All they had to do was find and follow the trail of blood she was leaving. That would lead straight to her. She had to find a way out of the park. She took off running again.
'At this rate I'm done for,' Miyu thought to herself. 'Why couldn't that vampire have finished me off too?'
Kyroku appeared once again beside the black figure. The hood to his cloak was turned down revealing his fiery red hair. He watched Miyu intently. "She's bleeding to death and yet she runs," he said amused. "Does she not know that she is running into death's arms? That stress on her body must be unbearable. Why don't you put her out of her misery?"
He did not reply.
Kyroku frowned. "I hate being ignored," he said gruffly.
"I thought I told you that you are not needed here? It seems more like you ignored me."
"The other vampires are expressing their concerns for you," Kyroku said.
"They have no need to worry about me. Tell them I will return when my business is finished here."
"When exactly will that be?" Kyroku asked. "And what business do you have with a vampire hunter." He pointed towards Miyu. "She is going to die! Can't you see the blood? You might as well take care of that business with her right now while she is still conscious."
"There is no need to rush."
"What?" Kyroku asked.
They were both silent. In that moment of silence they heard the yells of the police officers. They had just found the man's grossly, mutilated body lying in a bloody heap in front of the fountain.
"You can't be serious?" Kyroku said. "The elders will never allow it."
"I do not care what they think."
"But a vampire hunter? Even the idea of it is insane. Are you out of your. . . . . ."
"Silence!"
"No!" Kyroku shot back. "You must hear me out first! You are wasting your time with her, and you will be wasting even more time if you go along with your insane plan!"
"I have all the time in the world Kyroku. Do not forget that."
Kyroku sighed. It was no use. He could not sway his friend's opinion. "Very well," he said. "Do what you wish, but I'm warning you right now. The elders are going to be on your back when they find out about this." With that, he turned around and disappeared.
The figure stood up. It was time.
Miyu collapsed upon the cold, grassy ground gasping for breath. She was tired, and her whole body felt as if it were on fire with pain. She buried her face in to the cold grass but if provide very little relief for the pain she was experiencing.
She could hear the yells of the police officers calling for one another. They had found the man's corpse or at least what was left of it. They would be stuck trying to identify him for weeks. At least their discovery wouldrkeep them occupied for a little while.
Miyu tried to get up but instead she violently pitched forward and vomited blood. She coughed and managed to push herself up to her knees. The movement caused her to vomit even more blood on to the ground. She was surprised that the noise she was making did not alert the police officers.
She gasped for breath as she forced herself to stand. There was no way she could get back to her apartment and lay low for a couple of days while the police tried to find out what had happened to the man. She was not even sure if it was possible for her to even make it out of the park.
Her knees buckled and she fell forward to the ground. This was the end for her. There was no way she could escape her fate now.
Her eyelids slowly began to close. Was this death? She was not sure. She had never experienced it before. She could feel everything fading away. The pain, the sound of the police officers, the bright streetlights, the feeling in her arms and legs, everything just faded away.
What will happen when she goes to the other side? Would she be damned to hell because she killed vampires even though they were supposedly the devil's children? Would she see her parents if she got to go to heaven?
"Mother. Father," Miyu whispered with her last breath. Then her eyelids closed and her body grew still.
She did not hear the shouts of the police officers when they found her body lying on the ground. By then it had been two hours after she had past on.
After searching her clothing and finding the stake tied to her back they concluded that she was a vampire hunter but they never accused her of murdering the man whose corpse they could not identify.
They did not bother doing an autopsy. They concluded that she had bled to death because of being shot in the abdomen.
So they did not find the teeth marks on the back of her neck. . . . . . .
To Be Continued. . . . . .
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